The Sandspur Volume 123 Issue 17

Issue 17, Volume 123 Thursday, March 2, 2017

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Page Page #2 •• SECTION OPINIONS

Established in 1894 with the following editorial:

EXECUTIVE STAFF Lauren Waymire Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Mariano Managing Editor Micah Bradley Production Manager

CONTENT STAFF Amanda Grace Head Copy Editor Minoska Hernandez Morgan McConnell Rebecca Candage Copy Editors Eric Hilton Kalli Joslin Section Editors Christina Fuleihan Ellie Rushing Staff Writer Kalli Joslin Nolan Brewer Web Editors

DESIGN DEPARTMENT Shaayann Khalid Head Designer Victoria Villavicencio Zoe Kim Maliha Qureshi Designer

BUSINESS & FACULTY Greg Golden

General Manager of Student Media

Dr. Bill Boles Faculty Advisor David Neitzel Business Manager

Thursday, September 2014 Thursday, March11, 2, 2017

A thoughtful pause of fraternity life Overnight, Rollins College made national news over a decision that we made to temporarily suspend the programming and activities of fraternity life.

Since then, we have also received a broad range of feedback, ranging from enthusiastic support of this decision to complete outrage of this decision. The outpour of encouragement and compassion from colleagues and communities nationally has been heartwarming- and yet we pause.

We pause because while we are grateful for the national outpour of compassion and condolence, both seem misplaced, however well-intentioned. This is not unfolding as a crisis on our campus, but an opportunity.

And an opportunity, we hasten to add, endorsed by a unanimous vote of our Interfraternity Council (IFC) and the Presidents and at least one delegate of all six of our Fraternities.

For context, over the past semester we received reports about students engaging in behavior that elevated our concern for the overall well-being of fraternity life, and it caused us to question how we were delivering on our institutional mission. These concerning behaviors are not new or different, but they caused us to pause. At the same time, our IFC leaders and presidents also began to share concerns for the

well-being of their peers. During the past week, we made a decision to act proactively. We made a decision to pause. We temporarily suspended our fraternities so that we could co-create the thoughtful space and time for the courageous and vulnerable conversations to align our fraternities not only with their missions, but also the Rollins mission of preparing students to be global citizens and responsible leaders.

We engaged the leadership of IFC in this courageous conversation. They unanimously voted in favor of the suspension. Our men are leading with courage, with the goal of developing a fraternity system that truly elevates the thriving of our men who choose fraternity life. They are choosing to lead in alignment with their organizational values and our mission as an educational community. Ultimately, we chose to make this decision in partnership with IFC for two reasons. First , we do not want to wait for something extreme to happen as our wake-up call.

Second, we believe fully that the fraternity life experience can and should support the delivery of the academic mission of our institution. We believe, and our students have shared with us, that their experiences in these spaces can and do help them unfold as leaders and citizens. It

is their connection to each other and their community experience that can help guide their understanding of a meaningful and productive life.

So, instead of business as usual, our community will come together collectively to have vulnerable conversations about what systemic change and re-centering our community looks like. In place of a Greek Week with tug-of-wars and competitive games, we will work with one another to build a culture of mutual support and collaboration. Each fraternity will examine how it leads to its mission by the individual actions of their members and as a group.

It is important to us to note that we are not dictating next steps in this process. We honestly do not know what this could look like.

We are partnering with our IFC and our chapter presidents to engage in conversations at large, and we are engaging with every Chapter executive board to focus what their individual chapters need to be successful on our campus.

We are not pausing and partnering as a precursor for punishment. We are engaging in our educational work to elevate the core values of 21st century, mission-driven, fraternity life.

We are staying in it with each other for the dialogue and action

that matters.

We have both worked at institutions with expansive fraternity and sorority systems nationally. We have never seen leadership like this- and we are inspired. We are inspired because we get to work with students in all of the dimensions of their well-being. Our philosophy as educators is to lead in alignment with our mission within every process and practice we have.

When our IFC leaders graduate, we look forward to how they tell the story about how they noticed a problem, and worked proactively to be part of the solution.

This is a value that is so deeply needed in our country right now, and we have every duty of care to partner with students to cultivate this kind of courageous leadership. To us, this is the very core of democratic and civic engagement.

At Rollins, we will continue to fulfill our duty to support and deepen the educational journey of all of our students. Our community is not in crisis- in fact it is quite the opposite. We are embracing the most expansive and critical dimensions of our mission.

-Dr. Mamta Accapadi Vice President for Student Affairs -Dr. Meghan Harte Weyant Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students

The Rollins College campus found out last week that all six fraternities would be temporarily suspended pending investigation of “high risk behaviors” and that Greek Week would be replaced by a series of summits with the aim to “align organizational values and behavior with the College’s mission,” per Dean of Students Dr. Meghan Harte Weyant.

The newspaper would like to take this opportunity to commend the college on their swift response to risky behaviors.

Many other universities might simply have ignored the issue or tried to diminish its importance, but the alleged actions deserve nothing less than a suspension of activities. As a fellow organization with many members and regular contributors from different areas of the campus commu-

nity, The Sandspur does not find it acceptable to engage in any behaviors that might cause injury or death.

Because all negative actions must have repercussions, we hope that the fraternities will take this time to seriously consider what it means to be responsible organizations on Rollins’ campus, and, eventually, responsible global citizens. We sincerely hope that the suspension and the upcoming summits will help the fraternities recognize their recent actions, as well as re-evaluate their overall culture. Obviously, something needs to change.

In order to effectively and comprehensively cover the events of last week, our Production Manager, Micah Bradley, reached out to Dr. Harte Weyant, Jazmine Rodriguez (Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life),

President Grant Cornwell, and SGA for information on different areas of the ban. We have also decided to run an op-ed piece co-authored by Dr. Harte Weyant and Dr. Mamta Accapadi (above). Last week, we also published a short piece online, written by staff writer Ellie Rushing, in an attempt to provide news on the suspension as quickly as possible. In order to give everyone a chance to share their side of the story, we also reached out to every fraternity to ask for comments on the events, the suspension, and their plans for the future. We only received a response from Phi Delta Theta, which we have published online.

In the future, we hope to engage with different organizations and individual members within the Greek community, though this can often be difficult due to

the secretive nature of Greek Life and the need to go through many chapters’ national organizations to get even a simple comment.

We hope that the Greek community, both the sororities and the fraternities, will be as open as they can with student media moving forward.

As the semester continues, The Sandspur will strive to provide unbiased reporting on the events that have transpired and their consequences, as well as providing opinion pieces from different voices from around the community about Greek Life and its role on campus. As a newspaper, The Sandspur takes issues that affect our campus community this deeply extremely seriously, and we will do our best to cover them in a way that reflects this.

- The Sandspur Staff

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Thursday, March 2, 2017

Rollins hosts champion debaters from Jamaica, South Korea Rollins Debate Team hosted visitors from the Jamaican Association for Debating and Empowerment and the Solbridge International School of Business from South Korea to battle it out in The Great Debate on Tuesday, February 21.

Christina Fuleihan

Staff Writer

Debate is well-recognized as scholastic discourse at its finest. It is neither passive learning nor a mere acknowledgement of simple facts. Proper debate presents itself as a swift and rapid exchange of ideas in a search for academic and social truths – it is an art form that very much relies on the responses of an incredibly reactive audience and the passionate reciprocation of knowledge and argumentative logic by the debaters.

To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of debate at Rollins, the college invited The Jamaican Association for Debating and Empowerment and the Solbridge International School of Business from South Korea, to attend a series of week-long debating activities at Rollins and across Central Florida. Some of these activities included a much-anticipated coach’s debate and opportunities to practice and share knowledge with local high schools and college teams. The international debaters met with teams from Lake Nona High School, Apopka High School, and Valencia College.

SooJung (Sally) Lee, vice president and varsity member of the Solbridge Debate Society, was astonished at the large turnout for the Rollins Great Debate held on Tuesday, February 21. “Debating is an intellectual sport but more importantly, it is an extremely important tool of communication for cultural interactions and reaching a consensus of important world issues that we face until today. We are

Far right: Photo courtesy of Rollins College Debate Team.

For more information on The Great Debate and the Rollins Debate Team, scan the QR code on the right

very happy to see that debating has become an important school activity, and we are astonished with the huge amount of support that the Rollins debate team is receiving,” she said.

Our Rollins debaters have had various competitions this month, including the 21st Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Competition that took place on February 26, which marked the end of a particularly busy Debate Week.

The highlight of the week–for the majority of the Rollins community, at least–was undeniably the Great Debate. During a particularly insightful debate between The Jamaican Association for Debating and Empowerment and Rollins College, debaters offered their input on the issue of whether or not President Trump’s foreign policies will make America safer. The audience was especially lively through the entire proceedings–waving around American, South Korean, and Jamaican flags to a chorus of “hear, hear” and “shame, shame.”

The United States of America, the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave, the promoter of federalism and seeker of justice, the leader of the so-called free world and an undisputable powerhouse, has long been recognized as the world’s melting pot.

The Trump presidency might soon change that facet of America’s reputation among other nations in the international sphere. During the Great Debate, Side Government—represented by the Rollins debaters—argued that “safety is an operative term.

It doesn’t have to mean that other countries will like [you], it

means that we will be safe.” Side Opposition, meanwhile, argued that the “very United States of America where we enjoy fundamental rights and freedoms was established on an ethos of internationalism and harmony.”

The issue of the immigration ban came up multiple times during the debate. Side Government denied the fact that it was a Muslim ban, claiming that it instead reinforced Trump’s realist foreign policy approach by banning only failed states, states in Civil War, and, in the case of Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism.

They would potentially be willing to expand the ban to other nations that met this criteria, as well. Side Government maintained that, in countries where there is a lack of regulated institutions that can provide information about citizens, the process of

vetting potential immigrants is just unrealistic.

Side Opposition—represented by very passionate members of The Jamaican Association for Debating and Empowerment— argued that Trump’s policies were not realist, but were in fact isolationist. While an internationalist approach to foreign policy spurs progress, an isolationist approach will make America less safe.

“Trump’s policies are isolationist and spark local and international contention. [America] taught the world federalism, and it has been working. By taking on the role of the leader of the free world, [ensuring the safety of vulnerable states] is the burden that America has taken on its shoulders.” By building up walls, claimed Side Opposition, people will be forced to find new

ways of penetrating those walls.

The international political sphere of today is one filled with unrest and uncertainty. There will be many changes in the next four years, and it is imperative that college students take an active approach to understanding issues such as the future of foreign policy and immigration in the United States. Rollins is especially proud of its debaters for continuing to tackle and discuss the hard issues head-on from multiple angles.

While the Rollins team did exceptionally, The Jamaican Association for Debating and Empowerment ultimately won this year’s Great Debate in a 4:3 vote, asserting that the current administration’s policies on immigration will not make America safer and maintaining the need for international cooperation.

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Thursday, March 2, 2017

Micah Bradley Production Manager The fraternity presidents, the Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC), and at least one delegate from every organization voted unanimously to agree to the suspension of all six fraternities on campus on Tuesday, February 21, at an atypical weekly meeting. The other option? Individually completing the organizational misconduct processes for each infraction.

“We wanted to think about it as a pause,” said Meghan Harte Weyant, AVP for Student Affairs and Dean of Students. “We’re not looking to get rid of fraternities; we’re not looking to kick chapters off campus, to kick chapters out of their houses. We’re not looking to suspend new member classes.”

Weyant clarified that the need for the suspension came in response to conduct issues throughout the semester. There have been issues with all six fraternities on campus: Chi Psi, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Tau Kappa Epsilon, and X-Club.

“At this point, we have allegations of alcohol, drug use, violence,” said Weyant. There are also allegations of hazing, but Title IX is not related to the current suspension. At some point during the semester, students were hospitalized.

“I’m worried about highrisk behavior that puts students at risk of injury and death.

Things like that happened,” said Weyant. “Over the course of the semester there have been students who have been medically transported as a part of student

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our focus right now to be on a series of summits around re-centering fraternity life, and I hope we have the support of sorority life and Panhellenic to re-center our FSL mission with the mission of the college.”

On Tuesday afternoon, the Student Government Association postponed the annual Lipsync competition until April 9. Intramurals will not be affected, since students sign up for those events as individuals and not as part of a formal organization.

In the wake of the e-mail on Tuesday, news coverage of the event spread fast. Last Wednesday, reporters were pacing up and down Holt Avenue, asking students questions. Outlets that covered the suspension include WKMG Orlando, WESH Orlando, and Orlando Sentinel.

President Cornwell commented on the future of Greek life by returning to the college’s mission.

“For everything we do I ask, is this aligned with our mission? Does this department or program advance our core purpose of providing a liberal education for global citizenship and responsible leadership? If the answer is ‘yes’ then we have to work continuously to improve the extent to which the program positively contributes to our students’ educations. The future of Greek life on campus is entirely a function of how well the Greek system can align with and contribute to our mission.”

There is no official timeline or specific date indicating that the suspension will be entirely lifted. This information is current as of Tuesday, February 28, when the layout of the paper was finalized.

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Page 6 • ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Thursday, March 2, 2017

In Brief:

Bach Festival Reformation concert celebrates music, defiance

J.S. Bach followed Martin Luther’s theology

The 82nd Annual Bach Festival continued with a performance honoring the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation and showcased the songs and hymns of Martin Luther.

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[T]he “Reformation” concert was more than just good music; by celebrating Luther’s consequential reevaluation of the role of the Roman Catholic Church, it served as a reminder that reasonable defiance of authority is always healthy and necessary to keep in check the powers that be.

lime flute work, led by the talented Nora Lee Garcia, and a robust cello section. After contrasting tempi and various moods, the performance climaxed in the finale with a restatement of the Luther chorale, played in an exuberant and triumphant fashion.

Beyond some of the best choral and orchestral work the Bach Festival of Winter Park has offered yet, the “Reformation” concert was more than just good music; by celebrating Luther’s consequential reevaluation of the role of the Roman Catholic Church, it served as a reminder that reasonable defiance of authority is always healthy and necessary to keep in check the powers that be.

To learn more about the Bach Festival, visit bachfestivalflorida.org. Rollins students, faculty, and staff are welcome to come to concerts for free with their Rollins ID.

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Soprano Mary Wilson showed a full and mature tone

John Grau (tenor) and Meg Bragle (mezzo-soprano) had a duet that complimented the orchestra The concert was part of the 82nd Annual Bach Festival The concert honored the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation Tickets are free to students with a Rollins ID

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A Lutheran, J. S. Bach followed Martin Luther’s theology and knew his hymns, a m o n g which was “A Mighty Fortress is our God.” Composed by Luther, the chorale was the recurring theme of the concert on Sunday afternoon at Knowles Memorial Chapel; it forms the basis of Bach’s Cantata BWV 80 and Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, “Reformation,” the two heavyweights of the program.

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the Augsburg Confession—the primary confession of 1530 of the Lutheran churches—with his fifth symphony, first performed in Berlin in 1832. Before the performance of the symphony, and of Bach’s BWV 80, Sinclair invited the audience to join the commemoration by singing “A Mighty Fortress is our God,” printed in the hymnals distributed around the pews at Knowles.

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ished and balanced. Sinclair also brought out the best sound of the orchestra, symmetrical and resolute, in the imperfect acoustics of the chapel.

Soprano Mary Wilson showed a cultivated head voice, with a full and mature tone in her forte high register. Tenor John Grau sang with a highpitched liquid tone, though he tended to get dimmed by the orchestra.

His particularly high tone blended well with mezzo-soprano Meg Bragle in their duet; their joined voices held their own against the orchestral accompaniment.

B a c h ’ s shorter cantata BWV 79, composed for Reformation Day, featured a delicate oboe by Sherwood Hawkins in the second movement aria, “God is our sun and shield.”

Bragle brandished a strong tone during this compelling duet for mezzo and oboe, but added little ornamentation to her phrasing.

Seraphic horns decorated the third movement, with interjections from the full chorus. Like the tenor and mezzo duet from BWV 80, the baritone and soprano duet from BWV 79, “God, ah God, abandon Your own ones never again,” was a highlight. Baritone Juantomas Martinez boasted an assured and tuneful voice, radiating together with Wilson over pristine strings in unison.

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Thursday, March 2, 2017

Four students participate in printmaking independent study Professor Rachel Simmons is teaching an independent study that offers an indepth exploration of printmaking and the various forms of artistic expression it enables.

Nilly Khozad

Writer

This semester, Dr. Rachel Simmons, a professor in the Art and Art History Department, has teamed up with various students to dive into the medium of printmaking through independent studies. Independent studies are semester-long, student-led research courses based on student-selected topics.

Independent studies allow students to flourish beyond the world of textbooks and essays and enhance their creative abilities. This is essential for anyone who wants to gain experience and cultivate practical skills, useful beyond the walls of an educational institution. These studies entail a lot of research and require dedication, but the results are worthwhile.

Life without art would be very mundane; therefore, Rollins College makes sure to incorporate all fields in the educational opportunities available each semester, including independent studies. This semester, Professor

Simmons and company have focused their independent study on printmaking. Simmons felt it important to preface her comments by defining printmaking for the layperson. She stated that printmaking is “creating images on a plate, screen, or even wood and pulling impressions from it through ink or rollers.” She continued, “just like film in photography or making a cast for a sculpture, printmaking allows for developing or duplicating an image.” Before computers, this was the main method of printing and it paved the way for newspapers, magazines, and books to be published in large numbers.

Professor Simmons had a lot to say about the independent studies she was supervising.

She stated, “it is a good way to explore a body of work and it allows the student to have an idea and stick with it. It is driven solely by the student, so it is very unique as the student is the only one who produced it.

It is also very different from the printmaking class because it allows the students to dive deeper

into an area of interest.” She then mentioned four students who are part of the independent study and their different approaches and ideas.

One student was studying abroad in Ireland and creating a visual journal of her travels. This allowed her to build a body of work that covered a specific theme. Another student is screen printing in order to explore ethical conflicts in the manufacturing of makeup that is not cruelty-free. Yet another student is focusing her screen-printing on environmental issues that matter to her. She is also producing a portfolio and displaying her art on her website.

Kayla Powers ‘17 was able to give us more information on her specific screen-printing independent study. She stated, “my goal

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with this independent study was to understand screen-printing and correlate it with things that matter to me, such as political science issues.” She continued, “My objective is to screen print activist poster art for marginalized groups such as Muslim Americans, refugees, and the LGBT society. I wanted the subject matter to be accessible to everyone and I think posters allow for a much greater audience than other means.”

Students are taking different approaches with their screen-printing studies, but a common motif is noticeable among them—that is, their passion for the subject and their ability to focus on their area of interest for a long time rather than just a week or two. These studies

This is essential for anyone who wants to gain experience and cultivate practical skills

are just a single example of how Rollins students are making the best of their college experience.

Independent studies are available to all students no matter what subject so long as there is a faculty member who can advise you.

Hopefully, this feature on screen printing will help students understand just one of the many academic opportunities available at Rollins. Participating in an independent study program is an incredibly personalized way to advance in one’s own knowledge.

These independent studies can be a great addition to any student resume and enhance students’ overall experience with research and development of an idea. It proves that, with guidance and months of handson experience, students are able to execute beautiful things and create pieces that are completely unique to them. Artistic finesse is a wonderful skill to have, and it can pay off in the long run for students to have gone through such individualized lessons.

Baking treats in a college dormitory?

Not as hard as you might think Nicolas Nagaoka discusses his new hobby of baking and shares some tips on how to whip up some tasty desserts.

Nicolas Nagaoka

Writer

I never thought I would be any good at anything related to what the kids call “adulting.”

But recently, I have become known around Rollins College as the provider of baked goods, including cookies, gluten free goods, and cakes. How did I pick up this unexpected hobby?

You need only be a bored, unemployed undergraduate with way too much free time.

In all seriousness, there is a science to baking. It is not just about mixing batter and throwing it in the oven. The beauty of baking is that when you under-

stand the science behind it, everything is possible. The difference between the rock-hard ash pile and the soft and chewy Mrs. Fields cookie is literally down to a science.

For example, creaming your butter wrong could dictate that the results of your efforts are hardened pieces of dough rather than delicious, crumbly morsels of heaven.

Ideas like “creaming,” “folding,” and “don’t open the oven every two minutes or the batter will bake incorrectly” become the same methodical instructions as the Pythagorean Theorem.

Another example is that leaving out egg whites for about 30 min-

utes (no longer, or you will meet a good friend named Salmonella) actually makes them easily beatable, meaning they will integrate better with your other ingredients.

Learning the science is so ridiculously helpful, especially when it comes to allergy problems.

For example, Gluten-free diets are the bane of my existence as a baker. Gluten is this nice little substance that glues together your flour-based goods. When baking, not having gluten is essentially an attempt to build a wall with no adhesive. Not only does your batter look like melted butterscotch, but it is so difficult

to stop your baked goods from having that horrid gluten-free texture, which (by the way) is the texture of chewing on sand.

However, with a little science and taste, you can avoid these qualities. Not entirely, but distract the mouth with different flavors and other textures that people will not notice. Making batter into bars is the easiest way that I found to avoid gluten-free beach texture.

But, much like any other science; experiment, and then experiment some more. You never know what new flavors and textures you will find.

Just as a closing statement, baking is a lot of fun. I have a

deep love for it and I have only been doing this for maybe two months now. It is ridiculous how many ideas one can come up with just by adding an ingredient or two.

The idea of baking is not to follow recipes to the letter, but to deviate and make something new happen. Also it is ridiculously easy to get started. Leave the comfort of “I can’t adult” every once in a while and explore; you never know what you might find over the baked horizon.

If anyone wishes to try some of my experiments, come by Elizabeth Hall and see how I became some weird local baking legend in a tiny dormitory kitchen..

Page 8 • SPORTS

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Tars tackle Saint Leo Lions Micah Bradley

Production Manager

The women’s basketball team took their twelfth straight win with a 74-61 win over Saint Leo University. Saturday’s home game was also Senior Night, with Seniors Tanaya Jones, Brittany Betts, and Marie Gilbert receiving recognition for finishing their last regular-season basketball game.

The first quarter was close, with the Tars only leading by two points, 19-17.

At the end of the second quarter, the Tars still led by only two points, 38-36. The Tars began to pull ahead after halftime. At the end of the third period, the team had a 8 point difference of 53-45. The Tars capitalized on their lead and finished with a win of 13 points.

Rollins’ stand out player was Senior Marie Gilbert. She scored 17 points with 6 rebounds and 3 assists. Carly McLendon ‘19 also made her mark and was named SSC Defensive Player of the Week for the fifth time for her performance. For the Saint Leo Lions, Chelsy Springs had an amazing game, scoring 30 points and 11 rebounds, but her performance was not enough to make up for Saint Leo’s lower scoring accuracy than the Tars throughout the game.

It was announced Saturday night that the team will enter the Sunshine State Conference at the number three seed. According to Rollins sport’s website, the team lost a coin flip for the number two seed position. Rollins will host Florida Tech for their quarterfinal face off.

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