INSIDE newsSenior creates art installation in FABSenior Shelley Hu creates a multi-media art Senior Individualized Project from her travels entitled “Lonely Planet.” Hu used three projectors and screens in her piece. It can be found in the FAB. PAGE 2

Baseball holds 3-4 record against Hope

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K’s Baseball Team snagged three wins against Hope College in a four-game series on Saturday. They play again on Friday at home against Olivet. PAGE 8

The IssueopinionThe Signs of Selling OutErin Eagan was greeted by the new signs marking all major campus buildings upon her return to K from Study Abraod. She questions their necessity and wonders if they detract from the community atmosphere.

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Renovations in the library’s second floor to

accommodate more study room

Upjohn gets a makeoverWork in Progress: Michelle Choi, Mira Swearer, Ana Waxer, and Sarah Levett sit around waiting for a room to open up in Upjohn Library

Built in 2006, Upjohn Library Commons was de-signed to accommodate the increasing student capacity at Kalamazoo College. However, since the former library that

Upjohn replaced was not as popular among students, K did not have insight as to how future students would use the newly built library. New plans are accordingly being set-in-place now that the success of the library has been es-tablished.

One of those plans is the renovation of the library’s second floor, planned for ini-tiation and completion within the coming summer. The ren-ovation will replace the two

plant-holding, carrel tables behind the Reading Room with four new study rooms.

These plans come to address the unpredicted usage of library space by students. Now, the library staff members “know that there isn’t enough study space in (the library) for people who want to study to-gether or in rooms,” said Stacy Nowicki, Upjohn Library Director. Many students are forced to wait for the study rooms to be available for

use, which can take hours. With the addition of the new study rooms, Nowicki hopes to reduce the waiting-time for study rooms, or at best, even eliminate it.

Each of the four study rooms will be able to occupy eight to ten people, and will come equipt with a projec-tor and (potentially) a full-wall whiteboard—an experi-ment hoping to offer students

Farms to K to Introduce On-Campus Market

The plan for an on-campus farmers’ market hopes to increase access

to organic food

olivia nalugyaindex staff writer

Farms to K, one of the student-led groups under the Center for Civic Engagement, plans to introduce a farmers’ market at Kalamazoo College, so that students can easily access organic foods grown by local farmers.

Civic engagement schol-ars and Farms to K leaders, Maddie MacWilliams ’16 and Nadia Torres ’16, revealed that members of the group suggest-ed this in the middle of fall quarter as a possible project for their group this year.

MacWilliams and Torres initially realized that a farmers’ market would be a huge time commitment. However, they

were propelled forward by the enthusiasm and dedication of the entire group.

“Because everybody is so committed to it, it’s become not a lot of work for one specific person, so that’s awesome,” Torres said.

The group immediate-ly started drafting a mission statement to determine how they were going to imple-ment the idea. MacWilliams revealed that the process forced them to think inten-sively about the implications of the idea as well as its fea-sibility.

“It took us three meetings to draft a mission statement. There were a lot of conversa-tions about why we needed a farmers’ market on campus,” MacWilliams said.

They hope that a farmers’ market will connect students to the food they eat, as well as

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CAMPUS LIFE

Art Project Captures the Feel of Travel

VISUAL ARTS

Shelley Hu ‘14 is the creator of a new art

installation in the Fine Arts Building

colin smithindex staff writer

After the push of a button, the installation starts: footage of escalators repeat before scenes outside a subway with faces of people focusing in and out as they pass by. The sound of perpetual movement drowns out the intercom chor-tling out names while traffic sounds fill the room.

For returning juniors, it’s easy to imagine the feeling of traveling, and the isolation one feels despite surrounded

by so many people. For an ac-curate simulation step inside the Fine Art Building’s art gallery to experience senior Shelley Hu’s art installation.

With three projectors and screens, Hu blurred both the visual and auditory experi-ences to give the installation a sense of suspension. With each projector facing on three separate walls of a square-shaped room, her Senior In-dividualized Project (SIP), titled “Lonely Planet,” is a panoramic representation of traveling.

As an artist in photography, the fine arts, and film, Hu has grown interested in engaging space with her art as well as interacting with her

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StuOrg Examines Problems with Binary

STUDENTS

Sphere, a new student organization, looks to unpack the issues with

the gender binary

A new student organiza-tion (StuOrg) named Sphere has emerged on campus. The StuOrg was the brainchild of Brianna Lombardini ‘16, who got the idea after attending a dinner and discussion about issues with gender binary—the classification of gender into two distinctions, male and female.

“One of the people who spoke is a student named

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When Politics Fails: A Cambridge Professor Traces the Road to War

A Bad Day: Dr. Christopher Clark recounts the series of events leading to the assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Dr. Christopher Clark spoke in the Olmstead

Room April 8

Kalamazoo College’s De-partment of History hosted the Moritz Lecture in History April 8 in the Olmsted Room.

Professor Christopher

Clark of Cambridge Universi-ty delivered the lecture, which focused on the outbreak of the First World War.

To Kalamazoo College Professor of History David Barclay, Clark’s latest work and the focus of Wednesday’s lecture, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, is the most import-ant book on the Great War’s

outbreak published in the last half-century.

By adding another book to the estimated 25,000 existing books and articles on the war, Clark hopes to challenge the conflict’s historically binary understanding.

“For a long while the study of the First World War was very much structured on guilt,

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Student Commissioners discussed last Saturday’s action at the Frelon dance

showcase, passed a resolution calling for tuition reform, and signed a letter demanding the creation of

a Multicultural House

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his take on the action: “It was never singularly

about Frelon.” He also thanked the directors

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also voted to sign a letter requesting a multicultural

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Secretary of Communications Graham Wojtas moved to create a subcommittee to organize a campus-wide tailgate for college sporting events.

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StuOrgChelsey Shannon who,

through her senior individu-alized project research, had concluded that gender does not exist in a binary, but rath-er a sphere of possibilities. From that notion, the idea for a student organization came about,” Lombardini said.

The main purpose of the group is to provide an inclu-sive space that promotes dis-cussions about gender identity, and presentations and talks about the problems facing peo-ple who are non-binary. It also provides resources for mem-bers of the LGBTQA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Ally) community here at K.

“I believe that members of the Kalamazoo College community strive for inclu-sivity and understanding but have thus far been unable to create an institutional and social growth regarding gender, gender identity, and gender presentation,” said Lombardini when asked about the need for such a place at Kalamazoo College.

As of now, the group hasn’t

had any official meetings but they encourage people to like their Facebook page (Sphere at Kzoo) for updated infor-mation about meeting times and discussions. However, Sphere did host a poetry slam as a Wind Down Wednesday event on April 2, 2014

Lombardini sees a grow-ing interest in the group and its message and hopes that through Sphere, people can find a safe space and a com-mon voice to express their needs and desires for change.

“I hope to see both so-cial and institutional growth regarding gender and the in-clusivity of all gender presen-tations and identities. I hope that with the future building and renovating of current buildings, we will see an in-creased desire for all gender restrooms,” Lombardini said. “Additionally, we hope to see movement academically toward a less heteronormative default, in which non-binary genders are represented.”

To find out more informa-tion about Sphere, join like the Sphere at Kzoo Facebook page.

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to the people who produce it.

“We want to establish a space where people can go, buy local food, and talk to farmers about their food and about why they are passionate about what they do,” MacWil-liams said.

The market would also be a basis for building com-munity and would serve as an avenue for connecting K College to the greater Kalam-

azoo community. The market would include

local musicians and artists. Students from neighboring colleges and universities would also be able to come to the market.

Kalamazoo College Dining Services is also willing to work with Farms to K to support the project by pur-chasing food from the market so that farmers can have the financial benefit to keep par-taking in the market.

“We want to make it mon-etarily worth it for farmers to come to the market so it is important for us to estab-lish a connection between the cafeteria and the farmers,” Torres said.

The market will also mainly take place during cold seasons when it is harder for students to go off campus to buy food. Farms to K is now drafting a proposal, which will be submitted to Admin-istration for approval.

Moritz Lecturer Examines the Complex Origins of the First World War

who is the guilty state, but that’s not a very helpful way of thinking about things,” Clark said.

While researching the war’s origins Clark often found himself scouring the footnotes of his predecessors “looking for gold dust.” Clark struck gold while digging through the works of Austra-lian historian Mark Haines. In Haines’ notes Clark found a helpful memoir by a French diplomat, which shed greater light on French diplomacy in the last months before the war. Clark also traced trails of gold dust across Europe, mining archival records in Belgrade, Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Moscow, London, and Brussels.

Clark, a native of Austr-lia, first found fascination in

the war through stories from his Great-Uncle Jim, a World War One veteran.

“I said, ‘the men who fought in the war, were they keen to get into the fight, or were they scared?’ And he said that some were keen,

some were scared. So I said ‘which one were you? Were you keen, or scared?’ He said, ‘I was definitely scared.’ So I asked ‘did the keen ones fight better than the scared ones?’ And he said ‘no it was the keen ones who shat them-

selves first.’ Those first con-versations really made me realize the size of the phe-nomenon,” he said.

As the centennial of the war’s outbreak in 1914 ap-proaches, Clark believes the war is more relevant than ever before. In a modern world that is less predictable, more opaque, less translatable, and more dangerous, “the world of 2014 looks more and more like the world a century ago, the world that made global calamity possible in the First World War.”

But don’t expect Clark’s book to be the blueprint for the next great conflict.

“History is an oracle. She teaches in riddles, not lessons,” Clark said. “My work is intended to remind people how bad it can get when politics fails.”

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an improved study capability and more convenience. Like other study rooms, they will be available for students to checkout at times when they are not being used for a class.

The existence of such study rooms on the second floor broadens classroom-planning options. Nowicki said, “[The study rooms] are big enough that they may be able to be used as classrooms.” This will not conflict with the study rooms’ purpose, since students mostly begin checking out study rooms after 5:00 p.m., due to current library policies.

However, to construct the new classrooms, part of the library must be sacrificed. The choice to eliminate the carrel tables was easy, according to Nowicki, as the tables (and their outdated equipment), were not really used by stu-dents. “We thought when we built this building eight years

ago that those were going to be very popular, but every-one hated them,” she added.

The equipment that pre-viously occupied the carrel tables will be placed on mobile carts and will be available in classrooms within the library.

The construction will be made through the placement of internal walls within the already-existing structure of the library, a procedure similar to the one used to build the new bio-chem resource center.

Nowicki expressed her happiness with the students’ organization of the library floors into a social first floor, a professional second floor, and a quiet third floor. Some adjustments were made to en-courage better habits within students, she mentioned, and she trusts that the students will responsibly use the library, while it continues to cater for their needs.

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audiences for a long time. Her inspiration for this Senior Individualized Project sparked about a year ago when she arrived from her study abroad in Jerusa-lem, Israel. However, Hu noted, her obsession with traveling grew out of the past few years.

“Among all the feelings one has while traveling,” said Shelley Hu, “I am most intrigued by the loneliness.” She said in shooting her project she was influenced by the French film essayist Chris Marker, particularly La Jetée—a 1962 film made almost entirely with still

photos.Shelley Hu shot all the

footage used in her instal-lation. While she includes scenes from New York City, China, and Israel, most of it was filmed in Jerusalem while studying there. She said she was drawn to Jeru-salem because “it is one of the most religious places in the world, but at the same time it has a large group of young secular people like myself.”

She has often filmed with her cellphone while waiting in a stationary car, recording passing scenes like a road trip. Lugging around a hefty video camera on a tripod in downtown Jerusalem, Hu

said locals started to bring out their phones and filmed her behind the camera.

That said, Hu also used her cellphone extensively. Noting that the brand Burb-erry shot an entire season of

television commercials with an iPhone 5S, Hu said “in another five years no one is going to need DSLR or oth-er fancy cameras.”

While she filmed in Beijing, her hometown of

Chengdu, and New York City, Hu said she had the most fun in The Big Apple. “I fell in love with the vari-ety and energy of the city,” she shared. After graduating this summer she plans to

Senior Crafts Art Installation

Shelley Hu K’14 used three projectors and screens in her art installation to recreate the feeling of traveling

“History is an oracle. She

teaches in riddles, not lessons.”

Athletic Committee chair Andrew Kaylor reported back to the Commission

on the reduced Anderson Hours. Kaylor explained that he is in negotiation

to renew last quarter’s extension.

GymHours

Commissioner Justin Danzy apologized to the directors of Frelon for falsely stating that they were not onstage in solidarity at Saturday night’s action, saying he “got caught up in the heat of the moment.

Apology

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HUMANS OF K

Disc Jockey Jakob “!e Kaptain” Rodseth

The Kaptain: Jakob Rodseth DJing a house party.

Michigan turkey, green beans, and apples were served last Thurs-­day, April 10, as part of Kalamazoo

meal of the quarter. These foods were on exhibition that day, but the caf-­eteria has 15 local products at any given time, and the number will be going up with the season’s turn.Kalamazoo College Dining Ser-­

purchased from companies that are within a 150-­mile radius of Kalamazoo. This does not nec-­essarily mean that all the food brought in is produced in Mich-­igan, although the majority is.The Dining Service’s staff is

actively working to increase the

amount of local food that is avail-­able to the College. One recent ad-­dition is sushi in the Richardson Room, which is purchased from local Hunan Gardens, located on West Main Street in Kalamazoo. The idea of serving sushi came

from a tour of Western Michigan University’s campus that a few of the Dining Service employees took, including Emily Pyne, James Cha-­tanasombut, and Estelle Bean. Jill Nance, the new Dining Supervisor Lead, is pleased with the quality and the response from students.“Hunans makes the sushi fresh

every day. It gets delivered here every morning and it’s very well-­handled and very well-­done,” Nance said. “We’re selling out of it daily. I’m surprised at how fast it caught on.”This is just one way students

can see that the Dining Service is

Farms to K is working to increase the amount of local food in the cafeteria. Emily Pyne, the former Supervisor Dining Lead, commented on this:“Farms to K and the food com-­

local and what percentage of these local foods they want to see avail-­able,” Pyne said. “Our goal is to reach whatever they are asking for.”Farms to K is supportive of the

organization that has a nationwide goal to get 20 percent of the cafete-­ria’s food to be “local” by the year 2020. Maddie MacWilliams, one of the Civic Engagement Schol-­ars and Co-­Leaders of Farms to K along with Nadia Torres, recognizes

MacWilliams brings up that

means that the product does not only come from within a 150-­

mile radius and from the state of Michigan, but that it is grown and produced there, as well. “We would be thrilled if we

could reach the goal of 20 percent local and sustainable food in the cafeteria in the near future, but we understand that, based on our

-­bitious goal,” said MacWilliams.Emily Pyne has recently left

the Dining Service’s staff after working at K for 12 years. She was

growing relationship with the school.“Creative Dining’s learning the

demands of the students, the stu-­dents are learning how the company is going to function,” Pyne said. “The Kalamazoo College campus is lucky to have Creative Dining and as far as the options and the quality of the food, it supersedes by far…any university around here.”

Students De!ne Local in Welles Dining Hall

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Kalamazoo College encourages students to engage with the world in more ways than just Study Abroad alone. The Beeler and Collins fel-­lowships allow K students to active-­ly engage with the world on an in-­dividual level. The two fellowships are part of the Center for Interna-­tional Programs’ (CIP) Students Projects Abroad programs, which offers grants to students for who need funding for Senior Individualized Projects (SIPs) research or individ-­ual humanitarian projects purposes. “The Students’ Project Abroad

programs are designed to allow

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While most of us spend our weekend nights doing homework, hanging out with friends, or getting off-­campus, Jakob Rodseth ’16 often

Rodseth mostly works house parties, but when he’s home in Ann Arbor he will also DJ at University of Mich-­igan fraternity parties, graduation

parties, and weddings. He’s done a few school events as well. “I’ve always enjoyed performance

arts… but I got really, really into music like, right at the beginning of high school. I became a music nerd,” Jakob said. “I had to listen to everything. I knew a couple of people who DJed…in Ann Arbor and got me into watching stuff online.”He and a friend combined their

money to buy some “high-­end gear

to start doing gigs.” For the past two years, Rodseth

has been trying to make his own music. It started with mash-­ups, but he recently transitioned to making completely original music. He uses an Ableton DJ set, which

is “useful for people who DJ because if you make your own music it’s easy to use hardware to perform that music live,” Rodseth said. According to the DJ, who some-­

times goes by “Kaptain,” there is nothing like interacting with the crowd through music. “You literally can control the at-­

mosphere and the feeling of a party,” Jakob said. “The music can make or break a party and being able to introduce that sort of new energy

Usually people will let Rodseth know anywhere from a week to an hour before an event they want him to DJ. Depending on how much time he has, he will usually put together a playlist that incorporates current top hits, music he’s played before that people like, anything new that he thinks will be requested, and any-­thing he’s found over the past week that he likes. Because he doesn’t have

himself running down the halls of his dormitory before a gig, looking for someone to help him drive all his equipment. “I listen to pretty much anything

but country,” Rodseth said. “I don’t

unlistenable,” he added. He will listen to “anything from

classic rock, to top-­40 hits, to really weird electronic [music] no one has heard of.” Rodseth explained that he does

DJing for the fun of it. “It’s cooler than it sounds,” he

said. “It is just pressing buttons, but it’s pressing buttons in an in-­genious way.”

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Beeler and Collins Fellowship Gives the Opportunity to Engage with the World

students to investigate topics or issues or pursue internship in area of interest to them and that’s con-­nected to their academic program,” said Margaret Wiedenhoeft, the Associate Director of the CIP.

The program is in honor of Isabel

left a sum of money for K students to go out and engage with the world. The program is not only limited

to students who went on study abroad, it’s open to all continuing students, although most who apply are those returning to their study abroad sites in order to do research for their SIP, or follow up on projects they might have worked on during study abroad. A majority of students that apply

category, and they get the most funding because their programs are usually longer (4-­6 weeks). The Collins grant is for those plan-­ning to do humanitarian work and projects in developing countries. “It’s a chance for them to

use the skills they may have de-­veloped on study abroad, or for them to develop new skills,” said Wiedenhoeft. “The programs are

structure as the study abroad pro-­grams. Students seek out the oppor-­tunity and make arrangements indi-­vidually throughout the process.” The deadline for this year’s grant

applications was last Monday, April

14. Typically, there are about 25-­35 applications every year, and every ap-­plicant has a 75% chance of receiving funding. Even though the grants are not designed to be the sole source of funding, students are usually satis-­

-­ects with this supplemental funding.Last year, Matthew Munoz ’14

was awarded $2,700, the maximum award offered. He returned to his study abroad site in Caceres, Spain where he spent six weeks conducting interviews for his SIP about the Spanish economic crisis. “Because I was there

on study abroad and I made friends, they let me stay at their places, and I contributed by

buying groceries,” Munoz said.Emma Dolce ’14, Political

Science major, also received the Beeler grant last year and spent six weeks in Chaing Mai, Thailand researching the impacts of State-­lessness of indigenous and ethnic minorities in Northern Thailand. “My grant covered pretty

much all of my costs. I also had some money from the Political Science department funded by the Ham Grant, so I didn’t spend too much of my own money,” Dolce said.

“It was a whole different experi-­ence from study abroad. It was much better because I got to live on my

for myself,” concluded Munoz.

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Pizza’s Kitchen

VIVA LA VEGETARIANAfter eating vegetarian on-campus for a week, Emily Pizza found the op-

tions numerous and delicious

After a very long week of eating gluten free, I decided to try something a little less demanding: eating vegetar-­

ian. There are so many people here at K that choose to not eat meat,

be plenty more options for me to eat on campus, and that I wouldn’t end up starving after every meal swipe.

-­nitely rightThe cafeteria was a completely vegetari-­

an-­friendly place to eat. There were not only meat-­substitute options like veggie burgers that were pretty yummy, but there were also plenty of meatless options.Even if a meal came with meat, such as

a salad in the exhibition corner, the chefs were more than happy to give me a vegetar-­ian option.

-­petizing, there were always beans in the salad section so that I could keep my protein up.

It would have been nice, however, if tofu was a staple every night. There are plenty of recipes where any meat can be replaced with tofu. The other thing is that tofu is really great when it is marinated. I know that’s not always possible, but letting it soak in soy sauce or teriyaki sauce for a few hours before a meal would make a really yummy stir-­fry. The one complaint I hear most often about the cafeteria’s vegetarian options is that the tofu is too bland, so a look-­over these options could solve it.Stacks was on the same page as the cafete-­

ria vegetarian wise. Sandwiches with cheese and enough veggies that I didn’t get bored were the perfect lunch during the week.The Book Club was also a great place to

get vegetarian options. Salads without meat and the veggie wraps were always available when I needed to grab a quick meal on the go.Overall I was really pleased with my eating

experience this week. Although I don’t intend on going vegetarian anytime soon (I like meat far too much), it is good to know the vege-­tarian students on campus have options and wide array of possibilities.

Emily PizzaOpinions Editor

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THE SIGNS OF SELLING OUTErin Eagan’s visceral reaction to the new Brank K signs on-campus

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signs labeling the build-­ing on campus as a re-­turned to campus after being abroad for Fall and Winter Quarter.The new signs iden-­

tifying buildings at Ka-­lamazoo College leave something to be desired. Returning from study abroad has its shock-­ing moments, but none have compared to my knee-­jerk reaction to our new signboards. The general design is restrictive and rather

childlike. It is true that the signs provide direc-­tion to visitors and potential emergency vehi-­cles, but they could have been more effective

After learning that we spent nearly $5,000 per sign, my mind immediately jumped to other methods of orientating guests. However, the price tag is dwarfed in comparison to the K’s initial proposal of brick signs at around $25,000 per sign.Rather than paving our own path of design

from within Kalamazoo’s community, (perhaps our creative student body), we outsourced to follow the recognizable clean cuts of compet-­ing state universities. Design-­wise, the height of the signs proved

to be inadequate in the snow this winter. To combat this, there has been the idea of putting the names on the buildings themselves with

campus isn’t located at 1200 Academy?Another option could include stand-­alone

campus maps designed to endure snowy winters. This method would create community space for learning about the College’s campus. While it would be nice to have checkmarks for direction, it would be another pricey option.One of my favorite things when I visited

campus as a prospective student was the ap-­proachability of the people on campus. With signs that supposedly help the new students, their interactions will be stunted from not having to bolster up the courage to ask for directions, potentially starting a conversation.Although, our visitors may lose invaluable

personal connections, I doubt that the signs will deeply affect our campus demeanor in the long run. In time, hopefully, the contrasting hue of orange will become just another image in the background of our pristine campus.While they are better than the signs staked

into the ground during visiting weekends, the current Brand K design resembles a half-­baked attempt to update the college.With Western Michigan University right

next door, why are we trying to sell K in this new light? It seems as though we have been labeling everything on campus with a sticker.

customs from where it originated, but looks undeveloped when placed outside. Taking the limitations of Brand K out of our mail-­boxes and into the streets will have unfore-­seen consequences. It has been the opening of Br-­andora’s Box

Erin EaganSta! Writer

Corrections:In last week’s issue of the Index, the article on the Women’s Lacrosse Team was authored by Spencer MacDonald, not Daniel Herrick. In the Men’s Tennis article, the team season statistic should have read 5-0 after their win last week. Finally, the remainder of the article on the increased bandwidth on campus can be found on our website.

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OFF!CAMPUSEVENTS

Wednesday, 4/16Freekbass Album Release10:00 a.m. Bell’s Eccentric Cafe

Friday, 4/18Boeing-Boeing7:30 p.m.Civic Theater Auditorium

Neil Jacobs “World 12-String Guitar”7:30 p.m.Kalamazoo Valley Museum - Stryker Theatre

Saturday, 4/19The Swiss Family Robinson6:00 pmFirst Baptist Church

Kalamazoo A Capella Festival7:00 p.m.Epic Theatre

Monday, 4/21The Magical Adventures of Merlin2:00 p.m.Civic Theater Auditorium

Tuesday, 4/22ARTbreak: A Sad Fate: The Passenger Pigeon in Michigan12:00 p.m. KIA

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Wednesday, 4/16S3A and Friends7:00 p.mOlmstead Room

Thursday, 4/17What Happened at Frelon11:30 a.mThe Quad

Zoo Flicks - American Hustle9:30 p.m.Dewing 103

Friday, 4/18Fame and Gloria8:00 p.m.Dalton Theatre

We were somewhere roaming around Westnedge and Academy St. when the thirst began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit famished;; maybe we should go to Gonzo’s Bigg Dogg Brewery.”

-­tion to the style of narrative jour-­nalism of Hunter S Thompson, is a relatively new restauran-­bar on the corner of Westnedge and Academy St. Its aesthetic is a minimal one—the bar fuses rustic and industri-­al ambiances while still keeping a casual yet slightly “posh” atmo-­sphere. One could come in a tie or t-­shirt and not feel particularly over-­ or underdressed, respective-­ly. However, while the stools and

Beer and Loa!ng in Kalamazoo: Gonzo’s Bigg Dogg Brewery

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This past Saturday evening at the Chenery Auditorium, patrons of the art com-­munity were treated to a free show by the Kalamazoo Concert Band (KCB).

The band, thrillingly conducted by professor of music Dr. Thomas Evans, performed an assort-­ment of theatrical and jazz-­pop pieces such as Louie Armstrong’s 1967 hit “What a Wonder-­ful World.”

Notably, the band was accompanied by winner of the 2014 Youth Solo Competition Jeffery Al-­lardyce on alto saxophone for an entrancing ren-­dition of “Carnival of Venice.” Jeffery, a senior at Grandville High School, displayed prodigious precision—clicking every note with immense

accuracy governed by practiced control and in-­tention. His solo was received by the audience with thunderous applause. Jeffery recently com-­peted and placed third in the nation among the top high school saxophonists at University of Il-­linois Champaign-­Urbana.Also accompanying the band on “What a

Wonderful World,” “How High the Moon,” and Frank Sinatra’s “Summer Wind” was nationally recognized mezzo-­soprano Pamela Terry. Terry, who is a member of the Army Voices, has also travelled the globe and performed in operas and oratorios such as Handel’s Messiah. Her vocals delightfully varied from sweet, lush crooning on “How High the Moon” to scat-­bopping on “Summer Wind.”

-­sisting of dynamic scenes of wonder and adven-­ture, notably with Rossano Galante’s “Beyond

the Horizon” and Richard L. Saucedo’s “Con-­-­

formances by another piece by Rossano Galante, “Mount Everest.” In usual KCB fashion (as Dr. Evans declared

over the speakers, “We always have one up our sleeves!”) the show concluded with an encore of a piece by John Philip Sousa from 1908 titled “Fairest of the Fair.” It was an exciting conclu-­sion to the 2013-­2014 concert season. The 2014-­2015 concert season begins later this fall. Be sure to check out the KCB website for more infor-­mation on future events for next fall and winter. The Chenery Auditorium is also home to this

year’s Gilmore Festival, which starts later this month, and features such notable acts as Ben Folds and John Legend. To purchase tickets, visit the Gilmore Festival or Chenery Audito-­rium website.

What a Wonderful World: A Night with the Kalamazoo Concert Band

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BREW BEAT

chairs in the restaurant are metal

feel, they are far from comfortable. As the third of many canine-­ref-­

erencing bars just outside of down-­town Kalamazoo, Gonzo’s is the cre-­ation of Gregory “Gonzo” Haner. Haner has been brewing since the

early ‘90s, both in his garage and through Siebel Institute of Technolo-­gy, where he graduated with degrees in both microbrewing and brewmas-­tery. His impressive craft becomes quite clear after sampling some of Gonzo’s namesakes, such as their Vanilla Porter Ale, which contains hints of both chocolate and vanilla.As a restaurant, Gonzo’s offers

the usual assortment of American bar cuisine. Patrons are sure to be de-­lighted by the appetizers: hummus, poutine, fritters, nachos and bread-­sticks, just to name a few. The menu also features the typical burger, sand-­wich, and pizza choices including a make-­your-­own pizza. That said, while the food is a satisfying com-­panion to the various beers, the menu doesn’t offer anything noteworthy. This is not a bad thing, as Gonzo’s main strength is its craft beer.Gonzo’s sports a wide variety of

craft beers (sixteen are listed on the drink menu), ranging from softer and hoppier light beers to more malty-­dark ales and porters. I ordered tasters of the Burning Sun Redd, the Unloosened II experimental ale (an original concoction, and there are more to come), the Geyser Brown Ale, and the (aforementioned and house favorite) Vanilla Porter. As I am not particular about my taste in beer, I thoroughly enjoyed each sample. However, be warned—the prices are slightly higher than other local bars such as Rupert’s, with beers typically priced at $4.50Gonzo’s is a great place to grab

a drink every now and then with a close friend or two. The prices are stacked a littler higher than com-­petitors-­-­($9.95 for a sandwich and chips). The aesthetic is simple but slightly cold and, as one anonymous K professor thought: “a bit too much like a chain restaurant-­bar.” But if the aesthetic doesn’t bother you, I would highly recommend taking a stroll off-­campus and grabbing a great beer at Gonzo’s to watch spring unfold.

Bigg Dogg: The restaurant/brewery combo is conviniently located on the corner of Academy St. and Westnedge

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English Department Lecture4:00 PM

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KOC Climbing Trip8:30 AM

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Across:1. Use a broom6. Quiet!9.Foldaway bed12. Florida seaport13. Cow’s cry14. Cigar residue15. Mediate17. Hockey surface18. Pains19. Nest eggs (abbr.)20. Atop, poetically22. President _____ Roosevelt25. Deny28. Hewing tool29. Fragrances30. Spring, e.g.34. Sept. follower35. Mad36. Sport with webbed rackets40. Limb41. Bait42. Dandy’s neckwear45. Had a meal46. Bruce Springsteen, e.g.50. Bossy Stooge

51. Wayside hotel52. Craze53. Egyptian cobra54. Acquired55. Slumbered

Down:1. Bus terminal (abbr.)2. Con"ict3. Trade prohibition4. Heroic5. Garden walk6. Hit show7. Fiery8. Gardening tool9. Egypt’s capital10. Movie award11. Not those16. Quizzes again19. Thoughts20. Stop _____ dime (2 wds.)21. Poet’s always23. Least di!cult24. Plow-pulling animals26. Love, in Rome27. Mexican dish

31. Soup cracker32. ____ in a million22. Not pos.36. Peruvian animal37. Detroit products38. Crawl39. Holy person43. Picture takers, for short44. Uttered46. Band’s booking47. Numero ____48. Small taste49. Tit for _____

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Rumors About Dow Science Con!rmed, but Only Because Someone Actually Went InsideSenior anthropology

major Aaron Brown was looking for the Stowe

Stadium tennis courts, sought for the fame and glory of the teams that play there, when he noticed another building: Dow Science Center. “I’d been here all four

years, except when I went to

Ecuador of course,” Brown said. “But I’ve never seen that building before. I thought it was the new Arcus Center

decided to check it out.”Swiping into the side door,

Brown wandered down the dark hallways where a very large wooden box was sitting

in the corner collecting dust, labeled “laser,” and quickly realized that the building he had stumbled across was the mysterious fortress of science.“I was like, ‘Is this a rocket

or a nuclear laser?’” Brown added. “It looks like a weapon of mass destruction just chill-­ing in the hallway!”

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Trade up, get a poodle.

When Brown turned the corner, something small and

and began licking his ankles.“I immediately regretted

wearing my fair trade sandals from Uganda,” he said. “Its tongue was sticky and rough, I thought I was being licked by some mutant thing they made in the biology labs or something.” Then an ominous voice

called down the hallway for a tank and the creature disap-­peared, according to Brown. He never found the source of

the call, or where the crea-­ture went.Brown said, “Well, I was

-­ly plotting mass destruction there. I mean, look at them. They’re creating mutant tanks and leaving lasers in the hall-­ways.”Brown also believes this is

why hard-­science majors are known for boasting about how

“I mean, I’m sure plotting global destruction is tough work,” Brown said.When asked about this

theory, senior chemistry major Anna Snajal agreed.“We basically put two

things together and see if they explode,” Snajal said. “So yeah, world destruction seems right up our alley.”Sophomore biology major

Samantha Cho also agreed with Snajal.“Evolution is a fact,

and thus, we’ll continue to evolve,” she said. “But a few

white mini-­tanks on our side couldn’t hurt.”

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Before Trowbridge and Hoban Halls, there was Williams Hall, an all-male dorm completed in 1849 and partially destroyed by fire in

1916

In 1849, construction on a new men’s dormitory, named “Upper Hall,” was complet-ed. The hall was located very close to where Hoben Hall stands today. The hall was renovated and fit with elec-tricity, steam heat, adjust-able temperature water, and uniform furniture. Before this, coal stoves were still used to heat rooms.

Unfortunately for K, many of their renovations were ruined when the dormitory caught on fire in March of

1916 due to faulty wiring in the attic. Nobody was hurt, but the third and fourth floors of the hall were ruined, and

many students lost all of their possessions.

Thankfully, insurance covered the damages, and the

hall was rebuilt as a three-story building. Also, generous do-nations from the community helped the young men who lost their possessions. Shorty after the reconstructions were com-plete, the hall was renamed “Williams Hall,” after a man named Dean Clarke Bene-dict Williams who died in a 1923 earthquake in Yokoha-ma, Japan.

Although the Index did not put out an issue the month that the dorm caught fire, a few months later they reviewed the new renovations. “As one enters the large reception room on the first floor, his attention is at once drawn to the beau-tiful interior decorations, in-cluding new inverted electric lights and a magnificent open fire place.”

Again, however, the op-eration of the dormitory was fairly short lived, and all stu-dents were moved into the brand new Hoben Hall in 1937 and Williams Hall was com-pletely demolished.

Williams Hall’s relatively short lifespan (compared to other K dorms) is not to say that it did not have an impact. According to a 1937 issue of the Index, Williams meant so much to one K alum, Van Tifflin K’1912, that he paid $10 for a brick of the demol-ished hall.

“He wishes the brick as a tangible evidence of the happy hours he spent there during the year 1908-09 and wishes the money to be used for the new Hoben Hall,” explained the article.

Saturday’s Frelon show was concluded by a student protest about institutional racism as

perpetuated by Frelon Dance

Company. According to the student protestors, the event was a general call for insti-tutional reform at Kalama-zoo College.

During the action, Student Commission President Darrin Camilleri ’14 made opening remarks about the need for in-stitutional reform on campus and the efforts to make the campus a welcoming envi-ronment for everyone includ-ing students of color. “As the chief advocate of students at Kalamazoo College, I took it as my responsibility to stand

in solidarity with those treated unjustly,” Camilleri said, at the Student Commission meeting on Monday.

Justin Danzy ’16 fol-lowed Camilleri’s introduc-tion during the action and read out grievances against Frelon Dance Company. The group was accused of refusing to approve the student protes-tors’ fliers for posting and also taking down the ones that were posted before the show. There were also com-ments about lack of cultural acknowledgement of some the

dances featured in the show.Danzy also mentioned the

lack of concern for institu-tional oppression among the Frelon Directors evidenced by their absence on stage during the action. He however apolo-gized during the Student Com-mission meeting for he was later informed that there were indeed a couple of Frelon di-rectors on stage at that time.

Student Commissioners Andrew Kim ’17 and Lucas Kushner ’14 described the action as insensitive and in-appropriate for such a celebra-

tory moment. Lucas felt that instead of it being ‘a collec-tive call for action, it turned out to be a polarizing in a lot of ways”. However student commissioner Cassandra Solis ‘16 thought it was far from in-sensitive since it was staged at the end of the show. She maintained that such actions are bound to create discomfort among various people but that this discomfort is also part of the point trying to be made. Danzy indicated that action was not intended to divide the student body: “It is not about

being anti-white if you stand up for people of color. You are not merely going against the majority,” he said.

Frelon Director Jack Massion ’14 encouraged the entire campus community to take this as a learning ex-perience. “I think it is more important to look forward instead of backward,” he said. Further discussions regarding the issue will take place on Thursday of this week at 11:30 a.m. on the lower quad co-fa-cilitated by Dr. Reid Gómez and Dr. Shanna Salinas.

In Case You Missed it: What Happened after Frelon

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Multiple student organizations took the stage at the end of the curtain call at Frelon

Saturday night in protest of institutional racism

SPORTSSCHEDULE

Women’s Tennis:4/19 Albion: 1:00 PMBaseball:4/18 Olivet (DH): 2:00 PM4/19 @Olivet (DH): 1:00 PM

THE FRONTFarms to K plans to bring a farmers’

market to campus. The Upjohn Library Commons is undergoing

extensive rennovations and Cambridge Professor Christopher

Clark gives the Moritz Lecture

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SidelineSThe Week in Sports

BaseBall

softBall

tennis (M)

lacrosse

tennis (W)

4/8 @Hope: W, 9-04/10 WMU: L, 9-0

4/13 Gustavus Adolphus: L, 8-1

4/9 Calvin: W, 9-04/12 @Denison: L, 6-3

4/13 @Trine: W, 9-0

4/8 Alma: L, 2-14/10 @Hope: W, 4-14/10 @Hope: W, 7-44/12 Hope: W, 10-34/12 Hope: L, 4-1

4/9 @Albion: L, 4-04/9 @Albion: W, 4-04/12 @Calvin: L, 4-2

4/12 @Calvin: L, 10-0 (5 inn.)

4/8 @Adrian: L, 25-94/14 Defiance: W, 13-9

Softball:4/15 @Adrian (DH): 3:30 PM4/17 St. Mary’s (DH): 3:30 PMLacrosse:4/16 @Trine: 4:00 PM4/19 Hope: 1:00 PM

The men’s baseball team improved their MIAA record to 7-9 last week, after taking three of four games from rival Hope College in a pair of home-and-home doubleheaders last Thurs-day and Saturday. The Hornets are now ranked fifth in the MIAA just past the halfway point of their con-ference schedule.

Junior Scott Devine led the Hornets against Hope at home on Saturday. In the first game of the day with a 10-3 Hornet victory, Devine went 2/3 with four RBIs and two runs scored. In the bottom of the sixth inning, Devine came to the plate with two men on and brought both of them home when he took a 3-1 pitch deep beyond the left-field fence for the first ever home run at the new Woodworth Field.

“[Hope pitcher, Matt] Chema started me off with two breaking balls in the dirt, and then two fastballs, one of which was a strike. Three-one count – I was looking for a pitch up over the plate,” said Devine. “He threw me a fastball at the belt middle-in and I really just swung hard at it. It was such a rush and so exhilarating to blow that game open for our team.”

During the second game of the day, Devine showed off another of the tools from his repertoire as he threw out a Hope runner looking to tag and score on a fly ball. From his position in right field, Devine caught the fly with his momentum carrying him toward home plate and threw a laser to catcher Jack Dynes, beating the Hope runner by a good two steps.

While Devine claimed the play of

the game, the Dutchmen would go on to claim the second game, 4-1, to avoid a season sweep at the hands of the Hornets. The results from Satur-day do well to serve as a mini-model of the Hornets’ MIAA year, thus far.

After scoring ten runs on 13 hits in game one, the Hornets were only able to plate one run in game number two. The inconsistent scoring between the two games has been a tale of the Hornets’ MIAA season. Since March 30, Kalamazoo has lost just twice when they score three or more runs: a 7-6 loss to Alma and a 10-4 loss to Albion. In their other five losses over that span, the Hornets have scored just six runs in total. The team has aver-aged 6.67 runs scored in their six wins over that same time.

“Our lineup is so young, and earlier in the season we were very inconsistent at the plate. We would show flashes of how good we could be one day, then get away from that the next day,” said senior Marc Zughaib.

Over the course of the entire season, Kalamazoo has scored the least amount of runs of all MIAA teams: 93. This comes in spite of the team ranking second in the conference in batting average with a team average of .282. Youth could be a major determin-ing factor to these struggles scoring runs. Including junior transfer Carter Chandler, the Hornets often start six first-year players in their eight field positions.

Further evidence of this comes in the form of improvements displayed over the course of the year. While the Hornets have scored the least amount of runs of all MIAA teams over the

course of the entire season, the team has managed the score the fourth-high-est total—64—in all MIAA games.

Some of their advancements over the year have come from a refinement of team hitting philosophy. “What I've seen as the season has progressed is our hitters have been able to drive the ball to the opposite field,” said Zughaib. “Our whole offensive phi-losophy is based off of this and our guys have bought into what has been taught this whole year by our coach-ing staff. It also has not been just one guy getting all of our hits. Everyone has been able to contribute which has made the lineup that much deeper.”

Not all the struggles can be explained by age. In fact, three of the team’s top-four batting averages belong to fresh-men players. Freshmen center fielder Ian Kobernick leads the team with an average of .397—good for second in the MIAA.

The Hornets will look to put their struggles at the plate from the loss against Hope behind them when they face off against Olivet in a pair of home-and-home doubleheaders on Friday and Saturday. Olivet has sur-rendered the highest number of earned runs in the MIAA this season by 14 runs over the next-lowest: Kalamazoo. The pitchers have been happy to watch their teammates continued improve-ment at the plate and have used the momentum to positively affect their performance on the mound.

“The offense has consistently im-proved throughout the season and they've been great over the past five games,” said junior pitcher Adam McDowell. “It's a lot easier to go out

on the mound and throw confidently knowing your offense is going to put up runs for you. It means you don't have to be perfect.”

Kalamazoo will open their four-game series against Olivet in the first game of a doubleheader at home on Friday starting at 2:00 p.m.

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Home Run: Although the Hornets fell 7-6 to Alma (pictured above) they successfully held back Hope College in three games out of four, losing the second game in the series 4-1.