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Student efforts change housing policyNew housing policyallows students of

different genders to share a room

The Administration plans to initiate a pilot program in Crissey and Severn Halls allowing students of different genders to occupy the same room. This measure is in compliance with a recently passed Student Commission resolution aimed at making transgender and gender-queer students feel more welcome.

Facilities Management Plans Summer UpgradesUpdates to Hoben Hall,

Campus Drive, and updated landscaping are

on the to-do list

While students finish up the school year and head off to summer break, Facilities Management (FacMan) begins their long list of summer tasks.

Every year there are the nec-essary duties, such as chang-ing out the batteries in every smoke detector and waxing the floors, but there are also a great deal of renovations and restorations that occur, explains Facilities Operations Manager Pamela Barrett.

Some of the major proj-ects for this summer include re-bricking Campus Drive in front of Hoben Hall, complet-ing the renovations in Upjohn UPGRADES on page 2

Jon Hoadley to Visit Campus

Vice President of Public Advocacy at Planned Parenthood Michigan Libby McGaughey speaking at Our Bodies, Our Choice.A graduate of Michigan

State University, Jon Hoadley officially became a candi-date in the running for State Representative in the state of Michigan on April 17, 2014.

Originally from South Da-kota, Hoadley came to Kalam-azoo in 2009 to manage the One Kalamazoo Campaign, an initiative towards extending anti-discrimination laws to members of the queer commu-nity through the defending of the Kalamazoo Non-Discrim-ination Ordinance. If elected, Hoadley would be the first openly gay Representative in the State House.

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Library, as well as renovating a few of the living-learning houses and Hoben Hall.

Barrett explains that FacMan plans to tear up and rebrick Campus Drive with a combi-nation of concrete and bricks. Additionally, parts of Academy and Thompson streets will be re-bricked.

“We do a bit every year. This year we’ll be getting farther down Academy near the train tracks,” Barrett said. The por-tions of Academy and Thomp-son will, however, remain strictly brick.

The library renovations will consist of the second floor study rooms, the biology and chemistry center, and replac-ing the Reading Room door panels with glass.

“We redo a hall every year. This year it’s Hoben Hall,” Barrett said. In Hoben, the

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Along with the informational e-mail about Fall 2014 housing that was sent out on May 9, Kalamazoo College Office of

Residential Life announced a new housing option for stu-dents. Through efforts from individuals and Student Com-mission, K has decided to pilot gender-neutral housing options in Crissey and Severn Halls.

This option allows students of different genders to share the same double room in suites. Previously, suites could be co-ed, but rooms were to be single gender. The informa-

tion poster formerly stated in bold lettering that “double rooms within suites must be single-gender.” The College has stated that, “This is just an additional option to provide further means for all students to have a comfortable space living on-campus.”

Melissa Erikson ‘17, a Student Commissioner, was able to pass three resolutions that deal with transgender and

gender-queer inclusiveness in regard to the College’s policy. Erikson has been in contact with the Dean of Residential Life, Dana Jansma, and after various e-mails and meetings, agreed to the compromise of gender-neutral housing options after originally asking for a fund that transgender and gen-der-queer students could tap

K Democrats endorse candidate Jon Hoadley, who will visit May 26

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StuOrgs Invite Speakers for Reproductive RightsThe speakers focused on recent Michigan

legilsation, which has proved controversial

App creators William Guedes ‘16 and

Giancarlo Anemone ‘16 have attracted the attention of K alum

Trevor Hough

Versapp, the Kalamazoo College student-developed app, will soon be released. The app was scheduled for release on mid-April, but legislative issues and strategic planning contributed towards the exten-sion of the release timeline.

The delay, however, came with various silver linings, as the Versapp team prepares to legitimize, enhance, and enforce their app.

With legislative help from attorneys and lawyers, the Versapp team is in the process of founding a Limited Lia-bility Company (LLC). This

step ensures that none of the members holds personal legal liability in case of legislative issues. Furthermore, as an LLC, the Versapp team can legally accept investment and funding, as a company, from outside sources. Investors are willing to assist the Versapp team in their endeavor.

Hornet Angel, LLC, is of-fering $30,000 as an initial investment in Versapp, LLC, with the goal of bringing the app into the social applica-tions market. The funding will mainly be used towards the enhancement of the app’s services and security.

“In order to provide the best user experience possible, we need money to have the framework and support struc-ture,” said William Guedes ‘16, co-founder of Versapp. “Investment goes towards buying servers… and the highest security standards.”

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On May 12,, 2014 at 7:00 p.m., Kalamazoo College welcomed Vice President of

Public Advocacy at Planned Parenthood Michigan Libby McGaughey and State Repre-sentative Kate Segal to speak at an event entitled “Our Bod-ies, Our Choice: Legislating Abortion in Michigan.”

The event, which was spon-sored by Kalamazoo College Democrats and co-sponsored by P.O.W.E.R., S3A, and the

Gender and Sexuality Liv-ing Learning House, gave each woman the opportunity to speak, and then opened the floor for questions to the speakers.

With over 90 people in the audience, the event began with introductions of the speakers by the current President of the

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“We value the security of user data…so we are using several services provided by Google that are industry standards for providing the most secu-rity you can have,” add-ed Giancar-lo Anem-one ‘16, Versapp’s s e c o n d co-founder.

“We ba-sically have the same [securi ty] structure as WhatsApp and Snapchat right now,” concluded Guedes.

Versapp, LLC could re-ceive further funding in the future from Hornet Angels, LLC or other investors, de-pending on various conditions. Some of those conditions are “if Versapp, LLC needs additional capital, if Hornet An-gels, LLC is the best company to provide that funding, [or] if we believe a different VC/Angel I n v e s t o r would provide more value,” said Trevor Hough, Principal of Hornet Angels.

Hough is also the Treasurer of the Hough Foundation, which annually funds two K

Senior Individualized Projects (SIPs). In addition, he and his wife fund two K awards. Nonetheless, Hough wished to extend his philanthropic efforts, and so reached out to

Albert DeS-imone, K’s Vice Presi-dent for Ad-vancement, and Provost M i c h a e l M c D o n -ald. Hough wished to target his investment efforts on students with

business endeavors focused in technology.

DeSimone was aware of Versapp’s progress, and con-tacted Hough beginning of April. Ever since then, Hough has been in direct contact with Versapp’s co-founders, and

the invest-ment efforts have been ongoing. The paperwork is being final-ized, and the deal should be closed within the upcoming two weeks. “ H o r n e t Angel will

be an operating member of Versapp, LLC,” said Hough. “We are excited to help them take it from where it was to a hopefully marketable sociable application.”

into in order attain money to better afford single dorms.

This topic has been brought up to the College’s attention previously. Erikson is not the first student to bring up concerns about the lack of housing options for transgen-der and gender-queer students on campus to the attention of administrators.

“It’s a big win,” Erikson said. “A huge, huge win for stu-

dents and I’m glad the College was so receptive to the reso-lutions and so quick to act. It was nice to see.”

She continued with a state-ment regarding how this tem-porary change in policy will affect students on campus, “I think it will very much help those who simply have friends of the opposite gender who they feel more comfortable living with. There are men who feel more comfortable living with

women and vice versa. It will also help those who don’t sub-scribe to male or female iden-tities.”

As of now, these options are only for the 2014-2015 aca-demic year. The college has updated the housing website to reflect these changes to the housing policy. Erikson plans to pass another resolution to bring a counselor specializing in transgender issues to campus or better train the current staff.

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The developers of Versapp, and founders of Versapp L.L.C. William Guedes ‘16 (left) and Giancarlo Anemone ‘16 (right).

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New School Policy Makes Housing More Inclusive

The Commission had their shortest meeting

since Fall Quarter, clocking in at 53

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K-Dems, Emily Walsh ’14, and next year’s President, Caitlyn Whitcomb ’17.

Kate Segal, a K-alum whom Whitcomb introduced as a “relentless champion for women’s rights,” explained the recent changes to laws in Michigan surrounding women’s reproductive rights, specifically the lack of cov-erage for abortions in health insurance. She explained how, after Right to Life’s initiative, a mother’s life must be in immediate danger in order for her to get insurance to cover an abortion.

“If a doctor is caught abort-ing a fetus, they can be fired and tried for that action,” Se-gal said. “If you were a doctor, would you go through that procedure if you could get fired? Probably not.”

She ended her lecture with discussing that parents in Michigan need to decide at what age they will buy their daughters “rape insurance,” and how it is not a question any parent should have to ask.

“[This] may not affect you today…but it changes the mindset… of being a woman in Michigan,” Segal said.

Next, Whitcomb intro-duced McGaughey, who also began by discussing some laws restricting women’s rights in Michigan. She then explained the Michigan Wom-en Are Watching non-partisan campaign, which organizes volunteers to “systematically go into districts of people…who voted the wrong way,” and explain why the restriction of these rights are, according to her, an attack on women’s health.

“It is the right to all of us to control when we are going to have children,” McGaughey said.

She then went on to talk about how “politicians are not doctors,” and that they don’t understand women’s health. According to McGaughey, the bill concerning women’s reproductive rights in Michi-gan does not even use proper medical terminology.

“This is the perfect ex-ample of the political being personal,” Walsh said, before opening the floor to ques-tions for the speakers. The questions led to discussions on, but not limited to, why certain Planned Parenthoods are being closed, how people out-of-state are affected by these Michigan laws, and how women can get men interested in the cause.

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K Dems Endorse Jon HoadleySince then, Hoadley has been involved in the Kalamazoo political community and has been working closely with student groups throughout the area. He has gained en-dorsement from Kalamazoo College Democrats, Western Michigan College Democrats, The Michigan Federation of College Democrats, and many other organizations and groups throughout the state.

Back in February, Hoad-ley gave Kalamazoo College Democrats a personal visit. The group then unanimously decided to endorse him. In a recently published statement on his official Facebook page,

the K-Dems state, “The Ka-lamazoo College Democrats enthusiastically support Jon Hoadley. We endorse Jon because he has gone out of his way to prove that he is the candidate that will pas-sionately advocate for young people in our community. He has shown consistent effort to support and engage with college students. We com-mend his effort to promote education, healthcare, and to realize a Michigan that is a safe and accessible place for us to live and learn.”

Caitlyn Whitcomb ‘17, recently elected president of K-Dems, commented on how Hoadley’s “whole initiative is

listening to stories and under-standing the communities he wants to represent.”

In order to do this, Jon Hoadley has scheduled a meet-and-greet at K on Monday, May 26. The location is yet to be decided. The K-Dems are excited to introduce more young people to Jon Hoadley, and hope many students reg-ister to vote.

K-Dems have been work-ing toward mobilizing students to participate in the Dem-ocratic Primary Elections in Michigan on August 5, 2014; an election that “has been specifically designed to keep students from voting,” explained Whitcomb.

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dorm rooms on the first two floors will have the built-in furniture taken out, and new movable furniture will be put in. Also, the common kitchen will be redone and new fur-niture will be put in the main lounge area.

The two living-learning houses that will receive ren-ovations are 307 Monroe and 1328 Lovell. Both of the kitch-ens will be gutted and com-pletely renovated. 307 Monroe will also receive new windows.

There will also be a great deal of landscape improve-ments over the summer. Sus-tainability Intern, Shannon Haupt ’16, plans to assist with one of the major landscap-ing projects. This project will consist of landscaping the hill behind Hoben Hall near the stairs. Haupt ’16 “hopes that this area will be a larger extension of DIRT, so we’ll work with [Kalamazoo College Dining Services] to grow food for the cafeteria.”

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Student Commission President Darrin Camilleri congratulated Amanda Johnson ‘17 and Mele Makalo ‘15 on their victories in last week’s Executive Board Election. Johnson is Sec. of Finance - Elect and Makalo is Sec. of Student Affairs -Elect.

The Commission discussed the possibility of changing the name of the Multiculturalism and

Diversity Committee to the Interculturalism and

Diversity Committee to be in compliance with the demands given by

students of color to the K administration

last week. The change will be discussed in

the committee’s next meeting.

Andrew Kaylor ‘17, Athletic Committee chair, thanked his fellow Commissioners for their help during last weekend’s triathlon. “I’ve heard that it was better than in previous years, so that’s pretty cool,” he said.

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Kalamazoo: a place of learning, under-standing, acceptance and consciousness. Not only has Kalamazoo College educated me on the issue of institutional racism, but it has also given me the opportunity to participate in progressive actions of this movement. As a first-year, I’ve seen a heavy push for the promotion of social justice and education on the topic of institutional racism.

While I believe this initiative has been brought forth with good intentions, it seems as if the ideas and opinions of a select few have been pressed upon others through insensitive and shocking means. As a student of color, I don’t walk around feeling unwelcome. As a student of color, I don’t feel shunned by my peers, or judged solely on the pigment of my skin.

Of course, this is not to say that all students of color share my sentiment on this subject. However, after talking to numerous peers, I have come to the conclusion that this issue is a concern that needs to be addressed, but not to the extent that I have continuously observed. I don’t need to be unceasingly informed that people judge me by the stereotypes of my race,

or by the privilege, or lack thereof, strapped on to my back. I am aware of the realities of social inequality, but have faith that my peers will judge me by my actions and character.

I just want it to be said that this sensitive issue of race should not, under any circum-stance, give anyone permission to disregard the humanity that we all carry. Don’t openly and explicitly berate organizations on the presumptuous notion that their actions are rooted in racism. There’s a line that shouldn’t be crossed when discussing issues such as this, and I believe that line is continuously violated when public shaming of your peers is involved.

Initially, it would seem illogical to see anything in relation to a culture, as subject to institutional racism. However, after noticing the aggressive attitude promoting the idea of social justice at K, I have been led to believe it is true. Be conscious of your peers and do not take advantage of a sensitive issue to safeguard yourself from the repercussions of your actions.

After being halfway through eighth week,

i t c a n seem like summer is an eternity away, but it’s never too early to plan. While the sunny sandy beaches and lemonades at the pool sound dreamy, it’s also time to figure out how you might be spend-ing your summer productively.

While it’s definitely a little late to be applying for summer internships or extern-ships, there will be plenty of other places hiring employ-ees during the summer. And while it may seem inviting to babysit every once and a while, the best job you could find could be in food service.

While it’s not exactly a glamorous job (nor is any pro-fession where half of your time is spent wearing a hair net), having a job in food service industry is essential to future job success, and here’s why.

Having experience in any food service profession—

from preparing a sandwich at Subway to being on the wait-staff at your local brewpub—is going to look great on any future resumes.

Since I assume you don’t want to spend the rest of your life living at home with your parents, you’ll probably need to move away from one job and find another, and having experience in any area of food service is going to make it much easier to find another job. Not only that, but em-ployers know that you gain certain skills while working in food service. From interact-ing with cus-tomer com-plaints and dealing with multiple orders of food at once, you learn mul-titasking and personal skills that are important in any pro-fession.

It can also be a relatively profitable job and will defi-nitely help you raise money to pay off those mounting student loans.

There is always going to be the problematic question of: “I don’t have any expe-rience in food services,” as well. To that, I sadly do not have much advice other than to find connections.

Ask your parents, aunt and uncles, neighbors, and friends of friends if they know any places that are hiring, or that they could recommend you to. Knowing someone who knows someone is the best way to

get your name on the top of the application files.

Once you find that first job, every-thing else will fall into place. Coming from the person who has three food-service

jobs, I promise it will.Overall, while flipping

burgers and washing your hands one hundred times a day for minimum wage sounds like a really terrible way to spend your summer, it will definitely pay off in the long run.

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Record: 15-5; 8-0 MIAA, MIAA ChampionsGraduating Seniors: J. Riehl, K. Moran, S. HarrisonThe Women’s Tennis team won their first outright conference title for the first time since 2007 and the 41st time in the program’s storied history. Coach Mark Murphy received the Coach of the Year award from the ITA Central Region and sophomore Sarah Woods took home her second straight MIAA conference MVP award. Woods will continue on to play in the NCAA tournament. The team loses three seniors in Kelsey Moran, Jenna Riehl, and Sally Harrison. Moran and Riehl were both All-MIAA se-lections in 2014, making it the second straight year that each of them has received the honor. Although they fell in the MIAA tournament finals, the Hornets are poised to have another great season next year as they return not only Woods, but standout freshman Sabrina Dass as well. -Spencer MacDonald, Index Staff Writer

MIAA Champions, 13-9; 6-0 MIAA :Record Graduating Seniors:

S. Faber, M. Korn, P RothsteinThe Hornets maintained their 76-year MIAA conference championship

streak as they notched a perfect 6-0 record in conference play. The streak is believed to be the longest of any sport at any level in recorded history. By capping off their MIAA regular season championship with the confer-ence tournament title, the Hornets also sustained their standing as the

only team to make the Division III NCAA national tournament since its in-augural year: 1976. The Hornets will lose three seniors; two of which who

received multiple All-MIAA selections. However, freshman Brandon Met-zler will lead a strong class of underclassmen into next season. Before we

jump to his sophomore season though, Metzler still needs to complete his freshman season. He is the lone men’s tennis player that will be compet-ing in the individual NCAA championships that will be held on May 22-24.

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Record: 9-21; 2-14 MIAAGraduating Seniors: None.The Kalamazoo softball team wrapped up their new field’s inaugural sea-son with a disappointing record, but also a good deal of optimism about the future. The young Hornets team was able to string some wins together early on but went on a six game losing streak to end the season. There are many bright spots throughout the lineup going into next year however. First years Kennedy Boulton and Erin DuRoss were both major contrib-utors in their opening season and look to improve even more going into their sophomore year. This coupled with the senior leadership of players such as Abby Anderson, Querubin Dubois, and Maddie Sinkovich make the Hornets a force to be reckoned with in 2015.-Spencer MacDonald, Index Staff Writer

17-25; 15-13 MIAA :Record Graduating Seniors:

M. ZughaibThe Hornet baseball team played their first ever season on Woodworth

Field and made sure that the 2014 season would be remembered as more than just the field’s inaugural year. Multiple players left their own

individual marks on the school’s record book, as did the Mike Ott coached Hornets. The team won the second most games in school history (17) and

recorded the most MIAA wins in a single seasons (15). Their 15 MIAA wins were good enough to earn the school its first ever trip to the MIAA tourna-ment. They will only graduate one senior—Marc “The Don” Zughaib—but

he will be sorely missed. As the lone survivor of the 2014 class, he can stand a little taller than the rest in celebrating the most ever wins by a

senior class as the Hornets won 60 games during Zughaib’s tenure.Daniel Herrick, Index Staff Writer-

Record: 5-10; 2-6 MIAAGraduating Seniors:

H. Cooperrider, R. Fine, Crestina Pacheco, Anna Eshuis, Marissa DawsonThe women’s lacrosse team completed their first ever season of varsity competition somewhat short of their own personal goals in the win-loss column;

however, they laid the seeds for continued success in the future. The Hornets will lose five seniors, including their lone All-MIAA selection: first-team defender Holly Cooperrider. However, despite losing a strong crop of seniors, the Hornets will enter next season intent on improving upon this year’s

result and reaching the MIAA tournament. Freshman Anika Sproul will be back to lead the Hornets after scoring a team-leading 52 goals this season. Also returning are the Hornet’s other top four scorers, all first years: Nicole Huff, Anna Dairaghi, Alivia DuQuet and Vethania Stavropoulos.

-Daniel Herrick, Index Staff Writer