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Arcus Hosts First Major Conference at New Location

CAMPUS

Newly opened Arcus Center hosts With/Out ¿Borders? conference

as inaugural event

Over 500 students, artists, scholars, and activists from across the globe gathered on campus this past weekend for the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership (ACSJL) “With/Out ¿Borders?” con-ference. The four-day event focused around issues of social justice in a global context.

“We are here to engage in what I hope is an act of beauty,” academic director Lisa Brock said. “When we think about justice, I want for us to think about it not in an isolated way, but in a transna-tional way—that is my hope for this conference.”

The event kicked off with

the “Thursday Think Tank” sessions on topics like racial profiling, human rights in Latin America, and undocu-mented and immigrant youth, which were all led by prom-inent social justice leaders. Attendees reconvened at an evening plenary session to review the discussions of the think tanks.

Friday’s program featured the U.S. premiere of the film Hearing Radmilla, as well as a poetry reading and discus-sion with Nikki Finney, re-cipient of the National Book Award for Poetry, and Keo-rapetse “Willie” Kgositsile, former poet laureate of South Africa.

Other key events included performances by world-re-nowned activist and per-formance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña and “Critical Solidarities: The Palestin-ian Question,” a panel led by scholars Angela Y. Davis,

elyse kaplan index staff writer

Taking a Look Inside K’s Mailroom

Turn right to your first number. Then turn left, stop on the second number. Turn right one more time to the third number, and open. Sound fa-miliar? It should.

These instructions are for the K College mailboxes. They are framed, printed on bright orange paper and hung throughout the mail area. But what really happens beyond that tiny door? Have you ever heard voices back there? Seen a shadow within the depths of your box?

Don’t worry you are not hallu-cinating. Behind the mailboxes are the mailroom and its staff.

Five-days-a-week Carol Cowper, a 35-year veteran of the K mailroom, perches in the window, ready to assist students. Cowper explains, “On a given day the mailroom receives 550 packages and 50 letters.”

The mail is organized and sorted by the mailroom staff who confirm the receiver’s name with the box number indicated on the envelope and examine the items for damage. Once the items are checked the box numbers are circled, dated, initialed, and finally set in the

identified box awaiting your arrival. Do random scribbles on your mail suddenly make sense?

A package receives similar treatment, except for larger items. If the package is too large to fit, a slip is written up and placed in the box to inform the receiver that the package has arrived. A quick visit to the teller window and the mailroom staff will help you swap your slip for your package.

Is your package supposed to have arrived but you don’t have a slip in your box? That means the mail center has not received your package yet, but

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K Students Return from Climate Change MarchWith EnergyMembers of the student body travelled to New York September 20 to

join the march

College and school orga-nizations were some of the most common attendees at the People’s Climate Change March last week on Sunday, September 21. These student groups travelled across the country to support a global initiative, which included 16 students and one alum from Kalamazoo College.

“I wanted to be a part of something bigger, a solution that everyone was contributing to,” Rosie Nocita K’18 said about her marching experi-ence. The K students returned MARCH on page 2

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last week Monday, and they said missing the weekend of first week was worth it. “Al-though I fell behind with my homework, I believe physi-cal presence at such events is vital to their success.”

The People’s Climate Change March coincided with the annual United Nations Climate Change Summit. The Summit itself ended last Tuesday, September 23, and over 100 leaders across the globe attended it, including President Barack Obama.

This became the largest climate march in history, as it attracted over 400,000 docu-mented marchers. It was based in New York, but after ensuing social media coverage, the March spurred 2808 events

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STUCOMM on page 3

Student Commission denies fundingNewly-minted first-year commissioners

were treated to a fiery first budget battle

Secretary of Finance Amanda Johnson ‘17 (pictured) introduced the KOC budget proposal at Monday night’s meeting. The proposal was denied following a tie-breaking vote from Commission President Cameron Goodall ‘15.

The Student Commission denied the Kalamazoo Outing Club’s (KOC) $5,000 budget request for annual expens-

es at Monday night’s general meeting, a move that the Com-mission called a push “toward greater consistency with the budget.”

When Secretary of Finance Amanda Johnson introduced the Outing Club’s request, she explained that the Financial Policy Committee (FPC) had recommended the request be denied, following committee evaluation the night before.

For FPC member Will Guedes ‘15, the main point of contention was the Outing Club’s lack of written detail on their budget form—a sentiment echoed by Secre-tary Johnson and other FPC members, who felt such a large request warranted more de-tailed explanation.

KOC’s Executive Board was then invited to the front of the room to present a keynote pre-

sentation, which, they hoped, might shed greater light on the requests’ merits.

Before the board members began their presentation, Student Commission Presi-dent Cameron Goodall ‘15 ex-plained to the Student Com-mission’s newly inaugurated first-year commissioners that any vote following the presen-

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artsRomeo and Juliet takes on new gender definitions Romeo and Juliet tells the story of a love-struck couple in the midst of a family feud; a story of forbidden love... PAGE 5

newsStudents push for an expanded Anderson Kalamazoo College has developed a build-ing concept for a new fitness center that will bolster K’s athletic facilities. PAGE 3

sportsSchool Pride: Does K have any?Imagine a Division I sports game. No matter the weather conditions, the bleachers are packed with a multitude... PAGE 8

opinionK community speaks out on Scottish IndependenceBy a margin of 10 percent, the people of Scotland voted against independence, and favored ... PAGE 6

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CONFERENCE on page 2

don’t fret.“Your package is just as im-

portant to us as it is to you. Given the amount of packag-es and mail we receive daily we do our best to process your mail in a timely manner,” says Cowper.

Here are some final tips from the mailroom staff:

We do sort all the mail, in-cluding your weekly Victoria Secret subscription.

We can hear every whis-pered conversation you have next to your box.

We are working as hard and as fast as we can to get your mail to you.

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PHOTO OF THE WEEKK students return from Climate March

K students take in the scenery as Southwest Michigan’s colors begin to change.

ENVIRONMENT

Student Health Center offers precautionary aids

Kalamazoo College recog-nizes that physical and mental health significantly influenc-es one’s ability to participate fully in the College communi-ty. The Student Health Center strives to enhance each stu-dent’s well being by providing comprehensive, confidential health care and by encourag-ing informed, individual par-ticipation on health related de-cisions. These services come at a free or low cost.

How to Make an Appoint-ment: Call the Student Health Center for an appointment at 269-337-7200 or visit the office in Hicks Center. Call ahead if you cannot keep your appointment, other-wise a missed appointment may result in a charge to your student account.

Walk-Ins: Although an ap-pointment may be more effi-cient, walk-ins are allowed. However, it is not guaranteed that a walk-in will be able to be seen at that time. Students with a scheduled appointment will receive priority.

Class Excuse: The Student Health Center does not provide a class excuse. During a stu-dent’s visit, you may request

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a receipt as verification of the visit but it is up to the profes-sor’s discretion to excuse you from class.

Confidentiality: No access to health records, phone in-formation, or receipts from visits by others is allowed without the student’s written permission.

Website: Check out the Student Health Center’s website to see the total com-prehensive list of services pro-vided and emergency contact phone numbers. https://reason.kzoo.edu/healthcenter/

Other Resources on Campus: All dorms have an area where you are able to pick up health care items such as cough drops, over the counter pain medication, and condoms.

It’s that time again: Flu Season. The Student Health Center is offering walk-in free flu shots every Wednesday 1-4 PM and other days by appoint-ment. In an effort to raise flu vaccination college students, the Michigan Department of Community Health launched a new challenge this year group, among Michigan colleges and universities. School health centers have volunteered for a friendly competition amongst each other to see who can get the highest percent of their

students vaccinated against flu this season. In order for a university or college to win the challenge, their students will need to self-report their flu vaccination online at www.surveymonkey.com/s/flubat-tle. Students must include the school they attend, the month they were vaccinated, and their age. The winning schools will be announced by MDCH during National Influenza Vaccination Week, December 7-13, 2014.

Peer Health Advocates (PHA) is a student leader-ship group on campus that focuses on the health issues and needs of the campus com-munity. The Peer Health Ad-vocates are committed to sup-porting their fellow students and empowering them to make healthy choices by connecting them to campus resources and offering education related to health and wellness. The club strives to honor the individu-ality and diversity present on campus, and to serve each stu-dent’s individual needs with diligence and compassion. There are three main goals on campus for PHA: one) to utilize communication strat-egies to influence behavior

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spread across 166 countries.The idea to attend the

March, started when Amanda Johnson K’17 drew from her own experiences of active participation. “I wanted to make space for students who were really passionate about climate,” Johnson said.

She said she is particularly grateful for the Arcus Center for Social Justice and Lead-ership, which supported her idea and guided it to its com-pletion.

She did not attend the march, because as a social activist she’s splitting her

time between different issues. “Considering how environ-mentalism isn’t as important to me as some other issues are, it was the right thing to do,” she said. Shannon Haupt K’16 stepped in and led the group to New York.

The 13 students and alum left Friday evening. The group spent most of Saturday learn-ing ‘marching etiquette,’ meeting with fellow march-ers, and making posters and banners for the main event.

From “awe inspiring” to “an oceanic extravaganza of people, ” each K student rang with emotion when comment-ing on the March. “Climate

MARCH FROM PAGE 1 change is an immediate threat that is effecting everyone, es-pecially the underprivileged,” Noah Mishkind K’18 said.

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Simulation shows the planned interior for the expanded athletic center.

College Moves Forward with Plans for an Expanded Athletic Center

Commission Cuts KOC Budget Presentation Short, Denies Funding Due to Lack of Informationtation will “most likely be very complicated and emotional, so don’t feel pressured to vote, you can abstain,” he said.

Goodall then qualified his statement, explaining that he was not formally asking the first-years to abstain from the vote, but was simply high-lighting their ability to do so.

Following this, KOC’s rep-resentatives were allowed to present their request.

In their presentation, the members underscored the club’s position as a positive and all-inclusive student orga-nization—boasting an annual impact on over ten percent of the College’s student body.

By providing non-compet-itive and subsidized outdoor excursions, “we make the out-doors economically accessi-ble to everyone,” club treasur-er Will Bartz ‘17 said.

Most of the club’s trips, ranging from bike rides through the arboretum, to cam-pouts on the Sleeping Bear Dunes, are nearly, if not com-pletely free for students. Ac-cording to the KOC, every

event is open to the entire student body. Students can pick and choose trips that cater to their specific outdoor in-terests.

“Some people are just hikers and some people are just skiers, and that’s cool. We want to embrace that,” club representative Kira San-diford ‘15 said.

When asked why the group needed their annual $5,000 request in bulk, rather per event, Bartz explained that the KOC needs money in one sum in order to adequately and efficiently provide for their weekly outings, which are always subject to change based on weather conditions.

The KOC leadership re-assured the Commissioners that the $5,000 allocation would not float aimlessly once granted, as club faculty advisor Jorich Horner has complete agency over the club’s funds.

For Commission Vice Pres-ident Rian Brown ’15, this element was less than reas-suring.

“I don’t think I’m comfort-able giving money from the Student Activities Fund over

kamal kamalaldinarts editor

Kalamazoo College has de-veloped a building concept for a new fitness center that will bolster K’s athletic facilities.

The concept plans for a two-story building with cardio and weight equipment, mul-tipurpose rooms, two rac-quetball courts, and a climb-ing wall.

The 33,000 square foot fitness center would be an ex-tension of the Markin Racquet Center (MRC), effectively re-

placing the three racquetball courts and one of the on-cam-pus rental houses. The facil-ity will overlook Academy Street and the train tracks east of the MRC.

The new fitness center would be accessible to all students, faculty, and staff of K. The athletic department would manage the current fitness center, which would be reserved for in-season athletes.

The College is considering demolishing a part of the MRC to extend for financial con-siderations. “It would prob-

to a [college representative],” she said.

As the Outing Club’s pre-sentation reached the ten-min-ute mark, commissioners began to vocally complain about the presentation’s du-ration. Following audible grumbling from the back of the room, Goodall told KOC to cut-off their presentation, to which Secretary of Student Affairs Mele Makalo ‘15 said, “[the cut-off] is long overdue.”

The Commission then debated the budget proposal.

Emily Sklar ‘15 expressed her support for the request and motioned for a $5,000 KOC budget allocation.

Will Guedes ‘15 motioned to amend Sklar’s $5,000 al-location to $2,000, explain-ing that it made sense to give the group enough to operate long enough to sort out a more nuanced budget solution with the Commission.

Guedes’ motion was quickly voted down, returning focus to the original motion of $5,000.

Reiterating Goodall’s earlier point, Secretary of Communi-cations Skylar Young ‘15 sug-gested to the first-year com-

missioners that they should consider abstaining from the vote.

“It’s super complicated and you guys are new, so we get it if you choose [to abstain],” Young said. “Like, I’m not saying that you should, I’m just saying—so yeah.”

After an initial vote revealed that not every commissioner had participated, a revote was

held, resulting in a deadlock count of 11 to 11.

Goodall cast a tie-break-ing 23rd vote in favor of the requests’ opponents, leading to an ultimate ‘no’ vote from the commission with 11 for and 12 against with zero ab-stentions.

Following the vote, Goodall encouraged the group to return with a more detailed budget

“I think that might have

been an issue of active

listening.”

Conference Acts as Window to Greater Issues

Alex Lubin, Saree Makdisi, Lynn Pollack, and Robin D.G. Kelley.

The conference ended with a session titled “Justice Rising: New Youth & Student Move-ments,” where young activists analyzed current issues and discussed their personal projects and initiatives.

The weekend’s programs received widely positive feedback from Kalamazoo College students who were in attendance. “This is a window into so many key issues,” Olivia Gaines ’18 said of the conference. “I’m meeting young people, walking into con-versations that are applicable right now.”

ably cost more money to try to build around the existing building,” said Paul Mans-trom, Associate Vice President of Facilities Management.

The project is estimated to cost over $7,000,000, and the funds are being collect-ed by K’s staff of college ad-vancement as part of a bigger

project.K created the concept in re-

sponse to a survey conduct-ed in 2012 that asked 717 re-spondents different questions measuring the need of a new fitness center. Most respon-dents wanted more space, better equipment, more con-venient hours, better air cir-

culation, and access to more popular equipment.

The survey was propelled especially after an apparent recruiting disadvantage that was notice by K’s staff. “Our exercise facilities were not offering the students a com-plete package of options,” said Manstrom. “A lot of high

schools have better exercis-ing machines than we do.”

Following the Library’s ren-ovation in 2005 and Hicks’ in 2008, Manstrom said the new Fitness Center would finish the “missing piece” that would “give students the opportu-nity of a well-rounded ex-perience.”

request.KOC’s executive board left

the meeting after the vote, and was followed out of the room by Makalo and Young.

The KOC members, visibly upset, expressed profound dis-satisfaction with the result. Chief among their complaints was the feeling that commis-sioners were rushing them during the presentation.

Makalo and Young apolo-gized to Outing Club’s board for the way the request was handled.

Despite having both voted against the budget request, the two commissioners attributed the ‘no’ vote to the inexperi-ence of the freshly inaugurat-ed first year commissioners, rather than their own votes.

Because the vote initially ended in a tie, either of the commissioners’ votes could have changed the outcome.

At the meeting’s close, the Commission’s Constitutional Integrity Committee chair Sa-mantha Foran ‘15 confirmed that there is not a set time limit for Student Commission meet-ings—meaning that when the Outing Club’s presentation

was cut short, it was because Commissioners wanted to ‘get on with it,’ and not because they were actually working within a time limit.

Goodall acknowledged that the debate that followed KOC’s presentation was less-than-ideal.

“I know there were some questions asked afterward that were answered in the presen-tation, but I think that might have been an issue of active listening during the presen-tation, because there were things that were brought up later that were already asked or said,” he said.

Despite the Commission’s “issue of active listening,” Goodall maintains that a ‘no’ vote does not mean the end for the KOC.

“A yes is a permanent yes, but a no can be temporary,” he said.

A ‘no’ vote may be tempo-rary, but it is uncertain how long it will take the Commis-sion to reconcile its desire for consistency and its distaste for precedence.

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Kalamazoo College

Speakers present at the Arcus Center’s With/Out Borders Conference in Stestson Chapel last weekend.

madison lennox provided additional reporting

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Working at the Pinnacle: A K Grad’s Experience with Farm-to-Table Dining

katherine rapinindex staff writer

Chelsea Wallace ‘14 left Kalamazoo last week for an apprenticeship at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Ag-riculture in Poncantico Hills, New York. For six months, she will work to further the center’s mission of creating a consciousness about the effect of everyday food choices.

Blue Hill at Stone Barns is the pinnacle of high class farm-to-table dining. The restaurant uses food grown within a 250 mile radius. The offerings change daily, even hourly, depending on what’s ripe. Inspired by Dan Bar-ber’s TED talk—who is the co-owner and executive chef at Blue Hill—Wallace sought an opportunity to work there.

Many facets of Wallace’s education at K influenced her interest in food. She always loved food, but she didn’t think much beyond enjoying the taste. “I didn’t even realize

there was such a thing as a ‘food system,’ ” she said about her experience in Amelia Ka-tanski’s ‘Cultivation Com-munity’ seminar. “I called my mom and said, ‘Mama! There’s corn in everything! Everything! I can’t do this!’ ”

And so began her quest to impact food systems she considers problematic and work through challenges of food access in her commu-

glycerides and glucose after ingestion of a high fat/carbo-hydrate meal (to read in full, search ‘Wallace’ in the SIP Cache). She realized that her favorite part of the process was preparing the breakfast for her eight participants. She wanted to be hands-on with food. “If you get to make de-licious food that brings people together, why the heck not?”

Though she hopes to extend

nity. She started by dropping her meal plan and cooking her own meals sophomore year. “I realized that food was some-thing you could get involved in intellectually and creative-ly,” she said.

In the fall of her senior year, her interest in food distilled through her Senior Individ-ualized Project (SIP) work. She researched the effect of strawberries on insulin, tri-

ALERT ALERT

 

ALERT ALERT  her visa next year, Wallace plans to eventually return to her hometown of St. Cath-erine, Jamaica. “Our food system is starting to look a lot like the American food system, which is not okay,” she said.

Wallace explained with in-credulity that Jamaica spends over $1 billion on food and beverage imports per year. She hopes to work to improve

their complex, import-depen-dent food system. “If we could become more food sovereign, that would help our economy, as well as farmers and com-munities and health,” she says. “If we don’t have good food – food that’s coming from a good source in our communi-ty, we’re not thriving.”

ALERT ALERT ALERT

Executive Di-rector of ACFSJ: Mia Henry

ALERT ALERT ALERT

trisha dunhamfeatures editor

Mia Henry, executive di-rector of the Arcus Center for Social Justice and Leader-ship, sat across from me sur-rounded by the dim lighting in the Book Club cafe. With a coffee in her hand, a smile on her face and a glow in her eyes, we chatted about her pre-vious work experience and her hopes for the Arcus Center.

Henry has traveled through-out the United States during her personal and work life. She’s originally from Alabama, and she grew up in both Tennessee and Arkan-sas and she lived in Chicago for the past 15-years. “I was doing leadership development for community organizers in South LA, and Nashville, and Dayton, Ohio, and Albu-

querque, New Mexico,” said Henry, “I loved all the places.”

Henry ran a nonprofit called the Chicago Freedom School. This school developed from the legacy of the Mis-sissippi Freedom Schools—which originated from the 1964 Freedom Summer when civil rights organizations like SNCC and the NAACP were registering African Americans to vote. Henry worked heavily with the Chicago youth who were implementing social change, and she said Chicago Freedom School is “giving them the tools to address any issue they were most passion-ate about.”

The Freedom School re-quired to operate from an anti-oppressive lens,” said Henry. “Social justice is about ensuring equality for all people regardless of their identities, period. You can’t

pick and choose.” Henry plans to maintain this requirement during her role as Executive Director of the Arcus Center.

She came to Kalamazoo to fulfill the role of Executive Di-rector, because the unique op-portunity the Arcus center in-trigued her. “There are centers on college campuses across the U.S. that address specif-ic issues, but there aren’t any centers that address leader-

ship specifically. Particularly, working with young people to help them find their voice,” said Henry.

Compared to Henry’s under-graduate education at Rutgers University, she believes social justice leadership at K will be more effective.

“Everything just felt like a drop in a large lake. The impact on the rest of the world can be more felt here. These

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huge universities become their own universe. Some-thing special about K is that it’s intimate enough to have to depend on the communi-ty. We have no choice but to bring everyone in.”

With the Center opening and the Without Borders Con-ference coming to an end, Henry envisions the build-ing to become a place for stu-dents, faculty, and communi-

ty members alike to gather. “I want people to see the build-ing and the work of the center to be a place where we all are intentionally trying to achieve, in design and action,” said Henry.

After the conference, her goal is to reach out to the campus and community. “I want to meet as many people on campus as possible.”

The local Kalamazoo music haven Satellite Records hosted their fourth annual Already Dead Family Reunion Wednesday the 24 through Sunday. Each night consist-ed of performances from mu-sicians of various communi-ties, and headliners included Cellular Chaos, Chris Brokaw, and Forget the Times. It ended with a free jazz bang Sunday night film when a mixed bag of avant-garde artists inter-preted the sounds to the 1920 German silent horror film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

Already Dead showcased a

PAGE 51 OCTOBER 2014 ArtsRomeo & Juliet with

a TwistKalamazoo thespians

cross gender and social norms in Shakespeare’s

famous tragedy

Romeo and Juliet tells the story of a love-struck couple in the midst of a family feud; a story of for-bidden love and person-al sacrifice.

In their desire to p e r f o r m a theat-rical classic, The Kalama-zoo College Theatre Depart-ment adapted the well-known work. However, following K’s custom of defying the norm, the theatre department re-solved to flip the genders of the participating actors.

“We are taking a risk,” said Todd Espeland, Profes-sor of Theatre Arts, but this is not unusual. “K [tends] to do non-traditional plays,” he said.

Espeland thought that Romeo and Juliet offered

only the younger audience a chance to relate. “I wanted to have something greater to say,” he said, hinting at his decision to flip the genders.

The idea developed from the need to reverse a few roles to accommodate the dominating number of female participants in the play. After further de-liberation, the gender rever-sal was expanded to the entire cast. Sans the gender flip, the story of Romeo and Juliet will remain intact.

“When director Todd an-

nounced the gender flip, all of the females faces lit up and all of the men’s face were like…,” said Gabrielle Miller ’17, displaying an displeased expression.

Miller is the play’s drama-turge and Lord Montague. “Todd wants me to come in every week with some sort of feminist literature that we can talk about as a group just to open up discussion for the cast to have this be an ongoing process of exploring gender,” said Miller, explaining her

dramaturge role. The cast is in the process of

developing the characters and accustoming to their assigned gender. “We have thought a lot about what it is like to speak from the other gender’s perspective,” said Lindsay Worthington ’17, who will be playing Romeo.

The participants expressed their fear of the audience ex-periencing the performance as a comedy. “There are some people who are expecting to see a Monty Python parody,”

said Thaddeus Buttery ’17, who will play the role of Juliet. “Once they find out it is not the case, they might be con-fused, but I think most people are going to contribute to the conversation we are trying to open up” he concluded.

This risk-taking play pre-mieres on November 6th and will run through the 9th. The gender aspect was a new way to explore the play, with the actors. Be ready to see a play you have grown up knowing but one that will open new

gender discussions.

Romeo & Juliet

K Theatre Co.

Premieres November 6

ON-CAMPUSEVENTS

Thursday, 10/2

We Question While We Walk5:00 p.mOlmsted Room, Mandelle Hall

OFF-CAMPUSEVENTS

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motley style in music. “Most of the bands playing are on more of an experimental end of the spectrum, but within that I try to represent as many different genres as possible,” said Sean Hartman, co-owner of Satellite Records and coor-dinator of the reunion.

“There will be stuff that’s a little more folk-based, stuff that’s a little more electron-ic, stuff that’s more rock or jazz based, but it’s usually the more experimental ver-sions of all of those,” he said.

Beyond local artists, the event showcased a number bands who have “never played Kalamazoo before or who wouldn’t normally visit the

town,” Hartman said. He urges his audience to be open to hearing what they may have never heard before.

Cellular Chaos from New York City is a self-proclaimed “guitar freak-out band” that brought progressive rock the-atrics to the Satellite Records’ stage. They adorned quasi-tutu wedding veils, tribal-print leg-gings, and clunky black liner. Lead singer Admiral Grey epitomized what Hartman meant when he said “exper-imental.”

Grey mesmerized an audi-ence with a voice of dramatic angst, and she held staunchly to her mantra that “physical interaction is just as essen-

tial to provide your audience with energy and expression.”

This dedication to the cre-ative spirit is an ideal Hartman and the visionaries behind the Festival hoped to preserve.

“I am always most interest-ed by music that is made for the sake of creativity and for the artists themselves,” said Hartman. “When I feel like an artist is making music just for the crowd or for people to like it, that is their own decision and that’s totally fine, it just isn’t something that appeals to me.”

On the final night of the event, Forget the Times (of which Hartman is a member) performed in musical accom-

paniment to the German silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Calig-ari.

What is truly a work of dis-cordance and chaos in and of itself was able to evolve into something even more inten-tionally off-putting through the artists’ rejection of time signature and atmospheric sound.

Daniel Michelin K‘18 voiced his interpretation of Forget the Times’ juxtapo-sition of music and film: “The interplay between the two different art forms, an old movie accompanied by modern ambient music, con-trasted each other to remind us that times have changed.”

& delaney fordellarts editor &

index staff writer

kamal kamalaldin

Friday, 10/3

Salsa Lesson with LSO4:30 p.m.Hicks Student Center: Lower Atrium

Tuesday, 10/7

Faculty Staff Dance Sampler12:00 p.m.Anderson Athletic Center:Dance Studio

10/1-10/8The Secret Garden8:00 p.m.Farmers Alley Theatre

10/2 - 10/5My Fair Lady Thu. - Sat. 7:30 p.m. Sun. 2:00 p.m.The Civic Theatre

Thursday, 10/2Collector’s Talk: Jim Bridens-tine on A Collector’s Eye6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.Kalamazoo Institute of Art - $10 for non-members

Friday, 10/3

Art Hop - Open Galleries5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Institute of Art

Sunday, 10/5

Public Tour: Works from the Collection of James and Sheila Bridenstine

2:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Institute of Art

Tuesday, 10/7

ARTbreak: Double Take: Artists Respond to the Col-lection12:00 p.m. Kalamazoo Institute of Art

Already Dead Festival Brings a Variety of Music Back to the Zoo

The fourth annual Already Dead festival brings familiar and experimental music to Kalamazoo.

Kalamazoo College’s first production of the 2014-2015 academic year will flip the genders of the beloved Shakepeare production, Romeo and Juliet.

Robert Manor/ Index

Elise Roucek / Index

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PIZZA’S KITCHEN

Kalamazoo offers venues for shopping, eating, and even studying, but there are few vistas for nature.

The trees on the quad with acorns as large as rocks may provide shade for studying, but it also lacks diversity. In classes such as Ecology and Conservation, visits to the Nature Center remind stu-dents how nice it is to get back into nature.

Not everybody, however, is in an ecology class or so easily finds the motivation to trek out into nature. The Nature Center, by the way, is not the same place as the Lillian Anderson Arbore-tum. Although equally tran-quil, the Arboretum has less interaction than the Nature Center.

For starters, people can see these birds up close because the Center captures birds and places tags on them so they can measure popu-lation growth. For instance, two hummingbirds, a cardinal, and a small falcon with sharp claws swept by during the class visit.

Their butterfly populace is also diverse when

it’s still warm. Visitors at the Center can see prairie grasslands with dozens of colorful but-terflies sailing across a blue sky.

Immersing in nature is good for the body and brain. For instance, an article from the Ameri-can Association of Retired Persons (AARP) said

“University of Michigan re-searchers demonstrated that, after just an hour interacting with nature, memory perfor-mance and attention spans improved by 20 percent.”

Clearly, a hike in nature isn’t just for biology students or members of the Kalama-zoo Outing Club. It could be the reservoir of inspiration for a creative writing piece. A walk around the Nature Center may improve memory better than cramming for a

intro to psychology exam. The same article said researchers at the University of Kansas “report-ed a 50 percent boost in creativity for people who were steeped in nature for a few days.”

The Kalamazoo Nature Center is a great reason to escape the K bubble and to explore something new.

“Immersing in nature is good

for the body and brain.”

BY EMILY PIZZA

By a margin of 10 percent, the people of Scotland voted against independence, and favored continued unity with the United Kingdom. Scotland and England have been together for over 300 years and this vote could have changed this bond forever.

On the other side of the Atlantic at the world of Kalamazoo College many students and faculty opinions. In fact, of the 13 stu-dents asked about which they sided with, 5 said no affiliation, 1 said no, and 7 said yes.

Daniel Michelin ’14 has strong ties to Scot-

land and is an avid supporter of the “Yes” campaign. “Scotland has a different identity than England,” he said, referring to the vast cultural difference between the two countries. Michelin also mentioned the oil reserves that could been used by Scotland to help support their economy post-independence.

Professor Shreena Gandhi, Assistant Profes-sor of Religions, was a “No” campaign sup-porter. She said, “because of the amount of British Asians that came over from the various British Colonies and as Scotland becomes more multicultural, the idea of ethnicity being the foundation of a nation would become more complicated.” Ghandi also mentioned the loss of both British investment and Scottish

banks would devastate Scotland’s economy.“I was really hoping for yes,” said Mhand

Abadou, a visiting international student from France. When asked if he thought Scotland would try for independence again, Abadou said he hoped the people that voted “Yes” would want to again.

Euan Nesbitt ’14 is an international student from Kenya who is for the “No” campaign. He had no strong personal affiliation towards either side, but he has a friend who lives in Scotland that was pro-union. When asked what he wishes the outcome would have been like, Nesbitt said that he wasn’t “in support of the rioting afterwards.”

Tanush Jagdish ’14 said the vote was “in-

directly affected by the media.”Professor of History Dr. David Barclay is

a “No” supporter, even though his lineage is 80 percent Scottish. When asked about Scot-land’s push for independence and the UK avoiding it, he said “it is possible it will be swept under the rug.” Regardless of the af-termath of the vote, he said “No matter what, the UK will not be the same.”

Kalamazoo students tended to lean toward Scottish independence. The professors, however, tended to look at it from a more economic perspective and the long-term tan-gible consequences. Scotland will remain part of the United Kingdom for the foreseeable future, but change is on the horizon.

Kalamazoo Students React to the Vote For British Unitysean bogue

index staff writer

VOICES

We heard screeches in the dormi-tories above our heads. A group of boys live above us, and it took two weeks for my roommate, my suite-mates, and I to determine whether they were pacing back and forth in high heeled shoes or if they were moving furniture around on a daily basis. As for the people below us,

they play music so loud that the floor shakes.

I spent most of the summer bom-barded by words of encouragement, cautionary tales, and shared excite-ment. But, just two weeks here at K College, I have learned about the experiences my friends and family members didn’t warn me about.

After the first few weeks with these loud students, I decided to confront the boys upstairs. At first, I

wrote a passive aggressive message on a sticky note and left it on their door. I’ll admit that it was defi-nitely more on the aggressive side, but I signed it with a heart which I decided made it okay. I acknowl-edged there wasn’t much I could do with the people below because they respect quiet hours. Though, I will try in the future if the trembles turn into tremors.

The following afternoon, much to

my surprise, I was greeted by one of the boys from the room above me knocking on my door. We talked for a few minutes and he assured me that the loud noises were in no way coming from him or his roommate.

I apologized for my wrongful ac-cusation, but I’m still curious about where the noises are coming from. My roommate told me that she heard a rumor that there are mice living in the ceiling. That’s an unsettling

thought and it doesn’t make me feel any better. But, for now, I’m not des-tined to discover the true source of the noises coming from above us.

The dorm lifestyle may not be for everyone, and certainly those fearful of rodents. I’m looking forward to the glorious day when I will be able to live on my own and when I’m not constantly surrounded by hun-dreds of other people. But for now, I’ll leave sticky notes with hearts.

Silence the Noise: Living in First Year Dormsamanda stutzmanindex staff writer

VOICES

Paul Lovaas/ Kalamazoo College

Gaining the quiet solitude of a person-al study room was a privilege in Kalam-azoo College library lore. It meant you re-spected your time when you had the chance to occupy such a sought place. Not having the foresight to check out a room far enough in advance meant having to find the passive ag-gressive courage to fight for the last singu-lar cubbie on the third floor. No longer is this the case, as the new relaxed policy for using the library study rooms is allowing the student body to find liberal, in-ventive ways to take advantage of the once-most-cornered spaces on campus.

“It was just too good of an opportunity to pass up,” said Kira San-diford ‘15 a trip leader in the Kalamazoo Outing Club (KOC). “The rooms are a great place to hold after hours of camping sessions. For learning how to set up the perfect tarp covers, we have used a room on the second floor to outfit an entire camp site scenario.”

While passing by the shelves of the second floor, students should keep their eyes peeled for the emerging tent city. “We want to use the newly opened space as best we can, and to show those students who are not usually engaged with the K.O.C what sort of techniques you can learn from getting involved,” San-diford said. “We are going to start holding Wilderness First Re-sponder training ses-sions once a week in the rooms.”

Drew Hopper ’15, organizer of the Ka-

lamabrew Society on campus, sees the rooms as a way to move pro-duction to a closer space on campus. “The best has defi-nitely been invading the library. These fancy new study rooms have many convenient uses,” Hopper said. “There are windows, which we can ‘open’ to vent out the burnoff carbon monox-ide. There’s a table, ex-cellent for using gravity to siphon our beer for us. Next stop will be the reading room.” It was not said if there would be free samples of the brews to relieve stress off of those in the library.

The study rooms have attracted ath-letes as well, helping to combine two spaces, the gym and the library, into one. On the third floor, Hornet basketball player Hannah Maness ’15 helped to set up a weight room in a study room. “The team moved some of the ma-chines into a room to help cut down on time going to the gym,” Maness said. “It was a pain to move them, but now it’s perfect for us. We can lift and then study as a team. We even have a fridge full of muscle milk for after workouts.”

Those students who used to study on the third floor of the library, on the other hand, are now using the weight room in the gym as a quiet space on campus despite the smell and lack of chairs.

The Index will be on the lookout should the library make a move to revert the new policy to restrict these develop-ments. Until then, the shenanigans will con-tinue.

-An Arbitrary Matarix-

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ACROSS1. Hoax5. Weep8. Nest contents12. Indian robe13. Animosity14. Vicinity15. Adventure17. Rod and ______18. Papa’s mate19. Pack Animal20. Confess23. Summer beverage (2 wds.)27. Luau souvenir28. Disregarded30. Reduce32. Beethoven work35. Renters37. Egg drink38. Artist’s board40. Bungling42. Solemn fear43. African lily45. Judge47. Send51. Wrought _____

52. Barnyard bird53. Fork point54. Grain55. Keats’ “before”56. Behalf

DOWN1. Compass point (abbr.)2. Holds3. Rainbow shape4. Florida metropolis5. Thailand, once6. Decree7. Quilting party8. Lobe site9. Large dog (2 wds.)10. Gaggle members11. Hot sauce16. Hospital occupant20. Every bit21. Actress Ruby _____22. Christmas doorway dec-oration24. Charge25. Wearing down26. Bear’s lair

29. Small pest31. Witness33. Blouse34. FBI employee (abbr.)36. Closer38. France’s capital39. Alert41. Homes for birds44. Path46. Stop47. Common article48. Woody’s ex49. Pen liquid50. Golf prop

-Crossword-

POPULARITY

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funds to the Kalamazoo Outing Club

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-Need to Know-

Ebola has reached the USA as a case was confirmed in Dallas late Tuesday.

Protests in Hong Kong, or the “Umbrella Revolution”, have swelled.

The Detroit Tigers win a fourth straight Division Title. They face the Baltimore Orioles in the ALDS.

Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps was arrested and charged with a second DUI.

An Intruder at the White House got as far as the East Room earlier this month.

British military conducted first airstrike against ISIS in Iraq on Tuesday.

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-Human of Kalamazoo-

-On Camera-

The Umbrella RevolutionHONG KONG (AP) — Pro-democracy protest-ers in Hong Kong set a Wednesday dead-

line for a response from the government to meet their demands for reforms after spend-

ing another night block-ing streets in an unprec-edented show of civil disobedience.

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LITY

-A Matrix?-

-Hornet Dictionary-

abeeranceNoun: The act of going somewhere, because you feel obligated...but only for one beer.

-Notable Quotable-I have no doubt that we’ll stop this in its tracks in the U.S.”“

-Buzzkill-

Relaxed Study Room Policy Means More Space, Less Red Tape”

emily kotz

Spice and Rice

Menna’s Joint

Papa John’s

Crow’s Nest

Station702

The Union

Food Dance

-Shit K Professors Say-Jesus would never

get tenure.“- A professor with a God complex

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Solution in next week’s paper

“Dam?”

This is Your TimeIf you’ve ever

wanted your voice to be heard, if you’ve ever dreamed of your name in print, or working for a cause that’s bigger than you--this is your time.

This is your time to accomplish each and every one of those goals, and exapand your academic hori-zons at the same time.

This is your time to

join The Index.Whether you become

an Index writer, de-signer, or photog-rapher, there is no easier way to publish the work that you are passionate about in a nationally recognized forum.

If you’re ready for the best decision of your life, then come to Sunday’s Index meeting in Hicks 116.

K begets the independent and the self-critical. For Kelsey Matthews, a current first year, she finds comfort through being both. “I realized that I was more independent than I thought I was,” Matthews said when asked about her first two weeks at K.

The campus quickly became her new home. “I feel really comfortable here, and I didn’t expect to be this comfort-able this early in the year.”

She aspires to be a writer, and now she’s writing a short story about were-wolves. “I like to write short stories,” she said, and likes to write from her imag-ination instead of her personal experi-ences.

-written by Colin Smith and Ogden Wright-

Dr. Thomas Frieden, Director of the CDC

Associated Press

After walking to the fields, the smell of freshly cut grass and fresh dog poop bring memories of running, throw-ing discs and yelling at each other. A new fall season of Ul-timate started again, and not only at Kalamazoo College, but at universities and col-leges throughout the country.

When practice started we warmed by jogging, and we realized laying in the sun all summer didn’t get us in shape. We taught the rookies how to throw while we looked around and realized half of our experienced players are all abroad and the other half are working on their SIPs.

The rebuilding starts again. Last year’s captains had their strategy, and this year three

more captains think they can do it better. These are common struggles for teams across the country and di-visions.

University of Colorado’s Mamabird team is looking for a repeat at winning Divi-sion I college nationals while Bentley University wants to win the DIII nationals. Before all the high level teams can get their full squads, however,

they have to reach Club Na-tionals (the highest level of the sport of Ultimate, Oct 16-19).

As for our beloved Ka-lamazoo College teams: the women’s team, Queen Beez, want to improve their fourth place finish at Great Lakes DIII sectionals; the men’s Ul-timate Buzz want to bounce back from their seventh place performance at Illinois DIII

sectionals. For the past couple of years, the Beez has been improving with each year, and last year they came in third in their section.

Buzz made it to the Great Lakes Regionals consistent-ly for years past, and losing at sectionals last year was a huge disappointment. Both teams decided to keep close by weekly scrimmages called the Kalamazoo College Ulti-

mate Frisbee (KCUF).Anyone of any level of

experience can come out to practice and learn how to play. The Queen Beez prac-tice Tuesdays and Thursdays at the new IM fields, and the Ultimate Buzz practice Mondays and Thursdays at Davis St. Fields. The first tournament is during the weekend of third week, so wish us luck.

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SPORTSOCTOBER 1, 2014 THE INDEX

School Pride Falls Short at K Sporting Events

theo cambertindex staff writer

Imagine a Division I sports game. No matter the weather conditions, the bleachers are packed with a multitude of en-thusiastic fans in their school’s colors. These diehard fans get rowdy purely from the sheer thrill of seeing their beloved school’s team regardless of a winning or losing streak.

Now imagine a Kalama-zoo College sporting event. K Cheer Captain Megan Loyer

Ultimate Frisbee season begins across college campuses. Both the men’s and women’s team are currently training.

ULTIMATE CHOICE FRISBEE SEASON OPENS AT K

janelle grantindex staff writer

K’17 offered a normal game-day bleacher scene, “I look up and see the same group of students and a few parents,” she said. “It’s disappointing to cheer to an inactive and small crowd.”

Ultimate Frisbee player Spencer Freeman (K’16) transferred this fall from Michigan State University and noted the distinct differ-ence in the two schools’ spec-tator culture. “A sporting event like football in East Lansing is a full day affair,” Freeman said. “The excitement starts as the sun comes up.”

He continued, “at K the stands aren’t as packed and not everyone knows about the games. I would say that [K] students are more en-thusiastic about their school than MSU students, but the

K sporting events don’t nec-essarily reflect it.”

The common perception is that K students don’t go to games because the sports teams are not as good as Di-vision I, but Freeman offered a different perspective. “Re-gardless of a winning or losing record at MSU, the student section is full. I think

seeing more K students at games would be a great way to enrich our community here in a very fun way because ev-eryone would be there with one common goal: to cheer on our Hornets.”

K is no Division I school that can entertain 40,000 people, but Division III ath-letics offers its own spectator-

ship. The smaller communi-ty at K allows personal bonds with each of our student ath-letes, and students are bound to know at least one athlete at a given game. Football player, Andre Grayson (K’18) said student attendance and pride in K sports is important. “When our school is behind us, it does nothing but help further mo-

tivate us as players.”Sports teams here at K may

not win every game, but then again, no team does. “It’d be great to cheer with an official student section,” said the K Cheer Captain Megan Loyer. “It’d be a positive way for ev-eryone at K to enjoy some-thing together and have pride in our school and its sports.

Men’s soccer team on the field on their way to defeat Albion College.

Where Division I teams enjoy the

traditional pomp of collegiate athletics,

sports culture struggles to survive at K

Ultimate Frisbee/ Kalamazoo College

Janelle Grant/ Index