The Sandspur Volume 121 Issue 11

Volume 121 Issue 11 Thursday, December 4, 2014

Writer Peter Ruiz urges you to take a stand on the decision in Ferguson. page 3

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Compiled by Lauren Waymire Ferguson, Missouri A grand jury has reached the decision to not indict former Officer Darren Wilson, the police officer responsible for the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in August. The decision means that Wilson will not be tried on murder charges. The announcement of the decision was met with protests and destructive riots in the city of Ferguson, resulting in damage to both public and private property to include police cruisers and local businesses.

Wilson announced his resignation from the police force shortly after the decision was given and shared with ABC News that his “conscious is clear.”

Cairo, Egypt Waves of protests swept the nation as former president Hosni Mubarak was cleared of all murder charges dating back to the uprising that took place

three years ago. At least 2000 protesters took to Cairo’s Tahrir Square, only to be fired upon with teargas and dispersed by Egyptian police. At least one person died in the protests. The former president is currently serving a three-year sentence for

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stormed an infirmary and began rapidly consuming available medications in Uribana prison in north-west Venezuela. The inmates consumed a mixture of anti-seizure medications, insulin, antibiotics, and hypertension treatments. Relatives

Most prisons in Venezuela are controlled by armed inmates, leaving security forces with little to no control over the facilities. embezzlement of public funds.

An estimated 800 people died during the protests in early 2011 up until Mubarak resigned on February 11 of that year.

Barquisimeto, Venezuela A total of 35 prisoners have died after overdosing when they

of the deceased accused prison wardens of poisoning the prisoners. Most prisons in Venezuela are controlled by armed inmates, leaving security forces with little to no control over the facilities.

The country also has one of the highest murder and crime

rates in Latin America, and their judicial system is struggling to handle the ever-increasing volume of inmates.

Offenbach, Germany A young woman by the name of Tugce Albayrak has died after being attacked for defending two girls who were being harassed. Albayrak was at a fast food restaurant in a town outside of Frankfurt when she heard cries coming from the bathrooms.

One of the men, an 18-yearold named only as Senal M followed her outside and proceeded to beat her. He is currently in police custody. Albayrak was taken off of life support on her 23rd birthday after her injuries put her in a coma and rendered her brain-dead. A petition is gathering signatures to posthumously award her the national order for merit.

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Thursday, Thursday,November December13, 4, 2014

Why I must stand Peter Ruiz explains his reasons for staging a sit-in to stand up for Ferguson, Missouri.

Peter Ruiz

Writer

I am a young, male college student living in Winter Park, Florida: a very privileged area in the United States. On November 25, 2015 at 1:30 a.m., I decided to stage a sit-in at Rollins College for Ferguson, Missouri, and Michael Brown, a boy who lost his life too soon.

You might be wondering “how does the murder of a young black boy in Missouri affect my life?” The answer is: it does not, which is exactly why I must stand.

The events that transpired in Ferguson over the past months are the result of centuries of racism in our nation. The case of Michael Brown did not occur in isolation; it is the continuation of an old pattern. The population of Ferguson is 67% black, yet the police force is 93% white. Darren Wilson was an officer from another police force that was shut down due to malpractice and racial tensions. Racial profiling made Ferguson a powder keg ready to explode, and Brown was the casualty that made it detonate.

The protests and riots after Brown’s murder show that this was a community tired of being abused and mistreated by the

very people who are supposed to protect and serve them. The media proceeded to vilify Brown, painting him as a thug and a pot-head. They perpetuated the story that Wilson stopped Brown in connection to a robbery even after the Police Chief explicitly stated that Wilson was unaware of the robbery.

The media continued to spread the story of the robbery after the store owner, the store clerk, and the store owner’s lawyer stated they did not believe it was Brown who robbed them.

Then, there was a sham grand jury trial.

The prosecutor of the case is the President of The BackStoppers Inc., an organization which fund-raised for Wilson. He hired a medical examiner with no credentials on behalf of the Brown family. Only one of the witnesses, witness 10, corroborates Wilson’s story. Their testimony has also changed substantially since their initial police interview.

The grand jury was presented with a law that, if still in place, would have made Wilson’s action legal. But that law was ruled unconstitutional in 1985. The trial was not handled well, to say the least.

In the end, Brown did not receive justice. You are probably still asking yourself why I

would feel the need to organize such a response. I believe that even though I am not black, even though I am not a citizen of Ferguson, and even though I am not a relative of Michael Brown, I must make a statement.

In fact, it is because of those very reasons that I must make a statement. The people of Ferguson, black folks, and the relatives of Brown are deemed too emotionally invested to have good judgment about the situation by society.

So I, as a seeming outsider, am deemed by society to be more worthy to speak on the subject, more sought out, more listened to. My morality and my conscious tell me I must stand with the people of Ferguson, with Brown’s family, with the black community, and lift their voices, because this is what loving other people looks like. You do not kick someone when they are down. You help them to stand on their own two feet.

This is what allyship looks like. Taking action. On the night of the verdict, I could not sleep. I knew that my friends were hurting and that there was nothing I could do to ease their pain. I knew that I had friends in Ferguson marching alongside the community, supporting them, being shot at with rubber bullets and

tear gas. I knew that Brown’s family was probably sitting up awake as I was wondering why it was their boy who was killed. I realized what I could provide to the people in my life, who were currently struggling with this pain, a show of support.

So, at 1:30 a.m. on November 25, I began to message people to see who would join me in a show of Solidarity, Compassion, and Love with Ferguson. The response I received surprised me, and we showed up in numbers and stood in the campus center on a rainy day seeking to educate our wider campus community, but also to create a moment in which we could be together as a community.

It was necessary and powerful. We spoke to people who refused to listen, we sang, we held hands, we cried together. This was a moment of love that was necessary for all of us. This was necessary to recharge our spirits for the continuing fight against a system which does not see value in blackness and black people.

I stand for justice. I stand for love. I stand for my friends when they need strength. I stand for those same friends who give me strength.

I stand for a future in which black people are not being systemically killed. I stand for a fu-

ture in which black childhood is not vilified.

I stand for the strong men and women who have been standing alone for far too long.

I stand for the hope that if this were me, someone would stand.

I stand because as a nonblack person of color I have privileges that black folks in America do not. I stand because I love my country, but the system is corrupt.

I stand for Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Reika Boyd, Kendra Smith, Darren Hunt, Eric Garner, Duanna Johnson, and the countless other black lives taken by the police and not given justice.

I stand for Ferguson, Missouri. I stand because if I do not stand, then I am complicit in the systemic killing of black folks here in America by a system stacked against them.

I realize that sometimes it is hard to stand, but I implore you to stand. We must add our voices to the black collective. This is our responsibility. The burden of changing system should not be on the very people this system is killing. It should be on us. It is on us to change the system. I have been too quiet.

We have been too quiet, and the result has been death. I refuse to be guilty for these deaths any longer.

Teaching how to test Students are used to standardized testing, but it is a flawed means of measuring education.

Roberth Quintero

Writer

Education in America often seems to cycle in and out of progression.

However, taking a closer glimpse into what our public education system has become, we can easily conclude that progression is not necessarily what we might be striving for after all.

It seems that we have shifted the overall focus of free thinking, and individual development, to a more narrow-minded form of teaching.

The use of standardized testing in our public education system seems to be the growing cancer that holds many students back from potentially staying on track with what was once their original education path. The is-

sue stands that our teachers emphasize their curriculum goals towards higher scores in major standardized tests. This leads to better funding for their schools, which in turn leads to the concept of teaching how to test, instead of teaching to educate and expand the minds of our future generations.

These tests kill incentive to think outside the box due to the fact that we are forced to think in a “standard” rational manner.

By letting the system slowly infiltrate these demonic entities we consider “formal exams,” we are slowly climbing down the ladder of leadership in educational development.

In 2010 the Washington Post published a study which showed that the implementation of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB)

Act has cost us as a nation to go from 18th place in educational standards in 2002 to 31st in 2009.

Keeping people accountable to education is not the negative aspect; it is the manner in which we are doing so.

Standardized tests once focused on basic mathematical, reading, and writing skills. It sounds quite harmless when you put it in a simple statement.

However, the issues that arise with these exams begin to expand in content and relevance to individual student progress.

We went from using standardized testing as a means to identify student’s weakest points and their levels of progress, to using these exams as a tool of political dominance over the school districts across the nation. Letting these exams decide the level of

school funding, as well as the fiscal bonuses educators could potentially receive, has created a cycle of distinguishing and keeping the rich districts “A” schools, while lower income districts remain “D” and “F” schools.

This can be seen in many ways. Take a look at the infrastructural differences between these schools, as well as the types of materials, and the overall educational environments. “A” schools stay current in technological upgrades and have more attentive faculty andstaff while lower income schools stay stagnant due to a lack of funding and acknowledgement for their schools.

What needs to be kept in mind is that the potential for young learners enrolled in poorly graded schools is the same as

The opinions on this page do not necessarily reflect those of The Sandspur, its staff or Rollins College.

those enrolled in highly graded schools.

However, the focus is no longer the progression of academia and innovation. It is simply just a constant reinforcement to learn the “ways of the test.”

These are just a few of the vast amounts of issues that arise with using standardize testing in public schooling for grades K-12. These identity-forming ages are when young students should be encouraged to think independently and expand their minds freely. They should be encouraged to find a vocational path and run with it.

They should not be grouped in cohorts of educational levels— the new form of segregation.

Instead of moving forward, we keep backtracking by teaching to the test.

Page 4 • FEATURES

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Andrea D’Alfonso

Rachel Simm Cassandra Hoffer and Andrea D’Alfonso share journal entries and laughs.

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Clustered around a large table in the Cornell Fine Arts Center, a group of students share their recent editions to an ongoing, semester-long project: the visual journal.

The course, ART 232 and 332, meets weekly to discuss topics not traditionally associated with fine art curriculum. Weekly discussions center around topics such as the nature of creativity, the importance of doodling, and the nature of narative.

“Journaling is a popular way to develop a life-long habit of self-reflection as a way to make meaning in our lives,” Professor of Art Rachel Simmons says in

the course syllab By combinin diums and low ing techniques, pages develop responses to conc place and time.

“A visual jou visually manifest and feel in a very aware way,” Beth said. “It allows yourself both vi written fashion, really expel wha side.”

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Sabrina Kent

Rachel Simmons On Nov. 19, students met at Prof. Simmons’ on-campus apartment for a final group critique. From left: Jasmine Agosti, Casandra Hoffer, Andrea D’Alfonso, Bethany Eriksen, Casandra Hill, Rachel Simmons, David Matteson, Rebecca Kleinman, Alberto Serpilli, Sabrina Kent, Lucinda Rex, and Katherine Tims.

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the Bones. From these writen responses, students create visual entries in their journals for the following week’s class.

“Before starting this class in August, I hadn’t really explored my creative side at all,” Sabrina Kent ‘15 said. “Doing so has helped me realized that I can creatively express myself, that I do have that capability.”

As the semester concludes and students finish working on their journals, Eriksen reflects on the aspiration to continue with the journaling process.

“I definitely want to continue journaling. I think it is a great way to, at the end of the day, reflect on whatever happened in a way that you process all of your thoughts,” Eriksen said.

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Assessing meal plan changes Staff Writer discusses rising prices, student responses Micah Bradley

Staff Writer

It can cost as much as ten dollars to get the pasta entrée in the dining hall, which does not include extras many students want, like a dessert or bottled drink.

This semester, students have complained about increased Sodexo prices and low meal plan money, especially on social media outlets like Yik Yak. “There are always students who spend a lot of money and end up running out early. I have spoken with many individuals however who have a surplus including myself. I eat three meals a day and budget my meal plan money,” Freshman Class Senator and the Food and Dining Services Chairman Matthew Cassidy said. “Sodexo is not the devil.

No, contrary to popular belief Sodexo is not evil itself, Sodexo is a business.”

Though many students seem to see it as simple, the Rollins’ relationship with Sodexo can be a complicated issue.

“Sodexo at Rollins College is setup as a fee account. This means that Rollins pays Sodexo a fee for managing the entire dining operation. Sodexo doesn’t make any money other than the fee Rollins pays, all profit (or loss) from the operation goes

back to the school,” the Director of Operations Diego Perez-Arenas said.

They have not raised their food prices in several years, perhaps making this year’s increases seem even more drastic. The prices were raised due to inflation and the high cost of food.

“The price increase was long due in the marketplace. We haven’t had price increases for the last 2 years and food cost was catching up to us really quick,” Perez-Arenas said.

Though it might have made financial sense to raise the prices, an obvious ramification is that students start running out of money more quickly.

Several students have complained to the Student Government Association.

“Students have complained about Sodexo… however SGA and the food and dining service committee has done well to address these concerns,” Cassidy said.

Next semester, there will be three major changes to campus dining. There will be more nutritional information supplied by Sodexo, changes to the off-campus meal plan money system, and changes to the ways the on-campus cafés and coffee shops operate. These changes are still being discussed and the details figured out, so the exact

plans are not known at this time.

However, it is possible that the dining hall will get a touchscreen system to allow students to better track calorie consumption, the off-campus dining cap might be raised, and cafés could remain open for limited hours on weekends.

Sodexo has also started making some changes based on feedback from Rollins.

“Prices have been adjusted based on menu offerings and costs. The soup or salad option is an idea that we had based on feedback to add more value to the meals provided at the stations,” Perez-Arenas said.

For now, there are some options for students who feel like they are low on meal plan money.

Students can add money to their meal plan through Foxlink.

Sodexo also has a new loyalty program this semester, called QBot, through which students can get free food by patronizing places such as The Grille. Almost 400 students have signed up for the program.

There are also different, cheaper meal options around campus instead of the more expensive lunches and dinners for sale in the cafeteria. For example, the cafés around campus and the cafeteria’s sandwich station can be cheaper options.

FSL Recruitment undergoes change Peter Ruiz

Writer

The Spring semester is almost here, a season filled with intercession courses, Spring Break, Fox Day, and of course, sorority and fraternity recruitment. But this year’s recruitment season is a little different from what Rollins is used to.

Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL) have decided to move both women’s and men’s recruitment forward a week from its traditional time slot. This means that women will be participating during intercession week and men will be participating during the first week of classes. Further, last year’s sorority recruitment started each night at 6 p.m. and ended near midnight. This year it starts at 3 p.m. and will end near 11 p.m.. Last year’s recruitment also had 7 events, but this year, with the inclusion of ADii, there will be 8 events.

“The influx of women going through recruitment and scheduling makes recruitment a very consuming experience. Potential New Members (PNMs) must go to every chapter,” Assistant Director for Fraternity and Sorority Life Aubrey Frazier said.

While many students may go into the process thinking they know which sorority or fraternity they want to join, meeting all of the organizations may change their initial idea.

By moving the process to the week of intercession, women will go through recruitment without

the impact it traditionally has on academic classes. Hopefully, this will ease past tension between professors and FSL. The new dates for recruitment will also increase overall participation in FSL. Last year, 233 women registered for recruitment and 209 started the process. This year, 250 women have registered and an estimated 230 will start the process. This date change of sorority recruitment allows for athletes, Holt students and A&S students who are taking Holt classes to participate. This will ultimately allow for a more diverse group of sorority women on our campus.

“This move allows more women to go through recruitment who are seeking that part of campus life,” Frazier said.

One of the other positive things about this move is that men’s recruitment will no longer conflict with Martin Luther King Jr. week. MLK week is one of the largest campus-wide events at Rollins, and one Aubrey believes that FSL should be an active part of. This shows support of diversity and inclusion initiatives on campus, while help Greek organizations live up to the values they preach.

The shift in dates is intended to serve as an overall benefit to FSL--recruitment serves as an important factor to the strength of Greek organizations.

“The recruitment process is very important to the chapters.

It is the livelihood of a chapter,” Frazier said.

Protect yourself from stress season Morgan McConnell

Writer

Feeling stressed lately? Maybe even a little sick? With exam season in our midst, these symptoms are not surprising, but they may be controllable.

Although most people associate stress with tests and deadlines, stressors can appear at any time. According to a 2013 study published in The College Student Journal, freshmen and seniors are the mostly likely to experience high levels of stress during the academic year. Typically, these feelings are related to academic and social expectations.

In fact, the stress experienced by first-year students has reportedly doubled, and a onethird increase has been seen in the use of counseling services on

some college campuses.

So, how does this study apply to students attending Rollins?

According to Judy Galloway, a counselor for CAPS (Counseling and After Hours Crisis) at Rollins College, the largest increase in appointments appears around fall break in the first semester.

This, she says, may be the result of social anxiety regarding returning home, midterm exams, and projects.

Interestingly, the Wellness Center also sees an increase in sick appointments around this time. Last year, 1,031 patients visited the Wellness Center in the fall. In my interview with Denise Snyder, Rollins’ Clinic Coordinator and Nurse Practitioner, she explained that the season’s peak occurs mid-semester during October. The most common symp-

toms include cough, cold and upper respiratory infection as well as a spike in cases of mononucleosis.

This rise in both counseling and sick appointments indicates a correlation between mental stress and physical illness in students.

One explanation for this relationship is that stress affects immune health. When the body undergoes stress, the adrenal glands release stress hormones, like cortisol.

These hormones suppress the B-cells, T-cells and natural killer cells that make up the immune system. If these cells are weakened, then the body will be unable to fight off viruses and cancers, making you sick and unable to perform your best in class.

Thankfully, if you want to avoid stress and associated illnesses, then you can utilize different coping methods: Predictability As it turns out, the least stressful events in our lives are the ones that we can predict, such as tests and projects. In order to deal with predictable stressors, make a schedule. This way, even though the work remains, you will feel confident in your ability to complete it before the due date and reduce your anxiety about time management.

Social Support Finding a reliable friend or family member can be extremely useful in lowering stress. Having a support system means that you can ask for help, which allows you to feel secure even when you are faced with an unpredictable

stressor.

For this reason, individuals with strong social support have lower-levels of stress hormones and tend to be less likely to develop a cold.

Venting and Positive Thinking Whether you seek emotional support from a counselor or a friend, it is important to express your feelings in some form. Suppressing anger, for example, can result in long-term damage to your autonomic nervous system as a result of increased stress.

One good way to release negative feelings includes noticing the positives of a situation.

For instance, instead of thinking about the consequences of failing your exam, think about the benefits of doing well. You may just find yourself feeling a little more motivated.

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Thursday, December 4, 2014

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Critical, honest ‘Birdman’ delights audience Nicholas D’Alessandro

Staff Writer

Birdman is the best movie of the year. I’m making this statement without any hesitation.

Birdman stars Michael Keaton and was written and directed

by Mexican filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. This a masterful tour de force of emotion and imagery makes for the best film of the year.

Wickedly funny in the most dark sense and sensationally honest and bizarre, this film grapples with the emotions of a forgotten film actor as he attempts to make a big comeback.

Michael Keaton’s character, Rig-

gan, is a former superhero film actor known for his character Birdman. Riggan has been out of the public eye for quite some time, and is now attempting to make a comeback through a play he adapted, directed and is starring in.

Backed up by an exceptional ensemble of actors, including Emma Stone as Riggan’s daughter, Edward Norton and Naomi Watts as fellow actors and Zach Galifianakis as Riggan’s best friend and lawyer, this film shines with human emotion and honest dialogue.

Birdman’s full title is Birdman or (The Unexpected Viture of Ignorance). Let me start out by say-

ing that I have no idea what that means. It’s something to think about and certainly a huge key to what this film is trying to say.

And boy, does this film have a lot much to say.

Its biggest strength is its sympathy. Every character has a fault, especially our protagonist, Riggan. Riggan is at the end of his rope. He knows he has the acting talent and the ambition to be what he wants, but the world keeps putting him down because of Birdman. Birdman is Riggan’s antagonist. He’s the voice in his head, always putting him down and telling him he should forget the “little people” and be a hero.

This film is critical of the su-

perhero genre in the best way, discussing how it can potentially pigeonhole our great actors into “cartoons.”

The woman who so viciously calls superhero movies “cartoons and pornography” is the New York Times theatre critic, played by Lindsay Duncan. She is cruel and rude and spits on the film industry. In this, the film is also critical of critics themselves.

However, these critiques of the big blockbuster films and the overly analytical theatre critics of Broadway are not what this film is truly about. They are elements, yes, but they are not the core.

The core is Riggan and the people who surround him, try-

ing so desperately to make themselves known.

In the play Riggan is putting on, his character’s final words are “I’m nothing. I’m not even here.”

This is a fear of every character in this film, to not exist to anyone or even themselves. They’re puzzles with missing pieces in the middle.

It’s about them and the way they try to connect. Birdman wants Riggan to fly, but Riggan is too scared that he just might fail.

This film is so effortless in its story and that it made two hours seem like twenty minutes.

Birdman is the best film of the year. Go see it while you can.

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Here’s the “what’s what” on a new band in town called Reverist.

They’re a two-man band from Orlando that was formed this year. Steve Addington handles percussion and Omar Qazi handles everything else (piano, guitar, vocals). In the short month and a half since Reverist started playing shows, they have already tackled the feat of playing last month in the UCF Jars for Jams Battle of the Bands. They placed 2nd in the competition, NBD. Currently capping out at two musicians, Reverist certainly has room to grow, and they plan to when the right fit comes along.

The sound of Reverist is piano driven pop/alternative that can be likened to Keane, Passion Pit, M83, and Coldplay.

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Even though Omar is busy being a doctor, Reverist is writing about two new songs a month.

Other upcoming shows for Reverist will be at Backbooth and Orlando Brewing Company in January. They will be recording in a studio at the beginning of next year with Wholehearted Productions as part of their 2nd place win at UCF’s Battle of the Bands.

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Shows to catch up on over break compiled by Samantha Hirsch Game of Thrones

Winter break will serve as the perfect time to catch up on this tragic, comical, and sensual show. Based on Seven Kingdoms, different families fight to claim their ‘rightful’ place as the ruling family of all the kingdoms. Containing a lot violence, sex, and betrayal, you certainly will not get bored with this one.

Scandal

Olivia Pope, former White House Communications Director for the President, has started her own crisis management firm. She has decided to dedicate her new career to protecting the nation’s elite, yet in doing so she realizes that no matter how hard she tries, she cannot leave her past behind.

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Orange is the New Black

Having been convicted for a crime she committed 10 years prior, Piper Chapman is sentenced to 15 months in prison. She goes in to serve her time, leaving behind her fiancé. Once in prison, she is faced with many challenges including being in the same prison as her ex-girlfriend and former conspirator.

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How to Get Away With Murder

A suspense-driven legal thriller, defense attorney Professor Annalise Keating and five students from her class she calls “How to Get Away With Murder,” become involved in a twisted murder plot that will change their lives forever.

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After a zombie apocalypse, a group of survivors struggle to maintain their humanity as they encounter the day-today struggles of survival facing the ‘walkers.’

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