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PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE SPIRES AT BERRY COLLEGE This rendering depicts the structure of Spires apartments located on Eagle Lake. The Spires at Berry College will sit on 48 acres total and is located behind Morgan and Deerfield Halls. A gate and a barrier of trees will separate the community from main campus.
The Spires ready to break ground this October Claire Voltarel news editor
Last week The Spires at Berry College, a continuing care retirement community, met its goal in securing 120 deposits on units to house future residents and is now set to break ground this October. As the project progresses, many are excited about the opportunities it will provide its future residents, as well as Berry students and faculty. A continuing care retirement community provides a variety of housing options, services, amenities and activities geared towards active, independent adults over the age of 55 who are seeking a more vibrant and enriched lifestyle, according to Morgan Lamphere, vice president of marketing for The Spires. Former Chief of Staff and current liaison between The Spires and Berry, Gary Waters, said the discussion of this community has been in the works for years and is finally coming to fruition to really help this unique group of individuals. “Every person who is moving into Spires has a really interesting life story,” Waters said. “They are coming here because they still have the zest for life and want to be around a vibrant, dynamic,
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energetic population.” Located by Eagle Lake, a half of a mile behind Morgan and Deerfield Halls and a barrier of trees, the gated Spires community will provide a full-service community to residents. These services include a variety of eating, grooming, outdoor activity and healthcare options. Everything from gourmet dining and a full-service spa to memory care and a comprehensive wellness center are available to all residents. While these services and amenities are great options for residents, Lamphere says future members are typically most excited about the natural opportunities unique to Berry. “Many of our residents have just been introduced to Berry and are so excited about what a special place it is,” Lamphere said. “They’re really excited to hike and run and bike and just enjoy the beauty of Berry College.” Residents will also be able to take advantage of mentorship programs and senior scholar programs, and Lamphere said that they are discussing the potential of auditing classes for the community as well. According to student marketing intern, junior Jeb Blount, future residents are coming from as far as
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California or Maine to be a part of The Spires community. Lamphere added that only about 20 out of their future 120 residents are Berry alumni or affiliated with Berry in some capacity. The rest come from a variety of backgrounds but share a common interest in pursuing a more active and dynamic lifestyle while continuing to work or participate in programs and hobbies. “They are eclectic, intelligent, vastly motivated and they just want to take their quiet life to something more exciting,” Blount said. Lamphere said that this project is the first continuing care retirement community in northwest Georgia and the first to be built on a college campus. Because of this location, The Spires hopes to cultivate a healthy, symbiotic relationship that provides a multitude of benefits for the both residents and Berry members. “It is in no way meant to be a way to compete with students, but in a way to help mentor and support residents,” Lamphere said. According to Lamphere and Blount, The Spires hopes to provide growth within the Berry community without compromising either group’s opportunities. “They want to be extremely involved in all facets of our campus,” Blount said. “However
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they do not want to be a disruption.” Lamphere and Waters said the Spires will provide 50 to 100 jobs for students, in a variety of areas such as nursing, landscaping, hospitality management, marketing, physical training and IT. “That was one of the first reasons that The Spires was thought of,” Lamphere said. “It could be a really wonderful place of employment.” They both see the Spires as a way to further Berry’s student work program in giving students meaningful practice and experience in their field of study before graduating. “There are going to be so many interesting scenarios at The Spires,” Waters said. “If you look at this as a creative opportunity to provide students with experiences that they cannot get in a classroom, but still tie back to why they are at Berry, the sky is unlimited.” Student work at The Spires will also allow on-campus student payroll to allocate some its work to Spires staff. Aside from student involvement through employment, there are no connections between students and the Spires community, despite past rumors. “It has a wholly separate governing and financial structure in place,” Waters said. “No student
tuition dollars will be applied to The Spires.” Lamphere states that Berry is leasing the land to The Spires, which is their only economic relationship. All funds come from the organization alone. Additionally, The Spires is not a Berry alumni project, but a nonprofit community funded by a bond issue the organization has raised. Overall, Waters stated that there is an absolute separation between The Spires and Berry communities, but a mutually beneficial relationship is inevitable. “I want people to recognize how the Spires is going to enrich Berry and the Rome community,” Waters said. According to Waters. The mentoring, leadership and coaching opportunities that the residents can provide students is invaluable. In return, the residents will be impacted as well. “Particularly at a place like Berry where we have such caring students, it’s so deeply meaningful how they are going to help enrich the lives of the Spires residents,” Waters said. The first residents are planned to move into The Spires in the summer of 2020. Keep up to date on construction and residents of the
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NEWS New post office system increases efficiency Michaela Lumpert deputy news editor This summer, the Berry post office transitioned into a new system of checking in packages and distributing them to students and faculty after outgrowing their last one. Before their new system, the post office was working with a system that Tammi Freeman, manager of the post office, created with the help of BITS and some of their students. This system worked well until Freeman began to notice a gradual increase in the volume of packages each year. “Last fiscal year, we checked in 67,282 packages,” Freeman said. Because of this increase, a new system was needed. In March, Freeman began researching a new system that would replace the old and create a more efficient system for the office. Eventually she found the company SCLogic, and started looking into their system by traveling around to nearby schools that were currently using their product. “I wanted to initially talk to someone who actually used the product before I talked to a sales person, so I could get a feel for the product,” Freeman said. “I was very impressed by what I saw,.” After some consideration, Freeman decided it was time to switch. “I gave them a very detailed list of system requirements that we needed [the new system] to do,” Freeman said. She had to make sure that this system would support Berry’s growing post office traffic. Because of budget reasons, the project had been put on hold until the chief information officer realized that the need to switch was becoming more and more
apparent every day. “We began to have new error messages every single day, different than ones from the previous day,” Freeman said. “There was a lot of down time and having to call the help desk to get someone to find the link that was broken. And when there’s down time, we’re delayed in getting packages checked in for the Berry community.” The contract for the new system was signed in May, and the transition began. From May to August, all the work was behind the scenes, working specifically with the new program. On Monday August 6, the program went live. About two weeks before school started, SCLogic sent a worker to train some of the post office staff in the new program. A lot of the new perks of the system are behind the scenes in the computer and in the process of checking in packages. With the old system, packages got checked in at one station and the process of checking them in took longer because the student worker had to answer and check a lot of individual questions and field boxes. With the new system, there are only three steps to checking in a package. First, the student worker scans the tracking barcode. They then type in the name of the package recipient in a search box. Once they have found the name of the recipient in the system, they click submit, and a label is printed to go on the package. Another perk of the system is the new process of sending notification emails. “With the old system, there was literally 2 pages of instructions that you had to follow, step-by-step. Now you can basically highlight the packages you want to send an email for, change the status and hit update,” Freeman said. It reduces the time it takes for a package to be processed in the mail room and the notification email sent to the recipient.
The new system was also very easy to teach to student workers. Freeman explained that students learned the new system quickly and were comfortable using the system. Junior Tanayja Warren, who works in the post office, enjoys the simplicity of the system. “It’s so much simpler, we don’t have to worry about anything,” Warren said. The major change for students and faculty is how they pick up their packages. “We used to have to look for the email and find that long package ID, and now it’s as simple as students handing us their ID, swiping it and scanning their package,”
senior Simone Berry said. She works in the post office and enjoys the ease of the new system. So far, there have only been a few bugs with the system. Freeman said that the problems they are having aren’t too serious, and with some work with the company SCLogic, the problems should soon be fixed. But overall, the new system is working smoothly. In the first two weeks of school, 7,612 packages were checked in and distributed to the Berry community. “[The new system] has greatly increased our productivity,” Freeman said. “I can’t tell you how happy I am.”
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Fawn events around campus Thursday 7:30 p.m. Conson Wilson Lecture: David Isay, author of the book Callings in the Cage Center Arena
Friday 8 a.m. Health and Wellness Expo in Krannert Spruill Ballroom
Friday 5-8 p.m. Mountain bike trip to the clay mines and Possum Trot, meet in Old Mill parking lot
Friday and Saturday KCAB’s Night Out in Rome. Stop by the Campus Info Desk to pick up Sweet Frog Vouchers, Rome Braves tickets and other event tickets
Saturday 7 a.m. Fall Farmers Market in Clara Bowl featuring the Berry Enterprises
Saturday 9 p.m. KCAB’s Karaoke night in Krannert Underground
Group fitness classes are now in full swing. Check out the full schedule of classes at the Cage front desk.
Berry police alert community of reported sexual assault Annie Dietz staff writer Saturday, Berry students and faculty members received an email concerning a sexual assault report filed on campus. The report had been filed earlier that morning. Due to the fact that there has been an investigation opened looking into this case, very little specific information is available at this time. However, last weekend’s email seemed to many on campus to be uncharacteristic, as similar alerts have not been received in the past.
The email was sent in accordance with the Clery Act, a federal policy mandating collegiate institutions to publish briefings, like this one, in response to crimes reported. As Assistant Vice “In certain situations we are mandated by law to let let the campus community know what’s going on and we just felt like in this situation, that email should go out,” Assistant Vice President for Campus Security Gary Will said. Furthermore, Will and Police Chief Jonathan Baggett want to assure students that there is no current threat to safety. In the email, Will listed information concerning Berry’s Title IX information and officers, as well as external sexual assault resources.
Networking Club to create more connections for students Jeremy Ritter staff writer Sam Nazione, assistant professor of communication, is currently spearheading the inaugural year of the Networking Club on campus. She wants to give students the opportunity to start creating their professional web of connections. “Four years isn’t that long,” Nazione said. “Networking isn’t something seniors should do, it’s something everyone should do.” This new club will serve as a replacement to the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA), an organization that the school offers students membership to, but where PRSSA is limited, the Networking Club will branch out. “The point is to benefit as many students as possible,” Nazione said. She explained that PRSSA, by nature of its name, seemed
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to attract mostly upperclassman PR majors. Nazione hopes the more inclusive club, with fewer membership hurdles, will help show off a wider range of Berry students and their even more diverse skill sets to employers that want well rounded employees. “Internships are how people get jobs,” Nazione said. “You need an internship to get a job.” In the end, the goal is for students to graduate going into a great job that they will succeed in and enjoy. In the same way that retirement is the goal and saving early is the means to achieve it, entering the workforce with a sturdy foundation, in the right direction, begins with getting a résumé out early. On top of bringing in speakers, such as representatives from Mercedes Benz, the Networking Club will offer integral opportunities to begin laying the foundation for future success. The club is also teaming up with Mark Kozera, director of employer development, to put Berry students in front of as
many employers as possible. There will be at least four large scale networking trips offered. “The goal is to bring our students together with alumni, employers, and friends of berry in a business-like setting to work on their networking skills, commence building their networks, and look for first internships and then first destination jobs,” Kozera said. Located in Atlanta and Rome, these events give students the opportunity to get in front of and meet face to face with employers from large companies, non-profits, and local companies in the Northwest Georgia region. Including over 100 employers, Kozera tries to present a truly unique event. He and his department work to create a 1:1 ratio of students to employers, giving students connections that they can follow up with later. Agreeing with Nazione, Kozera also believes that students should commence building their network now rather than later.
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Our View: Don’t be confined by party lines Arizona senator John McCain died earlier this month. After serving as a US Senator for over 30 years, he has been referred to as “America’s last true Republican”. In McCain’s farewell to the country, read two days after his death, he wrote, “We are three-hundred-and-twenty-five million opinionated, vociferous individuals. We argue and compete and sometimes even vilify each other in our raucous public debates. But we have always had so much more in common with each other than in disagreement. If only we remember that and give each other the benefit of the presumption that we all love our country, we will get through these challenging times. We will come through them stronger than before. We always do.” McCain was known for his conservative standpoint, but he was also known for compromise. He was respected across any and all political parties for understanding that the well-being of the American people was a need greater than his own political agenda. He was willing to reach across the aisle and compromise with those opposing him, a practice which many politicians today
don’t take part in. which you are exposed for the We often let our political first time to different politically allegiances get in the ideologies than your own. It’s way of what we actually easy, growing up in a house that believe. There’s such strong believes in one way or another, commitment to either being this to decide early on that that’s or that, many forget to consider also what you believe in, just what they truly think. This because it’s convenient. unwillingness to consider the However, convenience isn’t in-between of politics, to refuse necessarily the most productive to look from the other side of or effective way to decide upon things simply because they a political viewpoint. College is don’t align with your party’s an awesome time to take in the views, creates opinions undesired around tension and you, and stand-still in McCain was known branch out our political from what for his conservative you have environment. There’s probably standpoint, but he been much was also known for bt a eu ge h nt debate over his compromise. the polarizing growing effect of up. Do political your own parties, creating research a political and make environment which is very decisions for yourself. When much black and white rather making that decision though, than seeing gray. With the it’s vital to consider what you passing of McCain, the question believe in morally, socially of what the Republican party economically, etc., and, to also stands for has been discussed, understand what other’s believe calling attention to the growing in. Then, given the opportunity trend of the party which believes to discuss with someone in unwavering ideologies and opposing you, you have a more viewing compromise as a lack comprehensive view, driven off of loyalty. of personal values rather than College, for many, is a time party values.
Our country has become more and more politically polarized, refusing to even consider things from the other side. It’s either one way or the high way for many, and in the end opting for stubbornness and strict ideological commitment is more important than making a decision by working and listening to one another. McCain’s practice of political compromise is something we should all strive to emulate, something politicians in office currently should also take after. As college students, we are given the perfect environment to practice compromise and understanding. It should be more important for us to want to best for our country as a whole, rather than a party as a whole. Sure, subjectively one may be right or wrong. However, deciding to listen to those who we see as wrong, is a better practice than just putting up walls and refusing to discuss further. At the end of the day, our political parties shouldn’t get in the way of political progress. The Carrier’s editorial opinion represents the views of the senior members of the Campus Carrier and Viking Fusion news staff.
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ALEX HODGES arts & living editor A couple of weeks ago, as I sat with a friend of mine at Swift & Finch, a woman came in with a couple of younger kids that I could only assume to be her children. The little boy with her, presumed to be her son, looked to be about 6 years old, and he was wearing a brightly colored shirt with an image of a shark’s open mouth on it. I had to do a double take when I noticed that the shark on his shirt had a separate and large piece of fabric attached to its mouth that was supposed to be its “tongue.” This immediately engendered profound confusion within me. I pointed out the shirt to my friend and asked her to confirm whether sharks had tongues because, for some time, I thought that they did not. After some research, we found that sharks have what are called basihyals, which are tongue-like in nature, but are, truthfully, nothing like tongues. They serve no purpose except to a few species of sharks. Basihyals are small thick pieces
of cartilage in the bottom of the mouths of sharks and other fish. If you’ve ever read about what makes a tongue what it is, you’ve most likely found that tongues are muscular tissuecovered organs in the mouth. This lead me to think that sharks do not have tongues, since they are structurally different. My friend, however, disagreed. Shark anatomy is not something I ever thought I would use to segue into a discussion of verbal disputes, but this opportunity was too timely to pass up. This friend and I have a history of getting into useless spats over unimportant matters just for the sake of proving the other to be wrong, and this was one of those spats. I argued that, because the basihyal serves no practical purpose (except for those few sharks), sharks don’t have tongues. She was dead set on calling it a tongue because it was “tongue-like.” I still think she’s wrong. After the dust stirred up by our verbal wrestling match
settled, I began to think about arguments. I tend to think that I dislike arguing, but, after some thought, I realized that I only dislike arguing when it is simply for the sake of being right. Being rash and making hasty generalizations are ineffective ways of arguing. Arguing can be a good way to learn things about disputed topics, or about how communication can be used effectively within a relationship. The most important aspect of arguing, to me, is thinking first. Having a general knowledge of what to say and how to say it can change the tone of an argument. Take Aristotle’s theory for arguing, for example. The Aristotelian Argument is an organized way to convince an audience that something is true. The steps to follow an Aristotelian Argument are to introduce an issue, present a case, address the opposing view(s), provide proof for the case and then present a conclusion. Unless whomever the case is
presented to abhors the use of an Aristotelian Argument, it is much less likely that they will respond without first taking a moment to consider both sides. This can change the atmosphere surrounding arguing to be a friendlier one that encourages healthier thoughts that are more conducive to constructive responses. Obviously, in most cases, there won’t be the time or consideration to prepare an argument to be a learning experience for all involved parties. For me, it has simply become something to think about. It makes me appreciate a genuine argument, and it helps me to realize when other arguments are pointless. That doesn’t stop me from sternly discussing sharks and their basihyals when I want to have some argumentative fun. I had an internal argument about whether or not I should find a way to end this with a pun about aquatic life, so I availed myself to this: fin.
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ELISABETH MARTIN features editor crime rate against Muslims is five times higher now than it was before September 11, 2001, according to the FBI. Think about the Muslim women who have chosen not to wear hijab because they feared the harassment that would come with such an outward expression of their religion. Consider the instances in which fellow citizens and public figures have burned the Quran as a statement against Islamic extremism, without regard to the millions of American Muslims who mourn alongside their Christian neighbors. American Muslim communities deal with the effects of the anti-Muslim narrative that began after the 9/11 attacks every single day. Policies such as the Patriot Act
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American Muslims deserve empathy Each year on September 11, throughout my childhood and my public education, I spent the day parked in front of a television showing footage of planes crashing into the Twin Towers in New York City. The September 11 attacks are forever etched in our minds as a permanent part of our history as Americans. However, the narrative I never heard in my classroom was that of American Muslim communities, and that’s a shame. Consider the 10-year-old Muslim students that returned to a classroom on September 12, only to be called terrorists by their friends. Think about the “Osama”s who are now “Sam”s because they feared the reaction their names would get. Acknowledge the fact that the hate
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made it possible to search private records and detain people in the name of fighting terrorism, but also unjustly targeted Muslim communities. Groups that promote fear of Muslim religious practice (known as Sharia) used the anti-Sharia movement to limit the religious liberty of an entire group. However, there is nothing violent or dangerous about Sharia. Religious literacy is important. Knowing the difference between fact and fear is important. American Muslims continue to suffer from 9/11 the same way that all Americans do, but in addition, they face discrimination and hate that most cannot even imagine. They deserve our empathy. The American Muslim narrative is one worth listening to.
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Rev. Erin Moniz, Assistant Chaplain
“I was a junior here at Berry. I had a really unique position because my on campus job was being a TA for one of the professors in the religion department. President Scott Colley decided to have a gathering in the main college chapel on campus. At the time, he had recruited a couple of different people to offer prayers and offer grief, and represented different religions. This was very much an interfaith event. I had gone into work that day. I had gone to see [the professor] and the anti-Muslim narrative hadn’t become a really strong feature yet. But I just remember talking to him and he said, ‘I’ve been asked to write a prayer for this thing that is happening tonight. I need you to write it. And I’ll look at it. And I don’t want you to use the word “Allah.” This is for everyone, so we need to make the prayer open to everyone. Use very generic language in it, like “God” and things that are much more inclusive. And then, write your heart.’ So as a Christian student writing for this Muslim professor, I wrote this prayer, and then he went and delivered it. I wasn’t even at the event. I heard about it later, and I had a lot of friends who were there. There was all of this controversy; people got up and walked out. People’s emotions were so heavily charged. It was this huge event and worlds sort of collided in that moment: A Muslim was giving a prayer in a chapel, which they consider a sacred space, and that was just so offensive to them. And I was like, ‘I wrote that prayer.’ I have a file of letters people sent to the President’s Office, and the Chaplain’s Office. All of these people got really angry. The other side also got really angry, like ‘hey, what are you doing? We are all here grieving.’ So there are two sides hurting very much, but at complete odds with each other. And suddenly that was the story. We debated it for the next month on campus.”
Courtesy of Campus Carrier archives Students gather in the college chapel for an interfaith event on September 11, 2001.
Kathy Wilson, Secretary of English, Rhetoric and Writing, World Languages and Cultures
“As I was heading to the high school to drop something off for one of my kids, I heard on the radio that… that it actually was a current attack, and not only that, but there was a plane that went down in Somerset County. Pennsylvania. The plans for the terrorists were for it to go to a larger objective, but the brave people on the plane were willing to bring the plane down at the cost of their own lives, in Somerset county in a rural area, so it did less damage to the people on the ground. Interestingly enough, or scary enough, if the plane would have fallen on the ground five minutes earlier, it would have been in the county where I lived, Bedford County.”
Chelsea Mazies, Senior
“I was five, and we were actually having my birthday party. My uncle Rich, Richard Flicker, he is a stockbroker on Wall Street. He was on the 25th or 26th floor of the first tower [when the plane crashed into the building]. He said it was an incredible hit, as you must imagine, and shortly thereafter, they were saying ‘Stay in your seat, hold tight.’ At that point, he looked out the window and he could see the plane sticking out of the tower, and said ‘we’re gonna have to go.’ His floor evacuated, but he couldn’t use the elevators because fuel from the plane was pouring down them. So they used the stairs. When he got out of the building, there was so much debris falling that he grabbed a flower pot at the end of the street, dumped it out, and put it over his head because didn’t want to get knocked out from all the stuff... He had sent many of his friends and former workers up to the top floor to work that morning, and they all died. So it was a really, really hard time for him. He had to walk five miles to get out of the city and his wife (my mom’s sister) didn’t know where he was for twelve hours. There was no phone connection so she didn’t know if he was dead or if he made it out. But his was the last floor to make it out of the first tower.”
Thomas Shipman, Chemistry Lab Supervisor
“I spent a year in Iraq in 2004 to 2005 back when it was really dangerous. On the day of 9/11, I was going to work. I was on the west coast; I was living in Oregon at the time. At the time the first plane hit, people didn’t know. I was like ‘wow, that’s crazy, that’s a huge building that the plane hit,” and then the second plane hit. I thought “what does this mean?’ My wife, later on that day, she said ‘well, it means you’ll be going overseas.’ I went to work that day, I worked for the National Guard, and we did nothing for work. We turned the TV on and watched the events unfold. I was in the National Guard but our unit got called up and we went to Fort Hood and lived there for four to five months. Then we went to another training site, and then we went to Baghdad for about a year. We did our job there, and then when I got back, I decided I didn’t want to work for the National Guard as a civilian, as somebody who had to work for them. I wanted to go to college instead. And about halfway through my time getting my degree, I was in a National Guard unit in Georgia, at this point, and they said “we’re going to Afghanistan.” While I was there, I talked to a guy, who was older than me, I asked him ‘so what made you go back in?’ He said ‘I had two cousins that were in the tower that day.’”
Denny Rivera, Freshman
“I would wake up and start crying for my mom to feed me at a very specific time, and my mom would get up, and feed me, and I would go to work with her because she had no one to watch me. My mom worked in the north building. So that was her routine every single morning. On the morning of 9/11, that one particular morning she had to go there in the morning. Usually her shifts were in the afternoon, so she never had a reason to be there in the morning. But this one day, this very day, she had to go there in the morning to sign some papers. So, that one morning, I didn’t wake up. I didn’t wake up crying that morning, I stayed asleep through that time. So she didn’t wake up either. So she finally did eventually wake up, but she was like ‘I’m not going to bother my child until she wakes up.’ So she decided not to go into work. But then she’s watching the news, and seeing all of this go down, and she’s like ‘If Denny had woken up, I would have fed her, I would have went to that building,’ and she would have been on one of the higher floors that got directly hit, and I would have been there too. So that one morning, I didn’t wake up, she didn’t go to work.”
Remembers 9/11
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Cecily Crow, Director of Student Activities
Courtesy of Dr. Jerry Jennings Dr. Jenning’s badge issued by the American Red Cross that granted him access to ground zero.
Dr. Jerry Jennings, Professor of Psychology
“In October of 2001, I left a couple of days before President Bush showed up at the site. I was there for eight days. I got trained as a Red Cross Disaster Mental Health Volunteer prior to going. They flew me up to New York. I volunteered for the midnight to 8:00 a.m. shift at this respite center that was a block away from ground zero, where we had a logistics area where the people working the pile could get clothes and new shoes and stuff because the pile had a pretty acrid smell. You could tell somebody had been working the pile because they had that smell about them. [The center] was a St. John’s University satellite center, so the upstairs classrooms had cots and the people working the sites could stay overnight. We had internet access so people could contact family, because a lot of those people were devoted to getting their colleagues who died at the site. So they were not about to leave. They spent day and night at the site and then were back hunting for their dead comrades. Regularly during that time, they’d find somebody and they would drape the body with an American flag and bring them out. There were ministers on call who would come out and administer last rites at the site. My role was to be of good listening ear for the firemen and the policemen and the public works people — all of the people working at the site. They were sifting through the site and hauling off stuff that went across the river. There were federal agents everywhere surveying the damage for any information they could get about the perpetrators. It was a pretty emotional time for everybody who worked there.”
Courtesy of Cabin Log archives President George Bush at the site of ground zero.
“In 2001 I was working at Greensboro College in Greensboro, North Carolina. It’s a small, Methodist college of about 1,000 students. I was Assistant Dean of Students. It was a Tuesday, a beautiful day. That morning we had a staff meeting with the Dean of Students, and she got pulled out to go to the President’s Office kind of suddenly. She left, and later came back and said ‘Hey, this is going on in New York City,’ and the first plane had hit at that point. We turned on coverage and I had gone down to the student center, and I vividly remember sitting there watching when the first tower fell, sitting around with students and faculty. We were all just sitting around watching when suddenly, the tower fell. I just remember being in shock or just disbelief as that was happening. As the day progressed, we cancelled classes somewhere around late morning and immediately began to mobilize the Student Affairs staff, where we began to identify students who were from the New York and New Jersey areas, as well as Pennsylvania, Washington, DC and Maryland. We started identifying who those students were, checking on them, seeing if they were okay and if their families were okay. The student I personally remember, Danny, who is a good friend of mine now, watched as the tower fell while we were in the student center, and one of his siblings was emergency response in New York. He didn’t know for a long period of time where his family was. They weren’t responding. The day just kind of became about reaching out to students, comforting them, and making sure they had touched base with family. There was really no communication in and out of the New York City area. That evening, we put a call out and invited the campus— there were only about 700 students living on campus, so it was a pretty small community— we invited anybody to come out to a specific location outside and have a prayer and candlelight vigil. About 300 to 400 people came out. I just remember that I was standing around offering prayers and reflection. I can’t remember if it was at that event or later in the week that a student came forward and said he lost his soccer coach at the Pentagon. He worked at the Pentagon and was killed in the crash. We had another student who babysat for a flight attendant on the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. [Those stories] made it more real.As a community, we really came together and comforted those that had experienced direct loss or just had a lot of uncertainty from about a 24 hour to 48 hour period.”
Dr. Curt Hersey, Associate Professor of Communication
“We were watching live as the second plane hit the second tower. At first, people thought that this was a mistake. People thought ‘this is a tragedy, how did this happen?’ but nobody really, that we were talking to or was talking on the news, suspected that it was done on purpose. But it was after the second plane struck that suddenly we knew that America was under some sort of attack. Some students continued to watch television, some students left to go to their rooms, to call their parents, to call their loved ones, to be with each other... At 11 a.m. for Viking Vision, we had a staff meeting. And so I went to see if our staff had shown up, and I would have understood if they didn’t, but everyone was there. Everyone looked stunned. I remember one of the students turned to me, and she said ‘Curt, is it going to be okay?’ and I just had this moment where my inclination was to say ‘well of course it’s going to be okay,’ but this is an adult. And so I just had to honestly say ‘I don’t know.’ I said, ‘I think we need to figure out what you guys, as students, want to do right now.’ So, I asked, ‘do you want to go and be with family? Do you want to cover this as a news event that is affecting the campus?’ They were pretty adamant that they didn’t want to disregard the moment as journalists. So several of them went to Krannert and took pictures, and took video and didn’t do any interviews or anything, but just documented what Berry was like in that moment.”
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Lug it or leave it: backpacks and back pain Alana George asst. arts & living editor Premature back pain is the unfortunate reality of school students all over the world, who are not educated early on about the importance of keeping their school load as light as possible to preserve their back health down the road. According to the ScoliSmart Clinics website (offering comprehensive scoliosis treatment), 60 percent of students between the ages of 12 and 17 carry backpacks that weigh 10 percent (or more) of their body weight. The Veritas Health Spine Health website says that “a heavy backpack can pull on the neck muscles, contributing to headache, shoulder pain, lower back pain, and/or neck and arm pain.” These statistics correspond mostly to grade school children, but the problem can continue into our college years. A freshman and a senior offered their input on which backpack brand is good to use, what is essential in a college backpack and what they carry around that maybe they could do without. Freshman Katie Henrich has a North Face backpack that she has used since middle school. “It’s done me good…it fits a lot of stuff in it but it’s super durable,”Henrich said. She also mentioned its nice back padding, which helps with the occasional back pain, she gets when her load is particularly heavy. Her essentials are a binder, a notebook or two, her pencil pouch full of pens and pencils, her student ID, her planner and her wallet, along with some hand sanitizer. Some non-essentials she carries are an occasional sweater (just in case she gets cold), some ear buds and she doesn’t always use her laptop or her iPad because some professors prohibit electronics in class. Senior Liz Swanigan carries a Patagonia backpack, which she says,
Alana George | CAMPUS CARRIER L: Freshman Katie Henrich carries a blue North Face backpack that she has used since middle school. R: Senior Liz Swanigan carries a red Patagonia backpack that she has used for all of her years at Berry. is a better backpack than the cheaper ones she carried in high school, though it still hurts her back some, .Her essentials are her planner, wallet, keys, pens and pencils, notebooks for classes, her computer and some mints. When she has moved out of her rooms for the summer, Swanigan would put random things she could not find a place for in her backpack. She also has
some other things stuffed in it from her student teaching, including old papers, notecards, supplies to make friendship bracelets and a bag of stamps. These testimonies suggest that for college girls, the essentials in a typical backpack are fairly universal; the non-essentials depend on the person and their varied activities in a typical day. As far as back pain is concerned,
studies focus more on grade school children than college students, but it is still important to discuss. Some students still have residual back strain from grade school, but the last thing they need is for it to get worse. It is critical that college students do what they can to lighten their load in order to preserve their back health now and into further adulthood.
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Rome “Scores” big with La Guardia’s return
success with a combination of new and old faces coming to try the food that people have been raving about since she began in ‘84. La Guardia believes that this success will continue and Scores will be able to thrive in the community. Having been involved with Berry College’s faculty and students in the past, La Guardia would like to continue this trend with the opening of Scores. Discounts will be given to those who present student IDs and specials will vary day to day. La Guardia also mentioned that domestic draft beer will begin being served on Sept. 17. With combining these elements with her interesting rendition of deli food, La Guardia hopes to cultivate the same close relationship and bond she had with the Berry community so many years ago. La Guardia did not say the percentage of discount that will be offered. Scores Sports Bar and Grill is located at 1850 Redmond Circle and is open MondayThursday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. With a space that boasts a multisports theme featuring many collegiate and professional teams, friends and family can watch sports while enjoying a diverse arrangement of food.
Alex Hodges | CAMPUS CARRIER Ana La Guardia’s Scores Sports Bar and Grill is open and awaiting consumers of food and televised sports.
Hannah Carroll staff writer
After a brief pause in her culinary career, Ana La Guardia has made her much anticipated return to restaurant ownership in Rome with her new restaurant, Scores Sports Bar and Grill. La Guardia started her profession in Rome in 1984 when she opened several chia shops before establishing a deli and bar in the mid ‘90s. She brought to the community a fresh take of sandwiches and wraps with an Italian, Spanish and Cuban twist. With her fresh and locally grown ingredients, she built not only sandwiches but personal relationships with her customers. “Every customer is very special to me,” La Guardia said.
She believes that it is the people of Rome who have made her job so enjoyable. La Guardia’s restaurants remained successful and she became a culinary icon, but after experiencing some personal troubles and wanting a change, she decided to close her locations in 2014. According to La Guardia, she catered in her spare time, but she wasn’t happy being away from cooking and serving her customers and decided to look back into opening another restaurant in 2016. “My love is through food,” she said. Her newest restaurant, Scores, came about through this love and passion. Scores, a bar and grill catered to lovers of sports and going out with friends, officially opened on Thursday, in perfect timing for Labor Day Weekend. The weekend was a
September 7 Karaoke
• 6:00 to 11:00 p.m. • 1850 Redmond Circle Karaoke for all ages at the Level Up Arcade, which has a large variety of different games, as well as food.
September 8
Patsy Cline Tribute
• 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. • 247 Broad St. Clare Donohue will perform songs from the the Patsy Cline collection. Cash Bar Tickets are $10 in advance or $15 at the door. Enjoy an evening of fun and music at THE VOGUE!
September 8
Farmer’s Market
• 7:00 to 11:00 a.m. • Ridge Ferry Park Vendors sell locally grown produce, fresh-cut flowers, organic produce, baked goods, canned goods, jellies, herbs, flowers and craft items.
Alex Hodges | CAMPUS CARRIER The walls of Scores are covered in sports apparel and memorabilia from local and state teams.
PLAYLIST:
September 9 BINGO
• 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. • 1850 Redmond Cir. It’s BINGO at the Level Up Arcade.
Artists of Georgia PLAY
12 songs, 54 min
TITLE
ARTIST
Cigarettes And Coffee
Otis Redding
Spooky
Atlanta Rhythm Section
Radio Free Europe
R.E.M.
Dry County
The B-52’s
ATLiens
OutKast
Everything I Say
Vic Chesnutt
Shine
Collective Soul
Refried Funky Chicken
Dixie Dregs
Atlanta Girls
Trash Panda
If You Like
Zale
Never Really Asked - Demo
CannonandtheBoxes
Kevin’s Pick: Midnight Train to Georgia
Gladys Knight & The Pips
September 15
Roman Rumble 5k
• 7:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. • Ridge Ferry Park The Roman Rumble is one of the longest-running 5K events in Rome. The Roman Rumble takes place at Ridge Ferry Park, utilizing a paved path along the scenic Oostanaula River. This event is held each year in order to raise funds that benefit Harbor House. Harbor House uses the funds raised to provide in-house counseling, which is free for children of abuse, implement safety programs for schools, to provide a child-friendly environment.
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Sportsmanship initiative shifts focus from field to fans
Andrea Hill | CAMPUS CARRIER
Fans cheer on the football team last Saturday during their game against Maryville College. Berry won the game 38-3. Miranda Smith sports editor Avery Boulware managing editor The Berry Athletic Department has begun a new initiative to encourage sportsmanship at all Berry events. According to Head Baseball Coach and Assistant Athletic Director David Beasley, the focus of sportsmanship is being shifted from the the field to the stands. “There’s two parts of sportsmanship; there’s on the field or court, and I feel very strongly that we’ve always done a great job
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about that,” Beasley said. “The other [part] is the fans that come to the game.” Derek Taylor, who is also serving as assistant athletic director, says sportsmanship can be beneficial even after college. “I think there are lot of things that athletics does that can carry over to the rest of your life, and sportsmanship is one of those,” Taylor said. “To me, it gets down to how you treat people and how you want to be treated. You want to be around people who will build you up.” Resident assistants were also encouraged to spread the message of sportsmanship to their residents. Senior RA Brittni Hoover, who is an
athlete as well as a spectator, emphasized the importance of sportsmanship. “For the most part, I feel that Berry has really stellar athletes,” Hoover said. “There will always be athletes that can over-celebrate and that are over-cocky on the field, you will get that anywhere. However, I’m thankful that Berry is putting good sportsmanship not only on the forefront of our athletes’ minds, but also the students’ and spectators’ minds to foster a mindset of humility both on and off the field.” According to Beasley, the athletes and the spectators both play a role in how a game can turn out. The initiative starts with discipline because it can help or hurt a team or student
body. “When you have a team that’s very disciplined and can control their emotions, I think they tend to have more success than undisciplined teams,” Beasley said. “On the baseball field, I tell my players ‘no negative emotion.’ Sportsmanship has a lot to do with discipline.” Beasley describes how discipline and mutual respect can transfer from the field to the future after graduation. “You have to have that discipline aspect in any part of life,” Beasley said. “I think that athletics does a great job at teaching young men and women commitment and discipline.”
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New coaching staff for men’s basketball Joshua Mabry asst. sports editor The men’s basketball coaching staff has changed this season. Mitch Cole will serve as head coach for the Vikings, while Trevor Lydic will serve as the assistant coach. Cole has a rich background in basketball. “I started playing when I was seven years old,” Cole said. “I played all the way through high school and college.” After playing, Cole went on to coach basketball at various levels. Before coming to Berry, Cole was an assistant coach at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock for two years, an assistant coach at Texas A&M University for five years and coached for 16 seasons at Birmingham Southern College, five of which he served as head coach. After being an assistant coach for the last seven years, Cole aspired to be a head coach again. This is one of the reasons he came to Berry. “This is a place where I can finally be a head coach at a well-thought-of high academic institution,” Cole said. Cole said that Berry seemed to be the perfect fit for him and his family. The relationship between the players and coaches is the biggest reason Cole enjoys being a basketball coach. He also enjoys teaching the game and the competitiveness of basketball. “I love the thrill of competition and lessons we can learn from both winning and losing,” Cole said. Like Cole, Lydic started his basketball journey young, getting involved with basketball camps and then playing in high school. “Finally, when I got to college, I was a student assistant coach and then that carried over to a career,” Lydic said.
Lydic started his coaching career at Colorado State University. He later coached at Union University in Tennessee for eight years, then at Pearl River Community College in Mississippi, the University of Tennessee at Martin and Valdosta State University. Cole had a lot do with Lydic’s decision to come to Berry. “I was one of the few recruits he had over last summer. He did an awesome job recruiting me and my wife to Berry,” Lydic said. Lydic said that when he and his wife came to Berry, they instantly fell in love with the college and everything that it offers. The relationships he has formed with players he has coached over the years is his favorite aspect of being a basketball coach, Lydic said. “There aren’t many jobs out there where you can have an impact with several guys like you do as a coach. I still stay in contact with a lot of the guys I have coached,” Lydic said. As people get older it becomes more difficult to compete, but coaching basketball still provides excitement for Lydic. This year, there are 12 players returning and six new players for the Vikings. “We’ll really be able to evaluate the players for the first time in mid-October,” Cole said. Cole expects his team to compete well and play hard this season. He hopes that the Vikings will peak physically and mentally in a lot of areas. The men’s basketball season will start on Nov. 13 at 7 p.m. against Huntingdon College in The Cage Athletic Center.
There aren’t many jobs out there where you can have an impact with several guys like you do as a coach. I still stay in contact with a lot of the guys I have coached Trevor Lydic
I love the thrill of competition and the lessons we can learn from both winning and losing. Mitch Cole
PHOTO COURTESY OF SPORTS INFORMATION Assistant Coach Trevor Lydic
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Upcoming Events in Sports Friday, Sept. 7 Volleyball
Two Games: Whitworth and Emory @ Emory University 4:30 pm 7:00 pm
Saturday, Sept. 8 Volleyball
vs. Tufts @Emory University 11:00 am
Men’s Soccer
vs. East Texas Baptist @Berry 12:00 pm
Women’s Soccer vs. Catholic @Fredericksburg, Va. 3:00 pm
Football
vs. LaGrange @LaGrange 6:00 pm
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SNAPSHOTS
Down, Set, Hut! The football season kicked off this past Saturday with a win over Maryville. Numerous fans filled the stands to support the Vikings. Offensive and defensive teams worked together to play a shut out game, winning 38-3 and starting the season off strong.
PHOTOS BY BRUNO ROSA | CAMPUS CARRIER