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5,
May
1, 2014
vol.2015
105, #25

Students join to address sexual assault

vol. 106, #15

MEGAN REED
editor-in-chief

campus carrier

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
weeks SGA meeting, would meet
to re-evaluate the colleges 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.
Berrys 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.
Its 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

OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PHOTO BY LAWRENCE JACKSON

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA SIGNS the Campus

Sexual Assault Presidential Memorandum
during a White House Council on Women and
Girls meeting on Jan. 22, 2014.
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
doesnt get to hear the hearing, but
the respondent does, Julie Bumpus,
associate dean of students, said. In
sexual assault, they both do and we

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Center for Integrity in Leadership expanding

IAN HINZE
news editor

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 well 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

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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.
Were 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 freestanding 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 didnt even realize wed have to
deal with in the medical field, like integrity and ethics,
we get to discuss it as a group, Santos said. Weve
become a support group to each other because were all
in the same age group, all applying to grad school and
med school thats been great, talking to our mentor
whos 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 dont necessarily have
classes in pre-med ethics. Its exciting to try to integrate
ethical ideas into science classes. Its not intended to be
more work; its 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.
You can ethicize
course much like honorsP.students
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separate them so theyre 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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AssaultNeither 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. Youre
calling the gatehouse and theyre
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 doesnt 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.

Leadership-

Students discuss flaws in Berrys

sexual assault policy
Shes a wonderful lady who
is equipped to do this. Shes been
to law school and shes been given
the training to handle these kinds
of issues, he said. Shes a Berry
alum, and she understands that
these issues need to be addressed on
campus, but shes not being included
in these conversations.
While county sheriffs 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 dont need to know the name of
the perpetrator or the victim. Thats
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

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You can ethicize a course much like

honors students honorize a course
its 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 years mentor
program. More information can be found
on the LifeReady website.

CONTINUED FROM P. 1

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 theyre brought to them.

I would feel
more safe on
campus if I knew
where (assaults)
happened.
-ABBEY SMYTH
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
schools 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
Californias 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 isnt saying that youll
agree to it. The whole concept of
that campaign is putting the burden
of truth on the assaulter, Adkins
said. Thats how it is in every other
situation its the murderers job to
say I didnt.
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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CASINO NIGHT

The first of the BSAs

Black History Month
movie series will be
showing Feb. 5 in Evans
Auditorium at 7 p.m.

The mens basketball

team will play against
Birmingham-Southern
on Feb. 6 in the Cage
Center Arena at 8 p.m.

KCAB is hosting a black

light dance in Krannert
Ballroom on Feb. 6 from
9 p.m. to midnight.

KCAB is hosting a casino

night with games and
refreshments in Krannert
Ballroom on Feb. 7
from 7 to 11 p.m.

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The mens basketball

team will play a home
game against Millsaps
on Feb. 8 in the Cage
Center Arena at 3 p.m.

A panel will discuss the

relationship between
race, poverty, crime
and policing on
Feb. 9 in Krannert
217 at 7 p.m. CE

Learn 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.

On Feb. 10, Baylor

University professor of
history Philip Jenkins
will lecture in Krannert
Ballroom from 7:30
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conference room 328
from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m.

New skillport training videos available

CHELSEA HOAG
managing editor

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, electroniclearning 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. Its
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 arent 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 faceto-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.

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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. Its
something you didnt look forward to doing.
Teem said even though it wasnt
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.
Its not someones voice droning over a
video, Teem said.
Skillport is free for all Berry faculty, staff
and students.

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American Sniper: the controversy

Last month, Clint Eastwoods
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 Kyles 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 films language
about Muslims, the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination
Committee
has stated theyve 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.
Its 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 dont 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
scopeit offers a limited view.
Reppenhaggen warns that no
one soldiers view can capture
the whole experience because all
stories have different elements. He
also commented on Kyles 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 Reppenhaggens 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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Gender stereotypes on toys and how they affect children today

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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 childrens 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 societys norm of being male. Therefore, in order to

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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
Barbies can be ridiculed as much as the boys who also
fall into this gray area.
In Jo B. Paolettis 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 attachedthe 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 childrens
gender stereotypes at home.
Most of us dont 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.

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CHELSEA HOAG
managing editor

Why it is time for colleges to start restricting hard liquor

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 theyre
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.
Dartmouths 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, its much more
detrimental if a student binge drinks hard liquor
compared to beer or wine. I think its 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 students dorm.
I hope its 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 arent 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 its not dry, but if youve 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 Reviews 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

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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 its 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 cant 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. Its 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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What was your
favorite part of the
Super Bowl?

The last play where the

Patriots intercepted the
ball and Tom Brady won
the Super Bowl.
Torri Tate,
senior

The interception when Tom

Brady threw it and 54 just
came and snuck in and got
it.
Chimara Good,
freshman

asst. online editor

Why Romneys presidential dreams failed

Last Friday, when Mitt Romney
finally decided to withdraw his
name from consideration for the
Republican Partys 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
Obamas 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 nations voters,
including Republicans. Romneys
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 campaigns
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, Romneys
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 Romneys Mormonism
led many of these voters to opt out
of voting in the 2012 election.
While some of Romneys 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 Partys nomination
for president, Romneys 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 Obamas failed policies and
the right choice, the Republican
Party has a good chance of being
home to the next leader of the free
world.

The half time show.

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junior

I didnt watch it.

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The catch that went down

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February 5, 2015

features

Martial arts club seeks to become interest group

ZACHARY
WOODWORTH

ZACHARY
WOODWORTH

features editor

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 didnt 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 childrens 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 DeMarcos 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.
Its unofficial but its well known, DeMarco
said. Id like it to be an interest group or a club
soon, but theres a lot of legal things (involved),
especially if its 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 theres 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 womens 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.

In order to become
an official student
organization, the club
has to offer something
unique that is not
available anywhere else
on campus.
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.
Hes good at that, so he teaches us takedowns, 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.
Im 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 DeMarcos 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
theres a different speed that you can do things
when you have equipment versus when you
dont, 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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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.

Student organizations

Can use Berrys name

Are able to reserve space
Can request money from SGA
Can recruit students

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

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

Must register with SGA annually

Must have at least five active members
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.

February 5, 2015

entertainment

Missy Elliott enters the next generation

ANNABETH CRITTENDEN
asst. entertainment editor

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. Diddys 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
Houstons album My Love is Your
Love.
Elliotts second album, Da Real
World, released in 1999, sold 1.5
million copies in the U.S. alone.
Her third album, Miss ESo
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

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became known for her collaborations
with artists such as Madonna and
Britney Spears. She was even called
hip-hops 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.

Elliotts 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
Elliotts songs suddenly jumped into
Billboards Top 100.
Although based mainly in the
90s, Elliotts accomplishments as
a female rapper have inspired other
famous female rappers like Nicki
Minaj. Her triumphant return into
the nations eye will bring her songs
into a new generation and bring her
work into the 21st century.

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Yik Yak sparks controversy across campuses

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 apps 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 creators 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

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asst. entertainment editor

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.

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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.
Its a neutral technology, Carroll said.
It can be used smartly, it can be used in less
smart ways. So were going to find out about
the users, not the technology. If on a college
campus its used to smear people and to make
life difficult for people, then weve 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 wouldnt do if you
knew who they were. It excuses people of
accountability, Carroll said. Stand up for
what youre saying. Show us who you are.
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Softball poised for continued success

NICK VERNON
sports editor
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 years 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
teams talent, and said that the
teams defense is very athletic.
On offense, I think were going
to be more consistent with getting
on base, she said.
One of the teams 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
teams 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 teams biggest rival this
season is currently BirminghamSouthern. 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.

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

MARIE COLLOP
asst. sports editor
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 years 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 years club was a very quick club.
This year, its not that were 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. Thats my mindset
going in.
Junior middle-infielder Grant Perkins also
commented on a change in the teams 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 teams 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 teams 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.
Well 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

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.
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.

February 5, 2015

11

Totally 90s
Skate Night

JUNIORS AUSTIN NOYES, ANNA

SMITH AND KALEIGH CARPENTER
ATTEMPT a selfie while skating.

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.

JUNIOR LOUIE SPIVAK DANCES and skates

simultaneuosly to the rhythm of the 90s
music that was playing.

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.
PHOTOS BY JASON HUYNH, photojournalism editor