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The power of poetry Nikky Finney returns to campus for poetry reading

Nikky Finney says she became a poet on her grandfather’s farm where she “learned the power of meandering” and after pondering the truth behind Tolkien’s quote, “not all who wander are lost.”

Wandering around the farm in Newberry, S.C., at a young age is what Finney says “helped her get to her interior, which is the place where her work nests.”

The time she spent on the farm observing people, animals and nature helped cultivate her lifelong hobby of journaling. Since the age of 10, she has kept a journal; at age 60, her collection of journals now numbers 172.

About her extensive journal collection and its millions of words, Finney says, “I am more terrified of not saying what I needed to say than I am of somebody reading my work.”

Although her journals influence much of her work, she has not yet chosen to publish them. Pieces from select journals are, however, included in her upcoming work from which she read at Wofford on Feb. 28, 2018.

At the reading, Finney introduced her upcoming work as a collection of “occasional poetry,” a genre of poetry that is written for a special occasion.

She says that, as a poet, she

takes on commissions for occasional poetry only if she is able to create something out of her emotional response to the occasion.

In 2008, Finney was commissioned by Wofford College to write a poem commemorating the work of the slaves who built Old Main, the same building where Finney once again stood on this night to share her poetry with the campus and community. Before agreeing to write a poem for the commemoration in 2008, she requested memorabilia, documents and artifacts that would allow her to be immersed in the history of Old Main.

Only after plundering through the packages that were sent to her by Wofford was she able to confirm that she would be able to write the poem, which she entitled “The Thinking Man.” This intimate poetic process demonstrates Finney’s conviction that “writing poetry isn’t about telling her story but rather telling the story that we as human beings should share with each other.”

Finney elaborated on her poetic process both between her readings that evening and earlier that day in Dr. Patrick Whitfill’s Contemporary American Poetry class. One of the topics that she repeatedly returned to

was her creative process. In a roundtable discussion with students in Whitfill’s class, she advised aspiring poets and writers to write every day and read voraciously. She says doing so provides access to the wealth of knowledge in the world, which enables the writing process.

In her words, “you don’t know what you’re going to need until you get there.” Finney says that there is information just sitting out there waiting to be used. She takes advantage of this easily accessible information by attending lectures in various academic areas; for example, she says she enjoys learning about the sciences because they expand her palette of ideas, allowing her to write in more than one dimension.

Her multi-dimensional stylistic approach allows her to act as a puppeteer through her writing, leading her readers down the road she wishes for them to travel.

Finney compared writing and editing poetry to the art of whittling. She says that once she is sure she has all of the possible content on the page, she cuts away at the poem until “I begin to see what the poem is trying to say to me.” She explained that this process is “elbow grease, midnight oil…it’s work!”

Finney’s elbow grease and

burning midnight oil are evident in her work. The poetry and journal entries she read on Wednesday evening at Wofford were brimming with empathy and vulnerability. Finney is not afraid to engage in topics that are uncomfortable. One of the pieces she read told the story of four African/African American women, each of whom was a victim of hateful and absurd forms of discrimination. The poem, however, is not meant to evoke pity. Instead, Finney insists on the power and endurance demonstrated by African and African American women who have undergone such discrimination and yet who remain pillars of strength.

Finney says she writes poetry about strength and perseverance because she has a feeling of responsibility to remain true to “who she says she was,” her identity, her beliefs, her perceptions. She says simply that she is a poet because “this is what I came to earth to do.” The epigraph for her 2011 collection “Head Off & Split” is a quote from a postcard written to Finney from writer Toni Cade Bambara. It reads, “Do not leave the arena to the fools.”

Finney says this quote encourages her to continue seeking and speaking truth through poetry. She says, “I have been

on a search my entire life for the way, the path, the journey to have and to keep a beautiful mind.” This journey is what fu-

Following her readings, Finney fielded audience questions, signed copies of her poetry collection and engaged and conversed with students, faculty and staff.

Officials speak on recent incident where student was grazed by a bullet their knowledge.

The incident occurred on Howard Street and was in the jurisdiction of the Spartanburg City Police. The incident was “not directly adjacent to campus,” Hall said. “It occurred in a hous-

city of Spartanburg gives to the college. “In a few minutes, the officers and supervisor were on campus” Hall states, following the student’s call when they noticed a bullet on the ground.

Hall cannot speak on the med-

By: Meghan Daniel, contributing writer

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An update on Wofford safety procedures On the evening of Feb. 20, an email was sent to the Wofford community detailing an incident that had occurred. The email detailed that a Wofford student received a minor injury when a stray bullet fired off campus

els Finney’s writings; it is why she says, “I believe in poetry.”

the college “only wants to send out emergency alerts for emergency situations.”

Wofford does have the RAVE system set in place, accessible through myWofford. All faculty, staff and students are automati-

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Traversing through Tibet

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Interim takes students to Everest for first time When Dr. Thomas Wright, math professor, returned from Antarctica at the end of a sabbatical of traveling and book-writing, his next adventure was to to take an interim group to Nepal and Tibet. Dr. Jeremy Henkel and 19 students joined Wright on a religious pilgrimage through the monasteries and temples, which characterize the two nations’ strong religious values.

I was one of the lucky ones to be a part of “To the Roof of the World: Life in the Shadow of Mt. Everest,” a course focused on the religious practices and histories of the region surrounding the world’s highest mountain.

The itinerary began with four days in Kathmandu, Nepal.

We explored the alleyways of the neighborhood of Thamel that surrounded our hotel. Our tour guide, a Nepalese man with enough knowledge to carry on a conversation in seven different languages, led us on tours of palaces and important city centers, known as “durbar squares.” Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, and Patan durbar squares are all UNESCO World Heritage Sites. He shared stories of the 2015 earthquake and highlighted the efforts to restore the collection of damaged structures and artifacts.

Although seven students were temporarily (for a day) hospitalized due to food-related bacterial infections, the group then flew from Kathmandu to Lhasa, Tibet. Our tour guide in Tibet, Kondol, greeted us in the traditional manner of wrapping a white silk scarf around our necks. At an elevation of approximately 12,000 feet, Lhasa is home to the historical residence of the Dalai Lama, the Potala Palace.

Tibet, a historically oppressed region of China which has fought for independence since the days of the Cultural Revolution, was once politically and religiously ruled by the Dalai Lama until the 14th Dalai Lama fled to Dharmsala, India where many Tibetan Buddhists sought exile. It was not uncommon for Kondol to explain that some part of any monastery which we visited had been partially or entirely destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.

We learned, too, that while China eventually wants Tibet to be a part of One China, those born in Tibet cannot receive passports and therefore cannot travel.

Before I registered for this interim, I was unfamiliar with a person known as the Panchen Lama. He’s closely affiliated with the Dalai Lama but his-

Prayer flags decorated all of Nepal and Tibet. The traditional colors are often in the order of blue, white, red, green and yellow, signifying sky and space, wind, fire, water and earth. They are printed with traditional Buddhist mantras and blowing in the wind is said to carry the prayers to the sky. Tattered prayer flags are believed to symbolize answered prayers. (Photo by Lydia Estes) torically resided at the Tashilhunpo Monastery. In an effort to undermine Tibetan independence movements, China allegedly kidnapped the 11th Panchen Lama in the 90s and named another Panchen Lama.

While visiting the Tashilhunpo Monastery, Kondol informed us that the 11th Panchen Lama lives in Beijing, while our group generally understood that the Tibetans don’t know where their Panchen Lama currently resides. I turned to Wright to clarify, and he pointed to a security camera inside

the main chapel. It was then I realized that Kondol was propagating a lie created by the Chinese, which further suppressed her people’s freedom of speech in order to protect herself from the police.

After Lhasa, our road trip through the Himalayan mountains began. We visited small villages like Samye and Gyantse, larger “Chinese-style” cities like Shigatse, and eventually a small town known as Segar which rests a mere 2 hours from Everest Base Camp. Most of us had felt sick or anxious

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at one point or another, but the air on the morning of our visit to base camp felt hopeful and light—possibly just from the thinness of the atmosphere at nearly 17,000 feet.

We had a chance to tie our white scarves from the first day to the highest mountain pass we would encounter— higher in elevation than base camp—to symbolically ask for good health and fortune for our families. Permitting the Chinese government would accept our alien status, Jan. 19, 2018, would be the day Wofford students and professors stood at Everest Base Camp.

The bus climbed the switchbacks for about two hours, and eventually we reached the world’s highest monastery, Rongbuk Monastery (16,732 feet). Our walk to base camp was not taxing, but at that elevation, we had to remind ourselves that signs of sickness or insufficient oxygen arise hours after the fact. We trekked in the dry riverbed of boulders, as the glaciers won’t begin to melt significantly until the spring.

After a few miles, we reached a monument that indicated we had made it to Everest Base Camp. The camp ground was empty; peak season is AprilMay, and there is no reason someone should be stationed at

base camp in January. Attempts at climbing and summiting Everest during any time but the target window of 7-10 days in May are practically death wishes.

This meant we had the place to ourselves. Wright brought his travel saxophone, a sopranino, and performed a few songs for us. Then Kondol directed us up a steep staircase built into the side of a hill where we ate our lunches (water and consuming carbohydrates—specifically dark chocolate—are the best remedies against altitude sickness). I can honestly say I’ve never, and probably will never, enjoyed a cooler picnic than the one I shared in the company of fellow Terriers at Everest Base Camp.

We reversed our steps back through the Himalayan foothill until we made it back to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. The next day, our flight over these snowcapped peaks took us once more to the city of Kathmandu. Even though I believe that most of us were enthusiastic to return to this colorful, lively, un-oppressed country, many of us were just as wistful about the adventures we had endured on our road trip through the Himalayas.

By: Lydia Estes, staff writer

I spent my entire childhood in this small town, but even when I spent weekends with my friends at the local diner or attended high school sports games, I was never truly exploring my town. I understood the culture, but I never got to understand the local and state government, interact with the downtown community or participate in politics.

On a basic level, I spent my month filing papers, assisting constituents,

attended meetings for the public to share their opinions and experiences. I assisted some of the poorest people in my hometown to file for government assistance. I researched methods of best connecting with constituents.

I was able to spend a month connecting with people I had never met before, despite living in the same town for my entire life. I listened to stories and discovered an entirely new part of the city that I call home, developing

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Student trains birds, educates children Lauren Owens Editor-in-Chief

For FMU junior Tyler Wright, afternoons and weekends are spent working on more than just schoolwork. Instead, they are spent training falcons.

Wright is training two falcons currently: a RedTailed Hawk named Talon and a Cooper’s Hawk named Skeeter.

Wright said he generally keeps only one while he is in college because falconry takes a lot of attention.

“You want to be fair to the bird because you take them out of the wild,” Wright said. “You want to have enough time to hunt with the bird and let him hunt a couple hours out of the day so he can be a hawk.

So, if I’m not able to do that, then I limit myself to one bird.”

Wright focuses on trapping birds out of the wild and training them, to help conserve populations of various birds of prey. He said he only traps juvenile birds, or birds less than a year old.

“My end goal is to take this juvenile bird, who has

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Junior Tyler Wright captures juvenile birds from the wild and trains them so they can survive in the wild. a high chance of death out Wright keeps birds in the wild, be able to be for about two years at a a safety net for him if he time, training them before becomes injured, make him releasing them back into the healthy again, get rid of any wild. parasites he may have and Wright is a biology then release him back out major pursuing a career as into the wild,” Wright said. a veterinarian. He said he “After hunting him for a few hopes to continue raising years, I am able to release birds while finishing his him back into the wild. He’s undergraduate degree reached that year-old point, and after graduating from and he can now go back into veterinarian school. the wild.”

Wright said catching,

training and releasing his first hawk was one of his most rewarding experiences.

His first hawk struggled catching prey when Wright first caught him.

“Spending hours and hours a day working with him, and to finally see him in the wild was awesome,” Wright said.

Wright said when training birds he only hunts what is available. In South Carolina, squirrels and rabbits are more available.

Wright’s bird, Talon, has caught 35 squirrels and two rabbits this year.

The training process begins with teaching the bird to stand on the falconer’s glove, which can sometimes take hours to get the bird to do, Wright said.

After that the bird learns stand on the falconer’s hand, he or she then works to get the bird to trust the falconer enough to eat from his or her hand. Then falconers work on hunting with birds.

Although his primary focus is hunting with birds, Wright also spends time educating children about birds of prey using his bird Talon during his molting season.

Wright, who is also the senior vice president for education with Wildlife Action, said he works summer camps at Fork Retch and leads demonstrations with his birds. He conducts up to 15 demonstrations over the course of the summer, Wright said.

Wright first became interested in falconry when he was 8 years old after attending the Pee Dee Deer Classic, an annual hunting expo at the Florence Civic Center, and seeing a falconer named Mitchell Brantley at an educational booth.

“I started bugging him to death,” Wright said. “I found out how to do what he was doing, and that I had to be 14 years old and take an examination and all that stuff.”

To become a falconer, individuals must take a 105-question exam from the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, covering topics such as husbandry, hunting regulations and bird species.

They also must find a current falconer to sponsor them.

Wright got Brantley to be his mentor during the training process.

Professor tells dating stories through song

A reflection on my hometown internship

Instead of taking classes on Wofford’s campus this Interim, I decided to spend my month interning in my hometown of York, Pa. In case you’ve never heard of York, it is the birthplace of the Articles of Confederation, home of the York Peppermint Pattie and central location of the York Fair, one of the oldest fairs in the country.

I worked everyday in the PA State Representative’s district office, which

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On the PA House Floor with kids from a local York City school. try, acclimating to a different culture and struggling to learn English. She has participated in strengthening the Hispanic community in York and allowed me the opportunity to interact

that I would highly recommend for Wofford students who want to interact more with their hometown. There is so much to be gained from developing a better understanding of your

Assistant Editor

Dawn Larsen, associate professor of theatre, performed a onewoman show, “The Vicious

her performance to narrate the events that inspired the lyrics, said much of the CD is a result of becoming obsessed over something that happened, and realizing the only way to settle those

of the last five years and her journey through many seasons of life.

“The Vicious Hillbilly is about my divorce, my son, family and dating at my age, especially in the south,”

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For the period 2-1618 through 3-8-18, the following incidents were reported to and/or investigated by Campus Police:

February 20 Trespass of Real Property - Campus Police received a phone call about a suspicious person in the housing area when a female resident told police a male approached her in an aggressive manner. The male yelled at her, followed and grabbed her by the arm.

After officers responded to the housing area, they were informed the male was seen in the Community Center. An officer then went to the Community Center where multiple students said they saw a male matching the description on campus talking with different females. Officers were informed by another student the unidentified male was not a student and was staying with a student on campus. Campus Police went to the apartment the non-student was said to be staying with. The resident said he had a guest on campus but was unsure of where he was. After the resident informed campus police of the guest’s name, the resident tried calling the guest multiple times.

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ommunication professor Dr. Jason Munsell introduced Public Advocacy for Social Justice to USC Aiken’s campus.

Stamped on the syllabus is “TIME’S UP on silence, TIME’S UP on waiting, TIME’S UP on tolerating discrimination, harassment and abuse.”

The spring of 2018 is its first semester being offered. This is only Munsell’s first year at USCA after having taught at Columbia College for 14 years, and he is already making great changes.

“I think students should take a course like this or other courses that involve teaching social responsibility and civic engagement. I do hope students take that sense of social responsibility from the class, along with a good understanding of communication and rhetorical theory and the skills to advocate effectively,” said Munsell.

On the first day of class, Munsell passed out white poster board, markers and crayons with the prompt, “Social just is”, to allow for students to voice what they believe in. Responses ranged from Chik-fil-a on

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Sundays and 8 hours of sleep a night to issues such as gender equality.

Munsell has taken part in various movements, marches and protests but believes that we all take part in social activism, sometimes not even realizing it, because of the decentralized nature of 21st century activism.

He recalled a favorite memory in his history of advocacy, which was being a part of a student- led march to the state house in 2004. “It was cool seeing my students get angry and do something about it,” said Munsell.

Students wanted stronger policies on domestic violence and Munsell remembers the march leading to those stronger policies.

“My inspirations are regular people, especially my colleagues that have

done things to make for a better world,” said Munsell. He is a huge fan of people like Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart who both critique those in power with satire, a rhetorical strategy that has a long political history.

“Not only are satirical shows like that humorous and relatable but viewers get more information from them,” said Munsell.

“Jon Stewart’s and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear is one of the best things I’ve ever seen. More people actually attended that than the rally is was satiricizing.”

Munsell brings laughter to the class, especially because he knows that social activism often has cliché depictions. Not all activists are outrageous and not every political song is John Lennon’s “Imagine”. Aside from a

weekly activist journal, the class calls for a semester long advocacy project where students are to create a campaign of their choice; the project asks for students to utilize four ways of communicationoral, written, social media and body rhetoric.

USC Aiken students taking this class are excited for what’s to come.

Many have taken it for practical reasons. This class isn’t mandatory and so many aren’t simply fulfilling a requirement but have passion regarding class content. Amethyst Morgan Marroquin, Student Coordinator at the Student Life Office of Diversity Initiatives, said she took the class “to acquire skills to better advocate for students, particularly minority students, at USC Aiken.”

Senior communications major Charlie Abney said, “I want to see how situations can be handled in an effective way.”

Abney commented on recent events that have happened in the country and realizes that people aren’t effectively coming together to fix issues.

Munsell has made a remarkable contribution to the school’s curriculum by pushing advocacy into the classroom setting.

If you’ve missed the opportunity to take the class this time around, be sure to keep it in mind when it is available again and registration is open.

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Revitalizing Augusta’s live music scene

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he Iron Heights allages music venue came to a close after its last show on Dec. 15, 2017 but the Epicenter will be taking its place, with its opening show on Feb. 2.

Muuka Vogel, owner of The Epicenter, describes the local music scene, “It’s ever evolving. It has music that’s new, original, and different.

The people playing love what they do and it’s not for exposure but the problem comes from the general attitude of giving up and not seeing the point in it all.

All the people down here don’t think they’re good enough.”

Vogel bought the venue after saving and receiving help from a network he has built up over the past 10 years, friends and fellow music enthusiasts, as well as from the fundraiser shows held in December after the Iron Heights busted.

He plans on having more diverse acts, which was a fault of the venue in the past- most shows being metal-based.

“There’s not much intermingling of the tribes. The scene is scattered. People have lost themselves,” according to Vogel.

At The Epicenter, Vogel plans to bring everyone together like never before.

Not only will there be more variety in the musical genre, but Vogel also plans to include comedy shows as well visual art.

“The biggest canvas of the place is the floor so I’ve been thinking about people coming in, being given a couple of square feet to paint whatever they want.”

Vogel has also scheduled a solo visual arts exhibition in mid- February through March. When talking about DIY, it’s a question of willpower. It’s how bad you want it. Vogel and friends are using what he calls “street teams”. He has no employees, only volunteers that want to see the scene thrive like he does.

Dylan Josey, lead singer for local band thismachinthrillsfascists, says, “The scene is kind of in shambles a bit now because the only places offering venue are bars, which cancels out the all- ages crowd, even some younger bands.” He

continues, “Iron Heights closed down because to the owner and the bookers, it was just wasting more money than it was making.

The business already failed at Sector, and the owner decided to give it a shot.”

This all falls back to the lack of energy in DIY or Do-It-Yourself.

Vogel comments on his own musical process and DIY, “I just wonder the streets and I see something and I make it something else. I’m not going to wait around for life to hand me things. Seize the day. Xerox the word and spread it around everywhere.”

People are so caught up on quality but art is about the intention and that’s what artists in the local scene forget. And it’s easy to forget when there’s not much support.

Todd Soles, who’s active in Augusta’s music scene, says, “Iron Heights could have stayed open if there was better attendance at shows.

Promoters were losing money left and right. The bad thing is is a lot of us are getting older and there is no newer blood coming in. I’m in my mid- thirties and most of my peers have moved on from when I first started attending shows.”

Vogel is taking on a new business model and will not be so focused on big bands that require down payments or contracts

but underground bands in Augusta and across the country, like Tongues of Fire from Asheville, NC, playing the Epicenter’s opening show. The band plays for the sake of expression and having fun. It’s easier to pull in bands not simply wanting a big buck.

So, how to get involved?

How to bring more life back to the scene? Donate to the cause. Go to shows.

Admission will be more than reasonable, which is something Vogel wants to keep at a minimum. And if you have music but are afraid to put it out there, put it out there.

The scene isn’t dead. There is music being made and being heard. You just have to find it and you just have to spread the word. Post bills and talk about it with your friends. Support local music. Be on the lookout for more upcoming shows and come to the Epicenter Feb. 2!

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DEAR DAYA

Dear Daya, I’m scared. I started going on dates with this guy recently, and we’ve become pretty close friends. We’re also officially a couple now.

That’s the problem…I think I may be falling in love with him. He’s older than me with a stable career and life of his own. Am I too young for this? Is it just us moving too fast?

Help!

Sincerely, BlinkingGirlMeme556 Dear BlinkingGirlMeme556, So it sounds to me like he is ready and you are not. There is nothing wrong with that. Usually it’s the other way around so it is great that he knows what he wants.

But there is nothing wrong with telling him you guys need to slow down. The absolute worst thing you could do is jump into something that you are not ready for and hurt him in the process.

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Electronics are the new tobacco product. In today’s world, people “need them” but do not realize that they are addicted to their electronic device. I was young when I first started to take notice of this compulsive issue.

Our special family dinner was ruined by a very frustrated woman seated at a nearby table. She had been trying to get her partner’s attention for several minutes, yelling his name, begging him to talk to her. I wondered why anyone would want to pay more attention to a screen, but it’s happening everyday.

I have seen a two-year old attempt to play with an information board like it was a tablet. I’ve

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Changes coming to next year's SLC line-up DANIEL QUIGLEY Staff Writer In preparation for today's student body chapel and for the elections at hand, SLC

has reexamined and tweaked the structure of its team.

According to Matthew Weathers of the Center for Leadership Development, the current 13-member stu-

dent leadership council has been trimmed down to an 11-member council to be more streamlined.

This will allow more effective representation by the

SLC from the University administration to the student body and from the student body to the administration.

“We’re basically reducing the number but expanding the

representation,” Weathers said.

Some positions remain the same while other positions have been changed (See infograph on page 3).

One of these changes was

to the event coordinator positions. Previously, there was a men’s and women’s event coordinator. These positions have been condensed into a See SLC p. 3

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BJU Together Week to unite with common cause KATIE JACKSON Staff Writer The BJU Office of Advancement is combining several activities into one culminating event, BJU Together Week on April 2 to 7.

Each day of the week will have a specific theme; Monday: Philanthropy Education Day, Tuesday: Donor Appreciation Day, Wednesday: Senior Giving Day, Thursday: Faculty/Staff Appreciation Day and Saturday: the annual Service Day. The official purpose state-

ment for the week says that “BJU Together Week, in collaboration with partnerships across campus, will provide students with the educational opportunity to put into practice what the University desires alumni to do�pray, give, promote and network.

Each day of the week will have a different focus such as philanthropy education, donor appreciation and service.”

Philanthropy, which is defined in an online dictionary as “the desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed especially by the generous

donation of money to good causes,” is a main theme for BJU Together Week.

Meagan Ingersoll, a staff member in the Office of Advancement who helped coordinate BJU Together Week, said the goal is to encourage students to make an effort to do what they can�even if it seems small.

“Participation is what matters,” Ingersoll said. “We’re not asking students for financial support�that’s not the goal of this week. We’re emphasizing education. It’s about, ‘did See BJU TOGETHER p. 6

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Taylor Bancroft and Emily Gutschow from the Office of Advancement participate in community service. Photo: Submitted

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e may be the mind behind French Drinking Ticket, a parody Twitter account, but fifth-year political science st udent Regan Freeman has been doing more than just tweeting with a French accent. For the past year, Freeman has been working to help his hometown reflect on past racial tensions in the community. It is that work that brought him to the set of the Megyn Kelly’s hour of “Today” on Monday, Oct. 1.

Freeman gained notoriety on campus when he launched a parody Twitter account of the popular account Drinking Ticket, known for tweeting USC news and the location of SLED officers in Five Points. While the drama surrounding French Drinking Ticket and Drinking Ticket administrator Alex Waelde’s potential lawsuit went

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viral within the USC community, Freeman’s main focus is on a project in his hometown of Clinton, South Carolina.

After seeing an Oprah Winfrey special on a lynching memorial, Freeman decided to do some research on lynchings in his native Laurens County, where Clinton is located. He found records of 11 lynchings within Laurens, the third highest in the state. He remembered a closed-down movie theater in Clinton which had been converted into The Redneck Shop. The Redneck Shop was a gift shop that previously sold Confederate paraphernalia and served as a meeting space for the Ku Klux Klan. It was also the site of a meeting for the Aryan Nations Congress in 2006. It has since been shut down, due to the efforts of the Rev. David Kennedy, the current owner and an African American.

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Regan Freeman is a pre-law fifth-year political science student working to renovate an old movie theater with a history of racism and turn it into a diversity center.

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Who is French Drinking Ticket?

I study for midterms the same way I study for any exam. Just grinding out practice problems and stuff like that. I’m a math minor too, so I have to do a lot of extra work on the side to stay on top of things.

- Vishnu Menon, Secondyear economic student

Former Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza spent much of his time on the campus of the University of South Carolina sharing his views on journalism education the future of the field.

For SJMC leaders l ike A ndrea Tanner, the school’s director, speakers like Souza can teach valuable lessons to students from across the school’s majors.

“I really think that all the students in t he School of Jou r nalism and Mass Com mu n icat ions, whet her t h e y ’r e b r o a d c a s t j o u r n a l i s t s , v isual com mu n icat ions, mass communications, they’re all in our school to learn to be great storytellers,” she said. “And so when I think of Mr. Souza I think of him as being one of the best visual storytellers and so … he’s someone that all of our students can learn from.”

During his 24 hours on USC’s campus, Souza met with representatives from Garnet Media Group and the SJMC’s senior journalism class in addition to delivering the Buchheit Family Lecture. He said his primary goal was to not just illuminate the role of a White House photographer, but also highlight the importance of building a visual archive of a presidency in the era of “fake news.”

Def initely stay ing in t he librar y as much as I can between classes, before and after classes, looking over notes before and after class and then just cramming in last minute preparation.

-Preston Hill, Second-year nursing student

The USC College of Pharmacy is working to reduce the side effects of c he mo t he r ap y o n p e d i at r ic cancer patients with a new influx of grant money from an organization supported by some of USC’s own.

The college received a $100,000 grant earlier this year from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising money for childhood cancer research.

The money from the grant will fund research conducted by professor Jing Fang, who will investigate a protein discovered to be high in kids with cancer. This protein, if reduced, cou ld k i l l leu kem ia cel ls wh i le preserving normal cells. The hope is to find an agent to act on the protein that will lower the protein and reduce the effects of chemotherapy for the patients.

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FMU marches to end sexual violence

Students and faculty make their voices heard Alex Turbeville Co-Editor

FMU students and faculty took a stand against domestic and sexual violence at the Take Back the Night event, a march and rally designed for students to make their voices heard, on Nov. 1 from 7-9 p.m.

The event began with a march through the woods of FMU’s campus as attendees chanted to show support for victims of sexual violence.

Su za n ne Ba r net t, assistant professor of English and one of the organizers of the event, said the location of the march was meant to be symbolic.

“My students always say walking through the woods at night alone is scary,” Barnett said. “We picked a location that was farthest away from the rally on the other side of the woods. We wanted it to be known that the FMU community has your back even if you’re afraid of walking through the woods alone.”

After the march, students gathered at the fountain outside of Founder’s Hall for a candlelit rally.

Students and faculty read poems and stories dealing with domestic and sexual violence.

C ha rle ne Wage s, Title IX coordinator, also spoke to explain Title IX, a program that includes a set of procedures that guide the university’s response to sexual misconduct. Members of the Pee Dee Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Assault (Pee Dee Coalition) and Campus Police also spoke at the rally to express support and offer students assistance.

Barnett said a major goal for the event was to help students understand the information available to them on campus and know who they could contact if they need assistance, such as the Title IX Council or members of the Pee Dee Coalition.

“I teach a lot of firstyear students and a lot of them don’t know the counseling

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Students light candles to symbolize the light that shines through the darkness of sexual assault. center exists,” Barnett said.

“We wanted to make sure campus police were there. I think a lot of students think of them as the people that bust them or give them parking tickets, but they’re seriously committed to making sure

students feel safe on campus.”

Barnett said some of the international Take Back the Nights events are for women only, but that she wanted FMU’s event to be more inclusive.

“We always envisioned it

as an inclusive event in which every student on campus was invited to participate,” Barnett said. “We wanted to make sure people realized it’s neither an event nor an issue that affects only women. It affects men, women and LGBTQ

community members, who are exponentially even more affected by these issues.”

Anna Patton, head of the event’s student organizing committee, said she wanted to hold the event because many people believe sexual violence only happens to a small percentage of the population.

“It’s common to think ‘It could never happen to me or someone I know’ or that it only happens in other places,” Patton said.

“However, sexual violence can happen to anyone. This event was designed to raise awareness, provide resources for survivors and empower our campus community so they know they have a voice.

They’re not alone at FMU.” Patton said she hoped that those who attended the event gained a sense of security.

“It’s evident from how many people came, that students, faculty, staff, security, administration and SEE FMU MARCHES PAGE 2

FMU recruits first Students get spooky Fulbright applicant a t H a l low e en p a r t y Joshua Hardee Assistant Editor

FMU will recr uit interested students to apply for educational opportunities provided by the Fulbright program, a study-abroad program, starting in the upcoming spring semester.

Fulbright is a gover n ment prog r a m monitored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, which was established in 1946 from legislation introduced by Sen. J. William Fulbright.

According to Wendy Caldwell, Spanish program coordinator and professor of Spanish, not all universities have an affiliation with Fulbright. In fact, Caldwell said it was not until she began serving on the

Fulbright National Screening Committee in 2016 that she recognized the opportunity to establish an affiliation between FMU and Fulbright.

Caldwell said with recruitment beginning in the spring, interested students who are about to enter their senior year work on the application during the late spring and summer, to make the deadline in early October of their senior year. She said there are two options for students to consider in the Fulbright program: the English teaching assistantship, which funds a student of any major to travel to a partnered country to assist a professor and work on an original project; and a master’s program at an affiliated university in another country.

Additionally, Caldwell,

who functions as the representative of FMU’s affiliation with Fulbright, said students can approach her with questions about the program and the application; which consists of two essays, a description of the applicant’s academic background and travel experience, letters of recommendation, and if in the country in question English is not spoken, a language test.

Caldwell said that although it is not necessary for a university to have an affiliation, it is an invaluable asset. She said this relationship and her experience from being on the screening committee have allowed her to assist FMU’s first Fulbright applicant in applying for this competitive program.

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Aolani Robinson is excited as she applies to graduate school in Cork, Ireland, through Fulbright.

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Students danced and celebrated Halloween on October 31, 2018 from 7-9 p.m. at FMU’s annual Carnevil event in the Smith University Center (UC). The event was free to students and included free food such as cotton candy, nachos and mini corn dogs. The theme of the event was “An American Horror Story” and guests were encouraged to come wearing costumes. At the end of the night, students participated in a costume contest.

Ryan Singh, an FMU diplomat, said he often gets to see the behind-the-scenes of popular FMU events like Carnevil.

“The d i pl o m a t s are usually tasked with the behind-the-scenes preparations, like purchasing stuff and decorating,” Singh said. “Our main focus is facilitating open house, but Carnevil is our annual Halloween party. If you like planning events for the whole university and leaving an impact for students to look forward to the event next year, you should be a part of it.”

Singh said events like this are good for the students because they allow them to de-stress from classes and have some fun. Singh also said these events are a great way to meet people and make new relationships.

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Gregory Pilot dresses in gruesome makeup at Carnevil.

Junior Marisa Littlefield, a political science major and vice president standard of Kappa Delta, attended the event because she saw flyers advertising the event around campus.

“I saw the flyers around campus and that’s what told me about the event,” Littlefield said. “I decided to go because it looked really fun. I was glad to dress up in a costume, and a lot of people I knew told me that they were going too.”

Littlefield said she enjoyed being able to look at everyone’s costumes. She believes that events like these are important for the student body.

“I would tell students to come out and enjoy the event with an open mind,” Littlefield said. “You can meet a lot of great people. I feel like the events are really what you make of it. If you

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go there, and you are really excited, and you want to have a great time, you will have one.”

Sophomore Hailey Reed, a psychology and political science double major, attended Carnevil dressed as Minnie Mouse with her roommates.

“My favorite part of the event, I would say, was the free food and the good music,” Reed said.

Josh Graham, a graphic design major, said he enjoyed the event for what it does for students.

“It’s important to have things like this to reward students and allow them to release from the daily stress they face as college students,” Graham said.

Events at FMU can be found on poster boards throughout campus and on FMU’s Facebook page.

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Changes coming to next year's SLC line-up DANIEL QUIGLEY Staff Writer In preparation for today's student body chapel and for the elections at hand, SLC

has reexamined and tweaked the structure of its team.

According to Matthew Weathers of the Center for Leadership Development, the current 13-member stu-

dent leadership council has been trimmed down to an 11-member council to be more streamlined.

This will allow more effective representation by the

SLC from the University administration to the student body and from the student body to the administration.

“We’re basically reducing the number but expanding the

representation,” Weathers said.

Some positions remain the same while other positions have been changed (See infograph on page 3).

One of these changes was

to the event coordinator positions. Previously, there was a men’s and women’s event coordinator. These positions have been condensed into a See SLC p. 3

»

BJU Together Week to unite with common cause KATIE JACKSON Staff Writer The BJU Office of Advancement is combining several activities into one culminating event, BJU Together Week on April 2 to 7.

Each day of the week will have a specific theme; Monday: Philanthropy Education Day, Tuesday: Donor Appreciation Day, Wednesday: Senior Giving Day, Thursday: Faculty/Staff Appreciation Day and Saturday: the annual Service Day. The official purpose state-

ment for the week says that “BJU Together Week, in collaboration with partnerships across campus, will provide students with the educational opportunity to put into practice what the University desires alumni to do�pray, give, promote and network.

Each day of the week will have a different focus such as philanthropy education, donor appreciation and service.”

Philanthropy, which is defined in an online dictionary as “the desire to promote the welfare of others, expressed especially by the generous

donation of money to good causes,” is a main theme for BJU Together Week.

Meagan Ingersoll, a staff member in the Office of Advancement who helped coordinate BJU Together Week, said the goal is to encourage students to make an effort to do what they can�even if it seems small.

“Participation is what matters,” Ingersoll said. “We’re not asking students for financial support�that’s not the goal of this week. We’re emphasizing education. It’s about, ‘did See BJU TOGETHER p. 6

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September 12, 2018

Six players, six goals, first season win

The Winthrop men’s soccer team kicked off their season with a 6-0 win against Georgia Southwestern on Saturday, Aug. 25 with six different scorers.

Assistant coach Kyle Kenney stated, “We have been training very hard this preseason and we proved that against Georgia Southwestern. I enjoy coaching this teach and seeing them grow into better players each time they step out on the field.”

In the first 25 seconds of the game, freshman forward Alfie Rogers scored not only the Eagles’ first goal of the season [for the Eagles removed], but Rogers’ first goal of his college career.

Within 25 minutes of the first goal, the next goal was scored by junior forward Marc Carreras.

“It felt good to be in the scoresheet, but the most important is that the team did a really good performance and got that first win,” Carreras said. “I’m looking forward to working every day at practice to be able to help the team in every game. Hopefully we can have a positive season because we are working really hard for that.”

Shortly after Carreras’ goal, another goal was scored by midfielder Davis Bryan, a graduate student from Dacula, GA. At the halfway mark of the game’s first half, the Eagles were up 3-0.

As the first half was coming to a close, the Eagles scored yet another goal, thanks to freshman forward Gabby Gardner Jonathan Foster, making the garderng@mytjnow.com Eagles up 4-0 at half-time.

Not even eight minutes into the second half, midfielder junior redshirt Jordan Walshaw scored Winthrop’s fifth goal of the game. Two minutes later, midfielder junior Leif Estevez scored the Eagles sixth and final goal of the game, bringing the final score of 6-0. The Eagles won their first game of the season and took the victory, making their record 1-0 to start off the season.

Redshirt sophomore Jack Pondy, a goalkeeper for the Eagles, played the second half of the game and is happy to see the season starting off in this way.

“Winning the first game of the season felt great. It was good to start the season strong,” Pondy said.

“This year the team is very close, and I’m really looking forward to playing with my teammates and growing as a team, on and off the field.” This is Pondy’s second year on the men’s soccer team at Winthrop.

Sophomore defender Michael Smith played the entire game, defending the Eagles goal in the back line.

“It was a wonderful team feeling to be able to have a win like that at our first home game. The fans were great, and I couldn’t think of a better way to start the season,” Smith said.

Smith has confidence in his team and very high hopes for the season.

“All in all, this years group is one of the best rosters Winthrop has had in a while. Everyone is working hard each day, and we are confident we can accomplish great things this year,” Smith said. “And of course with that extra support from our student body at our games hopefully we can bring the Big South trophy back to Winthrop at the end of the season.”

The Eagles have faced a few tough losses over the past couple of weeks against Mercer (0-2), Wofford (0-1) and Georgia State (1-3). The Eagles’ record is now 1-3. The Eagles prepare to bounce back as they play USC Upstate this Saturday Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. for their first Big South game of the season.

Winthrop Men’s Soccer off to a strong start

The Eagles will be playing at home for the next couple of weeks, Saturday Sept. 22 at 6 p.m. vs Davidson Saturday Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. vs High Point, BIG SOUTH game For more information on upcoming soccer games and the entire 2018-2019 Men’s Soccer roster, visit the Winthrop Ath letics website.

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Jack Pondy protects the nest against Georgia Southwestern

Scoring Summary Alfie Rogers (FR/ Brighton, England/ Forward) First goal 00:25 Marc Carreras (JR/ Barcelona, Spain/ Forward) Second Goal 23:26 Davis Bryan (Graduate Student/Dacula, GA/ Midfielder) Third Goal 24:20 Jonathan Foster (FR/Lexington, SC/ Forward) Fourth Goal 42:42 Jordan Walshaw (Redshirt JR/Sheffield, England/ Midfielder) Fifth Goal 53:25 Leif Estevez (JR/Frickingen, Germany/ Midfielder) Sixth and Final Goal 55:25

MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2018

CAROLINA CULTURE MOVIE OF THE WEEK:

$101,678.71

spent on ACS (stage, sound, lights)

12%

22%

spent on Colonial Life Arena

ALBUM OF THE WEEK: “WRLD on Drugs” Rap maest ro Fut ure Hendri x teamed up with singer-songwriter Juice WRLD on their collaborative new album “W RLD on Drugs.”

The album dropped on Oct. 19, 2018 and left fans quite pleased by the artists’ efforts. The album features a total of 16 songs, complete with verses from a multitude of other well-known rappers including Nicki Minaj and Young Thug. Songs like “Make It Back” weave toget her electronic effects with fast beats, while songs like “7 Am Freestyle” give prominence to the raw talent of vocal music. The album can be st reamed or dow nloaded on all devices.

SONG OF THE WEEK: “Hard Work Pays Off” by Future & Juice WRLD “Hard Work Pays Off ” is the last song on the album “W RLD on Drugs.” The theme of the song emphasiz es how work i ng ha rd during one’s youth allows one to reap the benefits later on in life. The song is a little slower than the rest of those on the album but succeeds in holding its own next to its fifteen counterparts. The lyrics and melody of this song closely resemble the music that artist Post Malone tends to put out. “Hard Work Pays Off” is sure to put listeners in a good mood and inspire them to keep on keeping on with their collegiate grind.

$88,461.08

spent on Cockstock 2016

spent on 1% marketing spent on

1% miscellaneous

“First Man” Starring Ryan Gosling, Jason Clarke and Claire Foy, this science fiction thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat and blow you into a whole new universe. Buckle up and follow along on the journey of how famous astronaut Neil Armstrong went on to become the first man to step foot on the moon. The actionpacked plot centers around t he historic space expedition that made Armstrong’s career in addition to highlighting some of the struggles he experienced along the way. The PG-13 film was rated 89 percent on Rot ten Tomatoes by crit ics and is playing in movie theaters everywhere.

7%

5%

spent on Opening Act

6% spent on miscellaneous

spent on marketing

12% spent on ACS

64%

spent on 21 Savage

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W hereas Carolina Productions, Homecoming and RHA directly contribute to Cockstock’s budget, Student Government primarily serves to represent students’ interests and to help with marketing, SG Cockstock director Kathryn Stoudemire said. No money for Cockstock comes directly from SG’s budget, according to the fourth-year mass communications and political science student.

The process of choosing headliners involves a lot of research and a lot of luck, this year’s organizers said. Just because Cockstock organizers express interest in a potential headliner does not mean that the deal is sealed. The artist must accept their offer and agree to adhere to their guidelines. Sometimes offers expire, artists refuse to accept the university’s terms or negotiations simply break down.

Delaney Ruth, a fourth year-retail management student and executive commissioner of Homecoming, said that one of the biggest misconceptions students have about Cockstock is that the university has an unlimited budget.

“People who haven’t put out a single in years still want an unrealistic amount of money,” Ruth said.

Even though last year students saw 21 Savage perform at Colonial Life Arena, this year, Cockstock organizers have opted to relocate the concert back outside.

“I think it was important for us to bring the concert back outside, just because ... we really wanted to go for the festival community feel, that it’s creating a really positive vibe on campus,” said Stoudemire. “‘Cause the goal from Cockstock from the beginning was to make it a tradition and make it a thing that people get excited about and know about.”

However, the decision to bring the concert outside isn’t without its sacrifices.

Ruth, describes this year’s show as PG-13, meaning the headliner had to refrain from using both the n-word and the f-word.

Rae Sremmurd, the hip-hop duo who headlined the first Cockstock, was a big hit with students, but not so much with the nearby neighborhoods that surround campus.

“The community wasn’t super happy when Rae Sremmurd was yelling f-bombs,” Stoudemire said.

As a result, Kaze, Ruth and former student body president Ross Lordo decided that this year’s headliner would have to adhere to a content restriction if the concert was to be outside. The decision to implement a content restriction is what cost Cockstock a performance by rapper T-Pain.

Another factor that prompted the return outdoors was

70%

spent on Rae Sremmurd

the heavy price tag that came with renting out Colonial Life Arena. Last year, the venue accounted for $22,961.58 of Cockstock’s $101,678.71 budget. Security, staff, restrooms and fire marshals were just a few of the reasons behind the arena’s cost.

Nonetheless, 21 Savage was able to bypass the content restriction because his show was held indoors.

“I was sad about T-Pain. I think our restrictions aren’t too harsh,” Ruth said.

However, both Kaze and Ruth said they respect the rapper’s right to artistic expression. While they are pleased with the decision to move forward with Daya and Iyaz, both still anticipated pushback.

“We know that for two years it’s been a hip-hop show ... and anytime you make a drastic change like that, there’s going to be some questioning, and some negative reactions, and we knew that that was gonna happen,” Kaze said.

First-year biology student Amaya Campbell said she wasn’t impressed by this year’s lineup and believes that more students would attend the concert if there was a rap artist headlining. She was one of the many students who expressed their negative reactions to the announcement on Twitter.

“I thought it was a joke at first. I thought that the Carolina Productions Twitter page, I thought they were gonna come out and say ‘psych’”, Campbell said.

Interest polls have been offered to students in the past, but Cockstock organizers said they have realized that they cannot always promise that the winner of the poll will be booked.

Like Kaze and Ruth, vice president of the RHA and second-year biochemistry and molecular biology student Patrick Greene, believes that all of the organizers have done the best that they could, and has accepted that they cannot please everyone.

“I’ve been asked why aren’t we having Drake come,” Greene said. “I mean, Drake is like, over a million dollars to have come perform and you know, we just simply don’t have that sort of budget.”

Although some students have voiced negative reactions, other students are excited to have Daya and Iyaz come to campus.

Second-year business student Kelly Gosciminski said the show is something she’d be interested in attending.

“It kind of brings everyone together as a community. It’s a school event, and I know you can go for free and it’s kind of like an added bonus ... because I know a lot of people pay a lot to come here, so to not have to pay to go to a concert is kind of nice,” Gosciminski said.

Cockstock will take place Friday, Oct. 26 on Greene St. Fields. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the show begins at 7 p.m.

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EVENT OF THE WEEK: Homecoming — Kick-Off Carnival When: Oct. 22, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: Greene Street Recovery Boys Film Screening When: Oct. 22, 7, 8:30 p.m.

Where: Russell House Theatre

Homecoming — A Celebration of Talent and Traditions When: Oct. 24, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where: Greene Street Gamecocks EatWell Cooking Class When: Oct. 25, 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Where: Demonstration Kitchen — Center for Health and Well-Being 219

Carolina Productions presents Goodnight Mommy When: Oct. 26, 9 p.m.

Where: Russell House Theatre

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Student starts photography business SYDNEY READ @sread2022

ex per iences a nd h is passion. Having grown up in Ukraine as the son of m issionar y parents, Crane strives O n l y t wo y e a r s to commu nicate t he ago, t hird-year messages received from Russian and media home through photo arts student Nathan and video.

C r a ne st a r ted h is “My fat her is a ow n self-t it led doctor … he teaches photog raphy medical English classes b u s i ne s s , Nat h a n to st udent s who are Crane Productions. interested in learning Crane’s business has about t he A merica n since been successful healthcare system and and he believes you don’t need a degree to the language,” Crane pursue what you want said. “My mom does to achieve. a lot of w o r k w i t h “The biggest thing orphans and orphan SAVANNAH CERNIGLIA // THE GAMECOCK ministry.” that separates those who are successful in Nathan Crane talks to the Daily Gamecock about his photography business and A s a teen ager, the media world and documentary.

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EDITORIAL BOARD MARY RAMSEY Editor-in-chief

ERIN SLOWEY Design director

TAYLOR WASHINGTON Co-Arts & Culture editor SHELBY BECKLER Sports editor

RITA NAIDU Assistant copy desk chief ERIN METCALF Managing editor

GENNA CONTINO Co-Arts & Culture editor

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The Daily Gamecock endorses Smith-Norrell for governor Upon careful consideration of the merits of both tickets, The Daily Gamecock endorses James Smith and Mandy Powers Norrell for governor and lieutenant governor, respectively.

We believe that Smith adequately addressed many of the issues that we, as students and young adults, care about deeply and offered policy positions that we can stand behind.

Sm it h’s st a nce on educat ion is strong, and we particularly appreciate his intentions to lower tuition costs i n Sout h Ca rol i n a col lege s a nd tech n ical schools a nd to f u r t her invest in education infrastructure in the “corridor of shame” (a group of schools which have been routinely

disenfranchised).

A nd , i n l i g ht of r e c e nt m a s s shootings (especially those carried out i n schools), we bel ieve t hat Smith’s support for common sense gun control, including legislation to close the “Charleston loophole” and requiring background checks for private gun sales, are both a timely and appropriate solution to this delicate issue.

Fu r t her more, we b el ie ve t h at c or r upt ion i n S out h C a rol i n a’s government is a significant problem, and Sm it h’s plans to address t he issue, especially his plan to eliminate the retrograde and unjust practice of gerr ymandering, is superior to

any comparable proposal from his opponent, incumbent Gov. Henry McMaster.

W h ile we feel comfor table endorsing the Smith-Norrell ticket, we would like to add an addendum to our decision. Bot h Sm it h and McMaster are incredibly vague about issue positions on their websites.

We w e r e n o t a b l e t o m a k e compar isons bet ween t he t wo c a nd id at e s o n v it a l i s s u e s l i k e immigration and sanct uar y cities because (in this specific instance) Smith does not advertise an official position. Furthermore, even on the issue positions we support Smith on, we were not always able to determine

how he would translate these positions into actual policy.

While this vagueness problem did not impact our ultimate decision to endorse Smith-Norrell, we believe it is important to consider on principle.

Having an informed electorate is the bedrock of any democratic system.

G o v e r n me nt of f ic i a l s c a n not properly represent their constituents if their constituents are left in the dark.

If candidates are unable or unwilling to provide the public with specific a nd substa nt ive issue a nd polic y information, then the political system as a whole will continue to suffer.

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The Daily Gamecock endorses candidates for U.S. House of Representatives The Da ily G a mecock ed itor ial board has decided to run endorsements for the following candidates based on a discussion surrounding the issues each candidate ran on. Multiple senior staff members (paid staff members that appear on our masthead) voted on each candidate based on the particular issues each candidate listed on their campaign website, their congressional website and through their official vote records (if they were an incumbent).

District 4: None

In this process, candidates were anonymized and only their discernible issues, platforms and policy positions were included. To further remove bias, senior staff members were allowed to vote anonymously as well. Following this, candidates names were revealed and senior staff members were given the chance to refine their selections with this new information in mind. The opinions represented here are those of The Daily Gamecock Editorial Board.

District 5: None

District 7: None

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District 2: Sean Carrigan (D)

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Cit y Roots transformed into a sea of green, purple and gold, with feather boas and spark ling masquerade mask s ever y where. The Mardi Gras Columbia parade fol low i ng a 5K r ace h ad led cost umed participants of all ages —and their dogs — through Rosewood to an all-day celebration despite

who has been attending the festival for years, said the wide variety of music is one of his favorite parts of the day. With Cajun grass groups and rock and roll bands, the fou r st ages of mu sic had something for every taste. A major highlight was a local brass group.

“The Soda City Brass Band brings a whole new element and jazz to the festivities,” said Hunt. “The bands are so

De spite t he le s s -t h a nidea l we at her, t he h ighspi r ited c rowd wa s not quick ly deterred. The sing ing, dancing and drinking continued through intermittent rain showers.

Fi r s t-t i me p a r t ic ip a nt Hannah W hitton, a fourth-year environmental science student at USC, was surprised by the high energy level.

“People were dancing in

“That’s the thing … it rained and nobody left.”

A not her f i r st-t i me attendee, Traci Teagle, was i mpre s s ed b y e ver yone’s enthusiasm. Her one regret of the day was not wearing more purple and green.

“Ever yone really outdid what I thought they would do,” said Teagle. “People were handing me beads as soon as I got here … morale is high.”

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concluded on Sat urday at dusk, the communit y will cont i nue to ex per ience the positive impact of the festival. This year’s festival benefited “Heroes in Blue,” a nonprof it org a n iz at ion t hat promotes posit ive relationships between local pol ice a nd com mu n it y members a nd prov ides support for families of fallen officers.

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Wofford College student Stephen Ridley’s experiences in a summer internship in Washington, D.C., at the prestigious Engalitcheff Institute on Coparative Political and Economic Studies pro-

vided him focus for his professional life after graduation. They also led to an invitation to return to the nation’s capital this month.

“Whether it was through my internship or the

classes and lectures I attended, I learned highly valuable and specialized information that has helped shape my career path,” says the international affairs major from Columbia, S.C. “I now know that I want to pursue a career that involves political economics in some shape or form, and this program opened my mind to a host of different post-graduate tracks other than law school.”

Ridley took another step toward that goal during Interim as he plans to attend the Liberty Fund’s Liberty and Equality Conference Jan. 19-21 in D.C.; he was invited to the conference based on the success he had during the summer program.

He received a stipend that covers travel, housing and food. He attended lectures and roundtable discussions on such topics as equality, morality and the market, the welfare state and the history of socialism and welfarism.

Ridley was nominated for the Engalitcheff Institute, a program funded by the Fund for American Studies (TFAS), by Dr. John Farrenkopf, a professor of government and international affairs, after teaching him in an American foreign policy Interim course.

“Based on his performance in the classroom, Stephen struck me as an excellent prospect for admittance to the Engalitcheff program,” Farrenkopf says. “A perfect record of class attendance underscored his commitment to excel. He is serious, personable, industrious and intellectually

curious.”

“My internship included a wide variety of tasks, but all were extremely rewarding,” Ridley says.

“I did everything from helping with big events to revamping and managing planning programs and databases.”

Ridley also attended regular lectures and networking events. After one such lecture series, he was one of five students invited to attend a private luncheon on Capitol Hill, where attendees discussed free speech and the political climate on college campuses.

He also was selected as one of five students to speak at TFAS’ summer graduation ceremony in front of 450 of his peers and their families, TFAS staff and foreign ambassadors.

“TFAS really runs a fantastic program, and I can’t thank them enough,” Ridley says. “What they’re teaching is incredibly important given the political climate, so having a good understanding of the principles behind public policy and economics is going to be crucial to be successful in the future.”

TFAS’s mission is to teach the principles of limited government, free-market economics and honorable leadership to students and young professionals in America and around the world, with the intent to mold and inspire future leaders to make a positive difference.

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Voter participation in different areas of study According to Democracy Counts: A Report on U.S. College and University Student Voting

Student turnout increased in all areas in the 2016 election

TV SHOW OF THE WEEK: “The Haunting of Hill House” This new Netflix series, based on the book “The Haunting of Hill House,” does a spectacular job of terrifying the viewer. The show is based around Hill House, a dark, mysterious and creepy old mansion that is (of course) haunted. It follows the Crain family through their past and present, delving into the effects of the house on the characters. The show is filled with jump scares and plot twists that keeps you on your toes and excited for each new turn.

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ALBUM OF THE WEEK: “Bohemian Rhapsody (The Originial Soundtrack)” This album comes from the new movie “Bohemian Rhapsody.” It combines some of Queen’s greatest hit songs, new mixes from the movie and live versions of the songs. Just about everyone knows the classics “We Will Rock You” or “Bohemian Rhapsody” that are featured on the album. Freddie Mercury’s soothing voice combined with the creative use of guitar and drums make for an unforgettable soundtrack.

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2016 election highlights key demographics in midterm NICK SULLIVAN @tdg_arts The year is 2016. Donald Trump has defied all odds in becoming the Republican nominee, but

Clinton but accounted for only 19 percent of the vote. Despite this low statistic, NPR reports that they represent nearly one-third of eligible voters.

What’s more, the United States Census Bureau found that only 46.1 percent of those in this age range cast votes as opposed to 66.6 percent of ages 45

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GENNA CONTINO & TAYLOR WASHINGTON @tdg_arts After bringing in two hip-hop headliners in a row, this year’s Cockstock is hoping for a change of pace by bringing in two pop acts.

One of this year’s headliner is Daya, a pop singer best known for her feature on The Chainsmokers’ Billboard No. 3 hit, “Don’t Let Me Down” and her own single “Sit Still, Look Pretty.” The other is Iyaz, a British Virgin Islander artist who lingers in many minds as the mastermind behind t he ly rics, “Shawty’s like a melody in my head.”

His single “Replay,” charted No. 2 on the Billboard 100 for one week in 2009.

“We’re in a completely different genre, which I think is exciting and everybody’s heard Daya’s songs on the radio, and Iyaz is kind of like that middle school artist that everybody has heard ‘Replay’ on replay,” said fourth-year public health student and Carolina Productions president, Rebecca Kaze. “Nostalgia’s really trendy right now.”

This year’s Cockstock budget has yet to be finalized, according to Kaze, but she estimates the total cost of the event will come out to around $85,000. Daya cost $40,000 and Iyaz cost $5,000. The rest of the budget is

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still unknown, Kaze said.

This budget isn’t too far off from the past two year’s Cockstocks. In 2016, Rae Sremmurd headlined on the Strom Thurmond Fitness & Wellness Center fields for the event’s debut. The total cost of the show was $88,461.08.

Last year, 21 Savage headlined in Colonial Life Arena and, a show that cost $101,678.71.

Cockstock was first created in 2016 by former student b o d y p r e s ide nt M ic h ae l Parks, and it was one of the foundations of his campaign.

Since then, the annual concert has taken on a life of its own and has become a Carolina homecoming tradition.

Ca rol i n a P ro duc t ion s , Homecom i ng, St udent Government and the Resident Hall Association are the key decision makers for the event.

Like every other Carolina Productions event, the budget for Cock stock is ent irely funded by the money USC students pay in student activity fees that are then distributed to organizations.

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Both Sports Illustrated and SB Nation project that the Gamecocks w i l l s p e nd Ne w Ye a r ’s Ev e i n Jacksonville for the TaxSlayer Gator Bowl. Sports Illustrated projects a matchup with the Michigan State Spartans, while SB Nation thinks t he Gamecock s w ill take on t he Northwestern Wildcats at TI A A Bank Field.

The Gamecocks have played in the Gator Bowl four times, but have lost all fou r matchups. The last time South Carolina played in the game was 1987. The Gamecocks have never played M ich igan State in football, but have played Northwestern before. In 1962, the Gamecocks lost to the Wildcats by a score of 37-20.

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destination for the Gamecocks. It projects that the Gamecocks will play t he Sy racuse Orange in t he Music Cit y Bowl on Dec. 28 i n Nashville.

The Gamecocks have never played in the Music Cit y Bowl, but have already played in Nashville once this year. South Carolina plays at Vanderbilt every other year, and beat the Commodores in Nashville by a score of 37-14 earlier this year. South Carolina has never played Syracuse on the football field.

Even after a frustrating loss to the Florida Gators, the Gamecocks are still in position to play in a bowl game against a qualit y opponent in December. Regardless of where t he G amecock s may land in t he postseason, fans can probably look for wa rd to end i ng t he footba l l season with a bowl game for the third year in a row.

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On the night of Sept. 17, Washington posted his rendition of Sandstorm on his Twitter account. “ S o o v e r n i g h t , i t b l e w u p ,” Washing ton said. “People started tagging USC players in it, people started tagging Justin King into it and even Justin King retweeted it after it really started taking off. I woke up to like 50k likes with 10k retweets and I still get notifications to this day.”

Washington went on to say that he was just hoping that his remix would be played at Williams-Brice so that he could impact the Gamecocks in some way and make his mark on South Carolina.

Soon af ter he posted h is rem i x on Tw it ter, Wa sh i ng ton got t he opportunity he had been waiting fo when Justin King, the associate athletics director for new and creative media at South Carolina, contacted him.

“It all happened through Twitter DM’s,” Washington said. “I sent them the video ... and then [King] was like ‘Yeah man, this is sick’ and I posted the song to Soundcloud and I sent him

the link to it and everything and he downloaded it and he was like ‘Yeah’ and he said he was going to use it in his promo videos.”

Not long after his conversation with King, Washington’s remix was used in a promotional video for the football game against Vanderbilt. The reaction was a positive one.

Then after the Vanderbilt game, King came back to Washington with great news.

“He said ‘Yeah, we might run this at Williams-Brice, if people keep loving it’” Washington said. “Whenever we scored the two-point conversion to tie the game up, there it is, they played it.”

The South Carolina media team still uses Washington’s remix at football games, as they used it two weeks later against Tennessee after a Jake Bentley run for a two-point conversion to tie the game at 24-24.

Now that Washington is done with his Sandstorm remix, he hopes for more opportunities to work with South Carolina.

“I would’ve done it to just work up with USC,” Washington said. “I would love to make music for them somehow.

That is a big goal for me.”

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portion of the budget set aside to facilitate any new programs Student G over n ment develops af ter t he budget is finalized.

“Upon further ref lection, after the budget was already passed, we realized that that’s against the codes, so we have not used it,” Wright said.

“The money will go towards the New Initiative Fund and that has to be approved by the Senate anytime anybody wants to pull out of that.”

C u r r e nt l y, t he r e i s no d o c u m e nt at io n o n t he b u d g e t indicating this transfer, as the Student Senate must approve any funding moved out of the New Initiative Fund. This fund is set aside for new St udent Government init iat ives, such as Coffee with the President on Greene Street.

“The goal of the New Initiative Fund is a f unding categor y t hat supports bringing new initiatives into fruition for Student Government,” St udent Body Treasure Emerson Odagis said in an email. “This money is spent with this vision in mind.”

Inventoriable Items The Senate Finance Committee does not fund requests from student organizations requesting items that can be saved and used again, known as inventoriable items. For example, this year the committee denied a request from Active Minds to create a banner for tabling on Greene Street because it was deemed an inventoriable item.

Despite denying funding requests for inventoriable items for other st udent org a n iz at ion s, St udent Government’s f iscal year budget outlines spending on inventoriable items for its own organization such as office supplies, trophies, office photos, SG executive polo shirts and name plates in both its operation and transition funds.

St udent G over n ment also approved $1,000 for T-shirts and $850 for the Student Government fall retreat, which was cancelled due to a hurricane. However, Odagis said those funds were also put toward the New Initiative Fund.

Funding Rules Associate Vice President of Student Life Anna Edwards, who heads the department which provides funds to Student Government, emphasized

the need for Student Government to follow its codes.

“That is u lt imately t heir responsibility to see that they are spending according to their codes and that they are spending according to what has been approved through their process,” Edwards said. “It’s an incredible amount of responsibility that they hold. But they are ultimately responsible to their peers for how t hey spend t heir f u nds and how they represent all students and the programs and activities that they do.”

T h i s f i s c a l y e a r, St ude nt G over n ment is ma nag i ng more t han $220,000 from t he St udent Ac t iv it y Fee for u nderg raduate student organizations. Of that total, $42,594.52 is earmarked for Student Government to spend on itself and on programs to benefit the student body.

S o f a r t h i s y e a r, t he S e n at e Finance Committee has received 85 requests for funding from student organizations on campus and has allocated $59,579.07 of the $185,367 budget as of Nov. 9.

W hile Wright said t he money designated for monthly meeting food goes against the organization’s codes, Senate Financial Committee Chair Sam Sisney said the rules for funding St udent Government operat ions differ from those that apply to other student organizations because they come from two different funds from the Department of Student Life.

“W hile Student Government is a student organization, it’s coming from a different set,” Sisney said. “So the money that was marked on the budget doesn’t have to fit these codes because it’s coming from a different fund.”

Mohamed Soluiman, the assistant director of finance for the Department of St udent Life and the adviser for the Senate Finance Committee, said the two funds were separate.

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As Family Weekend marks the midpoint of the fall semester, members of the class of 2022 have faced the challenge of adjusting to life as a college student amidst difficult classes and homesickness and are finding their place at USC. “So far, it’s been good. I miss home a little bit, I miss my family,” said Alexis Robinson, a first-year fashion merchandising student. “But I definitely don’t wish I was home right now. I don’t think classes are as hard as I expected them to be. It’s manageable, the workload.”

For some first year students like international business student Katie Hall, the shift from high school to college schedules was a big change, with scattered class times and the freedom to choose a schedule.

“It’s been a lot different but it’s been really good not having to wake up at 6:30 [a.m.] and go to school until 3 [p.m.],” she said. “I have free time in the morning and free time in the afternoons.”

In 2018, USC welcomed freshmen to campus with a variety of events such as Cocky’s Call on

the Horseshoe, First Night Carolina and Convocation. Welcome Week was expanded to include Bustle at the Russell and outdoor movies along with the traditional student organization fair. Hall said she appreciated the opportunity to learn the traditions of the university and meet other new students.

“During welcome week, I went to a few church events and I really liked First Night Carolina, that was a lot of fun,” said Hall. “Through that, I kind of got to meet more people and ... it made the campus feel small.”

Alayna Martin, a first-year international studies student said her experience at the organization fair had a big impact on her semester because it got her involved in multiple clubs.

“It is better than what I expected because I really have loved the people that I met here and it’s not as difficult to find my classes and stuff as I thought it would be,” said Martin.

In getting involved on campus, Martin said she was able to feel immersed in college life and make friends.

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What started with the hashtag “MeToo” has grown to become a movement for women to change the conversation on sexual assault.

The letter was addressed to the “Dear Sisters” of the entertainment industry who have spoken out about the “gender-based violence they’ve experienced at the hands of bosses, coworkers and other powerful people in the entertainment industry.”

They end the letter by reassuring the women in entertainment that they are not alone and that they believe and support them.

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council, we meet once a month, that involves 1520 students that come have dinner with us and talk about dining services. We prevent Téa Franco different industry inforfrancot@mytjnow. mation, we shared some Q:Tell us about what you food trends with them at the last have been doing to get the meeting, we shared different food students’ opinions involved in trends that are going on on college dining services. campuses and we talk about anyA: One, we try to promote all thing specific to Winthrop dining of our events. We are being more services. There are some questions aggressive with the social media and answers, a little bit of back and posts, we are using the school’s forth on things that they would like daily digest to promote occurrences improvements on or things that and different specials that are hapthey like. Sometimes we put flip pening in the dining halls. We have charts up at the door of thomson what we call a student culinary

Manager of dining services, Bryan Harriss, sat down with The Johnsonian to discuss students’ questions and concerns.

that will say things like ‘what is your favorite food?’ so students can come up and write what their favorite food item and we pull different examples of foods that were written on the flip chart and we will organize a menu around that and promote that, so they know that they are listening to what you are asking us. We are trying to be more active and engaged with the students around the dining services program.

Q: Will to-go boxes make a return to Thomson Cafe?

A: At the time, we do not and will not have to-go boxes. The reason for that is that the meal plans are designed for ultimate flexibility.

We are open from 7:30AM-9:30PM and we never close; whereas some

schools have meal plans were they have specific dining hours, we stay open continuously which gives students a lot of opportunities to come in and have their meals.

Secondly, all of the retail is to-go, so if you don’t want to get Thomson and you want a to-go meal, you can go to any of the retail options and get a meal to go. The third thing that we’ve done in terms of having a portable meal option is that we have what we call Simply To Go meals out of the Eagle’s Nest store.

So in lieu of coming into Thomson and swiping your card you can swipe your meal plan card in Eagle Nest and get a to go meal there and it’s a variety of salad, sandwiches, chips, fruit cups, puddings and that sort of thing.

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Voter turnout at Winthrop on the rise

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The percentage of winthrop students who have participated in voting has more than doubled since 2014.

Anna Sharpe sharpea@mytjnow.com In 2016, only 39 percent of 1824 year olds voted in the presidential elections around the country.

Winthrop kept students engaged and politically charged, according to Judy Longshaw, the News and Media Service Manager at Winthrop.

Karen Kedrowski is a political science professor and the director

of the university’s Center for Civic Engagement. She said that students, faculty and staff continue to join in the effort to increase voter turnout on Winthrop’s campus, especially in the 2016 and the recent midterm elections.

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helped with the campus wide voter turnout efforts,” Kedrowski said.

Winthrop also has encouraged students to vote by participating in the Voter Friendly Campus Initiative and the All In Campus Democracy Challenge, according to Kedrowski.

“Through these associations, we were able share ideas with faculty and staff working on student voter turnout across the country. As a result, Winthrop paid students’ postage for their voter registration and absentee ballot forms and absentee ballots, and developed a ‘make a plan to vote’ project for ACAD classes,” Kedrowski said.

Many candidates have said that the political scene has begun to shift in order to suit college-aged students and many candidates have begun implementing efforts into their campaigns for colleges and universities. Kedrowski said that students should take advantage of this and vote so that they are heard.

“If they don’t participate, their needs and values are too easily overlooked. Moreover, voting is a habit and we want our students to become frequent voters,” Kedrowski said.

Winthrop’s political engagement has been continuously admirable, according to Kedrowski, but in recent years these efforts have grown immensely.

“However, this effort went to a new effort with the arrival of the

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John C. West Forum in 2008. This provided an additional venue to bring programming to campus, create internships, and to provide information about voting,” Kedrowski said.

Kedrowski also said that she is proud of Winthrop students and their engagement in civil discourse and political activism. She said that many students are becoming more interested in politics, because of the relatability of the policies these politicians are working on.

“Young voters are really interested in environment, health care, gun control and more. I also think young adults’ use of social media makes it easier to mobilize and organize protests, sit ins, and even email campaigns to elected officials,” Kedrowski said.

Many states have adopted a same-day registration policy and early voting policies, which Kedrowski has said she would like for South Carolina to do as well.

She also said that in order to increase voter turnout among young people all over the country students should be given as many opportunities to vote as possible.

“States with these policies in place have higher voter turnout...

These include making election day a campus holiday or allowing voting as an excused absence from class, providing rides to the polls or having a polling place on campus, providing voter education resources, and event postage,” Kedrowski said.

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As the ball dropped on New Year’s Day, the resolutions of going to the gym and eating healthy were outshined by the “Time’s Up” movement on sexual harassment in the workplace.

Time’s Up On Jan. 1, 2018, The New York Times released a letter written on behalf of the women in film, television and theater who spoke up about the sexual harassment they faced while in the workplace.

The letter, addressed “Dear Sisters” acknowledged the women in the entertainment industry and those in other fields who have come to face sexual assault during their work. Addressing each possible scenario that women have had to endure in regards to sexual harassment, they write “We stand with you. We support you.”

The letter makes a call to action by asking others to help with the cause by donating and signing the letter. By signing the letter, “the signatories of this letter will be seeding a legal fund to help survivors of sexual assault and harassment across all industries challenge those responsible for the harm against them and give voice to their experiences.”

Senior mass communication major Ann Marie Langrehr sees the celebrities getting involved as an important piece to the puzzle to ending the silence of sexual assault.

“I think that celebrities using their star power and letting their voice drive this movement is key,” Langrehr said.

The original signers of the letter include almost 400 signatures of women across the entertainment industry, from “Jane the Virgin’s” Gina Rodriguez to Harry Potter star Emma Watson.

The “Dear Sisters” piece was inspired by a similar letter sent by the Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, the first national farmworker’s women organization in the U.S.

#MeToo Campaign Before it was “Time’s Up,” the words “Me Too” began to show up all across social media. The social media movement of the hashtag “Me Too” began with a tweet from actress Alyssa Milano that started a viral phenomenon.

On Oct. 15, 2017, Milano tweeted “If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me too.’ as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.”

The tweet gained over 25 thousand retweets and over 68 thousand comments from people saying “Me too,” with some even saying who the person was or how old they were when it happened.

When junior human nutrition major Brittany Turner began to see the hashtag spread across social media, she knew that this was taking sexual harassment talk into a powerful space.

“Many times, when a person experiences sexual trauma, they’re often left feeling isolated and powerless. It’s a proven fact that there’s power in numbers and this movement gives people like me a small amount of that power back,” she said.

As the movement began to go viral, women began to tell their stories of sexual harassment. According to The New York Times, over 50 high-profile men within the media and entertainment industry “have been fired, resigned or experienced a professional fallout,” due to the movement.

The list of men includes, but is not limited to, Fox News correspondent James Rosen, former “House of Cards” actor Kevin Spacey,” and former co-host of “Today” Matt Lauer.

The original “Me Too” tweet by Alyssa Milano received over 25,000 retweets and over 68,000 comments.

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Courtyard residence hall floods The on-campus apartment building suffered water damages, causing many students to relocate for the semester Em Leamy leamye@mytjnow.com

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On the morning of Jan. 8, at around 5:45 a.m., the fire alarm went off in The Courtyard Residence Hall on Winthrop’s campus. Students rushed down the stairs and crossed Alumni Drive, following evacuation protocol.

A Resident Assistant soon announced through a megaphone that a two inch pipe had burst and there was flooding on the first and second floors of the building.

“There was water sort of puddling right outside our door, and down the hall you could see and hear it flowing” Ebba Nobreus, a resident of the second floor of Courtyard, said of the early morning incident.

The Director of Residence Life, Dr. Casey Tollos, sent out an email at 12:21 p.m.that day updating Courtyard residents on the state of the building.

“The Department of Facilities Management is currently assessing the damage and has begun repairs to the water line. Due to the amount of flooding, suites and rooms were affected at different levels. At this point, we are trying to determine the extent of the damage to individual suites and rooms.”

The email continued to tell students to gather their belongings that they need and evacuate the building by 4:00 p.m. The communication encouraged students to stay with friends or family off-campus tonight. If students do not have a place to stay, they can report to Residence Life at 4:00 p.m. today and discuss alternative options with staff.

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Clean-up crew cars parked outside of The Courtyard on Jan. 8.

“Some rooms may be available as early as tomorrow while others may be unavailable for several days” The email from Residence Life said.

Callie Glaser, a resident on the first floor of the building, experienced severe damage in her room.

“The water was coming out of every crack in the ceiling, even the smoke detectors. Out floor was covered in three inches at least of standing water (and) in every single room, our stuff was floating around,” Glaser said.

Kellen Blake, another resident of Courtyard, hopes the situation is resolved quickly.

“I feel like it’s unfortunate and I hope people are compensated for this since some people have been seriously affected by this,” Blake remarked.

Another email from Winthrop University was sent to all students at 1:11 p.m. on Jan. 8 ensuring, “Facilities, residence and student life staff are working collaboratively, along with Winthrop Police, to serve Courtyard students during this challenging time.”

Residence Life continued to update students on a room-by-room basis during the days of Jan 8. and 9.

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GENNA CONTINO & TAYLOR WASHINGTON @tdg_arts After bringing in two hip-hop headliners in a row, this year’s Cockstock is hoping for a change of pace by bringing in two pop acts.

One of this year’s headliner is Daya, a pop singer best known for her feature on The Chainsmokers’ Billboard No. 3 hit, “Don’t Let Me Down” and her own single “Sit Still, Look Pretty.” The other is Iyaz, a British Virgin Islander artist who lingers in many minds as the mastermind behind t he ly rics, “Shawty’s like a melody in my head.”

His single “Replay,” charted No. 2 on the Billboard 100 for one week in 2009.

“We’re in a completely different genre, which I think is exciting and everybody’s heard Daya’s songs on the radio, and Iyaz is kind of like that middle school artist that everybody has heard ‘Replay’ on replay,” said fourth-year public health student and Carolina Productions president, Rebecca Kaze. “Nostalgia’s really trendy right now.”

This year’s Cockstock budget has yet to be finalized, according to Kaze, but she estimates the total cost of the event will come out to around $85,000. Daya cost $40,000 and Iyaz cost $5,000. The rest of the budget is

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still unknown, Kaze said.

This budget isn’t too far off from the past two year’s Cockstocks. In 2016, Rae Sremmurd headlined on the Strom Thurmond Fitness & Wellness Center fields for the event’s debut. The total cost of the show was $88,461.08.

Last year, 21 Savage headlined in Colonial Life Arena and, a show that cost $101,678.71.

Cockstock was first created in 2016 by former student b o d y p r e s ide nt M ic h ae l Parks, and it was one of the foundations of his campaign.

Since then, the annual concert has taken on a life of its own and has become a Carolina homecoming tradition.

Ca rol i n a P ro duc t ion s , Homecom i ng, St udent Government and the Resident Hall Association are the key decision makers for the event.

Like every other Carolina Productions event, the budget for Cock stock is ent irely funded by the money USC students pay in student activity fees that are then distributed to organizations.

It was a battle throughout the entire game, but South Carolina was able to overcome major foul issues and a 14-point deficit to get the 76-68 win over No. 18/16 Kentucky.

The Gamecocks looked to be in control early, leading 19-12 after eight minutes of play and had probably their best shooting

start of the season, shooting 71 percent during that time. The shooting struggled for the remainder of the half, as they were held scoreless for nearly four minutes. Despite the issues, the Gamecocks trailed by just three points going into the locker room.

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With applications open, recruitment efforts by the Housing Department for next year’s prospective resident mentors are in full swing.

“We’re hopeful that we can get 600 applications this year, and we’re trying to reach students really broadly across the university, because we really believe that the strength of our pool is dependent upon the diversity of applications,” said Tiffany Conde, assistant director of residential leadership.

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JORDAN WARREN // THE GAMECOCK Bernie Sanders held a rally with Columbia residents and students to speak about the importance of fighting for affordable healthcare.

Sanders rallies for healthcare JOSEPH LEONARD @JSCLeonard Columbia residents and students w it h pol it ic a l sig n s a nd O u r Revolution t-shirts packed into the Koger Center to hear Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Nina Turner speak for the next stop of the Medicare For All rally.

Sanders began a nine-state tour on Oct. 18, looking to spread his message of affordable healthcare.

His stop in Columbia on Oct. 20 was referred to as “Medicare for Y’all,” and it is partnered with the campus chapter of Our Revolution, a campaign started by Turner.

Sa nders took t he st age a nd i m med iately t h a n ked Tu r ner and Our Revolution for the work

they’ve done around the country to bring social, economic, racial and environmental justice through cooperation from citizens.

“The way we do that is through revitalizing American democracy, getting people to stand up and fight for what is right,” Sanders said.

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At the October Board of Trustees meeting, the voting members of the Presidential Search Committee were appointed as the first step in forming the committee to follow President Pastides.

“The next step is kind of all of us getting together, the whole search committee.

Today the board selected who they wanted to be representative,” said Taylor Wright, st udent body president. “We have t he student representatives, the faculty still hasn’t selected who they want so hopefully next week we’ll have that solidified and we can get going.”

According to t he Board of Tr ustees bylaws, the student body president serves on the Presidential Search Committee until the search is over, regardless whether they have reached the end of the term and graduated.

Wright sees his job as a way to communicate the student voice to the committee.

“They have to be student friendly. That’s number one on the list. If students aren’t the reason you’re here, and not why you’re excited to get up, and not why you do everything, then that’s an issue,” Wright said. “They have to be someone who cares about diversity and inclusion and equity, not someone too polarizing in either direction.”

The Board of Trustees has five voting members on the search committee. Those appointed are Hubert Mobley, who will serve as chair, William Hubbard, Leah Moody, C. Dorn Smith III and Eugene Warr Jr. The secretary of the Board of Trustees, J. Cantey Heath Jr., will also serve as the secretary of the search committee.

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A nd Tuesday, just one day af ter M LK Day, posters over an A f r ica n A mer ica n st udies display t hat honored famous South Carolinians.

“It’s very difficult when t hings are constantly going on, especially on the first day of classes,” said JaCor i G a mbrel l, the president of the Association of African American Students. “It can really mess with you.”

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University of M i s s ou r i’s s t udent body president, spa rked protest s at his own campus and across the country in the fall of 2015 after posting on Facebook about the racism and homophobia he faced.

With his talk Tuesday night at in the Russell Hou se T heater, Head provided encou r agement for USC students fighting t ho s e s a me i s s ue s .

Planned jointly by the Association of African A merican St udents, t he Leadership and Service Center, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs, the event was the first AAAS meeting of the semester and part of the Momentum speaker series.

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The Office of Sustainability gave back last Saturday when it sold collected and donated items to support local charities.

Part of the EcoReps program, the Give It Up For Good sale donates its proceeds to Habitat for Humanit y, Harvest Hope and Goodwill.

“W hat we’re doing is we’re t r y i n g t o d i v e r t t he w a s t e that would usually go into the du mpsters at t he end of t he semester i nto a produc t for people to purchase,” said Laura A n ne Hu nt , coord i nator of sustainability at USC. The sale is held at the end of bot h t he f a l l a nd spr i ng semesters, a nd a ny item can be donated by st udent s, staff, facult y and communit y members.

“A lot of the stuff we get is like lamps and comforters and clothing and stuff that can be reused,” said Hunt. “Instead of a l low i ng it to g o to t he landfi ll where it’s just going to be tonnage that goes to waste we give it an opportunity for a second life.”

Not only is Give It Up For Good a great way to give to charity, but it also benefits the community by providing quality items for a cheaper price.

“The community loves it. We had people lined up at 6 a.m. — the sale started at seven,” Hunt said.

“It’s also pretty inexpensive stuff. It’s actually good deals so I think the community probably really liked that,” said EcoReps program coordinator A shley Hrubala.

T he s e c he ap e r it e m s a r e particularly helpful for students who are living on their own for the fi rst time. Many apartments are unfurnished, and students may not have t heir ow n furniture to move in. Give It Up For Good helps resolve this issue by prov iding f urnit ure options for great prices.

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because it’s ver y inexpensive s t u f f , a n d it ’s p r e t t y h i g h quality,” said Hrubala.

Most of the items are donated by students, but facult y, staff and communit y members can visit residence halls to donate their own items. Hunt says that things left by students account for about 90 percent of t he items.

Give It Up For Good has been so successful that storage has become a major problem. This is part of the reasoning behind having sales during twice during the school year.

“All the things collected at the end of the summer move out we save those for the winter Give It Up For Good sale,” said Hunt.

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Interim takes students to Everest for first time When Dr. Thomas Wright, math professor, returned from Antarctica at the end of a sabbatical of traveling and book-writing, his next adventure was to to take an interim group to Nepal and Tibet. Dr. Jeremy Henkel and 19 students joined Wright on a religious pilgrimage through the monasteries and temples, which characterize the two nations’ strong religious values.

I was one of the lucky ones to be a part of “To the Roof of the World: Life in the Shadow of Mt. Everest,” a course focused on the religious practices and histories of the region surrounding the world’s highest mountain.

The itinerary began with four days in Kathmandu, Nepal.

We explored the alleyways of the neighborhood of Thamel that surrounded our hotel. Our tour guide, a Nepalese man with enough knowledge to carry on a conversation in seven different languages, led us on tours of palaces and important city centers, known as “durbar squares.” Kathmandu, Bhaktapur, and Patan durbar squares are all UNESCO World Heritage Sites. He shared stories of the 2015 earthquake and highlighted the efforts to restore the collection of damaged structures and artifacts.

Although seven students were temporarily (for a day) hospitalized due to food-related bacterial infections, the group then flew from Kathmandu to Lhasa, Tibet. Our tour guide in Tibet, Kondol, greeted us in the traditional manner of wrapping a white silk scarf around our necks. At an elevation of approximately 12,000 feet, Lhasa is home to the historical residence of the Dalai Lama, the Potala Palace.

Tibet, a historically oppressed region of China which has fought for independence since the days of the Cultural Revolution, was once politically and religiously ruled by the Dalai Lama until the 14th Dalai Lama fled to Dharmsala, India where many Tibetan Buddhists sought exile. It was not uncommon for Kondol to explain that some part of any monastery which we visited had been partially or entirely destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.

We learned, too, that while China eventually wants Tibet to be a part of One China, those born in Tibet cannot receive passports and therefore cannot travel.

Before I registered for this interim, I was unfamiliar with a person known as the Panchen Lama. He’s closely affiliated with the Dalai Lama but his-

Prayer flags decorated all of Nepal and Tibet. The traditional colors are often in the order of blue, white, red, green and yellow, signifying sky and space, wind, fire, water and earth. They are printed with traditional Buddhist mantras and blowing in the wind is said to carry the prayers to the sky. Tattered prayer flags are believed to symbolize answered prayers. (Photo by Lydia Estes) torically resided at the Tashilhunpo Monastery. In an effort to undermine Tibetan independence movements, China allegedly kidnapped the 11th Panchen Lama in the 90s and named another Panchen Lama.

While visiting the Tashilhunpo Monastery, Kondol informed us that the 11th Panchen Lama lives in Beijing, while our group generally understood that the Tibetans don’t know where their Panchen Lama currently resides. I turned to Wright to clarify, and he pointed to a security camera inside

the main chapel. It was then I realized that Kondol was propagating a lie created by the Chinese, which further suppressed her people’s freedom of speech in order to protect herself from the police.

After Lhasa, our road trip through the Himalayan mountains began. We visited small villages like Samye and Gyantse, larger “Chinese-style” cities like Shigatse, and eventually a small town known as Segar which rests a mere 2 hours from Everest Base Camp. Most of us had felt sick or anxious

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at one point or another, but the air on the morning of our visit to base camp felt hopeful and light—possibly just from the thinness of the atmosphere at nearly 17,000 feet.

We had a chance to tie our white scarves from the first day to the highest mountain pass we would encounter— higher in elevation than base camp—to symbolically ask for good health and fortune for our families. Permitting the Chinese government would accept our alien status, Jan. 19, 2018, would be the day Wofford students and professors stood at Everest Base Camp.

The bus climbed the switchbacks for about two hours, and eventually we reached the world’s highest monastery, Rongbuk Monastery (16,732 feet). Our walk to base camp was not taxing, but at that elevation, we had to remind ourselves that signs of sickness or insufficient oxygen arise hours after the fact. We trekked in the dry riverbed of boulders, as the glaciers won’t begin to melt significantly until the spring.

After a few miles, we reached a monument that indicated we had made it to Everest Base Camp. The camp ground was empty; peak season is AprilMay, and there is no reason someone should be stationed at

base camp in January. Attempts at climbing and summiting Everest during any time but the target window of 7-10 days in May are practically death wishes.

This meant we had the place to ourselves. Wright brought his travel saxophone, a sopranino, and performed a few songs for us. Then Kondol directed us up a steep staircase built into the side of a hill where we ate our lunches (water and consuming carbohydrates—specifically dark chocolate—are the best remedies against altitude sickness). I can honestly say I’ve never, and probably will never, enjoyed a cooler picnic than the one I shared in the company of fellow Terriers at Everest Base Camp.

We reversed our steps back through the Himalayan foothill until we made it back to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. The next day, our flight over these snowcapped peaks took us once more to the city of Kathmandu. Even though I believe that most of us were enthusiastic to return to this colorful, lively, un-oppressed country, many of us were just as wistful about the adventures we had endured on our road trip through the Himalayas.

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A reflection on my hometown internship Instead of taking classes on Wofford’s campus this Interim, I decided to spend my month interning in my hometown of York, Pa. In case you’ve never heard of York, it is the birthplace of the Articles of Confederation, home of the York Peppermint Pattie and central location of the York Fair, one of the oldest fairs in the country.

I worked everyday in the PA State Representative’s district office, which is located in downtown York City, amidst the 95th district of Pennsylvania. My mission was not to stay at home with my dogs nor eat homecooked meals every night with my family; rather, I wanted to gain a better understanding of the town in which I grew up.

I spent my entire childhood in this small town, but even when I spent weekends with my friends at the local diner or attended high school sports games, I was never truly exploring my town. I understood the culture, but I never got to understand the local and state government, interact with the downtown community or participate in politics.

On a basic level, I spent my month filing papers, assisting constituents, and attending community events. But on a much deeper and more fulfilling level, I developed a greater awareness of the demographics of my city. I participated in events and celebrations that I was unaware existed. I interacted with local government officials and

attended meetings for the public to share their opinions and experiences. I assisted some of the poorest people in my hometown to file for government assistance. I researched methods of best connecting with constituents.

I was able to spend a month connecting with people I had never met before, despite living in the same town for my entire life. I listened to stories and discovered an entirely new part of the city that I call home, developing an understanding of the problems and joys only York can offer. In particular, I got to better understand the struggles of one of my coworkers, who immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic and who told me her stories of moving to a new coun-

On the PA House Floor with kids from a local York City school. try, acclimating to a different culture and struggling to learn English. She has participated in strengthening the Hispanic community in York and allowed me the opportunity to interact with many other immigrants, who told me their own powerful stories and allowed me to learn more about issues I have never understood.

Overall, I would not have traded my time at home for the world. Interning at home is an underrated experience

that I would highly recommend for Wofford students who want to interact more with their hometown. There is so much to be gained from developing a better understanding of your city – so if you get the chance, seriously consider getting more involved in your community, interning at a local business or visiting your government officials.

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Curtain call: A glimpse at Wofford Theatre and two conversations As sports continue to roll all over Wofford’s campus, the curtain also has officially opened for another year of Wofford Theatre. Kicked off by the November production of The Danube, written by the late Maria Irene Fornés, Wofford’s theatre program now looks ahead to their next three productions—Savage in Limbo, directed

by Khalil Gamble ’20; The Last Firefly, directed by former Wofford professor Sullivan White; and The Dutchman, directed by Wofford Alum Connor Vetter.

The Danube premiered in the Jerome Johnson Richardson theatre on Nov. 8 and ran through Nov. 10, and then again from Nov. 14 to Nov. 17.

During Interim, Savage in Limbo is set to premiere on Jan. 24 and will have nightly showings until Jan. 26.

Sophomore Theatre major Audrey Vail described The Danube as “a fascinating, eerie, intense, absurd play that [leaves] the audience feeling, hopefully, very affected.” English and theatre major Mary Thalassinos ‘20 described it as “a play with many layers about humanity and the world we’ve built as a society… It is about

desire and the effects it can have on not only yourself, but the things affected by it.”

Vail said of the production, “There’s smoke, there are puppets, goggles. It’s a wild story but all of the crazy devices are required to get [Fornés’s] point across.”

Concerning the other productions coming up this year, however, Vail expressed an optimistic desire to have as many students as possible, major and non-majors, come out to auditions and get involved in the productions as the year progresses. Thalassinos is excited about the “beauty of this art and the beauty of each show.”

Behind the product that we all see on stage, though, what is it that attracts students to theatre and acting in productions? Vail says that when she got to Wofford, “something said to me that this is exactly where I needed to be, and this theatre department was going to be what helped me see that there is nothing else I want to do.”

Having grown up loving theatre but doubting its ability to provide financial stability in the long run, Vail admits she was on the fence about whether or not to focus her time at Wofford on it in particular. However, since declaring, Vail says

that her favorite thing about theatre is that it is “all-encompassing and used to spread messages and raise questions in the audience. Acting specifically is a way of getting down to the center of who you are and baring your most vulnerable self at all times.”

Thalassinos had a similar experience, as she came into Wofford expecting to be involved with theatre, but did not expect to major. However, she says that she “should have known [she’d] end up being [a theatre major].” She cites theatre as the only true passion that she has ever had, and she is made happiest by it. “I enjoy the struggle and the satisfaction of discovering something new about character or writing or designing. … Being an artist in the theatre has made me stronger; it has made me accept vulnerability and has taught me that it’s okay to fail.”

All students interested in participating in future theatre productions should keep an eye out for announcements regarding Savage in Limbo auditions as January approaches. All students, majors and nonmajors, are welcome and encouraged to audition.

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were first-generation students themselves.

“It is important that we celebrate first-generation students early on as freshmen [year] and introduce them to faculty and staff that were once in their shoes in order to create a campus support system for them,” said Stukes.

On Tuesday, Nov. 6, a discussion was held for faculty and staff in order to discuss why first-generation college students are important to the Wofford campus community.

On Wednesday, Nov. 7, Raven Tucker, a sophomore artist, conducted a free paint and pour event for students. The Nation-

Demario Watts and James Stukes stand at the first-generation students giveaway table on National First-Generation College Students Day.

al First-Generation College Student Day celebration took place in Burwell at lunch on Thursday, Nov. 8, with music, free buttons, bracelets, as well as a drawing for a $50 gift card.

There was a panel Thursday night as well where students, faculty and staff explored what it means to be a first-generation college student. The first annual first-generation students’ week at Wofford came to a close on Friday, Nov. 9, with free cupcakes by Suga Cakes for the first 100 people on the seal of Old Main.

Wofford has 254 first-generation students on campus currently, equating to roughly 15% of the Wofford population. Of those 254 first-generation students, 85 are freshmen which illustrates a substantial increase from years past.

Part of this increase is thanks to funding allocated to new Citizen Scholars in partnership with the Spartanburg County Foundation. Thanks to this

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funding, Wofford will offer $20,000 a year in scholarship money to Citizens Scholars who qualify as Life Scholarship recipients and $25,000 a year to those who qualify as Palmetto Fellow Scholars. Over the past four years, Wofford has guaranteed 20 first-generation students $25,000 in scholarships for each entering class.

“The addition of these scholarship dollars for new Citizen Scholars illustrates Wofford’s continued commitment to providing transformative educational experiences that are both accessible and affordable.

First-generation college students change their families, and they make their communities better places in which to live and raise families,” says President Samhat.

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Anna Joyce, senior, battles Lyme disease.

Brooklyn Veenstra, junior, suffers from chronic migraines.

Brooklyn Veenstra, a junior health sciences major, said this after telling her story of how God took painful circumstances in her life and turned them into blessings.

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Three students at BJU shared how they are affected by their illnesses and how God uses them for good in their lives.

As a sophomore in high school, Veenstra had severe, constant migraines.

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Celebrating new scholars Last year, the First-Generation Students Day was declared as Nov. 8 in celebration of students who are the first-generation to attend college in their families. Wofford celebrated its first annual First-Generation Students week this year, Nov. 5-9, with the theme “I Am First.”

“The formal definition of a first-generation college student is a student whose parents or guardians have not obtained a bachelor’s degree. The inaugural First-Generation College Celebration was held Nov. 8, 2017, by the Council for Opportunity in Education and the Center for First-Generation Student Success. The day is used to highlight and celebrate this important aggregation on college campuses across the country,” said James Stukes, coordinator of student success at Wofford.

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“God’s fingerprints are all over our stories—if only we would open our eyes to see them.”

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Unruh told his pastor he was interested in the opportunity, and he started ministering a few weeks later.

The youth group meets at the church on Sunday mornings and eight teens, ranging from seventh grade to 12th grade, attend.

Unruh also said this is the first teen group Gateway has ever had.

“My pastor gave me the liberty to run this in the way I see fit,” he said.

Unruh said he plans his lessons every week to focus on themes relevant to teenagers.

“Instead of something too deep, I want to do things that will apply to everyday life,” he said.

“I want to ask them ‘What do you face at this age?’ and

let them choose some topics.”

He said every time he speaks to the teens he wants to speak from the heart.

Three other BJU students, Rachel, Ashley and Zeb Anderson, help Unruh with the ministry.

These three family members have been excited to get involved in this ministry opportunity.

Ashley and Zeb, siblings, have enjoyed working with Rachel, their cousin, in the youth program so far.

Unruh said he is a little intimidated by the responsibility but also excited about what the Lord will do with this ministry.

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brain—one that would have eventually compressed her brain.

After two brain surgeries, Veenstra made the hard choice to take a whole year off school.

This meant that, while her class went on to enjoy their senior year and graduate high school together, she had to

take the year off to recover from brain surgery.

“It was stretching,” she said. “I didn’t want to watch my class graduate without me.”

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Community opportunities allow students to minister Every week, BJU students serve the Lord and their community by participating in unique ministries all around the greater Greenville area.

Students become a part of these ministries through various channels on and off campus.

Jesse Unruh, a junior business administration major, ministers to teens through his church, Gateway Baptist, which is located in Travelers Rest.

Unruh said a little over a month ago he was approached by his pastor, Dr. Greg Stiekes, who asked if he would be interested in leading Gateway’s teen discipleship group.

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A delegation of two BJU students and one BJU faculty member visited Clemson University Thursday, Jan. 11 at the invitation of Clemson.

While Clemson’s campus offers visitors multiple walking paths through the scenic 1,400-acre property, these BJU visitors weren’t there to walk any established path.

They came to cut a trail of their own.

Called the “trailblazers,” the two students are pioneers in a potential partnership BJU is pursuing with Clemson University’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, or ROTC for short.

Part of the United States Military, ROTC enlists college students throughout the nation into officer training in addition to their coursework, often incentivized with generous scholarships.

Graduates of ROTC pro-

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grams are commissioned into the military as officers.

The trailblazers, Daniel Sherwin and Daniel Miller, visited the ROTC program’s first general meeting after Christmas break.

They were able to observe a leadership class and talk with senior cadets.

The unfamiliar environ-

ment at Clemson and large amount of new information took time to process, according to Sherwin.

He said the experience was overwhelming at first.

However, the senior cadets were very helpful and answered his questions.

Miller, the other trailblazer, said he was interested in

ROTC for the practical skills it instills into cadets. “[ROTC] will force me to push myself to do more, go beyond my comfort zone,” Miller said.

“They seek to instill in the cadets a healthy mind, body, and soul.”

While not yet official, BJU’s partnership with Clem-

partnerships with both universities since the summer.

Now, after months of negotiations, Dr. David Fisher, BJU’s vice provost and chief administrative officer, said the partnerships are close to being finalized by both universities’ ROTC leadership.

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Canvas LMS ushers in a blank slate for BJUOnline Andrew Schmidt Staff Writer Starting this semester Bob Jones University implemented a new system for online content. The Canvas system will replace the former Desire2Learn (D2L) system for online and residential courses.

While the transition will not be final until August when the new academic year starts, some professors have preemptively switched their classes to Canvas. Students have courses on both platforms until the end of the academic year.

Matt Gardenghi, director

of BJU’s IT department and manager of the implementation, said using both the new and old systems simultaneously isn’t unusual in higher education.

“Most schools always have two or three LMSs [learning management systems] at the same time,” Gardenghi said.

“We have always been unique that we have only ever had one at a time.”

Gardenghi added that while many colleges change online systems over the course of a few years, BJU will fully integrate the system within one semester.

“We don’t want people to

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son would allow BJU students, like the trailblazers, to participate in Clemson’s Air Force ROTC program.

A similar crosstown partnership with Furman University will also allow BJU students to participate in that school’s Army ROTC program.

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5. Increased ability to connect with professors

go through the strife of having multiple LMSs for years,” Gardenghi said.

Despite this situation, student and faculty reception of the new system appears positive.

According to Gardenghi, all of the correspondence the IT department had with both faculty and students regarding the new system the week after integration began was praise for Canvas.

John Groves, a sophomore university student, said Canvas seems to be better organized and easy to navigate.

According to both Gardenghi and Sherri Vick, lead structural designer for the Center for Distance Learning, Canvas’s main advantage over Desire2Learn is usability. “[Desire2Learn] does everything a faculty member or student needs, but it does it in a very difficult manner,” Gardenghi said.

Vick said the new Canvas system has a more intuitive in-

terface and should be easier to use on mobile devices.

According to Vick, Canvas also possesses better customer support than Desire2Learn with many tutorial videos online for both students and instructors.

“They have a very large support system,” Vick said. “If you don’t know how, you can Google and very easily find out how to do something.”

Vick said that the ability to quickly fix potential problems within the system is another benefit of the new LMS. The transition is being made between semesters to avoid renewing the University’s contract with Desire2Learn just before switching systems.

One faculty member said the Center for Distance Leaning’s development of several new courses for the new semester motivated the timing of the integration as well.

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During the fall 2017 Commencement ceremony, FMU gains 309 new alumni. Among the graduating students, 32 graduated with honors and three received university honors.

Carter, honorary doctorates of Humanities were granted to Kodwo Ghartey-Tagoe, South Carolina’s state president of operations for Duke Energy; and Melissa J. Buckhannon, South Carolina Family Court bench judge.

Judge Buckhannon, a native of Darlington, S.C., graduated from FMU in 1991 where she received her Bachelor of Science degree.

Her main area of practice has been in the family court system upon her graduation

from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1994. Buckhannon also served on the Board of Trustees for her Alma Mater from 1998 until 2003.

Ghartey-Tagoe, the commencement speaker for

this semester’s ceremony, is a native of Ghana who came to the United States when he was 19 years old. Throughout his years in school, he faced many trials before getting where he is today.

Young Ghartey-Tagoe faced his first major obstacle in life when he was held back in the second grade.

This was his first personal disappointment, but he learned from it and moved on with his life.

Years later in 1985, he faced another obstacle when he was waitlisted by Duke University School of Law. Once he got into the program and changed his mindset, he grew into a better student every year and graduated with a job offer in Washington, D.C. Nearly two decades later, he joined Duke Energy as Chief Regulatory Council in North Carolina and now serves as the State President of the company in South

Carolina.

He told these two stories, among others, to the graduating class to show that by learning something from the hardships life hands you and persevering, you can achieve anything.

“Failing does not make you a failure, the fact that you messed up does not make you a mess,” GharteyTagoe said.

Among the 309 students that received their diplomas, psychology graduate AnneMarie Norwood has faced adversities of her own.

Norwood was born and raised in Florence and is a graduate of West Florence High School. Although most of her high school friends went to colleges outside of Florence, she decided to stay in Florence.

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FMU formed a partnership with the Belle W. Baruch Foundation and Coastal Carolina University (CCU) to form the Belle W. Baruch Institute for South Carolina Studies, which will begin this spring semester.

The Belle W. Baruch Foundation, a non-profit and the owner of Hobcaw Barony, welcomed the partnership and creation of the institute, which will focus research on social sciences and humanities on the property. The Belle W. Institute will be housed at Hobcaw Barony, a 16 thousand-acre research reserve owned by the Belle W. Baruch Foundation.

Prior to the creation of the institute, little research had been done in the humanities field at Hobcaw Barony.

According to Executive Director George Chastain, the current humanities work has been focused on historic preservation, archaeology and anthropology.

“We have done some work in archaeology, and there have been a few digs on the property,” Chastain said. “We really think it will be one of the main focuses in the early stages for the institute. There’s much left to be done.”

Chastain said with FMU’s newest hire in the archeology department, Dr. Christopher Barton, and CCU appointed Carolyn Dillian as Co-director, he is expecting archeology to be the primary focus of the new institute to help it gain fraction and momentum.

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director for Baruch Institute, said the property has limitless opportunities for research in the humanities.

“There are an infinite number of opportunities for so many different fields of study on the property,” Hanson said. “The items that the Baruch family left behind all tell a story.

The stories they tell can be interpreted and studied so many different ways.”

According to Hanson, the research conducted will be based off of articles of clothing, artwork, and documents. Hanson said she has currently been in the process of studying and going through Belle Baruch’s check books.

“It’s really amazing what the check books can tell you,” Hanson said.

“They tell you where she was spending her time, what she was spending her money on and ultimately what was important to her. I’ve gone through and organized close to 5,000 checks. It’s been tasking but worth the information gathered. This is the type of research that the institute will encourage.”

Tucker Mitchell, vice president of communications for FMU, said that the partnership and vision for a humanities institute at Hobcaw Barony has been important to President Carter for years.

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FMU partnered with The Greater Florence Chamber of Commerce to host their 20th Annual Martin Luther King Celebration on campus where the university was presented a $1000 check for the General Scholarship Fund.

The event began with a march in remembrance of Dr. King starting at the Wallace House front lawn leading to the celebration in Chapman Auditorium. Once in the auditorium, the ceremony began with the singing of the first and third verses of the Black American National Anthem.

To honor Dr. King’s passion for equality and inclusion, the Chamber of Commerce, along with other event sponsors FMU, McLeod Health, HopeHealth, AccuStaff, and iHeart Media, presented the $1000 check to the university.

Director of Community & Minority Enterprise for the Chamber of Commerce, Les Echols, presented the check to President Carter during the closing remarks.

The Young, Gifted and Blessed Gospel Choir, Praise in Motion Dance Ministry and students Rischard Brown and Christian Holloman performed moving pieces honoring the life of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Speakers for the

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King along with civil rights activist Rosa Parks, former President Barack Obama and Jesus Christ through showing their pictures and singing their names.

Ervin presented the keynote address for the evening’s event and gave a powerful 16-minute speech to attendees.

“In ministry when you start to speak, you start to prophesize, you start to speak things into being, you speak about things that have yet to occur,” Ervin said.

“He [Dr. King] spoke of a dream, he spoke of how he desired to see the state of us [as a nation] today. One of the things he desired to see was everyone being judged by the contents of their character and not by the color of their skin.”

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FMU hosted its first three-day symposium titled “Beyond Mother Emanuel and the Confederate Flag”, sponsored by a grant from South Carolina Humanities, discussing the topics of race and culture with keynote speakers and panel discussions throughout the event from Feb. 26-28.

Each session had a specific theme and began with a keynote speaker who is a South Carolina activist, artist or educator which was followed by a panel discussion. The theme for the first session was “politics, policy and symbols,” the second session was “art, community and theory” and the final theme was “race, culture and education.” Panel members included state representatives, politicians, clergy, artists or academics who encouraged audience members to ask questions.

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Panelists Herb Frazier, Valinda Littlefield and Joe Riley discuss Cleveland Sellar’s discussion on race, culture and education on Feb. 28. Audience members asked panelists questions after the event.

For Wednesday’s session, keynote speaker Cleveland Sellars told audience members how he participated in numerous civil rights events and marches for nearly 30 years before completing his

undergraduate, master’s and doctorate degrees. Sellars also told the audience stories of how he participated in the march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery, Ala., led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after becoming the Student

FMU hosted Graham Nash, a Grammy award winner, for a night of songs and stories at 7:30 p.m. on March 3 at the FMU Performing Arts Center (PAC).

Nash, a Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame inductee, sang songs from past bands he was a part of, including The Hollies. Nash performed a variety of his original songs, new and old, such as “Wind on the Water,” “Carousel,” “Military Madness” and “Used to be King.” Nash also covered songs, such as “Blackbird” by The Beatles.

During the performance, Nash said it would be an

emotional night because all of his songs have an emotional tie to his past.

Nash also said while playing his songs he revisits those memories.

Between songs, Nash told stories of his personal inspiration from songs he wrote.

For example, Nash told the story behind his song “The Spider.”

Nash said he was catching a flight from Los Angeles to Hawaii, and his drug dealer challenged him to write a song before he caught his flight. The dealer bet him $500 he could not write the song before he got on the plane. Nash finished the song but never received the money.

Crook Stewart III, Nash’s manager, said they book shows at various venues for concerts, mostly in larger clubs and performing art centers, such as the FMU PAC. “We are always excited; it’s a great turnout and a great show,” Stewart said. “I think that everybody will walk out of here very pleased.”

Stewart said he has been to Florence before, but this is first time at the PAC. Janice Albrecht attended the concert because she has memories listening to the music.

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Non-Violent Coordinating Committee’s director in 1964 at Howard University.

Sellars enrolled at Howard University in 1962, after attending Voorhee’s College, and helped arrange for Malcom X to speak at

the university and for black Mississippians to meet with their congressmen. Sellars also told audience members how he helped organize a protest of segregated bowling alleys in 1968 in Orangeburg, S.C., which resulted in the killing of three South Carolina State students by South Carolina Highway Patrol officers.

Sellars spent seven months in prison after this incident, which became known as the Orangeburg Massacre, and was eventually pardoned.

“If we don’t know this history, we are doomed to repeat it,” Sellars said.

“We’re just about at 1953 in 2018. We have to recognize that in order to get out of the hole we are in… I was growing up in a time where there was segregation. It’s crazy, but there are rules that go along with it.”

Sellars used the example of sidewalk etiquette to explain the rules of

segregation to audience members. He said if he was walking down the street and came up on a white family, he had two options: one was to get off the street entirely to let them pass or he would cast his eyes down to the ground and not make eyecontact with members of the family.

Sellars also said there were penalties for AfricanAmerican’s who did not abide by these rules, such as being arrested or disciplined.

Sellars went on to talk about George Stiney, Emmett Till, freedom rides, the murders of Cheney, Goodman and Schwerner in 1964 and other stories from his past to put racism into perspective.

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Graham Nash performs new and old songs for community members at the FMU Performing Arts Center. Nash also told the audience about his inspiration behind his songs.

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celebration of life included Florence City Councilwoman, Teresa M. Ervin; FMU Student Government Senator, Michaela Cracknell; FMU Student Government Vice President, Glennie Tanner; and FMU Student Government Senator, Alexander Bursch.

Marcedes Smith, president of FMU student government, moderated the event.

Cierra Pinckney, YGB public relations coordinator, said she hopes the performance was a reminder to everyone that we have the power to speak life into scary or uncertain situations by standing for peace.

YGB director, Jeffrey Lampkin, thought ‘Peace Be Still’ by James Cleveland was very appropriate with all the confusion and turmoil that seems to be in the world today. During the song, YGB honored the actions of Dr.

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FMU graduates largest in-state class During the fall 2017 Commencement ceremony on Dec. 16, 309 students graduated from FMU, including 231 undergraduate students and 78 graduate students.

With an in-state student graduation rate of 96 percent, 297 students, this class had a higher rate than in past graduations. This year, 32 graduated with honors, three of which also graduated with university honors.

Among the graduates, six graduated Summa Cum Laude (“with great praise”), eight Magna Cum Laude (“with high praise”) and eighteen Cum Laude (“with praise”). Three of these students graduated with university honors, Rachel Ankers, Rachel Fleschner and Kristin Ingram.

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FMU and “The Morning News” awarded two members of the Pee Dee region with the Marion Medallion at the FMU Performing Arts Center on Feb. 27.

Wilbur Owens “Billy” Powers and Help 4 Kids were chosen as the recipients for this year’s Marion Medallion awards due to their extraordinary and outstanding service to the Pee Dee region, said FMU President Fred Carter.

According to Carter, there are many things that set this six-year-old award apart from other’s in the Pee Dee. Recipients of the award cannot be nominated or voted for, Carter said.

“This award is not based on a popularity contest,” Carter said. “You get here by the acts that you do that show generosity, charity and service. Some of those acts no one will ever know about other than the giver and the recipient.”

Help 4 Kids, a non-profit organization that feeds 2,000 kids in Florence county each weekend, was the first recipient of the medallion on Tuesday morning. The charity provides weekend meals to children ages 3-12.

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Dianne Welsch and Pennie Burns, on behalf of her father Wilbur Owens, receive the 2018 Marion Medallions. result of a community full of generous people.

“We started out with 30 people,” Welsch said. “Those same people have stuck with us and now we have 100-150 volunteers a week. That says a lot about the community.

It’s very humbling to see the effort of volunteers begin to affect kids in the area.”

Welsch said the efforts of Help 4 Kids not only aids students who are hungry, but it also provides a different perspective to students who volunteer with the organization.

“The hearts of our volunteers are being forever changed by this,” Welsch

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said. “Just the other day, I heard about a student who volunteered with us and then came to school on Monday with a box of Vienna sausages. She told her teacher she would never have understood the effects of hunger before Help 4 Kids because she herself had never experienced it. We are teaching the children of this generation what it means to care of your own. They will be the ones to go on and take care of society later.”

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