SOCCER WINS
The Eastern men’s soccer team defeated St. Ambrose 2-1 Wednesday making this their second win of the season. PAGE 8
LEADER ON THE COURT Senior Kamile Stadalninkaite works hard to be a leader on the Eastern women’s tennis team and a mentor to her younger teammates. PAGE 8
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Spanish club, students create ‘alfombras’ By Angelica Cataldo Entertainment Reporter @DEN_news After an entire summer of planning and prepping, Eastern’s Spanish Club organized the making of an alfombra, or carpet, for their Latino Heritage Month project at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the hallway of the art wing in the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Club president Kasey Adams came up with the idea for the project after her second trip to Guatemala for a spring break study abroad program. While Adams was in Guatemala, she roomed with fellow club member, Hollie Austin, during the family homestay. “I loved (the experience),” Austin said. “When we got there, the family we were staying with had one set up for us to help them with. We stayed up ‘til 4 in the morning. It was a lot of fun, though.” An alfombra is a carpet often made in Central America for “Semana Santa,” or “Holy Week.” It is made from things like sawdust, flower petals, grass blades and other natural materials. When made with sawdust, the dust is collected and dyed, then left to dry for a few days. After the sawdust is dry enough, it is then spread in layers over a canvas or street with a screened sifter and placed into patterns. After weeks and months of preparation, entire neighborhoods and streets work together to create large alfombra designs. The process can take hours and even days to finish. The carpets are then put on display on streets for a
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Kristi Zoubka, a sophomore athletic training major, and Rachel Washburn, a sophomore elementary education major work together on an alfombra for Eastern’s Spanish club. “The freehanding is going a lot better than I thought it would,” Zoubka said. “We’re kind of rainbow hombreing it.”
parade to walk through during the celebration of Holy Week, which is in the spring. The Spanish Club’s display is made of dyed sawdust donated from Adams’ local Home Depot.
Other club members, including Vice President Brianne Ed, Treasurer Erin Murphy, Public Relations Representative Audrey Rex and Secretary Rachel Washburn, helped Adams and Austin.
“It’s super exciting, but I’m definitely not an artist,” Washburn said. “It’s something we don’t do here, and it’s interesting learning Latin culture and the process of assembly.” The Spanish Club finished dy-
ing the sawdust Monday, and let the dust dry for Wednesday. They started 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and hoped to be finished with
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Visual culture presentation addresses power of images By Cassie Buchman News Editor | @cjbuchman The power of images and how they have affected African-American politics was the topic of the latest presentation at the Booth Library Wednesday. The presentation was made by political science professor Kevin Anderson, and was a part of the exhibit, “For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights.” “African-American politics, without question, is American politics,” Anderson said. “Debates on questions of freedom, of equality, what constitutes justice, all of these arguments, all of these ideas are central ideas (that are) a part of American political thought.” The images African-Americans used to fight for their equality showed the cruelty and inequality they faced in the U.S., while others showed a sense of independence and “pushback” against these oppressions, Anderson said. To illustrate these images, Ander-
son showed historical pictures such as a slave with scars on his back from being beaten and a picture of a white teenager trying to strike a black attorney with the American flag. He also showed a picture of a memorial sculpture made by Robert Gould Shaw that showed AfricanAmerican soldiers fighting in the Civil War and portraits of four young girls who died when four Ku Klux Klan members bombed a church in Birmingham, Ala. Though some think these images were meant to raise awareness of inequality, Anderson said they were also meant to create discussion and debate in the African-American community and push back against a racist institution. “The understanding of cruelty has to embrace the idea that (what is happening) is cruel because this is a fellow human being,” Anderson said. While showing the audience pictures of tragedies and violence, Anderson challenged the audience by asking which pictures defined the era and the country. Powerful Images, page 5
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Political science professsor Kevin Anderson talks about the power of images, especially as they pertain to AfricanAmerican politics and movements, at the Booth Library Wednesday.