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Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Benton brings student activism to light:
New photography exhibit on Civil Rights movement highlights student and youth involvement By Kathleen McWilliams Senior Staff Writer The William Benton Museum of Art welcomed a new exhibit that features the work of photographers Ernest Withers and Danny Lyon. The exhibit, entitled “Making the Movement Move: Photography, Student Activism and Civil Rights,” focused on the involvement of young people in the movement. The installment also strives to emphasize the role of photography in helping the Civil Rights movement come to fruition. The gallery was filled with black and white photographs with historical background on each photo. The subjects of the photos ranged from high school student activists to the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. In the back corner of the gallery, a loop of news footage from CBS highlighted events of the movement as well as popular opinions from both sides. The footage showed live scenes of the violence in the South, bringing the struggle to life. Similarly the photos bring the history of the Civil Rights movement closer to UConn students. Many of the subjects of the photos are students or children who participated in the movement. For example, one photo by Lyon showed high school student Taylor Washington being arrested after peaceful demonstration. Other photos demonstrated parts of the movement whose history is less known. One such photograph showed African American fighting for voting rights by registering to vote despite death threats. The Benton provided some historical background to the event saying, “More than 1,000 white northern students travelled south to volunteer with the Mississippi Freedom Summer Campaign… the program allowed for a racially and culturally diverse com-
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A new exhibit at the Benton displays photographs that tell the story of the Civil Rights movement. The installation focuses on student activism and the power of photography to accomplish necessary change.
munity to form around a shared cause.” Other photos opened new doors for learning about Civil Rights. One photograph of police using fire hoses in Danville, Virginia reminds students that the Civil Rights movement was not just a phenomenon of the Deep South, but active in Virginia, North Caroline and Tennessee. Other photographs included
How to make the most of Google advanced searches By Michael McGuigan Campus Correspondent
Utilizing Google’s advanced search functionality allows a user to leverage the site’s full potential while seeking answers to their questions online. By tapping into these features you’ll soon find yourself among the most advanced Google users. First, let’s begin by exploring how Google works so you can utilize it more effectively. Google produces search results for users by using its proprietary search method. This method compares the keywords users enter against Google’s database of websites in order to find the items that most closely relate to the keywords the user entered. Google does not search the entire Internet when it returns your search results to you. Rather it explores its version of the Internet, which it compiles with programs known as “web crawlers,” that add webpages into Google’s database. When utilizing Google it is important to remember that Google doesn’t have access to some online information such as information on Facebook and other sites that web crawlers can’t access, making it so that it may not be possible to find a suitable answer to some of your questions online. Let’s turn our attention to increasing our effectiveness as searchers. Google calls the words you enter into the text area called a “search query.” You can utilize search operators in your search query in order to affect the results Google returns to you. For instance, if you want to perform an exact keyword search you would place double quotations around the phrase you wish to search for. A search query of “I like pie” will return only results that contain the words “I like pie.” You can exclude key-
words from your search results by placing a minus sign in front of the word you wish to exclude from the search. A search query for dog –Dalmatian will return results about dogs but exclude information about dogs that are Dalmatians. Besides symbolic operators like this Google offer special key word operators. These operators, like Site and File type, allow a user to narrow their results even further (these operators require you to use a semicolon after them and no spaces). The site operator allows users to narrow their search results to a specific web site or specific high-level domain ending such as .gov. An example of this would be a search for Huskies site:uconn.edu, which would only search the uconn. edu site for results pertaining to the keyword “huskies.” While a search for President of the United States site:.gov would return results only from websites with a .gov ending about the POTUS. The file type operator allows a user to specify the file type of the search results Google returns by specifying a common file ending such as .doc or .pdf . A search for UConn Next Generation filetype:pdf will return only results formatted as PDFs. To further enhance your searching capabilities you can combine various search operators in a search query. An example of this would be an exact key word search on a specific website such as “UConn Student” site: uconn. edu which will perform an exact keyword search of the UConn website for the exact keywords “UConn student.”
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in the exhibit are the icons of Civil Rights. The photo of Walter Gadsen being held by his sweater by Birmingham police as a dog vicious bites his stomach has become the symbol of the brutality that protestors faced, but also helped protestors gain some ground in their struggle. “Hudon’s photograph of sixteen-year-old Walter Gadsen’s encounter with Birmingham policeman and dogs on May 3,
1963 appeared the next day on the front page of the NYT. The image had a strong impact on perceptions of the movement,” the information next to the photo read. One photo of Withers’ captured the arrival of the Little Rock Nine in 1957. Unlike the famous photos of Elizabeth Eckford arriving alone at the school, Withers’ photograph focused on the other eight students arriving in a car
and gathering their belongings. The lesser known photograph shed new light on the individuals who helped desegregate schools. On the whole, the exhibit was informative and eye opening. For those looking for a way to celebrate, albeit belatedly, the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr, the exhibit will be open until March 30.
Kathleen.McWilliam@UConn.edu
Coming back to a snowy Storrs
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Students getting creative with the snow on Horsebarn Hill last February after Winter Storm Nemo slammed Storrs with three feet. Enjoy the snow today everyone and be safe!
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Parent Talk
By Imaani Cain Campus Correspondent We’re all around that age where we can become much more candid with our parents. They’re aware of the wild goings-on at college, and probably aren’t as worried, since their children are now considered legal adults. The distance doesn’t hurt either; without constantly having each other around, we can gain a bit more perspective on each other’s lives and begin to forge a bond that’s more similar to a friendship than a child and authority figure relationship. However, this transition doesn’t always come easy: there are some subjects that still might make you feel leery about discussing—for instance, sex. I never talked about sex with my parents when I was younger. We didn’t talk about it in my household that much, and the Catholic private school I attended either gave it only a passing glance, or was horrifically vague about the mechanics of it all. Looking back on it, my mother wasn’t exactly tight-lipped about it; there were detailed medical books all over the house, and she was forthcoming with any information I might’ve wanted. I felt a hideous sense of awkwardness even when offhandedly referring to sex around my parents—sex is such a taboo still in our society, which was always so confusing to me. You were meant to lose your virginity as soon as you could, but you couldn’t have sex too many times or with too many people. You were supposed to have quite a lot of it, but couldn’t talk about it, especially if you were a girl. Everything about sex was spoken about as if it was some sort of knowledge we had all been aware of since birth. In retrospect, this whole assumption of knowledge could’ve ended very poorly. Before I opened up to my mother about sex, the majority of my sexual education was taken from the cheesy harlequin romance novels in the library and HBO. Although it seems lighthearted enough, there’s no mention of condoms or birth control in either. No one gets STDs in Danielle Steel’s novels or ever requires an abortion. However, when I finally got the courage to ask my mother about it, she laid quite a few queries to rest. My days of trawling the internet for definitions and debating heatedly with friends whether or not you could get pregnant if you had sex standing up were gone. Talking about sex with my mother has been eye-opening. It’s definitely eased our relationship into a much more companion-like one, free of harsh judgment. While I felt, and still feel strange speaking to my doctors about being sexually active, despite them being professionals, there is surprisingly little weirdness in the talks that my mother and I have. There is no clinical detachment that comes with speaking with a doctor. My mother cares about me, and wants to ensure that any sort of entanglement I’m in (be it purely sexual or romantic or both) is one in which I feel happy and healthy. It seems ludicrous to advise everyone to start talking about sex with their families. However, it may want to be something you consider if you feel as if you have an open enough relationship with your parents. There is, of course, no need to know or spill all the nitty-gritty details, but it might make you feel a bit more casual with your parents. At any rate, it’ll cause them to realize that you aren’t just their little baby anymore. Imaani.Cain@UConn.edu