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Friday, November 21, 2014
VOLUME 94, ISSUE 39
Popular song conveys hidden meaning
Artists brings awareness to body negativity, feminism By Michele Mathis Reporter
Megan Trainor made a splash this year with her Billboard climbing single, “All About That Bass.” With over 200 million views on YouTube, the song/video combo can be stuck in anyone’s head for the rest of the day. The lyrics convey the war between the preference of curvy women versus skinny women with lines such as, “You know I won’t be no stick thin figure Barbie doll/So if that’s what you’re into then go ahead and move along,” and “Yeah, my mama she told me don’t worry about your size/Boys like a little more booty to hold at night.” While the message of body inclusivity seems to be clear at first, women alike are disagreeing about this skinny shaming/ men-pleasing trend. Johanna Ganz, a doctoral candidate teaching sociology at the University said, “It creates a dichotomy of women where [curvy women] are beautiful and [thin women] are not.” By separating women into two specific groups, the purpose of body inclusivity within the song is ruined. Students are agreeing that “All About That Bass” didn’t quite achieve what it thought it would. Bea Shields, freshman, said, “There’s flack there ... You shouldn’t make a political point at someone else’s expense.” Some might believe that Trainor didn’t mean to draw such negative attention to a specific body type and Mary Kreuger, the director of the Women’s Center agrees.
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Newest Hatchlings Hatch program announces this years finalists By Natasha Ivery Reporter
Last night in the Union ballroom, the 2015 class of Hatchlings was announced. The announcement came following the final event of Global Entrepreneurship Week, sponsored by the College of Business, Cookie Jar, Key Private Bank and more. Kirk Kern, director of the DallasHamilton Center in the College of Business said that this year’s class of Hatchlings is unique. “Well, this year we had over 80 applicants, and from there we narrowed it down to 10 Hatchlings,” said Kern. “It was a hard decision, and my team and I had some quite lengthy debates about who should stay and who we had to let go, but I’m confident in the abilities of
Hatchlings
Michael Cervantes Calvin Haselman Meredith Keller Mark Kohn Matthew Snider Michael Stafford Thomas Stevens Allen Viancourt Elsa Vogel Devon Williams
this new class.” Along with Kern, there was a team of six other people that helped make the decision about the new class: Morgan Smith, one of last year’s Hatch finalists and owner of U-Mat Laundry, LLC; Charlie Kanwischer, who is in the College of Arts [E-Ship]; Dean Braun of the College of Business; Gene Poor, associate dean Zubair Mohamed; and Herb McGrath. The team graded the business ideas with a specific set of criteria, and they scored strictly on ideas. “We looked for uniqueness and creativity, if the proposed product was feasible, marketability, commercial and social impact, appeal to investors and my favorite, the ‘cool’ factor,” Kern said. Since the team did not have pictures of the
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LOST BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Students spend class time reenacting moments in history, game teaches more than lectures By Ryan Hanson Reporter
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LUKE BRABSKI shows students in the LGBTQ+ community a video at Transgender Day of Remembrance.
LGBTQIA+
This month’s InFocus looks at the LGBTQ+ community and the organizations available to students that provide them with a safe space to share common interests. | Page 3
In Reacting to the Past, an American Culture Studies class, students role play as historical figures. According to the Barnard website on Reacting to the Past, the class is based around “elaborate games, set in the past, in which students are assigned roles informed by classic texts in the history of ideas.” Andrew Schoket is the Director of American Culture Studies as well as the professor for the course. Schoket said the teacher plays the role of game master as opposed to a typical lecturer. He said he doesn’t intervene in the game much, unless it takes a turn to the unrealistic side. But he said it’s “difficult for a game to go off the rails.” Schoket said that the class usually completes three games per semester. The first game that the class played this semester was called “Patriots, Loyalists and Revolution in New York City,
TWO FOR ONE
“Mockingjay” is the latest book to be adapted into two movies. What’s the reason for this trend? | Page 8
“I feel more well versed in [history] because I had to play the role of a character.” Emma Sales | Student
1775-76.” The second game was called “Red Clay, 1835: Cherokee Removal and the Meaning of Sovereignty.” The third and current game is called Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor and the New Woman.” The current game is being held in the Center for Faculty Excellence on the second floor of University Hall. Schoket said that he switches the class environment for each game. The first game was held in Prout Chapel and the second was held in he Little Red Schoolhouse. Schoket said each student is assigned the role of a person that was involved in the historical event which the game centers around.
WOMEN AND SEXISM
Columnist Deanna Huffman talks about how much sexism towards females is actually perpetrated by women. Shes says women need to support each other instead of tearing each other down. | Page 5
Senior Emma Sales plays Emma Goldman. Sales said her character was an anarchist focused on freedom from the government. Schoket said that police and law enforcement often tried to silence Goldman when she was speaking in public. This means that any time that Sales talks in the game as Goldman, she may be silenced by the game master. Sales said that she thinks she gained more from this style of class as opposed to a lecture class. “I feel more well versed in [history] because I had to play the role of a character,” Sales said. Freshman Meg Carroll plays Elizabeth Gurly Flynn, who tried to organize a general labor strike for laborer rights. Carroll said that she often spends an average of five hours per week working for the class outside of the meeting time. To keep immersed in the game, “you have to know, read and quote the [historical] documents,” Carroll said.
IF YOU COULD RECREATE ONE HISTORICAL MOMENT, WHAT WOULD IT BE? “Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I have a dream’ speech because I’d love to see that.” Kylie Lane, Sophomore, Criminal Justice