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PHOENIX Inside:Mock trial team gaining traction, securing winsReview: ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’

Swim teams lead powerhouse victories

Ville SwipesA new student initiative is

pushing to integrate the college’smeal card payment system with businesses in the borough, p. 4

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NewsLakey named PeaceEducator of 2010The Peace and Justice Association namedVisiting Professor of Peace and ConflictStudies George Lakey Peace Educator of theYear. PAGE 3

Long after survey, diningstill limitedMany logistical and financial roadblocks areslowing down StuCo’s initiatives to extendthe use of meal plans in restaurants andstores in the ville. PAGE 4

Mock trial sees surge innumbers and tournamentwinsLaunched just three years ago, the mocktrial team has already been widely success-ful in competitions and has created consid-erable interest this year. PAGE 5

Alums from literary maga-zine to hold eventThree alums from Philadelphia’s APIARYliterary magazine will be at Swarthmore onDecember 11 to talk about how they put theirhumanities majors to use. PAGE 6

Living & ArtsSleep deprivation may causeflinging of thingsAriel notices an increased tendency of stu-dents to fling their coffee at things, and pro-poses both reasons and potential solutionsfor this phenomenon. PAGE 8

In the final month, missing(and not missing) ParisMaki tries to find the balance between thepros and cons of living in Paris in the lastmonth of her study abroad. PAGE 8

Senior Co. to perform mythic‘Metamorphoses’Senior Company prepares to present

“Metamorphoses,” a series of vignettesbased on Greek mythology written by MaryZimmerman. PAGE 9

Guest lecturer highlightsTibetan mgur poetry Today, Professor Roger Jackson fromCarleton College will examine the Tibetanliterary genre of mgur, a form of poetry.Mgur have been composed for thousandsof years. PAGE 10

Coldwave bands combinesynth, instrumentsThis Friday’s Olde Club show will featureseveral bands, all of whom fall into theColdwave genre of music. Though the genreoriginated in France and England, the bandsfeatured are demonstrative of how the genrehas spread. PAGE 10

‘Harry Potter’ filled withsomber enchantmentsIsaac Han reviews the latest installment ofthe “Harry Potter” series, and finds itsomber, mysterious and enthralling. PAGE 11

Think globally, shop locally:Black Friday in PhillyJen offers post-Black Friday shopping sug-gestions for this holiday season. PAGE 12

OpinionsNeutrality agreement for innproject needs college’s sup-portEven though the inn project is still inplanning stages, The Phoenix supports acard check neutrality agreement forworkers there because it will foster civili-ty and ensure workers’ ability to union-ize. PAGE 14

Polarized politics leave U.S.voters few optionsIn an ever-divided U.S. political system,Republican values have begun takingover the left, Peter argues. He comparesthe wishy-washy parties in the U.S. to themore hard-line parties in theNetherlands. PAGE 15

SportsManny Pacquiao just couldbe the savior of boxingThroughout his career, Manny Pacquiaohas done the unthinkable in the boxingring, wowing crowds and impressing theworld time and time again. Is Pacquiaothe man who will finally bring boxingback into the spotlight? PAGE 16

Senior spotlight: SarahLambert — the art of pas-sionBalancing composure, passion, teamworkand school spirit, Sarah Lambert, overthe last four years, has emerged as theface of Swarthmore athletics. Lambertwas the lone senior on the 2010 volleyballteam and led the squad to its bestCentennial finish ever. PAGE 17

Garnet men look torebound after three consec-utive lossesAfter starting the season 3-0, one of thebest starts in program history, theSwarthmore men’s basketball team hasdropped three consecutive games. PAGE 18

First-years rule the poolWhile the Swarthmore men’s swimmingteam has established itself as aCentennial Conference power in 2010, theyoung women’s swimming team has beenled by a quartet of first-years. PAGE 19

Hockey for ThanksgivingHannah looks at her extended NHL fami-ly lines and their entangled story linesthrough the first two months of the sea-son. Looking for something to do overDecember break? These guys are sure tokeep things interesting. PAGE 19

Senior spotlight: The matu-ration of Morgan LangleyIn the past two years, Morgan Langleyhas developed from a tentative forwardwho predominantly relied on skill intothe Centennial Conference player of theyear as a senior. PAGE 20

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TodayLecture: “Amazement Rooted inAzure Sky: Understanding TibetanSpiritual Poetry”Roger Jackson, religion profes-

sor at Carleton College, will lec-ture in the Scheuer Room at 4:30p.m. about Tibetan spiritual songs,a literary genre called mgur (pro-nounced “goor”).

Lecture: John Gastil ’89Come listen to communication

professor John Gastil ‘89 of theUniversity of Washington presentthe results of his new book, TheJury of Democracy, in Trotter 301at 4:15 p.m. in a lecture titled, “OfTocqueville, Justice Kennedy, andLarge Sample Sizes: Research onthe Civic Educational Impact ofJury Service.”

TomorrowSpike Stand-Up Comedy JamSpike is at it again with its sec-

ond-ever stand-up comedy show.Come to Sci 101 at 8 p.m. to see theacts.

Senior Company presents MaryZimmerman's MetamorphosesIt’s opening day of the Senior

Company’s production ofMetamorphoses, a series of tenfantastical Greek vignettes cen-tered on transforming themes oflove and loss. Join them in theFrear Ensemble Theatre at 4:30and 9 p.m. today. Additional per-formances will take placeSaturday at 3 and 8 p.m.

Fall 2010 Student Dance ConcertJoin the Dance Program of the

Dept. of Music and Dance in its bi-annual student dance concert inthe LPAC theatre at 8 p.m. todayand Saturday. A wide variety ofdance and music styles will be fea-tured, including ballet, tap, taiko,West African and Brazilian pieces.

Saturday, December 4thHoliday Greens SaleBrowse through gorgeous

greens, holiday accents and long-lasting wreaths designed by thevolunteers and staff of the ScottArboretum at the Holiday GreensSale in the Wister Center at 10 a.m.

Corey Silberstein Piano RecitalListen to Corey Silberstein on

the piano in the Lang Concert Hallat 6:30 p.m as he performs worksfrom Mozart, Debussy, Chopin andBerg.

Sunday, December 5thGamelan Semara SantiEnjoy a show by the Gamelan

Semara Santi, the Philadelphiaarea's only Indonesian percussionorchestra devoted to performanceof traditional compositions fromBali, Indonesia at 3 p.m. in theLang Concert Hall.

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events menu Lakey named Peace Educator of 2010

BY NAVIN [email protected]

On Oct. 2, former Eugene M. LangVisiting Professor for Issues in SocialChange and current Lang fellow GeorgeLakey was named the Peace Educator ofthe Year by the Peace and JusticeStudies Association (PJSA) during itsconference in Winnipeg, Canada. According to their website, the PJSA

is a non-profit organization founded in2001 as a combination of the Consortiumon Peace Research, Education andDevelopment (COPRED) and the PeaceStudies Association (PSA), groups pro-moting leadership in the field of peaceand conflict studies. In addition to serv-ing as a professional association forscholars in the field, the organizationseeks to bring academics and activiststogether in order to find alternatives toviolence. The association gives thePeace Educator of the Year award “forexemplary teaching and/or great schol-arship in forwarding peace educationand peace studies.”At Swarthmore, Lakey is currently

teaching courses in the peace and con-flict studies department, including“Nonviolent Responses to Terrorism,”“Research Seminar in Non-violentStruggle and Strategy” and “PeaceStudies and Action,” which he co-devel-oped with Lee Smithey, coordinator ofthe peace and conflict studies program.“We are thrilled that Professor

Lakey’s teaching and research atSwarthmore, not to mention his decadesof work as a prominent Quaker peaceactivist, organizer and educator, havebeen recognized by the Peace andJustice Studies Association,” saidSmithey in an e-mail.

A leader in non-violent change sincethe 1960’s, Lakey has held teaching postsat Haverford College and the Universityof Pennsylvania and has led workshopsin social change in five continents.In the Fall 2007 semester, he was

invited to come to Swarthmore to serveas the Lang visiting professor for twoacademic years. “I’m proud to be atSwarthmore because we’re [proceeding]in a way that fully empowers our gradu-ates,” he said.He is also the founder and director of

Training for Change, a Philadelphia-based organization that seeks to spreadsocial change through a system thatdirectly challenges injustice.Lakey became interested in and pas-

sionate about social activism when hewas an undergraduate student. “I wasbrought up in a pro-union household ofpeople who cared about community jus-tice, [so] I was slanted in that directionby my family, [but] it wasn’t until col-lege when I put it together that I couldmake a difference,” he said.He also cited the civil rights move-

ment as inspiration. “The Montgomerybus boycott was happening while I wasan undergraduate [...] and I was able togo to a speech by Ralph Abernathy, whowas a right hand guide to Dr. King, andhearing him talk about it, I thought thatcould be me. These are real people likeme,” Lakey said.As a dedicated activist, Lakey has

worked with workers, civil rights lead-ers, anti-apartheid activists and humanrights organizers among others. Lakeyis also the author of numerous scholarlyarticles as well as eight books, including“A Manual for Direct Action, PowerfulPeacemaking: A Strategy for a LivingRevolution” and “Grassroots and

Nonprofit Leadership: A Guide forOrganizations in Changing Times.” Lakey’s students applaud his engag-

ing courses and unique teaching style.Matthew Heck ’13 is currently a memberof his non-violent struggles class. “It’s aseminar where we have to write a caseabout a different struggle around theworld each week,” he said. “He likes totell stories a lot; it’s the basis for most ofthis teaching. He also relates his theoryand he is able to tie in the theory that weread into real first hand accounts.”A political science major, Heck was

impressed with how Lakey was able tobroaden his perspective: “I think thenon-violent strategies aspect is some-thing that most poli-sci students don’tget a chance to experience becausewe’re mostly talking about war and con-flict,” he said. “Seeing that non-violentside is nice because [it shows] not every-thing in the world is war, and peace canactually be effective too. Learning dif-ferent cases and learning the theoryfrom him has really help to make thatsalient. It’s a great learning experience.”Lakey further discussed how his

classes contribute both to theory andpractice of peace and justice. “The [Non-violent Response to Terrorism] class ispartly to advance to the field but partlyto empower the students atSwarthmore,” he said. “Students takingthe [research seminar] will again beable to stand up to forces in our bodypolitic that are becoming more andmore cynical in their use of fear to keepus down.”Though he is no longer the current

Lang visiting professor, Lakey is stillworking part-time at the Lang Center inorder to further his research and aidstudents in projects.

Allegra Pocinki Phoenix Staff

George Lakey, the visiting professor in the peace and conflict studies department who now holds the title of Peace Educator of theYear, engages his students during a seminar.

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Olivia Natan Phoenix Staff

As the month of nation-wide No-Shave November comes to a close, Michael Roswelland Aaron Zimmerman shave off their beards.

Olivia Natan Phoenix Staff

Professor Barry Schwartz unveils the “secrets of happiness” during his lecture “Some ofWhat We Know About Happiness” on Tuesday night.

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Students attend a talk given by Professor Adrienne Eaton about social responsibility, workerjustice and neutrality agreements pm Monday afternoon.

Long after survey,dining still limitedBY ADAM [email protected]

“I think I’ve been to Sharples over300 times in the past year and a half,”Eli Siegel ’13 said. “I don’t think Ihave ever been to my favorite set ofrestaurants, nor will I ever manage togo, as many times as I have been toSharples.”

In response to a survey aired earli-er in the semester, Student Council isbeginning discussions concerning aninitiative that would allow studentsto “swipe” for food and snacks at Villelocations under the meal plan.

On Tuesday, Nov. 23, StudentCouncil representatives met withVice President Suzanne Welsh tobegin financial discussions surround-ing the initiative. Effectively, the pro-posed program would allow studentsto use meals and dining points underthe meal plan to “swipe” for food andsnacks at select Ville locations.

As a student at SwarthmoreCollege, one quickly becomes veryfamiliar with the ins and outs of themeal plan. While the on-campusoptions provided by the meal plan aremore than enough to sustain ahealthy and comfortable diet, manystudents often find themselves grow-ing tired of them and would like todiversify their gastronomical options.“I just wish I could switch it up everyonce in a while,” Nina Serbedzija ’14said.

It is from this growing desire with-in the student body that StudentCouncil has recently begun to workon an initiative to extend the mealplan to a few of the restaurants andstores in the Ville.

“Right now, we’re looking into thepossibility of instituting a program touse meal points in the Ville,” saidStuCo’s Financial PolicyRepresentative Ben Hattem ’12 in ane-mail. “The locations that we’ve dis-cussed have been Hobbs, Renato’s andthe Co-op, but that list could expandor contract.”

At present, there are a number oflogistical barriers to such a move,such as the cost of equipment (i.e.card-reading machines), additionalsecurity measures for cards abd thewiring needed from campus to partic-ipating locations, as well as the needfor an additional accounting systemto manage the flow of capital.

In terms of security, the cardswould need to be upgraded such thatswipe access is not simply availableto anyone in possession of a students’card. “The current card system is notdesigned for protecting student’smoney,” said Stu Hain, Vice Presidentfor Facilities and Services, over thephone.

Dining Services Supervisor LindaMcDougall said in an e-mail, “Theonly Ville merchant who expressedinterest to me [in such a program]was Hobbs and this was before theyopened. With our current system,[meal plan expansion] would be verydifficult logistically.”

Hobbs Coffee has made efforts tobe incorporated into the student mealplan since its establishment nearly ayear ago. Given the large amount of

traffic that Hobbs has already hadfrom Swarthmore students, there iscertainly evidence for plenty ofdemand. “When families are here andwhen school starts … we’re at fullcapacity,” Randall said.

Randall also mentioned that Hobbswould even be willing to be lenient asfar as prices, in order to accommo-date the college. “Even if we didn’tmake a profit,” he added.

Other than Hobbs Coffee, no otherVille restaurants or stores have comeforward and spoken to the collegeregarding expansion of the meal planat this time.

In addition, the current card-read-ing system at the college is not a “one-card system” like that of credit cards(i.e. each card has a different mealplan).

Therefore, any Ville locations to beincorporated into the meal planwould have to also be integrated intothe college’s unique meal plan sys-tem.

Apart from the logistical ramifica-tions, a meal plan extension wouldalso require substantial financialreorganization.

The dining services budget is com-prised of two main parts — revenueand expenses. Under the heading ofexpenses are both variable (e.g. gro-ceries and supplies) and fixed costs(e.g. staff, maintenance and utilities).Therefore, the proposal to extend themeal plan into the Ville wouldrequire a detailed estimation of thechange in variable cost.

In addition, the annual budget isappropriated based on the fixed roomand board fees of each student livingon campus. The incorporation ofVille locations into the meal plan(each with varying degrees of studentpatronage) represents a variable costoutside of fixed room and board fees,posing a significant obstacle to accu-rately determining the funds neces-sary to support such a system.

“The annual dining services budg-et is based on money, in points, stay-ing on campus to support the [dining]system,” Hain said.

Larger schools around the coun-try, like the University ofPennsylvania, have incorporatedfranchises into their respective mealplans. However, given the small sizeof the college, it would be very diffi-cult financially to incorporate adiverse group of off-campus diningoptions. “There aren’t very manysmall schools our size that do this,”Hain said.

However, any actual assessment ofthe financial feasibility of a meal planextension would require extensiveestimation of cost based on studenthabits. “We would need to find outhow much students would use it andwhat meals they would use it for - thepattern, basically,” Welsh said.

Such estimation would most likelybe achieved through a pilot program.Unfortunately, due to the myriadlogistical and financial obstacles,such an initiative is not yet in place.Student Council is continuing discus-sions with the administration, but forthe time being, the dining optionsremain the same.

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Mock trial sees surge in numbers and tournament wins

BY JACQUELINE [email protected]

Candice Nguyen ’11 says Mock Trialat Swarthmore is a fairy tale of a club,with unbelievable growth and success.The idea started with her and AsherSered ’11 and Jon Schaefer ’11 duringtheir New Student Orientation. The clubonly had six members that first year, thebare minimum required to compete, butnow that the three founding membersare seniors, it has expanded to 32 mem-bers. And the team is not just compet-ing, but winning.Mock Trial is an event where teams

of students from colleges all over thecountry study and practice trying a fic-tional case. Students play the roles ofeither lawyers or witnesses and competeagainst other schools, following the pro-cedures of the real judicial system.Though the team is now doing well, it

had humble beginnings a few years ago.According to Sered, the team dates

back to a pre-law information sessionduring his Orientation. Someone askedif there was a Mock Trial team, and GigiSimeone, the pre-law advisor, said thatthere wasn’t, but that “a very pro-activefreshman” had e-mailed her about itover the summer. “And Candice wasthat freshman,” he said.After the information session, he and

Schaefer, both of whom had done MockTrial in high school, went to talk toNguyen, and they began to take the stepstowards forming a club. At the time, thePeaslee Debate Society was the only pub-lic speaking activity for students.“I went to a few meetings, but I didn’t

really feel it was the place for me,”Nguyen said. “I thought that Mock Trialcould be an interesting forum for peopleto meet and learn about the way the judi-cial system works.” She added that the activity is for

more than just pre-law students.Schaefer and Sered are no longer plan-ning to go to law school.Getting the group started was diffi-

cult for the first-years. “Everything wasan obstacle when we were starting,”Sered said. He said that “basic logisticalthings,” like getting chartered, rentingbuses and finding and booking hotelrooms seemed “mysterious.” But they had a steep learning curve,

were chartered that first year, and nowhave enough people to form three divi-sions within the team. Now, the Mock Trial team is split into

three sub-teams, one called the “A” team,and two “B” teams. The “A” team is com-prised of the members that are expectedto score most highly.Last semester, Swarthmore won the

Spirit of the American Mock TrialAssociation (AMTA) award. “That wasnice, but it was more a ‘you’re the teamthat everyone liked!’ award,” Schaefersaid. This semester, there have beeneven more awards and recognitions.At the first tournament, at

Washington and Jefferson University,six Swarthmore students won awards.Three won as attorneys, and three wonas witnesses. At the second tournament at Colgate

University, members of the team wontwo more awards. Sered pointed out thatmost of the award winners this semesterhave been first-year students.In a third competition, at the

University of Pennsylvania, the A teamfinished second place out of 52 teams,while one of the B teams tied for fourthplace. At the next competition, the teamsplaced first and fifth with an attorney onthe B team winning an individualaward.Sered pointed out that the more high-

ly a team places, the less likely it is thatindividuals will win awards.“Individual awards are given whenyou’re the best in a particular competi-tion, so if you’re on a really good teamyou won’t stand out as much,” he said.Unlike other teams from larger uni-

versities with law schools, the team doesnot have a lawyer to act as its coach. Alocal attorney named Stephen Imbrigliaserves in an advisory role, but other-wise the team is largely self-governed.Because of their experience, Nguyen,

Schaefer and Sered are hugely impor-tant to the team, and Rosanna Kim ’13,captain of the B team, is concerned thatafter they graduate, the team will not beas strong. “They’re a great source ofknowledge, and they give so much sup-port and encouragement.” It will be ayoung team next year, since it currentlyhas 22 first-years.But Klara Aizupitis ’13, social chair

and outreach coordinator for the team,

has big plans for their future. Next year,she hopes the team will host its firstinvitational meet here at Swarthmore.She is optimistic about the team andsaid, “It’s going really well ... We’re a lotof fun, and more people should join.”Kim said that it was exciting that a

college Mock Trial website calledPerjuries is beginning to talk about

them and rank them more highly thanpreviously. Last year, they were rankedlast, but now they’re generating morepositive buzz. Jeremy Rapaport-Stein ’14 is glad that

he decided to join the team. “Mock Trialwas my favorite thing that I did in highschool. If you’re a big law nerd like I am... it’s a lot of fun, definitely a lot of fun.”

Photo courtesy of Jelmer Tiete

The Mock Trial A Team placed second out of 52 teams at its third competition of the semester at the University of Pennsylvania in November.

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Choosing to attend graduate school immediately allows for a continuity of youreducation which may be advantageous since you will still be in “studying mode.”Many students also find it easier to finance graduate school when there are noother major financial pressures in their lives such as marriage, mortgages, and

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Most people who plan to wait a year to explore options actually wait two ormore years. Senior year is so busy many students are unable to do a thoroughgraduate school search, so having a year to “shop” around for a school/programthat is best for you would be to your advantage. Exploring during the fall aftergraduation is common, but by then, one finds it best to have the experience of afull year of work and exploration before sitting down to do a highly competitiveapplication. If you decide to delay grad school admission, consider a postgraduatework-related fellowship, a post-graduate internship, or a wide range of employ-ment options – Career Services and the Fellowship & Prizes office can help. Beforeleaving campus, be sure to ask faculty to write letters of recommendation on yourbehalf – you can set up a file in Career Services and ask faculty to update the let-ters in the future.

TimelineIf you hope to enroll in a graduate program the September immediately after

graduation, ideally you will begin your graduate school search in the summerbefore your senior year. Application deadlines for September admission will bebetween the first of December and mid-January for most competitive programs.Deadlines to apply for financial aid including assistantships and fellowships areoften earlier. It is best if you apply (with absolutely all admission materials sub-mitted) at least a full month before the deadline—sooner if possible. 50% of appli-cants apply in the last month and to improve your competitiveness you need to getyour application considered before the rush. Most schools admit students on arolling basis and it is best to apply when all of the slots and all of the financial aidawards are still available. If you wait until the last month, you are competing withmost of the applicant pool, but with only half of the slots still available.

Alums from literary magazine to hold event BY GAIL [email protected]

For many current Swarthmore stu-dents, the prospect of majoring in thehumanities and continuing their creativepursuits with the demands of a regularjob in this economy is a serious concern.Lillian Dunn ’07, Michelle Crouch ’07 andNick Forrest ’08 have been successful sofar in this pursuit with their creation ofPhiladelphia’s first all-ages literary mag-azine, APIARY.

On Dec. 11 from 4 to 6 p.m., the groupwill hold a reading event aimed at expos-ing Swarthmore students to establishedwriters from the city as well as allowingthem to learn more about the magazineitself. According to the Chair of theEnglish Department, Peter Schmidt, stu-dents will be able to hear a nice cross sec-tion of writings and learn more aboutwhat humanities majors do afterSwarthmore.

The alums wish to expose students tothe talented writers in the Philadelphiaarea so that they explore the city’s liter-ary scene themselves. Students will alsoget a chance to learn about APIARY’sinvolvement in the community.

The group become an official writinggroup last December. The main objectivesof the group are to open up the literaryscene to people who are interested andconnect people from different back-grounds and of all ages. “We want peoplewith raw voices who are new to the scene

to have their work right next to the workof well established writers,” Crouch said.

The word apiary means a place wherebees are kept. At first the foundersthought the word was just catchy andinteresting, but it soon became apparentthat it was a very fitting metaphor fortheir work in the literary magazine busi-ness. “There are distinct buzzing hives ofpeople in the literary scene and we wanttheir honey,” Crouch said.

Crouch majored in art history andminored in English at Swarthmore, afterwhich she worked for an art gallery inPhiladelphia for a year. She now works asan archivist at the Stoogeum, a museumdedicated entirely to the Three Stoogesmemorabilia and organizes collectionsand documents.

Luckily for her, her job is quite flexi-ble, only requiring her to work 32 hours aweek. Given that, she is able to devoteweekends to creative pursuits and evenfound time to take a creative writingworkshop at UPenn. Dunn said that thealums were in one place with all thisenergy and passion, giving them a realcatalyst to create something extraordi-nary and fill a void in their community.

Dunn majored in English atSwarthmore and had always loved writ-ing and journalism. Now, as one of themagazine’s main promoters, she is able towrite about what she loves and meet cooland fascinating people along the way.

Similarly to Crouch, Dunn’s jobs as afreelance editor and substitute teacher

give her the flexibility she needs toaccomplish her duties at APIARY. For herthe magazine serves two main purposes:make a space for people to get togetherand allow people of different communitiesto meet.

“We want young people to know thereare older people who write in the commu-nity and its fun and cool,” Dunn said.

APIARY also allows the members ofdifferent communities and literary scenesfrom across the city to make connectionsand experience each other’s work. Dunnsaid they wanted a place for people tohear different voices which will in turnenrich their own practice.

“Anyone who writes knows that it canbe an isolating experience, but we’re try-ing to show that it can be a communalactivity and a powerful thing that con-nects people and allows them to commu-nicate with each other, which makes allthe stress worthwhile,” Crouch said.

The third co-founder, Forrest, majoredin English literature and studio art atSwarthmore. Today he has been able tobuild his work schedule around APIARY,which allows him to do all of the graphicdesign for the magazine.

“I’m now in the midst of creating artand creative writing workshops in localschools in Philadelphia,” he said. Hebelieves that it is the APIARY’s missionto create a magazine that reflects the actu-al diversity of the city’s literary scene.

The making of the magazine is a col-laborative effort. Each member takes part

in promoting, publishing and maintain-ing APIARY. “It’s a lot of work but anenormous pay-off is getting to read somuch great literature and being able tosee amazing work from people whohaven’t published before and see themcontinue to publish in the future,” Dunnsaid .

The first issue, selling for $9, came outin September, and copies of it are cur-rently in bookstores all over the city.According to Crouch, the group is makingsure that people who don’t have exposureto the literary scene get access to the mag-azine which is why they try to distributethem in schools and community centers.

The event being held at Swarthmore,“Light and Honey,” is a merging of API-ARY and Light of Unity, bringing togethervarious established poets and writersfrom the area. The line-up includes read-ings from Dr. Richard Wertime, PaulSiegell, Jeffrey Ethan Lee and co-founderTamara Oakman. After a short overviewof APIARY there will be a Q&A sessionwith the readers and the co-founders.

There will also be an open mic portionfor anyone in the audience to read theirown work.

The alums are aware that finals arecoming up and time is precious. To inter-ested yet apprehensive students Dunnsaid “This amazing reading will blowyour mind, fill your head with great newideas and allow you to walk away andback to your work with a new perspec-tive.”

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There ’ sbeen a lot offlinging ofthings late-ly. The fre-quency withwhich I per-sonally flingthings, par-t i c u l a r l ycups of cof-fee, hasb e c o m er e a l l yincredible.In fact justm om e n t sago, whilerecovering

from the labor of creating the first two sen-tences of this article, I acquired a cup ofcoffee and almost out of habit the firstthing I did was pour a large part of it ontothe floor.

I was beginning to fear that all of thiswas a problem associated only with me —that I had developed some profound andinexplicable propensity for flinging. Butseveral weeks ago, after I had flung a fullglass of water at the floor of Sharples, I

took up the matter with the very nice per-son who arrived with the mop, and heinformed me that a lot of people had beendropping things recently. He’s right. InSharples, at this point, one is liable to hearsmashes every few minutes.

This mass surrender to gravity could bedue to several things. First of all, the fling-ing could be an expression of deep, unac-knowledged emotions on the part ofSwarthmore students, particularly theemotion “eeeuuugghh,” which is character-ized by the tendency of one’s brain to makethe sound “eeeuuugghh,” instead of doingother things like, for instance, remember-ing to grip water glasses. We atSwarthmore can be so busy learning astro-physics and Scottish dancing, we complete-ly forget to stop and pay attention to whatwe are feeling (eeeuuugghh). Instead werelease these feelings by going aroundspontaneously flinging our coffee about theplace. This puts everyone at great risk ofbeing struck by flying objects.

To promote a less hazardous and emo-tionally healthier environment, I proposethe designation of a wall at which everyoneis specifically allowed to fling things.Students could smash their coffee cupsagainst this wall for as long as they wanted

to, thus condensing the flinging into a sin-gle safer and more predictable stream ofdestruction. Students would also berequired to spend at least an hour staringat a tree instead of doing their homeworkallowing their brains to go “eeeuuugghh...”At the end of staring at the tree, if soinspired, they would be welcome to flingtheir coffee at it.

In addition to hampering emotionalawareness, sleep deprivation doesn’t tendto breed motor skills. In fact it doesn’t tendto breed skills of any kind. I have conclud-ed that what we are currently experiencingat Swarthmore is a dearth of skills.

This applies, of course, to the entireSwarthmore population and is not in anyway limited to Willets 107 (I hope).However, in what is a great stroke of mis-fortune for Willets 107, it happens to be theplace with which I am most familiar andthus the one upon which I must base myinformation. The residents of Willets 107have noticed a marked deterioration incommunication skills. SinceThanksgiving, the deterioration has beenespecially rapid.

It’s the sort of situation in which onecould hypothetically board a train inVermont as a fairly normal conversation-

alist and eleven hours later find herselfshouting disjointed statements about treesand Michelangelo at a helpless economicsmajor from George Washington Universitywho has sat down in the adjacent seat. Thisis the sort of thing that could hypothetical-ly happen. Something needs to be done.

I advocate, along with the institution ofa flinging wall and mandatory tree-gazing,a forcible increase in student sleep. Theway I envision it, if a student is staying uppast what will afford that student eighthours of sleep, squirrels break into theroom, grab the student’s homework andbash the student over the head with a stick,knocking him or her unconscious. If thesemeasures are not taken, things will contin-ue to get weirder. By the time finals arrive,we will have been reduced to a state ofabject chaos with students drifting aroundemitting unintelligible garbles of soundand periodically flinging things at oneanother.

Based on what’s been seen of Willets 107,which has already achieved this state, wecan safely say that it’s not so good. So let’smobilize those squirrels! I’m going to gonow, as there’s coffee in my shoe.

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

Sleep deprivation may cause flinging of things

Let’s Be Serious

Ariel Swyer


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It’s exactly one more monthbefore I return to the U.S. as Iwrite the last installment of thiscolumn about my semesterabroad in Paris. Now that the cul-ture shock has abated, I’ve beenable to strike a balance betweenthe positives and negatives of liv-ing in the City of Lights.

Since my initial criticismsmight have been too harsh, I hopethat documenting what is posi-tive about Paris in this columnhas mercifully spared theParisian dreams of some readers.I never set out to be the Grinch ofParis; in fact, I will reassure any-one that living here is ultimatelyworth going through all the cross-cultural drama and frustration.

Thus, I will list all of the expe-riences I will miss (and equallynot miss) about Paris, as I down aglass of the latest BeaujolaisNouveau, one of the last Frenchwines I will enjoy here beforeresigning myself to guzzlingcheap college alcohol once again.

Will Miss:1. The spatial proximity to

culture and leisure. I’ll missbeing able to explore a museum,gallery or historical monument,for little or no cost, during theweekends. This includes picnick-ing or strolling along the banks ofthe Seine and wandering the

maze of conveniently intercon-nected streets throughout thecity.

2. The café and restaurantculture. I’ll miss the conversationand cups of coffee with friends ina café to unwind and pass thetime, after the activity in #1. Also,eating out at reasonably pricedbut excellent restaurants andbrasseries and then taking atleast three hours to enjoy a fullcourse meal, dessert and a cup ofcoffee.

3. The laidback pace of life.People here know how to relaxand unwind after a hard day atwork, without ever feeling guiltyabout it. I’ll miss being able totake my recreational momentsjust as seriously.

4. The weekend philosophy.Weary of Parisian urbanite pre-tensions? Why not take off to thesouth of France, the Normandycoast or even to Switzerland forthe weekend? Although I am apoor student, at least the possibil-ity always exists.

5. The cinematic architec-ture. Paris is a living cinema set,wherein each building and streetscene is always ready to beimmortalized in a snapshot. I’llmiss walking past some of theworld’s most iconic monumentsand delving into the beautiful,atmospheric streets here.

6. The reliability and accessi-bility of the Paris metro. I willmiss being able to hop on themetro and be guaranteed an effi-cient arrival at my destination.

7. La bonne bouffe. Otherwisetranslated as the “good eats,” thiscovers the wealth of excellent cui-sine that I will miss in Paris. Thismeans missing the easy availabil-ity of freshly baked baguettes,croissants and pastries, but espe-cially the abundance of cheapTurkish kebabs all over Paris;they are the staple of my exis-tence.

8. The nightlife scene.

Enjoying live music and concerts.Going out until the crack of dawnand sleeping in all day.Barhopping. Repeating the samecycle every weekend withoutever growing tired of the routine.Enough said.

9. My neighborhood. MyParisian neighborhoodMenilmontant and Belleville, forits cultural diversity and authen-ticity. This includes the nearbyFrench bakery, the Algerian pas-try shop and the neighborhoodpark with the stunning panoram-ic view of Paris.

Will Not Miss:1. The lack of Internet. I will

not miss the inconvenience of liv-ing in a factory-like buildingwithout reliable access to theInternet, and being disconnectedfrom the rest of the world in thisrespect.

2. The dirtiness. I won’t miss

the institutional distribution ofdog feces or trash across one ofthe most beautiful cities in theworld. It strikes me as an unnec-essary irony that Paris must con-tain so much litter when it wouldmore picturesque without it.

3. The claustrophobic small-ness. I won’t miss feeling like Inever have enough personalspace anywhere in this crampedand overpopulated city.

4. The complication of simplematters. I won’t miss the way theFrench can occasionally end upcomplicating simple matters likepaying a hotel bill or compensat-ing people for stolen laundrymoney. I have also noticed thatdiffusion of responsibility amongFrench authorities occurs to amuch greater extent here.

5. The “French” logic. I willoffer a crucial rule of thumb.Patience is necessary for survival

in Paris. If you don’t try to con-form to this, you will feel hope-lessly frustrated and never getanything done.

Eating fresh croissants, visit-ing museums every weekend andpicnicking along the Seine is partof normal life in Paris. I imaginesuffering from reverse cultureshock upon returning to the U.S.,but accompanying it will be amuch more deliberate apprecia-tion for traditional Americanlifestyle comforts. Like Internetaccess. And clean toilets. Andoccasionally, even American-style optimism.

Am I still a Francophile?Battered and bruised, yes, butfinally much more educatedabout it.

Maki is a junior. You can reachher at [email protected].

In the final month, missing (and not missing) Paris

c a r t o o n b y n a i a p o y e r

Small But Classe

Maki Somosot

Living & Arts

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BY DINA [email protected]

This weekend, Senior Company’s ensemble of eightactors will present the play “Metamorphoses,” a seriesof mythic Greek vignettes with about thirty differentcharacters. Written by American playwright MaryZimmerman, the play draws from the classic Ovidpoem “Metamorphoses,” in addition to other fablesand poems interpreted by the playwright.Following its initial premiere in 1996 as “Six

Myths” at Northwestern, then in Chicago byLookingglass Theatre Company and in New York bySecond Stage Theatre, “Metamorphoses” opened onBroadway at the Circle Square Theater in 2002. Itreceived nominations for Best Play and won a TonyAward for Best Direction.Composed of senior theater majors, the Senior

Company includes senior actors Eva Amessé, NellBang-Jensen, Emily Letts, Isa St. Clair and BrianWillis, along with dramaturg Joshua Lipman. In the-ater companies, dramaturgs (or dramaturges) deal pri-marily with research and development of the play andserve as consultants for the company. Along withthese Senior Company members, the ensembleincludes guest performers Ben Hattem ’12, ThomasPowers ’13 and Brian Ratcliffe ’11. Usually, the composition of Senior Company pans

out evenly between student directors, actors anddesigners, but this year, five of the six majors wantedto act. Thus, the cast chose an ensemble piece whereperformers have roughly equal amounts of impor-tance and stage time. St. Clair feels the “very actordriven piece” complimented the actor-heavy company.In “Metamorphoses,” since there are over 30 char-

acters portrayed by ten or twelve actors, the playrequires actors to play multiple parts. For SeniorCompany, with only four female and four male actors,the students will actually each play a few more rolesthan actors from the original production did. Alongwith several mythic roles, most of the actors will alsoportray the storytellers of the particular vignettesthat compose the play.Cast as the rainbow goddesses Iris and Myrrha,

along with other characters, Bang-Jensen ’11 also por-trays various narrators or storytellers, such as a childacting out a story and a laundress telling a story justto pass the time. “We all had a lot of fun playing withall of the narratorial roles in this production andthinking about why people tell stories; how they shapethe stories they tell, and how they are, in turn, shapedby them,” Bang-Jensen said. Fellow actress Amessé ’11 agrees that

“Metamorphoses” broaches the importance of story-telling in contemporary culture. “When you are get-ting to know someone you just tell them a lot of storiesabout your life and we talked a lot about how story-telling is such a fascinating thing because it takesplace on so many levels — watching a movie, readinga book, talking with a friend, being at a big dinnertable. Whether we tell stories to impress or to makepeople laugh, stories can achieve so many differentthings,” Amessé said. In choosing the play, Bang-Jensen believes the

“honesty and emotionality in [the] tales” of“Metamorphoses” appealed to Senior Company.Though the stories are not realistic with specific mod-ern parallels, she feels that the “emotionality that aris-es from [the tales] is one that still rings true.”Since the premiere of “Metamorphoses” by Second

Stage Theatre was in its last few days of rehearsal inNew York during September 11, 2001, the cast recog-nizes the play’s exploration of both transformationand loss in the play.Though for St. Clair the central thread of the play

is love and its manifestations — filial or romantic —she stresses that the cast realized that “love goeshand-in-hand with loss.” “The metamorphoses thathappen in this play can be just as easily read as deathsof many different kinds,” St. Clair said. “So, for me,this play is very much a microcosm of a human life ormultiple human lives.”Due to the mythic quality of “Metamorphoses,” its

characters can easily become archetypes and mereemblematic figures who demonstrate a particular,

identifiable human trait. “The reason it is written fair-ly archetypically is because that’s what the myths are— in just a single story, it stands for an entire cultur-al heritage and it has been adapted continuously inour cultural consciousness for thousands of years —so it does flatten out,” St. Clair said.For actors, though these characters may read as

flat, cheesy or archetypal, the challenge is finding thecharacter underneath the seeming commonality.“While these huge themes of transformation, loss andlove are often romanticized and fictionalized, I thinkit’s rare that people talk about them in a way thatdoesn't seem cheesy or flippant,” Bang-Jensen said. Toovercome the banality of archetypes, St. Clair tries tofind the core of her character and what makes him orher human. For the ensemble, she believes that thecast succeeded in overcoming archetypes. “There areno archetypes on our stage, and that is fantastic,” shesaid.After choosing the play last spring semester, the

cast spent the following months in what St. Clairdescribes as a “dramaturgical stage.” In these lastweeks of school and over the summer, the studentsexchanged ideas, and even had “homework assign-ments” to come up with questions and find poems,images, and songs that they associated with the play.

In September, the ensemble began rehearsing andas they are nearly all senior theater majors, the actorswere already familiar with each other’s strengths,weaknesses and acting styles. Though AssistantTheatre Professor Erin B. Mee served as faculty advis-er, the actors worked collectively and collaborativelyon “Metamorphoses” without a director.Funneling all the company members’ ideas into one

coherent voice posed quite a challenge. “One of thestrengths of our piece is that it does clearly come fromeight people and there are a lot of perspectives repre-sented, but it does all fit together in one unified pieceof theater,” St. Clair said.Senior Company chose the more intimate and

experimental LPAC Frear Ensemble Theatre with itsblack box interior. Smaller than the LPAC main stage,the black box is essentially a room with all black wallsand no built-in stage or audience seats. Thus, it afford-ed the company a great deal of artistic license. “If [theaudience] comes expecting a black box, they will bevery surprised,” St -Clair said.The production also includes set design by

Professor Laila Swanson, lighting design by JessieBear ‘09, sound design by Louis Jargow ‘10, costumeconsultation by Tara Webb ‘94 and props design byVianca Masucci ‘ 13 and Logan Tiberi-Warner ‘11.

senior Co. to perform mythic ‘Metamorphoses’

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BY SERA [email protected]

Today, guest lecturer Professor Roger Jacksonfrom Carleton College will present an address,“Amazement Rooted in Azure Sky: UnderstandingTibetan Spiritual Poetry,” on the Tibetan literarygenre of mgur.Mgur, pronounced “goor,” are poems that have

been composed by Tibetan Buddhist masters forthousands of years. Unlike conventional poetry,mgur are often sung and are spiritual in nature.Jackson classifies these poems as “songs of realiza-tion” which reveal inner thoughts and reflections ofthe composer.Jackson is a Professor of Asian Studies and

Religion at Carleton College and completed hisundergraduate studies at Wesleyan University. HisM.A. in South Asian Studies and Ph.D. in BuddhistStudies were completed at the University ofWisconsin-Madison. In his lecture, Jackson will highlight the work of

major Tibetan poets such as Milarepa (1040-1123), awandering yogi. He will also focus on verses byLosang Chokyi Gyaltsen (1570-1662), a tutor to twoDalai Lamas. “In examining these figures, I will situ-ate them within their social and institutional con-texts, but will primarily concentrate on the ways inwhich they utilize poetic imagery and rhetoric todescribe their own experience and to impart teach-ings,” Jackson said. Jackson, a longtime reader and writer of poetry

became interested in the study of mgur through hiscuriosity in mysticism such as that of the Zen poetsof China and Japan. “When my personal and schol-

arly interest eventually settled on TibetanBuddhism, the spiritual songs of Milarepa and hispredecessors in India were waiting for me,” Jacksonsaid.Mgur is a centuries old poetry form, but one that

has been continued into modern times. Jackson willalso look into the poetry of modern TibetanBuddhists such as the renowned Dondrup Gyal (1953-85). However, modern poetry is not strictly mgur andJackson will give insight into the parallels and dif-ferences of modern Tibetan Buddhist poetry to mgur.Mgur continues to be composed today because

Tibetan Buddhist figures are expected to do so as partof their practice. Poetry still remains a medium forreligious figures to reflect and instruct. “I don't thinkmgur are much performed, though — in that senseit's more of a literary medium now, but I expect that,as long as there are Tibetans practicing Buddhism,there will be Tibetans composing mgur,” JacksonsaidJackson has identified key themes of mgur such as

the Buddhists’ “critique of worldliness, their exalta-tion of nature, their celebration of the guru and theirevocation of the natural purity of the mind.” Mgur have been shaped by influences such as tra-

ditional Buddhist songs of positive personal experi-ence and of Indian tantric songs. Stylistically, mgurare varied. Mgur feature meter in their Tibetan formbut retaining this form is precarious when translat-ing into English. “It's a very tricky matter, translating poetry from

one culture to another,” Jackson said. “When youtake poetry from Tibetan to English, you inevitablylose the strong meter that's typical of Tibetan verse,and because the spiritual songs usually have a didac-

tic element, there inevitably are references that willbe mysterious to the newcomer.” To overcome this challenge, Jackson attempts to

convey the original meanings while transforming itspoetic form that suits English. “The balance may beimpossible to achieve, but there's great satisfactionin trying.” Hillary Yee ’14, an international student from

Burma, was exposed to Buddhist verses in herupbringing. She explains Burmese and TibetanBuddhist practices are different, but describes listen-ing to Buddhist verses as an experience. “Its notcalming but you can learn a lot from it and people lis-tening are very attentive,” Yee said. Host Cornell Visiting Professor Sudharshan

Seneviratne, who teaches the course BuddhistIdeology and Social Response, invited Jackson toSwarthmore College as he felt Jackson’s profoundknowledge on Tibetan Buddhism would be conducivefor his students. “Jackson is one of the few scholarswho is able to read the Tibetan scriptures,”Seneviratne said.Seneviratne also felt Jackson’s lecture would be

enthusiastically received by a wider group of stu-dents. “I personally witnessed the enthusiasm dis-played by the community when Lama Losang washere two months back,” Seneviratne said. TheVenerable Losang Samten’s Mandala display atMcCabe and lecture held in September were wellreceived by members of the Swarthmore Community.Professor Jackson’s lecture will shed greater

attention on Tibetan Buddhism, an area of growinginterest for many at Swarthmore. The lecture will take place today from 4:30-6:30

p.m. in the Scheuer Room.

Guest lecturer highlights Tibetan mgur poetry

Coldwave bands combine synth, instrumentsBY JOHN [email protected]

This Friday, Dec. 3, bands hailing fromacross North America, from New York toCanada to California, will be taking thestage at Olde Club. The bands all fall intothe Cold Wave genre, which include head-liner Xeno and Oaklander from Brooklyn,Automelodi from Montreal, localPhiladelphia band Void Vision and SanFrancisco-based bands Sex Worker andPsychic Reality. “I first started thinking about booking

the headliner band, Xeno and Oaklander,over summer,” Blaine O’Neill ’11, OldeClub booking director, said. “I wanted anOlde Club show to focus on Coldwavegenre, which is an underground musicscene that continues to develop. It’s anemerging music movement that is revis-iting sounds from French new wave witha goth aesthetic.”Coldwave music takes its inspiration

from French Dark and New wave andpost-punk bands like Joy Division andThe Cure. Many Coldwave bands origi-nated in countries like France andBritain, but the five bands performing onFriday demonstrate the expansion of thegenre across the pond. Xeno and Oaklander, which is com-

prised of Liz Wendelbo and SeanMcBride, have their own studio inBrooklyn. They exclusively play synthe-sizers and instruments with an affinityfor Coldwave music, which is a based offof post-punk music. Xeno and Oaklanderpride themselves on the fact that they useno digital instruments or recording. In2009, they released a much-anticipated

album “Sentinelle” on Weird Records.Automelodi is the main project of

Xavier Paradis. The main element defin-ing his music is the mixture of using realinstruments and electronic sounds.Vocalist and songwriter Xavier Paradishas been active in Canada since the late90s and formed the band in 2006.Automelodi combines guitars with syn-thesizers and drum machines to createanother form of Coldwave music.Void Vision a one-woman band record-

ing with the same publisher as Xeno andOaklander: Weird Records. Void Visionbegan a few years ago and has gonethrough a number of transitions, bothmusically and internally. What started offas a full band soon became a duo as themusic moved more into Coldwave, synth-pop, and minimal electronics genres.But, after releasing the 7” vinyl single “In20 Years” Void Vision was reduced to it'score member and now exists as the soloproject of Shari Wallin. “At the heart of the music, lies a true

love for technology, craftsmanship,expression, and experimentation,” Wallinsaid. “Though the music is somewhatbleak and apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic attimes, there is an underlying optimismand spirit in the message - that being, toconnect with people in a personal wayand share an excitement for music on ahigher level, as a craft, not a product.”Sex Worker is a one man band that

focuses on punk youth rock. DanielMartin-McCormick works both as asoloist and in a trio. At the Olde Club per-formance, he will be performing by him-self. The underlying message beneathsome of his music has a strong anti-sex

trafficking agenda, but even if you don’tnecessarily pick up on that while listen-ing to his music, you definitely get thevibe of the message. He has recentlyreleased “The Labor of Love,” consideredhis best work in terms of dark music bycritics like Spinner Magazine.Psychic Reality is also a one-woman

band comprised of Leyna Noel Tilbor.Leyna started Psychic Reality in March2009 using broken down electronics likean eighties Omnichord and an oldYamaha keyboard pushed through a loudtube amp and a subwoofer. “My goal in starting PR then was to

push the envelope sonically by puttingforth aggressive heavy bass and noisy

sound that, as a solo female performer aswell, bucks notions of gender and gen-dered notions of music,” Tilbor said.“Now, though, in 2010 my mode of operat-ing has shifted again, towards clarity inthe vocals and a really danceable beat. I'minto dance music the most, and I use theghettotech drum machine to make mybeats.”Tilbor has a new record about to come

out on Not Not Fun called “Vibrant NewAge.” “It's an ebullient dance record witha few twists I feel really good about. Irecorded it all to tape, mixed to tape andmastered it direct to vinyl so it'sremained an analog exercise in warmthall the way,” she said.

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BY ISAAC [email protected]

The series of books that we fervent-ly read as children seems to be finallycoming to an end as the penultimateHarry Potter movieenchants our hearts andminds. “Harry Potter andthe Deathly Hallows: Part1” marks the culminationof a long journey acrossthe adaptations to capturethe increasing darknessof the books, in which anevil wizard, “He WhoMust Not Be Named,” terrorizes thewizarding community. The movieadaptation adequately captures theessence of the novel, presenting astory that is all at once dark, forebod-ing, terrifying and sad.The movie, much like the book,

starts with a sense of impending doomand danger encompassing England.Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour(Bill Nighy), warns the masses that“These are dark times, there is nodenying. Our world has faced nogreater threat than it does today” atthe beginning of the movie. In aneffort to protect her parents,

Hermione (Emma Watson) erasestheir memories of her very existence.Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), with the helpof a security detail headed by Mad-EyeMoody (Brendan Gleeson), prepareshis return from the Muggle world to

the Wizarding world,where he will continue hisquest to defeat Voldemort(Ralph Fiennes).But as in every epic

quest, the process comeswith intense difficulty.Refreshingly, the movie,quite unlike a normalchildren’s movie or

previous Harry Potter movies,does not take lightly the pres-ence of death: in the first fewminutes, Hedwig and Mad-Eyed Moody make theirexits, and the movie endswith another heroicdeath, further settingthe grim tone to bepicked up in thenext part.The middle of

the film drags asH a r r y ,H e r m i o n eand Ron

(Rupert Grint) struggle to discover ameans to complete their task, notknowing how to proceed. Though notmuch happens during many of thesemiddle scenes to further the plot, thisslowness, instead of being a negative,establishes the foreboding tone of thenarrative and helps accentuate thetension that their quest engendersbetween the three. Most notably,friendships are tested, as Ron’s frus-tration and jealously boils over and heleaves the group, abandoning themission.

These themes of jealously andhardship are not muddled in thisfilm. This film embodies thegrowing maturity of the booksand of Harry as he grows andis representative of the factthat the “Harry Potter”series is more than just astory for children andhas grown up along-side its readers. Thedarkness of the filmtakes precedenceover the previousjoys and won-ders ofH o g w a r t sand pushes

us toward the series’ inevitable con-clusion.What “Harry Potter and the

Deathly Hallows-Part 1” has shown isthat the filmmakers are finally takingthe book seriously and doing their jobin adapting the book. A film adapta-tion need not necessarily be an exactchronological transcription of eventsof the book but must effectively cap-ture its tone and vision. This film hasfinally proved that its filmmakers areup to the task. It is in the dark toneand perhaps the creepy nude make-outscene of Ron’s fears between Harryand Hermione, as displayed by the evilpowers of the locket horcrux when itis finally opened, that the film showsthe maturity of its characters andestablishes itself as a legitimate epicdrama film.So what awaits Harry, Hermione,

Ron and the wizarding world in Part2? Those of us who have read thebooks already know; what remains tobe seen is whether the filmmakers willcontinue to successfully reflect thetone and spirit of the books. And weall must wait until the second part isreleased in July to discover whetherthe film can offer a satisfying endingto Harry’s on-screen journey.

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Name: Hanna KozlowskaYear: 2012From: Brooklyn, NY and Warsaw, PolandCurrent Residence: Pittenger

What She’s Wearing:“[The] sweater with numbers on it [is] from

Goodwill [and] the leopard print scarf ... I got on thestreet,” Kozlowska said. She found her brown suedeboots at a thrift store and her bow earrings were apresent from a friend. Kozlowska paired her blacktights with Gap rolled-up denim shorts and a plainwhite tank top. Her “circa-1960s coat” is a hand-me-down from her stepmother.Though the picture may not do the sweater justice,

Kozlowska’s navy and red cardigan features quirkygold buttons with numerals 1 through 5, which issuch a cool alternative to the typical button. Sheloves the “nautical combination of navy and red” ofher cardigan, but punches it up with the white tankand her leopard print scarf. As the temperature issteadily transitioning from fall to winter, Kozlowskapairs her warm-weather denim shorts with tights,boots and her coat.

How She Describes Her Personal Style:“It really changes from day to day,” Kozlowska

said. “One day it can be very 60s-inspired, mod [and]sort of London 1960s look. But, the next day I couldwear like a colorful sweatshirt that my frienddesigned.” Kozlowska’s chameleon style ranges fromclassic to mod to funky and colorful, making it diffi-cult for her to pinpoint a specific “style.” But,Kozlowska loved to dress up at a very young age. “Ialways had my own thing [and] went through differ-ent phases,” Kozlowska said, who would only weardresses when she was very little. Now, her sophisti-cated childhood style has transitioned into a quirky,classic and mod style.

Fashion Influences / Inspirations:“[The] 1960s as an era in general,” Kozlowska said.

Her love of the mod, London style is very muchreflective of the 1960s aesthetic. She also “adores”Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin,

all of whom are style icons,known for their classic looks inboth their films and personalstyle. “Also, I like street style incities like London, Paris, Rome,New York and Warsaw even,” shesaid.

Where She Shops:Kozlowska frequents the usual

thrift store haunts, like Goodwilland vintage stores in New York.But, she also likes “UrbanOutfitters [and] chain stores likeGap, Zara, H&M [and] Forever 21.”When Kozlowska goes to Warsaw forbreaks, she likes to shop at storesthere, especially since she has afriend who designs clothing, such as aneon-colored sweatshirt. Thoughstores like Roxy and Volcom tend tomarket the bright surf and ski cloth-ing, Kozlowska likes incorporating thecolorful duds into her summer outfitsand likes their ski attire for her winterski trips.

Favorite Items in Her Closet:“I have this, like, Jackie O black blaz-

er with a round collar. It’s cropped withbig buttons, which I found somewhere inPoland a really long time ago,” Kozlowskasaid. She also wears shorts with tights andincorporates a bow into all of her outfits,such as her pink, diamond-encrusted ear-rings.

Wardrobe Staples:“Tights and shorts, definitely. That’s like

my uniform,” Kozlowska said. She also lovescardigans and pairing them with plain tank tops, likeher white tank. “Oh, and scarves. I always have ascarf,” she said. “It can be either the leopard printone or if I want to add a little Polish accent, I put, like,a traditional floral scarf on.”

Do you think you (or a professor) have great style?Then submit a photo of you in your best outfit to [email protected]. Please include your name andcontact information.TEXT AND PHOTO BY CAMILA RYDER

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It has become the widelyadopted view that the term“Black Friday” — appliedto the (shopping) day afterThanksgiving — got itscolor from the effect it hason retailers, pushing themout of the red and into theblack for the year. But itsusage with regard to thisspecific Friday has a muchmore local historical con-text: The Philadelphiapolice department coined itin the mid-1960s to describethe day betweenThanksgiving and theArmy-Navy football game,

a day notorious for horrible traffic and pedestrian conges-tion throughout the city. Nowadays, more than traffic, themention of Black Friday conjures images of departmentstores and behemoth malls besieged before sunrise bypatrons so consumed with sleep deprivation and the spiritof the day that they might trample someone. “Black Friday” may have its roots in Philadelphia traf-

fic, but it has become a popular bellwether for the trajec-tory of the US economy. This year, as the country contin-ues to wend through an economic funk, the main questionis: Will this holiday shopping season return better salesfigures than the past two years? From their Black Fridayinvestigations, major newspapers around the country arereporting significant sales increases over last year.Consumers describe themselves as spending more andbeing more willing to spend. If the stock market is drivenby optimism and pessimism, things are looking up.How should you spend your holiday dollar? As locally

as possible. Buying local keeps significantly more cents onthe dollar in the community where you spend. If you orderfrom a national online retailer, you’ll feed the nationaleconomy, as well as the economy of whatever countrymanufactured what you bought online — which may ormay not be the US. If you buy a Shellbark Hollow Farmscrottin de chevre cheese ($7-$9) at the Swarthmore Co-op,the money you spend will stay concentrated within a 20-mile radius. In a non-food sense, “buy local” is also takento mean, “shop at small businesses in your community.”If you just want to pick up biscotti or a lovely pair of

candlesticks, shopping in Swarthmore will suffice.However, if your holiday shopping list is more extensiveor more eclectic, pick up a SEPTA Independence Pass ($11)and let the train take you where you want to go. There areplenty of shopping districts in Philadelphia; here aredetails on two of the most accessible areas in Center City.Rittenhouse Square, the area roughly between Walnut

and Spruce Streets and west of Broad, has it all and ishome to some of Philadelphia’s most expensive restau-rants (Le Bec-Fin, 1523 Walnut Street) and penthouses. Thearea around Rittenhouse Square Park is Philadelphia’sversion of 5th Avenue in New York; if you’re looking forZara, Armani Exchange, BCBG, H&M, Coach, etc., this iswhere to come. Premium Steep (111 S. 18th St.) has tea andeverything tea related, as well as clever houseware. On thesame block, Di Bruno Brothers’ largest location (103 S. 18thSt.) is a gourmet food emporium — if you like cheese, it’sworth stopping in just for samples. For hand- and locally-made jewelry and accessories, stop by Tselaine (1927Walnut St.). Knit Wit (1718 Walnut St.) has a well-curatedcollection of beautiful and expensive women’s clothes; ifyou go in with a few hundred dollars to drop, the sales-women will be very helpful. Right on the Square areAnthropologie and Barnes & Noble. If you like UrbanOutfitters and have never been into Brooklyn Industries,check out the new branch at 1525 Walnut St. Omoi (1608Pine St.) that carries men’s and women’s clothes, sta-tionery, and Japanese knick-knacks very popular withyoung adults in Philadelphia. Just off of Broad Street at1428 Walnut is Lush Cosmetics, a British company thatsells handmade bath & body products made with high-quality natural, often organic and Fair Trade, ingredients.Some of their products bear the V for certified vegan-safe.(If you have a problem with perfumes or other strongodors, steer clear of this store.)To get to Rittenhouse, get off the train at Suburban

Station at 17th & JFK; walk south on 16th, 17th, or 18thStreet (the first street you cross should be Market — if it’sArch, you’re going the wrong way) until shiny boutiquesdominate. Rittenhouse Square is between 18th and 19th,

between Walnut and Spruce. If it’s freezing or you want todo maximum shopping with minimum walking, theLiberty Place Mall at 17th & Market is home to the majornational brands that don’t have boutiques in theRittenhouse area, like J. Crew and Express.Just a few blocks east of Rittenhouse is the City Hall

neighborhood. Granted, there are the shops at the Galleryat Market East and the Burlington Coat Factory, but whenyou emerge from Market East Station, the area doesn’tscream, “Shop here.” Explore beyond Market Street, how-ever, and there are a growing number of small shopsworth exploring. Cross Market at 13th and keep walkingsouth until you find Marcie Turney and Valerie Safron’slittle empire: Grocery, a gourmet grocery with both hotand salad bars to trump Whole Foods, at least in quality;Open House, a home good store; Verde, a florist’s, choco-latier’s and accessory shop all in one; and three restau-rants: Bindi, modern Indian; Barbuzzo, new Italian; andLolita, modern-Mexican-BYOT (bring your own tequila).All of this and more make the 100 block of 13th Street a des-tination in its own right. A great resource for moderatelypriced handmade jewelry, bags and other accessories,Verde is possibly the star of the block. At the back of theshop, watch Turney and her assistants make sumptuouschocolate truffles destined for the display case near theregister. Chocolates are $2 a piece; flavors change season-ally, and many ingredients are sourced locally. The sea-sonal mix or Turney’s chocolate barks — topped with fleur

de sel, granola, dried berries and other wonderful things —would make excellent small gifts. Another destination in the City Hall area is Center

City’s premier commercial-historical destination, ReadingTerminal Market (51 N. 12th St, between Filbert & Arch).The famous indoor market opened in 1892. Only open until5 or 6 PM depending on the day, Reading Terminal Marketbuzzes at lunchtime as the downtown work crowd pours into choose from a wide variety of delicious, inexpensivefood. If you’re looking for a gift that’s smaller than a bread-box and not electronic, there’s a good chance it can befound here. The market offers free live music, among otherevents; check ReadingTerminalMarket.org for a calendar.To get to the City Hall area, get off the train at Market

East Station. The nearest exit from the train tends to bethe Philadelphia Convention Center, which will put you onMarket Street between 11th and 12th. Wherever youemerge, you will be in the City Hall neighborhood. As youstand on Market Street, City Hall and higher street num-bers lie to the west; Penn’s Landing, Old City, and NewJersey lie to the east. If you stop to shop in Rittenhousefirst, just walk a few blocks east to get to the City Hallneighborhood. It won’t matter which train station you useto return to Swarthmore; the fare zone is the same, so getoff at Market East and back on at Suburban Station if it’smore convenient.

Jen is a junior. You can reach her at [email protected].

ACROSS1. Numbskull4. Former CBS CEO Laurence9. Easter dinners13. Le Sage’s “Gil _____”15. Lawn care brand16. Jacob’s twin17. Lake Mead impounder, originally19. Craze20. “Sesame Street” resident21. Trouble spot for IndianaJones23. HBO series set in Baltimore26. Freud subject27. Stop on the PGA tour33. Bring back in37. “Ligeia” author, briefly38. Singer Fitzgerald39. Much of afternoon TV42. Tear apart43. Church cries45. 1998 name in the news47. Oil tycoon John50. _____ la la51. Large, imposing structure56. Predict61. _____ motion (start)62. Boxer’s prefight attire63. Neolithic mystery66. Sign for the superstitious67. Implement for an apple68. Rich soil69. Calendar pages70. In tune71. Like Seinfeld’s humor

DOWN1. Monastery head2. What water in a bucket maydo3. Béarnaise, e.g.4. Little piggy5. Like “to be”: Abbr.6. Norms: Abbr.7. Big name in fragrance8. Payment of respect9. Roll call response10. “Pronto!”11. Travelers to Bethlehem12. Bird feeder fill14. Cabbage dish18. Faucet problems22. Laker Bryant

24. Model T contemporaries25. Longest river in Spain28. 22-Down’s sport, for short29. Make, as an income30. Imitates31. Suddenly fall asleep, with“out”32. Actress Lamarr33. Derriére34. “Sesame Street” resident35. Actor Baldwin36. PNC and Wachovia40. Soccer icon 41. Scand. language44. Meyers of “Saturday NightLive”46. _____ Car Bomb (drink simi-lar to a boilermaker)

48. The Sistine Chapel ceiling, e.g.49. Home of Lafayette College52. Touch53. “Do _____!” (“Stop procrastinating!”)54. Stogie55. Foe56. Egg on57. Italia’s capital58. Follow orders59. Bic products60. Part of N.Y.C.64. Previously named65. Suffix with station or green

BY BEN SCHNEIDERMAN

In our last issue, we mistakenly published the wrong grid with the crossword clues.Here is the correct grid. We sincerely apologize for our error.For the solution to this week’s puzzle, see The Phoenix’s online edition atwww.swarthmorephoenix.com.

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Although many components of the TownCenter West Development Project — morecommonly known as the inn project — maystill be in the planning stages, it is not tooearly for the college to take a definitivestand on workers’ rights.

In seeking to ensure a fair workplacewhen the inn is built, the SwarthmoreLabor Action Project has attempted overthe past two years to get the college to sup-port a card check neutrality agreement,which is a more streamlined and fairer wayfor workers to gain union representation.

There are two ways that unions canlegally be recognized in the country:through National Labor Relations Boardelections or a “card check.” An NLRB elec-tion is a typically slower process than acard check system.

More importantly, however, severalreported cases suggest employers in a pre-NLRB election period have delayed elec-tions, fired pro-union workers, threatenedto close the worksite, threatened to cutwages and benefits and held one-on-one“meetings” with employees all in an effortto intimidate workers out of voting for aunion. The grimmer reality is that this cal-culated intimidation does, in fact, scareworkers out of voting for union representa-tion in several cases.

The card check system is typicallypaired with a neutrality agreement. As alegal contract between employer and work-ers, this agreement calls for civilitybetween the two sides: The employer agreesto neither endorse nor discourage unionrepresentation, just as employees agree tonot disrupt the flow of the business withactions such as boycotting or striking.

We support a card check neutralityagreement because it fosters civility withinthe workplace. This system has been shownto powerfully ensure workers’ ability tounionize and safeguard against possibleintimidation from an anti-union employer.

In turn, this system allows for the possi-bility to not form a union or dissolve analready formed one if a majority of workersbelieve this is the best option — so theagreement does not, as some opponentswould argue, force a union on unwillingworkers.

Unionization — or, as the case may be,the ability to unionize — is an essentialright that employees should have at a work-site, no matter how small. In addition tomaintaining solid wages for workers andoftentimes ensuring necessary healthcarebenefits, unions foster a sense of solidaritythat cannot be understated. While benefi-cial for employees, the card check neutrali-ty agreement can even be beneficial for theemployer. Adrienne Eaton, a professor whohas studied labor relations and neutralityagreements for years, reported in an on-campus presentation Monday that stocksactually go up after a union is recognizedunder a card check system versus the otherelections process.

The smoothness and civility of unionrecognition under a card check neutralityagreement, then, avoids stressful and divi-sive union battles that end up hurting bothsides. Plus, happy workers logically wouldseem to increase productivity and efficien-cy.

Once the inn is built, the college will nothave control of its labor practices — thatwill rest with the operator (in other words,the employer). Nevertheless, the collegeowns the land that the inn will be built onand will ultimately pick the operator,meaning that it has a great deal of leveragecurrently. As the college looks to find a

developer and operator, the college shouldutilize this leverage to make a card checkneutrality agreement clearly non-nego-tiable.

Deciding on a card check neutralityagreement as the system for union recogni-tion is imperative now rather than later.This action would proactively avoid poten-tial disputes between workers and employ-er that would only bring stress, discontentand anger to the workplace for both sides.The college’s negotiations with developerand operator are vital steps in the process— ones that are near, though the timeline isstill not totally clear. Moreover, trans-parency now will aid in ensuring a fairworkplace for the future.

The timeline still remains unclear, butthe college’s application for a $2 milliongrant — submitted in October — is stillbeing reviewed. If that is approved, the col-lege must start spending money on the proj-ect within six months, which could be assoon as June. While it seems unlikely anyconclusions can be reached at this month’sBoard of Managers meeting, we hope thatsome serious considerations can be made atthe February meeting.

Certainly, a card check neutrality agree-ment is not a perfect system. Unlike theNLRB elections, the actual card check isnot a secret vote. Moreover, some workersin reported cases believe that there is a lackof information disseminated about theunion. Nevertheless, the NLRB seems to bedemocratic only in principle, and thosewho feel uninformed about the union undera card check neutrality agreement typical-ly vote against it.

We are not suggesting the college is los-ing sight of its Quaker principles, nor arewe expecting the college to rush along analready difficult process. Rather, we think

the college should explicitly endorse theprinciples of a card check neutrality agree-ment because it will more effectively safe-guard against employer abuses and ensureworkers’ ability to unionize, compared toNLRB elections.

Fighting for such an agreement some-time soon may be difficult because we arestill in the planning stages. But once theinn is built — if that day comes along — webelieve action now will pay off for bothemployer and employee.

Neutrality agreement for inn project needs college’s support

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As I waspreparingto write thisfinal col-umn in myseries onEuropeansoc i a l i sma n dAmericans’aversion toit, I cameacross adocumentc a l l e d“Investingi nAmerica’s

Economy.” Written by a group of threenon-profit institutions that are essentiallythink tanks, the document is a trove ofreasonable and intelligent solutions tomove to a structurally sound economy inthe near future while helping to spur theeconomy out of the current downturn. It stands in stark contrast to everyday

wisdom and even the sentiment in theWhite House, where the President felt theneed to assure the American people thatthe government is fiscally responsible byannouncing anin s i gn i f i c an tfreeze in federalworkers’ paythat can onlyserve as ammu-nition forR e p u b l i c a n seager todenounce theadministration.In years when

the economy isdoing poorly, right-wing politics appealsto voters because the message seems sim-ple: we must keep spending under controland the best way to do this is to decreasethe size of government. It is essential thatmainstream alternatives to right-wingpolicy proposals are available in thesecases. But right now in America there are

none. Instead of telling his own story, thepresident reluctantly implements someRepublican ideas and in doing so depriveshimself of a message of reason and hopethat could win him re-election in 2012.In The Netherlands political parties

that are not right-leaning can’t get awaywith following rightist rhetoric to scoresome quick minor victories. If one leftistparty did, it would lose a large chunk ofits supporters to another leftist party. That is not to say that the Dutch left

does not realize that some spending mustbe reduced, but it does not go so far asAmerica’s Democratic Party goes by sup-porting the ideas of their political oppo-nents — Democratic opposition againstrenewing the Bush tax cuts for the richestAmericans has faded so much that itlooks increasingly likely that Republicanswill get their way. And Americans who disagree with

right-wing views find there is no left-wingalternative voice to turn to, which feedsback into the widespread view that theleft has no good plans for how to get theeconomy back to a sound state.At this point you might wonder how

the document I mentioned restores budg-et balance in America while avoiding thedraconian cuts that Republicans and,increasingly, Democrats are convincedmust be implemented. The document thethink tanks have written bravely propos-es two reasonable measures that will be

unpopular with the American public. But they are measures that could and

should be part of the story that theAmerican left brings to the American peo-ple to regain the public’s confidence andbe able to repair the country’s damagedand structurally imbalanced economy.First, the think tanks propose raising

taxes on the wealthiest Americans, forinstance by introducing a tax on carbonemissions, by reintroducing the estate taxand by proposing a tax on financial spec-ulation. The latter is an especially brilliant

idea because it would generate around $70billion of revenue in a given year — theyestimated the figure for 2015 — while thetax should appeal to voters who are gen-erally still angry at Wall Street excesses. Why the Obama administration will

not propose a tax like this one is beyondme, but I believe that were there morepolitical parties such ideas would be aired— an idea that finds evidence in the factthat one of the two independent senators,Bernie Sanders from Vermont, is one ofthe senators open to tax increases.The second area that the think tanks

propose to look to is defense spending.They propose saving hundreds of billions

of dollars, forinstance, by cut-ting the nucleararsenal (whileretaining morethan enoughweapons for acredible deter-rent) and by stop-ping expensiveresearch onthings such asnext-generation

fighter jets. To be fair, these proposals originally

come from a commission set up by U.S.Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who is will-ing to consider non-mainstream ideas tosave money. Yet, still, the Obama admin-istration has refused to consider furtherdefense cuts.In The Netherlands both tax increases

and a large cut in spending on the mili-tary are on the tables and have a goodchance of becoming enacted in the law,but in the U.S. this seems far from feasiblegiven the current political “atmosphere.” It’s becoming increasingly difficult for

me to explain the unwillingness ofAmericans to raise taxes or reducedefense expenditures other than throughthe bipolar nature of American politics,which offers voters such limited choice.Of course, the alternative proposals

are not limited to raising taxes anddecreasing defense spending. Recognizing the American Society of

Civil Engineers’ conclusion that fully“two-thirds of U.S. roads are in poor ormediocre condition,” for instance, it rec-ommends putting people to work to repairthe badly deteriorating infrastructurearound the United States. In the long run,this will save costs as investment in roadswill reduce the need for expensive emer-gency repairs. The final note that I want to leave you

with, then, is to convince yourself thatthere are reasonable alternatives to cut-ting, cutting and cutting more expendi-tures by reading the recommendations in“Investing in America’s Economy.”From snowy London, greetings and

have a splendid end of the semester!Peter is a junior studying abroad in

London this semester. You can reach him [email protected].

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Social Thoughts

Peter Akkies

Polarized politics leaveU.S. voters few options

And Americans who disagree with right-wing

views find there is no left-wing alternative voice

to turn to.

StuCoelections

Platforms for this semester’s Student Council election will beavailable online (www.swarthmorephoenix.com) tonight after themidnight deadline. Open positions include: Vice President,Appointments Chair, Campus Life Representative, Secretary andStudent Events Advisor.

Voting begins Wednesday Dec. 8 and ends Sunday Dec. 12. Therewill be a question and answer session with candidates on MondayDec. 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Kohlberg Coffee Bar.

Second deer cull in Crum approvedTo the Editor:Swarthmore College has received per-

mission from the Pennsylvania GameCommission to conduct a cull of the deerpopulation in the college’s Crum Woods fora second consecutive year. This year’s cullis scheduled to take place during the col-lege’s winter break, from mid-Decemberthrough mid-January.In planning for this initiative the college

has once again taken extensive measures toensure the safety of all who use the woods.Highly trained sharpshooters who arePennsylvania Game Commission licensedprofessionals will conduct the cull at preap-proved sites. The areas in which the cullwill take place will be posted for the dura-tion of the cull, which will occur duringtimes when there is little traffic in thewoods.In 2003, a Conservation and Stewardship

Plan for the Crum Woods was completed byNatural Lands Trust and ContinentalConservation. That report concluded thatan overabundance of deer headed the list offactors threatening the woods. Excessivedeer browsing is severely limiting the abil-ity of the forest to regenerate naturally andis altering the structure and composition ofthe forest. For example, deer are consum-ing nearly all of the native oak saplings. Asold oak trees age and die, there are fewyounger trees left to grow and fill in thecanopy and to provide habitat for other ani-mals. Non-native plant species that are notpart of the deer diet are replacing the nativespecies in the woods.Following the delivery of the

Conservation and Stewardship Plan, theCollege’s Crum Woods StewardshipCommittee engaged in research and consul-tation with the local and college communi-ties to consider options for managing thedeer population in order to restore theecosystem of the Crum Woods. Followingan extensive review process, the Collegeconcluded that the most humane, forest-sci-ence-based and socially responsible way tomanage the deer population in the CrumWoods is to cull the herd.The results of population management

measures on the health and vitality of theoverall forest ecosystem are actively beingstudied at the college. A research-basedmonitoring program, designed and imple-mented by Roger Latham of ContinentalConservation (and former Swarthmorebiology professor), is assessing the forestecosystem’s response to the reduced num-ber of deer in the woods. This research pri-marily studies the health and number ofplants in the woods with a focus on thenative species that deer are most likely toconsume. Further information about theresearch that has been conducted in thewoods regarding the deer population isavailable online at http://www.swarth-more.edu/deermgmt.xml, as are answers tofrequently asked questions athttp://www.swarthmore.edu/deerfaq.xmlrelated to this initiative. Questions or com-ments about this issue can be sent to [email protected].

Jeff Jabco and Colin PurringtonCrum Stewardship Committee

Co-Chairs

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Bring reusable container SaturdayTo the Editor:As you may know, Saturday night is the

inception of a wonderful new event —Sharples will be transformed into the GreatHall of Hogwarts, and we will celebrate ourwinter formal Harry Potter-style, at thefirst annual Yule Ball!In order to accomodate the event, the

main room will be closed off for decoratingduring normal Saturday dinnertime hours.Students can still eat in the West DiningHall. Dining Services will be distributingcarry-out containers for the rest of the stu-dent body.However, due to the relatively short

time frame of planning around the event,Dining Services will not be able to providecompostable containers for Saturday night.This means upwards of 1,000 Styrofoam con-

tainers will be handed out. Styrofoam isextremely difficult to recycle, and is harm-ful when broken up or left to break down inthe sun.I strongly encourage all Swatties to

bring some sort of reusable container —tupperware, metal box, reused hummuscontainer, you name it! — to claim yourSharples dinner on Saturday night. Thiswill ensure that we don’t flood our locallandfills with unnecessary Styrofoam —-and will send Dining Services the messagethat our student body is committed to atransition to greener food packaging. Inorder to send this message, we must step upto the plate and take responsibility onSaturday night.Many thanks for your consideration.

Jessi Holler ’11

T h i swill even-tually be ac o l u m nabout theg r e a t e s tboxer inthe world,but firstthis is ac o l u m na b o u t f o o t b a l l .Boxing isnow thecautionarytale people

use when they talk about football’s newemphasis on concussions. They talkabout the danger of football “going theway of” boxing, as in becoming a sportthat’s no longer worth pursuing for any-one but the lower rungs of society, asport that middle-class parents willforce their kids to stay away from ifthings don’t get better fast. They pointout boxing’s transition from culturalstaple to niche status, covered in mostnewspapers with a copy of whatever theAssociated Press cared to write, broad-cast on pay cable and pay - per - view tolimited interest. Still too violent formost viewers, now even the extremistsare gone, defecting to mixed martialarts. It’s brutal for boxing in 2010, theywould say, and they would be right.

Maybe.And here’s where Manny Pacquiao

comes in, the man who “could” be theone to do the unimaginable and makeboxing relevant again — with as manyasterisks, quotations marks and italicsas you would care to put in to empha-size the “could” part of it. Pacquiao,aside from being the guy who sang“Imagine” with Will Ferrell, is aFilipino fighter who is recognized asthe current pound-for-pound* bestboxer on the face of the Earth. If you’rereading this and you’re a guy, he proba-bly weighs less than you do, but overthe past year he has climbed to the topof his sport nearly without resistance,defeating — no, obliterating — oppo-nents who outweighed him by as muchas twenty pounds.

*Basically, a system devised to com-pare fighters across different weightclasses. Of course, these rankings arecomputed by about a hundred sourceswith a hundred sets of criteria.Somewhere in all that could lie someinsight into boxing’s problem.

Horatio Alger could probably havesettled on just about any boxer thereever was if he were searching for a newsubject, but Manny Pacquiao’s storywould have proven especially tempting.Abandoned by his father, he separatesfrom his five siblings to lighten the loadon his mother. Legend has it that he hadtried out for a local boxing team beforehe left, but had been rejected, which issort of like when Michael Jordan could-n’t make the roster of his high schoolbasketball team. He moves to Manila asa teenager and first gets into boxingwhile living on the streets. After afriend and fellow boxer named EugeneBarutag passes away, Pacquiao decidesto go pro at the age of sixteen. Heweighs 98 pounds.

Joe Posnanski of Sports Illustratedonce wrote something about RogerFederer that fits Pacquiao like a glove.Posnanski wrote that Federer’s great-ness was unique in that it could be

appreciated by everyone. In otherwords, if you were watching the firsttennis match of your life, you couldwatch him play and find yourselfunable to take your eyes off the screen,and if you were John McEnroe and youhad been involved in some of the great-est matches in the history of the game,you could watch him play and be just asenthralled. Which is why if anyone cansave boxing on style, it’s Pacquiao, whois aesthetically pleasing enough toseduce the casual fan while causing BobArum, a promoter who witnessed Aliwhen Ali was Ali, to declare him thegreatest boxer he has ever seen.

A fighternamed MedgoenSingurat defeatsPacquiao, now 20years old, in 1999to strip him ofthe Flyweightworld title. Inr e s p o n s e ,Pacquiao puts onabout 25 poundsand moves up tojunior feather-weight, also known as super ban-tamweight*, and doesn’t lose for anoth-er six years. In ’03, he beats MarcoAntonio Barrera (don’t tell me you’venever heard of HIM) to become theWorld Featherweight Champion, andgets honored by the Filipino House ofRepresentatives. He weighs 123 pounds.

*A lot of the weight classes have dif-ferent names. Strike two.

To say definitively that Pacquiaocomes in second to God in thePhilippines is to overlook that the racemight be close enough to demand arecount. His every move reported on,his every act of charity commemorated,it is almost unthinkable that he actual-ly lost the first time he ran forCongress. He has captured the completeand total reverence of his homelandunlike any athlete in recent memory,and while most stories detailing theextent to which one holds the attentionof his country hostage have to be takenwith a grain of salt, is there really anydoubt that the crime rate in thePhilippines actually drops sharply dur-ing a Pacquiao fight? Who would leavehis house to rob a grocery store andmiss the National Fist, the PambansangKamao, experience his latest triumph?Who would leave his house to arresthim? Unimaginable.

The final loss of Pacquiao’s careercomes against Erik Morales in the fightfor the super featherweight title in 2005.He gets headbutted in the fifth roundand loses by unanimous decision, eachjudge putting Morales two points ahead.He regroups. He puts on a little moreweight and he fights Morales again. Theextra weight helps, but Morales doesn’twant to go down; he refuses. He holdson to the ropes, the referee, anything hecan find. At last, in round ten Pacquiaoknocks him down. Morales has neverbeen knocked down before. He is theWorld Super Featherweight Champion.He weighs 130 pounds.

Pacquiao’s filmography lists roles ineight films, along with two albums (hewasn’t bad covering Lennon), whichdoesn’t even include the biographical“Pacquiao: The Movie.” The latestrumor has Sylvester Stallone trying toget him into his next movie; just don’tlet the Philippines know that theNational Fist will play an Expendable.

Still, it wasn’t enough: He wanted more.He knew there was more in him. In ’07,he got his high school diploma andstarted taking college courses in busi-ness management in his hometown.Later that year, he decided to run for aseat in the House, the same people whohonored him after he beat Barrera, onlyhe lost. He regrouped. He decided to runagain two years later with a partycalled the People’s Champ Movement.His opponent was part of a family thathas been in power for thirty years.Pacquiao won twice as many votes as hedoes. He is still a congressman today.Think about that for a second: One of

the world’s great-est athletesmoonlighting asan elected o f f i c i a l .Unimaginab le ,right? That’s sortof the themehere.

In 2008,Pacquiao defeatsOscar De La Hoyain a fight De La

Hoya was supposed to win by overpow-ering Pacquiao, except that suddenlyPacquiao has gotten bigger to move upto welterweight, only it isn’t slowinghim down. He actually seems faster,quicker. De La Hoya throws about fourhundred punches and lands less than ahundred. His corner stops the fight inthe eighth round. It’s the last fight ofhis career. It was also the second-mostsuccessful fight in boxing history.When Pacquiao beats Miguel Cotto ayear later, that fight becomes the most-watched match of the year. Suddenly,people are starting to pay attentionwhen Pacquiao’s name comes up. Heagrees to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr.,who had the pound-for-pound titlebefore him. Then Mayweather accuseshim of using banned substances, andPacquiao sues. A boxing story getsworldwide attention once again. Thefight gets called off in January, but thatdoesn’t stop Mayweather from posting a

video online nine months later in whichhe promises to beat Pacquiao and “cookhim with some cats and dogs.”* NowPacquiao comes out looking good, andthis is around the time where you prob-ably saw him on a talk show, sittingnext to Will Ferrell and managing tohold his own. He’s the World SuperWelterweight Champion. He’s the bestboxer on the planet. He weighs 150pounds.

*Not the worst thing a boxer has eversaid about an opponent, by a long shot.Strike three.

You could say that Pacquiao haslived a life of contrasts, and it wouldn’tbe far off. A professional fighter whodoubles as a politician, a penniless boyfrom the streets who pours his newwealth back into his community, the neplus ultra in a sport that thrives onaggression who is soft-spoken and hum-ble. All of it held up by an unshakableChristian faith, which infuses everypart of his life, outside the ring but alsowithin it: Every day, when his trainingsession comes to an end, when he hasfinished honing the craft of beating menwith his fists, he will ask for a coupleminutes of silence. Then he will pray.

If there needs to be a “could” addedwhenever the question of Pacquiao sav-ing boxing comes up, then an “if” isn’tfar behind. At 31, he is fifteen years intohis pro career, and even his own train-er wonders if there are more than twoor three more fights left in him. Thatone of them would be againstMayweather is looking less and lesslikely, and so the matchup that reallycould make saving boxing that mucheasier may be denied us just as moreand more people are beginning to payattention again.

But perhaps we should leave worriesabout the future to Pacquiao the con-gressman. For now, though, whether itbe for only two, three, five, or ten morefights, Pacquio the Savior is still amongus, ready to step into the ring to attemptthe unthinkable once more.

Timothy is a sophomore. You canreach him at [email protected].

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Bullet Points

Timothy Bernstein

Manny Pacquiao just could be the savior of boxing

garnet athlete of the week

What she’s done:

the first-year torched the dickinson reddevils to the tune of 21 points in theGarnet’s centennial conference openingvictory. Moritzky is third on the team, averaging 10.4 points per game.

favorite career MoMent:

“Winning the [swat tip-off tournament]. itwas the first time the seniors on the teamhave won it as well as coach devarney.”

season Goals:

“to be playing in the conference finals andultimately make it to the ncaa tourna-ment. My personal goal is to contribute allthat i can to the team in order to make ourteam goals a reality.”

favorite rihanna sonG:

“disturbia.”Xingyu Zhang Phoenix Staff

Kayla MoritzKyfy., basKetball, coto de caza, ca.

If there needs to be a‘could’ added wheneverthe question of Pacquiaosaving boxing comes up,then an ‘if’ isn’t far behind.

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Senior Spotlight: Sarah Lambert — the art of passionBY VICTOR [email protected]

Sarah Lambert ’11 is the face ofSwarthmore athletics — the lonesenior on an up-and-coming volley-ball team this past season, co-presi-dent of the Student-Athlete AdvisoryCommittee and a constant presenceat Swarthmore athletic events.

Lambert has a rare presenceabout her, a combination of herengaging personality, enthusiasm,and that ever-present smile.

But when volleyball head coachHarleigh Chwastyk first metLambert, who has led theSwarthmore volleyball team fromnear the bottom of the CentennialConference squad to the verge ofnational recognition, she was a littlemore quiet and reserved.

“I still remember the first time Imet Sarah,” Chwastyk said. “Shebarely said two words and sheseemed to be a very down - to - earthperson.”

At Swarthmore, Lambert, behindconstant dedication and remarkableschool spirit, blossomed into theemotional leader of the volleyballteam.

“She has exceeded every singleone of my expectations,” Chwastyksaid. “Not everything comes easy toher, but she works incredibly hardand she’s found playing time everyyear because of that.”

Even in her maturity, Lambertremains a child at heart, accordingto Chwastyk, who describesLambert’s love of coloring and color-ing books.

Lambert defines versatility on thevolleyball court. She has playednearly every position while atSwarthmore, from outside hitter tosetter. But a constant throughout herSwarthmore career has been herserving ability, a weapon which hasplagued opponents for the past fouryears and propelled the Garnet tosome of its biggest wins in programhistory.

Against Haverford in theCentennial Conference semifinalsthis past November, it was behindthe golden palm of Lambert that theGarnet advanced to the firstCentennial finals in program historyand knocked off the four - time -defending - champion Fords.

Down 2-1 and tied at 24 in thefourth set, Lambert subbed in andpushed the Garnet to the lead to forcea fifth set. In that tie-breaking set,Lambert served out the final threepoints.

It was the culmination of a bril-liant career, during which sheamassed 132 aces, tied for fifth mostin program history, with school spir-it, skill and four years of hard workintertwining into a once-in-a-lifetimemoment.

“Lambert has consistently beenone of the strongest servers for thelast three years … at least for the lasthalf of the season, our lineup was setso that Sarah was one of our firstservers,” Chwastyk said.

Lambert’s serve is aggressive butmore of a float serve than a harddrive, almost ironic coming from thesenior who is affectionately knownas “Slam.” She is consistently able todrop it in between defenders andright along the back line.

Even down 2-0 and 22-16 in thethird set of the Centennial

Conference Finals against Franklin& Marshall, Lambert came out firingon her serve, running off six consec-utive points to knot the third set at 22before the Diplomats would take thenext three points.

Lambert was quickly thrust into aleadership role with the volleyballprogram. When Lambert was a soph-omore, the team only had eight play-ers, four of whom were first-years.She joined in with the upperclass-men and has led by example since.

“Slam was a great captain. Shewas always on top of things thatneeded to be done. She was reallydedicated to the team and wanted tosee the team succeed as a whole,”Brone Lobichusky ’14 said.

“Slam loved our team and thesport so much and that reallyshowed. She really led by example,by always working her hardest anddoing everything in he power for ourteam. Her dedication was a big factorin our team's success,” KatMontemurro ’13 said.

“[She] was not only a great leaderon the court, but off the court we alllooked to her. She was always organ-ized, planning team activities, travelschedules and even some practices ...she was the heart of our team,”Montemurro added.

Lambert is a model of consistencyboth in games, with her serve, poiseand leadership, and in practice. Sheis regularly the first one in the gym,setting up the net before each prac-tice.

That consistency extended intothe mental aspects of the game aswell. In a sport dominated by runs,hard hitting and fast paced action, itwas that calm collectedness thatallowed Lambert to keep not onlyherself but her entire team poisedthrough a match.

Though Lambert hardly said any-thing when she first met Chwastyk,it is her words of inspiration that herteammates say they will miss mostnext year when Lambert is no longerthere to take the court.

“I’ll miss her inspirational wordsat the beginning of each game,” saidAllie Coleman ’13, who shared timeat the setter position with Lambertthis year.

“[Lambert] was the best cheer-leader on the team — always yellingand getting everybody pumped up.Her team spirit is definitely going tobe a loss to the team. I liked Slam'stalks during time outs — they wentstraight to the point of what wasgoing on on the court,” addedLobichusky.

Passion — for her sport, her team-mates, her school and even herhometown Steelers and Penguins —has dictated Sarah Lambert’sSwarthmore career. From her workwith the Swarthmore mascotPhineas the Phoenix to her mentor-ing of a young volleyball team to herconstant support of her fellow ath-letes, it is difficult to think ofSwarthmore athletics without imme-diately thinking of Lambert as well.

“With a lot of players, you seethem grow and mature. But what I’dsay with Sarah is that she still hasthat little bit of kid in her,”Chwastyk said. “I think that lendsitself to the school spirit. She reallyenjoys all the opportunities thatshe’s had and has a greater per-spective. She’s very mature butstill young at heart.”

Andrew Cheng Phoenix Staff

Sarah Lambert was the senior leader for one of the most successful volleyball teams in Swarthmoreprogram history. Lambert and the Garnet advanced to their first ever Centennial finals this year.



Women’s basketball wins four in a row, now 4-1

BY DANIEL [email protected]

Despite some exceptional individualperformances, the Swarthmore men’s bas-ketball team displayed just a little bit toomuch inconsistency over the last weekand a half. After soaring out to a 3-0start—one of the best in school history—the Garnet dropped close games toWashington & Lee, Dickinson (in theCentennial Conference opener) andMoravian this past Monday.After escaping against Clark

University with a 69-66 win that involved alate game rally from 13 points down intheir first game of the Equinox Classic, theGarnet ran into a strong Washington &Lee Generals team. A back-and-forth gameended with a 59-45 Garnet loss.Falling behind by 16 points early in the

first half didn’t help the Garnet, althoughRyan Carmichael ’11 and Sam Lacy ’11both helped to spark rallies that turnedthat deficit into a 42-41 lead with 8:35 left inthe game. Will Gates ’13 added 15 points and 10

rebounds for a double-double, leading allplayers in both categories. Unfortunately,this was not enough, as the Generals wenton an 18-3 run to end the game.Before leaving for Thanksgiving break,

the Garnet opened up CentennialConference play with a trip to Dickinson,losing 74-61. The team was led by 30 pointsfrom Gates, with Sean Conroe ’13 adding 10of his own.Coach Lee Wimberly thought this was a

winnable game, pointing out that thedefense held the Red Devils’ three leadingscorers to single digits in points.However, he was concerned with theguard play, noting that three young guardsfor Dickinson scored 42 points. Lacyagreed, saying, “They got easy penetrationall game. Almost all of their points were offthe drive.”Wimberly believes the guards are capa-

ble of better play than they showed againstthe Red Devils. While the defense needs toimprove, the offensive flow needs to aswell. Gates thinks more people need toscore: “In our two wins over Clark andWidener, we got a lot of scoring from manydifferent people. I think that was ourdownfall in the Dickinson game. In ourwins we had 3-4 people in double figuresand against Dickinson only 2.”

“We need to get scoring from some-where other than Will Gates. We needmore reliable scoring from the supportingcast. As good a scorer as Will is, it can't bea one-man show. Other guys need to stepup,” Lacy added.More people did score Monday night

against Moravian, but the Garnet fell 87-79in a game high on fouls, with 67 free throwattempts between the two teams. Theoffense was still heavily reliant on Gates,who scored 31 points to tie his career best.The Garnet also received 13 points fromJay Kober ’14 and 12 from Carmichael.The game was a tale of two halves for

the Garnet, who fell behind early again,this time spotting the Greyhounds 22points in the first half before warming up.Down 49-31 after the first half, the Garnetrallied to cut the deficit to seven late in thesecond half, but that was as close as theteam would get.Gates’ consecutive 30-point games is

one of the greatest scoring performancesin Swarthmore men’s basketball history.He is the first player in program history toscore 30 back-to-back, and now has three30-point games in his career.The Garnet travelled to Muhlenberg

Wednesday night in a critical CentennialConference matchup. Although the Muleswere a preseason pick to make theCentennial playoffs, the Garnet still wentfor the win. Wimberly believes that Muhlenberg’s

gym is one of the toughest places to get aroad win in the conference.Despite that, the team needed the win.

Lacy said, “We need to play better on theroad. It sounds simple, but we need to beatthem no matter whether the game is in ourgym or theirs. We won’t make the playoffsif we can’t beat teams on the road.”Unfortunately, the Garnet’s first true

road win of the season was not to be, asSwarthmore fell to the Mules Wednesday.After going down 16 points at the half atMuhlenberg, the Garnet valiantly battledback, taking a one point lead in the finalminute before the Mules rallied for a 59-58win. The Garnet now begins a Centennial

homestand before December Break. Thenext game is on Saturday, December 4,against Ursinus at Tarble Pavilion. Tip-offis scheduled for 3:00. The Garnet con-cludes the 2010-part of the season againstWashington College on Wednesday.

BY RENEE [email protected]

Responding to a disappointing loss in the season open-er against Widener, the Swarthmore women’s basketballteam has won four games in a row, including two impres-sive Centennial Conference performances.At the Swat Tip-Off Tournament on November 21, the

Garnet bested Immacalata 70-66 in the ChampionshipGame, having snuck past Misericordia the day before.Swarthmore followed up that home championship

with a dominating road-victory over Dickinson to openCentennial play and a strong 75-66 win at home againstdefending Centennial-champion McDaniel.Against the Dickinson Red Devils, Kayla Moritzky ’14

led the team with a game high 21 points, including anacrobatic and-one-layup as time expired in the first half ofplay.Kathryn Stockbower ’11 put up another double-double

with 20 points and 14 rebounds. Stockbower recorded 16double-doubles out of 25 games played in the 2009-10 sea-son. Katie Lytle ’14 played a solid game, recording sixpoints, five rebounds, three steals and two blocks.Swarthmore’s defense made a strong showing in the

second half, recording four blocks, five steals and 29defensive rebounds as the Garnet won 63-49.

Looking to extend the winning streak to four games onTuesday, the Garnet took a four point lead into the halfbefore the Green Terror responded to take a three pointlead midway through the second half.But the Garnet senior leaders responded, with Ceylon

Bodur ’11, who led the team with a game-high 17 points,draining a long three and Stockbower adding an and-oneto give the Garnet a lead it would never relinquish.In her first game of the season, Genny Pezzola ’12

recorded six points, while Lytle scored 11 and MadelineRoss ’13 added seven.After that initial loss to Widener, the team has worked

hard to get on track, playing together as a unit and pow-ering through every game. The team went into the secondgame of the season against Misericordia with the mindsetof that being the start of the season. “We take it four games at a time, hoping for a 4-0

among those four games. We focus on what we do well andthen capitalize on it. Swarthmore has been known as anacademic school, but we’re here to make a statement,”said Ross in response to the recent success of the team.But despite the recent success, head coach Renee

DeVarney is only cautiously optimistic. “It’s too early tomean anything right now,” she said.The team agrees that the preseason poll, in which the

team was picked sixth, behind both Dickinson and

McDaniel, holds no meaning once the season actuallystarts. “They ranked us in terms of what we had last year.They didn’t take into account our first-year class. But, thisyear I think we have everything we need,” Moritzky said.“We want to play like we know how to play. When we

go into the locker room at the end of a game, we want tobe proud of how we played,” Ross said.Despite injuries in the beginning of the season, the

team is performing well. First-year Liz Casey is stillrecovering with an ankle injury, but the team hopes shewill be returning to play soon. Lytle also had a preseason leg injury but has been

lighting up the court since. Against McDaniel, she was asharp 3-4 from the field and 5-6 from the line.“We got better every game,” DeVarney said. “I just

want to see [the team] get better every day and have funin the midst of the struggle.” The team has a series of three more Centennial games

prior to December Break. Swarthmore travels toMuhlenberg tonight before returning home for matchupswith Ursinus and Washington.The team is not worried about the upcoming confer-

ence games, feeling confident that they will play well. “I think we can win [the next three games], and that’s

the exciting part,” Moritzky said.Tip-off with Muhlenberg tonight is scheduled for 7:30.

Garnet men look to rebound after three consecutive losses

Eric Verhasselt Phoenix Staff

Jordan Martinez enters the front court in Monday’s non-conference game against Moravian.The Garnet shot 43 percent from the floor, but fell 87-79.

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BY ANA APOSTOLERIS [email protected]

After defeating Franklin &Marshall for the first time in fouryears two weeks ago, theSwarthmore Garnet men’s swimteam cemented its reputation as ajuggernaut in the CentennialConference. After several individualwins in last weekend’s Rowan Invite(a meet without team scoring), themen rolled to their fourth dual meetwin of the season last Tuesday,handing the Ursinus Bears a 147-113drubbing as Swarthmore remainedundefeated on the season.

Overlooked in the men’s domi-nant start to the year, however, isthe fact that the women — notexpected to have much of an impactin the conference after losing All-American Anne Miller ’10 to gradu-ation — recorded their second con-ference win of the season onTuesday, against just one loss. The143-119 victory over Ursinus came onthe heels of several strong individ-ual showings at Rowan, and theteam’s unexpected success can bealmost entirely attributed to the per-formances of the class of 2014.

Becky Teng, Erin Lowe, MaggieRegan and Sarah Eppley may onlyhave a few months of Swat lifeunder their collective belt, but thefirst-year quartet has wasted notime in making a major impact onthe Garnet athletics scene. Addingversatility and speed to a team badlyin need of a jolt, Lowe, Teng, Eppleyand Regan have rendered the futureof the women’s swim team muchbrighter, consistently racking uppoints in a variety of events.

“It’s been surprising,” said tem-porary head coach Casmera Wick.“There was a lot of talk going intothe season about Anne Miller notbeing here, and we also lost Casey[Osborne] and Claire [Shelden], butwith our freshman women … thosefour have definitely brought a lot tothe table.”

Teng, in her rookie campaign, isthe Garnet’s winningest swimmer ofthe season to date, having won sixevents in her first four collegiatedual meets. A graduate of NewYork’s Bronx High School ofScience, she’s given the team out-standing production in a variety ofevents. She has scored points forSwarthmore in every event exceptfor butterfly and distance freestyleand has also contributed to bothfreestyle and medley relays.

“Swarthmore swimming is a bitof change from my club swim teamback in New York, but I think I amadjusting pretty well,” Teng said, anassertion with which all who havewatched her swim this season canagree. She also feels as though herversatility is well complemented bythe practice structure at Swat, say-ing, “Coming from a team whereyardage was the main priority, Ifully appreciate … [thatSwarthmore] offers options in prac-tice to target different swimmers.”

As much as she has thrived inher new environment, Tengremains humble about her achieve-ments while keeping her eyes firmlyon the future. “I think my timeshave been solid so far, but it's stillthe beginning — and I know there’sroom for improvement,” she said. “I

can't help but feel optimistic goingforward with the team; I'm alwayswishing for good health, great prac-tices and the best outcomes.”

Teng’s “best outcomes” havebeen matched almost win for win byteammate Lowe. Lowe, a Texanfrom Austin’s Liberal Arts andScience Academy, is one of theGarnet’s leading point-scorers thusfar; she has recorded five individualwins in her first four meets and has-n’t finished lower than third in anyevent. According to Lowe, sheswims “almost exclusively butterflyand freestyle, because I can’t dobackstroke or breaststroke to savemy life” — but her areas of specialtyhave worked out so far, as she hasemerged victorious in the 200freestyle twice, the 100 freestyleonce and the 200 butterfly twice.

Eppley and Regan have swumunder the radar in comparison tothe other impact first-years, buttheir importance to the team depthis not to be underestimated. Eppley,a sprint freestyler come toSwarthmore by way of Orinda,California, has put up a significantscoring haul in the 50 and the 100,placing in the top 5 in every raceshe’s swum thus far. She’s alsofound a niche on Swat’s “A”freestyle relay teams and swimmingthe freestyle leg in several medleyrelays. Her emergence as a sprintspecialist comes not a moment toosoon, as the Garnet’s only top-16 fin-isher in last year’s Championship50, Claire Shelden, was lost to grad-uation.

In contrast, Regan’s importanceto the team lies not in specialtyevents, but in her ability to provideconsistent point-scoring potentialacross the board. On her comfortzone, the New Jersey native said,“My main events are the 200 breast-stroke and the 400 IM, but since Ihave been at Swarthmore I havestarted swimming a lot of the dis-tance freestyle events.” She addedthat she is used to serving as a jack-of-all-trades in swimming circles —“[in high school] I would swim any-thing that my coach needed me toswim.”

In her ability to swim “any-thing,” Regan has given the Garnetwomen vital depth in their lineup.She has scored points every timeshe’s raced, and the versatile fresh-man has set ambitious goals for hercollegiate career. “It would be awe-some to break some of the schoolrecords or maybe make NCAA's bythe time I graduate,” she said.

With [the freshman class’] depthand diversity … it’s very excitinggoing forward,” Wick said. That isnot to say, however, that the futureis the only thing the women have tolook forward to. “This year, thewomen have really gelled,” sheadded. “They’re willing to stand upfor each other, willing to competefor each other … there’s somethingabout this team, it doesn’t matter ifthe cards are stacked against them,they’re ready to compete until thebitter end.”

Both the men and women take tothe pool again this Friday andSaturday for the SwarthmoreInvitational. The Friday session willbegin at 6:30 pm, while Saturday ses-sions are set to begin at 9:30 a.m. and5 p.m.

First-years rule the pool

With winter break fastapproaching and Thanksgiv-ing already gone, my thoughtsturn to what I’m most thank-ful for. Two things alwayscome to mind: family andhockey. Yet these two thingshave always felt like one andthe same to me, not onlybecause I love my home teamas if they were family, but alsobecause the drama that comesout of the National HockeyLeague can only be describedin terms of family. Thus, myThanksgiving dinner had afew extra characters at thetable that kept the breakinteresting, as the holidays asa hockey fan always are.Without further ado, I intro-duce my NHL family and thestorylines they have foundthemselves entangled in, andme entertained by, recently.

It is always a bit awkwardwhen a sibling brings homeher latest significant other forfamily holidays. You hear forso long how great this newguy is and how she can’t waitfor you to meet him. She hashyped the guy so much thatthe entire family is in a tizzyto welcome him. But when hefinally gets there, after all thehype and uncertainty ofwhether he would actuallycome this year, he trips overthe tablecloth, accidentallyknocks over some candles andsets the turkey on fire. MeetIlya Kovalchuk.

The winger for the NewJersey Devils had the entirehockey world talking abouthim this off-season when hebecame a free agent. Hardly aday went by without anotherKovalchuk trade rumor head-lining hockey blogs every-where. After his first contractwas rejected by the NHL,Kovalchuck signed a 15-year$100 million deal to stay withthe Devils. New Jersey wasexcited to start cashing in onthis huge investment startingthis season.

Yet all Kovalchuk seems tobe able to do this year is tripover the tablecloth. InNovember, he only racked upone goal and three assists, notto mention a minus-seven +/-ranking. This is an abysmalrecord for someone gettingpaid that much and a big letdown after so much off-seasonhype. He hasn’t been helpinghis case at all by botching

easy plays. Sure, it’s a lot ofpressure to meet the familyfor the first time, or to live upto $100 million expectations,but that’s no excuse to sud-denly become a different play-er. He needs to put some seri-ous points up in the secondhalf of the season if he wantsto be invited back next year.

No family is complete with-out the crazy uncle whosemost recent divorce everyoneloves to gossip about. Sure,most of the stories that youtell behind his back are out-landish exaggerations, butyou just can’t help yourself.They seemed like such ahappy couple and then out ofnowhere, he says he needs achange. And just like that he’ssitting in your family room,avoiding questions aboutwhat went wrong. MeetDanny Heatley.

Heatley found himself atthe center of the NHL gossipmill in 2009 when he decidedthat it was “time for a change”and asked to be traded fromthe Ottawa Senators. All theold questions are gettingthrown at him again as heprepares to return to Ottawawith his new team, the SanJose Sharks, this week. Hastime healed the old woundsbetween these two lovebirds?With reports that Ottawa fansare booing the Sharks logowhenever it is shown atOttawa home games, I’mgoing to say not quite.

All healthy sibling rela-tionships have some kind ofrivalry in them. But betweenbrothers, the rivalry is alwaysa little bloodier. Meet thePittsburgh Penguins and theWashington Capitals.

The rivalry between thesetwo teams is especially drawnout at the moment since HBOis doing a special documen-tary mini-series based on thisyear’s winter classic betweenthe two. As if the Ovechkin v.Crosby storyline wasn’tenough to make these teamscompetitive, the promise ofprime television airtime hasmade it even better.

At a recent team bondingexercise, HBO followed theCaps to FBI headquarters,where the guys got some tipson how to train like agents.And really, what better wayfor hockey players to show offtheir manliness than byshooting things and knockingdown doors? And to top it alloff, “blowing stuff up,” asSemyon Varlamov describesit. Their target of choice waseasy: a stuffed penguin doll. Ifonly Santa could fit somePenguin retaliation onto hissleigh …

For everyone who has a lit-tle brother, you know that it ishis job to be as annoying aspossible. This usually entailsreading your diary, rattingyou out to your parents, or, ifhe’s really intent on makingyour life hell, sticking his

hands within an inch of yourface and repeating, “I’m nottouching you, I’m not touch-ing you!” Meet Chris Pronger.

Over the last few seasons,it has become apparent thatthis Philadelphia Flyersdefenseman wants to chal-lenge Sean Avery for the titleof most annoying opponent.In last year’s Stanley CupFinals, Pronger thought itwould be a good idea to makeoff with the game puck — forgames his team didn’t win.Thus it should be no surprisethat Pronger is again in themedia for acting in a less-than-mature manner. In agame this week against theCalgary Flames, Prongerattempted to distract theFlames’ goalie by waving hisarm in front of his face, littlebrother-style. Although it isdebatable whether this wasactually against NHL rules,the overtime goal that camefrom the incident was disal-lowed and the Flyers ended uplosing in a shootout. When themedia asked Pronger about it,he took the high road, ofcourse: “I’m not going to getinto a he-said-she-said withthe refs; I’m the he.” Yes, call-ing the referee a girl is defi-nitely the best way to handle acall you don’t like.

Lastly, we have the heli-copter parent. Some knowthis particular type of parent-ing better than others, but wehave all heard the horror sto-ries. These parents getinvolved in their kids liveswhether they want them to ornot. They bend rules and over-step boundaries to ensure thattheir kid is protected. MeetColin Campbell.

A Senior VP and Directorof Hockey Operations in theNHL, Campbell functions asthe league’s disciplinarianand is responsible for oversee-ing suspensions and otherpunishments for players whomisbehave. But much to hisembarrassment, e-mailsrecently came out whereCampbell tried to interveneon behalf of his son, Gregory,a player for the BostonBruins. Campbell complainsabout borderline calls againsthis son and insults other play-ers who drew the penalties,notably calling Marc Savardthe “biggest faker.” Talkabout hovering too close. Theperson most embarrassed bythe exposure of these emailswas probably the person theywere meant to protect:Campbell’s son.

As finals end and you startheading home, I hope you willconsider inviting these char-acters to your next family gettogether as well. Sure, theyare a bit eccentric and stealall the best leftovers. But real-ly, life is just more interestingwhen they are around.

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

Hockey for Thanksgiving

The Purkey Perspective

Hannah Purkey



Senior Spotlight: The maturation of Morgan LangleyBY VICTOR [email protected]

The number seven has earned a spe-cial place in recent soccer history,donned by some of the premier scorersin the last two decades: ChristianoRonaldo, David Beckham, Frank Ribery,David Villa and Bastian Schweinsteiger,just to name a few.

For the Swarthmore Garnet, MorganLangley ’11 has worn the number sevenfor the past two years during which hebecame not only the best player in theCentennial Conference and the bestplayer to ever play at Swarthmore, butone of the best men’s soccer players inall of Division III.

Langley led Swarthmore in goals ineach of the past two seasons, compiling14 goals in each of the past two cam-paigns. Langley also led the Garnet inassists this season, with 14, shatteringthe previous single season record ofeight.

For Langley, 73 of his 95 career points,the most in Swarthmore history, came inhis final two years for the Garnet. Thehighlights are endless — the game-tyinggoal against Hobart, the assist versusDickinson, the hat-trick againstGettysburg, the game winners overStevens or Hopkins or Haverford — asLangley combined his stunning combi-nation of strength, speed, touch and fin-ish to wreak havoc to the Garnet’ oppo-sition.

But despite the scoring explosion,Langley’s greatest improvements on thepitch over the past four seasons havebeen in the mental side of the game.

When you are a premiere offensivetalent, everything is fair game fordefenders. Throughout his career,Langley was pushed, pulled, tripped,kicked and hit with moves suitable for aWWE wrestling ring. On three separateoccasions just this past year, he wasdragged down from behind by the lastdefender to prevent a breakaway. Fouls?Sure. But enough to throw Langley offhis game.

“I think [Morgan] would be the firstto tell you that in his early years atSwarthmore, he had a very short fuse,”goaltender David D’Annunzio ’12 said.“And that was sometimes a problem.Opponents would use his intensityagainst him and try to get him focusedmore on the trash talk and the dirtyfouls they would make on him.”

But that changed in the past twoyears. Langley never lost his fire andintensity on the field, but instead chan-neled that energy and passion throughhis play. “I remember there were manyincidents this season where in past sea-sons I would have thought, ‘That’s goingto take Morgan out of his game.’ Butthey didn’t … I’m really pleased withhow he responded to our opponents’antics this year, and I think it is an indi-cator of how Morgan’s game has devel-oped and matured over his collegecareer,” D’Annunzio added.

“I think that Morgan has been one ofthe most dramatic development cases Ihave worked with,” head coach EricWagner said. “He has become multi-dimensional and as an athlete, when hegot here he was fairly fragile … and hebecame much more physically tough,sound, athletic and fit. He has gone frombeing a very tentative player to being an

incredibly strong emotional leader forthe team,” Wagner added.

Langley, as a junior, became the first10-goal scorer in a single season forSwarthmore in Wagner’s tenure at theCollege. The breakout season was theresult of a commitment that Langleymade over the summer after his sopho-more spring-season when he realizedthat he needed to rely on more than justskill to become the dominant player thathe believed he could be.

“He decided that he needed to commithimself 100% to soccer or get out of it, andbetween that sophomore spring and jun-ior fall, he decided to commit himselfathletically — fitness, strength, health,everything. He worked his tail off overthe summer and came back in incredibleshape and was a 90-minute player fromthen on,” Wagner said.

For anyone who has seen Langley dis-mantle opponent’s defenses with hisbrilliant first touch, quick turns andbreakaway speed, it is difficult to imag-ine Langley ever laboring on the field.But prior to that summer, Langleywould find himself winded after only 20or 25 minutes on the pitch. He would losehis touch and focus. But not anymore.

“It’s a wonderful case of player devel-opment and a wonderful case of maturi-ty. It’s just a great success story allaround,” said Wagner, who never sawLangley play live until he arrived atSwarthmore as a first-year.

That maturity was contagious, instill-

ing confidence in all of his other team-mates that if they put a ball within thesame area-code as Langley, he wouldfind it and make a play.

Kieran Reichert ’13, who was secondon the team with seven assists this year,will miss Langley’s play-making abilityup top. “The thing I will miss most nextseason will be looking up, seeingMorgan making a run, hitting a ball andfeeling confident and relieved that hewill put the ball away. That kind of reliefand trust is invaluable.”

“He’s so quick that he can always cre-ate for himself, however this season, heshowed an equal willingness to createfor his teammates,” Micah Rose ’12 said.Langley assisted on three of Rose’s fivenon-penalty-kick goals this season.

For his senior season, the ClothierField crowd expected magic fromLangley every time he took the pitch.And incredibly he delivered, time andtime again. He scored or assisted on thegame-winning goal in eight of the team’s10 regular-season home games this year.

Rose, a captain for the Garnet in 2010,knows that the team will miss Langley’stalent in 2011. But it is his chemistrywith Langley that Rose will miss themost.

“I’ll just miss walking out onto thefield with somebody who I’ve playeddozens and dozens of games with — thatlevel of familiarity is not easy to devel-op. Morgan and I worked a lot together.We developed a certain chemistry

through playing at Swat and in Vermontthat will be difficult to replace,” Rosesaid.

That chemistry was tangible —between Langley and all of his team-mates — every time that he stepped ontothe field. Langley’s 14 assists, good forfourth in all of Division III, are a goodtestament to that, with Langley puttingpass after pass right to the feet of histeammates.

Langley gave the Garnet fans onefinal treat in his penultimate game, athrilling 2-1 victory over DeSales in thefirst round of the 2010 NCAA tourna-ment.

Tied in the final minute of regulation,Langley ran onto a ball in the left cornerand served a perfect cross —cleat tocleat — to Fabian Castro ’12 for a tap-into put the Garnet back into the secondround of the NCAA Championships.

“I’m going to miss the attitude andintensity that he brought to the field,”D’Annunzio said. “He was always soconfident, and I think that helped every-one around him. I knew that every timehe played he was going to show the oppo-nents why they shouldn’t be on the fieldwith us. And he wasn’t going to stopuntil they knew.”

Langley and his classmates GageNewman ’11 and Philippe Celestin ’11leave the Garnet with a 63-9-12 careerrecord. The team did not lose a singlegame at Clothier Field in either of thepast two seasons.

Andrew Cheng Phoenix Staff

As a senior, Morgan Langley set both the single-season and career points men’s soccer record. Langley recorded 42 points this season to give him 95 in his career.

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