may 28, 2014

Kalamazoo College bids farewell to Director of Security Tim Young

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Students demand intercultural effortsThe movement seeks to improve campus

inclusivity and promote positive discourse of

social factors affecting communities of color.

Movement: Students hold an action in front of the Fine Arts Building on Friday, May 17, 2014.

K Students Examine Consent in Doc2012 Film Regarding

Sexual Assault and Abuse on Campus is

Shown Again

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Relocating: Director of Security Tim Young sits at his desk in Hicks.

Kalamazoo, Michigan

CAMPUS

DEMAND on page 2

Tim Young will leave Kalamazoo

College to start anew at University of

Michigan

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Intercultural movement takes actionStudents calling for a student coordinated intercultural center have posted their demands and led public actions. The Intercultural Center would be a place for students of color to have community.

Tennis success meets its end at NCAA

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Stand-our freshman Brandon Metzler and sophomore Sarah Woods end their seasons on the tennis teams with losses at the NCAA tournament. They both received MIAA honors for their work this year. PAGE 8

opinion

Letters from the Editors Current Editor-in-Chief Allison Tinsey and next year’s Co Edi-tors-in-Chief Colin Smith and Ogden Wright reflect on their work from this past year and how they plan to propel The Index into next year as the student newspaper of Kalamazoo College. PAGE 4PAGE 2

In 2012 a group of K students came together to film a documentary titled “Consent with a K: Sexual Assault & Abuse at Kalam-azoo College.” This docu-mentary features fellow stu-dents sharing their individual opinions on rape culture at K, as well as personal stories.

Two years later, the docu-mentary continues to address issues K’s campus faces.

A Women, Gender, and Sexuality 101 class teamed up with S3A to host a showing of the documentary, followed by a panel discussion. The panel consisted of a variety of people that provided dif-ferent perspectives such as Lindsey Koenig ’14, who was one of the creators of the documentary, Melissa

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Erikson ’17 to provide a transgender perspective of sexual assault at K, Katie Lee ’16 to provide a queer perspective of sexual assault at K, and Dr. Deborah Rose from the counseling center.

The documentary opens with statistics about sexual assault and the overall format of the documentary consists of students, anonymous and identified, sharing their personal stories of sexual assault and rape on campus.

The documentary also includes students answer-ing various questions posed by the makers of the film. These questions were related to the topic of consent and questioned what the stu-dents thought consent is.

After students personal-ly answered the questions, the filmmakers gave the answers according to K’s policy regarding consent.

Afterwards students were asked opinion-based questions, including how they thought

May 28 will mark the last official day of Timothy Young’s tenure as Direc-tor of Campus Security at


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Organizing actions and calling for change, a group of Kalamazoo College stu-

dents made up of a variety of culturally centered student organizations and supporters are demanding more promi-nent action from the admin-istration to support intercul-turalism and inclusivity at K.

The group includes members from the Black Student Organization, M.E.Ch.A., Latin@ Student Organization, K Desi, Asian Pacific Islander As-sociation, KalamaAfrica,

and Young Persian Society. Some of their demands

focus on the creation of an Intercultural Center that “ful-fills [their] mission state-ment and represents motion toward establishing more in-clusive spaces on campus,” as quoted from the move-ment’s Facebook page. Fur-thermore, the movement demands a higher rate of hiring of faculty and staff of color. The demands also include

greater overall transparency from K in regards to intercul-turalism and campus diversi-ty, bolstering of anti-racism rules in K’s Student Code of Conduct, and encourages that faculty, staff, administrators, and student leaders partici-pate in anti-racism training.

With the fulfillment of these demands, the movement seeks to improve campus in-

Kalamazoo College. Young was selected from a pool of more than 100 appli-cants to become the Direc-tor of Housing Security and Safety Services Department at the University of Michigan.

“I’m not leaving because I don’t want to be here,” Young said about his move from K. “This is a time in my career where I can make a move now or this op-portunity will go away.”

A graduate from Spring Arbor College who grew up in Vandalia, Michigan, Young was stationed in Paw Paw, Michigan with the state police. Through that position, he was notified of the posi-tion at K where he has been since 2005. Here, he works as a “shift commander to being a college director to being the administrative person”.

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In one of his first acts as Commission President Darrin Camilleri ‘14 estab-lished the Student Commis-sion Fellows as a step between citizen and Commissioner.

Commission Vice Pres-ident Cameron Goodall ‘15 reported at a fall meeting that the program suffered from an apparent discon-nect between the fellows and Commission leadership.

“Some of the fellows haven’t been responding to our emails and are missing commit-tee [meetings],” Goodall said.

While most of the orig-inal fellows remained with-drawn during their terms, senior fellow Rasheed Ham-mouda ‘14 became a palpa-ble force on the Commis-

sion during the winter quarter. Hammouda, a regular at-

tendee of the Commission’s Monday meetings, saw himself as a sort of Commis-sion reality check.“I feel like it’s my job to call you guys out when you’re off-track,” Ham-mouda told the Commission.

The 2013-2014 aca-demic year also marked the debut of the Student Com-mission’s Innovation Fund, a program awarding funding to a student-formed concept benefiting campus life. The first-ever Innovation Fund award went to the Kolors of K proposal, whose goal is to put up a mural in Welles Dining Hall that reflects the growing diversity of students and faculty on K’s campus.

The Commission faced setbacks winter quarter when three members of Commis-sion, including two from the Commission’s Executive Board, resigned their posts.

While the resignations of Secretary of Student Affairs Tendai Mudyiwa ‘14, Sec-retary of Communications Kari Paine ‘14, and Sec-

retary of Records Colin Lennox ’14 were report-edly unrelated, their exits came as an unwelcome sur-prise for President Camilleri.

“Some of our fellow Com-missioners have chosen to step down for personal reasons. I know that this seems unex-pected and it probably hurts, but we must continue to do our jobs and represent the student body as best as we can,” Camilleri said during an emergency cabinet session at which he appointed Graham Wojtas ‘16 as acting Secre-tary of Communications and Rian Brown ’15 as acting Secretary of Student Affairs.

While the Commission’s forward direction cannot be certain until the general elec-tion’s results are determined Thursday night, the current Commission has pledged to review a constitutional amend-ment regarding term limits and a by-law restricting can-didate endorsements by Ex-ecutive Board members in the fall of 2014 as well as a budget system restructuring that is more user-friendly and calls for an examination of current by-laws and procedures.

StuComm: year in review

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As Spring Quarter draws to a close, so too does the work of the 2013-2014 Student Commission. The Index takes a look back at this year’s

highlights. Innovation Fund

Pilot Program

Resignations

Looking Ahead

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Raising Flags and Questions: On May 9, 2014 a group identifying themselves as Brutus, Cato, Centinel, and Federal Farmer hoisted the Gadsden Flag, better known as the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag on Kalamazoo College’s flag pole. In an email to The Index, these four expressed that their “mission, as you will, is simple. All voices are valuable. We are hoping for a real inclusive culture, one that takes careful consideration of all viewpoints, and refrains from stopping one from speaking or belittling them. We want change to be made by discussion and not by pitting one side against the other and trying to fight to see who ends up being the winner.”

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Memorial Day: Pres-ident Camilleri called for a brief moment of silence to recognize those who have died defending the interests of the United States. “Re-member that today is a day for them and not just a day off,” he said.

Camilleri remind-ed the committee chairs to outline roles and ideas for people assuming the roles for next year for each spe-cific position. “Someone who is doing the job should have a general idea of what to do.

Elections for the Fall 2014 sophomore, junior, and senior com-missioners will be held on Thursday, May 29 from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Meet the candi-dates will take place on Wednesday, May 28 at 4:00 p.m. in Red Square.

Sophomore Com-missioner Maddie Hume talked about her ideas to bolster OSI’s student organization training meetings to increase at-tendance and content relevance. Ideas includ-ed holding the event off campus, practic-ing writing budget re-quests, and having a cohesive presentation on diversity. Commis-sioner Amanda Johnson requested that the meeting be mandatory.w

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explained her idea to create “discount cards” that would allow stu-dents to receive dis-counts at local business-es. For the cards and an app from the company that produces these, the price is $2500. The motion was passed and the money used will be $1,112.73 from the crisis fund and $1387.27 next year’s budget. Childish Games Commission re-quested and was ap-proved for $150 for t-shirts to tye-die for a stress-relieving event on Friday of 10th week.

Commisis ioner Amanda Johnson re-ported that the current policy is not up to date on the College’s website. It was resolved that whatever the policy is it should be enforced. There is a small percent-age of students who ac-tually want to smoke ac-cording to the recent survey completed by the College. There are designated smoking spots on campus, but they are poorly marked.

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party culture affects sexual assault and rape on campus, and whether or not they know someone who has been sex-ually assaulted or raped.

The film notes that an es-timated 10 percent of sexual abuse and rape cases are re-ported and that about three percent of rapists will spend time in jail. It ends with the fol-lowing quote: “Let’s make this campus one that’s free from sexual assault and violence.”

The panel discussion

covered questions including how being on a small campus makes it difficult to speak out about these issues as well as what the panelists thought of the school’s current policies.

When asked whether or not there has been an increase in awareness of sexual assault and rape on campus since the film was made, Rose re-sponded, “It’s not that the numbers are increasing, but people are more com-fortable talking about it.”

Consent at K

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Security Head Leaves for U of M

Students Demand Intercultural Center

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clusivity and promote positive discourse of social factors af-fecting communities of color.

Along with the demands, the group has demonstrated on campus expressing their discontent and being a visible force. During a recent action, group members chimed, “All I want to say is that they don’t really care about us.” They also held signs with “Inclu-sivity,” “#No Hornet Pride,” “More than a Brochure” and “I too am Kzoo,” which echoes

the statement made on their Facebook page that K is a “pre-dominantly white institution.”

At the time this article is written, the movement’s Face-book page is liked by 357 users who are not limited to stu-dents, but includes alumni and community members as well.

With the incoming first-year class being dubbed as one of the most diverse in history with over 30% of students identifying as do-mestic students of color ac-

cording to the Office of Ad-missions, the stress of these issues is likely to increase.

The Index has reached out to members of the group, as well as the movement’s official contact via email, but is still awaiting response with more information regarding the next steps that the group will take.

The group has met with administrators and The Index hopes to glean more information when it is made available by the group.

He added that his favor-ite part of working at K has probably been the interac-tions he has had with ev-eryone, from the students to the faculty to the staff.

“The most challenging part [of working at K] is having the smaller staff and not being able to provide all the things that I might want to do with limited funding,” Young said. “There are also some things I can’t control, like whether or not people read their emails (with the security notifications).”

According to Young, his

position at U of M will be an executive position in which he will overlook 40 staff members and have the op-portunity to use the education he received with his Bachelor of Management and Organi-zational Development. Young said that U of M is currently going through a transition in which there is a lot of cross functioning between the police officers and housing officers and that “being on the ground floor of that will be challeng-ing and also rewarding.”

“At first there was a little bit of ‘oh no what are we going to do’ because it was a fast, accelerated thing,”

Young said about how K’s administration reacted. “Now that everybody has had a little bit of time, everybody has been very supportive.”

He added that President Wilson-Oyelaran has been very understanding of this new opportunity.Young said it has been an extreme pleasure to have had the opportunity to work here, especially with Student Development and his staff, who have made positive gains in crime prevention.

Although he will be leaving, Young will return once the new director of se-curity at K has been hired to help with the transition.

Intercultural: Members of the movement hold signs in front of Hicks on May 17, 2014.

Living Graciously

Mackenzie Norman wins the #DOGL2014 Instagram challenge. Find her at @kenziezoe.

Students participate in the tug of war game at DoGL.

Winners of the sandcastle competition pose with their creation.

A foggy day at South Haven.

On May 21, 2014, students treckked out to foggy South Haven to enjoy their Day of Gracious Living.

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Since May 2006 the big orange bench between Severn and Crissey Halls was used by students to relax, chat with friends, catch up on sleep, or get some homework done.

Associate Dean of Students Dana Jansma explained this bench was modeled after ones on Duke Uni-versity’s Campus. It was construct-ed by the 2005-2006 Art House as a Living Learning House Unit campus project with the help of Facilities Management (FacMan).

A plaque was inscribed for the bench and it states, “Art House members constructed this bench in May of 2006 as an interactive art piece to promote community on campus.”

Jansma explained that for several years the bench was used to welcome

Weisner’14 and Elizabeth Kinney’14 have proposed to replace the bench with swings as a Legacy Project, Barrett explained.

currently in two choirs, the Kalam-azoo Bach Festival in which he is the tenor section leader, and the Ka-lamazoo Singers. He has composed works for mandolin orchestras that are played throughout the country and tries to perform in about four to five concerts a year.

“I like to fill my time with music, friends, and, of course, family,” Victor said. “I also love cooking, but haven’t been able to do it in a while because I’ve been so busy.”

As the Grounds Coordinator, he “runs the grounds crew and takes care of the outdoors.”

“We are kind of like the stewards of campus,” he said.

Right now, Victor is working on adding more container plants and pots around campus, which he said is one way to add “a wow factor in a real small package.”

He loves nature and natural beauty, and now does all the landscape design on campus.

“I like the ability to make big changes and do them in sustainable ways,” Victor said.

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Facilities Management Grounds Coordinator and Musician, Victor Garcia

With his signature gray hat and happy demeanor, Victor Garcia ’97 sat at a picnic table with me outside of the FacMan office to talk about his life on and off K’s campus. Orig-inally from Yellow Springs, Ohio, Victor started working with FacMan in 1993 as a summer student worker, and always loved working outdoors.

Now, the FacMan Grounds Coor-dinator can look back and see all that has changed on K’s campus since his arrival.

“Other than the brick…everything has changed,” he said. “As you get older, your perspective changes.”

According to Victor, some of these changes include the landscape’s tran-sition from “historical formal” to a “much more diverse ecology.” He added that the student body has become more progressive, for example there is now a broader acceptance of the LGBTQA community on campus

compared to the homophobia he saw as a student. Victor said that the change has “been a great achieve-ment to watch.”

Victor lives in Kalamazoo with his wife Heather, who works in the CIP. He has three stepdaughters and a granddaughter, as well as two dogs,


Witness to Change: Victor Garcia with some of his potted plants.

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FacMan Removes Beloved Bench Once Located Between Severn and Crissey Halls

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first-years to the campus through an event called “Make your Mark.” This event gave first-years the opportu-nity to repaint the bench and make their first marks on campus, which helped to further promote commu-nity on campus and fulfill the orig-inal intentions.

Yet, the bench began to age, and on May 14 FacMan decided the bench was no longer repairable and took it down. Facilities Operations Manager Pamela Barrett explained that “Basically the wood and the con-nection bolts were sticking out. We were afraid that people sitting on it would either be hurt by the bolts or just fall through in general.”

“I am thrilled that it held togeth-er this long,” Jansma said.

Before disassembling the bench, FacMan made sure to take measure-ments and pictures.

“If there was a strong enough

Community Art: The big orange bench was removed due to disrepair.

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Day of Gracious Living is Not Just for Students, Professors Also Like to Play

While the students of Kalamazoo College journey by bus to a misty beach on DoGL, one might wonder whether the professors of K live as graciously as the students. As Pro-fessor Katie MacLean put it, many faculty members look forward to DoGL just as much as students, but for different reasons.

Professor Kiran Cunningham and Professor Carol Anderson, for in-stance, kayaked the Kalamazoo River as their DoGL treat. Others, like Pro-fessor MacLean, made unexpect-ed plans for the night before DoGL.

“I did something out of the ordi-nary for ‘NoGL’ (Night of Gracious

Living): I decided at the last minute to go to a rock concert with a good friend,” MacLean said.

For Professor Regina Ste-vens-Truss, this is not a day without obligations.

“DoGL is a day when I get a chance to catch my breath, plan for the re-mainder of the term, grade, write

letters of reccommendation, and just enjoy the silence of the building,” Stevens-Truss explained.

For some professors, DoGL in-volves more work than regular school days. As Professor David Barclay said, “I worked the entire day. It was certainly not a day off… I wrote 37

emails on the Day of Gracious Living this year. DoGL has always been a day for trying to catch up with press-ing work deadlines. I’ve never done anything special. Boring, but true.”

Other professors such as Profes-sor Autumn Hostetter spent their days differently. Professor Hostet-ter explained that she and a group of about a dozen colleagues went out to Bell’s Brewery for lunch.

Professor Charlene Boyer-Lewis also enjoyed a relaxing day, she ex-plained “I went to a couple of green-houses and bought some plants for my yard and deck. Then, I planted them for a few hours and then had a few cocktails!”

Maclean explained that, “Some years, I make it a point to have lunch or coffee with a colleague. It doesn’t sound special, but when classes are in session, it is hard to connect with colleagues. So it feels special to sit down with someone you only get to see in passing.”

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On DoGL, profs catch up on work and send emails, they

also like to plant flowers, and have a drink

desire then we would rebuild [it],” Barrett said.

Although there has yet to be a pro-posal to rebuild the bench, Madeline

“DoGL is a day when I get a

chance to catch my breath”

a turtle, and a cat. “My life is balanced between

working here at FacMan and my musical career,” he said.

Victor, who graduated from K with a degree in music, is a musi-cian, singer, and composer. He is

As the creator of “The Game of Life” skit for the Cultural Awareness Troupe, I was shocked when I read the opinion on “College Fix that negatively critiqued my skit. As I read the review however, I realized how important the Cultural Awareness Troupe (CAT) annual performance and skits that resemble mine are to a college community that claims to be open-minded.

The moral of the skit, as the program stated, addressed the public misconception of every person beginning his or her life on an equal playing field. Race can absolutely be one of the challenges that limit one’s ability to ad-vance in life, but in contrast, it can also serve as an opportunity. Being a black student on a majority white college campus, I decided to base my skit on some of the negative issues that come up, not only on K’s campus, but also on campuses all over the country.

“The Game of Life” skit could have been turned around to reflect a white student’s unfortunate journey while the Black and Latino students excelled, but that has not been my experience. I chose to write about what some people fail to see if they are not directly affected by it.

The skit told the journey of four hypothet-ical male students. Two of them (black and Latino) were K seniors and the other two (black and white) had been accepted to K College on a full academic scholarship. The skit started both sets of men off with the same accomplishments, but as the game progressed, challenges begin to separate them.

The Latino student struggled with landing

a prestigious internship because of his undoc-umented status. The reviewer mentions in her critique that colleges accept students that are undocumented, clearly not the problem being addressed. One black male struggled with working and keeping up with his academics while the white student was fortunate enough to have parental support that enabled him to study without the burden of working. I under-stand that this is not the case for every black and white student on this campus, but it is a common trend that can be seen. Nothing in the skit was out of the realm of possibilities.

For the reviewer to suggest that they came into CAT with an “open mind” disappoints me if the take-home message they received from the skit was “white privilege blame game.” The problem with many people is that they are too narcissistic. They are unable to empathize with others’ situations without assuming that blame is being thrown their way. The reviewer said that “life is not black and white”, which I agree. There is so much more under the surface that people are not able to see.

In writing the skit, I acknowledged, ad-dressed, and attempted to educate the college campus on some of these issues that are usually only seen in black and white. My question to the reviewer is: Are you able to distinguish between more than those two shades?

Editor’s Note: The original article that this letter refers to entitled, “College Skit Plays White Privilege Blame Game” by Jenna Neumann ’14, can be found on College Fix’s website.

Eating different dietary re-strictions for the past quarter has been nothing short of an intriguing experience. As my send-off, I decided to try all of the pizza’s in the cafeteria and see how they taste.

The cheese, available every day, was always delicious. That said, you could always tell when the normal pizza maker wasn’t the one making the pies.

Pepperoni was also always a hit, and a personal favorite. I love the cheesy-ness and the perfect amount of pepperoni that never peeled off from the soft crust when I bit into it.

They had a meat-lovers one

day which, while not my fa-vorite toppings, were defi-nitely added in correct pro-portions to one another.

The cheese-y breadsticks, on the contrary, were differ-ent almost every time I ate in the cafeteria. Some days they were light and fluffy, kind of like the ones at papa johns, which I definitely preferred more. Other days they were simply sliced-up cheese pizza without the sauce.

Maybe it’s just me, but If I wanted cheese pizza, I would have gotten that instead.

However, what really made my week were the special-ty pizza’s that I got to taste each day.

The first one I had was BBQ chicken pizza, which, despite sounding ridiculous, was actu-ally delicious. They replaced the tomato sauce for BBQ and added the chicken and cheddar cheese as the topping. I defi-nitely enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.

Similar to that was the BBQ

pulled-pork pizza, which was almost as delicious (I’m not a huge pork fan).

And then, of course, were the dessert pizzas. I fell head-over-heels for the dough-y crusts with a white frosting sauce and assorted fruits, es-pecially the blueberry ones. I do wish that they would do cherry or apple though, those are my absolute favorites.

While those definitely took my palate for a tasty ride, there were some that didn’t make the mark.

The enchilada pizza was nothing short of disgusting. I’m sorry, but black olives, chicken pieces, a strange as-sortment of cheese, and en-chilada sauce just didn’t do it for me.

Overall, I have to say that I was pretty pleased with the quality of food I got at the Pizza station. While not ev-erything was up to my Italian standards, I am definitely glad for the chefs, and menus, that the cafeteria serves.

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Everything is not a “White Privilege Blame Game”

While I am a far cry from a physicist, as a writer, I feel that an apt metaphor to describe The Index would be Newton’s first law: an object in motion tends to stay in motion. I often say that once the paper gets rolling every quarter it does not stop for anything. My SIP, the weather, DoGL, a long weekend, accusations of racism, administrative bureaucracy, or a few late stories have never prevented The Index from going to print each week. The inertia that keeps The Index rolling does occasionally meet those iconic Michigan potholes, but The Index maintains its integrity through the perseverance of its staff and their dedication.

How The Index lands in the hands of our readers each week is unintentionally a mystery to many people. Each Sunday we plan the next week’s paper. The writers then have a whole week to confer-ence with their page editors

and write their stories. By the following Sunday, I pray that all of the content is in the Dropbox. Tuesday from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. and usually later is spent doing layout and final content editing. This seemingly simple workflow is layered with countless hic-cups that require solving at a moments notice. My advice for anyone willing to take on a job like this is to know that stress is never a substitute for problem solving, especially when The Index and its inertia will gladly run you over.

I have always seen the work that I do as both a job (that I am not paid to do) and a vital service to the College. I have been criticized for not stepping back and considering larger issues at hand or the personal struggles of my peers. The people who know me best can confirm that my work and my emotions rarely intersect. This is deliberate and calls forth a level of professionalism

that I expect of my staff and myself. As Editor-in-Chief, it is my job to produce and protect the student newspaper of Kalamazoo College and there are few things in this world that would keep me from doing that each week.

While I cannot ask next year’s staff to carry out their job as stoically as myself, I do hope that they remember their roles on the paper and on this campus, and how they represent an organization that is dedicated to quality journal-ism and the learning process. Mistakes are inevitable and I am so proud of this year’s staff for being quick learn-ers and, more importantly, quick problem solvers. It is my duty and my pleasure to hand off The Index to next year’s editorial staff and to congratulate this year’s staff on completing a year of the highest quality, all-around student journalism that this campus has seen in years.

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ALLISON TINSEY

Objects in MotionAs the Editors-in-Chief for the next academic

year, we are not only excited and humbled by our staff’s decision to elect us, but we also hold the enormous responsibility of advancing an institution which has been with the college community since 1877. Though we may be anxious, with the commitment and support of our newly appointed Editorial Staff we feel fully confident in producing the best quality newspaper we can.

We aim to make The Index a more inclusive student institution by emphasizing we are a newspaper run by the students and published for the students. By working with different student leaders or members of Student Commission, for instance, we will amplify the voices of our peers and to make communication clear across campus.

The Index isn’t just a newspaper of a handful of editors and writers, though that may appear to be the case when peering into our office windows. We strive to mold our educational environment so that students can learn by listening. We are supplying the proverbial soapbox for other students to speak while advocating a “free marketplace of ideas,” to borrow a phrase from John Stuart Mill.

A student reading The Index isn’t just a reader, but also a contributor. We, the staff envisioning the direction of The Index, only flourish by knowing our college community is engaged. Listening to feedback, reading new submissions, and talking to students on new article ideas all fuel our newspaper into a more collaborative forum for student speech.

As The Index started 137 years ago, we are geared to accomplish our short term goals in line with its long-lasting legacy. So far we’ve set up an Index radio show (courtesy of our campus’ radio station WJMD) where we’ve brought various students to interview them about their lives, be it their involvement in student government, on upcoming campus events, or about passions such as music. The fact remains the same: Everyone has a story to tell.

In this age of the internet, newspapers and the people who run them cannot be just one thing. While Graham Key, our Associate Editor, overhauled the layout earlier this year, we aim to make our newspaper more aesthetically pleasing—both online and on paper. Our other goals include making The Index a more consistent source of information by expanding web and radio presence.

Our incoming editors were recently awarded with the Black and Orange Awards by the Office of Student Involvement—Graham Key with the Emerging Leader of the Year Award and our succeeding News Editor Viola Brown with her New Member of the Year Award. Under the leadership of our preceding Editor-in-Chief, Allison Tinsey, this ambitious editorial staff made the Index the Organization of the Year.

As next year’s leaders, we are trying to raise a higher bar. We are not only here to guide, but to serve. We will serve by informing, entertaining, and advocating our local com-munity. We are the Index—a newspaper run by the students for the students.

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MAY 2014

OFF-CAMPUSEVENTS

Wednesday, 5/28Live Concert: The Head and the Heart8:00 p.m. State Theatre

Thursday, 5/29Glass Etching Workshop6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.Art Bayou Studio

Saturday, 5/31

Comedy ShowcaseDoors: 8:00 p.m. Show: 8:30 p.m. Shakespeare’s Pub

Gun Lake Live6:00 p.m.- 10:00 p.m.Bay Pointe Inn

Sunday, 6/1Old Crow Medicine Show8:00 p.m.Shakespeare’s Pub

Tuesday, 6/3ARTbreak: Navigating Grief & Loss through Art Therapy12:00 p.m.Kalamazoo Institute of Arts

Live Music: Tom Duffield on Piano5:00 p.m.Old Dog Tavern

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Arts

Friday, 5/30The Cauldron Unveiling11:00 a.m. -11:40 a.m.Stetson Chapel

Saturday, 5/31K Art Prize9:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.Hicks Student Center

Tuesday, 6/3Reception for Les Tung’s retirement4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Olmstead Room, Mandelle

Cirque du K Heads to Kentucky for the International Collegiate Circus Festival

Ladies and gentlemen, tonight the circus presents leaps through the air and live fire breathing! No, it’s not a dragon, but instead men and women who possess supernatural abilities! Tonight’s stage will be filled with a most daring tightrope walker, acro-bats gliding like birds, and the most flexible contortionists bending into all shapes and sizes!

Hyperboles aside, some of Kalam-azoo College’s biggest spectacles—at least outside of annual institution-al events like Monte Carlo or Crystal Ball—are the shows performed by Cirque du K. Just short of two weeks

ago they performed for the Second International Collegiate Circus Fes-tival hosted by the youth circus arts program called Circus Mojo.

On May 16 they traveled to Ludlow, Kentucky, just a few miles away from Cincinnati across the Ohio River. Cirque became involved with this fes-tival after member Arik Mendelevitz ‘14 interned with them last year. He also brought the group to last year’s first intercollegiate meeting.

But this year Cirque stood out in a theater of people who all stood out. “Some of them even wanted to hire us,” said Cirque member Penelope Owen ‘16. As the self-proclaimed most unique student group of K’s campus, Cirque started out as a loose

collaboration of students who shared similar unorthodox hobbies.

In fact, Cirque du K started as a unicycling club in 2006 between close friends, but has since grown each year. For just a seven-year-old organiza-tion, Melany Diaz ‘16 said “slowly but surely, this unicycling club just kept growing and growing as more people brought in different skills.”

Circus Mojo’s founder Paul Miller kicked off the festival by introduc-ing the performers while he balanced on a giant red ball. The Cirque du K performers included:

balancing acts between Penelope Owen, Melany Diaz, and William Lewis; Lucas Kushner on the juggling prop called diabolos; and acrobatics

with Manny Garcia and Abby Fraser.Diaz, who performs with the aerial

hoop (also called a lyra), said after workshopping with other trainers Cirque hopes to get a street preform-ing license “so that we can perform during Art Hops and around down-town.”

From their quarterly performanc-es in Dalton Theater to their more frequent fire shows on the grassy quad, the members of Cirque du K are known to be a multitalent-ed group of individuals. They’re a dynamic student organization, because each student brings a set of different skills or develops new ones, so the next performance becomes different from the last.

colin smithco editor-in-chief

Photos courtesy of Circus Mojo

Rustica is situated on Kalamazoo Mall, only a 15-minute walk from Kalamazoo College’s campus. The concept of “Rustic European Cuisine” is at the forefront of its theme, as is its use of locally-sourced foods.

Entering the restaurant, there was an overwhelming amount of tables, the dim lighting and the loudness of the place only adding to a slightly chaotic feeling. Most tables catered to groups of four, but a couple allowed up to six people.

Every seat was occupied. Guests were chatting and smiling over glasses of French Pinot Noir, 2008 Spanish Monastrell, and Michigan’s own Wyn-croft Riesling.

Servers in black and white skill-fully maneuvered the jumble of tables to take our food orders consisting of Roasted Bone Marrow, Braised Lamb Shank, and Pan-Roasted Michigan Chicken.

The food arrived after a moder-ate amount of time. The starter was a small nest of grilled asparagus sprin-kled with olive oil and fines herbes, topped with a poached egg. The as-paragus had a robust earthy aroma that tasted like sun-baked garden. The fines herbes added the slight-est deviation of flavor to keep it in-teresting. The yolk of the poached egg spilled over the shoots of aspar-agus to create a mouth-watering dish.

Next was the Baked Seafood Ta-gliatelle. Its smell was slightly over-powering, the shrimp and parmigiano reggiano combining to create a very

distinct, if not somewhat unpleas-ant odor. The initial smell was not too hard to get over, with the juicy, fresh taste of the steaming shrimp. The scallops revealed themselves steadi-ly throughout the dish, their taste that of ocean breeze. Halfway through the meal, the juices of the shrimp, scal-lops, leeks, and endive were discov-ered all congregating together near the bottom of the bowl. It would have been nice to have these juices more evenly distributed throughout the dish, as they would have made the noodles stick together less. Consis-tency is always appreciated, but the Tagliatelle needed a little more work in this department.

Then there was the Callebaut Choc-olate Brownie. This is the confection-ary excellence of the brownie world. The first bite was absolute bliss: rich

and not too sweet; the flavor of the cocoa beans used in it had tones of wood and dried fruit. It was perfect-ly bitter, bringing out the subtle hints of roasted nuts. the aftertaste contin-ued to intrigue and delight the taste buds long after.

Wholesome and utterly satisfying food is something that Rustica strives to bring to the table, and it succeeds. The service was exemplary, the food even more so. The cramped space made for a sense of intimacy rather than crowdedness. If sharing with other guests, one can leave without paying more that $40 total. The im-portance of locally sourced food is at the forefront of Rustica’s dining experience, and the wholesome in-gredients used in its dishes make for happy taste buds, good conversation, and full stomachs.

Rustica: Local Sources, Savory Experiencemckenna bramble

contributor

African Night was last Friday, May 16, from 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. It was a night filled with African games, music, dancing competitions, and food. These are some images from the event.

justina kilumelumeindex staff writer

KalamaAfrica Night

Sh*t K Professors SayK professors are known for their zany outbursts and unusual anecdotes. The Index likes to capture those moments of beyond the pale lecture and immortalize them in cartoon form.

The Week Ahead

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Saturday,May 31

Tuesday,June 3

Saturday,June 4

Cauldron Unveiling11:00 AM

Stetson Hall

K Art Prize8:00 PM

Hicks Student Center

Reception for Les Tung4:00 PM

Olmstead Room

Across:

1. Guinness of “Star Wars”5. Says further9. Taxing agency12. Stable female13. Has-______14. Hood gp.15. Wind instrument16. Second largest ocean18. Agree silently19. More sharply inclined20. Most inexperienced22. Drive out25. Spring holiday27. Vegas cube28. Frosting31. Change33. Fled34. Brahms piece38. Dog’s sound40. Lab container (2 wds.)44. Intense joy46. Yuletide drink47. Aggravate49. Breezy

50. Convent dweller51. Water jug52. Ladder rung53. Corp. head54. Emporium55. Jaunty

Down:

1. In the midst of2. Toll3. Wash away4. Average grade5. Lessens6. Despise7. Eliminate8. Easy task9. Enter uninvited10. Baseball stat11. Pouch17. New (prefix)19. Glitches21. Twilight, to a poet23. Moral wrong24. Koppel or Kennedy26. Shabby

28. Pension plan (abbr.)29. Sedan or coupe30. Intense fire32. “Welcome” rug35. Canadian capital36. Less messy37. Declare39. Biol., e.g.41. Come together42. Termite, e.g.43. Cairo’s land45. Rose stalk47. “Murder, ____”48. Feel remorse49. Nile snake

KROSSWORD

Gigglesometimes your life just needs a little laughter

WORTHINGTON, MA—While strug-gling to be heard over the deafening roar of nu-metal and late-’90s rap-rock, patrons an-nounced Wednesday night that the music at Liston’s Bar and Grill could probably stand to be just a bit louder and a touch worse. “Don’t get me wrong, the music here is being blasted at a very high volume and is also really, really awful, but as bad as it is, it’s still possible they could dig a little deeper into the catalog of Papa Roach or Staind and find something more terrible,” 34-year-old bargoer Kyle Mc-

Cutcheon shouted as he plugged one ear and cocked the other forward while conversing with reporters. “And even though it’s playing very loud, they could probably turn it up even more, preferably until we’re all forced to just sit around and stare at each other waiting for the few brief seconds between songs when we can actually exchange a few audible words.” When asked if there was anything else about the bar he would change, McCutcheon said that, if he was being honest, the bartender could be a tad more of a world-class dick.

Senior Class Celebration

4:00 PMUpper Quad

AVONDALE, AZ—Seeing him this weekend for the first time since the holi-days, the family of local widower Gene Riggs spoke glowingly of the 87-year-old, hailing him as alert and aware of what was going on around him. “It was fantas-tic. He really seemed with-it, like he was following the conversa-tion,” Riggs’ granddaughter Mi-chelle Traeger said of the elderly man, who received great acclaim for the level of lucid-

ity he displayed both during and after dinner, when relatives sat him down to watch the

end of the Diamondbacks game. “And anytime we said some-thing to him, he perked up and seemed to know exactly who we were and what we were talking about. Such a treat to see Grandpa Gene so responsive.” Laudatory family members went on to lav-

ishly praise the octogenarian’s ability to “just keep going on” after so many years.

Music in Bar Could Be Worse

THE ONION

Elderly Man Alert

THE ONION

“It was such a treat to see

Grandpa Gene so responsive”

“I can always tell when it’s about to rain, because my elbows turn blue” “My wife told me I act like Caesar. I took it as a compliment”

MAY 2014 On the Quad

Kalamazoo College’s radio station, WJMD, is named after its founder, student Jack M. Dentler. Dentler created the radio station around the year 1946. During its beginning stages, WJMD only broadcasted to the male students living in Hoben Hall. However, after it became popular the women living in Trowbridge requested that they be included in the broadcast radius.

The project was originally started at funded completely by Dentler. A 1947 issue of the Index explained, “It all started last summer [1946] when Jack began gathering equipment and making turntables for his future amateur station. He bought a mike and oscillator … [and] in-stalled them when he got back to college in the fall. The pro-grams became so popular down at Hoben last semester that the girls requested that they be ex-tended to Trowbridge. “

The station originally had several time slots that played different genres of music Mon-day-Saturday. Every night, before

the station concluded its broad-cast at 12:00 a.m., they ended with the Star Spangled Banner.

The radio station was origi-nally operated out of Dentler’s dorm room. Dentler explained his setup to the Index in a January of 1948 issue. “The microphone I gabbed into was suspended over the turntables from a funny-look-ing stand made out of water pipe. To my left there were five record cases and more than 25 albums of records, in all about 400 to 500. To my right was a desk with a radio on it so we could monitor our signal. It was also equipped with a place to study, but I never got around to that.”

Later that year, the radio station was relocated to Harmon Hall, and the staff had grown to over 40 students. In addition to music, the station also began re-broadcasting play by plays of K basketball games.

WJMD has changed a lot over 68 years. However, it is still the completely student-run radio that Jack M. Dentler first created. Even the Index now has a radio show, which broad-casts on Monday evenings and will be needing new hosts for the 2014-2015 academic year.

Index Throwback: A look at K’s WJMD

Student Run Radio: Students working in the WJMD office, 1953.

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Kalamazoo College Archives

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Baseball

Second Team Senior Marc Zughaib Freshman Mitchell VanKoevering Junior Scott Devine Sophomore Dylan Pierce

Men’s Basketball

First Team Senior Mark Ghafari

Second Team Junior Adam Peters

Women’s Basketball

Second Team Senior Nicole Antoine

Football

First Team Senior Josh Wise Senior Ian Good Sophomore Octavius Sanders

Second Team Sophomore Connor Rzeznik Senior Ryan Gregory

Men’s Golf

First Team Freshman David Smith

Men’s Soccer

Second Team Freshman Noah Bushaw Freshman Josh Robison

Women’s Soccer

Second Team Senior Jordan Meeth

Men’s Swimming & Diving

All-MIAA Sophomore Kevin Ewing Junior Tyler Fisher Sophomore Jacob Lindquist Junior Elliot Littman—Most Valuable Diver Junior Dylan Shearer

Women’s Swimming & Diving

All-MIAA Sophomore Lauren Seroka Sophomore Miranda Doepker Freshman Tristyn Edsall Freshman Colleen Orwin

Men’s Tennis

First Team Freshman Brandon Metzler—Most Valuable Player Senior Peter Rothstein Junior David DeSimone

Second Team Senior Mike Korn

Women’s Tennis

First Team Sophomore Sarah Woods—Most Valuable Player Senior Jenna Riehl

Second Team Senior Kelsey Moran

Volleyball

Second Team Freshman Logan Horejsi

Women’s Lacrosse

First Team Senior Holly Cooperrider

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After earning a berth to the NCAA tournament for the second time in her first two seasons, sophomore tennis player Sarah Woods fell in the round of 32 to Kara Shoe-maker of Williams College.

Woods fell behind early in the match and was not able to recover en route to Shoemak-er’s 6-1, 6-1 victory. Shoe-maker was 13-3 on the year and holds the top rank in the

Brandon Metzler’s stellar freshman season ended at the hands of Abhishek Alla, a sophomore from Carnegie Mellon. Alla, the number three ranked player in the ITA’s At-lantic South region, claimed the match in straight sets: 6-3, 6-1.

A victory over Alla would have ensured All-American honors for Metzler, though the lack of additional hardware takes nothing away from the impressive first year he put together. Playing at number one singles and two doubles, Metzler led the Hornets to their 76th straight conference championship, secured MIAA player of the year and claimed two MIAA player of the week honors along the way. In the most recent release of ITA rankings, Metzler was ranked

Metzler’s Year Ends at NCAA Championships

Freshman standout: Brandon Metzler competed in the NCAA champi-onships but fell to a sophomore from Carnegie Mellon.

fourth in the Central region behind a pair of sophomores from Case Western Reserve and UW-Whitewater and a junior from Kenyon.

“Going to the NCAA’s was a great experience,” said Metzler. “I got to see a lot of match play and I saw a few things that I need to do to get me to the top level. Overall, I’m pleased to be able to par-ticipate and this year’s expe-rience is going to help me in years to come.”

Metzler completed MIAA play with a perfect 5-0 record in both singles and doubles play. For the entire year, he compiled a singles record of 16-6 and a 12-11 mark in dou-ble’s play.

While the men’s tennis team continues to pile up MIAA championships, they have not boasted an All-Amer-ican player since the 2010 season when Cyrus Jadun and Patrick Boyd secured the honor as a doubles team. And not since Julian Seelan in 2006 has the team had a player earn the distinction as a single’s player.

With more focused off-season goals, Metzler will look to end that drought next year as he will lead a young Hornet team looking to add to the program’s storied history.

“[My time there] showed me that I need to be in better,

more fit shape. It showed me that we need to work as a team this offseason to be able to compete with there top tier teams,” said Metzler. “I also need to be stronger mentally to help the team and myself succeed.”

Northeast region whereas Woods is ranked fifth in the central region according to itatennis.com.

“The match was disap-pointing, but it was great to compete with such a great player,” said Woods. “It taught me what I have to do next year to get better.”

Despite her loss in the NCAA tournament, Woods put together another amazing season, capping it off with her second straight MIAA confer-ence Most Valuable Player award. She held down first

singles for the Hornets with a 19-4 record, bringing her wins and losses total to 45-7 in her first two seasons. Woods also helped Kalamazoo bring home their first MIAA title since 2007 on the way to a perfect 8-0 conference record.

“Winning the conference was above all the most spec-tacular part of the season,” said Woods. “The individual accolades are just something to throw in there.”

There is still a very high ceiling for Woods to improve despite all the success she has

already attained. She still has two years remaining and the experience of playing in two NCAA tournaments under her belt. The bar will be set very high for her in the coming seasons but she is ready to rise to the challenge.

“My individual goal is to make it back to Nation-als and be seeded this year,” said Woods. “I’m going to be working really hard and not really worrying about pres-sure. I know everybody will be proud of me no matter what I do.”

daniel herrickeditor emeritus

spencer macdonaldsports editor

Woods Falls in Round of 32

Hornet All-MIAA Selections

Brandon Metzler’s ‘17 impressive first season

comes to an end

End of the road: Sophomore Sarah Woods also fell in the NCAA tournament, but had a stellar season all around.

daniel herrickeditor emeritus

In the 2013-14 school year, Kalamazoo College ath-letics had 34 student-athletes selected to All-MIAA Honors. Of those athletes, 11 were se-lected as first-team honorees. K was also responsible for

three MIAA Most Valuable players: junior Elliot Littman for Men’s Diving, sophomore Sarah Woods for Women’s Tennis, and freshman Brandon Metzler in Men’s Tennis.

Below is a complete list of the Hornets selected to post-season honors by the MIAA.

Robert Manor / Index

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