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Benefits crisis poses challenges for employees and employers

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Volume 120, Issue 2

September 29, 2021

Michaela Gibbons ‘22 calls for improved mental health support, sexual assault response

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Cynthia Lawing shares a touching encounter with Davidson Students at Lake Norman

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The Yowl presents: Quiz-mania! Find out your Davidson purity score and more

Summit Coffee Pursues its Peak

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Despite National Franchising Plans, Brand Hopes to Maintain Strong Relationships with Town of Davidson, College BRIGID MCCARTHY ‘25 (SHE/HER) STAFF WRITER

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s the final weeks of March 2021 gave way to the first weeks of April, as Davidson students felt the dual euphoria and grief of a slowly-opening, vaccinated campus reaching and passing the first anniversary of COVID shutdowns after a hard, strict year, Summit Coffee announced its plans of departure from its on-campus Outpost location.

“You had to be there. The tension and the weirdness on campus was… you could feel it radiating off of everyone… Yeah.

Crazy,” described Maddy Wolfenbarger ‘22, then-assistant manager and current manager of Summit Outpost. “The reason people fought for this space is because it’s a student space, fully to its core. It’s owned by students, like Brian [Helfrich, CEO] was a student, Tim [Helfrich, COO] was a student. They own it, but like we work it… it’s really important to keep the space for us.”

A renegotiation led to Summit’s continued stay on campus.

As Brian Helfrich ‘07, CEO of Summit Coffee, looks toward the future of the company, he affirms that the company itself stays rooted in Davidson - both the town and the college.

Bottom of the Mountain Summit’s story begins in the late ’90s, a time when Helfrich said Summit was as far from its peak as the specialty coffee industry was as a whole. The small business began operating out of a decades-old building, serving not only as a coffee shop but also as a community space. It took years for it to “really catch on,” said Helfrich.

“When my brother bought it in 2003, Summit was doing 15% of the business it’s doing now. Main Street in Davidson, you could walk outside at 1 pm and you wouldn’t see a car.

There were no cars parked there, no cars driving… that’s what Davidson was,” Helfrich said. “Once we persevered through the recession of 2008 to 2010, then we came out of that with some aspiration to grow, which is when my brother brought me on to help facilitate that growth.”

Helfrich has been CEO for five years and an executive shareholder alongside his brother, Tim, for ten, both witnessing firsthand and guiding the company’s growth and development.

“For years we weren’t sure exactly what [the Summit franchise] was going to look like… We wanted to grow, we wanted to expand the brand,” Helfrich said. “We started roasting and got into that whole side of the business, which is importing coffee, visiting other countries, wholesale distribution to other coffee shops and restaurants… and then have since opened five

Exterior of Summit Outpost. Photo by Sydney Schertz ‘24. more cafes to get to seven. And we have four more that are in development right now. So that puts us at 11 and counting. I think our ambition is to be at 50 in the next five years.”

The Climb The aforementioned 11 Summit locations are in-state. The potential 50 are going to scale Summit to a national level.

“Starting in 2022, we’ll go out of state. Our first few markets are Atlanta, Charleston, continuing to expand in North Carolina, and then there’s a handful of other out-of-state... markets that we will probably pursue: northern Virginia, New England... there’s some decisions to be made in the next couple of years, which are exciting,” he said. “Our marketing objective in a macro sense is to become a nationally recognized company

that is loved locally.”

Beyond Summit’s physical expansion across the United States, Helfrich is excited about the company’s brand development away from just espresso.

“We’re a lifestyle brand. And I’m not even sure what that means. But that’s what I like to say that we are. We really put a lot of emphasis behind our slogan, ‘Find your summit,’ which I think has very little to do with coffee, and has a lot to do with personal development and aspiration,” he said.

Summit started an online advertising campaign where the company partners with athletes to promote the brand and its message on social media. The list so far consists of Courtney

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SIAD Consultants Now Receive Compensation

ELLIE STEVENS ‘25 (SHE/HER) STAFF WRITER

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he Student Initiative for Academic Diversity (SIAD) is a student-run organization that was founded in 2012 following the tenure deferral of Dr. Hun Lye, a former religious studies professor of color. This event sparked debate around the motivation behind this deferral, with many viewing it as racially motivated. Students began to explore ways to change the hiring process. Dr. Fuji Lozada, SIAD’s faculty advisor, recalls a group of students meeting at his house following the incident. “They were given a choice. Do we just protest?

Or do we change it?” said Lozada. They chose change. Thus, SIAD was born.

SIAD is involved in the interview process of prospective faculty, with the goal of hiring long-term professors that will

provide allyship to students with marginalized identities. This interviewing process is very time consuming, and this year SIAD members are starting to be compensated for their labor.

Although this is a recent shift, it is something SIAD has been fighting for since its inception and has been in conversation with several co-chairs in the past. What changed?

“Conversations about paid labor when it comes to equity work have been increasingly pertinent and popular nationwide, but specifically at Davidson,” said SIAD co-chair Chineme Amechi ‘22. “My logic was: ‘y’all are talking all this stuff about anti-racism, equity, and inclusion, it’s time to put your actual money where your mouth is,’ which is why I think it worked.”

In the hour-long interview with each potential faculty candidate, SIAD members ask questions that determine how committed potential faculty members will be to supporting students

with marginalized identities. They ask questions such as “tell us about a time you failed someone as an ally,” in order to gauge the commitment to reflection and growth of these prospective professors.

After the interviews comes the letter writing process. SIAD members collaborate to write an evaluation on each candidate’s response to their questions about inclusive pedagogy. “It’s not our job to recommend a single candidate for hiring; it’s more our job to give this search committee an even broader look at how the candidate has thought about some important identity based issues,” said Julia Bauer ‘23, a member of SIAD’s search committee. The members lay out the positives and negatives for each candidate through a lens of diversity and inclusion.

However, the process is not always so linear. In addition to

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Campus Coffee Shop Expands

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Dauwalter, an ultramarathon runner, and Phil Henderson, a mountain climber.

“We’re trying to target specific demographics and groups of people that we think our brand will connect with. And so the outdoors industry and athletes are a logical fit in some ways to the brand Summit Coffee,” he said.

“What we want people to do is be inspired, or encouraged, or motivated, to figure out whatever their summit is. And not a literal mountain, although it could be for them. But whether you’re a parent, or a child, or you’re going to work, or you’re doing something in sports… just figure out what you want to achieve, and then have encouragement to do your best to push yourself further, which is sort of fundamental to how we run our business,” he said.

Summit, Outpost, and Davidson The day that Summit Outpost, affectionately known as ‘nummit’, opened on Davidson College’s campus in 2013, Helfrich’s first daughter was born. He spent Outpost’s opening day in the hospital. It’s a strange comparison to make, between the birth of a child and the opening of a new operating location, but Helfrich explained how “bad timing” led to two developments paralleling each other in both potential and impact.

Outpost “started all of our growth,” Helfrich said. “That was the first extension of growth we’d ever tried outside of this footprint in downtown Davidson. It was the first time we’ve been like, ‘Okay, what else can Summit be?’ And we’ve learned so much.

We’ve made so many stupid mistakes. We’ve tried so many things that didn’t work. And so I think it’s been an incubator of sorts for ideas that have helped refine what Summit is good at, what we want to be.”

Still, as Helfrich looks ahead, he affirmed that Summit knows where it came from and who built it.

“We’re rooted here in Davidson,” he said simply. “The two Davidson cafes are the ones we feel like we have the highest level of connectivity to because we live here…. Davidson checks all the boxes for a community that we want to start a business in. I think that it’s pro-

Interior of Summit Oupost. Photo courtesy Judson Womack ’18. gressive, it’s friendly, it’s active, it’s social.

And I think these are all important things to being the foundation of our business.”

Helfrich and his executive team plan to prioritize the maintenance, development and branding of existing locations just as much as they plan to focus on next steps. In fact, Summit Coffee hopes to bring a sense of the Southern, small-town coffee shop it originated as to each new location.

“The bigger we get, we continue to pump resources into our current cafes,” Helfrich confirmed. “Our downtown Davidson store, we just did a gigantic renovation this summer.

And so that was a reinvestment in that cafe to make it updated from a branding standpoint.

And so we’ll continue to make sure that our

spaces are relevant and up to date.”

“The expansion has already changed Basecamp a bit because they need a more streamlined process of creating cafes,” said current Basecamp manager and previous Outpost manager Sarah Woods ‘21. “They’ll change a little bit but... these two cafes, Outpost and Basecamp, will always be like the home base.”

Finding the Summit Ever since the lease renegotiation agreement between Summit Coffee and Davidson College, their bond has been stronger than ever: shifts to student-only staffing at Outpost, new Dining Dollar limits (or lack thereof) and more recently-added late-night dining options have allowed a favorite student space to re-

main exactly that.

As Summit Coffee, Davidson College, and the Town of Davidson continue to undergo substantial developments, they remain inextricably tied together, their individual growths pushing and pulling each other.

“Last year, you know, there was a stretch of time when we thought we were leaving campus, and there was some uproar, so that was interesting to work through. But now I’m excited to continue to find ways to deepen our relationship with the college and continue to be a good and impactful group of alumni. And yeah, who knows where Summit will be in a few years?” Helfrich asked rhetorically, before asserting “Well, I have some idea.”

Davidson Community Grapples With Benefits Crisis paid their rent in the last 11 months. The or-

HUNTER CALLAWAY ‘22 (HE/HIM) ganization has around $1 million dollars for SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT residents of Mecklenburg, Davidson, Stanly, QUINN DUNLAP ‘25 (HE/HIM) and Cabarrus counties.

In the middle of the pandemic’s deadliest STAFF WRITER

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t the beginning of September, government benefits like the eviction moratorium and pandemic unemployment assistance ended. According to the New York Times, the eviction moratorium, initially signed by the CDC on August 3rd, was struck down by the Supreme Court in a 6-3 vote along partisan lines. The moratorium ended on August 26th, putting 11 million people at risk of eviction.

In early August, evictions were deemed dangerous for public health as the Delta variant surged, according to CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky. President Biden then signed a “limited freeze”, according to NPR, expanding the eviction deadline to October 3rd.

Nevertheless, the Supreme Court struck the order down, claiming that the CDC did not have the grounds to make this order. The minority opinion dissented that eviction was a nationwide health risk, and that the CDC was within its rights to order a moratorium.

In North Carolina, the courts have seen a major increase in landlord-tenant disputes.

For struggling tenants, an organization called Community Link helps those who have not

stage, an eviction wave could spell death for working families across the country. The Da-

cans on September 4th. A $600 per week payment was sent to unemployed Americans from April to July of 2020 and was revived and reduced to $300 a week in December. Unemployment benefits also included the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program, which helped “freelancers, the self-employed,

In the middle of the pandemic’s deadliest stage, a wave of evictions could spell death for working families across the country. The Davidson Community Fund has provided housing assistance for at-risk individuals throughout the pandemic. vidson Community Fund has provided housing assistance for at-risk individuals throughout the pandemic. When asked how these policy changes affected their work, the Fund stated that most of their community members “were already not being cared for by the state’s safety nets” during the moratorium. While the Fund’s members did not comment on the policy changes in depth, they asked that the Davidsonian reprint relevant portions of their previous interview in March, 2021 (see page 3).

Extra benefits ended for 4 million Ameri-

and independent contractors” normally not eligible for unemployment payments.

Nationwide, nearly 8 million unemployed Americans now have no unemployment compensation whatsoever, and the $300 weekly boost ended for another 2.7 million. On September 4th, pandemic benefits ended for those out of work in North Carolina. Independent contractors and the self-employed no longer qualify for any unemployment payments.

Labor shortages have made hiring difficult across the country, including at Davidson.

However, Dr. Clark Ross, a Professor of Economics at Davidson, commented that PUA benefits alone were probably not the key to low participation in the workforce.

Dr. Ross pointed to four factors that, taken together, he believes most influence the labor shortages: workers’ preference for cash to benefits, unemployment assistance, fear of COVID-19 exposure in service jobs, and high childcare costs. In the current economic climate “young workers want cash, not retirement benefits,” said Dr. Ross.

The Davidsonian reached out to Kim Ball, Davidson’s Director of Human Resources, to ask whether Dr. Ross’s comments matched the college’s experience hiring new workers. Ball responded that the “analysis seems consistent with our experience as an employer” and added that “the college’s vaccination requirement has contributed to our current labor shortage”.

While the college has begun to offer new bonuses, 45 listings for staff openings remain unfilled on the Davidson hiring portal.

The end of pandemic assistance may ease the plight of hiring managers, but at the cost of not supporting our most at-risk neighbors. If childcare and low cash compensation remain a barrier to workers joining the labor pool, these changes will only inflict hardship on disadvantaged communities for no tangible benefit.

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Funding for Student Initiative for Academic Diversity CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 planning questions, drafting letters, and conducting interviews, SIAD members are constantly searching for ways to make the school more inclusive. “It’s kind of something that you’re always thinking about or you’re sending texts here and there,” said co-chair Maeve Arthur ‘22.

Compensation creates accessibility for many members. “A lot of the students who

care about SIAD need to work. So if we aren’t compensating our students, and SIAD is a necessary time and labor intensive extracurricular, that means that we’re excluding people who might want to get involved, but simply cannot,” said Bauer.

SIAD members, who are now called consultants , are currently being paid hourly wages.

While they have expressed this is a good start, they hope to eventually be compensated in the

form of stipends. The consultants described how SIAD is constantly on their minds, “I think about it often, so hourly, I would be on the clock the whole time,” said Nick Nguyen ‘22.

Additionally, hourly wages mean not all students are able to be compensated. “ My one big thing with hourly wages is that undocumented students are barricaded,” said Amechi.

The consultants of SIAD are hopeful that

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these hourly wages will open up other forms of compensation for the important work they do in making this college a more equitable and inclusive place. “For students who belong to one or several marginalized groups, having a professor who is empathetic to the struggles that that group faces can mean the world. It can mean the difference between a student continuing and graduating or dropping out,” said Bauer.

In March 2021, the Davidsonian’s Josie Hovis ‘23 conducted a

seem apparent at first glance. Feed the Movement stands out because it does way

Q&A with six members of the Davidson Community Fund, a stu-

more than just food justice: they have been providing hotel rooms throughout the

dent-run wealth redistribution network that serves Charlotte

winter, they have been putting up bail funds, and helping people get furniture;

and Davidson. As part of their contribution to our reporting on

their elastic funding helps them do that. Their mutual aid is amazing and they

the housing and unemployment crisis, they asked that we rerun

don’t get as much attention for it. The organizers of Feed the Movement are Nada

an excerpt of that interview with today’s piece, “Community

Merghani and Tati Marquez, and they have been working extremely hard.

Grapples with Benefits Crisis.”

JH: What would you ask those reading this article to do in orJH: How do you see your work intersecting with the work of

der to best support your work?

other organizations in the area, such as Charlotte Uprising?

CF (Excerpted): Become a monthly sustainer! It is such a good way to consistently

CF (Excerpted): Despite the public niches of each individual group working in the

commit yourself to redistributing your work on a regular basis. You decide what

Charlotte area, there is a lot more overlap between each group than what might

you are capable of giving. It provides people with a boost for those big bills at the beginning of the month, and it is such a good way to get involved.

Crime Log

SEPTEMBER 23

Agenda

Takeaways

Attendance

GEORGIA HALL ‘25 AND QUINN DUNLAP ’25 SGA CORRESPONDENTS

100%

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Late (excused): Ruby Zhou ‘24, Tsegab-Ab Abera ‘22, Grace Hall ‘22 Late (unexcused): Emma Milton ‘24, Alex Loeb ‘22 No updates from PCC on use of porches for “fall festival” - discussion pushed back as the event was delayed SGA unsure as to whether they can coordinate shuttles to the airport for fall break; campus police were not entirely on board Reading of the two statements for potential senator position in the junior class Lauren Bennett and Henry Ding sent in statements Discussion ensued among SGA about candidates Bennett voted in 6:5 as junior senator 5 candidates for 1 open sopohmore senate seat. 4/5 candidates were present and 1 was not due to illness Read through the 5 blurbs Candidates present then elaborated on their blurbs and made their case Sopohmore candidates left the room. SGA discussed each candidate and voted in Sarah Baker with an overwhelming majority Discussed roller skating charter. Budget approved for the new club Brandon Harris announced that Dean McCrae is coming after fall break to discuss with SGA plans for the empty house on Patterson Court Projects discussion postponed to after fall break once freshman senators are present.

1. Junior Class Senator Vote 2. Sophomore Class Senator Vote 3. Skate Club Budget Allocation 4. Announcements

Time Reported

Description/Location

08/31/2021 at 1512 Breaking or Entering of Vehicle hrs Patterson Court, Further Investigation

09/08/2021 at 1807 Careless Driving hrs

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Reckless

Baker, Inactive

09/16/2021 at 0052 Sexual Assault Residence Hall, Prosecution Declined hrs 09/17/2021 at 2130 Underage Consumption Sentelle, Dean Referral hrs 9/17/2021 at 2355 hrs Underage Consumption Armfield, Dean Referral

09/18/2021 at 0355 Underage Consumption/Disturbance hrs 09/26/21 at 0236 hrs

Underage Consumption

09/26/21 at 1330 hrs

Injury to Real Property (Window)

Richardson, Dean Referral

Warner, Further Investigation

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Causing or Caring: Crisis Response and Centralizing Support Services

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MICHAELA GIBBONS ‘22 (SHE/HER)

he college therapists I have seen have each explicitly expressed to me in our private sessions that Davidson College is not a conducive environment for mental health.

This sentiment usually comes up after I let the counselor know that I have been struggling with my mental well-being and am looking for support. The counselors I saw hopelessly acted as if it was the nature of this institution and not the environment we have created. Consequently, there was nothing I could do but endure. Now, I am a senior and unwilling to put up with the malfeasances that I’ve seen for the last three years. The institution’s successes can no longer come at the expense of students’ well-being.

Over the summer, I met with the Academic Access and Disability Resources (AADR) Office to register my emotional support animal. I was surprised to hear that there were academic accommodations that I was eligible for as a student with mental illnesses. In my first two years, I saw two different counselors through the Center for Student Health and Wellbeing; I had never been informed about these accommodations that I could have been using all this time, particularly in the fall semester of my sophomore year when I was having a mental health crisis that affected my academics.

We can’t talk about mental welfare on campus without addressing the issue of power-based personal violence. My sophomore fall I was invited to attend a Green Dot training session.

Green Dot is a bystander intervention program that combats interpersonal violence on college campuses, which includes stalking, sexual violence, and intimate partner violence. The hope was that if enough students across campus were trained in how to prevent and intervene in these instances, the student body would adopt an attitude of No Tolerance towards interpersonal violence. While it all sounds great in theory, we students are not the only ones who shape the campus culture. How the administration responds institutionally to instances of power-based personal violence contributes to the mental well-being of the student body.

Davidson College’s policy on interpersonal violence states: “Davidson College is committed to creating and maintaining an environment that is free of sexual misconduct, stalking, and relationship abuse and violence .... The college does not condone and will not tolerate” instances of power-based personal violence. What nonsense! In my personal experience, I have been privy to over a dozen of these incidents on campus.

Frankly, I have seen Interfraternity Council (IFC) fraternities

implement this policy more effectively and efficiently than the college itself. The administration has taken a passive role in preventing instances of interpersonal violence. (Don’t believe me? A five-minute search revealed an experience from Athena-Maria Kalamaras ‘19, a personal narrative from Alex Aiello ‘21, and a news article about the baseball team’s ongoing misconduct). Time and time again there is that student who goes through all four years repeatedly perpetuating violence.

Davidson College, however, treats each incident, each report, each complaint, as an isolated event. While we may not have full access to the administration’s proceedings in response to these events, we as a student body are most affected by their outcome. Yet, we continue to have no voice and no representation in how the college responds to the crisis.

The most recent Three Year Summary of Sexual Misconduct Reports states that from Fall 2017 to Spring 2019 there were 76 total reports. With the high percentage of unreported sexual misconduct on college campuses, one would think that Davidson would be working to find those statistics so that they could assess the efficacy of their reporting process. Why not send out a biennial interpersonal violence climate survey, as suggested by the HALT Campus Sexual Violence Act? These statistics of unreported incidents should be included in our campus security report and be available to employees and students.

It is often difficult to self-advocate or file a report while experiencing a crisis. It is, however, even more disheartening when you do and still do not receive the necessary care and consideration. Too often I come across Perspectives in this paper and Facebook posts in the college group recounting an instance in which Davidson College has failed, yet again, to prioritize the safety and well-being of its students. In her Davidsonian article, Abbey Corcoran ’19 describes a time in which she experienced a mental health crisis of suicide ideation. Not only was the college ill-equipped to aid a student in need but it was also unwilling to meet her needs with compassion even in her recovery.

At this time, I need to say something about suicide and suicide ideation at Davidson College, as mental illnesses and interpersonal violence are risk factors. This is a content warning for the next paragraph, where I will discuss suicide. First and foremost, there is nothing shameful or immoral about suicide ideation. And it is more common than you may think. A 2010 study surveying first-years in colleges found that 60% of individuals with suicide ideation did not display depressive symptoms. Now, I cannot speak to what types of screening tools—if any—that the Center for Student Health and Wellbeing uses,

but I want to emphasize that signs of depression should not be the sole indicator.

Our campus needs more methods of suicide prevention and intervention. No one is responsible for preventing someone from taking their own life, but there are methods of intervention that may help that someone. On campus, first responders to suicide ideation or attempts should not be RLO and campus police. The first instinct of the college should not be removal from campus or medical institutionalization because every person’s needs are different. For Corcoran, hospitalization was the best thing for her. Personally, hospitalization would only push me over the edge. There needs to be a trained professional available in these instances.

Corcoran’s personal narrative was published by the Davidsonian in 2017, but I learned about how her life here continued in the school year Facebook group soon after campus Neo-Nazis, Martha Gerdes and James MacLeod, were doxxed and removed. Numerous complaints and reports had been filed about both individuals. Gerdes and MacLeod were not removed from campus until the violence they’d been afflicting escalated into a potential campus-wide attack. On November 7, 2018, the threat of harm to specifically Jewish students, students of color, and queer students happened in part because Davidson College allowed it.

Davidson College needs to radically transform its crisis response and centralize its student support services. I am not saying the college’s offices that pertain to student life and wellness are ineffective. The problem is that these offices are not in collaboration with each other, the administration, and the student body. We cannot continue to treat students’ mental and physical welfare as separate from and unrelated to our everyday affairs here at Davidson College, such as our academic, athletic, social, and residential life experiences. The Dean of Students Office—“dedicated to the physical, emotional and well-being of every Davidson student”—must merge with the Center for Student Health and Wellbeing, Davidson Sports Performance Department, AADR, and RLO to effectively and holistically care for us students; thus, when a crisis arises, we might be able to put people before policy more effectively.

Michaela Gibbons ‘22 (she/her) is a GSS and economics double major from New Haven, CT. Contact her at magibbons@davidson.edu.

Woodrow Wilson: Time to Remove a Prominent Marker of Racism on Campus WILLIAM E. JACKSON JR. ‘57 (HE/HIM)

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he August 27, 2021, bulletin sent to the Davidson College community from the chair of the Board of Trustees highlighted: “Special Committees’ Work Expresses College’s Foundational Values.”

Alison Mauzé drew attention to two new “special committees”: the “Committee on Acknowledgement and Naming”—note: the power of naming—and the “Committee on Commemoration.” They will work to express the college’s “foundational values.” Both panels are headed by African-American alumni: Erwin Carter ‘79, of Greenville, SC, and Virgil Fludd ‘80 of Atlanta, GA. On foundational values, Mauzé wrote: “Davidson is grounded in the Christian Reformed Tradition and therefore faithful to a God bound by no church or creed. We value religious and racial diversity and inclusion, deplore racism and bigotry, and advocate for a more just world.”

The year before, on June 27, 2020, Princeton University— to which Davidson has long had close ties—made a big announcement that made national headlines: “Princeton Renames Wilson School and Residential College, Citing Former President’s Racism.”

The statement from Mauzé and the one from Princeton’s trustees are connected by a historical thread, as they bear upon Woodrow Wilson’s past associations with both institutions.

In the Princeton statement, the trustees said of the Wilson School decision: “We have taken this extraordinary step because we believe that Wilson’s racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school whose scholars, students, and alumni must be firmly committed to combating the scourge of racism in all its forms.”

The Princeton changes had been recommended by President Christopher Eisgruber, who noted in a separate statement that Wilson’s racism was significant and consequential—“even by the standards of his own time.” Think about that!

Eisgruber acknowledged that “people will differ about how to weigh Wilson’s achievements and failures. Part of our re-

sponsibility as a University is to preserve Wilson’s record in all of its considerable complexity.”

At Davidson College in my junior and senior years, Dr. Harold Ford, a Californian, was my professor of political science.

He was on leave from a senior post in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). In 1986, he retired from the Agency, as the chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC).

(A second progressive influence was professor of diplomatic history, Samuel R. Spencer, Jr., a South Carolinian who later, in 1968, became a reformist president of the college in regard to civil rights and racial attitudes.)

Ford was a graduate of the Hans Morgenthau ‘political realism’ school in international relations theory at the University of Chicago. He was not enamored of Woodrow Wilson.

That is when I learned of the conflicting sides to the minister’s son, political scientist, president of Princeton University and the President of the United States, 1913 to 1921.

Herewith: imperfect memories from the middle fifties: Not long after the Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision on desegregating schools in 1954, we one thousand male students were occasionally treated to guest speakers on Wilson— most notably Princeton historian Arthur Link—who heralded Wilson’s “14 Points” or guidelines for rebuilding the world after the First World War. Number 14 called for a “general association of nations” that would offer “mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small nations alike.”

But there was never a word about race relations in the United States during these visits; or President Wilson’s terrible treatment of African-Americans in the District of Columbia by the federal government. He had been a major party to ‘keeping them in their place.’

After a Wilson Foundation representative presented to Davidson College (in chapel, no less) 14 acorns from the trees on the Woodrow Wilson House estate, to be planted on the Davidson campus, students posted small signs that read “Woodrow Wilson slept here” at the base of a large oak tree; or “Woodrow Wilson held high office here” placed high up in a tall tree; or

“Woodrow Wilson cut class here 14 times” posted outside Chambers.

A distinguished history professor would begin his well-attended course on the Civil War: “Gentlemen, I am well aware that the South lost the Civil War. But let us begin in the hope that we can arrive at a different ending, this time.” It was meant as humor, of course, to an audience mostly made up of students from southeastern states.

It was at Columbia University where I read up on Woodrow Wilson, including Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House: A Personality Study (1956)—an effort to study the life of Wilson in the light of psychoanalytic theory. As a political scientist, Wilson’s most original works were Congressional Government (1885); and Constitutional Government in the United States (1911).

Yes, Wilson was a product of his time and place. On race, Woodrow Wilson did not escape “the burden of Southern history”—the title of C. Van Woodward’s 1960 classic. Even though, after Davidson, he went on to study at Princeton and Johns Hopkins, during Reconstruction, there is no record of any serious reconsideration of his racial attitudes. Quite the contrary.

Davidson College needs to establish greater distance between Woodrow Wilson and his first, brief (1873-1874) alma mater. The college should petition N.C. authorities to remove the historical marker on Main Street that bears his name, beneath that of Revolutionary War Gen. William Lee Davidson.

It is not a matter of political correctness; but one of historical reckoning. For far too long, the prevailing approach to Wilson at Davidson has been — to borrow a phrase from Woodward’s book—“Look Away, Look Away.”

William E. Jackson Jr. ‘57 (he/him) was an Assistant Professor of political science at Davidson from 1968-1973. He later served in senior posts in the US Senate and the State Department. Write him at 109 St. Albans Ln, Davidson, NC, 28036.

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Student-Athletes To Profit from Name, Image, Likeness VICTOR TAYLOR ‘24 (HE/HIM) SPORTS WRITER

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s of July 2nd, 2021, college athletes in North Carolina gained the ability to profit on their name, image, and likeness (NIL), something that just a few years ago seemed impossible. Athletes in many states across the country are now able to sign with agents or other professional representation, and more importantly, partner with companies to receive compensation in many different ways, such as through free products or money. This article engages in a dialogue with Davidson student-athletes Evie Lake ‘24, Emory Lanier ‘24, and Bernard Turner ‘23 in order to gain further understanding about their personal experiences with NIL so far, as well as help understand on the administrative side how NIL has affected Davidson athletics.

Victor Taylor: How have you felt about NIL legislation for you and other college athletes?

Evie Lake: It gives us new opportunities in a place where there was a lot of fear for us before, in terms of finding ways to capitalize on our brand.

Bernard Turner: It is a great way for student-athletes across the country to use the platform they have for whatever cause or brand they believe or represent. Not only is it nice to benefit from our name and likeness, but it is good to get the experience to be able to manage school, athletics, and the professional world.

Emory Lanier: NIL legislation for college athletes is a great opportunity for athletes to benefit off the hard work they put in, as well as be exposed to marketing opportunities and building their brand.

VT: What company/companies have you partnered with so far?

EL: Yerbae and Barstool Sports.

BT: HOOD, a company specializing in making the most comfortable and luxurious hats you can find anywhere.

EL: VaynerSports, and Bojangles gave me the

Left: Current photo of renovated McKillop court at Belk Arena. Right: Athletic administration office entrance. Photos Courtesy of Sydney Schertz ‘24.

opportunity to do a sponsored post with them.

VT: What drew you towards this company?

EL: Other people on my team let me know about both of these opportunities and I decided to make the most of them.

BT: I was contacted by HOOD to collaborate with their team on making a hat that was unique to Davidson. I jumped at this opportunity because I love clothes and fashion and being able to create a hat would be a cool way to be creative and get an opportunity in that realm. Also, it gave me the chance to work with some Davidson alums, Max Nelson [‘99], founder of HOOD, Brian Brown [‘98] and my teammate Eli Turner [‘22]. They gave us free reign in creating the hats and were very excited to work with us through the entire process.

EL: They reached out to me and I felt like it was a good opportunity to get involved in an NIL deal and learn more about it.

VT: What compensation have you received?

EL: Free gear and product from Yerbae, and

“Other programs could face challenges with NIL this year, but not at Davidson...players have to handle these opportunities with humility and gratitude, and our guys have done that excellently so far.”

-Matt McKillop ‘06 Associate Head Coach, Men’s Basketball

Barstool is in the process of sending me and other athletes free clothing.

BT: I receive compensation for every hat sold with HOOD. EL: I received monetary compensation for my sponsored post and story.

Not only has NIL legislation been a wild new world for student-athletes, it has also caused coaches and athletic administrators to adjust quickly in order to ensure student-athletes are following the rules correctly, lest they be ruled ineligible.

The person most involved in this new frontier is Athletic Director Chris Clunie ‘06.

When asked about how athletic administration is helping players navigate the landscape properly, Clunie said that “the focus is on both education and support, and that with the A-10’s help, the school has partnered with TeamAltemus and INFLCR to help do those two things.”

Even though Clunie is now happy to have NIL legislation available for student athletes, the former basketball player says that he “believes that the NCAA missed the window to provide a comprehensive and thoughtful structure that encompasses both state and federal frameworks,” and as a result, “we have a patchwork approach where certain states have NIL legislation and others, like North Carolina, currently have no NIL legislation, which then puts the onus on the institutions.” The rules about how exactly athletes and schools can make money and sign with professional representation are different between states, which means now all parties involved are scrambling to keep track of what is allowed

and what is not.

One might argue that the wealth of opportunities that are available to only some athletes based on talent or social media following would cause division or tension within locker rooms. However, both Clunie and men’s basketball Associate Head Coach Matt McKillop ‘06 said that is not the case here at Davidson.

Considering the reach college basketball has in the country, McKillop said that “other programs could face challenges with NIL this year, but not at Davidson,” and added that “players have to handle these opportunities with humility and gratitude, and our guys have done that excellently so far.”

Amongst other sports, Clunie says that “because of the breadth of the marketplace, all scholar-athletes can choose to engage or not to engage.”

So much of how NIL legislation will affect players and schools is still up in the air. Coach Matt McKillop views it as a net positive, but worries about whether bigger schools will use their brand as a recruiting tool to draw players and try to divide college basketball. On a more complete athletic level, Clunie sees this, along with the upcoming changes within the NCAA in terms of constitutional governance, conference realignments, and rule enforcements, as a “moment of incredible transformation, but whatever the future holds, the focus will continue to be on doing athletics right at Davidson.”

With that being said, it’s safe to say that student-athletes at Davidson are already in a great spot to make the most of these new potential chances to capitalize on their brand.

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Arts and Culture

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From the Earth Rise Radiant Beings A Conceptual Cosmos of Identity and History

ISABEL SMITH ’24 (SHE/HER) STAFF WRITER

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iên Trương’s artist talk on September 9th, 2021, about her exhibition Liên Trương: From the Earth Rise Radiant Beings, was a whirlwind. I furiously took notes as she weaved together histories, art styles, and conceptions of war and life and loss. It was almost haunting to be surrounded by the years of collected stories of oppression, suffering, and resistance that are present in Trương’s works.

There is a collective spirit within them. They transcend imperialist narratives and speak to transnational identities—especially ones of Asian and Asian-American experiences—that have been erased, suppressed, and redefined over and over again.

Trương traces cross-cultural genealogies in her exhibition and said that much of her work “responds to modes of landscape and narrative, and for [her] practice [she’s] really interested in how each has been integral to the other in the creation of visual mythologies of the American Narrative—who is centered in those stories, the bodies that have been kept in the periphery.” She argued that the traditional idea of ‘landscape’ in Western contemporary art (with rules of linear and atmospheric perspective) is not an objective depiction of a scene. Instead, landscapes construct a colonized space. They force ideals of nationalism and territorial conquest onto nature; painting is claiming. Trương invoked numerous examples: Romantic tradition, 18th and 19th-century British and American artists like Thomas Hearne and Thomas Moran, British Aesthetic theory, and Thomas Jefferson. She cited so many that it seemed unbelievable that they all could somehow all be featured in a cohesive collection, but Trương’s exhibition achieves

the impossible.

As the United States’ global power increased, art became a military and cultural weapon. American Abstract Expressionism was seen as opposing Soviet Socialist realism during the Cold War. Americans weren’t bound by the rules of realism. Instead, America and American art epitomized freedom; Americans were free. Trương’s emphasis on art as propaganda—not only in what the art portrays, but also in how it portrays it—was striking.

The sky is at the center of the Western genre of landscape Trương described. In the West, the sky connotes peace, reverence, and the ever-objective capital-S Science. Liên Trương and Hồng-An Trương’s collaborative video in the exhibition, The Sky Is Not Sacred, turns this on its head. The video shows clip after clip (taken from the U.S. National Archives) of premeditated violence in the sky carried out by the US military in the 20th century. In contrast, the English landscape painter John Constable’s words echo over the footage of airstrikes, claiming that, “in unending beauty the blue sky spans the earth” and that “the sky is the source of light in nature and governs everything.” This voiceover serves as a reminder of Western perceptions and understandings of the sky in relation to the footage; the video reveals the sky as a space of war, of coldness and darkness, and careless, brutal power grabs.

The juxtaposition is so precise that it left me sitting there, speechless, in the darkness of the gallery.

Trương’s artist talk brought these works, as well as the others in the exhibition, to life.

Engaging in dialogue with artists about their art is so important: it allows us to learn the artist’s process of making art, both physically and mentally, provides the opportunity to

Beirut, 1983, from the Translatio Imperii series, 2019 Oil on paper, vintage frame, acrylic, brass 7 x 8.5 inches. Image Courtesy of the Artist and Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco ask questions, and engages the art through conversation. Together, the works create their own conceptual cosmos. Trương paints in vivid color, especially blacks and pinks, and she explained the process of developing your own cohesive palette and creating art that is meaningful to you. The exhibition feels like a heavily researched lucid dream, one you wake up from having learned something. You walk outside, you look up at the glittering sky, and you think: the sky is not sacred.

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Liên Trương: From the Earth Rise Radiant Beings is in the Van Every Gallery of Davidson College in the Visual Arts Center until October 03, 2021. A recording of the artist talk is available courtesy of the Davidson College Art Galleries.

Isabel Smith ‘24 (she/her) is an undeclared major from St Augustine, Florida. She can be reached for comment at issmith@davidson. edu.

The Journey of Illustrating and Publishing a Children’s Book

A page from Livia’s Day in Rome. Image courtesy of Evie Mulhern ‘25.

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EVIE MULHERN ‘25 (SHE/HER)

n 2019, my close friend Sophie shared how she had always wanted to write a book; nevertheless, the thought of writing a novel as a high school sophomore seemed pretty daunting. Instead, she chose to create a children’s book and asked if I would like to illustrate it. News Flash: I replied with a huge “YES!!!” and Livia’s Day In Rome (or LDIR) was born.

Since elementary school I’ve always had a passion for art, whether that be in class, at

home, or for commissions, contests, and more.

However, while I had previous experience creating digital works and illustrating, I had never done anything quite at this scale. Sophie likes to call LDIR the “lovechild” between our two passions: language and art. Drawing upon Sophie’s knowledge and education in Latin and my research of Roman culture, we spent nearly two years making this book a reality for young readers. It was worth it!

A little background on LDIR: the story centers around a young girl named Livia who

grows up in Ancient Rome. It follows her through a “typical” day in her life: attending school, visiting the market, doing chores, and reflecting on the adventures of being a Roman girl. The book is intended to be educational through the use of historical references and Latin. We also wanted to empower girls through imparting the idea that they can be themselves and that they do not need to be held to gender stereotypes. LDIR, in addition, is about entertaining children readers and their parents.

To make sure the book’s format met the expectations of kids today, I sorted through a stack of classics from my childhood that I kept in my house’s attic, including William Joyce’s Snowie Rolie, my all-time favorite! I studied each book, noted the commonalities, and applied that knowledge to form an artistic theme that would shape the final work. It would include a cartoonish yet detailed design for the story; the words were formatted in a “curly” font with a white bubble background; and the color palette blended pastel and muted tones.

While I was initially unsure of how this artistic template would translate into the final product, I was really happy how the colors amplified the features of the illustrations.

The artistic process involved taking standard printer paper and drawing a rough sketch for each of the 34 pages. The pages were then photographed and opened in Adobe Sketch on an iPad. I used basic tools to outline the drawing which included the geometric features that make images look more crisp. The images were then imported to Adobe Fresco where it was time for color! I added color and created layers to add extra design features, which included jewelry, shading on clothes

and hair, and texture. After confirming everything was accurate for each page (which took many attempts), I imported the writing into customized bubbles, and imported everything into Adobe Illustrator. This is where the final product came together through final tweaks to text position, fonts, special highlights for Latin words, and the addition of page numbers.

We used Ingram-Spark self-publishing services, and while I can attest to the quality of their publishing program, there was still a HUGE learning curve. After starting with the book files in Illustrator (which is great for digital books), I learned that InDesign would provide a much better look for the hardback format. After finalizing a publishing date, hardback/digital formats, and the suggested retail price, Livia’s Day in Rome was released on February 1st, 2021, and has since been available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and limited brick and mortar bookstores in Charleston, SC (and hopefully soon in Davidson)!

The experience of publishing this story stands out as my favorite artistic venture and learning challenge to date! Looking towards the future, Sophie and I are collaborating on our next book which brings together a love of history and art once again. We intend to create a series about young girls in historical settings around the globe. A sneak peek for Davidson readers: be on the look-out for “Her Day in History” books coming to a bookseller near you!

Evie Mulhern (she/her/hers) is an intended Computer Science and Studio Art double major from Alexandria, Virginia. She can be reached for comment at evmulhern@davidson.edu.

Living Davidson

Across 1 Like 1 and 3, but not 2 4 With 72-Across, “Freshman” tradition, 1930-present 8 “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina” musical 13 Campground letters 14 Geo/Chevrolet ___ (GM compact, 1988-2002) 16 Badlands formations 17 ___ Brenda Tapia (associate chaplain, 1985-2020; abbr.)

18 Recreational sports, familiarly 20 “Buyer beware” phrase 22 “___ the fifth” (remark from the witness box) 23 “For Pete’s ___” 24 One’s alma mater, often (hint, hint!)

26 Special ___ 28 Airline seat choice 30 Like a gem of a pitching performance 32 Dit-dit-dit dah-dah-dah dit-dit-dit 33 Pesky sort 35 Guttural sound?

37 Albacore or skipjack 38 “The first ___ ever taken in America were by [3-Down] students who snuck into a lab in 1896” (collegexpress.com) 40 Quite amazed 44 Private teacher 46 Really do well 48 “No more seats” letters 51 ___ up (puts into alignment) 53 Hangs around doing nothing 54 Height of a Belk Arena basket 56 Cornered, in a way 58 Res ___ loquitur (Latin legal phrase) 59 About one third the height of a Belk Arena basket, to a Brit 61 2008 ____ Men’s Basketball Tournament 64 Fall recreational sport, 1951-present 67 Free throw’s path 68 Summit Coffee Co. purchase

MOSTLY ON CAMPUS Crosswords by Victor Fleming ‘73

69 “Gymnopedies” composer Erik 70 Cause for overtime 71 “Keep your ___ the ball!”

72 See 4-Across 73 Utter Down 1 Fried side 2 ___ a number on 3 Chalmers Gaston ___ (history professor and archivist, 1938-1994) 4 Bureau of Labor Statistics no.

5 “L.A. Law” lawyer ___ Becker 6 Litter box newbie 7 Bible book before Nehemiah 8 “Down under” fowl 9 Chapter and ___ 10 “Long Time No See” author Susan 11 Visit with 12 Determine the value of 15 Seize an opportunity (especially “while the sun shines”) 19 Eager beaver’s selfish demand 21 Was purchased for the price of 25 Pos. opposite 27 Bouquet delivery co.

28 “A Bug’s Life” colonist 29 Debtor’s marker 31 Alternative to Midway 34 Really out there 36 Book ___ (Main Street sight between the Public Library and CVS) 39 Wi-Fi devices 41 Feral felines 42 “Killing ___” (Sandra Oh series) 43 ___ Moines, Iowa 45 Sport ___ (all-purpose vehicle) 47 Get a move on, quaintly 48 Suppress 49 Sportscast staple 50 Kind of inspection 52 Geological levels 55 De ___ (Latin legal phrase)

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Open Letter: Cynthia Lawing An Encounter with a Group of Davidson Students at Lake Campus

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t was a scorching day the week before classes when I took my grandchildren to our favorite summer place, the Lake Campus!

There you were, a group of young Davidson students, men and women, gathered in a circle, seemingly sharing a group activity on the beach. Soon, your group moved to the lake, with everyone standing in a circle.

My six-year-old grandson Noah, a lively and sociable little boy, ever seeking opportunities to join any games, invited himself to be part of your circle, and his four-year-old sister Christina (Tete), never liked to be left out, soon followed his lead.

I had my back towards you since I was watching my two-year-old Abigail happily splashing away; I was also a bit embarrassed since we forgot Abbie’s swimsuit.

Abbie, however, utterly oblivious to judgement of the world, continued her swimming in the buff with sheer joy.

I was also concerned that Noah and Christina might be interrupting your group activity!

I felt more at ease when I began to hear

conversation between the students and the children; you showed much interest in them as I heard them introducing themselves, with Christina’s chirpy voice announcing that she was “from America” and Noah happily announcing a long anticipated event, that his birthday would come the following day!

I kept waiting for the moment when the children would be disinvited by you, so your group could continue with your planned activity, but that never took place. You continued to make time for them and showed your interest in them.

Soon your group moved ashore to a picnic table and I assumed, to eat!

The next day I attended our department retreat, so the children’s parents took them to the Lake Campus.

When I came home the children’s dad told me that “the same group” was there at the Lake Campus. As soon as Noah was spotted, the group spontaneously sang “Happy Birthday” to him!

What a great gift, what a great memory you have created for not only Noah but for

his family as well!

In a world that is gripped by pandemic, unrest in the Middle East, and natural disasters, what with the fire and drought in the west and hurricanes elsewhere, when all that we see is the leaden color of despair, you and students like you are that very ray of sunshine that bursts through the dark clouds, that offers such love and joy and compassion and all the gifts that warms the hearts and melts the most hardened hearts!

Admittedly, and with much shame, your generation has inherited a world that is, in all honesty, a mess! We have done horrible things to our environment, we have further the division between people, drawing deep rifts in race, beliefs, and political agendas!

There was a time when little children declared that “they would grow up to save the world,” they would get a pat on the head as their elders would say, ”Oh, what a nice thing to say!”

Now saving the world is not just “a nice thing to say,” it is urgent, and the call to action is desperate!

So my dear students whom we met at

Lake Campus, who gave us the great memory of one summer day, please continue to nurture your love and compassion for mankind and to care for our environment!

Fortify yourselves with all that you learn here at Davidson in the classrooms and in our community, for the very reason, and I will use a clich´éeé, you are the HOPE for tomorrow!

Cynthia Lawing P.S. Latest on Noah: the day after his birthday he absent-mindedly stepped off a ledge and broke his elbow. The first operation took place uneventfully (thank God) and a second to follow in a few weeks! His dream of being coached by the current captain of the frisbee team is dashed. So if you see a little boy with a red arm cast (left arm) hunting for Pokemon around campus, please give him a wave and some sage advice on Pokemon-hunting!

Cynthia Lawing is an Artist Associate in Piano at Davidson.

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The Quiz Issue

September 29, 2021

Which Unopened Davidson Dining Location Are You? Page Give Me A Damn Quesadilla

What Under-Salted Commons Dish Are You? Page I Actually Like the Vegan Station

What Does Your Email Sign-Off Say About You? Page Fond Best

Which One of the Four (4) A Cappella Groups Are You? Page Excessive?

Which Symptom on the Symptom Tracker R U? Davidson College Purity Test

1. You are on a plane, turbulence hits, and oxygen masks are deployed. In a moment of panic and quick thinking, you: A: Put on my own mask before assisting others.

B: Hoard the oxygen masks for yourself, first come first serve.

C: Start making out with the passenger next to you after receiving consent.

D: Freeze up… too much pressure!

2. What form of potato at commons is your favorite?

A: Potato cubes.

B: Sweet potato tater tots.

C: Potato coins.

D: Baked potato bar.

3. What is your horoscope?

A: Not Gemini.

B: Not Gemini.

C: Not Gemini.

D: Gemini.

4. What Scooby-Doo character do you resonate with most?

A: Fred B: Velma C: Daphne D: Scrappy-Doo

Key:

If you answered mostly As: Drum roll… you are congestion/ runny nose! You are pretty average, but you embrace it. Allergies, a little dust, deviated septum, SPE virus, COVID, virtually any other irritant, and you’ll be there! Being unexceptional isn’t a bad thing.

If you answered mostly Bs: Congratulations! You are cough.

Acquaintances and enemies would describe you as stubborn, abrasive, and guttural. But close friends know you have a soft, almost ticklish side. You are also loyal! You stick around for a LONG time. Don’t let people suppress you with an elbow, be proud and share your gifts.

If you answered mostly Cs: Well well well, you are fever, and don’t you know it! You are flirtatious. When people are around you, they get hot, sweaty, and flushed.

If you answered mostly Ds: Well done, you are shortness of breath. Some might call you indecisive, but really you have a duality to you that can’t be constricted. Sometimes you simply appear when walking up the stairs a little too quickly, sometimes in the midst of a panic attack, and sometimes you are a sign of hypoxemia and a collapsing lung. You like to keep things exciting by mixing them up.

5. It is a dark and stormy night. Your horse-drawn carriage gets stuck in the mud, and you have no choice but to hike up a steep slope and desperately bang on the doors of an ominous castle.

Your heart is beating fast because the word of the village is that a coven of witches inhabits this castle. But you know you must brave the witches because your dear maiden awaits you from the carriage. You knock on the door. It creaks open to reveal a blast of bright light. All you can make out is a steaming cauldron inside the room. This is the end, you think. Your eyes adjust only to find the blinding light has faded into a warm ambiance. What you thought was a cauldron is not a cauldron at all, but a pot of quinoa slowly cooking to perfection. A friendly-looking woman wearing no clothes walks out from behind the door. You realize the room is filled with naked people. A banner hangs overhead, reading “Nudist Lesbian Retreat!” The woman at the door introduces herself as Deb asks if you prefer quinoa or couscous. You: A: Say thank you but no thank you and return to your carriage in the mud, unsure how to explain the situation to your damsel in distress.

B: Flip the bowl of quinoa into Deb’s face and run back to the carriage, this is worse than witches!

C: Strip down and ask to join them, you’ve found your people.

D: Ask if you can taste test both quinoa and couscous before deciding.

1. In your friend group, which are you?

A: The Mom B: The Health Nut C: The drunk D: You don’t have a friend group

next to that day D: Writing your phone number on the whiteboard so anyone who needs to can get in contact with you this weekend.

5. Your professor has office hours every Thursday, you: A: Always go! Office hours prove your dedication to the class B: Go, but act like it’s a coffee date rather than a student/ teacher meeting C: Go and bring your printed and laminated resume D: You have to miss it because you attend Hurt Hub office hours every Wednesday

3. You have an 8:05 every MWF. On the Friday of that class you are: A: Making the same point over and over again, unable to stop yourself B: Chugging pre-workout, just for the energy C: Shaking hands with the new people you chose to sit

6. Your major is: A: Bio with a neuroscience minor B: CIS: sports journalism C: Business (it’s actually Economics but you say Business when anyone asks) D: You haven’t declared. You’re a senior.

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37. Weed citation 38. Gotten fake taken anywhere 39. Ran from Campo 40. Lost your virginity at Davidson 41. Hooked up with multiple people on the same night 42. Sex/ hooking up in an academic building 43. Learned someone’s name AFTER hooking up 44. Plan B from Wellness Wendy 45. Lost your catcard 46. Hosted a pregame 47. Caught by your friends on your walk of shame 48. Been drunk/ high into the next morning 49. Been to armour 50. Been to Brickhouse 51. Hooked up in a frat/ eatinghouse 52. Hooked up with a teammate/athlete 53. Been to a party at Depot 54. Left evidence in a public place of hooking up (condom, glitter, etc.)

55. Been sober at F 56. Been to 866 57. Thrown up and caught

by RLO 58. Thrown up and have someone in the stall throwing up next to you 59. Locked out of room 60. Sexiled roommate 61. Sexiled roommate twice in a weekend 62. Been sexiled 63. Hallcest 64. Left something behind after a hookup 65. ^ not getting said item back 66. Stolen clothing from hookup 67. Hearing your neighbors have sex 68. Drunk af in lounge 69. ?

70. Failed room check 71. Died during the pregame 72. Fallen off platform 73. Gotten drunk at a darty 74. Passed out in a bathroom 75. Stolen a COVID sign 76. Acid 77. Cocaine 78. Adderall 79. Seen your name on Yik Yak 80. Went to SAE/Phi Delt just for drinks 81. Greened out 82. Gone to Frugals 83. Made a new bestie drunk and then never spoke to them again 84. Drunk texted your hall groupme 85. Late night at nummit quesadillas 86. Drunk trivia 87. Quit nicotine #proud 88. Gotten transported 89. Driven someone to get transported so they didn’t have to take an ambulance 90. Hooked up with two people who are roommates 91. Hooked up with a Humes kid 92. Dated someone at Davidson 93. Pregamed a basketball game 94. Hooked up with someone in/from every freshman dorm 95. Hooked up WITH your roommate 96. Broken the Honor Code 97. Hooked up with Dr. Lutz 98. Hooked up with a dean 99. Hooked up with a professor 100. Hooked up with CQ

Which Weekly Email Update Are You?

2. On a Friday night you are: A: Shivering the corner of your dorm room, huddled under a blanket B: Doing burpees in the courtyard of F C: Networking D: Stumbling around trying to find one apartment that will let you in

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1. Made out in a frat in front of people 2. Made out behind F 3. Cried behind F 4. Peed behind F 5. Shower sex in new dorm 6. Gotten with more than one member of SPE 7. Walk of shame after wildcat wednesday 8. Walk of shame in a Halloween costume 9. Walk of shame in a toga 10. High in union 11. Drunk in union 12. DROMMONS 13. Frat lap/ eating house lap 14. Hooked up with your/ their roomate in the room 15. Blacked 16. Completed week of champs 17. Drunk AT 18. Drunk libs 19. Walked in by RLO having sex/ hooking up 20. Walked in by friends while hooking up 21. Missed class bc you were too hungover 22. Missed class bc of a hookup 23. Gotten a parking ticket on campus 24. Peed in a sink 25. Peed in a bed 26. Peed in an air conditioning unit 27. Or peed on a floor 28. Went to free STI testing 29. Saw a hookup at free STI testing…

30. Gotten drunk off only keystone 31. Drunk emailed a professor 32. Zoom/Outlook DM 33. Played Cardboard 34. Have had an alcohol related injury 35. Alcohol citation 36. COVID citation

QUOTE OF THE WEEK Monaco Grand Prix “I am more than my Schmitten Kitten fraternity.”

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7. Choose a musical: A: Urine town B: Kinkyboots C: How to Succeed in Business D: Dear Evan Hansen (the movie) (derogatory) 8. Choose a cheese: A: Gouda B: Goat cheese C: Baby bell D: Blue cheese (moldy) Key: If you got mostly As you are the COVID Update email.

When people first meet you they are interested in you and find you generally calming to be around. Overtime, however, you become monotonous and useless, repeating the same things over and over again until you drive all your friends away.

If you got mostly Bs you are Sandy’s P.E. reminder email. You like to keep things spicy and shake things up, but you are also singularly focused on your own goals.

You also can become a bit too much for people.

If you got mostly Cs you are the Handshake/Matthews Center update email. You are generally useless, but you make people laugh so they keep you around. Your obnoxious and sometimes pompous tone can drive people away, but they’ll usually gravitate back towards you when they get desperate.

If you got mostly Ds you are The Crier. Specifically, you are the social updates of The Crier: i.e. “check back next week.” Your desperation for human connection is pungent, but your try hard attitude is repulsive. You act like you know everything, when in reality you know nothing.

Which Student Band Are You? A: You are the only student band on campus.

Key: If you answered A, you already know who you R(LO).

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Hence, nothing in it should be taken as truth.