S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A and the WinShape Foundation and a longtime supporter of Berry, died at 1:35 a.m. Monday at the age of 93. He died peacefully at home in the company of family and loved ones, according to a press release from the WinShape Foundation.

College president Stephen R. Briggs said he will remember Cathy as having an “effervescent personality.”

He had a “very good wit — just a wonderful nature,” Briggs said. “He enjoyed being with people.”

Cathy’s relationship with Berry College extends back nearly 30 years. Briggs explained the beginning of this connection beginning in 1984.

“The president at that time was Dr. Gloria Shatto,” Briggs said. “He came up and gave a talk at her request, and then she went and gave a talk at the Rotary club that he belonged to, and they hit it off.”

“Eventually she asked him if he had any ideas about what Berry might do with its mountain campus property because Berry was in the process of bringing to closure the high school that was there at

the time,” Briggs continued. “So [Cathy] thought about it a little bit and came up with the idea of the WinShape [College] Program. That was where it started.”

The scholarship is funded by both the Winshape Foundation and Berry.

Founded in 1982 by Cathy and

his wife Jeannette, the WinShape Foundation is a multimillion dollar charity that supports scholarship initiatives, a network of foster homes and various marriage counseling programs.

Jilli Leonard, a senior WinShape scholarship recipient, will remember Cathy with gratitude. She has grown

up involved in WinShape summer camps and worked at Chick-fil-A for four years.

“I think that’s the ultimate form of influence,” Leonard said. “He has no idea the trickle down effect to people like me.”

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College president Stephen R. Briggs delivered his annual State of the College address on Tuesday, Sept. 9. Students and faculty had the opportunity to listen to the president’s speech about the current condition of Berry and the school’s plans for the future.

“I have a great job,” Briggs said. “The heart of what it is, is making Berry better.”

The college’s goal is for Berry graduates to be successful, to have a sense of direction, purpose and momentum.

“We want you to be increasingly thoughtful and intentional during your three or four years here,” Briggs said, “so you can gain some perspective about your life and about your gifts, your strengths and your talents.”

Briggs said the college would like to “create a place full of opportunities and experiences.” Berry is currently working on several large-scale projects that aim to help students become more successful.

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Over the weekend, a series of chalk drawings were made outside of the Morgan and Deerfield residence halls and townhouses that included a drawing of a pumpkin and a slang version of a racial slur.

The series of drawings includes the phrase “unity consciousness” beneath some balloons, a rainbow with the caption “you are infinite, you are light,” a unicorn with a tail of rainbow colors and lasers

shooting from its horn and eyes, references to the television shows “Adventure Time” and “Breaking Bad,” the phrase “Let’s get weird” in orange capital letters and a chalk outline of a corpse.

The most controversial drawing in the series is of a smiling, pointing pumpkin wearing sunglasses with a caption above it saying “Stay cool n**ga.”

The pumpkin drawing was first brought to the attention of the administration after senior Lindsey Montgomery posted the photo of the pumpkin on her Instagram account.

Montgomery’s photo was then commented on by senior Campus Carrier managing editor Chelsea Hoag.

Hoag took a screenshot of the photo and posted the resulting photo onto her Instagram account. She then posted a long comment on the picture and said that she couldn’t “even begin to explain the ignorance this conveys” with the hashtags #BerryCollege, #TheRealBerryCol lege and #ignorance.

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LOSTOn Sept. 4 a student reported a wallet missing that has been lost since Aug. 23.

THEFTOn Sept. 5 a bicycle was reported stolen from the Dana bike rack.

PROPERTY DAMAGEOn Sept. 6 a dumpster fire was reported at the parking lot between the Townhouses and Deerfield Hall.

THEFTOn Sept. 6 a bicycle was reported stolen from the Dana bike rack.

GRAFFITIOn Sept. 8 graffiti written in sidewalk chalk was reported on the walkway between Deerfield Hall and the Emery Barns.

MEDICAL ASSIST On Sept. 9 a medical assist was requested at the Dining Hall in Krannert.

CHECK-UPOn Sept. 10 a parent requested a welfare check on their student.

Working at 8:15 a.m. on a Saturday may not sound like fun to the average person, but for Berry freshmen, it is one of the highlights of their first semester. First Year Service Day is a tradition at Berry, and an essential part of the freshman experience.

Junior Olivia Paige, student director of Berry College Volunteer Services, said that this day is significant because it allows students the opportunity to build community in their BCC classes.

It is “important as a class to all come together as one group and serve the Rome community,” Paige said. “It also serves as an introduction to Rome.”

Associate professor of animal science Judy Wilson’s BCC class, who visited Floyd County Animal Control in Rome to work with dogs and cats that were up for adoption, may have had the most fun.

Wilson says she was proud of the work her BCC class put into the day, and that they saw it as a service opportunity rather than simply playing with animals for a few hours.

“Each student realized … even if I can only help this dog for two hours, the dog is getting attention,” Wilson said. “They saw the impact they were making.”

The students helped to bathe and socialize the animals, many of which were strays and had not had much human contact since they had been rescued. The BCC group was determined to provide them with as much positive interaction as possible.

Freshman Kristianna Saelens felt as though she truly made a difference that day.

“I loved just being with the animals and helping give them the love and attention that they deserve,” Saelens said. “Most of them are abandoned or strays, and some of them are flagged breeds, which makes it harder for them to get adopted. There are limited volunteers, so playing with the dogs and giving them baths are

hard things to do because of limited time.” Wilson’s first year mentor, senior Sara

Carignan, is amazed by this tradition.“We manage to get an entire freshman class

out of their bed before 8 a.m. on a Saturday to serve a community that many of them have only been living in for two weeks,” Carignan said. “This says a lot to me about the quality of the students that come to Berry. It makes me proud to know these freshmen and also to be a student here myself.”

This day is a great chance for the students to learn about and serve the community around them. Freshman Jacob Hager talked about the significance and impact this has on Berry students.

“I believe this day is important because it gets students out of their comfort zone and thinking about what impact they can have on others,” Hager said. “It’s nice to realize that you are serving others. To me … a large part of becoming an independent person is to put others above yourself.”

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Information about the drawing was passed from the office of information technology to associate vice president of student affairs Debbie Heida who then contacted assistant dean of students for resident life Lindsey Taylor.

Taylor called Hoag the next morning. However, as Hoag had only posted a photo of the drawing to Instagram, she was not able to provide any information about its origins.

Hoag was also contacted by interactive and social media specialist Alex Middleton who let her know that Heida had been informed about the photo.

Taylor said that whoever created the series of drawings has not been found, but the office of Residence Life is partnering with Campus Safety to find out more information. Resident assistants in Morgan and Deerfield and the townhouses are trying to find out any information about whomever created the pumpkin and the surrounding drawings.

The series of drawings were scheduled to be pressure washed away, but rains in the past week have left the drawings “almost nonexistent,” Taylor said.

Because of the context of the pumpkin drawing, Heida said there was not an offense under the Viking Code with which

a student or students could be charged, but her office would definitely have a conversation to “talk about judgment” and how to express messages and raise awareness in an appropriate manner.

In reference to whomever made the drawings, Heida said that “we would all like to believe that in 2014 people understand the impact of words.”

Montgomery does not believe that this is a typical action of a Berry student. She also believes that drawings like the pumpkin should not be put around campus as they send the wrong message about Berry and could give potential students incorrect impressions about what life at Berry is like and what the school deems appropriate.

Anyone with knowledge about the creation of the drawing should contact the Dean of Students office.

Editor’s note: The views expressed by managing editor Chelsea Hoag and other Carrier staff members on their personal social media profiles are not representative of official views of the Carrier editorial board.

Also in the works are a bike path that will connect Berry to downtown Rome, a new building that will be connected to Blackstone Hall that will house a new theater, an extended wing of McAllister Hall for the animal science department and an animal research lab.

Seniors SGA president Paton Roden and SGA vice president of service Ashton Richardson shared their thoughts about Briggs’ State of the College address.

“I think he did a fantastic job … he definitely has a way of answering that shows he really cares about the students,”

Roden said. “I think he wants us to be one of the front-running schools in our area … Berry’s so unique in the way that they approach things, and I think he really embodies that.”

Richardson agreed.“I think it’s really cool to see our president being really

personal with our students,” Richardson said. “On a normal college campus all students wouldn’t get to see all things going on. It seems like the college is definitely looking forward to different projects, and [it’s] encouraging to see that we’re always looking forward.”

“Nobody was really distraught that he’d passed away which I thought was surprising,” Leonard said. “But if you look at his life — I mean he’s 93 — he did everything.”

Fellow senior and WinShape scholarship recipient Logan Staples spoke of the benefits of being a part of the scholarship program, calling WinShape a “place of refuge.”

“Probably the most important and best decision I ever made was coming [to Berry] and being in WinShape,” Staples said. “It’s been a huge area of growth for me.”

Leonard would agree.“I wouldn’t be a Berry College student if I didn’t

have this scholarship and this leadership training that I’ve gotten through WinShape,” she said.

Berry’s relationship with the foundation does not end with the WinShape scholarship. Cathy funded the WinShape Retreat, also on mountain campus.

Briggs said that in the early 2000s Cathy met with then college president Scott Colley. Cathy and Colley worked together to renovate the Norman Dairy Barns and some of the nearby buildings into the current retreat center.

“[The relationship between Cathy and Berry] is multifaceted and very good for the development and renovation of the mountain campus,” Briggs said. “It has allowed the [WinShape Foundation] to accomplish some of their goals as a charitable ministry.”

In 2008, Berry awarded Cathy an honorary doctorate in honor of extraordinary achievement and meritorious service to the college.

“His sphere of influence is enormous,” Leonard said. “He impacted lives through so many generations. He was an incredible man.”

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The late Steve Jobs said, “I think everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer – because it teaches you how to think.”

Why does the average lawyer know what hemoglobin and H2O are, and the average doctor know what the Supreme Court is, but neither of them know the difference between a client, a server, and the cloud, or what an infinite loop is?

Most of the monumental shapers of industry in the last century have made their innovations in the technological field. Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jobs and other less well-known, but just as notable, leaders all created software, programs and hardware from scratch and displayed the resulting functions on some sort of screen.

We as consumers blindly absorb their miraculous innovations often without a second thought, but there is so much more to popular applications than meets the eye.

In the app Shazam, for example, pushing a single button on the screen will tell you what song you are currently listening to by using your phone’s microphone. Snapchat, a simple photo-messaging application invented by a

Stanford University student for a class, is currently valued at $10 billion.

Computer programming is a fundamental aspect almost all technological innovations. Zuckerberg, and others who designed programs and software that resulted in multimillion dollar companies, became successful not solely because of their creativity, but rather because they knew how to translate the ideas they had in their heads into an advanced computer language that could produce something truly special.

This is a new frontier in communication and there is huge demand for computer programmers in our rapidly advancing technological world. I believe it is essential for schools to teach the practices and principles of code from elementary school all the way though graduate school.

According to Code.org, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding participation in computer science, by 2020 there will be 1 million more computer related jobs than computer science students.

Additionally, according to the website, computer science is the second highest paid college degree and computer-programming jobs are growing at twice

the national average. Not everybody needs to become a

professional coding engineer. However, learning the basics of how a computer works and how to program it are increasingly essential life skills.

Anybody can learn the basics of code. You don’t necessarily have to be a student. While it will likely be more effective to learn from a teacher in a classroom setting, and easier if you are taught computer programming from an early age, the Internet is a great resource for self-learning.

Websites like Coursera.org and Udacity.com partner with universities and notable tech companies to give anybody the resources they need to teach themselves computer programming.

The future of humanity is intricately tied with software – it will impact almost every profession. Not everybody needs make a career out of computer programming, but But everybody should at least have the opportunity and the exposure.

The number of U.S. students learning a programming language in high school is declining, and it’s in the same ballpark

as the number learning Latin (a dead language). That’s just wrong.

As Jobs wisely pointed out, coding teaches you how to think about real life situations just as much as it teaches you how to program a computer. As critical thinking skills are highly sought after in the market place, there is no reason why you should not indulge in the world of computer programming.

Whether you are a student about to enter the workforce or you have just left the workforce and are retired, learning just the basics of code and making something appear on a computer screen out of nothing teaches you a new way of thinking.

Gabe Newell, the co-founder of the video game development company Valve, explained how special coding can be and how it can make you stand out.

“The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future,” Newell said. “You’re going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else.”

So I challenge you, the reader, to research computer programming, and to explore the websites mentioned above such as Code.org, Udacity and Coursera.

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The Citizens United decisionWe are told that every vote

counts, but when large name corporations are buying their ways into political office, it is difficult to believe our votes matter.

There used to be a limit on the amount of money corporations and other groups could give to political campaigns. However, this cap has changed for future elections. In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (FEC) lifted limits on how much money could be given to and spent by outside spending groups.

Politics have evolved into a money and power hungry industry that thrives off the support of political action committees, or PACs, which are independent groups that may raise unlimited sums of money from corporations, unions and individuals but are not permitted to give directly to any specific candidate.

In April of this year, the McCutcheon v. FEC Supreme Court ruling terminated the limits on individuals’ campaign contributions with the reasoning that such limits

violate the First Amendment, or freedom of speech. By doing so the Supreme Court has stated that corporations are people and money is free speech. If this ruling is not reconsidered in the proposed constitutional amendment called Senate Joint Resolution 19, the average American will have no voice.

The future of politics and our government will solely be run by who has more money. To remove the limit of financial assistance that can be given to political groups completely annihilates the voice that truly matters—the voice of the people.

The Citizens United webpage states that their goal is to “restore the founding fathers’ vision of a free nation, guided by the honesty, common sense and good will of its citizens.”

This ruling does not support the founing fathers’ vision for our country, and it in fact brings us closer to an oligarchy. With these money makers in control of our politicans democracy is fading. Soon, politicans won’t need us.

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Why new anti-rape inventions can’t protect us

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Last month, four male undergraduate students at North Carolina State University unveiled a special nail polish they created which, when dipped in a drink spiked with Rohypnol or gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid, two common date rape drugs, changes color.

It’s not the first product claiming to help prevent rape. The recent startup company AR Wear sells clothing which claims to be difficult for anyone except the wearer to remove. The company markets its clothing as being resistant to tearing and cutting, making it almost impossible for an attacker to take off. Last year, the company DrinkSavvy revealed a cup that detects date rape drugs.

These products have understandably received much media attention and praise. Women are always searching for new ways to protect themselves and their friends from possible attackers, and the claims these companies make seem promising.

According to data from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), one in five women who attend college will experience attempted or completed sexual assault during her college years. The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) reports that college women are four times more likely to be sexually assaulted than people in any other group.

Berry isn’t immune to this problem, either—

four forcible sex offenses were reported in 2012, according to the college’s 2013 Campus Security and Safety Report. Also, according to the AAUW, less than five percent of campus rapes are reported.

College women are certainly aware of the prevalence of rape. There is an unspoken agreement among college women. We drive each other back to the residence halls after late night study sessions, accompany each other to the restroom in unfamiliar areas and intervene when a man won’t leave our friend alone. The night before we moved in our freshman year, our mothers gave us rape whistles and taught us how to hold our keys in case we ever needed to use them as a weapon in a dark parking lot.

Anything that gives women more power in a potentially dangerous situation is a step in the right direction. Giving women a method of finding rape drugs does prevent possible rapes and tells women who they shouldn’t trust.

But this won’t be solved with some nail polish.

It is not a woman’s responsibility to use a certain nail polish, bring a special cup to a party or wear rape-resistant clothing. She shouldn’t have to worry about being attacked as she walks to her car, goes out with her friends and performs her daily routines.

It is the responsibility of men to respect women’s right to consent, understand that

silence is not consent and give women the right to say no.

Rape victims are often blamed for what has happened to them or criticized for not doing enough to prevent the assault. Earlier this year, a Texas judge gave a rapist a 45-day

sentence, claiming the 14-year-old victim was “promiscuous” and not “the victim she claimed to be.” Many women choose not to report their assaults, fearing that they will be similarly blamed.

Rapists are too often forgiven. Last year, two teenage boys from Steubenville, Ohio were found guilty of raping a teenage girl, then spreading photos and videos of the assault amongst their peers. CNN reported on the “promising future” of the rapists, noting they were “very good students” whose lives had been ruined by the verdict. A legal expert appearing on the CNN segment expressed concern about the rapists being listed as sex offenders, noting that it would be difficult for them to find employment and they may be judged by future neighbors who happened to look at the registry.

Rapists aren’t being held accountable for their decisions, yet their victims are being burdened with the responsibility of preventing assault before it happens. However, no matter what new technology women are provided with, nothing will guarantee they won’t be raped. There will always be people who decide to disrespect a victim’s right to consent and situations that arise when there is simply no nail polish or special cup the victim can use.

These new inventions also place women in a difficult situation. Currently, victims are blamed for what they were wearing when they were raped, who they were with, where they went, whether they were drinking and a number of other factors. If these products become commonplace, will victims be blamed for not using them? Will someone tell them they were “asking for it” because they weren’t wearing that nail polish or special clothing or using a drug-detecting cup?

The solution for the rape problem won’t be found in any product we can purchase— it is so much more than that.

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Do you, like me, stay awake at night fretting that you are personally failing the United States? Do you find yourself wishing for a federally-mandated day of commemoration of the U.S. Constitution to maximize your full patriotic potential?

Fret no more; good news is here. Congress has felt your pain.

In 2004 Congress voted to re-designate September 17 as “Constitution Day and Citizenship Day.” Congress decreed that any college or university, public or private, that receives federal grant or aid money must commemorate the Constitution with an educational program on September 17 (or thereabouts). Congress leaves it to each school to commemorate the Constitution as it sees fit.

So this is how Berry College is commemorating the Constitution this year:

Next week Memorial Library will feature a display highlighting the historical development of democracy in the United States through the constitutional expansion of suffrage. The display will also feature a fascinating exchange of letters between Martha Berry and Alice Wingo which touches upon early efforts to extend the vote to

women.On Tuesday, Sept. 16, at 5 pm

in Evans Auditorium, a panel of Berry faculty, staff, and students will discuss citizenship and the naturalization process under the Constitution. This event has received approval for Cultural Events credit.

On Constitution Day itself, September 17, you will receive in your email a link to the text of the U.S. Constitution. Feel free not to delete it immediately. Really. If you read the Constitution you may learn a thing or two, and it will provide you with a delightful break from the crush of meeting your social media obligations.

On Sept. 17 at 5 p.m. the Department of Government and International Studies will be holding a “Freedom Feast” on the south lawn of Evans Hall in which we will commemorate the Constitution chiefly by means of good (i.e. nerdy) conversation and eating hamburgers grilled by our very own homegrown patriot, Eric Sands, associate professor of government.

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Most people, even current Berry students who were small children at the time, remember where they were on Sept. 11, 2001. They know what they were doing when they heard about the planes crashing into the World Trade Center.

For most students, who were in elementary school during the attacks, their memories are of vague confusion and distress.

“I remember sitting in class when we first heard about it,” sophomore Maggie Stansell said. “I’m from Georgia so it just seemed really far away at the time.”

Not everyone experienced the attacks as something far away. For people like junior Elischa Pierre, who could see the New York skyline from her school, the danger was very real.

“From the rooftop of our school we could see the tower burning,” Pierre said. “We watched as the second plane hit, and the first tower collapsed.”

Pierre’s family lived in New Jersey, and she had family who worked in downtown Manhattan. A family friend worked in a lower level of the World Trade Center, and her cousin worked at a nearby McDonald’s.

“Thankfully they were OK, but it was really scary,” Pierre said.

The danger was also real for junior Chantal Guerrero, who was one of the second graders reading a book with President George W. Bush when he learned of the attacks.

“I felt scared because I knew that the people who were trying to hurt people in our country were mad at the president, and he was with us,” Guerrero said. “This important guy that these people didn’t like was with us, so I thought we were in danger.”

Bush visited her classroom in Sarasota, Fla., as part of a campaign to promote reading in public schools. He met with the students, answering questions and shaking hands before they began reading a book out loud to him.

“About halfway through the book, someone walked in and whispered something in his ear and then left,” Guerrero said. “His demeanor

changed. It was something very evident, even for a second grader.”

After he learned about the attacks, Bush kept his composure in front of the students.

“He allowed us to finish reading the book, and after that he said basically that he had to leave early,” Guerrero said. “Then he went into the next room where he was briefed on the rest of the situation.”

After their time with the president was cut short, Guerrero’s teacher turned on the news and watched it with the class, trying to explain what was happening and why the president had to leave.

Like everyone else on that day, Guerrero and Pierre had to reconcile their worldviews with this catastrophe.

“At that moment I didn’t feel anything. I was just confused by what was happening,” Pierre said.

Guerrero experienced similar confusion.

“For me, 9/11 was the first thing that made me realize that the violence we see in movies can happen in real life,” Guerrero said. “Even as a young person it was difficult to understand that it was really happening.”

The events of Sept. 11, 2001 had a profound impact on the Berry community that went beyond the initial shock of the attacks. The aftermath left the community in a state of fear and uncertainty.

“What’s hard to capture is the open-ended nature of the attack,” associate professor of government Michael Bailey said. “The second jet made it clear that this was an attack on the United States, but we didn’t know if it was the first salvo in a massive attack on the entire country. The strong sense of uncertainty fueled profound fear.”

This uncertainty and fear caused many students and faculty to fall back on their faith in God for comfort and security. Bailey and other professors gave students the opportunity to pray during class.

“I knew it wasn’t appropriate for me to pray, but I knew many of my students were religious, so I said before class that anyone who wants to pray could,” Bailey said.

Many professors thought this was unprofessional and inappropriate for the classroom setting.

“Other professors thought this was wildly unprofessional. There were severe arguments among

the faculty about what the appropriate posture should be with regards to the students,” Bailey said.

This controversy would not end with praying in the classroom. In response to the attacks, then-Berry president Scott Colley called for an interfaith service in the College Chapel. The service was meant to be a way for students and faculty to come together in a time of crisis.

“From my perspective it was profound and powerful, a balm, and just what I needed to experience,” Bailey said.

Professor of philosophy Michael Papazian participated in the service, representing the Eastern Orthodox tradition of Christianity.

“There was a Baptist student and a Catholic student. There was a student of mine at the time that was a convert to Buddhism who did a Buddhist meditation,” Papazian said.

It was the inclusion of non-Christian faiths that sparked controversy, Papazian said.

“There was a lot of controversy because there were non-Christian prayers. A Mormon professor gave a prayer, and some of the more conservative Christians walked out,” Papazian said.

Bailey said this inclusion of non-Christian faiths in the service caused a crisis of identity for the Berry community. People were divided on whether the

school’s Christian values meant that non-Christian faiths should be excluded. He reflected that it was “strange” how an event that united the country as a whole created strife and animosity in the Berry community.

“I wouldn’t say it tore the college apart, but that experience led to a lot of bad feelings,” Bailey said.

In response to these bad feelings, Papazian and other members of the department of religion and philosophy provided educational opportunities for students so they could learn more about other religions.

“There was at the time a visiting professor of religion who was Muslim. He presented a very moderate Muslim view that was condemning the terrorists’ actions,” Papazian said.

After a few days, life at Berry returned to normal. But the controversy surrounding the interfaith service had a lasting impact on the Berry community.

“The debate caused a greater openness to other faiths,” Papazian said. “It was actually the impetus for establishing the Interfaith Council, which didn’t exist at the time, and that in many ways changed the culture at Berry.”

The Interfaith Council is a group dedicated to fostering a welcoming environment at Berry for people of all faiths. It was established in 2003.

LEFT: MEMBERS OF THE BERRY COMMUNITY GATHER for an interfaith service in the College Chapel. In time, this service would prove controversial.

RIGHT: STUDENTS AND FACULTY PRAY together in the Krannert lobby in response to the events of Sept. 11.

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Berry students recall firsthand experience

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STUDENTS SAY a prayer by the flagpole in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.

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Interfaith service caused identity crisis

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features editor

ZACHARY WOODWORTHfeatures editor

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“I was in my second grade class and I just remember some girl coming into the classroom

and they turned on the TV. I didn’t understand what was going on. We got let out of school early. I went home and my mom tried to explain something had happened

and that people had died.”-Kyle Huey, sophomore

“I was in third grade in Murfreesboro, Tenn. I was sitting in class when my teacher, Mrs.

Beeves, got the news. She turned on the TV and we watched. I went

home and watched [President George] Bush address the nation.

I remember Bush on top of the rubble, giving the speech. That

was a pivotal remembrance for me. -Ben Riggs, senior

“My teacher got a phone call and she broke down. My

school shut down and we were out for about a week because my principal had a relative in one of the buildings. Every

year since then all the schools in the area came together and had big rallies about 9/11.”

-Monty Wilson, freshman

“Me and my three siblings were all getting ready for school and my mom got a phone call. She was yelling, wondering who was calling her that early in

the morning. She answered the phone, and I saw her face drop. Then she turned on the TV and we saw what was happening on the news. I was very confused.”

-Logan Ramsey, sophomore

“I can say that in my 46 years of life, that seeing the building

drop was a singular moment. To see this reduced in 10 minutes

brought home that our lives are on thin ice. Life is a flash

and there’s no control and what looks permanent and solid will

melt away within seconds.”-Michael Bailey, associate

professor of government

“I could tell that all the teachers were upset about something. When my mom picked me up

she turned on the radio and they were talking about it. My mom

explained that some people were killed in New York. When you’re 8 years old, you don’t think stuff like that can actually happen.”

-Blake Childers, senior

“I was in first grade. We were in the middle of class while teachers were going room to

room whispering with each other. I went to a Christian private

school so we had a schoolwide moment of silence and a 10 minute

long prayer. It was explained, but we didn’t understand.”

-Preston Putnam, sophomore

“I was in the second grade classroom. I wasn’t sure why, but

I remember our teacher turned on the TV and we did nothing

for a solid hour. I could tell from how my teacher was reacting

that it was serious, but I couldn’t understand what was going on.”

-Hunter Brittingham, junior

“I remember watching the second building fall. I was working at seminary where I was going to go to grad school in Charlotte, N.C.

There was a whisper of something big that had just happened. It was one of those moments where you are speechless and thoughtless

at the same time. You’ve just watched some immense tragedy happen. It was like watching the Titanic sink right in front of you.

It’s something we can only imagine or make movies about. Nobody could expect it. Just to watch them go. It was like stepping into disbelief.”

-Peter Yoder, assistant professor of religion and philosophy

“I lived in California. My dad was in the military

at that time, so my mom was scared. He got really busy after

that, but I think it was just precaution. I was in kindergarten

so I don’t really remember it.”-Brooke Mackelburg, freshman

“I was at school in Ecuador. The teachers gave us a longer recess. We didn’t play games. We sat and talked about what we saw. And for days after, I felt like I had my first adult

conversations with my friends. The world was changing and we’d remember that forever.”

-Zac Carnill, junior

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FRESHMEN AND SOPHOMORES WATCH the CNN broadcast as they display footage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The attacks shocked the campus as students gathered in the Krannert Center, classrooms or the College Chapel to watch the news and pray.

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Amazon Prime has recently released its own lineup of online miniseries that could easily rival Netflix. The release has already stirred up much debate and a lot of questions amongst students.

Amazon Prime has not only stated that it will begin releasing new shows, but that they have signed a deal with HBO that will give Amazon exclusive rights to a selection of HBO series and movies.

Students who have a Prime subscription account on Amazon can watch shows with unlimited access using Prime Instant Video.

Subscribers can expect to see popular HBO shows such as “The Sopranos,” “The Wire,” “Six Feet Under,” “Deadwood,” “Band of Brothers,” “Big Love,” “True Blood,” “Deadwood,” “Rome,” “The Pacific,” “In Treatment” and much more.

If you are looking for something new, you do not have to search far to find Amazon’s listings of new original series. “Transparent” will be released in late September when broadcast networks will unveil most of their shows.

The show has stars Jeffrey Tambor (“Arrested Development”), Jay Duplass (“The Mindy Project”) and Gaby Hoffmann (“Girls”) and is described as “darkly comedic story about an LA family with serious boundary issues … in this exploration of sex, memory, gender and legacy, the past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone’s secrets to spill out,” said Amazon Studios in a statement to InsideTv.

Other shows, which have not announced release dates, include “Mozart in the Jungle,” a comedic drama about sex, drugs and classical music. It was written by actor-musician Jason Schwartzman and

starring Malcolm McDowell (“A Clockwork Orange”) and Saffron Burrows (“Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D”.).

“Bosch” a crime drama about a Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective in pursuit of a killer while standing trial in federal court for murder. It is based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling “Harry Bosch” series and stars Titus Welliver (“Sons of Anarchy”) and Jamie Hector (“The Strain”).

Lastly, there is a series called “The After”, which follows eight strangers who help each other to survive in a violent world. The series is written by Chris Carter, the creator of “The X-Files” and stars Aldis Hodge (“Leverage”) and Andrew Howard (“NCIS: Los Angeles”).

The cost for the Prime Instant Video Service is $100 a year, and that includes access to Amazon Prime and free shipping on most Amazon purchases.

Meanwhile, Netflix is a monthly $8 fee, which comes to $95.88 per year, not including the postage and shipping, so Amazon is cheaper in the end.

Hulu is also trying to join the competition by producing popular shows that were cancelled from T.V. networks in order to increase their following and popularity.

They have yet to produce a breakout series (they made attempts with shows such as “Behind the Mask) and there are high hopes that reviving shows such as “Community,” will have a huge appeal to subscribers.

Hulu has not officially begun the process, however there are plans to partner with Sony, which has a reputation for keeping series afloat.

With Amazon emerging as an online streaming franchise, it is clear that Netflix may have some competition and students will face a tough decision for their streaming needs.

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If you’re thinking about giving Katy Perry and Lil Wayne a break for once and trying out some new music, consider NoiseTrade.com.

Launched in 2008, NoiseTrade is a media utility that allows aspiring musicians and authors to upload their individually-crafted music and literature in exchange for reader data.

It was co-founded by friends Derek Webb, David McCollum, Mark Nicholas and Joe Kirk.

In 2006 Webb, a singer-songwriter, gave away one of his albums for free online and asked in return for a little information including name, email address and postal code.

The result was that Webb saw many sold out shows, increased merchandise and album sales and experienced a particular upward spike in sales of the very album that

was given for free. This successful experiment

inspired Webb and the other founders to create a site that would allow other budding artists to do the same.

NoiseTrade allows users to download the content free of charge and if they enjoy it, asks them to support the artists by giving donations to listen or read more.

When you first enter the site, you’ll see pictures of various artists and suggestions based on more popular artists you may already know.

NoiseTrade is a base from which emerging authors and musicians can actively promote their content and get feedback from the public.

One hundred percent free and legal, NoiseTrade should be on your list when you want to jam out to some different tunes or get immersed into fresh, never-before-read books.

If you are still not sure you want to try it, maybe some of your Berry

peers might be able to change your mind.

Freshman Stephen Hamilton enjoys listening to music on a daily basis and decided to try NoiseTrade.

“I would say the different choices of genre types are above average for a site like this,” Hamilton said.

He enjoyed the “instrumental section and found some soothing music for studying,” he said.

Hamilton also said NoiseTrade is “different from other music sites such as Spotify and last.fm, which are mostly there for you to find artist that you may already know or have heard of.”

However, he said that it could

“use some type of rating system, view or listener count and a way to see or change song length.”

“I would recommend this to someone who [wants to] support fledgling artists,” Hamilton said.

Overall, Hamilton liked the idea of the site as a platform for “new and unknown” artists who wish to make a name for themselves in the music or literature industry.

Freshman Latisha “Simone” Berry isn’t “much of a reader” but she does enjoy jamming out to NoiseTrade’s “gospel, rap, hip-hop and R&B selections.” Some of the artists she found a liking to included “Lecrae, Andy Mineo, Monica, Tedashii, Trip Lee and Canon.”

Berry also liked the ease of navigating on the site. She loved the idea that users could “find a specific song or artist” with ease compared to other music-streaming sites.

Sophomore Joel VanDusen was surprised to find fresh, new bands

he had never heard of. VanDusen said he has used NoiseTrade “a lot to download music…for free.”

The donation-based aspect of the site appealed to VanDusen very much. NoiseTrade encourages users to donate towards bands they prefer.

VanDusen also thought that sampling music is a great way for users to get a feel of a particular band. He actually found that he had listened to a lot of the featured music before going onto the site.

Junior Casey Stillwell was not familiar with any of the books or music. This was Stillwell’s first time experiencing a site like NoiseTrade.

In particular, she was not interested in the site’s features, but said that she would definitely recommend it to her friends and coworkers who do enjoy sites like NoiseTrade.

Now, it’s your turn. Head over to NoiseTrade.com now to see what it’s all about.

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The Berry men’s soccer team went into last weekend’s invitational tournament hosted at Berry with different expectations than one would think. The focus of the head coach, Richard Vardy, along with the rest of the team, was to avoid adding more injuries to an already large group of players.

“The expectations were a little bit different than when we originally scheduled the games,” Vardy said. “We would just hope to get through the weekend with no more injuries, to be honest, at this point in the season.”

Berry faced Ramapo College from New Jersey and Ohio Northern University over the weekend. Vardy decided to invite these two teams along with Emory University to the tournament because of their past success. Specifically, Ohio Northern finished runner-up in the NCAA Division III national tournament in 2012.

“This would give us some good home games which is an important part to building a strong schedule.” Vardy said.

He also said that these tough out-of-conference games would prepare the team for their conference games.

Berry finished the weekend 1-1, defeating Ramapo 1-0 on Saturday and losing to Ohio Northern 5-0 on Sunday.

The team went into the weekend already plagued with injuries, which didn’t make it any easier to battle against the heat and high humidity throughout the weekend. By the end of the game on Saturday, Berry did not have any substitutes remaining. On Sunday, the team ran out of

substitutes within the first 10 minutes of the game.

“After you go through 180 minutes of soccer in 95 degree temperature, the fact that we won on Sunday was a huge accomplishment,” Vardy said. “I think we left the weekend with a lot of positives to look back on.”

Senior captain Matt Williams agreed that the team did well under the circumstances and showed a lot of heart. According to Williams, everyone on the team but three or four players has some sort of nagging injury.

“The thing that we took away is that we have good spirit as a team and that we are really working together this year, everybody just wants to work for one another,” Williams said.

Even on Sunday when Berry faced Ohio Northern, Berry had 17 shots to their 19.

“We kept pushing them to the very last shot and kept fighting through some really tough circumstances,” Vardy said.

Although this weekend didn’t match the team’s expectations, senior Christian Fulbright said he believes that the team first needs to focus on getting healthy before they can look ahead to setting goals for the end of the season.

“Right now, our goal is to get healthy, so we can start playing with our full team,” Fulbright said. “It’s really hard to see and think about where we want to be just because of all the injuries.”

Williams wants the team to win conference and believes that facing

tough, out-of-conference opponents like Ohio Northern will assist the team in doing so.

“I think we will be competitive in every game,” Vardy said. “The way we started the season, including [Sunday’s] loss, we have played well

in every game.”Both the team and coaching staff

are confident that they will bounce back and be highly competitive in conference play once they all become healthy. The Vikings next face off against Roanoke College on Sept. 13.

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Women’s golf placed third out of eight teams at the MCC Invitational in Montgomery, Ala. over the weekend. Berry fell short of winner Huntingdon and runner-up Methodist University. Senior Nicole Wood and sophomore Sydney Weaver finished in fifth and eighth place respectively out of 46 competitors. Wood posted a two-day score of 160, with Weaver driving in 164. Senior Lauren Buschhorn and sophomores Lauren VanStreain and Jessica Gross rounded off Berry’s top five, with Buschhorn scoring 176 and VanStreain and Gross at 180. The Vikings host a dual match against Oglethorpe next Sunday at Stonebridge Golf Club.

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KCAB hosted their annual fall concert on Sept. 6, 2014 inviting American pop band Parachute from Charlottesville, Va.

JOHNNY STUBBLEFIELD PROVIDES the beats for the band.

BERRY STUDENTS GATHER on the Cage side lawn to enjoy the band Parachute play on the main stage.

ALEX EDWARDS FILLS in on guitar and backup vocals for the band.

KIT FRENCH WOOS the crowd with a saxophone.

PARACHUTE FRONTMAN WILL ANDERSON PLAYS original and cover songs.