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Everyone’s Welcome Here Red Square Event Held to Make Clark a Sanctuary Campus
Krefetz Comments on Homelessness in Worcester By Giulia Elena Casella scarlet staff
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Red Square was buzzing with students looking to gain signatures for a petition to make Clark a sanctuary campus on Thursday, Dec. 1. “It is our belief that the intended deportation of 11 million immigrants, including 13,000 college students with
undocumented status in the United States, is a threat to our society as a nation and that we must use the University’s status and resources in defying this disruption within our own community,” reads the petition. The petition has been circulating on Facebook and has garnered significant support from the Clark community. Several colleges across the country have done so already, and the
title would mean that Clark refuses to cooperate with immigration enforcement without a warrant, protecting undocumented students, workers, and community members while they are on campus. Additionally, the petition calls for the university to provide specialized funding, services, and councontinued on page 3
Worcester County experienced a 6.5 percent decrease in the overall number of homeless persons, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Point in Time (PIT) count done in January 2016. “Worcester has a smaller homeless population due to the more systematic and coordinated efforts to identify the most severe problems, and then lobby politically to get more resources to address them,” said Sharon Krefetz, a Clark professor emerita of political science whose research has focused on affordable housing policies. Krefetz is a board member of the Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance (CMHA) and the chair of the Continuum of Care (CoC) Board. While the homeless population in Worcester has decreased, there are still many problems that need to be addressed, such as the
shortage in housing assistance. “There are long waiting lists of over 1,000 people for public housing, and on average it takes three years to get an available unit,” said Krefetz. One reason there is a shortage in housing assistance is that while shelters and transitional housing facilities may have rooms available for homeless people, many of them require that a person must be alcohol free and drug free in order to qualify. This approach is counterproductive. Typically lack of housing only perpetuates alcohol abuse and drug addiction. Krefetz suggests there should be housing offered to homeless people as an incentive to stop any substance abuse and addiction issues. This approach is called Housing First, and Worcester was one of the first to implement it. “The Housing First approach provides homeless people with a decent place to live located near continued on page 4
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Media, Culture, and the Arts Major Opened By Jessica Macey co-news editor
This fall marks the opening of Media, Culture and the Arts (MCA), an interdisciplinary major bridging various disciplines within the arts and humanities. “There is no other program like MCA at Clark, and in fact there are few such programs anywhere in the U.S.,” wrote Professor Hugh Manon, who is teaching MCA 101 and is planning to take over as director of MCA in Fall 2017, in an email to The Scarlet. The start of a new major has elicited both excitement over new opportunities and concern over the relation to the university’s discontinuation of the interdisciplinary major Cultural Studies and Communications (CSAC). “Its understandable that some people think that MCA is a replacement CSAC, but it’s not,” said Dean of the College and Co-director of CSAC, Matt Malsky. “It’s a new interdisciplinary program and it does some things that are the same and some that are different” He cited subject area as a key difference, explaining that MCA has a more narrow focus than CSAC, looking mainly at the arts and humanities, while CSAC looked at the social sciences as well. Manon explained that MCA combines different areas of the visual and performing arts, as well as combining the study and production of
varied types of media. “‘Media,’ here, is understood in the broadest possible sense to include forms like painting, sculpture, and musical composition, which are not traditionally included in media studies or communications programs, along with forms such as film, television, radio, and internetbased new media,” he wrote. Manon described MCA as an “aggressively” interdisciplinary major. He explained that development of the major began in 2011 through discussions of a new type of course faculty wanted to develop within V&PA. “This course type was called ‘Creative InterMedia,’ and would involve hybrid approaches to media, as well as work in both production (i.e. handson making) and studies (historical and theoretical writing, reading, and discussion),” he explained. Faculty began developing a concentration, then the opportunity arose to develop a major. A proposal was written by Manon and Malsky, which was “enthusiastically approved by the University Advisory Board,” according to Manon. As of Dec. 6, 11 students had declared the major. Manon reasoned that “at this pace we could easily grow to 40-50 majors within three years.” “I expect that the major will continue to grow, in part based on good word-of-mouth about this course, which I consider to have been hugely successful,” he wrote. “I’m very proud of my students’ progress thus far.”
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seling to undocumented students in order to guarantee that their personal and academic needs are met. According to the New York Times there are 364 counties and 39 cities across the United States who have adopted policies limiting their cooperation with immigration enforcement officers. Sanctuary cities and campuses are not a new concept, but the push to create more is largely in response to president-elect Trump’s planned immigration policies, and the
growing threat of deportation faced by people in the United States without legal status. “This is a national movement; it’s been established throughout history, it’s just amplified in response to our new president-elect,” said Maya Duffy (‘18). San Francisco was the first city to declare itself a sanctuary in 1989. Though Worcester is not a sanctuary city as of now, the title was proposed but never voted on in both 2007 and
2011, A petition is currently circulating to make the designation official. “By taking action, Clark University has the opportunity to serve at the forefront of the greater movement to designate Worcester as a Sanctuary City,” reads the petition. Many students feel that making Clark a sanctuary is important not just for the sake of undocumented continued on page 4
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students here, but for creating a larger culture of refusing to accept deportation. Ian Jackson (‘18) said the petition is important to send the message that “we aren’t going to let any more people get deported from this country - it’s unjust.” Many students at the event expressed the feeling that the passage of this petition will lift a burden off of undocumented students and give them the peace of mind necessary to successfully pursue their studies. President David Angel is in support of this movement, and expressed his pride in the Clarkies who started standing up for their fellow students. He notes that his substantive po-
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facilities like hospitals, employment training, social service agencies and counseling agencies,” said Krefetz. Another reason a shortage in housing assistance exists is that many landlords do not want homeless people to live in their units for fear that their property values will decrease. However, Krefetz cited some ways private developers can be encouraged to provide more affordable housing for low income people. “In some cities and a few states, private developers can get benefits if they provide more inclusionary housing programs,” said Krefetz. “They can get waivers of certain zoning regulations if they reserve ten to thirty percent of their units for low income people.” Aside from the shortage in housing assistance, there are other issues
sition on the petition is “absolutely,” saying that “we want to make sure every student attending Clark has the opportunity to complete their education.” Angel is one of several university presidents who has released a statement in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival plan, or DACA, granting temporary amnesty to immigrants who arrived in the United States as children and still lack legal status. The passage of this petition would be another step in that direction, granting not only implicit support but explicit protection to undocumented students on this campus. “We value Clark University as a home and firmly believe that safety and inclusion are essential in maintaining this environment. We owe it to all members of our community to publicly stand together against oppression and hatred,” the petition stated. As of Dec. 7, the petition has 888 signatures, including those of students, faculty, alumni, and community members.
that still need to be addressed. “In the case of very low income people, it is not enough to get housing vouchers to help pay for their rent. They need additional funding to pay for housing,” said Krefetz. Some lesser-known obstacles that homeless people face are that families who are not permanently housed frequently move to different locations in search of better facilities, lower prices, or better work opportunities. Their children have to change schools every few months, which can lead to poor academic performances. Life in the shelters is difficult for children. “They have no privacy and there are strict rules like curfews,” said Krefetz. Focus needs to be placed on children in order to prevent future homelessness, through measures such as making sure they finish high school and perhaps attend college. “Social service programs could provide special assistance like after school programs,” said Krefetz. “These programs encourage children to be more determined to do whatever it takes to lead a better life.”
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CLARKIE of the WEEK think that is something that sets them apart from people at other Universities. At the same time, I like Clark University because of its commitment to the community. I think you see that in the University Park Partnership and the work that the University has done with the Main South CDC, and what happens in the schools around Clark University. Scarlet: You are the President of Student Council. Why did you first get involved? Cory: On the one hand one of the things I value most is loyalty. I want to do the most that I can, and I feel like one of the ways I can do a great deal is through student government, because I feel that student government, it usually does not operate at the highest level functionally, and so I feel like it is somewhere that I can get involved and do a lot and potentially achieve a lot. At the same time, I feel like student government has the instruments at its disposal where if it was used correctly you could achieve a lot, and so I think merging those two things together it’s the place that I can potentially do the most good.
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Cory Bisbee Cory Bisbee (‘19) was born in Seoul, South Korea but grew up in Montgomery, Mass. He sat down with The Scarlet to discuss Clark, Student Council, and his phone. Scarlet: Why did you come to Clark? Cory: On one hand, I think it’s Clark University’s people. Clarkies are very genuine, and they’re very compassionate and I
Scarlet: Some people say there is a disconnect between the student body and student council. Do you agree with this? Cory: It’s something that I’m well aware of. I think it is clear to everyone. Something that did very clearly demonstrate it to me early on when I came to Clark, was when there was the forum on race, and a lot of people came out and [voiced their complaints] with the University. Nobody at all, and I was there for the whole thing, mentioned student council. Nobody will say, “we should go to the student government and bring up these concerns,” nobody will say, and this part even disappoints me, nobody will say, “the student government is doing a bad job.” And I wish that people would say, “the student government is doing a bad job,” or “the student government isn’t doing their job,” or something like that, but it’s just not on people’s radar and it’s not in their consciousness. Scarlet: Is this non-interest in student council hurtful? Cory: Yes, and part of that is because it encourages people to be disengaged from student government, which makes student government less representative, less democratic, makes elections less competitive, [and] we end up with more people who are less committed. More people who are, frankly speaking, rent
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seekers, who are just seeking something to put on their resume, or, who want to come into a meeting once a week and just talk at one another, which are not particularly useful things. Scarlet: Is that what your experience has been like? Cory: I would say in general, student government will have a fair number of rent seekers regardless of where it is. Honestly speaking, because that’s just the nature of student government. Because one of the other alternatives is to have people who are genuinely committed to student government, and want to do good things, but that’s rare to me because student government naturally tends to require a lot more from you than you’re ever going to get out of it… It’s a volunteer position, you can go into student government and say nothing is ever going to come out of this, we are going to hand out funding to some people, ten years from now I’m going to look back and ask ‘what was I doing with my life?’ And so it’s really hard to find those people who, aren’t insane, but like, well meaning and somewhat misguided enough [laughs] to get involved with student government. Scarlet: There has been a lot of turnover on student government between this year and last year. Why is that? Cory: I think there was a lot of turnover on student government last year because the general climate in our student government last year was horrible. There was a lot of partisan discord within our student government. You had a lot of ambitious people last year, and you had a lot of people who were highly opinionated, and I think those things just sort of conspired together to create a sort of poisonous environment within our student government, which really got progressively worse… I think that was part of the turnover you saw last year, in terms of like the number of resignations from student council. This year, you do see a fair amount of representatives who chose not to run again. And I think part of that is probably from the almost remaining trauma from last year’s experience. And I think last year’s experience too, for some of our more experienced senior members, might have really just underscored the fact that student government doesn’t really give you a lot back, so I think these people just going into their junior or senior years just kind of reevaluated and said, “what am I getting out of this? What am I really achieving continued on page 6
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here? Is it worth my time?” and I think those are the questions a number of people have asked and they came out of it deciding not to run again. That’s perfectly fine, but it did leave us in somewhat of an awkward position because of the knowledge drain you get from that. Also though, too, it did give us the opportunity to have new people come in who did have different views about how things could run, which I think has been helpful in some ways, so at the end of the day it’s kind of a give and take. Scarlet: What do you get out of being President? Cory: Honestly speaking, a lot of headaches [laughs]. I think a lot of people don’t really understand what being involved in student government, especially being involved with student government on say the executive board or as the undergraduate student president really means. That was exemplified by the number of people who ran for president last year. Again, I think it is a thing that a number of people think of as a thing to put on your resume or a grad school application or something like that, or they see it as prestigious, or they see it as you getting power or something like that. In reality, the amount of time you have to put into the job, especially the executive board level or above, hurts your GPA and takes away from time you could be doing, say, work-study, for example, it takes much more away from that than you are ever going to get in return from a title thrown out somewhere. It’s not prestigious, most people at this university or at any university could care less about student government. And that’s the way it’s probably always going to be, at least to some extent. And at the same time too it’s not all that powerful, especially in our student government, the way that it’s set up right now. So, for me, what I get out of it, I don’t know I feel like at the end of the day. Loyalty is a very important thing, loyalty to a group, and to me Clark University is the group, and so I want to do what I can for the group. Scarlet: I’ve heard you lost your gavel this year. Is this true? Cory: We didn’t lose it. So this is a really fun story. The prior president, Kevin [Kim (‘16)], when he came into office, I think the gavel had been lost or stolen or something like that. So he, with his own money, bought a gavel and had his name engraved
into it. When Kevin graduated, naturally, he took the gavel with him; we weren’t going to have a Kevin Kim gavel at our meetings. I said that I would prefer for us to not buy another gavel, because I’m in [Model UN] and I run our conferences and I know what they cost, and to me even though it’s not a ridiculous amount, it’s the student body’s money. At the end of last year too they also bought a plaque engraved with all the names of the members of our student government and to me, again, wasted the student body’s money. Essentially it is just a participation award or a pat on the back, for probably one of our worst years ever. To me, it was not quite worth the money and I feel like I can just use something else to get attention in the meetings, a gavel is honestly something that does not need to be used frequently in order to get control, it’s something you can ceremoniously use at the beginning and the end of the meeting… I felt like if anything I could get a coffee mug and it would be fine. But the other members of the executive board insisted that we needed a gavel, and so the executive board voted, and so in majority the executive board decided against my wishes to spend the student body’s money on a gavel. So they bought a gavel, and I told them another reason why I would be against the decision is because it’s probably going to get stolen. Our office is used by a number of different people, and I’m not concerned about our representatives stealing it, but a lot of representatives might use our office for a committee meeting and then people start to filter out and… the room ends up getting left unlocked. So the gavel in my mind was probably going to get stolen, and that’s what happened to the one before Kevin Kim came in and bought his. One of the things when they did finally get it was, “oh you should just carry it around with you,” but I’m not going to spend my time babysitting a gavel, that’s just not going to be a thing... and presumably this gavel was stolen. So that’s why we don’t have a gavel. Scarlet: Are you going to get another one? Cory: No. If I can avoid it, because I felt like it would be very silly for me to have to veto a proposal from my own executive board to buy a gavel, and so I said I’m just gonna let democracy do it’s work here. Now though I’m going to have to see what happens. I hope they learned their lesson, because they haven’t put up the plaque that they bought, thankfully, I think our secretary is just carrying that around with him. I’m not too concerned that they will try to buy another gavel but if they do I will try to shut that down.
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Scarlet: So you have a phone but cannot use it to call or text. Can you explain that? Cory: My parents insist that I have a phone, because when I do need to go back home they will pick me up. But they insist that I have a phone so that when they arrive at the University they can call me and say, “alright, we’re here,” and then I go down and leave. I use that phone, as a result, maybe two times a year. So I got an unlocked [and] really cheap Motorola phone. The phone itself is horrible, the operating system lags terribly, and it often will just lock me out so I can’t use the phone at all. It also has a terrible battery; it’ll just die after an hour, I don’t know why, it get’s really really hot and then dies. On top of that, I got the cheapest possible, not even service provider but one of those cheap things you can get, and it costs me like ten dollars a month, so I pay like sixty dollars per call. Because it is such a cheap thing I don’t really have good service so more often than not I won’t get calls, with some exceptions, like you have to call me a few times, but I generally keep the volume off. On top of that, text messages do not work with this service, it’ll send them to me days after they are sent, and then from there it will repeatedly send them to me once an hour. So it’s just utterly useless, it’s absolutely useless. Scarlet: If you were a sandwich what sandwich would you be? Cory: I don’t want to overthink this because that’s my natural predisposition. I would probably say a peanut butter sandwich because those were the bane of my existence in childhood. Those are what I ate a fair amount during elementary school, it’s cheap, simple to make. It’s fitting for college life in that respect.
Thanks for the interview, Cory!
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An Erosion of Democracy The Effects of Widely Proliferated Fake News By Ethan Giles editor-in-chief
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Most hold the idea that one is entitled to their own opinion as an absolute truth. Common sense dictates that there is no similar entitlement to one’s own facts. However, recent events have tested these assumptions. Indeed, the increasing intolerance of contradictory opinions has been a particularly conspicuous trend in recent years. To disagree with another’s views is no longer seen as a respectable divergence of opinion, but an act that invites visceral loathing and vituperative attacks on one’s character. Anyone who has viewed an internet comment section will know immediately that this is true. Moreover, this is one of the few areas in which the left and the right are equally responsible. The slow decline of objective truth has, until very recently, received less attention. The election of Donald Trump in the United States and the success of the Brexit campaign in the United Kingdom have changed that. Trump based his campaign around breezily-told untruths concerning everything and anything. To seek comment on Trump’s views on Muslims, Mexicans, undocumented Ameri-
cans, Hillary Clinton, taxation, urban crime, climate change, international trade, Trump’s own business practices, or anything else to which objective truth was relevant invited an avalanche of blatant falsehoods. Of course, none of this hurt him one bit, as a large segment of the public appears to operate under the assumption that truth is not determined by objective fact, but by the intensity with which the belief that it stems from is held. It is in this environment that attention has finally been drawn to the proliferation of “fake news” on social media. According to recent data, 40 percent of Americans cite Facebook as their primary source of news. This is unfortunate, as Facebook has recently conceded that at least 75 percent of the “news” shared on its site is not news at all, but a collection of hoaxes, conspiracy theories, and malicious lies. In one sense, this problem was probably inevitable. Facebook is a business, and like all businesses, it wants to keep its customers happy. Often, this means telling said customers what they want to hear. Facebook already selects which users are directed to what news stories based on presumptions about that person’s
political views. Combine this with the fact that people naturally seek out information that confirms what they already believe, and a situation in which every person is allowed their own hermetically-sealed ideological bubble arises. Unscrupulous bloggers and would-be journalists have exploited this with a vengeance. There is evidence that foreign governments, allegedly Russia, have sought to influence the US political process by spreading fake news. The result is that public discourse has been clogged with false presumptions based on sensationalized nonsense. Those that benefit are usually the least scrupulous of all. Clearly, this is not a tenable situation. Thomas Jefferson once said that the survival of participatory democracy was dependant on a “wellinformed citizenry”. It should go without saying that the public cannot be “well-informed” if it is allowed to choose its information regardless of said information’s accuracy. For this reason above all others, it is essential that Facebook address the issue of fake news as quickly and decisively as possible.
So this has been an incredible semester at The Scarlet. Being editorin-chief to this group of people has been great, and I can’t wait to get back at it for one last time next semester. If you couldn’t tell, this “Scarlet Letter” is going to be very cheesy and reflective, so if “thank you’s” and “goodbyes” aren’t your thing, then the rest of this issue offers a number of other articles that you can enjoy. First, a big thank you to everyone that contributed to The Scarlet this semester. This includes everyone who wrote, edited, took photos, came to a meeting, or is on our email list (if you would like to join our email list, send an email to scarlet@clarku.edu). Every one of you helped make this semester a rousing success, and having your support made my job possible. Your dedication is what makes this newspaper thrive. A special shoutout to Daniel Juarez (‘18), for continuing to be an amazing fact checker and stepping up to be a phenomenal managing editor this semester. Daniel is the hardest working person I have ever worked with, and has been instrumental in corresponding with advertisers, providing food for a few meetings, and even writing an incredible piece during our 2016 Election Issue. Secondly, a big thank you to you, our readers. We might not have the biggest readership in the world, but we do have the best . I constantly get compliments from people after they have perused our paper, so thank you to all of you who spend the time glancing over the product of our labor. Next semester will be a new beginning for The Scarlet, and sadly every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end. We will be letting go of three of our own: Aaron Trachtman (‘17) is graduating, while Erin McKeon (‘18) and Kate Summers (‘18) are studying abroad. Aaron was only on The Scarlet for one semester, but he brought an enthusiasm for writing and a love for gymnastics bloopers to almost every meeting. It’s been a pleasure having Aaron on our staff for the semester, and I can assure you he will be watching gymnasts faceplant into the near future. I have had the pleasure of working with Erin and Kate for the past five semesters. They were a part of our stellar freshman class two years ago, and have accounted for countless memories. Erin has showed me the magic of yoga (particularly the cobra) and was a great wife. She would stay awake for hours on end when we used to meet until 4 a.m., and do so much of behindcontinued on page 8
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Reddit Rage Controversy Over Edited Posts By Julia Baldacci
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Last week, Steve Huffman, CEO of the popular social network aggregation site Reddit, confessed to modifying the posts of some users on the most visible Donald Trump-supporting “subreddit.” His actions occurred after the community repeatedly slung verbal abuse in his direction. The drama began when The New York Times published a report on a Washington DC pizza restaurant that an earlier news piece had alleged was the center of a child-abuse ring run by Hillary Clinton and John Podesta, despite a lack of any evidence. Following the report and its subsequent growth in popularity on the site, the higher ups at Reddit took steps to shut down what was called the “r/Pizzagate” community, which had the goal of proving the existence of the conspiracy centering on the pizza place. The page is now banned for violating community guidelines. The move to shut down r/Pizzagate was controversial to users of “r/ The_Donald,” Reddit’s most popular community for supporters of Donald Trump. Users repeatedly left comments to the effect of “f**k u/spez” and other similar comments, including Huffman’s Reddit name in the post to notify him of each message. On Nov 23, members of “r/The_ Donald” noticed that their posts had changed without their knowledge or consent. Instead of referencing Huffman himself, the posts now had same expletives aimed at the moderators of the community. Some “r/The _Donald” members then accused Reddit leadership of modifying or otherwise censoring their posts — which turned out to be correct. Steve Huffman verified this in a comment on the page and later wrote a full apology post in which
he acknowledged his mistake, and explained that Reddit has dedicated resources to fighting harassment, so letting one of their “most engaged communities” harass him felt “hypocritical.” He then tried to minimize his mistake by saying he was only trying to “troll the trolls.” Regardless of your views on politics, I think it’s easy to see why some users were upset by this. A CEO of any company--particularly one as large as Reddit, which has an estimated $38 million revenue each month--should be expected to uphold a certain code of conduct and professionalism. True, a CEO of a privately owned company does have the right to dictate what is or isn’t allowed on their site. However, just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. While harassment is never okay, Huffman inevitably lost the trust of many users by editing their posts. People come to these subreddits to discuss topics of mutual interest, not to be “trolled” by the company’s cofounder and CEO. If the harassment Huffman was receiving from “r/The_ Donald” users was really so horrible, it would warrant a ban or suspension for a few days. Yet, instead of taking the proper steps to manage the harassment, he decided to take petty revenge by modifying posts and directing the same insults towards those users. Not only was this clearly an impulsive, irrational decision, it was also immature. People expect more from those in management positions, and by trying to make light of the situation, Huffman only proved himself to be unable to handle impartiality when insulted personally.
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the-scenes work at the newspaper. I am not looking forward to functioning without her as she enjoys Ireland, and would love it if she would take me back as a husband. Kate has been incredible from the day she showed up for The Scarlet. She quickly stood out as a freshman for her love of news and desire to report, especially
with her impeccable coverage of the Black Lives Matter Protest. Kate is an incredible executive editor and has put up with more of my stupid ideas than anyone should. Last year she was not sure if she was going to go abroad or not, and while I am thrilled that she will have a great experience in Namibia, I would be lying if I said a slight part of me was not rooting for
her to stay in the USA to help me with the newspaper. She will be an incredible editor-in-chief next year, even if she will still be below Squidward on the hierarchy. I cannot thank everyone involved with the newspaper enough for making it a magical semester. Enjoy your winter break, and let’s come back next semester ready to cause some hell.
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The Scarlet/Living Arts Free Store Provides Resource For Worcester County Residents By Scott Levine sports editor
As many purchase and giftwrap new items for the holidays, the Worcester Free Store offers an alternative to spending money for brand new goods. It is a secondhand store from which customers can take up to ten free items a day. The returns after less than a year have been positive. “We never expected it to get this big,” said volunteer Justin Norton. The small store currently serves dozens of customers a day. Julio Medina of Worcester lives with his wife and three kids and is one of the store’s many customers. He uses the free store to find toys and clothes. “It’s not like I’m flat broke,” said Medina, “but it’s always good to cut off some of that budget.” The Free Store was founded in March of 2016, and ran out of a makerspace called WorcShop. It moved to its current location at 12 Cambridge St. in July 2016. “We’re just trying to take things that people have and they don’t need, and give them to people who need things that they don’t have,” said Kent Flowers, one of the founders of the store. The store relies on volunteer
work. Anne Bourassa of Worcester is one of the seven or eight dedicated volunteers. “I came in on a Tuesday to find out what it’s about, and on that Friday I started volunteering,” said Bourassa. “I’m retired, so it makes things exciting.” The store is stocked exclusively through donations and offers everything from clothes to dishes to “Harry Potter” books on tape. Flowers has been encouraged by the number of items that people donate to the free store. “We’ve had a lot of support from the neighborhood,” said Flowers. “It’s not my stuff, it’s not the volunteer stuff, so we only get to do this if people give us stuff.” Flowers takes any donations that are especially valuable and sells them outside of the store. “At the end of the day, we need to be able to pay for utilities and rent and all that stuff,” said Flowers. Ursula Fastl of Worcester donates to the Free Store because she would rather the next owner of her things use it for free. “When you know it’s going to a place where people are going to use it, it makes it much easier to get rid of things,” said Fastl. “I don’t want to donate something and have people charge six dollars for it and have it sit on the rack.” Free Store volunteer Kevin Per-
ry’s favorite moment was when he gave a family an eleventh item for free instead of charging fifty cents for each extra item. “This girl found a ‘Curious George’ stuffed animal, and just the look on her face was priceless. Her mom already had ten items, but I let the girl take it anyways,” said Perry. “A few days later, her mom came in and said, ‘she eats with it, she sleeps with it, and now she wants to take it to school,’ so that was pretty great.” Being a non-profit store allows those in charge and who volunteer to focus on what is most important: providing items to people who need them. “Our aim is to help families with a lot of children who are struggling to make ends meet. Those families have hard times, and nobody thinks about it,” said Bourassa. “We’ve had a couple people call and say, ‘Hey I don’t have any kids’ clothes. I’m real desperate. Someone told me you might be able to help,’ so being able to contact people who actually need the help, and being able to help them, I think, is real rewarding,” said Flowers. An extended version of article to appear in Worcester Telegram & Gazette
by Eddie McCluskey
The snow! It sneaks in Under the cover of night To welcome Winter What’s this punk thinking? That he can just walk in here Like he owns the place? Christmas movies? Now? Why?...It is barely even…no... …Ugh. *Takes out headphones* This weekend! Come see The incredi-bull CUPS’ show! Argonautika! At seven-thirty Thurs thru Sat at the LC* Bring friends and fam, fam! *Little Center
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Variant Dance Troupe & Dance Society Take The Stage Photos by Krithi Vachaspati & Chima Egbuzie
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The Journey For The Golden Fleece CUPS Presents Argonautika By Aaron Tractman scarlet staff
The Clark University Player’s Society’s (CUPS) rendition of Argonautika was a tale of adventurers, narrated by the goddess Athena in a powerful deep voice. The humorous personality of the goddess came out, as she mocked Aphrodite in a satirical voice. The play is designed to be something like a funny version of the Odyssey. The plot shows the fickle interests of the Gods, and the fragile stories of the humans affected by them. Athena joins by the goddess Hera, the more mischievous of the two, who gets her hands dirty and tricks the humans with manipulations. The interesting lighting and perspectives allowed smooth transitions from the human world to the world of gods. Along with these effective visuals, the costumes of the actors were creative and attractive, including renditions of bulls, dragons, and gods. The set is a large ship, with ropes coming down from the ceiling as rigs. Hercules, played by Samson Martin (‘18), stole the first half of the show. He played a man who was inseparable from his partner. Martin overexaggerated Hercules as an airhead, which leads to hilarious claims of strength and size. Hercules’ story left the audience disheartened when he lost his life in the quest to find his partner Hylas, played by Harris Eidelman (‘19), who plays this role admirably. The old King Pelias, played by Tim Jones (‘19), used his height to stay hunched over, and spoke in a crackling, croaking, voice. He fit into this role of a king in his old age very well. Bob Waters (‘17) plays the role of a supposed immortal child of god who has a piece of wood lit on fire in his chest called Meleager. This character is creepy and determined, and the weirdness shines well in the role. Another powerful performance came from Amelia Mohr (‘17), who plays Medea, a sorceress and the daughter of King Aeetes. Medea struggles to decide whether to stand by her father, or to help her new lover, Jason, obtain the Golden Fleece. Her predicament is symbolized by the bloody arrow that remains in her heart throughout the play. There is a surprising intensity and sadness to her role that are not expected when you first meet this character. The play will be shown on Dec. 9 and 10 at 7:30p.m. in The Little Center.
Photos by Erin McKeon
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People on the Street
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Photos and Captions by Amanda Quiñones & Krithi Vachaspati
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If you could go on a date with anyone in the world, who would it be and where would you go?
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I would go on a date with Elon Musk. I’d go to Mars with him, because- you know, he wants to go to Mars, so.
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- Joshua Odom (‘17)
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“I would probably go on date with like Daveed Diggs. He’s in Hamilton and I’m a musical geek, so, he’s amazing. I’d probably go somewhere that I’ve never been, so maybe Europe, or somewhere neat like that.
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- Hannah Brier (‘20)
- Barbara Garcia (‘18)
- Olivia Falcone (‘20)
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I’d go on a date with Malia Obama, because she’s so beautiful. I’d take her to a restaurant, a Nigerian restaurant specifically, so that we can try out food from my culture. I just like taking people on dates with food, and they get to see a different perspective, different taste of home.
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It would probably be Robert De Niro, ‘cause he’s my favorite actor, and we would go somewhere in Manhattan.
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I have no clue. Anyone? Well, I’d want to go to Paris, just because I love Paris. I want to study abroad there. But who would I want to go with? The first person I thought of was Ryan Gosling. Wouldn’t that be awesome?
- Chima Egbuzie (‘19)
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I mean, there are so many [people]. The first one that came to mind was probably Kendall Jenner. I’d probably take her to a nice dinner in Italy...around Venice. Then from there we’d go to Japan and I’d show her Tokyo.
- Joshua DeSouza (‘18)
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Teja Arboleda Entertains Diversity
photo courtesy of the japan times
By Cami Ferreol contributing writer
Alumni and professor, Teja-Jose Arboleda is a 21st-century renaissance man and a champion of diversity. Despite growing up in Japan, living in Germany, and moving the United States, the 53-year-old identifies as being African-American-NativeAmerican, Filipino-Chinese, and German-Danish. A multiracial, multicultural, and multiethnic global nomad, Teja has the exceptional ability to connect with many people on many levels. As a keynote speaker and a performance-lecturer, he has had over 1,000 engagements throughout the U.S., and has produced over 50 documentaries on social, racial, and cultural issues for PBS and Discovery. It is Teja’s personal and professional mission, being among the unsung movers and shakers in this globalized world, to harness the power of diversity and create educational media for a multicultural planet.
Scarlet: Tell me a little about yourself. Arboleda: Well, I’m a father, an educator, a producer, and, by virtue of these three things, a very lucky guy. Scarlet: What is your favorite creative outlet of the ones you’ve dabbled in? Arboleda: Performing. I love being on stage unscripted. I’d much prefer to be on stage, in front of thousands, without a single clue as to what I’m going to talk about, than to be on stage with a script that I’ve had to memorize. I always try to make my talks fun and introspective, and, on occasion, I let myself go completely off-topic. I love that; I love being real with people. Scarlet: On your website, it says one of your hobbies is performing comedy. Tell me a little about that. Arboleda: I started doing comedy in 1987 with a good friend of mine who was this tall, African-American guy. We were a duo, and we mostly did comedy about race and politics. At the time, in the 80s and early 90s, Boston
was not the place to be experimenting with that. But we did anyway, and we did pretty well! Nowadays, I infuse my comedy in my writing and in my one-man show. Using humor is a great way to open up discussion about difficult things. In one of my shows, You’ve Crossed The Line, I bring comedians together and then have the audience rate them on whether or not their jokes were funny with respect to race, culture, gender, LGBT, and things like that. Particularly in this political atmosphere, it’s a good way to get people to agree or disagree on what’s acceptable and not acceptable, what’s okay to laugh at and what isn’t. Scarlet: “Ethnic Man” has been your trademark stage name since 1992. What would your real life super power be? Arboleda: Ha! I was going to say being “Superdad”, but that’s such a cliché. I think I’m good at anticipating big sociological events before they
living arts | 13 actually happen. When I was assistant director on the PBS series Frontline, my job was to figure out what was going to take place in the next two weeks, so we could produce documentary promos that were as current as possible. In trying to predict the near future, I learned how to tune into what people were responding to, and how they responded. Now, even when I write fiction or film scripts, I try my best to think ahead, so I have a general idea of what’s going to be on people’s minds. Keeping your finger on the pulse of how people really respond is so essential when telling stories. Scarlet: Speaking of stories—you’ve travelled extensively to over 23 countries. You must have a crazy travel story. Arboleda: Well, I travel a lot. I’ve been to over a thousand cities and towns in America, and hundreds more around the world, so I’ve seen a lot too. Around the time of the Rodney King race riots in the 90s, I was already travelling around the country doing diversity work. I was making my way through areas like South Central L.A. and Chicago where several of these riots were breaking out because of racial tensions, and I was seeing the country in tremendous turmoil. Race was the very subject matter of my talks, so I felt extremely vulnerable in what I had to say. In that respect, travelling was a challenge. For me, it always seemed like a matter of trying to figure out where I should and shouldn’t go—places where diversity work isn’t very welcome but is very much needed. Scarlet: As a multiple-migrant, what is the most notable moment of culture shock you’ve experienced? Arboleda: Oh, it was definitely being at Clark. I came to the States for the first time when I was 19; I was completely on my own. Living in Wright Hall as a freshman was a total culture shock for me because it was the first time I thought, “boy, Americans are loud and obnoxious!” I mean Wright, at the time, was nicknamed “The Zoo”. I found myself in this metaphorical zoo, and I had just come from Japan, so as you can
imagine—it was bizarre! I remember this one guy who lived on my floor telling me that my shirt “looked like shit”. Naturally, I interpreted that as him saying I smelled like shit! So, I apologized. Awkwardness ensued. The poor guy was just trying to be funny. Scarlet: From Clarkie to Clark faculty—what do you love most about what you do today? Arboleda: I’ve been a college professor for 16 years now, and I love being a teacher of different platforms—harnessing any kind of media, avenue, or connection to get people to think about solving some of the most difficult problems, which, for me, mainly revolve around racial issues. Scarlet: Tell me something about yourself that most people might not readily know. Arboleda: Well, few people know that I was homeless, living on the streets of Boston and Cambridge for about three months of my life. This was only months after I’d graduated from Clark, and I’d even graduated with honors, so it wasn’t like I didn’t have any plans. But homelessness runs in my family, and whether or not that was an experience I needed in order to grow, it made me realize that everything is tenuous. Everything. And maybe that’s where my intuitive foresight came into play, because I’d constantly wonder what the people sitting or lying next to me were going through and what the next day would be like for them. Being open to experiencing uncertainty for the sake of understanding is always tough, but so invaluable. When you have a conversation with somebody, what is the lasting impression want to leave? Honestly, I would want to make people uncomfortable. In most conversations, people are just shooting the breeze or trying to figure something trivial out—like the quickest way to get from one place to another. But I think talking in a way that’s jarring and unsettling, in a way that leaves people feeling uncomfortable—that’s something genuine, visceral, and undeniably human.
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The Scarlet/Sports SPORTS RECAPS Women’s Baseketball
Men’s Basketball
By Scott Levine
By Lynn Pescaro
sports editor
scarlet staff
Clark Women’s Basketball won their first conference game on Wednesday against Coast Guard. They were lifted over the Bears in part due to forty combined points from their starting backcourt. Aretha Sullivan (‘17) scored 24 points on 9-17 shooting, and Sam O’Gara (‘18) scored 16, going 6-12 from the field. This win came after an 82-63 loss to Emerson on Saturday. Clark played Emerson close in the first quarter, but the Lions outscored Clark 19-7 in the second quarter. Clark kept with Emerson for the rest of the game, but was never able to close the scoring gap. The Cougars will have a break from conference play to face off against Nichols, Suffolk, and U-Mass Boston, but will return to the NEWMAC on January 4 to play Springfield in the Kneller.
While most students were eating turkey, writing papers and sleeping 15 hours in a row, Men’s Basketball played four games in two weeks. Currently, the Cougars have a winning record of 5-2 having won three out of the last four last games. The schedule was Anna Maria (W 66-54), Connecticut College (L 84-74), Becker (W 79-67), and Fitchburg State (W 87-85), and Framingham State (W 53-43). The last win puts the team in a comfortable position at 6-2 approaching winter break. Coach Phillips said, “We are off to a good start. We hoped that we would have this record through [seven] games. [We have a] big week this week with three games, all at home.” The next games are against Western New England, Edgewood, and Lebanon Valley. The Pat Oroszko (’03) Day game is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 10 at 1 a.m., the game is played in celebration of the life of Clark Men’s Basketball Assistant Coach Oroszko who died of cancer in June. His passing is still heavy in the hearts of everyone who knew him. Phillips said that he feels the team is ready for the NEWMAC schedule: “I don’t feel that we have additional pressure when we approach the league, but at the same time these games mean more. All are games leading up to our league games are designed to prepare for the NEWMAC. Our league is very competitive and we have set a team goal to make the league playoffs.” Great New Year’s Resolution, Coach!
Swimming & Diving By Scott Levine sports editor
Clark Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving partook in the WPI Gompei Invitational from Friday, Dec. 2 to Sunday, Dec. 4. The team placed 12th of 13 teams. A few of Clark’s notable performances were from Bill Holloman (‘19) and Dylan Schrama (‘19). Holloman finished second of the “C” finals of the 100-yard and 200-yard breaststroke. Schrama finished sixth in the “B” finals of the 100-yard IM. For the women’s team, Melissa Orzechowski (‘17) finished tenth in the 1,650-yard freestyle, and Karina Urquhart (‘17) finished tenth in the “B” finals of the 400-yard IM. Both teams will race next at Clark against Trinity College on Saturday, Sept. 10.
All photos and statistics courtesy of clarkathletics.com
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COUGAR of the WEEK that he trusted me to have the ball in my hands at the end of the game, as well as throughout the game, getting people involved, and playing defense. I think that defense is something I can really improve on. Scarlet: I noticed at the end of the Connecticut College game, that Coach played you on offense only and Lamar [Berk (’17)] on defense only. What can you do to improve your defense? Luca: I had never really done that rotation before; it was odd. But I can just improve my defending overall, and using my length to hang back instead of getting up in my opponent’s grill and having him blow past me. I feel like when I become more experienced – it’s still my sophomore year and I’m still considered young, but I’m learning – those substitutions won’t be necessary anymore because I’ll be solid on both ends of the floor, and I’ll be able to be less of a liability on the defensive end. Scarlet: Connecticut College is obviously a tough team, and you played them close. What led to the disappointing result? Luca: I feel like our team always plays hard, you can’t really question that. Many people in our league say, “Clark University is always that team that always sticks in there,” You can’t really push us away, so to speak. We’re going to clamp onto your ankle until the end. We were playing hard and running our offense well, but we weren’t hitting our shots. photo by celine manneville
Luca McCormick men’s basketball Luca McCormick (’19) of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. is the starting small forward and leading scorer on Clark Men’s Basketball, and vaulted the team over Worcester State and Newbury College with gamewinning threes. He also dropped a barrage of threes in the second half of Tuesday’s game against Fitchburg State to help lead Clark to an 87-85 win. McCormick went to American Heritage Academy in Plantation, Fla. and transferred to IMG Academy, a sports-oriented boarding school, before his senior year. Scarlet: You have made two game-winning shots this season. After pulling it off a second time, did you start to let it go to your head? Luca: Oh no, not at all. I mean, my dad plays basketball, and he’s a big part of my love for the sport. And he had a pretty good coach, Kelvin Sampson, who coached him at Montana Tech. And he would always tell my dad, “Never get too high, never get too low. Just keep looking forward, stay balanced, and you’ll have great success in your life.” And every time I have a great game or a pretty bad game, I’ll tell myself that to keep me going in the right direction. Scarlet: You are getting the ball in crucial situations more often than last year. Is this something you have discussed working on with Coach Phillips? Luca: Yeah, I did talk to Coach before the season, and he told me
Scarlet: It says on your Clark Athletics bio you went to IMG Academy. How did your experience there differ from that at other schools? Luca: Yeah. I went for my senior year of high school and a postgrad year. The athletic side was definitely more intense than the places I had been in the past. And usually when we had our first game at my other schools, we’d just go across the street, but now we were going across the country. So, that just goes to show the competition we were playing, and the competition I was playing with. I had teammates like Dwayne Bacon, who’s a standout at Florida State, and Corey Sanders who’s at Rutgers, and TySean Powell who was at Duquesne and is at Pacific now. And also, a good friend of mine, Austin Pauga, is at Northern Illinois. Scarlet: NBA Draftee Satnam Singh was also on that team, right? Luca: Yeah, Satnam. He was a funny guy. Scarlet: Interesting. Do you have any funny stories regarding him? Luca: Hmmm…well, since Satnam was going into the NBA draft, they had a bunch of TV crews around him, and we were put together and walking around with Satnam and they were filming us. And it got to the point where it was funny because they put us at a table together in the cafeteria, and we were always cool, but just the fact that they forced us together made it kind of awkward. So, they were filming us, right? And we were just eating and the camera crew was like, “Should we ask some questions to get the whole thing going?’” Scarlet: What did they ask? Luca: They just asked, like, “What do you call Satnam?” And we were just like, “Satnam.” [Laughs]. I don’t know, it was kind of funny. But yeah, he was a pretty good player. Big. Just for no reason. Just a great guy overall. I miss him, I miss all those guys.
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Scarlet: What was your role on IMG like given all of the top-tier talent on the team? Luca: At IMG I was more of a shooter. I’d drive, shoot, and play defense. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I got to play a lot. I started. I’d let my teammates do their thing, and when I was open I’d shoot. But being that role player, I definitely got better. Sometimes they would just smoke me at practice, but I’d get better from it, because I’d just want to work harder. Scarlet: What made you choose Clark? Luca: I wasn’t really looking for something huge. I mean, obviously, I wanted to play at a Division I level, but I was nervous about my academics and how that would go. I took a tour at Clark, and had a pretty good tour guide. I liked the campus. At the time, it was spring and there was snow on the ground since it was the really bad winter two years ago, and that scared me. But I kind of got over it when people told me it that usually doesn’t happen. The people on campus were very welcoming compared to other schools I went to, where it seemed forced. Here, it just felt natural. I also liked the faculty to student ratio, and plus I was told the student accessibility services do a good job, and that was something my mom and I were looking for. I do have some learning disabilities, so having that around was comforting. Just being able to relocate for exams or having extra time, is huge. Scarlet: How did you go about improving your basketball skills at Clark without being torched by professional-bound players like Dwayne Bacon and being driven to beat them? Luca: It was very different. We did have Tyler Huffman (’16) last year, who was a really good scorer. But I wasn’t guarding him most of the time. I was guarding Lamar, or David [Mercier (’17)], or Corey Gomes (’16) at the time. But in terms of getting better, I obviously got better because it was the college level. So just by practicing with those guys … while they might not be Dwayne Bacon, they have the college experience and knowledge that Dwayne Bacon didn’t have. And that helped me out. Scarlet: Having them must have been important for you when playing major minutes in conference games your first season here. How did you adjust to the pressure of the NEWMAC? Luca: It’s really hard to say. You just adapt. Throughout the nonconference season, I guess you could say I adapted to the college level of play. Those games helped me figure out what my goal was, and once I got to those bigger conference games, I knew what I was doing from the start. Scarlet: Do you feel more prepared for conference play this year in any way? Luca: I definitely feel like the jitters aren’t going to be there like they were at times last year. I feel like I know what’s coming. Because all I really heard last year was a bunch of my teammates talking about how intense the conference play was. So, knowing what to expect is going to help me, and working to improve over the summer is going to play its role. Thanks for the interview, Luca!
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Police Logs Compiled by Tori Doran
dec. 9, 2016
What happens in The Scarlet office stays in The Scarlet office... sort of “Can I hug you?” - Amanda to Kate “Open it first and see if you want to hug her.” - Celine “I said ‘erection’ a few times in class.” - Jake
Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016 00:10 - Six to seven kids, possibly drunk, running around on the roof of the Kneller. Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016 9:52 - Staff calls to advise female loitering outside of Sustainability Hub with syringe in hand. Female left heading westbound on Main St. Friday, Nov. 25, 2016 12:03 - Party states a male is panhandling outside Acoustic Java. Monday, Nov. 28, 2016 16:11 - R.A. advising of a dead squirrel left on a door of Johnson Sanford Center. Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016 19:01 - Reporting party states that two underage kids are engaging in possible sexual acts in Goddard Memorial Library. Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016 20:29 - Party reports of white male wandering around the third floor of Jonas Clark Hall looking out of place. He is a student just wandering around, no reason. Monday, Dec. 5, 2016 16:34 - Party called saying that there was an unidentified man trying to use the Kneller Fitness Center. When units arrived, party refused to leave the premises. Party was stating “get your hands off me, don’t touch me” to responding unit. Unit did not have contact with the party. Party advised to not trespass again or party would be arrested.
“Stop...stop” - Giles “Stop, collaborate and listen” - Kate “Kate is back with a brand new edition.” - Giles “I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again.” - Charlie Puth “These glasses are much too big for my head, and I have the biggest head in the world.” - Kate, while trying to plug her computer charger behind the couch. “Someone call Guinness.” - Giles “Giles, not right now, I can’t reach this.” - Kate “Yeah if your head was smaller it would be easier to reach.” - Giles “It would be easier if we moved the couch out.” - Kayleigh “No, I’m determined.” - Kate “Kate, I found an outlet over here.” - Jess “Giles I was going to text you about a pun but decided not to.” - Jess “You’ve worked with me for an entire semester but you still don’t understand me?” - Giles “No one understands you.” - Kate “Kayleigh it looks like someone put a bounty on your head.” - Scott, while Kayleigh balanced Bounty napkins on her head (awwwww) “Kayleigh we are being commodified.” - Scott “Damn it Scott and not Scott.” - Giles “Scott toilet paper...it’s another paper based product.” - Kate “I was going to make another paper based product joke but I couldn’t think of one.” - Scott “Dixie cups!” - Kate “You threw in the towel.” - Giles “I was gonna say you are on a roll.” - Jake “Spurious disclosures incite vituperative antiphons.” - Scott “I think I’m going to go.” - Erin “Aww, this is our last time in this room together.” - Giles “Aww yeah it is...now can you please stop holding my foot.” -Erin “When I see you again…” - Jess “One of us! One of us! One of us!” - Giles