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(04/28/11 3:54am)
The fall of 2011 will usher in new faces for the Head of Brainerd Commons and the Head of Cook Commons.
Stefano Mula, assistant professor of Italian, will be taking over as Cook Commons Head for C.A. Dana Professor of Italian Patricia Zupan during her year-long sabbatical. Professor of German Roman Graf will be the new commons head for Brainerd, taking over for Robert Schine, Silberman professor of Jewish studies.
Zupan has served as head of Cook Commons since 2000. She will be taking a year off to work on her book-length study, “Dante’s Image of Rome.” She will be working both at the College and in Italy, specifically in Florence, Rome and Siena.
Zupan said her interest in being a commons head sprung from her work as a professor of Italian at the College.
“I became a commons head first because as an Italian professor, I am steeped in the living-learning philosophy of the Italian School and the Middlebury Language Schools,” said Zupan. “I am very familiar with the creation of environments that respond to a fully-dimensional development of students, and that intend to empower students to take responsibility for their living-learning communities.”
Zupan also attributed her desire to be a commons head and her success as head of Cook Commons to the support of her family.
“Honestly, I became a commons head because my whole family was committed to the project,” said Zupan. “My late husband, Franco Ciccone, and even my then-teenaged daughter Marisa were very enthusiastic about the possibility of our family being involved with the College in the building of intellectual and interpersonal community across the generations.”
While Zupan is gone, Mula will continue to host many of the events she has sponsored over the past 11 years such as Cook community dinners in Atwater. Mula will also maintain close relationships with members of Cook Commons, particularly with the Commons Residential Advisor (CRA) and Cook Commons Council.
Zupan is confident in Mula’s ability to be a successful commons head.
“Professor Mula has been an active member of our commons for his whole career here, bringing both faculty and student centered intellectual and cultural programming to Cook Commons,” said Zupan. “He understands the living-learning connections so important to the commons and the College.”
Mula said that the commons system has interested him since he arrived at the College in 2002. He particularly appreciates the way the commons work in bringing together students and colleagues.
“The first year or second year that I was here, Ron [President of the College Ronald D. Liebowitz], who was the vice president by then or maybe provost, sent an email saying that my name had been mentioned by some students as a suggestion for somebody who could take on a commons,” said Mula. “So it goes back to 2003 or 2004. It’s been something that’s been on my mind since then.”
While Mula will only be substituting for a year, Brainer Commons Head Robert Schine will be permanently leaving his position after five years of service.
He will be on academic leave through 2012, studying the function of Hebrew language in Jewish culture, working in Jerusalem and Berlin. Although Schine will return in 2012 to teach, he will not be returning to his position as Brainerd Commons head.
Instead, Professor of German Roman Graf will be taking over. Graf admitted that his opinions of the commons system have changed over time. He remembers when the College was first proposing the idea of a commons system.
“We wanted to create a bridge between the classrooms and the personal lives of the students that would enable them to carry what they learned in an academic setting into their personal lives as well as to include their personal experiences into an academic setting,” said Graf. “The commons system seems to establish this connection. I believe in this connection and am excited to be able to contribute to it in this new role as commons head.”
Among all of his goals, however, Graf said the most important is supporting his students.
“Foremost, I would like to start thinking about goals and planning for the next few years with the needs of the students in mind,” said Graf. “I do not want to add to the already busy schedules of our students but integrate what they do academically with their preferred social outlets.”
Graf said that he will continue the traditions of Schine, such as the informal tea gatherings at the Brainer Commons house and events during senior week.
“Thanks to his [Schine’s] creativity and initiative, I don't have to start from scratch,” he said. “But I do have some ideas of my own.”
Graf recognizes the power of his new position.
“As long as we are actively striving to improve ourselves, we cannot go wrong,” he said. “The commons is an excellent setting to convert these thoughts into reality. That is what attracts me most to this new position.”
With a smile, he added, “And of course the parties.”
(04/28/11 3:53am)
Last week’s election failed to elect a Student Government Assosiation (SGA) President and Student Chair Of the Community Council (SCOCC). As a result, there will be runoffs between Riley O’Rourke ’12 and Dane Verret ’12 for SGA President and Janet Rodrigues ’12 and Kevin Broussard ’12 for for SCOCC. Neither candidate received the needed 50 percent of the votes needed to secure each position.
Runoffs will be held from noon Thursday (today) until noon on Friday (tomorrow).
The SGA Elections Council announced the runoff and senator election results in a email to students on Monday, April 25. The results are below:
Sophomore Senators:
Nathan LaBarba
Joanie Thompson
Junior Senators:
Kathryn Benson
Fif Aganga
Senior Senators:
Brittany Gendron
Steve Marino
Ross Senator:
Andrea Torres
Cook Senator:
Michael Polebaum
Brainerd Senator:
Christrian Holmes
Atwater Senator:
Jackie Breckenridge
Wonnacott
Senator:
Lucas Acosta
(04/28/11 3:51am)
After months of planning, the Senior Committee finalized the events for Senior Week. Beginning on Tuesday, May 17 and ending with Commencement on Sunday, May 22, Senior Week is traditionally the capstone event for graduating seniors.
The week will begin with the Senior Olympics on Tuesday afternoon.
“[Senior Olympics] will be like a carnival. It will have a fun atmosphere,” said Ashley Cheung ’11, co-chair of the Senior Committee.
On Wednesday, there will be a boat cruise on Lake Champlain, one of the newer traditions of Senior Week. Thursday will be Dunmore Day, when seniors have the chance to go and spend the day lounging at Lake Dunmore with their peers.
Friday will begin with a mimosa breakfast at Atwater dining hall, and will conclude with the “Last Chance Dance” in McCullough Social Space that night.
The theme of the dance is “Hello my name is…” Seniors will wear nametags for a last chance to meet their fellow classmates.
Saturday will feature the Senior Formal on Battell Beach. After the formal, the tradition is that the entire senior class spends the night together at Alumni Stadium, watching the sun rise together Sunday morning.
The Senior Committee has been charged with planning all of the senior events, including the 200 and 100 Days parties since the beginning of the year.
“It has been a great experience getting to know Midd better,” Cheung said. However, she added, “It has been a unique challenge for us [this year] because the class is larger than average. Since we [recognized the size] problem earlier in the year, we’ve been able to deal with it since then.”
After months of planning, the Senior Committee is excited about how the events will turn out.
Lucas Alvarez ’11, co-chair of the Senior Committee said, “I am looking forward … most to the Senior Formal because it is our last night. Overall, senior week is a culmination of the best four years of your life. It’s a celebration!”
“Senior Week will be a place to solidify relationships and enjoy your classmates’ company once more before graduation,” he added.
The senior class is also excited for the upcoming events.
“I am really impressed with the wide range of activities the Senior Committee has planned for Senior Week,” said Maria Perille ’11. “I think all of the events will be fantastic, but I'm not going to lie — I'm pretty excited about the Mimosa Reception in Atwater.”
“I also cannot wait to celebrate with all of my peers post-thesis stress but pre-graduation emotional breakdown. It's going to be great,” she added enthusiastically.
The graduating seniors’ excitement is an important part of the planning process for Senior Week.
“We want to thank the senior class for their support. Without the support, our jobs would be a lot harder,” said Alvarez and Cheung.
Tickets for the Wednesday evening Sunset Cruise will go on sale soon at go/seniorcruise.
(04/28/11 3:50am)
After a one-meeting hiatus for Passover, Community Council reconvened on April 25. Associate Director of Campus Activities and Director of Orientation JJ Boggs and International Student and Scholar Adviser Kaye-Lani Laughna joined the council to seek input on orientation.
After this year’s fall orientation, Boggs and Laughna talked with small groups of first-years about how to make orientation better. They also sent all first-years a survey and gathered feedback from other members of the Middlebury community who were involved in orientation, such as First-Year Counselors (FYCs) and Commons Residential Advisers (CRAs).
They hoped to gain additional insight from Community Council on orientation, particularly relating to diversity and community.
A wide variety of topics were discussed, from the pre-arrival reading and discussion groups to Midd Uncensored, a community building exercise that began during Feb orientation and has recently been added to fall orientation.
“I think that we need to take advantage of the Orientation week to ensure that these values of respect and unity are well-established, because this time will set the tone for the students' next four years,” said Secretary of Community Council Rachel Sider ’14. “I hope that this years Orientation program can better set this tone, while still maintaining the fun and carefree atmosphere I experienced.”
They also discussed Feb orientation and particularly Feb integration into the community.
“We're kinda thrown into the mix as one pack, which can sometimes make integration hard,” said Community Council member Zach Hitchcock ’13.5. “I think by far the best way Febs could become better integrated with Regs is by surrounding them with other students their age.”
The council discussed Feb housing, as Febs are generally placed wherever there is available housing. Unlike the first-years who arrive in September, Febs do not necessarily live near other first-years or near people in their first-year seminar.
“The Feb orientation as a whole does a really good job of making you feel welcome and at home given the constraints of the situation,” said Hitchcock. “There is a lot of Feb spirit that gets driven into you during that time that's really crucial to shaping your college identity and helping you feel like you ‘belong.’ But I think that there needs to be more focus on community within the events in Feb orientation.”
“I think that the feedback Community Council provided will specifically better create the understanding of community respect that the we as a council seek to improve,” said Sider.
“I feel like members of Community Council reinforced our idea that small group experiences are critical during orientation and that we should be offering orientation extension activities in the commons throughout the fall and especially during spring after the new Febs arrive,” said Boggs.
The final Community Council meeting of the year will take place on Monday, May 2.
(04/27/11 5:27am)
Kevin Broussard '12
My name is Kevin Broussard ’12 and I am the current RA of the Queer Studies House. This year is also my second year serving as a member of Community Council. I am writing to you to state my intent to run for Student Co-Chair for Community Council for the upcoming school-year. As the Council is composed of students, faculty, and staff charged with making policy recommendations to the president, being a member is certainly a privilege and honor.
If elected Co-Chair, one of my main interests is to advocate for meaningful student participation and self-governance at Middlebury. As most incoming students are legal adults, I believe that we should have more of a say in our own affairs and the governance of the college. Some of my proposals for this issue may be hard to implement, but it is certainly a worthy cause to work towards.
Furthermore, even though I may have my own pet issues that I would like to see addressed, I believe that having a diverse, moderate group of individuals on the Council is paramount; the truth and what is acceptable for most is usually somewhere in the middle. As such, I would like to see a Council that truly encompasses the diverse opinions of the student body. To achieve this goal, I would also like to see more of a connection between Community Council and the SGA.
Janet Rodrigues '11
As the Student Co-Chair of Community Council I intend to help continue conversations we have raised this year. I am in my third year at Middlebury and believe that this past year broke a lot of ground for community awareness. We have had to address issues of vandalism, theft, damages and dish losses. These concerns have all been traced back to a community issue. I hope to support our community and help find solutions. I have been a voting member of Community Council for the past two years and have been a member of the Institutional Diversity Committee within SGA for three years. My involvement has led me to a place of awareness in the conversations taking place. A primary reason for my decision to stay on campus for my Junior year stemmed from my desire to provide consistency and longevity to the initiatives and conversations occurring throughout the years. The topics I hope to carry on into next year are: sexual assault, dining hall issues and community issues around damages and vandalism. I will place more of an emphasis on Pass/Fail classes, workload, improving the role of the commons system in enhancing community, concerns around alcohol, supporting the People’s Gender Council of Middlebury, addressing issues of socio-economic difference (i.e. booklists, abroad opportunities, promoting conversation) and supporting the revision of freshman orientation. While I have ideas in mind for the coming year, I am always impressed with the creativity that comes from our community and will stay tapped in to new conversations. I have fostered invaluable relationships with classmates, faculty members, staff members and administrators and through these relationships I hope to engage the whole community. Before I ever set foot at Middlebury College, my goal, my motive, my reason for enrolling was solely as a NYC Posse Scholar. I saw myself as a potential leader for the voiceless—the urban, public school students of color, of the left behind. While my idea of “left behind” has broadened, I still hope to embody a representation of the students who did not make it to the privileged table of higher education at Middebury College—most importantly, I want to acknowledge the individuals who will not be sitting at the table of community council. Elect me as your Student Co-Chair of Community Council.
(04/27/11 5:22am)
Riley O'Rourke '12
My name is Riley O’Rourke and I am a junior from New York City, but I grew up spending a lot of time in Vermont. Because of this Middlebury was the first school I ever looked at and I love it here. I want to use the office of SGA president to make student life as great as possible. Please vote for me to be SGA president again so I can build on my existing accomplishments while working to achieve new ones. The focus of much of my term was establishing a better transportation network as well as getting the Grille and Redfield Proctor open, all of which have happened. In addition, the SGA has negotiated an agreement with Old Chapel that will restore first-year outdoor orientation, and in recent months I have worked out a deal with the school to re-open a small gym in Ross, a convenient alternative to the main facility that will also alleviate crowding at the fitness center. During my term the SGA, which is responsible for allocating your student activities fees to different projects and services based on the needs and wants of the student body, has strived to both pick up services the College discontinued and establish new ones.
One of the key issues I ran on last year was improving transportation to and from Middlebury and I am proud to say I have achieved measurable improvements. With a great deal of help from my transportation secretary, Matt George ’12, I set up cheap shuttles to and from the Burlington airport around major breaks. These are now organized to run at cost in perpetuity and are far cheaper than any other airport shuttle service. Also, under previous administrations, the bus program had been run as a for-profit business. This seemed contrary to the SGA’s mission to serve students, so I wrote and passed a bill which lowered the rates of SGA-sponsored buses to New York City and Boston by as much as $30 and increased the number of available seats, reducing the financial burden on students. I hope to expand this program in the year to come, and I will constantly look for further savings that can be passed on to students. In addition, I will examine extending Midd-rides hours and the possibility of buses to other locations such as Montréal. Finally, the SGA is in negotiations with a ride-share program that is a subsidiary of Google, using Google maps to help match up people looking for rides.
If elected, besides responding to constituent concerns I have several goals I wish to meet in the coming year. Foremost among them is ensuring that the Ross annex gym becomes operational by the fall; I will work over the summer to monitor its progress. The same goes for creating an arts and crafts room where student groups will be able to make posters to advertise for their events. On the policy front, I will continue to work towards the establishment of a pass/fail option for some non-major classes that do not fulfill distribution requirements. I believe this will encourage people to reach outside their comfort zones when they are not worried about a potential GPA hit, and I think that can only help strengthen our liberal arts environment. Although it will be an uphill battle I am also going to work to reopen Atwater dining hall. Complete re-opening seems unlikely, but as it is already open for breakfast every weekday morning, language tables during the day and has dinners sponsored by different college departments multiple times a week, college money is clearly being used in one way or the other to keep it open. I look forward to meeting with the administration about some sort of arrangement that could get it open a few nights a week, at least. I will also work to pass whatever issues the senate or student body brings up
My greatest asset as a candidate will be my experience as a member of student government and my knowledge of how the school works. Besides serving as SGA President this year, I was also the Cook Commons senator this year. I have passed several bills to utilize the financial power of the SGA to our benefit as students. Having been involved in SGA before will make leading it much easier for a seamless transition from this year to next, especially with the establishment of the Ross gym and an advertising work room.
I feel that the SGA's job is to do as much as possible to help any and all groups work to achieve their goals. To this end I am going to have several large meetings of students leaders and interested individuals at the start of the year and weekly meetings in the Grille for anyone to bring concerns forward. I hope to make student life convenient and fun. Please vote for me and allow me to carry out this mission. Thanks for your support and time.
Dane Verret '12
Dear Fellow Students,
My name is Dane Verret and I am a rising senior majoring in English and American Literature with a focus in Creative Writing. I'm also a native of New Orleans, LA. While I have not served on SGA I am involved in a number of activities here at Middlebury, such as Distinguished Men of Color and Verbal Onslaught Open Mic.
The extracurricular work I do here at Middlebury and at home focuses on creating solidarity, conversations, and camaraderie. In my time at Middlebury I have helped to restart student organizations; facilitated writing workshops and conversations on diversity and race; and helped coordinate block parties, concerts, and student retreats. I have worked closely with members of Middlebury's community on every level--this includes Students, Administration, Faculty, and Town Residents. Together we met more successes than losses. I have constantly found motivation in helping others realize their goals and my own.
At every turn, these projects I've been involved with were beneficial because I was willing to work side-by-side with people. This is how I want to represent your interests to the SGA.
I believe my experiences demonstrate that I have shown the leadership necessary to represent you in Student Government. As your President, I hope to make your needs and concerns heard as well as answered. I hope to create, with your help, a campus that fully embraces accessibility, innovation and collaboration. Most of all, I want to keep our student body mobilized and motivated to make lasting, beneficial changes that will pay our time at Midd forward.
I hope you choose me to be your Student Government President and I look forward to working with all of you to make the coming year brighter.
(04/21/11 11:44pm)
Dear loyal Campus readers,
Three more weeks left in the semester. Five more weeks before I graduate. It seemed only yesterday that I was a nerdy kid with big hair and big dreams fascinated by college, marble buildings and all-campus emails. Actually, that was yesterday. But it’s still terrifying that the end of my college idyll is coming up so quickly. I’ve been assigned the Communist Manifesto and Richard III enough times to quote them verbatim at parties, which I’ve determined is the purpose of a liberal arts education. I’ve also learned that you must become a proficient Apples to Apples player in order to be a successful college student (I think there should be intramural Apples to Apples. I would totally be a champ. Get on that Bob Smith.). If “Your College Experience” was a red card, I would use the green cards Exhausting, Nerdy and Wild and Wooly to describe my four years at Middlebury.
In short, I’ve learned a lot in my four years. But, the season of lasts is upon us. Last unseasonable snowstorm (Please. Please.) Last last day of classes. Last Grille run. Last time I read the Communist Manifesto and Richard III. And this, dear reader, is my last Ron Liebowitz’s Facebook Feed. Sob. Hope you enjoy. One more column until I sign off for good. Unless I write an overseas briefing from the beyond...
(04/21/11 4:09am)
In their second tournament of the spring season, the men’s team came away with a win, while the women’s team placed fifth out of 13 teams. Battling wind and rain, the women’s team competed at Amherst College and the men’s team competed at Hamilton College.
Placing in the top spot for the Panther men was captain Jimmy Levins ’11 in third place with a score of 77 for the day. Just one stroke behind was Andrew Emerson ’13 in fourth place at 78 strokes. Rounding out in the top eight was William Prince ’13 in fifth place with a score of 79 and Max Alley ’14 in eighth place with a score of 80. Brian Cady ’14 finished off for the team in 11th place shooting an 81. From Levins third place finish to Cady’s 11th place finish there was only a difference of five strokes indicating how close this day of golf was for the competitors.
This one-day tournament took place under extremely harsh conditions. In an outdoor sport like golf the uncontrollable weather has definite effect on the players performance. According to Levins, this is something that the team has to deal with especially in the spring.
“We played in some of the toughest conditions we will probably see this year, gusting winds, rain and even some hail,” said Levins. “I was very impressed with how the team stuck it out and got the job done. Playing in tough conditions is something we’re going to see a lot of in the spring, and we learn what adjustments we have to make, in terms of shot selection and mental approach, when the weather isn’t perfect.”
The girls fought against the same weather this past weekend at Amherst. Flora Weeks ’12 led the Panther women in fifth place with a score of 162. Caroline Kenter ’14 followed in 34th place, shooting 179 for the weekend. Only one stroke behind was Jessica Bluestein ’14 in 35th place with a score of 180. Rounding out the Panthers was Keeley Levins ’13 shooting a 182 and placing 37th.
The women’s team has next week off before their final regular season tournament at Williams on April 30 and May 1. The men’s team will travel to Williams next weekend before hosting the NESCAC championships the following weekend.
Although last weekend’s weather was not the best the men are looking forward to next weekend.
“We’re looking forward to next weekend at Williams where we’ll look to keep going in the right direction,” said Levins.
(04/21/11 4:08am)
These are the most compelling NBA playoffs since Michael Jordan won his final championship with the Chicago Bulls in 1998. Despite an impending lockout that could negate the 2011-2012 NBA season, the league is thriving thanks to a group of young, likeable superstars, great storylines and enticing matchups throughout the playoffs. From Kobe’s rabid pursuit of his sixth title and a second Lakers three-peat to the first meaningful Knicks-Celtics series of this millennium, the 2011 playoffs have the potential to be historic.
While the NBA’s star players headline the playoffs, this postseason carries extra significance because many teams stand to gain and lose so much based on their performance. Can the Thunder achieve NBA greatness in a small market? Will the Heat’s offseason moves bring a championship to South Beach? Or will an early exit make them the target of the media for a second consecutive summer? Can the Spurs hold off father time once more for their fifth title in the Tim Duncan era? And of course, can Kobe match Jordan with his sixth title?
Above all, the playoffs will have a huge impact on the future of how teams choose to build through free agency. Postseason success for the Knicks after their midseason acquisition of Carmelo Anthony or a championship for the Heat post “Decision” would validate the belief that you can pool together multiple superstars and make an instant championship run. On the other hand, anything short of a Finals appearance for the Heat will tarnish the legacy LeBron has built so far in his young career. Widely regarded as the best player in the league right now, the one they call “King James” is still searching for his first NBA title, and with his superfriends Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, he has as good a chance as ever to take home the hardware this postseason. In his way stand a group of teams that believe that it takes more than a collective group of All-Stars to win an NBA championship.
The San Antonio Spurs have proven over-and-over again the importance of team chemistry in basketball during the Tim Duncan era. This has been corroborated by the “Big Three” in Boston and most recently by the Chicago Bulls in the East and the Oklahoma City Thunder in the West who have modeled themselves after the giants in their conferences to great success thus far. In particular the Thunder have provided a blueprint for small market basketball teams to successfully build through the NBA draft and thriftily in free agency.
Meanwhile, teams like the New Jersey Nets, Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Clippers, who will be some of the more active teams in free agency this summer, watch with the rest of the NBA to figure out the best way to build a championship caliber basketball team.
Two radically different schools of thought are going head-to-head in the postseason and the result may have a drastic affect on the future of the NBA. If LeBron James wins his first NBA Championship in Miami the exodus of NBA stars to big market teams will continue. But if the Heat fall at the hands of the team-first Boston Celtics or to the young Bulls led by the selfless play of Derrick Rose, then the belief that team chemistry trumps gluttonous talent will be vindicated.
All we can do now is wait and see.
— Damon Hatheway ’13 is a staff writer from London, England. How he knows so much about American sports is beyond his editors.
(04/21/11 4:07am)
The women’s tennis team traveled to Maine this weekend for a pair of away wins. These victories will advance the 10th ranked Panthers to five game winning streak and an 8-1 record.
The weekend started at Bowdoin College where they defeated the Polar Bears 6-3. In the number one singles spot, Victoria Aiello ’12 lost in two hard fought sets to Bowdoin’s Kellen Alberstone. Despite the loss at the number one spot, the Panthers were able to capture the second, third and fourth singles spots. Leah Kepping ’13 won 6-3, 6-2 in the number two spot against Emily Lombardi. Brittany Faber ’13 played two extremely close sets against Emma Lewis winning 7-5 in both.
In the number four singles spot was Sally Wilkey ’12 who beat out her opponent 6-4, 6-4. Chantalle Lavetu was able to beat out Anna Burke ’12 for a win at the number 5 singles spot. Rounding out the singles matches was Dorrie Paradies ’14 who beat out her opponent in an extremely close match.
The first set went to Paradies, 6-1, but what could by that set seem to be an easy win was turned around in the second set when Susanna Howard outplayed Paradies, winning 3-6. Despite the loss in the second set Paradies came out with a well earned win in the third set, winning 7-6.
Middlebury’s doubles teams went 2-1 with Bowdoin’s double teams. Alberstone and Kate Winingham of Bowdoin were able to beat the Panther’s number one team comprised of Kepping and Faber, in a close 9-7 match. Aiello and Burke teamed up at the number two doubles spot, to beat out Lombardi and Lewis 8-5. At the number three spot were Wilkey and Paradies who beat out there opponents, Lavetu and Hannah Hoerner 8-6.
After some hard fought matches at Bowdoin, the team traveled to Bates on Sunday where they were able to sweep them 9-0. At the number one, two and three spot the matches were one in an easy two sets, none giving up more that three games to their opponents. In the number four and five singles spots Paradies and Whitney Hanson ’11 won in hard fought matches.
Paradies played at the number four spot against Erika Blauth. Despite an easy 6-3 win in the first set, it was only after three tiebreakers that Paradies pulled ahead of Blauth to win 7-6 in the final set. Hanson won her first match by just one game, 7-6, but was able to pull away in the second match winning 6-2 to beat out Nicole Russell.
The team played Williams at home on Wednesday but scores were not available at press time. The team will have three more NESCAC matches before the beginning of the NESCAC tournament on May 6. The women will be playing on the road at Tufts on Friday. The following weekend they have two matches back to back at home. On Saturday the team will play Skidmore on Saturday and Amherst on Sunday.
Unlike this year, last year the team played Skidmore early in the season and beat them out 8-1. However they will play Amherst last this season just as they did last season. In their last game before the start of the NESCAC tournament the Panthers lost in a very close match 5-4 before beating out Bowdoin in the NESCAC quarterfinals at Amherst. The team then fell in the semifinals to Wililams 5-1. Despite this loss the team advanced to the NCAA regionals before ending their season. The Panthers will look to improve on last year’s result with the end of this season.
(04/21/11 4:06am)
In a letter to the editor about Middlebury sophomore, Jay Saper ’13, Professor David Stoll wrote:
“Since Saper is a SOAN major, and I am a SOAN professor, I am embarrassed that he appears to be using sociological and anthropological concepts to make an ad hominem argument against an invited speaker, the Economics department and all tenured white male faculty at Middlebury College.”
Jay far from embarrasses us. He is a very committed young man who is ready to use knowledge to deconstruct power and privilege. An approach that invites interaction between thinking and doing has always been central to social theory, regardless of its political bearings. From the radicals Karl Marx, W.E.B. DuBois and almost all feminist thinkers, to the far more conservative Emile Durkheim and yes, even Charles Murray, social theory has never just been a way to describe the world, but to change it.
Of course both how we interpret the world around us and what we think needs to be done will depend very much on our political paradigms. How could it be otherwise? But the tools of social theory, what C.Wright Mills calls “the sociological imagination,” give us the ability to locate our own point of view in larger structures of power, to relate our own story to history.
Jay’s op-ed about Professor Levine’s presentation was an attempt to locate the power of certain ways of conceiving research. Jay was very upset by the talk and the paper on which it was based because of the use of the terms “culture of despair” and “culture of poverty.” These terms have long been disputed, within and without the academy, because of the way in which they pathologize the family formations of poor and racialized people. We understand Jay to be questioning the continued usefulness of these categories, especially since the talk was not tied to a particular course, which would have provided the necessary contextual information. Similarly, Jay’s comments about marriage are meant to situate the privileges of that institution as benefiting certain races and classes over others. None of these comments are directed at individuals, as Professor Stoll suggests, but rather at structures of power and privilege.
At the center of the liberal arts mission is an expression of diverse and even contradictory ideas as well as an invitation to criticize and even protest those ideas. So even if you disagree with Jay’s particular project, and even if you disagree with how Jay has pursued it, we should not be embarrassed that Middlebury is producing critical thinkers who insist that knowledge is neither abstract nor objective, but a means of re-making ourselves and the world around us. It is exactly this sort of engagement with knowledge — this sort of intellectual citizenship — that is central to the liberal arts mission.
(04/21/11 4:06am)
Housing registration for juniors and seniors at Middlebury sucks the big one. It’s overly convoluted, illogical, stressful and frustrating. Even when everything goes smoothly, as it did this year, and we avoid debacles like last year’s, the system seems to cultivate stress and anxiety when there really doesn’t need to be any. It’s too late for me; as a rising senior, I’ll be worrying about leases and rent next spring, rather than random lottery numbers. But for the sake of all future Midd Kids, it should be at the top of the College’s priority list to fix the housing registration system. Here are some ideas:
Give every block size a separate registration window. Making blocks of five, four and three apply in one fell swoop makes no sense at all. As it stands, a group of five friends applying for all three block sizes must choose two friends who will be severely shafted if the five-or four-block doesn’t come through. If they were separate registration windows, it would give the fourth and fifth wheels the chance to attach themselves to another block for a new application, instead of waiting for singles draw to salvage what they can with their number.
Don’t be so mysterious with the numbers. After every round of registration, it would be very helpful if they released which numbers were used in that round. That way, we would know what our numbers actually mean (i.e., #55 is actually #41 after six-block draw), and allow us to more accurately gauge our chances of getting the housing we want. This is a change that might not produce any tangible difference for the ultimate housing assignments, but it would reduce stress and generally increase the transparency of the process. Best of all, it would be so easy to do.
Don’t limit the number of available blocks. Living in a suite or house with friends should be a luxury reserved for people who get stellar numbers. But living near friends in general should not be a luxury; in fact, it should be guaranteed at a College charging over $50,000 in tuition. A group of four friends with lousy numbers should still have a chance to live near each other, even if they have to settle for a mediocre dorm. The reform here is simple: don’t block rooms together until all applications have been received. Students will apply to individual hallways (i.e., Starr 5, Painter 2, Forest West 3, etc.), ranking them in the order of their preference (much like they do now, with pre-defined blocks). Then, when you know how many groups of six (or five, or four, etc.) want to live together, assign them all blocks in the order of their dorm preference. After doing blocks of six, move to five, then four, then three, and so on. It’s like that activity in science class where you have to fit small rocks and big rocks into a cup. If you do the small rocks first, the big rocks just sit on top and won’t fit. But if you put the big rocks in first, the small ones fill in the cracks and they all fit. Much of the anxiety of housing registration comes from people wanting the best housing possible, but a much more significant portion comes from people being scared that they will get stuck in Hepburn while the rest of their friends live in Chateau. Eliminating a pre-defined set of blocks would prevent groups of friends from being needlessly split up, and would reduce the stress and tensions of registration.
Put on-campus housing registration BEFORE off-campus housing applications are due. At the very least, make off-campus applications due after the random numbers are released. That way, if you get screwed by on-campus housing, you can avoid Summer Draw by banding together with other on-campus housing rejects and getting a house off-campus. Students shouldn’t have to be forced to choose to live off-campus before they know what their on-campus housing prospects look like.
These are just a few changes that could very easily be made to our housing registration system over the course of the next 10 months. People will always complain if they get a bad number, but there are more universally regrettable features of the housing system that are bound to irk everyone from one to 1,500. Personally, I feel the live draw is a better and overall more fair system (picture sophomore year room draw on a larger scale), but the application system we have can work if those in charge are willing to take feedback and suggestions from the student body. We are, after all, the ones who have to live with your decisions.
(04/21/11 4:06am)
This past weekend at Powershift, the proverbial gauntlet for every American young person was thrown down. Hard.
On Saturday night, Tim De Christopher — a renowned climate activist in jail for defrauding a land auction for oil and gas development (he outbid all attendant energy companies despite not having the money so that they would not be able to expand their portfolios) — challenged young people to step up their commitment to the climate as they never have before.
In order to do this, Tim had to establish the extent to which we are losing this fight on big energy, consumerism, consumption and scientific intransigence. In the past two years, environmentalists have seen their hopes for energy reform and climate regulation dashed as Congress continues to sell out the global climate and the American economy to big oil, gas and coal corporations. In waiting for the United States, the world’s largest per capita emitter of greenhouse gases, to act, international negotiations on climate change have barely recovered from their collapse in Copenhagen, and the world continues to burn — 2010 was the hottest year on record, closing out the hottest decade on record.
With powerful rhetoric, Tim turned these harsh realities into an inspiring and resounding call to action. Invoking the waves of civilly disobedient anti-segregation activists who were arrested day after day in the early 1960s, he demanded a total, youth-led assault on mountain top removal mining. He demanded that day after day after day, hundreds step up to shut down mountaintop removal (MTR) sites across Appalachia until President Barack Obama was forced to either shut down the destructive process — in which mountaintops are literally blown off and dumped into rivers to gain easy access to coal — altogether or send in federal troops to enforce its continuance.
Tim’s fight is bigger than MTR mining, and ultimately, is precisely the direction in which a large of this movement needs to head. As young people, we desperately need to communicate the extent to which we are dissatisfied by a government so deep in the cavernous corporate pocket it can no longer hear the cries of progressives nationwide. We need to demand the speedy arrival of another world; a world in which the long term prosperity of all provides the very foundations of the political and social economy.
But Tim is wrong about a few things. His call for mass arrests and raised commitment came at the potential sacrifice of college degrees and entire careers. His cause is so urgent he no longer believes that it can “wait ’til graduation” or that future employment prospects can take precedent over getting arrested today.
Tim is forgetting that we are in a lifelong fight driven not only by political will, but by what is materially possible; what resources the Earth can offer us and in what ways. If we shut down MTR today, I would be hard pressed to say that we could replace that energy with alternative forms. Natural gas was recently labelled dirty — possibly dirtier than coal. Solar, wind and nuclear energies, meanwhile, are far too costly as they stand today.
We need people to sign up for this movement for life. We need people with college degrees and holistic minds who can help us to figure out how we will coordinate the largest social, economic and political overhaul of all time. Decarbonising society is paramount; arrests today will no doubt help increase political will, but unless we maintain the wherewithal to simultaneously develop concrete, achievable solutions, we will be doing nothing short of running “no” campaigns — “no” to coal, “no” to oil and “no” to carbon. To what will we say “yes?”
Do not get me wrong; we need people to start getting arrested today and not to stop until the cry for justice is so loud that money can no longer muffle it. Young people have too much to lose. While we are re-building this house from within, it looks like we might need the older, more established generations to throw rocks from without. Who wants to ring up their grandma first?
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A good day is a rare event. I’m not trying to be depressing saying this — it’s scientifically proven. If days were rated and put on a graph, laws of probability dictate that the graph would show a bell curve: a few days would deserve the labels of “dumpy” or “wicked awesome,” but most would fall between “meh” and “alright alright.” Of course, there can be temporary runs of good or bad days depending on the circumstances, but I argue that, over a lifetime, day rankings would produce the distribution described above (and I challenge anyone who has been ranking and recording their days since birth to prove me wrong). “Why, oh why, Ben,” you are probably asking, “did you just pour such profound knowledge all over my face?” Well, I just want everyone to know exactly what I mean when I make the following statement: In the life of Middkid Sid, yesterday was a good day.
Not a “Sid got a job!” or a “Sid just fixed climate change!” or a “Justin Bieber went back to elementary school!” good day. Yesterday was good in a more subtle way, in that it happened, kept happening, and then ended, without anything going noticeably wrong. But this alone does not constitute a truly good day. Yesterday was tremendous.
Yesterday was a day of adventure. In the morning, via BBC’s Life on DVD, Sid traveled the world. He saw the wonders of evolution in action, with monkeys flying through trees, lizards walking on water and komodo dragons watch their prey slowly die over a span of two weeks. Sid wanted to say “Wow,” and then he realized that nothing was stopping him, so he did. In the afternoon, he stepped outside with no destination and walked around. Everything was beautiful. Every tree swaying in the breeze, every raindrop on his face and every rotund squirrel descending into a receptacle of human waste was worth every second of his attention. Sid even thought he saw a couple monkeys swinging around the trees on Battell Beach. He was happy to have monkeys on his campus.
Yesterday was a day of freedom. There were worries of the future, like Sid’s financial status after graduation, as well as worries of the past, like all money he had spent on Grille food and New Amsterdam Gin in the past couple months. But these worries were not worries of the present, and therefore were not worries of yesterday.
More than anything, yesterday was real. Sid did his work and honored his commitments, but saved time to be a king of relaxation, fanned by servants waving those huge leaves while he destroyed Bowser in MarioKart. At the same time, he was not a zombie and not a menace to society. He didn’t rob banks, sell drugs to kids or vandalize the library. Yesterday was a day of responsibility, and still it was good.
Yesterday was, quite literally, mind-blowing. The take-out burger joint called Life cooked a juicy patty of happiness, wrapped it up, passed it to Sid, and he ate it. Of course, every day can’t be like yesterday. After all, if the good became the norm, the bell curve theory implies that it would cease to be good. Yesterday was a respite from bearing the full weight of life, and breaks such as these are essential to health and pleasure. I urge everyone to allow themselves days like yesterday, regardless of the state of their schedule — break times are just as important as work times. I hope everybody has had such a day in the not so distant past, and to those it may concern, happy yesterday.
(04/21/11 4:06am)
The men’s tennis team defended their number one ranking over the weekend by completing a two-game sweep over their Maine rivals Bowdoin and Bates. On Saturday, the Panthers defeated 14th-ranked Bowdoin 5-4 before trouncing the number 21 team in the country, Bates, 8-1 to improve to 14-1 overall and 5-0 in NESCAC for the season.
While the final score of the Bowdoin match suggested a tight win for the Panthers, the team got off to a 5-1 lead, sealing the victory early before dropping the last three matches to win by the score of 5-4. Head coach Rob Barr was particularly pleased with the way his team overcame adversity in the match against the rival Polar Bears.
“I was really impressed by our performance and toughness this weekend,” Barr said. “The match against Bowdoin was interesting for several reasons. Everyone had to play up a spot in the lineup as Derrick Angle [’12] was out with an illness. Bowdoin had a huge crowd on hand, and temperatures never went above 39 degrees with swirling winds.”
Despite missing one of their tri-captains in Angle, the Panthers overcame the elements to take five of the first six matches. Brantner Jones ’14 and Andrew Peters ’11 led the way for Middlebury in their match against Bowdoin as they registered three of the team’s five wins.
The 21st-ranked doubles team of Jones and Peters improved their record to 7-0 on the season as they downed Steven Sullivan and Sam King of Bowdoin 8-6. Spencer Lunghino ’13 and David Farah ’12 also provided an early doubles win for the Panthers with an 8-4 victory over Bowdoin from the second doubles position. After taking two of the three doubles matches, Middlebury split the six single matches with the Polar Bears. Peters, the 10th-ranked singles player in the country, made easy work of a potentially tough match with 15th-ranked singles player Stephen Sullivan. Peters took down Sullivan in straight sets, 6-4, 6-2. Jones and James Burke ’14 rounded out the other two singles wins for the top-ranked Panthers.
If the Panthers performance on Saturday at Bowdoin was impressive, they were even better on Sunday at Bates. Facing the 21st-ranked team in the country, the Panthers blew by the Bobcats 8-1. Surprisingly the lone loss came from the number one doubles team as Peters and Jones lost for the first time this season, falling to the Bobcats Matt Bettles and Rob Crampton 8-4. The Panthers dropped just two sets on the afternoon and after his first loss in doubles play this season Peters rebounded with a dominant win in the first singles position.
“The match against Bates was one of our better playing performances as a team,” said head coach Rob Barr. “Andy Peters was simply awesome in his match against nationally ranked Matt Bettles of Bates 6-0, 6-1, but everyone in the lineup looked very sharp.”
The Panthers host 28th-ranked Skidmore on Saturday and ninth-ranked Williams on Sunday. The Ephs delivered Middlebury’s last NESCAC loss on April 9, 2008 in a match at Williams. The Panthers head into the weekend with a sixty-five match unbeaten streak at home. The Ephs are 8-5 on the season, but are playing their best tennis recently as they swept Wesleyan and Connecticut College 9-0 over the weekend. They also pushed third-ranked Amherst to a 5-4 result, but ultimately came up short.
“We prepare for two very tough teams this weekend,” coach Barr said.
The Panthers will finish off the regular season at Amherst on April 30. The NESCAC Tournament will start the weekend after. Last year the team steamed past both Trinity and Williams to win the NESCAC championships before moving on to the NCAA tournament.
After easily beating out Skidmore, MIT and N.C. Wesleyan, they were able to barely scrape out a 5-4 win against Wash. Univ. to advance to the NCAA Championships. In the Championships they beat out NESCAC rivals Amherst 5-1. Winning NCAA has set a sense of prestige for the Panthers who so far this season are 14-1, losing only to Azusa Pacific during spring break.
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The Middlebury Track and Field Team competed in a rare Sunday meet this past weekend in Hanover, N.H., competing against Dartmouth and the University of Vermont. The Panthers finished third, only six points behind second-place UVM, a Division I school. Several runners gave impressive performances at the meet. For the women’s team, four runners won their events. Senior Annie Rowell ’11 took home the 100m dash, and sophomore Juliet Ryan-Davis ’13 gave an impressive performance in the 400m, winning with a time of 58.38. She also gave the Panthers a third place finish in the 200m. Showing the Panther’s depth at all distances, first-year Madie Hubbell ’14 won the women’s 5000m with a time of 18:20.95. Rounding out the four first-place finishes was sophomore Emily Dodge ’13, who won the long jump with a distance of 17’5.25”.
Other notable performances were given by Erin Toner ’11, who came in third in the 800m, and junior Mia Martinez ’12, who came up with a third-place finish in the 100m hurdles. The Middlebury Women’s 4 x 400m relay team, made up of tri-captain Christina Kunycky ’11, Toner, Rebecca Fanning ’12 and Ryan-Davis also had a great day, running a time of 4:03.90 and coming in third.
Senior tri-captain Alice Wisener ’11 was pleased with the team’s performance in the meet, stating, “We were up against Division 1 teams and we were still able to compete. It was really encouraging to see such a great performance by the team.”
On the men’s side, sophomore Stuart Fram ’13 gave the team a big win, bagging a first place finish in the 110m hurdles with a time of 15.47. First year Peter Hetzler ’14 pulled through for the team with two second place finishes, in the 200m and the 400m races. Finishing immediately behind Hetzler for the third place finish in the 400m was Ethan Mann ’12. Sophomore Jack Davies ’13 also ran an impressive race in the 1500, coming in second with a time of 3:57.80, and senior Donny Dickson ’11 rounded out the quartet of second-place finishes in the 3000m steeplechase with a time of 9:37.80. In an impressive display of teamwork, the men’s 4 x 100m relay team, made up of first-years Kevin Chu ’14, Hetzler, Jason Jan ’12 and Dan Bent ‘13 took first place.
Though it was not the team’s best overall meet, it did give them a chance to go up against stiff Division I competition and hold their own; both the men’s and women’s teams showed their depth and strength this weekend. With NESCAC Championships a mere two weeks away, the team is looking strong and confident and poised for an impressive showing. The team will have a last chance to fine-tune their skills at next week’s meet, the only one at home this season, so look for some great performances as the Panthers put on a show for a hometown audience. Runners like Davies, who was recently named player of the week in the NESCAC, will look to continue to build off of the strong starts they have established so fall this spring season. After the stirring success of both the men’s and women’s cross-country teams last fall, Middlebury track and field should be anxious to continue our new-found dominance of all sports running related.
(04/21/11 4:05am)
Every Middlebury student possesses an identity in this bubble: this identity can be defined by our friend group, where we live, our major, where we are from, what extracurricular activities we do, etc. I have, however, rarely seen anyone define himself by the commons he is in, during the 3.9 years that I have been here. I suspect commons do not form anyone’s identity on this campus.
This sunk in when I got a lengthy email today regarding changes in various commons, and I immediately deleted it. Now, there are few emails I immediately delete without even opening — I cannot stand having unread emails — and emails regarding commons are the only ones I delete constantly, and I get at least 10 a week: Brainerd Dinner, Brainerd Newspaper, Brainerd Coffee, Brainerd Party, and the list goes on. This is not because I am a very busy man who does not have time to read another stupid email; on the contrary, I even read IM emails although I have never played hockey in my entire life. Rather, it is because I am annoyed at how much the commons system occupies the bureaucratic system of this College, while it achieves nothing for the students. I will go as far as saying that even the European Union is less bureaucratically redundant than our school’s commons system.
I would not complain about this if we were a school of abundant resources — but we are far from that. During my sophomore year, I would get emails every week about how our budget was failing and how we needed to trim it. The cuts affected everyone: a hiring freeze diminished the number of courses we could take, we were subjected to a different form of sausage at Proctor every lunchtime, Atwater was closed and need-blind financial aid for international students was revoked. Some cuts are ending, but it is undeniable that we are in a new normal now in which we cannot splurge, and this only makes sense given the overall state of the economy.
Yet, during this process I haven’t seen the commons system take a single hit. Every commons had their annual parties, the commons still had budgets to fund rather irrelevant projects and commons offices and houses of commons heads still occupy precious space on this campus. It is even more astonishing that this all happened at a time when housing became disintegrated from the commons, and the efforts to build something close to Colleges in the Ivy League universities came to halt due to budget restrictions. If I were to rank important institutions in this school, I would put (Brainerd) Commons to the end of that list; and I’m sure most of my friends would do the same for the commons they are in.
Which is why I argue that we should get rid of the commons system or, at least, significantly trim its budget so that they do not spend as much on activities that appeal to a very small population of this school. Middlebury has way too many institutions that need more funding: from a strictly personal point of view, for example, I owe my presence here to the availability of need-blind financial aid for international students, so why not devote more funds to financial aid for internationals instead of the commons budgets so that we preserve our ever-hailed diversity? Or spend more on academic departments so that we can preserve the quality of teaching? Times are tough, and we need to set our priorities straight. We made the mistake of starting the budget cuts from things that matter the dearest to students, leaving a bureaucratic and needless (for most students) institution intact. This must change.
(04/21/11 4:05am)
Governor Peter Shumlin is right. Health care reform is needed — the sooner the better. One big reason: Health care is busting the state budget.
But proposed reforms are not likely to produce real budget savings until 2015 at the earliest. Health care costs will continue to balloon until these reforms are in place. What happens to state budgets in the meantime? Which Vermonters bear the burden now? And who bears the risk if the needed reforms fail to materialize?
So far, low- and middle-income Vermonters have disproportionately carried the load. Going forward, this is neither fair nor fiscally wise.
Vermont health care costs have increased nearly nine percent a year on average for the last 10 years — twice the rate of the state’s economic growth — according to data from the Department of Banking, Insurance and Health Care Administration (BISHCA).
Just as health care is eating up a larger share of the economy each year, it is also demanding a larger share of the state budget — now more than 30 percent. Unwilling to make the case for increased taxes, lawmakers have covered this increase by forcing down spending on everything else — the courts, education, child welfare, services for the elderly and other services essential to our civilized society. Most of these spending cuts are in human services, the largest area of the state budget, which affect low- and middle-income Vermonters most.
Meanwhile, those in the upper income brackets are largely immune from the budget impacts of rising health care costs. These Vermonters tend to be untouched by cuts to human services.
Until the economy recovers and health care cost growth is slowed to a sustainable level, Montpelier needs to find a way to cover both the rapidly increasing costs of health care and the ongoing costs of public services that Vermonters need.
The best way to do so would be to levy a temporary tax on Vermonters with the highest incomes. Here are three reasons why such a tax would be both economically sensible and fair. Such a tax would provide:
1. A much needed stimulus effect on the state’s recovery. Budget cuts and tax increases can dampen economic activity by reducing the amount that might otherwise be spent on goods and services. However, economists point out that state spending funded by tax increases on upper income households, who have enough money to be able to save, can have a stimulus effect because it puts money into the economy that otherwise would go into savings.
2. Relief from federal cuts affecting Vermont. Thanks to the extension of the Bush tax cuts, the top five percent of Vermonters are receiving a federal tax reduction windfall of $190 million each year in 2011 and 2012. At the same time the federal government is reducing aid to Vermont — leaving the state to pick up costs previously paid with federal dollars. Taking back some of this tax-cut revenue can keep state services intact.
3. A stake in health care reform for all Vermonters. A temporary tax on upper-income Vermonters to help pay for the budget impacts of rising health care costs gives these Vermonters a solid reason to help the governor get those cost increases under control.
The governor’s leadership on health care reform is laudable. And the legislature should enact his reforms this year. But until the cost-saving benefits are real, all Vermonters — not just those with low and middle incomes — should share the risks and pitch in to cover the state budget consequences of rapidly rising health care costs.
(04/21/11 4:04am)
Quieted somewhat by the drizzling rain, the usually boisterous, sun-dressed Trinity Spring Weekend crowd looked on in dismay as David Hild ‘11 and Co. ran off four straight scores in the forth quarter to keep the Bantams at bay, 12-8, in NESCAC action last Saturday.
With their third consecutive victory the Panthers, ranked No. 11 nationally, improve to 8-2 on the season. While Hild tallied four goals on the afternoon, his last serving as a metaphorical ‘nail in the coffin”, his performance did not overshadow fellow senior Andrew Conner ’11 who notched three goals and one assist. For his efforts Conner was named the NESCAC Player of the Week; a well deserved accolade for the mid-fielder who found the back of the net five times in Middlebury’s midweek double overtime win against Skidmore.
With a searing shot from 15-yards out on the right flank, Trinity sophomore midfielder Stephen Manning pulled Trinity within striking range at 8-7 with 10:28 left in the game. Middlebury’s own sophomore Billy Chapman ’13 responded in kind, beginning a four-goal scoring run that Trinity would be unable to recover from. Alex Englert ’12 and Hild added insurance goals as time ran down.
In a refreshing departure from the status quo, Middlebury raked out 16 of the 23 faceoffs taken, including 12 of 18 by Brian Foster ’13. Peter Jenning’s ’12 quickness and doggedness in between the lines, along with Chapman’s game-high six ground balls, created opportunities in transition opportunities that Timmy Cahill ’12 (two goals) and Mike Giordano ’13 (one goal) took advantage of in the offensive zone. Co-captain goalkeeper Ryan Deane ’11 was an anchor in the net with seven saves.
As usual, the defense played with composure, as they have proven themselves to be a formidable force week in and week out. As a unit they were able to close gaps on the inside that the Trinity players exploited early in the game. They played disciplined, hard-nosed on-ball defense. Henry Clark ’12 praised the play of several up and coming underclassmen.
“Longsticks Chapman and Darric White ’14 stepped up and made a number of clutch plays when we needed them the most. Both have the ability to make an impact on the field in the coming weeks.”
The Panthers return to action against Rensselaer at home this Tuesday. All eyes are set on their upcoming game against last year’s National Champions, Tufts, on Saturday, April 23.