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KMUN attends U Chicago conferenceFor their second conference of the year, Kalamazoo’s Model United Nations team traveled to Chicago for the University of Chicago’s CHOMUN conference. CHOMUN is among the world’s best. PAGE 2

Men’s Tennis secures 76th straight title

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Following their decisive 8-1 victory over Alma College last Wednesday, the Kalamazoo College Men’s Tennis Team secured the 2014 MIAA Division Championship title outright. PAGE 8

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Kalamazoo, Michigan

The IndexONE-HUNDRED-THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE STUDENT

APRIL 30, 2014

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The StuOrg hosted a debate April 23 in the

Olmstead Room on the minumum wage

TalK-Zoo Holds DebateDebate: (From left to right) Dr. Bill Kern, Brandt Iden ‘05 , Dr. Max Cherem, Maddie Hume ‘16, Amanda Johnson ‘17, Dr. Dale Belman, and Meredith Quinlan ‘12

On Wednesday, April 23 at 7:00 p.m., TalK-Zoo held their first event as a new student group on campus.

Maddie Hume ’16 and Amanda Johnson ’17, two

of the three students who have started the group, which is based on Intelligence Squared, opened the event entitled “Raise the Minimum Wage?” and handed out a survey requesting feedback and suggested topics for future debates.

Philosophy professor Dr. Max Cherem then explained that the goal of the events were to “increase political and civil discourse on campus,” and discussed similar student ini-

tiatives at other institutions. Cherem introduced the

format of an Oxford-style debate and how he would act as the moderator.

He then introduced the four panelists: Kalamazoo College alumnus and Kalam-azoo County Commission-er Brandt Iden and Profes-sor of Economics at Western Michigan University Dr. Bill Kern debated against raising the minimum wage, and K alumna and Michigan United

Organizer Meredith Quinlan and Professor of Economics at Michigan State University Dr. Dale Belman debated for raising the minimum wage.

A coin was flipped to decide which side would start the debate, and Iden began with a four-minute opening statement.

“Government mandates are detrimental to businesses,” he began, and went on to explain

How E books Overcome the Cost of Printed BooksUpjohn Library hopes

to provide a wider and more accessible

selection to K students

Upjohn Library Commons has been increasingly purchas-ing eBooks for the past eight years. The library’s eBook col-lection begun with the state of Michigan’s purchase of two big eBook collections: ebrary Academic Complete and EBSCOhost.

Alone, those two librar-ies contributed to the addi-tion of more than a 100,000 eBooks to Upjohn’s collec-tion. Thereafter, the collec-tion was supplemented by reference books from Gale Virtual Reference Library and Credo Reference. Fur-thermore, the library bought small, specific eBook col-

lections from Oxford, Cam-bridge, and Wiley through in-dividual package acquisitions.

Various eBook acquisi-tion models exist. Some of these models are rental model, where the library pays an annual fee to maintain the rights to access the eBooks and provide them to Kalam-azoo College students. Other models include the complete purchasing of an eBook.

Demand Driven Acquisi-tion (DDA) is a recent eBook purchasing model being uti-lized by the library. Through this model, the library orders eBooks it thinks might be useful to students, but does not pay anything until and unless students use the eBooks. Thus, the actual eBook purchase is not made until a student trig-gers it, usually by reading the eBook for a set amount of time or printing from it.

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TECHNOLOGY

Model UN Team Travels to Chicago

OFF CAMPUS

Kalamazoo College’s MUN team travelled

to Chicago April 17-20 for a second conference

trisha dunhamindex staff writer

After K’s Model United Nations received their initial denial from Student Commis-sion regarding a budget pro-posal for their University of Chicago conference, they went back the following week and were granted a lesser amount of funding. They initially re-quested $6,000, but the fol-lowing week received $5,000 after their second request. Before their departure, they were granted an additional

$500 for their travel expens-es, explained club President Rami Sherman ’14.

Throughout the entire year they have received $11,000 from StuComm and approx-imately $2,500 from other sources, such as the Student Activities Committee and the Provost. In order to receive funds from the Provost, they had to host a Zoo After Dark, which they made into a capture the flag event. However, since they have already requested and received about 10 percent of the entire Student Commis-sion budget, they will not be able to partake in any more conferences this year.

Sherman is pleased with the clubs’ ability to

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Dr. Reid Gomez fields questions at dinner

ACADEMICS

Professor of Ethnic Studies Reid Gomez

spoke about her life and her work at April 23

Arcus Dinner

A diverse crowd of nearly 60 people; from students to faculty, humanities to sci-ences, gathered together for an evening of dinner and conversation hosted by the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership on April 23.

Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor Dr. Reid Gómez, who hails from the San Fran-cisco Bay Area with a BA in Psychology and Ph.D. in Eth-

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Poet Highlights LGBT Issues Through Poetry, Documentary

Poetry: Natasha Miller, delivering one of her passionate poetic pieces. Miller visited Kalamazoo College April 25

Poet Natasha Miller presented her

new documentary, TransParent, April 25

The band King Median, composed of Kalamazoo stu-dents, introduced poet Natasha

Miller to Kalamazoo College’s Recital Hall last Friday at 7:30 p.m. They were expected to play one or two songs, but en-tertained the audience further due to Miller’s traffic delay. Though Miller’s entrance was setback, it was worth the wait.

Poet Natasha Miller was brought to campus by the Conscious Communication and Gender and Sexuality

Living Learning Houses in their aim to promote healthy discussion amongst people of all sexual orientations, race, and other backgrounds. The event included a 20-minute preview of the documenta-ry she is currently directing called TransParent.

Miller’s documenta-ry focuses on the story of

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-some of the consequences of raising the minimum wage.

After his opening state-ment, his fellow K alumna was asked to give a four-min-ute statement.

“I’m not here to say that this is going to be a cure-all for poverty, but it will help,” Quinlan said, “It’s one piece of it.”

After both statements, Cherem posed the first ques-tion: What connection do you see between minimum wage and inflation, and minimum wage and employment?

Kern answered the ques-tion, but did not take up all his time, and Belman answered for the other side.

The second question asked the panelists to consider what economic benefits or issues they can foresee or would be concerned about with a mod-erate increase in the minimum wage, which was explained to be about 25 cents.

Iden said that economies in small, rural towns would

be squeezed and may have to “close their doors,” and Quinlan said that it would in-crease purchasing power and help “small business culture.”

The third question asked the panelists to discuss the link between livable wage and minimum wage, in which Kern answered that he thought of them being as closely con-nected, and Belman said “minimum wage has histor-ically been closely tied to the concept of living wage.”

Cherem then opened up the floor to questions from the audience, which in-cluded questions about the minimum wage in foreign countries, how the redistri-bution of spending money affects the economy, retire-ment, and where the money to increase minimum wage would come from.

Hume and Johnson, who collected the surveys from the audience, closed the event, which lasted about an hour. The surveys collected will guide the planning of future TalK-Zoo events.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

Victorious: The Kalamazoo College Men’s Tennis Team clinches their 76th MIAA Championship

S CUStudent Commission Update

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The Student Commission passed two resolutions,

talked DOGL, debated and tabled an amendment

regarding year-long positions, Skyped with absent members, and

reviewed meal swipe policy

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The Commission reviewed Constitutional amendments proposed

for the Spring Quarter election, most notably

a substantial increase in year-long positions.

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StuComm Vice President Cameron Goodall discussed

DOGL events in addition to a planned

StuComm EnvOrg post-DOGL beach clean-up.

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Several commissioners attended Monday’s

meeting via Skype’s online video chat service. The absent commissioners

were in Washington DC as part of the ‘Raise the Wage

‘campaign.

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The Commission unanimously passed two resolutions drafted by first year representative Melissa Erikson. Both measures seek to campus life for genderqueer and transgender students.

Resolutions

Amendments

Minimum Wage Debate

Upjohn looks to expand content access through ebooks

This model can enable the library to provide eBooks in an inexpensive fashion.

“[While] some schools [use DDA] really broadly, we are sort of dappling on a title by title bases,” said Leslie Burke, Collection Develop-ment and Digital Integration Librarian. For now, the DDA model is used only for “just in case” situations, in which the library checks out books that might be of interest to students, but that have not been requested yet.

The most useful applica-tion of an eBook is utilized when teachers request an eBook to be put on reserve. Provided with a link to the eBook, students can access the

eBook their teacher assigns for reading 24/7, without having to sign it out. Furthermore,

eBooks have no late fines and can be accessed while on study abroad, study away, during an internship, and can be down-loaded to phones and tablets,

making them more accessible than print.

Because of the limited history of eBook usage at K, Upjohn could not conduct studies on how eBooks are being used by students. Before the introduction of Library OneSearch in the fall of 2013, “a lot of people didn’t even know [K] had eBooks,” said Burke.

According to Burke, the main reason behind the slow eBook integration is the stu-dents’ and faculty’s unfamil-iarity with the technology and the utilities it offers. “It is going to get more common and people will be more used to it, but there are still going to be things that people are going to want to do on paper,” she added.

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-ry focuses on the story of transgender teenager Shelley Hilliard, born as Henry, who was murdered in Detroit in 2011, and was known to many people as “the person who walked realness for her house.”

The goal of her film is to bring attention to the trans-gender community and their stories that often go untold. She chose to reflect on Hil-liard’s story because she grew up in Detroit, and had a lot of access to the story.

“I was a part of the LGBT community and I knew what the ‘T’ stood for, but I didn’t know what was behind what it stood for, and now I do,” Miller said.

In the second part of the event, Miller performed spoken word poetry, which began her career seven years ago. The poems Miller recited reflected personal experienc-es and pains, inspired by re-al-events like the murder of her brother, as well as mis-treatment by her ex-girlfriend. They are “pain with a differ-

ent face” as Miller said, trans-forming her pains into humor, though still powerful pieces of poetry.

The poems she recited in-cluded “If I Happen to Die Before my Mother,” “Hal-loween Suggestions for your Ex-Lover,” and “The Other

Black Man.”By using film as her

medium, Miller wanted to reach a larger audience to convey Shelley’s story. Though she is a director, she remains as a lover of the spoken word, and called it the “base for everything [she does].”

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Miller Sheds Light on LGBT Issues

(Above) Poet Natasha Miller

K’s MUN Team Travels to Chicago

participate in the Montre-al Conference and the second University of Chicago con-ference.

“[The club is] not yet at the level we want it to be, but we can’t change it all in one year,” Sherman said.

One of the club’s main goals for the upcoming year is to host their own conference here at K. Model UN member Reynaldo Hernandez ’16 ex-plained that by hosting a con-ference here on campus, the club would be able to involve more of the K community in their events. They want to host a college conference, but a high school conference would be “good to have as a step-ping stone,” Hernandez said.

By hosting their own con-ference, the club would be able to raise money to attend more conferences.

“Most schools that have a legitimate club host a con-ference,” Sherman said, and added that a majority of legit-

imate clubs is able to attend about seven to eight confer-ences a year.

Although Sherman said he understands that attending that amount of conferences is not fiscally possible for the club currently, he hopes that with time Model UN will, “not

simply be a StuOrg, but a part of the school,” similar to the consideration the varsity sports teams receive.

Hernandez agreed and ex-plained that Model United Nations is a great example of experiential learning which, “K focuses on.”

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nic Studies from UC Berkeley, was the highlight of the event. After introducing herself, Gómez was asked a series of questions by Pro-fessor of History Lisa Brock, followed by questions from the audience. Brock’s questions aimed at get-ting to know Reid Gó-mez in a more personal light, rather than just her work at K.

Gómez spoke about the way she introduces herself with when giv-ing any sort of speech. Many who are familiar with Gómez know that she starts her speeches with a language that leaves many puzzled. Gómez explained that this is her honorific; the way she thanks the native people who have been on the land she is speaking on before her and a mark of respect for them. She gives these honorifics in Navajo, the language of her tribe. Gó-mez also mentioned her three books that she has written and the fourth one she is currently

writing, but preferred to not talk about it in detail as to al-low her to keep working on it.

Gómez took the time to answer questions about her upbringing as well. Gómez went on to describe her ear-ly childhood in the city of Oakland, California and how

this influenced her into get-ting into the academic field she is in now. According to Gómez, she did not have the traditional college life that most college students have because she chose to commute to Berkeley rather than live in the dorms. On top of that

she was working her way to pay tuition in college as to not accrue debt.

When Brock asked why Gómez went on to major in what she majored, she spoke about how the field of psychol-ogy gave her the opportunity and hope that she could fix

her people, a people she described as broken and scarred by poverty, colonialism and hatred that’s both external and internal.

It was during the final questions that the audience got to know Gómez in a different light. Gómez narrated a part of her lived expe-rience as someone who identifies as Mexican, Navajo, and Congolese. Gómez remarked, “be-ing the object of ridicule and hate strengthened

me.” As the Q & A with Brock came to the end, Gómez took a few questions from the audi-ence and afterwards thanked everyone for showing up and for the continuous support she has received from students and faculty alike at K for an Ethnic Studies program.

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After eating vegan last week, I decided

no dietary r e s t r i c -tion could be worse, so eating soy-free was the next re-striction to check off my list.

Soy allergies, while most common in children and usually resolve themselves by age 16, still affect some adults and can cause life-threatening allergic reactions. While it was really important to make sure I didn’t eat anything containing soy, I didn’t think that many food items contained it. But boy was I wrong – as usual.

So many foods contained soy that I wouldn’t have ever imagined. While I obviously avoided soy sauce and tofu, I realized that all of the des-serts and pizza’s served reg-ularly contained soy.

Luckily for me, the glu-ten-free cookies I discovered during my first diet adven-ture were also soy free, so I

enjoyed eating two of those after dinner every night. I didn’t mention them last week, but they are also vegan!

For the most part, Kalam-azoo College Dining services did a great job of labeling ev-erything for me so I knew what I couldn’t eat. However, brunch last Saturday was dan-gerous because of the lack of labeling, and I’m pretty sure I ate some things that weren’t soy free during the week, because they were not labeled with the little green sicker (the chicken pesto wrap last Friday at the grille).

That said, I never had a problem finding foods I could eat. Although there were some of my favorite meals that were off my menu, for the most part I was extreme-ly satisfied with the amount of options in the cafeteria.

I felt the same way about the Richardson Room Cafe,

although I wished that there could have been more than one bread option (the pretzel bun) for me to eat.

The Book Club, however, I did have some problems with. None of the food in the cooler was labeled with stick-ers so I wasn’t sure if what I was eating had soy in it, so I just tried to avoid it. While it wasn’t a huge problem, it would have been great if the labeling was clearer on

the sandwiches and salads that are in to-go containers.

Overall, I definitely give props to dining services for la-beling every-thing that could have caused students with these allergies

to go into possible anaphylac-tic shock, but we should also remember that any food could that comes into contact with other food containing soy, or gluten can cause these reac-tions for some people.

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I recently attended the Black Male Summit at the University of Akron with Associate Dean of Students, Karen Joshua-Wathel, and four students from the Young Men of Color orga-nization. The summit focused on issues facing African-American males in higher education.

Since our return, I’ve been processing the experience. What I’ve come away with is this: for communities of color, issues of race and the effects of discrimination are a regular part of life, while most white people remain obliv-ious to the pernicious role that race contin-ues to play in American society. I’m remind-ed of the words of Dr. Martin Luther King when he warned not just about the “violent actions of the bad people” but also the “ap-palling silence and indifference of the good people.” For those of us who are white, a de-cision not to engage in these issues is not in-nocuous because it allows us to be unwitting perpetrators of biased and hurtful practices, behaviors, and thinking.

My own engagement with issues of race began when I was nine and there was court-ordered desegregation of the Kalama-zoo Public Schools. The schools were neigh-borhood-based, and because neighborhoods were segregated due to years of housing dis-crimination, the schools were segregated too. As I was leaving the house on the first day of fourth grade, my mother looked at me and said, “Be nice to the black children.” While it was a kind thing to say, it was quite inad-equate preparation for what I was about to experience.

I think the adults thought that as children we were unbiased and we’d be able to work it out. No. Our heads were full of stereotypes and misinformation we had absorbed from the media, books, TV, and people around us. My parents supported the Civil Rights move-ment and believed in school integration, but they did not fully understand structural and institutional racism. And, because they knew very few people of color and had almost no direct experience with race, there was little guidance they could offer.

The kids at school did eventually work things out. To a point. At first, there were ra-cially-charged fights and knifings in the high schools. In the elementary schools there were fist fights, name-calling, and lots of misun-derstanding. After a few years, these overt manifestations of racial tension subsided, and we learned to coexist at school more or less peacefully, but we continued to segregate our-selves in the cafeteria and on the playground. Tension remained just under the surface and sometimes bubbled up.

We made friends across racial lines, but these friendships were largely limited to school. In fifth grade I became close to an African-American girl in my class. We had a lot in common, both of us middle class kids whose fathers were professors. We moved our desks next to each other, passed notes back and forth, and laughed until our sides ached about silly things. But, neither of us ever asked the other home to play. We didn’t even discuss it. It wasn’t that our families would not have been welcoming. For me, the biggest barrier was the bus ride home, either on an all white bus back to my neighborhood or on an all black bus back to hers, and the teasing I imagined we would have to endure.

White People’s WorkLETTER TO THE EDITOR

ANNE DUEWEKE

Our senior capstone “Cultivating Kom-munity” is a class completely designed and run by students as a part of the

Shared Passage Senior Capstones. Our goal for this class is to explore ways of cultivating com-munity among the senior class and campus at large during our last quarter. One of our main objec-tives is to find ways for the Class of 2014 to leave an impression on this campus in a useful way. One project we are doing is to paint a mural in the Cavern to continue the Cavern’s mission of creating an inviting space for all students. We, as the members of the class of 2014, hope that this mural will beautify the space and remind

students to live graciously. In the vein of cultivating community, we

would like to invite all members of the Class of 2014 to join us and help to create this

mural. All skill levels are welcome and encouraged to come! We also hope this mural will inspire future years to continue senior-run capstones and give back to the campus in their own way. Open painting days will be published via email and Facebook. Feel free to email Rachel Evans

(k10re01), Morgan Mahdavi (k10mm04), or Jenny Tarnoff (k10jt01) if you are inter-ested or if you have any questions!

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

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

RACHELEVANS

Call To Cultivate Community

“One of our main objectives is to find ways for the Class of 2014 to leave an impression on this

campus in a useful way”

Rachel Evans is a K Senior

“These people seem really misguided”: a remark over-heard less than an hour after the conclusion of last week’s speak out on the quad regard-ing the spring Frelon show—“these people” meaning people of color. We are two of “these people,” two seniors of color who have been profoundly af-fected by the recent events on campus, particularly the (lack of) response from the Frelon directors. Though not direct-ly involved in the speak out, we appreciate the honesty and space it created, and want to emphasize the importance of extending these issues into a sustained and collective dia-logue. Failure to do so is fa-cilitating a campus culture that is not truly progressive and not collectively accountable. Because we believe this is a conversation all members of the campus community should be involved in, we offer this response from our perspec-tive as both seniors and stu-dents of mixed racial heritage.

While we fully agree with the sentiment that macro-lev-el systems of racism and op-pression are at play at Kalam-azoo College, the institution cannot be used as a scapegoat. As noted by Lillie Wolff ‘04, “we’re all always participat-ing in something larger than ourselves—social systems”; in other words, human actions and the institution dynami-cally shape one another. So, a crucial part of dismantling institutional racism is practic-ing person-to-person account-ability and accounting for.

None of the Frelon directors have publicly apologized for the racially insensitive choices surrounding the spring perfor-mance. Deep accounting for these mistakes is only accom-plishable through an apology that is both direct and accessi-ble to the entire campus com-munity. While the directors issued a collective statement in which they “acknowledge the ignorance” of their actions, this statement was posted in a Facebook group and seen by

approximately 50 students, all of them seniors and most of them white. Additional-ly, the statement was not an apology, but an acknowledge-ment, effectively designed to head off any public conver-sation about the issues—an intention underscored by the request that any further dis-cussion take place with the Frelon directors in private.

Treating these issues as personal or private under-mines their seriousness and removes them from the public sphere to which they proper-ly belong. Such privatization

of rightfully public discourse is effectively censorship. Yes, the Frelon spring show is an eagerly awaited event into which the directors put a lot of time and energy. However, this commitment doesn’t exempt the directors from critique, and neither should critique be received as insult. Con-structive criticism of offen-sive actions is a way for com-munity members to respect the community; it is caring for our collective container. Similarly, conversations like these should not be treated as gossip or spectacle, expected to fade from relevance in a week or two; rather, they are work, they are progress, they are positive re-shapings of our College culture, and should be held as such.

Our comments don’t have specific reformatory recom-mendations; rather, we are asking all members of the campus community to seek first to understand. To listen. This is not something we’ve “slept off” or chalked up to the buzz of third week. This has genuinely troubled us as members of this community, as people of color, and as peers of the Frelon directors. This book must not be slammed closed. We, however, close with a quote from Dr. Jaime Grant’s piece “Emptying the White Knapsack.”

“Listen. Listen more. Listen when you are uncomfortable.”

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

CHELSEY SHANNON

ALEXANDRA SUBBARAMAN

What Happened at Frelon

“Listen. Listen more. Listen when you are

uncomfortable”

Chelsey Shannon and Alexandra Subbaraman are K Seniorsand self-declared “Children of Mixture”

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OFF-CAMPUSEVENTS

Sunday, 5/4

Art Hop5:00 p.mDowntown Kalamazoo

Friday, 5/2

Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle in Jungle Heat6:00 p.mFirst Baptist Church

Saturday, 5/3

ON-CAMPUSEVENTS

Arts

Thursday, 5/1How Miss Long Beach Became Miss Long Beach and The Chairs7:30 p.mDungeon Theatre in FAB

Friday, 5/2

Hillbery Keynote Address7:00 p.mOlmstead Room

Saturday, 5/3World Night8:00 p.mDalton Theatre

PRESS RELEASE

Annie Get Your Gun7:30 p.mKalamazoo Civic Theatre

Bean there, Brewed that: Kalamazoo’s Many Coffee Joints

colin smithindex staff writer

Working: Fourth Coast Cafe with its 24 hour service and complimentary WiFi is a popu-lar spot for many students off campus

BREW BEAT

A year ago, Arcadia released the details on its new brewpub and restaurant “Arcadia West,” prom-ising a sleek and exciting new setting for patrons to enjoy Arca-dia’s classic, specialty, and season-al beers. As expected, Arcadia de-livers on this promise with more to come in the following months.

Located on Kalamazoo Avenue just east of down-town near Portage creek, Arca-dia’s large fa-cility includes large brewing vats, a smoke-house for their authentic barbe-cue menu curated by a K alum, and a high-ceilinged dining and bar area. The entire facility is 30,000 square feet—a testament to Arcadia’s presence in the Michigan brew community.

One major determinant of vis-iting Arcadia is if you enjoy their beers. I am no beer snob, so I was able to sit down with some good acquaintances and enjoy a glass of their classic Hopmouth—a malty and sweet blend with a hoppy aftertaste. I have tasted Arcadia’s other beers and found, while nothing special for me, they provide a solid selection and variety of tastes. I would be surprised if anyone made any negative blanket generalizations of Arcadia’s selec-tion simply because there’s enough to satisfy the average craft beer fan.

There are some new features to Arcadia West that probably aren’t found at most other brewpubs: not only does its adjacency to the Ka-

Editor’s Note: This press release was edited by Arts and Entertainment

Editor Sarah Walace

From May 1-4, the talents of Ka-lamazoo students will be on display for the College’s Theatre Arts Depart-ment’s Senior Performance Series.

The Performance Series in-cludes two one-act plays: How Miss Long Beach Became Miss Long Beach, an original work written by junior Alejandro Castillo and di-rected by senior Amy Jimenez and Eugene Ionesco’s The Chairs, di-rected by junior Grace Gilmore.

Playwright Alejandra Castillo is from Los Angeles, CA, and writes about a 16-year-old Latina who is torn between pleasing her mother and competing in a beauty pageant, or staying true to her tomboy ways. Castillo describes her plays as an ex-ploration of femininity and woman-hood in Latina culture. Director Amy Jimenez thinks many people will be able to relate to the play’s themes.

“Although this play speaks to the Latina experience to some extent, it is definitely relevant to all female ex-periences because it deals with issues of identity, sexuality, family, and the ideology of beauty,” said Jimenez.

The second play sets the tone a little differently in Eugene Ion-

Kalamazoo Talent to Set the Stage

esco’s absurdist tragic farce, The Chairs. For much of the play, two main characters, the Old Man and the Old Woman, are expecting the arrival of an Orator that supposedly holds a great message for humanity. In preparation for the guest, they fran-tically arrange the chairs for a series of invisible guests. Director Grace

Gilmore adds her ideas on the play’s meaning. “The Chairs forces us to imagine a world where the meaning of life is undefinable… and where what we say is not always what we mean and yet when we look closer we realize this world is not so dif-ferent from our own,” said Gilmore.

The shows run Thursday, May

1 at 7:30 p.m, Friday and Satur-day, May 2 & 3 @ 8:00 p.m., and Sunday, May 4 @ 2:00 p.m. in the Dungeon Theatre in the Light Fine Arts Building at Kalamazoo College. All tickets at the door are $5 (Thurs-day is Pay-What-You-Can night).

Talent: Members of the cast of How Miss Long Beach Became Miss Long Beach include (at left) Natalie Vazquez ’17 (seated) and Belinda McCauley ’16, and, at right (l-r): Wendy Rubio ’16, Mireya Guzman-Ortiz ’17, and Marta Gonzalez Infante ’17.

Between Biggby Coffee founder Michael McFall graduating from Kalamazoo College 20 years ago and Water Street Coffee taking over the College’s library cafe this past fall, coffee has been the school’s means to the ends of studying.

That said, as Kalamazoo Coffee Co. just recently expanded their lo-cations to over 80 Meijer stores na-tionwide, there are a number of other venues to either grab a coffee with a friend or a 1 lb. bag to brew later.

Black Owl Cafe — The shared vision of Darren Bain and Garrett Krugh, works as the main hub for Kalamazoo Coffee Co. Nearly all of the space is made of wood, and each part of its decoration, such as its signature owl, fits the cafe’s ho-listic schema. Their 12 oz. bags of fresh coffee beans tend to earthy filled between subtle notes, espe-cially the ever-popular Backpack-er’s Blend. The cafe’s only downside is their short hours from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on the weekdays, and 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on weekends.

Fourth Coast Cafe — Notori-ous for sharing the same space as the revered Crow’s Nest restau-rant, is also known for being open 24 hours every day. Despite these never-ending hours, it can be dif-ficult to find a seat, or at least the focus, due to the venue’s populari-ty amongst students and the eclec-tic music tastes of the baristas.

Water Street Coffee Joint — Though cramped, this bright and open space between two of Kalam-azoo’s busiest streets is one of the city’s most popular cafes. That said, it tends to appeal to an older clientele, and their orders can be comparative-ly more expensive. Their “Midnight Oil” is their best dark roast, but any of their blends can be found at local groceries like Meijer or Harding’s.

Something’s Brewing — As the oldest coffee shop in Kalamazoo they offer over 50 varieties of whole bean coffee. Though their wide selection can be overwhelming, the cafe sits across the street from the public library. Given its convenient loca-tion, and as both Fourth Coast and Water Street tend to be busy, Some-thing’s Brewing is a hidden gem. In-terestingly, they also use coffee ice cubes, so cold drinks don’t become diluted during the spring and summer.

Caffe Casa — With an upright piano, a couch, local artwork, and a vegan-friendly menu, this cafe is calmer than the rest. As they offer both a wide selection and large por-tions of tea, this quaint and quiet nook of the Kalamazoo Mall is not just suited to coffee drinkers.

Totally Brewed Cafe — While offering inexpensive prices at about $6 for a meal and a drink, Totally Brewed Cafe lies across Bronson Park. Open from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., if not for their coffee, bring their “Sack Lunch” to the park—completed with a sandwich, pickle, bag of chips, and a cookie.

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Arcadia West Delivers Great Beer in a Unique Setting

Math Fun Facts8:00 p.mStetson Chapel

Yom HaShoah: Remembering the Holocaust 11:00 a.mOlmstead Room

How Miss Long Beach Became Miss Long Beach and The Chairs8:00 p.mDungeon Theatre in FAB

How Miss Long Beach Became Miss Long Beach and The Chairs8:00 p.mDungeon Theatre in FAB

How Miss Long Beach Became Miss Long Beach and The Chairs2:00 p.mDungeon Theatre in FAB

Annie Get Your Gun7:30 p.mKalamazoo Civic Theatre

Kalamazoo Walk MS 20149:45 a.mKalamazoo Civic Theatre

Sunday, 5/4

Inside Steinway: Photographs by Christopher Payne2:00 p.mKalamazoo Institute of Arts

lamazoo River allow it to be acces-sible by foot, kayak, and bike, but it has given Arcadia the opportu-nity to consider more green ways of waste management. The inte-rior is also green-centric, with re-cycled metals and woods utilized to create a sleek and new feeling. This “new” aesthetic is one reason alone to visit Arcadia—the fresh atmosphere of a new building and brewery is unique enough to keep you looking around for quite a while.

While I did not have the chance to try out any items from their menu

(their smokehouse was not in opera-tion at the time), their menu plans to bring an inter-esting blend of American barbe-cue while also fea-turing influences from the Middle East, Turkey, South America, and North Africa. This differs greatly

from the typical cuisine offered by most Kalamazoo brewpubs, es-tablishing Arcadia as an advanta-geously unique restaurant as well.

Arcadia West is off to a great start. As the summer progresses, outdoor seating will become more common with more features of ac-cessibility to come (I mean, come on: you can get there by kayak). Even if you’re not an Arcadia fan, there is definitely something worth seeing on their side of the river.

Editor’s Note: The smokehouse has excellent assortment of meats and fresh side dishes like potato salad, slaw, and collard greens and Arcadia has put its own spin on these classic tastes. Nathan Colello Gilmore ‘12 designed the entire food counter and production line.

“Even if you’re not an Arcadia

fan, there’s some-thing worth see-ing on their side

of the river”

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Index Throwback: Dave Brubeck

Take Five: Dave Brubeck (left) and his ensemble performing at Kalamazoo Central High School in 1974

katie schmitznews editor

When famed jazz band leader Dave Brubeck visited Kalamazoo in

1974, WJMD and The Index were able to sit down for an interview

Dave Brubeck was a famous jazz pianist and composer. His career started in the 1940s, and he gained wider recognition after appearing on the cover of Time Magazine in 1945. He is perhaps best known for his song “Take Five,” which he composed with his group, the Dave Brubeck Quartet.

In August of 1974, Brubeck and his son came to Kalama-

zoo to perform in the audito-rium of Central High School. The show was a part of a tour Brubeck was doing in which

he visited multiple College campuses with his son and their band.

Kalamazoo College’s radio

station, WJMD, and the Index were able to get an interview with Brubeck’s son, Darius, and a fellow band member.

During the interview, the K Student interviewer played songs for Darius and his band to see if he could guess what they were. After the test, which they passed, the band members discussed what they thought of the selected pieces.

Throughout his career, Dave Brubeck received endless recognition and awards for his work. He was even recognized during the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors for “exhibiting excellence in the performing arts.” At the ceremony, Brubeck was intro-duced by President Obama, who stated, "You can’t under-stand America without under-standing jazz, and you can’t understand jazz without un-derstanding Dave Brubeck."

Along with his title of Kennedy Center Honoree and recognition from the President, Brubeck has also received an honor-ary degree from Kalama-zoo College. In 1991, the presenter of the honor-ary degree stated, “Dave Brubeck continues to enrich the world with his perfor-mances, his compositions, and his tireless devotion to the world of music.”

Brubeck passed away one day before his 92nd birthday on December 5, 2012. He will forever be remembered by Kalama-zoo College, and the rest touched by his music, as one of the most influential jazz musicians to ever live.

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With an 8-1 victory over Alma College last Wednesday, the Men’s Tennis team clinched the MIAA regular season title outright and

extended their renowned conference championship streak to 76 years. The victory completed an unde-feated run through the MIAA regular season, ensuring that the 2014 Hornets sit alone atop the league just one year after a three-team split for the title between Kalamazoo, Calvin and Hope.

“Because of our program’s history, there’s a lot riding on keeping the streak alive, so it’s always one of our top priorities to have a strong performance in conference season play,” said senior Michael Korn.

The undefeated run in the MIAA places the Hornets as the potential host for two matches in this week’s MIAA tournament. K will host Albion College on Thursday at 4:00 p.m., with the winner moving onto the final. Hope, the number two ranked team in the league, will host Adrian on the same day before the two winners meet the following day at the home of the highest-remaining seed.

While the regular season title ensured the contin-uation of the 76-year MIAA championship streak, a win in the MIAA tournament is necessary for the Hornets to receive the conference’s automatic berth to the NCAA tournament.

“NCAAs are where we set our sights early in the year and are the pinnacle of the season,” said Korn. “Right now, all of our focus is on earning our spot in the tournament and trying to put together everything we’ve learned this season.”

The automatic berth is likely the Hornets only path to the NCAA tournament. The April 10 ITA rankings had Kalamazoo as the 11th-ranked school

in the region. Since April 10, the Hornets have lost two matches: at home to Division-I neighbor West-ern Michigan and a neutral site competition against Gustavus Adolphus (the 4th-ranked school in the central region by the ITA).

While fans have come to expect MIAA wins from the Hornets, K will still have to compete and win the MIAA tournament if they want to ensure the contin-uation of their season. And for a trio of Hornets in particular, an MIAA tournament win is necessary to ensure their K tennis careers do not end at the hands of an MIAA opponent.

“Our season goals have all been set around our performance in these last two weeks,” said Korn.

Kalamazoo enters the first-round matchup with Albion as the heavy favorite after defeating the Britons on the road in early April: 8-1. Albion’s number-three double’s team was the only match victor for the Britons on that day.

The Hornets handily dispatched both potential final’s match ups as well this season. Neither Hope nor Adrian was able to take a match from the Hornets as they secured two 9-0 victories.

While the Hornets will enter the tournament as the heavy favorite, those that were a part of last year’s team understand not to take any opponent lightly, and that one day, and one lapse, is all that is necessary to potentially derail a season.

“We have been working hard toward our season and personal goals all year, and it is very important for me, and the team, that we finish on a high note,” said Korn.

Kalamazoo will host Albion College to open the MIAA tournament on Thursday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. If the Hornets defeat the Britons, they will be back in action against the winner of Adrian/Hope with the conference’s automatic berth to the NCAA’s at stake.

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TalK-Zoo hosts it’s first event debating the question, “Raise the wage?”

Model UN traveled to Chicago to attend another conference.

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tennis (W)4/26 @St. Mary’s: W, 7-2

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4/26 @Adrian: L, 3-2 (8 inn.)4/26 @Adrian: W, 5-44/27 Adrian: L, 4-14/27 Adrian: L, 10-3

4/23 Alma: L, 9-24/23 Alma: L, 6-34/26 Olivet: L, 8-24/26 Olivet: L, 2-14/27 @North Park: L, 7-44/27 @North Park: L, 2-0

4/22 @ Albion: L, 21-54/26 Calvin: L, 20-124/27 Olivet: L, 15-10

Men’s Tennis:5/1 Albion: 4:00 PMWomen’s Tennis:5/1 St. Mary’s (12:00 PM)Baseball:4/29 @Butler (3:30 PM)5/1 Rochester (DH): 2:00 PM

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Women’s Lacrosse Concludes Inaugural Season With (5-10) Record

The Kalamazoo College Women’s Lacrosse team dropped its final two games this season over the weekend falling 20-12 to Calvin College on Saturday and 15-10 to Olivet on Sunday.

The Hornets fell behind early to Calvin, giving up eight unanswered goals to start off the game. They were unable to rally back against the MIAA-playoff bound Knights, who currently sit in third place in the MIAA. Kalamazoo was led by the dynamic attack of first-year players Anika Sproull and Anna Dariaghi, who both netted three goals apiece.

Fellow classmates Thania Stav-ropoulos and Alivia DuQuet also tacked an additional two goals each

in the loss. Calvin maintained their dominance throughout the first half as they entered half time leading 11-4. While the Hornets played the Knights evenly in the second period, they were outshot 40-25 and only converted on one of their five free position shots to Calvin’s five of their eight.

“Going into that game, we knew Calvin was ranked pretty high in the conference,” said senior start-ing attacker Marissa Dawson fol-lowing Saturday’s loss. “We came out pretty flat at the beginning of the game, but once we realized we needed to step it up, we played really even with them.”

The Hornets then fell on Senior Day to rival Olivet, as they again dug themselves into an 8-4 hole in the first half, from which they were unable to recover. Senior

Holly Cooperrider co-led the team in goals, scoring two in her final game. First years Stavropoulos, DuQuet, and Sproull joined her by finishing a pair each. Kalamazoo dominated Olivet on the stat sheet, outshooting the Comets 37-26 and 22-16 on ground balls controlled. However, they struggled again from the free shot position going 2-9 from the hash.

Kalamazoo wraps up what turned out to be a disappointing run, going 5-10 on the season with a seventh place finish in MIAA play. While the Hornets will miss the playoffs in their inaugural season, the future looks bright for the very young team. They return their top six goal scorers from 2014, including the midfielder Sproull, who racked up 52 goals during the campaign, good for fourth in the MIAA. First years

Nicole Huff and Anna Dariaghi will be back as well, both coming off 20-goal seasons for Coach Emilia Ward’s team.

“For a first-year program, the things we accomplished this year are amazing,” said Dawson. “This team has great potential, so we set our goals really high. I think that in the next couple years or so, this team is going to rise in the ranks of the conference. I really wish I was staying around to play because I have that good feeling about this team and this group of freshmen who are going to be leaders moving forward.”

The Hornet Lacrosse family says goodbye to seniors Holly Cooperrid-er, Rachel Fine, Crestina Pacheco, Anna Eshuis, and Marissa Dawson. They all played their final game Sunday against Olivet.

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