Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Rosalynn Carter’s final journey has begun in Southwest Georgia Jeremy Redmon, Martha Dalton and Mirtha Donastorg The Atlanta JournalConstitution
involvement with the hospital extended well beyond that. “They wanted what was best for Sumter County, and health care was an integral part of that,” said Carlyle Walton, the medical center’s CEO. “I am thankful that our team was given this opportunity to be a small part in celebrating the life of just a great AMERICUS, Ga. — Former first woman, a great American and someone lady Rosalynn Carter, who died this who was passionate about our commumonth at 96 after battling dementia, nity, our hospital.” began her final journey Monday where it For many years, a Carter family started, in her native Southwest Geormember served on the board of the foungia. Three days of memorial events are dation for Sumter Regional Hospital in planned. Americus. But in 2007, that hospital was From Plains, the Presidential destroyed by a tornado and was rebuilt, Medal of Freedom recipient’s motorcade becoming Phoebe Sumter. traveled Monday morning to Phoebe The former president attended the Sumter Medical Center in Americus. new center’s groundbreaking in 2009 The hospital has served as her tempoand the former first lady wrote a letter to rary resting place since she died. Her help it win a national contest for a free children, grandchildren and greatMRI machine, according to Walton. In grandchildren arrived at the hospital in 2015, the community raised money in black coaches. the former president’s honor — to supOver the years, she and former port fellow cancer patients. The Carters President Jimmy Carter received medi- asked that some of those donations fund cal care at Phoebe Sumter, though their the Phoebe Cancer Center, Walton said. See Journey on 6
Tribune Content Agency U.S. Secret Service agents carry former First Lady Rosalynn Carter’s casket from Phoebe Sumter Medical Center to her motorcade on Monday, Nov. 27, 2023.
Yet another college course on Taylor Swift makes clear: She’s more than a pop star Terry Castleman Los Angeles Times
Ethan Scott OSU fans braved the over-night cold to secure Big 12 Championship tickets.
Punching my carnival ticket to the Big 12 Kennedy Thomason News & Lifestyle Editor
a ticket to the Big 12 Championship this weekend. What started out as optimistic acceptance of waiting in the line that snaked back around to the west side of Boone Pickens Stadium, ended in nearAt the end of a 24-degree, frozen disbelief. five hour night, all I had was a When OSU officials reallittle red carnival ticket as my ized students intended to stay prize. the night, demonstrated by the It’s a fitting metaphor for various tents, cots and other the situation. makeshift bedding students set On Sunday night, as the up, they adjusted plans. temperature dropped, hundreds Jessie Martin, the senior of OSU students lined up outside associate athletic director, made of Gallagher-Iba Arena, myself rounds to announce that ticket included, — all of us vying for vouchers would be given to
everyone in line. He said they would reflect your place in line and could be exchanged at 7 a.m. on Monday for an actual ticket. When asked why they couldn’t provide the tickets instead of vouchers, Martin said they didn’t have enough staff to process everyone in the wee morning Monday hours. Resolved to wait for the tickets we were already freezing over, my group of friends and I hunkered down. Then came the stampede of students rushing by. See Ticket on 5
“People … imagine it as being some kind of validation of that artist,” Robert Fink, a professor of musicology and humanities at UCLA, said of such course If she could talk to offerings. (UCLA does not Taylor Swift, recent UC have a class on Swift — yet.) Berkeley grad Crystal HaryThe first to teach the anto knows what she’d say: Beatles or Bob Dylan at “When I was a kid, I UCLA were English prowould listen to you because fessors, who “had less of I wanted to learn everything a phobia about that stuff,” about you. But as I grew up, Fink said. He explained I realized that I was listenthat many university music ing to you because I was departments “held onto a learning everything about notion of popular music” as me.” less-than-deserving of the Though she may never attention. get the chance to meet the Nowadays, “probably pop star, Haryanto will it’s more likely to have a soon be sharing her love for Taylor Swift than a Megan all things Swift with some Thee Stallion class because lucky students and fellow people think of Taylor Swift fans. as a lyric writer, and thus She put together a a poet, and thus somebody course, “Artistry & Entreyou can talk about as a text,” preneurship: Taylor’s Verhe said. sion,” that will be available Though Fink doesn’t at Berkeley as a student-led, plan to teach a course on for-credit class during the Swift, he imagines such a spring semester, the latest class could discuss “genre in a wave of higher educaand race and whiteness,” tion offerings that highlight “the state of the music Swift’s ascent to global industry,” and feminism and phenomenon. girl culture. She’s not the first “People have started musical artist to be studied to realize: Oh, this is probin a collegiate setting; Jayably one of the representaZ, Queen and Bob Marley tive artists of this period in are among many who have the industry and culture,” he drawn student interest for said. decades. See Swift on 7
Tribune Content Agency Taylor Swift attends “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” concert movie world premiere at AMC The Grove 14 on Oct. 11, 2023, in Los Angeles.