Issue 10 Spring 2016

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Sextival sells goodies

Commissioner Santiago commends MCLA Page 3

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Ethiopian afro-pop at MASS MoCA Saturday night Page 6

Sports

Kehlani still headlining SAC Spring Concert

By Jon Hoel

Tennis topples Johnson State Page 11

Op-Ed

Stealing Beacons affects more than the newsroom staff Page 4

Campus Life

Rayna Dubose shares her story with students Page 8

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The Beacon previously reported on March 29 that hip-hop/ pop singer Kehlani had been hospitalized and her concert via the Student Activity Council (SAC) Spring Concert series may face cancellation.

Kehlani’s initial confirmation was left uncertain after she was hospitalized following an attempted suicide, amidst accusations of adultery and cyber-harassment from fans of her ex-boyfriend, NBA star Kyrie Irving.

This week, Kehlani’s agent has confirmed to SAC that she will be appearing at the show after opening performances by MCLA Step Team NeXXus and Dysfunk Crew, a group comprised of MCLA alumni.

The Project K initiative, founded by students Destiny Sparks and Mariah Carvallo, originally started as a celebration of Kehlani’s 21 birthday, quickly became a championing force of well-wishing for the singer. The

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project is a compilation of MCLA students lip-syncing to Kehlani’s music.

“I am very happy that she’s still coming,” Sparks said. “I really love her music.”

SAC never wavered in their confidence of her appearance. In a statement to the Beacon upon her initial hospitalization they continued to move forward with the plans for the concert, and everything has worked out as planned.

Kehlani, who performed in the band PopLyfe, is perhaps best known for her mix-tape “You Should Be Here,” which featured artists Chance the Rapper and BJ The Chicago Kid, released last April.

After her performance at MCLA, Kehlani will be performing a string of festival appearances, including a slot at the famous Chicago music festival Lollapalooza.

Kehlani’s concert will be held on April 18 in Venable Gym. Students can purchase tickets for $5, and $6 for faculty, alumni and guests.

The Beacon received reports from faculty and students Friday about missing papers. At 9 p.m. Monday night the missing Beacons were reported to Officer Justin Biasin.

An investigation is being conducted for larceny.

Wednesday afternoon The Beacon spoke with Chief of Police Daniel Colonno for an update regarding the investigation. He stated that footage in distribution areas are being looked at by

dispatchers, but that he was not comfortable sharing any additional information about the investigation because he could not determine whether editors at The Beacon could be considered "victims" of the incident.

Having never dealt with larceny from a club on our campus, Colonno was uncertain who would be a victim in theft cases, but assured the Beacon that once the investigation was concluded he would receive guidance from administration on what information he can release to The Beacon.

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Chocolate Vagina and Penis Pops were sold at Sextival last weekend, for $1 each.

Student’s Fees increase by $500 last year’s freshman class was the

By Torin Gannon Staff Writer

If you’ve been a student here for a few semesters, you may have noticed an increase in the fees that you pay. Next semester, students might be seeing a $500 increase in the campus support fee.

Typically fee increases have ranged from $400 - $700 per year since 2008 - are you talking about specifically MCLA? Currently, the campus support fee is at $8,015 per year, but for fall of 2016, the fee will be at $8,515 per year.

Unlike state tuition, the campus support fee is retained by the school and is essentially what the school is run on. It largely goes toward the salaries of professors and staff, but is also used to cover various costs.

According to Director of Student Accounts Bonnie Howland, there are two main reasons for this increase in fees.

The first reason is that enrollment has been going down.

“We have a shrinking population of college students,” Howland said. “We are basically offering the same amount of services for less students, with less revenue to cover those costs.”

In order to ensure that students receive the same amount of services, a fee increase has to be instituted.

According to Larry Behan, vice president of Administration and Finance, the enrollment for

lowest it’s been in quite some time.

Behan stated that on average, the school gets $7,000 per student. If there were 100 less students, that’s a $700,000 loss that he and the board of trustees have to manage.

“Whether we have 10 students or 10,000, the power plant still has to run,” Behan said.

The other cause for the increase in fees is cuts to money the school gets from the state of Massachusetts.

Last year, state governor Charlie Baker sent an initiative that all state agencies had to cut their budget by five percent, which meant that every College department, except academic departments, had to cut its budget. That has not been restored this year.

The academic departments may also face a cut if enrollment numbers do not improve.

According to Howland, the College is also no longer receiving money for collective bargaining (the negotiation of wages by an organized body of employees). Since the school is not given the funding to cover those wages, Behan has to handle it internally.

“It’s like giving someone a raise and not funding that raise,” Behan said.

Collective bargaining is approximately a $600-$700 cost.

Behan sees this as an unfunded

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Compiled by Idalis Foster Senior News Editor

Sourced from Tribune News Service Facebook uses Buzzfeed for opening act in live streaming Facebook Live, a live streaming component of Facebook, paid Buzzfeed to help them pull of a stunt of exploding a watermelon with rubber bands. This seemingly silly video received over 3.1 million viewers and got users from both Facebook and Buzzfeed to interact with the new streaming service.

According to Buzzfeed, this was their largest ever concurrent viewership with approximately 800,000 viewers on the stream at once. This marks Facebook’s first attempt into getting Facebook Live into the mainstream but hopes that users will use the service to stream live events to their friends.

The company has already paid multiple companies, including Buzzfeed, to create these creative live streams and with 1.6 billion

users this could be its next foray into keeping users engaged.

state employees.

A state senator from South Carolina made a similar proposal this week and major businesses and CEOs have halted business in North Carolina and Mississippi due to their exclusion of LGBT people.

PayPal even limited expansion in Charlotte due to the recent bills.

Pennsylvania takes a stand for LGBT protections In response to recent bills in North Carolina and Mississippi that have excluded LGBT people from n o n d i s c r i m i n at i o n p r o t e c t i o n s , Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf is calling on the General Assembly to ensure protections that include LGBT people.

The state currently has a Republicancontrolled House and Senate and a socially conservative group called Pennsylvania Family Institute (PFI) is protesting the Pennsylvania Fairness Act due to the “bathroom bill.”

Equality PA, Pennsylvania’s LGBT advocacy group, says that

Senator Lindsay Graham and Bono push for foreign aid

PFI is trying to bring the same form of discrimination that is occurring in North Carolina to Pennsylvania. Wolf has already signed two executive orders as of April 7 that extend the equal protection to LGBT

The Senate Appropr i at ions Subcommittee had a hearing led by Sen. Lindsey Graham and refugee experts including U2 singer Bono on how financial and humanitarian assistance for foreign countries can help the fight against terrorism. Graham argued that a country’s stability

rest on its resources including education, food, and water which influence poverty levels, conflict, and extremism, according to retired Marine Gen. James Jones.

Bono, the co-founder of ONE, a poverty-fighting campaign focused on Africa, and (RED), a campaign focused on fighting AIDS, stressed that aid in this day and age is a matter of national security and a preemptive measure against terrorism.

Graham, who recently traveled to Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel, is pushing for longterm economic support for the Middle East by contributing to the private sector rather than governmental organizations and developing their economy while creating conditional trade agreements and loans.

This past week, Graham provided reporters with a longterm plan that would get billions of dollars in aid to countries like Turkey, Syria and Jordan to create stability as opposed to solely focusing on killing terrorists.

Jobs available teaching English in China

FEES, Continued from page 1 Behan expressed concern over the limitations the state has put on the schools budget.

“I think that education is one of the things that should be a priority in terms of funding,” Behan said. “That being said, what’s the value of the investment that any community or state should make, and I think they are being short sighted by not funding these initiatives.”

Behan plans to combat these rising costs by driving up efficiency to ensure that as much money as possible goes back to the student experience and education.

“Because that’s what we’re all really here for,” Behan said.

Behan encourages students to talk to the school and encourage others to enroll, and also to contact their state legislators and governors about these cuts and unfunded mandates.

Graduate students can teach English at Heibei University as soon as this fall

By Torin Gannon Staff Writer Graduating seniors now have the opportunity to travel to China for a teaching job at MCLA’s sister school, Heibei University, a few hours outside of Beijing.

Kailai Huang, a history professor, is looking to recruit multiple graduates to the program. Those selected will be teaching English and basic writing skills to the students there. No teaching experience is required; all you need is a bachelor’s degree and passion.

“People need to be interested in this international experience,” Huang said.

Heibei University will supply an on-campus apartment, monthly salary, and international air fare. Huang is hoping to send up to four students to Heibei.

Huang encourages those

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who apply to see this not as a job, but a once in a lifetime opportunity for learning.

“You are a teacher there, but you are also a learner,” Huang said.

The program has been around for fifteen years. Every year Heibei sends over some of its students to take classes here. The program was also supposed to have MCLA students travel to China, but this has not always been the case.

In order to make it an even exchange, Huang started to send graduates over as teachers.

According to Huang, several dozen students have participated, and for many of them it was a life changing experience.

Huang said you won’t just find fellow Americans at Heibei, but an international community of students and teachers from all over the world.

Senior Admission Counselor Dayne Wahl spent three years at Heibei as part of the exchange program, and he remembers that time fondly.

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going to China, was drawn to the program because he would be making money doing it instead of losing money.

One of Wahl’s biggest challenges when settling in at Heibei was dealing with culture shock and being surrounded by a new language.

“Everybody there is really nice though,” Wahl said. “That made it easy.”

Wahl was able to take classes to improve his Chinese, and by his third year he could hold conversations. He was also able to spend summers at home to combat homesickness.

Another major issue Wahl faced was his inexperience as a teacher, but was able to work with fellow MCLA students and other American teachers to improve himself.

“I was really bad at first,” Wahl joked.

On top of teaching more than 14 hours a week, he traveled around China and to other countries, tried new foods and experiences, and immersed himself in a culture that was vastly different from his own.

“Be open to everything

and anything, and say yes 99 percent of the time,” is Wahl’s advice to people thinking about joining the program.

Wahl says the program enriched both his personal and professional life. It also created lasting friendships with people he met at Heibei, which persist across continents.

Huang wants to promote the program because it offers valuable international experience, and it gives Heibei University, his alma mater, the English students it needs.

“I genuinely believe that this is a benefit to our students,” Huang said.

So if you are set to graduate with your bachelor’s in the spring and would be interested in going to China in the fall, contact professor Huang over Outlook 365.

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New Vice President of Administration and Finance returns to the Berkshires

By Gionna Nourse Co-Editor-In-Chief

With two boys away at The University of Utah, new Vice President of Administration and Finance, Lawrence Behan, and his wife are “empty-nesters.” A new-found sense of flexibility presented itself, and when Behan heard about the job at the College, he couldn’t resist applying.

A Massachusetts native, Behan grew up in Arlington and received his bachelor’s in economics from Northeastern University, in addition to his Master’s in business administration from Suffolk University.

Although he spent most of his young adult life in the Boston area, his family’s love of skiing inspired them to buy a second home in Wilmington, VT, bringing with it a love and appreciation of the Berkshires. “[Skiing was my boys’ winter sport],” Behan said. “I’ve been an avid skier for most of my life, and I raised skiers. I love New England and being outdoors….that’s why this was a fabulous opportunity for me,” he added with a smile.

Currently, Behan resides at his home in Wilmington, VT

while his wife works as a special needs teacher in Littleton, Mass.

His most recent position was Vice President of Administration and Finance and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Walden Behavioral Care, Inc., in Waltham, Mass.

“During his time there, he doubled the business in size, cleaned up the balance sheet, and brought in additional outside investors,” according to an article on the College’s website.

“At my last company, I was engineering the potential sale of that company, and I knew that I would be out there kind of looking [for job opportunities],” he said. “So when this opportunity came across my radar, I thought, ‘Wow, its only 24 miles from my ski house, I know the Berkshires well and my skill set very much fits what they are looking for.’”

For Behan, this job opportunity at the College was a perfect way to get back into public service.

He has been a Finance and Operations Executive for almost 20 years now, and a CFO of four different organizations, including positions in both public and private sectors.

His experience includes

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Behan, vice president of administration and finance, is eager to get more funding for the College and its needed renovations. a plethora of positions in company was sold, and manufacturing and technology that is how I ended up in companies, including Davox public service,” he said.

Corporation (now Aspect His past public service positions Software) in Westford, include CFO for The Public Mass. where he was the Defender Agency of Massachusetts director of international and deputy commissioner for finance and operations. management and budget for The “In the late 1990’s and early Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ 2000’s, my last technology Department of Public Health.

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The skills Behan has acquired through years of experiences are very transferrable and he brings those to the College, as well as new ideas for improvements, such as the hopes that Mark Hopkins can be renovated in the future.

“I bring a good blend of understanding the private sector as well as public service,” he said.

Behan exudes excitement when talking about the College and stresses the importance of taking advantage of opportunities in life. He lives by that philosophy and takes that approach in every job that he does.

“I always told my boys to take advantage of opportunities [because] even though you might not get home at five o’clock every night, it gets you exposed to different people and experiences,” he said.

He loves the mission statement of the College, and says he is thrilled to be here.

“Sometimes I think to myself, ‘I can’t believe I get paid to do this,’” he said while reminiscing about his beautiful morning commutes over the Berkshire Hills. “I’m loving every minute of it.”

Phishing attempts target Commissioner Santiago commends MCLA’s students via e-mail

By Idalis Foster

Senior News Editor The Information Technology (IT) department has sent three emails about phishing attempts in the past few months, and while the College tries to keep this from clogging student inboxes, it is ultimately the student’s responsibility to be safe on the web.

John Clark, assistant director of IT User Services, recommended that students be cautious of where they submit personal information.

Proper research of companies or individuals is important, particularly with new websites or websites that are linked through an e-mail, and checking that the site’s address starts with https (“s” standing for secure) is vital.

“When you have a device that is infected it could be more than just an annoying pop-up ad - in some cases the malicious software could be opening the door to exposing your files, passwords and other personal information to cyber criminals through the internet,” Clark said. “Reputable Antivirus software installed on your device can help combat this from happening.”

But what are these phishers and scammers looking for? The key to all of your accounts: passwords. With just the password to an e-mail account, cybercriminals can then reset all accounts connected to that e-mail to gain access to bank information.

According to Clark, this is the primary reason for the two-step authentication process when logging into online service accounts, and is also commonplace for bank accounts. The site asks for an answer to a security question in addition to a password in order to get into the online account.

The recent attempts that the IT department has intercepted have been through e-mails and look very similar to e-mails sent by the College.

Junior Emily Morris finds this is less daunting

than, say, a virus from a new website.

“I’ve avoided filling stuff out because a website looks sketchy, like it isn’t worth the risk,” Morris said. “I think the phishing attempts through email are fine because I think I have enough common sense to differentiate between that and a real e-mail, I hope.”

With the evolution of the Internet, the level of sophistication in these e-mails has gone up as well. Clark warns that phishing scams have become more realistic than one would think.

“Phishing scams are now beyond poorly written spam messages asking you to send money,” Clark said. “It is common that people see targeted e-mail messages that appear to be legitimate leading you to a fake login page that is an exact replica of a real service, like PayPal for example.”

Students like sophomore Dylan Burkhart are very wary when it comes to the Internet and providing any type of financial information, even when it comes to the school’s resources.

Burkhart even mentioned friends and family members losing money or their identities to cyber criminals and how these instances have made him more cautious in his own usage.

“I like to think that I take the right precautions when using the internet or things like social media, however, I believe the majority of the Internet is unsafe,” Burkhart said. “I try to keep as much personal information off the Internet as possible for obvious reasons. I don’t think it is a good idea to put information on the Internet unless it’s necessary.”

Computer services has a short video for students to watch and keep in mind when on the Internet, as well as a quiz to test one’s ability to decipher spam e-mails from legitimate ones.

For more information go to http://techhelp. mcla.edu/index.php/Information_Security_ Awareness and for help deciding if an e-mail or website is legitimate one can always contact the helpdesk@mcla.edu.

community influence

By Harmony Birch Co-Editor-In-Chief

MCLA may not be the most selective institution, but it is helping promote economic equality and going beyond its duties as a college to collaborate for the well-being of the Berkshires, according to Carlos E. Santiago, the commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education.

Santiago visited campus Thursday to speak to the Trustee Board and to local press. Santiago is touring the Massachusetts state universities and MCLA is the 18th institution he visited. His goal is to learn what’s going on within the institution by talking to students, staff and faculty, but also to learn about the institution’s economic well being by talking to stake holders.

The MCLA model of collaboration is unparalleled, Santiago said. Not only is the College working as an economic hub for the community, but its collaborations with school districts are helping to bridge gaps between higher education and early and secondary education.

“I don’t know if I’ve seen better collaborations between an institution of higher education and its school districts,” Santiago said.

This isn’t Santiago’s first time on campus. In his prior role as Senior Deputy Commissioner he’d worked with administration before, particularly Cynthia Brown, vice president of Academic Affairs.

MCLA’s strength is in providing

disadvantaged students with opportunities for success.

“You have an institution that is… providing affordable high quality education, an institution whose student body is changing,” Santiago said. “It is reflecting much more what Massachusetts is becoming than what Massachusetts was and providing success rates for students that have historically been disadvantaged in education. Students...are coming from school districts that are not the highest funded, and yet [have] opportunities to succeed, and the success rates are quite good on a comparative level as I look at other institutions.”

He acknowledged that MCLA faced particular economic challenges in terms of government funding and the rapidly declining North Adams population, but saw hope for the institution.

“What I see is the groundworks for a revitalized local economy,” Santiago said. “As to what’s going to be the niche that draws that, I think that’s still a work in progress.”

As a state school, he believes funding is difficult to achieve and part of this comes from Massachusetts’ “fragmented” education system.

“We have to act as a one voice system and the voice can include local and regional issues, but there has to be a voice around public higher education and policies that show these 29 institutions are working together,” Santiago said. “We haven’t quite gotten there yet in the common wealth.”

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Stealing from campus and community Did you get to see if one of your the public. You should know if classes was one of the top five classes someone's making bomb threats at MCLA, or when the next MASS to your school and why.

MoCA performance is? What about Not only does The Beacon you're friends' hot clothing in the attempt to deliver important Spring fashion show? Probably not. campus news, but we also receive Beginning last Friday morning, The money from advertisers who pay Beacon received reports from faculty to be seen by our readers. Stealing and students that large amounts Beacons is stealing money from of Beacons had gone missing in local businesses. distribution areas. Ironic, given that Newspaper theft is a First the last editorial was about campus Amendment violation.

The transparency.

Beacon has reported the theft to Stealing the papers is a form of Public Safety and an investigation censorship. The United States is is underway. founded on the principle that a "Possible charges [for newspaper free and democratic society needs theft] include larceny, petty theft, informed citizens. criminal mischief or destruction Beacon's are free for the student of property," according to The body because we believe that Student Press Law Center (SPLC) students have a right to campus news. an organization in Washington However, only the first copy is free; DC that represents the rights of additional copies cost 50 cents each. collegiate journalists.

Photos by Harmony Birch/The Beacon Students pay for The Beacon like If anyone has an issue with the any other club, through their student Beacons were stolen from various places on campus including stories printed we encourage them support fee, which is funneled into the campus center and Mark Hopkins Hall. to start an open dialogue with SGA funds. SGA allots $674 for weekly either the editors or the public. The The last reported incident of Beacon theft printing costs of the Beacon.

Co-Editors-in-Chief, Harmony When the Beacons are stolen they're not was in Fall 2014 after we printed stories Birch and Gionna Nourse, can be reached being stolen from just the Beacon staff, they're about a bomb threat on campus and a drug on Outlook, and we encourage you to write bust. Stories like these are meant to inform letters to the editor. being stolen from all students.

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Joseph carew Staff Writer/Columnist

If you’ve seen a curly-haired person eternally under the hood of a slightly damaged red Cadillac then I should explain. First of all, that’s me. Hello.

Secondly, the V8 that runs that car likes to leak a little oil. Times when this tends to occur include: if the driver accelerates too hard or too soft, lets the car sit for too long or not long enough, turns the wheel to the left or the right, makes the car feel sad, basically all the time for all reasons. This persistent leak can lead to dire consequences if I don’t check the oil level on a regular basis, hence the hood often being up.

Last year I was about to go driving with my friend when an acquaintance of his, who parked right next to me, had a bad feeling about her car’s health: Oil was on the brain. She knew that oil had been leaking out of her car but had no

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knowledge of how to check it. I grabbed a rag out of my trunk and lifted her hood.

First step: check for the dipstick (looks like a lame, often yellow, sword handle).

Next: remove dipstick, clean, reinsert and remove again. Consult your manual and note the color and where the oil reaches on the measuring device adorned to the end. Remember to do this on level ground, preferably before you drive around in order to get the most accurate measurement.

The dipstick was basically clean. I blinked and checked again. A dot of oil appeared at the end. She wanted to drive home a hundred miles where she would then get a quart. I advised against that. I haven’t seen her since, but I really hope she took my advice to just get oil.

This miracle substance prevents the

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pieces of metal within your engine from melting and fusing together. When these parts do fuse, it’s a delightful process known as seizing. Seizing doesn’t necessarily mean the end of an engine, but it has been a significant cause of financial heartache and engine funerals for generations. If you allow your engine to run out of oil it will cough and wheeze and moan and stop. This isn’t a side-ofthe-road fix either. It will likely mean a new car for you.

Even if your vehicle doesn’t leak, checking your oil regularly helps let you know when to get it changed. Which you should also do. Please. Old oil is less effective and prone to heating up too easily and causing…well…a seizure.

Your manual can tell you when a change is needed but a few thousand miles is close to the average distance.

Adobe disenfranchises casual users with “pay-forever” model

Mitchell Chapman

A & E Editor

If you try to purchase a legitimate copy of Adobe Photoshop, you will have to pay Adobe $20 a month for the rest of your life. If you are a student, Adobe will do you a kindness, by cutting that price in half. However, this adds up to some serious money really fast.

A student subscription to the Photography package (Photoshop, Lightroom) costs $9.99, and is a one year-commitment. That translates into roughly $120 a year for two programs ludicrously easy to pirate. If you’re not a student, that price is $240. If you want all Adobe applications, a lofty package that includes Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, and just about any Adobe product that exists, you are bound to a $50 a month subscription ($20 a month for students), which translates to $600 a year ($240 for students). There is currently no way to buy these programs outright.

This system has been in effect for

a few years (Adobe stopped selling perpetual licenses in 2013), and was met with significant criticism, but not necessarily the backlash it deserved.

Adobe’s pay-forever model makes it impossible for low-income individuals to purchase the software legitimately, and disenfranchises a large portion of its customer base that uses its apps passively. Big studios and professionals currently pay Adobe’s bills, but one can only wonder how long Adobe’s products will be up to snuff to please this professional crowd, especially when there are products like Sony Vegas and Lightworks that have no intention of adopting a pay-forever license.

Adobe might very well see its user base dry up. If it finds itself in a position where its software cannot compete in the professional market, it will not have the semi-pro or amateur markets to help support them. There is absolutely no reason for an aspiring artist or YouTube content creator to shell out $600 a year

for a profession they don’t even know will pan out. Those wishing to learn these programs will be charged a huge overhead fee that they might never earn back.

Yet customers keep this model alive.

In 2016, its subscriber base grew to 7 million users. However, this might not be a sustainable user base, considering that by adopting this model, Adobe puts itself in a bad position in a competitive marketplace. For now, it can survive off of the goodwill of its name and the quality of its products, but what will happen when a company produces products of greater or equal quality, sans pay-forever model? Adobe will have to ditch it or risk its consumers migrating to a more convenient platform.

I have no clue how Adobe will attract customers who don’t already know how to use Photoshop, Premiere, etc., seeing as the pay-forever model puts a tax on creativity some just can’t afford to pay.

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By Isabel McKenzie Columnist I’m beginning to think my tan lines from my Teva sandals are becoming permanent.

My watch tan too will take a very long time to fade away. I consider them my trophy tan lines.

Being a CP means working hours that the full timers and part timers don’t want. When I was stationed at All-Star, I worked the night shift up until 11:30 p.m. Now that I am stationed as a deep water lifeguard at Blizzard Beach Waterpark, all my shifts are day hours, and that means I can keep working on my watch tan.

Working at the waterpark is a lot different than working at the resort. For one thing, there’s way more staff. Blizzard at any given time has up to 55 guards on stand, not including those on break or who are doing odd jobs like skimming the creek as an extra. There are also slide operators that work here (known as slide ops) and they are, for the majority, CP’s. As a result of this, I have a lot more interaction with more people, from quick service food and beverage workers to custodial. Blizzard also has more management because there are a lot more staff stationed here, and at any given time I can have up to six coordinators on. In comparison to All-Star, the maximum was three at a time.

There’s so much more going on here.

I interact more with guests, answering questions while walking to my next stand, unloading from the Triple Double Dipper tube ride, or even just simply waving hello while on a lazy creek stand. There’s a lot more expected here as well. Some guards have been working here for a very long time, and I make sure to follow their leads when there’s upwards of 6,000 people in the park in one day. In my first day, I had three times as many rescues than I did in my entire two months at All-Star. The park soundtrack is pretty upbeat and stellar as well, which is an added bonus on top of my watch tan.

“Through the Disney College Program, I will document my experience so you can follow along. Join me as I “earn my ears“ with none other than Mickey Mouse here in Orlando, Florida.”

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North Adams Eateries: Sushi Places and Fine Asian Cuisine If you have a craving for sushi, North Adams has two options for you: Korean Garden or The Sushi House.

By Mitchell Chapman A & E Editor

If you crave sushi in North Adams, your choices are very limited.

The local “Big Y” lacks this dish, and it is routinely absent at the local takeout places (though “China Buffet” occasionally serves it).

Serious sushi-eaters in town have two options: the long-established “Sushi House,” or the relatively new Asian cuisine restaurant “Korean Garden.” Both serve a variety of Asian cuisine in addition to sushi, and each restaurant has its strengths and weaknesses that should be considered before ordering from either eatery.

Korean Garden

Run by husband and wife team Jenny and Young Pae, Korean Garden boasts a wide range of Asian cuisine and sushi specials that had me coming back week after week. Their sushi combos are generous; a 36-piece “sushi love boat” costs $40, compared to Sushi Houses’s 16-piece “Sushi for Two” deal that costs $45, and Korean Garden offers a $55 “Sushi for Three” deal for ambitious parties. The sushi was very high quality and greatly affordable.

Where Korean Garden truly shines are its dishes. I had a few great dinners there of pork bulogogi, tempura, and fried rice. The flavors popped, and both Jenny and Pae were very hospitable, though due to this restaurant’s popularity, there was occasionally a long wait for food. Korean Garden provides some great appetizers included with each meal, which were slightly different every time I went, to hold you over for the main course.

The interior of the building was absolutely gorgeous, so I didn’t mind waiting for my food. The Paes have taken their extensive experience working at “Jae’s” locations and have made something special, within a ten-minute walk from campus and Main Street.

Their location might not have a history of success, but if Korean Garden keeps getting business at the pace it is, it has a bright future ahead.

The Sushi House

There was a time when The Sushi House had a practical monopoly in North Adams for sushi entrees and relatively high-end Asian cuisine, but with the addition of “Korean Garden,” that is no longer the case. From its Main Street location, the restaurant is very easy to find, and offers some experiences not found anywhere else in town.

The restaurant is not Korean, nor does it make the claim of being Japanese, and as such lacks some of the specialized stir-fried dishes “Korean Garden” excels at.

The quality of its sushi is on par with its competitor, though if you plan to buy it in bulk, it can get a little pricey. The Sushi House’s menu encourages smaller orders, with a wide range of 6-piece sushi priced between $5-$10, meant to compliment larger dishes such as Fried Calamari ($7) or chicken fried rice ($8).

The service could be better. The restaurant itself is usually very peaceful, and is great for dates or large events (like DownStreet Art), but I have had long waits for thing such as water, and have had my order wrong multiple times. Certain dishes, like calamari, The Sushi House does better, but others, like fried rice, Korean Garden knocks out of the park.

Each restaurant suits different tastes. If you want a peaceful night out, and don’t mind spending some extra cash, The Sushi House is for you. However, if you want to enjoy an exotic dish at a reasonable price, and don’t mind the hustle and bustle, Korean Garden is your place to dine. Both places have very good food for what’s available in North Adams, and excel in different dishes, so it’s important to view the menus of both establishments to see what food and what prices best suit your needs.

MASS MoCA: Debo Band to perform Ethiopian afro-pop

By Mitchell Chapman A & E Editor

The 11-piece Boston-based music group Debo Band takes inspiration from popular music found in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, during the 1960s and 1970s, and plays on the international circuit, according to National Public Radio (NPR). During these decades, there was a brief period of cultural freedom in Ethiopia, in which local music fused with the funk and soul genres.

“Debo Band is as much orchestra as a dance band,” NPR’s Banning Eyre said. “Its brass section can rally with Tower of Power force and polish, and lock into grooving hooks worthy of Nigerian Afrobeat. But the distinctive scales and harmonies are unmistakably Ethiopian.”

Debo Band released their first album in 2012, titled simply “Debo Band,” to wide acclaim.

“The band acquits itself amazingly well, mixing in a few originals with a well-chosen selection of Golden Age songs, folk tunes, and Azmari troubadour songs,” Joe Tangari of pitchfork.com said of their album. “They don’t limit themselves to a faithful homage to the music. Ethiopian music’s reliance on pentatonic scales and modes makes it harmonically compatible with a wide array of other folk music, and even if you’ve spent hours listening to Mulatu Astatke and Alemayehu Eshete, you’ll hear plenty of fresh ideas here, as the band spikes its arrangements with hints of Romany brass and even Celtic melody.”

The band is set to play in Club B-10, a venue

with cabaret-style seating that has featured artists such as Birds of Chicago, Jim Shaw, Plume Giant, Jason Walker, and many more. This Tuesday, the venue hosted artist Nick Cave, who, later this year will transform MoCA’s Building 5 into his “most ambitious exhibition to date,” according to a statement released by MASS MoCA. Cave is known for “dazzling, immersive environment provoking vital exchanges about class, race, identity, and guns.”

For those who attended the Nick Cave talk, Debo Band is an excellent follow-up.

“Almost no band on the international circuit plays this style of music, and it’s a potent niche,” Eyre concluded. “But too much fidelity to a 40-year-old pop style can be limiting. If this album leans more toward reverence than revolution, that’s appropriate for Debo Band’s first outing. Given their energy and talent, these musicians have room to grow, and there’s no telling where they’ll take their magnificent sound next.”

One place they’ll take it is MASS MoCA’s Club B-10, Saturday night at 8 p.m. Admission is $10 for students, $16 advance, $22 the day of. MASS MoCA encourages people to come early if they want a seat; workers will clear a space for people to dance to the music, and seating might be scarce. According to MoCA, the performance comes in conjunction with three new exhibitions (“Alex Da Corte: Free Roses,” “Sarah Crowner: Beetle in the Leaves,” and “The Space Between”), whose opening reception will be held at 5 p.m. the same day. A full bar and dining services will be available before and during the show.

Bearded lady juggles knives and eats fire

By Matt Aceto Web Editor

Jennifer Miller doesn’t like being called “the bearded lady”. Instead, she prefers to be called a woman with a beard. This is because she isn’t the only woman with a beard, there are many more on this planet. Few others, however, can juggle machetes with ease.

On Monday night, Miller brought her talents to Sullivan Lounge for a performance titled “A Vaudevillian Opera and Its Discontents”. Joining her was Clare Dolan, a nurse and painter from Vermont. The show attracted dozens of students, such as junior Jessica Wojcik, who had never seen a bearded woman before. “[The performance] sounded interesting,” she said before the show. “I heard it was a good show when she performed here before.”

Others must have heard the same. By 7 p.m., nearly every seat in Sullivan Lounge was taken.

Those who sat in the front row were in for an unexpected thrill.

Towards the end of the show, Miller juggled three machetes within reaching distance of the audience. Eyes gazed in amazement as the razor-sharp blades twirled in mid-air. No one was hurt, though the act seemed a bit too close for comfort.

Miller’s final stunt was equally as jaw-dropping. She lit a long match on fire, then swallowed the flame in her mouth. Miller repeated this act several times, receiving a loud ovation from the crowd.

Earlier in the performance, Miller awed the audience when she escaped from a straitjacket which was wrapped in chain.

Miller pulled senior Khalill Dancy from the crowd to help tighten the chain around her body.

Dolan’s acts weren’t as exciting to watch. Her first set was titled “A Human Cabinet of Curiosity”, in which she told the depressing story of when she watched her

house burn down. For this set, she performed with a cabinet attached to her chest. Inside the cabinet were household items such as a clock, a cup, and a picture frame. In another set, she gracefully played the accordion while talking about the human body.

The show was rather quick, lasting for roughly an hour.

Afterwards, Miller held a brief Q&A session with the audience.

Despite its short length, students found the show to be enjoyable.

“I thought it was great,” said senior Cassie LaChance. “I liked the fire part at the end.”

This was Miller’s eighth performance at MCLA. Her last performance at the College was in March 2014. She currently works as an associate professor of performance at the Pratt Institute in New York. She is also the co-founder and director of the award-winning Circus Amok.

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Yorick puts on Ken Ludwig’s “Shakespeare in Hollywood”

By Jonathan Hoel A & E Writer

Photo by Dominique Ackley/The Beacon

Shannon Cahill, playing Lydia pouts after an exchange with Director Max Reindhart (Mari Renauld-Krutulis).

“Shakespeare in Hollywood” isn’t your traditional Shakespeare play. The play takes place in 1930s era Hollywood, on the set of Director Reinhardt’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The play is a fusion of Hollywood tropes of the era and Shakespeare, and while some of the references are (purposefully) dated the cast and crew work together to make an overall enjoyable experience. This is Yorick’s first production since Spring 2015’s “MacBeth.”

The stage at the Church Street Center was adorned with a lavish three three-piece cardboard boxed cake, which provided a comfortable backdrop for Yorick’s performance.

Last week, for four performances, the school’s Shakespeare club put on a rendition of Pennsylvania playwright Ken Ludwig’s “Shakespeare in Hollywood”.

In case you’re unfamiliar, Ludwig (who is perhaps best known for his 1989 Tony Award-winning show “Lend Me a Tenor”) brought ”Shakespeare” to off-Broadway in 2003. The quasi-burlesque play takes aim at both Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and Max Reinhart’s 1935 interpretation of the play of the same name.

Ken Ludwig is not on a David Mamet or Tony Kushner level of playwright, so inclined theater literati are coming in the door with a grain of salt.

Yorick may have misfired for the choice of source material, but it felt that the highlights of the show were often the result of choices or inflections that were Yorick’s doing, not Ludwig’s.

A lot of the success comes from the director, junior Mallory Schettine, who is also the president of Yorick.

Schettine’s interpretations of Ludwig seemed well-fitting for the MCLA audience.

I’ve seen Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” three times over the years, and a prominent highlight has always been the performance of Puck, an essential character, if not THE

essential character of the show. For this performance, Sophomore Julie Castagna did a great job continuing that tradition, excelling with huge energy and stage presence, probably the most in the performance.

The stage blocking was really well done, with characters often interacting in front, between the audience and the stage, while in the foreground, other interactions took place simultaneously.

Another pinnacle of success was the chemistry between freshman Tim Downs as Oberon and sophomore Alycia Skerry as Olivia Darnell.

Their back-and-forth felt natural and worked well.

The show did best when it was poking fun at the Reinhardt version of the Shakespeare. The characters were named after the actual stars of the Reinhardt film, such as Jimmy Cagney and Dick Powell.

Outstandingly impressive was Joe E. Brown, played by junior Jonah Philbert. He had some deadpan deliveries that had the entire audience in stitches, especially when performed in drag.

The show did suffer from feeling pretty dated at times, especially socially. Some of the gendered humor especially came off a little sour; in an era when we have culturally passed by some of those more traditionalist tropes, it probably falls closer to offensive than to funny. But thankfully, these moments were few and far between.

Sophomore Brianna Lamb played the amusingly cocksure and irritating Will Hays, of the “Hays Code,” a reallife RNC Chairman who was at the center of the Teapot Dome Scandal

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in the early 1920s and the head of the MPPDA (Motion Picture Producers and Distribution of America). Hays, in the show, is an arrogant Tipper Gore-like character who is trying to censor and tone down the show.

Lamb got some great laughs from the crowd, especially near the end of the show, when she gets a latex donkey mask stuck on her head.

Not everything about the show was perfect, but it really felt as if that was mostly due to the limitations of the show itself, and that the cast was doing a fine job with it. Sometimes the deliveries fell a little flat, but there was no obvious stumbles. It was clear that most of the primary cast have been performing a long time and that really showed.

One of the coolest things about the show was the love-spell sequences.

A neat light and sound effect was implemented every time a character became entranced by another. Props to crew members Meghan Boucher and Kiley Clancy for that.

What was kind of a head-scratcher was the show time. The show went on for one hour, followed by a brief intermission of 15 minutes, and then a final 30 minutes. The second half of a play is typically shorter, but it felt very abrupt, and almost rushed. The major arc of the show takes place at this time, which was enjoyable but still confusing.

Overall, the show was wellperformed, and though it was derived from a weak script, Yorick had prowess as an organization performing it, which definitely seems to imply good quality performances to come in the following semesters.

How to stay fashionable in this transitional weather period With the Berkshires displaying weather from all four seasons, fashion is a balancing act.

By Paige Pomerantz A & E Writer

April is arguably one of the hardest months to dress for; one day it’s 30 degrees and snowing, the next it’s 70 degrees with full sunshine, but that doesn’t mean you can’t stay stylish.

“In this weather, one day I could be wearing a sundress and the other I could be wearing a sweater,” freshman Danielle Prestigomo said.

It’s all about layers, according to junior Samantha Bedell, who has been modeling since she was 16.

“I’ve worked with a few professionals in the Albany area,” Bedell said. “Seeing how other professionals dressed influenced me on how to make myself feel and look the best.”

Her go-to early Spring look is a tee shirt, a cardigan, jacket, or flannel, and a scarf, all topped off with a ballerina bun.

“It’s great to walk to class in when mornings are chilly, and then I can take off layers if I’m warm,” she said.

Going to college in North Adams, there aren’t many clothing options nearby, but Label Shopper is a great place to find cheap name-brand clothing. Located at 14 American Legion Dr., the store is similar to a TJ Maxx and offers clothing, accessories, shoes, and more for men, women, and children.

Goodwill is another cheap place to shop.

A great article of clothing to utilize now is the outdoor vest. They add just enough warmth and can spice up any

outfit. They look especially nice layered over a white, long sleeved tee shirt and paired with a dark or medium-rinse jean.

Denim jackets are also perfect for April and can be worn with virtually anything. For a simple and quick look, pair one with a graphic tank top, black skinny jeans or leggings, and doc martens on your way out the door to your 9 a.m. Going out to dinner?

Throw a jean jacket over your LBD (little black dress), slip into some wedges, and finish the look with a bright, chunky necklace.

Label Shopper offers a variety of denim jackets for under $25.

April showers will make baseball hats your best friend. They are both trendy and functional. Not only will they protect your hair from curling up in the rain, but they will also tame the frizz in the following humidity. Baseball hats also are perfect for students who are just on-the-go and don’t have time to style their hair. You can loop a ponytail through, or rock your natural waves.

Spring is the time to step away from the usual blacks and grays and venture into color.

According to Pantone, the 10 colors for Spring 2016 are: Rose Quartz (a baby pink), Peach Echo (a sunset pink), Serenity (a periwinkle), Snorkel Blue (an ocean blue), Buttercup (a rich yellow), Limpet Shell (a light turquoise), Lilac Grey (a grey with a purple undertone), Fiesta (a bold red), Iced Coffee (a dark tan), and Green Flash (a pale granny smith apple green).

“Colors this season transcend cultural and gender norms. Vivid brights give way to excitement and optimism, though quiet stability prevails in this season’s palette,” they say on their Web site.

When looking for something new to wear this season, try pairing a ‘Fiesta’ scarf with an acid-washed denim jacket, or an ‘Iced Coffee’ V-neck with a navy vest.

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Thursday, April 14, 2016

SGA Highlights

By Emily Gabert Staff writer

With the end of the school year soon approaching, the SGA spoke about different options involving open source textbooks; the initiative for open source textbooks on campus was originally brought to attention by MCLA’s MassPIRG chapter.

The Student Senate weighed out different options for how they could showcase their support for open source textbooks. The idea of a poster displaying SGA’s support of the initiative was discussed, along with a letter directed towards administration. Some senators believed that by having the SGA show support for the cause, it would make a large impact on faculty and administrations views on the stance.

Senator Kelly recommended doing a referendum for open source textbooks that would appear on voters ballots, like the MassPIRG referendum. The idea was decided against due to the fact that voting was only a day away and wouldn’t give the SGA time to arrange for it to be on the ballot.

President Kadell urged those on the senate who were interested in sending a letter to administration to make their voices heard, and to help with the crafting process of the letter; Public Relations Chair Samantha Giffen will have the responsibility of putting the poster together, along with sending the poster out to the right places.

The senate does not want to pressure faculty into making the switch over to open source textbooks, but rather make them mindful and aware of other options.

The SGA voted to support the open source textbook campaign.

Charging Station The initiative to put a charging station in the Amsler Campus Center was once again discussed by the senate. If the Senate decided to make this idea a reality, they would allocate funds from their reserve budget into the project.

Kadell reported that roughly $900 would be needed to fund the project, but it was suggested that the senate allocate roughly $1,000 for added fees, such as shipping and handling costs. Funds that were not used for the initiative would be put back into the Reserve Budget.

This charging station would hold cords for Apple and Android devices, along with the possibility of having an area for users to leave their devices when allowing them to charge. Kadell will be having a meeting with the company to find out further details about the charging station – she promised to deliver updates as they occurred.

Property Reports CVP McGonigle reported all but three clubs never turned in their reports: The Computer Society, The Writer’s Guild and the Multicultural Society. Currently, their budgets are frozen until forms are emailed to McGonigle.

Forms are due by Friday at the latest.

Constitutions One more club constitution was passed out by Parliamentarian Spencer, for the NEXXUS step team. The senate will be voting on the club’s constitution for the final meeting of the school year on April 25.

Human Resources Coordinator Barbara Chaput, the successor of Mary Ellen Olenyck in Human Resources, visited the senate to answer questions any senator had for her.

Chaput has been in Human Resources for over 20 years. She’s had experience outside of Higher Education at places like Crane, Berkshire Gas, and even at NSK in Bennington, VT. Chaput expressed excitement in joining the MCLA community. She has been active in helping with the Berkshire Compactors for Education movement, that helps bring third and sixth graders to the College to help expose students in the Berkshires to higher education.

Chaput doesn’t have any current plans for the College, as she’s still trying to learn and meet more people at the College before making any changes.

Currently Human Resources is looking for Computer Science professors; positions for the fall have been filled.

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Virginia Tech student tells her story of dealing with disease

By Emily Gabert Staff Writer

Former Virginia Tech basketball player and student, Rayna DuBose, gave a speech detailing her battle with meningococcal meningitis at college.

Most people with this disease don’t survive the battle, but DuBose was one of the few who triumphed against this illness.

Over Easter break Dubose and a friend went to a club called The Paradox where they spent the night dancing and sharing water bottles.

“Let me be the reason you guys never eat and drink or share anything that saliva to saliva secretions are against,” she said.

DuBose didn’t realize something was wrong until she was working on a postseason workout when she returned to school. She recalled having some sweat on her body, and not feeling well as they worked on a bean bag juggle.

DuBose pushed herself through the workout anyway.

After, it took her 20 minutes just to make it up the stairs to study hall after practice. DuBose collapsed once she reached the room. Four football players could barely pick her up from the ground. DuBose ended up passing out again, and found herself waking up in a hospital bed.

“I could see this day as clearly as it’s happening right now,” DuBose said, “because it was literally this time of the year, March Madness time…They pumped me with a couple bags of fluid that night and coach took me back to my dormitory.”

DuBose still wasn’t feeling 100 percent better. Two of her teammates and roommates had to help her get ready the following morning for a team photoshoot. The two girls had to dress DuBose to make her look presentable

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for the photograph, and one of her friends had to hold her up by her shirt while they stood to take the picture.

DuBose was brought to her campus’s health center, where she blacked out again, and this time fell into a coma.

To demonstrate how it felt to wake up, Dubose asked students in the audience to close their eyes, while listening to her describe the situation at hand and what happened to her.

“You’re laying in a hospital bed,” DuBose said, “you have no idea what’s going on. Three weeks you’ve been laying in this bed, [but] you think you’ve only been here for about a day or so…A plastic surgeon walks in and before you open your eyes, you hear a voice say, ‘Sorry...you have bacterial meningitis and I’m going to have to amputate all four of your limbs, but I’m going to try to salvage as much of you, as I can.’”

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All around the world on April 23rd The annual Latin American Society (LAS) All Around the World event is set for Saturday, April 23rd, from 6p.m. to 8p.m. at the Campus Center Gymnasium, LAS president Elizabeth Diaz has announced.

The event is a celebration of cultures. There will be performances of dance and songs as well as multicultural foods for all to try. LAS hopes to encourage all attendees to expand their knowledge on culture and embrace diversity.

“We are extremely excited for

All Around the World this year,” said Diaz, “We are working towards presenting many cultures from different country at each table and opening room for discussion in-between performances.”

LAS provides a social, educational and cohesive setting for all students and attendees to celebrate culture together. This event is free to the public, and refreshments will be served.

For more information, email ed1411@mcla.edu.

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Differences in Men’s, Women’s Lacrosse The feminine uniform of the women’s lacrosse team sacrifices safety

By Taylor Brooke Wiese Special to The Beacon

The women of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) lacrosse team are standing on the field, the sun turning their cheeks a bright shade of pink. Their skirts flip behind them as they run. A few players near the goal are adjusting their skirts back down to their rightful place, but they keep riding up. If you watch closely you can catch each player tug casually on their skirt every few minutes.

Despite their ladylike uniform, women’s lacrosse players are eager to participate in a more aggressive game. But women’s rules don’t give female players that right. The rules of person-to-person contact are one of the main differences between the men’s and women’s games, along with lack of padding, shallower stick pockets, and the traditional uniforms.

Some of these differences are frustrating to MCLA team members. Players don’t want the same rules as men’s lacrosse, but would appreciate rules that they don’t suggest women players are weak.

“They don’t let us have bodyto-body contact in women’s lacrosse, but men’s lacrosse is allowed to have it. It’s not fair because the rule is suggesting that we are weak and just because we’re girls we can’t handle contact,” Mackenzie Cutler, sophomore lacrosse player, said.

According to uslacrosse. org there are many differences between man’s and women’s rules. Women aren’t allowed to have a deep pocket. Men must wear helmets, mouth guards, and padding where women must wear mouth guards and protective eye wear. Aggressive checking and body contact are illegal in the women’s game, while they are legal in men’s.

“In some ways the women’s game is harder than the men’s game. To master the stick skills definitely takes a lot more work,” Coach Bartini, the women’s lacrosse head coach, said. “We have incorporated some of the

rules of the men’s game while limiting some of the brute force that I don’t really see as athleticism anyway.”

According to Bartini, more physicality is allowed at the college level of women’s lacrosse.

Contact is actually allowed in the rules and girls are supposed to use their hands to push girls out of the way on defense.

“Physicality changes from game to game. Some referee’s will allow more contact than others which leads to some much more aggressive games,” Bartini said.

Not all women’s lacrosse players want more contact, like junior Rachel Green. She looks down at her un-bruised arms and smiles.

“It’s better without contact because it takes more skill to do it. We have to learn other ways to get the ball back without being as aggressive,” Green said.

The rules and regulations of women’s lacrosse differ from men’s lacrosse in more than just aggression. For example, in men’s lacrosse the pocket of their stick is allowed to be deeper, while in women’s lacrosse the pocket must be shallow.

Deeper pockets make it easier for players to keep the ball in their stick. Men are allowed to have deeper pockets because a deeper pocket requires more aggressive checking in order to get the ball out.

“Having a shallow pocket

Under Graduate Research Conference Students will showcase work next Thursday

By Emily Gabert Staff Writer The College’s 14th annual Undergraduate Research Conference (URC) is coming up on Thursday April 21. Students will display their findings to the college community in various outlets.

Students from different academic backgrounds have found different ways to showcase research done in coordination with a faculty adviser. Some students choose to present a poster or in a short 15-minute talk; classes will not be in session to allow members of the community to attend.

MCLA alumna Chloe McGrath – a graduate of the class of 2013 – will be this year’s Keynote Speaker for the conference. McGrath majored in political science and public policy, along with a minor in history. After graduating from MCLA she went off to American University to get a master’s degree in public policy, where she’ll be graduating from in May. Afterwords, she will be taking on a full time position with United States Department of Treasury.

McGrath’s speech will detail how the liberal arts and the College itself helped equip her for graduate school and the workforce. McGrath’s speech will specifically highlight how her

research at MCLA has helped her in her career.

McGrath hopes to make MCLA students aware of the opportunities they have at the College as an undergraduate student, and just how important it is.

Each year, an alumnus of the College who has participated in the conference is invited back to give a speech. In the past, Alicia Girgenti, 07’(2015), Victoria Welch, 09’(2014), and even Evan Hermann, 07’(2013) have attended and given a speech at the conference.

The Abstract Deadline for projects was due on March 25.

makes it harder to play because it’s much harder to keep the ball in it.

But I think it makes us stronger players,” Cutler said.

Another major difference between men’s and women’s lacrosse is the uniform. Women’s lacrosse players wear a skirt as part of their uniform because of tradition. Some MCLA players have no problem with the skirt and actually like it, while others feel very strongly against them.

“I hate the skirt. It would be more beneficial to have shorts because the skirt always rides up.

Shorts are more comfortable. We practice in shorts so I don’t see why we can’t play in them,” junior Mackenzie Gregory said.

However, even the players who don’t mind the skirt still have some negative feelings about it.

“I just don’t like being defined by the skirt. Sometimes that’s the only thing people remember about lacrosse, and they comment on it all the time. Playing in a skirt doesn’t bother me, but it does sometimes feel a little bit sexist. We’re playing a sport, not a beauty pageant, so I don’t always understand why we have to wear the skirt,” Cutler explained.

According to Bartini, the skirts merely reflect tradition, and aren’t required to play.

Even though the women’s lacrosse players are frustrated by some of the gender differences within their sport, they do not think their rules should be the same as the men’s rules.

“Men’s lacrosse is more aggressive for a reason. We shouldn’t have the same rules,” Green explained.

Some of the girls on the team still wish they were able to be more aggressive.

“Just because we’re girls doesn’t mean we aren’t tough enough to handle a little more contact,” Cutler said.

In practice the girls sprint around the field in shorts, looking much more comfortable. The ever present tugging down of skirts is missing, and without referees they happily sneak in some more aggressive maneuvers.

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Dubose continued from page 8 Students from the audience expressed their shock and fear at hearing those words. DuBose said she felt all of those emotions and a lot of anger. She thought her calling in life was athletics and to have people look up to her.

DuBose said she couldn’t picture herself doing anything else.

“All of those emotions you guys said, I felt it,” DuBose explained, “and probably just intensified [my] anger, if anything. I didn’t cry as a teenager – the way I used to take out my aggression and anger was on the basketball court, or out on the volleyball court, or when I was on the ballet stage.”

DuBose couldn’t accept a stranger taking away her limbs.

She cried for hours.

“Eventually, something clicked in me to look at where my parents were sitting on the other side of my bed,” she said. “They were giving me the same kind of look you guys are giving me right now – to get out there and to kick some tail. If there’s one thing my parents haven’t done to me in my 32 years of life, [it’s] that [they] have never lied to me. Ever. When I saw that look in their eyes, I knew this game was on. I knew it was go time.”

DuBose did lose her limbs to the disease. She now has four prosthetic limbs, and had to go through months of physical therapy. The prosthetics allow her to drive, walk, work and live everyday life as a normal person, though it took her nearly six months after the amputations to be able to walk again. She has six different sets of feet to choose from and sometimes, Dubose said, she doesn’t even feel like wearing them.

When DuBose looks back on what bacterial meningitis did to her, she finds herself thankful for the illness, and the person that it made her become. DuBose goes around the country giving motivational speeches while also working as a teacher in an alternative school, where she pushes students to reach their full potential.

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Softball goes 2-2 over busy weekend

By Jesse Collings

Trailblazers begin conference play with back-to-back double-headers

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MCLA had its hands full over the weekend as they played four conference games in the span of two days. The Trailblazers split both double-headers against Framingham State and Salem State and are now 8-10 overall and 2-2 in MASCAC play.

“It was a great opportunity to prepare us for what is down the road,” head coach Jamie Trudeau said. “Playoffs will be very similar to multiple games back to back.

The team finally got to play some games after being halted by rain and it was great to see us coming together.”

On Saturday the Trailblazers traveled to Framingham State.

The games were originally scheduled to take place in North Adams, but due to poor weather in the Berkshires, MCLA was forced to travel to Framingham, MA and play as the “home” team there.

In the first game MCLA got off to a quick start in the bottom of the first when freshman Chelsea Coleman singled in fellow freshman Kaitlyn Berghela. Coleman would score later in the inning when senior Angelica Perfido flied out to to right field.

Down 2-0 in the top of the third inning, Framingham State would take advantage of a fielding error and a pair of wild pitches by senior Rachel Quackenbush to score five runs in the inning. The big blow came when Lauren Salisbury tripled to right field, scoring two runs and then advancing to home on a wild pitch by Quackenbush.

The five runs were enough for senior pitcher Natasha Arseneau, who allowed only three hits in the victory. The Trailblazers would gain a run back in the bottom of the fourth when Perfido scored on a throwing error, but were unable to mount anything else in the late innings as Framingham

rolled to a 5-3 victory.

The Trailblazers would exact some revenge in the second game, scoring 6 runs in the bottom of the fourth and taking the game 6-2. The inning began when Berghela doubled and Perfido bunted onto first base to put runners on the corner. A wild pitch saw Berghela score and Perfido move to third base. Senior Sierra Bailey would later reach base on a fielder’s choice, driving in Perfido.

Later, Julie Watson reached base on an error which scored senior Abby Lucas. Sam Boyle would then single up the middle, driving in two runs. The sixth run would come when Berghela singled to score Watson.

The Trailblazers got a strong pitching performance from junior Katelyn Henault, who allowed only one earned run over seven innings in the Trailblazer victory.

“Katie pitched two great games this weekend. She is vital to the success of the team and has been a solid performer for us,” Trudeau said. “Being a junior this year and coming in to clutch situations, her development as a pitcher will only strengthen the team.”

MCLA would travel to Salem State on Sunday for another conference double-header. The games were originally scheduled for April 2, but were postponed due to weather. The first game saw the two teams knotted at twn for most of the game until MCLA exploded for five runs in the top of the eighth inning to take the game 7-3.

Quackenbush supported herself on the mound in the top of the third inning when she singled to drive in Watson. Salem State would counter in the top of the sixth inning as they finally got to Quackenbush when Desiree Moreno doubled to score a pair of runs and give the Vikings a 2-1 lead.

With their backs against the wall in the seventh and final inning,

MCLA senior Jennifer Sicinski came through a key double that scored Coleman and tied the game at two. The game would head to extra innings and saw MCLA chase Salem State pitcher Lleish Burney for five runs in the top of the eighth. A bulk of the damage came on a double by Lucas that came with the bases loaded and scored Perfido, Quackenbush and Berghela. Quackenbush would then hold the Vikings to just one run in the bottom half of the inning to clinch the victory.

The second game was another tight affair, which saw Salem State walk-off with a 4-3 victory. The Trailblazers managed to score first in the fourth inning when Lucas doubled to score Quackenbush. Salem State matched with a run of their own in the bottom half of the inning when Jess Raymond singled, bringing Dahlia DeCologero across the plate.

In the top of the sixth inning Boyle would single, driving in Lucas and Perfido to give MCLA a 3-1 lead. Quackenbush would then come in for Henault, who again pitched well allowing one run over 4.1 innings pitched. In the bottom of the sixth Salem State rallied against Quackenbush, scoring twice to tie the game at Photo from MCLA Athletics three.

Junior Kaitlyn Henault gave the Trailblazers two solid starts over the Burney would come on weekend. for the Vikings and kept the end they were able to score some different pitchers for the double Trailblazers in check at the top of the seventh inning. With runs in conference play. Trudeau headers. We were very successful two outs in the bottom of the sev- talked about the adjustments the this weekend working as a team enth, Jen Crovo singled to put the team has made to provide more and it was great to see us break winning run on first base. DeCol- offense for their strong pitching out and be the team we expect them to be.” ogero would then hit a ball into staff and defense.

“We have been hitting all along, The Trailblazers played a douthe gap that was enough to bring Crovo all the home from first to but not as a group. This week- ble-header on Wednesday against end our offense started stringing Sage College. They resume congive the Vikings the 4-3 victory.

Over the last several games the the hits together to allow us to ference play on Saturday when Trailblazers had been struggling capitalize to earn runs,” Trudeau they host Fitchburg State beginat the plate, but over the week- said. “We need to have good at ning at noon. bats, pitch selection, and adjust to

Warriors have their sights set on ’96-’97 Bulls

By Tyler Bacon

Sports Columnist The Golden State Warriors tied the 1995-1996 Chicago Bulls record of 72 wins on Sunday by defeating the San Antonio Spurs 92-86.

Not many people thought that the Warriors had a shot at the record at the beginning of the

season. People started to realize how good the Warriors were and figured they might have a shot at the record when they started the season 16-0, which is the best start to a season in NBA history.

The Warriors tied the record by doing what no other team had done this season, beating the Spurs in San Antonio.

The Spurs and Warriors were tied at halftime. That is when, MVP frontrunner, Stephen Curry took over scoring 20 points in the second half. David West said to reporters after the game, “They just exploded. Steph just took over the game. We weren’t able to get to him, keep bodies in front of him.”

One of the most impressive things about Steph Curry is that

he does not need much space to get a shot off. He hits what seems like impossible shots from impossible angles but seem routine for him.

The Spurs beat the Warriors earlier in the season when the Spurs slowed the game down.

The Spurs figured out the formula to beat the Warriors: they need to slow the game down and hope that Steph Curry is missing his three point shots. The Spurs also stuck larger defenders, normally Kawhi Leonard or Danny Green on Curry who were very physical with the reigning MVP. Curry was 1-12 from behind the arc in the loss.

The Warriors have made the regular season matter again.

The Warriors are just enjoying

the ride before the playoff run begins. Curry told reporters, “Obviously, we’re in the moment, enjoying the ride. The goal is to win a championship. That’s the goal. But we put ourselves in a great position to end the season with a win and do something no team has ever done in the history.

That’s an amazing accomplishment.”

The Warriors have been the story of the NBA season to this point. They started off undefeated and at least have tied the best record in NBA history. Golden State knows that the regular season doesn’t mean anything without winning another championship.

The matchup everyone wants to see in the Western Conference

Finals is the Warriors against the Spurs in a best-of-seven game series. The two teams have met four times this season and the Warriors have won three of the four meetings. However, considering the Spurs’ history of never playing their full hand during the regular season, it is tough to consider those games are representative of what both teams can do against each other. The slate gets wiped clean and both teams still need four more wins to eliminate the other team.

Golden State is the prohibitive favorite and it would be a surprise if they were not the team holding the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy at the end of the season for the second year in a row.

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Baseball drops close conference games

By Jesse Collings Sports Editor

The MCLA baseball team’s bats remained quiet as they were defeated in a conference doubleheader on Saturday against Framingham State. The losses bring the Trailblazer’s losing streak to seven games and MCLA is now 3-13 on the season and 0-4 in conference play. With the pair of victories Framingham improved to 6-12 on the season are now 2-2 in the MASCAC. The double-header was originally scheduled to take place in North Adams, but due to the recent weather the games were moved to the New England Baseball Complex, a series of baseball fields in Northborough, MA. The first game began with Framingham scoring a run early in the top of the first off of MCLA’s Liam Nolan when Framingham’s Jon Chapman scored on a fielder’s choice. Nolan would hold off the Rams over the next few innings and had some great movement on his pitches, fanning ten batters during the outing. However, Framingham would tack on another run in the top of the fifth inning when Jake Wardwell doubled to center field, scoring Roy Goodman.

After being held in check for most of the game by Zachary Kirby, MCLA’s offense came to

Team falls in double-headers against Framingham State

life in the bottom of the sixth inning. Nolan doubled to score sophomore Billy Pulasky and junior Myles Candelet singled to right field to score Nolan and tie the game at two.

In the top of the seventh inning, Framingham would unleash some thunder that rocked the Trailblazers right out of the game.

Chapman began the inning with a solo home run and Wardwell followed with a solo shot of his own. Emmanuel Powers and Gray then reached base and were driven home by Kyle Pileski homered to right field, driving in three runs and putting the Rams in front 7-2.

MCLA had nothing in the bottom half of the inning, as they were shut down by Kirby who finished the game allowing two runs on eight hits over seven innings and striking out 12 batters in the victory.

In the second game, Framingham would score five runs off senior Todd Hunt in the second inning and would advance to win the game 6-3. Hunt only allowed three hits over four innings, but struggled with control throughout the game, walking six batters.

The inning began with Gray walking and then stealing second base. Powers singled him in to give Framingham a 1-0 lead.

Pileski and Cole Josselyn would then each walk to load the bases,

Tennis topples Johnson State

By Jesse Collings Sports Editor

The Trailblazers picked up their first victory of the season on Saturday, trumping conference rival Johnson State 8-1 in Stowe, VT. With the win MCLA improved to 1-3 overall and are now 1-0 against North Atlantic Conference competition.

MCLA got off to a strong start against the Badgers, winning all three of their doubles matches to open the contest. In the number one doubles position, sophomore Aaron Goldsmith and junior Rob Wabshinak had no trouble disposing of Johnson State’s Cole Hennessy and Alex Pakastar, defeating them 8-0. Senior Richard Larocque and sophomore Michael Rooney defeated Alex Harcourt and Pedro Perez 8-2 and junior Jeff Mason and sophomore Jared Freeman defeated Connor Neathawk and Richard Perez 8-3 to complete the sweep for MCLA. “It was a great feeling as well as a momentum boost for the team.

Conference play has a special precedent over our record for the year so we definitely have to be on top of our game for these matches,” Goldsmith said. “This was a good start and we plan to keep the good play going strong.”

In singles competition it was more of the same for the Trailblazers. Goldsmith easily defeated Hennessy in the number one singles slot, 6-2, 6-4 and Wabshinak blanked Pakatar 6-0, 6-0 in the second singles slot. Johnson State picked up their lone point of the match in the third singles slot, as Harcourt defeated Larocque in a hard-fought 7-5, 7-6 victory.

Rooney would take his second point of the match in the fourth singles slot, defeating Neathawk 6-1, 6-4 and Mason defeated Perez in the fifth singles slot, 6-0, 6-2.

Freeman, who missed all of last season due to an injury, picked up his first career singles victory when he defeated Richard Perez in the sixth singles slot, 6-0, 6-2.

“After coming off of the injury and winning in our first conference match it felt great and was very rewarding,” Freeman said. I really hope that I personally and my team can continue playing well throughout the season.”

The Trailblazers will be back in action on Thursday when they travel to conference power Colby-Sawyer. They then host NAC rival Lyndon State on Saturday, with the match slated to begin at 11 a.m. On Sunday the Trailblazers will continue conference play as they host Thomas College at 1 p.m.

in the bottom of the third when Nolan singled to drive home senior Nate Alibozek.

The Rams would add another run in the sixth inning, but MCLA would score twice in the bottom half of the inning when Nolan’s two run home run scored himself and Pulasky.

However, the Trailblazers Photo from MCLA Athletics Liam Nolan struck out ten Framingham State batters failed to do anyon Saturday. thing in and Powers would come home the boton another walk to Kyle Liptom of the seventh inning against pert. Wardwell was then hit by a Framingham closer Blake Waters, pitch, which scored Pileski and and Framingham held on for the Chapman singled to drive in 6-3 win.

Lippert and Josselyn, making it Candelet spoke after the game 5-0 Rams. about what MCLA will need to MCLA would get on the board

do offensively to end the losing streak.

“To break the streak, we need to get our bats going with runners in scoring position,” Candelet said. We’ve been in a majority of the games, but we leave too many runners stranded. Our pitching and defense has been phenomenal, hitting is where we have been struggling.”

Aubin agrees, and believes that the team needs to be more focused at the plate.

“We have been playing well enough to win, I think that we just need to focus that much more on every pitch,” Aubin.

“Our pitching has been pretty solid along with descent hitting.

It’s just the matter of timely hitting, and limiting free passes on the side of pitching.”

“As long as we don’t give away runs, it’s only a matter of time that we start scratching a few extra runs across to help out our pitching. It’s hard to pitch when you get behind . If we can chip away, knock a few runs in early, it will pay big dividends on the defensive side for us.”

The Trailblazers had a pair of games against Anna Maria College postponed and will play again on Saturday when they welcome MASCAC rival Fitchburg State to North Adams. The double-header is set to begin at noon.

Lacrosse beaten back by Becker, Framingham State

By Jesse Collings Sports Editor

A 5-0 run in the middle of the first half tilted the game into the favor of the visitors and the Becker Bayhawks defeated MCLA at home in non-conference action on Tuesday, 17-8. With the loss MCLA tumbles to 3-6 overall and are 0-2 in conference play. Becker improved to 5-8 overall with the victory.

Becker began the game with two goals, first from Rachel Welling and Kailee Ruyack to take a 2-0 lead. MCLA sophomore Courtney Gabrus would get the Trailblazers on the board when she converted a free position shot to make it 2-1 Becker. However, from there it was all Bayhawks, as they scored five unanswered goals to take a commanding 7-1 over MCLA with 9:41 to go in the half.

Sophomore Mackenzie Cutler would end the run when she scored off an assist from junior Rachel Green to make it 7-2 and junior Natalie Caney would score soon after to make it 7-3. Becker would then close the half on a 3-0 run, including a goal by Welling that came right before the buzzer to go into the break with a 10-3 lead.

The second-half saw more of

the same for the Trailblazers as they were able to string together some offensive opportunities but the speed and skill of the Becker attackers proved to be the difference and MCLA was never able to truly threaten the Bayhawks’ lead. Caney and Green would each score twice for the Trailblazers but it wasn’t enough as MCLA cruised to a 17-8 victory.

A second-half rally by MCLA was not enough to dig themselves out of a 9-2 half-time deficit and the Trailblazers fell in their conference home-opener on Saturday to Framingham State, 15-8.

Framingham struck first in the early going, as Kimberly Foley scored two consecutive goals unassisted to give the Rams a 2-0 lead. MCLA scored with 21:28 remaining in the opening half when junior Natalie Caney converted a free position shot to make it 2-1 Framingham.

From there, the Rams would go on a devastating 7-0 run which blew the game wide-open for Framingham. The run began after a dry spell that saw neither team tally a goal for nearly ten minutes.

The drought ended when Kristin Hoggins beat MCLA goalkeeper Zoe Elwell on a free position shot with just under 12 minutes to play in the half. The floodgates soon opened for Framingham, as they

quickly piled on six more goals over the next ten minutes, with Erin Lally and Jessica Graham leading the way with two goals each during the run.

MCLA sophomore Courtney Gabrus would score a goal with just four seconds remaining in the first half to end the run, but MCLA still saw themselves in a deep 9-2 hole at half-time.

MCLA would try to rally back in the second half, scoring six goals in the half. However, Framingham was able to hold off the Trailblazers, scoring six goals of their own in the period. Graham scored first for the Rams to make it 10-2, but MCLA responded with a goal from Caney immediately after. The two squads would continue to exchange goals for most of the half, with Gabrus, senior Erin McNulty, and sophomore Mackenzie Cutler all getting on the board of the Trailblazers while Foley and Lally did most of the scoring for Framingham.

Foley led the way for Framingham, finishing the game with five goals while Graham and Lally each finished with three. Caney’s three goals led the Trailblazer while Gabrus and Cutler added in a pair of goals each.

MCLA will continue conference play on Saturday when they host Bridgewater State at 3 p.m.

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Dirk Powell (Harmony Birch ‘17) swoons over Joe E. Brown (Jonah Philibert ‘17).

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Joe E. Brown’s attempts to remove the donkey head from Will Hays (Briann Lamb ‘18).

Shakespeare in Ho l l y wo o d Puck (Julie Castagna ‘18) is scolded by Oberon.

Olivia Darnell, played by Alycia Skerry ‘18, lets out a shriek after Oberon, Tim Downs 19, hits her bottom.

Photos by Domonique Ackley Under a crazed magic, fights break out throughout the party over different love triangles.