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President & Vice President

The 2014 Executive Board election race to the presidency

is essentially decided. As the candidacy application process closed, only one ticket lay in the Student Commission inbox: Goodall-Brown. The duo, juniors Cameron Goodall and Rian Brown are running for the positions of

President and Vice President, respectively. In their candidacy statements, both Goodall and Brown placed special emphasis on “[cultivating] a sense for all students to be heard and represented.”

The lack of competition in the presidential race this cycle

has drawn the ire of several commissioners. Current StuComm President Darrin Camilleri cited the Commission’s prerequisites for the position as the primary limiting factor.

“If we want more people to run, then we should talk about E-Board requirements,” Camilleri said.

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Johnson has underscored the importance of experience and on-the job skills, highlighting her current position as Deputy Secretary of

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In her candidacy statement, junior commissioner Mele Makalo drew on her current positions in the same vein as the Secretary of Student Affairs. In his statement, sophomore Justin Danzy explained his goal to “[educate] faculty and staff on issues of multiculturalism and diversity.” Emily Sklar highlighted her past accomplishments on the Commission, namely the extension of weight room hours during Winter Quarter. And junior Alex Werder referred to his creation of the Student Affairs Committee during the 2011-2012 school

Both Secretary of Communications candidates highlighted their abilities to use social media effectively. Both Young and Selina

also expressed an interest in making the Commission appear more accessible to everyday students through advertising and media blitzes.

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Students Serving Students

Kalamazoo College Services hires mores student workers,

offering two $500 scholarships

sarah wallacearts & ent. editor

Student Workers are common-place in the cafeteria, in the Rich-ardson Room, and at various cater-ing events. They are the ones topping your panini, serving you at the home dinner line, and refilling the salad bar toppings.

Kalamazoo College Dining Ser-vices has been hiring many new student workers this year, recog-nizing the value in students serving

food to their peers. Now, students will have even more of an incentive to join Creative Dining.

Two $500 scholarships will be rewarded to student dining workers annually. This year’s recipients will be announced within the next two weeks, the deadline for the appli-cation having recently passed. The scholarship is based on work per-formance, how long the student has been with Dining Services, and his or her commitment to coming back to work for the College the next year. Another very important criterion for the scholarship is the student’s reli-ability and attendance record.

“We like to reward students for the work they do. It’s just another thing we can offer to show our ap-preciation along with a free meal each shift,” said James Chantana-sombut, head of Dining Services.

Most Creative Dining accounts have these scholarships annually, though the amount varies depend-ing on account sizes.

With the additional students hired, Chantanasombut anticipates student workers filling a variety of work po-sitions in the upcoming years.

“I wouldn’t mind training students to cook on the pizza station, maybe the theme exhibition line, cooking catering foods… I wouldn’t mind training students on everything,” Chantanasombut said.

Coupled with this, Chantanaso-mbut is seeking student workers to train for student managerial positions.

Working in the cafeteria is not only valuable work experience, but also builds a better community between the dining services and the student body. Students usually work around 12 to 20 hours a week.

It can be difficult for students to balance their academic and work life. Students will often want to work a lot of hours at first and then overload, which is why Dining Ser-vices likes students to try working minimal hours when first starting.

“We want our student worker program to be more robust in the future. That comes with more student meetings and training, but it is a chal-lenge we look forward to,” Chanta-nasombut said.

Positions available on KConnect and are also available in the Dining Service Office.

A Glimpse at Arcus’ Interior

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Originally scheduled for opening on December of 2013, the new Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership building has been facing construction challenges that will delay its com-pletion until August. The complex geometry of the structure and the unforeseeable weather caused the delay, according to Paul Manstrom, Associate Vice President for Facili-ties Management.

However, the downtime will not curb the end result of the anticipat-ed building, which the Index Staff was able to explore with the guid-ance of Manstrom.

From the outside, the concave triangular structure is freckled with cross-sectional cuts of unpainted Northern White Cedar, a plant species native to Michigan. This type of Cedar carries a pleasant odor and is naturally weather and pest resis-tant, so it is expected to age well with the building.

The majority of the building will be naturally lit through the three large, transparent frames that make the corners of the triangular build-ing. Circular windows on the wall will assist in the lightning as well. All the transparent frames will be equipped with automated screens that sense the lightning and tempera-ture inside the building and shade

A sustainable design that aims to attract new

students to the social justice hall

the frame when the building is too hot or sunny, regulating the weather inside. Furthermore, the building’s interior itself is predominately white with a wood-slat ceiling and a pol-ished concrete floor, all bolstering the intended clean, uninterrupted nature of the Arcus Center.

In the center of the building, the floor descends to a fireplace sur-rounded by wooden seating. The seating benches are made from the wood of the trees cut down to make space for the construction site.

There are a dozen 400-feet-deep geo-thermal wells that will heat and cool the Arcus Center through-out the year.

The building is designed well to deal with Michigan’s rugged weather: the roof will collect rain water into a storm water storage underground. Furthermore, the landscape in front of the building will be a xeri-scape one, meaning there will be no irri-gation on site due to the drought-re-sisting nature of the native plants.

All these self-sustainable features are expected to earn the new Arcus Center building a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification when the project is completed.

The unique façade and the im-pressive sustainability of the Arcus Center mirror the donor’s desire to attract attention towards social justice and cultural awareness programs.

The new Arcus Center will be hosting a WITH/OUT — ¿BORDERS? Conference during September as an opening ceremony, to be followed by a formal building dedication soon after.

The Passenger Pigeon’s LessonJoel Greenberg spoke

about what we can learn from the extinction of

Passenger Pigeons

On April 29, Kalamazoo Col-lege’s Environmental Science De-partment presented a lecture by Joel Greenberg, who has been a naturalist for 25 years and has written four books, his most recent one being A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction called “Lessons From the Passenger Pigeon.”

During the lecture, Greenberg discussed the 100 year anniversary of the bird’s extinction. The last passenger pigeon, Martha, died on September 1, 1914 in the Cincinnati

Zoo. He spoke about the extinction’s influence on culture, since it’s one of the earliest examples of environ-mental conservation movements.

“A book on the topic every 50 years is reasonable...people still write about Lincoln,” said Greenberg, who started writing the book in August 2009 and became interested in or-nothology at the age of 12.

Greenberg explained that in 1816, there were over 2-3 billion passenger pigeons and that by 1860, human exploitation wiped out over a billion birds. Passenger pigeons were cheap to buy, making them easy for people to use. The pigeon only laid one egg a year, so it was easy for the bird to die out quickly.

Buttons, an adult male bird, was the last wild bird and was shot on April 3, 1902 in Laurel, Indiana by a 12 year old boy with a slingshot. On June 21st, 1895, the last egg

and nest of wild birds was taken in Minnesota.

Since people notice the bird dying out too late, they decide to take mea-sures to prevent it. These included the Lacey Act of 1900, which prohibited the illegal trade of passenger pigeons, and the Migratory Bird Act, which prevented the killing and selling of passenger pigeons.

In February 2011, Greenberg and a group of naturalist formed the international organization Project Passenger Pigeon. The main purpose of the project is to commemorate the anniversary of the bird’s extinction and raise awareness on current ex-tinction issues.

“No matter how abundant some-thing is, if we aren’t good stewards we could lose it,” said Greenberg, when advising the audience on how to preserve on wildlife species that are nearing extinction.

viola brownindex staff writer

If you’ve been near anyone cough-ing or sneezing, do not fear: they may have a virus, but chances are it’s not the flu.

Influenza, commonly known as the flu, has not been on the rise this year either nationally or on campus. Quite a bit of coughing and sneezing has been going around campus, but according to the Health Center, these are mainly due to allergies.

Jennifer Combes, Office Coor-dinator for the Health Center, said that “the campus had a very mild flu season this year, and we ran out of flu shots. That’s never happened before in my time here.”

Lisa Ailstock, Physcian Assistant Director of Student Health Services, concurred with Combes stating, “We ordered around 400 shots, more than previous years, and ran out. Students

Mild Flu Season Hits K

No influenza cases have been reported at K, but

recent colds and allergies have campus on alert

marquise griffinindex staff writer

were really good about getting vac-cinated.” She added that there was only one confirmed case of the flu on campus this year, and it did not spread to the larger community.

Vaccination has been a somewhat controversial topic in the media with anti-vaccination movement gaining more attention and traction, most of it based on fears that vaccinations make people more vulnerable to illnesses.

Combes commented, “there are a lot of people for and against the flu shot. Being that [Kalamazoo College] is a residential campus we encourage people to get the shot. And it’s free.”

Ailstock noted that the flu is not something to take lightly. She said that around 36,000 people in the United States die annually from the flu and getting vaccinated along with proper hygiene is the best way to ensure one does not catch the flu.

“Properly washing your hands, limiting how often you touch your face, covering your mouth when you cough are all great ways to prevent spreading germs.” Ailstock suggested.

She added that the flu usually starts spreading during the colder months peaking around February. The Health Center is already de-veloping plans for how to vaccinate people more effectively next school year. “We’re thinking of providing vaccinations while people wait in line outside the caf for the annual Thanksgiving dinner. Since they’re usually doing nothing but standing there, we figured it would be a good time to try to give shots.”

K Students and Community Organizers Travel to D.C.

Fourteen students traveled to Washington D.C. with

MI United to call for reform from legistators

katie schmitznews editor

Last weekend, 14 Kalamazoo College students traveled to Wash-ington, D.C. to attend the National People’s Action Conference.

Student Commission funded the trip through Amnesty International, since five members of their members attended. However, the other stu-dents were made up of people from different Student Organizations and others simply interested in the topic.

K students attended with Mich-igan United, a Kalamazoo based organization that works on racial, economic, and social justice issues. The two organizers of the trip, Aman-da Johnson ’17 and Brandon Sied-laczek ’16 have been volunteering with the organization and decided to attend the conference first week of spring quarter.

“We had sessions centered around different structural issues and many stories were told about the people affected by these issues. We were able to collaborate with the other 600 activists in attendance throughout the conference,” said Johnson.

In addition to the sessions, K students and Michigan United had the opportunity to take direct action in many different ways for many

different issues. First, attendees pro-

tested the Koch Broth-ers and General Elec-tric. “[We asked] them to pay their fair share of taxes, because they are some of the biggest tax evaders in the country,” Johnson explained

They then moved on to the White House, where they joined oth-ers in protesting depor-tation. Here, 12 people (non-K students) were arrested for acts of civil disobedience.

“Then, we marched to the Capital calling for a fair wage,” said Johnson. “Congressman Keith Ellison of Minnesota joined us and the 1,500 others in that call.”

In addition to these direct actions, students met with Representative Gary Peter’s Chief-of-Staff as well as Representative Fred Upton. John-son, Siedlaczek, and Emily Walsh ’14 led the meeting with Upton and requested he take action on Immigration Reform.

“He has said a lot about the impor-tance of immigration reform, but he hasn’t done anything,” Johnson said.

Overall, Johnson felt as though the trip to D.C. was a success. “The trip was extremely energizing, re-freshing, and informative,” she said.

There will be an information session on May 14 at 7:00 p.m. in

Hicks 111 titled “Issues in Action,” where the trip will be discussed as well as discussions of further actions to take in regards to various issues at K.

Brandon Siedlaczek pickets outside of the White House during the trip to D.C.

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Spoken Word Poet,Carmen Torrado-Gonzalez

Local Legend: First-Year Carmen Torrando-Gonzalez at the Chicago Cultural Center. Carmen enjoys writing poetry and has no idea what she wants to do after college.

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Wearing a black maxi skirt, a patterned headband, and many rings, Carmen Torrado-­Gonzalez ’17, met with me to discuss her love for writing and much more. From Ithaca, NY, Carmen is

planning to major in English with a focus in creative writing and to concentrate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She described herself as a “ghost member of KPC (Kalam-­azoo Poetry Collective),” but ex-­plained that many of her extracur-­ricular activities are off-­campus. She is currently taking a ser-­

vice-­learning class in which she goes off campus to garden. “I want to go into urban planning

as a side-­job thing,” Carmen said. However, she’s hoping her writing

will eventually lead to her becom-­ing a poet. She has done a couple of readings at cafés around Kalamazoo, and spends time writing and doing homework at the Al Sabo Preserve. He r f avo r i t e au t ho r

i s E r n e s t Hemingway. “I love Hemingway because

I disagree with him on so much, so it’s fun,” Carmen said. She explained that she began

old, and would write “toddler vi-­gnettes.” The young writer began writing stories to her mother about imaginary friends and their ad-­ventures. When she reached ado-­lescence, her writing turned into

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poetry, and when she turned sixteen, she began writing spoken word

-­tive work of poetry that she wrote during her senior year of high school. Carmen said she real-­

ized she was a writer at the Iowa Young Writers Studio. When I asked Carmen what

she liked to write about, she re-­sponded with “I am going through a Satan phase. It happens to me periodically. It’s kind of like one of those unwanted friends that is super clingy (but) you have to hangout with them because you don’t want your limbs chopped off.” Carmen enjoys getting feedback

on her writing from strangers and her mother because she believes they give the most constructive criticism.“You know that moment when

…you’re about to throw up and you’re on the toilet teetering back and forth? That’s my process for writing. I just try to make myself throw up,” Carmen said.

One of her favorite readings to do was at a talent show for Iowa Young Writers. She had just returned from her grandfather’s funeral and read a poem about scattering his ashes.

Carmen enjoys watching movies directed by Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino. Right now, she is listening to Neutral Milk Hotel, James Vincent Mcmorrow, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Iggy Azalea, and Kanye West. When I asked Carmen if she

knows what she wants to do after college, she gave a quick “Hell no.”

This annual competition, with 461 colleges and universities par-­ticipating, has spread to all 50 states in a matter of 13 years. Re-­cyclemania, which lasts eight weeks, looks to measure the sustainabili-­ty of college and university cam-­puses based on recycling, food, and trash waste they can collect, in an effort to reduce waste, and in-­crease recycling across the nation. Collectively, participat-­

ing schools were able to recycle 89.1 million pounds of recycla-­

bles and organic materials while preventing the release of 126,597 metric tons of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere in eight weeks. K has been participating since

2005, and has won various awards throughout the years, but Recycling Coordinator Rob Townsend changed a few things for this year’s competition. This year we saw little to no

promotion for this event, which was done purposefully to see how well K could reduce waste, and recycle in eight weeks without students

changing any of their daily habits. Overall, we saw a positive result

of students doing their part to act and think more sustainably. For the future of Kalamazoo’s recycling program, we can see new plans to make the res-­idence halls and academic buildings more sustainable, as well as focusing on waste reduction across campus. The success of Recyclemania

could not have been done without the daily actions of students, the in-­volvement of students in the program, and coordination of Rob Townsend

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0e recycling program used little to no advertising for this year’s Recyclemania in order to measure regular

recycling habits

After a so-so soy-free week I decided to

go after the much anticipat-ed diet that a f f e c t s plenty of students in their attempt to eat in the cafeteria: dairy free.

Lactose intolerance affects 40 million people in the United States, or roughly 13 percent. When people with lactose in-tolerance eat a slice of cheese pizza or drink a glass of choc-olate milk, they could have anything from a stomach ache to bouts of stomach ailments that could leave them indis-posed for hours.

That’s not half as bad as it is for people who are allergic to dairy, which can cause re-actions that could kill them.

Luckily for me, the cafete-ria was really good about la-beling everything. While all

of the desserts, pizzas, and mac-n-cheese were off the table, I still found plenty of food to keep me going. There was always a meat and bread option for me to munch on, as well as the vegan veggies, so I never felt hungry after leaving.

The Richardson Room was also great, especially with the sushi selection. When I got tired of salads and flatbreads, I was able to eat a California roll for dinner instead, and the pricing was very reason-able. Forking over the money was worth it, I promise you!

The Book Club was sur-prisingly one of the easiest places to get lunch. There was always a sandwich option with no cheese that I could swipe from the cooler along with a drink

and an oatmeal raisin cookie. Soymilk was always avail-

able for any of the coffee drinks as well for no addi-tional price, and the baristas admit that the soy chai latte is one of their favorites (and one of mine now too!)

However, there is still a serious lack of labeling on the baked goods. I tried to avoid them, but those oatmeal raisin cookies looked so inviting. I really hope I didn’t break any

rules there.O v e r a l l ,

I was really pleased with the variety of food in all of Kalamazoo College Din-ing’s locations, as well as the labeling for the most part. Al-though some

dairy-free desserts (Jell-O, rice crispy treats, etc.) would have been the dairy-free icing on the cake for this week.

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My point in recounting my school expe-riences is that the educational system failed us. Regardless of our race, my classmates and I needed instruction on the history of race and racism in the United States and how years of racial discrimination had cre-ated structures and systems that were act-ing upon and through us. But our teachers and parents seemed not to understand these things either. Incredibly, more than 40 years later, we still do not address these issues in K-12 curricula. And although many colleges offer courses on race and racism, they are usually electives and easily avoided.

I grew more personally and intellectually by attending diverse schools than I would have in a predominantly white environment. But it could have been so much better. My K-12 years were fraught with tension and confusion, and when I graduated from high school there was still so much that I didn’t understand. Uncomfortable situations have the potential to transform us, but learning can be lost and wrong ideas reinforced if the discomfort is not accompanied by relevant information and opportunities to process difficult experiences.

It feels to me like a version of what I ex-perienced in grade school is playing out on our campus. We have been successful in recruiting a diverse student body, essentially integrating what had been a mostly white institution. There is now a fair amount of

racial tension on campus, which is not nec-essarily a bad thing if students can learn and grow through that tension. However, it’s not clear to me that students are growing. It is clear that students are struggling, and I think faculty and staff could do more to provide support and guidance.

The move to develop an Ethnic Studies program is positive and necessary, but it’s not enough. To fundamentally change dy-namics on campus and make Kalamazoo College truly inclusive, we, especially those of us who are white, need to educate our-selves. We need to read articles and books and watch movies and documentaries. We must learn to examine our assumptions and become more aware of how unconscious bi-ases we may harbor affect our thinking.

When I say “educate ourselves,” I do not mean asking friends and acquaintances of color to explain things. These questions can be offensive and invasive and often focus on superficial differences and stereotypes. The good news is that we know how to educate ourselves. We’re a community of scholars. If there’s one thing we excel at it’s researching a subject we need to learn more about.

There is great potential in our diversi-ty. To make the most of it we need to step out of our comfort zones, learn more about ourselves and the society we live in, and get to know each other better, ideally beginning with what we have in common. Most people of color are in the thick of this work, wheth-er they want to be or not. Most of us who are white think we have a choice. In fact, we really don’t.

White People’s WorkLETTER TO THE EDITOR

ANNE DUEWEKE

During Crystal Ball week the last two years, we’ve been

visited by protestors from Open Air Outreach, a con-servative Christian ministry from Texas. I am hopeful that they won’t come this year, but am prepared that they might. Jesse Morrell, the leader of the group, has made a career of flying between college cam-puses condemning culture that he believes to be per-missive and full of sin. He understands himself to be in line with the biblical tradi-tion of public inflammatory prophetic preaching that you might read about in Hosea or Joel. Open Air Outreach uses signs and extreme, belligerent language to get people upset.

Anne Dueweke ‘84 is the Director of Faculty Grants and Institutional Research

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

LIZCANDIDO

How to “Stay Golden”

Liz Candido is the Kalamazoo College Chaplain

I never imagined volun-tarily stepping away from a game that meant so much to me, but it got to a point where I no longer enjoyed any-thing football related. Practic-es, film, workouts, and even games were not enjoyable. Each week, I’d play as hard as I could, but I never felt any sense of accomplishment, and I wasn’t having fun, which is the most basic reason why we play the sports we love.

The football team was never a comfortable environment for me. It’s not a welcoming space for people who look like me or people who are from urban areas like me. I never experienced the “family” at-mosphere that was promised, and my experience is not un-common.

Too often, minority players do not make it through the program and do not feel in-cluded in the supposed “family.” And too often, the blame is placed on us. Many of us, who are recruited to K solely for our athletic abilities, have been viewed as cancers to the team for simply reacting to

an environment that does not welcome us or have the nec-essary resources to aid in our transition to this institution.

Individuals shouldn’t be vilified for removing them-selves from a space that does not benefit them. There is already a lack of safe spaces on this campus for oppressed groups of students, and this lack should not extend to a sports team.

In my life, teams have always been welcoming en-vironments that served as an escape from the stresses of life. My experience as an athlete at K has been the opposite. Instead of alleviating stress, football created it. It has not been a positive experience for me, and I will no longer com-promise my happiness and health to play for a team that does very little to even under-stand my perspective.

However, good will come out of this. I’m working to help address the issues of inclusiv-ity that are present within the football program. I will con-tinue fighting to address these same issues in the institution

as a whole, as evidenced by my advocating for a Multi-cultural Center and confront-ing student organizations that are not culturally sensitive or inclusive.

The greatest joy of playing football for me was helping people and making them happy. I loved seeing the ex-citement generated when I scored touchdowns. I loved going into communities like my own and using my plat-form as an athlete to inspire and assist people.

Helping people has always been my passion, and that’s why I’m running for Secre-tary of Student Affairs in the Student Commission Execu-tive Board elections on Thurs-day. If elected, I will bring the same passion and motivation to helping each of my con-stituents as I did on the field when trying to defeat an op-ponent. It is my mission to do all I can to improve the K experience for everyone, as I don’t want anyone to have to feel the way I have felt during my time at K.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

JUSTINDANZY

Why I’m no longer on the football team

Justin Danzy is a K sophomore

Their main target seems to be LGBT acceptance, but also, they don’t seem to care for men and women of “other” colors or cultures. As is obvious, these protestors are well outside the mainstream of Christian thought or practice and don’t represent the theo-logical stance or opinions of our campus Christian groups.

If they show up again this year, let me give you some advice. Don’t engage them. On their website (www.ope-nairoutreach.com), they are transparent about their methods and goals. They explicitly want to get you mad. They know that if you are angry, you are engaged with their message. In other words, your fury is a “win”

for them. Any energy di-rected toward them, whether in counter-protest, yelling back, even peaceful demon-strations is a win for their hateful message because you have engaged on their terms. The protestor is not here to reason with you, and despite what Mr. Morrell says, I don’t think he is here to change your minds or convert you to his way of thinking. His sole purpose is to amplify his own voice and his vision of righteousness. Your stron-gest and most powerful re-sponse would be to ignore him. Walk right by him, don’t detour from your routes and routines, and let them know that their vulgarity doesn’t have any impact on the life

of Kalamazoo College. This is hard but it is also essential.

We are in an academic com-munity. We know that the best way to kill off a bad idea is to marginalize it, not by enforced silence, but by simply ignor-ing it. We operate in a com-munity and communities have norms. One norm, which is distinctive to academic com-munities, is not to use force or coercion to kick someone or some idea out. Instead, we set up a standard, a cultural norm to which we agree as a

community to assent. In this case, I feel confident in saying that our norm is acceptance and affirmation of everyone in our community, whatever label is placed upon them or used by them. So, don’t be manipulated by this group. Don’t allow your anger to be used to amplify their message. Instead, let the protestors talk to a community that has bigger and better things to do than listen to bad ideas.

One bigger and better thing you might consider doing is

coming to the Office of Reli-gious and Spiritual Life when the protestors appear. I’ve gathered some ice cream and cones to give us a good dis-traction. I’ve reached out to the Kalamazoo Gay Lesbian Resource Center and the Faith Alliance of LGBTQ affirming clergy to come and hang out with us. It isn’t a counter-pro-test, it’s just something more interesting to do on a spring quarter afternoon.

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OFF!CAMPUSEVENTSNachito Herrera Trio12:00 p.mCivic Auditorium ($12)

Wednesday, 5/7

Old Wicked Songs8:00 p.mFirst Baptist Church

Thursday, 5/8

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VISITING AUTHOR

Annie Get Your Gun7:30 p.mKalamazoo Civic Theatre

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Devastating work of art: Ismet Prcic reads fragments from his novel SHARDS, an “am-bitious and deep” piece of literature described as such by the New York Times

BREW BEAT

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Crystal Ball9:00 p.mStetson Chapel

Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner2:00 p.mStetson Chapel

Friday, 5/9Adam Makowicz12:00 p.mCivic Auditorium ($12)

“If not for supporting local music and to eat cheesy pizza, the

reason to visit Papa Pete’s is to taste a di,erent slice of Kalamazoo.”

On April 29, Kalamazoo College welcomed author Ismet Prcic for

his novel SHARDS, which is about a man’s escape from Tuzla during the Bosnian War and relo-­cation to California in the 1990s. Dr. Andy Mozina of the English

department introduced Prcic and described the novel as a “devas-­tating work of art” that “possess-­es such resilience.” He also quoted the New York Times, which called SHARDS “ambitious and deep.”

After the introduction, Prcic took the microphone and explained that the “fragmental novel” changes nar-­rative point of view throughout the story. The fragments include some narrative, diary entries, and “crazy things from the end of the book,” which Prcic presented at the event. The first fragment he read

was about a suicide attempt, and was in third person. The second fragment, a piece in

the speaker had with his grandmother. After explaining that he was

skipping ahead in the book, Prcic read a funny fragment about the character’s experience with pre-­tending to have appendicitis in order

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Past its adobe walls, the local pizzeria and live venue Papa Pete’s welcomes patrons with a disgrun-­tled doorman, two pool tables sur-­rounded by college students, and a pale violet backdrop with a silhouette of a 1930s mobster holding two tommy guns—poss ib ly Papa Pete himself.Playing upon

the Italian mobster trope, the venue

ambience by selling hand-­tossed pizza and by entertain-­ing newcomers with the common dive-­bar aesthetic: bathrooms with broken doors, brusque bartend-­ers, and a three-­piece rock band taking frequent cigarette breaks.Speaking of cigarettes, even

with Michigan’s smoking ban it’s

smoke hovering against the venue’s dim incandescent lamps and its noisy neon lights. If not for supporting local music and to eat cheesy pizza, the reason to visit Papa Pete’s is to taste a different slice of Kalamazoo.Each venue in Kalamazoo caters

to a different audience. Old Dog

A Slice of Kalamazoo: Papa Pete’s Pizza

Old Wicked Songs8:00 p.mFirst Baptist Church

Annie Get Your Gun7:30 p.mKalamazoo Civic Theatre

Saturday, 5/10Dust O! Car Show9:00 a.mGilmore Car Museum

Blair McMillen2:00 p.mWellspring Theatre ($12)

Old Wicked Songs8:00 p.mFirst Baptist Church

Annie Get Your Gun7:30 p.mKalamazoo Civic Theatre

Sunday, 5/11Old Wicked Songs2:00 p.mFirst Baptist Church

Annie Get Your Gun7:30 p.mKalamazoo Civic Theatre

Tavern tends to wail the blues to older folks dressed in denim, Ru-­pert’s Pub hosts a wealth of local bands to students, while Papa Pete’s attracts a coarser crowd than either.Offering almost only domes-­

tic beers, choices are often split between a Coors, a Budlight, or a Corona. That said, they offer Bell’s Two Hearted Ale and Oberon on tap.

As to be expected at a bar, beer prices are a bit steep, but they do compliment the main menu: pizza.

While their hand-­tossed pizzas are delicious, they are slathered in grease. Nevertheless, they are affordable, espe-­

cially when splitting an order between friends—which would rack up a few bucks per person for an equal share.The venue sits at the end of

the Kalamazoo Mall, connected to its sister restaurant, The Blue Dolphin. While typically hosting jam bands, every Monday night they hold a DJ night, and a popular salsa event most Thursday evenings.

time may not be the most welcom-­ing experience, but it will be an in-­teresting one. While the staff is often brash, the place reeks not only of grease, but also of stories to be heard.

Italian Mobster Trope: A silhouette of Papa Pete himself holding two tommy guns

“This is a crazy story,” the author said before reading the third frag-­ment. “There are crazier stories coming, but this is a crazy story.” The fourth fragment read was a

diary entry from the point of view of the main character, who at this point in the novel had escaped to the United States and had been lying to his mother, who was still in Bosnia, about his life in the new place. Before reading the next section,

Prcic told his audience about a teacher who encouraged him to “write some stuff on a freakin’ page everyday,” because then he would eventually become a writer. He said that in the class they were asked to “blow up” a moment and write about it. Prcic explained that he has PTSD and wanted to write about the moment right before he has a panic attack.

-­enced by the writing he did in that class, and consisted of one long sentence and one short sentence.

read was about nothingness and reality. The reading was followed by

a question and answer session, in which Prcic was asked to speak about the style of his novel, how

-­enced his own, whether he likes to write by hand or type, and his expe-­rience with helping to write a movie that was picked up by Sundance.

Corrections

In last week’s issue, Camden Krusec’s name was misspelled in the by-­line for his article about Arcadia West. He is also a Index Staff Writer, not a Naked Contributor. The caption for Mark Ghafari’s picture was also incorrect. The Index apologized to Mr. Krusec and Mr.

Ghafari for these errors.

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Due to the super shitty weather this year, buses to South Haven are taking a detour. Instead of heading to the beach, students are coordinating service proj-­ects on and off campus, or will probably just stay home and do their homework.

Students Opt-­Out of Going to the Beach for this Year’s DoGL

With this year’s Day of Gracious Living liable to be announced any day now, students are trying to decide how to spend their day off. DoGL celebrates its 40th anniversary this year and is always remembered by K students as an experience unique to K since its induction. One year, a terrible storm

ripped through Kalamazoo and students used DoGL to

help clean up the damage. Since that time, DoGL has progressed into an annual K holiday usually spent at the beach in South Haven.

DoGL Eve, the night before DoGL, is usually spent in bouts of euphoria, but this year it will be spent in the library. “It’s saving the Commis-­

sion money,” said President of StuComm Darrin Camilleri, “We don’t have to worry

about the water containers and we’ll have more money in the StuComm budget for higher quality sweaters.”

Some people might still go to the beach, because tradition. “There’s nothing more

beautiful than a beach on a 50 degree day,” said Mike Hunt ’15. “When I studied abroad on the coast in Germany, we went to the beach all the time.”The natural science stu-­

dents won’t have to fear missing a day of class, lab, or a test this year, because the professors are hosting chemistry and biology mar-­athons from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. in Dow. “The students need a day off to catch up any way,” Dr. T Smith said.The Theater Depart-­

ment, despite always urging StuComm to avoid choos-­ing DoGL during tech-­week

welcomes a day off now that few plan to go to the beach. “We usually have to stay on campus anyway for DoGL if it falls during tech, but this year we’ll have three double dress rehearsals in one day, WOO!” said Dr. Ed Menta.Whatever your DoGL

plans may be, you’re prob-­ably better off doing some-­thing productive like catch-­ing up on Game of Thrones.

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The Kalamazoo College Women’s Tennis team fell in the Michigan Intercollegiate Ath-letic Association tournament finals on Friday to Hope College 5-2, knocking the team out of postseason play. The Hornets drop a chance to participate in the NCAA tournament even after winning the regular season conference title outright with the loss to the Dutchmen.

Hope swept Kalamazoo in doubles play, winning all three of the flights headlined by the Hornet’s number one team of Sarah Woods and Jenna Riehl falling to Nancy

Benda and Carli Capestany by a score of 8-2. The Dutchmen then only needed to take two singles flights to win the match, which they took in number two and number four singles with Claire Cooper defeating Riehl 6-2, 6-3 and Capestany defeating senior Kelsey Moran 7-5, 6-3. Sophomore Sarah Woods contin-ued her phenomenal season with a victory at first singles 6-2, 7-5 and freshman standout Sabrina Dass finished her season undefeated in the MIAA, beating Hope’s Paige Courts 6-3, 6-1. Sophomore Ania Latala and junior Olivia Bouchard did not finish their matches.

The Hornets and Dutchmen were both ranked regionally, coming in at ninth and tenth

respectively. Kalamazoo pulled off a tight 5-4 win at Hope during the regular season, but was unable to capitalize on the rematch against their rivals from Holland. Hope now advances to regional play of the NCAA tour-nament with the automatic bid received from winning the conference tournament. It was a two team race for the whole season, with Kalamazoo finishing the regular season with an 8-0 record and Hope finishing 7-1, with their only loss being to the Hornets. Kalama-zoo dispatched St. Mary’s College in the first round of the MIAA tournament by a score of 5-1 and Hope followed suit with a dominant 5-1 victory over Albion College.

A number of Hornets were recognized by the MIAA for their outstanding play this season. Sarah Woods was honored with the MIAA Most Valuable Player award for the second time in her two years. She finished the year with a 19-4 record overall while playing both first singles and doubles. Senior Jenna Riehl received All-MIAA First Team recogni-tion, improving from last year’s Second Team award. Her fellow senior Kelsey Moran also brought home hardware with a place on the All-MIAA Second Team. Freshman Sabrina Dass also garnished acknowledgement during the season with two Player of the Week awards in weeks three and nine.

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Executive Board Election.

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BaseBall

Tennis (M)

Tennis (W)5/1 St. Mary’s: W, 5-15/1 Hope: L, 5-2

5/1 Albion: W, 5-05/2 Hope: W, 5-0

5/1 Rochester: L, 2-15/1 Rochester: L, 11-105/2 @Trine: W, 5-35/2 @ Trine: W, 8-35/4 Trine: W, 13-25/4 Trine: L, 5-4

MEN’S TENNIS:5/9 Grove City (Pittsburgh, Pa.)BASEBALL:5/7 @Adrian: 7:00 PM

daniel herricksports editor

spencer macdonaldindex staff writer

With a pair of 5-0 sweeps against Albion in the semis and Hope in the MIAA tour-nament final, the Men’s Tennis team claimed the MIAA’s au-tomatic berth to the NCAA tournament. The Hornets will be one of 44 teams compet-ing in the one-loss elimina-tion tournament. They will open up play in the first round against Grove City College.

The Hornets finished regular season play with a 12-8 record, including a perfect 6-0 mark in conference play. Follow-ing the Hornets MIAA tour-nament victory, four Hornets were selected as all-MIAA se-lections. Senior Peter Roth-stein, junior David DeSim-one and freshman Brandon Metzler were selected to the all-MIAA first team, while senior Mike Korn was se-lected to the second team. Metzler added to his cabinet by being selected the MIAA’s Most Valuable Player.

Kalamazoo is famous for their ongoing 76-year con-

ference championship streak, but their first round opponent Grove City is working on a streak of their own. The Wol-verines won their 24th consec-utive Presidents' Athletic Con-ference championship with a perfect 7-0 run in conference play. The match with Kalam-azoo will mark their fourth straight trip to the NCAA

Men’s Tennis Heads to Regionals

tournament.History, however, still

stands on the Hornets’ side as Kalamazoo will be making their 39th straight appearance in the NCAA tournament. K has appeared in every tourna-ment since the inaugural year in 1976; the only school to ac-complish such a feat.

“It feels good, it makes the

streak two-fold,” said senior Skippy Faber. “Our first goal is always to win the confer-ence and then we’re focused on making it to regionals.”

Past victories, however, do not equate to present wins. The Hornets match up with Grove City at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, Pa. this Friday. If they are able to defeat the

Wolverines, K will meet Case Western Reserve in the second round. Case is the second ranked team in the central region. Kalamazoo is ranked 11th.

On the other side of the bracket, and potentially standing in the way of the Hornets reaching quarterfi-nal play in Claremont, Ca.,

are Messiah, Otterbein and Carnegie Mellon.

“Getting there; however, is not the end goal. The ulti-mate goal of the program is not only to make regionals, but to do something noteworthy there. We’re looking to beat some of the top teams that we need to in order to move on to the final eight,” said Faber.

Another Victory: After winning the MIAA Championship, the Men’s Tennis Team heads to their regional tournament in Pittsburgh, PA.

Women’s Tennis Falls in MIAA Final

Men’s Baseball Claims Spot in MIAA Tournament

daniel herricksports editor

A 13-2 victory in the first game of Sunday’s doubleheader against Trine guaranteed the baseball team the four seed in the MIAA tourna-ment. The Hornets will be making their first ever appearance in the postseason tournament. Kalam-azoo will play Adrian, at Adrian, on Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. in the first round.

Joining the Hornets and Bull-dogs in the playoff are Hope and Calvin. The Knights will host the Dutchmen on Wednesday after-

noon at 4:00 p.m.The four teams will compete in

a two-loss elimination tournament over Wednesday, Thursday and Friday with the winner claiming the conference’s automatic berth in the NCAA tournament. Adrian will host every game besides the Hope-Calvin first-round matchup.

K took three of four games from Adrian this year, including a loss in extra innings following a blown save in the bottom of the seventh inning.