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defamation review • jay pharoah • cabaret review • and more

volume xciv, no. 9 • november 13, 2014 | clarkscarlet.com |

Students Launch Undergraduate Research Journal

By Jeremy Levine editor-in-chief

Despite its status as a research university, Clark does not have a reliable venue in which undergraduate students can publish their work. The editorial board of the Student Undergraduate Research Journal (SURJ) is working to change this.

Christie Joyce (’16) started SURJ after meeting with Associate Dean and Director of the LEEP Center, Michelle Bata, to discuss possible career options. In their meeting, Dean Bata mentioned that Clark has no undergraduate research journal. Christie thought that “it would make sense continued on page 4

Jay Pharoah Performs at Clark SNL Comedian Divides a Full House

By Matt Emmer living arts editor

Clark University’s Major Events Committee presented their annual fall event at Atwood Hall this past Friday. Current Saturday Night Live cast member Jay Pharoah filled the auditorium with an engaged and excited audience that responded to his performance throughout the evening.

Opening sets from Shenanigans and the Peapod Squad warmed up

the crowd with abridged versions of their respective formats. Shenanigans featured a scripted sketch about waiting in line and misunderstanding the show, as well as several short improv games. Peapod found a way to squeeze their long-form improv method into their truncated timeslot.

When Jay Pharoah took the stage, the audience had been in their seats for about an hour and were continued on page 13

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Forget Your Troubles at the Kit Kat Klub Cabaret Musical Offers Laughs, Controversy, and Thought-Provoking Political Commentary

By Beatrice Misher contributing writer

As soon as the lights go down at the beginning of this production of Cabaret, and twinkling lights of the Kit Kat Klub flicker on, we are transported back to Berlin in the early 1930s. The bubbling political turmoil and political apathy leading up to the Nazi takeover is explored in stark contrast to the explosion of life in the Kit Kat Klub over the next two and a half hours.

This production is somewhat monumental since it is the first collaboration between Clark Musical Theater (CMT) and the Visual and Performing Arts Department. This allowed for Clark alum Brian Katz (‘94) to be hired as the director.

Founder of San Francisco theater company Custom Made Theatre Co. and recipient of the Clark Young Alumni award, Katz said the experience has been great, noting that the cast was “an extremely talented group of students.”

The show is daring both in the content matter and also the interactive setup. Aptly placed cabaret-style

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tables and chairs line the sides of the stage, allowing audience members to quite literally be a part of the show if they so desire.

Cabaret is a musical that first debuted on Broadway in the 1960s and has had many subsequent incarnations since then, including a movie version in the 1980s starring Joel Grey who originated the role of the Emcee. The musical is based off of the 1951 play by John Van Druten, I Am A Camera, which Katz explains is an allusion to the political apathy of the time.

“I think in the end it’s a call to not be that [politically apathetic], to be active,” he said. CMT President Margo Smith (‘15), elaborated by saying “There are a lot of characters who choose non-action in the face of very extreme politics.”

The character of the Emcee, played by David Bertoldi (‘15), tells us from the very beginning that the Cabaret is a place of escape. “Life is disappointing? Forget it! In here, life continued on page 11

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UPCOMING EVENTS [ Thursday, November 13 ] Growing Cities: A Film About Urban Farming in America - 7:00 p.m. in Sackler 120

[ Friday, November 14 ] Inside the Hotpot: Philippines - 6:00 p.m. in Jonas Clark 001 The Counterpoints Present “Ancient A Cappella: Greek Mythology-zy” 7:00 p.m. in Jefferson 320 Concert Choir - 7:30 in Tilton Hall The Goodbye Girls & The Lonely Heartstring Band - 9:00 p.m. in The Grind The Peapod Squad - 10:00 p.m. in Jefferson 218

[ Saturday, November 15 ] Voices of Ferguson/ Voices of Worcester - 2:00 p.m. in Jefferson 320 What do we do when we don’t know what to do? - 5:00 p.m. in Grace Conference Room Project M Tournament - Saturday 8:30 p.m. in Grace Conference Room The Peapod Squad - 10:00 p.m. in Jefferson 218

[ Monday, November 17 ] Northwestern Mutual Information and Recruiting Session - 6:00 in JC 102 Conversation Cafe: Capitalism in America - 6:00 p.m. in Persky Conference Room Geography Trivia Night - 8:30 p.m. in Sackler 120

[ Tuesday, November 18 ] PHS Lecture Series: Healthcare in the US and the Affordable Care Act 5:00 p.m. in Sackler 120 Men’s Basketball vs Fitchburg State - 5:00 p.m.

Clothing Swap - 6:00 p.m. at the Community Thrift Store Women’s Basketball vs Fitchburg State - 7:00 p.m.

Cabaret Performances: Thursday through Saturday (11/13-11/15) at 7:30 p.m. in the Little Center; Sunday 11/16 at 3:00 p.m.

CORRECTIONS In last week’s issue, we mistakenly attributed the opinions article “Capital Punishment is Simply Unethical” to Alex Grayson. Nikolas Wagner wrote the article.

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The Scarlet/News Grandmaster Checkmates Clarkies

By Scott Levine copy editor

Chess-enthused Clarkies filled The Grind last Thursday to challenge chess master Predrag Cicovacki. In the words of Grandmaster Savielly Tartakower, “The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made,” in this case, mostly by the students.

The event was organized by Chess Club Presidents Josh Burger (’15) and William Staso (’15). There was a chess club at Clark before the two arrived, but it seemed to be inactive. “We were trying to get a hold of the leader of the club, and weren’t getting anything,” said Staso, “so we started our own club.”

Cicovacki teaches Philosophy and Peace Studies at Holy Cross, but said he regrets not teaching at Clark after the warm welcome he received upon arrival. “I should be teaching here,” he said to the crowd.

He was accompanied by his wife, Jadranka Grek. They met through chess during the 1970s around the rise of Grandmaster Bobby Fischer, and while “the whole world was kind of under chess fever,” as Cicovacki said. “It was a great era of chess.”

Cicovacki started the night by analyzing one of Fischer’s games in front of the crowd, and then proceeded to take on over thirty students at once in individual chess matches.

Students made a circle out of all the tables, stood behind the black pieces on the board, and set their

ambitions low. “If he puts more than six seconds into any move, I will have been successful,” said Dalton Phillips (’17).

Phillips played a conservative game, but failed to see something on his sixth move that Cicovacki immediately took notice of.

“That’s not a good move for you,” said Cicovacki, who countered with the move that would ultimately lead to Phllips’ demise. He realized his mistake shortly after, “I should have moved my rook,” said Phillips.

Phillips’ friend Luke Schoppert (’17) immediately took notice of Cicovacki’s advantage, “You, sir, are what they call screwed,” he told Phillips.

As the hours flew by, more and more students resigned to the chess wizardry of Cicovacki, and only a few challengers remained. Ultimately, he beat all opponents except for four.

He stale mated with two of them and was checkmated by the other two.

Jackson Parker and Staso were the only two students who were able to checkmate the master.

Staso said that he was the beneficiary of a crucial mistake by Cicovacki, “When he blundered, and I was able to capture a rook with my bishop, I knew I had a good chance of winning,” said Staso.

Parker was even with the Cicovacki throughout the match, and ultimately set up a trap that ensured him the victory. Cicovacki said that Parker was the most challenging opponent he faced during the event.

Cicovacki does not play that much chess lately, “Online some-

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times,” he said. Most of his time is distributed between his family, his job, and the great outdoors. “I like swimming in the ocean, walking along the ocean… I’m a nature person, which gets in the way of chess,” he said.

He has three daughters, all in their early twenties, “but they don’t play chess,” he said. He also never plays chess with his wife. “I don’t want her to beat me,” he said jokingly.

Burger and Staso said they were pleased with how the night went.

Burger said that along with having the opportunity to play a chess master, the goal of the event was to “promote chess on campus,” and said the event did a good job of doing that.

“We had a lot of new faces at this event,” said Burger. “Hopefully we’ll see those faces at our next club meeting.”

A Socialist Solution

By Molly Powers scarlet staff

Clark’s chapter of Socialist Alternative (SA), a national organization that advocates for socialism, held a meeting on November 6 in conjunction with 15Now, a campaign pioneering the movement for a nationwide $15 minimum wage.

The meeting was mediated by Alex Rothfelder (‘16) and led by Jeff Booth, one of the founding members of SA; Elan Axelbank, representative from the Northeastern chapter of 15Now; and James Patin (‘17), treasurer for the SA chapter at Clark. All of the meeting’s leaders spoke for ten minutes each and then opened the floor up to questions in what turned out to be a lively discussion of the nature of unions in America, and what a union of student and non-student workers would look like at Clark.

Booth spoke about the growing movement for a $15 minimum wage, both at Clark and beyond. In America, there is no strong socialist or labor political party, so the main driving force behind socialism in the United States lies with organizations like SA and 15Now. These organizations have chapters all across the country, both on and off college campuses, though some of SA’s most passionate advocates are among the student-led chapters. Booth came to Clark to stress the importance of student involvement, as well as elaborate on the relationship between socialism, union representation, and a $15 minimum wage.

Many people view socialism as an unrealistic, utopian ideology, but Booth squashed that miscon-

ception immediately. Socialism, according to Booth, is focused entirely on meeting basic human needs and dealing with real struggles that people face every day. People need to make a living wage, and employers need to be held accountable by their workers. Paraphrasing an argument once made by Karl Marx, Booth pointed out that there is no such thing as stasis in business and no way to avoid dips as well as growth in profit. There are always moments when businesses lose profit, so isn’t a human standard of living a good reason to voluntarily lose some?

Socialists fight for any and all improvements among the working class, youth, and elderly. They fight for reforms in minimum wage, pensions, student loans, and Medicare – reforms that won’t last under capitalism. Unless America makes serious moves towards democratic socialism, the 99 percent is going to continue to suffer.

Axelbank spoke of the growing movement for a higher minimum wage across the country. The working class has been organizing strikes and walkouts in this vein for years, as far back as Martin Luther King, Jr. who was demanding a $3 minimum wage (the equivalent of $15 today). The bottom line is that $7.25-8.25 an hour is not enough to live on. Axelbank reiterated Booth’s point that socialism is not about utopian ideals but about what people really need to live, and he urged the assembled students to become active and get involved. continued on page 5

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Student Undergraduate Research Journal Continued continued from page 1

for Clark to have” such a journal and, with Dean Bata’s encouragement, began talking to fellow students and gauging their interest.

Joyce received “a lot of positive response for the idea itself… but not a lot of people were able to commit the time.” She eventually “found two people who seemed very, very eager to make this happen as well.”

Those two students are Sam Wallace (’15) and Karishma Veljee (’16), the journal’s Managing Editor and Peer Review Editor, respectively.

This group of three is part of a larger editorial board, that functions alongside Micki Davis, Director of Com-

munity Engagement, who serves as the project’s faculty adviser.

This editors do not plan on evaluating every submission themselves.

Veljee described the purpose of the peer review process as maintaining “standards and credibility of academic work….[meaning] that people of similar competence as the author review [the] work.”

This review process will be double-blind, meaning that the author of the paper will not know who the reviewer is, and vice versa.

Veljee added that “because [they are] all students running this journal… [they] want to maintain [high] standards by also having professors review the work.”

This faculty review board will

consist of professors from a broad range of departments. Their responsibilities will include both reviewing student work, as well as advising the paper’s direction.

Although they have an adviser and a faculty review board, SURJ strives to be student-driven. Davis said that “Larger editorial decisions are still resting with students… It’s not a top-down approach. It isn’t a marketing idea, it’s an avenue for students to publish their work and be seen as scholars.”

This broad range of professorial oversight is part of the team’s plan to accept research from all disciplines. “Right now we’re not trying to narrow [the definition of research] down very much because

we’re just getting started. Any kind of original research that [a student does] in conjunction with a professor is fair game,” Joyce said.

“I’d like it to span the gamut and cover anything and everything.

When people think of research, they think of science, but there are people from all sorts of majors on campus who are doing research,” Wallace said.

Much of the process is still up in the air. SURJ does not yet have established departmental oversight.

“We’re jumping from place to place trying to find a home,” Wallace said.

“We don’t want to be a club, we don’t want it to be run like a club, so we’re trying to work with Academic Affairs or something along those lines.”

SURJ will exist both online and in print. Its online presence will be fostered in conjunction with the Clark Digital Commons, which currently serves as a repository for student work.

For the time being, the core group is focused on establishing their territory and getting information out. Veljee said that “Right now, [they are] trying to popularize the journal itself….[and] hopefully see more interest, [so that they] can expand the scope.”

The journal, according to Davis, exists to “spread the message of what Clark students are doing and highlight the level of research that students are doing on campus, because sometimes we forget that.”

A Call to Action for North Korean Freedom Grassroots Initiative brings its message of urgency to Clark

By Kate Conquest & Beatrice Misher contributing writers

There is a modern day underground railroad happening and no one knows about it. Hundreds of refugees are attempting to escape the oppressive regime in North Korea and finding secret channels to find freedom. On Sunday, a group that is working towards North Korean freedom came to Clark to share their message.

Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) is a grassroots initiative started by college students about a year ago. It is run by young Nomads who felt passionate about increasing awareness of this issue.

The group came to Clark as a part of its tour of churches and college campuses with its mission to raise awareness of the human rights issues plaguing North Korea, and how to get involved in their organization.

The presentation touched on

government restrictions on media and travel - both in and outside of the state.

A major point of the presentation was to stress that the generation born in the 80s and 90s are different in that they are more aware of their situation than their parents.

They said they are part of the Jangmadang generation, born during the famine and more critical of their government. While their parents were taught to have faith in the regime, the Jangmadang generation was raised with an underground market system and distrust the government because they were left to suffer during the famine.

Through new media such as USB drives and foreign DVDs, this generation was able to network both within and outside of their state.

This new awareness ignited a hunger and sparked curiosity among North Koreans.

This inspired citizens to escape

and seek a better life. The presentation highlighted this through interviews with three young North Koreans who successfully escaped and are now part of LiNK. These stories added a personal, human element to the presentation that helped convey the message that there is still work to be done. “Today, I am free. But my friends and relatives are still not free,” said Yeonmi Park, one of the refugees.

Once the refugees reach China, they are still in danger because if they are caught by Chinese officials they will either be returned to North Korea or exploited.

The punishment they face in North Korea is extreme and sometimes deadly. Additionally, their whole family could be subject to multigenerational punishment. People are sent to “political prison camps” in which there are currently 80,000120,000 prisoners.

The presenters showed a wellknown video from 60 Minutes fea-

turing Shin Dong-Hyuk, a man who had escaped North Korea after enduring lengthy torture and witnessing the murder of his mother and brother.

While dominant media only focuses on the non-human issues of the country, the presentation stressed that this is a hugely important issue such as the nuclear weaponry and presents the government as humorously crazy. “North Korea has endured economic and social repression with the outside world doing nothing about it, and the media ignoring the most important part: the people,” the 18-year-old presentation speaker, Tiffany Kwark, commented.

So far, LiNK has helped rescue about 260 refugees fleeing from North Korea. These refugees have crossed the border into China and through word of mouth have reached out to this organization for help.

There’s a heavy verification process to make sure that these refugees are legitimate, but after they are

identified as such they receive help.

After helping them escape the country, LiNK also provides “resettlement assistance programs” to help with adjusting to their new life. These programs include both personal and career development, as well as financial assistance.

LiNK’s goal is to rescue 200 more refugees by the end of this year. The group wrapped up their presentation by talking about volunteer opportunities and how to become a donor. They explained how getting one refugee to safety costs roughly $3,000. The organization stressed that they would help to fundraise if students were to open a chapter on campus.

The presenters encouraged students to get involved by telling their own stories of how they joined LiNK. Kwark was so inspired by the call to action that she deferred a semester of college to travel and spread awareness. “This is not just a Korean problem,” she said, “it’s a human problem.”

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International Background

BY MEHR GUNAWARDENA Anger festers inside the Mexican borders as the news of the 43 missing trainee teachers spreads, sparking riots and demonstrations across the country. Demonstrations included the expression their frustration to President Enrique Pena Nieto by setting fire to the doors of the national palace in Mexico City. Drawing international attention to Mexico’s predicament.

On the 26 of September of this year, 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural teachers’ College of Ayotzinapa went missing in Iguala, Guerrero. According to official reports the students had travelled to Iguala that day to hold a protest against “discriminatory hiring and funding practices by the Mexican Government.” The reason for controversy on this particular issue

is that it was the local police that intercepted them on their way to the protest, resulting in a confrontation and eventual arrest. The students were handed over to the local Guerreros Unidos crime syndicate and were presumably killed there.

This Exposure of the extent of corruption that exists within the Mexican borders made the Mexican people want to stand up against this degeneracy. The Mexican Authorities believe that, the now former Mayor of Iguala, Jośe Velázquez and his wife were the masterminds of this abduction they were arrested in October.

However, it is believed that the chief of Iguala’s police, Felipe Flores was an accomplice to the abductions, and his location is still unknown.

The Mexico’s Attorney’s General, Jesus Murillo, has informed the parents that criminals under police orders murdered the students. He also stated that three gang members confessed to loading them on to trucks, murdering them at a landfill, burning their bodies and dumping their remains in a river. He said: “The detainees pointed out that in this area they took the lives of the survivors and then they put them under the rubbish dump where they burnt the bodies. They took shifts so that the fire lasted hours, using diesel, petrol, tires, plastic.”

In light of this information, thousands of people rallied in front of the country’s international airport on Monday, with parents of the students leading

CUSC in brief

By Kate Summers scarlet staff

Bylaw 503 of the CUSC constitution was amended to take out required funding to Clark Cable Network (CCN). CCN no longer plans to function as a cable network and will now evolve into a club known as Film Production Society (FPS). FPS will continue to receive CCN’s funding for this year, and apply for a budget as a student organization for next year.

Sami Noor (‘15) reported that a Transportation Survey has been sent out. The survey is aimed at finding information about transportation demand and will eventually be used to provide new services.

The final two candidates for the Dean of College position are Chair of Faculty and biology professor Deborah Robertson and music professor Matt Malsy. CUSC President Brittany Klug (‘16) told the Council that the Dean of College forum, where students will be able to ask the candidates questions, will be held on November 18 at 5:30 p.m. in Winton Dining Hall.

Tim St. John, Director of Student Leadership and Programming, announced that the campus has a new ZipCar. He also said that he would be happy to talk to students about Jay Pharoah.

Jana Kelnhofer (‘18) added that some of her constituents found Pharaoh offensive.

The Council voted to give $20,000 from the cumulative surplus to Gala. Constitutionally, Gala starts off with $24,000, but this is never enough, since that amount was determined when the event was still held in Atwood. In the past, Gala has gotten additional funds from Grants requests, Program Cosponsorship Fund, and other clubs’ budgets. However, with the money from the cumulative surplus and the original budget, there should be no need for additional funds. Last year Gala had over 250 performers and an audience of over 2,000 people, including live streaming overseas.

GRANTS $500 Ying Ge Wang - EMT training $200 Clark Sustainability Collaborative - GIS Week $175 Devra Goldstein- Boundless Way Zen Rohatsu Sesshin $2,000 Clark University Vagina Monologues

the demonstration along with comrades from the 43 young men’s teacher-training college in the southern state of Guerrero. A group of masked protesters clashed with riot police who had tried to block their way to the airport, injuring 11 officers, said a public security official.

The protestors were let through after said negotiations. Portions of the protestors were armed with bats, metal pipes and machetes in the latest demonstration, causing the biggest crisis in Mexico during President Enrique Nieto’s administration. As the words, in remembrance of the missing Ayotzinapa teacher-training school students chant throughout Mexico: “Ayotzi lives, the struggle goes on.”

Socialist Solution Cont. continued from page 3

Patin really brought home what a union could do for student and non-student workers at Clark. The lowest wage earned by non-student employees at Clark is $10.90, which is more than the standard minimum wage for Massachusetts ($8.00), but after taxes and basic monthly expenses, that is still not enough for an employee with dependents to realistically own a commodity like a car. Low minimum wages punish single parents and perpetuate poverty. Even with a $15 minimum wage, a family of four with one full-time working adult who owns a car and pays rent would still be at least $33 short at the end of the year.

Unions have a lot of power, and through collective bargaining and strikes can accomplish a lot. Even in Seattle, where a $15 minimum wage has been passed, employers are subcontracting to avoid the law, which is not a new business strategy. Businesses will try to implement exceptions, reductions, exclusions—whatever means necessary to deny their workers their basic rights.

Unions have the power to motivate the masses to rise up against oppressive institutions, and it starts with people getting involved, spreading the message, telling others what they’ve learned, and organizing.

Change happens when we stand up and demand our dues, and SA is calling on the students of Clark to make their stand.

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CLARKIE of the WEEK

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Kelly Herbst Kelly Herbst is a senior double majoring in English and Women and Gender Studies. They hail all the way from Longmont, Colorado and are passionate about spreading awareness of LGBT issues.

Scarlet: What are you involved in on campus?

Kelly: I am a Difficult Dialogues Fellow working with the Difficult Dialogues program, and that’s pretty much my formal involvement on campus.

Informally, I’ve been really involved with LGBT activism. There’s a new LGBT Advisory Board and I’ve been working a lot with them for the past year.

The Difficult Dialogues program is part of the Higgins School of Humanities, which helps promote dialogue on campus. There’s the symposium, which is a series of events which the Higgins School brings in which is really cool, and then the Difficult Dialogues seminars, which are really great opportunities to engage with dialogue and learn more about what dialogue is.

As fellows, we work to promote dialogue on campus and to talk about what Difficult Dialogues is, and I’m working on a project doing a dialogue around LGBT identities. It’s just a really great chance to engage with dialogue and think about the ways in which we communicate with each other. It’s really cool because it puts an emphasis on people’s experiences and really think-

ing about how you come to what thoughts and opinions you have, which is something that I think is really cool.

In terms of LGBT activism, I’ve been very involved with the LGBT community since I’ve arrived at Clark.

In the past year and a half, I started working sort of outside of OPEN, which is the LGBT club on campus, to really try and get more dedicated spaces, create more intergenerational community building, and to try and get sort of more visibility of allies in the administration and faculty. Out of that, there is the new LGBT Advisory Board, which is made up of Dean Darrigrand, Dean Mo [Mounira Morris] out of the Dean of Students Office, Betsy Huang, and Jenn Plante. That group has been really great as a resource for students in terms of creating visibility, and recently at the October Board of Trustees meeting, we spoke with the Student Affairs Committee about LGBT issues here at Clark, which was a huge step for us, in terms of getting awareness on LGBT issues.

At the end of last semester, Professor Kushner, who was the chair of the Campus Climate Committee, put out a report on LGBT climate issues here at Clark and one of the standout issues was the feeling that, at Clark, it’s okay if you’re gay but we don’t really want to talk about it, and we don’t really engage with what the difficulties of being an LGBT student are. So that’s been one of the things that I’ve been working on, just trying to create awareness, both through talking to people I know, as well as working with the LGBT Advisory Board. We had a really great intergenerational get-together at the beginning of the semester where we had allied professors as

well as LGBT or queer identified students and grad students who got together just to meet each other and just talk about the resources that are available, because one of the other things is visibility of resources. We don’t always see the resources that are available for LGBT students.

Scarlet: This is really important work. Do you think your efforts have been successful thus far?

Kelly: I mean, there have been some really great concrete changes that are happening in the past year, but there is still a lot of work that needs to be done in terms of awareness of issues and really making sure that these issues are being addressed across the community, not just at the student level, but also among faculty, staff, and the administration as well. That’s something that we’re working on as well, just making sure it’s on everybody’s radar, and that it continues to be on everybody’s radar, so that it’s not just one Board of Trustees meeting, but lasting work.

My passion is for specifically LGBT activism, and that’s also what I do for fun, being really engaged in the community, reading and consuming what’s out there culturally as well. I guess most people would classify it under the category of fun, and it is fun, but it’s also part of my efforts in terms of making sure that I’m aware of what is being produced in the media on LGBT issues and engaging in conversations about these representations both positive and negative. As a gender studies major my favorite word might be “problematic,” and figuring out what’s problematic about these representations. It’s something that’s fun but it’s also intrinsically tied to what I do as an activist.

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Scarlet: You’re a Women and Gender Studies major but also an English major. Do you write?

Kelly: I write some poetry but what I like is to write critically. Sometimes I’ll write in terms of creating responses to those media incidents.

Mostly I just put them out on Facebook. I’ve always been very nervous about creating a blog because until recently there were aspects of my life that I was very much not “out” in, so for me that was always a very big concern, that somebody who was sort of unaware of all of my identities would find my blog, so posting them on Facebook allows me to control who sees what.

But next semester I’m doing a couple of cool projects that I think are going to turn into some blog projects because I recently came out to my mom as trans so now I feel like I don’t have to hide that part anymore, so I think it’ll be cool to start to address a wider audience outside of the narrow audience of those who know I’m out and know my identities and who are familiar with who I am.

Scarlet: Is there anything you’d like to share?

Kelly: I really do want to bring awareness to the LGBT Advisory Board and really to make sure that students know that there are resources on campus and that Dean Darrigrand, Dean Mo, Jenn, and Betsy are people you can go to for resources if you need them.

Thanks for the interview, Kelly!

Email scarlet@clarku.edu if you have a suggestion for Clarkie of the Week!

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They do not reflect the opinions of the editorial board, The Scarlet, or Clark University.

No More First Takes ESPN Talk Show Must Go

By Ethan Giles

By Jeremy Levine

sports editor

editor-in-chief

On Monday, October 20, Skip Bayless said the following: “Remember Kobe pre-Eagle, Colorado? He failed in his first sneaker deal because he was just too clean cut and I think it was Adidas that had him first, correct me if I’m wrong, but he couldn’t sell sneakers because he didn’t have enough edge. But then post-Eagle, Colorado it brought a little attention to him, like it gave him a little bit of sizzle.”

Kobe Bryant was accused of raping a woman in Eagle, Colorado. The charges would later be dropped due to a lack of evidence, but regardless he was accused of rape. Skip Bayless went on air and claimed that a rape accusation helped Kobe Bryant sell shoes.

On Friday, July 25, Stephen A Smith said the following while discussing a woman’s role in domestic violence: “we... have to make sure that we learn as much as we can about elements of provocation. Not that there’s real provocation, but the elements of provocation, you got to make sure that you address them, because we’ve got to do is do what we can to try to prevent the situation from happening in any way.”

On December 13, 2012, Rob Parker asked if Robert Griffin III, a black quarterback for the Washington NFL Team, was a “brother” or “a cornball brother” When asked to explain what he meant by this, Parker said, “He’s not real. OK, he’s black, he kind of does the thing, but he’s not really down with the cause. He’s not one of us. He’s kind of black but he’s not really, like, the guy you want to hang

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out with because he’s off to something else.” He also referenced that Griffin has a white fiance and might be a republican.

All of these mindblowingly horrific quotes were uttered in the same place: First Take. First Take is a talk show on ESPN2 that airs Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Well, it is more of a scream show than a talk show. First Take “embraces debate” and selects topics that their hosts, usually Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless, disagree on to make the show interesting.

The problem is that neither personality ever uses a rational view on a given topic and seem to always hedge towards the extreme. It is like a sports version of CNN’s Crossfire: two morons citing opposite arguments and using their beliefs as fact. No knowledge is ever gained from the show, and viewers tune in just to see the hosts argue.

The New York Post called First Take one of the twenty worst shows on television in April of 2013.

A show that purposefully tries to be edgy and encourages extreme viewpoints is a show that will have the quotes featured above spewn on its airwaves. No rational conversation, about sports or anything, concludes with a rape accusation helping shoe sales. No rational conversation about domestic violence concludes with women provoking men to hit them. No rational conversation questions the “blackness” of any black person, professional athlete or not.

First Take needs to be taken off the air. Enough is enough. There have been too many stupid arguments that site too few facts. Having dialogues that are shown on First Take daily help no one. They encourage stupidity and showcase what is wrong with our me-

You’ve made it! Hooray! You’ve been at Clark for three months. You have located the Traina Center. You compost deftly. You could, in a pinch, assemble a caf meal using only rice, the salad bar, and the panini press. Congratulations.

But there’s a crucial difference between being adjusted to Clark and being used to your role at Clark. When you enroll in college, basically everyone you know tells you to try new things, explore, find your passion, etc.

At this point, you may still not have found it. That’s cool.

Keep looking. If you think you have found it, try again. Taking a class or two and going to a few club meetings doesn’t mean that you’re locked into anything. You still owe it to yourself to take risks and do things you aren’t used to doing. Join a sports team. Take a class that doesn’t fulfill any graduation requirements. Write an article for the newspaper. Do something new.

At this point, you don’t have to squeeze yourself into any mold. (Actually, you never have to squeeze yourself into any mold.) You have until the end of your sophomore year to declare your major, and that’s only a very, very small part of the battle. Take advantage of the time and liberty that you have now to do things you don’t really understand.

In the real world, mistakes can be costly, time-consuming, and expensive. It’s hard to change your career trajectory at the drop of a hat. But now, you have the opportunity to fail in a supportive setting. You’d be a fool not to take that chance.

dia as a whole. ESPN should showcase intelligent shows which actually analyze the happenings in the sports world, not shows that simply look to stir up

controversy. If ESPN cared about the sports world as a whole instead of its ratings, the most recent episode of First Take would be the last one.

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Calling Out Catcalling

Low-brow Humor Isn’t Something We Do Here

By Anthony Senesi contributing writer

Watching stand-up is supposed to be a solace, a relaxing mechanism to wind down from a rough week, but it did the opposite for me last Friday. Afterwards I was left stunned that a performer of such magnitude like Jay Pharoah could use such repulsive material.

In the beginning of his performance he stated, “If you are bullied you will either become a comedian, or shoot up a school.”

Really, Jay Pharoah? Those are the only two options?

Anytime I see stand-up comedians I am prepared that they will shed light on challenging topics; it’s a given. That’s what makes stand-up such a challenging and impressive art form.

I didn’t experience this at all at Jay Pharoah’s performance. It was a sweet and sour mixture of stellar delivery completely overshadowed by tasteless “jokes.” When he jumped into a bullying shtick I cringed in my seat. He discussed how he was bullied, which was sufficient until he turned it into a tirade, poking fun at victims of the Aurora, Colorado movie shooting.

Victim shaming in any way, shape, or form is out of line. The best comedians bring humor to dark events to shed light on the insanity of situations. They do not try to make jokes at the expense of people hurt by these tragedies.

However, he does have impeccable stage presence, and I admire his ability to command an audience; you cannot be taught that.

When he wasn’t making offhanded misogynistic remarks, he was a fantastic entertainer. He is by far the strongest SNL actor currently, and his characters and impersonations speak to the depth of his talent. He utilized his extensive repertoire of famous celebrity impersonations

and intertwined them throughout his act. But, this was utterly dominated by his disgusting observations of women.

Pharoah on numerous occasions made senseless remarks on how women should be submissive (give into sexual advances) if a man brings them over to his house. This isn’t comedy, it’s demeaning and insulting to everyone involved. It also didn’t work when he kept insincerely apologizing on stage. When you have to say, “But you know I’m not being serious” you have crossed the line to insulting an audience. Clarifying what you say to an audience to get them on your side is hopeless, you’ve already lost them.

Comedy cannot make someone cringe for too long, it must go back to actual entertainment. I’m not at all saying comedy should be overly sensitive to challenging issues, because some of the best stand up is edgy in nature.

Being in one of Clark’s improv groups, I’ve experienced what works and what doesn’t work on stage. I strive for comedy that is inherently funny by creating truthful characters with meaning and complexity (and many of my fellow improvisers would agree). Anyone can make an ignorant joke about sexual advances but it’s the lowest form of humor.

If you know me at all I love to laugh, it’s my nature. However I was uncomfortable, because I applauded at his delivery and impressions but I wanted to exit the back door when he viciously attacked victims, violence, and women. “Comedians say the things we can’t say, not the things we shouldn’t say,” my best friend Emily Denny stated in the hours after the concert. I think that rings true.

He obviously didn’t do his homework on what the majority of Clark students stand for. He was coming to a small liberal arts school in Massachusetts. What else would he expect? The audible groans from the audience were obvious signs to

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How the Media Skirts Around the Real Issues

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change to lighter subjects, but he kept harping.

Should the Major Events Committee have seen this coming when booking Pharoah? Potentially, but no one can blame them, it was ultimately Pharoah’s words that did all the talking. It goes to show that a mainstream performer of that caliber can have an abhorring sense of humor. The core problem is the fact that we as a society will pay money to watch a performer spew intolerable nonsense and consider that art.

Is that what we all really want to enjoy? That’s for all of you to have the last laugh.

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In a perfect world we would not have catcalling. Its very nature is both objectifying and intrusive, as women endure classless comments about their appearance from total strangers. A video surfaced recently highlighting this borderline harassment and sparking a national debate as every media outlet and news channel chimed in on the issue.

The video in question follows a woman dressed modestly in jeans and a t-shirt on a simple stroll around New York City. Despite no attempts to draw attention to herself, over the course of 10 hours she finds herself the target of hundreds of verbal harassments, ranging from simple hellos to vulgar remarks about her body.

Many shamelessly defend the practice, arguing that women should be happy to receive free compliments, taking it as an ego boost and a demonstration of their womanly sway over men. Many women have further backed these arguments up, claiming to enjoy the feeling that comes with being an object of longing and desire. Some even foolishly claim that many of these so-called intrusions are little more than pleasant greetings, given to fellow inhabitants of a city they share.

However, with the exception of these outliers, much of the population is outraged, demanding change on this longstanding issue. They argue just the opposite, that catcalling is not only offensive but oppressive.

Patriarchy is partially sustained by convincing women that their selfworth is dependent upon the approval of men through a set of strict guidelines. A sexual remark on the street is not only confirmation that the woman is meeting these standards set by men, but puts the offender in a position of power. These skewed perceptions of sexual entitlement undermine attempts at equal-

ity, and have been shown in some studies to increase chances of sexual violence.

The arguments against catcalling, despite being overwhelmingly self-evident, have yielded little result. Meanwhile women everywhere are forced to do nothing. To respond could only provoke further antagonization or lead to an angered altercation. They want no part of it, but to demand to be left alone might only make it worse. Forced into this nowin situation, it comes as no surprise that groups have gone as far as to demand laws be put in place, banning catcalling as a practice.

This idea, while useful in theory, shall never come to fruition. Even disregarding the logistical problems created in trying to dictate and enforce what constitutes catcalling, I oppose the idea primarily on the grounds of free speech violation.

Nonthreatening verbal confrontation does not constitute genuine harassment. Meaning while undesirable, catcalling does not carry enough weight to impact the liberties of another.

So passing law is not the answer. Even so, catcalling is but a facet of a much broader problem. Women are systematically misrepresented, culturing a society that cannot even identify the issue with half of our population feeling uncomfortable taking a stroll down the sidewalk.

The fact that catcalling is even up for debate is simply absurd, illuminating how much further we must go before equality becomes reality.

Meanwhile real issues, lack of equal pay, lack of representation in many leading industries, and sexualization in all areas of media, go undiscussed.

Pretending there is contention in regards to catcalling allows the news to avoid discussing the real issues. Having to admit that there is a continued on page 10

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Iranian Woman Jailed for Attending Volleyball Game ing propaganda against the regime.”

Before being detained, she graduated from a law school in London and had just returned to Iran to visit some friends and family who still live there; her brother and mother live in the UK. Unless her sentenced is reduced, which her attorney, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaee, says could happen, Ghavami is going to have to spend the next year of her life in the notorious Evin prison just because she peacefuly protested and stood up for what she believed in.

She was participating in a peaceful women’s demonstration outside of the Azadi stadium in Tehran during a volleyball match between Iran and Italy. Ghavami tried to enter the stadium to make her point that women in Iran should be allowed to watch any sporting event along with men and was then arrested. This doesn’t

sound like what the Iranian people were hoping for.

This is what is causing the continued pessimism surrounding change in Iran under President Hassan Rouhani. Last month during a CNN interview President Rouhani defended the government’s decision to arrest Ms. Ghavami. The woman is not going to be receiving any help within Iran, she needs our help.

Iman, Ghoncheh’s brother living in the UK, has started a petition to help his sister. Over 700,000 people have signed so far and with a little more help, the British government might have the incentive it needs to try and get its citizen out of jail.

Ghavami’s sentence is not the only thing that has gone wrong since President Rouhani’s election; capital punishment has increased since Rouhani came to power and Iran did not improve on Freedom House’s record, a US based NGO, from 2013 to 2014, remaining at six, with seven being

the worst in civil liberties and political rights and one being the best.

In Rouhani’s defense, however, it is difficult for someone in his position to make dramatic changes in a system like the Islamic Republic of Iran’s. With the amount of power the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, and the Guardian Council have it makes it difficult for any president to effecuate change.

This was certainly the case during Khatami’s years as president. The Supreme Leader and the Guardian Council were hard on Khatami because he pushed for liberal reforms.

However, he still managed to help Iran improve on Freedom House in his first year as president, from a 7 to 6, and that has been the difference between Khatami and Rouhani: Rouhani has not significantly improved Iran’s human rights record in his first year, while Khatami did. Thus, Rouhani may not be the president the Iranian people were hoping for, but only time will tell.

The argument was simple and logical. The Bible, or any religious scripture, must be interpreted figuratively, not literally. These books are not textbooks, nor are they how-to guides, but rather a collection of holy texts used for personal spiritual guidance and as an introspective tool.

The man, now, at two in the afternoon on a Monday, is fully engaged.

He used an obscure defense, “You take certain verses out of context and you can make them sound the way you want” and remained firmly put in that those who value the Quran might as well be on the front lines of the fight for ISIS. This is the tipping point for me; I could continue to read from the sidelines or step in. It was a Monday afternoon and my Sociology class was cancelled, so I went with the regretful latter.

I wrote, “I think it’s important to point out the extent of your ignorance; you are the type of person who fuels the anti-Islamic sentiments that create

further tension and discrimination reminiscent of Jim Crow times. It is unacceptabale. Your logic is completely flawed; you suggest that everyone who attains spiritual guidance from the Quran agrees with the extremist ideology of ISIS.” I then asked him to consider the growing number of Arab countries who have actively joined the fight against ISIS. I was angry and ended with “Perhaps you should read a newspaper and stop drinking the Kool-Aid.” The man in the ensuing comments said he will not address my points because I didn’t use “Mr.” and he kindly reminded me “Mr. Grayson, you are a high school student and I am a 49-year old.” College, high school, close enough.

Did I accomplish anything? No. Was I in the wrong by angrily and disrespectfully responding to someone on Facebook? Absolutely.

Anyone can don a cape and valorously attempt to rectify the wrongs plaguing our world one keystroke at a

time. In the end, though, all attempts will be rendered futile; for every goodintentioned Facebook warrior out there, hundreds of more villains lurk at the ready. Also, it is pretty childish.

The petty ordeal, however, confirmed the fact that the United States still remains in a dangerous slump. A wide majority, with knee-jerk conviction, homogenizes entire peoples, religions, and races.

By doing so, not only do we threaten to churn out a generation devoid of empathy and understanding, but we jeopardize any prospect for real peace and coexistence.

Please do not succumb to my lapse in judgment and take to Facebook, but always remember and espouse the importance of never generalizing an entire people. Islamophobia, racism, and homophobia are one in the same.

People of any faith are complex, multifaceted individuals and can never be existentially confined to the texts of their religion.

Also, stay off of Facebook.

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large disparity between the way men and women in this country are treated. They go on tv and give a big show of having lots of debates about catcalling so at the end of the day they can say they’re discussing sexism and bringing about change. When in actuality catcalling is just the side effect of years of misrepresentation and disrespect.

While it is important to talk about and bring to light, we can’t pretend that catcalling is truly what’s wrong with gender equality in this country. Harassment is just the tip of the iceberg in a long line of misogynistic messages. And no matter what we try, no law or ban will ever make a difference until a paradigm shift occurs and we teach our boys that women are people too.

By Jonah Naghi scarlet staff

Last summer, people in Tehran were running around, screaming with joy, and jumping on cars celebrating the presidential victory of Hassan Rouhani, who they believed to be the next Mohammed Khatami. Khatami was Iran’s president from 1997 to 2005 and is known to have been the only Iranian president who ever tried to effectuate significant change in Iran, but so far Rouhani does not seem to be living up to his expectations.

On July 20 of this year, Ghoncheh Ghavami, a twenty-five year old British-Iranian woman, was officially sentenced to a year in prison for trying to enter a men’s-only volleyball game. Ghavami had been held in prison for already 127 days after being arrested. She was charged for “spread-

Lessons Learned From a Facebook Battle

By Alex Grayson opinions editor

I got into a Facebook fight with a 49 year-old man whom I have never met. That statement will never be any less embarrassing. I guess I was compelled to succumb to keyboard-warrior status because of what this man was endorsing and who he was.

A friend of mine posted a status asking people to stop generalizing Islam and mindlessly equating Muslims with ISIS. Part of his post read, “Do not generalize. ISIS is an extremist group that DOESN’T represent ISLAM and its teaching[s].” A fair statement.

The day after the status was posted it was liked by an excess of 60 people and a 49 year-old man, who once held

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a position of leadership in the US Air Force and currently serves as a mentor to children, posted a single comment, “Apparently you’ve not read the Koran.”

Whoa, hold on there; that man has a point. Could it be that anyone who attains spiritual guidance from the Quran is in support of the radical ideology of ISIS? Yes, exactly that, according to the man 30 years my senior.

Immediately, my friend fired back with Bible verses. Quaint ones like, “A priest’s daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death.” (Leviticus 21:9 NAB) and “If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death.”

(Leviticus 20:10 NLT)

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by Tyler Terriault is beautiful!” Bertoldi’s Emcee is an amalgamation of the time, exuding a manic energy that is right on the brink of exploding, echoing the political atmosphere and changing tides in Berlin in the early 1930s.

Strutting the stage with his fishnet-clad cabaret performers, male and female alike, he exudes drama and indulgence in life’s pleasures, such as sex and money. He also serves as the “omniscient” narrator both within the Kit Kat Klub, and the show itself, at times breaking the fourth wall. Bertoldi’s Emcee alludes to the darker future of the show amongst the glitz of the Kit Kat Klub.

The show begins with the arrival of Cliff Bradshaw in Berlin, an American author looking for his story to tell.

Alex Hayes (‘16), who plays the character, remarked on Cliff’s role as the “camera” of the show, as he is the eyes through which we see a snapshot of Berlin during this time period.

His introduction to the atomic and ambitious Kit Kat Klub performer Sally Bowles sets the rest of the plot in motion. Bowls, played by Stephanie Farrington (‘17), wears a care-free mask of abandon and refuses to acknowledge that everything may not be okay. But every once in awhile Farrington lets Bowls’ mask off. In the famous ballad “Maybe This Time,” we see the vulnerable side of Bowls struggling with addictions, ambition, and

Cabaret opens this week - go see that show, I heard it’s super neat!

Something about a dance club and Nazis and how they have bad dance moves?

Ask not how I got a squirrel in my room, just get it out of here!

I used to think that swimming in the winter was crazy. Now I don’t.

One time I got in a fight with Microeconthat guy fights dirty photos by jonathan edelman

the fear of being ordinary.

Her sentiment reflects that of the Kit Kat Klub in general, and, as the show proposes, of the German people at the time. “It’s this looming cloud,” said Alyssa Lograsso (‘15), who plays Fraulein Schneider, about the political tensions.“You know its not gonna last, but you don’t know how it will end,” added Smith. The doomed love

story between Herr Schultz, who is Jewish, and Fraulein Schneider, who is not, is simple, yet effective, in showing how these political changes began to seep into people’s lives.

The strong ensemble of the Kit Kat Klub lead by the dynamic and captivating Emcee provide the mask under which the dark undertones of the show are hidden in plain sight. These

themes include anti-Semitism and the rise of the Nazi party, abortion, and alcohol and drug addictions, not easy topics to address in a two hour musical.

But this cast does so with grace, providing plenty of laughs through the dark humor of the show, and moving performances from leads Bertoldi, Farrington, Hayes, LoGras-

so, as well as the rest of the cast. Cabaret not only presents a lens through which to view a fascinating historical period in an entertaining way. It also asks the question: “What would you do in this situation?” which Farrington says director Brian Katz asked of the cast, and perhaps more importantly, “How does this message resonate today?”

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Deconstructing Diversity Defamation: A Review

By Ethan Giles sports editor

Around eighty people filled Razzo Hall on Tuesday, November 11 for a special viewing of Defamation, a play written by Todd Logan (‘75).

The play takes place in a 2012 Chicago, Illinois courtroom. Regina Wade (Stacie Doublin) is suing Arthur Golden, a wealthy real estate mogul played by director Richard Shavzin, for defamation. Wade is seeking $500,000 in reparations.

Judge Adrian Barnes (Malcolm Rothman) started the play by breaking the fourth wall. He explained the case to the audience and stressed that as the accuser, the burden of proof was on Wade. After jokingly giving the audience time to clear their throats, the play began.

Back in 2009, Wade owned Eagle Graphics, a legal graphic design company. Wade produced graphics for many law firms, including Siegel & Carmen.

Lorraine Jordan (Gina Taliaferro), an attorney at Siegel & Carmen, contacted Wade asking if she would be interested in doing some pro bono work for her client, the one and only Arthur Golden.

Soon after this suggestion, Wade met with Golden at his house in a wealthy Chicago suburb. Although both parties thought it went well, Golden soon realized that his watch was missing. This was not any old watch, but a priceless artifact that was handed down from his grandfather. Golden accused Wade of stealing the watch, a claim Wade denied, and he encouraged Jordan to stop using Wade’s company. A few weeks later, Wade received a note from Jordan declaring that she would no longer be using Eagle Graphics for Siegal & Carmen’s legal graphic needs because National Graphix, another legal graphics company, offered a more lucrative package at a better price.

Wade claimed that Golden’s false accusation of watch theft directly led to Siegal & Carmen ceasing business with Eagle Graphics, which in turn led to Eagle Graphics going out of business.

Defamation focuses on the juxtaposition between affluent Jewish and poor Black cultures. Golden, who is white and Jewish, was a member of wealthy country clubs while residing in a mostly white and Jewish suburb. Wade, who is black, was born into a fatherless home on the South Side of Chicago. Wade mentioned the various ways that she was racially profiled in her life; from white people frequently giving her “the look” to being asked by a cop, while walking in Golden’s neighborhood, if she “knew where she was.”

The juxtaposition continues into the characters’ lawyers. Wade was represented by a white male named Mr. Lawton (Jonathan Stutzman). Golden was represented by a black female named Ms. Allen (Kimm Beavers). Both lawyers incessantly attempted to use their respective client’s race/religion to their advantage, while using the opposition’s race/religion as a fault. Lawton explained that Wade’s race made her susceptible to false theft claims, while Allen emphasized that Golden’s religion and wealth made him susceptible to defamation claims. Both lawyers said the phrase “you can’t judge a person by where they go to bed at night” many times throughout the trial.

Lawton portrayed Golden as a Jew-loving bigot (Golden emphasized his support of Jewish intrafaith marriage, as he felt that interfaith marriage depopulated the religion) and claimed that he only accused Wade of theft due to the color of her skin. This accusation was helped by Wade stating “to Mr. Golden, I’m just a n***er.” Allen sympathized with Wade as a black woman who was able to fight through racial barriers and enter the professional world, and tried to use this sympathy to her favor. She walked through Wade’s trip to Golden’s fancy home and harped on all the oppression faced on the way there: from the racial profiling police officer to the oppressive feel of a giant mansion in the middle of suburbia. Allen then explained how all of this oppression had percolated into an action; so, in a moment of desperation, Wade must have stolen Golden’s watch. This

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soliloquy brought Wade to tears, but she still denied taking the item.

After the trial ended Judge Barnes turned to the audience and explained that it was us, not him, that would decide the verdict. He asked for all members to vote in one of three categories: undecided, for Wade, or for Golden. Roughly 52 people were undecided, twenty (including President David Angel) voted for Wade,

and 11 voted for Golden. After this initial vote, Judge Barnes invited audience members to stand up and voice their reasoning. Nine people stepped up to voice their opinions.

Barnes then asked the audience for a final vote, where members could no longer remain undecided. The Clark community chose the side of the oppressed minority, as Wade won in a landslide.

After the verdict, Logan took to the stage and joined the cast in an audience wide Q+A. Logan explained that he decided to use the audience in determining the verdict because he could not figure out a way to end the play. He said that he wanted to write something to “make people self reflective, to think about the life you live and how you look at other people.”

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Standing chin-deep in a torrent of hype around movies backed by big-name production companies, we often miss films that would steer our minds away from the herd. You would think that the extraordinarily competitive film industry would make it hard to see these works at

all, but the truth is that four nights a week, Cinema 320, an on-campus cinema located in Jefferson 320, makes it simple and cheap. The entry fee is just three dollars for Clark students, about a quarter of the price of an ordinary theatre ticket, and of course getting there is almost effortless.

The cinema shows films on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons, and is run by Steve Sandberg. He

carefully curates fresh, unconventional, highly rated films that would otherwise remain under the public’s radar; films that “make demands on the audience” and “credit [them] as having intelligence.”

Tianci Zhang, an employee at the cinema, described his selections as “eclectic and comprehensive… with a little black humour.” Sandberg joined the cinema as a volunteer in 1981, one year after its first showing.

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Jay Pharoah Continued continued from page 1

giddy at the headliner’s entrance. After briefly singing along with the warm up music, Pharoah launched into an inspired and passionate set that covered a wide variety of subjects, including race, sexuality, relationships, and pop culture.

Between jokes about dreadlocks, cookouts, and child rearing, Pharoah wove in the impressions that have helped skyrocket him to SNL stardom, including Dave Chappelle, President Obama, and even Jay-Z in front of a haunted house.

Early and often during his 75-minute set on Friday, Jay Pharoah remarked, “I’m not a punk. I’m a survivor.” Indeed, the concept of survival was a consistent thread throughout his material, with the comedian often commenting on the expectations and complications of being a young African American comedian.

Pharoah’s confidence and com-

mand of the stage were evident in his prepared material, as well as his long interactions with the audience and extended improvisations. At one point he even answered a phone call from his grandmother. In an aftershow interview, he remaked, “Some of the stuff was [knocks on head] off the top.”

The audience’s reception throughout the night was mainly warm and supportive, especially for his more familiar impressions and interactions with the audience. However, the online reaction after the show was marked by a vocal group of attendees taking to social media to voice concerns over some of Pharoah’s material.

Comedy is supposed to make you think, and Pharoah’s performance certainly tested the waters of what the Clark audience was comfortable with.

The set refused to shy away from material that some members of the Clark community found objectionable. “I didn’t do some bits tonight. It’s the

crowd, you know?” said Pharoah after the show. “It’s college kids. I probably could’ve used some of them. But I [was] like, let’s see if we go there, let’s see how that works.”

Some attendees took issue with Pharoah’s comments about women, particularly a section where he described his personal sexual preferences, a topic that some labeled “fat shaming” and “sexist.” Jokes that used the n-word seemed to get particularly mixed reactions from the crowd. Additionally, references to controversial figures, such as abusive hip hop artist Chris Brown and alleged childbeating NFL player Adrian Peterson, were met with awkward receptions in the theater and scathing rebuttals on the web.

Before throwing around such loaded criticisms about an artist -criticisms that should have real power and weight when valid -- it is important to look at context. Much of the evening’s humor was derived from the subversion of potent stereotypes

and cultural images. Were Pharoah’s comments given as earnest declarations on the worth of different people, or were they setups to punchlines that subverted the offensive statements?

Perhaps some were more successful than others, but why paint the entire act as intolerant to this or that oppressed community?

Pharoah came to Clark as a brief visitor, invited to perform his stand up set for a willing audience. He is not a former President or Poet Laureate.

His relationship with our institution was fleeting and his purpose was to entertain us with the comedic material that he had prepared. It is not his responsibility to adopt our ideology or cater to our tastes and preferences.

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Cinema 320 started in 1981 as the brainchild of an organization of film enthusiasts known as Vol de Nuit (Fly by Night) Enterprises. Back then, showings took place at the Paris Cinema in downtown Worcester.

The project was dubbed “Cinema 320” only after its move to Clark two years later, following Vol de Nuit’s eviction from the Paris by a landlord who had decided that porn would be a better investment than the alternative and classic films that they had been showing. An English professor at Clark, Rockie Blunt, was the one to suggest that the movies be shown on campus.

The move to Jefferson initially brought Clark students out in large numbers, but over the 32 years that Cinema 320 has been here, student

attendance has dwindled. Sandberg believes that the ease with which people access entertainment on laptops, tablets, and phones is part of the reason. He also notes that “creatively superb” TV series have stolen the limelight from movies in recent years.

Yet even with its dazzle slightly diminished, the big screen is not to be forgotten. Sandburg rightfully noted, “there’s still something to be said for seeing a movie with an audience. Like any other dramatic experience the human race has had… there’s a dimension of the emotional experience you don’t get if you’re watching something alone ... there’s a dimension you don’t get if you’re watching a very small image.”

By making it easy to go and see bold, thought-provoking movies that often offer glimpses into other cultures, important historical, and personal stories that might otherwise go

unheard, Cinema 320 does Clark and the wider Worcester community an exceptional service. In its time here at Clark, the cinema has attracted a devoted audience that includes members who have been coming since the earliest shows. With the ability to garner this much support from the Worcester community, Cinema 320 is definitely a project that deserves more student attention.

For those who have yet to see one, this week’s feature film is an excellent introduction to Cinema 320 showings. A Picture of You, a movie directed by J.P. Chan, in which events that start out as weighty and dark evolves into what has been described as “rambunctious” and “a small weird gem” by the Bay Area Reporter and The Sheila Variations.

Show times for this film and upcoming features can all be found on www.cinema320.com.

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New App Gives Everyone Front Row Seats

By Kassie Benzing

Clark’s 2014 NEWMAC Fall Academic All-Conference Athletes: Nate Biedak (‘17), Melanie Conde (‘15), Tim Conley (‘16), Olivia Cotton (‘17), Sarah Cramer (‘16), Yaffa Fain (‘17), Nikki Feinberg (‘16), Kara Fischer (‘17), Erin Glennie (‘15), Cate Huynen (‘16), Rebecca Kravetz (‘16), Zoe LaFrance-Armstrong (‘16), Charlotte Mays (‘15), Jonah Naghi (‘16), Seamus O’Connor (‘16), Gabby Paolini (‘16), Adelaide Petrov-Yoo (‘16), Courtney Pharr (‘17), Claire Pollack (‘16), Kyle Sullivan (‘15), Meghan Tighe (‘17), Tori Whitney (‘17), Alyssa Williams (‘17), Erin Wurtemberger (‘15), and Oscar Zapata (‘15).

NEWMAC Volleyball Rookie of the Year: Marina Ramos (‘18). She is Clark volleyball’s first ever major conference award winner.

NEWMAC Men’s Soccer First-Team All-Conference Athlete: Oscar Zapata (‘15).

NEWMAC Field Hockey Second-Team All Conference Athlete: Kiah Murphy (‘15).

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Clark Athletics and Presto Sports debuted the Front Row app this past August, providing a new, easier way for Cougar fans to stay up to date with scores and schedules via mobile device. As part of a package provided

by Presto Sports, the app was released shortly before the release of the new Clark Athletics website.

Users of the app can choose which sports they want to follow, which will then allow them to receive notifications, including live game up-

Inside the League of Legends Offseason contributing writer

By Scott Levine copy editor

women’s swimming The women’s swimming team lost in a tough meet to Wellesley on Saturday, October 8. Despite the team’s shortcomings, there were a few bright spots including Melissa Orzechowski (‘17) and Karina Urquhart (‘17) winning the 1000 freestyle race and 200 yard backstroke race respectively.The team is now 2-1 on the season and 1-1 in conference meets.

more than 400 downloads. The Athletic Department hopes to get more downloads as its inaugural year unfolds and Clark teams start to win more.

When the women’s volleyball team made playoffs in a nail-biting game, the app came in handy for Clark students who wanted to watch in the cafeteria and the John and Kay Bassett Admissions Center.

Cronin hopes to add club sports to the app in the near future, so that more Clarkies can be included in the Cougar environment.

You can download the Front Row app for free at Apple and Google Play stores.

League of Roster Swaps

By Dennis Spencer

WINTER SPORTS RECAP

dates and sports recaps. The app also automatically updates schedules as soon as changes in location, date, or time occur, allowing people to recycle those magnetic and paper schedules that were easily eradicated from the frequent schedule changes. Sports Information Director Kevin Anderson believes that “this is the best way to push information out.”

The app is also enabled with a live feed feature that allows users to watch games anywhere. Athletic Director Trish Cronin thinks that the app is “user friendly,” and a great resource to anyone interested in Clark Athletics.

Since its debut, there have been

In the month since Samsung White took home the Season Four World Championship, League of Legends has gone through one of the most eventful periods of roster swaps in the history of the competitive scene. From challenger players to former world champions, it seems that nearly every team is looking to improve. Throughout every region, rosters are being rotated faster than even the MonteCristo can follow.

Amongst North American teams, Team Curse has made the biggest signing of the offseason so far. No longer content with their repeated fourth place finishes, Curse made a huge

move in their acquisition of AD Carry Chae “Piglet” Gwang-jin. Piglet is well known among Western fans for his stint with SK Telecom T1 K, the Season Three World Champions and arguably the most dominant team in League of Legends history. After failing to qualify for this year’s Worlds, Piglet will look to partner with support Alex “Xpecial” Chu to form what could shake up to be strongest bottom lane in North America. However, Curse mid laner Joedat “Voyboy” Esfahani has announced that he is stepping down from the team.

Voyboy’s off-meta picks such as Talon and mid lane Tristana were crucial in his team’s success towards the end of the summer split. Curse’s new mid laner, whoever it is, will have to find a way to replicate the veteran’s influence on the team.

Probably the other most active team in North America has been Counter Logic Gaming. After a disappointing end to the summer split, the team parted ways with jungler Marcel “Dexter” Feldkamp as well as top laner Shin “Seraph” Wooyeong. Dexter’s replacement has yet to be announced, but former Dignitas top laner Darshan “ZionSpartan” Upadhyaha has been announced as Seraph’s replacement. CLG has been something of a graveyard for top lane talent in recent years. Promising young players such as Seraph, Voyboy, and Zach “Nien” Malhus have all suffered immensely in CLG’s bottom lane focused strategy. It remains to be seen whether continued on page 16

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By Scott Levine copy editor

women’s basketball

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League Cont. continued from page 15

ZionSpartan’s carry-based style can gel with the rest of his new team, or if CLG will once again fall short of their potential.

Other notable moves in North America include the retirement of Dignitas’s AD carry Michael “Imaqtpie” Santana, the departure of TSM jungler Maurice “Amazing” Stückenschneider, EG support Mitch “Krepo” Voorspoels, and Xiao “Ackerman” Wang, Zhou “NoName” Qi-Lin, and Li “Vasilii” Wei-Jun, all of LMQ. The European LCS has been just as busy this offseason as their North American counterparts. Probably the most notable move has been Millenium’s acquisition of two Korean players: jungler Cho “H0R0” Jae-hwan and mid laner Ryu “Ryu” Sang-wook.

H0R0 is the former jungler for SKT T1 S, the less successful sister team of the Season Three World Champions.

Ryu, formerly of the KT Bullets, is probably best known to Western fans as “the other Zed” from Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok’s legendary Zed outplay.

Ryu has fallen a long way in the last year, when he was widely considered to be the second best mid laner in the world only behind Faker. However, he will be thirsty to prove that he is still an elite mid laner. With these two imports, Millenium have to be considered legitimate contenders to qualify for next years’ World Championship.

The other major news to come

out of Europe is the saga of Fnatic AD carry Martin “Rekkles” Larsson.

Rekkles enjoyed an extremely successful debut LCS season, even tying the LCS record for most kills during the summer split. However, according to Richard Lewis of the Daily Dot, Rekkles has “had enough” and is attempting to leave the team. Lewis also reports that Rekkles has a buyout clause in his contract with Fnatic, which means that any team can poach the young AD carry for 15,000.

His preferred destination seems to be Henrik “Froggen” Hansen’s “superteam” Alliance, the defending European champions. Alliance’s own AD carry, Erik “Tabzz” Van Helvert has recently become a free agent.

Should Alliance become interested in Fnatic’s rising star, ALL Rekkles will be all but assured. Should Rekkles join the European juggernauts, Alliance would have to be seen as overwhelming favorites to repeat as European champions.

Several other moves have been confirmed around Europe in the last month. Jesse “Jesiz” Le and Adrian “CandyPanda” Wübbelmann have both left SK Gaming. Former Copenhagen Wolves AD carry Paweł “Woolite” Pruski has moved to Polish squad ROCCAT. Lastly, Matthew “Impaler” Taylor and Raymond “KaSing” Tsang have both departed Supa Hot Crew.

By the end of Season 4, the Korean Samsung organization had the two best teams in the world: world champions Samsung White as well as their sister team, semifinalists Samsung Blue. However, both of those rosters have been dissolved.

Gu “Imp” Seung-bin has retired, and

Heo “Pawn” Won-seok, Choi “DanDy” In-kyu, and Bae “dade” Uh-Jin have all left the Samsung orginization and have been rumored to be moving to China. Kim “Deft” Hyukkyu, formerly of Blue, has already signed with defending Chinese champions Edward Gaming. Additionally, Lee “KaKAO” Byung-kwon and Song “RooKie” Eui-jin have both left the KT Arrows for greener pastures in China.

Korean pros moving to China is not a new development. Star Horn Royal Club, the runner-up at the Season four World Championship, featured Koreans Choi “inSec” In-seok and Yoon “Zero” Kyung-sub. Tempted by easier schedules and significantly higher salaries, elite Korean pros are being lured away from their former teams. This could have a major impact in shifting the balance of power away from Korean teams, who have won the last two world championships in dominating fashion. Stars like Deft, DanDy, and KaKAO are amongst the best in the world at their positions, and any team they go to will become instant contenders for the Season Five World Championship.

Looking forward to the rest of the offseason, there are still several vacancies that need to be filled. Faker and SK Telecom T1, having failed to qualify for worlds, will likely look to replace the underperforming Bae “bengi” Seong-ung. TSM need to find a replacement for Amazing, with Lucas “Santorin” Larsen appearing to be the front runner. With only a few months left before the spring splits, these next two months should turn out be as exciting as the last one.

The women’s basketball team will open their season against Becker in the Worcester City Tournament at WPI on Saturday, November 15. The tournament will also include WPI and Worcester State. Clark looks to win the tournament for the third time in a row. Their three leading scorers from last season graduated last spring, and with both five first-years and sophomores on the team, it will be up to younger players to assume a greater role on offense. They will play their first game on Tuesday, November 18 against Fitchburg State at 7 p.m.

men’s basketball Along with the addition of a few new players, the men’s basketball team is returning all but two players. Among the returnees are last year’s leading scorers Andrew Musler (’14) and Nick DaPrato (’14). Both graduated last spring, and are currently enrolled in Clark graduate programs, but have retained their fourth year of eligibility since they were not on the varsity roster as first-years. The team will play their first game at home against Fitchburg State on Tuesday, November 18 at 5 p.m.

By Ethan Giles Sports editor

men’s swimming & diving The men’s swimming and diving team will look to build off their seventh place finish in the NEWMAC Championships last year. This season marks Head Swimming Coach Paul E. Phillips’ twelfth year on the job, as well as Laura O’Tell’s tenth year as Head Diving Coach. Look for team captains Jack Hall (‘15), Mick Chertov (‘15), and the rest of the team to lap the competition this season.

women’s swimming & diving The women’s swimming and diving team will look to build off their eighth place finish in the NEWMAC Championships last year. This season marks Head Swimming Coach Paul E. Phillips’ twelfth year on the job, as well as Laura O’Tell’s tenth year as Head Diving Coach. Look for diver Breanna Tucker (‘15) to rebound from last year’s injury-plagued season. The team only has two home meets left this season, both in late January in the Kneller Center Pool. Be sure to stop by and support the team.

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Fantasy Football Add/ Drop for Week 10

By Ethan Giles sports editor

AD D • Drew Stanton, QB, Arizona Cardinals: Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer tore his ACL last week, meaning that Drew will have to Stanton for the rest of the year. The Cardinals sport a talented group of offensive weapons including Larry Fitzgerald, Michael Floyd, John Brown, and Andre Ellington, so Drew can Stanton the pocket and find guys open down field. No matter where you Stanton your league, look to pick Drew up, especially if you need someone to Stanton at quarterback. Also if you need a new team name, adding Drew opens up “Stanton Island” and “Stanton in the Rain.” Stanton is owned in 3 percent of espn.com leagues and 3.4 percent of nfl.com leageus.

• Jordan Matthews, WR, Philadelphia Eagles: Back in training camp, Matthews was quarterback Mark Sanchez’s favorite receiver, as Philadelphia beat reporters raved about the connection the two formed on the practice field. A few months later and the two are still in sync: Matthews caught seven passes for 138 yards, and two touchdowns in Sanchez’s first start on Monday against the Carolina Panthers. While Sanchez might not be as close to Jordan as Iraq during the Gulf War, look for the quarterback to continue to feed Matthews the ball down the stretch. Matthews is owned in 33.4 percent of espn.com leagues and 15 percent of nfl.com leagues.

DROP • Anthony Dixon, RB, Buffalo Bills: Dixon’s time as the main running back in Buffalo appears to be over, as Fred Jackson made an early recovery from a groin injury. Although he will get some carries, Dixon’s upside is very limited.

• Juwan Thompson, RB, Denver Broncos: Even after Ronnie Hillman was injured against the Oakland Raiders, Thompson only received four carries for eight yards. A few weeks ago, many people thought he would receive some goal line touches, but those hopes have faded, especially with Montee Ball returning from injury soon. If you have Thompson on your roster, Juwan to drop him.

BUY LOW • Rashad Jennings, RB, New York Giants: Jennings has missed the past five weeks with a knee injury, but he should see the field in the next few weeks. See if his owner is ready to give up on this New York running back and get him on the cheap.

S E L L H IG H • Kansas City Chiefs defense: The Chiefs defense had a strong performance against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, as they only gave up 13 points and recovered two fumbles. Unfortunately, their remaining schedule includes potent offenses such as the Seattle Seahawks, Arizona Cardinals, Denver Broncos, Pittsburgh Steelers, and San Diego Chargers. As rapper Chief Keef probably never said, “Trade the Chiefs defense now if you can get anything for them.”

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COUGAR of the WEEK

by Scott Levine

Dan Diez (’15) has played basketball for his whole life, be it on Ameteur Athletic Union (AAU) teams in high school or for Club Basketball here at Clark. So it came as a surprise to no one when he became an assistant coach for the women’s basketball team this year.

Scarlet: What was the process of becoming an assistant coach?

Diez: Last year I was formally introduced to Head Coach Pat Glispin by one of my favorite professors who also did work in the athletic board. I kind of just had an opening in my schedule, and I approached coach and asked her if I could jump on board.

Scarlet: Have you had previous coaching experience?

Diez: When I was in high school, I did a lot of coaching in rec leagues and later for AAU, so it’s something I’ve always been interested in, and I’m really happy to be coaching again.

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Dan Diez women’s basketball

Scarlet: Did you have aspirations of coaching at Clark for a while, or did this come out of nowhere?

Diez: Well, being a gym rat my whole life, playing college basketball for me is the dream, and when I got to Clark, I decided to take advantage of other opportunities. And senior year, I said, ‘maybe this is the time to get involved, and my passions drove me more to coaching than playing.’

Scarlet: What do you think you will be able to add to the team?

Diez: I stopped growing before I should have, and I have experience playing the four, the three, the two, and now I’m a one. So I know it’s all about playing to your strengths at whatever moment. I also think just my ability to pick up schemes quickly, and help players fine tune aspects of their game will be useful. Coach Glispin and Coach O’Dell have a very strong grasp of the bigger picture, but it’s up to myself and the other assistant coaches to making the little things better for individual players. It’s all those little things that add up to big wins.

Scarlet: What kind of schemes is the team implementing?

Diez: We like to run. We’re going to get up the floor, and with that we have to be a scrappy defensive team, work hard on both ends, and bring a high energy style of play. It’s different than our conference where a lot of teams are looking to slow down the pace and get long possessions. We’re looking to get out and put the ball in the hole, and pressure teams.

Scarlet: What role does basketball play in your life?

Diez: I’m confused by the question because basketball is life. I feel like you just stated two synonyms, and for that reason I don’t understand the question.

Scarlet: My next question was actually going to be, “Is ball life?”

Diez: I don’t feel like I need to answer that question at this point [laughs]. But on a more serious note, it’s been there throughout my life, and growing up I was always the kid who was the first one there, and they had to turn the lights off in order for me to leave. So eventually, if my path takes me to a position where I’m the one who turns the lights on and off, I’m going to understand to keep it on a little longer for the people still in the gym.

Diez and the rest of the women’s basketball team will open their season against Becker in the Worcester City Tournament on Saturday, November 15 at WPI.

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Police Logs written by Mehr Gunawardena

Last week (November 4-11), University Police responded to 9 medical emergencies, 2 heating problems, 10 fire alarms, aided 6 money transports, secured 14 buildings, responded to 2 E-Box calls, assisted Worcester Police 5 times, responded to 6 suspicious persons/activities, responded to 9 lockout of building calls, 9 burglar alarms, 2 Larceny/Forgery/ frauds, performed 8 miscellaneous services, and, 1 encounter with narcotics.

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“Is Kim Kardashian’s butt still available?” - Savannah “Scott, did you find that person’s year?” - Jeremy “What? Whose ear?” - Sarah “I just want my cheeks back. That’s all I ask.” - Ethan “Michigan is one of the few states where you can actually tell what state it is on the map.” - Kate “They have the best Middle Eastern food.” - Erin “Jay Pharoah smelled fantastic.” - Memmer “He smelled like my grandfather!” - Celine

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