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CAMPUS NEWS 2-5
OPINION 6-7
SCIENCE & TECH 8-9
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 10-11
CULTURE 12
SPORTS 13-15
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NEWS ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Editor advocates use of cannabis plant.See Opinion, page 6
MONICA KREBER
NEWS
Poker, Texas Hold ‘Em lures students with cards, chips
Bryan Gosling is seated directly across from his opponent, senior chemistry major Son Dinh.
Between them is a mesh of multi-colored poker chips, and both hold a hand of cards.
In the beginning, Gosling goes “all in” with his chips, using a pair of twos. He forces his opponent to fold with a bluff.
In the next hand, Gosling loses three-fourths of his chips to Dinh.
They go back and forth for an hour until Dinh wins round one of the Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament. A sched-uled meeting causes Gosling to forfeit.
Dinh and Gosling were among roughly a dozen students who participated in the Texas Hold ‘Em and Spades Tournament on Fri-day, Sept. 30 in the DiGior-gio Student Center.
The event was held through the intramural sports program.
Senior physical education major Will Plyler, an intern with recreational services, said he decided to play because the idea sounded interesting.
“I just wanted to play,” he said. “I used to play a lot back home with my friends.”
Intermural sports supervi-sor Deandre Robinson said Though no real money was lost during the Texas Hold ‘Em and Spades Tour-
nament on Friday, students started with $200 worth of chips and played several rounds. Photo by Aimee Harman • [email protected] POKER page 10
JONATHAN MCFADDEN
Nine years ago, rumor had it that Darren Ritzer and Merry Sleigh were having an affair.
Both wore wedding bands, but would always be seen to-gether- walking and eating.
In truth, Merry Sleigh is Merry Sleigh-Ritzer, Darren
Ritzer’s wife.It was a typical Friday morn-
ing for the Ritzers when they met with their visitor.
The kids were dropped off. Merry Sleigh sat at her com-puter, prepping to get through another day of classes, lectures and meetings. Two doors down, Darren Ritzer undoubtedly did the same.
Nevertheless, their witty ban-ter and congenial personalities were at their peak, so much so they didn’t mind addressing the campus gossip that mistakenly placed them as adulterers.
“It was kind of a letdown for them to find out we were actu-ally married,” Ritzer recalled with a smile. “End of scandal.”
“But I think now people know
[that we’re married]; there have been enough students who know us,” Sleigh said.
For the express purpose of avoiding confusion and the question, “Which Dr. Ritzer are you talking about?” the couple decided to go by different last names.
Students get it, they said.Colleagues, on the other
hand, sometimes take more time on the uptake.
“I think most of their spouses are in different realms; I don’t know if they could picture what it would be like to work with their spouse all the time,” Ritzer said.
Oftentimes, people will send
See LOVE page 2
Gov. Haley discusses college funding planJONATHAN MCFADDEN
Gov. Nikki Haley said on Monday that Winthrop might earn a spot on the list of higher education institutions set to receive more state funding if the university meets accountability funding standards.
Trekking to the Richardson Ballroom at 6:30 p.m. during the first stop on a series of town hall style meetings so she could unveil her legislative report cards, the first female South Carolina governor told a room of about 200 students, citizens, fac-ulty and media person-nel that the state will change the way it deals with higher education.
That change includes switching to a “pay for performance situation,”
Haley said.“Winthrop will actu-
ally receive some help when we go to that new accountability funding because they will be able to show measurables as to what they’re doing,” Haley said.
What students can hope to see, Haley said, is a demonstration of college presidents and herself standing togeth-er before the General Assembly and saying “this is what we want you to do.”
Lawmakers will be able to see how well universities are doing in relation to the measur-ables and allocate fund-ing based on merit and not “based on a hand out,” Haley said.
Without rhyme or reason, Haley said “the number of alumni in the
Batman, Batgirl rally for the arts
AMANDA PHIPPS
Superheroes walked the campus on Monday.
WUSSA (Winthrop University Student Advocates for the Arts) gathered at the Amphi-theater on the day of Gov. Nikki Haley’s visit to Winthrop for a “Rally for the Arts,” which gathered all majors together to advocate for the arts in schools and share what their life would be without them.
The arts saved Mary Shockley, WUSSA’s president.
Before she took theater in high school, Shockley said she felt alone.
“I thought I was the only weird one out there,” she said.
Shockley said the arts are a big part of her life.
“They are my out-let and inspiration for everything,” she said. “I see art everywhere, and it makes something that someone sees as dull mean something.”
White Stripes is Shockley’s favorite band.
“They are my guiding light,” she said.
The arts help people forget their personal is-sues with each other and are a “powerful thing,” Shockley said.
“People understand each other through the arts,” she said.
Senior theater tech and design and econom-ics double-major Sandy Redzikowski agreed that the arts are important.
Adam Brundle stands as a shining example that doing your homework really can get you ahead in life. In 2009, the now 19-year old midfielder for the Winthrop men’s soccer team was hard at work on a school proj-ect when a banner advertisement changed his life and his playing career forever.
“I guess I was young and it drew me in,” Brundle said. “That really
changed things a lot. I thought ‘Why not?’”
Born in London, Brundle is the second youngest of four siblings raised in Norwich, England. An English upbringing meant that while many of his American peers were battling math in 3rd grade, Brundle was already battling with top soc-cer talent from across the country. At eight years old, he was enrolled in the soccer academy of West Ham United, a long-respected fixture of the Barclays Premier League (currently in the Football League
Championship). The program has developed and strengthened internationally-known talent such as England’s Frank Lampard, Bobby Moore, Joe Cole and Rio Ferdinand. By his eleventh birthday, Brundle was testing his talents closer to home at Championship League side Norwich.
“I was playing soccer for about three hours a day,” said Brundle, a sport management major. “But I was also getting a good education
America Calling:SPORTS
NEWS
DAVID THACKHAM
See BRUNDLE page 13
See HALEY page 5
See HEROES page 3
One Englishman’s journey from Stamford Bridge to Eagle Field
Graphic by Courtney Niskala • [email protected]
THURSDAYOctober 6, 2011
JONATHAN MCFADDENNews Editor
AMANDA PHIPPSAssistant News Editor
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messages meant for Ritzer to Sleigh, Sleigh said.
“It’s like they’re deal-ing with both of us, when they’re dealing with one of us,” she said.
Both associate profes-sors of psychology with offi ces in Kinard Hall, Sleigh and Ritzer are marching into their ninth year as members of Win-throp’s faculty. They’re also entering their fi fth year as parents. Their old-est is fi ve and their young-est will soon be four.
They met in gradu-ate school. While Sleigh taught, Ritzer served in active military duty. Despite Ritzer’s long com-mute and days without visual contact, both knew that one day they wanted to get teaching jobs to-gether.
“So, we just applied to schools and applied to schools, and this [Win-throp] was pretty much the fi rst school we could both agree on,” Sleigh said.
“Yeah, there were sev-eral we couldn’t agree on,” Ritzer added chuckling.
For Ritzer, it was his “dream school,” his wife of 14 years said.
“It was a lot closer to my undergrad, sort of small, teaching focus,” Ritzer said.
Nearly a decade in, bal-ancing professional and personal lives still isn’t a piece of wedding cake.
“It’s hectic,” Ritzer said. “We work a lot,” Sleigh
added. If both Sleigh and Ritzer
have a meeting to attend, they have to hustle to fi nd a babysitter.
When at home, talk about work can occa-sionally infi ltrate dinner conversation
“We always talk about work,” Ritzer said laugh-ing. “We may try and get away from it, but it always comes back.”
Not that it’s bad at all.If Sleigh is sick, Ritzer
can step in and teach one of her classes. If Ritzer’s busy, Sleigh said she can
pick up the slack.Understanding the
stresses and rigors of a day’s work is easier since both work and live under the same roof.
They share the same “stress times,” Ritzer said.
“We know when it’s ad-vising, we know when it’s fi nals, so we kind of syn-thesize in a different way,” he said. “We kind of know the basics” of each other’s careers, Ritzer said.
It saves time on ask-ing, “how was your day?” Sleigh said.
If Sleigh says she’s tired at the end of the day, Ritzer already has a pretty good idea why.
Ritzer said that he feels students see them as the “mother and father” fi g-ures of the department.
“That makes me feel old,” Sleigh said with a laugh.
“We are old,” he an-swered comically.
Love, two doors down
The writings of theolo-gians and philosophers line the back wall of Kristin Kiblinger’s offi ce in Kinard.
On a fi le cabinet in the far right corner are pic-tures of her two daugh-ters. In a frame on a shelf is a picture of Kiblinger with her daughters and husband at the beach. Beside her desktop stands another framed picture, this one of her husband outfi tted in a tuxedo.
To just the casual viewer, it would seem Kiblinger’s family is never far from her thoughts.
For the most part, that’s true. Her husband of almost 10 years works just two doors down the hall.
Kristin and William Kiblinger, both associate professors of philosophy and religious studies, came to Winthrop in 2003.
They both met in gradu-ate school while studying philosophy of religion, “but within that we were very different,” she said.
When they started getting serious, Kristin said she and William both knew the chances they would both fi nd jobs in the same place at the same time were “pretty darn slim.”
“In our fi eld, it’s hard to fi nd a job period,” she said.
Perseverance and pa-tience paid off. In fact, it paid off twice.
Kristin and William fi rst worked together at Teal College in Pennsylvania for three years, she said.
“I think that probably gave us a little leverage when looking for that situ-ation again,” Kristin said.
While on the search for “that situation,” Kristin and William both realized that not all colleges are willing to budge.
Kristin said she under-stands why universities may be hesitant to hire
couples in the workplace. If there’s confl ict in their personal lives where divorce becomes an op-tion, it can hinder their productivity. If there’s a tragedy in the family, the university could lose two employees instead of one.
Winthrop has won the Kiblingers’ loyalty, Kristin said, because the univer-sity was willing to take a chance on them.
More literature is available discussing family-friendly policies in academia, Kristin said, and a lot of universities are fi nding it advanta-geous for recruitment and retention if both spouses work together.
Some may say working in the same department may be a risk, but Kristin said she’s found it easier.
“The one department can decide they like you
as a unit, as a pair, as opposed to one depart-ment wanting you and the other one [spouse] being pushed on another department,” she said.
From day one in class, William is transparent about the other Kiblinger in Kinard.
“When I begin a class, I usually mention there’s another Kiblinger around so when you’re e-mailing or coming by the offi ce, be aware of that,” William said.
Still, they sometimes re-ceive each other’s messag-es. Other times, students will comment on the other spouse’s teaching style.
Some will assume Wil-liam was the “primary hire and I was the tag-along,” Kristin said. “But I don’t think that’s a mar-riage issue, I think that’s a sexism issue.”
How many at WU?
Winthrop’s human resources offi ce currently doesn’t keep statistics on how many married couples work at the uni-versity, said Lisa Cowart, associate vice president of human resources.
The department’s ben-efi ts administrator could only think of 26 mar-ried couples “where both parties are permanent Winthrop employees,” Cowart said.
“There are some other married couple combi-nations of permanent employees and temporary employees, but we have no way of even giving an estimate of those num-bers,” she said.
OCTOBER 8TH - NOVEMBER 20TH
LOVE • from front
Corrections
The Sept. 22 issue of The Johnsonian mistakenly referred to Gloria Jones as the director of University College. She is, in fact, the dean of University College.
In the Sept. 29 issue of The Johnsonian, a story entitled, “WU in ‘good shape’ 10 years from now” accidentally misspelled Dr. Frank Ardaiolo’s last name. The cor-rect spelling of his name is “A-R-D-A-I-O-L-O.”
In the Sept. 29 issue of The Johnsonian, a sub-headline read, “Pay boost for facul-ty, staff a possibility, notable faculty would be fi rst to get the gold” was incorrect in inferring that “notable” faculty would get salary increases fi rst. Instead, the salary increases are merit-based, meaning all employees are considered within a range or degree, such as 0-3 percent, for example. Some may receive 3 percent pay raise, others may receive a 2 percent while others may receive a 1 percent pay increase. All ranges are determined by performance. The increases would be implemented at the same time.
Merry Sleigh and Darren Ritzer will celebrate 15 years as a married couple in January. Photo by John Rhodes • [email protected]
Kristin and William pose with their two daughters, Anwyn (on left) and Maddie. At the time of the picture, Anwyn was 4 months old and Maddie was 4 years old. Currently, Anwyn is 3 and Maddie is 7. Photo courtesy of William & Kristin Kiblinger
We are old.Darren RitzerAssociate professor of psychology
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THURSDAY October 6, 2011 3
I met some of the nicest and strongest people out on that dirt road.
I did not know what to expect when I visited Blackman Road last Thursday with my photo-
journalism class. The first place we stopped was A Place
for Hope, a center named for Hope Witlock, a 95-year-old resident who has helped many people through hard times by offering her home to them.
I was lucky enough to meet Hope, a very sweet and tough woman. She was happy to see us all and offered us a seat right away. Her home may be a little
rough and she doesn’t live in the best conditions, but she doesn’t let that get her down. She was very inspirational because she helped others who are in a worse position than she is. I feel very blessed to have met her and see how much she can do for others even when she has so little herself.
Hope also never misses church and walks a mile down the road to the com-munity church every Sunday.
I was also lucky enough to meet the man who built the church by hand, the Rev. James Hill.
Hill is a sweet, older man who has been through a lot and built the commu-nity for the people. He spoke to us about all he did and what we could do. He told us that it was up to us and we could do something meaningful with our lives.
“I love for someone to tell me I can’t,”
Hill said. Rev. Hill told us he has
helped many poeople through their troubles and has gotten them back on their feet. He is a strong guy with a good purpose in life, and it was inspirational to hear him speak about his life and the people he’s helped.
I’m glad I got to see Black-man Road live and how the residents can be strong and make a good life for them-selves. I hope this commu-nity gets the help it needs, because its residents really deserve it.
By Amanda [email protected]
While many students change their major many times, choosing the right major is a key element in having a good college experience, professor of mass communication Marilyn Sarow said.
“Students who are not in the right major are more likely to have aca-demic problems or to be dissatisfied with their college experience,” she said.
The Major/Minor fair is held annually to help students make well-in-formed decisions regard-ing major or minor selec-tion, according to a press release from the center for Career and Civic En-gagement. The fair al-lows students to explore the majors and minors offered at Winthrop.
Winthrop’s Honor Program, CLEP Testing, the Academic Success Center, the Internation-al Center, the Graduate
School and ONCA will be participating, according to the press release.
While only students who are pursuing a B.A. degree must have a mi-nor, students should choose a major and/or minor in a timely man-ner, said Gloria Jones, dean of University Col-lege.
“These students must declare a major by the time they earn 45 hours, but they are encouraged to declare by the time they earn 30 hours,” she said.
University College houses undeclared majors, Jones said.
Jones said students who have not declared majors are assigned a University College ad-visor, who shows them a variety of resources they can use, includ-ing the Strong Interest Inventory and the My-ers-Briggs Personality Profile. These are as-sessment tools to help students determine
their interests in possible majors or careers, ac-cording to the Center for Career and Civic Engage-ment’s Four Year Plan.
Jones said taking in-tro courses in fields that interest students or do-ing research on field that they are considering will help students pick a ma-jor.
The fair is a tool for students to use to help them select the right ma-jor, Amy Sullivan, direc-tor of the Center for the
Career and Civic Engage-ment said in the press release.
“Knowing about the requirements and for-mats for completing ma-jors will help students in their decision-making process,” she said. “Stu-dents should take ad-vantage of having all the resources available at the same time and place.”
Time to Choose
What: 2011 Major/Minor fairWhen: Oct 11Where: DiGiorgio Campus Center’s Richardson BallroomTime: 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
For more information, contact Amy Sullivan at [email protected] or visit http:www.winthrop.edu/cce
To be or not to be?
Editor experiences community culture first-hand
A Place for Hope was named for Hope Witlock, a 95-year-old resident of Blackman Road. Photo by Amanda Phipps • [email protected]
Choosing the right major is the first step to having a successful college experience.
While wearing a cape and knitting a scarf, Redzikowski said she was supporting the textile arts.
“There is more to arts than [music and theater],” she said. “[The arts] are a far larger thing than we get taught in schools.”
The Winthrop University Student Advocates for the Arts (WUSAA) was estab-lished this semester and the rally was the organiza-tion’s first event, Shockley said.
Though the rally was held during Gov. Nikki Haley’s appearance on campus Monday, the rally’s purpose was not to be anti-Haley, but to advocate for the arts, Shockley said.
“We are not partisan, just pro-arts,” Shockley said.
She said she wanted peo-ple to know that WUSAA is around to have fun.
Sophomore music major Will Surber did not know about WUSAA until re-cently, but joined forces with Shockley to pull in all aspects of the arts to the event.
Surber helped bring in more music majors who, as he said, live in the music building. Surber said it was a spur of the moment deci-sion to have the event once the visit from Haley was announced.
He said the event was not in protest of Haley, but that maybe it will send a message.
“Maybe the governor will see us and see part of our world,” he said.
Students don capes, hold colorful ‘Rally for the Arts’
Amanda PhippsAssistant News Editor
Top: Students show their support for arts in schools through their love for music. Above: Batman and Batgirl (Rob Carroll and WUSAA president Mary Shockley) don their capes and show their support for the arts. Students gathered at the “Rally for the Arts” held at the Amphitheater on Monday to support fine arts in schools and to share their love of the arts. Photos by Aimee Harman • [email protected]
HEROES • from front
Graphic by Courtney Niskala • [email protected]
THURSDAY October 6, 2011 4
WU PoliticsBy Zoe IrizarrySpecial to The Johnsonian
Winthrop’s College Republicans are supporting local GOP members by involving more students in politics.
One of those leaders includes John Hauenstein, a former engineer who is running for the Ward II seat on Rock Hill City Council.
Members of the College Repub-licans have already touted their support for Hauenstein by conduct-ing neighborhood precinct walks, where they hand out fliers and obtain contact information for citizens planning to vote for Hauenstein, said Timothy Kroboth, president of the College Republicans.
The campaign has also asked the student Republicans to participate in literature drops.
During a Sept. 19 meeting, members of the group discussed other Republicans they believed to be strong candidates for public office, as well as those they thought wouldn’t do so well.
Emil Tokmakci, sophomore sports management major, feels involvement is important.
“I joined the club to be more involved on campus and because I wanted to get more involved in politics,” Tokmakci said.
The College Republicans put up the American Flags along Scholar’s Walk and helped put together the 9/11 candle-light vigil.
The group held two voter registration drives last month. Students from out of state or out of the area were able to register with absentee ballots.
On Oct. 25, a sorority is holding a mock presidential debate and a member of Winthrop’s College Republican’s will be representing the Republican Party. More information about this event will be available as the date gets closer.
“I feel that it is a good thing to under-stand more about people who will work for our government,” Tokmakci said.
The club is always open to new mem-bers.
“I think many people who are Repub-licans and enjoy politics should join the club because they will learn so much and meet wonderful people,” Tokmakci said.
Additional reporting by Jonathan Mc-Fadden
By Jonathan [email protected]
Winthrop’s College Democrats will focus on the positives of President Barack Obama’s presidency in an effort to culminate support for his 2012 reelec-tion campaign.
Such accomplishments include the repeal of the military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ policy and the president’s promised pullout of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Members will also emphasize that the nation will be unable to escape its fiscal crisis “overnight,” said Whitney Hough, president of the College Democrats and senior integrated marketing communica-tion major.
During a Sept. 27 meeting, nearly a dozen students laid out the issues most important to them that they would like to see addressed.
The economy was a popular choice, followed by the Catch-22 of Republican nominees, who one student implied would cause stress regardless of which one got the presidential nod.
One student threw out an idea about a debate with the College Republicans, while Hough said she hoped to get the group involved with some activities oc-curring during the Democratic National Convention, set to take place in Charlotte next fall.
Since Winthrop is close to Charlotte, Hough predicted that the university will have a “big part” in the convention.
Members also discussed the voter ID bill that still awaits approval from the U.S. Justice Department.
The voter ID bill, proposed in 2010, will mandate that citizens present an au-thorized form of ID before casting their ballots at the polls.
The bill has won much criticism from advocates for minorities and the elderly, who say such a bill will exclude these demographics from participating in the political process.
On Aug. 29, the Council of Student Leaders approved a resolution voicing their opposi-tion to the bill, which also dismiss-es college student ID’s as viable identification for voting.
“Why have a bill that limits people from vot-ing?” Hough said. “Being able to vote here is really important.”
The meet-ing took a more personal turn when Hough, a newlywed,
explained that she entered college as a Republican.
Her views changed over time and now, Obama’s health care package has al-lowed her to stay on her parents’ insur-ance plan until she’s 26.
Even more, the bill is handy because her husband currently doesn’t have any health insurance, she said.
For freshman history major Hampton Ballowe, issues ranging from foreign pol-icy to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to American involvement in the Libyan revolt are high on his list of concerns.
Regularly checking Independent, Fox News and Wall Street Journal applica-tions on his phone, Ballowe said it’s important to “learn the other side.”
“Otherwise, you become an extremist and nobody will listen to you,” he said.
More than that, he’s concerned about the nation’s infrastructure.
“Not to quote Obama, but we can start rebuilding,” Ballowe said.
The group is also planning to buffer its community volunteering efforts, con-duct a voter registration drive and make soldier care packages.
Hough admitted that the College Democrats in the past haven’t been too active on campus, but, now she aims to change that.
“I know there’s a liberal population out there [at Winthrop],” Hough said. “We just need to tap into that.”
College Republicans shoot for more student involvement, local Republican support
College Democrats aim to back Obama, tackle issues, ‘tap’ into on-campus liberal population
By Jonathan [email protected]
Banishing the economic gap between the rich and the poor was just one of many messages members of the Social-ist Student Union vocalized this past Saturday at a protest in Charlotte.
About 10 members of the organiza-tion joined together and travelled to Charlotte, where they joined the fervor of Occupy Charlotte, a parallel move-ment to the Occupy Wall Street pro-tests occurring in New York City.
To Judson Abraham, Charlotte was a prime location for objecting to eco-nomic injustice.
“We have Bank of America, Wacho-via and, on top of that, it’s just a Bible belt city that usually doesn’t see a lot of protests like this,” said Abraham, leader of the Socialist Student Union.
Though he said Charlotte police aren’t trained for dealing with big protests, student protestors planned to don symbolic black bandanas and purchase Vaseline and gas masks in case of tear gas.
Plans changed.Abraham said he did research and
realized that North Carolina prohibits protestors from covering their faces completely as part of an anti-Ku Klux Klan ordinance.
The black bandanas, he said, were to capture the “visual trappings” of the ultra-globalist movement, which he said echoes in Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Charlotte.
“We’re not really trying to start a riot or anything,” he said.
As for the gas masks, the group opted not to chunk change for them.
When the caravan of student social-ists arrived in Charlotte last weekend, they melded forces with 25 other protestors mounting the picket line, Abraham said.
But, as time crawled on, about 100
people joined the effort, he said. Saturday’s efforts were more of a
strategizing meeting for the big occu-pation, Abraham said, which is set to take place on Oct. 8 and on subsequent Saturdays.
“We all collectively decided to march on Bank of America and the Charlotte government building and the federal reserve,” Abraham said.
The combined socialist groups also formed a 33 member informal socialist working group tasked with drawing its own conclusions and bringing its own “analysis” to Occupy Charlotte, Abra-ham said.
“To have 33 socialists together in one place in the United States is a success in and of itself,” he said.
After Saturday, Abraham said he feels Left-wing supporters are getting more on track with their cause, taking it back to a “more radical definition of our principles.”
“We’re actually getting out in the streets and getting ready for some ac-tion,” Abraham said.
Freshmen have bolstered the union’s ranks, Abraham said. With more events like the protest in Charlotte, they’ll be “baptized” into activism, he said.
Inspiration for the trip to Charlotte came from Occupy Wall Street, a more than two-week old demonstration in New York City.
Hundreds of people in New York City gathered at Battery Park to peace-fully protest what they saw as a nation driven by greed.
Dubbing their demonstration “Oc-cupy Wall Street,” protestors began marching through New York City’s financial district amid walls of barri-cades and on-the-ready police officers.
Some days into the demonstration, chaos ensued. A small group of pro-testers—mostly women—were pepper sprayed by a NYPD officer, while others have been arrested.
Student socialists flaunt Left-wing politics during weekend ‘Occupy Charlotte’ protest
Graphic by Courtney Niskala • [email protected]
Graphic by Courtney Niskala • [email protected]
By Jonathan [email protected]
Gov. Nikki Haley of-fered South Carolina college students the same deal she presented to eli-gible voters without valid photo identification—a ride to the DMV.
During her town-hall style meeting in the Richardson Ballroom on Monday night, Haley unveiled her legislative report card, laid down her promises for job creation and higher education funding, and endorsed the voter ID bill.
Under this law, South Carolina residents will have to present valid photo identification be-fore casting their ballot.
The hitch is that college student ID cards are no longer sufficient for vot-ing.
Instead, students will have to present autho-rized state issued IDs, such as driver’s licenses or passports.
In August, members of the Council of Stu-dent Leaders approved a
resolution opposing the voter ID law and call-ing for college ID’s to be reinstated as valid voter identification.
Taking the opportunity to speak while the gov-ernor directly addressed audience members, CSL Chair Kambrell Garvin read aloud the resolution before asking Haley if she could assure that voters will not be “disenfran-chised” as a result of the bill.
“Yes,” she said.The governor’s primary
intention in pushing the bill is to ensure that vot-ers going to the polls are the individuals whose pictures appear on the ID, and to deflect any pos-sible voter fraud.
Only one case of voter fraud has occurred in the state in the last decade.
But, Haley held her stance.
“If you have to show your picture ID to get Sudafed, if you have to show your ID to get on a plane, you need to show a picture ID to vote,” she said.
Haley’s administration was aware that thousands of people were unable to get their ID’s, she said, but state workers gave rides to those who wanted to retrieve their birth certificates or receive new IDs.
Toward the end of September, 22 people re-ceived a ride to the DMV to receive proper photo ID, Haley said.
While student apathy was a factor considered when organizing the bill, Haley told The Johnso-nian after the meeting that her administration realized that “students have to have a driver’s license when they do any-thing to go to college.”
“We also know they have to have a picture ID,” she said. “What we said is that their vote matters just as much as anybody else.”
So much so, the same aid Haley’s adminis-tration has offered to residents without proper ID is available for college students, Haley said.
College student vote just as important, Haley says
(From left) Tyler Callaway, junior business administration major; Elizabeth Yost, freshman art major; and Hampton Ballowe, fresh-man history major, sign to support President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. Photo by Aimee Harman • [email protected]
Members of the Socialist Student Union stood on the frontlines of Saturday’s protest. Photo courtesy of Judson Abraham.
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By Kaitlyn [email protected]
Winthrop’s English department has recently partnered with Ohio State University with their literary narrative archives.
Sarah Spring, assistant professor of English, spent two weeks in Co-lumbus, Ohio learning more about the literary narrative archive.
OSU houses a digital archive of literary narratives, a large database that allows anyone to upload nar-ratives.
People and schools from all over the world are represented, as well as different levels of education.
Spring teaches Writing 501, which is intended as a workshop fulfi lling the technology require-ment for English majors. The class discusses the differences between writing and writing for digital media.
Spring’s students were required to create blogs where they could interact with their peers and write about issues
prevalent to them. “It’s a portfolio of the amazing things
done in class,” Spring said.When Spring’s class uploaded some of
their literary narratives to the archive,
she received an e-mail from an Ohio State professor who was im-pressed with the students’ work and asked if the English depart-ment would like to be a contrib-uting partner.
“It’s neat for Winthrop,” said Spring. “I’d like to see Winthrop do more of these types of things. It prepares students for what they may be doing in the future.”
One student, senior psychology major Allison Howard, received a surprise response to one of her blog posts.
Howard found an interesting piece on new MRI technology and posted her response to it.
Soon after posting her re-sponse, a man from London who worked on the very technology she was writing about comment-
ed on her post. Originally, Howard was not a fan of
the ongoing assignment. “I didn’t love the idea of blogging,”
Howard said. “I didn’t think people
cared what goes in my head.” But after the unique response to one of
her posts, she changed her mind. “It was very encouraging,” Howard
said. “It’s cool to see that I’m making an impact even through a class.”
Howard plans to work in the nonprofi t fi eld after graduation. Her experience with Writing 501 and blogging will most likely help her with her future career, she said.
She is now a fan of blogging, which is “a quicker and easier way to reach many people on different issues,” Howard said.
“The fact is, I’m one of the lucky ones,” Howard said.
She said she would like to see more creative ways of reading or other projects implemented in other classes for more students.
“This class has allowed for a certain amount of intellectualism and personal-ity to be expressed. More classes like it should be offered in the future,” Howard said.
Student digital tales picked up by Ohio State
legislature, or football tickets,” funded higher education in the past.
Now, students will see a new funding approach that measures: in-state students, alumni job placement, how much money goes towards the students and tuition in-creases, Haley said.
The House Ways & Means Committee will receive a list of categories by which to judge schools.
“The good thing is, the schools that do well will get more funding,” Haley said.
As for the schools that don’t do well, Haley said they will now have incen-tives to want to do better.
Even in light of deep cuts to higher education, Haley said her number one administrative prior-ity remains “jobs, jobs, jobs.”
Haley boasted that over 13,000 jobs have been an-nounced in the state since she took offi ce in January.
Those jobs include manufacturing, aerospace, research and development and automotive jobs, she
said.“And those don’t include
the construction jobs that come with it or the sec-ondary jobs,” Haley said.
Yet, Haley admitted the question remains: With 13,000 jobs in the state, why does it have an almost grisly unemployment rate?
The answer: Haley’s ad-ministration didn’t expect a huge number of retirees reentering the workforce to deal with the fragile economy, she said.
The large number of college graduates unable to fi nd jobs has also made matters worst.
When making deals with companies to move to the Palmetto State, Haley said she requires businesses to hire South Carolina citi-zens and use small state businesses to help with work.
More than that, the governor said her admin-istration is encouraging businesses that don’t normally look to set up camp in smaller counties to consider moving their operations to rural coun-ties.
Before the next leg-islative report card is
released, Haley promised that job-training programs will sprout to train retirees and college graduates for employment.
Something not close to the top on the governor’s priority is funding for the arts, an issue several stu-dents asked the governor about Monday night.
Haley’s stance remained the same as it had in pre-vious months.
Though she and her family value the arts, Hal-ey said she doesn’t believe it’s the government’s role or the taxpayer’s burden to fund the arts. She also said 77 percent of arts funding was going into salaries.
If people want the arts to survive, Haley said they should encourage the businesses to fund the programs.
Like other charitable organizations, the arts should have to petition for funds, Haley said.
“Government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people,” she said. “It was not intended to be all things to all people.”
At a time when the state is dealing with high unemployment numbers, “we can’t afford the arts,” Haley said.
“I can focus on raising money for the arts or I can focus on getting people jobs,” Haley said. “Right now, I need to focus on people getting jobs.”
A theatre major asked Haley if she’s willing to aid with distribution with private funds for the arts.
Haley said she doesn’t mind promoting where it should go, but the answer lies in businesses getting involved.
Emphasizing that the
arts do not only include music but also comprise debate and science pro-grams, senior political sci-ence major Kayla Barber questioned Haley on how she justifi es cutting those programs.
Haley said funding for arts education programs was never on the chopping block, but instead arts-funded grants received the axe.
“Education in the arts is still going on, still being funded, all those things are still happening,” Haley said.
After the meeting, Bar-ber wasn’t satisfi ed and said she felt the governor
Haley also used the meeting to unveil her legislative report card, a progress report measur-ing how closely legislators supported her goals and priorities.
When College Repub-licans president Timothy Kroboth stepped to the microphone, he prefaced his question with a joke: “I just wanted you to know that not all college stu-dents at Winthrop Univer-sity are crazy liberals,” he said.
Not everyone thought the comment was funny.
Angered by Kroboth’s comment, a student asked the governor what she planned to do about the actions that lead to such rhetoric.
“Both parties have made mistakes,” Haley said. “There are no saints in the room when it comes to Republicans and Demo-crats.”
The only thing that mat-ters on the state, local and federal level are results, Haley said.
Pointing back to her leg-
islative report card, Haley said that a mix of Demo-crats and Republicans received both A’s and F’s.
“We’ve seen total chaos in Washington,” Haley said.
To Haley, resolving the state’s unemployment rate and promoting state government effi ciency isn’t a bipartisan issue.
As students fi elded questions about funding for the arts and higher education, one resident who took a gander through the DiGiorgio Campus Center called into question higher education’s fragile condition.
“It looks to me that higher education is do-ing pretty good from the taxpayer’s standpoint,” he said.
Endowed as they may be, Haley said the passion of “young people” has to be appreciated.
“We need them to be a part of the solution,” Haley said
“…And a lot of that is talking them through it…”
Visit mytjnow.com for more on Haley’s report cards.
HALEY • from front
(From left) Senior English major Michelle Wicker and junior psychology major Jessica Richardson pe-ruse their blogs during their writing for new media class. Photo by John Rhodes • [email protected]
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DEFRAUDING A TAXI DRIVER (9/29/11)
At 5:20 p.m., Winthrop reporting officers responded to McBryde after re-ceiving a Taxicab driver complaint that his fare left without paying him, accord-ing to the police report. The ride was $75 and the victim stated he brought a skinny black male to Winthrop and that once the car stopped behind McBryde, the suspect swiped his credit card, but
it was declined. The victim stated the suspect showed him a Winthrop ID and said he was going into the building to get the money from his supervisor. The police report said the name on the ID is not in the system, according to the Tele-communications officer. The victim said the suspect got out of the vehicle and disappeared. The victim said he waited 15-20 minutes before contacting the po-lice because he thought the subject was inside the building. The case is active and the victim was issued a notification form, according to the police report.
COMSUMPTION OF BEER UNDER 21 (9/30/11)
At 2:26 a.m., a Winthrop reporting offi-cer went to investigate a noise complaint at a residence near Winthrop, according to the police report. The officer advised the resident of the noise complaint and left the house. As the reporting officer drove down the road, he observed some subjects running behind houses. The officer parked his vehicle and observed the subjects run through a side yard and saw one subject enter a back porch area
of a residence and hide. This subject is a Winthrop student. The officer made contact with the student and noticed a smell of alcohol coming from the sub-ject. The reporting officer found that the student is under 21. The officer cited the student for consumption of beer under 21 and released him, according to the police report. The police report said the student was uncooperative and should be referred to the Winthrop Judicial Committee.
Compiled by Amanda Phipps
More Democrats received lower scores on their re-port cards than Republicans. Photo by Aimee Harman • [email protected]
College Republicans President Timothy Kroboth (right) asked Haley about higher ed funding. Photo by Aimee Harman • [email protected]
THURSDAYOctober 6, 2011
CONNOR DE BRULEROpinion Editor
Editor promotesuse of cannabisOur culture attaches
stigmata to many things: certain sexual preferences, mental-illness, facial disfigure-ment, race and socio-economic values. These topics are closest to my heart, but I’m going to write about an entirely different issue that also deals with personal freedom: cannabis.
I’m going to use the term cannabis because marijuana (or marihuana) is a term in-vented by ex-prohibition lob-byists who wanted cannabis to have a Hispanic-sounding name so they could negatively attach the plant’s emergence in the U.S. to incoming Mexi-can immigrants in the 1930’s.
Certainly the question over industrial hemp is much more detrimental to the well-being of America’s economy and farming industry, but canna-bis is also a pressing issue.
Admittance I was once very much
against the recreational use of cannabis. I actually wrote some columns and papers about my views several years ago. That was before I researched the history and effects of cannabis. That was before I actually crossed over and tried it myself.
I had a lovely time. America’s war on drugs has
been a notorious shambles and our cultural view of drugs has been fueled by spurious myths and misinformation. As ethno botanist Terence McKenna said, drugs are a far more complicated issue than Americans care to believe. Each drug has its specific uses. Each drug has its poten-tial abusers. Each drug has those who respond well to it and those who do not.
A lot of people are being in-carcerated for drug use, pos-session and its sale on a small scale basis. To prosecute someone for the use of drugs is boarding on a human rights violation. Our society does not incarcerate people for al-coholism, prescription pill de-pendency or a caffeine habit. Those individuals are steered toward help through medical professionals, psychologists and support groups. The same should be done to those who have developed a substance abuse problem.
Harm reduction is not the game our government plays. Their game is unfair, illogical punishment.
Some facts Cannabis is not physically
addictive. Those who smoke or ingest it do so occasion-ally. Less than 1 percent of Americans use it on a daily or near-daily basis and there is no irrefutable scientific evi-dence suggesting an addictive nature, according to Chan-geTheClimate.org.
Based on thirty years of scientific research, editors of the esteemed medical journal Lancet (from the UK) con-cluded that smoking canna-bis, even on a long-term basis, is not harmful to health.
Most attempts to suppress
cannabis were done for eco-nomic interests on behalf of the lumber and cot-ton industries as hemp emerged as a reusable, highly lucrative, com-peting resource.
Even Rick Steves, the travel
host from PBS, has toured around the country rallying for its legalization.
Caffeine When a young man in a suit
walks into a Starbucks and or-ders his second cup of espres-so, he is forgiven and others empathize that he needs a pick-me-up. No one questions the Red Bulls and Five-Hour-Energy shots lining the check-out counters of Eagle Express and Markley’s. Not being able to go to class or function in the morning without a cup of Joe is not a quirky side-effect of college life, it’s a sign of caffeine addiction. 90 percent of Americans use caffeine, according to The Coffee Sta-tistics Report of 2010. Ironi-cally caffeine impairs mental function and energy levels after long-term use, accord-ing to My Addiction.com, an addiction recovery resource website. There is also no definitive evidence suggesting that it helps in weight loss.
Caffeine is a drug that has been embraced by our society.
Ending stigma When a man or a woman
express enthusiasm toward moderate cannabis use they are questioned as to whether or not they have formed a de-pendency. Some suggest that only lazy, apathetic people use it. Sure lazy apathetic people use it. It’s attractive to lazy people. It’s also attractive to normal people the same way alcohol and smoking can be. I learned about a direct statisti-cal link to children who eat a lot of ice cream and drowning incidents in my psychology class. Obviously, ice cream doesn’t cause us to drown. More kids eat ice cream in the summer and are thus around pools more often.
Things are not always as they seem.
To forgive a caffeine addict and put a moderate cannabis user on the dock is not simply a reflection of the “way things are” it’s a reflection of the conceptual frame our culture has built against a benign plant.
I say either legalize can-nabis and regulate its use like tobacco and alcohol or extend the prohibition to all recre-ational drugs.
Cannabis is a fantastic alternative to a can of beer on a slow Friday night and, when used properly and infrequent-ly, it can awaken creativity and other cerebral behaviors in people.
I urge everyone who sup-ports cannabis to comment on the website or send me an e-mail.
Connor de BrulerOpinion editor
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As you have probably noticed, this opinion section is centered on the theme of cannabis.
The Johnsonian isn’t going to de-bate the merits and flaws of marijuana legalization or the politics behind the argument. There’s simply not enough time or newspaper space.
We do urge students, however, to cultivate an opinion on this important matter.
Wading through the stigma associ-ated with cannabis, we can develop logical and persuasive arguments in favor or against legalization. But why invest the time and brainpower into the complicated, many-sided argu-ment?
For many college students, weed is a part of daily life. Sure, we don’t all partake in the plant’s “self-medica-tion” usage or protest pot-smokers outside of Byrnes, either.
But we are familiar with the smell on classmate’s clothes and rolled joints left outside.
We recognize the little, green plant on t-shirts, posters and famed Bob Marley pictures; nearly half of the police blotter mentions the herb.
Legalization of marijuana is an issue on college campuses, and Winthrop
students must find their voice. Almost all of us are old enough to vote, and the option of cannabis legalization draws closer every election.
Unlike high school, college provides greater First Amendment freedoms. We must all take advantage of those freedoms and express opinions on weed.
It’s not just psychedelic drawings and pleas for safe driving on news-print. The legalization debate con-tinues to rage on, so The Johnsonian encourages students to get involved.
Have an opinion on legalization? Submit a letter to the editor by email-ing [email protected] or submit online at www.mytjnow.com/letter-stotheeditor.
We look forward to your thoughts.
I don’t have much of an ar-gument against the legalization of marijuana, nor do I believe that most people can offer a le-gitimate reason for continuing its prohibition, either.
The only reason I’ve heard that I can sympa-thize with is that legalizing marijuana would add yet another hallucinogen for people to use behind the wheel of a vehicle. Think-ing like that, however, puts weed and alcohol on the same fundamental level, which makes it that much more questionable to see that only the former is il-legal.
There are a lot of reasons as to why it’s still illegal, a few of which are actually pretty reasonable and worth examining, but I think the big one is that the “war on drugs” is ridiculously profitable for private prisons; there is an absurdly large number of people that get imprisoned on drug charges, especially marijuana possession, and these people serve as incredibly cheap labor for private prisons.
If anyone has anything to gain from this stupid “war on drugs”, it’ll be the private prison industry. You can bet the hair on your bum that the indus-try will continue bribe our lawmakers for as long as they can to keep marijuana illegal.
It’s Capitalism, baby. Money buys everything you need, especially the law.
If there are real econom-ic concerns for the average citizen about legalizing marijuana, then I’d like to be educated on that issue.
Please, for the love of your god or gods, don’t try to give me an abstract reason like “smoking is a sin” because once you go down that road, you might as well ban everything that isn’t directly related to your personal cult.
I’ve heard these kinds of arguments before, but once people start bringing their deities into the political system of a secular govern-ment, the concerns and reasoning of humans gets thrown out the window.
Oh, and for a creation-ist that thinks smoking is a
sin: your god made marijuana plants, so shut the hell up.
Again, if there are legitimate, tangible reasons as to why marijuana should stay illegal, then I’d seriously like to know.
From what I can tell, it’s usually
a bunch of conservative twats that hate the fact that other people are having more fun than they are.
Even though I’m going on about marijuana, I hon-estly just don’t care enough to seriously lobby against or for it. I’m perfectly fine if people want to use weed, as long as they don’t oper-ate motor vehicles for the duration of their highs.
It’s just not really impor-tant to be to see marijuana gloriously legalized or banished to the doldrums of prohibition.
As far as I’m concerned, there are other ways to relieve stress or to chill out, and I’d probably rather do those things anyway.
Besides, I have more relevant things to worry about, like the right wing’s covert destruction of America’s middle class, or why the African-American community is largely god-awful.
Columnist asks potsmokers not to getbehind the wheel
Jared Epps Columnist
I’m perfectly fine if people want to use weed, as long as they don’t operate a mo-tor vehicle for the duration of their highs.
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Students shouldget involved in cannabis debate
The legalization debate contin-ues to rage on.
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cannabis
Facebook is always up to some-thing and lately they have been mak-ing that very clear with the plethora of changes to their interface. Like it or not, the changes are here to stay--and there are more on the way. The “redesign” is part of Facebook’s new push to integrate its user’s lives with the site itself. The new push is called “Timeline” and it is the driving force behind the changes you and I have wit-nessed as of late. So what’s involved with “Timeline”? Well it all starts with the user profile, which will be getting a facelift (get it ‘facelift’ ‘Facebook’…no?) The new pro-file page (your ‘cover’ as it’s called on the timeline promotional page) is all new, redesigned to give you more personaliza-tion. Your profile picture is still there, but now there is a new picture that acts as a header image for your page. Continuing down the page, your “likes”, “friends” and other ‘face-bookesque’ features like places you have
checked in and other applications you have subscribed to. In terms of design, I like the new look. Although it seems a bit busy at first glance, the grid-like layout works for me. The real interesting things come into play when we look at what Facebook has been doing in the background to make the whole timeline concept work. For Facebook, noth-ing is better than its users interacting with the site 24/7 (well I mean that’s already the case but work with me here). Essentially, Facebook would like you to view your account as your own per-sonal photo album, a medium that tells a story and documents your life through photos, friendships and conversations. You can see how this concept comes to-gether when we look at the tremendous
amount of data that Facebook keeps on each of its members. In addition to photos and videos that a given individual uploads, you now also have a full history of your messages (both the “private” messages and the “instant/chat” mes-sages are recorded). So what you have is a comprehensive overview of your life, and Facebook knows that Facebook is probably a big part of your
life (and that’s not half of a lie considering the amount of times
we collectively log on the site, and the amount of communication that takes place via there services). One interesting thing that has resulted from the most recent changes have to be the combination of user outcry (apparently people love to hate everything Facebook does) and growing concerns over the amount of data that the site is keeping on its users.
Starting with the latter, it comes as no surprise that Facebook has been collecting this staggering amount of information. Companies like Google do the exact same thing, to better help them target advertising (also known as money) to the individual user and Facebook is doing exactly the same thing. As far as Facebook dynamic look, well change is usually a good thing. Allow me to end on a little bit of a rant here ladies and gents, you may hate the changes but it’s not really up to you. Facebook is a privately traded company, who lets you use their site for free. In addition, you agreed to a neat little list of terms and services that said Facebook could change anything they wanted whenever they wanted. So if you don’t like it feel free to complain, just have some dignity and do it somewhere other than Facebook; I hear Twitter and Google Plus are free (please don’t crud up my beloved Google Plus).
THURSDAYOctober 6, 2011
CATHERINE ZENDEScience & Technology Editor
Winthrop Wetlands
Pictured above, the wetlands area was created in 2004 to aid student research and improve the health of the lake. Winthrop partnered with Rock Hill School District #3 to complete the project. Photo by Aimee Harman • [email protected]
“The Farm” serves as home for wildlife Any student who has been through biology at
Winthrop University has learned the existence of a small wetlands area that adjoins the lake. Few, how-ever, know how it got there or the importance of its existence.
Wetlands are areas that consist of shallow water full of a rich diversity of non-aquatic and aquatic plants and animals. Most wetlands are protected by the gov-ernment, with the intention of preserving the unique organism found in these areas. It is this protection that enabled the creation of the wetlands area near Winthrop Lake.
After some wetlands were filled in to make way for South Pointe High School, Winthrop University and Rock Hill School District 3 were required to replace the wetlands. To do this, a new area in Winthrop Park was found.
Dr Richard Houk, a retired Winthrop biology profes-sor, was in charge of the wetlands construction.
“The major portion of the wetland project was funded by the Rock Hill School District 3,” said Houk. An area consisting of 1.1 acres of wetlands were con-structed in Winthrop Park.
“The school district has full access to the wetland as does Winthrop University,” said Houk. To facilitate this access, and to prevent damage to the area, the wetlands area has a raised walk that allows an observer to walk over and through some of the area.
This area is an example of piedmont wetlands, an environment that is rapidly becoming more difficult to find. In addition to preserving a special environment, the wetland area helps support local wildlife and keeps Winthrop Lake healthy.
Many organisms in the area rely on the wetlands area, including nesting birds and several species of plant that thrive specifically in piedmont wetlands.
Students at Winthrop University are introduced to the wetlands area in biology 150/151.
“I don’t remember much about it,” Amy Sayers said, “But it would be interesting to learn more.” Say-
ers, a senior business major, has visited the wetlands several times. “I think it is important to maintain the area because of its use as an educational tool,” said Sayers.
For students at Winthrop University, having the wetlands area so close is a little known privilege. As commercial and residential building spreads, areas able to support a wetland environment dwindle. Many types of wetlands across the nation are in danger of being wiped out and with them a large selection of unique organisms.
“I would like it if people got interested in this [area],” Sayers said. “Its kind of strange that so many people visit Winthrop Lake but know next to nothing about the wetlands right next to it.”
Students interested in visiting “The Farm,” a term often used to refer to the Research & Recreational Complex, can utilize the boardwalk and viewing area to see the many species of animals and plants that are now are a part of the Winthrop community.
By Adam UzzellSpecial to the Johnsonian
Webmaster reflects on Facebook changes
Oh, the sights you’ll see! Take a trip to “The Farm” and you will find...
• a boardwalk and viewing area
• an island nesting area that is home to many area birds including the great blue heron, Canada geese, and song sparrows
• 14 species of trees and 10 shrubs planted by students The wetlands area is also used for continu-ing research for Winthrop students. Photo by Aimee Harman • [email protected]
Devang [email protected]
I have become accus-tomed to having everything I need at my fingertips: email, Facebook, calendar, calcu-lator, weather reports, music, banking infor-mation, games and even celeb-rity gossip. I just
reach into my pocket, draw my personal security pattern, and I instantly have ac-cess to a world of information. And if you have a smartphone of any kind, you know what I’m talking about. Whether you are using the apple app store or the droid market, you have access to thousands of apps to improve your phone experience. But which ones are legitimate re-sources and which ones are useless scams? Before you download an app that promises you the world, do some re-search. After all, “free” does not always mean free. Below I have listed some of the best apps for college students. They are great because they are helpful for college life and they are free!
1) Dictionary.com
It may seem a bit obvious to suggest a dictionary for college students, but I think people underestimate the helpful-ness of the tool. Let’s say your professor assigns a particularly heavy reading with particularly daunting vocabulary. Whether the terminology is related to biology, literature or history, you have the perfect app to understand exactly what those pages are talking about. 2) iTriage If you like Winthrop University Health & Counseling services on Face-book, you may have seen this app already. However, I think it is so helpful that it deserves another shout-out. This app allows you to specify symptoms, find
local doctors and facilities, learn about diseases and procedures, and find access to emergency hotlines like the domestic abuse hotline, suicide hotline and local police for non-emergencies. This is a super handy app, especially with the cold and flu season approach-ing. However, the risk for becoming a hypochondriac could be increased since the app offers information about every known medical disorder.
3) Brilliant Quotes & Quotations
“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.” –R. Buckminster Fuller. This thought-provoking quote is courtesy of the free Brilliant Quotes & Quotation app available for iPhones and androids. You can search for famous quotes by the author, by category or by searching for a specific term. So next time you are writing a pa-per and need some intellectual support, turn to this app to search for the perfect quote to enhance your point. Here is yet
another app to make you seem smarter.
4) Convert Pad (Unit Converter)
How many feet equals one yard? How many ounces are in a pound? If it is 33 degree Celsius, what is the tem-perature in Fahrenheit? While there may have been a time when you knew these conversions, odds are that you may struggle to remember the precise measurements. Thanks to the Convert Pad app you can now have scientific and monetary conversions literally at your fingertips. While using the app may seem confusing at first, with a little practice you will be able to access speedy conversions. (And maybe you will even be able to actually remember them).
5) Where’s my droid? Where’s my iPhone? So you have decided to download some awesome academic and social
apps, but now you realize you can’t find your phone! A friend offers to call it for you, but your heart sinks as you realize that you left the phone on silent be-cause you were in class. Never fear! This last (and probably most helpful) app will make sure you can find that silent phone. Here is how it works: you down-loaded the app, set a recovery password (something like “help” or “find me”) and pick the settings you prefer. If you lose your phone when it is on silent, simply ask a friend to text you that recovery password. Once the text is sent, wait a few seconds. The text turns your phone off silent and switches on your ringtone. Make sure your password is some-thing unique (i.e. not “wassup”). If you choose something too common, people may accidentally turn your phone on in class and embarrass you with a very loud ringtone.
These are just a few of the apps ap-propriate for your college years. There are certainly more, especially ones you don’t mind paying for. My advice is to be careful about downloading apps and giving away too much information. Many apps will lure you in with words like “free” or “lite,” but will ask you to pay for certain services. Others will give you free access, but continu-ally ask for your information or load you with constant ads. If you are smart, you can equip yourself with the best free apps for your smartphone. For more recommended apps (in-cluding some you need to pay for), go to www.mytjnow.com. Questions or comments? Email me at [email protected].
THURSDAY October 6, 2011 9SCIENCE & TECH
Back on Stage
Billy McLaughlin has become a voice of Dys-tonia, and he came back to Winthrop on October 2, 2011, with a new song and an inspirational story. In 2001, McLaughlin was diagnosed with focal dystonia, and he is now the new ambassador for Dystonia Medical Research Foundation (DMRF). DMRF was founded in 1976 and is dedicated to finding a cure and educating and supporting people with dystonia. Task-specific focal dystonia is a neurologi-cal movement disorder recognized by involuntary muscle contractions and spasms in the face, neck, feet, hands and vocal cords. It can occur in any individual, adult or child. However, musicians are more likely to get dystonia than any other profession including den-tists, surgeons and writers. This is because music making is very complicated and intense since it is linked to the limbic system, which controls the emotions. For a period of time, McLaughlin would come back from the doctor’s with a report of be-ing in good health, but when McLaughlin played the guitar, three of his fingers on the right hand would curl up. It was a relief to him when he was diagnosed because “just clarifying that it wasn’t something I had made up; it was really, truly hap-pening… was an important step of moving past it,” McLaughlin said. There are thirteen types of dystonia, but two types are most common among musicians: focal hand and embouchure. Focal hand dystonia is the loss of the ability to perform practiced move-ments. The word focal implies that the disorder only affects one part of the body. Dystonia can be developed through intensely practiced move-ments for a lengthy period of time, and the dis-ease is only noticeable through a specific task. The other form, embouchure dystonia, affects brass and woodwind musicians. Instead of their hands being affected, the mouth, face, jaw and tongue are subjected to the disorder. To position the mouth to fit the mouthpiece and play effec-tively requires the use of at least twelve muscles in the face. Some symptoms of focal hand dystonia are a subtle loss of control in fast paced music, lack of precision, curling of fingers, fingers becoming
stuck, involuntary flexion and a tremor or spasm of the hand. The symptoms for embouchure are different, and include air leaks out of the corners of the mouth and involuntary contractions of the muscles in the face. Dystonia has no specific cause. However, a genetic predisposition can be a factor, increasing the chance of developing the disorder. According to Dystonia Medical Research Foun-dation, dystoina has been compared to a “com-puter virus” in the sensory and motor systems. There is no cure for the disease, but there are several treatments like Anticholinergic drugs, which improve the connection of the message from the brain to the muscle, and botulinum toxin injections that reduce the spasm by weakening the muscle. There is a likelihood that McLaughlin could develop dystonia in his left hand as well, but he can’t think about that. “I bring as much energy to every show . . . if it’s my last show, I don’t want it to be mediocre,” McLaughlin said. Dystonia does not only affect how a musician plays, it also takes a toll on the physiological well-being of the musician as well. When McLaughlin was twelve years old, he picked up a guitar and immediately knew that was what he wanted to do. He says he lives to play music, and that music was his inspiration to retrain himself to play guitar with his left hand. “I didn’t want to lose my music. I didn’t want to lose what I love the most,” McLaughlin said. It was devastating to him when he realized he was physically unable to play the guitar. Rumors flew that he couldn’t play well any-more because of a mental health issue or drugs or alcohol like a typical performer. “It was important to put that behind me…because that was not what was happening.” He said he wasn’t able to tell his fans what was wrong, because he himself didn’t know, so he cut them out of the equation for a little while. A year after he was diagnosed he lost his record deal, and became disconnected with his life as a performer. By 2007, he was back on stage and was able to play his music again for his fans. “I am a big fan of Billy McLaughlin. It is amazing he switched hands and relearned everything,” a local resident said. A friend of McLaughlin said, “He is so inspir-ing. Even if I didn’t know him, I would [still] be here [tonight].”
Focal dystonia helps musician refocus
Guitarist Billy McLaughlin addresses a crowd at a recent concert held to benefit the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation (DMRF). McLaughlin, who was diagnosed with focal dystonia in 2001, is now the Ambassador of Aware-ness for DMRF. Photo by John Rhodes • rhodesj@mytjnow-com
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“” I bring as much energy to every show...if it’s my last show, I don’t want it be mediocre
Billy McLaughlin
THURSDAYOctober 6, 2011
MONICA KREBERArts & Entertainment Editor
a year; Friday was the first one.
“It’s a well-recog-nized sport, and lots of students are into it,” he said. “I would like to encourage more students to come out and play.”
Players started the tournament with $200 worth of chips, and each round lasted an hour. No actual money is involved in the card games.
“We don’t do gam-bling,” Robinson said. “It is against Winthrop values. College stu-dents do not need to be gambling.”
Eight students started the first round of Texas Hold ‘Em tournament, which
reduced to four in the second round and two in the finals: Plyler against senior mod-ern languages major Andrew Wilson. The round lasted an hour. In most cases, the players keep going until someone wins all of the chips, but Rob-inson explained that each round in the WU tournament was timed to one hour. By the end of that hour, whoever had the most money in chips was the winner.
Wilson was the win-ner in this semester’s Texas Hold ‘Em tour-nament. The winner received a Winthrop Intramural Sports t-shirt.
Texas Hold ‘Em Lingo:Royal Flush: Ace, King, Queen, Jack and 10, all of the same suit. Straight Flush: Any five-card sequence in the same suit (e.g.: 8, 9, 10, Jack and Queen of clubs) Four of a Kind: All four cards of the same value (e.g.: 8, 8, 8, 8; or Queen, Queen, Queen, Queen). Full House: Three of a kind combined with a pair (e.g.: 10, 10, 10 with 6, 6; or King, King, King with 5, 5). Flush: Any five cards of the same suit, but not in sequence (e.g.: 4, 5, 7, 10 and King of spades). Straight: Five cards in sequence, but not in the same suit (e.g.: 7 of clubs, 8 of clubs, 9 of diamonds, 10 of spades and Jack of diamonds). Three of a Kind: Three cards of the same value (e.g.: 3, 3, 3; or Jack, Jack, Jack). Two Pair: Two separate pairs (e.g.: 2, 2, Queen, Queen). Pair: Two cards of the same value (e.g.: 7, 7). High Card: If a Poker hand contains none of the above combinations, it’s valued by the highest card in it.
Students put on their poker facesProvided by Winthrop Intramural Sports, students play in the Fall semester Texas Hold ‘Em and Spades
tournament at the DiGiorgio Student Center last Friday afternoon
Players started off with $200 in chips in the tourna-ment. White chips are valued at $1, blue are $5, red are $10 and green are $25. Photos by Aimee Harmon • [email protected]
POKER• from front
Interested in playing in the next tournament? Here are the rules:
1. Each player will start with $200 in chips 2. Blinds start at $1 and $2 and go up every 15 min-utes. 3. You may not tell a player what your cards are dur-ing the game. 4. A called player must present his full hand. All other losing hands may be mucked. 5. The game starts with blinds and the deal, followed by betting, the flop, more betting, the turn, more bet-ting, the river and the last round of betting. 6. Players can check, bet or raise. Check is a bet al-lowed only if no other bet is made already or there is just a call of the big blind then the big blind may check, fold or raise.
7. Betting is a minimum of the big blind 8. Raises must be at least equal to the amount of the previous bet or raise 9. Please announce a check, bet, raise or re-raise. 10. Always announce the value of a bet or rise. There is no string betting. 11. After each hour, if no one has been eliminated from the table during that hour, the person with the lowest chip total at that table will be eliminated. 12. Players may sit out a hand to use the bathroom or compete in another tournament. When blinds come around to that player then his/her chips will be en-tered. If you are at the table you must play the hand.
Rules and lingo information provided by WU Intra-mural Sports
What strikes me, from the first snare drum hit, while I listen to the new Maylene & The Sons of Disaster CD IV are the clean vocals coming from x-UNDEROATH vocalist Dallas Taylor.
Congrats are in or-der fortoputting out yet another great release. (I reviewed another Ferret Records release, Dead Throne, from the Ohio-based The Devil Wears Prada last week.) This lat-est release from Maylene came out Tuesday, Sept. 27.
Maylene is a southern metalcore (mixed with blues influences) band hailing from Birmingham, Alabama. Without get-ting into too much detail, Taylor left Underoath in 2003, at which time Spen-cer Chamberlain from Chapel Hill, N.C. took over vocal duties.
While Maylene is south-ern rock/metal in musical style, “Taylor-era” Un-deroath took on a heavier screamo direction. This fused a fun ride with every song being accessible to both fans of metal and rock music.
The Maylene story comes from Dallas’ child-hood trips to see the reenactments in Ocala, Fla. of the legend of a gang allegedly run by Ma Barker & her sons in the “public enemy” era of our country. The moral of the story was that their evil deeds were met with divine justice.
Is Maylene & the Sons of Disaster a Christian
band? Dallas has this to say, “For us, our faith is what makes us. We believe in showing our fans respect and kind-ness. I love it when bands minister, as long as their lifestyle off the stage lives up to their life on stage. Nowadays it is cliche in some markets to be a Christian band, but being that in itself is hard and sometimes can put a bulls eye on your back. It is not an easy thing sometimes, but no one is perfect. But living to the standards of what you preach and talk about is a big deal and something we chose to do everyday.” Right on, Dallas.
IV is a fun romp musi-cally with some blues-esque riffs while still keeping it metal. Gone are the screams so ac-customed to this style of music but replaced with actual singing. If there is one track I would relate this album to, it would be Listen Close from the third album. In a perfect world, Maylene would be at the top of rock music charts across the globe, in my humble opinion.
If you buy the CD off Amazon or iTunes, you can get the deluxe edition which comes with an ad-ditional track as well as a remixed song/track.
Album singles are the lead “In Dead We Dream” and the latest “Open Your Eyes,” which is the 4th track on the album. “Open Your Eyes” has a chorus just itching for crowds to belt out as Dallas stretches out an
arm for folks to sing into the mic. “Drought of ’85” reminds me of a laid back song in the same vein as “The End Is Here…The End Is Beautiful.”
Take if from someone who’s been a metalhead kid since the ripe old age of 13: Maylene is sonic candy. I have been an avid fan of Taylor’s vocals since Underoath’s first CD Act of Depression was released. Although this latest album doesn’t pound you eardrums with explosive blast-beats, it sooths your eardrums while making you bob your head to the melody.
You can catch Maylene on their current tour with Thursday (a band I saw a couple months ago), but the closest Maylene will be to us is in Florida for a while. I caught them headlining the Scream the Prayer tour in Charlotte a few months ago. Listen to my show, listed below, for updates to their where-abouts on my concert calendar. It also has all the social networking site pages for the music.
If you have been search-ing for a band that is a cross between Pantera and Lynard Skynard, check out the band May-lene. As usual, be sure to listen in to my show CASTINGSUCHATHIN-SHADOW, Saturdays from 12-4 p.m. on winrfm.com to hear Maylene and other metal bands.
Timothy CuocoSpecial to The Johnsonian
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THURSDAY October 6, 2011 11
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Michael Bérubé
“Pulp Fiction,” Contemporary Philosophy and the Fine Art of Agreeing to Disagree
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classic American novels and recent political controversies, Bérubé will ask how people can � nd ways to agree to disagree—and will call for maintaining a society where dissent and disagreement are not only possible, but also accepted and respected.
Bérubé is the author and editor of nine books on cultural studies, disability studies and debates about liberal politics, the humanities and higher education.
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When Winthrop alumni, former English-Creative writing major Greg Larson, was still a student, he got an idea to start doing stand ups within the Rock Hill area.
Larson got his friend, senior busi-ness major Aaron Kinard, to go to Open Mic nights in Charlotte. Lar-son found a place during his senior year called Jackelop Jack’s, which he de-scribed as “basically a room in a restau-rant with speakers.”
Larson said he wanted to go be-cause he could not find a way to deliver his jokes at Win-throp.
“I basically peer-pressured my friends to get on stage and make fools of them-selves along with me,” Larson said. “They were nervous at first, which is natural, but they got a taste of the thrill that can accompany a good set.”
Eventually the group of friends noticed classmates coming to the same places in Charlotte.
“Some of the places would have Charlotte locals,” Kinard said, “but we would still run into Winthrop students doing the same thing we were doing.”
What started as a group of friends traveling to Char-lotte once a week turned into a way of getting more stu-dents together for the same purpose –wanting to give an audience a good laugh.
“We had a bunch of people on Win-throp’s campus that seemed really inter-ested and wanted to do it,” Kinard said. “We were combin-ing with theatre, art and other students, and that was kinda fun.”
In order to band the students to-gether, Kinard said he and his friends started doing an Open Mic Night in the DiGiorgio Stu-dent Center’s The Edge for a while but said the situa-tion was somewhat controlling.
“It was kind of PG-ish –not that what we were doing was over the top,” Kinard said. “But for a liberal arts school it wasn’t be-ing very liberal.”
Kinard said he and Larson got support from students who enjoyed that type of comedy (stand ups). They would hand out flyers and also created a Facebook page for the Open Mic Nights, but the best audience he and his friends got came from the nightclub on Cherry Road formerly known as
Scandal’s, which owner Butch Bailey closed last April.
Kinard said he and Larson worked with Bailey on what he called a “typical business deal”: Ki-nard and his friends got into the club for free, and their stand ups brought Scan-dals more business.
“The main rea-son he (the owner) allowed us to come and do stand ups was to get people to come to Scandals,” Kinard said. “There was a lack of sup-port.”
Larson said it was such a big hit that 50 people came to the second Open Mic week. How-ever, since so many people had to stand that not many came back the following week.
“We just couldn’t fit everyone,” he said.
The student comedians were taking the stage on Wednesdays before being limited to ev-ery other Thursday.
As the weeks progressed, business at Scandal’s began to decrease. Kinard and Larson said the rumor for Scandal’s closing was parked police cars at the Exxon and Wal-greens on Cherry Road on weekend nights started to de-ter customers from
going to the night-club.
“From what I got, that was one of the reasons Scandals closed,” Kinard said.
However, Win-throp Police Chief Frank Zebedis said the rumor is untrue to his knowledge as to why Scandals closed.
“Law Enforce-ment had nothing to do with Scandal’s closing,” Zebedis said. “I do not know why (Bailey) closed Scandal’s.”
(Bailey said in an interview with the Rock Hill Herald that his business be-gan to slow around 2005, although he was not sure why).
Nonetheless, Ki-nard said the bene-fits of performing at Scandal’s included saving gas and pro-viding more acces-sibility to Winthrop students.
Larson said he thinks Winthrop should implement stand ups, but the responsibility to get the stage time is ultimately up to the students who want to do it.
“If you go to the comedy club to get on stage in front of 50 strangers and tell jokes to drunk people who only want to heckle you, giving a speech to
30 classmates will be a walk in the park,” Larson said.
Kinard added that doing stand up also benefitted him with his classwork; he said stand ups made him more comfort-able speaking in front of an audience.
“Let’s put it this way: if I had a microphone I would talk all day long,” he said. “I would answer every ques-tion in class.”
Kinard is the only person he knows that is taking Speech 101 as an elective.
“Not too many guys are going to take this class be-cause they want to,” he said.
Being behind the mic gave Kinard a lot more confidence, he said. He feels that it is unfortunate that the stand up act is on hiatus with Scan-dal’s being closed.
“That tradition is gone,” Kinard said.
“Many nights of standing there in the line outside Scan-dal’s for 30 minutes just to say you did it is gone now, and nobody is going to get to see it.”
Larson said the comedy scene con-tinues to flourish in Charlotte, especially with the opening of the new Comedy Zone Charlotte at the Music Factory. He also said he en-couraged other res-taurant and bar own-ers to implement the same idea with their businesses.
“It’s a good deal for everyone in-volved: the owner of the venue gives the customers a draw with cheap entertainment, the customers have something to laugh at and enjoy, and the performers get some money and stage time,” he said. “Not a bad deal for everyone.”
No more Scandal’s, no more standupsStudents say standups entertained, provided unity and improved confidence in the classroom
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Friday, October 7Preston Pugmire and Darrelle London
One of the hottest up-and-coming singer/songwriters, Preston Pugmire is unlike
anything you will ever experience as he creates his own beats, bass, and vocals while playing the guitar all by himself.
Canadian singer/songwriter Darrelle Lon-don will also take the stage Friday. Winner of the Lilith Fair Talent Search Competi-tion, Darrelle was an opening act to last
year’s Lileth Fair Reunion tour with Sarah Mclaughlin.
WHERE: The Edge - DiGiorgio CenterWHEN: 8 p.m.PRICE: $5 with Winthrop ID, $10 without
Free with Fall Pass
Once a popular college hangout on Cherry Road, Scandal’s owner Butch Bailey closed up the busi-ness last April. Photo courtesy of Google Images.
THURSDAYOctober 6, 2011
ALISON ANGELCulture Editor
The closing of Roddey Apartments may displace the majority of on-campus international students next fall.
Chuhan Gong, 21, began her studies in the U.S. this semester as a junior from Nantong, China. “If it won’t close, I would love to continue to live here,” Gong said. She moved into Roddey only about a month ago. “Maybe it will be hard to find an apartment with individual kitchens and we will have to spend more money on rent.”
Roddey’s three floors can hold 152 people, about 53 of which are currently international students, estimat-ed Director of Residence Life, Cynthia Cassens.Hina Bhatti, 20, is a senior finance major and has lived in the same room in Roddey for two years.
“[International students] will probably move off campus which would be more expensive and inconve-nient because they don’t have driver’s licenses or cars as soon as they come. I guess most of them will try to live in UP. Everything will have to be prearranged by the International Center,” she predicted.
“Public transportation is really big in other coun-tries. [New international students] may have no driv-ing experience, so for them to get a license may take like six months,” Bhatti said. This may limit where they can go, she said.
Bhatti, an ethnic Pakistani from Kuwait, lived in Phelps her first year at Winthrop. The dorm is sched-uled to reopen fall 2012, when Roddey closes for renovation.
“Phelps was bigger than Roddey; the rooms were bigger, although they didn’t have kitchens.”
The full kitchen facilities and apartment-style housing are unique features of Roddey that attract international students.
“Interior space was converted to efficiency apartments in 1975 and renovated in 1989 to house primarily married couples, single parents, graduate and international students.
Sarah AuvilSpecial to the Johnsonian
The closing of Roddey may displace a large number of international students, who make up the majority of residents. Photo by Sarah Auvil • [email protected]
Roddey Apartments to close, displace students
Fashion culture at WU gains new outletAlison [email protected]
Not many would liken an event as big as New York Fashion Week to directly influence a place as far away as Rock Hill or Charlotte. Yet some people live and breathe for couture and manage to keep one foot in the fashion world by get-ting their fix from nearby Charlotte and incorporating their own stylish flair into their everyday wear.
Over the past few years the Charlotte and the surrounding areas have created events specifically designated for those who live their lives surrounding them-selves in beauty. Not many outlets were available to WU students before, but now, with the transportation and one week in September, beauty is right at their fingertips. Since Charlotte created their own version of fashion week in 2008 to follow the events in New York, many who otherwise would be without the chance to participate have found an outlet, including some of Winthrop’s own.
Junior family and consumer sciences major Dustin Ellis, for example, lays it all out on the table: “People in Rock Hill dress for practicality. Rock Hill isn’t fashion,” he said. “People are very safe.” Yet Ellis, who enjoys defining his own personal style, found a creative outlet by taking part in Charlotte Fashion Week.
Ellis interned for Fashion Week for four months over the summer, help-ing with everything from pulling looks for photo shoots to selecting models at castings. He first found the job while researching a second internship, and because of his own enjoyment sewing and developing style, got immersed in the fashion.
“You won’t see me debuting a collec-tion anytime soon, but it’s something I never tire of,” Ellis said. “I decided to
take part in Charlotte Fashion Week to better align myself with the industry. As you can imagine, there are few fashion opportunities in the area, and I was eager for more experience.”
Ellis attributes the rise in the fashion subculture to the sensationalization it receives in the media. However, he said that while Lady Gaga’s extravagant outfits, for example, might bring fashion thought to the forefront but lacks true representation.
“Fashion is a creative expression driven by personal aesthetics,” he said. “Above all, it’s individual.”
There is an entire fashion subculture brimming beneath Winthrop’s surface that, like Ellis, has more than just a knack for personal style.
There are always those who manage to look put together and stylish even for a walk around campus. But some students put such thought and detail into even the simplest of outfits making them fearless and embrace the history of fashion.
Other Winthrop students are involved in the emerging fashion culture in dif-ferent ways. Some students, like senior commercial photography major Owen Bayne, are pulled into that world by other means.
Bayne worked as a photographer at this year’s Charlotte Fashion Week for a friend who was a featured designer, the Eleanor Morgan showcase. He photo-graphed her line as it went down the runway. Though Bayne already had an interest in fashion and design, the draw of his best friend being featured closed the deal.
Bayne has also attended other local fashion events as they cropped up in response to the ever-growing demand for fashion culture. He attended the Charleston Fashion Week and compared the two city’s takes on bringing fashion
Charlotte Fashion Week 2011. Many Winthrop students have gotten involved since its inception three years ago as photographers, interns and even models. Photo by Alison Angel • [email protected]
to the hungry, noting that while Rock Hill’s outlet to fashion week was good, it has plenty of room to grow.
“I am fairly new to the Charlotte and Rock Hill scene, so I’m not sure how it has grown in the fashion department,” Bayne said. “However, I did also go to Charles-ton Fashion Week and was a bit more impressed with the overall professionalism of the event. Charlotte Fashion Week can always improve, but I was not totally dis-satisfied.”
Bayne said that he thinks fashion has become so enticing because there is always something new and exciting, and that certainly has appealed to Winthrop students.
“I definitely think there are students [at] Winthrop who are interested in fashion and the fashion world,” he said. “No two designers are exactly alike, and people are always aspiring to push the boundaries and make something new and unique.”
Above all, as Ellis said, fashion is what one makes it and how it becomes individu-alized, not strictly what the industry or fashion weeks here and afar present it as. However, there is an understanding of why it holds mass appeal.
“[Some people view it as] a status symbol alluding to an idealized life,” he said. “This idea of fashion is like a poster of a movie star scotch taped to the dorm wall of a freshman of meager means. It’s worth dreaming about. It’s representative of something more than they are and more than they know. It’s the unattainable they’re fascinated by.”
In fall 2010, the apartments were converted to house two or four students depending on room size,” according to Winthrop’s website.
Concerned members of the community are rais-ing questions. “Will Winthrop provide a place for them?” asked Pat Courtney, director of United In-ternational Ministries. She went to her first Friend-ship Dinner in 1988 and strives alongside other local volunteers to help international students feel welcome ever since.
“It’ll have a tremendous effect because Roddey is mostly international students. I don’t know where they’ll go; I just don’t see the dorm space available,” Courtney said.
Angie Edwards, fourth year director of the Inter-national Center, had some answers. “For students that have to find off-campus housing, we try to give them a few leads and places other students have lived and been pretty happy,” she said.
The International Center works together with Residence Life for first and second year students, who are required to live on-campus and guaranteed housing.
“Depending on if there’s a shortage of bed spaces [older students] might get wait listed and have to live off-campus,” Edwards said.
Edwards has mixed feelings about the scheduled renovation. “Every building has a life cycle,” she said. “I’m disappointed that Roddey is closing, but I understand that there are some good things on the horizon.”
THURSDAYOctober 6, 2011
JEFF BRODEURSports Editor
DAVID THACKHAMSports Editor
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Sports Briefs
Winning streak ends for men’s cross country
After winning their first three events to start off the 2011 season, the Winthrop men’s cross country team finished at the bottom of the standings at the Paul Short Invitational over the weekend.
Senior Adam Freudenthal, who was the top per-former in two of the first three meets, took at fall about 3 miles into the 8k race after taking a knee to the head by a passing runner and was unable to finish the race.
Fellow senior Kyle Carufe also took a spill at the start of the race, finishing as Winthrop’s no. 8 run-ner.
The top performer for the Eagles was Steve Ri-vard, who finished with a time of 26:57,which placed him at 258th overall.
Winthrop will take this week off before returning to action on Oct. 14 when it competes in the Covered Bridge Invitational at Appalachian State in Boone, NC.
Winthrop soccer teams to host 2012 Man-chester Cup
The Winthrop men’s and women’s soccer teams will be hosting the Manchester Cup in March of 2012. The dates have been scheduled for March 30 and 31 for the womens and mens teams respectively. All games will be played at the Manchester Meadows soccer complex.
Winthrop’s men’s team will be competing against foes such as Clemson, Kentucky, South Carolina and East Tennessee State.
Women’s tennis delivers strong performanc-es
The Winthrop women’s soccer teams had four strong performances this past weekend at the Wake Forest Invitational.
Junior Giovanna Portiolli captured the D singles flight and teamed up with senior Sandra Herrera to claim third place in the B doubles flight.
Freshman Ekin Gunaysu made it all the way to the flight E singles before falling to Marshall’s Elise Ball.
Sophomore Andressa Garcia captured a third place finish in her singles flight as well.
The women’s tennis team will return to action Oct. 15 as they host the ITF Rock Hill Challenger.
Steve Rivard named Winthrop’s Athlete of the Week
Steve Rivard, a sophomore from Goose Creek, SC, was chosen the Big South Conference Men’s Run-ner of the Week. He took home the South Carolina Intercollegiate Individual Title with a time of 27:21 on the 8K course at The Citadel Invitational.
His second-place overall finish fueled the Eagles to a first-place team finish at the event, their third-straight team title this season.
Men’s basketball team volunteers for Habitat for Humanity
The Winthrop men’s basketball players, coaches and staff dedicated this past Saturday to volunteer for Habitat for Humanity of York County.
The team worked on a house that was under con-struction located on Crawford Road in Rock Hill.
They worked in two shifts throughout the day, performing task that included landscaping, painting, hardware installation and cleaning.
The Habitat For Humanity of York County is a non-profit, Christian-based housing ministry that aims to provide housing for people around York County. As of this past summer, the Habitat For Hu-manity of York County has built a total of 48 homes.
WU announces 2012 baseball schedule
Winthrop baseball head coach Tom Riginos has announced the 56-game regular season schedule for the 2012 baseball season which includes 29 home games.
The Eagles will face 10 programs that partici-pated in the NCAA Tournament last season includ-ing Georgia Tech, Kent State, Georgia, Oregon State, Arizona State, Charlotte, Clemson, College of Charleston, North Carolina and Coastal Carolina.
The Tar Heels advanced to the NCAA College World Series in 2011, while the Sun Devils and Bea-vers made it to the NCAA Super Regionals.
The Eagles season will begin Feb. 17 as they host the Rock Hill Coaca-Cola Classic against Georgia Tech.
Women’s golf to host 2011 Winthrop Inter-collegiate
The women’s golf team will host the Winthrop Intercollegiate golf tournament on Oct. 8 and 9 at the Rock Hill Country Club as nine teams compete in the 36-hole tournament.
The theme of the tournament will be “Think Pink” in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Mem-bers of the team will be raising money to support the Susan G. Komen Foundation through the sale of Think Pink bracelets and ribbons.
The bracelets can be purchased for $3 while the ribbons cost $1. The two items will be available dur-ing the tournament at the Rock Hill Country Club.
Admission to both days of the tournament is free.
there, which was important for my parents.”
Eventually, Brundle says, the time with the academies came to an end at 16, pushing him back into full-time education at Norwich School, effectively a private, Chris-tian high school. What happened there, in his final year, would make the ultimate difference.
“I was doing a school project on the subject of soccer in other coun-tries,” Brundle explained, “when I saw a pop-up on this one page for ‘FirstPoint USA.’”
FirstPoint USA is an 11-year old company catering to interna-tional athletes, striving to provide sportspersons from across the globe with scholarship opportunities to play in America. The organization’s website claims it has placed athletes in colleges such as William and Mary, Notre Dame, Lousiana State and Virginia Tech.
“It was really random,” said Brundle. “I just clicked on it and got interested.”
Before FirstPoint USA could offer any assistance, Brundle had to pass a series of tests.
“They asked me to come to Stam-ford Bridge (Chelsea Football Club’s home field) for an interview,” he said. “They had to make sure I was academically viable and after that, they finally gave me a trial.”
The company helped Brundle compile videos from his academy days to present to willing schools, while he was given two 90-minute matches to prove his mettle for the
cameras and for any American uni-versities who were out there.
By the end of 2009, Brundle had a few offers and visited schools, but the most pressure came from Divi-sion II Delta State University, in Cleveland, MS. Although the deci-sion to move gave Brundle a chance to play in America, little else excited him about the university.
“I don’t regret the time, but the soccer program just wasn’t it for me,” Brundle said. “The buzz around the campus was nonex-istent. I might have stayed if the soccer program had been good, but I didn’t come [to America] to play four years of rubbish [soccer].”
The midfielder scored four goals from 32 shots in his one year with the Statesmen, where he started for each of the team’s 17 games as a freshman. After finishing a disap-pointing fourth place in the Gulf South Conference, Brundle decided a change of scenery was in order if he were to get back to top flight “football.” It doesn’t even matter where he plays, as long as he’s on the field.
“A lot of people immediately want to have me as a defender [because of my height],” he said. “I’ve played a lot as a central midfielder, but it doesn’t matter too much to me, I just love to play.”
With conference honors in hand, Brundle put himself back on the college market. This time, competi-tion for his signature heated up, with teams ranging from Coastal Carolina to universities in Califor-nia calling his name. In the end, however, it was Winthrop that
sealed the deal. “I applied to a number of schools,
but I had a friend at Winthrop, Josh Choice, who really wanted me to come here to play with him, and I did.”
Choice, a sophomore defender, has now had the opportunity to see his friend start each one of Winthrop’s nine games this sea-son. Brundle now leads the team in most minutes played, proving the commitment Coach Posipanko has shown his young transfer. That trust paid off on September 1 in a match against Georgia Southern when young Brundle opened his goal account with a game winning 30-yard strike to secure Winthrop’s second win of the year in overtime.
“I was really struggling up until that,” Brundle said. “A long ball had gone over the top in the midfield and hit my chest, so when I saw the goal, I just thought, ‘Why not?’”
Why not take a chance? It’s the story of Adam Brundle’s life.
Curiosity pays off for WU transferBRUNDLE • from front
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They’ll tell you they’re friends, but when it came to football this past Sun-day, Monique Haynes and Jessica Singleton sat on opposite ends of the couch near two flat-screen televisions in the DiGiorgio Campus Center. On one screen, Haynes was rooting for her Pittsburgh Steelers against the Houston Tex-ans, while the other TV entertained Singleton, enthralled by her Caro-lina Panthers versus the Chicago Bears.
“Don’t you even start,” Haynes warned a smil-ing Singleton after the Steelers’ 30-yard field goal was blocked to end the game’s first half. “We still have time left to pull it out.”
A new culture has emerged since the DIGS was born: More and more students are flock-
ing to watch football in the glow of the campus center’s multiple 60” BRAVIA EX500 Series HDTV’s.
“I like the big TV’s,” Singleton said. “I like being able to watch two or more different games at one time. Even if I had the same screen in my own room, I’d still come to the campus center.”
Although Haynes is a self-professed Carolina fan, she can enjoy any game she watches.
“This is the best game on right now,” she said. “I really like to watch the South Carolina Game-cocks, though.”
“Too bad they lost last night,” Singleton quickly added with a grin, bring-ing up memories of USC’s gritty 16-13 loss to the Auburn University Tigers.
Don’t worry, though. Singleton soon got her comeuppance when Chicago exploded for the
Bears’ second touchdown of the night. Haynes only smiled.
Hundreds of fans have surrounded the televi-sions since the begin-ning of the year and the fan mania is expected to increase as the football schedule heats up. Count on Haynes, Singleton and many other football friends to give the teams an audience.
Football season, DIGS bring Winthrop students together
It doesn’t matter too much to me, I just love to play.
Adam BrundleSophomore midfielder
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Even if I had the same screen in my own room, I’d still come to the campus center. Jessica SingletonBiology major
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A rocky first season with Delta State University set up Adam Brundle’s transfer move to Winthrop in the summer. The sophomore sport management
major has already scored once for the Eagles and looks to make an impact in the postseason. • Photo courtesy of Delta State University athletics website.
Two football fans enjoy their lunch while watch-ing Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton battle the Chicago Bears. The Panthers would later lose 34-29 on Sunday. Photo by David Thackham • [email protected]
THURSDAY October 6, 2011 14SPORTS
Katie BollingNew Brighton, MN1,183 mi from Winthrop
Kayla ClineSocorro, NM1,704 mi from Winthrop
Allison ItriaLubbock, TX1,362 mi from Winthrop
Nicole MooberryNorfolk, NE1,263 mi from Winthrop
Allison LeeSalisbury, NC67 mi from Winthrop
Rachel WyattBlythewood, SC51 mi from Winthrop
InternationalViivi NuortiHelsinki, FinlandApprox. 4,677 mi from Winthrop
Women’s golf team calls many places home
By Casey WhiteSpecial to The Johnsonian
Men’s cross country head coach Ben Paxton has one slogan for his team this year.
“Hit the ground running.”The team has lived up to that challenge so far by
winning the first three meets of the season. Winthrop shot off to success in the Campbell Invitational early last month before dominating in the 25th Winthrop Invitational and The Citadel Invitational. While this past week saw a falter to the Eagles’ stride in the Paul Short Invitational in Bethlehem, PA, Paxton can only see good results ahead as conference championship day draws near.
Senior Adam Freudenthal and sophomore Steve Rivard, the top runners on the team, also are con-vinced the team has a shot at winning the conference championship this year.
“I really want to bring back the conference cham-pionship,” Rivard said. “We haven’t done that at Winthrop since 2000-2001.”
“Going in to the conference championship [on October 29],” Freudenthal added, “we could really make a shot at it.”
Paxton believes that the team has the right com-bination of runners this year to bring home the title. There are a number of different factors that have allowed for the team’s success so far this season.
The team didn’t lose a single runner from last season, which has proven to be very beneficial. Being able to retain every member of the team has allowed for a great amount of growth and chemistry to de-velop between the runners.
Rivard, a Goose Creek, SC native who was recently
named the Big South Runner of the Week, agrees that the experience of the team has really added to its success so far this season. He also noted the run-ners on the team are able to keep up with each other better this year than last year, which has also been helpful.
In 2010, the Eagles struggled to find their finishing edge, finishing either 2nd or 3rd in three meets until they finally pulled off their first win at home in the Asics Fall Classic.
“Last year we had gaps,” Rivard said. “We are working on closing those, which is making us a stronger team.”
Freudenthal , a Spartanburg, SC native, states that knowing the team has a shot to bring home the conference championship has served as a positive impact. He attributes much of the success to the fact that the runners believe in themselves and know what they have to do to win.
Although Freudenthal has confidence in himself and the team, he does not think they need to get too cocky.
“We go into every meet with the same mentality: that we’ve got to fight for it,” Freudenthal said. “It’s not going to be handed to us. We have to go in real-izing it’s going to be a dog fight.”
Paxton likes the fight in his team but notes it must stay focused.
“We have to keep our wits about us against confer-ence teams,” Paxton said.
In order to keep the momentum of these wins go-ing, Paxton plans to “keep the training up.” Attend-ing practice and putting in daily work will keep the runners strong and allow for further success this season.
So far the team hasn’t faced anything that has held it down much besides a few minor “bumps and bruises,” according to Freudenthal.
The team’s success on the course reflects their per-sonal relationships with each other, which have also remained positive.
“I really like our team. We have good chemistry between everyone,” Rivard said. “I think it’s going to be a good year and years coming as well.”
Men’s cross country running strong
I really like our team. We have good chemistry between everyone. Steve RivardSophomore runner
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The members of the women’s golf team have come from all over the U.S. and world to study and play golf at Winthrop University. Graphic by Jeff Brodeur • [email protected]
Jennifer DilgerPalmdale, CA2,382 mi from Winthrop
THURSDAY October 6, 2011 15SPORTS
UPCOMING GAMES Home games in bold
Men’s soccer 10/8 @ VMI - 1 p.m. 10/12 vs. UNC-Asheville - 7 p.m.
Women’s soccer 10/6 vs. High Point - 7 p.m.
10/8 vs. Liberty - 7 p.m.
Men’s tennis 10/7-10/9 (Winthrop Invitational)
Women’s Golf 10/8-10/9 (Winthrop Intercollegiate)
By Jeff [email protected]
The resident assistants of Margaret Nance hosted their annual “Field Day” this past Friday, an event held on the lawn in front of Winthrop’s all-female residence hall.
Daven Johnson, one of the RA’s who helped plan the event, said that this was only a glimpse of what has been going on at Margaret Nance throughout the week.
“All week, each fl oor and corridor have been competing against each other in activities and contests,” she said. “Field day is the fi nal event for the week.”
As for the rest of the week, Monday was a fl oor decorating com-petition, Tuesday was a state fair baking competition, Wednesday was trivia night and Thursday was a “Dress your RA” competition in which the residents had to make an outfi t for their RA to model using only tape and newspaper.
“Throughout the week, we had an anonymous Miss Margaret Nance pageant and Penny wars where residents would put pennies into their own jar for positive points and silver coins and dollars into opposing fl oors jars for negative points,” Johnson said. “All money collected went to Safe Passage.”
As for the Friday event, girls gathered outside of Margaret Nance to compete in a series of events such as a three-legged relay, hula hoops, tug-of-war and an egg toss.
Even though Floor Wars was all about having fun, Daven’s fl oor walked away with the bragging rights as her fl oor took fi rst place. Callie Boyer’s fl oor was the runner-up, while Ashley Thorpe and Chelsea Brown’s fl oor tied for third.
‘Floor Wars’ ignites friendly competition
Margaret Nance hosts activities on the lawn, including tug-of-war and egg tossing
The RA’s of Margaret Nance teamed up to create “Floor Wars” a series of activities including the three-legged race at Friday’s fi eld day. Photo by Jeff Brodeur • [email protected]
Photo by Jeff Brodeur • [email protected]
Photo by Sarah Auvil • [email protected]
Residents compete in an egg toss. Photo by Sarah Auvil • [email protected] Residents had to spin in a circle 10 times, then immedi-ately complete a short relay race. Photo by Jeff Brodeur • [email protected]
16THURSDAY October 6, 2011 THE JOHNSONIAN
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