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Students can practice their modeling on campus: clothed or costumed.
Figure drawing classes need students to pose to help art students practice their drawing.
“I heard about the job through an art student, and its pay was rather high, so it caught my interest almost immediately,” said junior integrated marketing major Amanda Taylor.
Figure drawing models receive $15 an hour, but the job isn’t for self-conscious students.
The on-campus job description says the job “requires nude or semi-nude modeling, as well as being able to take and hold inter-esting poses while students draw.”
The pay isn’t the only thing that attracted Taylor. She did it for the experience, too.
“I decided to apply as a model because I began professionally modeling before I
CAMPUS NEWS 2-5
OPINION 6-7
HEALTH & SCIENCE 8-9
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 10-11
CULTURE 12-13
SPORTS 14-15
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INDEX
American students help Chinese students with English.See Culture, page 9
Winthrop student band releases war-themed CD. See A & E, page 8
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Foundation pays partly for DiGiorgio’soff-campus living expenses
BY JESSICA PICKENS
See DRAWING page 7
STRIKE A POSE
An art student in fi gure drawing class sketches a drawing. The model in this photo is not a Winthrop student, but stu-dents can sign up for work study as a model. Photo by Stepahnie Eaton • [email protected]
Models get paid to pose for figure-drawing students
BY CLAIRE BYUN
President Anthony DiGiorgio will recieve an annual $20,000 from the Winthrop Foundation for “com-parable services’ expenses for the residence,” according to the Founda-tion’s website. The president’s con-tract appropriates the amount.
The services include “phone, Inter-net and home security monitoring, insurance and other services,” said Kathy Bigham, chair of the Winthrop Board of Trustees, and Dalton Floyd, vice-chair of the board, in a letter sent to The Johnsonian on Nov. 10.
During their thrice-yearly meeting in May, the Winthrop Foundation agreed to pay the allotted expenses to DiGiorgio’s off-campus residence.
While DiGiorgio lived on campus, Winthrop paid related living expens-es. But due to complicated paper-work and scarce university resources the Foundation agreed to pay, said Brien Lewis, executive director of the Foundation.
“Sometimes the Foundation is the appropriate vehicle, and sometimes the university is the appropriate ve-hicle to pay,” Lewis said. “We take great care to make sure the right en-tity is paying the right expense.”
In return for fi nancing the presi-dent’s expenses, Winthrop will pay for certain Foundation mailings, ac-cording to the minutes supplied on the Foundation’s website.
See FOUNDATION page 4
Austin Weiss biked uphill on Stormy Hollow for about 30 minutes and then went straight to Starbucks in the campus center to guzzle caf-feine before class.
One day soon, the junior biology major hopes to ride the trail of the 34-mile Virginia Creeper all from in-side the West Center and still make it back in time to grab his favorite af-ternoon pick-me-up before his eco-nomics class.
He’s no Superman - just a passion-ate biker taking advantage of free demo equipment in the West Center. Precor, the fi tness equipment com-pany that supplied the West Center with all of its cardio equipment, is letting Winthrop try out an interac-tive exercise bike called the Expresso Bike and the Adaptive Motion Train-er (AMT), a mix between a stairmas-ter and elliptical.
If students show enough inter-est in the test drives, Winthrop may
On Sept. 22, 18-year-old Rutgers Uni-versity freshman Tyler Clementi leapt to his death from the George Washing-ton Bridge in Piscataway Township, N.J. Clementi took his own life after his roommate, Dharun Ravi, allegedly vid-eo-streamed Clementi’s sexual encoun-ter with another man over the Internet without Clementi’s consent.
Ravi is one of two Rutgers students facing charges of invasion of privacy. Meanwhile, the story has shed light on the acceptance of minority students at other schools in the nation.
At Winthrop, students of different sexual orientations fi nd ways to express themselves through GLoBAL (Gay Les-bian Bisexual Allies). GloBAL’s presi-dent, senior physical education major Rachel Wyka, said she fi nds Winthrop
to be “very accepting” of students of dif-ferent sexual orientations and lesser-known religions.
Wyka pointed out during the Evang-list’s protest on Oct. 13 many students stood up to the group of people who came to speak out against people of dif-
West Center equipment feels like ‘running on the moon’
NEWS
BY JOHNATHAN MCFADDEN
Rutgers bullying brings light to minority acceptanceBY MONICA KREBER
See BULLY page 4
WU men’s basketball lords over Queens in Homecoming game
Coach Randy Peele asked Winthrop ju-nior forward George Valentine this sum-mer to “step up” after his redshirt season. Valentine easily surpassed everyone’s expectations in Winthrop’s Homecoming
matchup against Queens, earning his fi rst career double-double in a 70-61 win over the Royals.
Winthrop easily dominated the opening period of play, going into the half with a 14-point lead. Although Queens came out of the half invigorated, the pressure even-tually waned, and the Eagles kept their
opponents at arms length to the delight of a particularly vocal home crowd.
“I’m happy with it,” Peele said about the outcome of the game.
A raucous student section was in full voice for Homecoming Week to support their Eagles as they began the 2010-2011
BY DAVID THACKHAM
See HOMECOMING page 11
NEWS
See WEST page 3
SPORTS
Men’s basketball team receives Big South rings at tip-off ceremony.See Sports, page 10
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By Jonathan [email protected]
Just like the average college student, senior business administration major Stephanie Maguras takes tests, writes papers, does homework and checks her e-mail regularly.
Unlike the average college student, she’s legally blind.
With a technology called JAWS (Job Access With Speech), reading has be-come a little easier for Maguras and oth-er visually impaired individuals.
JAWS, a screen-reading software pro-gram that reads out text on a computer screen via an electronic voice, is available on many ACC lab computers throughout campus.
With JAWS, visually impaired stu-dents can read their e-mails, find in-formation online, read textbooks if the publisher provides the book in a Word document format, write papers and even take tests.
Using JAWS
For Maguras, using JAWS is very help-ful around test time.
Though she didn’t start using JAWS until high school, Maguras is able to lis-ten to the electronic computerized voice at a quick pace.
“I use it to read pretty much every-thing,” Maguras said.
When she has to take tests, she goes to the test center in the Services for Students with Disabilities Office in Crawford. She said JAWS allows her to hear everything she is typing and was a convenience in pleasing one teacher who wanted to see everything Maguras wrote.
Using JAWS has been helpful in aiding Maguras exert her own independence, she said.
In her 13 years as Winthrop’s program director for students with disabilities, Gena Smith said she could not think of any student she has met with significantly impaired vision who wasn’t familiar with JAWS technology.
The software is only attached to an in-dividual student’s user account, so they are able to access the program on any ACC computer on campus, Smith said.
It also allows for any settings students have adapted for their personal needs to remain intact, such as variation in the electronic voice or punctuation settings.
“Only the students who need it can ac-cess it,” Smith said.
JAWS, which Smith said is a very es-sential tool for visually impaired students and non-students, has been in use since its introduction in 1989.
While Smith does not provide JAWS for students’ personal use on their per-sonal computers, she said many visually impaired students already come to college with it on their laptops.
Smith said the software was available at Winthrop before she came in 1997, but it wasn’t available on as many computers.
It wasn’t until Smith and the Services for Students with Disabilities enacted a campus-wide deployment of JAWS that
it was available on multiple ACC lab computers.
Once an acronym used to describe Job Access with Windows Systems, JAWS is now referred to as Job Access with Speech and is used on computers operat-ing through Windows systems.
At Winthrop, JAWS currently oper-ates on a five-user site license. Smith said the program doesn’t even have five users at the moment, though there have been times when there has been greater stu-dent need.
Smith, who also works with visually impaired people at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind, said she has met people who can listen to JAWS at such a speed that she herself is unable to understand what the electronic voice is dictating.
Students who have grown up using JAWS are also able to efficiently use the program, which allows its user to control the speed at which the electronic voice dictates.
“…I’m just not used to listening to the human voice—and it’s also an electronic voice—move that quickly,” Smith said.
Yet, as with much software, there are some bugs in the system, such as JAWS’s problem with reading anything that’s not text.
“As visually appealing as everything’s gotten, JAWS likes text,” Smith said.
Smith said JAWS stumbles over pic-tures and has a problem reading com-plexities, similar to comprehensive graphs or charts.
Smith said she advises people who are preparing anything written for a visually impaired student to keep it as simple and text-heavy as possible.
While sighted students can utilize the look, point and click method to sift out needed or essential information, students using JAWS have to sit, listen and wait while JAWS goes through all the text on the screen—left to right, top to bottom.
Glitches in the system
JAWS users may also run into obsta-cles in getting their textbooks in a Word document format so they can be read. If a publisher does happen to offer the book for the computer, usually it is in a PDF file, Smith said.
JAWS and PDF files don’t get along too well.
“There are conversions you can do for a PDF but they are not as effective as read-ing a straight Word document,” Smith said.
Listening to JAWS can also be time-consuming, even for the more skilled lis-teners.
“…The amount of time it takes me to look and point and click is still so sig-nificantly less than the amount of time it takes to listen to all your steps,” Smith said.
If students are faced with an exten-sive menu or list of items to choose from, they are forced to listen to all the items to choose the one they want.
“There’s no point of reference,” Smith said. “All of that [lists, menus] has to be voice-guided.”
Still, Smith said JAWS provides more independence for its users when it comes to reading text.
“ [It’s] so much less time-consuming than having someone reading it to you,” Smith said.
JAWS has also made surfing the web easier.
Smith said websites, such as Win-throp’s homepage, have made their sites more accessible to screen-reading tech-nology.
JAWS does require some training, which is provided by the South Carolina Commission for the Blind.
Mechanism of independence
Marty McKenzie, principal of visual outreach services for the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind, has used
JAWS for almost 13 years. When he start-ed, he found it wasn’t so easy to learn.
“It was challenging for me,” McKenzie said.
McKenzie, who said he is a visual learn-er, began to lose a substantial amount of his vision over the span of his career.
While in graduate school, he used a magnifying glass to read print as his vi-sion began to decline.
“Switching to an auditory format has been challenging,” McKenzie said.
Now, he has learned to appreciate the accessibility JAWS grants him.
With JAWS, McKenzie can access his e-mail, navigate the Web and use Micro-soft Word, Excel and Outlook.
For McKenzie, one of the most impor-tant functions of JAWS is its ability to al-low him to manage his personal finances using QuickBooks 2003.
“Being able to manage my own check-book without having to involve anyone else’s help is extremely important for me,” McKenzie said.
JAWS allows McKenzie a level of inde-pendence he otherwise would not have, he said. McKenzie said one of the biggest bugs in the system he has run into is its incompatibility with other computer sys-tems and applications.
“One of the bugs right now is the slow response we get when we’re using the JAVA application,” McKenzie said.
JAWS prevents access to anything that may use JAVA.
JAWS allows users to listen to punc-tuation. McKenzie said JAWS comes with four levels of punctuation settings.
• All: reads every character that is not a number or letter.
• Most: reacts to common punctuation and leaves out anything that JAWS inter-prets as different or unusual.
• Some: reacts to all punctuation, but JAWS will only read punctuation that may be accidentally entered.
• None: does not read any punctuation, unless user is reading character by char-acter.
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PUBLIC DISORDERLY INTOXICATION (11/11/10)
At 3:18 a.m., a reporting officer observed a silver Subaru parked in the south parking lot of the Winthrop Coliseum with the apparent driver asleep inside.
The officer approached the driver and no-ticed he had bloody knuckles.
The officer tried to wake the driver and found he was highly intoxicated. The driver was also very uncooperative with the officer.
The officer discovered the subject had been involved in a bar fight with an unknown per-son.
The officer arrested the driver and trans-ported him to Rock Hill City Jail.
PETTY LARCENY (COPPER ELECTRICAL WIRE) (11/4/10)
At 3 p.m., a reporting officer was dis-patched to Owens Hall to meet with a com-plainant about the theft of some copper wire.
Upon arrival, the officer met with the com-plainant who said that at 3 p.m., he and the
Leitner Construction supervisor were do-ing a walk-through of Owens when they both
noticed a 65-foot-long spool of copper wire laying on the floor of room 110.
The wire was being used to power elements of Owens, and both parties agreed that the wire, which belonged to Winthrop, would be secured in the room for the night and employ-ees would retrieve it later.
On Nov. 8 at 3 p.m., the complainant and members of his staff went to retrieve the wire but found it missing from room 110.
The complainant spoke with the Leitner Construction supervisor about the situation,
and both agreed to search all of Owens’ construction area.
They did not find the wire.The complainant and supervisor spoke to all
individuals who were present during the time the wire was last seen and the Owens’ recon-struction team.
No one admitted to taking the wire nor could anyone remember, with any certainty, when the last time the wire was seen.
MISCHIEVOUS BEHAVIOR (11/5/10)
At 8:27 a.m., a reporting officer met with Lee Miller, administrative specialist in Sims, as well as two custodial workers in reference
to an unknown person using chalk to write on the walls and a chair in Sims, according to an informational report from police.
The person drew faces using the chalk.While walking around the building, the re-
porting officer noted someone had also drawn Pac-Man and another character using a dry-erase marker on the window leading to one of the suites.
The chalk and dry-erase drawings were easily removed, but Miller wanted to report them because they had be going on for about a week.
THURSDAY November 18, 2010 3
By Shana AdamsSpecial to The Johnsonian
The spring of 1999 was an exciting time for April Lovegrove. She was at the end of her journey as an undergraduate stu-dent at Winthrop Uni-versity, obtaining her B.A. in Political Science.
She would soon be trading her cap and gown for a veil and wedding dress.
Lovegrove met her husband Lane while at Winthrop.
“We were married in May of 1999, two weeks after I graduated from Winthrop,” Lovegrove said.
While her new love was blossoming, Loveg-rove busied herself with organizations on cam-pus.
“I participated in the Model United Nations program and served as Student Coordinator in 1998, the International Club, Lutheran Campus Ministries, and Pi Sigma Alpha (PLSC National Honor Society).”
Working as one of the coordinators for the Model UN conference here taught me more about organization and professional communi-cation than any other job. Lovegrove has come
full circle and now works for Winthrop as assistant to the dean for the col-lege of arts & sciences.
She feels that being at Winthrop has helped her develop in her current position.
“ Knowing a lot of my colleagues from class be-fore I came back to work here allowed for a much smoother transition from student to profes-sional,” she said.
Her position as one of the coordinators for the Model UN conference taught her more about organization and profes-sional communication, skills she uses today.
Lovegrove’s position comes with a list of du-ties that requires her to utilize these skills.
“I handle the college and departmental bud-gets, manage grants, assist in procurement,
process temporary em-ployee paperwork, serve as building coordinator for Kinard Hall and as-sist in scheduling classes each semester,” Loveg-rove said.
Lovegrove’s position also requires that she has tolerance for differ-ences.
“To do well in this job you have to be able to communicate effectively with dozens of different people and subsequent-ly different personali-ties,” she said “We have to learn to work with those differences rather than constantly fighting against them.”
Lovegrove has been successful maintaining the relationships that be-gan at Winthrop 11 years ago. She still has friends from Model UN and her husband is close by, working on campus as the operations manager for the Social and Behav-ioral Research Lab.
Lovegrove offers this bit of advice for future alumni.
“Take advantage of every resource that Win-throp has to offer,” she said. “You have to do your part and go out in search of some things but you will find that that effort is easily re-warded.”
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purchase the equipment, which has been in the West Center for about a week and can be expect-ed to stay for at least one more.
So far, the feedback in that time has been very positive, said Laura Johnson, assistant direc-tor of the West Center for Op-erations.
“I think they [students] like the interactive nature of that bike [Expresso] we have down there,” Johnson said.
The Expresso Bike, outfitted with an interactive monitor, handlebars and pedals, allows students such as Weiss to bike on virtual trails ranging from the Adirondack Mountains to the Mayan Ruins.
Though the machine is firmly fixed to the floor, all of the re-sistance, work and sweat are real, as the bike gives its riders the chance to experience bik-ing through real trails from the comfort of the West Center.
A true athlete at heart, Weiss has fallen in love with the com-petition the bike’s interactive features offer.
Logging onto an Expresso.net user account, users can track the progress of their own work-out and publish it on Facebook or Twitter. They can also copy down someone else’s progress
and race that person’s “ghost.”“It pushes you to catch up with
the next person,” Weiss said.The bike also gives Weiss a
little more mobility than a tread-mill, even though he still techni-cally isn’t going anywhere.
“This [the bike] gives you like something to look forward to, like catching the next person,” he said.
Weiss, who said he was an avid mountain biker before coming to Winthrop, said the Expresso Bike has helped to revitalize his hobby.
“It gives me that little bit of es-cape,” Weiss said.
If the bike’s popularity picks up, Weiss said he hopes more trails will be added, specifically the gradually uphill Virginia Creeper, which he biked once already.
“It’s kind of like the bike ver-sion of a marathon,” Weiss said. “It’s a lot more fun downhill than up.”
One of the bike’s other features is playing music only specific to certain terrains and courses.
The AMT
Sybil Senn, senior Spanish major, runs on the moon at least three times a week.
Well, sort of.Using the AMT demo three
times a week for about 15 to 30 minutes, Senn can run a full sprint, do lunges or work out on the stairstepper without the hassle of switching exercise machines.
Senn said she likes the AMT because of its low impact.
“It doesn’t feel as if you’re running on the ground,” Senn said. “It doesn’t hurt your knees at all because you’re sus-pended in the air.”
Like Weiss, Senn is holding out hope that the AMT be-comes part of the West Cen-ter’s regular arsenal of cardio equipment.
“…It feels like you’re running on the moon,” Senn said.
The AMT also gives her more of a challenge than the tradi-tional elliptical.
“It motivates you to go fast-er,” Senn said. “It’s not terribly hard; it’s more challenging in a good way.”
Assistant director of the West Center for Operations Laura Johnson said she thinks people think the AMT may be harder than a regular elliptical, but then again, that’s the purpose.
“It’s supposed to be a harder workout,” Johnson said. “You’re supposed to get a different type of workout.”
The students decide
Students can fill out surveys evaluating the equipment’s per-formance.
Johnson said the tried-out equipment will be evaluated ear-ly in the spring to give students adequate time to use the equip-ment before final exams begin.
The AMT and Expresso Bike may not be the only demos to work their way onto campus. The possibility of other items from Precor isn’t ruled out.
“We’d like to demo other equipment as well, just to get a variety in here,” Johnson said.
Much of this, though, depends on negotiations with other ven-dors.
Some vendors allow Winthrop to borrow some of their equip-ment, but others don’t, Johnson said.
This is the first time the West Center has tried out equipment from a fitness company.
“We like to give people options about stuff,” Johnson said.
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The interactive monitor of the Expresso Bike allows riders to race the “ghost,” or progress of other riders. Photo by Jonathan McFadden • [email protected]
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University discloses DIGS dedication costBy Claire [email protected]
Winthrop spent $13,325.12 on a special ceremony to dedicate the new campus center to its namesake: President Antho-ny DiGiorgio and his wife Gale.
The ceremony was co-funded by the university and the Winthrop Foundation.
DiGiorgio also personally funded some of the expenses related to the event.
The total of $13,325.12 spent by Win-throp includes a dinner and reception for 51 people on Sept. 23 at an expense of $1,596.30.
Winthrop also funded a lunch for 300 guests on Sept. 24 at an expense of $7,185.
Supplies for the dedication included linen rentals and napkins from a Char-lotte, N.C. company at a cost of $1,858.07 and invitations, postcards and programs printed using Winthrop’s in-house print-ing services at a cost of $843.51.
Winthrop also spent $64.20 with Gala Affairs Party Rental of Rock Hill and $151.55 with Campbell’s Greenhouse and Nursery in Charlotte, N.C.
The university paid $423.61 for flower arrangements from Jane’s Creative De-signs in Rock Hill.
The Winthrop Foundation provided the funding for the entertainment and alcohol.
DiGiorgio privately financed six differ-ent meals between Sept. 22 and 25, re-freshments on Sept. 23 and a rental van.
DiGiorgio also purchased momentos from the campus bookstore for his guests;
those items totaled $273.02.In total, DiGiorgio contributed
$2,043.63 to event-related expenses. Private and public recognition events
are “standard protocol events for honor-ing building namesakes,” according to records provided by Winthrop University spokesperson Rebecca Masters following The Johnsonian’s request for financial information related to the campus center ceremony.
The Lois Rhame West Center dedi-cation, held in 2007, included similar events and meals. For that ceremony, Winthrop spent $11,342.44, according to financial documents.
Only 35 people participated in the fam-ily dinner for the West Center opening, and a crowd of 270 ate lunch.
An “inflationary adjustment since that time is approximately 6 percent,” Masters wrote in a response letter to The Johnso-nian on Nov. 8. “The seating capacity of the respective venues involved resulted in a slightly different number of individuals involved in each event.”
The dedication of the West Center’s “honoree public lunch” was held at a cost of $36.58 per person; the campus center dedication’s public lunch was held at a cost of $36.88 per person.
Similar to how entertainment and alco-hol services were funded for the DiGior-gio Campus Center event, the Winthrop Foundation provided funds for those ex-penses for the West Center dedication.
Additional reporting for this story by Anna Douglas
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ferent religions, sexual orienta-tions and cultures.
“They were saying blacks are going to hell, other sexual ori-entations are going to hell, and everyone was like, ‘Get off my campus,’” Wyka said. “Nobody stood for it here. So, especially because we’re a liberal arts col-lege, I think we’re very against all that hatred.”
Wyka said as awful as it was to hear about Clementi taking his own life after his sexual en-counter was broadcasted on the Internet, she is glad the incident has been in the media because it brings attention to the idea of homosexual discrimination.
“It’s sad that is has taken un-til 2010 for America to wake up and realize it’s happening in our schools,” she said.
Wyka said she thinks harass-ment is something that needs to be talked about because it can happen in any residence hall at any school, including Winthrop.
“It’s happened here in years past where students have gotten harassed to the point where they can’t live in the same residence hall as (their roommates) any-more,” she said. “I don’t know if anyone has committed suicide because of it, but there’s always harassment.”
Global works with students of any orientation, including straight students (who are called Allies), to get to know each other better and talk about goings-on within the community. Wyka said the group has an “ask, don’t tell” policy where students are not asked straight-forward if they are homosexual because some students are still trying to figure it out for themselves.
While she has not faced ha-rassment since being at Win-throp, Wyka said not all students are comfortable with coming out about their sexual orienta-tion yet, and that puts them at a higher risk of depression.
“I know some people who are seniors in college who are not comfortable with coming out,” she said, “and those are the most at risk for suicide because they are not comfortable with them-selves yet and not ready for oth-er people to know.”
In correspondence with ho-mosexuals, Wyka also thinks some students of lesser-known religions have had to face some sort of discrimination because other people are ignorant of their religion.
“I think that is the main cause of hate,” she said. “Nowadays people are afraid of the unknown so they just hate it.”
One thing Global does in order
to help homosexual students is train Winthrop faculty and staff to become “safe zone” members. If a staff member is part of Safe Zone, that means he/she has been trained to help counsel ho-mosexual students who are fac-ing discrimination and harass-ment.
Junior interior design major Taylor Purser, who is a member of Global, said he thinks about 90 percent of Winthrop’s pro-fessors are within the Safe Zone.
“If we had a suicide like (Cle-menti’s) here on this campus, it would not be because nobody tried to help them,” Purser said, “it would be because they were so out of touch with what hap-pened.”
Purser said Safe Zone pro-fessors are indicated by stick-ers they put out on their office doors.
“You could walk into any building, on any floor, and you would see the stickers,” Purser said. “And actually there are a bunch of professors who have had gay students come and talk about how they wanted to com-mit suicide because people were harassing them about being gay.”
Purser said he thinks that be-cause there are so many Safe Zone professors that there really would not be any excuse for any
homosexual student to not re-ceive help.
“If someone really did commit suicide, it would be a real trag-edy because there are so many outlets for people who are gay to talk about it and feel better about it,” he said.
Assistant professor to soci-ology and anthropology Kelly James, who is the adviser for Global, said Student Life at Win-throp is interested in providing programming and support for minorities, and knows there are professors who try to incorpo-rate those issues in their classes.
However, James said she also thinks some of Winthrop’s mi-nority groups are so tiny they do not feel as if they are being ad-dressed.
“I think there are faculty and staff willing to help anyone who is dealing with diversity issues,” she said. “Do I think everybody gets heard and dealt with? No, of course not; we’re an imper-fect system. And I think there are some conservative Chris-tians who feel left out because the more education you get, the more liberal you get, so we have a fair number of non-conserva-tive people.”
Being adviser for Global, James said the hardest part of being part of the organization is the fact that so many of the
students with different sexual orientations have struggled with family relationships.
“We’ve had suicide attempts, we’ve had suicide threats, and so it’s real and it happens here,” she said. “And it’s not that straight people don’t have issues – they do – it’s just the number for gays is so much higher.”
James thinks the conducive-ness at Winthrop is getting bet-ter, but it is not great. She said while Global has the Safe Zone members, there are not many professors from different ra-cial backgrounds who could be beneficial to students of lesser-known religions.
“I think if I were a Muslim student and I was looking for a professor who understood what I went through…I think that would be harder,” she said. “So, I don’t know if we are adequate.”
As for what happened with Clementi, James said she thinks when students are in that mo-ment of hopelessness, they cannot see that support will be there.
“We try to help students who are struggling, but their bonds to their families are the most significant ones they have,” she said, “and when they feel as if their families can’t accept them, it’s a really traumatic experi-ence.”
Minority support copious on WU campusbully • from front
DiGiorgio did not request, from either the university or the Foundation, any form of alternate provision of support services following his move to a personal residence, Bigham and Floyd said.
“That potential was raised by trustees and discussed appropriately in execu-tive session by members of the Board of Trustees,” Bigham and Floyd said, “who felt an alternative arrangement should be considered in fulfillment of the sup-port services obligation to the president the Board has had in place for more than 20 years.”
Winthrop has historically provided a home for presidents on campus and has supplied support services warranted by the “24/7” responsibilities of a presi-dent, the letter said. Thus the President’s House and certain support services have
been appropriated in the president’s contract, which comes from state fund-ing, Bigham and Floyd said.
With DiGiorgio’s move to his eventual retirement home in Rock Hill, officials from both the university and Foundation decided the Foundation should provide the funding, the letter said.
Comparable support services to those previously financed by the state funds would be an effective means of “near term, meeting Winthrop’s obligations to the president and long term, ensuring Winthrop would have the flexibility to offer a successor president comparable support services,” the letter said.
Whether the state continues to provide funds for the services, the Foundation will be available to support the compa-rable services, Bigham and Floyd said.
“It was important to President DiGior-gio that any alternative way of providing
these support services to him not come from state operating funds,” according to the letter.
Both university officials and the Foun-dation agreed to an annual review and “reconciliation of expenses to see if any adjustment would be necessary going forward,” the letter said.
Foundation responsibilities
The Winthrop Foundation was es-tablished in 1973 but expanded in 1993 to manage the assets and maintain gift records benefiting the university, accord-ing to the Foundation website.
It is governed by a volunteer board that is nominated by a committee and solicited for what they can contribute to the organization, Lewis said.
Members of the community and alum-ni participate in the board, but people
outside of South Carolina also take part.“That allows us to get a nice, wide
range of people,” Lewis said. “We try to have a nice mix; we don’t want a board of just accountants, or just medical doc-tors.”
Seven members of the board are employed at Winthrop but are consid-ered ex-officio members. Three of those members are non-voting, which include Lewis, DiGiorgio and Debbie Garrick, executive director of Winthrop Alumni Relations.
The mission of the Foundation is to support Winthrop and its students by encouraging alumni and others to donate funds and other resources, all benefitting Winthrop.
“Basically, it exists to support Win-throp University and its students, faculty and programs,” Lewis said.
foundation • from front
THURSDAYNovember 18, 2010
CONNOR DE BRULEROpinion Editor
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Third-graders don’t have tact. They naively ask questions with no particular motive, no hidden agendas.
“Angel, your hair looks nice today,” I complimented my classmate. “What did you do to it?”
Angel was smart. We were in our challenge science class that day waiting to get our tests back when I asked the question.
“I brushed it,” she grumbled, not looking directly at me.
I regretted the ques-tion.
Angel had long brown hair and bangs cut straight across in the front. Most days she came to school with dishev-eled hair and loose-fitting clothes. Sometimes she grumbled responses to your questions and walked around with her bottom lip sticking out more than the top
one and her brow furrowed. Other times she talked loudly and stood too close to you. Maybe that’s why most of my friends
didn’t like her. I had asked the ques-
tion conversationally. It was just what came out of my mouth after the compliment. After her blunt answer, I didn’t say another word. Neither did she.
Two years ago, Angel’s boyfriend beat her to death. Police found her in the woods near our elementary school.
We went to Lemira Elementary School on the south side of Sumter, S.C. I went there because my mom taught second grade there. Angel went there because her fam-ily lived on that side of
town – the side of town made upmostly of trail-ers, apartments and old, dilapidated houses.
When I heard the news from my mom during my second year at Winthrop, I had been long-out-of-touch with Angel.
She had moved away sometime after elementa-ry school. We were never that close in elementary school, but I tried to be nice to her.
One day, when I was already in high school, Angel called my house. She was living in Florida. She talked to me like I was an old friend. I was surprised she still re-membered me.
Not long after that, Angel called again. She had moved back to Sum-ter, she said.
We should go to the mall sometime. Sure, I told her. I would call her back.
But I was busy with my established group of
friends. I wasn’t inter-ested in seeing someone I hadn’t been that close to and hadn’t seen in years.
That was the last time I ever talked to Angel.
I don’t know how she got involved with a man so heartless and cold that he could beat her to death. I didn’t even know she had a boyfriend. An-gel never seemed to have much confidence. Maybe she got into an abusive relationship because her boyfriend made her feel loved or special at first. I don’t know what the situ-ation was. But I feel that if I had been around, if I had gone to the mall with her, rekindled a relation-ship and kept in touch, I may have eventually recognized signs of abuse.
Almost one third of female homicide victims in the United States are killed by their intimate partner, according to the Bureau of Justice Statis-tics. Domestic violence doesn’t have to be physi-
cal. One partner in the relationship tries to gain control over the other. It could be through isola-tion – trying to keep their partner away from friends and family. It could be verbal or emo-tional abuse, intimidation or threats. Whatever the case, we need to be aware of the signs of domestic violence. We can help. We can provide hope for a classmate, a friend or a co-worker in an abusive relationship.
Some of the signs of abuse, according to the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domes-tic Violence, are:
• Visible signs such as bruises, cuts, bite marks, and a delay in getting medical help for the injuries.
• Stress-related illness-es, such as headaches, backaches, constant pain, gastrointestinal disor-ders, eating disorders and constant fatigue.
• Anxiety-related ill-
nesses, such as heart palpitations, difficulty breathing or panic at-tacks.
• Loss of concentration at work or not showing up for work repeatedly. Behavior changes, such as becoming jumpy or nervous, never being able to spend time with you even though they used to and checking in with their partner constantly when they’re not together.
The best thing to do is to ask someone you suspect is being abused, but be sure to have the conversation in private. Contrary to common be-lief, victims of abuse don’t always want to hide their problems from everyone. They may be looking for someone to help them, according to this website. For more information about what you can do to help, go to opdv.state.ny.us.
If you see signs of abuse, just ask. It could save a life.
Tiffany BarkleyManaging editor
Connor de Bruler Opinion editor
Take a breath. Pull it in. Exhale slowly. Enjoy every last bit of it.
We perform the most com-plicated tasks without think-ing about them. People devote their careers to studying cel-lular respira-tion. American universities say they teach us to become contrib-uting members of society. I want to know how to be alive first.
Life is a skill. Humanity as a whole medi-
tates on the unknown too often. Our poetry, literature and music are rife with thoughts and ques-tions concerning death.
I think life is far more myste-rious.
Life is so rare within the universe. Most planets carry on through existence without a shred of life. Our ability to react to stimulus, use energy and, in
some cases, to create thought is far more otherworldly than our divine notions of death and eternity.
I think the ephemeral is more beautiful than the eternal.
We don’t need to dabble in the occult. What use is the spiritual unknown? Life is the unknown because of its rarity. We all think about what we’ll see if we are to visit heaven or any other possibility of the afterlife. But the life we are liv-ing is the most fantastical, most sublime experience of all. I am still very naive in my
notions of living. I lose sight of its importance almost every day. But I look at everything I see day-in-and-day-out and try to focus on it as if I’ve never seen it all before. It suddenly turns into a bright, bizarre fantasy.
Life is painful. I find that living wears me out
sometimes, and I feel empty and elderly before my time. Those around me keep me going and, as though from thin air, my fascina-tion with life and existence itself is revived.
Getting too involved in the finer details of life causes people to feel trapped. I think we begin to suffocate on an emotional level.
You may think I’m writing this for no particular reason. You may role your eyes and think, “He must be a Buddhist.” You may think I’ve been reading a self-help book or doing psycho-tropic drugs. I’ve been doing none of those things. Take this message seriously. I want every-one to start thinking about life. Our unawareness of the fact that we are alive is making our lives so much more painful. We need to acknowledge that our cells are converging in almost musical harmony to assist our brains and nervous systems in this paradox known as life.
Stop thinking about every-thing and focus on the fact that you are alive. You exist within a universe on a planet containing more life than any other we know of.
The realization is overwhelm-ing.
Knowing signs of domestic abuse saves lives
Awareness of life eases strain of existence
Illustration by Courtney Niskala • [email protected]
When the WU commu-nity considers the amount of money spent on the campus center dedication ceremony, the number may seem too high.
Almost $2,000 was spent for linen rentals and napkins; more than $7,000 was spent on lunch for 300 guests; a total amount of $13,325.12 spent by Win-throp for a two-day affair.
See this week’s news story on the exact cost breakdown.
Winthrop students who are paying more tuition and faculty who have ex-perienced furlough days may not have the stomach for that kind of spending.
And, looking back,
a similar amount, $11,342.44, was spent on the West Center’s dedica-tion in 2007.
The Johnsonian was in-terested in finding out the dollar amount spent on the most recent building dedication because the campus center is named after the sitting head of Winthrop, a state agency.
In September, we said in an editorial that we didn’t think it was fair that the campus center and most of the dedica-tion ceremony events were closed to the general Winthrop population.
We still think that was wrong, but what’s at hand now is a more complex and more important
concern. Should this amount
of money be spent on dedication and honoree events? It may be hard to measure, but how much money will Winthrop receive in donations as a direct result of Septem-ber’s building- dedication events?
We question whether the dedication ceremony should even be viewed as a donor event.
We asked for a guest list but we were told in September that it wouldn’t be given because other organizations could utilize those names to seek donor support.
But, not everyone who attended the ceremony is
a “donor.” Representa-tives from the architect and contractor companies and from ARAMARK and Follet, the Winthrop bookstore operator, were also present.
We don’t like to see higher education get bogged down in return-on-investment-thinking, but what choice are uni-versities left with?
Given the cutbacks in state funding, clearly pub-lic institutions have no choice but to raise money in ways private schools have always solicited for cash: donor events.
We understand that entertaining potential and current donors on campus is an essential
way of building a donor base. To entertain and to woo donors costs a cer-tain amount of money.
But where is public education headed when forced to go down this road?
Where are Winthrop and other state colleges headed? Are there more ways to bring in cash other than by spending cash?
Those aren’t easy ques-tions to be answered. But, we hope Winthrop’s leaders, including those with the Winthrop Foun-dation, will take a hard look at how much is spent on dedication ceremo-nies.
State cutbacks justify
increasedspending on donor events?
THURSDAYNovember 18, 2010
AMANDA PHIPPSHealth & Science Editor
By Amanda [email protected]
It may look like a ring, but it has nothing to do with a worm.
Tinea corporis, commonly referred to as “ringworm,” is a fungal infection that causes a round spot on the skin and con-tinues to grow as the center be-comes clearer, assistant director of health services Mary Jo Bar-reto said. Ringworm is curable and can appear anywhere on the body, including the scalp.
Another type of infection is tinea versicolor. Warm and moist air can lead to yeast pro-duction, which can form a fungal infection on the skin, according to the American Osteopathic College of Dermatology website. This infection has occurred on campus.
“I have seen many students come in with this and not know what it is,” Barreto said.
Yeast is a type of fungus and in moist air can grow and leak out acidic bleach. Pale or light reddish-brown patches then form on the skin. It is treated with medications and is usually worse in warm air.
November is National Skin Care Awareness Month. Skin care expert Renee Rouleu found-ed the month in 1995, according to her website.
In her website, Rouleu states: “I saw a real need for consumers wanting truthful, accurate and no-nonsense information about how to care for their skin.”
She said skin care products can help with problems, accord-ing to her website. She believes lifestyle choices, diet and habits also affect how skin looks and behaves.
“It is my mission to use my almost 25 years of hands-on ex-perience working with skin to share with you what I know to be true so you can have healthy, beautiful and glowing skin,” Rouleu stated on her website.
Skin care is important for pre-venting disease and infections, Barreto said.
“There are weird diseases that can manifest in skin,” she said. “Dermatology is a hard thing.”
Rosacea is a skin infection that causes inflammation around the central portion of the face, she said. It can affect people of any age, but usually affects those after 30 years old. Dermatolo-gists do not know the cause of this infection, but they speculate it may be linked to a vascular or vessel disorder because it causes the veins to grow and become visible.
Rosacea is estimated to affect over 16 million Americans, most
of whom do not know they have it, according to the National Rosacea Society website. It can cause psychological, social and occupational problems because of the acne-like effects on the skin.
“More than 76 percent of rosa-cea patients said their condition had lowered their self-confi-dence and self-esteem,” accord-ing to the article. Symptoms include redness, bumps or pim-ples on the face and watery eyes.
Psoriasis is a skin disease caused by an over-proliferation of cells and results in a thick buildup of plaques in the skin, Barreto said.
According to the National Psoriasis Foundation website, “(Psoriasis) occurs when the im-mune system sends out faulty signals that speed up the growth cycle of skin cells.”
The most common type of psoriasis is plaque, which re-sults in raised, red patches on the skin that are covered with a white buildup of dead skin cells, or scale.
It is not contagious, but is in-curable. It can, however, go in remission, Berreto said. It can affect any place on the skin, and usually infects people in their 20s and 30s.
Psoriasis is also associated
with diabetes, heart disease and depression, according to the Foundation’s website.
There are different forms of skin cancer that can affect peo-ple, as well. Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer, according to The Skin Cancer Foundation website. It is treat-able if found early but can be deadly if it has advanced in the body. Melanoma is the form of skin cancer that is least common, but causes the most deaths.
Skin cancer is influenced by sun exposure, moles, family history, personal history and a weakened immune system, ac-cording to the foundation’s web-site.
Other types of skin cancer in-clude actinic keratosis, which is the most common pre-cancer, basal cell carcinoma, the most common form of skin can-cer, dysplastic nevi, or atypical moles; and squamous cell car-cinoma, which occurs mainly in people with fair skin, light hair and blue, green or gray eyes, ac-cording to the foundation’s web-site.
To prevent skin cancer, people should check themselves for un-usual moles and watch to see if they change in shape or color, Barreto said. If an area keeps scaling, in which small pieces of
skin come lose, and doesn’t heal, it also needs to be checked.
Eczema, or dermatitis, refers to various types of skin swell-ing, according to the Medline Plus website. It causes the skin to turn red, well up and itch, but is not dangerous or contagious.
Atopic dermatitis is the most common type of eczema and is an allergic condition common in babies and children that results in dry and itchy skin, accord-ing to the website. It cannot be cured, but people can prevent eczema by avoiding things they are allergic to, stress and other irritants.
Poison ivy is another type of dermatitis that does not cause infection, Barreto said. Howev-er, a person can get a secondary infection from scratching their skin.
To prevent the spread of dis-ease and infection, people need to wash their hands and keep cuts clean, Barreto said. They also need to use non-alcoholic moisturizers, especially during the winter when skin dries out more. Drinking fluids and avoid-ing hot showers can also keep skin moisturized.
“It is important for people to take care of their skin at a young age,” she said. “Be sensitive to your skin.”
2,500 40 75 3 7.5percent of skin cancer deaths are melanoma related.
million Americans have psoriasis.
November is National Skin Care Awareness Month.
Compiled with information from www.skincancer.org and www.psoriasis.org
deaths result each year in the U.S. from squamous cell carcinomas.
By the numbers
to 50 percent of Americans who live to the age of 65 will have skin cancer at least once.
percent of skin cancer cases are melonoma related.
By Amanda [email protected]
Technology has allowed people to harm others from their computers.
Revenge, retaliation and lack of empathy are some motives behind the phenomenon referred to as “cyberbullying,” psy-chology professor Melissa Reeves said.
Cyberbullying refers to bullying through e-mail, instant messaging, web- site posts or other digital messages or images, ac-cording to the Olweus Bul-lying Prevention Program website.
Similar to traditional bullying, cyberbullying has harmful psychological effects, including depres-sion, anger, family prob-lems, academic problems and low self-esteem, ac-cording to a Cyberbullying Research Center article.
The phenomenon has also grown in popularity.
“Psychologists have seen an increase in cyberbully-ing,” Reeves said. “Before, if someone wanted to bully another person, they had to have the guts to go up to that person.”
Technology has allowed bullies to do harm without having to see the effects of their actions, Reeves said. With cyberbullying, the psychological and physical distance between the bully and the victim is greater.
“It has become easier and more acceptable to type harmful words,” she said. “(The bullies) hide behind computers.”
Cyberbullying occurs in chat rooms, and on social
networking sites, video-sharing websites such as YouTube and portable gaming devices, accord-ing to a Cyberbullying Re-search Center article.
This has also led to an increase in relational bullying, which includes the spreading of rumors and inaccurate infor-mation that can impact people’s reputations and their place in their social groups, Reeves said.
Though traditional bul-lying has harmful psycho-logical effects, cyberbully-ing puts the information where it is more widely seen, she said. This allows more people to know the victim was bullied, which can lead to suicide at-tempts.
“It makes the victim be-lieve everyone knows what happened,” she said. “This can make them feel there is no other way out.”
While revenge is a com-mon motive behind bully-ing, the person may also not understand the effects of their actions, Reeves said.
“They see it as a joke in their mind,” she said.
Peer pressure and lack of empathy are other fac-tors that have contributed to cyberbullying, Reeves said. She has worked with bullies that had em-pathy and apologized for their actions, but has also worked and with people who were not affected by the results of their actions.
Education and clear-er laws are two changes needed to impact this growing phenomenon, she said.
“Bystanders need to
be educated to stop their friends and to not engage in bullying,” Reeves said. “People need to be edu-cated about the severe im-pacts of cyberbullying.”
Though common in teenagers, bullying has occurred among adults as well, she said.
“Bullying has no bound-aries,” Reeves said.
Victims need to have an adult they can trust to sup-port them and help pre-vent bullying from hap-pening, Reeves said.
Crawford offers stu-dents advice on how to deal with bullying, clinical coordinator for counseling services Gretchen Baldwin said.
“If Crawford was the student’s first stop, aside from offering personal counseling, a staff coun-selor would encourage the student to report the ha-rassment to both the cam-pus police and the dean of students,” she said. “This form of harassment is both illegal and against Winthrop’s student code of conduct. There would be support and advocacy for the student from both of those offices.”
Crawford also offers stu-dents short-term counsel-ing services, Baldwin said. Students can call counsel-ing services to set up an appointment; same-day counseling is available for emergencies. The stu-dent will then meet with a counselor and establish goals for their counseling.
“In a situation where the student has been a victim of bullying or harassment, it’s likely that the counsel-ing process would focus
on interpersonal issues of assertiveness, self esteem, and building healthy boundaries, she said. “An experience with bullying and harassment can be very damaging to an indi-vidual’s self-image.”
Counselors also work with people who engage in bullying behaviors, Bald-win said.
“A counselor would help (the bully) build a sense of empathy and under-standing toward others and help explore his or her own personal dynam-ics behind tendencies to be aggressive toward oth-ers,” she said. “Odds are there is some form of pain or fear behind the aggres-sion.”
Currently, bullying is not a common issue in counseling, Baldwin said.
“This does not mean it doesn’t happen on cam-pus,” she said, “but vic-tims of bullying may not realize they have counsel-ing as a resource.”
The counseling Services at Crawford are free to students, Baldwin said. There is a cap at about 10 sessions per academic year due to student de-mand and staff resources.
“Most students don’t need that many,” she said. “When it is apparent at the start of the process that a student will need longer-term counseling, we refer out.”
To prevent the continu-ation of cyberbullying and its effects, parents need to teach their children how to handle those situations differently and educate themselves about technol-
ogy, Reeves said.“Many parents are un-
aware of how easy it is for their child to be involved or become victims,” she said. “Technology has had unintended negative implications that people weren’t expecting.”
Month recognizes human body’s largest organ
CYBERBULLYING
Photo illustration by Kathleen Brown • [email protected]
It has become easier and more acceptable to type harmful words. Melissa ReevesPsychology professor
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Technology contributes to bullying, harm
came to college,” Taylor said. “In high school I began putting together my portfolio, however, after classes began I realized time was an issue.”
Since students may have to hold poses from a couple of minutes to several hours, according to the Winthrop job description, it is suggested, but not required, that students may have a back-ground in theater or athletics where they are more accustomed to holding uncomfortable po-sitions.
“The modeling helped keep me practicing my poses and motivated to stay in shape,” Taylor said.
With Taylor’s experience, modeling in the
nude isn’t always uncomfortable, but sometimes there are exceptions.
“One time, this guy insisted on small talk while he was drawing me,” she said. “Doesn’t sound too odd until you remember that I am butt na-ked, holding poses, and the last thing I want to do is tell you why I chose Mass Communication as a major.”
However, Taylor said she loved the job and would do it again. Taylor was unable to model this year due to class conflicts.
“The first time is always awkward, however with my background in modeling and the profes-sional attitudes both the professors and the stu-dents held, it easily became something I had no problem with whatsoever.”
THURSDAYNovember 18, 2010
JESSICA PICKENSArts & Entertainment [email protected]
ALISON ANGELAsst. Arts & Entertainment Editor
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In the buff: Students pose for figure drawing
Students draw as a model poses for a figure drawing class. Students can get an on-campus job as a figure drawing mod-el. Photos by Stephanie Eaton • [email protected]
Students act, write, direct One-ActsBy Alison [email protected]
It’s that time of year again: the time when Winthrop students take the stage to showcase their talents in the Win-throp One-Act Festival.
The Winthrop One-Acts are a tradi-tion stemming from the creation of the theater department in 1954.
Russell Luke, professor of theater and dance, said since the creation of the One-Acts, hundreds have been put on by students.
“That first year there was only one One-Act and it has varied [ever since],” Luke said. “I think at the last count we’ve done over 800, close to 900 One-Acts since then.”
The One-Acts are productions that are student directed, designed and acted.
The directors of the One-Acts come from Winthrop’s advanced directing class, which is offered in both the fall and spring.
Each year brings two One-Act festivals, one around Thanksgiving and the other
in late spring.Luke said the entire production is in
the hands of the students, with very little creative input from faculty.
“The directors find their own plays, and we have a general audition that’s open to all on campus,” Luke said. “Then they go into the rehearsals and I sort of leave them alone and let them go on their own way. I’ll check in with them, but otherwise it’s really their baby.”
This year’s festival features nine One-Acts spread over a three-day period.
Three of the nine acts this year are not only student directed and acted but also
written by Winthrop students.“We have been trying to encourage
student playwrights and we have in the past had student-written pieces,” Luke said. “This is the first time in a while we’ve had three.”
Julia Benfield, freshman theater per-formance major, is participating in this year’s One-Acts.
She said she got involved after hear-ing about it from others in the theater department, and is acting in a One Act called “The Bake Off.”
“I am playing a character quite differ-ent from myself,” Benfield said. “I show a completely different part of myself that no one sees normally! That’s one of the fun parts about acting; it’s getting to be who you’re not for a while.”
Benfield said each of the student direc-tors have different ways of approaching the One-Acts and have different versions of how they want to portray content.
She also said that because oftentimes it is the student’s first time directing a show by themselves, it creates an oppor-tunity for the actors and director to work
in a certain way.“The cast is wonderful,” Benfield said.
“We have a lot of fun and support each other. It’s neat for the actors and the directors to share a new experience with each other to make a certain vision hap-pen.”
Benfield recommends the one acts to all who are interested and encourages everyone to come out to the festival.
“There is a wide variety of genres—comedies, tragedies and everything in between,” Benfield said. “They are short and to the point—they will keep and hold you attention.”
While you must be a student in the Directing 2 class in order to direct a pro-duction, any major on campus is able to participate and act in the festival.
The One-Acts will be performed at 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 19, and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 20, and Sun-day, Nov. 21, and are performed in the Johnson studio theater at Winthrop.
The price of tickets is $8 with a Win-throp I.D. and $15 without.
WANT TO GO?
What: One Act Play
Where: Johnson Theater
When: Friday, Nov. 19 to Sunday,
Nov. 21
Time: 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Cost: $8 with I.D., $15 without
Don’t get censored
Doesn’t seem too odd until you remember I am butt naked, holding poses... Amanda TaylorJunior Integrated Marketing Communication Major
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“Mad Magazine” editor Joe Raiola is making a stop at Winthrop this week.
Raiola began his career as a comedian in the late 1970s and started a controversial solo show, “Almost Obscene,” in 2002, according to his website.
Raiola will be presenting his lecture “The Joy of Cen-sorship” at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 18, in Dina’s Place Theater.
Tickets are $5 with Winthrop I.D. and free with a Fall Pass.
Drawing • from front
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Upcoming on-campus films:Saturday, Nov. 20:
Lottery Ticket (7 p.m.)- A down-on-his-luck guy is holding out on his friends with a $370 million lottery ticket.
Takers (9:30 p.m.)- A group of criminals commits crimes without getting caught until a detective steps in.
CROSSWURD PUZZLE
Across4. One residence hall up for renovations in the future.5. Last name of Rutgers freshman who committed suicide.7. Renovation that will be added to some residence hall bathrooms.9. Name of one new exercise machine at the West Center. (two words)10. What word means that people don’t think anything can happen to them?11. Scientific name for “ringworm.” (two words)
Down1. Name of band of Winthrop students. (two words)2. Last name of Winthrop basketball foward.3. Director of the fall One-Acts. (last name)6. Group for international students that helps them network with students and faculty.8. Last name of managing editor.
By Claire [email protected]
After months of recording, a local “femoral blob of bandness,” will put out its first CD.
Senseless Beatings, made up of three current Winthrop students and one graduate, is putting the finishing touches on its first CD, “After History.” Unlike other projects, this album incorporates the theme of World War II.
“It’s not like a collection of war stories or anything,” said Chase Brown, guitar-ist and vocalist. “We live in this era after war and genocide but it doesn’t really bother us, so there’s this sardonic happi-ness.”
Along with the theme of war, history is a major point in many songs. The idea that history is over is analyzed in the al-bum, though it does not necessarily jibe with the band members’ personal beliefs.
“History is over is sort of a philosophi-cal idea,” Brown said. “I don’t necessarily believe it’s over, but I want to explore the possibility of the discovery.”
Brown started recruiting members in February 2009 and formed the complete band in January 2010.
“I just started a band, though I didn’t know what kind of band I wanted to be in,” Brown said. “We just started col-lecting things until we got what we are today.”
Thomas Alverson, bassist and vocal-ist, joined the group after Brown noticed him playing ukulele. Flutist and vocalist Jo Garnett joined after several months of being a fan. Ian Lee, the drummer, was the final element added to Senseless Beatings.
During his free time over the summer, Brown watched videos concerning World War II and wrote lyrics based on what he saw.
Though Brown wrote most of the lyr-ics, Garnett contributed to the lyrical portion of the album.
“I’ve helped out a lot more with this album, and Thomas even wrote one all by himself,” Garnett said.
Each member typically writes his own music per song, but, because Brown is
the only member not classically trained, the rest of the band has learned how to follow along.
“We’ve become very good at just fol-lowing Brown,” Lee said.
The band received its name from Brown’s high school years, when he videotaped wrestling in his backyard and named the tapes “Senseless Beatings.” The guitarist then attempted to sell the videos to his friends.
“My parents kept asking me to stop because they had sense, but I tried to sell the videos at school,” Brown said.
Practicing and recording takes place in Brown and Alverson’s home, and the band is excited to be recording without any restrictions.
“We’re pumped about recording it on our own,” Brown said. “It’s just kind of nice to do what we want, when we want.”
Though enthusiastic about their new CD, the band has had some bumps in the production road. Multiple takes are needed for each instrument, and each member has different views about the audio mixing.
“You can practice a song one time through perfectly, but when you press the little red button, you start messing up,” Lee said.
However much the band argues, Alver-son knows with whom he’ll agree.
“Whoever buys my lunch that day, that’s who I’m siding with,” Alverson said.
Looking into the future, Garnett said the band is not focusing on receiving fame, but would be grateful to earn money doing what they love.
“I don’t know if it’s going to get main-stream and big, but it would be awe-some if it did,” Garnett said. “I mean, I wouldn’t mind making my living this way.”
Whatever the outcome of the CD, Senseless Beatings’ goal is to gain fans and to create fantastic music for both Winthrop students and the surrounding community.
“Really, our band is just about being the good kind of assholes,” Garnett said. “We do our best to make it impossible to try and tune it out.”
Student band releasesWWII-themed albumCelebrity Talk
Ellen DeGeneres: “This (Tyler Clementi suicide) needs to be a wake up call to everyone that teenage bullying and teasing is an epidemic in this country, and the death rate is climbing. We have an obligation to change this.”
Demi Lovato on Teens Against Bullying: “People say, ‘Sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you.’ But that’s not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven’t forgotten.”
Matthew Morrison: “I think it’s important that we talk about it and that we do something about it (cyber bullying). As someone who has been bullied before in the past, life gets better. This isn’t the end, and you can’t let other people dictate how you feel and who you are. “
Lance Bass: “It’s (cyber bullying) really important to me and it hits home, obviously, because I once was bullied, I once was a bully and I’m gay.”
After the suicide of freshman Rutgers stu-dent Tyler Clementi, stars speak out against cyber bullying:
By Alexis [email protected]
A friend is always there to lend a helping hand.
At Winthrop, Pengyou does just that. Pronounced PONG YO, the group was formed to help Chinese students interact with their professors and peers.
“Dr. Ardialo, Dr. Moore, the University College and Dr. Weikle, Dean of the College of Business Administration, saw a need for a group like this,” Residential Learning Coordinator Kat Callahan said. “English and CRTW professors found that Chinese students were struggling in their classes. They didn’t know American culture very well.”
Callahan, who has an interest in global issues, was then put in charge of forming a group in which Chinese students could learn American culture and improve their English.
“I had about one week to put something together,” Callahan said.
In this short period of time, Callahan informed students of the group through Facebook and word of mouth.
“I also contacted the Culture Club, the International Center, the College of Business and had Residential Learning Coordinators tell their Resident Assistants who work on the Around the World floors,” Callahan said.
Assistant Dean of University College, David Harwell, assisted Callahan in getting things together for Pengyou. Before starting his position at Winthrop this fall, Harwell spent the last five years traveling throughout Asia and China.
“I was treated well by the people in China and I wanted to make sure they got treated well here,” Harwell said.
Approximately 40 students attended the first meeting in September. The students who attended decided to call the group Pengyou because it means friend in Mandarin Chinese. Students meet every Friday in Dinkins Student Center.
“There are about 15 to 25 students a week. We either pair students off or work in groups, so students can work one on one,” Callahan said.
Freshman digital information design major Sarah Auvil is an American student who has been participating in Pengyou since it started. Auvil, who said she is open to trying new things, learned about
the group through Facebook.She also visited China this past
summer. “It’s really helped me to get to know
some of the Chinese students on campus better, and also to learn more about China,” she said. “Most of the students are from the Nantong area which I am not very familiar with.”
Students also go on trips to help them get a global perspective on Winthrop and the world around them. Recently, they visited Brattonsville Plantation and attended the Renaissance Festival this month.
Since the group has started meeting, both Harwell and Callahan have seen a change in the students who attend.
“The Chinese students are interacting more with students and their English has improved,” Callahan said.
Auvil said she has learned some interesting things about China, as well.
“There’s a city in China where people buy beer in plastic bags and sip it through a straw. Also, some cities on the east coast are very famous for their seafood,” she said.
Pengyou is a pilot program. If things go well with getting the Chinese students acclimated, it will eventually expand to helping all international students adjust to American culture and language.
“We hope to have a large group,” Harwell said. “We hope it’s an annual thing open to all international students
and have more contact with European, Latin American, African and Middle Eastern students.”
Not only are there hopes that Pengyou will help international students, but there are also hopes that it will help the American students as well.
“The program will help Winthrop’s reputation as being more welcoming to students, but also increase American students’ opportunities in going around the world,” Harwell said.
“It’s a great platform for getting to know the Chinese students at Winthrop on a more personal level,” Auvil said. “It’s a great place to make friends from both here and abroad.”
THURSDAYNovember 18, 2010
ALEXIS AUSTINCulture Editor
The 411- up to date informationExample: Sally has the 411 on the new guy in town.
Spiffy-cool, very niceExample: For the party, he purchased a spiffy new outfit.
Street Talk English you didn’t learn
from your professors
International students, you probably didn’t learn these phrases in your English classes. Here are a few that might make your coversations more interesting. Test your friends
and see if they can correctly define them.
Compiled by Alexis Austin
Group helps Chinese students learn American culture, language
Students from Pengyou pose for a group photo after a meeting. The group was formed this fall to help Chinese students get acclimated with American culture. Photo courtesy of Kat Callahan
The Nu- Upsilon chapter of the Kappa Sigma
Fraternity would like to
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THURSDAYNovember 18, 2010
CHRIS McFADDENSports Editor
Athlete of the Week
Junior cross-country runner Adam Freudenthal continued his impressive season as he was named to the Big South All-Con-ference team, and named to the Big South Confer-ence All-Academic Team.
Freudenthal finished in fifth place at the Big South Conference Championship and was only 49 seconds behind the winner’s time.
His fifth-place finish at the conference champion-ship was his sixth-con-secutive top-five finish. He will compete next in the NCAA Cross Country Regionals.
Men’s soccer team sea-son comes to an end
The men’s soccer team season ended after they lost 2-0 to Gardner-Webb during the first round of the Big South Tourna-ment Championship.
The Eagles entered the tournament as the sixth seed. In the preseason, Conference coaches picked Winthrop to finish in second place in the con-ference, but instead had one of their most disap-pointing seasons.
Winthrop’s 5-12-1 record was it’s worst since 2004. The team also has not lost in the first round since 2004.
The Eagles won the 2009 Big South Confer-ence title and earned a spot in the NCAA Soccer Tournament.
SPORTS BRIEFS
Men’s soccer team players earn honors
Winthrop’s Matt
Stinson and Tinotenda Chibharo were named to the Big South Confer-ence All-Freshmen Team. Stinson was also named to the All-Big South Second Team.
Senior forward Miquel Casajuana joind Stinson on the All-Conference Second Team as he led the Eagles in scoring with 11 points.
Junior Matt Horn also earned a conference honor as he was named to the All-Academic Team and was named Big South Conference Scholar Ath-lete of the Year.
Lady Eagles basket-ball team open season
Winthrop women’s basketball team lost to Belmont 59-50 in their season opener as the Eagles could not over-come cold second-half shooting.
The Eagles took a one-point win into halftime and began the second half with a 9-3 run to take a seven-point lead. It was downhill for the team after that. Following the run, Winthrop finished the game going 4-20 from the field.
Senior guard Lacey Lyons finished with a game-high 19 points, while freshman Tiffany Charles scored a career-high 12 points.
By David [email protected]
After a lights-out college bas-ketball career at Duke University, Jay Bilas proved on Tuesday he can still create a spectacle for a crowd. The 1986 National Cham-pionship winner was the key-note speaker in front of a crowd of nearly 300 in the DiGiorgio Campus Center Banquet Hall for Winthrop’s annual Tip-Off Dinner.
The event was a special occa-sion that featured the unveil-ing of the men’s and women’s rosters, and the men’s squad was presented with their Big South Championship rings from last year’s campaign. “I believe in these young men who are pursu-ing excellence,” Bilas said. “Win-throp students are a tough group who are either going to meet or exceed expectations.”
The current ESPN and CBS college basketball analyst also commended the Eagles’ fans for their support of the team.
“What the fans are doing to encourage the young men and women on the Winthrop basket-ball teams really means a lot to them,” he said.
Encouragement is certainly something men’s head basketball coach Randy Peele would like to see more of.
Earlier this week, Peele visited several residence halls in an ef-fort to talk with the public about the upcoming season and drum up support for the team’s home-coming face-off against Queens University of Charlotte.
“I hope everyone will sup-port the program,” Peele said, “because I think [the Winthrop Coliseum] should be sold out every single night.”
President Anthony DiGiorgio echoed that sentiment.
“The connection between the students and athletes is a part-nership we cannot do without,” DiGiorgio said.
This year’s squad should be a familiar sight for many Eagle fans. The conference champions return three starters and nine lettermen in their attempt to win their sixth Big South title in seven years.
“It’s clear this team has an identity for success,” Bilas said.
Peele has been adamant that the team’s penchant for victory does not translate into arrogance off the court.
“We’re not prima donnas,” Peele said.
“We have one of the best class attendance records of the athletic teams. The team eats breakfast every day in Thomson Cafeteria and I think that’s good to keep the con-nection between us and other students.”
The Eagles will be counting on that connec-tion to gain an extra boost from
the stands during the season. The conference should be competi-tive, especially with the develop-ment of Coastal Carolina’s dual forward forces Chad Gray and Michael Holmes.
However, Peele embraces the diversity and challenges that come with defending his team’s record.
“The key is to be the best team,” Peele said. “I think we can be very good, but along the way, you’re going to experience adversity, so you have to come back from that. In the end, it’s not where you start, but where you finish.”
The guessing game has already begun. In the annual preseason coaches and media poll, Win-throp was picked to finish second in the conference behind the Chanticleers.
Bilas, however, has already learned the value of never look-
ing too far forward.“We all say we want to play in
a championship, so we have to prepare as if every game is,” he said.
Peele admits the possibility that Winthrop could start off slow, pointing to the University of Tennessee’s embarrassing defeat at the hands of Division II Indianapolis by 15 points.
He hopes the crowd judges the team when it truly matters at the end of the season.
“You need to gauge a team by how they improve and by how they are come February just before we go into the [Big South] tournament, because that’s where it all comes together,” he said.
Peele and the rest of his team hope they can, in addition to the fans, come together to dominate the Big South once again.
BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSBEGIN CONFERENCE REIGN
Men’s basketball team kicks off season with ring ceremony
The men’s bas-ketball team has won the Big South Conference twice in the last three years. The con-ference coaches picked the team to finish in second place this season. The team was presented with their 2009-2010 Big South Confer-ence Championship rings. Photo by Kathleen Brown • [email protected]
President Anthony DiGiorgio presented the team their conference rings. Photo by Kathleen Brown • [email protected]
What the fans are doing to encourage the young men and women on the Winthrop basketball teams really means a lot to them.Jay BilasESPN and CBS college bas-ketball analyst
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regular season. Memories from last season’s title-winning triumphs had to have been flowing back as Winthrop shot out of the gates and never looked back.
Justin Burton (10 points/ 2 assts) and Matt Morgan (8 points/ 4 rebounds) broke the ice, taking the Eagles to a 14-10 lead before a stellar defensive span by Winthrop stifled every Royal attack for nearly 4 minutes. The confidence in the backcourt allowed forwards Reggie Mid-dleton and Valentine to rebound hard, accruing 12 unanswered points.
“That stretch of time in the first half was the turning point,” Queens head coach Wes Long said.
Winthrop’s lead never shrunk below eight points after that, and the Eagles coasted into halftime with a 14 point
lead. Queens came out of halftime re-
grouped, refocused and revitalized as the Royals’ defense created havoc for Win-throp, forcing the Eagles into 2 minute 48-second drought. Middleton ended the Royals’ run with a jumper from the baseline.
Matt Morgan, who the Eagles are counting on to have a big season, got into early foul trouble and sat most of the game.
“We almost played today without Mor-gan,” Peele said. “Not having Matt come up was tough, but it’s the stuff we have to work through to get better.”
Forward George Valentine was able to pick up some of the slack left by Mor-gan’s absence. The junior from Fayette-ville, NC had his first career double scor-ing 13 points and snagging 11 rebounds.
“Valentine played tremendously,”
Peele said. “He rebounds the ball as well as anybody in our league.”
Valentine, coming off a broken wrist that forced him to miss last year, shot 5-10 from the floor.
In addition to Valentine’s efforts, Winthrop forced eight turnovers inter-rupting any momentum the Royals could muster.
Middleton scored 15, while senior Justin Burton and junior Andre Jones chipped in 10 points each to help Win-throp finally put away the Royals.
The Eagles’ next game will be Nov. 15 at 9:30 p.m. in Winston Salem, N.C. on
the campus of Wake Forest University when they take on Virginia Common-wealth University in the NIT Season Tip-Off Tournament. VCU finished the 2009-2010 season with a 27-9 record.
VCU is a member of the Colonial Athletic Association and the match-up will be the first meeting between the two schools.
The tournament has 16 teams divided into four regions: North, South, East and West. The winner of each region will ad-vance to the tournament final four being played in New York at Madison Square Garden.
Today, there are several ways to follow Eagle Athletics, even when the teams are playing out of town.
With the help of social media, people can follow all of the Winthrop athletic teams, home or away, no matter where they are.
The Winthrop athletic department has a presence on both Twitter and Facebook, where fans can follow scores and news.
Also, several of the individual teams have them as well. The men’s and wom-en’s basketball team, volleyball team, track and field team and baseball team all have Facebook pages.
“We try to keep people interested in what is going on,” director of new media for Winthrop athletics Everett Hutto said.
Hutto is in charge of maintaining the accounts. If he doesn’t travel with the teams to their games, staff members will. Whoever goes takes along with them Flip video cameras to capture the action of the game in addition to post-game in-terviews from coaches and players. They also provide in-game score updates.
Hutto is also in charge of the athletic
department’s YouTube account.“The beauty of YouTube is it is cen-
tered into our website, so everything we put up on YouTube automatically is on the front page of our website winthro-peagles.com,” Hutto said.
The Website is also integrated with the Facebook and Twitter pages, so the videos show up on those sites automati-
cally as well.Hutto would like there to be more
interactivity with the fans on the social media sites, but mostly fans are just go-ing there for quick scores or updates.
What makes the social media sites important is that while most college students don’t read a daily newspaper, almost all have a Facebook site, he said.
It is easy to remind the students about a game, and the marketing department can hold Twitter or Facebook nights with specials.
In addition to providing updates for students, the social media sites also are a way for out-of-town parents to keep track of their sons and daughters who are Winthrop athletes.
“Parents aren’t getting The Rock Hill Herald; they aren’t able to follow Win-throp very easily,” Hutto said. “This way, they can get instant updates on their phones or in their e-mail if their kid scores a goal.”
Athletic department uses social media to connect with studentsBy Hannah SchwartzSpecial to The Johnsonian
For most basketball players, shoes are the final and most important part of their uniform.
They have to fit good, look good and feel good. However, for Winthrop junior forward Matt Morgan his, shoes mean so much more.
Prior to the season, Morgan lost his grandmother. Morgan wanted a way to pay tribute to her, so he decided to write RIP Grandma on his right shoe.
“If I could I would pay tribute on my jersey, but I can’t do that,” Morgan said.
With that being the case, Morgan de-cided to use both his shoes as a memo-rial.
Morgan is not the only Eagle player
who has done this. Red-shirt freshman Julius Francis pays tribute to his mother on his shoes as well.
“By me writing on my shoes, I have to take the time out to look at my shoes and tie them every day. That gives me a time to reflect and remember the good times I had with my loved ones,” Morgan said.
Morgan was a key member of last year’s Big South Championship team, where he played well scoring key points in the championship game.
This year, he plans on making even more contributions.
“Writing on my shoes gives me com-fort because I know they’re not here to watch me play, and I feel as if I’m playing for them when I walk out on the court,” Morgan said.
WU players wear memorials on shoes
Men’s basketball team survives tenacious Queens UniversityHomecoming • from front
By Jeremy WynderSpecial to The Johnsonian
Matt Morgan uses his basketball shoes as a way to remember his grandmother.Photo by Jeremy Wynder • Special to The Johnsonian
Basketball team members use shoes as a way to pay tribute to loved ones who made an impact on their lives
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