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Racial Reconciliation panel to start conversation about race and religion Annie Deitz deputy news editor

The Men’s Ministry will be hosting the Christianity and Racial Reconciliation panel today at 7:00 p.m. in the Spruill Ballroom.

With panelists Charles Love, Adam Hubert, Jordan Rowan Fannin, Diamond Newsome and Chon’tel Washington, the event aims to discuss the necessity of Christianity in overcoming inherent racial issues within the country and the community.

Junior Antonio Brown, ministry leader for the Chaplain’s Office, will be moderating tonight’s panel. Brown has been a key organizer for this event, influential in the planning of speakers, questions, and topics for discussion. Brown says he has been passionate about this issue for a long time, and is glad that he finally has the opportunity to demonstrate that passion.

“Growing up where I grew up, I never had the opportunities to talk about race, or it would be a very uncomfortable topic,” Brown said. “Coming to Berry and Berry allowing me to express myself, I learned more about how this topic, the idea of race and Christianity, actually go hand in hand.

It’s been a really cool experience and the

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job that I have allows for me to chase those passions.”

The panel will be a discussion on race and Christianity, prompted from questions both pre-written by Brown and taken from the audience. Brown said that the goal is to start a conversation, and to give insight to people who may have never thought about this topic before. He hopes it will get the community excited, and give way to future discussions.

“Part of that reconciling is not just reconciling between us and Christ, but with each other,” Brown said. “The body of Christ should just be a big family of different ethnicities, and Chon’tel that’s the whole ordeal.”

Junior Diamond Newsome is one of the five panelists speaking tonight. As an active Christian and a founder of Berry’s Solidarity Week, Newsome shares Brown’s hopes for the communal power of the panel. She believes the idea of racial reconciliation through religion is pivotal for pulling together the broken pieces of discriminatory history faced by minorities in America, and putting people together as a

more accepting, open society.

“In this country there has been so much racial brokenness, and it is often overlooked,” Newsome said. “As a Christian it’s my job to reach out and to love. Because regardless of whether or not people’s problems fall within my category, as a Christian it’s my job to make sure that all people are loved, welcomed and accepted.”

Jordan Rowan Fannin, associate professor of religion, is another invited panelist that will be joining tonight’s conversation.

Rowan-Fannin will bring a theological background to Washington the discussion, emphasizing the deep implication of reconciliation in theology. Like Brown, she hopes to help welcome people into a long natured discussion that will continue beyond the night.

“I hope it welcomes all of us into a conversation that we didn’t start,” RowanFannin said. “The question of right relationships for all people is a conversation

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that has been going on since long before we got here. We’re coming to join something that has been going on long before us.”

Another of tonight’s panelists is Chon’tel Washington, the director of Student Diversity Initiative. On the discussion of racial and religious reconciliation, Washington highlights how interconnected the idea of social justice is with Christianity.

“We need to reconcile the way that we view race,” Washington said. “Social justice is very closely woven into the principles of Christianity. If folks who call themselves religious people are not giving the same view of morality to all people, it causes problems.”

The overall mission of the program is to start a conversation. The organizers and participants of the panel share a common wish, that students will continue discussing the matters presented tonight even after they leave the Krannert Ballroom. As Brown understands, the panel is a starting place for many people unfamiliar with this issue, and understanding is the key to changing that.

“Being able to hear and listen, that’s the first step to reconciling,” Brown explained.

“People are going to have preconceived notions about this stuff but once you’re willing to listen and make it understandable, conversations can happen. Change can happen.”

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Dining hall staff adds new vegan/vegetarian station for students

Kelsee Brady staff writer

On Feb. 4, the Dining Hall opened a new vegetarian/vegan station with new sauces, entrées and desserts. After two weeks of operation, the station has received positive feedback.

Fraser Pearson, general manager of Dining Services, has had the vegetarian/ vegan station in the plans for a while.

“We have been talking about this over the last six to eight months. When the interest group asked if they could put up some signage we jumped on the opportunity to gather real Berry-specific interest to maximize satisfaction and success, ” Pearson said.

The station has provided Berry students with new options, and the Vegetarian/Vegan Interest Group has been credited with the momentum to open the station.

“The creation of the Vegetarian/Vegan Interest Group gave us the opportunity to

gather common ideas from a group rather was going to give us a whole station,” Ashton than individuals,” Pearson said. “Once we said. had a good list (of foods) that would satisfy The Vegetarian/Vegan Interest Group the majority, it made sense to create the has also been working on implementing station.” “ M e a t l e s s Pearson is not the Mondays” in the only one excited about Dining Hall. the opportunity of the “Something new Vegetarian/Vegan we’d really like to station. Members of the do is get Meatless Vegetarian/Vegan Interest Monday every Group are overjoyed Monday in the about the new options Dining Hall. One of and optimistic about the main pressing the future of the station. reasons is climate.

Junior Margaret Ashton is Greenhouse gas the founder of the interest emissions have group, and she shared been causing about the process that to climate change to Fraser Pearson the creation of the station. accelerate, (they “Fraser from the are) largely due to dining hall wanted our input because he the animal agriculture industry. There are wanted to make things more inclusive, and actually more emissions associated with so what we did was we gave him a document agriculture than the whole transportation of suggestions. We actually didn’t know he sector.”

We have developed a variety of menu items for the entrée and are working on alternatives for the vegan burger.

While “Meatless Monday” is still a work in progress, the interest group is celebrating their victory of the vegetarian/vegan station.

Dering Morales-Matarrita, a sophomore biochemistry major, has been vegan for nearly four years now, and he discussed his role in the new station.

Morales-Matarrita enjoys being able to eat in the dining hall more often rather than always using his flex bucks.

Overall, Morales-Matarrita feels positively about the changes that the dining hall has made so far.

“I feel happy because I came into D-Hall with a neutral face, and I saw that (station), and I was so happy,” Morales-Matarrita said.

Pearson has plans to keep the vegetarian/ vegan station improving by adding more diversity.

“We have developed a variety of menu items for the entrée and are working on alternatives to the vegan burger. When we return from spring break, we will have some new compound salad options there as well,” Pearson said.

Co-founder of Pixar to give lecture to Berry community next Thursday Michaela Lumpert news editor Claire Voltarel managing editor

On Thursday, Feb. 21, Berry will host Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar Animation studios and former president of Pixar and Walt Disney Studios, as part of the Shatto Lecture Series.

Catmull is set to give his lecture, “What Makes Creative People Tick?” at 8 p.m. in the Cage Center.

Tickets are available through Monday at the Krannert Information Desk and must be picked up in advance. The lecture is a CE credit.

Provost Mary Boyd explained that the process for picking a speaker for the lecture series involves a committee.

“There is an endowed lecture committee, and we solicit suggestions through the committee and more broadly, so anyone can suggest a name,” Boyd said. “We then talk to the committee on who we think would be a good speaker for the campus.”

Throughout the process, Boyd spoke not only with the committee, but also with President Steve Briggs and other members on ideas for future speakers.

Boyd expects that students will be excited to learn more about how Catmull took his degree in physics and computer science and put it toward animation and creating movies that the students recognize and love.

“I think it will be interesting to see how somebody who has a PhD in computer science used it and made these enormous contributions on how they render computer graphics on the screen,” Boyd said. “And how Catmull moved from there into co-founding this really

influential company, Pixar, which changed how we see things.”

She also hopes students will enjoy how he speaks on creativity and how he used it to not only create movies but also inspire creativity in others.

“I think [it will be interesting how] the question of creativity and how we can foster creativity either in ourselves or how to create an environment that supports creativity, and working with people who may come from different backgrounds and perspectives, how that all comes together to produce a really fantastic outcome,” Boyd said.

Tickets will be available for student pick-up until Monday.

“They have to pick them up by Monday because then [the tickets] will become available to the general public,” Boyd said.

On the night of the lecture, students will need to present their tickets at the front doors to the Cage Center and then CE credit ushers will scan them in/out once inside.

Catmull, who retired in 2016, led the studios through animated hits such as “Toy Story,” “Finding Nemo,” “The Incredibles” and “Frozen”. According to the LA Times, his love for Disney began in his childhood hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah, but was not immediately a part of his career. After getting a bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah in math, physics and computer science, he began working at the Boeing Company.

However, Catmull’s path led him to back to Utah to pursue his Ph.D. in computer science, where he pioneered computer animation techniques that led him to an induction into the National Film Registry.

After gaining attention from big name Hollywood filmmaker George Lucas and director Francis Ford Coppola, Catmull was convinced to take a job at their computer company, Lucasfilm. In 1986, Lucasfilm’s digital division, run by Catmull, was bought out by Steve Jobs and transformed into the Pixar we know today.

Since then, with 14 consecutive No. 1 box hits and over 15 Academy Awards, Pixar has dominated the big screen and consumed the lives children and adults alike, and in 2006, Pixar was sold to Disney for $7.4 billion. Catmull also co-authored the book “Creativity Inc.” in 2014, describing his path to success.

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Fawn events around campus Thursday 7:30 p.m.

Friday 7 p.m.

Saturday 9 p.m.

Sunday 7 p.m.

Racial Renconciliation panel in the Interfaith Center.

Mr. Berry Competition in Spruill Ballroom.

KCAB’s movie night featuring “The Incredibles 2” in the Spruill Ballroom.

Audrey Assad Concert in the College Chapel.

11 p.m.- 1 a.m.

Ford’s late night in Ford Gym.

Monday 5 p.m.

Artist talk with Ron Abram in the Moon Gallery, CE credit.

5-7 p.m.

BOLD’s open tower at the BOLD Tower.

Tuesday 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday 6:30 p.m.

African American Read-In in Krannert Underground, CE credit.

“Being Black at Berry” panel sponsored by BSA in Evans auditorium.

Documentary highlights harmful effects of closed GE plant

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In order to promote awareness about the harmful effects of the General Electric plant in Rome, Brian Campbell created a documentary that highlights the dangers that the plant caused to the community. The film works to explain what happened with the plant, how it affected the environment and what is being done to help the environment.

Bri Greyling copy editor Brian Campbell, associate professor of anthropology and environmental studies, co-produced the 2018 Rome International Film Festival Audience Award Winner “To Kingdom Come,” a documentary which highlights a variety of perspectives of the General Electric (GE) plant dumping pollutants in the Rome community.

The film presents the relationship between the Rome community and GE Plant. It is told through different experiences from employees of GE, local riverkeepers and scientific experts, according to Coosa River Basin Initiative (CRBI).

The Etowah River and Oostanaula River form the Coosa River, which flows west into Alabama. GE contaminated the Coosa River with high quantities of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) that were discarded from the GE transformer plant on Redmond Circle.

PCB is a toxic liquid that went into the cooling systems of the medium transformers built at GE from 1953 to 1977, but was later banned by the federal government. GE did not produce PCB but used them in the production of their transformers. However, these harmful chemicals remained in the local landscape for over 40 years after the ban.

PCBs were released from the GE plant and dumped in high quantities into the Rome community, through the Little Dry Creek, Horse Lake Creek and the Coosa River.

“Theoretically, no one except for the employees should be using them.

How much GE did to protect their employees is a little unclear,” Alice

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Suroviec, associate professor of chemistry, said. “How much GE told others about leaks or spills seems pretty clear that they didn’t tell anybody, until they had to.”

While polluting the local rivers, GE also contaminated residential and commercial properties, according to the Rome News Tribune. Ecological effects, toxicity and other health hazards resulted from the chemical, which affects the aquatic food chain as it lies in the river bottom sediment.

GE has not only polluted Rome, but also the Hudson River by discarding millions of pounds of PCBs into the Hudson River from 1946 to 1976, according to the President of Scenic Hudson Ned Sullivan.

Although GE invested nearly $2 billion in dredging efforts to clean the Hudson River, Rome has been left with a toxic legacy without any dredging.

While the three rivers are a huge attraction, kayaking, paddle boarding and swimming, nonprofit CRBI is at a disadvantage when fighting GE for proper river regulation. GE is a powerful company with more lawyers, scientists and researchers, allowing them to influence what they deem an appropriate chemical cleanup process.

“We’re at a competitive disadvantage trying to get what we feel is the best cleanup in place,” CRBI Advocacy and Communication Coordinator Joe Cook said. “What we found is that GE dictated what they were going to cleanup, how they were going to clean up, to what extent they were going to clean it up. In a lot of ways, the state environmental protection division just kind of rubber-stamped GE’s plant.”

Berry’s Environmental Studies Program, CRBI and Georgia Highlands College are co-sponsoring the screening of “To Kingdom Come” at Heritage Hall Centre Stage on Feb. 21, 2019 at 6 p.m. There is no cost for admission but donations are encouraged in support of CRBI and their ongoing work.

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Our View: Consider the economic motives of Valentine’s Day If you ask any realist their thoughts on Believing this decree to be unjust, Valentine Valentine’s Day, you might be met with wed lovers in secret and was in turn, put to an opinion on the greeting card and candy death. Romantic, right? companies being in alliance to market and Another belief of the backstory of sell a packaged, sticker-priced idea of love Valentine was that he was killed while trying that we all willingly buy into. Although that to help Christians escape brutal imprisonment view may be a tad cynical for those with under Roman soldiers. Some suggest that, hopes of roses and chocolates on this day of while imprisoned himself, Valentine fell love, it isn’t exactly wrong. in love with a visitor of his and wrote a Valentine’s Day wasn’t intended to be letter before his death signed “From your celebrated with Valentine.” This is candy-hearts and now seen as one of Our society takes ahold of candle-lit dinners. the first Valentine’s Pope Gelasius holidays, rooted in practical Day greetings. deemed Feb. 14 as As far back and/or religious histories, Valentine’s Day in as the Middle and creates from them a the fifth century, Ages, we can see and the day was not efforts of heartfelt capitalistic opportunity to even associated with expressions of love. increase sales. love until the Middle One of the oldest Ages when England known valentines is and France carried a poem from 1415 the common thought that Feb. 14 was the by Charles, Duke of Orleans. The poem was beginning of mating season for birds. written for his wife while he was imprisoned The Catholic Church recognizes three in the Tower of London after being captured different Valentines, or Valentinus, all of in battle. whom were murdered. One in particular is How did the remembrance of a martyr like believed to have been a priest in third century Saint Valentine and epic love poems penned Rome under the rule of Emperor Claudius from a tower become misconstrued as II who outlawed marriage in the belief reasoning for a national frenzy of commercial that unmarried men made better warriors. spending?

According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), Americans are expected to spend a record setting $20.7 billion in the name of love this year, percent more than last year, despite years of decrease in national participation in the holiday. Fifty-two percent of people between the ages of 25 and 34 will participate in Valentine’s Day spending, and 53 percent between the ages of 18 and 24 will take part in Valentine’s spending, according to the NRF. An overwhelming critique to Valentine’s Day is the claim that you don’t need one day out of the year to show your love for those around you, you should be doing so all year round. This is a valid point. However, we still do it. Every. Single. Year. If we are the autonomous beings we claim to be, why is it that we commit to spending such a large sum of money every year?

It’s not just Valentine’s Day, either.

This conversation arises at every holiday: Christmas overwhelmingly, but also Halloween, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, and so on. Our capitalistic society takes ahold of holidays, rooted in practical and/or religious histories, and creates from them a capitalistic opportunity to increase sales.

We are aware of this through editorials, written much like this one, sales reports, and everyday conversations, yet somehow, we

still participate.

Considering the implication of monetary expressions of love, the moral debate arises of whether or not to partake in such a holiday.

On one hand, to do so, to go out and buy flowers, chocolates and a fancy meal, is to contribute to the idea of commercialized love and affection. However, on the other hand, to stand strong in your efforts to fight against the Hallmark holiday and choose not to celebrate can gain you some social scrutiny.

It’s hard to live up to the expectations set

by Valentine’s greats such as King Henry V, who hired a writer to compose a Valentine’s love letter to Catherine of Valois. And, unless you too have been captured in battle and are writing from a tower, the drama of love may not be adequately conveyed through a festive Hallmark card. So, don’t put that pressure on yourself.

Whether you will be contributing to the millions of dollars our nation will spend this year, or going for a more low-key approach to Valentine’s Day, just make sure to do so in sincerity. Don’t let capitalistic America strip you of your authentic love and money.

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College education is worth the cost BRI GREYLING copy editor As tuition increases at a crippling rate across the country, questions about the value of a bachelor’s degree arise. With the cost of tuition in mind, what exactly am I getting for all this money? A piece of paper at graduation and student loans?

In the United States alone, there are more than 44 million students that owe a total of $1.5 trillion in student loan debt, according to Forbes. The average student in 2016 left college with $37,172 in student loans.

California, Florida, Texas and New York uphold more than 20 percent of all students with college debt. Georgia ranks at number five with a balance of $54 billion dollars of debt from 1.5 million students, according

to Forbes.

Although these statistics may be overwhelming, tackling student debt successfully is possible. Berry graduates get a grace period of six months after graduation before paying student loans. The key is to understand your loans and continue to live a college lifestyle for a few years. Stick to a manageable budget that will tackle the debt and allow your credit to increase.

The privileges of a college education are clearer for students who come from families with privileged backgrounds in education. But for students of less privileged families, the advantage for college graduates can be unclear.

While the costs are high

for college, the benefits of graduating with a bachelor’s degree are higher. The benefits include an increased salary potential, lower risk of unemployment, increased job expectations, career satisfaction and investments for the future.

The average income for individuals with a bachelor’s degree at 25-years-old is $65,482, while individuals with a high school diploma received $35,614, according to the U.S. Census Bureau in 2015. That is almost double the salary per year, not considering potential bonuses and advancements in a career.

According to a Georgetown University study that evaluated the economic value of college majors, college graduates have

$1 million more in earnings than high school graduates in a lifetime. There is also a $3.4 million difference in earnings between the highest-and-lowest paying college majors.

Health insurance and retirement plans are more likely to be obtained by undergraduates.

College graduates are more likely to have children that are healthier and more prepared for school.

High school students need to know the job market, salary outcomes and programs available for college education that will prepare them for the future.

In moments of scholastic stress, I am encouraged that one day I will look back and all of the hard work will have paid off.

“Happily ever after” isn’t just for kids ALANA GEORGE asst. arts & living editor The illustrious C.S. Lewis dedicated the second book of his “Chronicles of Narnia” series, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, to his goddaughter Lucy Barfield.

In the dedication, he laments that when he started to write the book, she was a child, and he “had not realized that girls grow quicker than books.” He continues, “As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it.” The fairy tales in question, Lewis’ world-famous Narnia books, are my all-time favorites.

When I was very young, my aunt bought me all seven books bound in leather with gold-leaf lettering on the covers. Maybe that is part of the reason why I read them in the first place. Narnia was the first series I ever read all the way through as a child, and the only series I have ever re-read more than once (I’m on my fourth time through, if I remember correctly). Those books never fail to show me something new, whether it’s a characteristic of God (Aslan) that I had never known before, or a new issue presented that I had never considered to ponder. Along with this element of newness, there is always a sense of comfort present when I open one of those leather-bound covers. It always feels like coming home.

When children become preteens and teens, they tend to shun anything their peers might consider baby-ish or childish. They want and need to prove to their peer group that they are excited to grow up and make an impact in the world. Whether it’s a good intention or a bad one at that age is still up for debate. No matter what the intention, the levity and imagination of childhood seems to vanish in this trying time of life.

Play moves from the backyard or playroom to the game console, teens never grab a sticker at the doctor’s office, and they always search for ways to prove their parents wrong while severely testing the patience of said parents. This is also the age when a bad friend group or “cool” new trend can lead innocent kids off the deep end; these transitioning caterpillars in cocoons just want to fit in, and they will do whatever is necessary to accomplish that goal.

Once this transitional stage is over, around age 17 or 18, most high school seniors and college freshmen start to mellow out. They have tried all the rebellious things and found them to not be worthwhile. This is the point at which they start to search for something solid, something familiar they can cling to now that they have tried everything else. Ironically enough, this is exactly what happened to a young atheist named C.S. Lewis. As an egotistical young scholar, he tried every single world religion

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you can think of in a fruitless search for truth, until he finally found what his soul was longing for in the pages of the Bible.

In the same way, growing kids desperately search for something to fill their souls, going through different phases and falling in love with a different boy band every week, never finding rest.

This is where the fairy tales come in.

Whether they are a true story (like the Christian story) or not, fairy tales give us a sense of order in our world. They are fairly predictable: good fights evil, and the good always triumphs.

Even if these stories don’t challenge us intellectually, they can still make us feel good inside when we need a dose of happiness in our day. That’s why I love the Narnia series. It appeals to the child in me with the predictable good-defeats-evil storyline, but the stories are based on Christian truths, and I can study them as a Christian and find things that I maybe had never thought of before. If that sort of thing does not appeal to you, any of the Grimm brothers’ tales or anything by Hans Christian Andersen would serve the same purpose.

I think this is what C.S. Lewis meant when he said that we will all be old enough to read fairy tales again: we need to separate from childish habits as we learn to be adults in the real world, but the stories will always be there to welcome us home.

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Campus Romance: Married Facult

Lindsey and Derek Taylor

Dean of Students Lindsey Taylor and Interim Director of Athletics Derek Taylor married in 2007.

After meeting at the University of Mississippi as graduate students in 2003, the couple dated for three and a half years before marrying at Frost Chapel.

Because they were both hall directors at the university, Lindsey said her friends would tease her about him.

She said that her friends believed he was the man she was going to marry.

“I knew about him but he didn’t know about me,” she said. “Of course, I had already known people there so they were giving me a hard time. They would say, ‘this is your husband.’ So, for me, it was mortifying. This guy didn’t know who I was.”

She said that once, they went on a work retreat and their mutual friends tried to set them up. She said that they would often be left alone and this caused them to be partners for the daily activities.

“When we split up for car rides, they divided up so me and Derek had to ride in the same car,” Lindsey said. “The driver of the car was asking questions to try and connect us.”

She said she is unable to give a concrete date on when they started dating but she knew that the more time she spent with him, the more she liked him.

“I couldn’t say when we actually started dating,” she said. “There was nothing really formal about it. It just kind of happened.”

After the retreat, she said that at the beginning, their relationship was built on instances that involved spending their free time together and going to restaurants.

After college, Lindsey accepted a job at Berry as the area coordinator while Derek moved back to Missouri to work at Westminster College. After a one year long-distance relationship, Lindsey said Derek quit his job and moved to Georgia to be with her in

the summer of 2006. They got engaged a few months later.

“We got married in January,” she said. “We lived in Centennial. I used to get emails from students saying someone was breaking visitation. I was like, ‘yeah, we’re married, I can’t get him to go away.’ It was really funny. We spent our first three years of our married life in Centennial hall with students.”

As professionals that have both worked at Berry College for over ten years, she said that their entire relationship has often involved working together.

“I think we are really good at being professionals,” Lindsey said. “Even in graduate school, we worked together so we have had to be real intentional about how we act in the workplace. It has been a part of our relationship.”

The Taylors have been married for 12 year and they have two children, six-year-old Ryan and nineyear-old Afton, who attend the Berry Elementary School. She said that she and Derek, once they get home, have another job to do: raise their kids.

“Being mindful that our family comes first, our boys,” Lindsey said. “Whatever is going on at work, they do not need to feel it. Our family is first.”

Jill and Zane Cochran

Jill Cochran, chair of math and computer science and associate professor of math education, and Zane Cochran, clinical instructor of creative technologies, have been together since meeting in high school in the Houston, Texas, area.

“We’ve known each other since high school,” Jill said. “I moved to the Houston area and that’s where he lived. I was a junior and he was a senior. We’ve been through several graduate and undergraduate degrees together, and we just passed our fifteenth anniversary. We knew each other five years before we got married.”

Their relationship began when Zane asked Jill to their high school homecoming dance.

“I tortured her a bit,” Zane said. “Every day for a week, Jill got a new clue. She knew she was getting asked out, but she didn’t know who it was coming from.”

“On the first day, it was balloons and flowers and the clue was ‘go,’” Jill said. “The next day was a pumpkin that had a stencil homecoming thing on it, and the clue was ‘home.’ The third day was a roll of toilet paper, and he had written stuff on every square of toilet paper all the way through. So I’m in the middle of class unrolling it and there was toilet paper everywhere. That was ‘and.’ The next day was a live lobster. I got a shoe box and opened it up and there was this live lobster, so that was one where I actually called my mom and said ‘you have to come get this, I can’t carry this around school all day.’ I think that clue was ‘play.’ So it was ‘go home and play.’ On the last day,

ty Share Their Love Stories instructed Jill to go to a park that evening.

“The idea was that she had to go to a park and there she would discover who had been asking her out all this time,” Zane said. “She went to the park, and I had my friend there, with flowers, begin to start asking her out. While that was happening, me and my other friend came up behind her and put her in a body bag and threw her in the back of a car while inside the body bag, and drove around the neighborhood for several minutes. At some point we finally went back to her parents’ house and dumped her out in the driveway. And then me and a big group of friends, we were in an acapella singing group, and we sang a song to her and I asked her out.”

That is how it all began.

After high school, Zane and Jill fell out of touch while she went to college and he went on a 2-year mission to Hungary. However, they got back in contact after Jill sent Zane a fake wedding invitation.

“He kept making all of these comments before he left about how all of the girls were going to be married by the time he got home,” Jill said. “When he had been gone a year, I got a good friend of mine from college to take pictures with me and we dressed up in hawaiian shirts and took pictures. We made this fake wedding announcement and I sent it to him.

Of course, on the back, I wrote this really big ‘just kidding.’”

“I genuinely thought she was engaged to this goofy looking guy,” Zane said. “I thought, ‘who is this guy? That’s not the right guy for her!’”

When Zane returned to the U.S., they started dating and eventually got married in 2004. They have always been in school during different times while pursuing their various degrees.

“Of the 15 years that we have been married, there has not been one of them that neither of us were in school,” Jill said.

However, during their time together working at Berry, the Cochrans have enjoyed having a similar schedule and being able to collaborate on work together. They have even gotten the chance to lead study abroad trips to Norway together, bringing students who are interested in both of their fields of study: education and technology.

The Cochrans look forward to what the future holds together as they continue to raise their 11-yearold son, Asher.

Jordan Rowan and Coleman Fannin

Before working at Berry College, Assistant Professor of Religion Jordan Rowan Fannin and Adjunct Religion Professor Coleman Fannin traveled to states such as Texas, Ohio, Washington D.C. and Virginia for educational and professional purposes.

They first met at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Jordan said that she first saw Coleman at an interfaith retreat.

“I remember being distracted,” Jordan said. “I

was talking with somebody else and I was distracted by the cute boy across the table.”

However, they met again in a Jewish philosophy class when Jordan was an undergraduate senior and Coleman was mentoring under the professor. She said that the first day of class she saw him across the room and on the second day, she moved closer to him to sit by a friend.

“We got to know each other as friends first,” she said. “We studied together, had a group of mutual friends and even gave blood together.”

Coleman said that the majority of their relationship at Baylor involved studying and spending time in the library. However, at the end of the 2003 semester, Jordan graduated and accepted a job in Washington D.C., while Coleman finished his Master’s degree at Baylor.

After a year and a half long-distance relationship, he joined her in D.C., where they got engaged. A few months later, Coleman left to start his Ph.D. program in Ohio. He said that during this time, they planned the wedding while separated until she moved to Ohio.

“We were finally together,” Coleman said. “We were apart for a lot of our dating time.”

Jordan said that their relationship has involved each allowing the other to pursue their passions. Goals such as higher education and internships were made possible through the understanding of each partner, Jordan said.

“Our version of romance is the moves and the being apart so that we could do what we needed and wanted to do,” Jordan said.

Moving to Berry in 2017, they both began working in the same department. Coleman said that working together allows the couple to understand each other more.

“You understand the life of an academic,” Coleman said. “You understand why your spouse needs to have time to do certain things, what the rhythms of that life is like, what grading is like, teaching is like. It helps to understand each other’s needs for their job.”

Married for approximately 14 years, Jordan and Coleman have two children, nine-year-old Cora and six-year-old Hutch, who both attend Berry Elementary school.

Elisabeth Martin features editor Jamison Guice asst. features editor

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States of interest: students discuss their hometowns Alana George asst. arts & living editor Who does not like to talk about their hometown? And who has ever had a conversation in which a restaurant or store is brought up, and the other person has no idea what the place is? This happens often among college students, and is very likely to happen among students here at Berry. Many Berry

students are not from Georgia. In fact, 32 percent of the total population of Berry consists of out-of-state or international students. With so many students from different places, there are many different sub-cultures and traditions represented among Berry students. In order to get a taste of the various areas of the world represented in the student population, students from different years submitted their stories. Each one represents the habits and traditions the students enjoyed before they came to Berry, and continue to practice on every

trip home. One common theme among students, no matter where they came from, was that they missed the food of their hometown. Many of them, of course, miss their families.

But each response was unique, and gave a glimpse into the lives of these students, the little things they miss about their hometowns, and what they have found different about the culture of Georgia. The students’ hometowns are compiled here in a map to show where each student calls home in the United States.

Daysi Casabona Rivas (sophomore) – Hayward, California Casabona Rivas misses her mom’s cooking and the convenience of public transportation, as well as the fact that everything is within walking distance at home. She has noticed many cultural differences and diversity during her time at Berry, and she loves the deer and other outdoor aspects of campus.

Tiana Arriaga (sophomore) – Los Angeles, California Arriaga misses the authentic Mexican food of her hometown, as well as all the friends and family she left behind. She loves that Georgia has Cookout, which she called life-changing, and she loves the lower gas prices here. She also appreciates the many trees and higher air quality of the South.

William Knowlton (senior) – Eugene, Oregon Knowlton misses the easy access to public transportation and the ability to ride his bike almost anywhere, as well as not having to pump his own gas. In Georgia, he has noticed a change in architecture from mostly wood structures to many more brick ones, and the people in Georgia are very friendly and helpful. He also noticed that many people in Georgia drive big trucks.

Hannah Brunner (sophomore) – Danville, Kentucky Brunner has found it hard being five hours away from her nuclear family, and she misses their home-grown eating lifestyle. She loves sweet potatoes, and she can’t get them all the time on campus. She loves the environment here in Georgia; the mountains and the clean air remind her of home.

Alyssa Fowler (junior) – Dallas, Texas Fowler misses the bluebonnets and sunsets of Texas, as well as the unique culture of Dallas.

Before coming to Berry, she had never eaten collard greens, and now she thoroughly enjoys them.

She also loves the foothills and the wildlife here at Berry.

Ashley Beaubouef (junior) – New Orleans, Louisiana Beaubouef misses the unique, laissez-faire culture of the city, as well as having beignets with her parents and going people-watching. Being in Georgia made her realize that Southern belles are real and very important to Georgia culture. “Louisiana is a really poor state, so it really doesn’t matter where you go,” Beaubouef said. “We’re just swamp people.”

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Chelsea Mazies (sophomore) – Chicago, Illinois Mazies misses the pizza and Italian beef found so easily in her hometown, but she says that the weather here makes up for it. She loves Georgia sunrises and sunsets, as well as the kindness and politeness of the Georgia locals.

Julia Oliveira (freshman, not mapped) - Curitiba, Paranà, Brazil Oliveira misses the fresh fruits and vegetables that are readily available in her home country, and she misses the cultural emphasis on family, as well as the loud personalities of the people. In the South, she has found a similar welcoming culture to the one she came from, except that Americans are more punctual, ambitious and polite.

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Berry students and professors help Rome’s E.C.O. Center educate the community about local wildlife February 14 - 15

Valentine’s Day Dinner

• 6:00 p.m.

• Courtyard Rome Riverwalk For $25 to $35 per person for dinner, Hawthorn Suites will provide a three-course Valentine’s Day meal.

Reservations can be made at opentable.com/r/thebistro-courtyard-romeriverwalk-rome.

Caroline Jennings | CAMPUS CARRIER This green anole (left) and gray rat snake (right) are just two of the many reptiles and other animals cared for at Rome’s E.C.O. Center. The Center works to conserve wildlife and educate the Rome community about caring for its environment through various programs.

Alex Hodges arts & living editor The Rome-Floyd E.C.O. (Etowah, Coosa, Oostanaula) Center was originally opened in 1893 as a freshwater pumping station for the city of Rome. Located within Ridge Ferry Park, it transported water from the Oostanaula River to the filtration complex atop Jackson Hill, across the road.

As a part of the 2006 SPLOST (Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax) package, renovations were made to the E.C.O. Center in accordance with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards, which encouraged sustainable design and environmental performance of the building. Doors were opened to the public in 2011.

The Center has many educational programs for students from pre-K to college level, and they do classes for adults, striving to be an asset to Rome through family events, local speakers and other programs.

Ben Winkelman, director of the E.C.O. Center, started his job with the Department of National Resources (DNR) in Rome in 2012, and was a wildlife technician and conservation officer prior to his position as director.

“Before you can manage wildlife, you must first manage people,” Winkelman said.

Winkelman focuses much of his attention on the educational programs for community members and students, of which they see 10,000 to 12,000 annually.

“We try to educate people in Rome about taking care of their environment,” Winkelman said.

The E.C.O. Center has ties to Berry, as well. Winkelman said that they have had professors come from Berry to do informational sessions. Renée Carleton, associate professor of biology, has spoken at the E.C.O. Center about various birds and Berry’s eagles. Associate Professor of Geology Tamie Jovanelly has also done talks at the Center.

Students also have the opportunity work for the Center and learn about conservation efforts as well as native wildlife.

According to Winkelman, there are several Berry students involved at the Center.

One of those students is Natalie Bailey, a junior biology major. She found out about the E.C.O. Center through a Year of Service project last year, and beginning in May, she started a summer internship at the Center. She has been working there with other students since.

Bailey said that, for younger students, they have more traditional educational programs where they sit down and teach them, but they also have more fun alternatives, such as playing games and bringing animals out to have a hands-on learning experience.

Bailey also spends time at the E.C.O. Center learning things that coincide with her biology major.

“We get a lot of practice with animal husbandry,” Bailey said. “We also help make new exhibits about them and their habitats.”

According to Bailey, their next project is to pull plastic out of the river and, using what they retrieve, build a display about the harm caused by river pollution.

PLAYLIST:

Almost, Maine

• 8:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday • 2:30 p.m. Sunday • Historic DeSoto Theatre Rome Little Theatre will put on their production of “Almost, Maine” for this weekend. Tickets are $16 for adults, $14 for seniors and students and $12 for children 10 years of age or younger.

February 16

Chunky Knit Blanket Workshop

• 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

• AR Workshop Rome The AR Workshop of Rome is providing materials and a step-by-step tutorial for knitting a 40 x 50 in. blanket. Cost for the class is $85 (materials included).

February 16

Love Stinks PLAY

February 15 - 17

Farmer’s Market

12 songs, 44 min

TITLE

ARTIST

Love Stinks

The J. Geils Band

I Want You

Elvis Costello

Via Chicago

Wilco

End of the Season

The Kinks

Love Hurts

Nazareth

Guess I’m Doing Fine

Beck

Drown In My Own Tears

Ray Charles

Here Today - Remastered

The Beach Boys

For No One - Remastered

The Beatles

Love Is A Losing Game

Amy Winehouse

Good to Me as I Am to You

Aretha Franklin

Kevin’s Pick: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Neil Sedaka

• 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

• Ridge Ferry Park Vendors set up to sell locally grown produce, flowers, baked goods, canned goods, herbs and crafts.

February 18

Hearts In A Square

• 6:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

• Bartow County Senior Center This Valentine’s Day themed evening of square dancing includes an hour-long class to learn the dance, followed by refreshments, live music and finger foods. The cost is $5.

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SPORTS Music brings game mentality and high energy to athletes

Each sport has created playlists that are used throughout practices and time in the weight room. Music is beneficial to athletes both on and off the field or court. The distraction caused by the music allows athletes to enhance their physical performance.

Hannah Carroll staff writer Playing music while working out is a regular scenario for athletes and frequent visitors to the gym. If music is not streaming through personal earphones then it can often be heard through the gym’s sound system. For the athletes of Berry College, this is a standard expectation during practices and team work out sessions.

Each sport has created playlists that are used throughout practices and time in the weight room. The music played is not arbitrary, but instead cultivated to achieve specific purposes in various situations.

Rap and hip hop music are favorites Justin to be featured on playlists, according to senior safety Justen Booket, who has made practice and workout playlists for Berry’s football team. The upbeat tempos and rhythm serve to keep the energy level high and players motivated as they are active in the gym. It also increases the quality of the work out as athletes are less aware of their exertion and are able to push themselves farther, according to Booket.

This is a common concept many are familiar with, but it also has scientific reasoning. Fast-paced music aids in making athletes less bodily aware and not fully conscious of the fatigue and pain in their muscles, according to The Guardian, allowing participants to increase their workload. This occurs due to sensory stimulus, in which the brain has to process a large amount of information and cannot register the entire strain being felt by the body. The more up-beat the music, the more distracted a player can become.

This distraction caused by the music allows athletes to enhance their physical performance. Music featuring fast beats increased output by 15 percent, according to the National Center for Health Research.

Because the music makes players less focused on the pain of their body and more on what they are doing, they are able to perform longer than if they were to work out without music.

Booket Playlists can maintain high energy, but sometimes it’s also about maintaining high spirits. The music played during football practices is tailored more to the preferences of players and is meant to keep the environment relaxed, according to Booket.

The selection will still feature songs from the hip-hop genre, but it will also include various music that is enjoyed by different players, such as country, old school and rock.

It’s hard not to have fun while listening to music.

“It’s hard to not have fun while listening to music,” Booket said.

The less intense music allows the student athletes to become more resilient as well as remind them to fully enjoy the practices. Listening to music is a privilege, according to Booket, and aids in keeping players focused on their improvements rather than their mistakes.

The same concept can be seen across other sports, such as baseball. According to junior first baseman Tyler Calvert, who has been making playlists for Berry’s baseball team since his freshman year, the playlists for practices are seen as enjoyable background music.

The music featured is meant to be entertaining for his teammates as well as keep them motivated during their threeto four-hour practices. The assortment of songs is much more laid back in comparison to the playlists used for workouts, according to Calvert.

Music is beneficial even when the athletes are not in competition or on the field or court. The pregame playlist for baseball consists of dubstep remixes that are meant to energize and hype up the players before they step onto the field to play, according to Calvert. Walk-up songs are also a means to express the individuality of the players and give viewers a chance to see their personalities.

“Some people like to be hyped up, some like to be funny and carefree with it, it just varies person to person,” Calvert said.

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Braves baseball in Rome for at least seven more years

Joshua Mabry sports editor

The Atlanta Braves and Floyd County officials met on Feb. 7 to approve a five-year lease extension for the Rome Braves. This will keep the Single-A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves at State Mutual Stadium in Rome through at least the 2025 season, according to Jim Bishop, vice president and general manager of the Rome Braves.

The original 18-year lease that brought the team to Rome from Macon runs through the 2020 season. Bishop said that with the next two seasons on the original contract and the lease extension, minor league baseball will be played in Rome for at least the next seven years.

Past this, there is a possible five-year extension option that will keep the Rome Braves in Rome through the 2030 season if it is picked up by the Atlanta Braves and the county once the 2025 season is over.

Bishop, who has been in the Braves organization since 1992, has been the vice president and general manager of the Rome Braves since October 2017. He said that he is very excited about the lease extension.

“Rome is Braves country and our fan base is phenomenal here,” Bishop said. “The facility is beautiful and a great place for players to develop.”

The fan base in Rome is really special, according to Bishop. The fans in Rome enjoy talking about statistics and care a lot about the players, he said.

“Being in a community that is passionate about the club and the ballpark is awesome,” Bishop said.

Bishop said something he is looking forward to with the new contract extension is renovations to the ballpark.

Currently, there are some minor changes happening in preparation for Opening Day this year, but major renovations are scheduled ahead of the 2020 season that will enhance the fan experience, according to Bishop.

The renovations scheduled ahead of the 2020 season will be funded in part through the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) that Floyd County voters approved in November 2017. The Braves said that they will match funds provided through the SPLOST to provide additional renovations.

Bishop said that he would like to see more development around the ballpark in the years to come as a result of the contract extension He said that development is only beneficial for the ballpark.

“We will be good stewards with those folks and we will feed into each other,” Bishop said. “New development and growth around the ballpark will only help the team

Joshua Mabry | CAMPUS CARRIER State Mutual Stadium is the home of the Rome Braves. The Atlanta Braves and Floyd County recently agreed to a contract extension that will keep the Rome Braves here through at least the 2025 season. and the stadium continue to develop.”

Lumina Coffee Co. and the RiverPoint Luxury Apartments are the two most recent additions to the ballpark area.

Scotty Hancock, post five Floyd County commissioner, said that the contract extension between the Braves and Floyd County is only valuable for the community.

“The Rome Braves help stimulate the economy by bringing out of town visitors to the stadium to watch the games,” Hancock said. “It also helps improve the quality of life, which is important to industrial recruitment.”

Like Bishop, Hancock said that he would like to see development continue around the stadium as well.

Hancock said that he would specifically like to see a hotel around the ballpark because there is a hotel shortage in Rome. A new hotel would be beneficial for more than just the stadium, according to Hancock.

“We need a quality hotel that would benefit visitors to Berry College as well as the rest of our community,” Hancock said.

Hancock said that he would also like to see additional college and high school tournaments take place at the stadium.

“These are huge draws to our community,”

Hancock said. “We’ve hosted several high school state playoffs and championships at the stadium and they always draw a good crowd.”

Hancock said that Rome is privileged to have the Braves because they are a class act. He said that the Braves give people something to do for a cheap price.

“While you are there you can watch quality baseball with future major leaguers playing,” Hancock said.

Blake Childers, director of sports information and promotions at Berry, worked for the Rome Braves in the press box when he was a student at Berry.

He said that he is really excited about the contract extension for both the Braves’ sake and personal reasons.

There being two colleges in Rome and a ton of local support make it a no brainer for both the Braves and county to extend their contract.

Childers said that he always had families tell him when he worked for the Rome Braves that they would prefer to bring their family to the Rome Braves over the Atlanta Braves.

“You pay less; you don’t have to deal with traffic and you get great baseball,” Childers

said.

Childers is looking forward to seeing what the Rome Braves do off the field as a result of the contract extension.

“Everybody knows that the Braves have a great farm system,” Childers said. “There’s going to be great baseball played there. But I’m really excited to see what they’re going to do in Rome in general to help make the community better.”

The Miracle Field, a field made of latexfree rubber for special needs individuals, was added during Childers’ time with the Braves.

He said this was amazing because it allows the community to interact with baseball.

“It gives those guys who are first-round draft picks in Major League Baseball, when they get to their first stop in Rome, people get to interact with them in a different way,” Childers said.

The Rome Braves will begin their seventeenth season on the road on April 4 against the Kannapolis Intimidators, Single-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox. The team will start the home season on April 11 against the Greenville Drive, Single-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox. First pitch will be at 7 p.m.

Upcoming Events in Sports Friday, Feb. 15 Baseball

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Saturday, Feb. 16 Baseball

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The HeART Project Artwork was installed on the side of the Third Avenue parking deck in downtown Rome. The project was organized by the Rome Area Council for the Arts and Redmond Regional Medical Center to encourage creating artworks interpreting what heart health means. Local artists, art classes, businesses, nonprofits and community groups were all featured in the collection, putting their spin of what heart health means to them.

Ethan Barker | CAMPUS CARRIER