the phoenix, april 19, 2012

APRIL 19, 2012 • THE CAMPUS NEWSPAPER OF SWARTHMORE COLLEGE SINCE 1881 • VOLUME 135, ISSUE 13

THE PHOENIX Inside:

Campus master plan set to be completed by 2013Hologram brings 2Pac back to life

Women’s lacrosse one win from playoffs

Hilariously honest memoir, “Triggered,” tells story of alum Fletcher Wortmann ’09 and his experiences with OCD in Swat’s high-pressure environment p.7

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The PhoenixThe independent campus newspaper of SwarthmoreCollege since 1881.EDITORIAL BOARD Marcus Mello Editor in ChiefCamila Ryder Managing EditorAdam Schlegel News EditorKoby Levin Assistant News EditorBrad Lenox Living & Arts EditorSteven Hazel Assistant Living & Arts EditorReem Abdou Opinions EditorTim Bernstein Sports EditorAllegra Pocinki Photo EditorPeter Akkies WebmasterEric Sherman Webmaster

STAFFAmanda Epstein News WriterCharles Hepper News WriterYi-Wei Liu News WriterSera Jeong Living & Arts WriterSamme Sheikh Living & Arts WriterAllison Shultes Living & Arts WriterChi Zhang Living & Arts WriterNate Blum Living & Arts ColumnistGabriela Campoverde Living & Arts ColumnistAmelia Dornbush Living & Arts ColumnistDylan Jensen Living & Arts ColumnistVianca Masucci Living & Arts ColumnistLanie Schlessinger Living & Arts ColumnistRenu Nadkarni Living & Arts ArtistNaia Poyer Living & Arts ArtistTyler Becker Opinions ColumnistDanielle Charette Opinions ColumnistHarshil Sahai Opinions ColumnistShiran Shen Opinions ColumnistEmma Waitzman Political CartoonistRoy Greim Sports WriterJames Ivey Sports ColumnistAxel Kodat BloggerJulia Carleton PhotographerCristina Matamoros PhotographerRaisa Reyes PhotographerHolly Smith PhotographerJustin Toran-Burrell PhotographerSophie Diamond Copy EditorTaylor Hodges Copy EditorJaimi Kim Copy EditorAxel Kodat Copy EditorMargaret Lawlace Copy EditorVija Lietuvninkas Copy Editor

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NewsSecond annual Arts Weekend brings dance, art, music to forefront, generates higher turnoutArts Weekend was held for the second time this past weekend in order to cel-ebrate student participation in the fine arts with lectures and student showcas-es, and ultimately bringing over 600 reg-istered guests to campus.PAGE 3 College releases five-year inventory on greenhouse emissionsThe college has recently released its cu-mulative inventory of greenhouse gas emissions from 2005-2010, developed by current Director of Sustainability Clara Fang, who has written similar reports for the city of Albany, NY.PAGE 5Search for soph. class dean and IC director narrowsThe search for a new Sophomore Class Dean and Director of the Intercultural Center, a post previously held by Dean Zapata, has come down to the final four candidates.PAGE 5

Living & ArtsBreaking down the beer bottle: in defense of canned beerThe last Brew’s Clues column of the semester discusses the history and im-provements in beer storage and argues that cans and kegs have significantly im-proved the drinking experience for the majority of beer lovers. PAGE 8

Realizing it’s time to move on in the post-breakup periodBehind my Shades looks at perhaps the greatest difficulty of relationships: get-ting over an ex, which requires reflec-tion on what you’ve learned from the relationship and a willingness to take the risk of being hurt again by a future partner. PAGE 9Goodwill offers shoppers more than just affordabilityThe king of thrift stores, the Goodwill at the Swarthmore Shopping Center offers incredible prices and even some great brands for customers who are willing to spend the time to find them and is the perfect place to pick up an outfit for a theme party.PAGE 12

OpinionsThe ‘Buffett Rule’ and the politics of taxationThe Phoenix discusses the highly contro-versial “Buffett Rule” and its unreason-able opposition among the Republican camp, ultimately arguing that it is a vital measure not only in ensuring economic equality, but economic recovery as well.PAGE 14

Preventing the United States/China Hunger GameThe United States and China are head-ing towards a Hunger Game. However, it should never happen because the col-lapse of either side almost inevitably spells that of the other, given the deep level of cooperation they have in many critical aspects.PAGE 16

Changing the opera-tion of today’s American

governmentThe United States and China are head-ing towards a Hunger Game. However, it should never happen because the collapse of either side almost inevitably spells that of the other, given the deep level of coopera-tion they have in many critical aspects.PAGE 16

SportsBaseball’s seniors leave behind formidable legacyAs the baseball season draws to a close, Roy profiles the departing seniors and the impact they have had both on and off the field.PAGE 17 Softball swept by Dickin-son, then by WashingtonIt was another tough week for Garnet softball, losing four straight to confer-ence rivals Dickinson and Washington College.PAGE 18Tallying up the winners as soccer season endsWith the soccer season drawing to a close, James takes a look at the teams and players who distinguished themselves this year. PAGE 19

Allegra Pocinki The PhoenixThe Gamelan Semara Santi orchestra and dancers performed on Sunday, bringing the Indonesian percussion ensemble to campus.

CorrectionsFROM THE APRIL 12, 2012 ISSUE

The article “Lectures highlight de-velopment, perspective” misspelled Professor Ayse Kaya’s name. The ar-ticle also misstated that Jeffrey Sachs questioned “development orthodoxy,” when Sachs promotes a top-down de-velopmental approach. William East-erly challenges this approach.

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NewsSecond annual Arts Weekend brings dance, art, music to forefront, generates higher turnout Today

Disability and Accessibility at Swarthmore College Panel Discus-sion

The Discovering Abilities Con-ference commences in Kohlberg 115 at 4:30 p.m. with talks by Paul Cato ’14, Hayden Dahmm ’15, and Swarth-more ADA Program Manager Susan Smythe on disability and accessibil-ity on campus.

Spike Magazine Stand-Up Comedy Jam

Comedy Week will kick off at 7 p.m. in Sci. 101 with Spike Maga-zine’s annual jam. Vying for laughs will be Kyle Erf, Erik Heaney, Susa-na Medeiros, Aaron Moser, Charlie Otte, Avilash Pahi, Nina Serbedzija, and Amira Silver-Swartz.

TomorrowDiscurso de Laura Freixas: ¿Es Her-mafrodita La Literatura?

La autora de “Los otros son más felices” va a discutir la interacción del sexo y la autoría: ¿hay una dife-rencia entre ser autor femenina o masculino? Su discurso empezará a los 2:00 en la sala 115 de Kohlberg. Didn’t understand this? You might have trouble at the lecture, which will be conducted entirely in Span-ish.

Unfolding Perspectives on Chinese History and Asian Studies: A Cel-ebration of Prof. Lillian Li

Asian Studies Professor Lillian Li arrived at Swarthmore 38 years ago, before there was an Asian Studies Department (she eventually helped found it). A symposium is being held to honor her dedication and contri-butions to Swarthmore. It will start at 3:30 in the Scheuer Room with an introductory note from President Chopp, to be followed by a keynote address from Pamela Crossley ‘77, a historian at Dartmouth who studied with Li.

Saturday, April 21st American Buffalo

The doors of LPAC’s Frear En-semble Theater will open at 8:00 p.m. for Jessica Cannizzaro ’12, Lori Barkin ’12 and Michelle Fennell ’12’s Honor Acting Thesis. This produc-tion of David Mamet’s play features set design by Marta Roncada ’14, cos-tume design by Matthew Saunders, Sound design by Scott Burgess, and Lighting design by Josh Schulman.

“Carbon Nation” film screening This environmentalist film focus-

es on the possibilities of alternative energy sources. It will be screened in Sci. 199 at 3:30 p.m.

Submissions for the events menu may be sent to [email protected]

Cristina Matamoros The PhoenixAnthony Yoshimura, whose senior studio art exhibition took place this past weekend in List Gallery, stands beside his oil landscape paintings. Yoshimura’s work was displayed alongside that of classmate Thomas Soares.

By AMANDA EPStEiN [email protected]

The second annual Arts Weekend took place this past Friday through Sunday. A weekend dedicated to showcas-ing the extensive range of visual and performing arts pro-grams at Swarthmore, it included over 30 different events that students, alumni and friends of the college were invited to attend.

According to Susan Clarey, one of the Communications Office directors, the Arts Weekend was instituted by Presi-dent Rebecca Chopp two years ago.

“[President Chopp] felt that it was important to rec-ognize the arts at some point in the year, and because it’s hard to cram everything onto homecoming weekend and most arts groups are not ready to present their work in the fall, we decided to have an event in the spring,” Clar-ey said.

Michael Cothren, chair of the art department and art history professor, was cho-sen to give the faculty lecture, titled “Teaching Art History in an Era of Globalism: Liberal Arts, Visual Literacy, and Social Responsibility.” As Arts Weekend centers around the place of arts in the liberal arts institution, he decided to dis-cuss art history as a study that will prepare its students to be “critical consumers of the imagery that bombards them” and to be engaged with products of other cultures, allowing for empathy and a “reluctance to accept stereotypes.” The lecture emphasized that art history, like any other subject in the liberal arts context, can be just as relevant in provid-ing students with the necessary tools to become responsible citizens.

“I really enjoyed giving the talk,” he said. “It gave me an opportunity to step back and think broadly about what I do.”

Along with the faculty lecture, the weekend hosted art

gallery exhibits that displayed seniors’ works, open dance rehearsals, sports events, a cappella and chorus performanc-es (by student and alumni groups), jazz ensemble and orches-tra concerts, poetry readings, and even a performance of the critically-acclaimed off-Broadway play “Chimera,” which featured three Swarthmore alumni.

Among the events was also the student dance group Rhythm and Motion (RnM) performance, which filled up the LPAC Pearson-Hall Theater.

“Arts Weekend was slightly overwhelming,” RnM dancer Chris Green ’14 said. “They were turning people away [from

our show], they didn’t have enough programs. It was the tenth anniversary since RnM was created so we had alumni come back to see the show and perform with us ... There were a lot of new things happening together but it was exciting to see so many people come out to support us.”

According to Cothren, who has been teaching at Swarthmore for over 30 years, the Arts Weekend is especially important for the

college because of its past unwillingness to accept the value of arts programs. When the art history professor first came here, there was actually a limit on the arts credits that you could use for graduation.

“The college actively discouraged exploration of the arts,” he said. “So I think that the idea of highlighting them is es-pecially important because of our history of reluctance. It’s a kind of celebration of how far we’ve moved beyond that.”

The event, which was free to students, faculty, alumni and friends of the college alike, had approximately 600 registered guests, according to Clarey. Because some of the events were not ticketed (and therefore did not require registration), she believes that the number of attendees was even greater. Compared to last year, the turnout and number of events were much higher.

I think that the idea of highlighting [the arts] is especially important because

of our history of reluctance. It’s a kind of celebration of how far we’ve

moved beyond that. Michael Cothren

Professor of Art History


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Pendle Marshall-Hallmark The PhoenixJoe Rizzo, representing DU as Mr. Delta Upsilon in the sixth annual Mr. Swarthmore competition, performs a split during the event’s talent component.

Justin Toran-Burrell The PhoenixOn Monday, Craig Borowiak, professor of political science at Haverford, spoke on solidarity economy during the Progress Paradox lecture series in Sci 101.

campus master plan to be completed by spring 2013By KoBy Levin [email protected]

After a year spent establishing gen-eral principles to guide Swarthmore into the future, the Strategic Planning Council has hired an outside firm to as-sist with the next step, a “campus mas-ter plan.” Over the next year the firm, Ayers Saint Gross, which specializes in architecture and planning on col-lege campuses, will help canvass the Swarthmore community in an effort to build a blueprint for physical changes to the campus.

Amelle Schultz, a senior associate at Ayers Saint Gross (ASG), said in an e-mail that though the data collection her firm is conducting on campus is only beginning, “some general themes have started to emerge.” The themes Schultz mentioned include the pres-ervation of Swarthmore’s “intimate scale;” the controlling of growth in a way that wouldn’t interfere with the natural components of the land, includ-ing Crum Creek growth; and generally ensuring that facilities are up to date and able to accommodate the Swarth-more community.

The Council hopes that the renova-tion and construction projects outlined in the master plan will embody the the-oretical goals of the strategic plan.

“[Facilities updates] are integral to the strategic planning process as a whole because updating and maintain-ing Swarthmore’s physical plan is a necessary component of supporting a wide range of other initiatives, such as the academic curriculum (labs, class-rooms, offices) and student life (meet-ing/study spaces, dining, housing),” Lisa Bao ’14, a member of the Council, said in an e-mail.

In an effort to comprehensively meet the facilities needs of the college com-munity, the master planning effort is seeking input in every corner of the campus, from the fieldhouse to the li-brary.

“[The master planning process] will be a pretty exhaustive set of conversa-tions with all the academic departments and all the administrative departments, the library, the folks down at athletics and others,” Stu Hain, vice president for Facilities and Services, said.

Absent from the process will be Worth Health Center and the biology, psychology and engineering depart-ments, whose facilities were judged to be so direly outdated that they are scheduled to be renovated this summer in a sort of advance guard of the master plan.

“We probably won’t be back to vis-it Beth [Kotarski, Director of Worth Health Center] immediately,” Hain added.

Students are also being offered a chance to weigh in on physical updates to the campus. In recent weeks, ASG and members of the Strategic Planning Council have held several meetings to get the students’ perspective on facili-ties updates. They will hold another meeting on Friday, Apr. 27 at the top of Parrish Beach.

Many students have expressed a desire for central campus space akin

to Williams’s Paresky Center, a trend Schultz said is generally reflected in the research they have conducted thus far on campus despite differences with regard to details.

“In our outreach sessions, we have repeatedly heard a desire for student lounge space in a non-academic build-ing,” Amelle Schultz, senior associate at ASG, said. “However, the size, loca-tion, and function of that space has not been consistent. There have been some suggestions for additional lounge spac-es the size of the Parish Hall parlors and Shane Lounge, while other sugges-tions are for something larger.”

Work on the campus master plan is being divided between two committees, the Advisory Committee and the Steer-ing Committee. According to President Rebecca Chopp, “the Advisory Com-mittee will work closely with ASG to develop planning principles, provide program information, and evaluate the plan in light of current campus needs and potential future needs as indicated by the strategic plan.”

It will also serve as the go-between linking the campus community and those involved in creating the master plan. The Steering Committee will act as an general overseer of the develop-ment of the master plan.

The campus community will have to wait one year to see the end result of the research that has ground into gear in recent weeks. President Chopp said in an e-mail that the final presentation of the plan in the spring of next year “will include a narrative plan as well as illustrative maps, plans and analysis diagrams.”

Until then, students, faculty, and anyone else on campus can e-mail Paula Dale at [email protected] to make their voice a part of the final master plan.

Courtesy of Rebekah Gayley A student examines a diagram of a new campus map in Sharples during an informa-tion-gathering event for the master plan.

Julia Carleton The PhoenixThe Swarthmore Alumni Gospel Choir took to Friends Meetinghouse on Saturday to celebrate the group’s 40th anniversary since its inception.

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By yi-wei liu [email protected]

As the search for Swarthmore’s new Dean of the Sophomore Class approaches completion, the college’s search committee has narrowed the finalists down to four, all of whom have met with and been evaluated by faculty, staff and students. The four candidates have been introduced by Dean of Students Liz Braun, who is also the head of the search committee, in campus-wide emails and all of them have visit-ed campus in the past two weeks. The names of the candidates will not be published publicly until the final candidate is announced.

In the role of Dean of the Sophomore Class, the selected candidate will be part of the emergency on-call system, assist in the implementation of the student disci-plinary system and share Dean’s Office responsibilities for all students including academic and personal advising.

In addition, the Dean will work with Dean Braun and other colleagues to plan and implement efforts in support of both academic and overall success at the col-lege, specifically for the sophomore class and broadly for all students. Additionally, the Dean of the Sophomore Class will serve a dual position as head of the Intercul-tural Center. As such, he or she will have administrative and budgetary responsibil-ity for the Center, and will provide advising, advocacy and support for students and a broad range of student groups.

The search committee has an extensive set of qualifications required of appli-cants for the position. Candidates for this position must have a bachelor’s degree and preferably an advanced degree in an academic discipline. In addition, candi-dates should have several years experience as a dean, with experience in academic advising and personal development, preferably in a liberal arts college setting, as well as an informed knowledge — through academic study as well as cultural iden-tity — of the varying groups affiliated with the Intercultural Center. The candidates all hold extensive qualifications in the fields of leadership training and education.

“We seek a candidate with excellent communication, mediation and consultative skills as well as a person with vision, who understands and appreciates the intel-lectual, social and political development of undergraduate students,” Dean Braun said in an email interview. “He or she must be willing to live in Swarthmore or a contiguous community, and be available for evening and weekend responsibilities and activities.”

Students have had ample opportunity to voice their opinions of the candidates.

“There has been an open student discussion each evening on the visit of the IC candidate, there’s been a community meeting open to all campus members in the afternoon, and members of IC groups have the opportunity to have lunch with the candidates as well,” Admissions Counselor Simon Zhu ’11, a member of the search committee, said. “We hand out small sheets of paper for students and community members to provide feedback at the meetings, but we have also been encouraging email feedback.”

Dean Braun sent out a final call for e-mail feedback yesterday, the day after which all candidates had visited the Swarthmore campus. The committee will be meeting next week to discuss all four candidates and review the feedback from the community, and hope to have the search to be settled by mid-late May.

College releases five-year inventory on greenhouse emissions

Justin Toran-Burrell The PhoenixPreviously, Dean Zapata served as long-time Intercultural Center Director as well as As-sistant Dean.

By Charlie hepper [email protected]

The recent release of Swarthmore’s 2005-2010 Green-house Gas (GHG) Inventory constitutes a great stride for the college in improving its environmental sustain-ability and contributing to the fight against climate change. The inventory reviews the college’s current emissions levels, provides recommendations for future sustainability efforts, and establishes a baseline by which to evaluate future development.

Environmental Sustainability Coordinator Clara Fang, whose previous work includes compiling a simi-lar Greenhouse Gases report for the city of Albany, NY, developed the GHG Inventory from data provided by multiple campus sources.

Work on this project began in 2010, when Presi-dent Rebecca Chopp signed the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. This agreement pledged that the college would develop a Greenhouse Gas Inventory and climate action plan ad-dressing climate change in both its operations and cur-riculum.

The inventory examines greenhouse gas emissions resulting from college operations both on campus (pri-marily from the heating plant) and off-campus from the college’s electricity use and school-related travel. Simi-lar inventories will be compiled and released annually, as required by the agreement.

Ultimately, the college aims to be carbon neutral by 2035.

The study concluded that the college has significant-ly lessened its emissions since 2005. During this period, gross emissions decreased by 26%, despite increases in the college’s population and building square footage.

In 2010, college-related activities emitted a total of 15,565 gross metric tons of greenhouse gases, the same amount produced in powering 1,941 homes for a year. Emissions related to heat and electricity use in college buildings accounted for 76% of this total. After subtract-ing the college’s total carbon offset credits, net emis-sions of greenhouse gases came out to 12,393 metric tons.

Composting and the purchase of Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) contributed to the college’s carbon off-sets, with these two sources reducing total greenhouse

gas emissions by 19%. RECs are units of energy pro-duced from renewable sources funded by the college. This power goes into the national electric grid and off-sets electricity the college uses that is produced from fossil fuels.

Key factors contributing to the decrease in net emis-sions witnessed in the previous years include the in-creased purchase of RECs, the substitution of natural gas for fuel oil in the college’s heating plant, and retro-fits and conservation measures in buildings that have reduced total on-campus electrical consumption by 19%.

While Fang applauded the college’s significant emis-sions reductions, she also warned that this progress would be difficult to maintain as the college enters its next phase of expansion and development. In response to this challenge, the Climate Action Committee is working on recommendations to aid the further reduc-tion of emissions and conservation of energy.

At the moment, heating and electricity use in build-ings remain the areas in which the college’s energy ef-ficiency can be most immediately improved. “Because heat and electricity use in buildings comprise 76% of emissions, and the college can most directly influence this aspect of its operations, the recommendations re-garding buildings are very high priority, ” Fang said.

With the college already commencing renovation and construction projects this summer, Fang empha-sized the need for energy efficient improvements to be included in the current and future plans. “It is very im-portant that energy efficiency and environmental de-sign be a part of new construction and renovation, as a building’s design locks in future energy use patterns,” she said.

Facilities Director Ralph Thayer elaborated on pos-sible upgrades that would increase the energy effi-ciency of the college’s varied building heating systems, some of which are over 90 years old. Potential upgrades ranged from the improvement of building insulation to the implementation a decentralized system of localized heat production to replace the current reliance on a central heating plant. “A significant degree of the heat generated is lost in the process of distributing steam across campus and this loss diminishes energy efficien-cy” Thayer explained.

Thayer added that the college would need to plant a forest of 700 mature oak trees every year to offset its

current heating-related emissions.Advances in energy efficient technology are also

hoped to be consistently integrated into the college’s ef-forts. “Lighting technologies such as LED light bulbs offer great potential to reduce energy usage and all renovations will take advantage of the most efficient lighting systems where possible,” Thayer said.

The increase of carbon offsets to reduce net emis-sions will also play a critical role in the college’s cli-mate action plan, although measures devoted to low-ering the college’s gross emissions through improved energy conservation will remain the top priority. “In-creasing investment in carbon offsets is necessary in pushing the college closer to the carbon neutral mark, and more options for obtaining carbon offsets should be investigated,” Fang said.

The inventory further recommends the close in-volvement of students and employees in the effort to cut emissions by saving energy. “Education and outreach efforts like expanding the Green Advisors program and developing a Green Office Program for employees have a lot of potential to help us reduce emissions,” Fang said. By fostering a sense of environmental steward-ship among the college community, such programs aim to extend the sustainability effort to the individual level as well.

The Climate Action Plan, which Fang is working on with the Climate Action Planning Committee, will con-tain more information about these recommendations.

Despite its wide scope, the inventory is still not without flaws. Collecting complete figures on emis-sions from employee air travel proved to be especially difficult, as no records were kept on where employees traveled.

A survey was conducted to collect information from individual employees, with Lang Sustainability interns Brian Lee ’14 and Collin Smith ’14 helping to convert the survey data into air miles.

As it turned out, employee air travel alone account-ed for a sizable 11% of the college’s gross emissions.

Overall, the GHG inventory will be an integral com-ponent to the ongoing project of minimizing the col-lege’s carbon footprint. “Continuing to monitor our en-ergy consumption and carbon emissions will be crucial in helping the college refine strategies, track progress, motivate change, and celebrate success,” Fang said.

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HIRINGManaging editor (2)The managing editor(s) are responsible for the comple-tion of the newspaper and for delegating tasks to othereditors and staff members, to support the role of theeditor in chief. The managing editor(s) have significantinvolvement in the editorial, design and layout process-es, and must be present in the office during productionon Tuesday nights and Wednesday.Approximate hours per week: 25.

News editorThe news editor must have a current and comprehen-sive knowledge of events, people and issues on cam-pus. Job duties include reading and editing all newscopy, leading a staff meeting on Monday nights towork with reporters and develop future story ideas,working with other editors to select news content anddirecting reporters. Frequent communication withreporters, photographers and senior editors is essen-tial. Applicants should be competent reporters, willingto write last-minute news stories and take photos.Approximate hours per week: 18.

Living & Arts editorThe Living & Arts editor must be able to develop cre-ative feature and art ideas for the section each week;maintain familiarity with the art, music and theaterscene, both on campus and in the Philadelphia area;and select events to feature as editor’s picks. The liv-ing section allows for more creativity in design thando other sections in the paper.

Approximate hours per week: 16.

Opinions editorThe opinions editor’s primary job is to ensure thata diverse range of views relevant to the campusare represented on the editorial pages.Responsibilities include soliciting op-ed pieces,working with staff columnists and cartoonists todevelop and carry out ideas and ensuring comple-tion of the staff editorial each week. The opinionseditor must also keep abreast of relevant campusand world events.Approximate hours per week: 12.

Sports editorThe sports editor should maintain a comprehensiveknowledge of all varsity and club teams on cam-pus. Duties include reading and editing all sportscopy and assigning sports photos. Applicants mustbe competent sportswriters who are willing to writeand take photos as needed.Approximate hours per week: 12.

Assistant section editorsAssistant editors in news, living and arts, sportsand opinions may be added as training positions.Assistant section editors are responsible for help-ing the section editor in all duties and learning allaspects of production essential to the section,including layout design and editing. Assistant sec-tion editors are also responsible for writing for theirsections as necessary.Approximate hours per week: 8–10.

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Reporters / staff writers (8 news, 6 living, 5sports)Reporters write at least one story a week for theirsection. Writers must attend weekly meetings.Approximate hours per week: 6–8.

Columnists / Bloggers (6 opinions, sports, 8 living& arts)A columnist receives a biweekly column. The colum-nists are expected to work closely with their respec-tive section editors in developing topics and improv-ing their writing styles. Approximate hours per week: 3—4.

Copy editorsCopy editors check facts, style and grammar andproof pages. Approximate hours per week: 3—5.

PhotographersPhotographers are expected to fulfill weekly assign-ments. This includes taking photos at the assignedtime and uploading the photos onto the Phoenix serv-er in a timely fashion.

Approximate hours per week: varies.

Staff artists (3)Staff artists are required to submit at least one illus-tration per issue, for various sections of the paper. Approximate hours per week: varies.

Cartoonists (4) Cartoonistsmay apply to work as either an op-artist or a living &arts artist, and will be required to submit pieces bi-weekly.Approximate hours per week: 2.

These job descriptions are intended to inform applicants of what would be expected of them if hired. All appli-cations must be submitted online at swarthmorephoenix.com/applyQuestions? Want more information? Contact us at [email protected]

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evenings, and they must communicate regularly with the writers of their sections to assess their progress and to develop

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Chief copy editorThe chief copy editor of The Phoenix is responsiblefor the factual and grammatical aspects of all copyin the newspaper. Responsibilities include readingall copy, reading proofs of all pages, coordinatingthe schedules of a staff of copy editors, maintainingand updating The Phoenix stylebook and providingeditorial feedback to the writers and editors. Approximate hours per week: 12.

Graphics editorResponsibilities include working with the editors andstaff artist(s) to conceptualize and create cover artand graphics within page designs. The graphic design-er should coordinate art and is responsible for ensur-ing completion of graphics or photo-intensive pages.The graphic designer will also attend editorial boardmeetings. Previous work with Photoshop is required.Approximate hours per week: 8.

Photo editorResponsibilities include taking, uploading and edit-ing photos; maintaining a staff of photographers;coordinating the use of the paper’s digital cameras;and communicating with editors at editorial boardmeetings and throughout the week.

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WEB STAFF (NEW!)Web Editor (2)The Web Editor(s) edits all stories that appear only onthe web, moderates comments, posts to and moder-ates the forums, and coordinates the newly createdPhoenix Web Staff. The Web Editor will hold a weeklyor twice-weekly meeting with the Web Staff to ensurethere is plenty of fresh content to keep the website aslively as possible. Approximate hours per week: 5-7.

Web Staff (4)Web staffers are in charge of keeping The Phoenixwebsite up-to-date throughout the week. Staffers willwrite stories, post blogs and/or take additional pho-tos for the website. Staffers are required to attendweekly meetings to discuss the content to be placedon the website and will be required to post severalitems every week. WIth much less time commitment,it’s a great way to get started on The Phoenix.Approximate hours per week: 3-4.

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Living & ArtsBY ALLISON SHULTES [email protected]

Infusing hospitalizations and breakdowns with satire and humor, 2009 Swarthmore graduate Fletcher Wortmann’s recently released memoir “Triggered” chronicles the mind of a young man living with OCD in a world where even the most banal happening can prompt an episode. Begun during his time at Swarthmore, “Triggered” follows Wort-mann in his progression from pre-adolescent dinosaur collector to college-aged Swarth-more survivor with uncompromising honestly, unabashed resentment and an unflinch-ing dedication to exposing the workings of a mind plagued by intrusive thoughts. The memoir was released in early April and published by Thomas Dunne Books, a division of St. Martin’s Press based in New York City.

Although Wortmann began seeing psychologists at the age of six, he wasn’t diagnosed with OCD until his sophomore year at Swarthmore. This failure to correctly diagnose his symptoms, which included an inability to move past apocalyptic end-of-the-world sce-narios once introduced into his thoughts, led to an accumulation of resentment towards the therapists/counselors/medical professionals who failed to offer him proper treatment. The confusion on their part most likely stemmed from the internal nature of Wortmann’s disorder: unlike the archetypal OCD, Wortmann’s did not manifest itself externally in compulsive cleanliness or counting, but rather existed entirely in his mind.

Wortmann defines OCD in his memoir in various moments, focusing his attention on its characteristic rituals (hand washing, counting) as responses to the uncertainty inher-ent in the world. He writes, “While I am unusual in that obsession has compromised and occasionally endangered my life, I believe that obsessive and compulsive tendencies are universal. Each of us attempts, at times, to live inside our minds. Each of us is vulner-able to the sick principle that we could, if only we thought long enough and hard enough, invent a way to compensate for the objective terrors of the world.” For Wortmann, living in his mind includes thinking up complex escape scenarios and replaying them again and again in response to intrusive end-of-the-world thoughts.

Throughout his memoir, Wortmann attempts to distinguish between the typical angst and anxiety experienced by people in their day-to-day lives and the effects of his disorder, but sometimes notes that delineation is difficult. Intrusive thoughts are exacerbated by stressful situations; he experienced “social paralysis” growing up, and writes in his mem-oir of being “rendered mute and motionless” by the anxiety induced in his desire for vali-dation from his peers. While the events he describes are universal (high school hell, the first kiss, first love, the crippling workload of Swarthmore academics), the complications arising from his disorder are unique, and portrayed with quirky honesty throughout his memoir.

Wortmann first began work on “Triggered” while at Swarthmore, publishing install-ments in The Phoenix during the spring of his senior year under the pseudonym Hamlet Wrenncroft. His columns served as the framework for his memoir, with many of the chap-ters retaining their names and content. His chapter “Songs from the Big Chair” relates to Swarthmore in more ways than its title as it explores the stress-ridden, masochistic nature of the college through the unapologetic lens of Wortmann’s own suffering at the hands of the institution. Describing his peers as participating in “ritual flagellation,” en-during “unbearable trauma to achieve things that do not matter,” and “[lionizing] per-sonal suffering in the service of abstract goals,” he paints a picture of an environment fueled on needless stress and hollow values.

Alexandra Israel ’11, co-editor of the Living & Arts section during the spring of 2009, remembers Wortmann proposing his fully-formulated idea for the column before the ed-

itorial board. He wanted to publish under the condi-tion that major edits would not be made to his pieces, which, as Israel recalls, never became an issue. He ad-opted his pseudonym for future employment reasons, not wanting potential employers to come across his name in conjunction with his institutionalization dur-ing sophomore year. However, with his picture appear-ing beside his column every week, Wortmann opted out of anonymity on campus.

“I loved Swat, and never really had any problems with the administration … that being said, it is a pres-sure cooker,” Israel said in a phone interview. “It’s a lot of work, and for someone who already had issues, I can see how Swat could exacerbate those. I think [Wortmann’s] critique of Swarthmore is productive … it’s not a bad thing to talk about how the administra-tion may be failing to meet students’ expectations or needs.”

His personal story and critique of the college in The Phoenix did not elicit “legions of adoring fans,” as Wortmann writes. Causing relatively little stir, the pieces nonetheless accomplished what their author saw as their completely selfish purpose; he writes in his first installment, “This column is my attempt to make sense of a lifetime of unhappiness. I’ve had my face dragged in fifteen miles of very heavy psychic shit, and I do not like it. I am a proverbial angry young man and this column is a middle finger the size of the Chrysler building, aimed indiscriminately and irresponsibly. It is a con-tinuous torrent of venom, much of it directed towards this college, and I invite you, dear reader, to come with me on this horrible cathartic journey. I can only promise it will be repulsive and painful, and you will probably be made very uncomfortable when you see me at lunch.”

While the column may have failed to cause waves on campus, it hit close to home for some. Israel, whose mom was living with high-functioning obsessive disorder, found it fascinating. “[Wortmann’s column] really struck a nerve. The way he talked about his thinking and behavior — how he knew it was completely and totally irrational and couldn’t get out of it — was really compelling,” Israel said. “I sent [the columns] to my mom, and she loved them … [as someone with OCD], you have these thoughts, and other people don’t understand.”

Visiting Professor Gregory Frost first met Wortmann in the English Literature De-partment’s fiction writing workshop; as they became “unusual friends,” by his own de-scription, he recognized Wortmann’s writing talent and personal strength. “His columns impressed me so much I took them home to show my wife and said, ‘You’ve got to see what this student is doing!’” Frost said of Wortmann’s installments. “It was amazing stuff. I was so impressed that he was creatively channeling what to anyone else might have been debilitating or crippling … he was really writing from the inside out, and I think that’s also true of ‘Triggered.’”

Frost, thanked in the acknowledgements of “Triggered,” reviewed the book as being “An acid bath of self-revelation and recognition — incisive, sardonic, brutally honest. ‘Triggered’ delivers the interior landscape of OCD with rare crystal clarity.”

‘Triggered’ unravels the tangled web of a life with OCD

Courtesy of photo.goodreads.comFletcher Wortmann’s memoir “Triggered” recounts his strug-gle growing up with OCD.

“Chimera” seamlessly interweaves technology, my-thology, science and audience interaction that creates an experience that causes self-reflection while not being remotely didactic.

“Chimera” was performed at Swarthmore College in the Frear Ensemble Theatre on Apr. 14 as part of last week’s campus-wide Arts Weekend. The production had previously had its first production at the venue HERE in New York City. The solo-performance show was cre-ated by Swarthmore alumni Suli Holum ’97 and Deborah Stein ’99 and is based around chimerism, a phenomenon

in which two different sets of DNA simultaneously in-habit one body.

Jennifer Samuels, one of the characters portrayed by Holum in the show, discovers that her son’s genes are in fact not based on her own, but on her unborn twin’s. She wrestles with this knowledge, eventually choosing one day to walk out the door and leave her eight year old son. This story gradually unfolds as more information is given to the audience in a non-linear fashion. We see the older version of the son talking about his mother before we learn that she left him. Eventually this revelation is given, though we are still unsure of why she made this choice. It is only towards the very end of the play that Samuels offers an explanation for her actions.

Chimera relies on a variety of auditory and visual components, whose role in the play seem as integral as the plot itself. The evolution of costumes, designed by Swarthmore alumni and staff member Tara Webb ’94, fits very much with the nature of the show. All the costume pieces are either white or teal. Some shifts in costume — such as putting on teal dish cleaning gloves — are subtle, while others — such as a corset which requires audience assistance to put on — are more dramatic in nature.

Media technology is also very much a part of the pro-duction. When a benign heart murmur is discussed, the audience sees an image of a beating heart projected onto a window that was part of the set. There are also mo-ments where Holum appears to walk through the kitchen itself. This appearance occurs as a result of the image of

her shadow moving across the kitchen appliances while her actual body is hidden. Strands of DNA are projected onto parts of the set of the kitchen. In one moment, stars go whirling across the set.

The show was not set in a kitchen, but rather took place very specifically both as a kitchen and as a set of a kitchen in a theater. Not only did this enable for breaks in expectations about what a kitchen should be able to do, such as the moment of surprise that occurs when Holum is pulled down through the sink, to feel complete-ly appropriate to the world of the play, but it also meant that the audience was as much of a part of the show as any of the other elements of the play. In the beginning of the piece, audience members were offered coffee. As a result of the very nature of audience interaction, the response of the group in the crowd varies on any given night; in Friday night’s dress rehearsal, everyone de-clined the kind offer for caffeine.

By inciting responses from the audience, the show directly asks the audience to become a part of the play rather than just passive observers. The play offers the viewer knowledge on topics ranging from mythology to science to stories about different manifestations of two sets of DNA in a single body. This knowledge, coupled with the audience interaction, is not only thought pro-voking, but makes the provocation of thoughts almost inevitable.

BY AMELIA DORNBUSH

LIVING IN BRIEF

Alumni return for Arts Weekend, perform off-Broadway ‘Chimera’

Courtesy of Steven Schreiber and swarthmore.eduAlumni performed in “Chimera” during Arts Weekend.


swarthmorephoenix.comLiving & ArtsBreaking down the beer bottle: in defense of canned beer

Whenever I stop and admire the packaging of beer (i.e stop and drink), I am reminded of the victory of modern civilization over the forc-es of Nature. The simplic-ity of the pull-top can or the twist-off long-neck bottle help

me to forget the tragedies of modernity even if just for the span of an ice-cold brew. The way that beer makes it from the fermenter tank to your mouth has techno-logical and industrial history that extends back to the roots of American brewing.

For most of beer’s history, draught was the only option and beer was generally never sold or consumed outside a saloon or similar public house. The brewer would transport wagons of wooden casks or kegs (unrefrigerated mind you) on a daily ba-sis and generally only to establishments within a short driving distance. Improve-ments in refrigeration technology allowed beer to be shipped further away from the brewing site and eventually into domestic spaces.

Adolphus Busch is often credited with being the first large commercial brewery to utilize refrigeration — he retrofitted a fleet of used cattle rail-cars filled with ice and created a network of icehouses along railroads in order to keep the beer cold on its journey.

Before the introduction of stainless steel or aluminum kegs, the experience of draft beer was far different. Beer was kept in wooden kegs that offered good but not great protection, and without pres-surized or nitrogen tap lines it was gener-ally much less carbonated than modern versions. Pouring a pint had to be ac-complished through gravity and physics and a simple hand pump. In recent years, serving practices have become politicized and many beer enthusiasts in Great Brit-ain — in response to what they see as an erosion of British culture — have lobbied and campaigned to protect these historical techniques.

For those who are interested in expe-riencing it, many bars in America serve “cask” (or “real” ale in the rhetoric of the above group) out of firkins, which are wooden quarter-barrel kegs. Though this is probably not the closest bar to do so, Bethlehem Brew-works in Bethlehem, PA has a firkin continually available on its tap list and even holds special discount nights for those interested in trying some-thing different.

Modern beer is most often consumed, at home, in the form of long-necked 12 ounce bottles. However, most establish-ments (and fraternity parties) still serve beer in draught form from kegs. What ex-actly is the proverbial “keg” though? First of all, a keg is half of a barrel, a truly mas-sive amount of beer. In the United States a full barrel is 31 US gallons, or roughly 248 pints. I don’t know why there was a need for it to be 31 gallons and not 30, but I am sure there is some bizarre contrivance in the history books. Either way, no one but brewers usually deal with beer in this amount mostly due to the cost and the dif-ficulty of transportation, which is where the keg comes in. Sizes are not limited to the half-barrel portion however; sixth of a barrel, or “sixtels,” kegs have recently be-come popular with fans of craft beer and brewers because they offer a small-scale draft experience without necessitating the same cost.

Modern kegs are awesome; they keep beer perfectly protected from light, cool quickly and allow for the beautiful experi-ence of drinking beer straight from a tap line (I promise it’s a material, not subjec-tive, difference). However, most of us will spend the majority of our drinking time with a hand wrapped around a bottle and not a pint glass, but the convenience of domestic dipsomania requires some com-promises.

Light-striking is an oft-discussed nega-tive quality of forgoing the welcoming gloom of your local watering hole or road house but opting instead for the cold, fluo-rescent sterility of Total Wine. The chemi-cal compounds that compose a beer, in-cluding the wonderful — but oh so delicate — alpha and beta hop acids, are organic and therefore subject to natural forces. Ex-treme heat can damage the taste of a beer, but light is far more destructive.

Stop for a second and imagine any giv-en beer store: large fluorescent overhead lights, walls of refrigerated, well-lit cases

with glass fronts inviting you to browse its icy-cold contents. However, any beer exposed to a source of ultraviolet light for too long can cause negative changes in the beer, a process called “skunking” as the beer takes on characteristics similar in taste and smell to that of a skunk. Open cases expose the beers inside to both the light of the store and of the sun, so even though they are kept cold their flavors can be damaged.

In a perfect world, everyone would be able to get their beer fresh from the bre-whouse and drink it straight from an el-ephant’s tusk. Obviously that isn’t the case, so technology has stepped in the ser-vice of civilization. Most craft beer (or any American bottled beer for that matter) is served in 12 oz. (355 ml) “long neck” brown glass bottles, which — in addition to be-ing cheaper to produce than other types of glass — somewhat adequately protect the sudsy contents within. Often, “premium” imports beers like Corona and Heineken and even craft giant Yuengling opt for clear or green glass bottles in order to dif-ferentiate their product and increase its perceived aesthetic value and quality.

At the risk of overstepping my bound-aries and stepping into polemics, this is a bad thing. Clear and green let all the skunks in, and for what? To look pretty?

What is good for beer is canning. If you just dropped your glass bottle in shock, I don’t blame you because canned beer has long been associated with qualities anath-ema to the ethos and experience of craft beer. Cans conjure up images of “shotgun-ning,” head-crushing and Wizard staff-lengthening, Keystone-swilling fraternity parties and backyard barbecues. Glass bottles have become a marker of quality that, in the mind of the consumer, dis-tinguish one pint of Dogfish Head from, say, a tallboy of Stroh’s. Sam Calagione, Dogfish Head’s pretty boy brewmaster, recently made this tension explicit, char-acteristic of his company’s neurotic obses-sion with comparing beer to wine. He has said that Dogfish will begin canning their beer when Screaming Eagle, an incredibly well-regarded and ultra-exclusive Sonoma winery, begins canning merlot. Sam is an idiot.

Beer is not and should never be com-pared to wine. It is asinine and entirely misguided to think of the world of drinks in such a binary, as if an entire range of products can be generalized so easily.

First and foremost, not every beer does pair with every meal and every social set-ting — but neither does wine. I’ve yet to see an oenophile serve Franzia chillable red at a white-tie dinner. Just like fried chicken and cordon bleu still come from the same bird, Natural Light and Raison d’Etre come from the same ingredients but that does not make them the same kind of beer. Focusing on wine as a culinary and cultural enemy is short-sighted and insult-ing to both sides of the issue. If we shed ourselves of this cultural Napoleon com-plex we can remind ourselves that pack-aging has nothing to do with quality, and cans are not the enemy.

So then you ask, why defend cans so adamantly? Like miniature kegs, cans provide complete protection from UV light as well as act as excellent insulators, meaning your beer gets colder quicker and stays that way longer. Moreover, cans are more durable and therefore more transportable, which benefits brewers by increasing space on distribution trucks and reducing fuel costs. Consumers are able to bring their favorite malt beverages into locations where glass is normally not kosher, such as pools, parks or ballgames, and reduce the sticky and dangerous risk of bottles breaking during transportation. There are also possible environmental benefits — cans are recycled at a much higher rate than glass — but this is not entirely convincing given the disastrous effects of aluminum strip mining.

In terms of taste, despite extremely persistent beliefs to the contrary, cans DO NOT leave any residual taste in beer. Modern cans come with an internal liner that insulates the beer from ever making contact with metal. Even if you are con-cerned about metal interfering through the pop-top opening, well — you shouldn’t be having your beer out of anything ex-cept a god damn drinking glass anyway. Any metallic taste is entirely imaginary and a psychosomatic result of years of advertising and cultural condition — or from oxidation, which occurs when hops begin to age.

Tragically, I have run out of space and, now that we have reached the penultimate issue, columns. Hopefully at least some of you have learned a thing or two (or at least something you can bring up next Pub Nite). Cheers all.

Brad is a junior. You can reach him at [email protected].

Brad LenoxBrew’s Clues

The semester is wind-ing down, finals time is around the corner and we are down to the last two Pub Nites. But on the bright side, the weather has been mind-blowing. The upcoming transitions of everyone leaving col-lege life to head home for the summer got me think-ing about transitions in relationships — not only how people go from be-ing mere strangers to be-ing close friends to taking that next step and be-coming something more, but also how those same relationships that have been “hot” can suddenly

become cold and fall apart. Fearing the pain of a potential breakup is something

that can cause a person to not want to be involved in one. I’ve already talked about removing those emotion-al barriers, and friendships that have been set on fire

(love). The one thing that I believe that I have yet to cover is

the subject of getting over that “ex.” The post-breakup period is an especially difficult process, as you’re used to consistently seeing that person or just chilling with them. There are a set of steps that occur when a breakup happens. First, there is a sense of loss that arises — the anger that makes you barely want to think of the per-son. Then comes the point where you genuinely miss the person; you miss the friendship, but most of all you miss the memories. There are relationships that end cordially or bitterly, but there is fundamentally a pe-riod where you don’t give a fuck. That time passes soon enough and you arrive at a point where you genuinely want that old thing back.

Here’s the thing: there are going to be times when that “old thing” has moved on and that’s when it settles that you’re never going to be with that person again. Everyone has experienced this and it sucks to see the girl or guy that you have invested time in and shared all these memories with move on to someone else.

There is nothing you can do about it, but come to the understanding that relationships aren’t perfect and that they come to an end. Accept that every ending as a new beginning, stop hovering over this one person you had feelings for and cared about; there comes a time when

you need to just to let go and give another person a try. Relationships are neither a never–ending tunnel nor

a one way street. Though, when they come to an end, a learning, reflecting period truly needs to take place and occur. That is the time when you can reflect on how the relationship turned out and why it had to come to an end.

No relationship is perfect, some are better than oth-ers but I repeat: none are perfect. The thing is, you can’t think that you cannot live without this person because of course you can. Days will turn into weeks, weeks into months and months into years. Don’t get me wrong, there will be times when they will cross your mind; I am sure that this will happen.

But before you write them a long Facebook message about how much you miss them, just think and breathe.

You have to move on; it’s okay to check in with them but you don’t have to be 110% invested in their life. Back up and be there if needed and understand that if it’s meant to be, it will be, but if not don’t force it. Because at the core of all relationships are two people who were once friends and decided to be more, but at the very same time, relationships have pros and cons and miss-ing a close friendship is one of the latter.

Until Next Time.Take Care.

Realizing it’s time to move on in the post-breakup period

Maximianus ReidBehind My Shades



Living & Arts

For those of you who haven’t heard yet, 2Pac recently made a headlining appearance alongside Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival in Indio, California. Or at least it looked like he did. A holographic projection of the deceased hip-hop icon took the Coachella main stage last Sunday night and performed many of his classics, including “2 of Americaz Most Wanted” and “Hail Mary,” to a packed crowd at the three-day festival. The in-troduction of 2Pac’s hologram, however, has prompted much controversy. Since the perfor-mance, talk of what to do with this technol-ogy, as well as the morality behind it, have shot around news headlines, leading to many questions being raised.

One of the main areas of interest sur-rounding the surprise appearance is the tech-nology behind 2Pac’s hologram. According to Dr. Dre, the man behind the inception of holo-

graphic 2Pac, the hologram was created by special effects house Digital Do-main, the same company that generated Brad Pitt’s transformation in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” AV Concepts, a full-service audio-visual staging company, was then hired to develop and control the projecting of the image of 2Pac on stage. AV Concepts’ president, Nick Smith, recently informed MTV that the task of creating the hologram took several months of planning and four months of development, a feat that brought 2Pac to life, at least for the night.

Though the projection of Shakur appears to be 3-dimensional, the image is actually 2D. In order to create this effect, Shakur’s image was projected onto an angled piece of glass on the ground. In turn, the image was then projected onto a Mylar screen located on stage. Using this customized screen, AV Concepts was able to make it appear as though 2Pac was actually emerging onto the stage, back from the dead. Although Smith didn’t directly quote the monetary investment involved in the hologram, he did mention that a similar investment would require between $100,000 and $400,000

But what does one do with a $400,000 investment and customized technology? They take it on tour, of course. Sources recently told MTV that both Dr. Dre and

Snoop Dogg were seriously considering taking the holographic 2Pac on the road with them. Various sources, including CBS News, mention different types of tour-ing, but the most common ones cited include a stadium tour involving other hip-hop artists like 50 Cent and Eminem or a smaller venue tour with only Snoop

Dogg and Dr. Dre. Whether or not either of these options will ever come to frui-tion is unknown, but one thing is for sure: profit is definitely there to be

made. This potential for profit, at least for me, however, leads to the

biggest issue surrounding the hologram. Is there something mor-ally wrong with a holographic 2Pac? On one hand, the hologram represents both the devotion of the fans and of the artists to 2Pac and his contributions to the music industry. In a recent interview with Billboard Magazine, Nas was even quoted as saying the holo-gram was “genius,” and that it represents 2Pac’s cultural signifi-cance. But, on the other hand, a holographic 2Pac seems to reflect an incredibly morbid form of capitalism. Are there really no other

profit-making alternatives in the music industry in this day and age, or are holograms really the future? Clearly, box sets and posthumous releases were not enough. I can’t help but to wonder what 2Pac’s mother, Afeni Shakur, thinks of it all.

As for whether or not this holographic trend will continue, I have no idea. It would certainly be intriguing to see holographic Notorious B.I.G.s and Ol’ Dirty Bastards walking around, but it would also be remarkably creepy. Aside from the morbidity sur-rounding it all, though, it is refreshing to see and hear classic material from such an influential artist, especially at a time when

nearly everyone is considering themselves rappers. While I’m not sure I will be willing to pay to see a holographic 2Pac prance around stage if in fact it does hit the road, I am still holding high hopes for the tour. Perhaps this will finally be the moment that 2Pac will emerge from the back lot, à la Ashton Kutcher, and announce that

for the last 16 years he has been punking us all. Dylan is a junior. You can reach him at [email protected].

Dylan JensenMusic Now!

2Pac hologram at Coachella: innovative or morbid?

“Memoirs of an Anti-Semite” by Gregor von Rez-zori is a novel disguised as a memoir. Divided into five parts, this troubling novel explores the nature of anti-Semitism in Europe lead-ing into World War II. The main character and nar-rator, Bubi, journeys from childhood into adulthood, never free from the conflict between his inherited anti-Semitism and his contradic-tory experiences with Jews.

The story begins with Bubi in his aunt and uncle’s home. They treat him well,

and he appreciates their gracious acceptance of him into their lives. Even at this young age, Bubi’s anti-Semitism is clear. After a few days spent exploring the town, he is dismayed when he discovers that “On weekdays, the place was almost lifeless, if we disregard the straggling gangs of lice-ridden Jewish children who romped among the spar-rows in the dusty roads.” Despite having no contact with these children, the narrator assumes they are scoundrels. This powerful first impression of Bubi illuminates the un-relenting nature of anti-Semitism in 20th century Austria. Bubi was too young to form his own ideas about Jews, leading the reader to the fair conclusion that these beliefs were passed down to him.

The first real challenge to Bubi’s anti-Semitism occurs early in the novel as well. When a gang of Jewish children mocks Bubi for wearing a peculiar outfit, young Max Gold-man, the son of the town doctor, dismisses the gang. After coming to Bubi’s rescue, Max becomes Bubi’s first Jewish friend. Bubi repeatedly discovers that Max is his superior in wit, intelligence and sophistication. Yet, Bubi always resents Max’s attitude, which he finds to be smug and ar-rogant.

Through Max and Bubi’s friendship, Rezzori highlights a key component of anti-Semitism in this era, which is the prevalent psychological principle of confirmation bias. Bu-bi’s elders teach him their anti-Semitism, a tenet of which is the accusation that Jews are arrogant. Thus, when Bubi observes Max’s arrogance, he confirms for himself that Jews are arrogant. This was the course for many children in the 20th century. They learned to be anti-Semitic, and then, when confronted with evidence supporting their an-ti-Semitism, they confirmed racist theories. Yet, when con-fronted with evidence that challenged typical anti-Semitic notions, gentiles took little note of it. Even when Bubi ob-

serves Max’s superior talents, he believes that Jews are scoundrels.

The rest of Bubi’s relationships with Jews demonstrate other aspects of anti-Semitism. The closest Jewish friend-ship Bubi forms is his relationship with his neighbor in Vienna, Minka. They share a deep friendship in which he grows to respect and admire her for her bravery, her cun-ning wit and her unbelievable cleverness. But despite be-ing repeatedly faced with the fact that Jews are capable of being wildly successful, Bubi cannot relinquish the idea that they are lowly specimens. The inescapable nature of anti-Semitism is overwhelmingly the most important idea Rezzori illustrates, and Bubi’s relationship with Minka is overwhelmingly the best demonstration of this idea.

Readers and critics alike should commend Rezzori for the spectacular job he does of representing anti-Semitism leading into World War II. Not only does he look into the future, helping the reader understand how the barbarous atrocity of Nazi Germany could come about, but further-more illuminates the past, helping the reader understand what brought the European world to this place of hatred. It is clear that this “memoir” is a kind of confession; for despite experiencing con-tradictory evidence, Bubi clings to his anti-Semitism. If he and others were coura-geous enough to reject the teachings of their elders in exchange for more accurate beliefs, perhaps Europe would not have fallen so easily to the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust.

Characters: AThe characters, espe-

cially the main character, are well developed. The complexities plaguing the main character’s mind are deep and overwhelmingly difficult to reconcile.Language: A

Rezzori’s language is beautiful and smooth. In the beginning of the novel, he masters the voice of the child without compromis-ing the fluidity or the clar-ity with which he writes.Plot: A

The plotline is active and bending. The setting itself changes frequently as the novel progresses. The main character’s conflicted mind contributes greatly to the sus-pense included in the plot; it is difficult to predict his feel-ings as they are in constant flux. Ideas: A

“Memoirs of an Anti-Semite” explores anti-Semitism in perhaps its most significant era. But beyond this central idea, Rezzori manages to lend thought to more general con-cepts, such as how much of our opinions are determined by our elders and whether we can overcome our beliefs when they are challenged.Difficulty: B- (A is difficult, F is easy)

The novel itself is relatively accessible. It’s not particu-larly difficult to understand, nor is it particularly difficult to analyze. However, the main character’s conflicted na-ture becomes more and more frustrating as the novel pro-gresses. There’s a certain lack of resolution that is difficult to accept.

Lanie is a first-year. She can be reached at [email protected]

Lanie SchlessingerBibliobabble

Austrian novelist grapples with the rise of anti-SemitismRenu Nadkarni The Phoenix

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swarthmorephoenix.comLiving & Arts

All in the Family: residents bring a bit of

home to Lodge 2DORM DIVE

by Sera [email protected]

Housing five sophomore varsity athletes, Lodge 2 is home to Geli Carabases, Jack Momeyer, Caro-line Murphy, Anne Rosenblatt and Corinne Sommi.

Murphy, Rosenblatt and Sommi — who wished to live together — con-templated the idea of co-habiting a Lodge last year due to the dearth of regular, on-campus triples. Aware that Carabases and Momeyer in-tended to be roommates, the girls ap-

proached them to cohabit a Lodge, resolving their housing predicament.

The Lodges are a row of cottages located on the perimeter of Worth courtyard. Al-though the students reside as a group of five, they have kept to their intended roommate arrangements as Murphy, Rosenblatt and Sommi occupy a triple downstairs, while Carabases and Momeyer inhabit the upstairs double.

Lodge 2 has been uniquely configured as the girls have forged a separate living area out of their triple. The expansive downstairs space is divided into two distinct spheres, a communal living area and the girls’ private quarters, with a curtain spanning the entire length of the room separating the two. Having the two separate spaces ensures that every-one can enjoy the homey atmosphere of the communal area, which features a coffee table, chairs and couch whilst allowing the girls to have a more private sleeping area. Bunk-ing two of the beds and creating a communal closet has allowed for more efficient use of space to accommodate the generous commu-nal area. Upstairs is a large double which Carabases and Momeyer share. Overlooking Worth courtyard, the space is well lit and spa-cious enough for two armchairs and a walk-in closet. According to Carabases, it makes for “the ideal man cave.”

For these students, life in Lodge 2 is very much a family affair. “You don’t have a hall life so you rely on each other,” Momeyer said. Because the Lodge structurally lacks a hall, it acts like a house rather than a dormitory. The front door of the Lodge leading directly to Worth courtyard is a feature the students appreciate. “We view [the courtyard] as an extension of our house, like a front lawn,” said Carabases. According to Rosenblatt, liv-

ing in the Lodge is analogous to living in the close quarters of a family home with siblings. Unani-mously, the lodge-mates call Murphy and Carabases the matriarch and pa-triarch of the Lodge, respectively. “Mom” and “Dad” have divided up the re-sponsibility of over-seeing the Lodge; Murphy keeps order of the downstairs area while Cara-bases presides over the upper level. According to Cara-bases, “Caroline has a boss gene in her,

she was born with it.” Carabases garners family spirit at the Lodge by making himself available for one-on-one chats with his lodge-mates and organizing get-togethers, in an ef-fort to lift lodge-members’ spirits, which in turn makes him happy. “It makes life easier, especially [at Swarthmore], because it can be crushing sometimes,” he said. The other lodgemates are not without family roles, as Momeyer proclaims himself as “definitely the cool uncle.”

Much like a family, the students pursue activities together as a Lodge. During Christ-mas, they decorated their abode with Christ-mas lights and erected a ceiling-high Christ-mas tree downstairs. “We like our holiday decorations,” Sommi said. On a regular ba-sis, the lodgemates, oftentimes accompanied by their friends, enjoy dining out in Media, watching television shows such as “Modern Family” and attending each other’s athletic matches. “It’s really nice to have people who are always going to support you and who got your back,” Sommi said.

Although the lodgemates interact heavily with each other both within and outside the Lodge, they ensure to spend time with others and keep their social life balanced. “I think we’ve been doing a good job of not spending too much time together,” Rosenblatt said. Because the students’ majors range from bi-ology to engineering to economics, overlaps in schedules are minimized. “We don’t get too sick of each other,” Carabases said.

Interacting with a diverse body of hall-mates is an aspect of typical dormitory life that the lodgemates miss. However, Lodge life has given the students the freedom of creating their own social space. “All our friends can congregate here,” Momeyer said. The down-stairs living area has allowed their friend group to solidify as it more aptly accommo-dates social gatherings, such as pre-game events, than a dormitory single or double. Up-perclassman friends frequently drop by from Worth and sophomore friends visit from the very nearby Willets. “We’re definitely the loudest and most social of all the lodges,” Mo-meyer said.

The biggest trials of the Lodge appear to center around the use of the bathroom. By Momeyer’s own admission, “I do take the longest showers.” Three girls sharing the bathroom saw the drains becoming clogged, an issue which is now resolved. “There’s also Corinne’s flatulence issue,” Momeyer said. Overall, the bathroom remains a small bone of contention as the athletes frequently show-er at the fieldhouse after practices. According to Rosenblatt, the male lodgemates are pretty clean, making shared use of the bathroom relatively painless. Momeyer and Carabases, who both have sisters, shared bathrooms with females prior to living in a lodge. “We picked good boys to room with,” Murphy said.

Individual study abroad plans largely fash-ioned their living arrangements for junior year. From next semester, the lodgemates will be living separately, whether abroad, in blocks or lottery-acquired rooms. Although the separation will be bittersweet, the lodge-mates felt individual plans for junior year took precedence. “We’ve loved every minute of [living in the Lodge] and we’ve definitely expressed how sad we’re going to be when its over,” Carabases said.

BY SAMME [email protected]

The term “Java,” one of our many colloquial words for coffee, is probably the only Javanese word to enter the American vernacular, thanks to the high quality coffee grown on the Indonesian island of the same name. On Sunday, Apr. 15, a local Indo-nesian percussion orchestra performed at Swarthmore, and made a strong case for the Javanese word “gamelan,” meaning percussion instrument, to be another grand Indonesian export.

During the Gamelan Semara Santi’s afternoon performance in the Lang Concert Hall last Sunday, the audience was introduced to an other-worldly conception of per-cussion, as the 25-person orchestra produced intricate and hypnotic rhythms on their diverse array of xylophones, suspended gongs, flutes and drums.

The music created a relaxed, meditative atmosphere that deepened with the pre-sentation and symmetry of the orchestra members. The musicians played their vari-ous instruments seated while wearing colorful uniforms in the Balinese tradition.

The music was enthralling to the point that many in the audience were clearly with-holding impulses to move and dance. However, the dancers who were also part of the orchestra would have put these attempts to shame, with their shimmering uniforms bedecked with golden jewelry and their beautifully coordinated fluid movements.

Founded in 1997, the Gamelan Semara Santi is the Philadelphia area’s only Indo-nesian percussion orchestra, perhaps inadvertently designating the ensemble as cul-tural ambassadors for Indonesia in one of America’s largest metropolitan areas. Since 2003, the orchestra has been representing the populous island nation with many prom-inent performances, including two performances in 2003, one at Carnegie Hall in New

York and the other at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia.

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the Gamelan Semara Santi is its close ties to Swarthmore Col-lege. Both the found-er, Thomas Whit-man, and with dance director Ni Luh Kadek Kusuma Dewi serve as professors at the college. Stu-dents can become in-volved if they desire: any Swarthmore student, regardless of training and expe-rience, can join the orchestra.


swarthmorephoenix.com Living & ArtsGamelan orchestra and dancers take to the stage

Allegra Pocinki The PhoenixGamelan Semara Santi performers demonstrate traditional dance and percussion from the various island cultures of Indonesia. Performances featured colorful Balinese clothing.

The question of why the United States has become a vastly more punitive society —

some 2.3 million Americans are held in jails and prisons throughout this country, at

last count — was the subject of this novel politics/public policy course

this past semester inside the State Correctional Institution at Chester.

So…How Did The

Course Turn Out?

The

POLITICS of

PUNISHMENT

Inside-Out Prison Exchange Course

Course Debrief and Student Presentations

Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 2:00-4.00 pm Science Center 199, Cunniff Hall Refreshments to follow


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There are some days when you’re just broke and want to give your-self a quick pick-me-up after spending three days locked in McCabe writing a paper, studying for a test or even procrastinat-ing on Facebook for three hours straight. You feel as if you should get back in touch with the real world, and what better way to escape all the hard work than with new clothing? This, my beloved Swat-ties, is the perfect time to

go to your local Goodwill.Not only will you feel better getting new merchan-

dise, but you can also help others by shopping here!

GoodwillSwarthmorewood Shopping Center725 S. Chester Road(610) 543-4399

Goodwill is part of a non-profit 501(c)(3) organiza-tion which provides the community with vocational training such as employment opportunities. This loca-tion sells almost anything from women’s, men’s and children’s clothing to bedding and furniture as well as random vintage finds like records!

RATING:

The best thing about Goodwill is that you can spend $30 and leave with a huge bag filled with merchandise.

Also, both the women’s and men’s section, in addi-tion to the donations that Goodwill as an organization gathers, are stocked with new clothing with tags still attached from brands like Missoni. Not everything is second-hand.

My favorite thing to shop for in Goodwill are items that are bold, yet trendy. These are usually items that you will not wear as frequently and often do not want to splurge on. That way, it isn’t so difficult buying something you know you’ll wear just a few times, like a lime top or a hot pink skirt.

This is also a great place to shop for clothing for theme parties. It’s not uncommon to see Swatties at Goodwill the day before or the day of well-attended events like the Halloween party or Genderfuck.

Over my past few trips, I have bought lightly used items from DKNY, Express and Calvin Klein from here. It is more rare to find name brand items in thrift stores, which take all donations as opposed to select-ing items based on whether or not they would sell to customers.

The skirts racks is my favorite of the women’s sec-tion because the prints are not like those you can cur-rently find in stores. Additionally, some other great finds include oddly washed and colored jeans, which if you are up for a DIY project, can easily turn into shorts (Look up videos on YouTube for great tutorials like those from ILYJESSICAOMG.)

The handbags and accessories section at Goodwill is good depending on your trip. Sometimes you can find belts and bags in mint condition, but other times you are just not as lucky.

The men’s section has an impressively large selec-tion of basic graphic tees. Some graphic tees you can find here are perfect for cutting up or shredding, if you ever feel like you want to feel like Adam Saacks, the

Ed Hardy t-shirt cutter (You can also check YouTube for help on this. Try salinabear!) I have also spotted great men’s buttondowns from various brands, and even seen a few from Ralph Lauren.

For both men and women, the shoe selection in-cludes medium to frequently used shoes which can be great buys. However, the way the shoes are spread out throughout the store on top of clothing racks makes it incredibly difficult to find your size.

Goodwill is not a place to frequently visit because, simply put, the merchandise does not change all too often. If you pay this store a visit every week, you will recognize some of the same items from your last trip.

Additionally, since this thrift store does accept all donations, the quality of some of the clothing can be poor. Some items in the store feel rough, look worn out or have faded colors. At times, cuts on jeans and pants are outdated. Moreover, some merchandise targets an older age group and has less than desirable prints and designs.

I would also never recommend buying furniture or bedding at Goodwill, or in any thrift or consignment store. Here is the caveat: a little something called bed bugs. I kid you not. On behalf of all of the campus com-munity, please do your best to not bring those horrid critters back home with you.

Anyhow, that’s all for this time! Please pay this place a visit, my lovely shoppers, and remember, go big or go home!

Dying for me to visit a store before you give it a try yourself? Need me to go on a hunt for a store with a particular style of merchandise? Shoot your suggestions via email.

Gabriela is a first-year. You can reach her at [email protected].

Goodwill offers shoppers more than just affordablility

Gabriela Campoverde

Smart Swat Shopping

Rhythm n Motion celebrates ten years, new beginnings

by allison shultes [email protected]

Crowding into LPAC this past Sat-urday, students and guests spilled out of seats and onto the floor in order to watch Rhythm n Motion’s 10th Anni-versary show. With shout-outs, whistles and wild applause erupting throughout the performance, the audience showed its appreciation for the Tri-Co dance troupe by transforming the event into a full-blown celebration, featuring their friends and classmates’ semester- worth of hard work.

“I thought all of the dancers were re-ally amazing,” Rita Zevallos ’15 said af-ter the show. “They had amazing control

over their bodies, and at the same time, had a really powerful energy behind their movements that enabled me, as an audience member, to feel that energy. It was a lot of fun.”

The performance included every-thing from traditional African pieces to breakdancing, with innovation ruling the night. Combining their choreogra-phy with crowd-pleasing musical selec-tions like Tyga’s “Rack City” and Jay-Z & Kayne West’s “N*ggas in Paris,” RnM dancers whipped up excitement in their appreciative audience.

Many of the pieces focused on a cen-tral idea or storyline, which was includ-ed in the program. Exploring scenarios from heroin addiction to heartbreak in

styles ranging from salsa to funk, danc-ers employed movement, costume choic-es and lighting to package their narra-tives.

The end of the performance featured a number choreographed and performed each by the “newbies” to RnM and the graduating seniors. The group will say goodbye to 13 seniors at the end of this year, including Co-Directors Tanya Rosenblut and Thomas Soares, Artistic Director Allison Stuewe and Publicity Manager Monica Ajinkya.

“ It ended up being a really great show — it came together really nicely,” RnM dancer Tim Vaughan ’15 said. “Every-one was ecstatic and really happy that it had gone so well, and more than any-

thing it was so much fun. After so many weeks of rehearsal where the choreogra-phers were panicking because the danc-es didn’t look how they imagined them, and crazy six hour days of rehearsals, it all became very worth it in the end.”

“There were a lot of tears,” Rosen-blut said. “A lot of the seniors have been dancing together for three or four years. Being in RnM is a huge time commit-ment and a huge experience — for me, one of the only big experiences I’ve had at Swarthmore beyond academics. I’m definitely excited to come back in the future and see the shows. I think the group will definitely continue growing … there’s a lot of talent, especially in the freshmen and sophomore classes.”

Holly Smith the PhoenixTri-College dance performance group Rhythm n Motion celebrate their 10th anniversary in the Pearson-Hall Theatre of LPAC Saturday evening. The troupe drew inspiration from a variety of cultural and musical influences to explore the wonder of human movement.


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editor’s picks By Brad Lenox

Essence of Soul Spring Bellsing

Saturday, April 214:00 PMClothier Belltower

Thursday, April 19 Beginning at 7:00 pm

Sci 101

Spike Magazine Stand-Up Comedy Jam!+ Bmt/vertigo-go show

Bryn Mawr Concert Series: Alex Winston and � e DRUMS

Friday, April 209:30 pm

Rhoads Old Dining Hall

Union Transfer

Thursday, April 19

Doors Open 8:00 pm



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LETTEr, OP-Ed aNd cOmmENT POLIcyEmma Waitzman The Phoenix

The “Buffett Rule” and the politics of taxationIsolating the multitude of inequalities that are inherent to our

contemporary social structures is a reasonably effortless task. From health care to environmental policy, our notions of justice and lib-erty for all in a society are counteracted and replaced with institu-tional unfairness time and time again.

But perhaps the most palpable embodiment of social inequity for us today is economic inequality. The division of labor, the lack of employment prospects and the generally disagreeable state of the economy all point to a trend that favors a particular social make-up. That is to say, to be rich, white and male is to have a world of oppor-tunity at hand. It is to be part of the decision-making structures and procedures that herald power — the “one percent.”

It is also to enjoy preferential treatment in what is ostensibly a progressive tax system. Here is where the political prop of the mo-ment comes into play. Investor Warren Buffett, America’s second-richest man with a net worth of $44 billion, has given namesake to the “Buffett Rule.” Under this principle, millionaires (those making at least $2 million a year) should pay a minimum of 30 percent of their incomes in federal taxes. Buffett introduced this idea after he noticed that he pays a lower nominal tax rate (on capital gains) than his secretary does (on income).

But on Monday, the “rule” failed in the Senate with 51 votes in fa-vor and 45 in opposition. With 60 votes required for cloture (a proce-dure for ending debate and taking a vote), the proposal could not pro-ceed. Championed by President Obama as the “most simple, common sense reform,” Senate Republicans largely and predictably pushed back against the Buffett Rule, arguing that it penalizes those wealthy individuals whose worth is tied heavily to investments. This, they contend, would ultimately stunt job creation and, invariably, eco-nomic growth.

Yet proponents, spearheaded by Obama himself in what could be seen as an election-year effort, maintain that the Buffett Rule is steeped in our common conception of economic fairness — the idea that everyone should pay their fair share in taxes, that the nation’s wealthiest individuals shouldn’t pay a smaller share than those who earn smaller incomes.

“At a time when we have significant deficits to close and serious investments to make to strengthen our economy, we simply cannot afford to keep spending money on tax cuts that the wealthiest Ameri-cans don’t need and didn’t ask for,” Obama said in a statement following the un-succesfull Senate vote.

To be sure, the Buffett Rule would only be part of a comprehensive deficit re-duction and debt control strategy, not a sole means for fiscal consolidation. Mean-ing it would help us close the deficit by really only a marginal degree. But tax-es are a sticking point for Republicans, who refuse to raise them at all, and on anyone. The Buffett Rule, then, is not all-inclusive economic relief, as the Obama Administration may rhetoricize it. And while framing the principle in this way resonates with poor and middle-class Americans (seemingly rousing Obama’s key voter base), the Republican criticism that it won’t solely pave the way for a smooth economic trajectory is accurate.

But the Buffet Rule is less about fiscal recuperation than it is about a fair re-public. A higher tax on the staggeringly rich is not truly what Mitt Romney would describe as “taking from the rich and giving to the poor,” but rather a measure of distributive justice for all — wealthy and middle-class.

Courtesy of thegrio.comPresident Obama’s election-year proposal to impose a “Buffett Rule” tax on the rich is gen-erating enormous political wattage along both party lines.



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Shiran ShenThe Swarthmore

Globalist

Since the late 1980’s when China — the king-dom in the middle of the world — began to regain its erstwhile prowess and glory, the world has be-come more and more ob-sessed with the very con-cept of global hegemony.

To please and en-tertain the masses, the world power arbiter de-signed and put forth “the hunger game,” a widely publicized battle where the United States and China must compete to be the last country stand-ing.

Since then, the two countries — though trying to avoid military confrontation — have engaged in spy-ing, cyber attacks and shouting wars to gain more support from other countries while diminishing the leverage of their opponent. China bashing has become an almost indispensable part of the election scheme at all levels in the United States, where China is por-trayed as the bogeyman of nearly all of America’s eco-nomic ailments.

In China, a generation of angry youth, or “fenq-ing”, who embody the most intense form of Chinese nationalism in their reaction to neoconservatism in the US, causes concern about a dangerous future in bilateral relations when these young people assume leadership roles in the decades to come. But is the col-lapse of either side what we really want at the end of the day?

Indeed, the bilateral strategic mistrust is an endur-ing issue and there is no easy solution. In a recent monograph titled “Addressing US-China Strategic Distrust,” co-authors Kenneth Lieberthal, a preemi-nent long-time China scholar and director of the Chi-

na Center at the Brookings Institution, and Wang Jisi, dean of the School of International Studies at Pe-king University, delve into the strategic distrust be-tween the G2 countries. Lieberthal and Wang jointly conclude that the level of bilateral strategic distrust has become so corrosive that the two countries risk being in an open Hunger Game-like scenario in fifteen or so years. Chinese suspicion of US intentions essen-tially comes from China’s deep disappointment with industrialized powers in general, which is the result of China’s “Century of Humiliation” at Western and Japanese imperialist hands. US distrust of China, by contrast, surrounds the uncertainty of China’s future intentions. De-spite the difference in the source of distrust, both countries see deep dan-gers and threatening mo-tivations in the policies of the other side.

Jisi’s writing carries significant weight, given his previous service in, and access to, the Chi-nese Communist Party (CCP), the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chinese military. Put in a quite blunt way, Wang warns that the period of “keep-ing a low profile” will officially be over. Wang praises Chinese strength to weather the 1998 Asian Financial Crisis and the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis, as well as to execute the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the 2010 Shanghai Expo.

Upon the release of this report, comments that China is determined to replace the United States as the world hegemon went viral online. Unfortunately, these authors and bloggers fail to grasp the underly-ing forces of Chinese foreign policy-making and to put the conclusions of the report in perspective. Even if the Chinese leadership does think the same way as Wang, China will not go crazy because China cannot

possibly sustain a high-level economic growth with-out continued cooperation with China’s major trad-ing partners — particularly the United States.

Maintaining a high economic growth rate is neces-sary for safeguarding the CCP political system, which has been and will always remain on the very top of the CCP’s agenda. Wang’s statements should be inter-preted as China’s own affirmation of its achievements since its reintegration into the international commu-nity some forty decades ago; no further interpretation can be made regarding China’s future intentions until sufficient evidence surfaces.

The US-China Hun-ger Game has not begun, nor should it ever begin. The US-China relation-ship can be seen as a marriage; the two coun-tries need each other as an indispensable part of their lives. The econom-ic cooperation between the two parties speaks enough to this. As with normal couples, they nat-

urally suspect whether the other side cheats and how much their relationship can be negatively impacted as a result.

However, reality dictates that divorce is not an op-tion for the US-China marriage. The collapse of either of the two leviathans in some sense spells that of the other; worse still, given the almost irreplaceable roles they play on the international stage, world order and peace cannot be maintained if they divorce.

Keeping the US-China marriage in perspective, it is time that both sides do their best to understand each other better, become more aware of each other’s sensitivities, and resolve any conflicts while they still are in their nascent stage.

Shiran is a senior. You can reach her at [email protected].

Changing the operation of today’s American government

Preventing the United States/China Hunger Game

W h a t if govern-ment oper-ated like a business? We would have more e f f i c i e n t delivery of s e r v i c e s , p r o g r a m s that do not work would be i n s t a n t l y cut and we would know that

all of our tax dollars were put to good use.

I have brought up this idea before, but over the past week I have thought more and more about how this applies to many of the problems our government faces today. My thoughts came to me while reading William Easterly’s “The White Man’s Burden” for my “Development and Modern Africa” class. While East-erly talks about the problems of develop-ment projects around the world, I believe that many of his criticisms are the same I make of the modern Democratic Party.

Easterly critiques the people he calls “Planners” for attempting “Big Plans” that do not actually help people in impoverished countries. He prefers “Searchers” who try to find solutions to problems on a micro-scale over the grand schemes proposed by Sachs and other de-velopmental economists.

The “Planners” of development around the world reside in both the Re-publican and Democratic Party, accord-ing to Easterly. While this is true to an extent, the difference comes on the domestic front. I remember President Obama’s speech to the Democratic Na-tional Convention almost four years ago. The address was loaded with promise af-ter promise after promise. Grand slogans such as “Yes We Can” and “Change” permeated the speech. Obama became, in the eyes of many, a man who could drastically change American society for the better.

Obama and other Democrats have adopted the mantra of “we can solve all your problems” not just to get elected; they actually believe that government can provide solutions to the major prob-lems facing our society.

Until picking up Easterly’s book, I didn’t think I realized the extent of this mindset’s terrible consequences. He de-tails the billions of dollars spent by the United Nations and the World Bank in countries that experienced no greater growth rate than the rest of the world. In America, while trying to eradicate prob-lems with health care, the financial in-dustry, or you name it, the government spends a lot of money and creates regula-tions that can end up making the prob-lem worse. These are similar situations; well-meaning liberals end up not attain-ing their goals because the plan requires a “top-down” implementation.

Voters, though, like this “big idea” approach. Politicians can campaign on eradicating your problems, and get elect-

ed because you go to the polls thinking voting for a certain individual will actu-ally bring this result. This could not be further from the truth.

If government were run like a busi-ness, we would recognize that more mon-ey, a new program, or what have you is not the answer to every problem. Only programs that actually work and govern-ment institutions that get the desired re-sults efficiently would be left alone.

We need to recognize that the nicest solution may not be the best solution. Giving away money to people in finan-cial hardship may be a nice thing to do, but we do not want them to stay in an awful financial situation forever. This is not good for the individual, government, or society as a whole. So, programs have been instituted to help people on welfare to find jobs and get out of their current position.

Easterly describes many examples where in developing countries, making the poor pay for goods and services has done more than foreign aid could ac-complish. Two examples Easterly gives of this approach working really struck me. The first is the Shell Foundation, the charitable organization of Shell, the oil company, which began to solve the is-sue of getting Africans stoves to reduce smoke in their shelters by figuring out the type of stoves individuals wanted, and finding a way for the people to pay for that stove. This is a far more helpful approach than aid agencies took by just trying to give out stoves or force them on Africans, particularly when many of the stoves did not fit the particular needs of

the people who received them. It turned out better to have people pay for the stoves they wanted.

The second example that struck me was a doctor in Bangladesh who trained paramedics to go around to villages to provide basic medical services. While aid agencies provide some funding, the poor still have to pay a small amount for the service they received. The para-medic now has to be accountable because the poor have paid for that paramedic to complete the service. It would be nice for this service to be provided free-of-charge, but then the accountability is no longer a factor.

Easterly would label both of these as examples of “Searchers.” These are the kind of people we need in our own gov-ernment. Individuals do what is good and right, not what seems to be the “nic-est” solution. If government were run like a business, grand schemes would not dominate the discussion. Instead, actual solutions would become the norm.

This may seem to be a simplistic so-lution, but maybe simplicity is what we need. As we move in the direction of the 2012 election, do not allow promises to guide your judgment. Look for “Search-ers” trying to determine what is best for us in the long run.

This is why I am a conservative. We need simple solutions that will work in the long run, not grand solutions that sound good in the short run. Thank you for reading my column for another se-mester.

Tyler is a sophomore. You can reach him at [email protected].

Tyler BeckerThe Swarthmore

Conservative

Despite the difference in the source of distrust, both

countries see deep dangers and threatening motivations in the policies of the other side.


swarthmorephoenix.comOpinionsSwarthmore’s enduring commitment to sustainabilityBY REBECCA CHOPP [email protected],

The following is adapted from a letter sent to students from Mountain Justice:

Dear Members of the Swarthmore Community,

In late March I met with four stu-dents from Mountain Justice who pre-sented to me a statement on divestment, and who subsequently shared a petition signed by members of our community

urging the College to di-vest from the fossil fuel industry. I respect the passion with which mem-bers of our community seek to make a difference

in securing a healthier environment for present and future generations. I believe we all share a deep commitment to find-ing effective ways to combat the myriad ills that threaten the environment, in-deed, the very future of our planet. It is obvious that we agree that sustainabil-ity is among the foremost priorities fac-ing our society—and the world—today. Although we may not agree on every specific response proposed to improve sustainable practices, it is my hope that we can acknowledge our common pur-pose and work together to reach our shared goals.

Swarthmore has a long history of expressing its commitment to sustain-ability and in recent years has actively strengthened this commitment. In 2010, I signed the American College and Uni-versity Presidents’ Climate Commit-ment on behalf of Swarthmore, joining other leaders in higher education in ac-celerating educational and operational efforts to address climate change, in-cluding a pledge to develop a Climate Action Plan by January 2013. The plan is very much a work in progress, and we have established a Climate Action Plan Committee comprising students, fac-ulty, and staff in order to support these efforts.

This year, we also identified three “green” initiatives that further ad-vance our commitment to responsible environmental stewardship and have vigorously pursued funding to sup-port them, so far securing more than $1.6 million. The first of these initia-tives provides additional resources to our academic program, including the creation of a tenure-track position in economics and the environment as well as funds to increase the develop-ment of additional courses offered and disciplines represented in our Environ-mental Studies Program, now explicitly connected to the curricula at both Bryn Mawr and Haverford. The second initia-tive is a deeper financial commitment to preserve the Crum Woods for use by future generations. We steward our woods carefully, constantly mindful of any disruption to the ecosystems of this natural treasure. Modeled after several successful pilot programs, the third ini-tiative is a more stable funding base for the student-established Renewing Fund for Resource Conservation to help us undertake innovative projects and ener-gy-saving retrofits aimed at moving our campus toward a more environmentally sustainable future.

Swarthmore also has a very active and resourceful Sustainability Com-mittee, co-chaired by Professor of En-gineering Carr Everbach and Scott Ar-boretum gardener Nicole Selby ‘02. The committee works tirelessly to advocate for and support concrete actions to re-duce greenhouse gas emissions and im-prove the sustainable operations of the College. For example, in response to a student-led initiative, since 2003 we have purchased renewable energy cred-its to offset emissions from energy use. Currently renewable energy credits ac-count for 97 percent of our electricity. Along with Swarthmore Borough, we are recognized by the EPA as a Green Power Community and listed as a leader in Green Power Partnership sponsored

by the EPA. Since 2005, our greenhouse-gas emissions from heat and electricity have decreased 26 percent, despite in-creases in both our student population and building square footage.

We have also made a commitment to green building—any new construction must build to LEED Silver standard or better. Our campus includes more than 14,000 square feet of green roof, and this summer LPAC will be retrofitted with a green roof. This past year a portion of the 25-acre rolling landscape in front of Parrish Hall has been converted to an organically fertilized lawn. Recycling, management of our storm water runoff, and a commitment, as noted above, to renewable energies such as wind power are other ways in which we manifest our dedication to sustainable practices.

Food service is another area where we strive to provide our community with healthy, environmentally respon-sible food options while reducing waste and energy consumption. Our main food supplier provides us with many local brands, and Dining Services buys directly from a number of local farm-ers and food producers. Staff members from Dining Services and the Grounds Department have worked closely with the student-led Good Food Project to compost consumer waste generated by food preparation. We divert nearly 75 pounds of food waste per day that would otherwise end up in a landfill.

Many of these efforts have been either student initiated or supported, and we seek to both preserve the environment as well as set visible, educative exam-ples of good environmental citizenship. In short, the time and the circumstances are ripe for collaboration rather than di-visive and adversarial uses of our com-bined energies. Together, we have the energy, creativity, and drive to make a difference here and beyond our campus.

Students from Mountain Justice asked me to support their request of the Board of Managers that it divest from

fossil fuel companies, and to do so in ad-vance of the May meeting of its Commit-tee on Social Responsibility, where the students will have the chance to pres-ent their proposal. As I indicated to the students in late March, I do not believe that the Board will act against its es-tablished policy, articulated within the endowment guidelines, stating that the Investment Committee should “manage the endowment to yield the best long-term financial results, rather than to pursue social objectives.” The Board is more likely to encourage Mountain Jus-tice to join us in formulating different, more holistic approaches in pursuit of a cleaner, healthier environment.

The Investment Committee believes that we should be an active sharehold-er in the companies whose shares we own, thereby enabling us to hold them accountable. Indeed, we have some no-table examples in our history where ef-fecting positive social change has come from exerting influence on a company by virtue of our stockholder presence. Such was the case when, for example, Swarthmore was directly responsible for altering the practices of three For-tune 500 companies to broaden their equal opportunity policies to ban dis-crimination on the basis of sexual orien-tation. I believe that the Board’s policy is a responsible one focused as it is on the primary mission of providing an ex-ceptional liberal arts education and gen-erous financial aid policies that support the value we place on access. A strong endowment ensures that we are able to deliver on our mission for both present and future students.

I certainly can imagine Swarthmore College, all of us in collaboration, play-ing a powerful leadership role, address-ing the complex issues of sustainability and I am eager to work with all commu-nity members towards that end.

Sincerely,Rebecca ChoppPresident

OP-ED

BY ERNEST OWENS dailypennsylvanian.com, April 12, 2012

“I’m not crazy,” a close friend of mine told me last fall when I suggested he reach out to Counseling and Psychological Services to cope with some personal hard-ships. At first, I was surprised by his reaction. Then, I realized I had heard this excuse before.

It is not just something I hear from minority students on campus. Among professional and social circles that I am part of, there are negative attitudes among mi-norities when it comes to seeking therapy. Many people view it as a sign of weakness and are embarrassed to even talk about it.

Although I believe therapy can be beneficial, I still battle with the idea of disclosing some of the challenges I face. Perhaps it comes with being a Penn student. In a high-achieving environment where everyone is ex-pected to excel, there is a constant pressure to appear in control of one’s life.

Throughout my two years at Penn, I have seen many friends — including the one who refused to go to CAPS — leave campus partly because of their struggles with mental wellness. It has made me realize that we must reassess what we are doing to help ourselves and those around us.

According to the Office of Minority Health, mental health resources such as CAPS are underutilized by mi-norities. Some attribute this to a cultural stigma. This

theory is supported by a study published by the Ameri-can Psychological Association, which showed that black college students are less likely than their white counter-parts to seek counseling.

Nursing and College junior Spencer Stubbs said ser-vices like CAPS are crucial on a college campus and can be especially important when tackling early symptoms of mental illness.

“A very close friend of mine [went] through mild de-pression during his freshman year,” Stubbs, president of the Male Association of Nurses at University of Penn-sylvania, said. The experience “was something that not only affected [my friend] personally but everyone around him.”

While Stubbs is all for his friends going to CAPS, students who are reluctant to do so may be influenced by negative attitudes from friends. Seemingly harmless jokes and terms like “crazy” can subconsciously send a negative message.

Minority students at Ivy League universities feel the need to live up to their reputation as scholars and intel-lectuals. Their friends and families who use labels such as “losing it” or “crazy” to describe mental illness can have a detrimental effect on students, making them less likely to seek help.

So I urge all of us — in our capacity as friends, peers, mentors and campus leaders — to remove the word “crazy” from our vocabulary whenever we speak about

mental health. This seemingly minor change could have a powerful impact on how we approach mental wellness.

Students of color, like me, need to realize we do not have to deal with the pressures of college life on our own. We need to stop feeling like outsiders in our community and truly take advantage of the resources offered.

Every day, I see depressing posts on my Twitter and Facebook feeds about my friends’ family crises and aca-demic hardships. I often wonder how many people ac-tually recommend that those individuals seek outside intervention.

“I think that it is the responsibility of classmates, friends and family to recognize and encourage in a positive and appropriate manner those struggling with mental health to seek out help,” Nursing sophomore and MAN-UP president-elect Kendall Smith said.

Smith and Stubbs are hosting a event with other minority groups in the ARCH building on Thursday to combat the stigma surrounding therapy.

With Fling this weekend, my friend who left Penn last fall is on my mind. He will not be able to celebrate with us this year. Perhaps a greater nudge to go to CAPS may have made all the difference, but maybe not. One thing, though, is certain — I will no longer hide behind a cultural stereotype and avoid seeking help.

After all, it is only sane to seek counseling in times of hardship. It is crazy not to. Students of color are no exception to this prescription.

ArOuNd HIgHEr EducATION

Not arriving: preserving minority health at universities



Sports

GARNET IN ACTIONTHURSDAY, APR. 19Softball vs. Immaculata, 3:00 and 5:00 p.m.

FRIDAY, APR. 20Track & Field, Widener Invitation, 5:00 p.m.

SATURDAY, APR. 21Baseball vs. Frankllin & Marshall, 12:30 & 3:30 p.m.Men’s lacrosse vs. Haverford, 1:00 p.m.Women’s lacrosse at Haverford, 1:30 p.m.Softball at Haverford, 2:00 & 4:00 p.m.

SATURDAY, APR. 21 Women’s tennis at Johns Hopkins, 3:00 p.m. Men’s tennis at Haverford, TBA MONDAY, APR. 23 Baseball at Rutgers-Camden, 6:00 p.m. TUESDAY, APR. 24 Golf at Messiah Falcon Classic, TBA WEDNESDAY, APR. 25 Men’s lacrosse at Washington College, 8:00 p.m.

Baseball’s seniors leave behind formidable legacy

BY ROY [email protected]

On Apr. 21, the baseball team will hold its Senior Day as it hosts conference foe Franklin & Marshall in a late-season doubleheader. Although the Garnet is likely out of conten-tion for a spot in the conference playoffs, the game still holds monumental importance as the last home contest for a historic senior class. The class of 2012, which contributes 12 players to the current roster, is indisputably one of the most talented and successful in the program’s history.

It didn’t take long for the program to benefit from the additions of the class, and in 2010 the team made its first appearance in the Centennial Conference playoffs in pro-gram history, advancing to the second round after beating Washington College 5-1.

Last year, the Garnet defeated conference powerhouse and then-No. 24 Johns Hopkins for the first time in over a decade, sweeping the Jays thanks in large part to the strength of its current senior class. The win was the pro-gram’s first ever over a nationally ranked opponent and marked the first time in four years that a conference op-ponent had swept Hopkins.

“To beat a team like Hopkins, not only once but twice was so special because when I first came to Swarthmore, kids on the team talked about Hopkins as if they were the Yankees,” Spencer Ross ’12 said. “No one believed that we could beat them.”

As of this writing, the team’s seniors have collected 71 total wins and 28 in conference play. For a point of refer-ence, between 2002 and 2008, the program posted only 41 to-tal wins and finished with double-digit wins once, earning ten victories in 2008. Since then, the team’s lowest win total has been 13 and it appears that this year’s campaign will continue the streak of consecutive 20-win seasons. Not sur-prisingly, the class of 2012 will finish with the most wins of any class in the program’s history.

“We were the class that turned everything around. Swarthmore’s baseball program was essentially nonexis-tent before our class,” Sam Menzin ’12 said. “That is a tes-tament to both our coaching staff as well as our close-knit

group of guys — as we got older you could feel the energy and leadership shift towards our grade.”

“All the seniors are a special group,” coach Stan Exeter added via e-mail. “They have made our baseball program better and have helped shape its progress. Outside of all the records they hold, this class has changed the culture.”

Individually, the class of 2012 has excelled on and off the field, earning nine selections to the Centennial Con-ference Academic Honor Roll, five to the All-Conference team, and even one silver medal in the Canadian Junior National Baseball Championships. Four such standouts in the senior class are Anthony Montalbano ’12, Mike Water-house ’12, Mike Cameron ’12, and Ross, all of whom will finish their careers at or near the top of several offensive categories.

Montalbano, a second baseman from Edison, NJ, has re-ceived two All-Conference honorable mentions (2009, 2011) and a place on the second team in 2010. His 168 career hits are second best all-time and he is only the third player in program history to pass the 150-hit plateau. Montalbano is also second all-time in runs scored (119), tied for second in doubles (38), tied for fourth in triples (9), and fourth in home runs hit (9). His 248 total bases is second all-time and his patience at the plate has allowed him to draw 61 walks in his career, which is sixth best in program history.

As a double major in English literature and psychology, Montalbano has immersed himself in the academic side of Swarthmore to an impressive degree. His life-long inter-est in reading drew him to his major and classes taught by Eric Song of the English literature department have left strong impressions on him.

“I’ve taken three classes with him and they were all extremely fulfilling. He has a real passion for what he is teaching about, which makes his classes much more enjoy-able,” Montalbano said. “I’ll definitely remember going to see ‘Twelfth Night’ last semester for his Shakespeare semi-nar, as well as performing a fusion of two of Shakespeare’s plays.”

Montalbano plans to take a gap year after graduation in order to consider his post-Swarthmore options and may attend graduate school after this sabbatical.

Waterhouse, a catcher from Weston, Conn, has received one All-Conference honorable mention (2011), and was named conference player of the week (3/14/11). He is also the program leader in games played (133), at-bats (484), hits (182), runs (127), doubles (41), walks drawn (79), and total bases (252). With 97 RBIs so far in his career, Waterhouse is on pace to surpass Jimmy Gill ’10, who had 100 from 2007 to 2010, as the program leader.

Due to this incredible individual success, it difficult to believe that Waterhouse was an unattractive prospect for many schools beside Swarthmore, but due to his stature, several colleges did not even bother scouting him.

“As a high school senior, I was only 5’8” and 150 pounds, so it was hard for schools to take a look at me,” Waterhouse explained. “Coach Exeter believed in me and thought I had potential, and encouraged me to come here.”

Off the field, Waterhouse, who is majoring in psychobi-ology and minoring in chemistry, has been named to the Conference’s academic honor roll twice and is particularly interested in behavior biology. He plans to attend medical school after a post-graduation gap year.

Mike Cameron, a first and third baseman from Calaba-sas, CA, has been a go-to power hitter for the Garnet in his career at Swarthmore. He is the career leader in home runs (13) and has the distinction of being the only player in Cen-tennial Conference history to have six RBIs in one inning, which he accomplished against Arcadia on Apr. 26, 2009 after he hit a two-run homer and then a grand slam in the third inning. His three homers in that game are also tied for the Centennial best and his twelve total bases is one be-hind first. For Swarthmore, Cameron is also fourth all-time in doubles (31), and RBIs (86), and fifth in total bases (196).

He is a political science major and peace and conflict studies minor, who has gone abroad twice during his four years, first to Rome and then to Mumbai, India.

“Outside of the athletic sphere, I think my greatest achievement was successfully going abroad twice,” Cam-eron said. “I was able to study in two amazing places, study art history in Rome and take [a] graduate level finance course in India, while still being a varsity athlete.”

After graduation, he plans to attend Oxford University, studying the economic development and international rela-tions of India.

Ross, a third baseman from Chappaqua, NY, received an All-Conference honorable mention during his sophomore season and has been incredibly productive on offense in his career. His 441 career at-bats are second all-time, and he is also fourth in career runs (107) and hits (135), third in total bases (208) second in RBIs (91), and tied for second in doubles (38) and home runs (9).

“I will always remember Spencer as an ultimate com-petitor,” outfielder Tim Kwilos ’13 said. “As I’ve played with Spencer, I have come to know that he’s the type of guy who is always willing to do what he needs to do to help our team get a win.”

Indeed, Ross seems to thrive on intense competition and has the ability to succeed under pressure.

“As a kid playing ball in my backyard, I always imag-ined coming up to the plate with two outs and a runner on second in the 9th inning of a tie game,” he explained. “Those situations, where you have an opportunity to be ‘the man’ have always been my favorite and I think I will miss them the most.”

All 12 members of the senior class will be thoroughly missed by their teammates and will be remembered for their successful efforts in rebuilding the identity of the baseball program into that of a winning team. With sig-nificant contributions from its freshman, sophomore, and junior classes already, it appears that the team is poised to build off the historic success of the class of 2012 and con-tinue to cultivate a winning culture.

The first pitch against F&M is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Justin Toran-Burrell The Phoenix(From left) Montalbano, Waterhouse, Ross and Cameron will be sorely missed.


swarthmorephoenix.comSports

In rebuilding year, fencing finds hope for the future at HartfordDuring the weekend of April 13th, Swarthmore’s fencing team traveled to Hart-

ford Connecticut for their latest tournament, held in the Connecticut Convention Center.

There, the team acquitted themselves nicely despite being shorthanded by the absence of Kevin Buczowski ’13. Without Buczowski, the team’s normal ‘A’ fencer, each member of the team had to move up one slot, forcing the team to raise their game on short notice.

“It’s a rebuilding year,” coach Marshal Davis said. “We had 14 of 18 starters graduate between last year and this one. Overall, though, [the tournament] went well.”

Of the separate squads that make up the team, the women’s section of the foil squad performed the best with a top-16 finish despite consisting only of a senior, a sophomore and a first-year.

The most outstanding individual performance was from epeeist Valentina Gar-

cia ’14. After the teams are split into pools on Saturday, the direct elimination bouts are held on Sunday. Garcia qualified for those individual events and fin-ished the tournament as the third-best women’s epee fencer in the entire event, out of over one hundred female epeeists.

Garcia, Davis noted, is not only just a sophomore, but had never fenced before coming to Swarthmore. Going into next season, she stands out as one of the team’s primary reasons to expect good things.

Another will be what eluded the squad this season: continuity. After the team was decimated by losses last season, only three fencers will graduate from the team between now and the fall. With the talent and experience to compete, the fencing team can look to next season with a reasonable hope to take a big step forward.

BY TIMOTHY BERNSTEIN

sPOrTs IN BrIEF

Softball swept by Dickinson, then by Washingtonby TimoThy bernsTein [email protected]

Fresh off the pleasure of facing the conference’s best pitcher in McDaniel’s Caroline Brehm, the Swarthmore soft-ball team was lucky enough on Saturday to face the second-best. The results were similar, as the Garnet got swept in front of a home crowd by the Dickinson Red Devils (9-21, 5-5 in conference).

The first game of Saturday’s double-header pitted Sarina Lowe ’14 against Dickinson ace Chelsea Homa. Despite a bases-loaded jam in the fourth, Lowe matched the Red Devils star through five scoreless frames until outfielder Erin Owens led off the sixth with a home run that would stand as the game’s only run. Singles by Danielle Seltzer ’13 and Lau-rie Sellars ’15 were the only blemishes against Homa, who struck out 12 and re-tired the final 12 batters she faced in the 1-0 Dickinson win.

“I’m not sure if we just weren’t seeing the ball well out of their pitcher’s hand, but I think what made her tricky was her ability to change location effectively from pitch to pitch,” Seltzer said. “She mixed in a rise ball that was very hard to lay off of and then would come at you once you got behind in the count with a change-up.”

The Garnet fared better against Homa in the second game, but not until pitch-ing and defense had put them in too deep of a hole. Starting for Swarthmore, Me-lissa O’Connor ’14 went the distance but struggled throughout, giving up six runs (three earned) on nine hits while issuing

eight free passes. After O’Connor avoided any damage

from a bases-loaded-one-out situation in the second, the Red Devils put runners on in the third and did not fail to score. With runners on first and second with one out, Dickinson struck first when two runs scored on a throwing error from Sellers, who was trying to make a play at home. A sacrifice fly from first base-man Madison Gerish and a two-out RBI single from catcher Carly Jordan gave Dickinson a four-run cushion and all the support they would need.

In the fifth, with the score still 4-0 in favor Dickinson, the Red Devils staged a two-out rally, loading the bases on a single and two consecutive walks. Out-fielder Stephanie Hammond singled to left to make the score 5-0.

At long last, the Garnet broke through against Homa in the bottom of the sixth after Denise Haines’s home run made it 6-0 Dickinson. Kate Smayda ’13, hitting leadoff on Saturday, helped her quest to hit over .400 for the year with a leadoff single to left. After the pitcher retired the next batter, Selzter reached on a dropped third strike that wound up scor-ing Smayda after Jordan made a throw-ing error. An RBI double from Rose Pit-kin ’13 scored Seltzer, and Pitkin came home to make it 6-3 when Elizabeth Cushing ’12 reached on a throwing error from shortstop Melissa Osborn.

Unfortunately, it was too little too late for the Garnet, who failed to score in the bottom of the seventh as Homa (6-7) com-pleted the sweep for her team. While not quite as overpowering as she had been

in Game 1, the Dickinson right-hander went the distance once more, striking out 10 more hitters while allowing three runs on six hits. A sophomore in the middle of a standout season, Homa cur-rently ranks second in the conference in ERA (2.14) and strikeouts (112) and fifth in opponents’ batting average (.242).

Swarthmore’s next quest for their first conference victory came on the road against Washington College, a team that currently sits in fourth place in the Cen-tennial Conference. In the opener, things appeared to be turning the Garnet’s way as the team took a 2-0 lead into the sev-enth inning off an RBI single from Pitkin and a sacrifice fly from Aaron. Down 2-1 in the bottom of the seventh, however, the Shoremen staged a stunning rally off starter O’Connor with two outs and no one on base. A fielding error by Cush-ing put Christine Anderson on base as the tying run. Following the error, O’Connor allowed a single and a walk to load the bases, bringing it down to the cleanup hitter Kylie Nottingham. The re-sult was a line drive down the right-field line that was misplayed by right fielder Marley Spector ’12, allowing the tying and winning runs to score as the Shore-men pulled out a dramatic 3-2 victory

Following the devastating loss in Game 1, Swarthmore was forced to turn around and play another. This time, the results weren’t as thrilling as Wash-ington took an early lead and put it on

cruise control en route to a 7-3 victory. The shoremen struck first against Lowe in the bottom of the first inning on a pair of unearned runs due to an error by first baseman Jesslyn Lammerts ’14.

Lowe pitched well, going six innings and allowing only four unearned runs, but the Garnet never got any closer than when Aaron’s RBI single cut the deficit to 2-1 in the second inning. The Shore-men scored an unearned run in both the fourth and fifth, and then blew the game open in the bottom of the sixth, scoring three runs on RBI base hits from out-fielder Suzanne Patinella and pitcher Kristin Cooper. Swarthmore scored two runs of its own in their last at-bat, but only made the score look a little more respectable.

“We’ve been trying so hard and it’s frustrating that the results of the games aren’t showing,” O’Connor said. “We’ve had several really close games, but it just hasn’t come out in our favor yet.”

Now on a four-game losing streak af-ter back-to-back sweeps, the Garnet (14-18, 0-12) will take a break from confer-ence play with a doubleheader against Immaculata this Thursday at 3:00 p.m. Coming up this weekend, Haverford vis-its on Saturday for the annual rivalry doubleheader, with the start of those games slated for 2:00 p.m.

“We’re going to keep fighting for the rest of the season,” O’Connor said, “and will not give up.”

Allegra Pocinki The PhoenixChelsea Matzko at first base for the Garnet.

Allegra Pocinki The PhoenixOutfielder Nicole Aaron went 3-for-5 with two RBI against Washington College.



SportsTallying up the winners as soccer season ends

GarNET aTHlETE Of THE wEEk

Jonathan MolloySOPH., laCrOSSE, NYaCk, N.Y.

wHaT HE’S DONE:The team’s leading scorer this season, Molloy added two more goals in Saturday’s loss to Dick-inson.

faVOrITE CarEEr MOMENT:“Beating Muhlenberg in the final minute last year (Swarthmore won 7-6 on March 29th of last year).”

GOal HE DIDN’T aCHIEVE THIS SEaSON:“To make the conference play-offs.”

VIDEO GaME HE USED TO BE OBSESSED wITH:“Tekken 3.”

James IveyOut of Left Field

The end of the sea-son is nigh, and in most of the major leagues it looks like we have some obvious winners: Man-chester United will win in England, Borussia Dortmund will win the Bundesliga, and unless José Mourinho manages to create a scandal in Ma-drid, it appears that Real will win the league. Serie A is a bit more open, but only because there are two teams really close to-

gether in the standings: Juventus and AC Milan. This means that this article is not going to be

about which team is going to win the major European leagues, since at this stage it really is for the current leaders to throw away. Instead, I will be discussing the teams that may be in Europe next year despite not be-ing thought of as top professional clubs.

Newcastle is the surprise of the Barclay’s Premier League, if only because they have managed to main-

tain a challenge for the Champions League until this late stage in the season. I wrote a few articles ago about how Alan Pardew has managed something mi-raculous by pushing Newcastle higher up the stand-ings than they should be and it continues to inspire the belief that Newcastle could, in fact, be playing in the Champions League next season. Newcastle has managed so much through a couple of great signings over the past two years and a team effort that proves the value of team chemistry and hard work. Some of their players — Yohan Cabeye, Demba Ba and Papiss Demba Cisse — have had incredible seasons and have really shown how underrated they were previously.

When West Ham released Demba Ba at the end of last season because they were relegated to the Cham-pionship, I really wanted Fulham to sign Ba because he possesses the physical attributes to dominate de-fenders and because he has the technique to create openings for himself to shoot. Cabaye is a great play-maker that can pass around a ball and keep possession for days but also has the eye to make the key passes that start or end moves.

Another player that really needs recognition is Tim Krul in goal. Krul got his first call-up to the Dutch Na-tional Team this season in recognition for all his hard work at Newcastle and he has really stepped up and should be recognized as one of the top young goalkeep-ers in Europe. He has managed to keep Newcastle from bringing back Fraser Forster, who has been on loan at Celtic for the past two seasons, has Champions League experience and has been ranked as the best goalkeeper in Scotland for the past two years.

But what it comes down to is that Pardew pur-chased some very good players and fit them into a sys-tem that reflects the way they like to play. Newcastle has also done what all teams should do: they win the games against lower opposition and try their best to get something against those above.

Borussia Mönchengladbach is a story similar to that of Newcastle. They used to be a very strong team and won the Bundesliga five times back in the 1970s and have, therefore, won the league the second-most times of any German club after Bayern Munich. Re-cently, however, they have been hanging between the first and second tier of German football like Newcas-tle.

About four years ago, I thought that BM (I’ll stick to this for short) were on the rise with two very talented

young footballers in Marko Marin, now playing for Werder Bremen, and Eugen Polanski, now playing for Mainz. Both of these players left and I feared that BM would be consigned to being too good for the second tier but not good enough for the Bundesliga.

But through some very sensible buys they have managed to get themselves into a very strong position for European football next season. They have Marko Reus, who is one of Germany’s brightest talents, and Mike Hanke who has always been an underrated strik-er. However, because of a policy that has brought in Stranzl to firm up a leaky defence and Juan Arango to bring some South American flair to the team, they have propelled themselves up the league standings from finishing 16th last year. Next year, they will probably go back down to mid-table, but while they are doing well it is worth noting their achievements and what sensible stable growth can do for a team.

Montpellier is the surprising team of the year in France. With all the focus over the summer being on the newly oil-rich Paris Saint-Germain and who they would get to spend their massive transfer budget on, Montpellier has managed to match them step for step over the season. PSG signed Kevin Gameiro, Javier Pastore, Jérémy Ménez and many other talented foot-ballers in order to win the league and possibly com-pete in Europe over the next couple of years.

As we reach the final games of the season, however, Montpellier is two points ahead of PSG and looks like they are a good enough team to finish the job. Montpel-lier has a secret weapon that most teams around the world want: a striker that can step up when necessary in Olivier Giroud. Giroud has come out of nowhere and scored 20 goals so far this season, a feat that every club wants one of their players to achieve every sea-son. Since Montpellier does not have the star-studded squad built on oil money that PSG does, it makes the team’s achievement so much greater.

With all of their money and with a new director of football, Leonardo the Brazillian legend and former AC and Inter Milan manager, PSG was meant to domi-nate the league by this point. Montpellier is the mas-sive over-achiever this season since they are in the title race still, but that should not take away from the other teams I mentioned because they have all done something special.

James is a sophomore. You can reach him at [email protected].

Men’s lacrosse falls to Dickinson Despite several standout individ-

ual performances, the Swarthmore men’s lacrosse team never got go-ing against Dickinson on Saturday, losing 14-5 in a game that was over early.

Three goals in the first six min-utes, including back-to-back scores from Sam Abramson to open the game, put the 10th-ranked Red Dev-ils (10-2, 4-1 in conference) up ear-ly. While the Garnet fought hard throughout, they never got any clos-er than that three goal-deficit.

Jonathan Molloy ’14, the team’s leading scorer, added two more to his season total before halftime, but it only brought the Garnet back to a 5-2 hole that would get a lot bigger in the second half.

In the third quarter, Dickinson scored four of the six goals to extend their lead to 9-4, with Steve Selverian ’13 and Max Hubbard ’12 finding the net for Swarthmore.

After John Bukawyn ’12 opened fourth-quarter scoring with a goal off an Ian Lukaszewicz ’15 assist, Dick-inson crushed any hope of a come-

back by reeling off five straight goals to end the game.

At goalkeeper, Michael Brock-way ’14 went the distance, saving 10 shots out of 24 chances. Brockway’s counterpart, Dickinson’s Greg Han-ley, had seven saves. Bukawyn and Michael Girardi ’13 also contributed assists, with Girardi causing three turnovers of his own.

Multiple scorers on the Red Devils included Abramson, Christian Beit-el, Richard Craft, and Brian Cannon.

On Wednesday night, the Garnet looked to rebound from the Dickin-son loss in their visit to conference rival Washington College. Swarth-more came into the game looking to snap a five-game losing streak. The Shoremen defeated Swarthmore 9-5.

Swarthmore plays their second-to-last game on Saturday afternoon when Haverford visits for the annual rivalry match-up. Swarthmore has not defeated Haverford since the 2004 season.

The start time is slated for 1 p.m.

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Attacker Marie Mutryn scores four goals and two assists in the Garnet’s win over Dickinson.

Allegra Pocinki The Phoenix(Clockwise from left) Marie Mutryn scored four goals against Dickinson; Beth Martin added three goals of her own versus the Red Devils, while Corinne Sommi (16) had two.

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The math is quite simple. A win on Saturday, Apr. 21 at Haverford in the regular season finale, and the Swarthmore women’s lacrosse team will be in the 2012 Centennial Conference playoffs. A loss, and the Fords will knock the Garnet out of the playoff picture in the final game of the season for the second consecutive year.

That is the picture facing the Garnet following the Apr. 14 win against Dickinson, Swarthmore’s first against the Red Devils since 2004, and the Apr. 17 loss at Washington College. The women’s lacrosse team will be the third Garnet squad to face such a match this year against Haverford with both men’s soccer and field hockey missing out on the playoffs in heart-breaking defeats on the Main Line.

The 15-9 victory over Dickinson on Senior Day at Clothier Field was Swarthmore’s first truly domi-nant performance against a Centennial team in the playoff race in a half decade. The Garnet opened up a commanding 8-3 halftime lead and cruised through the second with the lead never dropping below three goals.

In their final home games, Marie Mutryn ’12 and Annelise Mowry ’12 put on an offensive clinic with their best performances of the season. The duo com-bined for seven of the team’s 15 goals, with Mutryn adding two assists. Fellow senior Maddie Williams led the team with four caused turnovers, picked up two ground balls and won two draw controls while Camil-la Seirup ’12 added a single ground ball and a caused turnover.

“We played with poise and we controlled the tempo

and the pace of the game, which was huge,” coach Kar-en Borbee said. “That’s been a goal for us all season, to play possession lacrosse and make good decisions throughout the game and I think that our work all sea-son came together against Dickinson.”

“We also want to continue to learn to play with a lead,” Borbee added. “We don’t have that experience. For the very first time in the last several years against a [playoff-caliber] Conference team, we led from start to finish and that’s a learning process in itself. Half-way through the second half against Dickinson, we were finally comfortable playing with the lead.”

But the Garnet was unable to follow up Saturday’s victory with a repeat win against Washington. In 2011, Swarthmore turned aside the Shorewomen in an instant-classic 13-12 match behind eight Annelise Penikis ’13 goals, the final of which proved the game-winner with just 16 seconds remaining in the game.

Tuesday’s affair was a defensive slugfest with Swarthmore managing just one goal in the first half as Washington took a 6-1 advantage into the locker room. The Garnet cut the deficit to two with just un-der 13 minutes to play but could get no closer. With the chance to get within one with 10 minutes to play, Beth Martin ’13 found the post on a free-position and Swarthmore managed just one shot afterwards as the Shorewomen hung on for the 9-6 win.

Michelle Ammerman ’14 had 10 big saves for the Garnet to keep the game close, but Swarthmore scored on just six of 23 shots, four of 11 on free positions.

“Our energy level wasn’t where it needed to be on Tuesday as a team,” Ammerman said. “We were a lit-tle too relaxed coming off the Dickinson game which was really intense because it was Senior Day, and as a result, our first half against Washington really suf-

fered. Our second half was substantially better but it was too little too late.”

A win on Apr. 17 would not have guaranteed the Garnet a playoff spot, though they would have been even with a loss to Haverford with just a little help around the Conference. Instead, Washington clinched a playoff seed with the win and Swarthmore is left with a must-win rivalry match on Saturday.

The scenario is nearly identical to the final game of 2011 when the Garnet was in with a win and out with a loss against the Fords. That game ended 9-8 in favor of Haverford as the Fords scored five unanswered goals midway through the second half to turn a three goal deficit into a two goal lead before Swarthmore scored the final goal of the game with just over two minutes remaining.

“Last year, going into the final games, we were still playing hectic lacrosse, not in control of the tempo and reacting to the other team,” Borbee said. “Against Haverford, we just gave it everything that we had but I wouldn’t say that we were in control of any game last year. This year, we know that we can do that and so it will come down to whether or not we go out and do it.”

For Penikis, it is a matter of maturity. “We are a dif-ferent team this year. We are a year older and I think that everyone is a little more confident in our own ability. It was a little bit of a surprise last year that we were able to do as well as we did, and this year, we are still expecting to go further than last year,” she said. “It was exciting to be in that position last year. This year, we expect to go to the playoffs.”

The Garnet and Fords meet on Saturday for the 24th time since the formation of the Centennial Con-ference with Swarthmore trailing the series 12-11. The teams face off in Haverford at 1:30 p.m.

the phoenix, april 19, 2012

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