Fewer freshmen, housing issues fixed

May 1, 2014
vol. 105, #25
MEGAN REED
editor-in-chief
OPINIONS 4
FEATURES 6
ENTERTAINMENT 8
SPORTS 10
Five hundred seventy-three
freshmen began classes last week,
a number slightly below average
compared to freshman classes of
recent years.
The size of the class of 2018
is about six percent below the
average freshman class size for the
past fve years, according to Gary
Waters, vice president of enrollment
management. Waters said this was
the colleges intention.
Last year being a record
freshman class with enrollment
hitting an all-time high, we had
to scale back for this years
incoming class, he said. By
design, even though [the class] is
smaller, it was intended to optimize
the total student enrollment.
Waters said colleges often
experience bumper years such as
last year, when enrollment increases.
Any given year, there will
be fuctuations in the number of
applications and students who
enroll, he said. Between football
and perhaps some forces that are
more random, we had a great year.
Berrys football team played
its inaugural season last year, and
Waters said it has possibly been a
factor in increased male enrollment.
This years freshman class is
41 percent male, compared to 45
percent last year. The freshman class
was slightly above 30 percent male
in 2012, according to 2013 data
from Berrys institutional research
department.
Waters said the college is
aiming to keep enrollment numbers
constant at about 2,100 students and
has no plans to signifcantly increase
enrollment.
Residence Life is also planning
ahead for future freshman classes,
and assistant dean of students for
residence life Lindsey Taylor said
housing has not been as much of an
issue this year as in previous years.
Weve got a couple of guys
living in some temporary spaces, but
nothing even remotely comparable
to last year, she said. Weve got
some guys in study rooms in Dana
and then we have two main campus
males living in Pilgrim right now.
RACHEL YEATES
news editor
LESLI MARCHESE
deputy news editor
Volleyball
p. 10
Summer renovations
New creative writing major introduced
SEE SUMMER RENOVATIONS, P. 2
SEE CREATIVE
WRITING, P. 3
Film Festival
in Rome
p. 9
JOBETH CRUMP, asst. photojournalism editor
JOBETH CRUMP,
asst. photojournalism editor
STUDENTS FILE in for convocation at the College Chapel. The address
provided new students a look into life at Berry.
STUDENTS USE the new sandbox
lab in Memorial Library.
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As of August 2014, incoming
undergraduates at Berry now have
the opportunity to major in creative
writing. In the past, students
interested in following a creative
writing pathway had to declare an
English major with a writing focus.
Sandra Meek, Dana professor of
English, rhetoric and writing, said
the goal for this new major is to
create an innovative program that
combines extensive literary study
and studio practice in creative writing
with environmental components and
with community service.
Meek said that this will allow for
students to have more classroom
experience in creative writing, and
for their ideal pathway to be clearer
on their transcripts.
The emergence of the creative
writing major was both necessary
and benefcial after careful study
of [Berrys] current curriculums
in comparison to peer and aspirant
institutions, Jim Watkins, associate
professor of English, rhetoric and
writing, said.
Senior Chelsea Risley, an English
major with a writing focus, believes
that the creative writing major is
benefcial to students who want to
write and to be published. Risley
said the new major will spark more
interest in creative writing at Berry,
which she hopes will attract more
students to the department.
The English department attracts
a specifc kind of personality,
Risley said. It will be good to have
more creative types around Berry.
Sept. 4,
2014
vol. 106, #2
Over the summer, staff, faculty and students kept busy
making renovations across campus.
Physical plant director Mark Hopkins said that, aside
from highly visible projects like the start of construction
on the welcome center and updates to the Valhalla food
court, the physical plant replaced the Krannert chiller for
the dining hall and kitchen, repaired showers in Morton/
Lemley, sealed cracks in an overfow pipe at the water
treatment plant and added three offces in Westcott.
The sewers in the basement of Krannert were also in
need of repair. To get to them, the physical plant busted
the foor up and then replaced the tile in the dining room.
[The sewer lines] were cast iron from the sixties, Hopkins
explained. The acid in food waste ate away to the clay.
The pipes were replaced with PVC.
The most noticeable changes, however, may be the
additions to Memorial Library. The library has reconfgured
and relocated their computer lab and used the old lab
space for the sandbox lab, an explorative technology
multipurpose room.

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Police
Beat
PROPERTY
DAMAGE
On Aug. 24 a window
was reported broken
in Dana Hall.
PROPERTY
DAMAGE
On Aug. 25 a Berry
bus door was
damaged when
it opened and
struck a column.
THEFT
On Aug. 26 a bike
was reported stolen
from the Deerfeld
bike rack.
MEDICAL
ASSIST
On Aug. 29 offcers
responded to a
medical assist call
on the Viking Trail.
MEDICAL
ASSIST
On Aug.19 offcers
responded to a
medical assist call
at Dana Hall.
LOST AND
FOUND
On Sept. 1 a wallet,
which was found
at the Reservoir,
was turned into
Campus Safety.
At the beginning of the fall 2013
semester, seven male students who
were not in the WinShape scholarship
program were living in Pilgrim Hall
on mountain campus.
Taylor said Residence Life looks
at projections for the freshman class
every spring and plans accordingly
to decide which residential areas
will be designated for each gender.
A surprisingly high number of
male students, she said, led them to
reconsider gender designations for
some areas.
Every year in spring, going
into room selection, we do a gender
breakdown and designation of
gender spaces, and so we had more
female spaces than what actually
showed up, she said.
Separating room selection
sessions by gender in the spring
also helped Residence Life evaluate
needs based on gender, she said.
Now that freshmen have arrived
on campus and begun classes, dean
of students Debbie Heida said she is
looking forward to what the class of
2018 will accomplish at Berry.
This place has amazing
opportunities, and if you dont
take advantage of them, youre not
making the most of both your time
and your fnancial resources to be
here, she said. Those four years go
by quickly. RYDER MCENTYRE, graphics editor
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Provost Kathy Richardson initiated the project.
The space contains several tables with access
to screens to which students can connect multiple
devices to share and edit work. There is a large
touch screen currently set to Google Earth to show
off the new teachnology.There are plans for a touch
screen table in another area of the room.
The lab is open. However, it is still in progress.
Were seeking beta testers starting Sept. 8th,
library director, Sherre Harrington said. Anyone can
participate.
Thats the whole idea, Jeremy Worsham,
associate librarian for systems and emerging
technology, said. Its all up for exploration.
Summer renovations-
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JOBETH CRUMP, asst. photojournalism editor
STUDENTS USE the new library lab.
SEE SUMMER RENOVATIONS, P. 3
Along with the addition of the
creative writing major, the English
department has added courses to
the 200, 300 and 400 levels. This
allows professors greater fexibility
in variable themes for their upper-
level classes Watkins said.
At the 200 level, Introduction to
Creative Writing has been added.
An introduction level class allows
professors more fexibility in their
approach to the class, including
teaching it across multiple genres.
This also allows students to take
a creative writing course earlier in
their college career, which Meek
believes will be a better indicator
to students who wish to enter into
the creative writing program.
The department has also
introduced new writing, fction
and poetry classes in the 300 and
400 levels, including Writing
and Community and Writing
about Place: Nature, Culture,
Environment.
Writing and Community
will integrate creative writing and
community service. The class,
taught by Meek, will be instituting
a program at the Sara Hightower
Regional Library in Rome to offer
a creative writing elective to area
teens. In addition to that, the class
will be organizing and presenting
a beneft reading in Rome for
Southeast Elementary School.
The goal of Writing about
Place Watkins said, is to make
better use of Berrys unique
campus and location.
Writing about Place, which
will be taught by William Donnelly
in the spring, is an advanced course
in creative writing, poetry and
prose centered on landscape and
the environment.
The English department retitled
and renumbered many of their
upper-level classes so as to fne-
tune the curriculums and place
more careful scaffolding between
300 and 400 level courses.
The fne-tuning of the English
and creative writing majors will
allow professors to have greater
opportunities for in-depth study in
literature, so they can offer courses
as broad surveys or individualized
topics Watkins said.
Current sophomores and juniors
interested in switching to a creative
writing major should talk with their
advisors to be sure they understand
the changes required.
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September 4, 2014
INVOLVEMENT
FAIR
The student involvement
fair will be held on the
front lawn of the Moon
Building from 5-7 p.m.
WRITING
WORKSHOP
Academic Services is
hosting a workshop to
aid writers in developing
arguments from 6-7
p.m. in the library
classroom on Sept. 11.
OUTDOOR MOVIE
KCAB will be showing
Divergent on
the Green lawn
Sept. 5 at 9 p.m.
Rain location will be
the Krannert Ballroom.
CAN I KISS YOU?
Mike Domitz is holding
a seminar on sexual
consent. Presentations
on Sept. 11 at 4:30
p.m. and 7 p.m. in the
Krannert Ballroom. CE
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FIRST LADIES
Oak Hill and the Martha
Berry Museum are
hosting an event about
Woodrow Wilsons
frst ladies. It will be in
McAllister 119 on Sept.
11 from 6-8 p.m.
PRESIDENTS
ADDRESS
Stephen Briggs, college
president, will deliver
the State of the College
address on Sept. 9 at
7 p.m. in the Krannert
ballroom during SGA.
INTERNATIONAL
OPPORTUNTIES
FAIR
The International
Opportunities Fair will
be on Sept. 11 from
10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in
the Krannert Lobby.
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Worsham said they want people to come in and say Okay,
this is what I do, how can I do it?
The room can serve as a classroom too.
Were scheduling professors to come in who might want to
teach classes in here, Jessica Hornbuckle, e-communications
librarian said. Word-of-mouth will flter oh this was a
really cool when I was in class, let me go back and use the
space again.
The library reconfgured and moved the old computer
lab to the room next door. The rooms organization is more
spacious and mimics the aesthetic of the sandbox lab.
Other computer labs around campus have followed suit,
like those in Green and McAllister.
The computer labs are a lot more open, space-wise, and
it seems like a better place to work, sophomore lab assistant
Maggie Hahn said. People seem to come in the labs more
often.
These changes make it evident that activity on campus is
not slowing down.
THE NEW MCALLISTER COMPUTER LABS OFFER students a welcoming
environment in which to do classwork.
BRYANNA PERRY, staff photojournalist
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The signicance of napping in college
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Stereotyping a culture: ISIS
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So its 11 oclock at night and the blank page of
your unwritten essay is going in and out of focus.
Before resigning yourself to an all-nighter,
take a cue from your inner kindergartener and hit
the hay for 20 to 30 minutes.
There is a notion in our society that naps
should be reserved for the elderly, the ill and those
shorter than the this tall to ride sign, but I move
that college studentsand people of all ages for
that mattershould embrace the nap in the same
way that the English make time for tea, as a daily
ritual vital to ones well-being.
The fact that humans section off their days into
two parts waking and sleeping is actually very
strange considering 85 percent of other mammals
alternate sleep and activity in shorter bursts of
time throughout the day.
According to the November 2009 Harvard
Health Letter, scheduled naps can help
productivity. The letter suggests combining
the powers of napping and caffeine by drinking
something caffeinated and then sleeping for about
half an hour. This will allow time for the caffeine
to kick in and make sure the nap is not long
enough to make you feel drowsy and disoriented
after waking up.
Depending on what type of rejuvination you
are in need of determines how long your nap
should be. A benefcial nap can range anywhere
from 10 to 60 minutes. Be cautious of how long
you are sleeping, because recieving too much rest
can actually leave you even more groggy than
when you went to sleep.
Sleep is restorative and your body defnitely
needs more of it when you are sick, but dont wait
until you are ill to play catch up. Procrastination
and balancing work with your social life is a
discussion for another time, but the sleep-deprived
haze you walk around in because of them can be
helped with a few choice naps.
The time used for napping is more than made
up if you wake up rested and ready to work. Being
so drowsy that you have to re-read the same line
over and over again is no help to anyone.
If you know youre going to have a late night,
its best to plan ahead and rest up earlier in the day
so you will have more energy to make it through
the night.
Some people have trouble sleeping in the
daylight or in a place other than their own bed.
If this is the case for you, try to fnd a dark, cool,
quiet and comfortable place and see if you can get
some shut eye. For some it is just not possible,
and you will have to fnd breaks in other ways.
Even laying down for a little bit and closing your
eyes can be helpful.
Others with diffculty sleeping though the
night may fnd that napping makes it even harder
to fall asleep later, but in a worst case scenario
a couple naps might provide an alternative to a
nights sleep.
Getting on a sleep schedule is the most
important way to keep your body alert. Training
your body to sleep and nap at certain times every
day will make falling asleep easier and will
help avoid situations where you fear you cant
keep your eyes open yet still need to fnish your
sociology reading.
So go back to preschool for a while. In high
school I know I grew jealous of their naptimes.
Now that you have more freedom as a college
student you need to take advantage of it in the
right ways. Use that awkward hour break between
history and dinner to get rested for homework
later. Use the power that you have over your
schedule to make those breaks available, and try
to keep those times sacred. Your body will thank
you in the long run.
Over the past decade our culture
has become more judgmental and
critical of any individual that may
be different, especially Muslims.
We have become more cynical for
a reason we are afraid.
The Islamic State of Iraq and
Syria, or ISIS has been capturing
worldwide attention for the past
few months, and with their use
of violent tactics and modern
technology it is hard to ignore their
radical actions.
ISIS is a terrorist group
expanding throughout Iraq and
Syria consisting of soldiers from all
regions around the world, including
the U.S. and Britain. This jihadist
group currently has control over a
third of Syria, roughly the size of
Texas.
Several cities, roads, borders
and oil felds have been taken over
by ISIS, and they now control more
territory than the terrorist group
Al-Qaeda ever did. Their invasion
is resulting in the execution of men,
women and children people.
President Obama vows to
degrade and destroy ISIS rather
than simply detain the group.
Many individuals have
developed a stereotype about
terrorism in the Middle East that
has created a blind hatred towards
an entire culture instead of radical
extremists themselves.
What individuals need to notice
is that ISIS consists of members
from all over the world.
According to Newsweek,
there are an estimated 1,500
British Muslims recruited by ISIS
extremists fghting in Iraq and
Syria.
ISIS methods of recruiting
involve the use of social media
such as Twitter, SoundCloud and
WhatsApp. They are using these
programs to reach out and advertise
in all languages.
Their tactics are more primal
compared to other terrorism we
have seen in the past. This month
two American journalists, James
Foley and Steven Sotloff have been
beheaded.
American fghter jets and drones
have attacked 68 targets in northern
Iraq since in the begging of August.
Sotloffs beheading was in
defance to the airstrikes in Iraq
ordered by President Obama
against ISIS.
ISIS publically posted both these
executions on the Internet. Social
media outlets like Twitter are doing
their best to block all accounts
supporting ISIS, but whenever one
is shut down another is created.
It is assumed so, but ISIS
does not only consist of Islamic
extremists in the Middle East. In
fact, these Islamic radicals are
located all over the globe. Their
declared enemies arent only
Christians and Americans either.
It needs to be understood that
not all Muslims are terrorists, and
innocent people who live in Iraq
and Syria are being slaughtered by
the ISIS terrorists.
Before we stereotype out of
fear, we need to stop and take
into consideration the trials the
individuals we are judging are
facing.
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Leaked celebrity nudes are cyber sexual abuse
STUDENTS
SPEAK
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September 4, 2014
Over the weekend, a food of nude pictures of
various female celebrities were leaked by some
hacker(s) and posted to the wretched dregs of
the internet: 4chan. From 4chan, they spread
like wildfre, and the hacker(s) charged people
bitcoins for access to the photos.
Its as if nude pictures of these women were
placed on billboards around the country against
their will, but these billboards are actually
well-lit screens and everyone has at least two
of them on hand at all times. Even more dire
is the context in which these photographs were
taken -- intimate, private moments of extreme
vulnerability with their respective partners.
While reading the coverage of this terrible
invasion of privacy of celebrities like Jennifer
Lawrence, Kate Upton, Lea Michele, Kirsten
Dunst and Brie Larson, I came across a Sept. 1
article from The Verge, written by T.C. Sottek
called Say hello to men who hate the NSA but
love invading the privacy of women.
We are all adults here, so Im going to go
ahead and say that a lot of men in this situation
are fnding pleasure in these leaked photographs.
Thats very bad. These women have experienced
a complete and total invasion of privacy against
their will. Weve just entered the realm of cyber
sexual abuse.
Sottek makes the poignant observation that
the internet is written in ink, and that many
of the men who tend to complain (publicly
via Twitter) about NSA-related privacy
infringements are the same men blaming the
celebrities these human victims for their
private information being released to the public.
Apparently the right to privacy only belongs to
men.
Cyber sexual abuse, like any other form of
cyber violence is now a problem because so
much of our lives are lived through connected
devices and in our outward representations of
ourselves on the worlds stage. Its now evident
more than ever that things which happen in real
life are naturally mimicked in our digital lives,
resulting in less accountability and more harm.
Less accountability comes from the freedom
to become anonymous, and the harm should be
self evident: now Jennifer Lawrence has to walk
through her life knowing that a large portion of
the male population has already subjected her
vulnerable naked body to their feverish male
gaze. They have objectifed her as a result - as
if notable women didnt already have enough
objectifcation to deal
with already.
So why am I writing
about this? Isnt it better
just to leave the issue
alone and let the buzz die
down so fewer people go
out into the cacophony
of trolls and misogynists
and try to fnd and view
these naked images?
Well, theres an important
distinction to be made
about the victims, which
a lot of men do not seem
to understand: it is not
their fault.
A lot of arguments
against the taking of nude
pictures have arisen, and
a lot of people are trying
to assign blame to these
women for expressing
their sexuality in a
(formerly) safe manner
with presumably trusted
loved ones. The idea of a woman able to freely
expose her body in any manner of her choosing
fies in the face of centuries of patriarchal society
and misogyny.
Another argument in favor of shaming these
women for a private decision to photograph
themselves revolves around the idea that being
famous has a cost. When a person is famous,
something happens in our media-lit eyes that
magically gives us the right to know everything
about them. These stars are successful,
glamorous, and they are an amalgamation of a
lot of the things we want in life people to care
about our lives, fnancial freedom and stellar
leisure activities.
The objectifcation of women is already a
noted pattern in society and its refection in
media, and when someone becomes a pretty
face on every tabloid, a household name and
a glamorous star after mass exposure to a
media audience, women lose a lot more in the
fght than men do every single time. Yes, these
celebrities have marginally better lives than the
vast majority of the world, but they still deserve
basic human rights like everyone else.
My point is not to shame anyone for
viewing the imagery. I myself have not seen the
photographs in question because I respect the
privacy of these women, and I dont really go
around the Internet looking for naked women
anyway, if you catch my drift. If youve seen
these women in the nude already, it doesnt
matter, even though you were complicit in her
abuse. What matters is that you do not continue
to support this situations growing intensity.
These women have been forced to be literally
bare for the world to see. What we can all do is
open up a dialog about how cyber sexual abuse
is now a reality on a scale never before realized.
Van Badham possibly said it best when she
wrote a Sept. 1 article in the Guardian, Mass
communication was in no way agreed to by
the lovers, who had every right to believe their
security would not be compromised. Actors and
other entertainers may certainly offer their image
to public consumption as their professional
practice, but what they are not trading is their
intimacy.
The lines between real life sexual abuse
and cyber sexual abuse are fading away, just like
the lines between real life bullying and cyber
bullying. Its time that society takes these cyber
crimes just as seriously as the crimes which
happen in real life, as they damage in different
yet equally intense ways. So lets call this sordid
affair what it really is: sexual abuse, plain and
simple.
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(LGBT) students.
The point of LISTEN is to bring straight people and LGBT people
together. We want to encourage discussions not just about orientation
and identity, but life in general, co-president junior Joshua Willis said.
The organization has only recently been recognized by the college as
a offcial group, but has been around in different forms for many years.
The current incarnation of LISTEN was founded in 2003 by students
that wanted to make Berry a more inclusive place, Willis said.
For many years, the organization was called the Gay and Lesbian
Awareness Society (GLAS). The group was mostly underground and
did not seek offcial status. From 1995 to 2002, the group was known as
Rainbow Berry, and members met off campus.
The group changed its name to LISTEN in 2003 and applied for
offcial status. It was approved by the Student Life Council but was
overturned by the board of trustees. This led to a long struggle to be
recognized that ended in the fall of 2012, after a homophobic hate crime
occurred on campus.
To my understanding, the reason it took so long was because people
thought it was an advocacy group, not a support group, and people used
that as an excuse to deny it, Willis said.
During the weekly meetings, members discuss various issues such as
same-sex marriage.
The group has marched in the Atlanta Pride Parade for the past two
years and plans on continuing that tradition. Members also participate in
events to raise awareness for LGBT issues. Last year, they brought Bill
Bowers, a famous pantomime artist, to campus to perform for students
and faculty.
The frst meeting of the year will be Sept. 9, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
in Krannert 324. There will be free food and drinks.
For students interested in the more geeky and nerdy club on campus,
the Berry College Alternate Realities Club (BCAR) provides a home for
people who love nerd culture, president senior Kaitlyn Bradley said.
The club gives members a safe haven for nerds and a way to make
friends with people of the same interests, secretary sophomore Sara Hess
said.
The club meets weekly to watch YouTube videos and movies in a variety
of categories including musical, anime, space, fantasy and science fction.
Each week has its own theme and members bring their personal movies for
members to vote on to decide what to watch that week. They also watch
YouTube videos ranging from cat videos to Epic Rap Battles.
BCAR also hosts several events over the course of the year. Their most
popular events include a haunted house, international soda tastings and
their own personal convention, BerryCon.
The haunted house takes place in October on the same night as KCABs
Halloween Dance. It is organized completely by BCAR members and
consists of rooms of costumed students dressed as zombies, vampires,
broken dolls and a variety of other frightening creatures.
I was the main demon in the demon room. Its really fun screaming at
people and watching them freak out, Hess said.
International soda tastings are held each semester and offer students a
chance to taste sodas from countries around the world.
Anyone can try drinks and if they liked them, they can order them,
Hess said.
One of BCARs biggest events is BerryCon, hosted every spring. The
weekend-long event includes panels, arts and crafts fairs, costumes and
video game competitions.
BCAR reaches out to all students interested in any fandom.
Anyone who is interested in anything slightly nerdy is welcome,
Bradley said. Meetings will open people to new genres or things theyve
never seen.
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For students interested in black history as
well as other cultures around the world, the
Black Student Alliance (BSA) introduces
students to a myriad of cultures.
BSAs job is to provide different ways to
inform people about black history and culture,
important people and events, president junior
Elischa Pierre said.
One of BSAs biggest events is AIDS week,
in which the club promotes awareness for HIV/
AIDS as well as raises funds for AIDS research.
The club also goes to Atlanta to participate
in the AIDS Walk. According to AIDS Walk
Atlantas website, the funds also help prevent
new HIV infections with more than 85,000
education program participants.
In February, BSA hosts events such as library
read-ins celebrating black authors and poets in
order to hightlight Black History Month.
BSA meetings consist of discussions of
current events, viewings of movies such as
42 and conversations of roles of black people
in culture including sports, Hollywood and
political events.
BSA is not just for black people, Pierre
said. It is for anyone who is interested in black
culture, interested in how far weve come as a
whole, and its a good way to learn new things
outside of a classroom setting,
BSA meets on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. in Krannert
108/109.
Students with an interest in politics
and world affairs should consider joining
Berrys Model United Nations. In Model
UN, members are assigned a country and
attend conferences where they represent that
countrys position on various world issues.
In Model UN, we act as diplomats
representing our assigned countries, and we
work with students from around the globe
representing in order to solve world issues,
vice-president sophomore Lydia Schlitt said.
The team is divided into groups of two,
and each group researches their assigned
country on a committee.
Last year, the former president and I
represented Lithuania in the frst General
Assembly, president junior Matthew
Murphy said. This year, the team represents
Germany and Argentina.
In the fall, the team participates in the
Southern Regional Model United Nations
Conference, or SRMUN, in Atlanta. The
conference lasts from Thursday to Saturday.
In the spring, the team also attends the
National Model UN Conference, a weeklong
conference in New York City.
Last year, the team won awards at
SRMUN for having the best new delegate
and outstanding position paper.
The frst meeting is Sept. 4 in Green 306
at 5 p.m.
For students interested in pursuing religious
activities and interests, Campus Outreach is one
of the many religious organizations on campus.
It provides a home for both those living in the
Christian faith as well as those interested in
learning more about religion.
We want to help people know who Jesus
is and what Hes about and what He said and
how Hes relevant to your life, said Rob Shaw,
campus director of Campus Outreach.
I was looking for satisfaction in a lot of the
wrong places, in my own self, but eventually
some friends took me to Campus Outreach and
the gospel was told to me in a way a college
student could understand. I felt like a blindfold
was taken off me and I really began to understand
my Christian faith and live with a family of
Christian believers, senior Graham Garrett said.
Junior Emily Kaelin wanted community
and to fnd a group of people who had the same
interests in pursuing Jesus as me.
A usual meeting consists of guest speakers,
worship sessions, testimonies, games, competitions
and socials.
Please come on and learn and come and
see. Come see what Christ has to offer through
this particular ministry and see how it changes
your life because its defnitely changed mine,
Garrett said.
Campus Outreach meets every other Wednesday
night at 9 p.m. in the Krannert Ballroom.
Model United
Nations
Campus
Outreach
Black Student
Alliance (BSA)
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Block and Bridle (animal science)
Charter Association of Student Educators- CASE
Executive Round Table (business)- ERT
Forensic Union (debate)
Future Farmers of America - FFA
Honors Student Union- HSN
Model United Nations- MUN
Politics and Law Society - PALS
Pre-Vet Club
Psychological Society
Public Relations Student Society
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CAMPUS MEDIA
Cabin Log (yearbook)
Campus Carrier (newspaper)
Ramifcations (literary magazine)
Viking Fusion (multimedia)
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Lambda Sigma (sophomore leadership)
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Omicron Delta Kappa (junior/senior leadership)
Phi Alpha Theta (history)
Phi Kappa Phi (junior/senior academics)
Psi Chi (psychology)
Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish)
MULTICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS
Black Student Association- BSA
Berry International Club- BIC
Orgullo - Pride in Hispanic Culture
PERFORMING ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
Berry College Theatre Company - BCTC
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia (men/music)
Vikettes (Womens Dance Team)
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL
AWARENESS ORGANIZATIONS
Colleges Against Cancer - CAC
College Republicans
EMPOWER (womens issues)
Hunger and Homelessness Outreach Programs
LISTEN
Students Against Violating the Earth - SAVE
RELIGION-IN-LIFE
Baptist Campus Ministries - BCM
Berry Buddhist Student Group
Berry Muslim Heritage Group
Campus Outreach
Canterbury Club (Episcopal)
Catholic Student Association- CSA
Exaltation (Christian singers)
Fellowship of Christian Athletes- FCA
In His Name Gospel Choir
Presbyterian Student Fellowship- PSF
Religion In Student Experience - RISE
Unitarian Universalist
Wesley Foundation (Methodist)
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS
Berry College Alternative Realities- BCAR
Swing and Ballroom Dance Association
STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS
Krannert Center Activities Board- KCAB
Student Government Association & Class
Offcers
VOLUNTEER AND SERVICE
Athletes Bettering the Community - ABC
Circle K (Kiwanis)
Exchange Club
Habitat for Humanity
Rotaract (Rotary)
What On-Campus
Organizations Are
You Involved In?
Marcus Ghee, freshman
Im in the Forensics Union, because Ive always
wanted to do public speaking of some kind.
Sydney Perry, junior
I am vice president of the Berry College Theatre
Company, and I play cymbals in the BC Drumline.
Im a theater major, and Im also passionate about
music and dance, so so any chance to be involved in
something creative, Im passionate about.
Trey Castellanos, junior
Im the secretary of Block and Bridle, and Im also
in the Pre-Vet club because they both have to do with
animals.
Victoria DeMarco, freshman
I want to start an MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) Club,
because I want to continue to train, and the best way to
train is with partners. Its fun, and I think its important
for girls to learn to defend themselves.
Blake Trenary, junior
Im in Swing and Ballroom Club because I wanted
to learn to dance and get to know people.
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It's impossible to spend too
much time staring with open
eyes and possibly even a dropped
jaw at Katherine Taylor's show
Causeway.
At the opening of the show, she
gave a rather informative talk about
the meticulous oil paintings that
make up her collection currently on
display at the Moon Gallery.
Taylor was informative and
challenging and described the
diffculties of not only oil painting's
painstaking processes. She also
proposed a postmodern response
to dissonance about mankind's
imposed rule on nature and its
seemingly indirect Newtonian
response to that very imposition.
However, her main study as an
artist seems to involve a perspective
as art object approach, which in the
context of her works is much more
compelling than the alternatives.
Taylor tackled almost every
aspect of her works in her talk, as
if her pieces carried with them both
the apparatus to be hung from the
white Moon Gallery walls and also
an acute self-awareness which was
at frst frustrating, but later entirely
breathtaking.
After the show, I attempted
to challenge her with the
environmentalist politics of her
works, which seemed to resonate
within the canvases as a response
to her continued reference to
experiencing traumatic natural
disasters such as Hurricane Katrina.
A neat yet somber fact is that
the disaster of Hurricane Katrina
just experienced its nine-year
anniversary around the same time of
the opening of this particular show.
One of the pieces that particularly
shook me was Freeboard. The
giant painting of a beautifully
weathered stucco swimming pool
showing the hard-to-see, yet,
from another angle, hard-to-miss
refection of a bright and almost
shiningly photorealist aluminum
stepladder. This juxtaposition
of chiaroscuro'd landscapes and
photorealistic details further elicits
the dissonance she strives for and
serves to complicate the overall
work in a rather interesting way.
Perhaps most devastatingly
brilliant about the show, however, is
her eponymous piece Causeway.
This piece depicts an artifcial
horizon line, created by a man-made,
literal causeway. The gradations of
color from gray to almost powdery
white create a mood and tone that
is at times threatening and other
times completely tranquil. The
eye is drawn to the horizon line,
inevitably, as man-made concrete
harshly separates the viewer from
the natural world. The beauty of
her work, I believes lies just before
and on the horizon, where nature
and mankind meet and yet man
is divided from nature by their
own means. This is rooted in her
ability to fxate on these normally
mundane sights in a usually fast-
paced movement through a three
dimensional horizontal space that
has just been ravaged by Mother
Nature.
While her oil on canvas pieces
retain traditional oil painting tropes
while eschewing and complicating
ideas of perspective of environment,
her oil on aluminum works display
harsh geometric abstraction of
perspective. The cold and sterile
lines between oil colors applied
to the aluminum and the light-
utilizing gradients of the aluminum
itself garner a reaction of awe. The
constantly shifting colorizations
of the aluminum as medium do
an incredible job of increasing
the volume of her message of
perspective as art object.
Katherine Taylor seems to
have reinvented and revived oil
painting from a tired old white male
portraiture to a refreshing take on
environmental disasters and the
people who live through them.
Her work exists in a space
where perspective itself is the art
object; where mankind's imposition
on nature has fnally reached a
Newtonian response to a degree of
rapid change in the natural world by
man-powered forces and constructs.
She succeeds in evoking a
humanist tone, in which she focuses
on the perspectives of human beings
who have experienced natural
disasters like Hurricane Katrina or
Hurricane Rita are about to begin
rehabilitating their customized
concrete and sky worlds.
Taylors exhibit will be on
display in the Moon Gallery until
Sept. 19.
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KATHERINE TAYLORS EXHIBIT WILL be in the Moon
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Berry students take on the Ice Bucket Challenge
The Rome International Film Festival
(RIFF) is a popular cultural event held each
year in downtown Rome. The event is held at
Romes historic DeSoto Theater Sept. 4-7. It
has been held there for 11 years.
RIFF shows independent flms but will
also include workshops in various aspects
of flmmaking for those interested. Senior
lecturer of music Harry Musselwhite is an
honorary executive director of the festival.
I was executive director of RIFF, and
I stepped down to focus more on my own
flm producing, writing and directing,
Musselwhite said.
The festival features a variety of flm
genres. Both Musselwhite and current
executive producer Ryan Simmons are
excited for this years lineup.
There is a wide variety of flm, as befts
a great flm festival. Some highlights for me
personally are Alexis Boling flm Movement
and Location which screens Friday at 5
p.m., and Seth Ingram's great Georgia made
documentary Blind Tiger: The Legend of
Bell Tree Smith, which screens Saturday at
5 p.m., Musselwhite said.
Musselwhite also helped produce and act
in Blind Tiger: The Legend of Bell Tree
Smith.
We have an amazing lineup of flms for
this year's festival. Our Opening Night flm,
No Ordinary Hero is a flm 100 percent in
ASL (American Sign Language). The actors
and director of the flm are all personally
deaf, which I think brings a lot of heart and
realness to their performances, Simmons
said. We've partnered with the Georgia
School for the Deaf in Cave Springs and
through that partnership we have provided
free admission for their students to come a
watch a flm in a theater in their language.
Simmons also said the festival features a
great number of shorter flms.
One of my favorite blocks is our
Saturday morning cartoons block at 11 a.m.
on Saturday. This block is full of Pixar
quality short flms that are sure to appeal to
kids of all ages, Simmons said.
Berry associate professor of anthropology
and sociology Brian C. Campbell produced,
co-wrote and researched for a flm which
will be in RIFF. The flm is The Night the
Blackbirds Fell, and it will be shown at 10
a.m. on Friday. It is described as a mystery
with graphic novel-style animation and
wildlife shots.
In addition to a vast library of flms, the
festival will offer workshops that are free to
the public. They are held Friday and Saturday
of the festival at 1 p.m. in the DeSoto Theater.
T.R. Boyce, Jr. will be leading a
workshop on Friday on the different roles of
the crew of a flm set, Simmons said. He'll
be breaking down the different roles and
responsibilities, how to get started in those
roles and how to make a successful career in
flmmaking.
Saturdays workshop is with screenwriter
Shawn Telford.
Shawn will be breaking down the
key components to a great screenplay,
the necessary mechanics and how to have
a successful career as a screenwriter,
Simmons said.
Musselwhite and Simmons recommend
that students interested in flm should
consider attending.
Musselwhite said attendees can look
forward to thought provoking flms, both
feature length and shorts that are well done
and that portray more than cookie cutter
plots and ideas. This is what draws me and
thousands of flm lovers across the world to
flm festivals.
No other opportunity, besides being on
a flm set itself, gives attendees a taste of the
culture and inner workings of the flm industry
than a flm festival, Simmons said. Beyond
getting a chance to see great flms that are
typically more creative and have more heart
than stereotypical Hollywood movies, RIFF
also offers attendees the chance to meet and
talk with the flmmakers themselves.
RIFF costs $25 for a Friday or Saturday
day pass including flms and workshops, and
$15 for a Sunday day pass.
Recently the awareness of amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis (ALS) has skyrocketed and
become a national phenomenon, thanks to the
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.
The challenge was started by Chris Kennedy
from Sarasota, Fla., who was nominated
by a friend to participate in the challenge.
When Kennedy posted his challenge video to
Facebook and tagged his cousins husband, who
has ALS. The challenge quickly spread to his
family, friends and even large social networks
of ALS supporters.
Berry students are very enthusiastic about
the challenge and adament about spreading
awareness about ALS. Some students have
participated by pouring ice water over their
heads, while others have simply donated the
$100. Either way, students are showing their
support.
Junior Togoryamba Nunghe was nominated
by her boyfriend and could not believe her
eyes when she saw the nomination video on
Facebook.
I was really annoyed and surprised that I
was nominated, but after thinking about the
idea, I realized that it was for a great cause,
Nunghe said.
Nunghe said she participated because she
thought that the challenge was a great awareness
tool.
Now one more person in the world knows
about the disease and can help fnd a cure,
because in order to fnd a cure, lots of people
have to know about it in order to do something,
Nunghe said.
Other students, such as junior Maria Santos,
participated in the challenge for very similar
reasons.
I was just excited to see how many people
were participating in the challenge, and I
wanted to make a difference on such a huge
issue, Santos said, It was a really hot day that
daybut I wanted to do the challenge because
ALS doesnt get much attention, and I want to
bring to light an issue that most people do not
know about.
Students believe that while the challenge
is a great way to bring awareness for ALS, the
campaign itself could be more effective.
It is a good way to raise awareness but it
does not tell you about the disease itself. What
is ALS? junior Carrie Nobles said. Who does
it affect, how can we help? There just needs to
be more information to get out to people about
what it is.
ALS is a neurodegenerative disease that
affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal
cord. The disease also affects motor nuerons
and may eventually lead to death. As many as
30,000 Americans have the disease at a given
time, and it does have the potential to be fatal or
completely immobilizing.
According to Time magazine, the ALS Ice
Bucket Challenge has raised more than $15
million from both existing donors and new
donors for the ALS Association.
For those looking to get in on the challenge,
it is never to late to get involved. This Friday,
Sept. 5, there will be a Mega Ice Bucket
Challenge hosted at Ridge Ferry Park in Rome.
Come out and join the awareness movement at
6:30 p.m and make a difference one bucket at a
time with the Rome community.
JUNIOR CARRIE NOBLES
ACCEPTS the ice bucket
challenge.
The Berry volleyball team
looked to start their season off
with a tough test by hosting an
invitational tournament. The
tournament showcased two teams
that received hefty votes in the
American Volleyball Coaches
Association (AVCA) preseason
poll. The invitational tournament,
which was held at Berry over Labor
Day weekend, showcased DePauw,
Emory, Lynchburg and Randolph
Macon.
The game that would earn
the most attention prior to the
tournament was the rematch of
the regional semi-fnals last fall
between Berry and Emory.
Head volleyball coach Mika
Robinson said she feels that Berry
belongs with these high caliber
teams, and these are the kind of
teams that she expects Berry to face
week in and week out.
Our real focus has been on how
we can improve as a team and really
even more long term than just this
weekend, Robinson said before the
tournament.
On Saturday, Berry faced
Randolph Macon and DePauw.
Berry opened Saturday with a loss
to Randolph Macon, but came back
with a win against DePauw later in
the day. Standouts from Saturday
include junior Emily Stromberg
who compiled 34 kills on the day
and junior Lauren Schmitz who had
79 assists on Saturday.
On Sunday, Berry faced
Lynchburg and Emory. Berry
defeated Lynchburg in three sets
and lost to Emory in the same
fashion.
Stromberg had a successful
outing again against Lynchburg
where she had a double-double with
13 kills and 16 digs.
Its not a bad start to the season
at all, but we all believe that we
have a ton more to grow and
learn, said Kiersten Hammock, the
volunteer assistant coach and Berry
volleyball alumna. We believe that
we can win all the time.
Both Stromberg and senior Anna
Keappler felt the same when asked
about the tournaments results.
I think we defnitely werent
expecting two losses; we wanted
to win obviously, Stromberg
said. We got into some holes and
couldnt really work ourselves out,
and I think that is something we
will be able to work on this season
and really improve.
Keappler agreed with her.
Our results were not exactly
what we had hoped for, but it was
the frst weekend, so we have a lot
to work up to as the season goes
on, she said.
Specifcally, both Stromberg
and Hammock said the team needs
to continue to play at a consistent
level and not let minor setbacks
negatively affect the rest of their
game.
The volleyball team acquired
four new freshmen this season and
this weekend was the frst time that
the team had to work as a unit to
play teams other than themselves.
Along with understanding how to
play as a team, Hammock believes
that the team needs to work on
having more fun on the court.
Personally, I would love for
them to learn to have more and
more fun because thats why they
are playing volleyball, Hammock
said. Despite the fact that they may
have just lost fve points in a row or
won fve points, either one, I want
them to learn how to have fun and
not beat themselves up mentally.
This weekend acts as a stepping
stone for the team. The players have
set lofty goals for the season.
We have set various goals,
and so I expect them to follow
through on those goals because
they set those goals as a team, not
us as coaches for them, Hammock
said. Thats the beautiful thing
about setting goals as a team is that
you get to uphold them as a team
together.
Robinson said the team wants
to go undefeated in the conference
and bring home the conference
championship for the third year in
a row. The team doesnt plan on
stopping there. They want to receive
an automatic bid to the NCAA
regionals and plan on making a
deeper run than they did last year.
Look for the team to improve
from last weekend in their
upcoming tournament in Lexington,
Ky., where they will face Covenant,
Transylvania, Millikin and Juniata.
MARIE COLLOP
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JASON HUYNH, photojournalism editor
SENIOR ANNA KEAPPLER GOES up for a spike against the Vikings first opponent
on Saturday, Randolph Macon. The volleyball team faced four teams over
Labor Day weekend and finished with two wins and two losses.
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Cross country hosts first meet, ready for new season
The Berry men and womens
cross country teams hosted the annual
Clara Bowl Invitational on Saturday,
Aug. 30.
The teams competed against
Emory University, LaGrange
College, Oglethorpe University and
Savannah College of Art and Design.
Berry placed third overall in both
the men and womens categories. The
mens team featured four runners in
the top 20, while the womens team
fnished with three runners in the top
20.
Two freshmen, Robert Bevins for
the mens team and Nina Thomason
for the womens team, performed
very well in their frst collegiate
races, coming in at 13th and 16th
place respectively.
The Vikings will compete in a
total of seven meets this season,
including the Southern Athletic
Association (SAA) Cross Country
Championships and the NCAA
Division III Regionals. The mens
team fnished second and the women
ffth at the SAA Cross Country
Championships in 2013. The women
fnished 14th at the NCAA Division
III Regionals, with the men taking
6th.
The teams head into their new
season with long-time head coach
Paul Deaton, who is entering his
22nd year as mens head coach and
18th as womens.
The women have seven runners
with a strong core of senior runners
including captain Nicole Fredette,
Hibah Abuhamdieh, Kayla Hefin,
Leslie Stewart and Annika Stryker.
Also featured are junior Rachel
Dorris, sophomore Danielle Ferro
and freshmen Alainna Chretien and
Nina Thomason.
Deaton discussed the projections
for the womens team and his
thoughts on the upcoming season.
We are projected as ffth in the
SAA, but have hopes of exceeding
our pre-season projection by the time
of the SAA Championship race Nov.
1, Deaton said. Nicole Fredette is
our team captain. She is off to a great
start and is one major factor for our
optimistic team goals.
Deaton discussed how fun it
has been to watch the large senior
contention on the womens team
grow throughout the years.
The senior class is big for the
womens team. I think it will be a
very satisfying season. The team has
come a long way, he said. Im very
excited to see it through and I know
they are as well.
Fredette described the attitude
of the team and her desires for this
season.
The best way to describe the
womens team is as a family. There
are only nine of us this year, so its
a fairly small team, Fredette said.
We build off of each other during
workouts and are there to support
each other. I want us to continue
the bond that we have as a family,
but I also want us to improve on our
training.
The Vikings mens team features
eight returning runners, including
senior captain Zack Jordan, senior
Michael Klein, junior Kyle Harris
and sophomores Ebenezer Agaro,
Sam Berendsen, Daniel Mushrush,
Matthew Myers and Matt Walker.
The team has brought in freshmen
Robert Bevins, Rhett Butler, Austin
Fowler and Brandon Jackson.
Deaton said the mens team
defed expectations last year, and he
is expecting a similar result this year.
The men exceeded expectations
last year fnishing second in the
conference and sixth in the NCAA
Regional Championships, Deaton
said. Pre-season projections pick us
to be a toss-up for third or fourth in
the conference. We hope to exceed
expectations again.
Deaton discussed how important
team unity and determination will be
for the mens team this year.
Our success on the mens team
will be highly dependent on a group
of guys forming a common vision
and then daily coming together to
work towards it, he said.
Jordan talked about how effective
Deaton is as a leader.
Coach Deaton doesnt really
yell, but at the same time you know
to do what he says and not to cross
him, Jordan said. He is trying to get
everyone to run at the best that they
can, while at the same time creating
a team atmosphere where we all push
each other to do our best.
In reference to both the men and
womens team Deaton explained how
the teams would achieve success.
How well we do is going to
depend on everybody doing their part
on a daily basis and building each
other up and picking each other back
up when they fall, he said. And
thats also what allows you to exceed
expectations.
The Vikings will compete again at
the Centre Invitational on Sept. 13 in
Danville, Ky.
NICK VERNON
sports editor
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JASON HUYNH, photojournalism editor
THE MENS CROSS COUNTRY TEAM WARMS UP before the Clara Bowl Invitational begins. The
men and womens teams hosted the annual invitational meet on Saturday, Aug. 30. Berry
placed third overall in both the men and womens categories. Each Berry squad featured
solid performances from returning runners and exciting debuts from freshman runners.
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