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VP candidate says the best ideas come from students

By Nick Swanson Senior News Editor

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Kelsey McGonigle, ‘16, models her bunny rabbit outfit on the catwalk at the RPS Recycling Fashion Show.

Dr. David Bergh shares life experiences that led him to being one of the final candidates for VP of Student Affairs/Dean of Students.

“My strong interest in working with students first began as a student,” Bergh said.

As an undergraduate student, Bergh participated in numerous athletics and the student government association at Allegheny College in Meadville, Penn.

“I was encouraged by other students to get involved, then realized how much I enjoyed the interaction through these involvements,” Bergh said.

He added that his involvement in activities such as basketball, tennis, and cross-country running and skiing have influenced where he is today.

Bergh has worked in Student Affairs at Johnson State College for the past 18 years. His position as Dean of Student Life and

MASSPIRG chapter gains support for open textbooks

By Makayla-Courtney McGeeney Managing Editor

The ability to save students thousands of dollars in purchasing textbooks each year can be made possible through MASSPIRG’s open textbook campaign running nationwide and already existing at various institutions.

“Education should be for everybody,” MASSPIRG intern Avery Woodbury said. “It should be accessible to everyone and we shouldn’t be fighting for information.”

According to studentpirgs.org, open textbooks are high-quality college textbooks with a copyright license that’s “open.” This allows the content to be accessed, shared and adapted freely. By implementing open textbooks, students would save an average of 80 percent.

Traditional textbooks are written and reviewed by experts then sent to a publisher to make of use. Open textbooks will follow the same process without using

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a publisher to save money that would be their profit.

Michael Basmajian, campus organizer said that financial resources are given to professors to compensate for time writing the textbooks and this can be done through a grant program.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst has adapted open textbooks by investing around $40,000 and saving students about $1.5 million.

“In a survey PIRG students conducted, it was found that 65 percent of students didn’t buy their textbook and still took the class anyway,” Basmajian said, “94 percent suffered academically because of that and 48 percent said that they’ve altered their class schedule based on the cost of a textbook.”

Currently there are over 160 existing open textbooks and it is utilized in over 2,000 classrooms.

The “open” license enables the legality of distribution and access of material. It also allows instructors to adapt the textbook and add new material or alter language to fit the class. Students

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are also able to choose a desired format while instructors have the freedom to customize or supplement the book.

Meetings with each department chair and then the dean of academic affairs, Monica Joslin, will determine a timeline as to whether the college will take steps in implementing open textbooks or not.

Already a partnership has been made between Freel Library, and the campus chapter to improve academic technologies to begin implementing open textbook software and resources on campus.

“It’s just about getting faculty, students and administration on board because it’s a win for everyone,” he said. “We just need faculty to find an alternative textbook for the ones that they already use and make the switch.”

For campus interest and support, over 300 written and photo petitions have been collected in addition to 10 faculty endorsements.

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College Relations requires him to oversee major interactions between the students, community, and institution.

Bergh said one of the most rewarding experiences was when he and a group of students went on a service-learning trip to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck in ’05.

He said it was interesting to see how students interacted with each other and how they helped others in need on a day-to-day basis.

During the interview with students, Bergh listened to various positions on campus to gauge the students’ level of involvement with clubs and organizations.

He then turned the discussion over to students so he could hear their questions and concerns about personal experiences and involvement in campus activities.

“What is your opinion on students having a say on decision making processes?”

Alyson Stoltz, search committee student representative, asked.

“The vast majority of work the college does should be pushed

for students to be on the table of discussion,” Bergh responded.

“Some of the best ideas of the college come directly from students.”

During the interview with faculty and staff, Bergh explained why he wants this position.

“Why did you choose MCLA, why here, why now?” Jen Craig, coordinator of Student Activities, asked.

“I was inspired by the liberal arts foundation and the embrace between co-curricular and student life here, MCLA has institutional values that mesh with my own,” Bergh responded.

“I like things that are new and fresh. We need to avoid getting caught in a rut with the old way of doing things,” Bergh said.

According to director of Human Resources Mary Ellen Olenyk, there will be a survey sent out to the campus community.

“It is important for everyone to fill these out because every single comment is, in fact, read by the search team,” Olenyk said.

Greg Summers changes decision

By Brittany Gallacher Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Greg Summers has withdrawn his acceptance to be MCLA’s 12th president, according to a press release sent by the College Tuesday night.

Tyler Fairbank, Chair of the Board of Trustees, also released an announcment, stating that Summers’ family is dealing with health problems and cannot relocate.

“Summers is deeply apologetic, as he was extremely impressed with the MCLA community,” Fairbanks said in his statement.

“The Board of Trustees met... [and] will continue to evaluate options as we move forward. Dr. Brown has agreed to continue serving as Interim President while the Board assesses our options for the future.”

Alyson Stolz, the student representative on the presidential search commitee, said she was disappointed, but is also excited for new opportunities ahead.

“I feel that the College is in a

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great place to manage this period,” Stolz said in an email. “Interim President Brown is a strong leader and she is surrounded by an extremely experienced senior executive team.”

Physics professor Adrienne Wootters was also part of the search committee, and said she is extremely disappointed that Summers withdrew his acceptance. However, she has confidence in future search processes.

“I take comfort in the knowledge that we have a strong interim president and administration to carry us through the next year,” Wootters said in an email, “and that we have an attentive, caring, and smart Board of Trustees to initiate and run a new search.”

The presidential search commitee spent seven months choosing candidates, narrowing it down to three.

“The board was excited to have found someone of the caliber of Dr. Summers,” Fairbank said.

“However we will take this in stride as MCLA is a well-led and well-managed institution.”

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Weekend Honor code clarified by Brown’s visit Weather

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By Idalis Foster Staff Writer

An honor code and the availability of internships are just a few of the concerns that were brought up to Interim President Cynthia Brown by the senate on Monday.

In response to Student Government Association (SGA) President Brendan Peltier’s inquiry about developments in terms of an honor code, Brown suggested that SGA reach out to other colleges including Mass Maritime and Williams College to compare their honor codes and keep their suggestions in mind during the process.

“An honor code is a large scale process, a multiyear process,” said

Brown. “Mass Maritime’s code seems stricter and quicker while Williams’ is a little more open and student based.”

Coordinating Vice President Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu noted that a student judiciary board was discussed during the last school year and asked if there had been any progress on that front. According to Brown, there has not been any movement towards an honor code which would be connected to the student judiciary board discussion.

Senator-At-Large Timothy Williams questioned what the honor code would entail.

“Do you think tobacco should be treated as alcohol in the honor code system?” said Williams.

SGA Lead Event: Games, Popcorn and Spring Flowers SGA will be giving out popcorn and flower plants, playing games with students, and holding a raffle for a special prize during their Lead Event. The event pushes for students to become leaders on campus and ask their current leaders questions; these leaders being current SGA members.

The event will be held on Tuesday April 7th in the Campus Center, the same day that SGA nomination forms are due for senate positions.

Stations will include a popcorn station, an SGA nominations table-as they have had in the past, a Twister station, a

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plant station with sunflowers and other plants, and a trivia station.

Each SGA member will have raffle tickets for students who show interests in the event and the campus community.

Prizes will include Easter baskets with special surprises in the various baskets.

Excused Absences: Professors Have Ultimate Say on Sick Notes Health Services has not been allowed to give out sick notes for students to give to their professors in order to excuse absences.

According to Senator-At-Large Colby Harvish, this is due to policy and is up to the discretion of any professor to allow absences based on sickness.

Students are allowed a week’s worth of absences in any given class but any absences after that can put the student’s grade in jeopardy.

“It has always been that the policy on excused absences is that health services cannot provide notes for excused absences,” said Theresa O’Bryant, Interim Vice President of Student Affairs.

“Even if CSSE sends out notifications to the faculty it is still up to the faculty members themselves to accept it.

SGA Nominations Now Available For those who want to represent their fellow students in the student government, now is the time to do so. Nomination forms have been made available as of March 31.

The nomination papers are due

by April 7 and need to have a list of signatures as determined in the directions on the papers.

For more information on this topic, students are welcome to ask any current SGA member about the process and what being part of the senate entails. Public Relations Chair Ciara Gerena encourages students to ask questions at the Lead Event on Tuesday, April 7 pending an extension on the deadline for nominations papers to April 8.

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Brown clarified that it would depend upon whether MCLA becomes a non-smoking campus or a tobacco free campus, including vapor and chewing tobacco.

Senators Ryan Robison and Williams raised concerns about the process of finding internships for students within certain departments and whose permanent residences are out-of-state.

“Anyone can go to CSSE to look at what is posted and some of them will be in interests of yours,” said Brown.

“We understand that this would be desirable including summers when you go home,” Brown also stated in regards to the internships for New York and other out of state students. “We actually had a student who got an internship with a legislator in New York a few years ago.”

◆ Public Safety responded to a reported domestic disturbance. Neghbors near the residence of Mr. and Mrs Kermit the Frog said that the couple have been having trouble since Mr. Kermit got caught by his wife eating bacon. A report was filed. ◆ Public Safety responded to a building check at Berkshire Towers. After the Public Safety individual saw two little girls in a hallway of blood he decided he might need some

time off because, well, all work and no play...

Monday, March 23 ◆ Public Safety responded to a report of suspicious behavior outside of the Amsler Campus Center. After investigating it was determined that listening to Justin Beiber is not considered suspicious activity, just extremely distastful.

Tuesday, March 24 ◆ Public Safety responded to a medical call from a campus Townhouse. The individual had a sliver in their finger and was transported to health

services because he kept screaming like a little baby every time he saw the tweezers come close.

Wednesday, March 25 ◆ Public Safety responded to a building check at Berkshire Towers. The Public Safety individual reported seeing several transluscent floaty things that scared him. He really, really needs a day off.

Thursday, February 26 ◆ Public Safety responded to a 911 call. The issue was investigated and it was discovered several freshman

were prank calling campus numbers while hiding under a blanket tent and giggling.

Friday, March 27 ◆ Public Safety responded to the home of Kermit the Frog, again. Kermit had to be removed after he threatened to marinate his wife.

Saturday, March 28 ◆ Public Safety responded to a building check at Berkshire Towers. The Public Safety indiovidual pasn’t been heard from since. *in honor of April Fool’s Day

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Kate Bornstein performs spoken word Bomb threat caller sentenced as part of the Creating Equality series

By Nick Swanson

By Rominda DeBarros Staff Writer

Transgender performance artist, author, and activist Kate Bornstein, presented a talk titled “On Men, Women and the Rest of Us,” at the Creating Equality Series last Wednesday night.

During the talk Bornstein performed a collection of hir favorite spoken word poems, all of which were on the topic of transgender issues.

Before the performance began, students, faculty and community members filled the Church Street Center Auditorium. As the song “Beware” by Punjabi and Jay-z faded out, Bornstein, dressed in all black, prepared to speak.

Bornstein began with hir first poem titled “Who are you?” A poem ze recalls causing some controversy for including the phrase “transgender movement.”

“Right before it went to press my editor called me and said that he had met with the board of editors at the New York Times and they asked if I could find another phrase or word for the transgender movement,” Bornstein said. “When I asked why, my editor told me that the New York Times had never used the phrase before and if they did it would mean there was one.”

Speechless by this remark Bornstein recalls that hir editor immediately apologized and the phrase was not altered in any way.

The poem, “Who are you?” takes place at Bornstein’s mother’s funeral. Hir Jewish relatives and the Jewish community were unaware of the sex change be-

cause Bornstein’s mother had been too ashamed to tell anyone.

During the funeral Bornstein is constantly asked who ze is, bringing to light the struggles ze faced with hir new identity and gender.

Bornstein performed four more poems during the presentation including one titled “Seven Year Itch.”

The poem gave a glimpse into the emotional journey Bornstein experienced after hir sex transition.

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Kate Bornstein presents “On Men, Women and the rest of Us,” which includes spoken word poetry.

Throughout the piece ze not only went into detail about the surgery but also spoke about ridding hirself of how the world wanted to define hir.

“I didn’t understand these people who wanted me to be a man or a woman,” Bornstein said. “Tell me what it’s like to be a woman, I do not know.”

In one last spoken word poem,

Bornstein sat in a comfy chair on the Church Street Center stage. A bright spotlight shone upon hir as ze spoke in a Jewish accent reminiscent of hir mother, Mildred.

The poem focused on Bornstein’s coming out story from the point of view of hir mother. The performance then concluded on a sentimental note with a slide show of photographs of hir late mother.

After the talk, audience members engaged in a Question and Answer segment with the author.

One audience member, Huge Black asked Bornstein how ze thought the older generation differed from the newer generation in their views of LBGTQ people.

“There’s a lot more opportunity now for acceptance and welcoming,” Bornstein said. “It’s not monolithic, there are still places in the world that are against it, but there are also more possibilities for today’s generation and it’s more out in the open.”

In addition, audience member, Lenny Zinberg, asked where Bornstein saw the LBGTQ movement ten years from now.

“It’s not going to be called LBGTQ anymore because that’s still so exclusive,” Bornstein said. “It would be more focused on gender allies and sex positivists, I think and then it can be called GASP’s but that would be too cute.”

The next Creating Equality Series talk will be given on April 1.

Critical race scholar, Dr. Matthew Hughey, will speak on his book Whitebound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race. The talk will take place at 6 p.m. in Murdock 218.

Former payroll officer, Marion Segalla, passes away at 83

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Marion Segalla worked at MCLA for over 40 years as payroll officer.

Brittany Gallacher Editor-in-Chief

Marion Segalla, former payroll officer at MCLA, passed away on March 26 at 83 years old. She had worked at the College for over 40 years and retired in 2013, leaving behind many friends and colleagues.

Linda Lazzari, Administrative Assistant in the Human Resources department, first met Segalla while running paperwork to the Payroll office.

“Marion was like a second mother to people,” Lazzari said in an email. “She treated you like family, and that is how I thought of her.”

According to Lazzari, Segalla also had vast knowledge of the campus.

“She had a mind that never quit,” Lazzari added. “She remembered everyone; past, present and deceased. I was always amazed when someone would call from maybe 30 years ago, and [Segalla] would still remember everything.

She was like the MCLA library of knowledge!”

Segalla’s colleagues reminisce about good times they had with her while working together. Most of all, Lazzari remembers Segalla’s family stories and her excellent cooking.

“She made the best of everything, from blueberry muffins to veal marsala,” Lazzari said. “She even got me to like Asparagus...kind of.

She [brought in] cream of asparagus soup and made me taste, even though I told her I hated it. But... it was really good!”

Segalla’s time at MCLA left an impact on those who worked with her.

“I just really respected her love for family, and that she would do anything to help them succeed in life,” Lazzari added. “She loved her job and was very dedicated, but if someone in her family needed her, she was there...and she would do the same for her co-workers. Everyone wondered why she wanted to work so long into her 80’s, but that was her – [it] kept her going, along with her family.”

According to her obituary in the Berkshire Eagle, Segalla was born in North Adams on November 22, 1931. She attended Drury High School and worked at Sprague Electric until 1960.

Segalla is survived by her children Melissa and Marc Segalla, three grandchildren, a brother, and her nieces and nephews.

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Jarret Ferriter, 21, who pleaded guilty to initiating a false threat of two bombs on MCLA campus, said it was not because of wanting to nap before work as rumors misconstrued.

“I think about everyone that it negatively affected and every day I feel worse for any one that it hurt, than I do for myself,” Ferriter said.

“I don’t want anyone to think I’m a bad person, because I am not a bad person.”

According to Ferriter, the choice was made in response to being pressured by a dare and a buildup of stress from a number of responsibilities.

Similar to many involved students, he said he became overwhelmed trying to balance organizing social activities, academics, and an increased work schedule that included a 4-hour round-trip commute.

Ferriter’s choice made an extensive impact that was not meant to be malicious in any way, he said.

The bomb-threat hoax led to a campus-wide evacuation on the morning of Oct. 6, 2014.

Shortly after making the call, Ferriter made an appointment with counseling services and confessed.

“It (the threat) happened in spur of the moment and was an impulsive decision,” Ferriter said.

Ferriter said he is prescribed two forms of medication, one to treat high depression and another for Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), both of which he had not taken the day of the threat.

When the evacuation broadcasted, all were instructed to go and remain in the former Mass. National Guard Armory on Ashland St. Spokesman for the District

Attorney’s Office in Berkshire County, Frederick Lantz, confirmed that in March, Ferriter pleaded guilty in Berkshire Superior Court to one count of false report of a crime and one count of willful and malicious communication of false information to a public safety department.

On one count of threatening the use of an explosive and causing the disruption of a school, Judge John Agostini continued that case without a finding for two years.

Ferriter was sentenced 2 years of probation, 150 hours of community service, and to pay $15, 493 in restitution, a portion of which to be paid for evacuation services back to the college.

According to Chapter 269: Section 14 of Massachusetts State Laws, the criminal act of communicating the threat causing an evacuation of a school is punishable for up to 20 years in state prison.

Ferriter is currently employed at a center that treats patients with Autism.

In addition, he was ordered to stay away from the MCLA campus and continue mental health treatment, according to the Official Website of the Berkshire District Attorney’s Office.

He attended counseling as directed but was dismissed by doctor approval after showing several signs of improvement.

Ferriter added that his family and others who personally knew him were supportive because of prior knowledge about his problems.

Ferriter was suspended from the college and will be allowed to reapply for admittance after the designated amount of time by school officials has passed. He plans to return back to MCLA and finish his degree in psychology, as he already has a junior-year standing at the college.

New textbook campaign to save money MASSPIRG, continued from page 1 In response to researching answers to questions, students have been reading hard copy textbooks and locating them on Google.

“It’s already up there [textbooks], why pay, it’s already for free online,” Woodbury said.

Open textbooks are printable and accessible through digital textbooks. In a survey conducted

by Student PIRGs, it was found that 75 percent prefer print books versus digital if cost didn’t play a factor, 22 percent don’t like reading on a computer screen while 33 percent do and 45 percent are in between, and 60 percent claimed that they would still purchase affordable print textbooks even if a digital version was offered at no cost.

Grant programs, publishers, individual authors and other support has contributed to making open textbooks available.

California, British Columbia and Washington invested in grant program while the U.S.

Department of Labor developed a program with community colleges for workforce training classes, according to Studentpirgs. org.

“Getting MCLA to implement open textbooks requires a lot of support from student government, the students, faculty and the library,” Basmajian said. “Call on people to talk to their professors to bring on the support while we work to bring the resources for this campaign to campus.”

Woodbury clarified that the difference in textbooks via e-books and open textbooks is that the freedom doesn’t exist to print and the cost of the e-book depends on inflation from hard copy distribution.

“If every student in the U.S. traded a hard copy textbook for an open textbook, over 1 billion dollars would be saved,” Basmajian said.

Open textbooks can be found at openstaxcollege.org/books and through the University of Minnesota website.

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Alternative Spring Break puts life in perspective Students traveled to China and Belize through the College to volunteer, study, and learn more about other cultures over spring break

By Idalis Foster Staff Writer

Clean, running water and pride in one’s nation’s history are things that are often overlooked or taken for granted, but for students who spent their spring break in Belize and China, these aspects of life became all the more apparent.

For one of the ten students on the trip, senior Alex Moore, it was the history of China that astounded him, but it was what he didn’t get to see that inspired him to return.

“The historical piece was the most fascinating, America is a baby compared to China, who have been doing things for years ahead of us,” said Moore. “I want to return to China to volunteer to do environmental cleanup, cleaning places with extreme poverty.”

how we were privileged; I would rather devote more time to volunteer work and I found getting souvenirs for my family more enjoyable than anything for myself.”

Students were able to climb the Great Wall, wander around the Forbidden City, and see the Terracotta Warriors. One of the advisors to the trip, Daniel Rapp, chair of the education department, spoke to the purpose behind trips like this excursion to China.

“The purpose is to blow students minds and have them experience the culture in the country itself,” Rapp said. “You can’t understand yourself in the United States until you experience the cultures of other countries.”

In helping build the foundation for a Youth Center in Belize, another group of Photos courtesy of Lucas McDiarmid six students was able to immerse themAbove, Senior Lucas McDiarmid stands with a girl he met while volunteering selves in the Belizean culture and gain apin Belize during spring break. Below, students explore Belize’s unique preciation for their privilege.

“Seeing the villages and houses with only architecture during their time off from community service. half a roof, those things really put things armid said. “There was a small child who sharks and stingrays, visit major temples into perspective,” said senior Lucas McDi- came up to me while I was shoveling and I and the Belize Museum, and canoe down armid. “Running water is something I re- almost hit him because I didn’t hear or see a tropical river. They were given a presentaally appreciate more now. Despite the povtion on the historical, cultural, political and erty, people seemed much happier.” economic history of Belize as well.

Advisor to the trip Spencer Moser, coBoth students emphasized the imporordinator of the Center for Service and tance of the enthusiasm from their adviCitizenship, has been on similar trips to sors which influenced their interest in Belize four other times in the past ten the excursions. Moore credited business years and recalls the experiences being administration professor Ben Kahn with new every time. influencing his interest and final decision “The main focus of the trip was the to go to China over break, and working on service project,” said Moser. “The stuhis behalf to help fund his way there. dents laid the cement foundation for a Senior Jasmine Cespedes-Mejia Youth Center in an area called Mahogexpressed her gratitude for the any Heights.” students she had the experience The students mixed the cement themwith, as well as her group’s leader, Daniel Rapp selves and, according to Moser, branded Moser.

MCLA 2015 on the foundation to leave “I never would have thought that I’d be their mark. In creating the foundation, swimming with sharks and fish in the McDiarmid had an interesting interaction middle of the Caribbean ocean,” Cespedeswith a child from the village. him until he spoke up asking to help me.”

Mejia said. “If it wasn’t for Spencer and my “I really liked construction in high school During their off time from working on the amazing group, I would have never gone in.” so it was odd going into this area where project, students enjoyed snorkeling with construction is not regulated at all,” McDi-

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You can’t understand yourself in the United States until you experience the cultures of other countries.

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Moore mentioned that he did not see much poverty due to being in the wealthier urban area, but that didn’t affect his passion for helping others across borders.

“I want to live to help others,” Moore stated. “Dana Rapp really wanted us to see

Green Living Seminar addresses climate change on global and local scale

By Gionna Nourse

Staff Writer “350 parts per million (ppm) is the safe level for concentration of carbon dioxide, [and] the year I was born (1987) was the last year it was below this level,” Ellie Johnston, co-founder and facilitator of 350 MA-Berkshires, said at her lecture Act Globally, Act Locally: Addressing Climate Change at Every Level on March 26.

In 2007, the carbon dioxide concentration was 380ppm, and today it is 400.26ppm, according to Johnston. “[Carbon dioxide concentration has fluctuated over the past 600,000 years], but it has never been above that 350 level, until the year I was born. For 400,000 years before that, we were vacillating at a much lower level of concentration,” Johnston said.

Johnston also explained that if our planet doesn’t reduce emissions, we are heading into an “unknown territory.” According to The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 13 out of 15 of the hottest years on record occurred since the year 2000. “It’s happening very quickly, and it is catching the world off-

guard,” Johnston said.

Bringing the issue to a national level, Johnston mentioned the Keystone XL Pipeline. “We hear about the Keystone XL Pipeline, which is carrying [tar sands oil] from Canada to be refined and then sent who knows where,” Johnston said. Part of the Keystone XL Pipeline (The Kinder Morgan Pipeline) will cross Berkshire County, but there is currently nowhere for all of the gas flowing through it to be compressed.

“There are gas import facilities in Canada that they are trying to switch to export facilities. There is a pipeline that goes from Dracut up through Canada, and there is a proposal to flip that, so that it would bring gas from the south, rather than bring gas from the north,” Johnston said. “There are many questions as to whether or not flipping the direction would even be effective,” she said.

Johnston explained that if the U.S. can get an export pipeline up into Canada, they can send it out to Europe faster.

The pipeline proposal currently comes in through Hancock, MA, and will cross residential property to

make a path through the state. If this pipeline is approved, builders may be able to take landowners’ property,as a form of eminent-domain in order to begin construction.

“This pipeline is crossing the state about 25 to 30 minutes south of here, and there is a section of Windsor, MA that has been identified as a location for a [possible] compressor station,” Johnston said. Compressor stations are facilities that are located along the pipeline every 40 to 100 miles, where workers compress the gas and push it into the pipeline.

The compressor station also serves as an access point, as well as an area for blowouts to take place.

A blowout is the process of cleaning out all of the gas within the pipeline.

“The compressor station they have proposed for Windsor is 80,000 horsepower, which is pretty massive,” Johnston said. Over 74 percent of all the compressor stations in Massachusetts currently are less than 20,000 horsepower.

Many residents express concern about this pipeline proposal and want to see an opposition, which is where Ellie Johnston and her team at 350 MA- Berkshires try to pro-

vide a solution.

Environmental studies professor Dan Shustack said “Thursday’s presentation by Ellie Johnston highlighted what might be the most pressing environmental issue facing western Massachusetts today. If built, the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline will have long-term local and global environmental repercussions. One of the purposes of the Green Living Seminar is to provide students with relevant information which they can use to make informed decisions and engage their friends, neighbors and elected officials on issues like these.”

Junior Arleta Mongue said “I definitely don’t want this pipeline to be built so close to my house.

There is such beautiful land here, and I don’t want something like that to destroy it.” Mongue also found Johnston and her lecture quite inspiring. “She just makes me want to go out and do something about it right now,” she said.

“A lot of people don’t know what they can do to oppose something like the pipeline and I think she really let people know of their opportunity to change things,”

Mongue said.

“I’m coming into this wearing a couple of different hats, and at climate interactive we have these tools,” Johnston said. “[However], I am also talking about my personal responsibility, and who I need to be in the context of this world, because the stakes are really high right now,” she said. “I am also coming into this wearing the hat of someone from the millennial generation, who cares a lot about my future, and wants to take action.”

Johnston believes the time to take action is now. Town resolutions are a great thing to do to get started. Essentially, this means getting a group of people together who oppose the pipeline, putting together a petition, and collecting signatures.

Currently, 53 towns across Massachusetts and New Hampshire have already opposed this pipeline.

“We are on a curve where we can shut this thing down with people power, articles, protests, etc.,” Johnston said. “The only way to win is to try.”

For more information, and to find out how to make a difference in your community: head to http://350ma-berkshires.org/.

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Leadership journey continues Lyndsay Isham-Morton continues to be a leader outside of MCLA

By Juanita Doss Features Editor

She’s always searching for a new opportunity; an opportunity to better herself and give back to the community that she’s grown fond of.

“I’ve been here for 10 years and now it’s time to give back to the community,” said Lyndsay Isham-Morton, coordinator of Student Conduct. “This program will help me with networking and get more involved.

For the last few years, Morton would sit behind her desk and research the Berkshire Leadership Program. Every year she thought of applying, but it wasn’t until this year that she made her move with the help of finance from MCLA and a recommendation from Theresa O’Bryant, interim vice president of Student Affairs.

“I’m very fortunate for MCLA to see potential in me, for Theresa O’Bryant to see potential in me,” Morton said.

The Berkshire Leadership Program, which was founded in 1997, consists of 28 individuals representing different businesses and industries. The 12week program is sponsored through the Berkshire Chamber of Commerce.

According to the Berkshire Chamber website, their mission is to prepare, involve and sustain leaders from diverse backgrounds who are committed to address community challenges and

improve the quality of life in the Berkshires.

The program kicked off with a mandatory two day retreat this past weekend at Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort. During the retreat members received leadership training, problem solving techniques, and networking.

Following the retreat, members will have economic development bus tours and four-hour evening sessions every Thursday that focus on various topics concerning the Berkshires.

“The idea is to give the leaders some background and knowledge, so they can take what they learn to become stronger leaders in the community,” Morton said.

During the program, members will also be creating class projects that they will work on as a class that will be used in Berkshire County, which will be presented during Commencement in June.

“The program cultivates community leaders and will put your name out there, so if other organizations needs volunteers or need another person for a board of directors,

Let the book signing begin!

Professor Gillian Jones and author Joannie “Joan” Duris had a signing for their book “B is for Berkshires” last Saturday at The Parlor.

Photo by Juanita Doss/ The Beacon

Lyndsay Isham-Morton is one of 28 individuals selected for this year’s Berkshire Leadership Program. they’ll submit our names and put what we learned to use,” she said.

Taking on leadership roles is nothing new for Morton. During her college years, she was a member or her college’s student government, an orientation leader for three years, and a facilitator for a rape awareness program.

Giving back the community is very important to her, especially since her daughters are going to be starting school soon.

“My little girls are starting school soon and I want to be involved in their education,” Morton said. “This [Berkshire Leadership Program] is a great way to build me up and get me ready to serve on the school committees.”

cosplays, there always are, and I remember constantly asking people for photographs.”

When you think of anime you Beeler has been a member of the most likely think of watching “Poké- Anime Club since her freshman year, mon” as a child or even Adult Swim’s and has been actively involved ever Toonami on Saturday nights. But since. for members of the Anime Club, “I joined the MCLA Anime Club as it is part of their lifestyle; from the a freshman, [which] was actually one clothing to the hairstyles, the club of the things I most excited for when and fans of anime all over take it se- I started MCLA. My sophomore year riously.

I was Vice President of the club, and Stepping into this world on April now this semester I am Treasurer,” 3, the Anime club is heading to the said Beeler.

Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Like many members of the club, Mass., to attend Anime Boston, an Beeler has been fascinated by anannual three-day convention where ime ever since she was a child. She members of the anime community was introduced to it by a friend in celebrate and promote Japanese ani- summer camp; ever since then she’d mation, comics, and pop-culture. watch shows such as “Sailor Moon”, “Dragon Ball Z”, and “Bleach”, and attend animethemed events.

Her favorite event in particular was Anime Boston 2014.

Freshman Lindsey Doucette is one of those members.

She recalls watching “Kero Gunso” Photo by Jay Tocco/ The Beacon with her friends Members of the Anime Club are excited to cosplay and brother growtheir favorite anime character at Anime Boston ing up.

Th is is her this weekend. fourth time atTreasurer of the Anime Club, Mina tending Anime Boston.

Beeler, is attending the event for a “I'm looking forward to this bethird time. ing the first time for my friends. I I remember the first year I went hope they'll enjoy it and I'll show I was so awestruck,” said Beeler. “I them around as best as I can,” said had never been to a convention of Doucette. its size, there were so many amazing A major part of any anime conFeatures Writer

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Cosplay, Cosplay and more Cosplay

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vention is the cosplay. The term “cosplay,” a mix of “costume” and “play,” describes the practice of dressing up as a character and, to an extent, acting like them. It has its origin among anime fans, but has become popular among fans of Western media as well. A wide variety of costumes can be seen at Anime Boston, and there is even a Masquerade event for cosplayers to show off their craftsmanship and talents.

At this year’s event Beeler and the Anime Club are excited to dress up as their favorite characters and role-play with other cosplayers. Beeler plans to dress up as Seras from “Hellsing” this year, and other members are cosplaying from such media as anime series “No. 6,” which the club watched this semester, and the “Fire Emblem” video game series.

Beeler, Doucette and many other anime lovers enjoy the anime community because of the freedom and creativity it gives a person.

"Anime seems to be to be sort of hidden. Not many people on campus even know what it is. The anime club is a group of really cool people," Doucette said.

According to Beeler, there’s always those people who put others down, or think they are better than anyone one else. However, in the anime community, she found other people that were just as nerdy as her and others.

“You can freak out together instead of the other person rolling their eyes,” she said.

Joan Duris (left), Gillian Jones (center) and Publisher of Islandport Press, Melissa Kim (right) worked together to produce “B is for Berkshires”.

After months of hardwork and dedication, Duris (left) and Jones (right) were ready to sell and sign their book.

Above: The photo of the bird house on the back of the book was taken in Jones’ backyard this Winter.

Above: “B is for Berkshires” is Jones’ first book, which was published March 10.

Right: “B is for Berkshires” is sold at Amazon.com, Islandport Press.com and Mass MoCA’s Hardware store

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Novelist Catherine Lacey arrives today

By Shirin Hijab

Lacey’s style draws from poetry, working with erratically emotional ideas

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“I think like this. I think it’s more natural to write in long sentences.

It’s creating a kind of equation.

There’s a kind of logic to every sentence. I think everyone thinks in circularities. I feel like I’m happiest with writing when it’s close to the way I talk.”

That’s Catherine Lacey. She’ll be on campus through today, visiting classes and then giving a reading at Gallery 51 at 7 P.M. Her first novel, “Nobody Is Ever Missing,” whose title is taken from the John Berryman poem that haunts most people like an incessant demon once they read it for the first time, has been hailed by such giants of modern prose as Rivka Galchen and Laura Van Den Berg as a stellar debut.

Lacey spoke about how she thinks that it’s sometimes important to wait on publishing work until it’s really polished, such as her friend who got an MFA from the University of Columbia who hasn’t published anything yet.

Or Jeffrey Eugenides, the quasifeminist novelist, who didn’t publish anything until he was in his 30s, and who to the aggravation of his admirers, hasn’t published anything big since “The Marriage Plot.”

She sets the novel in New Zealand where she visited after grad school. She did very little writing there, very little international communication as well. She didn’t have an international cellphone at that time and only checked her email when she could find a space

that had a computer connected to the Internet.

She was researching for nonfiction work; she’s written an excellent essay exploring her obsession with the poetry of Berryman. In New Zealand, she found herself resonating with the landscape while at the same time being completely detached. She didn’t realize how the isolation was going to affect her; she says it was a really good thing. When she spoke about New Zealand, it brought to mind images of “Top of the Lake” (dir. Jane Campion) which conflates terrain and emotion in the

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If you have some level of privilege, added to the privilege of being a writer, just continue to be selfscrutinizing.

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way that Lacey described the feeling of the travel ultimately influencing her writing in a way.

And at the same time, that feeling, what Lacey calls the erratic, searching quality, is part of Berryman’s poetry. When there sits down something on our hearts so heavy that only in the early, cathartic dawn can we find that, from the people we’ve looked at and gone over, nobody is ever missing [paraphrase of Dreamsong 39].

Lacey is visiting MCLA as a part of the Hardman Creative Writers-in-Residence Series, started

by Professor Zack Finch with a Hardman Special Initiative Fund in fall 2014.

“I remember how important it was to me,” said Zack Finch, “back during my own undergraduate days as an aspiring writer, when I had the chance to meet and work with various poets-in-residence.

I still remember every single writer who came to campus and the indellible impact they made on me—poets like Galway Kinnell, Phil Levine, Louise Gluck.”

Finch said how two past writers, Ewa Chrusciel and John Murillo, have helped students with their writing when they visited classes, including de-idealizing writing and showing how it requires hard work but also how to be a professional in the field. Murillo spoke with one student about grad schools and was able to help them in finding out some of the better places to go for writers. The classes the writers attend are open to students who want to attend.

Finch plans to continue the Series with one writer every semester but hopes to eventually expand it.

He said that, especially since the Series is under the MCLA Creating Equality Series in addition to its Hardman title, he and others want to bring diverse writers who known nationally and write in various genres.

Scrutiny. That was one word Lacey kept repeating, almost as if it were her central ideology. A lot of authors have this kind of approach: David Foster Wallace calls it being aware, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls it not telling the single story of a person, a culture.

“Self-scrutiny, not thinking that you have answers to everything,”

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Lacey is working on another novel and teaches writng classes. said Lacey. “I had an argument last night with this guy. He was raised in privilege, a positive environment. He thinks that he has no homophobia, no racism, and no chauvinism. Which is mostly probably true. But everybody has inherited these tendencies that are ingrained in our behaviors and beliefs. If you have some level of privilege, added to the privilege of being a writer, just continue to be self-scrutinizing.”

If she wrote nonfiction, she said, she’d have a better environment in which to push the issues of sexism, racism, homophobia, and their cruel subtleties to the front.

Lacey has had personal experience growing up in Mississippi where there was a strong religious expectation for her and everyone else. To a certain extent she considers herself a Southern writer since she became a writer growing up in that environment and pushing against intolerances that don’t

manifest themselves as strongly in the North.

“How do you get these big ideas, these political feelings into stories?” Lacey said. “Somebody asked me if this is a feminist book.

I’m kind of just reacting to what other people have done. There isn’t anything about human rights in ‘Nobody.’ But it’s work I want to be involved in. Sometimes it’s just that a story holds what a story can hold.”

Writing isn’t cathartic. No, it isn’t, Lacey says. People and relationships; sharing with love. These are cathartic.

“This is why young writers want to publish,” Lacey explained.

“Sharing with someone else who completes the loop. Nell Zink [a writer Lacey knows] wrote a novel just for one person. That’s so touching for me because you can only share with another person; that’s the moment of catharsis, the point of writing.”

Students use film to explore worlds, identity

By Mitchell Chapman A&E Writer

As you walk through the bricktiled pathways of campus, you’ll encounter a great diversity of people and tastes along the way. One need only to ask them something as simple as their favorite movies to realize it.

Take Cat Lima, class of 2017, for

instance. Her favorite genres are comedy, action, and romance.

“I watch films as something fun to do,” Lima said. “I like films that are enjoyable to watch, but don’t give you nightmares.”

This is drastically different from someone such as Hunter Long, class of 2018, who favors romance for its profound ability to connect with the audience.

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Hunter Long prefers romance films for their connectivity.

“I think the reason we watch romance is because we like to see love, as we can identify with the feeling,” Long explained. “All acting requires stereotyping, and romance is no different, but it is through these lower inhibitions and ideals of love that we identify with the feeling, for better or worse.”

Indeed, for many, media serves a major role in their perceptions of what love is, which can be harmful as many films aren’t meant to be representative of real life.

“What the media does with people who are in love, especially the lengths to which they will stay in love, isn’t always representative of a healthy relationship,” Long said. “There’s also a big difference between infatuation, which is being in love with the actual person, and obsession, which is being in love with the idea of being with that person, and many films present the latter.”

Still, there are people like Gabi Harrington, class of 2018, who don’t have a favorite genre, who watch films as a way to explore other frames of minds.

“I love exploring other worlds through other peoples’ imaginations,” Harrington said. “Film is way to see through others’ minds,

as it is an art form, and because I have such a mixed bag of favorable genres, I get to explore a broad abundance worlds.”

A fan of video games, she is excited for the upcoming film adaptation of the “Ratchet and Clank” series starring James Arnold Taylor (“Star Wars: The Clone Wars”) and David Kaye (“Dragon Ball Z”, “Mobile Suit Gundam Wing”), who voiced Ratchet and Clank respectively in the games.

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Film is way to see through others’ minds. I get to explore an abundance of worlds.

Gabi Harrington

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“Who doesn’t dream of their favorite video games being made into movies?” Harrington said.

“Whether I have to wait for a DVD release, or if I get the opportunity to see it in theaters, it’s going to be one exciting experience!”

Yet there are still others, like Alexander Stewart, class of 2018, who watches films both for entertainment and appreciation of craft.

“I generally like to be entertained, and there are some films I watch

because I can connect with them and find inspiration in them,” Stewart explained. “I also look at the stories to teach me as to where I want to go with my writing.”

His favorite films are the “Godfather” trilogy, as he appreciates how they work as whole, completed products.

“They are more than just crime movies, but more so a family movie involved in crime,” Stewart said. “My favorite moment comes in the second film, when Vito Corleone returns to Sicily. It was beautifully shot and it was nice to see Vito return to his home country and avenge his family’s death from back when he was young.”

This is very similar to Harrington’s views of the recent “Cinderella” adaptation, which she perceives as visually and mechanically stunning.

“I really admired the visuals, as well as the good character development, especially with the prince, who in the original Disney classic had little to no personality other than just being handsome,” Harrington said. “You actually feel a whole lot more empathy for both Cinderella and the evil step mother in this adaptation.”

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By Matt Hotaling A&E Writer

Berkshire-based independent game developer Rebel Games Interactive (RGI) is hiring exclusively MCLA students for internships at its studio.

RGI, a company founded by MCLA alumnus David Kubicki, is looking for MCLA student interns from multiple fields of study to help the small studio develop video games.

“We’re looking for students who have skills in coding or graphic and digital art,” Kubicki said, “but we’re open to someone with business experience to help me on that end of the business.”

Kubicki and most of his colleagues at RGI never intended to end up in game development. Kubicki graduated from the college in 2001 with a degree in Psychology, without taking a single class in computer science. The team’s members had enjoyed playing games since childhood and decided to team up and try developing their own, opening the studio’s

doors in early 2014.

All of the company’s employees work at RGI part time, working their primary careers most of the week. RGI hopes that its games will be successful enough for the company to become its employees’ full-time job.

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I never thought that the opportunity would come by to do something like this but I am so glad that it did – I feel very fortunate.

Patrick Loomis

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“We’ve got five games in varying stages of development; the most complete one is a rouge-like platformer, it’s similar to ‘Risk of Rain’ and games like that,” Kubicki said.

“The one that’s next closest to completion is a first person puzzle game sort of like ‘Myst’ or ‘Gone Home’ but with a strong focus on story.”

Manat Wooten, assistant direc-

tor for CSSE and Career Services wants students to know how important opportunities like this are for those seeking employment after graduating.

“Whether these internships are done for credit or experience,” Wooten said, “it is important to understand that employers look for prior experience when hiring recent college graduates.”

She added that she thinks that it’s important for students to make connections with alumni and other working professionals. Alumni frequently help students by sharing leads about potential jobs and internships.

“MCLA has really dedicated alumni who are willing, when asked, to help out in any way they can with preparing students for opportunities post-MCLA,” Wooten said.

Senior Patrick Loomis is one of this semester’s interns. Loomis is working with Rebel Games’ team and its other interns as a leveldesigner and coder. Rebel Games currently has three students as interns this semester and is look-

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ing to hire a similar amount in the following semesters.

“I never thought that the opportunity would come by to do something like this,” Loomis said, “but I am so glad that it did – I feel very fortunate.”

Kubicki says that game design has become increasingly accessible to smaller developers, allowing companies like Rebel Games to flourish. With tools like Unity, and Unreal Engine 4 being made free for development, and platforms like Steam Greenlight, the barrier for developing professional quality games has been lowered

such that the only thing stopping someone from developing is that person’s own skill and commitment.

Rebel Game’s team are all based in the Berkshires, which is not a part of the country well known for being part of the game industry, but Kubicki hopes that his company will be successful and put Berkshire county on the map for other game developers.

“With digital distribution you can be anywhere in the world and get your games to people,” Kubicki said. “It’s never been a better time to be an indie developer.”

Dance Co. spring show

By Shirin Hijab A&E Editor

Tonight and Friday, at 8:00 p.m. in MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center, Dance Company will perform their spring show.

Similar to last semester’s format, Dance Co. will host special acts

for each night, according to their heyevent.com page.

Dance Company has maintained secrecy about the specific dances and songs used which implies that it’s going to be a great show.

Dance Co. has repeatedly been one of the greatest shows that students of MCLA.

Kate Bornstein stresses Gallery 51 shows making life worth living cerebral food-art Kate Bornstein gave the history of being a “gender outlaw” and her enthusiasm for the new generations of activists Review by Matt Aceto A&E Writer

Kate Bornstein isn’t a woman, nor is ze a man. For the majority of hir life, the self-described “gender outlaw” rarely felt comfortable in hir own body. Now, at age 67, Bornstein looks to inspire others who fit outside the box.

On Wednesday, March 26, Bornstein visited MCLA’s Church Street Center for an evening of live poetry. Attending the event were local citizens and students of varying race, sexuality, and

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I returned home, sat in my living room, and watched the sun go down. I wondered how I was going to get through the world like this.

Kate Bornstein

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gender. Though Bornstein’s performance was appreciated by the LGBTQ community, the overall mood of the audience was awkward and uncomfortable.

Bornstein wasted no time displaying hir risqué behavior, cursing multiple times in the opening dialogue. This evoked both laughter and uncertainness amongst the audience. By the time Bornstein began reading hir prepared pieces, however, these initial reactions quickly turned to those of

sympathy.

The most stressful time of Bornstein’s life was hir teenage years, in which ze described in great detail.

Bornstein binged on Twinkies and M&M’s to fight through the mental pain and confusion of growing up in a male body. At times, ze was even suicidal.

“I returned home, sat in my living room, and watched the sun go down,” said Bornstein, describing how ze returned home from an unsuccessful voice-changing lesson in which ze tried to learn how to speak like a lady. “I wondered how I was going to get through the world like this.”

It wasn’t until hir genital conversion surgery that ze began to feel more confident about hir self.

Bornstein described this extremely graphic surgery to the audience, as if it were still fresh in hir mind. This was unbearably uncomfortable for the audience, as nobody was prepared to handle hir obscene language.

Later on, Bornstein shared tales of hir days as a phone-sex worker, which involved a vast amount of oral sex and other forms of experimenting. There was little filter from Bornstein, which stained hir otherwise influential performance.

Despite its scholarly setting in the Church Street Center, the event was rather informal.

At times, paper airplanes were thrown on stage by one seemingly unhappy spectator. Upon exit, however, everyone was handed a ‘get out of hell free card’ to dismiss them of any harmful actions they have committed, or might do in the future. This brought smiles and laughter back to the audience.

At the conclusion of the event, Bornstein urged those in attendance to better themselves as a person, by following one simple rule.

“Please do something that makes your life more worth living.”

Photo from The Huffington Post Bornstein read spoken word works and went through some of her performance routines, including her coming out story as told by her mother.

By Matt Aceto A&E Writer

Junk food is beautiful.

On Thursday, March 26, MCLA’s Gallery 51 premiered its new ‘Eat This’ exhibition, a photocollection of greasy and utterly unhealthy food compiled by photographers Jon Feinstein, Lindsay Lochman and Barbara Ciurej. The student-organized exhibition will run through April 26.

Among the many pictures on display are bread mountains, marshmallow river valleys, and fields of corn on the cob. Though they look like detailed illustrations to the untrained eye, most of the artwork is actually based on Carleton Watkins’ landscapes of the old American West. Jessica Robinson ‘16, an arts management major who helped organize the show, described the concept of the exhibition.

“Most of the landscapes are set in the 1800s,” Robinson said. “[Lochman and Ciurej] used photographs that [Watkins] took and asked themselves, ‘how can we turn these photos into food?’”

Along with raising awareness towards unhealthy eating habits, the exhibition also looks at environmental issues.

“The blue dye photo with velvet cake and melted popsicles is based on pollution,” Robinson said.

Though “Eat This” primarily features photos from professional photographers, students from Laura Thompson’s Advanced Museum Studies class each had a major role in curating the ex-

hibition.

“I am most proud of how it all came together as a group collaboration,” said Matt Barge, art major ‘15. “I really like the [Fruit Loops Landscape] photo, it’s very colorful. It kind of looks beautiful in a weird way.”

Jim Gilbert, a local organic farmer, found joy in the exhibition’s video montage of fast-food advertisements.

“The last time I had a hamburger at McDonalds, they cost a quarter!” Gilbert laughed. “I haven’t had one since.”

As a farmer, Gilbert has noticed the increasingly unhealthy diets many Americans have. “Eat This” portrays this problem in its artwork.

“This country runs on junk food, which is a main reason why people in this country are not well,” Gilbert said.

“Eat This” is a fun balance of both appetizing and appealing photography. Exhibition viewer Jim Digennaro described it best: “One person’s art is another person’s food.”

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Jon Feinstein’s “23 Grams” from the “Fast Food Views” series.

The artwork in the exhibit is generally eerily realistic and often disturbing.

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Sports

Thursday, April 2, 2015

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Lacrosse drops MASCAC opener

By Jesse Collings Sports Editor

Winter weather prevented the lacrosse team from opening conference play at home, and the Trailblazers came up short against Massachusetts Maritime on Sunday in their inaugural Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference game, losing 11-6.

MCLA is now 2-3 overall, with a record of 0-1 in conference play.

Mass. Maritime improves to 3-2 overall and 1-0 in MASCAC play.

The game was originally scheduled to take place in North Adams, however, the field conditions at the Joseph Zavattaro Athletic Complex rendered the field unusable, and so the game was shifted to Alumni Field in Westfield, MA. Despite the sudden travel plans, head coach Maria Bartini was not concerned about it effecting the teams play.

“The weather-related changes

are a bit frustrating, but they are affecting a lot of schools throughout New England, not just MCLA. I don’t think the re-location affected our team’s performance,” Bartini said. “We are a first year program and we learn and grow from each game. Our first-ever conference game was no exception.”

The Traiblazers got on the board first, as junior Kate Brown scored with 23:46 left in the first half to put MCLA out front early. The Buccaneers however, would assume control of the game over the next 15 minutes of play, as they went on a 6-0 run after giving up the first goal. Janine Prokscha scored with 21:47 left to go in the first half to knot the game at 1.

Prokscha would score again just over a minute later, converting a free position shot to give Mass.

Maritime the lead. Just 15 seconds later, Molly Smith lobbed the ball over to Ashley Solari, who beat

Trailblazer goalkeeper Alexandra David to give the Buccaneers a 3-1 edge.

After a lengthy 12 minute scoring drought for both squads, Brianna Pingree converted a free position shot with 8:41 to play in the opening half. Solari and Christina Murphy would also add goals to give the Buccaneers a commanding 6-1 lead. MCLA senior Rebecca Pike converted a free position shot with just over 5 minutes left in the first half to give MCLA it’s first goal in nearly 20 minutes. Smith would respond for Mass. Maritime, scoring two late goals in the first half to give the Buccaneers an 8-2 lead going into halftime.

Murphy would score first in the second half, receiving an assist from Dahlia Seggelin with 27:58 left in the second half, giving Mass. Maritime a 9-2 lead.

It was during the middle of the second half that the Trailblaz-

ers played their best, going on a 4-0 scoring run. Pike got things started for the Trailblazers, scoring with 23:41 left to play. Brown would tally her second goal of the game with 16:42 left. Brown would score again with 8:45 left, getting an assist from Mackenzie Cutler. Sophomore Natalie Caney would complete the run for MCLA, scoring with just over 8 minutes play, to put the Trailblazers within striking distance, as they trailed 9-6.

Mass. Maritime would hold off the advancing Trailblazers, thanks to two insurance goals from Prokscha and Stephanie Hunt.

After the game, Bartini was satisfied with the team’s performance despite the loss.

“They played aggressive doubleteaming defense and we made some good adjustments in the second half. We held them scoreless for almost 20 minutes in the second half while stringing to-

gether four goals, cutting down their lead,” Bartini said. “We weren’t able to pull the game all the way back, but we showed resilience and grit in mounting the comeback attempt. We’re looking forward to continuing conference play with Framingham State this weekend.”

The major difference in the game was the goalkeeping by Mass. Maritime’s Mikayla Correia. The Buccaneers turned the ball over more than MCLA (31-23) and only held a slim advantage in total shots (26-24). Correia had an excellent game in net, stopping 11 of the 17 shots that she faced.

The Trailblazers were originally scheduled to play Southern Vermont on Wednesday, but the game was postponed due to poor field conditions. They will continue MASCAC play on Saturday, when they travel to Framingham State.

Looking for a Qb? Trade down

By Jake Mendel Sports Writer

Each year there are always five to ten teams looking for their franchise quarterback. Most teams get their quarterback through the draft. The 2012 Colts were a perfect example. Peyton Manning gets hurt, the Colts draft an elite QB in Luck and have made the playoffs every year since he was drafted.

It isn’t that easy for the 31 other NFL teams. Most of the time, players are taken because of need, not because they are talented.

Blake Bortles, EJ Manuel, Johnny Manziel, Ryan Tannehill, Jake Locker, and Blaine Gabbert are all qbs that were picked early in the first round, even though they may not have been worthy of their early draft pick.

Some of these QBs are young, and it is too early to call them busts. Specifically, Tannehill, Bortles, and even Manuel have shown some sort of potential that they can be long term starts in the NFL. With a top ten pick, a team needs a franchise player. It is important to remember that if a team has a top ten pick, they clearly have plenty holes on their team. Players like Cam Newton, Andrew Luck, and even Robert Griffin, showed the potential, making them worthy of their early picks.

Now we get to Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota, the “best” quarterbacks in the 2015 draft. It could be argued that eight of the top fifteen teams in the NFL are in need of a quarterback and are most likely looking at these two as

possible franchise quarterbacks.

It is important to remember that if these two quarterbacks were coming out when there is a deep quarterback class (2012), they would both be third round picks.

Jameis Winston is most likely taking his baggage to Tampa Bay to become a member of the Bucs.

Retired QB and ESPN analyst Ron Jaworski had some interesting things to say about Winston.

“I’ve studied a lot of him,” Jaworski said on ESPN’s Mike & Mike show. “I think Jameis Winston has a big upside in the NFL, but there are some real flaws to his game. Quite honestly, I would not take him at that number one pick.

There are certainly mechanical flaws in his game that are troubling to me.”

A top ten pick, especially the number one pick should be a lock

to have a positive impact on a franchise for years to come. Personally, I would take Winston late in the first round.

He is a talented player, but needs to be “groomed” behind a good qb for a year or two.

Mariota is in the same boat, while he doesn’t have the same baggage as Winston, he has lots of question marks. The biggest knock on him is that he is a “system quarterback” (see Nick Foles in 2013). He is good in a good system, making him an O-K option for a team that already has plenty of talent.

More than 43% of his pass attempts last season traveled only five yards in the air, according to STATS LLC. Only 21% of his passes traveled more than 15 yards. He completed 56.3% of those deep throws; this is where

“system qb” comes into play. Mariota is still unable to not only scan the field, but he also has issues reading defenses.

The only team I would see him being a fit for early in the draft would be the Eagles (he played under Chip Kelly, who runs a QB friendly system).

When it comes to the NFL draft, teams tend to be “flashy” with their picks. Teams tend to reach for players that have a chance to save the franchise, not the players whom are actually worth the pick.

If I am a general manager on a rebuilding team with a top ten pick, odds are I would stay away from either of these QBs. These teams have plenty of holes, while picking in the top ten, it is important to pick someone who is going to quickly improve the roster.

Due to inclimate weather throughout the region, the spring seasons for MCLA are off to a slow start. Softball and baseball were scheduled to start MASCAC play last weekend against Salem State, but due to poor field conditions and bad weather, both teams were idle last weekend.

Softball was originally scheduled to play Salem State in a doubleheader on Saturday and then play another doubleheader against Skidmore College on Sunday. The games against Salem State have been postponed, while the games against Skidmore have been resheduled for next Tuesday, April 7.

The baseball team was orginally supposed to play a doubleheader against Salem State on Saturday

at home. Due to field conditions at the MCLA Athletic Complex, the games were rescheduled to take place at Salem State. The games were then pushed back till Sunday, but on Sunday it was announced that the games would be postponed.

Lacrosse also felt the wrath of winter, as their home opener against Mass. Maritime on Sunday was moved from North Adams to Westfield. They were also scheduled to play at home against Southern Vermont yesterday, but the game was postponed.

The Men’s tennis has already planned ahead, and has scheduled all of their upcoming games and practices at the indoor tennis facility in Bennington, VT.

Weather puts a hold MCLA student athletes work with Special Olympics on MCLA Athletics

Photo from MCLA Athletics

The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee cordinated it’s annual T.R.A.I.N. event on Sunday. The event pairs student-athletes with Special Olympians and teaches them about health and fitness.

Sports

Thursday, April 2, 2015

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Notre Dame’s fantasy season comes to an end

By Tyler Bacon Sports Writer

A wild three point attempt at the buzzer ended Notre Dame’s chances against an undefeated Kentucky Wildcats. The Notre Dame men’s basketball team lost a heart-breaker to Kentucky 6866 in the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament on Saturday night.

The only story people were talking about was if anyone could beat the undefeated Kentucky Wildcats in this 2015 NCAA tournament. The only question was if someone could stop Kentucky before they reach 40-0 and

a national championship. On Saturday night, Notre Dame would either do the impossible and knock off the Wildcats or just be another win in an already impressive undefeated season.

The Fighting Irish battled and had the lead for a majority of the game. They made Kentucky do something they were not used to doing the entire season; they made the Wildcats have to come back and win a game in the final seconds.

After senior Jerian Grant’s lastditch three point shot sailed by the rim, and the final buzzer sounded and the game was finally over, shock started to set it for the Irish. The players were left standing and staring at a scoreboard that was not going to change. The game was over.

Their great tournament run started with a masterful second half against Wichita State. Notre Dame’s confidence was through the roof going into their toughest game of the season. The Irish were

led all season by Coach Mike Brey and Seniors Jerian Grant and Pat Connaughton.

Everyone was talking about how good Kentucky was but on Saturday night Notre Dame made their case that they are pretty good too.

Kentucky is known for their incredible size and shot-blocking.

Notre Dame’s lone center, Zach Auguste, scored 20 points with all of his points coming in the paint.

He fearlessly attempted dunks and layups against the best shotblocking team in the country.

Notre Dame had a stunning performance. They made Kentucky look like an average college basketball team and not the team that has consistently destroyed teams by 30 points or more this season. Notre Dame could get any shot they wanted, from any place on the court they wanted for most of the game.

Notre Dame played the entire season with a small lineup and it was clear that Kentucky’s big men would cause major problems

for the Irish. Everyone knew that Coach John Calipari would pound the ball to freshman star Karl-Anthony Towns. Notre Dame’s only hope was that they could withstand Town’s inside touches and hoped he missed some easy shots.

It took the Wildcats to make their last nine shots in the final minutes to pull out the hardfought victory over the Fighting Irish and advance to the final four.

Notre Dame was picked to finish seventh in the ACC this season and shocked everyone when they came together as a team and finished third. They beat Duke and North Carolina on back-to-back nights to win their first ever conference championship.

The Irish posted the second most wins in the school’s history.

They finished with a 32-6 record.

They were hoping for one more day, one more practice, and one more chance to play basketball with the players they love and then, suddenly, everything was gone.

Final Four to feature coaching giants

By Luke DeCock

The News and Observer KRT Campus There’s no easy way to ask Tom Izzo about it, because the record is so ugly. Nine games against Duke, on some of the biggest stages college basketball has to offer. One Michigan State win.

So the question is asked, about Mike Krzyzewski: “He kind of has an advantage in the head-to-head ...”

At which point Izzo starts laughing. “Kind of?” he interrupted.

“You can’t have a rivalry when it’s 8-1.”

Izzo was able to laugh about it Monday, but it has to rankle him.

He has modeled so many aspects of his Michigan State program on what Krzyzewski has done at Duke, with tremendous success.

And yet Izzo has had almost no success against Krzyzewski, in the NCAA Tournament or otherwise.

With the exception of a 2005 win in the regional semifinals in Austin, Texas, where Michigan State upset top-seeded Duke and J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams,

Krzyzewski has had Izzo’s number every time. That includes the 1999 Final Four, the 2013 regional semifinal and the most recent meeting, a 10-point Blue Devils win four months ago. The teams meet again Saturday in the Final Four.

The programs are peers in so many other respects. Krzyzewski has gone to 12 Final Fours and Izzo seven, but Michigan State has more Final Fours and Elite Eight appearances since 2000.

They battled to the very end over Jabari Parker, and Michigan State was one of the first teams after Tyus Jones and Jahlil Okafor, as well.

(Ironically, one of the matchup advantages the Spartans may have Saturday is the ability to rotate two big bodies, Matt Costello and Gavin Schilling, against Okafor.

Schilling ended up with the scholarship earmarked for Parker.)

The on-the-court record belies just how many similarities the two programs have.

After winning the national title in 2000, Izzo said he wanted his program to be like Duke: consis-

tently competitive, a defined philosophy, by the rules.

“I guess I appreciate, being here as long as I have, someone who has been in the same place even longer,” Izzo said. “That isn’t easy to do, either. Expectations get so high. He’s a good coach, a classy guy and his players handle themselves the right way. You look at that program and say that’s where you would like yours (to be) someday. That’s what keeps me fighting.”

Izzo is far from unique in this respect _ Gonzaga’s Mark Few said last week, “literally everything we’ve tried to do at Gonzaga, we always ask, ‘What did Duke do here?’ “ _ but he’s had more success than just about anyone at it.

“Nothing surprises me that he and his program would do,” Krzyzewski said. “They don’t have a team. They have a program. As he develops each team, I don’t know what the time frame of it is before that group understands what the program is about, whether it be offense, defense or just character-wise, but they’re going to keep improving because

it’s a program. A program of excellence.”

There are significant differences.

While Krzyzewski has been determined to continue recruiting the kind of one-and-done talent this team is built around, Izzo very publicly backed away from that pool after losing out on Parker and others.

Duke recruits nationally, while Michigan State concentrates on the Midwest Michigan, Indiana and Ohio in particular. Michigan State plays a brutal, anyone-anywhere early schedule, while Duke rarely plays an actual road game until ACC play begins.

The results, though, are similar.

The two programs would have met in this same building in 2010 had Butler not upset Michigan State in the other semifinal.

Five years later, the Final Four is back in Indianapolis and so are Duke and Michigan State.

“As far as Mike, it’s almost unprecedented what he’s done,” Izzo said. “It’s good to have him around because I’m always chasing. Seven seems like a lot until you look at 12. Then it doesn’t seem as many.”

Tennis faults in conference opener

By Jesse Collings Sports Editor

The Men’s Tennis team came up short in its first conference game of the season, falling to Castleton State 6-3 in Rutland, Vermont on Saturday. MCLA drops to 0-2 on the season with a record of 0-1 in North Atlantic Conference play, while Castleton improved to 3-3 on the season and is now 1-0 in NAC play.

The match of the day took place in #1 singles play, where MCLA freshman Aaron Goldsmith took on Castleton sophomore Kyle Martin. Goldsmith claimed victo-

ry in the match, defeating Martin 7-6, 7-4. It was Goldsmith’s first victory of his young career, and he talked about what it meant to pick up his first victory after the game.

“It felt amazing when I won that last point. Definitely relieved a lot of stress and was a big confidence boost,” Goldsmith said. “The first win always is something special and it lets me know I can compete and win at this level.”

Castleton picked it up in the following singles matches. Junior Seth Marcil defeated Trailblazer sophomore Robert Wabshinak in the #2 singles match 6-0, 6-1 and junior Andrew Overton defeated

MCLA senior Taylor Krowitz 6-3, 6-2 in #3 singles play. Tyler Wilcox and Tyler Konopka also earned points in singles play for the Spartans, defeating Jeffery Mason and Michael Rooney respectively.

MCLA senior Tyler Russell burst onto the scene on Saturday, picking up victories in both singles and doubles play for the Blazers in his first game ever for MCLA. Russell disposed of Castleton freshman Aden Haji, 6-2, 6-1.

Castleton controlled doubles play as they took the top two matchups. Martin and Marcil defeated the team of Goldsmith and

Wabshinak in #1 doubles play, winning the match 8-4. Wilcox and Overton also claimed victory for the Spartans, defeating the duo of Krowitz and Mason 8-3.

Russell was back for MCLA though, teaming up with Rooney to pick up another point for MCLA as they defeated Haji and Konopka in #3 doubles play, 8-3.

The Blazers will continue conference play this weekend, when they play Green Mountain College on Friday and Colby-Sawyer on Saturday. On Wednesday they will travel to the Ocean State when they play Rhode Island College.

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Scores Baseball Sunday, March 29 MCLA vs Salem State PPD MCLA vs Salem State PPD Softball Saturday, March 28 MCLA vs Salem State PPD MCLA vs Salem State PPD Sunday, March 29 MCLA vs Skidmore Cancelled MCLA vs Skidmore Cancelled Lacrosse Sunday, March 29 MCLA vs Mass. Maritime @ Westfield, MA 11-6 L Men’s Tennis Saturday, March 28 MCLA @ Castleton State 6-3 L

Schedules Friday, April 3 Baseball MCLA @ Framingham State 10 am Softball MCLA @ Framingham State 11 am Baseball MCLA @ Framingham State 12 pm Softball MCLA @ Framingham State 1 pm Men’s Tennis MCLA vs Green Mountain @ Bennington, VT 3:30 pm Saturday, April 4 Lacrosse MCLA at Framingham State 12 pm Men’s Tennis MCLA vs Colby-Sawyer 4 pm Tuesday, April 7 Baseball MCLA vs Elms 3:30 pm Wednesday, April 8 Softball MCLA vs Amherst College 3:30 pm Baseball MCLA vs Union 3:30 pm

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Opinion

Thursday, April 2, 2015

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What is your favorite April Fools Day prank?

“Filling oreos with toothpaste.”

-Emily Law, 2017

“Fake scratch tickets, because the reaciton people have when they find out they didn’t really win a million dollars is priceless.”

-Alec Jacobs, 2017

“Probably putting salt in the sugar jar for morning coffee.”

-Nicole Hanson, 2016

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“My little brother’s birthday is on April 1st. When we were younger, I would wake him up and tell him it was April 2nd and that his birthday was canceled. It worked up until he was 13.”

-Katie Hickey, 2017

“Water in people’s gas tanks.”

-Mike McAndrew, 2018

Looking for that summer bod

By Makayla-Courtney McGeeney Managing Editor

April is here and I’ve been hearing and seeing people saying things about needing to lose a set amount of weight before May. Just to put that into context, that’s in four weeks and a friendly reminder that April is usually one of the busiest months for students.

I could tell you that it’s not possible to completely transform your body in four weeks, but that by making changes to your diet and lifestyle, you will improve the look of your body and potentially lose weight depending on your body. Everyone is different; for example if you’re male and simply stop drinking soda you’ll drop weight so quickly.

If you’re looking to gain muscle in four weeks, I wouldn’t push it because that requires more focus and planning with a respective diet and supplements to aid the building of muscles. Changes can be made in that little amount of time, but only if you’re goals are realistically set for that time frame. Losing 30 pounds wouldn’t be ideal.

As we continue to see snow in

this early spring season, it’s only right that you shed the winter weight by signing up for 5k’s in May and June; I know locally there are ones practically every weekend. Color Me Rad is quite popular around that time too and if you’re new to running, that one is the perfect fit to jump in and not be competitive.

In order to balance the stress of the end of the semester and that bikini bod, manage your time, diet and workout schedule. Record everything to stay on track and set aside time at the beginning of each week to plan meals.

It’ll be easier to grab a meal when it’s ready to go during or after a long study session.

Also, take advantage of short breaks and sunshine and walk a lap or run to the gym for a quick lifting session. Anything to get your heart rate up will help.

There’s also the emotional mentality of feeling comfortable in your summer bod, and some people may not ever feel comfortable, but hey, there is a huge selection of bathing suit types and research to find one that fits your body type. It will be hot and you will be miserable if you’re uncomfortable.

Try avoiding study snacking and stick to quality meals because we all know a box of Triscuits and cheese won’t last under stress and deadlines.

In addition to being busy and consumed, remember to keep yourself healthy and strong so that getting sick doesn’t hinder a healthier lifestyle.

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Films that never leave us

By Shirin Hijab

Arts & Entertainment Editor Like most people, I want every movie I watch to be an exhilarating experience and to expand my thoughts on film and all that idealistic truckload of shattered dreams. It’ll be a year since I’ve seen “Vanishing Waves” (in Lithuanian, its name is “Aurora,” easily confused with the Romanian film “Aurora”—its time to rewatch that film about marital love gone horrifically wrong soon).

“Vanishing Waves” is a film that could go unrecognized for a few more decades until some notable critic that people listen to says, “Hey, maybe it’s time we look at this Lithuanian gem.”

It details the story of a man who is testing new technology that helps him, when he’s sleeping, get into the mind of a comatose woman, who he inhabits a mental space with. Sexually, that is. And he’s in a relationship with a woman who is not comatose. Kristina Buožytė, the director, has explored in her first feature film the colorful world of infidelity, all its happiness and torment, in a way that is only comparable to Bergman in its finesse.

But it’s so different, bringing in the technology that facilitates infidelity and its revelation. She mostly deals with the revelation in her first film “The Collectress” where she shows a self-made vid-

eo of her best friend’s lover having sex with someone else. “The Collectress” evokes strongly Eric Rohmer’s “La collectionneuse” which depicts a sexist art collector and two other men who are after a woman, but at the same time, as they claim, they aren’t after her and are indifferent.

The story of “Vanishing Waves” is mostly left to the images themselves; there’s enough talking to carry it along and know what’s going on (for the most part). As you can imagine, the scientific experiment falls apart and so does our protagonist’s relationship, and then there’s Peter von Poehl’s soundtrack, starkly different from his singer-songwriter work and takes us back to the 80s and early 90s in Poland with the films of Krzysztof Kieślowski. Maybe that’s a step too far; Buožytė and Kieślowski are working in different cinemas with different visions and goals.

Maybe it’s a case of some of us getting attached to certain films and ignoring the rest but “Vanishing Waves” is at least in part original, with its blend of speculative science and infidelity but also with its use of a precise cinematography that tells us little—it mostly overwhelms us.

Maybe its best aspect is the terror that some science fiction inflicts upon our minds; “2001: A Space Odyssey,” some episodes of “Doctor Who,” and there are plenty more. And virtuality is perhaps a horrifying reality for most people living today. In this film, the virtual world has made a freakishly close grab at reality.

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Photo Essay

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RPS Recycling

Fashion show winners left to right Abby Lucas (3rd Place), Kircys Canela (Second Place), and Sam Giffen (First Place).

Residential Programs and Services host its 3rd annual Recycling Fashion Show in Venable Gym last week Thursday.

Photos by Amber Coombe

First place winner Sam Giffen walks down the runway with a dress made with paint pallet samples, reused fabric, ad other recycables.

Jenior Josh Reynolds hold the microphone for model senior Even Pirnie.

All of the models presenting their outfits to the audience.

Junior Ames poses with an outfit

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