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Kozol inspires campus

Phi Gamma Delta unveiled its 21 founding fathers last night to re-establish itself as a colony on the Allegheny cam-pus after a 14-year absence.

Pledge and founding father Trevor Colvin, ’14, said he’s excited to be a founding father and a member of FIJI.

“I knew that this could be something that we mold and create, that if we have the right guys it’s going to be something special,” Colvin said. “So just leaving my mark on it and trying to do the best I can to represent FIJI is what really ap-pealed to me.”

Even though he’s not here to help with the re-coloniza-tion on campus now, graduate Chase Stelzer, ‘12, the initiator of the interest group since his freshman year in 2008, thinks the fraternity will be a good at-

tribute to the community, he said in an email.

“I think the campus com-munity will be excited,” Stelzer said. “I imagine a few people are apprehensive about the idea of a new fraternity on campus. But when they consider the amount of good FIJI will do for Greek Life, Allegheny and the community of Meadville, I be-lieve that will change.”

Many rumors have sur-rounded FIJI since they were kicked off campus in 1998, causing some of the campus community to be hesitant about the organization; how-ever, FIJI Assistant Director of Expansion Brett Pytel said these are rumors and the real reason they were kicked off wasn’t something about the fraternity as a whole, but rather the attitude of the particular chapter.

“They just broke the rules,” Pytel said. “They were that

stereotypical fraternity house that is pictured in an animal house, I guess you would say. […] Once the group got closed down, stories come left and right from all over campus.”

FIJI implemented regula-tions about hazing and alcohol, including creating dry housing, in the 90s, which many chap-ters adopted without problems. Yet Allegheny’s chapter was more resistant, according to Pytel.

“In the 90s, our organization saw it as a transitional point where we needed to change that culture because it’s not acceptable on campus and it’s not benefitting our members, so we were one of two organi-zations who went alcohol-free in our housing,” he said. “You can imagine, a smaller cam-pus, along with 18-22 year old students who have been doing

CODY MILLER/THE CAMPUSAcclaimed writer and education activist Jonathan Kozol speaks on the trials facing education in low-income communities on Oct. 17, 2012.

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discussed the gaping inequali-ties and lingering segregation in America’s education system.

The main character in most of Kozol’s stories was a girl with the nickname Pineapple, who Kozol had been teaching since she was eight years old.

“She was a very bossy little person,” Kozol said, recalling their first meeting. “She started giving me instructions from the day we met.”

Pineapple, like many of the children Kozol features in his books, grew up in a poor neighborhood in the South Bronx.

“These kids were at the depths of destitution,” he said.

By way of explanation, Ko-zol described Pineapple’s apart-ment building, where a young

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Leanne Siwicki, ‘15, and Nancy Chen, ‘14, paint a house for Make A Difference Day on Oct. 14, 2012. Al-legheny College’s 19th annual Make a Difference Day kicked off early last Saturday, Oct. 13, in Diamond Park. Teams took on a variety of projects, from painting houses to building wheelchair ramps to remodeling bathrooms. The event is a mainstay of Allegheny College service, with groups such as Greek Life and student government participating, as well as individual students.

“Teachers are my he-roes. Teaching is a beauti-ful profession.”

Jonathan Kozol began his speech Wednesday night moving the audi-ence to applaud for cur-rent and future teachers, the future of education.

Kozol, an education writer, activist and for-mer teacher, moved his audience to laughter and tears speaking in Shafer Auditorium for the Year of Transforming Education.

Drawing on personal experience as a teacher in some of New York City’s poorest schools, Kozol

boy had died trying to board an elevator. Running, he hit the call button. The doors opened and his momentum took him through. But, despite numer-ous complaints and requests for repair, the elevator had jammed and the car was not there. He fell to his death.

Pineapple’s school received only half the funding a wealthy New York suburban school might receive, due to the fact that school funding is calcu-lated from local property taxes. Such settings can coarsen the souls of children, Kozol said.

“Their cafeteria was like a feeding trough for animals,” Kozol said. “I go to upper mid-dle class schools just to remind myself what money buys for children.”

In the face of these struggles, Pineapple suc-ceeded. Adults around her, like a local Episco-palian priest, noticed her potential and paid for her to go on to prestigious prep schools, and then on to college. She now plans to become a public school teacher like Kozol was.

But Kozol reminded the audience that such a story of triumph was not the norm.

“Pineapple was lucky,” Kozol said. “She caught the eye of people who could intervene for her... but you shouldn’t have to be a little charmer to get an education in this

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Winslow halts walk-in serviceChange made to help manage time, number of students, number of needs

Although a new nurse practi-tioner will join the staff of the Winslow Health Center in No-vember, the cancelled walk-in

hours will not be reinstated, according to Sue Plunkett, director of health services.

The halting of walk-in hours at Winslow Health Center was triggered by the retirement of a long-time staff member, the grow-ing number of students on campus, and students’ more compli-cated medical needs, Plunkett said.

Joyce Cortes, who Plunkett said worked at Allegheny for 15 years and whose four children all attended the college, retired in the spring. The health center is currently operating with only two full-time staff members and two part-time employees.

Plunkett said that the final straw encouraging the center to halt walk-ins came several Mondays ago.

“Every single slot was filled by 10:30 a.m., and so we were see-ing one after another patients, and then between the hours of 1:30 and 3 p.m., 25 walk-ins came in,” she said. “And so when you have 60 people come through the door in a day, and you have basically two people to take care of them and a doctor an hour and a half

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Alden gas leak disrupts studies

A crack in the gas line running under North Main Street caused the gas leak that closed Alden Hall Friday afternoon, leaking

fumes through drain lines and into the building, according to Cliff Willis, director of the Physical Plant.

The leak was confirmed and repaired by National Fuel, western Pennsylvania’s natural gas provider.

Willis said that the line was most likely part of the same system used throughout Meadville, but that Allegheny can do nothing to regulate it, because it’s not owned by the college.

“It is an older line, I believe, but it’s not a college utility,” he said.However, he said that the only buildings that can be affected by

gas leaks are the science buildings because of the gas lines running to laboratories, something that is not generally included in the campus’ other structures.

None of the buildings at Allegheny are equipped with gas de-tectors, according to Willis, but National Fuel adds a chemical to their gas that creates a distinct odor meant to warn if there is a

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sit in the car and experience somebody of that stature by yourself,” Hailsham said, liken-ing the experience to the time he had the chance to speak pri-vately with Michelle Obama. “The filter’s off. It’s whatever he’s feeling, it’s whatever he wants to say. And it’s the same as what he said on stage.”

Hailsham mentors youth through the Crawford County Juvenile Probation Services Of-fice.

“I consider myself a mentor first,” Hailsham said. “Whatev-er they need of me. If it’s a big brother, if it’s somebody to help them do their homework, then that’s what I do.”

Hailsham hopes to go into education and then on into education policy.

“Ironically, what Mr. Kozol said not to do is exactly what I planned on doing,” Hailsham said, referring to his plans to participate in Teach for Amer-ica for a short while before go-ing on into policy. “But I think

country. Charity is not a sub-stitute for justice.”

He railed against those who thought that the public edu-cation system could be fixed through reforms such as the introduction of charter schools or the breaking up of over-crowded schools.

“That’s the whole agenda in America,” Kozol said. “Perfect-ible apartheid.”

He also called the current emphasis on standardized test-ing and drilling, largely a con-sequence of 2001’s No Child Left Behind Act, a “national hysteria.”

“You can’t give a number to something a child writes that comes straight from the heart,” Kozol said. “The poet in the child’s soul will never be rewarded by a standardized exam.”

Kozol recommended that the federal government rescind such standards and instead pour much more money into the public education system, which he referred to several times as a form of apartheid.

Kozol ended on a posi-tive note, however, discussing a day he spent with the late Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.

After a speech they gave together in New York, Rogers asked if Kozol could introduce him to some of the children he had written about.

The pair took the subway to what Kozol called “the most dangerous street for drugs in New York,” where dealers were whispering the brand names of heroin to them as they stepped out of the station.

A sanitation truck screeched to a halt and the driver de-scended and approached Kozol and Rogers. And he hugged Rogers, lifting him off of the ground. The pair proceeded to the school, where Kozol said the teachers were nearly moved to tears at Rogers’ surprise visit

to their first grade classrooms.After that, they went to the

basement of an Episcopalian church, where an after-school program was to be held with some children Kozol had taught.

The kids began to pack in. The first child who spotted Rogers was named Angelo.

“If a 7-year-old doesn’t like you, they make it obvious,” Ko-zol said. “But if they like you, then you’re in for it.”

Angelo ran to Rogers, his arms outstretched. Jumping up, he embraced Rogers’ head and planted a kiss on his cheek.

“Welcome to my neighbor-hood, Mr. Rogers,” Angelo said.

Professor Aimee Knup-sky, who proposed the Year of Transforming Education with Professor Stephanie Martin, said that the theme came at a “critical juncture” in American history.

“We’re at a breaking point in terms of public education,” said Knupsky, who teaches cogni-tive psychology. “We wanted to start a conversation about that. In higher education, the issue is that the costs has become so astronomical. How can we get a college education to all stu-dents in a way that doesn’t set them back? At K-12, it’s about starting kids off on the same foot.”

Kozol’s speech was a roll-ercoaster for many audience members, moving through tragedy, humor and hope.

“I cried three times,” said Katie Beck, ‘14, a student am-bassador for the Year of Trans-forming Education. “He moved me.”

Beck herself is an educator. She teaches a low-cost acting class at the Meadville Council on the Arts. Her students are between the ages of seven and thirteen, attending the class af-ter school.

“It goes beyond acting,” said Beck. “We check in on each

other. It’s about being able to communicate.”

Beck still hasn’t decided what she wants to do after graduation, and Kozol’s speech only intensified this uncer-tainty.

“It’s a good thing,” said Beck. “He’s making me reconsider what I want to do. I want to do theater, I want to write, I want to go into education... I might want to do teaching. I’m not sure. I’m feeling it right now.”

Dan Winston, a 2010 Al-legheny alumnus and teacher at the Creating Landscapes Learning Center, said that his school was applying alternative models to education with great success.

“Instead of teaching to the test and drilling, we infuse it with the arts,” Winston said. “We do it through inquiry-based and student-driven learning... and most of the time we achieve far greater effects as far as students finding their passion for learning.”

Winston, much like Pine-apple, had found his success partially through the inter-vention of others. In 2000, he performed in a version of The Who’s Tommy. Jan Hyatt, for-mer head of Allegheny’s Dance and Movement Studies depart-ment and the founder of Cre-ating Landscapes, noticed him and gave him a full scholarship to the school’s summer pro-gram.

“I completely fell in love with the whole philosophy, the whole way of doing things,” Winston said. “It showed me what education could be and instilled in me the passion for learning and passing on to oth-ers that made me want to be a teacher.”

Student ambassador Larry Hailsham, ‘15, spent perhaps the most time with Kozol one-on-one out of any student, driv-ing the writer from Pittsburgh to Meadville for his speech.

“I think it was really inspir-ing just kind of being able to

that it’s okay that he doesn’t agree with that. “That’s what I want to do. That’s truly how you make change.”

Hailsham also criticized sharply the current focus on testing due to No Child Left Behind.

“We’re talking about groom-ing people to get into the econ-omy, but we’re not grooming citizens,” said Hailsham. “We need to get into the art of pro-ducing citizens, not producing the next Apple executive but producing the next Jonathan Kozol, the next Martin Luther King. Actually producing citi-zens who are doing something to benefit the poor, not just the poor black, not just the poor white, but the poor and every-body else. Because that’s what life is about.”

The Year of Transforming Education continues on Oct. 30 with a talk by 1993 alum-nus Andre Perry entitled “The High Stakes of National Educa-tion Policy.”

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this, this is tradition, the tran-sition to get out of that phase and have dry houses was not the easiest in some scenarios.”

In order to break the stigma moving forward, Colvin said he and the other members will have to maintain values and positively affect the commu-nity.

“Everything that a brother does in FIJI, we want it to be positive on the campus,” he said. “No matter what it’s in, just be positive.”

Pytel said the stigma against FIJI is already beginning to change.

“They saw that what we said, or what we’re trying to sell to the campus community, isn’t really something we’re selling,” he said. “It’s something that we truly believe and it’s a philoso-phy. We are genuinely inter-ested in what happens to this community and we care about the group that we’re starting.”

Colvin said he thinks a posi-

tive attitude from all the mem-bers will define FIJI over time.

“I can’t speak of the en-tire campus right now, but I hope in the future they see Phi Gamma Delta as a bunch of gentlemen that do the best that they can,” he said. “Whether its academically, on the play-ing fields, whether they’re in certain clubs, just everything. We’re being the true gentlemen that we’re supposed to be and be positive representatives, not only of FIJI, but Allegheny Col-lege Greek Life and the campus as a whole.”

Stelzer said he’s glad to see the fraternity finally re-colonizing and he thinks the recruitment process was suc-cessful.

“Some may not be as rigor-ous as ours, but going from an interest group to a chartered fraternity without a grace pe-riod to convey skills and other basics, is analogous to going 0-60 in a second so the short

answer is I really like the pro-cess,” Stelzer said.

Pytel and Field Assistant Andrew Griffin came from international headquarters to re-establish FIJI on campus. They recruited and prepared the organization by interview-ing around 50 potential sopho-more through senior members and engaging the campus com-munity in FIJI’s re-colonization efforts as much as they could. Their recommendation-based recruitment features a three-ti-er interview process, Pytel said, and him and Griffin organize the whole process.

“We just want to give them the information, want to an-swer any questions they have, and then we facilitate opportu-nities for all the men who are interested on campus to meet each other,” Pytel said. “The most important thing is, out-side all of the other items, is that they kind of get along.”

He said the founding father

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in the morning, it becomes unmanageable.”Plunkett said that so far, the change has been beneficial. Joe

DiChristina, dean of students, agreed.“I don’t have any complaints from students saying they weren’t

able to be seen and so I think her reasoning behind all of that about appointments is less associated with staff numbers and more associated with the kinds of needs that students have,” he said.

Some students, however, are worried that the cancellation of walk-in appointments will mean a removal of a necessary compo-nent of health care.

“I think it’s really important that students are able to walk in, and I think that accessibility is a big thing with health care,” said Anastasia Wooten, president of the Reproductive Health Coali-tion. “As a group, one of the next projects that we’re probably go-ing to try to communicate with the health center about and see what we can do, is to get that back.”

Plunkett said that by taking only scheduled appointments, the health center staff will be able to better manage its time and pre-pare to handle students’ needs before they get to the office. She also said that the change is for the protection of the students and the staff.

“I had a student on that Monday come in and they walked in, said they didn’t feel good, said they were a little short of breath, we took their temperature, it was 102, they sat in the waiting room coughing while we were taking care of other students,” Plunkett said. “Then she was ushered into my room, […] I realized into the visit she had pneumonia.”

The new staff member will be a nurse practitioner instead of an RN. According to Plunkett, the health center will be more able to respond to complicated student needs, because nurse practitio-ners can order and interpret tests, make diagnoses, and prescribe antibiotics, among other more extensive abilities.

“I think once November hits, we’re back to a place where we have a good skill set of individuals to be available for students,” DiChristina said. “For the last few years I have observed through knowing some of the work that Sue and her staff have done, that they respond well to students, to take care of student needs. ”

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leak in a building.It was this odor that Tamara Misner, professor of Geology,

smelled and mentioned to Samuel Reese, who called the Physical Plant.

“I went downstairs to get some equipment from the basement, and it smelled like gas. Worse than usual,” Misner said. “I mean, oftentimes, it would smell like gas down there, but this time it smelled really strong.”

Pauling Lanzine, the secretary of Alden hall, who was in the building at the time, said that the subsequent evacuation went very smoothly.

“The Physical Plant came with the gas meter, the gas meter de-tected it, National Gas was called, and at that point the building was evacuated,” she said. “It was really quite simple.”

Because the building was closed for a large portion of Friday and the weekend, some teachers were unable to get things out of their offices and some students were unable to work on lab as-signments.

To fix the leak, National Fuel cut out the section of damaged piping and added a new section to repair the leak, Willis said.

“I’m glad they finally figured out where the leak was coming from,” Misner said. “It has seemed to have been better so far, so hopefully that takes care of it. But it’s an old building and old pipes and so you know these things happen, I guess.”

Willis encouraged students and faculty who smell gas to notify the school.

“If [students] are ever concerned about a problem, definitely contact security after hours or the Physical Plant, we’ll check it out,” he said.

Professor Natalie Cisneros, recent graduate of Vanderbilt University and former resident of San Diego, Calif., hopes to bring her West Coast experi-ence to Allegheny’s philosophy department.

Different from her time spent at Vanderbilt, she enjoys the close-knit community at

Allegheny as well as the engag-ing students in her classrooms.

Cisneros is teaching two philosophy courses this semes-ter. Her ethics course focuses on the meaning of fitting into a community and upholding those ethical standards.

“We’re talking about what it would mean to live up to our democratic ideals and the challenges that are opposed to these ideals,” said Cisneros.

The goal of the semester is to work through these conflicts to find solutions and build communities that are more ethical, she said.

Her second class, Op-pression and Liberation, is a discussion-based course that focuses on the theoretical con-cepts of oppression throughout the history of philosophy. The class also looks at philosophi-cal texts to determine ways of

liberating societies from even modern issues of power and oppression.Cisneros’ fields of study included theories of race and gender, social and political thought and philosophies of Latin American cultures.

“I feel like my work is at the intersection of a lot of different fields,” Cisneros said.

She finds it is important to examine the injustices of soci-ety through the experiences of people around the world. Her work involves bringing these fields together to develop a better insight to the things she sees going on around her.

One goal of her stay at Al-legheny is to continue high-lighting issues of social justice and expand the legacy left by Professor Bill Bywater. His work with contemporary prob-lems is something Cisneros thinks is important to focus on

in the classroom. “The discussions will

change as the world around us changes,” she said.

Cisneros said she’s look-ing forward to teaching about Latin American philosophy in the spring, partly because she believes it will bring a new per-spective to the philosophy de-partment. Diverse ethical and cultural backgrounds are im-portant to examine in the class-room, she said, because these issues confront us every day.

“It is necessary to have all of these perspectives,” she said.

For any students consider-ing philosophy, she said it’s im-portant to try it out because it is something that is engaged in, not just read about. According to Cisneros, a student needs to become actively involved in the study of philosophy in order to understand the field.

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class has freedom, but plenty of guidance to continue to estab-lish their colony.

“We give [them] all of the pieces to a machine, and they get to build it,” Pytel said. “There’s tons of resources, tons of help.”

Colvin said Pytel and Grif-fin have been helpful the entire time.

“Brett and Andrew have been awesome,” Colvin said. “They’ve been welcoming and I feel the campus has welcomed them.”

The new founding fathers and pledges of the FIJI colony will be officially initiated at the end of the semester, Pytel said.

FIJI also gave out $1,000 in scholarships to qualified non-Greek male, without any ob-ligation to join. Robert Theiss received the first place schol-arship of $500 and Andrew Greiner and Trevor Colvin, ‘14 tied for the second place schol-arship.

CAITIE McMEKIN/THE CAMPUSAt their first official ceremony, FIJI’s founding fathers pose with the flag bearing their letters that IFC and Panhel presented to the brothers.

Students support ‘Coming Out Week’Range of events localizes national celebration

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Queers and Allies’ annual Coming Out Week began Monday with students chalking Brooks Walk with messages of support. Casey Brant-hoover, ‘13, (left) sits atop a brick bench decorated as part of this “Chalk the Walk” event. Charlotte Volpe, ‘13, writes a Dr. Seuss quote on Brooks Walk: “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” On Tuesday, students told their coming out stories in the Gator Quad. The week continued with a picnic on Wednesday and Drag Day on Thursday, cul-minating Friday with an ice cream social at the QnA House at 4 p.m. Coming Out Week is organized around Coming Out Day, which occurs on Oct. 11.

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Translator accompanies Brazilian poet to second installment of Single Voice Series

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KATHERINE MIRIGLIANO/THE CAMPUSAlexis Levintin, left, and Salgado Maranhão, right, were guest speakers at Wednesday night’s Single Voice Reading. Maranhão read his poetry in Portuguese and Levintin translated it into English for the audience.

Despite that he does not speak English, Salgado Mara-nhão, the second guest speak-er in this year’s Single Voice Reading Series, communicated his poetry to an audience in the Tillotson room of Tippie Alumni Center Wednesday. His long time translator and traveling companion, Alexis Levintin, translated Maran-hão’s Portuguese into English.

“Venho dos corregos de agua salobra,” said Maranhão.

“I come from the gullies of brackish water,” translated Levintin to the audience.

This poem, which Maran-hão was delivering from mem-ory, was the first of many in his collection entitled The Blood of the Son to be recited that night.

Maranhão and Levintin met in 2007 through a professor at Brown University and have been working together ever since. The dynamic between the two is fluid and comfort-able: when Maranhão speaks in Portuguese, Levintin translates into English on the fly. Levintin knows about Maranhão’s past, where he came from and the experiences that encouraged him to become a poet.

And as it turns out, Maran-hão came from more than “the gullies of brackish water.”

Levintin said Maranhão grew up in the remote back-country of Brazil, in a com-munity without teachers, doc-tors or schools. He worked as

a sharecropper with his family on the farm his father owned, from the time when he was eight until he was 14.

Maranhão’s mother, an il-literate farm worker, had a relationship with his married father. Despite complex family relations, Levintin explained that Maranhão was shown love throughout his child-hood, from his parents as well as the wife of his father. The experiences he had growing up helped to shape him into the poet he is today.

“My poetry is quite idiosyn-cratic and it has even grammat-ical distortions that are a reflec-tion somehow of my [mixed] background,” Maranhão said, translated by Levintin.

In addition to grammar and content, Maranhão’s poetry has something else—music. Ma-ranhão encourages the crowd, even those who do not under-stand a word of Portuguese, to listen to the way his po-ems sound as he recites them, Levintin said.

“There is no interference of knowledge. There’s no interfer-ence of content. You’re listen-ing to pure music,” Levintin translated.

Levintin said translating poetry from the difficult syntax of Portuguese and maintaining its musical finesse in English can often be difficult.

“I was lucky to find a trans-lator so competent and ob-stinate as Alexis [Levintin] to accompany me word by word in the struggle to convert this

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difficult language,” Maranhão said.

Maranhão and Levintin exchange glances at the word “obstinate,” chuckle and kid in this way throughout the entire night.

Levintin said this compat-ibility is essential to the trans-lation process, as the two must understand each other.

“Translating is like weaving a tapestry in a different kind of wool. The Portuguese wool may be alpaca and mine may just be sheep’s wool. But we try to create a equivalent weave of sound so it is well knit,” Levin-tin said.

He said the result is a real living poem. This result is the reason why the pair has been traveling to share work with colleges and universities across the country.

Professor Christopher Bak-ken, chair of the English de-partment, organizes the Single Voice Reading Series and brought the pair to Allegheny. Bakken met Alexis Levintin at the American Literary Trans-lators Association conference, and crossed paths with him by coincidence last year at the As-sociated Writers and Writing Programs conference in Chi-cago.

“[Levintin] said ‘Well, I’m going to be traveling around the country with this Brazilian poet I translate for—how about I stop in Pennsylvania?’” Bak-ken said.

“I just know that anything Alexis touches is going to be

really high quality,” he said.Bakken said he was thrilled

for the opportunity to bring someone like Maranhão to campus.

Allegheny students were thrilled to have him. Cale Da-vis, a junior English major with an emphasis in creative writ-ing, attended the event for his advanced poetry workshop.

“I thought the reading was incredible,” Davis said. “I feel very lucky to have seen it. It is a rare experience, to hear a poet read from a completely foreign language and tradition.”

He said in addition to his poetry, Maranhão brought en-ergy and happiness to Tippie.

“He had a great smile, and after the reading he gave every-one hugs. I really bought the book just to get a hug,” Davis said.

Levintin and Maranhão were pleased by the atmo-sphere at Allegheny, noting in particular the camaraderie between faculty members and students.

Levintin also said the two enjoyed the fall foliage of Meadville.

“You have a wonderful campus. It’s a wonderful day, the trees are changing colors as a way no tree in Brazil ever changes,” Levitin translated for Maranhão.

When asked if we might see a poem about Meadville in the future, Maranhão grinned and Levintin responded, “We have traveled 4,500 miles already and this is the most beautiful campus we have visited.”

“It is as if the trees have been painted to receive us,” Levitin translated for Maranhão.

Critically-acclaimed fall blockbuster Argo successfully transformed massive hype into an awesome on-screen experi-ence. The film most certainly lived up to my expectations.

The film’s heart-pounding suspense, well-acted character roles, and breakneck pace made it impossible not to be on the edge of your seat.

Never has the cinematic depiction of a real political event scared me so much. During its mesmerizing renditions of an-gry mobs, Argo sent a chill up my spine that I usually only feel while watching a zombie flick.

Though Argo isn’t the first political drama, actor and director Ben Affleck’s ap-

proach to this genre was certainly unique.Fear, love, humor, and, of course, ac-

tion are all present in the film.Despite that the film touches on such

a wide range of emotions, Argo’s main focus, on the highly intensive and secre-tive nature of CIA work, remains crystal clear. It honestly reminds me of a perfect bite of food: I knew what I was going to get beforehand, but the act itself of eating (or watching), was remarkably satisfying.

An excellent incorporation of several storytelling techniques was certainly one of the film’s great successes. It was a great true story, which always adds some extra audience intrigue.

Affleck’s dramatic abilities were com-plemented wonderfully by a well-acted and superbly well-casted group of sec-ondary actors. John Goodman made a

Over the past decade or so, post-rock has largely devolved into an overwrought caricature of itself.

The tired arrangements of blissful, me-lodic and triumphant string arrangements juxtaposed against loud, cathartic bursts of noisy, reverberation & delay-laden gui-tars has been all but commonplace within the genre, with acts crafting pieces that rarely deviate from these lines.

Within the past two years, Sigur Rós, Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai, and Dirty Three – all titans within genre – have put out of a set of releases that, if at times ‘pretty’ and melodically interesting, have sounded monolithic – failing to move past the cookie-cutter template that underpins most post-rock albums today.

Moreover, we’ve seen the rise of medi-ocre imitators (e.g. Yndi Halda, 65daysof-static, etc.), most of which seem more like failed carbon copies of their predecessors.

In essence, post-rock has become a tired cliché. Yeah, it’s pretty music, but what’s beauty without substance?

During this period, Canadian post-rock collective Godspeed You! Black Em-peror has remained softly nested under the genre’s gradual descent into medioc-rity.

The legendary, politically radical col-lective are perhaps the titans of the genre, crafting masterful, near-perfect albums around the very template that has now

become so commonplace. However, after 2002’s Yanqui X.O., Godspeed You! has released no new material, and rumors flooded the blogosphere of the group’s break-up.

Earlier this spring, the group mysteri-ously came out of the woodwork to an-nounce a world tour and then on October 1, they quietly announced the release of their forth album, ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!.

What has always separated the band from their contemporaries is a sense of raw power and aggression, underlying the beautiful, symphonic ambiance of their compositions.

Nowhere is this more evident than on this most recent release. The open-ing track “Mladic” opens with a gradu-ally swelling, heavy drone of strings and humming, fuzzed-out guitar. It becomes immediately apparent that the band has evolved. Never before have they sounded this heavy or forceful.

The fluttering spells of noise are dif-ficult and, at times, unsettling, yet unde-niably beautiful. It powerfully draws the listener into a disparate, barren landscape, and as the piece builds along this dron-ing wall, you are drawn into the world of Godspeed. It’s a sonic landscape of decay, anxiety, and desolation colliding head-strong with beauty and grace.

This is the sound of a band progress-ing past the contrived post-rock cliché into some far more emotive, compel-ling, and most importantly, purposeful.

The distorted flourishes of feedback, the humming symphonic ambiance-- they aren’t there merely for the sake of being there. Instead, the band sounds as if they are consciously attempting to transcend what Quietus editor Luke Turner has fit-tingly called “a lightness in music that is a perfect aesthetic fit with Hipstamatic and tumblr’s transient, nostalgic goo.”

Contrast this release with something like Animal Collective’s most recent re-lease Centipede Hz. The album is super-ficially experimental – more like a band trying to get its experimental kicks off at the expense of the songs themselves. Godspeed You! however, does something much, much more.

They have created an ambitious, intri-cately and precisely tuned musical whole that treads new ground, while not losing essential elements of authenticity and hu-man connection.

Godspeed You! presents a two-way exchange between the performer and lis-tener.

This is not just “pretty music” to play during the background of your next study session. Instead, it demands that you give your time, your energy, your utmost at-tention to unearth the grace and beauty amongst the entropic haze underlying these pieces.

‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!. is a seminal release and yet another master-work in the Godspeed canon. It gives new breath to a genre that has been largely stagnant for the past ten years.

Critics’ CornerAfter decade of silence, Godspeed You! Black Emperor delivers with a groundbreaking release

Lebowski-like comeback as an overweight makeup artist. Rising cable TV star Brian Cranston from the popular show Malcolm in The Middle made for a very convincing CIA man.

Argo’s wide appeal is due to the direc-tor’s fresh take on political drama. Wan-nabe politicians, drama fans, action film groupies and adrenaline junkies will all find something to enjoy in this one.

Even outside of my own biased opin-ion, Argo is one of few recently-released films with substance. Not only did I truly enjoy myself, I learned a lot about a capti-vating historical event.

This is a quality movie through and through--one that’s worth your time. If you’re going to see it, make sure you see it in on the big screen. It would be a shame to miss Argo in theaters.

Political drama ‘Argo’ full of action, emotion

By CODY MILLERMusic Reviewermillerc3@allegheny.edu

By BEN DAUBERMovie Reviewerdauberb@allegheny.edu

[Features] The Campus || October 19, 2012 || 5AlleghenyCampus.com

The Real World: Greek Week 2012

HOROSCOPES

STEVE FUHRER/THE CAMPUSSorority Delta Delta Delta and fraternity Theta Chi were the win-ners of Thursday night’s Ultimate Cake Decorating Contest.

Haley Lynch, ’15, played “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” on the ukelele at Tuesday night’s Greek God and Goddess contest.

CODY MILLER/THE CAMPUSFor one of the three rounds of competition in the Greek God and Goddess contest, participants had to answer trivia relating to Greek mythology and chapter history.

KATIE MIRIGLIANO/THE CAMPUS

KATIE MIRIGLIANO/THE CAMPUSTheta Chi brothers supported their Greek God and Goddess contestant, Alex Lehew,’15, for his stand-up routine in the talent round.

BREANA GALLAGHER/THE CAMPUSJoe Tonzo, ’15, and Breana Gallagher, ’15, were crowned Greek God and Goddess.

CODY MILLER/THE CAMPUSJimmy Heaton, ’14, performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” on the electric guitar for his talent in the Greek God and Goddess competition Tuesday.

This semester has been a bit stress-ful so far, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still have some fun. Use your time wisely to let off some steam -- whether it be in the form of writing poetry, chanting mantras, blasting heavy metal music or going out to party with your friends. We all need some release, right?

Aries (March 21-April 19)Independent, Short-Tempered

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Loyal, Self-Indulging

For a sign that tends to be de-pendable and persistent, you’ve been acting out of character lately. Stop paying so much attention to what others expect of you and do what makes you happy. Of course, this screw-it-I’ll-do-what-I-want philosophy won’t always hold up... like in class, for example.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Imaginative, Restless

You’ve been coming up with a lot of really great ideas lately, for everything from essay topics to dream vacations to screenplays. The only downside? You’ve been daydreaming too much in class. Start paying attention, or at least start hiding the fact that you’re drifting off better. Outside of class, you’re free to imagine up all the crazy things you want.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)Responsive, Self-Pitying

One of your greatest person-ality traits is loyalty, and your friends inwardly thank you for that. Unfortunately, they might not always express their gratitude in a straightforward way. Don’t dwell on this and become over-sensitive, like you tend to do. And especially don’t slack off in the effort you put into your friend-ships. Trust that that effort is ap-preciated.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)Confident, Pretentious

This semester more than ever, you’ve proven yourself to be smart, charming and successful. You know that you’re great. Ev-eryone knows. So stop thinking so much about it. Make it a point to reach out to other people this week, even if only in very minor ways. Strike up a conversation with someone you haven’t spo-ken to in awhile, or offer to help someone study. You could make a difference in another person’s life.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Analytical, Inflexible

Our ever-changing realms of emotion are confusing. Some signs tend to display their emotions more openly than others. Virgo, you’re holding out on everyone close to you. Don’t hide your feel-ings, especially from your friends and people you trust. Better to be honest than develop that awfully robotic habit of muttering “Fine,” every time someone asks you how your day’s going.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Peaceful, Vain

Breaking news: being back at school again has resulted in increased conversations between peers. Con-versations tend to involve both talk-ing and listening. Libra, you’re a great listener, but that doesn’t mean you need to become involved in everyone else’s problems. Friends appreciate your diplomatic way of making sure everyone gets a chance to speak. Just don’t try to break up a fight when it’s unnecessary.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Dynamic, Unyielding

Passion is a wonderful thing. Whatever you may be interested in, Scorpio, there’s no doubt that you en-gage in it passionately. But some other, less emotionally-charged signs in your dance class might interpret the strong kicks you’ve incorporated into your routine as an attempt to intimidate them. If this happens to be your situa-tion, take a step back and express that you don’t mean harm - even if those other signs are nothing but phonies.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Independent, Unemotional

This year’s Greek Week featured six days of competition, each day’s challenge mimicking a reality TV show. Points for first, second and third place are awarded for each day’s event. At the end of the week, the total points will be tallied to determine the winning sorority and fraternity. Sunday kicked off the week with Throwdown with the Allegheny Greeks in which the five sororities and fraternities had a cook off. Monday’s event was Take the Case and Run Secret Mission. For winning this scavenger hunt, philanthropy money was awarded in addition to points. The annual Greek God and Goddess competition was held Tuesday night in the Campus Center lobby. The Wise Center was filled with competitors during The Olympics Games: Revisited Wednesday night. The games featured dodgeball, tug-of-war, a three-legged race, a cannonball competition for sororities and a belly-flop contest for fraternities. For Thursday’s Ultimate Cake Decorating Contest, Parkhurst pre-ordered and baked the cakes, leaving two hours for each sorority and fraternity to decorate their cake. Judging was based on appearance and each cake had to incorporate Greek life in some way. Friday night will finish out the week with Allegheny Idol, the annual Greek Sing competition.

Why are you so unrestrained by your emotions, Sagittarius? The answer’s simple: you have good luck. Things always happen to turn out in your favor, so you end up feeling less extreme feel-ings than most other signs. Well, lah-dee-dah. Do us all a favor and don’t brag about it, because the truth is, your logical approach to life is a rare treasure we all wish we could possess. Oh, and keep on keepin’ on.

Capricon (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Resourceful, Dictatorial

Your ability to see things from a variety of perspectives has saved you in at least a few different in-stances during your life. You’re an efficient worker that can work suc-cessfully either independently or with others. But that fact doesn’t automatically make you the boss of every project or event. Take a step back and let others share in the glory from time to time.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Humanitarian, Rebellious

Surely, you’ve already made an impulsive decision or two this semester, you oh-so-original Aquarius. Whether it’s organiz-ing a spontaneous weekend trip with friends or starting a new club on campus, you’re always occupied with some new idea or activity. Everybody loves your clever initiatives, but remember that you don’t always have to be busy creating something new. Take a break to lay back and do nothing sometime - you may find it extremely invigorating.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Compassionate, Indecisive

Your amazing social skills could help you go far in life. Don’t sell yourself short, Pisces. Al-though you may struggle in mak-ing even the simplest of choices, your intuition and loyalty make you a great candidate for a lead-ership position in whichever club or group you’re involved in. Let your ability to connect with and understand others soar to a new level...if not today, tomorrow, or eventually, at least. The campus will be a better place for it.

[OPINION] || October 19, 2012 || The Campus 6 AlleghenyCampus.com

By DANA D’AMICOFeatured Columnistdamicod@allegheny.edu

Study reveals bird’s complex mindParrot logic:

By the age of three, children can assemble a puzzle with four pieces. � ey can turn a door handle and climb the stairs with alternat-ing strides. � ey can make simple choices and inferences about the world around her, and they can � -nally begin to pair objects with their noises. � ey might recognize a dog by its bark, for instance, or a door by the sound of its closing.

Some primates like olive ba-boons, capuchin monkeys and chimpanzees can also make basic auditory and visual inferences, but only as a result of elaborate training. Few other animals possess the same quality for inferential reasoning and multi-step deductions.

One kind of inference in particu-lar has recently caught behavioral scientists’ interest: reasoning by ex-clusion (RE). In a reasoning by ex-clusion task, subjects make a choice indirectly by excluding its alterna-tive.

A classic RE experiment had apes witness the placement of two di� erent types of fruit beneath sep-arate boxes. � e animals were � rst allowed to observe a person eating one of the fruits and later made to choose a box.

In all cases, the apes preferred to choose the box under which they had seen the opposite piece of fruit being placed earlier. � ey likely no-ticed the fruit in the person’s hand, assumed that it must no longer be under the box, and chose the a lternat ive fruit in-stead.

S c i -entists in Austria and

Germany wondered if African Grey parrots might also be able to per-form the kind of RE tasks that are the hallmark of ape-like higher level reasoning.

To � nd out, the scientists set up an experiment with a two-choice system. Two containers were placed in front of a grey parrot, but only one contained a walnut reward. � e experimenter li� ed and shook ei-ther one or both of the containers,

and the previously untrained parrot was allowed to make a choice.

In most cases, the parrots chose correctly. � ey were able to detect the reward both by the the presence of noise in the correct container and the absence of noise in the incor-rect container. For the � rst time, it became clear that parrots can com-plete RE tasks at the same level as human toddlers and primates.

Dr. Irene Pepperberg, professor of psychology at Brandeis Universi-ty and lecturer at Harvard Universi-

ty, laid early foundation for Grey parrots as subjects for cog-

nitive re-

search. Pepperberg conducted work with a Grey parrot named Alex who, through extensive training, learned to identify shape, color, Arabic nu-merals and quantities.

Sometimes, Pepperberg would hold up a pair of identical objects.

“What’s the di� erence?” she would ask.

“Nah” he would say. None. Alex’s recognition of the absence

of a trait is impressive. Absence is an intangible idea that can be di� cult for non-human species to recog-nize. RE tasks take that conceptual challenge a step further by requiring � rst the recognition of an object’s absence and next the inference of that object’s presence elsewhere.

� is study is the � rst to suggest that non-primates have an innate ability to reason their way through certain tasks using auditory cues. What’s more --parrots outper-formed primates by completing the task without prior training.

� e performance di� erence is not because of parrots’ superior mental facilities, but because of di� erent environmental and evo-lutionary pressures. Parrots likely respond better to auditory cues be-cause sound factors into their social behavior in a way that it wouldn’t for primate behavior.

� e primary purpose of aural cues in the wild remains unclear, but there’s no doubt that parrots embrace sound and vocalizations in captivity. Grey parrots o� en amuse their owners with their sweet, slightly o� -balance imitations of the owners’ voice.

In fact, when they speak, a Grey parrot sounds almost like a jubilant toddler. It climbs across its cage to meet you and bobs its head to follow your � nger. And though its brain is

only about the size of a walnut, it is remarkable.

Parrots likely respond better to auditory cues because sound factors into their social be-havior in a way that it wouldn’t for primate behavior.

Recently invited bands missed the markColumnist argues for booking more critically-acclaimed actsBy MAX LINDQUISTGuest Columnistlindquistm@allegheny.edu

Our concerts have sucked for the past year and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. Dolson and We Shot the Moon? Really? Who’s heard of these bands? A quick search of their names on NPR’s web-site yields no results. None of their albums have placed on the Bill-board 200 or earned any signi� cant awards.

� is year, our concert series opened up with � ick as � ieves--a semi-glori� ed cover band that makes its rounds on the middle-tier liberal arts circuit. What critical ac-claim has � ick As � ieves had re-cently? Only four websites relating to the band are found on the � rst page of results a� er googling their name.

Why not bring more recogniz-able bands to campus instead of the run-of-the-mill cover band?

GAP brought the national act HelloGoodbye to campus last year and had a great turnout. Critically acclaimed bands such as � e Ant-lers, Surfer Blood, Turbo Fruits, To-bacco and DJ Rupture have graced our college in recent years at low costs thanks to GFC and WARC.

Many people will argue that these bands are for hipsters and that they lack a fan base on campus, but that is anything but the case. Ma-jor publications like the New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and Spin have covered these bands. Surely some people on campus read these publications and, even if someone doesn’t agree with their opinions, it would be di� cult to dis-miss their signi� cance to musical culture.

Comparison schools, like Wooster, Kenyon and Oberlin have brought in more acts along these lines over the last few years. Last year, Ty Segall, Shabazz Palaces,

Cloud Nothings, Danny Brown and Yacht all played at Kenyon, all in the spring semester alone.

Danny Brown’s 2011 hit mix-tape, XXX, met critical acclaim and placed him on the 2012 XXL Maga-zine Freshmen issue’s cover. We Shot the Moon, � ick as � ieves and Dolson have had little critical attention or acclaim, yet we settle on bringing them to campus.

We go to a liberal arts college not to receive a vanilla education but rather to challenge our boundaries and broaden our cultural horizons. Music plays an important role in that process. If we want to feel like we go to a top-notch school, we need to start inviting culturally rel-evant bands to campus.

In addition to Kenyon’s spring lineup, good options could include Hunx and His Punx, Lotus Flower, Ariel Pink, Julia Holter, Atlas Sound and � ee Oh Sees, which all hold signi� cant places in contemporary

underground music. We Shot the Moon, � ick as

� ieves, Dolson and many of the other bands that have played at Allegheny over the past few years have proven to be culturally dissat-isfying to a number of students, as evidenced by the number of empty seats at the � ick as � ieves con-cert.

How can the college expect to have a nice turnout to concerts when they fail to bring talented, in-teresting or relevant bands?

We go to Allegheny College to learn about and be exposed to new ideas, people and art, and unfortu-nately, the majority of the musical acts brought here over the past few have been lacking in those areas.

Great, accessible, and inexpen-sive music acts exist and it’s time that we bring them to campus.

PETER FUCHS/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

[SPORTS]

Defense dominates in victory over DePauw

JABILAYH ASANTE/THE CAMPUSSeniors Zach Minney, Bill Devlin, Ryan Vietmeier and John Douglas stop a potential DePauw touchdown on third down at the goaline. Devlin had a career day, finishing the game with a career-best 15 tackles.

Led by several strong in-dividual performances and a solid defensive effort, the Gator football team defeated confer-ence opponent DePauw 22-20 on Saturday.

Looking to tie the game with a two-point conversion late in the fourth quarter, DePauw threw into the end zone, but the pass was intercepted by Ga-tor Colin Hartford, ’13, thwart-ing the Tigers’ shot at a come-back. Hartford was named to Division III Football’s Team of the Week.

“The last interception was pretty cool,” said Hartford. “Their offense was frustrating us at times and that was a good way to seal the game and the victory.”

Senior linebacker Bill Dev-

lin also received honors this week. Devlin was named NCAC Defensive Player of the Week after a career-best 15 tackles - the highest amount of tackles by a single player since Sid Facaros, ’11, had 15 in a game during the 2002 season. Devlin currently ranks seventh in conference for total tackles.

Linebacker Rudy DeSte-fano, ’13, also contributed to the defensive effort with an interception and a subsequent 72-yard return that put the Ga-tors in position for the game-winning score.

“It was the most unbeliev-able feeling,” said DeStefano. “We knew we needed a turn-over on defense and when that ball was up in the air I knew this was our chance so I had to make it count.”

Head Coach Mark Matlak credits the defense for their

performance against De-Pauw and their contributions throughout the season thus far.

“I think the defensive group that we have has set the tone for our success,” said Matlak. “ I’d like to shout out to the seniors who have been fantastic. We do not have very many seniors on our offensive team, but on the defensive side those guys have done a great job playing, lead-ing and just being really good teammates.”

Matlak also applauded his special teams play on Saturday. Kicker Ryan Mong, ’15, is now 6 for 6 on the season, with field goals of 23 and 25 yards against the Tigers. Wide receiver Der-rick Emigh, ’15, sparked the re-turn game with a 47-yard punt return that put Allegheny at the DePauw eight-yard line. Emigh also grabbed his first touch-down pass of the season late in

the first quarter after a DePauw fumble on a punt return.

Matlak believes that strong defensive and special teams play is essential in defeating the Gators’ next opponent, 23rd ranked Wittenberg this Satur-day.

“[The Tigers] have a re-ally good kicker and punter so we’re going to have to be sharp on that end,” Matlak said. “Football is a territory game.”

Offensively, the Gators have struggled. Allegheny had only 67 total yards passing against DePauw. They currently have four injured running backs, three of which are done for the rest of the season. Tyler Smith’s return is questionable headed into the remainder of the sea-son.

With so many injuries, fullback Tim Werley, ’13, has stepped into the running back

position in recent games. Wer-ley rushed for 96 yards and one touchdown against the Tigers.

Matlak stressed the impor-tance for improvement on the offensive end in continuing the team’s run towards a confer-ence title.

“We’ve been less than stel-lar offensively and have a lot of things to work on so if we can get up to snuff over the next four weeks and make improve-ments on that end and still play good defense, we’re going to continue to have success,” Mat-lak said.

The Gators remain unde-feated in the conference. Wit-tenberg, however, presents a major challenge.Last season, Wittenberg stomped the Ga-tors 38-3 in Springfield, Ohio. Five scoring plays averaging 44 yards thwarted the Gators after they began the game with a 3-0

lead. “I think minimizing the big

plays for Wittenberg is key be-cause they’re a big play team,” Matlak said. “They seem to get yards in chunks. We have to have another stellar game on defense.”

Looking ahead, Allegheny hopes to topple Wittenberg and head towards an NCAC title.

“To win the conference will be pretty tough,” Hartford said. “But I think our team needs to understand what’s at stake. At this point in past seasons we haven’t been in the situation. We need to learn quickly what it takes every day to become a championship team.”

The Gators will play Wit-tenberg at home at 1 p.m. this Saturday.

By COLLEEN PEGHER Sports Editor pegherc@allegheny.edu

After an overtime victory over Kenyon last weekend and a win at home against Oberlin

Tuesday, the women’s soccer team has won four games in a row.

On Saturday’s road match-up, against Kenyon, Michelle Holcomb, ’14, scored a goal

By JOHN LICHINA Staff Writer lichinaj@allegheny.edu

CAITIE MCMEKIN/THE CAMPUSKatrina Gazsi, ’13, battles the Oberlin goalkeeper Wednesday at home.

Women’s soccer wins four in a row

Allegheny men’s soccer won their sixth consecutive game after a 2-1 win in Saturday’s match against Kenyon.

The game began in favor of Kenyon after the Lords scored an early goal in the 29th min-ute and outshot the Gators 8-7 in the first half.

“Kenyon made it very diffi-cult for us to play the way we like to: possession soccer with very fast attacks,” said forward Andrew Miller, ’14. “They slowed us down by a fair mar-gin so it was a real battle most of the game.”

Rookie midfielder Jacob Lebsack, ’16, managed to tie it up minutes before the half with his first goal of the season.

Despite nine more shots by Kenyon in the second half, the defensive line managed to shut out the Lords’ offense for the rest of the game.

Goalkeeper John Lichina, ’14, returned with a bang for his first game since an injury sidelined him two weeks ago, making five saves overall be-fore Miller accepted a pass from Chris Brennan, ’13, and scored the winning goal in the 89th minute.

“It was the kind of moment you dream about, putting away

a tough team within the last minute and a half, not to men-tion saving your legs from po-tentially 20 more minutes of overtime,” Miller said.

David DelGreco, ’13, attri-butes the Gators’ win to strong team chemistry.

“We have a good group of guys that know where each other is going to be on the field at all times. We have guys at any given time that can step up and make a play necessary to win games,” he said.

Head Coach Angelo Pan-zetta was especially pleased with the performances from substitutes Miller and Lebsack.

“Kenyon is a tough place to

play going down 1-0 in the first half. I was really happy for the guys that all their hard work paid off,” Panzetta said. “We’re getting big contributions from a lot of players, and not just goal scoring, but also valuable minutes.”

For defenseman Joe Caruso, ’13, the win was not only a re-lief after Kenyon’s tough per-formance, but an indication of the team’s future.

“Going down early against Kenyon but staying composed and scoring before the end of the first half  displayed our resiliency, something we will need as we progress towards the conference and NCAA

By LAUREN SCHRICKER Junior Editor schrickerl@allegheny.edu

Men’s soccer defends top spot in NCAC standings

After last year’s winning sea-son, Allegheny softball played their fall 2012 tournament on Saturday, hosting Westminster, Houghton and Fredonia State.

The Gators finished 2-1 on the weekend, beating both Westminster and Houghton.

Senior Stephanie Fort stressed the importance of the brief fall season to the team.

“Fall ball gives everyone a chance to get a feeling for the team and learn to work with new people,” said Fort, last year’s NCAC Player of the Year.

Last season, the Gators fin-ished at 27-11-1 and earned the top seed in the conference tournament and ended their tournament run with a loss to DePauw.

New Head Coach Beth Cur-

tiss has big plans for the up-coming season as the Gators look to continue last season’s success.

“The coach staff is very hap-py with the group we have go-ing into our 2013 season,” Cur-tiss said. “We were not looking for perfection, but instead, looking for how hard they were willing to push themselves to become better.”

The coaching change is eased by the return of an expe-rienced group including Fort and Pitcher of the Year Caitlin Nealer, ’15.

Juniors Maureen Pallone and Halea Hayden also re-ceived all conference accolades last season.

“I expect us to do good things this year,” said Pallone. “We have a target on our backs after last year. I expect us all to work hard and show our con-ference what we’re made of.”

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off a Lauren Miller, ’16, corner kick in the 97th minute to earn the victory for the Gators.

Kenyon won the battle for possession, in addition to fin-ishing the game with a 20-5 shot advantage, but Holcomb’s score was the only goal of the match, sealing the victory for the Gators.

Goalkeeper Kylie Mason, ’14, made six saves en-route to her seventh shutout on the year at Kenyon.

“It was that kind of game that we did not deserve to win, but came out on top,” said cap-tain Emily Byers, ’14.

Wednesday’s win against Oberlin puts the Gators at third place in the conference with three matches remaining. Wittenberg and Wooster lead the conference in points, with 15 and 13 respectively. Allegh-eny follows in third place with nine points.

The Gators’ four consecu-tive victories come after a sev-

en game stretch during which Allegheny lost six and tied one. The Gators have tried to put those struggles behind them and focus on one game at a time, according to Head Coach Michael Webber.

“They have embraced the fact that win, lose, or draw, we throw the game out immedi-ately and move on,” said Web-ber.

In Wednesday’s 3-1 vic-tory over Oberlin, sophomore Emma Loniewski earned a hat trick. The performance marks the first hat trick by a Gator since 2000.

“Emma is always a player that sees the chances, and to-day, she made the extra push and really stepped up for our team,” said Alison Buzzard, ’14.

Next up, the Gators will face off against Ohio Wesleyan Saturday at home. The Bishops will look to spoil the possibil-ity of a postseason berth for the Gators. Kickoff will be at 4 p.m.

tournaments.”The Gators have always

made the effort to keep their focus narrow and take one game at a time, according to midfielder Travis Tasker, ’13, but their number one seat in the NCAC standings is giving them confidence as their win-ning streak grows larger and the conference tournament draws nearer.

“We have four teams [in our conference] in the regional rankings so we know it’s a dog-fight to get into that top four but we put ourselves in a good spot so far,” Panzetta said.

If the Gators can remain standing in the top two, they

will be the first in Allegheny men’s soccer history to secure a home playoff game.

Keeping a narrow focus has brought the Gators to their current winning streak, so Panzetta hopes this approach will continue to succeed.

“It’s within our grasp, but we have some really tough games coming. So we’re just trying to take them one at a time and see if we can stay focused game by game.”

The Gators will face one of their toughest challenges yet against defending national champions Ohio Wesleyan at home Saturday.

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