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Red tape causes vacuum in party scene

by Aria Parikh News Writer The first weekend of the semester saw party-goers, especially first-years, standing in line outside Delta Upsilon. This continued until the early hours of the morning, when they realized they would not get in and returned to their dorms. These long lines can be chalked up to a decrease in open parties on campus.

Various upperclassmen have attributed this void in the party scene to the stringent policies enforced by the administration that make hosting open parties very troublesome. Before being

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allowed to host events, hosts have to receive comprehensive training from Andrew Barclay, assistant director of student activities and leadership, among other event registration processes.

“Being someone who has worked extensively with Andrew Barclay to discuss the party scene situation, I blame the void on excessive red tape associated with throwing a party. The party hosts take on all of the party’s liability.

As a party host, you are required to monitor the party space closely and remain sober the entire time.

In addition, one of the party hosts must be [at least] 21 years old.

These rules make it more difficult

to throw parties and put more responsibility on the shoulders of the hosts, which is stressful and annoying,” said Vice President of Phi Psi Jack Ryan ’18. Phi Psi is currently under suspension and cannot throw parties until the end of this semester.

Barclay stressed both the importance of hosts being trained to provide a fun, safe inclusive party experience and the safety of guests while attending open events. While training is mandatory for hosts, he voiced his support for events like ‘Party Like A Swattie’ and discussed ways in which to party safer.

“We also work directly with

hosts leading up to events to ensure they are supported and have what they need to make their event a success. Beyond the work that I do with hosts, I consider event safety a shared responsibility between hosts and guests.

Both are critical towards providing a safe and inclusive environment,” Barclay said.

With these guidelines, there have been a limited number of open parties on campus. Delta Upsilon has been operational every Thursday and Saturday night since the start of the semester, and fraternity members have taken notice of the long lines forming outside their house on

those evenings.

“We’ve had really long lines, and I’ve had friends telling me that they’ve just waited in line for 30 minutes and haven’t been able to get in. Usually Phi Psi and DU share the capacity,” said social chair of DU Dimitri Kondelis ’20.

Dimitri believes queues outside DU parties are impacted by rules and regulations regarding the number of people allowed to be present in the house at a given time.

“SwatTeam limits how many people we can let in and regulates the party space. If they think there [are] too many people, they continued on page A2

Food truckathon returns to the Ville

Thursday DU and Pub Night are hosting “So you think you can party like a Swattie?” Nina Harris, Josh Ellow, Andrew Barclay, SwatTEam, PubNite, and DU will be partnering together to talk about isues such as bystander intervention, alcohol and other drugs, and other things related to Swarthmore’s party culture. The event will take place from 7-8 pm in Upper Tarble.

Discover Swarthmore, an admissions event that provides all expenses paid admission trip to Swarthmore for high achieving high school students will start on Thursday morning and go through Saturday.

Saturday Surviving Swat: A Self Care Retreat will be held from 10am to 4pm in the Scheuer Room and will be lead by Dr. Phyllis Hubbard of Radiant Wellness Strategies. The retreat will focus on dealing with stress, healing, and establishing healthy boundaries as well as creating a personal plan for wellness.

Monday The Latinx Heritage Month committee is hosting a kick off event for a month long celebration of Latinx heritage. The kick-off will be at 5pm in the Scheuer room include pizza, loteria, and discussion. The committee will continue to hold events throughout the month.

Tuesday The wellness education team will host Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Diversity at 9p.m. in Alice Paul lounge. The seminar is designed to help make sure you are in charge of your own development when it comes to alcohol and other drugs.

Weather Phoenix Arizona will experience temperatures in the high 80s to mid 90s. There is a zero percent chance of rain any day next week so Phoenixians can probably pack their umbrellas away.

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Students ventured into the Ville on Saturday morning to take advantage of food trucks from around Philadelphia.

College reaffirms network security

by Tai Thongthai News Writer On July 30, a fake email was sent out to the Swarthmore student population in the name of the registrar, Martin Warner. The identity of the perpetrator are being kept confidential by the Swarthmore College Computer Society (SCCS), but such an incident begs the question of how secure is the college’s network technology infrastructure is.

Phrased in layman’s terms by representatives of SCCS, the majority of the real world cyber attacks are from bad actors scanning for exposed or unprotected home devices. They send out server requests through the network, scrolling through servers upon servers until they stumble upon an unprotected device. And exposed unprotected devices can be exploited.

The Swarthmore network is no exception, since the servers are run by publicly exposed IP addresses. According to a member of SCCS, the college’s network continually runs into foreign server scans and requests looking for unprotected devices. “[There are] queries coming into our server from all over the world every few seconds that are just random servers looking for open ports every few seconds …

I think a lot of the people aren’t really aware of the sheer volume [of attacks] that comes towards the servers that are maintained by the SCCS and the Swarthmore Information Technology Service (ITS),” said a representative of SCCS. “And despite that, the ITS and the Official Swarthmore Servers get massive, massive amounts of malicious traffic.

And as students we effectively never see the result of that.”

Keeping in mind this structure of attack, ITS has implemented measures to preemptively precontinued on page A2

College announces student employment updates

by Ganesh Setty and Evangela Shread Managing Editor, News Editor Yesterday, the college held a press briefing with the Phoenix and Daily Gazette announcing developments to student employment issues on campus.

Notably, the college announced plans for a new portal on MySwat called JobX, which will centralize the job search and application process online.

Vice President of Finance and Administration Greg Brown explained one of the reasons for implementing JobX. “The college has a commitment to giving priority to students who have work as part of their financial aid package, but we haven’t been consistent in making sure that that happens,” he said.

Director of Services and Financial Aid Kristin Moore underscored the reasons for

JobX’s implementation and described how the system will work.

“The system will streamline your understanding of where to go to find a job, how to apply for a job, and where you stand in the process, which has been a huge question for students,” she said. “Not getting a response from an employer when they’ve not been hired, and waiting a week or two is a huge detriment.”

In particular, JobX will allow students’ basic information to be automatically submitted into the system from MySwat.

The system will offer a centralized application for all jobs on campus with additional dropdown menus for some jobs and will have a place to upload a resume. All jobs offered by the college will be posted on the portal, including one-time offerings and summer jobs.

The college’s administra-

tion plans to roll out JobX this spring when they hire RAs, GAs, DPAs, and SAMs for the next academic year. JobX should be fully implemented by the fall 2018 semester.

The Phoenix will continue coverage of student employment changes in its next issue.

Mountain Justice joins national group Sunrise, broadens goals

by Reuben Gelley-Newman News Writer After a busy past year, Mountain Justice is rebranding. They’ve joined Sunrise, a national “movement to stop climate change and create millions of jobs in the process,” according to their website.

“Last year I remember hearing about Mountain Justice just about every week,” said Matt Palmer ’18, who has not been part of environmental groups at Swarthmore. From a campuswide panel about divestment to a sit-in in President Smith’s office, the climate justice organization was incredibly visible last year. This year, they’re trying something different, but they hope their impact on campus will be even greater.

Sunrise was launched this past June by a group of 12

people, including four Swarthmore Mountain Justice alumni.

The founders come from different sects of the climate justice movement, including the environmental organization 350. org and anti-pipeline groups as well as pro-divestment activists. With these varied backgrounds, Sunrise aims to mobilize Americans concerned about climate change and pressure elected officials into action. Swarthmore’s “hub,” or chapter, will remain focused on Mountain Justice’s original mission of getting organizations to divest from fossil fuels while pursuing these broader goals.

“Divestment has done an incredible job in building people power … It’s mobilized thousands of young people across hundreds of campuses, and that’s so exciting,” said

Aru-Shiney Ajay ’20, a coordinator for Swarthmore’s Sunrise hub. “But … it’s not enough to just have people mobilized and ready to protest. We also need to make sure that our elected representatives are going to be standing up for climate action; we need to be able to take power at the highest levels of government … And it’s out of this recognition that Sunrise really arose, that while we’ve been doing good work we need to do so much more in order to win.”

Nationally, Sunrise has already made a splash, particularly at one of their #ShineALight events in August.

September Porras ’18 crowdfunded her way into a fundraiser to confront Marco Rubio on his donations from the fossil fuel industry. At the event, Porras couldn’t speak to Rubio continued on page A2

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Network security continued from A1 vent exposed ports and vulnerability to the general requests.

Thus, Swarthmore is generally secure when it comes to common cyber attacks. In the words of an SCCS representative, the Swarthmore network is not a “low hanging fruit” when it comes to general cyber attacks.

“There are literally tens of thousands of probes of Swarthmore’s network every hour — the security systems we have in place protect our network and campus from any intrusions,” wrote ITS Chief Joel Cooper in an email.

Aside from protecting the Swarthmore network from common attacks, ITS is also vigilant in other types of attacks. According to Cooper, arguably the most

challenging part of maintaining network security at Swarthmore is preventing phishing attacks.

“You get an email from Amazon that looks so real telling you they just delivered you new flatscreen TV except you didn’t order one. You panic, click the link, enter your username and password, and you’ve been phished,” Cooper explained in an email.

To match the growing sophistication of the phishing attacks, ITS has made changes in improving its defenses. This year, ITS is implementing the DUO two-factor authentication to its network security system.

According to the ITS website, the DUO system adds an “additional identity verification by

requesting something you know (your username and password) along with something you have (a mobile phone, tablet, or landline).”

The Swarthmore network is quite secure when it comes to non-target specific attacks, but the nature of the fake Martin Warner email is a target specific attack. According to Professor of Computer Science Jeffrey Knerr, though Swarthmore’s network system is highly fortified like Google, Yahoo, or Facebook servers, the college’s network system is not completely invulnerable to any attacks.

“We strive to make it difficult for our systems to be breached.

However, as in the physical world, if someone is highly

motivated enough to break into something (a building or a computer), they’re going to find a way given sufficient time and resource,” Cooper wrote in an email.

Furthermore, it is also much easier to hack into a system, if a bad actor already has an account on the given domain. According to Knerr, it is much easier to access and navigate a given system when a person already has an account on the domain.

“I don’t think any system is totally secure, especially once they’re on the system. Like if you were talking about working at Google. Is Google secure?

Well if I have an account on Google servers and I want to do evil, it’s much easier for me to

do that if I’m already in, ” said Knerr.

And although the fake email attack was slightly more sophisticated, since the person must have had domain specific knowledge about computers, SCCS assures that it is nothing to worry about.

“In some ways, they were extremely naive because they left trails all through our logs.

We had information about the person in six different places on our server, and it was not very hard to figure out who it was.

So it wasn’t somebody who was anywhere near talented enough to actually carry out this attack with any kind of success, because they got caught basically instantly,” said an SCCS Repre-

sentative.

Furthermore, SCCS assured that with the protections set in place, items such as a student’s financial information stored on the Banner and MySwat are essentially impenetrable, unlike older less secure systems such as email.

Though no technological system is always fully secure, the college’s technology community and administrators are continuously finding ways to improve the system, and taking steps to ensure that the students, staff, and faculty at Swarthmore are cyber-secure.

Party space, continued from A1 won’t let anybody in, so we can’t really do anything about that,” Kondelis said.

SwatTeam, too, has their hands tied. SwatTeam Manager Layla Hazaineh ’20 mentioned that each building has a maximum number of people that can be accommodated in accordance with various safety procedures. According to Hazaineh, SwatTeam merely adheres to these restrictions by regulating the number of people in party venues.

NuWave, an organization that aims to provide party alternatives to the fraternities, also hosts weekend parties that are an option for students. On Sept. 9, the same night as DU’s “Disorientation” party, NuWave hosted

the “Class of 2021’s 1st Birthday,” which they believe was very well attended.

“There were way too many people looking for parties — it was a combination of people who didn’t like the frat parties and were looking for another place to party on campus, combined with the fact that the party space at the frat got slashed in half that created this whole almost pressure to create other parties so that people could go out,” said Roberto Jimenez ’18, a member of NuWave.

This year, with more than half of their executive board studying abroad, NuWave is in the process of recruiting new members to help plan future parties.

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“I think there will be some form of recruiting for new members, especially from the freshmen. I think once that gets figured out, there will be a little more organization, and we’ll be able to throw a lot more events,” Jimenez said.

With few open parties to attend, people are resorting to throwing private parties in their rooms — a situation that can potentially pose a higher risk for both students and the administration.

“I think the administration should prefer to have the drinking … where they can regulate it, instead of indoors where students think they’re safer. But it’s not actually as safe as there’s no one looking out for them and no one knows how much they’re drinking,” said Izzy McClean ’20.

These sentiments were echoed

by Ryan as well, who felt that students found it easier to throw unofficial parties in their dorm rooms instead of jumping through hoops to get the required permissions to host official open parties.

“I believe that the increased regulations have made the costs of throwing parties outweigh the benefits. Public Safety doesn’t let partygoers play water pong anymore. There is just too much

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scrutiny over the parties that it makes it more work than it’s worth,” said Ryan, who believes that the college should put more trust in the student body to make good decisions.

“Swarthmore used to rely on the maturity of the students to throw responsible parties, and it feels like we are no longer being treated with such liberty,” he said.

Administration has not heard feedback on the issue, but is will-

ing to listen to student concerns.

“I have not received any feedback that students are taxed by hosting responsibilities, but I am always open to hearing feedback about how I can better support students having safe parties that meet the expectations outlined in the student handbook. If hosts are following those expectations they greatly minimize any liability when hosting events on campus,” said Barclay.

Despite the crowds these past weekends, some first-years seemed to have learned how to have a good night out on campus.

“Just get there a bit earlier because the lines aren’t as long,” said Oliver Tennenbaum ’21.

The conversation around party scenes will continue until the students and the administration reach a consensus on how events should be regulated.

ronmental groups working on campus, and sustainability and environmental awareness are stated goals of the administration.

“Institutionally, Swarthmore College recognizes the importance of addressing climate change, using natural resources in a sustainable manner, and educating its community to be responsible stewards of the environment,” says Swarthmore’s Sustainability website.

In an email, Sustainability Director Aurora Winslade affirmed the administration’s support of students working to fight climate change, and that the Office of Sustainability has opened a dialogue with Sunrise.

“I am not familiar with the specifics of the Sunrise Movement,” she said, “but I applaud the leadership and engagement of our students and alums in these issues … The Office of Sustainability is happy to work

with all students and student groups who are interested in sustainability. For example, sustainability program manager Melissa Tier ’14 recently invited representatives from the Sunrise Movement to present to the College’s Green Advisors.”

Like Winslade, Matthew Palmer ’18 is unfamiliar with Sunrise, but he thinks it shows promise.

“I can’t say I’m familiar with Sunrise,” Palmer said, “but it seems like a really good set of goals and a way to broaden their exposure and provide students with new perspectives. I like that they’re targeting other issues rather than specifically divestment. I think that policy measures and things of that nature might be more effective than trying to lobby the administration for how they invest their endowment.”

Despite their broader focus,

Sunrise will continue Mountain Justice’s effort to pressure the administration to divest. They will remain focused on holding the administration accountable along with the rest of the Swarthmore community, arguing for change not only in rhetoric but in action.

“Right now it’s almost seen as enough if someone says, ‘Oh, I support the Paris agreements,’ and they’re hailed as a climate champion,” said AjayShiney. “And we’re saying that’s actually not enough. It’s not enough for the administration to be having a recycling run on campus, it’s not enough for this small carbon tax. We need to address things at an institutional level.”

asked if it was true that Nirvana played, and agreed to play a show once they learned it was true.

Calypso Baby performed some of their beloved numbers like “Lily” and “Fuck Fuck” and also premiered a new song “Gay Tutor”. Lead singer Blake Oetting was observed to be working the crowd with his irascibile charisma and sheer stage presence as usual.

Diet Cig performed an energetic set which featured much jumping by the lead singer.

Keyboardist for Calypso Baby Dina Ginzberg ’18 said her group felt good about their performance and that everyone in the crowd was enamored with the band.

“Everyone fell in love with the lead singer she was super sweet and it was a really fun show. The whole band was super friendly and nice.”

Noah Ruben, ’18, Drummer for Calypso baby noted the positive vibes of the night’s show. “It felt like everyone, including Alex and noah, were having a good time. I thought the set-list was well done and that Alex was reading the room pretty well.”

Willa Glickman, ‘18, attended the show with several of her friends and she expressed her delight with the show.

“Diet Cig had a really energetic sound and matched with some really energetic jumping by the main singer. They were able to get a full crowd moving which is what I am looking for on a friday night,” Glickman said.

Details about the October 6th show will be announced as soon as they are known.

Mountain Justice, continued from A1 directly, so she called out in the room.

“Senator, if you really care about young Americans,” she said, “why did you take threequarters of a million dollars from fossil fuel executives in your last Senate election?”

PolitiFact Florida rated Porras’ claim half-true because the number she cited included funds from Rubio’s 2016 presidential run as well.

According to PolitiFact Florida, Rubio avoided the question. He said he was glad he lived “in America where she can say that,” as opposed to some other countries where she could “go to jail. He then called for the U.S. to achieve energy independence.

“It was our kickoff event for Sunrise across the nation,” Porras said. The event was videotaped and is available online.

Although Sunrise’s other actions probably won’t be as

dramatic as Porras’ confrontation of Rubio, Porras said her actions were in keeping with the group’s goal of putting pressure on elected officials.

“The point is less to make our elected officials suddenly change their minds about climate change … [and] more to show people how corrupt they are,” said Porras.

To work toward this goal and mobilize young people, Sunrise has planned a full calendar of events both nationwide and here at Swarthmore. This Tuesday they had a watch party in Roberts with a livestream from national Sunrise leaders. Over the course of the semester, they plan on talking to community members about what they love and have to lose from climate change, gathering objects that represent individuals’ concerns.

They aim to put these objects in a time capsule and take them to Harrisburg, Pa., when they

march on the state capitol in November. That month, they’ll also be marching in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with other Sunrise hubs, protesting President Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s representation of the U.S. at the Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany.

Although they’ll be protesting global events, Swarthmore’s Sunrise hub will still be focused locally.

“Sunrise functions on an intersectionality basis … and they recognize that fighting for climate [justice] in different communities looks different,” Porras said. “I think here, we’re really focusing on fracking in Pennsylvania … and for Swat that would also translate to still working with on divestment, because for us that’s what looks like climate work in our community.”

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ARTS Diet Cig performs at Olde Club Joe Mariani Arts Editor The crispness of fall came early and the Olde Club show started late last Friday evening. That night the first major concert with an off-campus group performing went off without a hitch. It featured music from two experimental pop groups, By 10 p.m a crowd had already started to form and it was sizable though it still allowed for room to move around and breath in. Calypso Baby, a Swarthmore student band, played first and premiered a new song.

They were met with hearty applause from their numerous loyal fans in the audience. The difficult to classify but rapidly gaining in fame group “Diet Cig” headlined the night. The band’s popularity

has taken since they performed a NPR Tiny Desk concert, and Friday’s show was their last stateside gig before setting off their European tour.

Diet Cig describes itself on its website as “two homies just making tunes and eggs on the regs.”,These particular homies are called Alex Luciano, who plays on guitar/vocals, and Noah Bowman who drums. The duo formed in September 2014 in New Paltz, New York after meeting when Alex interrupted Noah while he was performing at a house show to ask for a light for a cigarette.

Noah gave Alex a bottle of wine instead, apparently lacking a means of combustion. After a series of successful tours and albums, they released their new album Swear I’m Good At This was earlier this year.

Olde is a student run concert space, and so accordingly Friday’s show was organized by Julian Turner ’18 and Gabriel Meyer-Lee ’19. Meyer-Lee explained that booking the band was not to difficult.

“Diet Cig’s agents had a night open on their tour in the Philly area and we thought Diet Cig would be perfect for our first show of the semester,” Meyer-Lee recounted.

The choice of a student band was made based on the complementary sounds of the two acts, Meyer-Lee explained.

“Calypso Baby! was the natural choice because their synth-punk is a great complement to Diet Cig’s pop punk,” Gaberial said.

Turner and Meyer-Lee were really happy with the turnout and plan to have another show at Olde

Club on October 6th, though the details have not been finalized yet.

Turner, who listened to Diet Cig even before they were booked at Swat, got a chance to meet the band before the show as everything was being set-up.

He reflected positively on their personal interactions.

“The band was real cool and friendly. Creative people who really just love playing music.

They’re right in the middle of a tour and getting ready to head out to Europe so they were real tired but still brought lots of energy and enthusiasm,” Turner recounted Turner then added that he learned that the drummer Noah had one of the band performed at Olde Club back in 2004 with his first band. Noah’s band’s manager

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Fritz Dietel translates an artificial nature

by Andi Cheng Arts Writers Looming in the tall, glass windows, a gigantic, wooden mushroom floats weightlessly as though it had just stepped out of a children’s storybook.

Jagged and cracked in places like the shell of a hatching chick, “Champignon” by Donald J. Gordon visiting artist and lecturer Fritz Dietel, nonetheless shimmers a smooth, honey rich amber, polished to a tee.

“From the lobby you can see the head of the mushroom’s face which is a very different shape, and from the gallery, you see this beautiful interlacing of wood fragments that together form its stem. I love the translucency of the stem NS the way there are these broken bits that let you explore or imagine the interior,” said Andrea Packer, director of the List Gallery.

On the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 19, the List Gallery hosted a gallery opening and reception for Dietel’s show, “Fritz Dietel: 25 Years”.. An overview of Dietel’s work throughout

his career, the show will be on display in the List Gallery until Oct. 22.

Hidden behind a wall, the tall, tapering form of “Sentinel” glows peacefully. Comprised of long, gently flexed and carefully cut planks of Douglas fir, the symmetrical shape of the sculpture creates a small sphere of quiet tranquility in the midst of the energetic, curving, and jagged forms of the rest of Dietel’s works. The gentle, orange light emanating from the heart of the artwork only strengthens this peaceful aura. Furthermore, the combination of golden wood and rich, warm light imbues the sculpture with a quality that almost pulsates in the harsh white of the room, creating an impression reminiscent of the warm purple mauve of summer nights spent looking up at a cloud of fireflies.

“I am currently taking sculpture, so I’m trying to see how light interacts with my own piece. I’ve always thought about it sort of like a lamp, but then I saw that Fritz doesn’t really consider [his piece] a lamp. He

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considers it a sculpture where light is an element. I think when he works around that way, it allows him to make incredible pieces like this … this is radiating its own light and it makes its own shadows, instead of just having something else make a shadow,” said James Garcia ’19.

Arching off the wall, “Tufts” almost seems like a viper, ready to strike. The sharp, unyielding spikes on the spheres at its two ends and the tightly yet chaotically bound rods comprising its serpentine undulations combine to inject the piece with this tense, tight, almost violent energy. At the “head” of the sculpture, the spiked sphere opens wide to reveal a deep darkness inside that contrasts with the bright, almost neon, acid green resin visibly binding and holding

the entire piece together, further highlighting the mysteriousness of this piece that is at once wood and snake, natural and artificial. “[Tufts]” feels like it’s a form from nature that has been enlarged, that’s animate. I feel like my eyes are opened wider as I look at it. It’s hauntingly familiar yet extraordinary and different,” said Packer. “As you can see when looking at it, [Dietel] has created these naturalistic forms using this artificial material of epoxy. Not only that, the epoxy is pigmented with an unusual green that’s sort of less familiar in the natural world. And so it combines the natural and the artificial in surprising ways. We try to reconcile those things that we usually consider opposites.”

Stabbing into the air, the arrow-like central form of “Flame”

is at once strengthened and softened by the curving, helical coils of its outer structure. Colored a deep, patchy forest green, the central structure appears aged and weathered, marked at its top with an orange ellipse at one point as if the branch had grown even taller before being chopped down to size. While the central form is composed of long, continuous branches, the coiled outer form is far more complex, built into an intricate configuration of a multitude of short, greenish black branches.

As it travels up the central structure, the coils become further and further apart until it ultimately straightens out, echoing the line of the central structure and pushing the piece to even greater heights “[“Flame” is] really a dialogue

Screaming at the dark: the viewing experience of “A Period of Animate Existence”

Cristopher Alvarado Arts Writer

thrown into the disarray of human extinction.

On Thursday, the Lang Music Department housed an experimental work of fantastic theatrical imagination. Created by the composer/filmmaker Troy Herion, scenic designer Mimi Lien, and director Dan Rothenberg ’95, this play challenged the audience to envision a future of rapid change and unpredictable technology. Performers from the Crossing, Philadelphia Boys Choir/Philadelphia Girls Choir, Philomusica, and Contemporaneous took to the stage in a synthesis of collaborative arts.

Provided with the “first look” of this new work, this mindblowing experience requires several viewings to truly grasp the ambition and purpose of each movement. This work of art is recommended for all Swatties and will officially premiere at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania during the 2017 Fringe Festival.

The first 15 rows of seats are full of animate students, faculty, and Swarthmore community members alike. We’re all anxiously expecting the unexpected in unison. Impatiently, we wait for the curtains to open and I can feel a mysterious energy permeating the cold auditorium. I take a moment to ask a couple students around me their thoughts in anticipation of the play. To my left, my friend Danielle looks ahead, waiting for the play to start.

“I’m excited to watch it and I hope it’s not too long...It’s so cold!” whispered Danielle Rossetti ‘21.

After a couple minutes, the crowd grows still, and the silence prompts the arrival of Dan Rothenberg, director of the Iron Theatre Company, onto the stage. Addressing the audience, he announces that the play would last five movements, modeled after a symphony. For this performance, Mr. Rothenburg tells us that a number of the visuals would be incomplete, but that the music and visuals would be presented in their full form. With that, we’re instantly

As the lights dim, an ominous mood is cast upon us as we are lost to the darkness of the first movement. Screeching, the primal sounds of brass and dissonance of the strings fill the auditorium and near me, I hear someone whisper “I’m afraid” In front of us, nothing has changed, a sign of how crucial the visuals must be for these moments of intensity. All of the sudden, as the pitter-pattering of percussion peaks, the screech of the flute ends the calamity.

The curtains open and we’re presented with an ensemble of instrumentalists in aluminumspace suits, led by their conductor. Long silver tubes slither along the stage, breathing through inanimate oddity. As the music swells to a conclusion, the movement ends abruptly.

I can’t help but feel utterly perplexed, acknowledging that what I had just seen was beyond my imagination. The crowd turn their heads towards one another, searching for an answer. A couple seats to my left, I overhear one of the students uttered a couple words.

“That was a celestial experience” proclaimed Nada Quakyi, ’21.

After a couple minutes of overwhelming conversation, two little girls walk across the stage with a hefty white sign, signaling the beginning of the second movement. A man with a cello appears alone on stage and belts out, “Humans have no advantage over animals as one dies, so does the other”. In a zombie-like trance, a flock of people walk across the stage, rocking back and forth as they sing in unison, “Keep our children safe and sound”.

In a separate segment of the act, the chorus lines up on the floor next to each other, with the exception of four women. In beautiful synchronization, the chorus continues a flowing hand choreography on the ground as the women, in the corner facing away from the audience, sing the chorus in peculiar fashion.

“Something always was, some-

thing else will be”. As the floor choreography concludes, the singers on the floor stand. Looking directly at us, they hold their hands up. Their defiance to their crumbling world startles me, as the chorus has awakened from their lethargy and sprung into deep, vocal action. As the chorus concludes its final lines, it all, once again, ends abruptly.

As we await the next movement, a woman plays an exquisite melody on her harp.

The delicate playing is suddenly accompanied by the entrance of a cast member, who proceeds to talk about the marshmallow test.

This small sketch comes off as entirely random, but completely disarms me of any expectations.

As the curtains roll, we see what appears to be a gyro cart with a neon sign displaying scrolling messages atop. When the messages begin to repeat in a cycle, unsettling static sends shivers down everyone’s spines. In white font, the cart appears to speak to us, writing “Do you think I am not my body?”.

What ensues is an interaction with an inanimate so incredibly eerie and unusual that I held my mouth open throughout the remainder of the movement. As the cart “speaks” to the audience, we’re left contemplating the position of humans in our world of evolving AI and machines. During one dramatic instance, words in green font flash on the neon sign. Oxygen.

Dirt. Wood. Fire. Metal. Plastic.

Waste. Magic. Night. Siblings.

Generation. “Humans are the reproductive organs of machines.”

As the screen turns once again to black, the cart writes to everyone once more. “Let us learn and find what every god learns the hard way. The right to immortality is no privilege”. This movement is without a doubt the most imaginative and chilling of the three so far, and it leaves an indelible mark on my psyche.

At this midway point, I once again ask for remarks regarding the theatre acts seen. To my right, my friend Cindy has been left speechless, but I wait for her reply.

“I love this. Like, I like that it makes me feel things, but I don’t

know what I’m feeling.” - Cindy Serrato ‘21 The fourth movement seems to be the core of the entire play, as it is the least abstract and incorporates regular talking and discussion. At the beginning, a tiny blonde girl stands on a wooden block and speaks into the microphone, introducing herself to us. When the curtains open behind her, we see a collection of seniors and children holding models of planets in their hands, singing in harmony.

This sense of peace, absent in every other part of the work, doesn’t last for long, however. As one of the children tells a horrifying tale of the world’s fate, everyone disperses in fear.

In the following sections, we see the little blond girl interview her always-working mother and fragile grandmother, each accepting the state of Earth and their position within it. Nonetheless, the children rebel the impotence of the generations before them, marching onto the stage with tiny red hats shouting “There’s no hope left, but I hope I’ll still be here”. Seeing these children so furious makes me feel weary of my own idleness and how significant preparing a better place for these kids is.

Near the end, a death occurs

on stage, propelling the movement into one of grief. The effect of this scene cause everyone alarm. The little girl, anguished, communicates with nature and asks for help. Her fellow peers want to aid as well, but they simply don’t understand her emotions. The children continue to march, crying “Don’t forget my name, don’t forget my face”.

Even the mother cannot contain herself, as her tears pour onto the stage. We’re reminded of how significant a single human life is, even as tragedies seem to occur almost every day.

The final performance is a reprise of the first. The seniors come out with the models of the planets seen. However, as it seems everything is continuously being passed down from, especially the burdens of the universe, we see the children take a model one by one. By far the longest movement, the performances overstay their welcome just a bit, but the grand statements remain well worth our time.

By the beginning of the final movement, my curiosity holds no bounds. Three black mats with glowing circles are placed onto the floor. In the background, several men and women clad in red and white in ritual

between two pieces. They were actually two separate pieces at one time, and along the way, about three years ago, I realized I had one piece in my studio that I didn’t like and didn’t really get rid of, and the other spiral form was there in the studio. For some reason, I put them together, and those two pieces have been in my studio separately for maybe 20 years,” said Dietel. “When I’m stuck, I go back in my studio and start playing with forms and adding them together. If I’m building a body of work, sometimes I’ll go back and see that new work and how that might relate to older pieces. We’re developing another language.”

clothing appear. These singers commence their humming and two wrestlers take the center stage to fight. As the brawling progresses, their movement becomes mechanical. Other wrestlers step onto the opposing mats and repeat the same movement.

Carefully choreographed and mystifying in its execution, we observe wrestlers enter and leave the stage as the dissonance behind them reverberates in our ears. Eventually, only a singular wrestler remains, fighting with himself. He struggles in the glowing circle with an invisible opponent, who might very well be himself, for the rest of eternity. Although so incredibly difficult to interpret, I’d like to think that humanity has settled for rote progress and has become its own worst enemy.

After the performers all bowed, I left the auditorium in a daze. Unable to really put my own feelings into words when exiting, it seems appropriate to quote Nada.

“After watching this play, my period of animate existence has changed”.

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The power of a name If you can think back to your first couple of weeks on campus, whether that was a week ago or three years ago, you will probably remember being very confused about where things were. Whether you showed up at

EDITORIAL the Lang Performing Arts Center for a class that was supposed to be in the Lang Center for Civic and Social Engagement, or your friend told you they lived in Danawell when they really meant they lived in Hallowell you aren’t alone. Swarthmore is known for being especially difficult for newcomers to navigate; building signs are small, and maps are few and far between.

What makes this campus even more difficult to navigate is the fact that many of the buildings do not have their own distinct names.

A prime example right now is the PPR Apartments. Instead of coming up with a new name for the brand new dorm, which is its own separate building, the college chose to call it the PPR Apartments. Not only is the name PPR already taken, but it is also already confusing enough as it combines three different buildings into one.

So why doesn’t the college give these buildings real names?

In addition to reducing confusion around campus, giving these buildings official names will give the college an opportu-

nity to honor notable alumni or community members. President Valerie Smith reminds us that “by choosing to come or return to Swarthmore, [we] renew [our] commitment to the core values of a liberal arts education.” It seems like choosing notable alumni that’s life works are in line with our mission and core values would be a good way to do just that.

According to the college’s written objectives and purposes, the college aims to “help its students realize their full intellectual and personal potential combined with a deep sense of ethical and social concern.”

We understand that many buildings are named after people who give generous donations, but we do not think that the only way to name a building is to name it after a rich donor.

No one has publicly donated a large amount specifically for the BEP, Danawell Connector, or PPR Apartments. Why not take the opportunity to name some of these buildings after notable alumni and community members?

This will give the college an opportunity to make a statement about the importance of ethics and social concern. It will also allow future students an opportunity to learn more about the college’s rich history.

We have chosen to include several possible names in this editorial. As a way to keep our list short, we have limited our list to alumni and community

members who have passed away.

Lucretia Mott: As one of the founders of Swarthmore, Mott spent her life dedicated to many of the same values the school still holds today. Mott devoted her life to working on issues such as the abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage, school and prison reform, peace and religious tolerance. Her hard work can be seen in the creation of this institution, the Medical College of Pennsylvania, the Moore College of Art, and the fact that her house was a stop on the underground railroad. Mott is still remembered nationally today as one of the most prominent suffragette of the late 19th century

I did not. The search, therefore, raised a more important question: “Where in the world is ML located?”

Curious, I searched “Swarthmore Mary Lyon.” Here’s what I found: Swat History — The Mary Lyons Buildings, Residential Communities, Floor Plans :: Living @ Swarthmore, and Pro/cons to Mary Lyon (i.e. Are there any pros??).

Indeed, the fourth result, a forum about Swarthmore’s dorm, sounds interesting. Although the title “Are there any pros??” sounds ominous by itself, that the forum appears on CollegeConfidential makes it sound even more so. Surprisingly, many people on that forum claim ML’s distance from the main campus is the only downside of the dorm. My move-in experience during the International Student Orientation warrants this claim.

When I first arrived, my body was aching because I had flown

non-stop for twenty-four hours.

After checking in, receiving my dorm keys, and completing some immigration documents, I had to carry two gigantic, fifty-pound luggages from Parrish back to ML. Moreover, while some folks can walk to every building (except ML) within five minutes, it requires me at least 10 minutes to reach Parrish Hall. Even though the Garnet shuttles run from ML to Parrish every day, they operate only in the morning and the evening, which means that any ML resident who wishes to take an afternoon nap in their room must walk all the way back.

Admittedly, it took me several weeks to adjust to ML’s faraway distance.

Nevertheless, after having lived in ML for three weeks, I saw many perks of living away from Parrish Beach. First, ML teaches people to become much more organized. Because travelling back and forth from ML to

for the Navy that Michener got the inspiration to write his first book, Tales of the South Pacific, which went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. As he became a successful writer he donated to many different educational and writing institutions, including Swarthmore.

PEEM LERDPUTTIPONGPORN COLUMNIST take, and I didn’t know who my roommate was or where my dorm would be. A few weeks later, my housing arrangement was announced. Gregory Lee would be my roommate, and Mary Lyon would be my dorm.

To see what ML looks like, I googled “Swarthmore Mary Lyon,” with the assumption that I would recognize something about this dorm because I had attended Swatstruck and toured around Swarthmore campus several times already; however,

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and early 20th century.

James A. Michener: After graduating as part of the class of 1929, Michener went on to write more than 40 books. After teaching English for a few years, Michener was called up to serve in World War II where he was a naval historian in the South Pacific. It was while working

David K. Lewis. As a philosophy major in the class of 1962 Lewis went on to become one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century.

He worked in a wide range of philosophical issues including language, mathematics, science, decision theory, metaethics, and much more. His most significant contribution was in metaphysics where he developed a theory of humean supervenience. According to Mark Johnston, a professor of philosophy at Princeton, Lewis was “one of the outstanding philosophers of his time,” and “he is the greatest systematic metaphysician since Leibniz,”

ML deserves love Two months ago, I opened mySwarthmore portal for firstyear students. As an incoming first-year student, I was anxious about everything: I wasn’t sure how well I performed on my placement tests, I couldn’t figure out which classes I wanted to

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This list is nowhere close to an exhaustive list of alumni who have made significant contributions to society it serves as proof that the college has a rich his-

tory that is worth remembering.

Although naming a building after a person is a small act compared to things such as putting money towards helping DACA students or reforming our sexual harassment and assault policies, it is a small step the college can take to show that it is committed to remembering our history and reaffirming our values.

Plus, Mott would be a lot easier to say than PPR apartments.

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the main campus takes virtually half an hour, forgetting to bring one important item equates to wasting the time that could otherwise be spent on a more meaningful task, which disrupts one’s schedule significantly.

Hence, ML residents must pack everything they need before they leave ML for a day. Had I followed this advice, my transition to Swarthmore life would have been much smoother than it was. Forgetful and disorganized, I was not used to preparing all the items I need for tomorrow’s class until tomorrow begins.

Therefore, on my first few days, I found myself constantly racing against the clock, trying to finish my breakfast at Sharples, catching up on the assignments I should have completed the day before, and sprinting to my first class all within an hour. In this commotion, I often forget to bring some important items with me before leaving ML, be it my math homework, my Chinese

workbook, or my water bottle.

Time is precious, especially at such a rigorous, fast-paced institution as Swarthmore. ML teaches me to manage my time more efficiently and to be more organized.

Another benefit of living in ML is that it has an extremely tight-knit and diverse community. Because the dorm is so remote, once the residents finish their activities and head back to their dorm room, many choose not to travel back to the main campus unless it is necessary. As a result, the sight of ML residents chatting, playing board games as Avalon and Settlers of Catan, or finishing homework together in the ML lounge during the evening time is not uncommon. In other words, while residents of other dorms enjoy their proximity to the main campus, those in ML enjoy the benefits entailed in their dorm’s faraway location.

Last but not least, ML has

excellent amenities: spacious living arrangements, breakfast on weekends, foosball table, pool table, and private bathrooms.

This package of amenities, while not unique to ML, compensates for the dorm’s remote location.

Although ML residents need to walk some distance to Sharples every morning on the weekdays, they are just a few steps away from their breakfast on the weekends.

Up until this point, I hope many readers of the Phoenix will begin to appreciate ML and its perks, but for those who have yet to be convinced, that’s alright as well. However, please bear in mind that there are people who voluntarily choose to live in ML. ML is amazing in its own way and needs no condolence from anyone. Rather, it needs more love.

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ARTS FASHION FOOD LIVING PHILLY PROFILES ST YLES

Hurricane impacts new students Victoria Lee-A-Yong CJ Writer

The beautiful grind Henry Ortmeyer ’18 Explains Squash

By Willa Glickman CJ Writer answer was immediate and matter-of-fact: “Oh, so often.

No, no one knows about it, no one ever knows.”

The strategy he’s developed for clearing things up is to tell his confused interlocutors that “it’s kind of like racquetball with a smaller ball.” As a person coming to the conversation with a thorough vagueness on the rules of any racket sport other than tennis or ping pong, I admit I was left with some questions.

Ortmeyer, a senior from nearby Gladwyne, PA, a nationally ranked squash player in high school and the co-captain of the Swarthmore squash team, agreed to answer them. I sat down with him in his room to discuss his relationship to the sport, his evolution as a player, and about what makes squash squash. He gave thoughtful responses, sitting cross-legged on the floor.

Above him, pinned to the wall was a large ‘gho’ -- the robe-like national dress worn by men in Bhutan, where he had just spent a semester abroad, and was, incidentally, the only place he had ever seen squash playing on live TV. Ortmeyer admits that squash is “not all that understandable” so I won’t attempt to explain the rules (mostly because I don’t understand them), but suffice it to say that players take turns hitting a relatively unbouncy rubber ball in an enclosed, four-walled court, in which it is possible to hit the ball against any wall as long as it is within a certain area that is designated as ‘in.’ Games are played to eleven points, with 90 seconds off the court in between games, and the winner of the match taking the best of five. Gameplay is rapid, aerobically exhausting, and leaves one with a deep appreciation for the grasp of geometry held by the players as they angle balls crazily between the floor and walls.

Doing some research about squash’s origins, I learned that it stems from a game called “rackets,” which was invented in an eighteenth-century debtor’s jail in London. Prisoners would hit a dense ball made of cloth off of one or two adjoining walls with – you guessed it – racquets.

The basic conditions necessary for the genesis of a complex, hitting-a-ball-off-a-wall sport seem to be a) high walls, and b) boredom, because the game also particularly caught on at boy’s boarding schools, and it was at the Harrow School in 1865 that several of the younger boys started playing a “softball” version of rackets. Using lighter bats and a rubber ball, squash was born. Invented by the British upper class and played largely in private clubs, squash has maintained a reputation for being an esoteric, aristocratic pastime,

though the sport followed the spread of the British Empire and today many of the world’s top players are from Egypt, Malaysia, and India.

Ortmeyer says that people attempting to explain squash — and its unique appeal – usually compare it to two things: chess and boxing. The chess analogy is not difficult to grasp, given squash’s emphasis on strategy and precise angles, but the boxing comparison brings attention to an aspect of the non-contact game that is less obvious to anyone who hasn’t played – its “mano y mano” brutality, mentally and physically.

A word that Ortmeyer used a few times during our conversation is “grind,” both to describe his style as a player – rather than developing a repertoire of flashy shots, he prefers to “grind it out,” trying to best his opponent through superior fitness and concentration – and to describe what drew him to the sport.

After a childhood stint as a soccer goalie ended due to a lack of enthusiasm for team sports and a tendency to “get distracted and look at other stuff,” he was introduced to squash in middle school by a friend and was hooked.

“I just lost it for squash,” he says.

He came from a family of tennis players, but preferred squash’s understated toil.

“When you get on court there’s the potential to have such a long game, it’s just an absolute grind sometimes, a monumental effort, and I really loved the idea of that,” he explained. “Just these Herculean efforts. There aren’t big serves — tennis has big serves, big movements and moments — but there aren’t that many big moments in squash.”

When men’s magazines cheerfully describe squash as being the healthiest sport to take up, what they’re saying is that it’s exhausting. Ortmeyer explains that the legs bear the brunt of the impact and are the part of the body most prone to being injured (he was recently out with a strained hamstring), but on court you mostly feel it in your lungs. He thinks for a moment and corrects himself: “That’s not true, you also feel it in your legs.”

He continues, “There’s camaraderie in the fact that there is absolute pain involved. When you’re feeling really tired, it’s almost like you’re just moving through water. You’re doing the same movements but they’re slower and slower.” To combat this, Ortmeyer says the key is to over-train – in workouts, to play for almost twice as much time as you would normally in a match, so that “you always have an extra reserve -- you know even when you’re tired, you’ll have the luxury of knowing the other person is more tired.” In

addition to practice time, this involves a lot of aerobic exercise, lifting to stave off injuries, and above all, burpees and lunges.

With a look that is both wistful and pleased, he says, “I’ve thought about this – I think I might be in the upper percentile of human beings to have done lunges.”

However, mental work is equally important. In the enclosed, hyper-competitive space of the squash court it’s easy to lose focus, which is a sure way to end a match in your opponent’s favor in such a strategic sport.

“I have to calm down to play well,” says Ortmeyer. “When I’m playing well, it’s kind of trancelike. I’m struggling to imagine anyone who plays well when they’re angry, because your decision-making plummets.”

He describes getting so overwhelmed during matches in high school that he would come off the court between games unable to breathe. “If you start losing, like three points in a row, you just get so angry with yourself, and there’s no reprieve from that, no break until the end of the game. It’s easy to get disoriented and let the entire match slip away.” The solution, he says is to “develop quick recovery skills” which includes strategies ranging from cleaning your goggles so you have a quick moment to recalibrate yourself, to learning repetitive patterns of shots during training to fall back on so that you can give your mind a rest.

“When you get tired, it’s so hard to think,” says Ortmeyer. “If you have too many options, your brain breaks.”

When he plays, he tries to tune out everything outside the glass, to the extent that in the past he developed a habit of “completely forgetting what the score was, like every game.”

He finds it easier to maintain “a vague sense of where the other person is” but mostly play with the ball, not against his opponent.

“I’d acknowledge that there was another human and that they were hitting the ball, but I’d just try to play myself.” He pauses, perhaps transported back to the womb-like isolation of the court, and remarks, “Really it was just me, the shadow of another person, and a ball, inside a court detached from everything.”

Ortmeyer ended high school ranked 60th in the nation, and was recruited to play for Wesleyan, a (relative) powerhouse squash school. However, he preferred Swarthmore despite its lack of a varsity team, which means the school offers no coach and has no recruiting power.

Reflecting on the lower level of competition here and on his relationship with squash in the future, Ortmeyer says, “I know it sounds a little bit ludicrous, but it can be hard to come to terms

with the idea that you won’t be the best at your particular thing.

If it had been the middle of high school and I thought, I want to be the best squash player in the world, that would have been possible. The older you get – it’s not a thing anymore. I have to get used to fact that if I want to keep up squash, it’ll have to be at a nominal level. I’ll be better than some people, but worse than a whole lot more.” He sobers for a moment, seemingly pondering what might have been. “I never really thought about that before.”

However, he brightens thinking about the team and his first year of co-captaincy with Charlotte Iwasaki ‘18 (who he admits is currently carrying the brunt of the emailing and logistical work). “I love this team,” he says.

“I love that it’s a club team, and I love that we make all these decisions ourselves.”

One thing he wants to work on with the team this year is mental health, both “squash and regular.” He says, “I think we assume if we get the technical skillset we’ll be winners on the court, and that’s not necessarily the case. A lot of people on the team are really hard on themselves and I’d like to make that a bigger focus. They should like squash, because it’s fun. When it comes down to it, it’s just a really satisfying sport.”

I press a bit further, asking what is at the core of squash’s satisfaction. “At the really core core?” he says, pausing for a moment. “I just think it’s that we like getting really tired.” He thinks more deeply. “Oh god, at the core core?”

“Yeah!” I say.

We’re both a bit worked up, feeling that squash’s innermost heart is about to be laid bare.

“Maybe it’s just winning…maybe we like to win? I don’t know.

Maybe there’s something really great about hitting a ball really hard. It really feels good to get out, and run, and hit a ball. The best reason to start playing a sport before you get all metaphysical on it is to just enjoy the feeling it gives you.”

We let that sink in for a moment, feeling that something has been solved, until I ask him how he feels about squash’s chances to get into the Olympics this year.

“Oh my god, it should already be in the Olympics!” he explodes. “What’s in there? Some stupid one’s in there instead of squash. I’ll be real, there are some winter sports that are not as interesting or rigorous as squash.” He gestures towards the notes I’m taking, indicating his refusal to be censured.

“Send this to the International Olympic Committee. God, send it to them. Jesus.”

Recall for a moment moving into your dorm your freshman year of college. For most, the worries are relatively simple: where do my posters go? Do my sheets match my rug? Will my parents really call me every day? But, for quite a few freshmen this year, the worries became dire. For Houstonians and Floridians alike, natural disaster put a damper on orientation week, on the first week of classes, and on the overall morale of moving to Swarthmore.

Hurricane Harvey was the first to hit, devastating Houston, Texas, whose state is the fifth-most popular home state among the class of 2021. Some freshmen from the city missed orientation entirely, as they found themselves unable to leave the city post-hurricane.

This, along with having to leave their hometown with nowfailing infrastructure, inflated prices of necessities like food and water, and a suffering populous, put a massive strain on the new Swatties who call the city home.

“It was kind of scary,” remarked Clayton Meyer ’21, from Houston, “and it felt strange not being there to have to deal with that and hearing so much about it. Like, I live there.”

Immediately after the devastation of Harvey, Hurricane Irma made her path through the greater part of Florida, the ninth most popular home state.

Matthew Lucker ‘21, from Sanibel, Fla., reported being terrified all throughout orientation and the first week of classes.

“I felt … unfortunate because it seemed like the forecast was going to leave my parents and I without a home,” he lamented.

“I felt jealous of other people saying that, you know, they would have plans to leave for fall break and I was thinking, in

the back of my mind, well, ‘what am I gonna do for fall break?

I don’t even know if I can go back. If there will be something to go back to.’”

The Swarthmore community has proven to be a valuable resource, however. In addition to the Chili Cook-Off that the school sponsored, the students provided much insight and assistance in the transition. As a student from Florida myself, my RA, McKenzie Ward ’19, was an important part in my move-in: she was not only my RA, but also a fellow Floridian I could empathize with. Of course, she was worried, just as we all were.

“I usually talk to my parents every day. At least my mom.

And so … just wondering and waiting – ‘cause I couldn’t get on the phone with her every day over the weekend – was kind of worrisome.” We shared videos of our respective towns. Due to waterspouts and tornadoes resulting from Irma, a boat dock in Ward’s native Tampa was completely drained. Civilians are clearly seen walking on sand where water used to be.

After sharing videos of the disaster, we shared memes about the two hurricanes, which were readily available on the Internet. To those affected by the disasters, as Meyer noted, “that’s how some people deal with, like, fear and stress — is they kind of make light of it to make it seem less consequential … I just hope that, like, deep down, they know that it’s a big, big deal and people could die and have died, at least in Houston’s case.”

For Lucker, fellow students played the largest role.

“I found it incredibly, strangely welcoming to be able … to talk to anybody here on campus and feel like every single person wanted to stop and have lunch, and just talk, just be like, an ear, and…and have a friendly conversation

Photo by Matthew Lucker

The Category 4 hurricane had a diameter of 280 miles with winds of 130 mph during its first landfall for a while. I feel like everybody that I talked to was in support of what was happening in my life and they sympathized with my situation. That I found incredibly, overwhelming, comforting. For that I am incredibly thankful.”

His faith and his relationship to fellow Swatties helped him get through the stress and worry and made him feel welcome.

As the freshman class continues to get acclimated to their new home, many carry with them the weight of disaster.

“To those that are suffer-

ing, don’t be afraid to reach out. It may be scary, it may be awkward, but when it comes down to the basics, people want to support you in whatever you’re going through, so don’t be afraid to ask for help.

As Swarthmore likes to put it here,” Lucker said.

And to those not directly affected, thank you for your support towards your Floridian and Houstonian Swatties, and for helping us feel like we have a home outside of home. Lord knows, we needed it.

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September 21, 2017

A swipe of advice

By Laura Wagner CJ Writer If there is one objective, capital-T Truth that exists within the entire span of our infinite universe, it is that there is one, single best meal plan for Swatties to be on. There are five meal plan options, consisting of four lies and one answer to the questions humankind has been asking for the entirety of existence. This, obviously, is a bit of an exaggeration. Different students have different lifestyles that make different meal plans fit them best — however, there are some clear distinctions to be made, and as the resident expert on all things OneCard and dining,

I’m here to provide a guide on how to get the most out of your now unchangeable meal plan choice, and how to do better next semester.

The Swat plan, better known as “the unlimited plan” is the default plan for all students, and one of the two plans available to first-years.

It gives students 150 Points, for on-campus use, and 150 Swat Points, for Ville use. The unlimited plan is fairly unpopular, as going to the Ville often requires more points than is allotted, but can be managed. 150 points over the fourteen week semester means that those on the Swat plan can use almost 11 points per week off-campus, and slightly more than that

if they travel over fall break.

That means you can eat a meal or two in the Ville every week.

This is reasonable for those still working out the time-management aspect of Swarthmore.

Getting Sharples at the same time every day helps newer students establish routines.

For those on this plan, keeping track of how many points are left is essential. Getting a latenight snack at Essie Mae’s is also pertinent: this plan offers as many meals as you can use, so stock up on your favorite nonperishable snacks, try every menu item at the grill, or get cereal and milk for breakfast in your dorm. It’s also worth noting that the unlimited plan technically isn’t unlimited; the

OneCard office subtracts each meal from a balance of 1,000.

Using that many meals would require over ten swipes a day, through which would be an uphill battle for even those with the largest appetites.

The next plan, the Garnet plan, has 275 meals, 300 Points, and 200 Swat Points. It’s functionally equivalent to the unlimited plan in terms of meal swipes, as it essentially gives a person three meals a day over the 13 weeks that Sharples has full service. Considering that Sharples serves two meals per day on Saturday and Sunday, and assuming that no one is punctual enough to make it to breakfast every morning before their classes start, those on the

Garnet plan can eat Sharples whenever they like, get Essie’s a few times a week, and venture into the Ville more often than their friends with unlimited meals. For first-years, the Garnet plan is a testament to not accepting the status-quo and demanding something better, in a polite email to the OneCard Office, of course.

The Parrish plan and the NPPR apartment plans have the most points and the least swipes and illustrate the phrase “with freedom comes responsibility” well. At just 160 meal swipes, those on these plans must budget their trips to Sharples wisely, as they can only average 12 over a seven day period. These students

Photo by Adam Fagen

September in September

By Daniel Bidikov CJ Writer

In a voice as carefree as the breeze blowing by us in Kohlberg Courtyard, September Sky Porras ’20 mentions, “I come from a very leftist family.” Now this isn’t a shock, especially considering the sort of students that Swarthmore tends to attract, but it’s nonetheless necessary to place Porras politically, and to understand the circumstances that created the activist sitting in front of me.

She admits she has a lot on her mind lately.

This past August, Porras was the subject of a semi-viral video, in which she posed a piercing question to Senator Marco Rubio of Florida during a fundraiser he was hosting in Orlando. Filmed by her accompanying mother, Porras stood up and asked the senator, point-blank, to explain his rationale for taking specific contributions to power his campaigns. (Rubio is only second to Senator Ted Cruz of Texas — both recent Republican presidential hopefuls — as the largest recipient of millions of dollars from various fossilfuel industry donors.) The online response afterwards was rapturous; for Porras, it was an anxious, heart-palpitating affair, akin to “walking into a lion’s den.”

A Floridan herself, Porras is well-aware of the environmental issues brought about by the rapid onset of climate change (to which Hurricanes Harvey and Irma can testify), and holds unambiguous opinions on her Congressional representatives—she calls Rubio in particular “a terrible person with terrible policies.”

Surprisingly, Porras was never animated by climate activism in the beginning, partly due to her own misconception of it.

Once she realized that climate activism focuses on actual com-

munities grappling with the effects of climate change, as opposed to environmentalism, which deals in more direct ecological consequences, she knew what she had to do. And while she knows they are connected, Porras believes her energies are better suited to advancing one as opposed to the other.

“We — or a very wealthy few — are destroying the Earth that we live on. At the end of the day, there’s big enemies,” she tells me, referring, of course, to money-making fossil fuels.

Last semester (spring 2017), Porras joined Mountain Justice (MJ) and became a core member while still a first-year. Attracted to its record — or promise — of effectual activism, Porras discovered an outlet to put her beliefs into practice, gaining first-hand experience during the sit-in and the ensuing controversy that arose between the administration and MJ. It was then that Porras stepped up in the club, but also transitioned into working for Sunrise: a nationwide organization founded by similarly-minded Swat alumni in Philadelphia, which emphasizes mass protest and political accountability to draw attention to climate issues.

At the start of the summer, she underwent leadership training with fellow Sunrise members; a few weeks later she was back home to put that training into practice. She lept at the opportunity to bring others into the organization, which, by its nature, is decentralized, directed by discrete hubs scattered across the nation. Porras volunteered to start up the Orlando office, and later, to try to enter the Rubio fundraiser, one of a few who did or could manage on short notice. After securing tickets for herself and her mother (at $150 each), she was admitted.

Even then there was no guarantee she would see Rubio; in fact she didn’t even confirm she was

attending the town hall until that Tuesday afternoon. (When questioned, she acknowledged the irony of giving money to Rubio in order to publicly challenge him, but she saw no other chance to make a statement; in the wake of President Trump’s election, Republican representatives have been scrutinized for failing to meet with everyday constituents, with some avoiding town halls altogether.)

Earlier that day, Porras wondered how she could possibly approach the senator with her question. A Sunrise trainer suggested on the phone that, as he delivered his keynote speech, Porras could interrupt him at a decisive moment when he paused for rhetorical effect.

At first she was horrified. “I’m brave, but I can’t do that, that would make me want to die.”

She laughs, but that’s exactly what happened, and after a “totally evasive” answer

by Rubio involving vague energy policies instead of campaign finance, she and her mother were requested to leave by security.

Like most loving families, Porras’s is indispensable in shaping and supporting her. She is close to her mother, a New Jerseyan, and her maternal grandparents were even fundraisers for the American Communist Party. Her father is from Costa Rica, a country she often visits to see paternal relatives. Though not a fluent Spanish speaker (attributed to her father’s insistence on “fitting in” in the United States), she enjoys the company of her abuelita and her tías, who all live on the same street. She

looks forward to returning and conversing with her politically minded cousins, in contrast to others in her family who are more nonchalant about the current state of affairs.

“I think there’s an interesting juxtaposition — on one side, everything is chill, relax, don’t worry about it. But on the other side of that coin, there’s this [attitude of] not caring very much about politics and change.” But they’re not apolitical, she notes. It’s just very relaxed, maybe “too relaxed,” according to Porras.

Her elder sister works in Standing Rock with Teach for America, overseeing a class of first-graders. Last Christmas, Porras and her mom journeyed to North Dakota to see her only sibling (in the fields of “southern Canada,” as we joked),

who lives and works in a tiny poor town on the reservation, roughly a thirty-minute drive from the protests against the Keystone XL Pipeline.

On that winter break, Porras helped her sister grade some papers, and was astonished by the doodles the students drew and then haphazardly erased so as not to be possibly penalized.

“Water is Life” and “No DAPL” made recurring appearances, likely the results of the children overhearing parental talk.

“It was just so innocent and terrifying,” says Porras. She was upset she didn’t meet any of the students, but her sister shares videos of her with them all the time, so they know.

As a sophomore, her dual passions for Latin America and revolutionary politics may yet prove decisive in guiding her

have much more freedom to spend points: each plan totals 900 points, with the Parrish plan giving students 500 oncampus points and 400 Ville points, whereas NPPR residents get 200 on-campus points and 700 for off-campus use. These students must budget their time and points wisely, especially if they are cooking meals from scratch using ingredients from the Co-Op, which is known to be pricier than chain grocery stores like Giant or Target. This plan is only for students who truly can commit to acquiring food by themselves.

There are some valid critiques of Sharples, but it’s consistent, and you don’t have to cook it yourself or wash dishes, which saves students precious time and energy.

Lastly, the Phoenix plan is the best of both worlds, combining the ability to regularly get meals at Sharples with the flexibility of having more points. At 225 meals, the Phoenix plan allows students an average of 17 meals per week, giving a student the option to have lunch and dinner at Sharples every day with 3 extra swipes for Essie’s or weekday breakfast. 400 on-campus points and 300 off-campus points means that students on the Phoenix plan can get two to three Ville meals per week. The Phoenix plan isn’t available to everyone on campus, but for those who can choose beyond first-year options,it strikes a perfect balance between campus options and being able to venture off-campus when one chooses.

A person’s meal plan selection won’t make or break a person’s semester, but it can vastly improve their dietary utility if chosen correctly. Every meal plan has its benefits and costs, but only the Phoenix plan provides the most points without sacrificing regular access to Sharples. And, of course, it is named in honor of Swarthmore’s best publication and only on-campus print news source.

academic trajectory. Porras has struck up a rapport with Professor Diego Armus, who urged her to apply for the Reuben Scholarship, which, after a lengthy application process, she was duly awarded; she hopes to use it in the upcoming summer to fund an internship.

She is excited to potentially pursue a major in History, perhaps on Pinochet’s Chile; as of now, however, it’s all up in the air.

“I have changed … and I think I’ve changed in the sense that I don’t know anything.”

She laughs. “Maybe I don’t know what I’m doing, but that’s life, it’ll work out.”

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WRC: Where it is, and what it does

By Emilie Hautemont CJ Writer

Photo courtesy of Swarthmore College

The WRC staff initiates and facilitates discussions and events concerning women specifically, and gender equity broadly. Everyone is welcome at the WRC regardless of gender.

First years yoing on embittered, cynical seniors?

By Dylan Clairmont CJ Writer As orientation fades more and more into a distant memory, the class of 2021 finds itself at an important crossroads. The once-chipper and easily discernable first-year faces are already blending in with the usual looks of cynicism that plague Swat’s upperclassmen. This forces us to ask the question of whether the class of 2021 is doomed to follow the same trends of the classes before us.

Are we trapped in some neverending cycle of obnoxiously shouting our class year every chance we get, jaded at the system and the fresh faces that will come after us? Are we destined to complain about pasta bar, attacking anyone who speaks positively of pasta in any context? Are we going to respond with Misery Poker when asked what our favorite game is?

The end of orientation marks the end of a lot of other things.

Dry Week has ended. Constantly having talks about all the things your parents warned you about before coming here is long gone.

Being able to shamelessly sport hickies and not have to worry about your professors judge you for them is unfortunately finished. Luckily, trying to remember what creature of the sea you are gone away too. Does the end of orientation also mark the end of optimism on Swat’s campus?

Looking around, the answer is seemingly mixed.

The Sharples rush is getting slightly lighter as first-years discover that there are, albeit limited, other options than eat-

ing Sharples for breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week.

The first-years left in Sharples are harder to pick out, as their once deer-in-a-headlights look that was identically painted on all their faces has become one more of acceptance as they’ve realized that a peaceful corner seat at Sharples and a meal alone can at times be more of a blessing than a curse.

“I had rather dreadful expectations over how the quality of the food [from Sharples] was going to be just on various different things I had heard people say about Sharples, but now that I’m actually here the food is absolutely fine. There’s nothing wrong with it, and I don’t know why people were overreacting ...

I think they just wanted something to complain about,” says Timothy St. Pierre ’21.

Outside of Sharples, there are far fewer lost first-years trying to squint at the far-too-small signs on buildings. It appears as though first years have been able to figure out how to get to the same five buildings they need to get to on a daily basis.

“It’s just as small as I was expecting it to be,” says Sue Kim ’21.

So class of 2021, what’ll it be? First-years, are you already feeling jaded by the system, hate pasta, envy the plants for being better labeled than the buildings, participate in Misery Poker every chance you get, and all in all are just envious and cynical?

If so, you’re not alone. But if not, hold onto your pure and pristine optimism! It is much needed on Swat’s campus.

Weekly Crossword Created by Alex Robey Solve online: http://www.cruciverbalex.com/40/

While I have always known the Women’s Resource Center existed, it has not yet played a major role in my life at Swat; I visited it a grand total of once, for Cookie in a Jar night (even now, I remember that bitter tang of disappointment upon realizing that required actual cooking and not receiving a jar of cookie dough). It suddenly surged back to mind after I read one of Dean Shá Smith’s emails, informing students that a) the WRC would be hiring a Fellow, and b) Nina Harris, the Violence Prevention Educator/Advocate, a role tied to the Title IX Office, would soon be leaving her position as the Fellow Advisor. I knew that other students used the WRC for a variety of reasons — as a safe space to study and socialize, talk about gender issues, or browse through the extensive library. At long last, I decided it was time to start looking into what the WRC does.

The WRC is a woman-centric space on campus that is officially open to all marginalized genders, including trans women and nonbinary persons. The Center often collaborates with the Title IX Office, one of its key partners and collaborators, or

stakeholders. This collaboration appears particularly relevant when one remembers that Title IX, although it is more widely linked to sexual assault cases, is fundamentally a gender equity law. Other partner organizations include student groups such as the Swarthmore Queer Union and Women of Color Kick Ass, faculty members, the Gender and Sexuality Department, and Worth Health Center.

Reading through the official description of the WRC’s mission and goals provided by Dean Smith, I could not help but raise an occasional, skeptical eyebrow at the Center’s guidelines (“Recognize Unity of Purpose”‚ too many solemn capitalizations for my taste) and its 2017-2018 plans (which include Yoga in the Yard — when did yoga become a miracle cure for everything from anxiety to pneumonia?) But, to give credit where credit is due, the Women’s Resource Center is genuinely trying to reach out to a variety of students.

“We want everyone who wants to be a part of the WRC to feel comfortable and like they are a part of the community. As a woman of color I know what it feels like to be uncomfortable in spaces on campus … [We] try and make sure that any decisions that

are being made in the WRC … fall in line with our mission to offer support for all women and marginalized genders” explains Niyah Morgan-Dantzler ’18, a returning WRC Associate. Dantzler’s responsibilities include working weekly shifts at the WRC and helping organize events.

“Making the physical space more inviting” is another major goal for the WRC, according to Dantzler.

I’ll admit it sounds like a good idea — the first time I went to the WRC, on a dark Friday night, I accidentally walked into a frat house and couldn’t help but think that beer cups and large numbers of shirtless guys seemed an odd decorating choice for a “safe and inclusive space for women and marginalized genders.” Maybe the WRC could try painting their walls bright pink or carving Judith Butler quotes around Olde Club to spare incoming freshmen any confusion.

My only regret is that in our exchange of emails, Dean Smith did not answer my question about a petition started by Swarthmore alum Jodie Goodman, that demanded Swarthmore reaffirm its commitment to protecting Title IX and supporting sexual assault survivors. In the past, the administration has been accused of

showing a tendency to disregard survivors, pose to them intrusive and insensitive questions, and hesitate to accuse or prosecute accused students (as discussed in the now famous documentary The Hunting Ground, which prominently featured a Swarthmore alum). While sexual assault tragically affects people all across the gender spectrum, its victims are predominantly femalebodied. We can only hope that the continuing and developing partnership between the WRC and Title IX will play a significant role in ensuring that survivors are listened to and respected.

One of the best ways we can do so is by making sure that the WRC knows what students are feeling, and what our needs and concerns are. So join me, and at least attempt to come to WRC events in the future — which includes pizza and movie nights, baking sessions, Yoga in the Yard, and an Open House on Garnet Weekend (Oc. 6, 7 to 9 pmmm).

Should be pretty easy, now that you know open hours exist.

The WRC holds open hours Tuesdays, 2 to 5 p.m.; Wednesdays and Fridays, 8 p.m. to midnight; and Sundays, 6 to 8 p.m.

Advice for writing an advice column Daniel Bidikob CJ Writer “How do you write an advice column?” anonymous, via Google form Hello, and thank you for your interesting question. I chose to answer your question because it wasn’t graphic, unintelligible, or any of the five questions I received asking what my last name was. So I regret to say that I don’t love your question.

I will try my best to explain the process behind writing an advice column so that you can try doing it yourself. First, you should set a conversational mood — this is, after all, an exchange of letters. This entails putting things like “hello” and “thank you for your interesting question” at the beginning of your column. You should do this even if it is insincere. It will be easier to do this if you pick questions to which you are excited to respond, and harder to do this if you choose to answer questions like “how do you write an advice column.” Really what I am saying here is that the first step in the process is to have good readers.

If you can, solicit questions from an audience broader than your merry band of lovable-if-petulant college friends, who will send you lots of questions anonymously asking about what is the correct pronunciation of “Swarthmore,” how do I get the dead turkey smell out of my car, etc.

The next step is to answer the question you have been asked and answer as few other questions as possible. People hate it when you answer a question with a question, especially if you don’t even answer that question. But don’t stress if you have trouble sticking to this — don’t most good advice columnists advocate for bending the rules a little bit?

If someone asked you how to write an advice column, you would give a thorough explanation about how to write an advice column. You would do well to include the occasional non sequitur. Digressions can be cohesive, thoughtful or humorous if you are careful not to drag them out for too long or use them too frequently. People love jokes.

Different advice columns will of course differ in their approach to advice-giving. Sometimes the writer will pretend to be a therapist, sometimes they will pretend to be your friend. Some advice columnists love to be helpful, others get off on being facetious.

The particulars of your style and the content of your response to the given question are up to you.

If you think the best way to solve a given problem is to go vegan, tell your correspondent to go vegan. The advice column offers a unique opportunity to promote an agenda. Step carefully and gracefully through social issues.

You have been given the immense power of public broadcast and you must use it with respon-

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53. Rush hour tie up 54. Kitty’s call 56. Cyber giggle 57. ____ Karenina

sibility. If, in your experience, responsibility is more often the thing you shirk than the thing you do, you may want to try being very funny and see if it absolves you of accountability for the less carefully chosen things you say.

This is not a very reliable course of action, and I would not recommend trying it. Good comedy is rarely offensive; conversely, offensive comedy is rarely good.

The fun thing about advice columns is that you don’t have to hand them in for a grade or use them to apply for jobs, so you can do whatever you want. Go crazy.

There are very few standards in the world of advice columns and it will benefit you to take advantage of this fact. I will say that one thing is constant across all advice columns, and that is a contagious air of self-assurance. You should be so confident that what you have to say is good advice that, even if it is terrible advice, you will lay your words upon the page with the smug righteousness of the most depraved mall cop giving the most unreasonable parking ticket. You can do this because you’re the one with the advice column, and they’re the ones asking you how to write an advice column instead of just consulting their favorite search engine or college writing center.

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am trying to say is that somebody should be able to read your advice column and say, “this isn’t my mother’s advice column.” Part of the pleasure derived from giving and receiving advice is that it is a communication of personality.

So if you think you have a good personality, you might also suspect that you have good advice.

That was my third to last point.

Make your advice column clear and easy to follow. That was my second to last point.

When you are writing an advice column, you have to look professional. If you are an asshole, or an airhead — if you really have nothing to say — people will figure it out on their own. In the worst case, you don’t want to explicitly reveal the shameful reality that you don’t know what you’re talking about. Maybe you are one of those people of the generally persuasive persuasion, in which case this will be easier for you. If not, good luck. I hope you write an interesting, if in a sense “halfbaked,” advice column, and that it gets published in your college newspaper. I hope that people read it.

In need of some strictly good advice? Send questions by electronic mail to strictlygoodadvice(at)gmail(dot) com or by analog mail to the author at 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA, 19081.

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Horoscopes Answer from crossword in the 9/14 Phoenix

By Giorgia Piantanida CJ Writer

Hello again my dear Swatties! I trust that everyone had a good summer, but as all good things must end, here we are again, somewhat ready but hopefully excited to face yet another year of ‘Oh God, why did I enroll here and why do I have so much work.’ And as a treat to kick off the year just right, allow me to lay out some horoscopes for you guys.

Aries (March 21-April 19): Not only are you going to find that Sharples has become even harder to enjoy than last year, you may also discover that the ice cream you stored in the communal fridge was stolen by an unknown suspect. However, fear not, because with all this terrible food mayhem, you will stumble upon an amazing isolation desk in McCabe that somehow has both natural light and actually lets you stay in a good mood.

Taurus (April 20-May 20): Your new rooming accommodations are truly something else, and they’re everything you hoped they would be but nothing like it at all either. The first couple weeks have been rough and perhaps there’s been a random fight or two with your blockmates, but worry not, everything will soon turn around when you finally have that movie night you’ve been calling for and good vibes will permanently ensue.

Gemini (May 21-June 20): So you thought you knew your major but since coming back and starting classes, you’ve changed your mind about seven times.

The nerves are running high, but don’t worry, your mind will soon be set on a decision after you actually do the assigned reading that you’ve been pushing off and find yourself devouring the words.

Cancer (June 21-July 22): Between friends, family, school work, sports, and clubs, you’ve been feeling like there’s almost too much to juggle. You feel a little too tense and you’re not sure which way to turn, but everything will soon settle down as your schedule settles and you find the perfect balance. Just be sure to remember to leave some time to have fun though, Cancer!

Leo (July 23-August 22): You thought coming back to Swat would mean a sudden and forceful return of memes that would send you into laughing fit after laughing fit, but all you’ve seem to stumble upon lately are articles about how to plan for your future. Thankfully, the meme gods are sending good thoughts in your direction and will soon be filling your Facebook mentions and feed with outrageous mentions. Be prepared.

Virgo (August 23-September 22): Although you’ll soon be appalled by the fact that the new Sci Center coffee bar has somehow managed to botch the spelling of the word “espresso” (do we not go to a prestigious learning institution), it’ll all be forgotten as soon as you order a new drink from them and find yourself falling in love.

Libra (September 23-October 22): It seems to somehow happen every semester that you have about three labs in three consecutive days, but you wormed yourself out of it this time. Good thing too because the

other ‘easy’ class you enrolled in requires about a million hours of reading per week. At least your lab partner is cute.

Scorpio (October 23-November 21): Almost a month into classes and your dorm walls are still empty, your bed is almost always unmade, and your room isn’t even next door to your squad. How you ended up in such abysmal conditions is beyond you at this point. However, you’ll soon find your work load lightening up, and you’ll be able to fill that extra time with some quality bonding time instead, finally letting you live the college life you’ve been missing.

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21): Even though it feels like classes just started, your bank account looks like you’ve been at Swat for eight years without pay and you couldn’t even be sure of where all that money is actually going. On the bright side, you’ll soon stumble upon the campus job of your dreams (high pay, minimal work of course) and finally see the money tick slowly up. Here’s the best side; the number will actually manage to stay relatively high.

Capricorn (December 22-January 19): You feel like you haven’t really been able to catch up with any of your friends all semester, and the only people around you have been Swatties you’ve somehow never seen before. Soon, though, you’ll strike up unlikely friendships with some of those unknowns and find yourself gravitating and opening up to other people. And your squad will finally have that dinner you’ve all been meaning to plan, giving you the perfect chance to reunite.

Aquarius (January 20-February 18): With your meal plan keeping you in check, you’re always torn between going to Sharples to enjoy the company but doubt the food or simply making a run all the way to the Co-op to enjoy your own company and love the food. However, if you play your cards right, you’ll find the Sharples breaks in your day will be both enjoyable in food and company, and you may even find yourself looking forward to those meals.

Into the archives: the beginning Shreya Chattopadhyay News Editor If you’re researching Swat on the internet, the first sentence on the “about” page of its website reads: “Since its founding in 1864, Swarthmore College has given students the knowledge, insight, skills, and experience to become leaders for the common good.”

As students on campus, descriptions like this of the college can seem largely rhetorical. Swarthmore has a long, long history of progressivism and social justice, but with our large workloads and busy schedules, it’s easy to feel detached from our place within the institution as a whole. I stumbled upon random facts about the college’s history last year — Albert Einstein spoke here; Nirvana played here; the FBI investigated students and faculty here — and thought it’d be interesting to look further into the narrative that the school’s history itself creates.

I’m hoping to raise my own (and potentially our collective) consciousness, to help us appreciate our place in historical time and be better equipped to hold the college accountable to its promises of the past. With that in mind, I’m going into the archives: this week, to the beginning.

Swarthmore was officially authorized to become a college on April 1, 1864. In its authorization, the Pennsylvania Senate and House of Representatives approved Swarthmore College “to establish and maintain a school and college for the purpose of importing to persons of both sexes knowledge in the various branches of science, literature, and the arts.”

However, the process of founding Swarthmore was begun even earlier, around 1860, by a group of Hicksite Quakers in the Philadelphia area, who placed great em-

Photo credit: Swarthmore Archives

phasis on community building and were ‘liberal’ even for Quakers. (They split from more Orthodox quakers as the other group moved away from women leading services and focused more on material possessions than “common people.”) The Hicksites met in Philadelphia, New York, and Baltimore to discuss the starting of a Hicksite college; one of their main goals was coeducation, highly uncommon for the time. (For comparison, Yale didn’t become co-ed until 1969.)

Apart from the general Hicksite Quaker goals, the main proponents of the school themselves were visionaries of the time. One such person was Benjamin Hallowell (sound familiar?), the man who wrote the first pamphlet advocating the creation of the college. He was a conscientious objector in the War of 1812, and eventually became the president of the University of Maryland — only on the condition that he serve without a salary and the school’s farm not use slave labor. There were initially conversations about what kind of school Swarthmore should be; some Quakers wanted a grammar school, another a school to train other Quakers, but Hallowell wanted more out of the

proposed school. He wrote in a letter to future president Edward Parrish “The Institution must, from its commencement, possess faculties for pursuing a liberal and extensive course of study … equal to that of the best Institutions of learning of our Country” (Swarthmore Bulletin).

Along with Hallowell was Lucretia Coffin Mott, a Hicksite Minister — Hicksites encouraged women leading religious services — as well as a leading abolitionist and suffragist of the 19th century. Mott devoted her life not only to these causes, but also “to the abolition of slavery, women’s rights, school and prison reforms, temperance, peace, and religious tolerance” (Swarthmore College, A Brief History).

Her home was a stop on the Underground Railroad, and she even received a nomination for United States Vice President in 1848, long before the 19th amendment was even on the horizon.

Hallowell and Mott were a few noteworthy proponents, but the creation of the college included a vast variety of people who adhered to Quaker values: from wealthy businessmen, to abolitionists, to former professors at West

Point.

The name “Swarthmore” was actually coined in 1863 by Hallowell’s wife Margaret, who wanted to name the school after a historical house in England called “Swarth moor” the home of another Margaret, Margaret Fell, who dedicated her life to the Quaker movement and was a strong proponent of the right of women to speak freely and be leaders, even in religious contexts. As early as the mid 1660s, Fell wrote in her book Women’s Speaking” that the ministry of women was “Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the Scriptures” (Swarthmore: A Brief History).

From the land for which it was named, to the people who decided on its inception, to the very sect of Quakerism from which the College was conceived, Swat’s beginnings are permeated with progress.

The founders had a vision of a school that transcended the societal expectations of the time; one can only wonder how that vision has evolved. How have we translated this original outlook into our present?

Pisces (February 19-March 20): Your advisor from last semester unexpectedly left you, leaving you hanging to figure out all the difficult class decisions and future planning. But while you’ve been scrambling to find solutions, you were finally assigned a new advisor, and when you finally make that appointment to meet them, you’ll find yourself in advisor heaven.

Not only will they map out your future meticulously, they’ll also outline all those reqs for graduation you were still so unclear about, giving you the peace of mind you’d been waiting for.

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SPORTS

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Men’s club soccer moves for club status Max Katz-Balmes Sports Writer While the Swarthmore varsity soccer teams are set to begin their conference campaigns, another competitive soccer team at Swarthmore has begun its season in earnest. Four matches into its 10 game season, the Men’s Club Soccer Team has posted a 2-2 record to date.

Despite the team’s .500 record, which equals its mark from all of last season, co-captain Toby Cavalier ’19 remains optimistic.

He believes that the team has progressed over the past year, both in terms of its roster and its structure. The team added 10 first-years this year, while improving its organization and preparation regimen. However, Cavalier is also realistic about the team’s chances.

“We’re not yet structured enough and disciplined enough to do really well. This year, I think we’re doing better than last year, and I think we will continue to do better throughout the year.

However, I don’t know if it will be enough to get to regionals.”

Nonetheless, he hopes that as the team continues to grow, it will begin to compete for the divisional crown and eventually become a force in regionals, as well.

The club soccer team boasts one of the strongest rosters of the Swarthmore’s club sports.

While the team includes players of all skill levels, about half of the team has either participated

at the varsity level or could compete at the varsity level. Dimitri Kondelis ’20 is one of those who tried out for the varsity team when he first arrived on campus.

During tryouts, he decided varsity wasn’t for him.

“I realized I didn’t want that time commitment and stress during my college career. So when I found out about club soccer, I knew it was the perfect fit,” says Kondelis.

He particularly enjoys that the team provides a competitive atmosphere that does not require its players to show up to practice every single day. The team practices three times per week in addition to weekend games.

While the team has a more relaxed practice schedule than its varsity counterpart, it is by no means simply a social club offering Physical Education credit (one can fulfill about half of their PE requirement from club soccer). The team plays all 10 of its games during the fall season, and the team’s captains, Cavalier and Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum ’19, run highly structured practices that include warm-ups, technical drills, small-sided games, and larger intra-squad matches.

Often, however, when the team does not have an upcoming fixture, the captains allow the players to scrimmage for the entire practice. Organizing practice as such enables players on the team to stay in shape, improve their skills, and have fun with a group of soccer-minded friends.

team bond and spend time together in a similar fashion to the varsity sports teams on campus.

Kondelis discusses how club soccer has impacted his social life at Swarthmore.

“Because I’m a part of club soccer, I have a group of guys on campus that I can study with, that I can eat with, that I can hang out with.”

The team’s great camaraderie draws many people. Nearly all of the students interviewed pointed to brotherhood and friendship as some of their favorite aspects of the club.

However, due to club soccer’s non-club status, the team faces many challenges. Currently, the team is designated as a student activity group rather than a club sport. This designation makes obtaining practice space difficult.

“We have to fight for field space and have lower priority than all of the varsity teams,” explains Cavalier.

Presently, ultimate frisbee, rugby, and all of the other official club sports have preference when reserving Cunningham Field, the club’s primary practice facility.

Despite the challenges associated with the team’s present status, men’s club soccer continues to grow, both in size and competition. For those interested in supporting club soccer, the team plays two home games on Sept.

23 against Widener University and Millersville University.

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Off the pitch, members of the

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An athlete’s perspective on athletic attendance Maeve Juday Sports Writer It’s doubtful that a Big Tenesque, tailgate Saturday, type of environment was a top priority in the college decision making process for most Swatties. None of us opened our Swarthmore acceptance letter and immediately had visions of being in a crowd of students, decked out in Garnet gear, cheering wildly on the sidelines of some sporting event. However, most games, meets, and matches only boast a turnout of about 1 to 2 percent of the student body. This means that there is often a ratio of only 1 Swarthmore student spectator to student competitor. With twenty-two varsity teams, roughly 20 percent of our student body participates in NCAA athletics. This indicates that even athletes from other sports rarely show their support in the form of watching each other’s events.

Women’s Volleyball, who have been celebrating a lot of wins this season, had a game this past Saturday afternoon.

There couldn’t have been more than twenty-five Swatties in the stands. While Women’s Soccer (currently nationally ranked at number ten in the country) is probably the most consistently attended fall sport, the bleachers are still rarely full.

The biggest exception to the low sporting events turn out were last year’s Men’s Basketball team conference champi-

onship games, which were held at home. Attendance at these games was highly encouraged by the administration. Robbie Walsh ʼ18 confessed that what stood out to him most about the stands last winter was how hard people cheered, and he recognized the excitement that comes with being a fan at a sports game, especially with being so close to the action in basketball. When asked about the unusual turnout at conference games, which he admits is the best since he has played for the Garnet, Walsh had a good guess.

“We had a successful year the season before, and [we] continued to build off that and won games, so more people kept coming,” said Walsh. Perhaps there was something about the notoriety of the team that made more people talk about Swat sports and feel motivated to go watch and cheer at an event.

Or maybe it was the fact that the games were well-advertised. We all know how easy it is to get caught up in our busy schedules, classwork and extracurriculars, and usually the furthest thing from a student’s mind is looking for a way to fill up an hour or two of their evenings or Saturday afternoons.

Aside from the occasional Sharples cup-drop announcement or an @swatathletics Instagram post, the lack of spectators at games is probably due

the majority of Swatties, athletes or otherwise, not knowing or thinking about what teams are competing when.

Many groups on campus advertise their events on the Dash or on bulletin boards, or even just by word of mouth.While some players on sports teams might mention to their friends that they have a game later that day and extend an invitation, they are usually not seen taping up a “Game: 7 p.m at the Fieldhouse” poster in the Science Center. In fact, most athletes seem to confine most of their talk about their sport within the friendships and conversations they have with their teammates, which, while understandable, makes it even less probable that word will be spread about their upcoming competitions.

I think last year’s basketball tournament displayed one of the most salient examples of community and school spirit, and it’s a shame that instances like those only happen every so often when the opportunities for them are frequent. Sports are just one of the many ways for this campus to come together and support one another. So next time you’re sitting near a Field Hockey player in Chem lecture, ask her when her next game is, spread the word to a few friends, and take a study break!

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THE PHOENIX SPORTS

September 21, 2017

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Ezekiel Elliott and domestic violence: athletes as role models Jacob Brady Sports Writer Ezekiel Elliott is well-known to anyone who follows professional sports. An All-American star running back at Ohio State, he was drafted fourth overall by the Dallas Cowboys in the 2016 NFL Draft. He burst into the league by rushing for the third-most rushing yards by a rookie in NFL history. However, a ruling by the NFL put his play this season in jeopardy after he was suspended for the first six games of the season due to allegations of domestic violence by an ex-girlfriend in 2015. Elliott was never criminally charged for the incident.

A federal judge later overturned the NFL’s ban, but the case is still proceeding in court. So while Ezekiel Elliott may be an exceptional athlete on the field, his character off the field has been called into question. Admittedly, the allegations against Elliott were deemed to be unfounded in a criminal investigation which called into question the fairness of the NFL’s investigation and subsequent punishment. But even if the NFL’s punishment is found to be unjus-

tified, to the public eye it seems to part of a seemingly growing trend of highly negative off-field behavior expressed by professional athletes.

The case of Joe Mixon springs to mind, who was caught on a security camera punching a woman in the face during in the altercation, breaking bones in her face and requiring the woman to undergo surgery. He was later drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the second round of the 2017 draft and was, at least initially, held to pretty intense scrutiny by the media and the general public.

Yet much of that dissipated in the ensuing months. Joe Mixon is now just a celebrated professional football talent. Adrian Peterson, currently a running back for the New Orleans Saints, is almost certainly a Hall of Fame-caliber talent. In 2014, he was suspended for the NFL season after he was charged with, and later convicted of, child abuse for beating his son.

Yet few media outlets, especially ESPN, seem to remember or do anything more than give a passing thought to that less than illustrious moment of his career.

These don’t appear to just

be isolated incidents. Although overall arrest rates for NFL players are below the national average, the same cannot be said for violent crime arrest rates, which are statistically significantly higher than the national average according to a 2015 UT Dallas study. These same athletes that kids look up to as heroes commit more violent crimes than the average American.

Kids try to emulate their heroes. A 2000 Kaiser Family Foundation study found that 73 percent of US children considered professional athletes to be some of the most influential people in their lives. About 50 percent of kids believed that yelling at officials and taunting and taking cheap shots at opponents were all common in youth sports.

One-quarter of kids and teens surveyed also believed that athletes don’t have to try as hard in school while a similar number of teens believed that sexual promiscuity was a privilege of being a professional athlete. Clearly the negatives of professional athletics are seeping down to kids, with the help of media that focuses on the negative incidents associated

with professional sports.

A lot of kids care about professional sports. A lot of adults do too. Every Little League player dreams of one day making it to the MLB. It inspires in them a drive to be the best they can possibly be. Professional sports are unique in that they collect the greatest talents in a particular “industry” and give them a stage.

A child watching TV doesn’t know who the leading scientists or doctors in the world are. But they know Tom Brady and LeBron James. There’s a reason Fortune 500 companies choose athletes as the face of their brands; people care. Athlete endorsements sell, especially to kids.

There are surely many good lessons that kids can learn from watching professional athletes.

These are men and women who have dedicated incredible amounts of hard work to their careers. They have great tenacity and work ethic, traits that can be applied to any area of future pursuit. Many of these athletes turn around and do incredible things for their communities. J.J. Watt, a star defensive end for the Houston Texans, recently helped raise

$37 million for Hurricane Harvey relief. Countless athletes maintain their own foundations, often targeted specifically at giving kids the opportunity to participate in athletic activities.

“I’m not paid to be a role model. I’m paid to wreak havoc on the court,” Charles Barkley once said.

He assumed he had a choice.

It’s because he wreaks havoc on the court that he is a hero for so many, and that’s what makes a role model. People emulate their heroes. That’s not to say he did his job well. But whether he wanted them to or not, there were throngs who wanted to be exactly like him, to live exactly like him, to fulfill the dream of being a rich, famous, professional athlete.

So that brings up the question of how society and professional sports leagues can better respond to criminal incidents to ensure that people seeing the conduct of athletes don’t come to see misconduct as a normal part of professional athletics. One possibility would be to increase suspensions.The suspensions the NFL has handed down for domestic violence have ranged from one game to 10. Perhaps full-season

suspensions would more effectively send the message that domestic violence is not acceptable.

It is also imperative that parents, siblings, and others have a similar influence on kids. It is possible to separate the bad eggs on the athletic fields from those who are working to make the world a better place, the kinds of people who should indeed be considered role models. It’s important that kids are taught that these individuals who do commit crimes or are bad husbands and parents do not reflect the true nature of professional athletics, despite what media coverage might indicate.

Just as there are bad individuals in every walk of life, there are certainly those in professional sports. Because of the unique platform that professional sports has in the United States, those individuals who make harmful decisions often have the public eye thrust upon them. It is important that society makes a distinction between those who should serve as role models, who perform with honor on and off the field, and those who shouldn’t be looked to as inspiration.

New seasons brings new hope for Philadelphia Eagles

Joseph Barile Sports Writer

For many people, the brisk Autumn winds bring the scent of caramel apples, the crunch of fallen leaves, and the warmth of woolen scarves. Everyone has their reasons for loving this special season. Needless to say, for a majority of Americans, fall means one thing; football.

Swarthmore students are lucky enough to be located just 30 minutes away from Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Eagles, an NFL franchise boasting one of the most loyal fanbases in the country. Eagles fans expect to win and win big, but in recent years, it seems that all they’ve received from their beloved team is inconsistency in every facet of the game. The team has missed the playoffs for three consecutive seasons, and their last postseason win was more than eight years ago. Last year, the Eagles finished with a mediocre 7-9 record.

Nonetheless, with every new

season comes a renewed sense of hope for the Philadelphia faithful, and this year, there might just be a good reason. Most of the early-season optimism the Eagles are enjoying is due to Carson Wentz, their fresh-faced quarterback whose 2016 rookie campaign left many fans thrilled by his potential. The 24 year-old slinger showed flashes of excellence last season with minimal talent at wide receiver. With the recent addition of the big-bodied, star wideout Alshon Jeffery, formerly of the Chicago Bears, Eagles fans have a lot to be excited about on the offensive side of the field. There are injury concerns when it comes to Jeffrey, who has missed eleven games over the last two seasons, but there is no denying his ability when he is on the field.

Other assets on offense include former New England Patriot and Super Bowl Winner LeGarrette Blount, the 2016 season’s touchdown leader with 18 scores.

Blount, along with Ryan Matthews and the small but quick Darren Sproles, will contribute

to a very intriguing Eagles rushing attack. Tight-end Zach Ertz returns after putting up another solid season eclipsing 800 receiving yards and 70 receptions.

The offensive line returns all of its starters, and performed well in the 2016 campaign. However, the Eagles will look to improve upon their average of 337 total yards of offense per game from 2016, which ranked 22nd in the NFL, and average of 22.9 points per game, which ranked 16th.

Defensively, the Eagles had a decent year in 2016, ranking 12th in total yards against per game and 11th in points against per game. However, there is room for improvement. The Eagles secondary must improve this year, as they allowed 60 percent of passes thrown their way to be completed last season. The Eagles drafted two cornerbacks, most notably Sidney Jones, in the hopes that their lackluster secondary play can be improved.

There weren’t any departures at the linebacker position for the Eagles, and rising star Jordan Hicks has returned to anchor

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their defense. On the defensive line, the Eagles made three additions, most notably first rounder and all-time University of Tennessee tackle leader Derek Barrett. He hopes to bring pressure to opposing quarterbacks alongside pro-bowler Fletcher Cox and former first rounder Brandon Graham.

Despite all of the encouraging additions, Eagles fans should still have somewhat reserved expec-

tations for their squad this year.

The Eagles play in the NFC East, one of the toughest divisions in football. Two teams, the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants, made it to the playoffs last year with records of 13-3 and 12-5 respectively. The Washington Redskins are competitive too, finishing with an 8-7 record in 2016, leaving the Eagles at the bottom of the division. The Eagles will play six games in this tough di-

vision, not to mention difficult matchups against the Seattle Seahawks and Oakland Raiders.

As of September 18th, they are 1-1 with a loss to the Kansas City Chiefs and a victory against their division rival, the Washington Redskins. The season is young, and so are the Eagles. Hopefully for the fans of Philadelphia, the Eagles can deliver this fall.

Athlete of the week: Francis Eddy-Harvey Swarthmore

Men’s

Soccer

player

tionally, my mom’s job as a budget ana-

field where we all stand up for each other

Francis Eddy-Harvey ’21 scored his first

lyst really sparked my interest in eco-

without hesitation.

career goal on Saturday against Dickin-

nomics, as I have always found her work

son, and it couldn’t have come at a better

interesting.

JC: How tough has the adjustment to collegiate-level soccer been?

time. With Swarthmore losing 2-1 with around two minutes to go, Eddy-Harvey netted an equalizer that sent the game

JC: What was it like to score your first career goal in such a big moment?

into overtime and secured a draw for the

FEH: At first, it was a little different than I expected, because everyone is just bigger and faster at this level. However,

Garnet. The draw pulled Swarthmore to

FEH: It was exciting! I came in on an

I think I have been able to adjust pretty

2-3-1 overall, and 0-0-1 in conference

injury substitution without really hav-

well, because we practice like we’re play-

play. They resume conference play this

ing any time to warm up, and before I

ing games, which has helped a lot.

Saturday, Sept. 23, when they play at

knew it, I was at the top of the box with a

Muhlenberg College.

chance to score. I thought we played well in the game, so it was a relief to earn a

Jack Corkery: What do you intend to

Swarthmore?

point from the match.

FEH: My sister actually went to Bryn

major in, and how did you choose the major?

JC: How did you choose to attend

JC: How well have you bonded with your teammates so far this season?

Francis Eddy-Harvey: Right now, I

Mawr, so I already had some connection with the school. I attended some camps here and attended the Elite 300 camp,

plan to major in economics while also

FEH: This is one of the most close-

where I spoke to our coach afterwards.

pursuing the pre-med track. Throughout

knit teams I have been with. We eat

We stayed in touch, and I liked the soccer

my life, I have always been interested in

meals together and spend a lot of time

program here along with the academics,

the sciences, especially medicine. Addi-

together, and I think it shows on the

so I decided to attend Swarthmore.

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