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Several students at Berry have decided to address the issue of sexual assault on campus by seeking to establish an SGA committee on the topic.
The committee, which junior Olivia Paige proposed at last week’s SGA meeting, would meet to re-evaluate the college’s current sexual assault policy, which is in the Viking Code and is posted online.
The policy defines sexual assault as “any nonconsensual sexual act, including those resulting from threat, coercion, or force.”
Sexual assault, the policy states, includes rape, date rape, acquaintance rape and gang rape, along with unwanted or forced sexual touching.
Sexual harassment is included in the same section of the Viking Code, and the policy states that it “consists of non-consensual sexual advances, requests for sexual compliance and other verbal or physical conduct or written communication of a sexual nature.”
Berry’s complete sexual assault policy, available on VikingWeb, advises victims to report the assault to campus police and seek help at the Sexual Assault Center of Northwest Georgia in Rome. Campus police
refer all reported assaults to the appropriate college administrator and update a complainant on the status of their investigation at least weekly.
The policy states that according to the circumstances of each case, “sanctions may range from a formal reprimand to dismissal from the College.”
Paige said the focus of the committee will be to clarify the sanctions portion of the policy, which she said currently offers “no consistency.” Her goal is to establish suspension as the least severe sanction for someone found responsible for sexual assault. The committee would also seek “to call attention to the issue of sexual assault on our campus and act as advocates for victims,” she said.
Senior Noelle Mouton, who is interested in joining the committee, said making possible sanctions clearer helps prepare assault victims for the investigation and campus judicial process.
“It’s important to know what process you are getting yourself into if you report it and what the outcomes will be if the perpetrators are found guilty or not so that you know what to expect going into it rather than it just being a very unclear process and unclear ending outcome,” Mouton said.
The campus judicial board, which
is composed of six students and four faculty or staff members, oversees conduct proceedings. In sexual assault cases, the complainant, or the accuser, and the respondent, the accused, remain separate during judicial board hearings.
“In any judicial board hearing, other than sexual assault and sexual misconduct, the complainant doesn’t get to hear the hearing, but the respondent does,” Julie Bumpus, associate dean of students, said. “In sexual assault, they both do and we
separate them so they’re not in the same space.”
The respondent attends the entire hearing, except when the complainant arrives. Then, the respondent leaves the room and listens to an audio feed. When the complainant leaves and the respondent arrives, the complainant has the option of listening to an audio feed, Bumpus said.
Neither party is permitted to
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The LifeReady Program and provost Kathy Richardson are looking to expand and broaden the scope of a relatively new mentor program at Berry, the Berry College Center for Integrity in Leadership (BCCIL).
The program, which pairs students with highly regarded leaders in the Rome community, began only last year and aims to train students in what the LifeReady webpage calls “a type of leadership seemingly in short supply” in the world today, ethical leadership. Mentors aid students in preparing for ethical dilemmas in their chosen fields and their experiences outside of college. The BCCIL is headed by provost Richardson and shaped largely by alumnus Buster Wright (C73), vice chair of the Board of Trustees.
Richardson said that the BCCIL is a program with several different aspects, some of which she hopes will be developed in the near future.
“Last academic year, we launched sort of a pilot year,” Richardson said. “The first and easiest program to develop was mentorship. When (the BCCIL) is fully developed, we hope it will have a speaker series, a program to develop a certificate that students could earn by participating in several of the activities of the center, classes designated as ethics-intensive classes … and an option where students do an immersion experience, an internship or leadership position on or off campus. If you did the courses, did the immersion leadership experience and the mentorship you would earn the certificate.”
The program has grown rapidly since its introduction.“Fifty students were chosen last year with five
mentors,” Richardson said. “This year, we chose 60, with 12 mentors. Our hope for next year is that we’ll have between 80 and 100 students (in mentorship programs).”
Some notable mentors include J.R. Davis, executive director of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Northwest Georgia, Gayland Cooper, retired superintendent of Rome City Schools, John Bennett, former Rome city manager, and Buster Wright, who Richardson said has “had the great vision and passion for the center.”
Richardson said Wright has “been very influential in shaping ideas and communicating his
enthusiasm and passion for (the BCCIL) to our Board of Trustees,” and called his vision for the center “just visionary.” She said that he invests much of his own time into finding and training mentors in the community.
Currently, little funding exists for the BCCIL.“We’re hoping to find some funding to train some
faculty members who are interested in knowing how to add a component to an existing course or build a free-standing course,” Richardson said. “We have some great courses in business ethics, environmental ethics, bioethics, but (we want to) extend those and broaden those.”
Junior Maria Santos said the program has helped her address questions she never would have considered in her regular classes.
“A lot of things we didn’t even realize we’d have to deal with in the medical field, like integrity and ethics, we get to discuss it as a group,” Santos said. “We’ve become a support group to each other because we’re all in the same age group, all applying to grad school and med school … that’s been great, talking to our mentor who’s been through all of this, to see the light at the end of the tunnel.”
Junior Tyler Kaelin said that as a science major, he finds the mentorship especially exciting.
“I think some majors tend to have more ethics-based conversations,” he said. “We don’t necessarily have classes in pre-med ethics. It’s exciting to try to integrate ethical ideas into science classes. It’s not intended to be more work; it’s more in depth, viewing our classes in light of current events. It adds depth to our majors and what we want to do with our lives … (It) makes us more well-rounded individuals.”
Junior Colleen Curlee said she is excited about the expansion of the program and the opportunity to ethicize courses.
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“You can ethicize a course much like honors students ‘honorize’ a course … it’s an opportunity to take the class a step further,” Curlee said.
The BCCIL currently only consists of the mentorship program, though more programs will be implemented in the next few years. Those interested in being a mentee must be nominated by a faculty member and fill out an application to be considered for next year’s mentor program. More information can be found on the LifeReady website.
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Neither party is permitted to hire legal counsel for judicial board proceedings, Bumpus said. While Bumpus oversees the judicial board, she does not attend hearings.
The campus judicial board process and off-campus legal systems operate separately, although students do have the option to call 911 and notify off-campus authorities.
“Every police officer we have is a police officer, and they can do all the same things that any police officer can do,” Bumpus said. “You’re calling the gatehouse and they’re sending an officer there who will do the same thing that any police officer off-campus would do … they can take you--and they do-- they can take you and book you in Floyd County Jail. They can and they have and they will.”
In the state of Georgia, rape is punishable by death, life imprisonment with or without parole or a minimum of 25 years imprisonment, followed by probation for life. Aggravated sexual battery is punishable by life imprisonment or a minimum of 25 years imprisonment, followed by probation for life.
Sophomore Daniel Boddie, who has expressed interest in joining the committee, said victims may be better served by off-campus law enforcement and the Floyd County District Attorney.
“This doesn’t need to be handled by Berry,” he said.
Leigh Patterson, the Floyd County District Attorney, is a Berry alumna and is familiar both with the college and with sexual assault cases, Boddie said.
“She’s a wonderful lady who is equipped to do this. She’s been to law school and she’s been given the training to handle these kinds of issues,” he said. “She’s a Berry alum, and she understands that these issues need to be addressed on campus, but she’s not being included in these conversations.”
While county sheriff’s offices and city police departments are required by law to make incident reports and arrest records public, the Berry College Police Department, as an entity at a private college, does not need to make its records public. To comply with the Jeanne Clery Act, the college does release an annual report about crime on campus with the number of reports for offenses such as alcohol and drug use and sexual assault.
Senior Abbey Smyth, another potential committee member, said receiving more information about assaults reported on campus would make students feel safer.
“I would feel more safe on campus if I knew where it happened. We don’t need to know the name of the perpetrator or the victim. That’s definitely confidential information,” Smyth said. “But should I be leery of walking in the Ford parking lot at night? Is that where it happened? Or did it happen in a dorm room? Was it more of a complicated situation, or is it more black and white, like someone from off campus came in and someone was attacked in the parking lot?”
Mouton said publicizing information about how sexual assault cases are dealt with would be helpful for both current and
prospective students.“Any current student or potential
student should be able to see all those records because every school is going to have reports of sexual assault,” she said. “The student should be able to see that number but they should also be able to see exactly how those cases were dealt with. I think that would look a lot better on Berry to show that they know how to handle these cases when they’re brought to them.”
The Campus Accountability and Safety Act, which was introduced in the U.S. Senate in July, would establish an annual survey of students at every U.S. college and university about experiences of sexual violence. The results of this survey would then be published online so that parents and high school students could consider the issue when choosing a college. The Act would also require the Department of Education to publish information about its Title IX investigations and increase sexual assault training for college faculty and staff. Additionally, in order to encourage students to report sexual crimes, schools would be prohibited from issuing sanctions if a student admits to a violation such as underage drinking in the process
of reporting an assault.Debates at Berry about this
issue are surrounded by a national conversation about sexual assault. In November, Rolling Stone published an investigative piece about rape culture at the University of Virginia which was later questioned. A student victim at Columbia University has been carrying her mattress around campus to call attention to the school’s mishandling of sexual assault cases. Last week, two Vanderbilt University students were found guilty for sexually assaulting a female student in 2013, while their attorneys claimed they were too intoxicated to be responsible for the assault.
“What other crime are you excused for your actions because you were too drunk?” Paige said. “Driving? No. Murder? No. Robbery? No.”
Sophomore Julie Adkins said California’s “yes means yes” bill, which states that silence is not consent, sends a positive message about preventing assault and could be used as a policy model.
“Silence isn’t saying that you’ll agree to it. The whole concept of that campaign is putting the burden of truth on the assaulter,” Adkins said. “That’s how it is in every other situation … it’s the murderer’s job to say ‘I didn’t.’”
Although the committee has not officially been established yet, it will be brought to administration and updates will be announced at SGA meetings.
Anyone interested in becoming involved in the effort can contact Olivia Paige.
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PANEL: SHOOTING STRAIGHTA panel will discuss the relationship between race, poverty, crime and policing on Feb. 9 in Krannert 217 at 7 p.m. CE
INTERN EXPOLearn from previous Berry interns to find the right internship for you on Feb. 10 in Krannert Ballroom from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Prizes available at the door.
HISTORY LECTUREOn Feb. 10, Baylor University professor of history Philip Jenkins will lecture in Krannert Ballroom from 7:30 to 9 p.m. CE
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BASKETBALL HOME GAMEThe men’s basketball team will play a home game against Millsaps on Feb. 8 in the Cage Center Arena at 3 p.m.
“THE GREAT DEBATERS”The first of the BSA’s Black History Month movie series will be showing Feb. 5 in Evans Auditorium at 7 p.m.
BASKETBALL HOME GAMEThe men’s basketball team will play against Birmingham-Southern on Feb. 6 in the Cage Center Arena at 8 p.m.
VEGAS WEEKEND DANCE KCAB is hosting a black light dance in Krannert Ballroom on Feb. 6 from 9 p.m. to midnight.
VEGAS WEEKEND CASINO NIGHTKCAB is hosting a casino night with games and refreshments in Krannert Ballroom on Feb. 7 from 7 to 11 p.m.
Terri Sills, Berry Information Technology Students Student Work Coordinator, announced Monday updates to the Skillport library. The newly updated videos are shorter, now around three to five minutes and cover a wider variety of topics.
Skillport is a web-based, electronic-learning portal allowing access to a range of training resources such as Microsoft, Adobe, QuickBooks Pro, app development, coding and basic Windows and Mac training. The videos are professionally scripted and filmed.
Berry first used a similar database called LearnKey, then switched to Skillport in early 2012.
Through Skillport, users can not only access a variety of instructional and assessment learning assets, but also follow training plans and report progress and test scores to supervisors.
Content on software such as LearnKey and Skillport used to be longer and more strenuous because students lacked computer knowledge at the time and needed the extra training to build fundamental skills.
The purpose for making the tutorial videos shorter is to target those coming into Berry who have prior training and knowledge of computer software basics learned in high school. The new tutorials have more modern applications.
“Anyone on campus could benefit from the training provided because there is such a depth of training material,” Sills said. “It’s a great tool for student supervisors who are looking to train students in different aspects of running an office, QuickBooks or how to do something they aren’t totally aware of doing themselves.”
The student work office used the tools on Skillport to train their students.
Robin Holt is the coordinator for berry Student Enterprises and student work training. Her role is to help students fill in the gaps between what they learn in the classroom and skills needed to do well in the workforce.
Along with helping Berry students face-to-face, the student enterprise program is in the process of starting a video series completely tailored to the Berry community in addition to the free aid through Skillport.
“It will take a couple of weeks before the video series airs, and we are still deciding where to stream online in order to get the most viewers,” Holt said.
The first episode teaches viewers correct business phone etiquette and is in the process of being filmed.
Junior Peyton Teem works as the enterprise development office assistant and has used Skillport for Excel, InDesign and web development.
Teem said the videos were a couple of hours long and sectioned into pieces.
After each segment, the program asked her questions that she had to answer before moving forward.
“It took a long time and was very boring. The voices were monotone,” Teem said. “It’s something you didn’t look forward to doing.”
Teem said even though it wasn’t particularly fun, she did learn the information she needed and felt like the videos on Skillport were a better alternative to taking academic
classes at Berry on the same subject. Teem and three others are on the team of
students who are working on the series. She said the video series is an extension of the classes already provided by student training and aimed to fully launch in the fall.
“It’s not someone’s voice droning over a video,” Teem said.
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Last month, Clint Eastwood’s latest film “American Sniper” was released into theaters. The film is centered on the life of a Navy SEAL Chris Kyle who is reportedly the U.S.’ deadliest sniper. The film focuses on Kyle’s life both inside and outside of combat.
The film holds a 73 percent critical approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and has already made close to $300 million in box office revenues, according to an article published in Jezebel on Feb. 3. The film has been nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture.
Despite the box office success, the film has sparked massive controversy. According to an article published in Reuters on Feb. 2, those from both liberal and conservative parties have argued over the film and its depictions of soldiers and war along with the interpretation of the 2003 Iraq invasion.
Because of the film’s language about Muslims, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee has stated they’ve received “violent threats.” Also according to an article published in the Washington Post on Feb. 2, a theater in Baghdad, Iraq has stopped showing the film after a few rowdy screenings.
The Washington Post article quotes teacher Ahmed Kamal, 27, as stating that the film “portrays Americans as strong and noble, and Iraqis as ignorant and violent.”
The film has also drawn backlash for glorifying violence. Since the film is about the U.S.’ deadliest sniper, violence is obviously going to have major screen time. However, is this something we
want to support? This is especially important in a film that could be promoting stereotypes of Iraqis. It’s one thing to have a movie that glorifies violence. It is another thing to generalize a group of people as violent terrorists instead of humans. Both of these things are bad. Yet when added together they don’t only support terrible worldviews, they could urge for violent dehumanization of an entire nation.
Many argue that the film shows a limited view of the situation in Iraq. Salon published an article on Feb. 2 by Garett Reppenhaggen, a former American sniper. Reppenhaggen comments that the movie “is like peering into a sniper scope—it offers a limited view.”
Reppenhaggen warns that no one soldier’s view can capture the whole experience because all stories have different elements. He also commented on Kyle’s view on the Iraqi people as “savages,” a view the movie arguably endorses.
Reppenhaggen comments that many he knew shared that view. He, however, said that he found that they were a “friendly culture who believed in hospitality, and were sometimes positive to a fault.”
Reppenhaggen shares a number of different views than the ones portrayed in “American Sniper” including his opinion on the necessity of the war and the view of snipers as victims. All of this adds to Reppenhaggen’s point that just because there is one story does not mean there is one side. This fact must be remembered when watching “American Sniper.”
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A few weeks ago, I began working at the Child Development Center (CDC) on campus. I supervise learning activities and play with the children. The CDC has a policy that allows kids to play with anything in the classroom during the playtime hours. This gives them access to many different toys, ranging from My Little Pony to Lincoln Logs.
The children can move from one toy to the next—assuming that they will always clean up after themselves. On my first day on the job, when the teacher let the children have their free play, a little boy went immediately to the Polly Pockets and began playing with them. My initial reaction was one of shock.
The fashion dolls were ones I had always associated with girls. I assumed the other children would start teasing the little boy and I braced myself for an intervention. However, the intervention was unnecessary. Some girls came over and began playing with the Polly Pockets as well, with no care that there was a boy playing with these female-associated toys.
Over the week, I noticed the same thing happening with multiple toys. Girls would head to the Legos and begin building cars. Boys and girls would gallop My Little Pony dolls around the table. Play-Doh was grabbed regardless of color and no boys complained when they received anything pink.
After my initial shock wore off, I was extremely impressed at these children who have seemingly forgone gender stereotypes in toys. I immediately thought that somehow the market for children’s toys had stopped
stereotyping by gender. However, I soon discovered how wrong I was.
With gender stereotypes lessening for women as they enter the workforce and strive for gender equality, one would assume that gender stereotypes for children have lessened as well. And in some cases they have. But toys are marketed with two color schemes in mind: blue for boys and pink for girls.
According to an article published by the Guardian on April 22, 2014, toys and colors were not always divided by genders. Pink and blue became huge in marketing in the 1980s when corporations wanted parents to buy more toys. If a parent buys a pink bicycle for their little girl, then they will be less likely to pass it down to their little boys, thus bringing in more revenue for the corporations.
Therefore, gender stereotypes in toys were created due to commodification. Because of this capitalistic mindset, slowly our minds were changed as well. Producers and consumers became trapped in the tradition of pinks and blues and found that there was no gray area.
This gray area causes more problems than slight ridiculing for children. With children, especially boys, it creates in them a social norm that they feel they must follow in order to find acceptance.
According to the Guardian, a nine-year-old boy in North Carolina was banned from bringing his My Little Pony bag to school because he was being bullied and called gay. This problem defines masculinity, as everything to boys, even the toys they play with, must fit society’s norm of being male. Therefore, in order to
protect their “manliness,” boys feel threatened or scared to breech this gap between stereotypically male and female toys.
Of course this happens for girls as well. According to the Guardian, a mother in the U.K. started a campaign called Let Toys Be Toys, an organization that petitioned toy stores to remove their gendered sections, after her daughter hid her “Cars” obsession from other children because it was “boyish.” Girls who do not like the color pink and would rather play with Hot Wheels than Barbie’s can be ridiculed as much as the boys who also fall into this gray area.
In Jo B. Paoletti’s book “Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America,” she comments on social norms formed in childhood. When children are between the ages of three and five (like the children at the CDC), they have developed a gender identity with no social constructs attached—the corporations have not yet begun to market to these children specifically by gender.
This of course, says something as well about the parents of the children. While the children are growing up, their parents have the power to define their children’s gender stereotypes at home.
Most of us don’t have children, so why should we care about their playtime? Simple, gender stereotyping affects us all, whether we be children or adults. We cannot truly close the gender gap until we start fixing gender stereotyping at the earliest age possible by letting our children choose their toys based on their interests, not their genders.
Last Friday, when Mitt Romney finally decided to withdraw his name from consideration for the Republican Party’s nomination in the 2016 presidential election, there was a range of mixed reactions. In my opinion, it was the best thing for Mitt Romney and the Republican Party.
Because of the negativity that has recently surrounded President Obama’s administration, there has been a moderate shift for American voters that leaves the Republican Party as the favorable party at this point.
This was proven in the most recent midterm elections, when the Republicans took the majority in both bodies of congress by a large amount. What does this mean to the Republican Party for the 2016 presidential election? With the right choice as its nominee, the party should have a clear path to the presidency.
The important part of that sentence is that the Republican Party will need to make the right choice. Mitt Romney was clearly not the right choice.
Romney has had his chance to run for president twice already, and twice he has not been successful. This disappointed many of our nation’s voters, including Republicans. Romney’s presidential campaign in 2012 was the source of much controversy, as most presidential campaigns are. I believe his plan to fix our economic deficit lead to his campaign’s demise. Many voters claimed his
tax plan was too pro-big business and did not help the lower classes. Whether this is true or not, image and belief are everything.
In addition to a controversial economic platform, Romney’s religion caused strife among many Republican voters, especially those in the Bible Belt. The voters from the Bible Belt make up a very large percentage of the Republican Party, and Romney’s Mormonism led many of these voters to opt out of voting in the 2012 election.
While some of Romney’s social policies lean more left than other Republicans, the majority of his stances on hot-button issues are far too conservative for our changing times. For instance, Romney opposed same-sex marriage which the majority of “new” voters support. This was surely a downfall in his previous campaigns.
While it is impossible to know who will eventually receive the Republican Party’s nomination for president, Romney’s decision to withdraw his name from consideration has left the door open for new and upcoming Republicans to secure the nomination. A new, fresh face for the Republican Party will do nothing but good.
The party will have a difficult time beating Democratic favorite Hillary Clinton in her bid to be the first woman president. However, with Obama’s failed policies and the right choice, the Republican Party has a good chance of being home to the next leader of the free world.
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Why it is time for colleges to start restricting hard liquor
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Dartmouth College banned hard liquor on campus on Jan. 29, 2015, and is requiring all students to take part in a sexual violence prevention program all four years they’re enrolled at the school.
No matter the students’ age, he or she will be prohibited from drinking or possessing hard alcohol on campus.
Dartmouth has the most drug and alcohol arrests per 1,000 students of the eight prestigious Ivy League colleges in the U.S. even though it has the smallest population of students according to Rehabs.com, a website that provides information on addiction treatment.
Dartmouth’s President Philip Hanlon said he wants to crack down on abuse of alcohol and consumption of alcoholic beverages 30 proof, also measured as 15 percent alcohol, or higher.
From personal experience, it’s much more detrimental if a student binge drinks hard liquor compared to beer or wine. I think it’s easier for a person to know their limits while going out to bars because they have to pay for each drink rather than pouring another round of shots from an entire handle in a student’s dorm.
I hope it’s common knowledge that females cannot and should not try to drink just as much as males due to different body masses, but I have found most people aren’t educated about the dangers of heavy drinking.
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), heavy drinking for men is typically defined as consuming 15 drinks or more per week. For women, heavy drinking is typically defined as consuming eight or more per week.
Believe it or not, Berry has its own drug and alcohol scene, and it’s not dry, but if you’ve ever visited a large university as a college student, it is pretty apparent that every college has its own unique drug and alcohol scene and each student has their own habits, ranging from the “straight edge,” “beer pong champion,” “stoner” or “pharmacy on legs.”
There are 13.4 million full-time college students in the U.S., studying and partying on more than 7,000 college campuses, according to Rehabs.com.
Of these, 20 percent have used an illegal drug in the last 30 days and 40 percent have consumed alcohol to excess in the last two weeks.
A recent Princeton Review surveyed asked questions relating to student use of alcohol and drugs, hours of study per day and the popularity of the Greek system at the school.
Princeton Review’s top party school of 2015 is Syracuse University.
I thought it would be the stereotypical state university with large and winning football teams, but some of the top 20 colleges and universities for drug and alcohol arrests per 1,000 students
are all fairly unheard of schools such as The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, University of Wisconsin Stout, University of Wisconsin La Crosse, West Chester University and University of Colorado Boulder. So why are higher arrests involving alcohol and drugs more common in smaller schools?
I think the schools, like Dartmouth, that are geographically separated from cities or towns without somewhat popular bar scenes have a harder time dealing with drinking problems because it’s easier to binge drink on campus.
The decision to ban and harshly punish students caught with hard liquor is a bold move by Dartmouth especially considering the attention towards sexual assault on college campuses.
However, this can’t be something Dartmouth smiles and pats their back about because it does seem like a metaphorical Band-Aid on a very real problem.
American culture and media glorify Greek life and all of its parties, but I know some of my friends from high school who have either failed, dropped out or have been kicked out of their respective schools because of alcohol. It’s up to colleges and universities to take responsibility for their students’ health and academic futures. If there are stricter consequences and better alcohol education, students will know their limits.
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“The half time show.”Royce Dingley,
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“The catch that went down at the end of the fourth
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Freshman Victoria DeMarco realized that something was missing when she came to Berry.
“I had been here for one day and decided that I was very sad because I didn’t have a martial arts gym,” DeMarco said.
DeMarco has been training in mixed martial arts (MMA) since she was 11 years old. She began her training as a way to get rid of childhood fears, and continued until she outgrew the children’s classes at her local Fusion MMA studio in Marietta, Ga.
From there, she started coaching younger children in MMA when she was 15 years old and began taking adult classes.
In order to continue her training without a martial arts gym, DeMarco took matters into her own hands. She used her training and coaching experience to start her own MMA club to train Berry students.
To generate interest, she performed a demonstration of MMA in the New Faces Talent Show.
“That got me a bunch of people, and now six days a week we come here and we do a workout and train,” DeMarco said.
The group meets unofficially, and recognized Berry organization, but has become well known through DeMarco’s talent show performance and word of mouth.
“I just kind of ran into Victoria one day and started a conversation with her,” freshman Steven Bettler said. “I decided that that night I wanted to come in and give this a shot.”
Bettler started attending meetings in October. DeMarco said he is one of the few people who comes to every meeting.
“It’s unofficial but it’s well known,” DeMarco said. “I’d like it to be an interest group or a club soon, but there’s a lot of legal things (involved), especially if it’s going to be a form of martial arts.”
DeMarco wants to make the club an official student interest group, instead of a full-fledged organization.
Interest groups, while endorsed by the school, are not subjected to as many regulations and requirements as student organizations.
Bettler said he believes that by becoming an
official interest group, the club will grow larger as more people become interested in it.
“I feel like there’s a lot of people here who, if they gave it a shot, would realize they want to stick with it,” Bettler said. “I had never had any interest in it before I came here, but then when I found out about it, I decided that I wanted to give it a shot.”
In order to become an official student organization, the club has to offer something unique that is not available anywhere else on campus. Berry offers kinesiology courses on taekwondo and other martial arts, along with a women’s self defense class. DeMarco said starting an organization like hers is difficult when Berry already offers these different types of martial arts.
However, DeMarco said she believes that her group is unique enough to qualify.
“We have so much fighting talent here,” DeMarco said.
She said that some students, like senior Dylan Bowen, bring valuable skills to the club. Bowen, who has been attending meetings for about three weeks, wrestled in high school, and uses those take-down skills in MMA.
“I wrestled from 8th grade to junior year and (doing MMA) helps me train on some of those skills I used to know, and it prepares me for defending myself,” Bowen said.
Because of his experience with wrestling, Bowen is skilled at take-downs and helps teach the other students how to do them.
A take-down is a move in MMA where you flip someone onto the ground very quickly.
“He’s good at that, so he teaches us take-downs, and I teach him striking,” DeMarco said. “I kind of would like it to be a community forum for all styles of martial arts.”
Group members communicate through a group text, which DeMarco uses to communicate
about when and where they will be training. The club meets Monday through Saturday from 5:45 to 7:45 p.m. in the multipurpose room in the Cage Center.
About 20 people show up to meetings regularly, but most only come a couple days a week. DeMarco said there are usually six or seven people at any one meeting.
Because they meet six days a week, members can come to meetings when they can, instead of being required to come to every meeting. DeMarco said that Mondays are typically a slow day, while more people show up for weekend meetings.
“I’m here the same time every day, every week,” DeMarco said. “They show up when they can.”
She hopes that by becoming an official organization, she would be able to share the responsibilities of leading the club with someone else.
A guest speaker from DeMarco’s old MMA club comes to Friday meetings, but DeMarco is the primary leader of the club.
She trains members in sparring, grappling and proper fighting technique.
During training sessions, DeMarco re-enacts the move she is teaching in order to effectively demonstrate how it should be done.
Sparring involves members lightly hitting each other, often while wearing gloves.
Grappling is a form of combat in which the combatants can do anything but strike, or directly hit each other. The goal is to make the other person submit by tapping out.
Members use equipment like mouth and shin guards during training, allowing them to spar without risk of serious injury.
“I started doing it without equipment, and there’s a different speed that you can do things when you have equipment versus when you don’t,” Bettler said. “Now that I have proper equipment, I can spar at full speed with someone like Victoria and feel a bit safer about it.”
DeMarco leads each training session, demonstrating the techniques and skills that she is focusing on that day.
Her goal is to create an environment where students with any level of fighting experience can come together and learn from each other.
“I would like it to be a club where you can come either as a beginner and learn or you can come with some skills and show them to the class,” DeMarco said.
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In order to become an official student organization, the club has to offer something unique that is not available anywhere else on campus.
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FRESHMEN VICTORIA DEMARCO AND STEVEN BETTLER GRAPPLE on a mat during a training session. Grappling is one of the main fighting techniques used in mixed martial arts.
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Student organizations• Can use Berry’s name• Are able to reserve space• Can request money from SGA• Can recruit students
Requirements• Must register annually• Must have at least 10
active members• Must attend weekly SGA meetings• Earn one volunteer credit per year• Host at least one campus
event per year• Complete two SGA membership
credits per year
Special Interest Groups• Can reserve space for meetings.• Do not have to attend SGA meetings,
host on-campus events or complete SGA and volunteer credits.
Requirements• Must register with SGA annually• Must have at least five active members
How to Start a Student Organization or Special Interest Group
1. Contact the Student Activities Office.Cecily Crow is the director of student activities and is in charge of overseeing new clubs. The process of starting a new club begins by contacting her.
2. Meet to determine need for club.In order to make an entire new organization, the club has to offer something that is not available elsewhere on campus.
3. Determine student interest.One of the requirements for student organizations is to have at least 10 active members. If students are not interested, Berry does not want to spend resources on it.
4. Determine if the club would be a student interest group or an organization.Clubs that are designated special interest groups do not follow the same regulations that student organizations do.
5. Make a constitution and find a faculty adviser.A constitution outlines what the club is about and what the goals of it are. A faculty adviser gives advice and helps run the club.
6. Go before the Student Life Council.If approved, the club becomes an official student interest group or organization. It has all the privileges and requirements that come with the distinction.
If a student organization or special interest group fails to meet any of these requirements, they are placed on probation. If the group is on probation for more than three semesters, it is declared inactive. In order to become active again, the club must go through the whole process again.
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Melissa (Missy) Arnette Elliott was born on July 1, 1971, in Portsmouth, Va. From an early age she was very intelligent and advanced two years ahead of her class. However, according to the Guardian from Oct. 31, 2003, she hated the schoolwork and began failing her classes until she returned to her age-appropriate class.
Elliott grew up in a home affected by domestic abuse by her father. She and her mother escaped when Elliott was 14 years old, when the two pretended to be taking a bus trip. In actuality, the two went to the home of a family member, where all of their possessions were loaded into a U-Haul.
In the early 1990s, Elliott formed her first R&B group, called Fayze, with some of her friends. The group was discovered by producer DeVante Swing and was able to sign on with Elektra Records. The group was renamed Sista and released an album in 1994 called “All the Sistas Around da World.”
After the group dispersed, Elliott and her friend Timothy “Timbaland” Mosley began working together to write songs and contribute background vocals to several artists.
Elliott was discovered after being a featured rapper on some of P. Diddy’s remixes. In order to become a solo artist, she signed with East West Records. Timbaland became her producer. Her debut album, “Supa Dupa Fly,” was released in 1997, became platinum and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rap Album the same year. The next year she co-wrote and co-produced two songs on Whitney Houston’s album “My Love is Your Love.”
Elliott’s second album, “Da Real World,” released in 1999, sold 1.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. Her third album, “Miss E…So Addictive” contained the song “Take Away.” After the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, she released a music video for “Take Away” and “4 My People” that served to honor not only the people killed in the attacks, but also the death of her close friend Aaliyah.
Over the next few years, Elliott released several albums, collected several Grammys and co-produced with many other artists. In 2002, her album “Under Construction” became known as the best-selling female rap album. Eventually she
became known for her collaborations with artists such as Madonna and Britney Spears. She was even called “hip-hop’s first lady of innovation” by Billboard.
Yet, after the release of her sixth album, “Cookbook,” in 2005, Elliott took a hiatus that lasted almost ten years. Her disappearance ended, however, at the Super Bowl on Sunday when she performed alongside Katy Perry during the halftime show.
She explained that her absence was due to Graves’ disease, which is an autoimmune disorder that did not allow her to do simple activities such as writing.
Elliott’s return to the national spotlight was met with much excitement from her fans from the ‘90s, but met with confusion by the younger generations. Many believed that Katy Perry was trying to introduce a new star. However, after the Super Bowl, three of Elliott’s songs suddenly jumped into Billboard’s Top 100.
Although based mainly in the ‘90s, Elliott’s accomplishments as a female rapper have inspired other famous female rappers like Nicki Minaj. Her triumphant return into the nation’s eye will bring her songs into a new generation and bring her work into the 21st century.
Missy Elliott enters the next generationANNABETH CRITTENDEN
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Yik Yak sparks controversy across campuses
An anonymous Twitter-like feed with posts only from people who are currently in a 10-mile radius, Yik Yak has become a breeding ground for complaints, jokes and observations on college campuses.
The app was created in Atlanta by two former fraternity boys, Brooks Buffington and Tyler Droll, as a way for posts to be liked based solely on their humor without knowing the person behind the comment.
However, although the app was created with beneficial purposes, many campuses and high schools are finding that the app has created more problems than they originally suspected.
Most recently, Eastern Michigan University honors freshmen issued a cyber attack against three female professors during a mandatory class.
Every Friday, 230 freshmen at Eastern Michigan University are required to take an interdisciplinary study class.
However, on this particular Friday, the students began using Yik Yak to post hundreds of demeaning and abusive comments about their professors.
After class, one of the upperclassmen who helped teach the course found the posts and showed them to professors. These posts insulted the professors’ gender, teaching styles and appearances by using degrading and profane words.
Although Eastern Michigan University is not the only campus dealing with the large amount of verbal abuse on the app, this incident shows that professors are slowly losing control over their classes with the students’ ability to post their thoughts for the entire campus to view and encourage.
According to The Chronicle of Higher Education from Jan. 29, the administrators at Eastern Michigan refused to track down the students responsible since the app is anonymous.
This urged the professors to call on their union to solve the problem of harassment from Yik Yak. Margaret A. Crouch, a philosophy professor, even stated that she would quit if she had to put up with the Yik Yak abuse again.
However, cyber bullying on Yik Yak happens to more than just the professors. Since the posts are anonymous, students have begun saying whatever they want and even naming students in order to harass them.
However, the amount of cyber bullying that appears on the app is usually dependent on the students at the campus and ranges from almost none to frequent.
Other than harassment from the app, many campuses and high schools have had to shut down their schools for days because bomb threats have appeared in the Yik Yak news feed.
According to the Star Gazette from Elmira, NY from Jan 21, a 19-year-old college student, Matthew T. Lee, at Corning Community College in New York was arrested on Dec. 3 after posting about a bomb threat on Yik Yak.
His threat led to the evacuation of the dormitory on campus while bomb-sniffing dogs and police officers entered campus to deter the threat. Lee turned himself in some time later and could face seven years in prison due to falsely reporting an incident.
According to Atlanta Magazine from Jan. 29, many high schools have been having a similar problem, finding threats such as: “The itsy bitsy students came up the water spout, down came my bullets and washed them all out.”
Some of these problems have arisen from the fact that the app has expanded to high schools, when it was only intended for college campuses. Yet the high school demographic has latched on to the app quickly.
This meant that Buffington and Droll had to modify their technology so that the younger demographic could not access their product. According to Atlanta Magazine, this was accomplished through “geofences” which turned high school buildings into a dead zone for the app.
The creators, however, are attempting to widen their reach to more college campuses. According to Atlanta Magazine, despite the various problems, the creators have made over $62 million and have grown from a thousand to two million users.
They work in an office in which they closely monitor the “yaks” posted in different areas in order to see how far the app’s reach has gone. Although the app is based mainly in America for the moment, the creators hope that Yik Yak will soon spread to the rest of the world.
Yet, the threats and cyber bullying cannot be ignored and hurts both the creator’s morals and business. They have received phone calls from administrators saying that the app was being banned at their school and decided that they need to find a way to monitor their content more closely.
According to Atlanta Magazine, Yik Yak
has begun working with a company in the Philippines in order to screen their app for offensive posts. Buffington and Droll created a “software flowchart” so their workers can find the worrisome posts.
Yik Yak also has a feature where if a post is unliked (or “downvoted”) five times, it disappears from the feed. The creators are attempting to balance allowing the users freedom on their app while monitoring it for dangerous content.
Although nothing as dangerous as bomb threats has appeared on the Yik Yak app here at Berry, the app still receives much traffic from students.
Brian Carroll, associate professor of communication, said he believes that the integrity of the students on the app is revealed through their comments.
“It’s a neutral technology,” Carroll said. “It can be used smartly, it can be used in less smart ways. So we’re going to find out about the users, not the technology. If on a college campus it’s used to smear people and to make life difficult for people, then we’ve learned about those users.”
However, Yik Yak also has some positive elements. The app has the ability to spread news around the campus quicker than the
media. According to Atlanta Magazine, the information about a virus at Emory University appeared on the app five days before the Emory News Center reported the same information.
The app also has a feature in which users can “peek” at the feeds from other campuses as well as other areas.
This allows users to see yaks from areas in which important events are happening and hear information from anonymous sources that are active and uncorrupted by the media.
The app also has helped people with depression and other mental disorders. People with these disorders feel safer reaching out for help in an anonymous setting where other users can reach out and help the person.
Yet, this app, along with other apps that allow anonymous posting, brings out the integrity of the students involved. In an environment where anything can be said with practically no consequences, the true nature of the students involved is brought to light.
“The cloak of anonymity allows us to do things we normally wouldn’t do if you knew who they were. It excuses people of accountability,” Carroll said. “Stand up for what you’re saying. Show us who you are. That’s mature.”
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After winning two consecutive regular season Southern Athletic Association (SAA) conference championships, but losing in the conference tournament each year, the softball team plans to take both trophies in 2015.
The team is much different than last year’s squad as it features 11 returning players and nine incoming freshmen.
Head coach Cori Thiermann said she believes the team has the talent and drive to reach their goals this year, even though they are a young team.
“Our returning group has a lot of experience from last year,” Thiermann said. “They are doing a really good job at sharing their experiences with the freshmen.”
Thiermann said that the freshman class is adjusting to college athletics and academics very quickly.
“Our freshmen are really athletic and they work really hard,” she said. “Our cohesiveness as a team is coming together really quickly.”
Thiermann also addressed the team’s talent, and said that the team’s defense is very athletic.
“On offense, I think we’re going to be more consistent with getting on base,” she said.
One of the team’s best pitchers, junior Allie Coronado, said the entire pitching staff this year will be very dangerous.
“The pitching staff is very diverse,” she said. “We all have our individual talents in different areas.”
Sophomore infielder Sarah Brown said the team mentality is also improved from last season.
“I think we have so much positive energy throughout the team this year,” she said. “Everyone is willing to work hard. It is more of a team-first attitude this year.”
The softball team opens their season with two away games on Feb. 14 and Feb. 15.
The first game is against
Covenant College and the second is against Maryville College. The team’s first home game is on Feb. 21 against Piedmont College.
Thiermann said she expects the Piedmont game to be very competitive.
“Piedmont is top 25 in the preseason poll, so the game will be a good measuring tool for us.”
The team’s biggest rival this season is currently Birmingham-Southern. They split games with Berry last year, and beat the Vikings in the tournament championship.
This year the softball team will do all they can to make sure they not only claim their third regular season championship in a row, but also take their first SAA tournament championship.
Softball poised for continued successNICK VERNON
sports editor
NEALIE SMITH, staff photojournalist
THE SOFTBALL TEAM PRACTICED this week in preparation for their first two games of the season. On Feb. 14 the team plays at Covenant College and on Feb. 15, they play at Maryville College.
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Baseball enters new season with experience, high hopes
The baseball team looks to open up their season with two games against Guilford on Friday, Feb. 6 and Saturday, Feb. 7. The team finished second in the Southern Athletic Association (SAA) last season, with a 29-15 overall record.
This year, the team welcomes 15 freshmen, while still maintaining a fair share of experienced upperclassmen.
Head coach David Beasley said that he is excited about this year’s team because a lot of players are returning with experience under their belts.
One change that the coaching staff has adopted this season from last is a different approach at the plate.
“Last year’s club was a very quick club. This year, it’s not that we’re not fast, but I just think we have a little more power in our line-up,” Beasley said. “This year we hope to hit a lot more doubles. That’s my mindset going in.”
Junior middle-infielder Grant Perkins also commented on a change in the team’s hitting which he thinks will have a positive impact throughout the season.
“This year we have changed up our swings a little, which should allow us to hit better,” Perkins said.
Sophomore middle-infielder Sam Joyce said that the team’s pitching coach, Dillon Napoleon, did a good job of getting the team in shape last fall in preparation for a long season.
Beasley said the team’s dynamic will focus on pitching and defense.
“I think that our pitching and our outfield are going to be key factors,” Beasley said.
Beasley sees the first games against Guilford as a baseline to compare the improvement throughout the season.
“We’ll look at the end of the year and see where we started and where we finished and that will really show our success,” Beasley said. “We will use this weekend as the starting bar, and never try to drop below it.”
Both Perkins and Joyce said that they have the goal for the team to win the SAA season
championship and tournament this year. “First goal of the season is to win
conference, move on to regional and nationals after. I believe these are very attainable goals for this team,” Joyce said.
Beasley also has the goal of winning the SAA this season, but he thinks that the journey to doing so is the most important part.
“The most important part, as long as I am
here, is to get better everyday,” Beasley said. “We want to progress everyday, on the field, off the field and in the classroom.”
The team takes on their first opponent, Guilford, Friday, Feb. 6 at 3:30 p.m.
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NEALIE SMITH, staff photojournalist
CATCHERS PRACTICE throwing as the baseball team prepares for their first game of the season at home against Guilford College. They will play Guilford at Bowdoin Field on Friday, Feb. 6 at 3:30 p.m. and then again on Saturday, Feb. 7 at 1 p.m.
Totally ‘90sSkate Night
KCAB hosted their first skate night of the semester at Fun Wheels skating center of Rome on Saturday.Recorded at most 250 people attended the 1990s themed event which resulted in shortages of adult size skates rentals.
FRESHMAN BENJI BRITT SHOWS off his skating skills on his personal pair of inline skates.
STUDENTS RENT their preference of roller or inline skates.
JUNIORS AUSTIN NOYES, ANNA SMITH AND KALEIGH CARPENTER ATTEMPT a selfie while skating.
JUNIOR LOUIE SPIVAK DANCES and skates simultaneuosly to the rhythm of the ‘90s music that was playing.
PHOTOS BY JASON HUYNH, photojournalism editor
MOST ATTENDANTS DRESS in their best ‘90s outfits for the event.
SEASONED SKATERS AND FIRST TIMERS SKATE together around the rink while throwback hits from the ‘90s play.
