The Scarlet - 02/13/2014

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University halts need-blind admissions Is Clark becoming elitist?

Reshaping relationships at the Experimental Theater CUPS presents The Shape Of Things at the Little Center

By Jenna Lewis managing editor

The Admissions Office has announced that it will retire its needblind admissions policy. The decision, a collaborative effort by the Board of Trustees and senior members of University administration, will be effective for all future applications.

“Need-blind” refers to the degree of consideration given to a student’s financial needs when deciding whether or not to admit applicants.

In the past, the University has declined to consider any applicant’s financial limitations. Although a need-blind admissions policy doesn’t guarantee that the applicant will receive the full amount of necessary aid, it assures that a student will not be denied admission due to their inability to pay. The decision to reverse this policy means that a student’s financial needs will be considered when determining admission.

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The University’s decision has come partially in response to financial pressure. “Recently, as much as 52% of the tuition we collect from students has been returned to students in financial aid. We just can’t afford to keep distributing the current level of financial aid,” says Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, Don Honeman. “This isn’t just Clark. Every school in the nation is

facing a similar decision. The only schools that can really continue to be completely need-blind are places like the Ivy Leagues with huge endowments.”

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The Clark University Players’ Society mounted an impressive performance of Neil LaBute’s The Shape Of Things this past weekend.

On the night of the performance, the Little Center’s Experimental Theater was filled to capacity more than 30 minutes before the play was scheduled to start, forcing many latecomers to find seats on the floor.

Many wondered why the production was not moved to the facility’s larger performance space.

Technical director Curran O’Donohuge (‘15), cleared up the matter. “I think the reason Chloe, our director, wanted it to be done here was to make it intimate... Because we only have four actors it doesn’t necessitate a large space. We really wanted

their story to shine through, and it’s not about the scenery itself, it’s about these people, their personalities and the way they transform throughout the play.”

The performance opens with an amusingly awkward conversation between artist Evelyn, played by Hallie Hayden (‘14), and museum guard Adam, played by Colby Hinson (’16).

As their relationship develops, Adam is manipulated in increasingly invasive ways, ultimately leading to his choice to stay with Evelyn over the relationship he has with his friends Philip, played by Tyler Terriault (’16), and Jenny, played by Degen Larkin (’17).

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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EDITORS Interim Editor-in-Chief, Sarah Cramer News Editor: Claire Tierney Layout Editor: Rose Gallogly Web Editor: Pooja Patel Opinions Editor: Keitaro Okura Living Arts Editor: Matt Emmer Sports Editor: Brian Kane Photo Editor & Social Media Manager: Anna Spack Managing Editor: Jenna Lewis

SCARLET STAFF Ethan Giles Hannah Rosenblum Jonah Naghi Maria Rotelli Ronald Gerber Scott Levine Senegal Carty Tyler Terriault Will Heikes Alicja Ganacarz Fileona Dkhar Savannah Cohen Celine Manneville

LAYOUT STAFF Cami Ferreol Hannah Jaffe

PHOTO STAFF Jonathan Edelman

[ Friday, February 14 ] V-Day March to Stop Violence Against Women and Girls - Red Square at 11 a.m.

Vagina Monologues - Atwood at 7 p.m.

[ Saturday, February 15 ] Vagina Monologues - Atwood at 7 p.m.

[ Sunday, February 16 ] Study Abroad 101 - Jefferson 218 at 1:30 p.m.

[ Tuesday, February 18 ] Glitch Exhibition - Higgins Lounge at 4 p.m.

[ Wednesday, February 19 ] Community Conversation on Feminism and Failure - Higgins Lounge at 7 p.m.

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The Scarlet/News IN MEMORIAM: NORMAN APTER Assistant Professor of History Norman Apter passed away Saturday, February 8, two and a half years after he came to Clark. Shortly after beginning at Clark, he was diagnosed with late-stage melanoma. Despite facing medical challenges, he continued to teach up to and during the current semester, saying, “I’ve missed the engagement and discussions with the students.” Throughout his illness, Apter strove to maintain a level of normalcy.

In an interview with Clark’s alumni magazine last semester, Apter expressed a desire to be realistic, saying “For me, it’s a matter of managing what I can control, but also being in tune with the things I don’t have any say over.”

Apter specialized in twentieth-century Chinese social and cultural history, with a particular interest in Chinese civilization, and modern Chinese history, particularly the history of women in China. Norm completed his Ph.D during his time at Clark, entitled “Saving the Young: A History of the Child Relief Movement in Modern China.”

While his time at Clark was relatively brief, his impact will surely be long-lasting. President Angel said of Apter, “we see a person who, in the face of mortal challenges, continued to do what he loved, research and teach, connecting with colleagues and students, a Clarkie through and through.”

Mock trial team makes top seven in regional competition Set to compete in the subnationals next month

IN MEMORIAM: JIM ALLARD Jim Allard, director of the Clark University Jazz Workshop, passed away unexpectedly on the night of Sunday, February 9.

For years, Allard has steered the Jazz Workshop with a warmth rarely found in someone of his virtuosity. In addition to his work at Clark, Allard was a freelance musician, composer, and teacher at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the Worcester Joy of Music Program.

Allard worked to expand the reach of jazz at Clark. He introduced the annual Jazz Festival, which brings in groups from neighboring schools, and encourages smaller combos to explore the limits of jazz through improvisation, reinterpretations of old favorites, and original compositions.

Matt Thompson, president of Jazz Workshop, sent an email to the group and said Allard “truly loved music and believed in the power of jazz, and showed it in his whole character… Jim also cared deeply about each of us and possessed a keen ability to see potential in each of us.”

Mike Tierney, former president of Jazz Workshop and now an independent music engineer and performer, recalled Allard’s tireless dedication to his students, often staying late after rehearsals for jam sessions, creating independent studies, and serving as a sounding board for their worries and an advocate for their aspirations.

Tierney wrote on Facebook, “very rarely will one come across a musician with such a profoundly intimate understanding of the intention and emotional power of the jazz repertoire… I have Jim to thank for my voice.”

Allard’s most recent album, The Wait, is available on iTunes and Spotify.

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The American Mock Trial Association’s Regional Tournament saw many fantastic performances

by Clark’s mock trial team this year.

During the competition, which was held at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire from January 31 to February 2, participants from Clark shone out from among twenty other schools to earn a place among the

seven teams chosen to participate in the sub-regional tournament to be held in Philadelphia next month.

Clark faculty member Professor Steve Kennedy claimed that Clark had “the hardest combined strength of schedule” being pitted against such opponents as Tufts University, Brandeis University, and Brown University. Clark’s more continued on page 5

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Dodgeball for education Tournament raises money for Amanda Mundt’s organization

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Community sustainability re-imagined Clark’s eco-conscious clubs join forces

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By Patrick Fox Last Sunday, February 9, Making a Difference (MAD) Scholars and Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) hosted a dodgeball tournament that was a fundraiser for Amanda Mundt’s nonprofit educational organization, Opportunities for Communities. Mundt was a Clark student who tragically died in an accident over the summer while in Haiti helping to educate disadvantaged children. Mundt majored in International Development and Social Change and would have graduated from Clark this May. Thanks to her, many children who may have never had an education got one. For example, during the summer of 2011, she established and ran a summer school for third to sixth graders in Les Cayes, Haiti. To fund her project, she won grants from the David Projects for Peace Foundations and the Restavek Freedom Foundation.

“Restavek” is a term for a Haitian child who is given to another family to work as an indentured servant.

Restaveks often experience physical and sexual abuse by their host families, are isolated from society, and are not given many opportunities to go to school. Mundt worked hard to better their lives through her work in Haiti. In fact, last year, she took a leave of absence from Clark to work as an intern for the Boston Office of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti.

“We decided that we should gear one of our events towards raising money for the organization that she worked so hard to create and sustain,” said Sarah Testoni, one of the leaders of the event. She also explained that the reason why it was a dodgeball tournament was because

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Clark’s large and diverse group of environmentally-conscious student groups met together on February 10 in a gathering that Clark Sustainability Council’s (CSC) faculty advisor, Jenny Isler, dubbed a “Collaboration Lab.” The purpose of the meeting was to hold a cooperative brainstorming session.

Over the duration of the session, representatives of the many campus groups, including Food Truth, Clark Composts, Cycles of Change, and the Clark Community Thrift Store, suggested different events and activities that would help the campus and wider community become more eco-conscious.

At the beginning of the meeting, a varied group of students milled about the LEEP center, munching organic beans and coleslaw from recycled paper containers and discussing various issues.

As the conversation died down and the meeting began, the warm and charismatic Isler gave a brief introduction to the club’s purpose, and then let the students of the group take the helm of the meeting.

A popular eco-activism event held every spring by CSC is Go Green on the Green, during which activities that encourage being green are exhibited on the campus green. However, that event will be replaced by “Earth Week” this year.

This new event will take place in the week prior to Earth Day, and will aim to spread awareness and knowledge about relevant environmental issues.

Potential events for Earth Week suggested by students included yoga on the green, hikes to local parks or outdoor venues, a food giveaway by the Local Root farm stand, promotional thrift store events, various “skill shares,” Styrofoam pickup and recycling events, and a Cycles bike shop guided ride.

By sharing ideas and pooling resources through CSC, the various eco-activism groups on campus are cooperating with one another more coherently and frequently. Based on the Collaboration Lab, the future of eco-consciousness at Clark is bright, and better than ever before.

To quote Isler, “What couldn’t we do with this room full of people?”

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she and Amanda played field hockey together at Clark, so she “thought that incorporating athletics into our event would be appropriate because [Amanda] was also an outstanding athlete and teammate.”

Players and spectators could make donations throughout the event. For each dollar donated, students received wrist bands that read “Noun tout se youn,” which means “We are all one”; that is the motto for

the school Mundt developed in Haiti.

As for the tournament itself, the teams came in with a variety of creative names and outfits. Some dodgeball teams were actually Clark sports team, such as women’s soccer, field hockey, and quidditch, while other teams had random, funny names like “Trigger Happy.” In addition to creative names, there were many creative outfits. Some groups wore suits and ties along with sunglasses and

bandanas, and there was even one player dressed as the Cougar mascot.

The competition was fierce at times, though always in the spirit of fun. Many times the games ended up with one player facing an entire opposing team, while the eliminated players cheered on their last teammate to pull off a miracle victory.

In the end, The Cougs, a team of lacrosse players, won the tournament. With regard to fundraising,

the event turned out to be a big success with over five hundred dollars raised. Sarah Testoni added, “I know Amanda would have been proud to see her campus come together for such a great cause.” Although Mundt may not have been physically there, her spirit was certainly felt in the Kneller that day, where her fellow students honored a cause that was so dear to her.

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experienced A-team won against Dartmouth and Boston College, and earned a split-court decision, 5-3, against Brandeis. Emily Art, a first-year student whose mock trial performance was strong enough to land her a spot on the A team, was a great asset for our school during the competition. Sadie Hazelkorn (’15), another valuable team member, was honored as one of the tournament’s most outstanding witnesses. Despite a loss to Brown, the A team will be competing in the sub-nationals.

Clark’s success, our first advance to the sub-national level since 2009, came as something of a surprise, as Garber expressed to the Scarlet : “We didn’t actually expect to advance – that caught everyone off guard. We thought we’d lost our last round.”

Clark’s B team also performed formidably, splitting the court in trials with Bowdoin College and the University of New Haven.

The preparation for this year’s tournaments began in October, and team members have been putting in an average of twelve hours a week. Team members also take Trial Advocacy, a weekly three-hour class, taught

by Professor Kennedy, as one of their fall courses.

When asked what made this year’s mock trial teams so much stronger than those in previous years, the introduction of the position of assistant coach, Rory Coursey, was agreed to be one of the most important. According to Kennedy, his appointment has “really ramped up the outside preparation.”

Of course, much of the im-

provement is due to the efforts of the team members themselves.

Coursey tells us “we had several strong, young members this year.

You’ve got to get the right kind of people for the right job… This was really the first year that that had really all come together.” The increase in popularity in mock trials at the high school level was also mentioned as one of the fortifying factors behind the Clark team’s accomplishments.

When asked what improvements they are focusing on in preparation for the Philadelphia tournament, Johnson explained the need to be able to please judges with varying tastes. “Clark does things really well depending on the type of judge. We have very creative witnesses that not all judges like. So we’re going to try to bring things more to the middle of the aisle – which is difficult.”

In the upcoming competition, which will take place on the March 15 and 16 at Drexel University, Clark’s mock trial team will have to go up against winners from several other regional tournaments, as well as the other New Hampshire winners. Ivy League schools and much larger universities have team members chosen through tryouts and are thus expected to pose a formidable challenge for our representatives.

There is no dearth of high expectations for this year’s A team, however. With improved training and plenty of talent, superb mock trial performance may be the new norm for us.

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Worcester: a potential for urban farming WPI project supports Mayor Petty’s proposal for urban farming

By Nusrat Islam contributing writer

Worcester mayor Joseph M. Petty hopes to create an amendment to Worcester’s zoning ordinance that would allow urban farmers to commercially grow crops in areas currently used for manufacturing and industrial purposes.

Mayor Petty wants to see the city planner and local community agency collaborate to create an ordinance similar to one recently established in Boston. Known as Article 89, the ordinance allows farmers to grow food for commercial uses in most areas of Boston.

The mayor reported to the Telegram and Gazette that many people in Worcester do not have access to fresh food and growing more in certain areas would allow them to have locally grown fresh produce at their tables.

Furthermore urban farming would create job opportunities in various sectors developing the city’s economy as a whole.

Last year, a group of students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute conducted an Interdisciplinary Qualifying project entitled: “Mapping the Potential for Urban Agriculture in Worcester.”

Their studies showed that Worcester does not have any zoning provisions for agricultural use of land. The WPI students said that urban farming in Worcester would create job opportunities for people of all ages in the growing, harvesting, and preparing of locally grown food.

The WPI students said that while urban farms may not be suf-

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ficient to provide sustenance for the entire city they would definitely play an important role in providing people with affordable healthy food.

The students’ report stated that other cities have resolved this problem by amending their zoning ordinance to allow urban farming in certain areas. The students suggested that Worcester should follow the same track by identifying the barriers in its zoning ordinance to urban farming as well as find a way to make use of parcels abandoned for a long period of time.

The WPI students pointed out that in this way the areas do not have to be solely dedicated to agricultural farming. Furthermore, the

vacant parcels would help stabilize Worcester’s economy.

As part of their project, the WPI students carried out a survey which identified 337 vacant parcels covering more than 2,500. 68 of the parcels were larger than ten acres and three were larger than 100 acres.

Land area this size could be used for large scale commercial farming, though no new decisions have been taken as of yet. However, the city council Tuesday night presented the proposal to City Manager Edward M. Augustus Jr. for consideration on Tuesday night.

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For the sake of peace, women “don’t really matter” An interview with Cynthia Enloe

By Hasnaa Mokhtar contributing writer

(Worcester, February 5, 2014) “Do women know how to handle complexity?”

“Yes!” “Do women know how to stop violence?”

“Yes!” “Should women be at the formal peace negotiations?”

“Yes!” “Will you do it?”

“Yes!” Applause. The second day of the Women Lead to Peace Summit ended. It was January 21, 2014. More than eighty women from around the world gathered in Geneva. They spoke with one voice. They demanded the full participation of women at the Syria Geneva II peace talks. The next day, the participants traveled to Montreux and demonstrated in front of the Fairmont Hotel where the negotiations took place.

At 13:25 on the second day of the summit, Cynthia Enloe was at the center of the room ready to lead the discussion. Women from Syria, Liberia, the Balkans, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Northern Ireland shared their stories, struggles and aspirations.

After a two-hour dialogue, she initiated this call-and-response to engage and motivate the attendees.

Code Pink and a coalition of women’s groups organized the summit, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Syria, an embargo on arms sales, greater humanitarian aid for the refugees, and for women to be at the official peace talks. The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) invited Enloe to participate in the event.

A Research Professor in the International Development, Com-

munity, and Environment Department at Clark University, Enloe is a curious feminist and renowned writer on gender and militarism. She has published numerous books – most recently, Seriously! : Investigating Crashes and Crises as If Women Mattered. As a political scientist, she has a keen interest in analyzing the gendered dynamics of war, militarized cultures and politics.

Whenever her name comes up in a discussion on campus, it sparks words of admiration. She is a well-known feminist, yet a modest academic. She is quick-witted, yet easy to talk to.

HM: The UN Security Council Resolution 1325 “Urges Member States to ensure increased representation of women at all decision-making levels in national, regional and international institutions and mechanisms for the prevention, management, and resolution of conflict.” Adopted by state members of the UN Security Council, including the U.S., in 2000, 1325 also requires that local women in war zones were to be treated by national and international authorities as thinkers, strategists, and decision makers. Yet women were excluded from the peace talks in Geneva. Women are not being taken seriously.

Why? CE: Everyone at the Geneva gathering was asking this question. I also asked everyone I talked to, including feminists who were working inside the UN and inside governments, those women who routinely run up against this.

I asked them “why?” They said, men don’t believe that women have anything serious to offer, anything that will matter, anything that will affect the outcome. This is how patriarchy works. It’s gotten so deep in their heads that even those who are in other settings like John Kerry, the Secretary of State in the US, knows that women are smart, women have value, they understand how the world works but he can’t quite imagine that they will make a wartime peace negotiations better. Now, those are the good guys. If you ask them about 1325, they will say it was a positive improvement. If Secretary of State John Kerry had been on the Security Council in October 2000 when 1325 was

passed, he would have voted for it enthusiastically. After all, he is the successor to Hilary Clinton, so what he is doing with American foreign policy builds on what she did. He knows that.

Yet, when it comes to war, when it comes to militarized violence, even those men who kind of respect women as working colleagues, can’t image that having women as voting memebers in peace negotiations in the middle of wartime will improve the chances for peace. Now, you have other men, and at this point I can’t name names, but they are very important senior international actors whose names are on the front page of the New York Times almost daily during the talks. These men actually hold women in contempt.

What’s interesting in peace negotiation processes, which in the Syrian case went on behind the scenes for months leading up to it and is going to take many months to carry on, is that those two sets of men who you think would be so different from each other, the ones who respect women go along with the ones who hold women in contempt for the sake of this thing called peace, collaborate. It is just awful.

My own sense is that 1325 has not been mentioned in these public negotiations once. It would be interesting to double-check this hunch, that is, to see transcripts. In all the public discussions that have gone on in Geneva or at the mountain resort Montreux, have the words “1325” been mentioned in public at all, even though all of these governments and all UN agencies are obligated to implement it?

HM: How did you get involved in the Women Lead to Peace Summit that was held in Geneva parallel to the UN’s peace talks? How was the experience?

CE: I was very much an observer. I just had one little session that I moderated. I was asked to join the conference by the WILPF secretary general Madeleine Rees, who is one of the most experienced people in feminist peace processes. She asked me if I would come, and so I went for five days. I saw myself as listening and trying to understand Syrian women’s experiences, which I don’t know anything about. I started to read about Syrian women’s history; they’ve had an active women’s movement since the 1920s. Most people don’t know that. Newly realizing this, made me “all ears” in Geneva. You know when you learn that you don’t know anything? And then you realize that maybe for the first time the things that you don’t know matter to you? That’s the first wake- up call. You still don’t know anything, but you’ve learned that what you don’t know matters. Then it’s like having another set of eyes and ears and you really listen in a different way. So I spent five days really listening.

I also was asked to sit on the small meetings too, which were strategy sessions. The larger meetings which had about eighty people were for open discussion, information, getting to trade experiences, which is so valuable and it’s how you build a transnational women’s movement. You have to listen to each other. There’s nothing automatic. The smaller meetings, which had ten to twelve people around crowded tables, by contrast, were focused on how to get the Syrian civil society activist women in the door. Feminist organization strategists asked each other questions such as: Who do we embarrass? Who is continued on page 7

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really sympathetic? The Norwegian government, for example, was really crucial because its officials were supportive of Syrian women activists’ insistence that they be inside the official negotiations. The transnational feminist strategists also asked each other: Who do we talk to about how it’s not enough to have women as mere “observers”?

Code Pink, which is an American-based group with international connections, is very skilled at public presentations. Their activists know how to catch the cameramen’s eye; they realize that media need photos. How many pictures of men-in-suits can you take, right? So the idea of having these women dressed in pink t-shirts in the cold holding big banners really catches media camera people’s eyes. Code Pink brought to Geneva a bag of oversized t-shirts so you can put them over your winter coat. Isn’t that the smartest thing? Indeed the media people covering the Geneva peace talks did take photos of the Code Pink demonstrators, but they never interviewed them. Mainstream media people treated women demonstrators as if they were accessories, as if they’re shiny bracelets. They looked “cute” in their pink outfits, as if the political messages written on those t—shirts didn’t matter, as if their wearers didn’t have carefully thought out ideas.

It was really important that these non-violent feminist protests took place in Geneva. But what was crucial – and did not happen – was getting the Syrian civil society activist women inside the official peace talks where they could offer their thoughtful plans for peace making and peace building. Furthermore, I haven’t seen a single one of these Syrian activist women interviewed by mainstream news journalists.

Anne Barnard, whose reporting I like a lot and is the Beirut bureau chief for the New York Times, at least went outside the official building and interviewed some of the Syrian women in exile (not women civil society activists from inside the country) who were standing there. That was a step in the right direction. But all of these Syrian women activists who’d made the difficult trip from the war zone to Geneva, women with all of this gritty knowledge about what’s happening neighborhood by neighborhood in wartime Homs and Damascus - none of them were interviewed by major television and press journalists.

Editors are really important in media politics.

Most of us just talk about “the media,” but that’s not how it works, does it? Inside any television station, or Web news station, or newspaper there are these dynamic relationships between the publisher, the editor-in-chief, the sub-editors, the photographers, and the journalists who get the bylines. Hasnaa,

you, as a professional journalist, know this first-hand. For instance, I don’t know if the reporter Anne Barnard is a feminist, or if she asked her editor back in the paper’s New York headquarters whether she could interview and write a story about the Syrian civil society activist women. If she did, what did her editor say? Carlotta Gall, the New York Times reporter in Kabul during most of the war years in that country stood out to me because she made a point of seeking out Afghan women’s rights advocates and persuading her editor that their efforts were “news.”

HM: You mentioned that three Syrian women were present on the Syrian Opposition’s official delegation.

However, none of them were known civil society activists.

You asked the questions: “Should feminists be pleased or not? How can one tell what is mere “window dressing”?

Can even a token be turned into something substantive?”

Could you please elaborate?

CE: I think we do this all the time, don’t we? Everybody cannot know everybody. So one shouldn’t assume that just because you don’t know a person who’s just been appointed, they must be mere tokens. Instead, one should ask: Who are those women selected by the Opposition male leaders, to whom do they feel responsible and what do they know? And, in the case of the three women appointed to the official Opposition Syrian peace talks delegation, why haven’t those women reached out to members of, for example, the Syrian Women’s Forum for Peace? The Forum is one of the networks organized by non-partisan Syrian women’s rights and peace advocates. Its members are trying to weave together into a coherent network the members of scattered grassroots women’s groups and neighborhood groups now active inside war-torn Syria.

Neither these three women selected for the Opposition delegation nor the two women selected for the Assad regime’s delegation spoke publicly during this January round (“Geneva II”) of the Syrian peace talks. It’s a fact such as this that makes you suspect that these women’s presence on each of the two warring delegations is mere window dressing. “Window dressing” is always interesting to think about. To be turned into window dressing means you don’t run the store. You’re just the manikin in the store window put there by someone else to make the store look fashionable.

Tokenism – racial, sexual, gender, or ethnic - is part and parcel of perpetuating inequity. Though sometimes it can take years for even a token to be chosen by those wielding privilege or power. You usually have to push people with privilege to the point where they think they even need to offer a token. But when the privileged or the powerful do start choosing tokens, there are still two ways the person selected to serve as a token can become “untokenized.” First, the people who did the selecting made a mistake; they chose somebody who isn’t isolated, who has networks and plans to use these networks, a person who is immune to the tantalizing perks, who already has immunized themselves against privilege. Or, second, the person

CUSC in brief

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The 103 session of the Clark Undergraduate Student Council was well-attended and action-packed. Lauren Howard and Julianne Murphy were appointed to the Judiciary Committee. $250 was allocated to Sarah Stanley to attend the Social Coast Forum in South Carolina. $280 was allocated to the Office of Intercultural Affairs for the Third Culture Kid/Global Nomad Conference. $300 was allocated to four students to attend National Association of Foreign Student Advisors (NAFSA) Advocacy Day. $3,360 was allocated to Intervarsity Christian Fellowship for a Spring Break service trip to New Orleans. $2,000 was allocated to Mock Trial for travel and registration at a tournament in Philadelphia. $1,200 was allocated to the students of Clark Yoga for equipment. $1,000 was allocated to Quidditch. $500 was allocated to the CAST’s (Clark Athletics Service-Learning Trip) Pictorial Journey.

After a discussion about the mid-semester budget report, $754 was given to Pub Entertainment Committee (PEC), $800 was given to Clark Musical Theater, and $1,500 was given to Clark Investment and Trading Society – in addition to what these clubs were allocated within the report itself. Council recognized the charter of Clark Yoga. Sustainability Task Force has come up with a series of goals on water usage, heat usage, transportation, and various other environmental issues.

CUSC elections will take place on February 17 and 18; voting will happen on LINK. Students can text “ClarkUBus” to 555-888 to report any issues with Clark buses, and students can text “ClarkUReport” to express any concerns that they would like Council to know about.

chosen to serve as a token may slowly come to realize that her/his selection is not an honor; it is an insult. He or she gradually sees that she/he never gets called upon, only appears in photo ops, is never given a public speaking role, or is never asked to write the policy brief. Step by step, the tokenized person becomes much more conscious and radicalized. But one has to be wide awake and open to other people’s consciousness-raising influences in order to either refuse to be made into a token or, if already in a token position, to grow out of it and become an authentic representative of a marginalized group.

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Noyce Scholarship awarded to Clark Adam Institute’s new grant shines spotlight on math and science education in Main South schools

By Anna Spack photo editor

Collaborating with Worcester Public Schools in Main South, Clark math and science faculty members have created the Clark ScienceMath Teaching and Education Partnership (C-STEP). C-STEP was created after Clark was awarded the National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship this past August.

The grant, which was given to Clark’s Adam Institute for Urban Teaching and School Practice, will give Clark students studying math

and science the opportunity to intern as teachers’ assistants highneed at Main South schools.

Undergraduates can apply for an internship at one of Main South’s “college success” summer academies, where they will work with math and science teachers from the Worcester Public Schools. Noyce Scholars in the fifth-year Masters of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) program will get a full-year internship working with these same teachers, as well as continued support in their eventual careers.

According to Thomas Del Prete, director of the Adam Institute, the program “is designed

to attract, prepare, and provide continuing support for high quality math and sciences teachers in ‘high-need’ settings. i.e., in settings such as Worcester where there are under-resourced schools serving a predominately low-income population.”

Del Prete said the grant is similar to LEEP in the sense that it provides Clark students with valuable real-life experience in a hands-on setting. The program aims to award the scholarship to up to 20 students who may not have considered teaching as a career, yet who understand the importance of math and science education.

The Adam Institute was able to get the scholarship with the help of faculty members from a variety of areas. “With a grant like this one, you have to cross a lot of boundaries,” Del Prete said. He cited a number of people who were crucial in the process of getting the grant, specifically Professor Robertson in the Biology Department, Professor Smith in Chemistry, Professor Sternberg in Mathematics, and Professor Kudrolli in Physics, as well as Kate Bielaczyc, director of the Hiatt Center for Urban Education. The Main South partner schools and Dr. Melinda Boone, superintendent of the Worcester Public School, were key

supporters of the scholarship.

“The grant represents well the core mission of the Adam Institute,” Del Prete said. “To support the development of teachers and schools able to act on an unshakeable belief in the capability of kids from all backgrounds and circumstances, helping to prepare them for college and to lead fruitful lives for themselves and others.”

Del Prete also emphasized that the grant is a two-way street. “Everybody wins,” he said. “Clark undergraduate and graduate students, partner school teachers, and Main South neighborhood students.”

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University has become increasingly selective. 7,300 applications were received this year, up from approximately 4,000 applications received in 2011. Approximately 620 students made up the incoming freshman class this year, the largest in the University’s history.

“Two years ago, we were accepting 70% of all our applicants. This year, we’ve only accepted 50%,” says Honeman. “The only students who are going to be affected by this are students whose admissibility is already on the borderline.” Essentially, this means that students on the threshold of admission who would need significant financial aid in order to attend will no longer be offered admission. Previously, when these students were admitted, the

University would have needed to offer significant amounts of financial aid in order to meet their need. Instead of admitting and providing aid to these “borderline” students, Clark will cater its financial aid offerings to more qualified applicants.

This transition is part of Clark’s continuing institutional evolution.

The resignation of several senior members of the administration, as well as changes in central policies and programs, seems to parallel the University’s recent push to progress.

“The University is in a really important time of transition right now. If it becomes too selective, it risks some of their accolades, like being one of the ‘40 Colleges That Change Lives’,” says a source close to the administration.

Many students have been disappointed by the announcement that Clark will no longer be need-blind.

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Students have grown concerned about how the new policy will affect the University’s culture. “Clark has always been famous for its inclusion and diversity, but the decision to stop need-blind admissions really challenges that convention,” says the source.

However, Honeman declines that this decision will change Clark’s character.

“We want stronger students, but we still want Clark to be Clark,” he says. Honeman asserts that the admissions department is relying on students to “self-select Clark as the

sort of experience they want. If we’re successful in that, we’ll still have the same quirkiness and diversity that makes Clark so unique. We don’t want to be a second-rate version of an Ivy school. We’re something different.”

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CLARKIE of the WEEK Adam: If I get in, that would mean I take a year off from Clark to do that program. Then I’d come back to Clark, do my junior and senior years, and hopefully after I graduate go back and apply for the Professional (Pro) Track program there. The graduates of Pro Track work at Sea World, at Cirque du Soleil, at Ringling Brothers. So Pro Track will be the next step after Clark to hopefully having a performance career.

Adam Philyaw Adam Philyaw is a sophomore Psychology major from Cullowhee, North Carolina. You may remember him as the guy who did crazy acrobatic tricks from the ceiling of the cafeteria last year, but there is a lot more to this extremely talented performer.

Scarlet: I know you’re really into aerial silks. Can you explain what that is and how you got into it?

Adam: It’s basically a long a silk that is hung from the ceiling and split in two, so you have two tails to work with. I got into it because I went to a boarding school [the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School] that has one of the longest-running circus programs in the country. It’s currently in its thirteenth year.

Scarlet: Did you do circus arts before you went to high school?

Adam: Before I went to Rabun Gap I had no gymnastics training, no dance training, nothing.

Scarlet: Are you hoping to do circus arts as a career?

Adam: Actually, yeah. I’ve already taught at a few places in Worcester and in the Massachusetts area. Also, [next] week I’m going up to Brattleboro, Vermont for a week to do a teacher-training program in aerial silks at the New England Center for Circus Arts [NECCA]. It’s this week-long, 9-5 every day training program so [that] I can be certified to be a teacher. And in the meantime, earlier [last] week I submitted my application for the Performance Training program at NECCA. I find out within a week if I’m invited to auditions.

Scarlet: What would it mean if you get in?

Scarlet: So your goal is to get into performance?

Adam: Yeah. It’s really fun. Normal school is also fun, but you don’t go upside down as much…When I was coming to Clark I really believed that if I came here I could start a circus club, which I’ve failed at.

Scarlet: How so? What happened?

Adam: I attempted to start a general circus club, thinking that that’s completely possible, totally doable – there are a handful of colleges that actually do have professional-level club programs at their schools. So I talked to Mike McKenna and got the club sports form. I got over two hundred signatures [for the form], which is roughly ten percent of Clark’s student body. I go back to McKenna and I’m like, “Okay, I got the signatures, here’s my form, I got a professor to sign off on it, can I have my club?” And he’s like, “Eh… It’s kind of dangerous.”

Scarlet: Why did he say that?

Adam: Circus arts is still pretty unknown for the most part in terms of organizing circus activities. It’s this giant unknown; people are like, “Wait, you climb up twenty feet, what if you die?” They forget that circus is still like any other sport, and it really is like a sport in that there are hundreds of hours of training. I’ve

also never fallen. They just perceive this giant, immoral danger and say no because they’re afraid of it and they’re afraid to learn more about it. Anyways, after the general club failed I met [junior] Ayal [Prouser] – he does trapeze, and he also went to Uganda last summer to work at a circus camp. We were like, “Okay, we have our own equipment, we’re high-level performers, and we both want to make a living doing this.” So theoretically we could just find room in the Kneller or Dolan to hang our apparatuses and train. We would just sign our lives away on forms and be done with it.

Scarlet: But they couldn’t get you space to train?

Adam: We talked to McKenna about it and he was like, “Well, it’s kind of dangerous, maybe you should just submit a form as the two of you in a closed club that would be under club sports, so you could technically get space, but it wouldn’t be open to anyone else except you and Ayal.” We would literally only be a club sport so we could use the club sports rules to book space. This was over last summer.

So [Ayal and I] drafted a proposal saying, “We are two high-level, performance-based artists, we want to make a career out of this, we have tons of training, tons of experience, we just want to practice here.” We went back to McKenna and he was like, “You can’t be a club sport with only two people!” And I’m like, “No, no, you told us to do this like two months ago.” He had forgotten that he told us to do that.

We were shuffled around to more people. Our end goal was to talk to the Athletics Department, because those are the people who would actually say yes or no. But we had to go through Student Leadership &

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Programming [first].

So we go to SLP and we’re like, “We don’t want to teach people, we don’t want to die, we just want to train.

You guys have a giant crash pad we could use, you have points we could use to rig. We can bring in a certified rigger to do this for us who can sign off that we will not die, that this rigging will not fail.” They’re like, “Eh, I don’t know how I feel about this, it could be dangerous. I’ll talk to the risk manager for you.” And I’m like, “No, no, let us do that, you don’t understand.” They asked us, “Do you guys have special insurance for practicing?”

Ayal had a great response. He was like, “Oh, do you guys have insurance for tennis practice? For soccer practice?” It’s not any different. A week later they emailed me back saying, “I spoke with the risk manager who also echoed my concerns about the danger and possible fatality that could be involved in this.”

It was hugely frustrating. I basically spent six-plus months fighting every single Clark administrator who would work on this, to no avail.

I [even] brought in the motto. I literally said, “I’m trying to challenge convention.” I honestly thought that was a good idea; I was so desperate.

It’s basically at the point this semester where I just gave up.

Scarlet: What is your favorite spot on campus?

Adam: Twenty feet above the cafeteria floor.

Scarlet: Is there anything else you would like to add?

Adam: Follow my circus adventures on Instagram at @wephilyaw. I post a lot of circus photos.

Thanks for the interview, Adam! And good luck with your NECCA application!

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By Sénégal N. Carty

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British immigration minister resigns

Climber scales 1500-foot cliff without safety harness

Discovered his cleaning lady was an illegal immigrant

Shares feat on YouTube

(NBC) - British immigration minister Mark Harper resigned on Saturday in an effort to “hold himself to a higher standard than expected of others” after being unable to find certification of his cleaning lady’s legal immigrant status. The British Prime Minister has called Harper’s resignation “an honorable decision.”

Harper was already being criticized for sending out mobile billboards with the message “go home or face arrest,” aimed at illegal immigrants.

(Metro) - Daredevil Alex Honnold released a YouTube video last Thursday that shows him climbing the 1500foot face of Mexico’s El Sendero Luminoso without any safety equipment. Honnold, who is well known for his free-climbing feats, reached the top of the cliff in just three hours.

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Honolulu student finds snail in school lunch

Man twists balloons into superhero suits

Cafeteria food under inspection

Entertains orphans in Bolivia

(SFGate) - Last week, a student at Honolulu’s Kealakehe High School found a snail in his salad during lunch.

Snails, which are known to carry the rat lungworm parasite, are usually removed from the lettuce supplied to the school by cafeteria workers. Principal Wilfred Murakami has called for even more careful inspection of the cafeteria’s food from now on.

(Telegraph) - Twenty-eight year old Jeff Wright of Cleveland, Ohio makes a living building the costumes of popular superheroes such as Buzz Lightyear, Super Mario, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Michelangelo. His Iron Man costume takes five hundred balloons and ten hours to build.

Wright currently lives in Bolivia, where he uses his skills to entertain orphans.

Teen dressed as banana and armed with assault rifle stopped by police Was actually advertising gun store (Metro) - Last week, Texas police found an eighteenyear-old standing on the side of a highway in a banana suit holding an AK-47. They later found out that he had been hired to do this to advertise the opening of a new gun store. The teen was not arrested, but was later found with fifty rounds of ammunition and may face prosecution for this.

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The Scarlet/Opinions The opinions enumerated in this section represent those of the author and the author alone.

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

Sochi struggles The 2014 Olympics Games struggling days before opening ceremonies

By Anna Spack photo editor

How Rose saved The Scarlet

By Jenna Caskie scarlet staff

The opening ceremony of the 2014 winter Olympic Games was aired last Friday. Although there was much excitement over the Russian Olympics, Sochi was certainly having many problems leading up to the opening ceremony.

Hotels were one major problem.

Three out of the nine hotels had not been completed three days before the opening ceremony. Reporters complained that their hotel rooms were missing basic amenities such as shower curtains, chairs, and heating.

Some rooms were covered in construction debris and provided guests with tap water that appeared unsafe to drink.

Brian Cazeneuve actually had to climb out of his bedroom window because the doors were stuck locked.

Others reported semen-stained sheets and issues with electricity.

These were only a few of the problems faced by the photographers and reporters that flew to Sochi.

There were also reports of officials killing stray dogs at Sochi.

Russia appears to be working hard to clean up their appearance as the world turns its eyes on Sochi this winter. However, instead of appearing impressive, the people from around the globe are shaking their heads at

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this pitiful attempt at success.

If all of this were not enough, there were also problems at the Olympic courses at Sochi. For example, snowboarding halfpipe had many issues. While practicing there were numerous problems with the only half-ready course. Again, this is just another example of Sochi being utterly unprepared at the start of the Olympic Games. By allowing athletes to practice on a course that was only half completed and therefore unsafe displays a complete lack of respect for those athletes.

The 2014 Sochi Olympic Games

as a whole portrays this lack of respect for reporters, spectators, and competitors. Not only does it give a bad reputation to Sochi (and Russia as a whole), it is also placing competitors on unsafe courses and letting reporters reside in unsafe environments.

While the Olympic Games should be a time for excitement that brings the whole world together, Sochi has started it off on a sour note by shedding a negative light on the Games as well as the country of Russia.

Ever wonder how The Scarlet transforms a bunch of scattered articles and photos into an organized, beautified newspaper every single week?

When I joined The Scarlet the first semester of my freshman year, almost everyone on the Scarlet staff had graduated the year before. Jeremy Levine (our currently-abroad Editor-in-Chief) and Claire Tierney (our News Editor) were the only ones left, faced with the task of finding a whole new staff, organizing everything on their own, and somehow continuing to publish a paper every week. Luckily, a bunch of First Years (including myself) joined at the beginning of the fall 2012 semester. Many of us were interested in writing articles and taking photos, but we still needed someone to do layout ­—a fundamental part of producing a newspaper.

That’s when Rose Dowd Gallogly stepped into the picture and saved us all.

I don’t think people realize how much Rose does for The Scarlet.

We may write the articles and take the photos, but she is the one who produces a newspaper with her magical layout and design skills. The Scarlet is a machine, and she is the gear in the back that keeps it running. Without the gear, the machine would stop working. Without Rose, The Scarlet would pretty much shrivel up and die (or at least, it would just be a bunch of Word documents sloppily stapled together).

Allow me to explain just how much Rose does every week.

Once an article is finished, Rose copies and pastes it into her super-fancy-layout-design-program, InDesign. Taking into account the word count of each article, she figures out how the articles and photos will fit together on each page to create either a 16- or a 20-pager. Then, once we’re done copy-editing, she has to re-copy and re-paste the articles into InDesign. Using her graphic design superpowers (the details of which I do not understand), she formats the headlines, subheads, advertisements, puzzles, photos, captions, and special boxes like “Upcoming Events” and “Police Logs.” Once continued on page 12

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Coca-Cola Super Bowl ad sparks debate

By Ethan Giles scarlet staff

The Holocaust was horrible. Slavery was atrocious. Barack Obama is not a Kenyan Muslim terrorist. Vaccines do not cause Autism. All of these are onesided debates that anyone with half a mind understands. Once in a while someone tries to deny these facts, and society immediately laughs at that person. The same thinking should be applied to the recent Coca-Cola Super Bowl advertisement that has sparked a national controversy.

The ad in question features people of all different races, nationalities, and languages singing “America the Beautiful” with bottles of Coke. If you read that and wondered, “Why on earth would that cause a controversy?” you had the right view. Unfortunately, some people found offense with this ad because apparently it is anti-American.

Former Republican Congressman

Allen West (who once called the Democratic Party a “21st-century plantation” and then referred to himself as “the modern-day Harriet Tubman”) wrote “If we cannot be proud enough as a country to sing ‘America the Beautiful’ in English in a commercial during the Super Bowl, by a company as American as they come -- doggone we are on the road to perdition.” Conservative columnist Todd Starnes tweeted, “So was Coca-Cola saying America is beautiful because new immigrants don’t learn to speak English?” #BoycottCoke trended on twitter during and after the game.

I do not know how to properly respond to the kind of ethnophobia exhibited by these people. First of all, “America the Beautiful” is a song complimenting our country. The song celebrates the freedom America provides its citizens and basically calls us the greatest country on Earth. Why would people of other countries and nationalities singing this song be an issue?

Michael Patrick Leahy was an-

other person who took issue with the Super Bowl ad. Leahy took issue with a gay couple being featured in the ad and wrote, “When the company used such an iconic song, one often sung in churches on the 4th of July... to push multiculturalism down our throats, it’s no wonder conservatives were outraged.”

There are gay people in America, and they are part of the reason this country is beautiful. Katharine Lee Bates, the woman who wrote “America the Beautiful,” is a lesbian herself.

The outrage to the advertisement should be more of a controversy than the advertisement itself. Those who criticize the ad do not actually care about the sacredness of “America the Beautiful”; they are just expressing their ethnophobic and xenophobia fear of immigrants. Hopefully the future holds a place where we can see different people and embrace them, rather than continue to push them away.

The ethics of genetic testing We should prevent the birth of unhealthy children

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Amanda Baxley was given a rare opportunity through gene testing: she was able to have children, without having to worry about them contracting GSS, as she had. Gerstmann-StrausslerScheinker (GGS) disease is a neurological condition that can cause slow painful deaths in its victims. Through in vitro fertilization, Baxley was able to have three children free of the gene that would cause this disease. And yet, people like the Baxley’s come under fire for their decision to discard infected embryos. This is because there is suddenly a group vote on pregnancy; every-

one’s opinion needs to be factored into this choice.

And yet, if Amanda Baxley hadn’t used genetic testing, she wouldn’t have had children altogether. She is already doomed by this disease; the decision was taken out of her hands when she was born. It’s safe to assume she knows best in regard to what life would be like for her children if they were born with it too. It may seem cruel, to some people, but would it really be so cruel if it was your decision to make? If you knew that your child would be born without a chance to live, would you allow it to happen anyway?

Josh and Robbyn Blick did. When they were told their son was going to be born with a fatal genetic abnormal-

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ity, they proceeded with the pregnancy.

Zion was born on January 11, at 4 pounds 7 ounces, and he died just 10 days later.

In this time, they introduced their four other sons to their new brother Zion, and took photos to commemorate his one week birthday. They allowed their other young children to meet this poor child, who was struggling to survive, knowing full well that he wasn’t going to live long. I’m fortunate enough that I haven’t suffered the loss of a sibling, but to imagine exposing a young child to this type of emotional trauma is disturbing.

Zion was born with Trisomy 18 (Edwards syndrome), which causes abnormalities in the body, and can lead to quite a number of internal organ

everything is in place and formatted correctly, she converts the InDesign file into a PDF, prints out that PDF for all of us to look over one last time, and then puts in another set of edits before sending it off to the printing company.

But that’s not all. As if going through this process every week isn’t enough, Rose completely redesigned our front page this year, making it sleeker and more eye-catching than it was last year.. She also created the logo for the “News of the Weird” column and “Sigmund Says.” All of the little details you see on the paper— the page numbers, dates at the top of each page, authors’ names, section titles—that’s all Rose’s work.

The truly remarkable thing is that Rose is literally always relaxed.

She does all of this with her laid-back yet hard-working Rose-like ease and patience. I don’t know how she hasn’t spontaneously combusted by now; I know I would probably drop dead from exhaustion and frustration after about two hours of meticulous formatting. But no, Rose consistently works on layout for over eight hours every week into the wee hours of Thursday morning, and she never fails to design a kickass newspaper. I’m pretty sure the whole staff is in awe of her incredible dedication and hard work. And she’s insanely humble about it, too.

But I have to pause here because it’s not just Rose who makes all of this possible. Our whole layout staff does so much work for The Scarlet every week, and without them we really would not be able to make a newspaper. With Rose’s guidance, Hannah Jaffe and Cami Ferreol have been working on layout this year, making the huge task of formatting an entire newspaper in one night much easier.

I’ve known Rose for almost my whole life. Our moms went to college together, we did gymnastics together when we were little, she lives about 10 minutes away from me, and we went to the same middle and high school. Aside from being extremely talented in graphic design, layout, calligraphy, and seemingly any type of visual art, she’s also an incredibly smart and kind person (and she has a great wardrobe). I’m lucky to have known her for so long, and The Scarlet is so lucky to have her as the Layout Editor! Thanks for everything you do, Rose.

disorders, such as malformed kidneys and heart defects. The survival rate for Trisomy 18 children is less than 10 percent in their first year of life, and most of these survivors are female. With such small chances, it isn’t surprising that baby Zion was unable to survive. And if he had, his life would’ve been filled with surgery and treatment just to continue living.

This is not something a child should have to live through. Pain, especially to such a degree, is something no one should have to experience. I can’t speak for the Blicks; they already made their decision, and it really isn’t my position to judge them.

That being said, Amanda Baxley removed the problem from the equation through genetic testing. She knew that there was a possibility that any child she had would be born with GSS,

and she made sure that her children would be safe and healthy when she had them. She made the tough call, so her children could live to old age, when she herself will not. She acted like a mother, and shielded her children from pain and suffering before they were even conceived.

The difference between Baxley and the Blicks is in publicity. The Blicks posted pictures of Zion on the Internet, celebrated his “one week birthday.”

That’s where the problem arises. People like Baxley are trying to bring a healthy baby into the world; they want to offer a child a safe opportunity at life. The Blicks created a macabre celebration for an infant struggling through its short life. People want to talk the ethics of genetic testing, then why not talk about the other extreme? Where were the ethics for baby Zion?

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Gender roles under stress in the Marine Corps New Marine Corps requirement raises gender equality issues

By Kristin Gunderson contributing writer

Dear Sigmund, I’m a senior and lately I’ve been feeling the pressure of graduating in May. It seems like all my friends know what they want to do after graduation, but I still don’t know what I want to do. When they talk about their plans I feel left out, and the more I hear other people talking about it the more worried I get. I just feel so freaked out and stressed. Is there anything I can do to help figure out what to do after graduation?

Thanks.

Dear Senior, First off, take a deep breath. The freaked out feeling you’re experiencing about graduating is completely normal. Any time there is a drastic change in life, a certain amount of anxiety is present. This is where the saying “no one ever said change is easy” comes from. The good news is that you’re aware of your feelings and want to do something about it.

The truth is there are many students in the same shoes as you. Some students have their post-graduation path figured out, but others don’t know which way to go. And just because you don’t know doesn’t mean there is something wrong with you. Sometimes it takes a bit longer for some people to decide what they REALLY want to do after graduation.

With this said, you still have to do some-

thing. This are many things you could do: volunteer work, a part time job, an internship, graduate school, or anything in between all of these options. There are so many options out there to pick from, and most will give you “real world” experience. This real world experience in turn will help you decide what you want to do with your immediate life path.

To help you establish what your options are, a great place to start is with Career Services. They can help you lay out what the best options are for you, determined by your major and what your interests are. The individuals in the Career Services office won’t tell you what to do (nor should they), but they can be a great help when you let them in on your desires and fears about life outside of being an undergraduate. They can suggest things that you may never have thought of.

Just keep in mind that your feelings right now are based on your perception about what you are supposed to do after you walk across that stage. You have plenty of time to sort out ideas about what you want to do after college. Recent surveys suggest that the average number of job changes in a professional career is now hovering between eight and ten, half of which are made by the age of forty.

This means that there is no “wrong” or “right” path and plan after you graduate. You just need to allow yourself to set a goal of gaining general life and work experience. There is nothing wrong with exploring your options during this time of transition. So instead of stressing out about graduation, enjoy the fact that there are so many open doors waiting to be walked through. Now go out and enjoy the rest of your college experience!

Sigmund

If you have a question for Sigmund, email SigmundSays@clarku.edu, and keep checking to see if your question appears in a future column. Please remember that the advice given here is not meant to act as, or replace, therapy or emergency care.

The Marine Corps are grappling with the challenge of imposing new requirements for female Marines. One proposal would require three pull-ups, which is the same as the current requirement for men. More than half of the female Marines in boot camp were not able to achieve this requirement, leading the Marine Corps to delay the requirement.

There has always been a controversy as to whether or not women should be in the Marine Corps, the most physically challenging branch in the military. Some say that women should have nothing to do with the Marine Corps. Others advocate incorporating women in the name of gender equality.

The problem, however, is that women are biologically different from men. Women are not built as strong as men and cannot be expected to be able to perform the same tasks. I am myself a former army soldier and have experienced first hand that men, on average, are simply stronger than women. This is a reality that should be self-evident. For example, physical requirements are lower for women not just in the military, but in life in general, starting from PE in school.

This raises the question: should we strive for gender equality in military combat roles? Is this a good or a bad idea? Marine Corps Captain Katie Petronio posted an article in the Marine Corps Gazette about women’s ability to serve in

certain combat roles, specifically the Marine Corps infantry. She has been in the Marine Corps for five years, serving two tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. She finished her soldier training among the best in her group. However, the intense work during the tours took a toll on her, leading her to believe that gender equality wasn’t such a great idea.

Petronio also became infertile as a result of the hard conditions she went through.

Another question is whether the advocacy for gender equality is done out of political correctness rather than the genuine desire to have women in those jobs. There is a constant public pressure on the government to promote gender equality. What would be interesting is to find out what the female soldiers themselves have to say. As far as I know, men have dominated most discussions on this topic.

Gender equality in the military is a question raised in many other countries. It was recently decided in Norway that one year of military service should be required for women in addition to men.

To be sure, I applaud the women who join the Marine Corps. I genuinely believe women should be in the military and that they are valuable to the Marine Corps. However, we cannot ignore the biological reality that women are simply not as strong as men on average.

In certain sections of the military, such as the infantry, we should not lower the physical requirements for the sake of gender equality.

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The Scarlet/Living Arts ACS celebrates the Year of the Horse Tilton Hall filled for Lunar New Year celebration

By Claire Tierney

by Tyler Terriault

news editor

The Asian Culture Society welcomed the year of the horse this past Saturday, Feb 8 with a celebration in Tilton Hall that left every guest with a smiling face and a full belly. The walls of Tilton that were not strewn with red and white lights featured artistic renderings of the different animals that denote the different years of the Chinese calendar. Upon finding a seat, guests found red envelopes with chocolate coins. This “lucky” money is called “hongbao” and is a staple of many Chinese holidays, particularly the Lunar New Year. According to a guest at my table, these red envelopes are also called “fun money” by children.

The program featured several traditional performances and musical events, beginning with The Lion Dance performed by the Southeast Asian Coalition. This event featured a dragon walking around and interacting with many guests, accompanied by cymbals, drums, and other loud music. This dance “wards off evil spirits and brings good luck” for the new year.

This was followed by a modern kung-fu dance performed by Trish Dao Le, Stephanie Hwang, Elli Lyssie Chan, Qui Trinh, Miga Mika Lee, and Dustin Duong.

The next performance featured

My psych professor tells me to watch people, and they say I’m a creep!

Want your name in a haiku? Well, I really can’t do that for you. Sad. My muse has come and gone, but that time was still so inspirational Heat is here, alas the year, is warm and clear, I don’t fear Winter’s tear (or “cheer,” up to you)

photos by dustin duong

a traditional chinese song, “Here We Are”, with a soft melody that featured verses in both Chinese and English, sung by Daryl Tong. The Le Lai Dojo performed at the event, demonstrating some self-defense techniques.

The crowd was entertained as a petite female effortlessly threw her attacker to the floor. Next, she performed a form while holding knives, fluidly spinning and swiping them

across Tilton’s stage.

This was followed by a traditional Korean song called “Goose’s Dream”; the powerful ballad was sung as a duet by Seungwoo Chung and Jonathan Shim. The event also featured a traditional Japanese dance, Soran Bushi, performed by Michino Hisabayashi, Rifah Islam, Sweta Shrestha, and Vanessa Carrasco. The last event of the night was a fashion

show which presented traditional forms of dress: Vietnam by Mai Pham & Hoa My, China by Jersey Wu, Tibet

by Meghna Pradhan, Japan by Duong Le, and Korea by Daeyee Kang.

Chinese food was provided by King Chef, and featured both meat and vegetarian dishes. This reporter tried two helpings of every dish, and found each to be quite satisfactory. Other guests were seen helping themselves to third and fourth por-

tions, but there was no shortage of food.

The event was scheduled to last two and a half hours, but the program left ample time for eating and mingling between guests, which contributed to the relaxed and pleasing atmosphere.

Well attended and much enjoyed, the Lunar New Year celebration certainly secured Clarkies some good luck for the coming year.

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Myths with

Manneville

By Celine Manneville scarlet staff

Welcome to another edition of Myths with Manneville, where we finally get to the bottom of the countless legends dealing with Clark University.

The Claim: Clark University’s second president, Dr. Wallace W. Atwood is believed to be anti-Semitic. What is the truth behind this? Was he actually anti-Semitic? Was that normal for the time period? Today we figure out the validity behind this claim.

Reality: For this myth, I began at the Clark University Archives where I met Fordyce Williams, the Coordinator of Archives and Special Collections in the Goddard Library. She directed me to an article in the Massachusetts Historical Review entitled “The Vicissitudes of Tolerance: Jewish Faculty and Students at Clark University,” written

by Shelly Tenenbaum a professor of sociology. I found my answer in the contents of the article.

Atwood was president of Clark University from 1920 until 1946. This was during the post World War I era, where xenophobia plagued the United States. During this time, “there was a prominence of anti-Jewish sentiment, characterizing the most pernicious anti- Semitism to date.”

According to Tenenbaum, “not a single Jewish professor with regular faculty status joined Clark University during Atwood’s twenty-six-year tenure as president.” In a letter to the U.S. Navy during World War II, Atwood commented negatively on one of the only two Jews to teach at Clark under Atwood, Gregory Pincus. He referred to Pinchus’ ethnicity, pointing out that he was Jewish and therefore unfit to be an officer and go into active service.

Atwood did, however, positively assess Pincus’s talents as a researcher and his character, saying he was “a pleasant and agreeable colleague to have”

at Clark and that Atwood “would not hesitate to recommend him as a commissioned officer.”

Atwood, like many other college presidents at the time, implemented quotas in order to exclude Jews systematically from the university. He used tactics such as requiring applicants to “provide information about their race and religion” in their applications. But, unlike big institutions, such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, Clark could not afford to implement these quotas. Because Clark was financially dependent on student tuition, “Clark could not afford to lower its enrollment.” As the Clark student population grew, so did the number of Jewish students. Unlike Atwood’s antiSemitism directed at faculty, it was “invisible or irrelevant to the Jewish students who enrolled” at Clark during the Atwood era.

Many accounts from Jewish alumni who attended Clark during Atwood’s tenure as president seem to describe similar feelings, “You never felt uneasy, you never felt tension, and the question of religion was not an issue.”

Irving Sigel, class of 1943, explained that “he knew about Atwood’s antiSemitism, but ‘since it was not a new phenomenon for most of us, we could endure it and get out of school what we set to do.’” He continued, saying that Atwood’s anti-Semitism was “primarily directed at the faculty.”

Like a lot of people during that time period, Atwood was anti-Semitic.

He did not hire Jewish faculty or allow the two Jewish professors teaching at Clark to rise above the rank of “visiting professor.” Atwood implemented exclusionary tactics to reduce the number of Jewish students at Clark, but quickly had to allow Jews to attend in order to keep Clark alive. Atwood would be considered anti-Semitic, but he never let that affect the “hospitable environment for Jewish students” at Clark.

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The Lego Movie Review If you build it, they will come

By Ronald Gerber scarlet staff

The Lego Movie has to be the surprise of a lifetime. The name and stale trailer led me to dismiss the film as yet another lazy attempt to capitalize on something completely unrelated to cinema. I was still more than a little doubtful on hearing the overwhelmingly positive early critical reception of the film, but I am thankful that my curiosity was sparked, because it led me to easily the most entertaining and unexpectedly stimulating movie experience of the year so far.

I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a film marketed to children that so effortlessly takes on the kind of searing social commentary The Lego Movie does. The protagonist, Emmet Brickowski (Chris Pratt), is an everyman construction worker, happily going along with everything that’s expected of him and mindlessly obeying the call of urban lego popular culture. The leader of this society, Lord Business (Will Ferrell), is beloved by Emmet and his equally mechanical coworkers, who are unaware that he is planning to destroy the world with a weapon of mass destruction: a tube of glue.

Wyldstyle (Elizabeth Banks), a free-thinking master builder who is not under this society’s hypnosis, drags Emmet into different realms of the lego universe, assuming he is a sort of “chosen one” meant to disable the weapon. After meeting Vitruvius (Morgan Freeman)—the elderly man who made the prophecy in the first place—and several other underground figures, Emmet is faced with the harsh reality of how astonishingly dull and ordinary he is. This is yet another roadblock in the quest to destroy Lord Business’ totalitarian rule and allow common

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rating: people to be creative again.

The Lego Movie is essentially an oddly potent combination of Idiocracy and The Sword in the Stone, but with legos. I don’t think it’s possible to fully explain in a couple of paragraphs the several levels on which co-writers and directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller (who previously directed 21 Jump Street together) make this concept work, but I will say that pacing has a lot to do with it.

The editing is kinetic and the jokes fly by so quickly that a child could not possibly catch them all... no matter, since most of the humor is very adult anyway. The pace is effective not only in getting away with more mature jokes, but also in making it possible for the film to slow down during thematically important or more serious moments. It is masterful filmmaking that accompanies slickly brilliant writing.

Something notable about the

film is that it keeps to a lexicon of sounds. Even Morgan Freeman’s voice, arguably the most distinctive and recognizable in the world right now, does not sound out of place or feel distracting here. Every actor manages to add to the ironically cheerful tone of the movie without hogging the spotlight. Cameos like Jonah Hill as a sycophantic Green Lantern utilize situational humor, rather than star power, to elicit laughs.

I am convinced The Lego Movie will go down in history as one of those rare treasures that is truly for everyone. Years ago, its idiosyncratic wit might have made it a cult classic, but the buzz surrounding it and the already-high box office reception are signs that it will be appreciated as great mainstream art, as it should be. I highly recommend abandoning skepticism and just seeing it. You won’t be disappointed.

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Underachievers fail to live up to expectations Clark PEC presents showcase of hip-hop and hi-jinks

By Matt Emmer living arts editor

Friday, February 7 saw the first major event of Clark’s Pub Entertainment Committee this semester. The Underachievers, an up-and-coming Brooklyn duo, headlined the evening of music and debauchery, while student Van Ward (‘15) opened.

The event, originally advertised for 8:30, was well-advertised and the student promoters expected large crowds. Unfortunately, delays from the artist forced the event to be postponed by an hour, with doors opening around 9 and the opener taking the stage closer to 9:30.

Ward, in apparently his first

public performance, impressed the crowd with well-rehearsed delivery, as well as tight lyrics and smooth beats. As the crowd trickled into the darkened Grind, wave after wave of students gravitated towards the front of the stage. Unfortunately his set, as well as the rest of the evening, was plagued by poor sound and an apparently blown-out speaker. Nonetheless, the performance set a mood of celebration and expectation among the mostly-inebriated audience.

Thus, it was unfortunate that the end of Ward’s set was met with applause, followed by an awkward lull in energy. Unfortunately, the Underachievers had yet to arrive for their gig. As the crowd waited, many returned back to their dorms and

apartments. The dedicated P.E.C. members tried their hardest to keep the party going by pumping music over the sound system.

The headlining duo took the stage a little before 11 and immediately raised the energy level in the increasingly crowded Grind. The group self-identifies their music as psychedelic rap, but their delivery remains slightly more aggressive than the genre’s west-coast revivalists. The Underachievers plowed through their set with an immediacy and urgency that one rarely sees among the new guard of Brooklyn hip-hop luminaries.

However, the set was not without its faults. The duo maintained a distance not usually seen in the nor-

mally-intimate Grind. This could possibly be a result of the group’s tenure, opened for Ab Soul and Joey Bada$$ in decidedly larger venues.

This imposed, impersonal element came off as an unwelcomed affectation in the tiny room. The duo hardly communicated with the audience between songs and remained adversarial throughout the evening.

This disrupted the normally mellow atmosphere of P.E.C productions.

Their performance was decided-

ly concise, ending around midnight.

Some students wondered if the show was really over. The crowd progressively dissipated as student leadership and supervising police politely emptied out of the University Center.

All in all, the event provided an enjoyable evening of music and camaraderie for most attendees. However, whether the Underachievers live up to the considerable hype surrounding them remains to be seen.

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plexity woven in such little time, and within such a small group of students, soon made the audience forget the crowded space and become completely absorbed in the play.

Larkin’s take on Jenny as a submissive, timid fiancée was laudable. Through excellent use of body language, she first showed simple repression, which developed into a consciousness of her need for an escape that became clearer as the show went on.

Terriault’s development was very smooth and skilled. He transformed from insensitive and conceited to a concerned and supportive friend whose main goal was to look out for Adam. And to top it all off, he did it in a thoroughly amusing way.

Hayden’s performance as Evelyn successfully communicated the character’s malevolence. She described what it was like to play a hypocritical and arguably insane artist with no respect for human relationships.

“I always feel like the audience is really hating me. It kind of propels me…

Playing a really mean character is something I’ve never done before,” she said.

Asked if this was a challenge for her, she said, “Playing the character?

No. Because I think it’s easy to play angry. But yes, it’s been challenging because hearing people react to my monologue is something I’ve never heard. I feel so bad.”

From socially awkward to confident (though submissive towards Evelyn) to heartbroken, Hinson’s take on Adam was admirable. His reaction to Evelyn’s project, was im-

peccable. The emotion of his character came out strongly through his performance and had the audience captivated from beginning to end.

In regard to the play itself, the lapses in time were a bit difficult to gauge. Only after Terriault’s character, Philip, points out that Adam and Evelyn had only been dating for a week does the time lapse between the two scenes become clear.

The cast praised student director Chloe Sternlicht (’14). According to Hinson, being directed by one of his peers was “great, because you’re on the same level. You get to talk about [the play] and you don’t feel pressure from authority.” Hayden applauded Sternlicht’s “extreme character work,” explaining to us that “the play is set in realism and each line, without emotion, is very stark and made to seem like everyday conver-

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sation. If Chloe hadn’t done the work she did with getting us into those characters…you would not have seen

Evelyn or Adam as they were tonight.”

Overall, CUPS did a splendid job with The Shape Of Things.

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The Scarlet/Sports Competition on the dance floor Clark co-hosts first ever ballroom dance competition

photo by nicole carriere

By Ethan Giles scarlet staff

This past Saturday, Clark and WPI co-hosted the inaugural Worcester Classic Ballroom Dance Competition, held at WPI. Clark students fared well in the competition, with senior Sean Fitzgerald winning first place in both Rhythm and Latin dance categories.

“The competition went really well for the team,” said team captain Kevin Carriere. Sophomore dancers collected seven ribbons, while seniors brought home four.

Freshman dancer Tom Donovan agreed with Carriere’s assessment of the competition, saying, “We performed much better than we did previously.”

The team sent 26 students,

a substantial spike in members from last year, as 26 First Years joined the team as opposed to the usual six.

Over 200 kids from 21 different schools attended the competition. Clark and WPI did an excellent job of hosting the event; aside from a few mistakes by the DJ, the day ran smoothly. Carriere said he feels that in the future he hopes the competition can advertise more at Clark, seat people better, and that the team can “have more fun and be more confident.”

Ballroom dance competitions follow a complicated process.

There are four dancing types: Rhythm, Smooth, Latin, and Standard. First the groups are split by skill level and previous dance experience. Ballroom Dance Sophomores are not necessarily college

sophomores, but rather those that have been dancing for six to 18 months.

After the groups are divided, all the couples in a selected heat are called up to dance for the judges. They judge the dancers on their technique, connection between partners, and navigation. The judges then select roughly half of the group and have them perform again. This process repeats until there are six or seven couples left, and the judges choose the winners from that group.

Before the competition, Carriere said he had thought the team would do well as a whole.

He was especially hopeful about Fitzgerald, as it was his first dance back since taking a semester off.

According to Carriere, the best moment of the competition came when sophomore couple Todd Rosenberg and Maia Moore celebrated Maia’s upcoming birthday by winning third place in Latin. The scariest moment was when Carriere almost passed out. “My legs stopped working and I fell down” he said.

But after an EMS visit he was fine and “laughed about it in the end.”

This was the ballroom dance team’s first competition of the semester. There are typically 11 or 12 ballroom dance competitions per year.

The team offers free dance lessons on Sundays from 4 to 5 in the second floor of Atwood and Wednesdays from 5 to 6 in the Bickman Fitness Center.

SPORTS UPDATES

By Ethan Giles scarlet staff

women’s swimming & diving The women participated in the Wheaton College invitational over the weekend. Gaby Jijon-Nemalceff won first place in both the 500-yard freestyle and the 1,650-yard freestyle.

Their final meet of the season will be at the NEWMAC championships next Thursday through Saturday.

women’s basketball

By Scott Levine scarlet staff

The women’s basketball team left Wellesley College with a win this past Wednesday, Feb 12. The Cougars had a comfortable lead going into the last ten minutes of the game when Wellesley cut Clark’s lead to one before senior Ashleigh Condon made a layup and two free throws to cement a Clark victory. The Cougars will play next against Emerson in the Kneller on Wednesday, February 19 at 7 p.m.

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men’s swimming & diving The men participated in the Wheaton College invitational over the weekend. Their final meet of the season will be at the NEWMAC championships next Thursday through Saturday.

men’s tennis The men had an up-and-down weekend, beating Union College 8-1 before losing to Vassar College 5-0.

The team will play again over spring break in Florida.

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COUGAR of the WEEK

by Scott Levine

After a rough start to the inner conference schedule, the men’s basketball team is gaining steam. Helping to lead the charge to the NEWMAC championships is senior forward Andrew Musler. Musler’s scoring and rebounding have been a handful for opposing teams, and he shows no signs of slowing down.

Scarlet: The team has won three of its last four games. What would you contribute to this turnaround?

Musler: I would just say we’re coming more ready to play.

We’re definitely playing with a sense of urgency now, trying to make the tournament. I think we might have to win out now to make the tournament, but we’re definitely playing with more emotion, more confidence, and we’re just growing as a team.

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Andrew Musler men’s basketball

Scarlet: When you guys were struggling to win games in the NEWMAC, it seemed like you were right there for a lot of the games, but the team just couldn’t close it out. Now it seems like you guys are getting better at finishing games.

Musler: Yeah. Definitely. We struggled through the first half of NEWMAC play. At the end of games, we kind of came up cold and didn’t make key shots down the stretch. Lately we have been able to. [Senior] Jake [Gubitose] hit a big buzzer shot with like one and a half seconds left to beat MIT. That was huge. Everyone’s contributing at the end of games and we’re getting stops which is key.

Scarlet: Has the three point shot always been a part of your game?

Musler: Yeah, I’ve always tried to shoot a lot of threes. This year, I’ve been making more in the past few years.

Scarlet: Are three pointers something you focus on since you’re an undersized forward? It seems like some bigger opponents have trouble extending their defense to the three point line.

Musler: Yeah, when you’re like a 6’3 big man, you need to be able to shoot or you’re in trouble. The [forwards] on MIT are 6’8, 6’9, so it’s a little harder for them [to extend to the arc]. We work on shooting in practice a lot, even all the big men shoot.

Scarlet: What has been your favorite moment of the season so far?

Musler: The three game win streak we just had, but we didn’t finish it off against Emerson. We didn’t play well.

Scarlet: What do you think happened in the Emerson game?

Musler: We weren’t ready to play. They shot a very high percentage and we just didn’t get back and stop them. I think they shot 60% from three.

We were just leaving them wide open.

Scarlet: Has it really soaked in that you guys beat MIT? Musler: Yeah. We always think we can win every game, and it was great to beat MIT. It was the first time since I was a freshman that we beat MIT.

Scarlet: What can you take away from the loss against Emerson?

Musler: I just think we have to come into every game with a lot of energy.

When we’re playing with high passion and high energy, and we’re getting all the loose balls and rebounds, that’s when we’re winning games.

Scarlet: Your minutes have pretty much quadrupled from last season. Did you see this coming?

Musler: I always stay confident with myself and we lost a lot of big guys last year, so there were definitely big holes to be filled. Coach Phillips and the staff have done a great job of changing the tempo and style of our team to suit our smaller team.

Scarlet: What are your goals for this season?

Musler: I just want to make the NEWMAC tournament. We made it last year for the first time since I was a freshman, and I’d love to make it again because that’s really when it’s fun – in the tournament play. Last year, we lost in the play-in game, so I want another chance to try to win.

Scarlet: You’ve been scoring more in recent games. Is that something you started doing because you sensed the team needed it?

Musler: I was a scorer in high school and, I don’t know, I like to score. I’m unselfish as well, but I just try to be aggressive and take shots when I’m open in the flow of the game, and lately I’ve been hitting shots.

Scarlet: Do you think you guys are playing at a level to compete in the NEWMAC tournament?

Musler: [During] the three games prior to the Emerson game, I think, we could compete with anyone. We have to keep up that high play to be able to just get there, and then try to continue from there. But one game at a time for now.

The men’s basketball team will tip off against Springfield College in the Kneller on Wednesday, February 19 at 5 p.m.

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The Scarlet/Puzzles CROSSWORD

SUDOKU

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1. Truce (5-4) 8. Area used for sports (5) 9. Mass of eggs (5) 10. Slice of bacon (6) 12. Passport endorsement (4) 14. True (4) 15. Most secure (6) 17. Science fiction (3-2) 18. Track (5) 20. Exhausted (9)

v2. Female sheep (3) 3. Beardless (6) 4. Melt together (4) 5. Grasp clearly (7) 6. Brush for dressing the hair (9) 7. Childish (9) 11. Stopping place (7) 13. Fortified feudal residence (6) 16. Flat circular plate (4) 19. Period of human life (3)

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Police Logs compiled by Maria Rotelli

february 13, 2014

SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK’S PUZZLES CROSSWORD SOLUTION

Tuesday, February 4th 15:53 - Special Assignment Thursday, February 6th 7:20 - Biohazard clean up in Dodd Hall.

17:34 - May have left heater on in Carlson Hall.

Saturday, February 8th 15:38 - Complaint of mound of snow at the intersection of Park and Downing Street.

20:26 - Suspicious person with gun on Charlotte Street.

SUDOKU SOLUTION

Monday, February 10th 19:05 - Bat flying around the classroom.

This week, there were three vehicle stops, one motor vehicle accident, one disorderly person was moved along, there were two suspicious persons reports, three reports of larceny, one fire alarm, one check of student welfare, one incident of graffiti, one marijuana-related incident, four investigations, six complaints, four calls to EMS, and seven calls to police escort.

As editor of the Police Logs, I would just like to remind everyone to keep themselves safe. I know that we haven’t been getting safety emails about these gun reports, so pay attention to these logs to keep updated. Remember after dark to never travel alone, and do not be afraid to call police escort or Clark escort—they are there to keep you safe.

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