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Of Mice and Clarkies Physical Plant Works to Prevent and Reduce Pest Infestation By Giulia Elena Casella news editor
Mice are adorable little creatures. However, they harbor and transport diseases, and are impossible to completely remove from residences. While Clark University teams with pest control vendors to provide pest exclusion services, mice are reportedly present in multiple residence halls, as well as several on-campus apartments. Physical Plant Director, Daniel Roderick, wrote that while “[Physical Plant is] working to determine the extent of the problem…Compared with [his] previous experience working at other institutions, reports at Clark have seemed relatively rare.” Ralitza Mondal (‘19) found two mice in her dorm room, which entered from underneath her door. “The custodian gave me a mousetrap and a sticky trap after the first mouse. The second mouse showed up after two weeks or so. None of the traps worked for me,” said Mondal. She created a makeshift card-
board barricade underneath her door to block out the mice. “The second mouse pushed its way through the cardboard barricade,” said Mondal. Physical Plant arrived to block an opening she had beside her door, and she has not seen any mice since. Roderick explained that “mice can fit through an opening smaller than a nickel and have been known to swim through septic and drainage pipes. Basically any measurable hole, crack, or opening is a potential entry site.” “One can imagine how difficult it would be to eliminate all entry points for a 30,000 sq. ft. residence hall. Indeed, sealing a building this completely would render it uninhabitable to humans,” wrote Roderick. So Jung Kim (‘19) had a dead mouse in her dorm room and had no idea it was there until she and her roommate were able to smell it. “Our room smelled like a dead animal going bad, so we called Physical Plant. We found out that a mouse had gotten stuck in the back of my roommate’s fridge and died,” said Kim.
Roderick explained that “rodents enter residential dwellings in search of three things: food, warmth, and shelter. In Worcester, the most common species of mouse is the House Mouse, which primarily lives in association with humans.” “Many, if not all, buildings typical to a college campus have residential mouse populations entrenched for many breeding cycles…For Clark this broadly translates to residences, cafeterias, and commercial food stores,” wrote Roderick. Urmi Minkin (‘19) found a dead mouse in the laundry room of the oncampus apartment she lives in. “I didn’t call Physical Plant because it was a weekend night. I took a piece of paper, took it outside, and buried it in the snow. I was worried about the smell because I knew it would have bothered people,” said Minkin. Thanh Thien Trinh (‘18) had mice in her off-campus apartment and had to solve the problem on her own. “We put the trap outside the door, continued on page 3
New Title IX Coordinator Comes to Clark By Jessica Macey executive editor
Clark alumna Lynn Levey was brought on board as the new Title IX Coordinator and Assistant Dean for Wellness in the beginning of February. Levey graduated from Clark with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. She continued her education at Syracuse University College of Law, where she received her J.D., and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, where she received her MA in geography. Levey worked in the area of criminal justice reform efforts, focusing on issues relating to mental health, drug use, and domestic violence. “Since I was a student at Clark I’ve been interested in violence against women and violence prevention,” said Levey, explaining her decision to focus on this particular area of criminal justice and law. For the past ten years, Levey taught at Syracuse University College of Law.
At Clark, being both Title IX Coordinator and Assistant Dean of Wellness has given her a variety of responsibilities. The Title IX Coordinator is “charged with responding to and investigating allegations of gender discrimination,” Levey explained. It is “designed to be reactive.” However, through her “dual position” as Assistant Dean for Wellness, Levey is charged with a variety of campus programming and educational initiatives on the topics of wellness, violence prevention, sexual assault prevention, substance abuse, etc. In the first few weeks in her new position, Levey has made efforts to connect with the campus. “I’ve been meeting with a lot of different people on campus, including students, student leaders, and faculty to get a sense of what’s happening on campus,” she said, explaining that she is “trying to see what’s being done, continued on page 3
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The Scarlet/News The Whitewashing of Consumerism Lindsay Allen Addresses Clark
By Max Elias scarlet staff
Not all consumers are treated equal, according
dard image of “consumer” is a middle-class white
to Lindsay Allen, Ph.D. candidate in history at Clark
woman, and therefore marketing and products are
University. She is writing her dissertation on the ways
specific to them. Allen’s dissertation tracks margin-
women of mixed racial and socioeconomic back-
alized women’s struggles to “define their role as a
grounds are discriminated against in Chicago’s de-
consumer in the growing world of mass consump-
partment stores. She is particularly interested in how
tion.”
lower-income and African-American women are seen as less-than legitimate consumers.
She chose Clark because of its small pro-
gram size and her affinity for Clark’s faculty. Before
She found that discrimination against these
she came, she spoke with graduate students study-
women ranged from the subtle to the overt. Allen said
ing at Clark and was encouraged by the way that
that “clerks often would not wait on these women,
graduate students “supported each other’s work
they were refused service at department store res-
and met weekly to discuss their current research.”
taurants, they were falsely accused of theft, they were
The seeds of her doctoral dissertation were planted
prohibited from trying on clothing before purchasing,
when she took Cultural History with Professor Amy
and, overall, their patronage was discouraged.”
Richter. She wrote a research paper focusing on
In her dissertation, Allen catalogs the strug-
gle of these women to be seen as legitimate consumers. “These women on the margins—working-class
“advertising, department stores, and the workingclass woman.”
After Allen completes her dissertation,
and black women—fought, using various avenues, to
she hopes for publication and a future job in this
be seen as legitimate consumers,” said Allen. These
field. She has been working on her dissertation for
avenues include legislation, boycotts, and simple re-
three years so far.
fusal.
She concludes that the traditional stan-
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but the next morning it had disappeared because the mice had moved it,” said Trinh. “We borrowed a cat from my friend, but the cat seems to really like playing with the mice. At least if the cat’s there, the mice don’t come into our room.” Roderick proposed some ways students can prevent and detect mice, which center around good sanitation and housekeeping practices. “Mice tend to use the same paths as other mice, leaving a secretion marker behind and creating a highway for mice to travel. Regular sweeping and mopping not only disrupts these pathways, but also helps in the detection of the telltale small black/brown mouse droppings,” wrote Roderick. “In addition to droppings, mice are notorious gnawers and are known to chew their way through cardboard boxes, food wrappers, and other materials for access to food or nesting,” wrote Roderick. “Keeping food in sealed plastic or metal con-
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what our strengths are, and where the gaps are.” Thus far, the community has been “very receptive, enthusiastic, and open,” said Levey. “There seems to be a good spirit of engagement.” “It’s a learning opportunity for me to try to identify what has been
tainers can be helpful.” In fact, Katherine Robertson (‘19) found that “[mice] ate a package of uncooked ramen that [she] had stored under [her] bed.” Roderick went on to explain that “other signs to look out for are the chemical (sebum) trails referenced earlier. These tend to be a trail of brownish/yellowish sticky substance near walls or corners – mice rarely travel in the open.” Young Sun Lee (‘19) had a mouse in her dorm room as well. “I saw a mouse crawling in front of my fridge,” said Lee. Physical Plant came and provided her with sticky trap. However, they have never found a mouse on it. “We poked through our stuff, but we couldn’t find [the mouse]. We don’t know if we still have the mouse in our room or if it left,” said Lee. According to Roderick, while students should keep their areas as clean as possible, they should not handle mice themselves. Instead, students should inform Physical Plant if they notice droppings, nests, or mice in their residences. “We advise students to contact Physical Plant if mice are present so we can effectively keep numbers down,” wrote Roderick.
happening, to identify what the campus has prioritized,” she said. “I think there are a lot of different vehicles [for this information] and I am open to creating different delivery mechanisms,” said Levey, explaining that she is interested in finding different programs and initiatives to engage and educate the community. “Violence prevention can’t be left to a couple of people on campus; it has to be implemented more widely,” she said. “I think the strength of our campus will come through a collective response.”
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CLARKIE of the WEEK Scarlet: What is the Nashville Singer/Songwriter Association? Olivia: We are basically a group of singer/songwriters, and we listen to and critique each other’s songs. We play out together at different shows that we organize together. Scarlet: What’s your favorite part about performing? Olivia: I love connecting with people. I love meeting with people after the show, before the show, and just talking about the music. I find that so rewarding, and I think that’s why I do it,really.
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Scarlet: I heard you took a gap year to record your own album, what was that like? Olivia: Yeah, so I went to a really competitive high school, and throughout high school, I really didn’t feel like I had the proper time to commit to my music. I wanted to take that time, so I deferred from Clark. I wanted to go to Nashville just to work on it. Originally, I had just wanted to write more, play more, just do it all more. I started out working at Barnes and Noble, and interning at this cool record label, Infinity Cat Recordings. That was a really great experience, and it really showed me behind the scenes. Through my year I realized I should record an album while I was there. That year I released “Evergreen.” It worked out really great. I call it my “dream year.”
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Scarlet: Are you looking to release another album? Olivia: I do want to. Right now, I’ve been writing a lot, so I want to release a single in the next like 3 or 4 months, but I’m also playing with the idea of an EP.
Olivia Schwartz (‘19), or as her fans know her, Olivia Frances, hails from Cincinnati, Ohio. She is a global environmental studies major and a music minor. She is a part of the Nashville Singer/Songwriter Association, and participates in several clubs on campus.
Scarlet: How else have you continued to pursue music at Clark? Olivia: I love sitting in my bed, honestly, and writing music. That’s kind of where it all started, just writing songs while laying in my bed, and I still love to do that, even here. Performing-wise, in January I played at the PEC/ROCU show in The Grind with a couple of other bands. I’ve been playing a lot of shows! This past month, just February, I’ve been in New York City, I’ve been in Providence, I’ve been in Waltham, and this past weekend I was in Worcester and Medfield. I’ve been pretty busy. I just try to get a lot of sleep to stay on top of things.
Scarlet: Did you find your music scene in Cincinnati? Olivia: No, actually, I would say that I found it in Loveland (Ohio). One time when I was twelve, my family and I went out for dinner, and I performed at an open mic. We were at dinner, and there happened to be an open mic, and I was like, “Ok cool, I’m going to sing a song!” I sang the first song I had ever written. Then these three guys in cowboy boots came up to me and they were like, “We really think you should join our group, The Nashville Singer/Songwriter Association, we have a chapter in Cincinnati.” That was sort of the first big part. I started writing more songs, and that’s when I started using the downtown scene in Cincinnati. Places like Rohs Street Cafe, Bogarts, Barnes and Noble, just different coffee houses and stuff.
Scarlet: Do you have time for other things on campus, or are you just doing music and school right now? Olivia: I’m actually a part of three clubs. I do Clark Sustainability Collaborative. For a while I was a communication director for that. Now I’m transitioning out of that position because I’m studying abroad in the fall. I’m also in NARAL and Local Root. Scarlet: Where will you be studying abroad? Olivia: I’m going to SOAS at the University of London. They have
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a big music department, which is why I wanted to go. Hopefully I’ll be taking a class called The World of Cuban Music and I’m really excited about that. I specifically decided on London because of music, since it is such a music mecca. Hopefully I’ll be out as much as possible. Scarlet: What interesting classes are you taking right now? Olivia: I’m in Ethics of Aesthetics right now which is really cool. It’s counting toward my music minor. It’s a really small class, there are only like eight or ten of us. We all sit in a circle and discuss things like does art have value. It’s really fun. One of my favorite classes though is Writing for Modern Media, shout out to Morris Collins, he is just so great. It’s a three hour class on a Friday afternoon, but he is just so engaging and so funny. Scarlet: If you’re minoring in music, and are clearly passionate about that, what do you like about global environmental studies? Olivia: I like to combine my two passions: the environment and music. I want to be a sustainable artist and promote environmentalism. I just want to have that environmental platform. I don’t think that any other artist is really doing that right now, and I think that now more than ever we really need that. I try to write a lot of songs about nature. Music can be so political, you know? I guess I’m not outwardly political in my songwriting about it, but my songs do kind of revolve around that central theme of environmentalism, and I think I am headed in that direction. Scarlet: Any shoutouts? Olivia: Shout out to Joe D’Angelo for teaching me guitar at Clark. He makes me so happy! Chiara White-Mink (‘17), who I met during the May term in Luxembourg, is so intelligent and thoughtful! She is a fantastic human being, and a great role-model. Scarlet: When’s your next show? Olivia: Saturday, March 18 in Worcester. I’m playing opening act for Cozy Sheridan. She’s a pretty big folk artist. It’s on 90 Main Street, and it starts at 7 p.m. It’s in the Unitarian Church, and has a coffee-house live music vibe. I really hope people can make it! Thanks for the interview, Olivia!
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The Fall of Milo Yiannopoulos How Modern American Politics Is a Horror Movie Plot By Scott Levine
By Joe Mogul
sports editor
contributing writer
“You approach the door in the old, deserted house, and you hear something scratching at it. The audience holds its breath along with the protagonist as she or he (more often she) approaches that door. The protagonist throws it open, and there is a ten-foot-tall bug. The audience screams, but this particular scream has an oddly relieved sound to it. ‘A bug, ten feet tall is pretty horrible,’ the audience thinks, ‘but I can deal with a ten-foot-tall bug. I was afraid it might be a hundred feet tall.’” -William F. Nolan What Nolan was talking about was the world of writing horror fiction. The idea that what is unknown, unseen, undetermined is far more frightening than what we can know and see is a cornerstone of the horror industry. Amplified fear brings people back to horror movies and books over and over again. To a greater extent, though far less apparent, is this concept’s application in the world of politics. No better example of this can be shown than the recent fall from grace of Milo Yiannopoulos, largely at the hands of comedian and commentator Bill Maher. Yiannopoulos is known for his highly inflammatory comments on women, the Black Lives Matter
movement, and the LGBTQ+ community (despite being an openly gay man), among others. From his (now former) position as an editor on the right-wing conservative news website Breitbart, Yiannopoulos was able to present his views to a large audience and gained a substantial following. Much of that conservative following came not from absolute agreement with Yiannopoulos’ view, but how many liberal progressives reacted to him. This can be likened to how some fans of a horror movie may enjoy how other audience members screamed more than they enjoyed the movie itself. If Yiannopoulos and his perspectives are comparable to a horror movie, how do you fight against them? The protests at Berkeley, which turned violent, only fueled the Breitbart editor’s fires. He gained more followers, increased his reach, and was given even more of a platform on Fox News. The attempts to stop Yiannopoulos increased, but his position grew stronger every time. Until Bill Maher stepped in. Despite having another guest decline to be on the show over the invite of Yiannopoulos, Maher brought the controversial conservative on and debated him face to face. This is where things changed. A cursory look at the body language of both host and guest show everything. Maher was comfortable and in control, Yiannopoulos was nervous
and fidgety. Maher didn’t insult or use hyperbole. He talked about the issues, even acknowledging that there were points where he agreed with Yiannopoulos, but never lost an inch, either in argumentation or moral high-ground. Maher used the strongest weapon available against inflammatory rhetoric: calm, cool logic. This approach is rare today. People are fearful to engage in level headed, one-on-one debate. They are afraid of being proven wrong or, worse still, discovering that the topic of debate is subjective and has no absolute right or wrong answer. These personal fears have been the fuel on the fire of our nation’s political rift, and have created fertile soil for provocateurs like Yiannopoulos. How is it that in eight minutes Maher accomplished with simple conversation what others had failed using protests and rioting? Because the protests and riots were, to go back to the quote from Nolan, an attempt to keep the door closed out of fear of how big the monster on the other side might be. Maher doesn’t have that fear. He opens the door and shows us that the monster isn’t that big or strong. He does it without setting fires or chanting. More importantly, Maher isn’t afraid of opening himself up to the possibility of being wrong. Only those who are unafraid to face the monster are able to defeat it.
Students have asked me what it’s like to be in The Scarlet, or whether it’s too late in the semester to join. The Scarlet is not something you have to “join,” per se, to be published in. If we’re publishing an issue the following week, then it’s the perfect time to contribute. A good starting point if you’re not super serious about joining The Scarlet, but still want to write, is the opinions section. I’m sure you have an opinion about something, be it Clark, the U.S. government, or snails. I understand if writing and submitting to The Scarlet seems daunting or unnatural, so we’re going to walk through it together. Step one: Sit with your computer in the Academic Commons, or the Caf, or the Green. You get it. Step two: Be in a ponderous state in which you don’t really feel like doing homework. This moment feels more important than your statistics problems. Breathe. Look around. Whoa, there’s a person you recognize. Okay, now back to your computer. Step three: Instead of doing your homework, write about something that feels especially pressing to you. My favorite thing about The Scarlet is that it feels, by far, like the most productive way possible to procrastinate. Step four: Now that you are intellectually stimulated after writing about something that genuinely interests you, attack your homework with a newfound fervor. That’s it. That’s all you need to do. We have meetings every Wednesday night at 7 p.m. in JC 220. We hang out, edit articles for that week’s issue, and editors pitch articles they want written for the next week. If that sounds like something you want to take part in, great. If not, we’re perfectly fine receiving your work at Scarlet@clarku.edu.
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Trashy Protesters? DAPL Activists Leave Waste Behind By Max Elias scarlet staff
President Trump recently declared that forcible removal of DAPL protestors will occur, and consequently protesters have been evacuating the protest site in droves. They left a grudgingly impressive amount of garbage on and around the site. Officials inspecting the protest site estimate that the trash is enough to fill 2,500 pickup trucks. This has accumulated over months of protest, and all the debris threatens to contaminate the Mississippi River. Some protesters even burned their tents as a defiant gesture. The destruction of presumably not environmentally friendly materials is an ironic form for protest to take, considering that the #NODAPL movement is a call to arms against environmental abuse and the endangering of water for indigenous people. But these actions do not seem malicious; they seem absent-minded rather than intentionally harmful. Should these activists be held to a higher standard? They certainly would like to imagine themselves as more aware of the world around them. On the other hand, activists are human and there are those who acknowledge that part of activism is continuing to learn. Abstractly, there is no easy response to that; criticizing people who hold themselves to a higher standard for behaving as ‘average’ people would need to then either ask why they don’t have those standards for themselves or abandon their criticisms. In this situation though, at least a portion of the waste probably resulted from the very sudden declaration that protesters would be forcibly evacuated. Certainly the burning of tents was directly a result of Trump’s harsh decision. It’s also understand-
able that the threat of the pipeline made some protesters a little shortsighted, even single-minded are reasons to defend the protesters—one error does not erase the fact that they fought for a worthy cause—but they were asked repeatedly to direct their efforts elsewhere, and not by any federal authority or anyone involved in building the pipeline. The Standing Rock Sioux chairman, David Archambault II, has been advocating for the protesters to vacate for months before the Trump order and masses of garbage on the site. His reasons were entirely separate from waste concerns. He claimed that protestors were misdirecting their energy by remaining on site rather than petitioning elected officials. The fight, he argued, is with legislators and politicians and the way to conduct that fight is by voting, letter-writing and making phone calls, not by gathering at Standing Rock. Archambault makes a good point. In hindsight the protests didn’t accomplish too much. It’s difficult to tell whether pressuring legislators to resist the pipeline would have produced results or not, but it is the approach that works more often. Additionally, large groups of people going to Standing Rock to camp out and protest, although undoubtedly well-intentioned, may have been construed as intrusive by some Native Americans. They certainly weren’t intending to be intrusive, but they definitely need to abide by the wishes of the Native Americans especially if they are there in an attempt to protect Native American rights. If the protestors had listened, the garbage problem also wouldn’t be so pronounced.
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The Scarlet/Living Arts Yoni Ki Baat Embracing Identity through Performance by Eddie McCluskey
Haiku are easy! Just five-seven-five, no need For reason or rhyme
By Krithi Vachaspati photo staff
Every year, the South Asian Students Association (SASA) organizes an event based on the monologues from “Yoni Ki Baat,” written and produced in 2003 by the South Asian Sisters in San Francisco. Students perform both original pieces and pieces provided by the South Asian Sisters. The performance took place in The Grind last Friday, as students gathered to support their friends and classmates in an important evening for SASA. Yoni Ki Baat consisted of one long night of stories, while last year, it was spread out through the weekend because of the large volume of original pieces. The originally written and performed pieces were some of the most powerful, especially one performed by Jurry Bajwa (‘20) about his role as a brother protecting his sister when she leaves the house. He explained that telling her to cover up is not out of his own beliefs, but out of fear for her safety. Another very powerful piece was performed by Padmini Dey (‘19) about her experience dealing with the “Fair and Lovely” beauty standard, and eventually coming to terms with the beauty of her dark-skinned complexion. SASA member, Tenzing Ngodup Gurung (‘19) performed an original continued on page 8
If we live in a Computer simulation Our Controller’s cray It’s even harder To imagine a world where Everyone is sane
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Spring break is the best! Ha! Just kidding. It’s nice, but I’m drowning in work Hey girl, if you like Chronic procrastinators Call me ADD If you really think You’re gonna have a bad time You’re probably right
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Clarkie Siblings Describe Their Experiences By Alden Welles contributing writer
The transition to college often requires saying goodbye to one’s entire family, preparing to see them much less. For some, however, family comes along too. Three pairs of siblings, Torieana (‘18) and Dominique St. Pierre (‘18), Leah (‘17) and Eli Simonson (‘17), and Liz (‘18) and James Grady (‘18) have ended up at Clark together. The St. Pierre sisters did not actively try to attend the same school, but both had Clark as their top choice, and their mother adamantly wanted them to attend the
same college. “There was a point when we decided that if we liked different schools then we would go to separate schools, but Clark just happened to fit us both,” said Dominique. They opted to attend Clark because of the university’s varied academics and basketball team. Torieana and Dominique enjoy having each other as friends at Clark, as well as the fact that their parents can always go to their basketball games. “I have my own personal therapist who costs $0 and it’s just great to always have a friend here,” said Torieana. The Simonsons chose to attend
Clark because they felt comfortable while visiting the campus and enjoyed the atmosphere. “I generally felt comfortable here and I felt that I could express my personal academic interests without fear or judgment,” explained Leah. Eli liked Clark’s science programs. Initially, Leah was unsure about whether she would be able to develop her own identity, but she now likes going to the same college as her brother. “I guess I was more nervous just because I often felt in high school that I depended on Eli for my identity, and I wanted to develop
my own identity,” she said. “But this feeling clearly dissipated quickly, as having Eli here has only made my experience stronger.” “It’s nice watching your sibling mature into themselves and being part of the experience of watching the change happen gradually, as opposed to seeing the change later,” said Eli. The Gradys chose Clark for two simple reasons: it gave them adequate financial aid and they live three minutes away. The siblings were close in high school, making them more than willing to go to Clark together. “I think we’re closer now than we were in high school because
although we saw each other all the time, Kate and I had different friends than James, but now in college we share a lot of the same friends,” said Liz. “I guess the best part of having your siblings go to the same college is that you don’t lose touch with them,” said James. “I probably wouldn’t have enjoyed college as much as I have if I hadn’t gone to college with my siblings,” added Liz. *The third Grady triplet, Kate Grady (‘18), was studying abroad in Dublin and therefore unavailable for the interview.
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piece titled “Chowpati,” which was told in the man’s perspective, involving the traditional practice of sending women to menstrual huts. The piece spoke to how much pain a man can feel for a woman, even though he himself will never have that experience. Meyru Bhanti (‘18), who performed a piece with Ariana Meraj (‘18), shared her thoughts on the value of the experience to her and the Clark community. “YKB is my favorite event of the year because we have the chance to cultivate a show that speaks to a lot of underrepresented struggles within South Asia,” said Bhanti. “I wanted to perform because I feel like there is a growing number of people with non- monoracial identities, and through art and performance we can provide support for each other.” “I was really proud of the number of Clarkie-written speeches we got this year and hope that can continue.”
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If you had to lose one sense which one would it be and why?
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Smell, because I can’t ever imagine living in a world where I can’t taste my grandmother’s food, see my mother’s face, hear my best friends laugh, or go without feeling the touch of my loved ones.
- Sara Sharif (‘20)
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Smell, because it’s probably the least developed sense I have, and it’s the one I’ll miss the least.
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- Mateo Gomez (‘19)
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Mine would be smell.
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- Julianne Murphy (‘17)
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Touch, because to appreciate beauty you don’t have to touch it, but have to use every other sense.
- Sarah Nasah (‘20)
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Smell.
- Padmini Dey (‘19)
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COUGAR of the WEEK play and we showed people that. We were the last seed and we came in and beat a #2 team, right off the bat we were all really excited. Scarlet: What do you mean by ‘playing volleyball’? Gwyneth: Instead of passing the ball like in basketball, they were ’peppering’ the ball like in volleyball. We took that as they weren’t going to take us seriously, which only made us want to win even more.
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Gwyneth Ivory women’s basketball Gwyneth Ivory (‘17) is a member of the Women’s Basketball team from Ashland, Mass. Ivory majors in psychology with a minor in management. Women’s basketball advanced to the NEWMAC semifinals, but lost 56-53 to WPI. Ivory reflected on the experience.
Scarlet: What was it like to make it to the semifinals? Gwyneth: It was awesome. It was the first time we had made it into the semifinals in some years. The first team we faced was Springfield, who we lost to a week ago. When Coach Glispin found out we were playing Springfield again, she had said that in life you don’t get a lot of redos, but a week later at the exact same time, same place, same bus, same bus driver, and I even got the same food order because it felt like the world was giving us another chance. I don’t think we have played any more connected than we did in that game against Springfield. I was so happy to bring out that win because the other team had been playing volleyball to warm up. They had expected an easy win and [that] they would roll right over for us, but we came out to
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hard and made sure to keep the work up in order to have a great next season, I think that in what we were able to accomplish this year it showed. Back in the fall we had come up with the team motto of ‘Pride,’ because our coach was like ‘This school is great and this program was great and we need to bring the pride back,’ so we made our team motto ‘Pride.’ After practice, we would say ‘Clark’ and work toward bringing pride back to the program, and working toward bettering ourselves as players.
Scarlet: As a senior, what game this year has been the most fun to play in and why? Gwyneth: I’d have to say it was the Springfield one. In that game, the team played so well, it was the first time that we had played all season for a full forty minutes. Our coach talked to us about how we would have small lapses sometimes or it would be whole quarters or even halves where we wouldn’t play to our potential. Against Springfield, we played a whole game, we showed them that we were here to compete, and I think it showed.
Scarlet: What are some words of wisdom Coach Glispin has shared with you over the four years you’ve been with the team? Gwyneth: Coach is a very wise woman. Sometimes she says things, and you don’t get it but now that I am a senior and looking back on it, she would say, ‘Skip it or deal with it,’ which is applicable to real life and basketball. If you are having an issue, you can either talk to the person and deal with it, or you can let it go and move forward. Coach has said so many inspiring and great things to me over the years, and I know I will take her words of wisdom with me.
Scarlet: The women’s basketball team hasn’t gone to semifinals in some time, how does it feel to be a part of the same team as last year and lead them into semifinals? Gwyneth: It was an amazing experience. I had seen we had not been to semifinals since 2005. I knew prior to last season we were going to have a lot of first years, so it was a rebuilding year, and I knew coming into this season we were going to have the same exact team as last year. This put us in a better place than most teams because we had all played with each other before, so we had a better understanding of how we played together.
Scarlet: What game did you find to be most challenging this season and why? Gwyneth: I think our last game of the regular season, when we played Simmons, was by far our worst game. We weren’t connected, we weren’t playing well, and this was a team that we should have blown out the water, and we ended up losing by ten points. It was really nerve-wracking for me and my teammates because at that point we knew we were going to playoffs, and we were playing the number two seed. Coming from that game it was not a great feeling, but we were able to pull it together.
Scarlet: Did you notice significant growth in the team’s ability from this season to last, and if so, what are some of the notable changes that helped the team? Gwyneth: It was really tough last year because we had like seven or eight first years, and we were supposed to have two seniors, but they quit, so next leaders on the team were the juniors and there was a missing senior leadership to help guide the team. The underclassmen were overpowering for the upperclassmen because instead of an evenly distributed team among four classes, it ended up with one class way bigger than the other. There was a lot of learning to be done and throughout last year we were able to form a more connected understanding of each other’s playing ability and each other more. That whole year felt like a practice for this season.
Scarlet: Which game will you most remember? Gwyneth: Even though we had lost, I think it has to be the last game we played because we were playing WPI, and cross town rivals, and we played really, really well. We had been winning for most of the game, you could tell everyone wanted it, and even though we didn’t end up winning, it showed that anyone can accomplish anything. The WPI coach told the team that they were lucky to get past us in that game because we had ended up losing by three points.
Scarlet: Was there a shared mentality of the team coming into this season of focusing on winning and improving from last season? Gwyneth: At the end of last year, I think we all knew we had been building for next year, when we played our last game last year we had all noted how well we played and that we were getting somewhere. Going into the off season everyone trained really
Thanks for the interview, Gwyneth!
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Police Logs Compiled by Celine Manneville Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017 12:53 - Party reported three males in the far corner of the field. Party does not believe they belong here. The three males jumped the fence to play soccer. They were spoken to and removed.
mar. 3, 2017
What happens in The Scarlet office stays in The Scarlet office... sort of
*barf* - Scott “When I sit like this I’m David Angel, but when I sit like this I’m Dave Angel.” - Giles
19:57 - Party wrote an email to UP about a young person throwing rocks at her and her friend. 20:12 - Escort reported two vans had rocks thrown at them by three to four kids dressed in black. The kids
“We only have one thing in the 4 a.m. this week, someone say
were not located.
something funny.” - Giles
22:43 - Party reported that while he was in class, his new car was hit. He was transferred to Worcester Police to make a report and will get a parking pass for the next few weeks.
“No.” - Jess “I’m putting that in.” - Giles
Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017
“That’s not funny. I don’t think that’s funny. If I saw a news-
18:21 - Party called and claimed they reported a leak in the ceiling over a week ago and it has not been fixed.
paper with that on the back being metta about the section I
21:14 - Party states there is a bag of hypodermic needles opened in the vicinity of Clark. Transferred to Worces-
wouldn’t pick it up.” - Scott
ter Police because they have the resources to pick them up Friday, Feb. 24, 2017
“Do you want me to delete it?” - Giles “Or you could just put this entire part down.” - Scott
14:36 - Party came into lobby to report possible suspicious activity involving two students possibly smoking out of a pipe type unit. Party requires it be checked on. Unable to locate students.
“Do you think that...” - Scott
19:41 - Party reports someone spilled cooking oil on the floor of a dorm kitchen. Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 10:46 - Party reported her car was hit when it was parked on the corner of Maywood and Florence. She was advised that visitor parking passes are $5.00 for next time. 12:56 - Party locked out of room. Slight language barrier. 18:16 - Four to five kids with skateboards. One is wearing a pink shirt. 23:14 - Four white males wearing t-shirts and shorts are being loud and disorderly, throwing stuff at houses. Unable to locate. Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017 10:09 - Party reported there is no heat or hot water. 11:55 - Party states she has no heat or hot water in her apartment. 16:23 - Party requested the custodian office be unlocked so that they can get some portable heaters for apartment where heat is not working. 23:19 - Party reported a suspicious white male was going up to people and asking them for food. Did not appear to be a Clark student. Monday, Feb. 27, 2017 1:13 - Car alarm on the second floor of the parking garage has been going off for hours. Lots of complaints have been called in. Officers emailed and called the owner of the car. Owner’s father is now also trying to get a hold of him. Complaints are still being called in. 4:40 - Kids playing with fire.
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