With total student debt soaring past total credit card debt, students all across the country are starting to feel the weight of getting a full education.

According to the U.S. Federal Re-serve, national credit card debt was $848 billion in 2012, while student debt in 2012 was over $1 trillion. This averages out to about $33,000 a student.

However, the average debt of the Ber-ry class of 2012 is well below that aver-age at $18,900. Director of Financial Aid Marcia McConnell said Berry is dedicat-ed to helping students maintain as little debt as possible.

“Berry College is committed to assist-ing students with the funding of their college education by our investment in their financial aid awards,” McConnell said. “Berry is able through scholar-ships and the student work program to help students keep their borrowing be-low the national average.”

According to a letter from the Presi-dent’s Office, Berry’s tuition will in-crease by about five percent, but dona-tions have increased as well. McConnell said giving has been on a steady growth

rate, even during the recession.“Annual giving has maintained a

steady growth of between three percent to seven percent per year,” McConnell said. “Total giving, which includes those extraordinary gifts that don’t necessar-ily happen every year, has averaged an eight percent increase during the last five years. Approximately 47 percent of all gifts during the last five years have been designated to support financial aid.”

McConnell said Berry has sustained a high level of financial aid in comparison to the tuition in the past few years.

“Over the last five years, tuition at Berry College has increased by 27 per-cent,” McConnell said, “and financial aid awarded to students has increased by 53 percent to just over $50 million.”

This pattern of increasing financial aid by a greater percent than the tuition increase is not uncommon at private in-stitutions, however. According to CNN, tuition increased about four percent for the 2012-2013 school year, but financial aid increased by about seven percent.

But even a small tuition increase can have major effects on families with stu-dents in college. According to the Pew Research Center, an American think tank organization based in Washington, D.C.

that provides information on issues, at-titudes and trends shaping the United States and the world, a record one in five households have student loans.

Berry has some unique ways of try-

ing to help its students with this debt. One of them is the Gate of Opportunity scholarship.

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Entertainment | Page 9 Fact of the Week:

Cats have been blamed for

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SoftballSo long, seniors Arts and Crafts Festival

Student debt rises above credit card debt

Digital Archives launches

The Martha Berry Digital Archive, a col-laborative project between Bloomsburg Uni-versity and Berry College, launched on April 18.

This project, which started in 2010, takes the original physical documents of the Mar-tha Berry Collection from the Berry Collage Archives and digitizes them. The documents are uploaded to a website where they are cat-egorized and described for ease of use.

The Martha Berry Digital Archive was first proposed by Stephanie Schlitz, associ-ate professor of linguistics from Bloomsburg University and Berry College alumna.

“As a linguist I am trained to work with historical documents,” Schlitz said. “When I learned that the Martha Berry Collection was in poor condition and was really inaccessible I was really discouraged. I’m a Berry College alumna and I was astonished that part of the college’s cultural heritage was being lost. Documents in many instances are crumbling on the shelves and unless they are preserved, we lose that history and that college cultural heritage.”

After learning that there were no plans to digitize, Schlitz proposed her own digitiza-tion model.

Sherre Harrington, the director of Memo-rial Library, said the digitization of the docu-ments would aid with research and the pres-

ervation of the original collection.“It makes the materials available to re-

searchers and scholars in a way that the phys-ical collection isn’t and it actually preserves the physical collection because in many cases the digital document is sufficient for the re-searcher’s purposes,” Harrington said.

Michael O’Malley, Berry archivist and cu-rator of the original Martha Berry Collection, agreed that this digital archive helped with both research and preservation.

“More and more of the correspondence and archival collections are being used often, and we look to this digital archive as a way to get the materials out,” O’Malley said. “It’s difficult for people to get here and look at the materials. So we scan it, put it up on the plat-form and then people anywhere can access it anytime.”

Harrington said that since O’Malley is the curator of the original collection, the team looks to him to make sure that the project conforms to appropriate archival procedures.

Schlitz said the project conformed to the Digital Library of Georgia standards as well as international preservation and access stan-dards and the Dublin Core Metadata Initia-tive. More information about these standards can be found on the Martha Berry Digital Archive site.

GRACE DUNKLINStaff Reporter

OLIVIA BROWN, Asst. Features Editor

SEE “DEBT” P.2

PAUL WATSONNews Editor

Phillip Phillips at Berry

CHRISTIAN TURNER, Asst. Photo Editor

American Idol winner Phillip Phillips performs at Exam Jam. See full story on Entertainment page 9.

SEE “ARCHIVES” P.3

To see the digital archives, visit mbda.berry.edu

NEWSPAGE 2, CAMPUS CARRIER APRIL 25, 2013

-Theft- Eight interna-tional flags were taken from Hermann Circle April 20.

-Trespassing- Six non-Berry people were found at the Reservoir star gazing and removed from campus April 23.

-Property Damage- A motorcycle was found turned over in the Dana parking lot April 24.

Don’t forget!

The last day of classes is

Tuesday, April 30.

Final exams will take place Thursday, May 2-Wednesday,

May 8.

Students awarded for serviceCAROLINE CLAFFEY

Deputy News Editor

Students, faculty, staff and student organizations receive 110 awards Monday night at the 11th annual Student Leadership and Service Awards ceremony.

The Student Leadership and Service Awards are presented to students, faculty and staff who have selflessly and enthusiastically served and led the Berry community this year, according to the event program.

The proceedings began with a movie trailer for “The Avengers,” kicking off this year’s superhero theme. Before each award was given, a trailer was shown of a superhero movie that the hosts felt por-trayed each group or individual receiving the award.

The ceremony was hosted by freshmen and lead-ership fellows Olivia Paige, representing Berry Col-lege Volunteer Services, and Mackenzie Ross, repre-senting the Student Activities Office.

After the trailer, Paige and Ross introduced the event and addressed the attendees about the parallel between student leaders and superheroes.

“While your efforts may not have been aimed at saving the world, you did change our world,” Paige said. “You changed organizations. You changed programs. You changed the community, and above all else, you have changed the lives of others and inspired them to rise and lead in your path.”

The first group awarded was the First Year Coun-cil. Before handing out awards to 30 students, Ross and Paige played the trailer for “X-Men: First Class.”

Ross said “X-Men: First Class” was an appropri-ate choice for the First Year Council because they both are groups of new students who begin their leadership journeys together.

The next group given an award was the Peer Edu-cators, and their movie trailer was “Green Lantern.”

Paige said the Peer Educators are similar to the Green Lantern because both illuminate controversial and difficult questions in their communities.

“Just as the Green Lantern said, ‘No matter how bad things may get, there’s always something good over the horizon,’” Paige said. “This is what the peer educators strive to do: educate on the hardships of the world but focus on the good that can come from doing so.”

Head SOAR leader and Senior Jamie Carelson and the 16 SOAR leaders were all awarded and introduced by the trailer for “Man of Steel.”

Ross recognized Carelson separately before intro-ducing the rest of staff.

“Although she can’t literally fly, she has lifted up many different people on her wings and managed to keep her cool even when the stress levels were high,” Ross said.

The five executive Student Government Associa-tion (SGA) officers were introduced with a trailer for “Thor,” because according to Ross, “It requires great strength and leadership to represent an entire stu-dent body.”

Paige said the 20 Resident Assistants were like “The Amazing Spiderman” because they live among the people they protect.

“They look after, protect and care for their resi-dents as well as maintain a safe and functional envi-ronment,” Paige said. “In addition, they take on the duty of advising, encouraging and assisting their residents.”

Ross compared the Krannert Center Activities Board members were to “The Incredible Hulk” because of their ability to “turn small ideas into huge events.”

The next seven awards were given to individuals who were nominated for their outstanding actions on campus. These awards were for: Multicultural Student Leadership, Religion-in-Life Service and Leadership, Lambda Sigma Rising Leader, Katie Brookshire Leadership Scholarship, Omicron Delta Kappa’s (ODK) “Aspire to the Top” Senior Leader-ship and ODK’s Circle Leader of the Year.

Paige said the recipients of these awards were most like Iron Man because unlike most super-heroes—who have secret identities—Iron Man is known as a superhero wherever he goes.

“Even at the end of the day when the superhero costume comes off, these individuals are still rec-ognized as superheroes among friends, family and mentors due to their powerful and inspiring com-mitment to the Berry community and their individ-ual passions,” Paige said.

The Service Awards—which included the awards for Heart of Berry, Best Service Event Collabora-tion, Best Service Project, Do Something and Make a Change—were prefaced with the trailer for “Captain America,” because both groups showed outstanding commitment, Paige said.

The final award category was the Student Orga-nization and Programming Awards, which included: Best Social Program, Best Cultural/Educational Pro-gram, Best Co-Sponsored Program, Most Improved Organization, the Carol Willis Outstanding Advisor, the Outstanding Organization Team, Outstanding Organization Officer and Outstanding Organization.

These awards were introduced with a trailer for “The Dark Knight,” because the recipients “cer-tainly know how to make their presence on campus known,” Paige said.

“They demonstrate leadership within their indi-vidual areas but are humble in their efforts just as Batman is,” Paige said. “Tonight is our time to recog-nize everything they have done for our campus and for the student body as a whole.”

Director of Student Activities Cecily Crow told attendees Paige’s and Ross’ choice in this year’s theme made her consider the similarities between superheroes and student leaders.

“Like a superhero, you have to practice your skills, like time management and delegation,” Crow said. “You also need to know your support system. Like a superhero, you have to take the good with the bad. Like a superhero, you have to take action. Like a superhero, you all have your villains.”

Crow said while leaders don’t always make the popular decisions, they make the important ones. She told audience members that, like a superhero, they could choose to use their powers for the good of others.

“Just be super,” Crow said.

According to Berry’s web-site, “Gate of Opportunity is a mission-focused program in which each four-year scholar-ship represents a partnership among a student and his or her family, a donor and Berry Col-lege, with each partner contrib-uting about a third of the cost of the student’s education.”

The student portion of the funding generally comes from the Student Work Program. Most, if not all, of a Gate schol-ar ’s paycheck goes toward the scholarship.

Senior Darren Barnet, a Gate scholar, said the scholarship was vital to his education.

“It’s the only reason I’ve got-ten through college,” Barnet said. “It’s taught me the value of working. Since we get very small paychecks, it hasn’t been about the money, it’s about doing a good job.”

McConnell said the idea of putting money from student work towards paying off debts should not just be for Gate scholars.

“All students regardless of their financial need are given the opportunity to work on cam-pus,” McConnell said. “This is not a common practice at most colleges. Students should take advantage of this opportunity to reduce the amount of loan funds they borrow.”

Even with student work and other Berry efforts, students like Junior Meghan O’Brien said they will still feel the effects of student debt after college.

“My paychecks will have to go towards student loans, then other necessities,” O’Brien said. “It sucks.”

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Are We Ready? Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life and Ter-restrial ReligionProfessor of Astronomy at Vanderbilt University David Weintraub will be discuss-ing the discoveries astrono-mers are making every year of hundreds of planets in orbit around other stars from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25 in the McAllister Auditorium. If astronomers develop convincing evidence that life exists beyond the Earth, what impact will that discovery have on terrestrial religions? (CE)

Film and Discussion: “End of Poverty? Think Again”This film will be a part of the Berry Bonner Center for Community Engagement’s “Secret of Service” week April 23-27. A discussion will follow the film from 11 a.m.-noon Thursday April 25 in the Evans Auditorium about the devastating effects of poverty locally, nationally and globally. (CE)

Fiction Reading: John BrandonThe New York Times book review praised John Bran-don’s fiction as “great sto-ries in great prose.” Brandon will read from his fiction and afterwards will sign books and answer questions from 7:30 p.m.-9 p.m. Thursday April 25 in the McAllister Auditorium. (CE)

Beyond the Berry BubbleSeniors can come to Kran-nert 217, 250 and 324 on Fri-day, April 26 rom 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. to learn about insurance, financial planning, apart-ments, student loan payoff, employee relations, résumé critique, speed interviewing and networking.

A Midsummer’s Night DreamCome join in the adventures of four young Athenian lov-ers and a group of six ama-teur actors as are manipu-lated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. It will be performed 7:30 p.m.-10 p.m. Thursday through Sat-urday and 2 p.m.-4 p.m. on Sunday in Blackstone Hall 100. (CE)

KCAB’s Outdoor MovieCome to Clara Bowl 9 p.m.-11 p.m. Friday April 26 for a showing of “Warm Bodies.”

Precious Pet TherapyStudents and members of the Rome community can come hang out and spend a relaxing afternoon with the pets of faculty and staff from 3 p.m.-7 p.m. on Krannert Lawn Sunday April 28.

Dead Poets SocietyAll students are welcome to join in McAllister 107 from 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Monday April 22 to work on interesting and

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The Martha Berry Digital Archives allows community to edit and interact with Berry’s historical documents online

RACHEL LEROYStaff Reporter

One of the more prominent details on the site is the presence of individual collections. Some of these collections are directly from the physical archive.

O’Malley said many pieces in the collec-tion are connected.

“Not everything stands alone,” O’Malley said. “One letter can be tied with other letters, photographs, materials within the archives. I am able to research and help identify those connections within MBDA.”

Sophomore Meg Ratliff has been working with the project since her freshman year. She originally worked with editing the document descriptions, but is now involved with scan-ning original documents and creating collec-tions within the site.

Ratliff said students and people from out-side the Berry community are encouraged to help with the editing process.

“There are a lot of documents and with a small group of us it is really hard with other

people interacting and editing it themselves we can just go in and check it,” Ratliff said. “It will go by a lot faster than four or five of us trying to do the 13,000 [documents] we have right now.”

“One of the first things to note is that it is about community engagement,” Schlitz said. “It’s designed to encourage community interaction with historical documents. So in many cases individuals don’t have a chance to work with primary source documents. We are making it possible not only for people to look at them but also to describe them.”

Harrington not only encouraged people to edit on the site, but also read through some of the collections as they did so.

“It’s not just a digital archive in the sense that we’ve scanned them all and there they are, but it’s this interactive project that involves the full community in providing access to the collection,” Harrington said.

Senior Kasey Haessler, who has worked

with the project since 2010 as a scanner, edi-tor and blogger, said that around 12,000 doc-uments have currently been uploaded to the site, but that there are an estimated 100,000 documents in the entire collection. She said that one of the reasons for inviting the pub-lic to help with the editing, in addition to simply get them interested in the material, is the manpower needed to process these documents.

To find out more about the Martha Berry Digital Archive, or to help with the project, visit the project website at www.mbda.berry.edu. In addition to information about the col-lection, its staff and how to help, there is a blog run by students that invites participants to make connections between their personal and academic lives and the documents in the archive. Called “Discovering MBDA,” this blog can be found by clicking the “Learn” tab on the Martha Berry Digital Archive homepage.

Green Team helps Berry compost bloom

It has been one month since the Berry Green Team, Season’s Har-vest and the Dining Hall teamed up to create a compost, and the future is looking ripe.

The compost, which is located across Highway 27 at Season’s Har-vest’s operation behind the Berry Police Department, has multiple school-wide benefits.

The compost will directly fertil-ize Season’s Harvest’s crops in the future, and it will also help lower the Dining Hall’s waste, as well as reduce Berry’s carbon footprint.

Six years ago, College Presi-dent Stephen R. Briggs signed the Presidents’ Climate Commitment, which states that Berry’s goal is to be carbon neutral by 2050. This compost, which took seven months of brainstorming, is a step in that direction.

Junior Emma Childs, head of the Green Team, said composting was one of the Green Team’s major goals when they started brain-storming in August and they real-ized there was great potential to partner with the Dining Hall.

“Prior to this collaboration, all the raw food waste from the Din-ing Hall was being thrown away,” Childs said. “We proposed that the Dining Hall staff divert the eas-ily compostable material—we are

starting small—from the waste stream to be made into compost to be used by Season’s Harvest for their garden.”

Food Service Director Fraser Pearson said he had concerns when first approached by Childs several months ago, but after working through the logistics the process has been simpler than he thought.

Legally, there were health department requirements that had to be overcome, Pearson said.

The Green Team tried to make it as easy on the Dining Hall staff as possible, but things like hairnet requirements and jewelry restric-tions make it easier for the Din-ing Hall to collect the food scraps themselves and then place them in containers for the Green Team and Season’s Harvest to pick up daily.

In just one month, the compost has come a long way. On average, 100 pounds of waste are captured each day by the Dining Hall staff and then carted over to the com-post. The amount startled Pearson.

“It even shocked me,” Pear-son said. “I called [Childs] and said, ‘We’re going to need a bigger boat!’”

Chances Waite, CEO of Season’s Harvest, said she looks forward to becoming a more sustainable stu-dent enterprise and incorporating nutrition to their farm plots.

“It is by no means a beautiful project… it is an awful-smelling, nutritious goodness for the soil,” said Waite, “but the possibilities are endless.”

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Volunteer Week emphasizes service

Students enjoyed a ball pit during National Volunteer Week, hosted on cam-pus by the Berry College Volunteer Ser-vices. BCVS had many events, the most popular of which was the ball pit. The idea behind the ball pit was that two strang-ers, like freshmen Anna Wysocki and Elizabeth Rainwater, would get in the pit together and have a conversation to get to know each other. The ball pit was outside of Krannert on Monday and Tuesday.

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OPINIONSPAGE 4, CAMPUS CARRIER APRIL 25, 2013

The Carrier editorial reflects a consensus of the The Carrier’s editorial board.

Benefit of online classes at BerryMore and more colleges

and universities are utilizing online classes as an efficient way to educate students. Even if the courses offered are not for actual class credit, like the free courses available through Harvard and others, they provide an accessible way for people to educate themselves.

These types of courses also make it possible to take courses over the summer if other complications make it impossible for a student to actually attend a school. That kind of help can enable stu-dents to stick to their sched-ule and graduate in a timely manner, or even get ahead.

Berry offers no such courses, but not without reason.

Students wishing for an educational program that emphasizes numerical effi-ciency more than firsthand experience may not find Berry a fitting institution. With its focus on accessible teachers and policies in place that promote on-campus liv-ing, online courses need not be a priority of the school. After all, the distance inher-ent in a relationship between a student and an online course as opposed to a per-sonal one seem to counteract two of Berry’s most promi-nent advantages: the beauti-ful campus and the low stu-dent-to-teacher ratio.

However, the issue need not be so black and white. There may also be advan-tages to Berry at least experi-menting with providing online courses.

Because such courses ought not to subvert the spirit of education at Berry in general, perhaps they would not be best utilized during the spring or fall semesters when students would have the most ben-eficial experience from being on campus and attending classes. Attending classes over the summer may be a completely different issue though. Students staying at Berry between spring and fall semesters have to make hefty housing payments and many students rely on the money that they make while they work during the summer to sustain them throughout the year.

For students who cannot stay at Berry over the sum-mer, but still need or want to formally educate them-selves, online courses may be a perfect option.

Professors at Berry are, usually, helpful and they don’t have an overwhelming amount of students. There-fore, some of the distance and inaccessbility that comes with online classes may be less of a hindrance for Berry students. Berry professors could and likely would use email and other online means to connect with stu-dents even without sharing a campus.

These are not necessarily changes that Berry needs; foremost is its emphasis on firsthand experience. How-ever, online classes may help some students to proactively pursue their education even over the summer.

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How to understand your GPS

I get lost all the time.No, really. I do. I honestly

have to use my GPS to get around in even my hometown, (Athens, Ga.).

I get lost driving around in Rome; I get lost trying to get out of extensive parking lots; shoot, I get lost walking through the Science Building (McAllister).

It’s. Terrible.It’s one of those weaknesses I

didn’t know I had until I started driving, my senior year of high school. Before then, I had no need to really know where I was, because other people took me everywhere I needed to go.

When I did finally start driv-ing, though, my geographical inadequacy quickly reared its loathsome head, and, for those first few weeks, I had to have people draw me maps or write down very detailed directions before I would venture out the door. It was obnoxious, I felt high maintenance and often-times I still ended up in a park-ing lot somewhere, sobbing over my steering wheel and trying to get up the courage to call my dad to ask where I was again.

Needless to say, it was only a few weeks before I decided a GPS was an absolute necessity. Thus, I purchased my first GPS, affectionately named “Judy Gar-min” by my roommate when I came to Berry that fall.

Suddenly, life was rendered

so much easier. I walked out the door with confidence, and without having had a 10-min-ute conversation with someone about where I was going before-hand. I could even decide at the last minute to stop by a different place before I went home. It was such a life-altering experience, getting that GPS.

Ah, and here is where I enter into the topic you may have been expecting me to address, what with this being my last issue as Editor-in-Chief of The Carrier: yes, this is one of those sentimental, “goodbye, world” pieces. But I’m allowed! So don’t judge me.

See, entering into this next season of life—you know, The Great Unknown After Gradu-ation (TGUAG) that I’ve men-tioned in a couple of previous editorials this year—feels so very similar to how I used to feel, walking out the door to drive somewhere before I had a GPS. The past four years of education, both academic and practical, have been much like the detailed instructions I would demand of my parents or friends before I tried to go anywhere (and sometimes those talks felt as long as four years as well).

But despite all the instruction I’ve received, I’m now about to walk out this door with a great sense of trepidation, just like I used to. No matter how specific the details I’ve been given are, no one can walk with me, hold my hand and point out where my next turn is. This is some-thing I’ve got to go alone—to put it melodramatically.

Yes, yes, everyone who graduates goes through this, I understand. But I still can’t

help but feel it’s a little unfair. I mean, this is like expecting Frodo to succeed without Sam; it just sounds dubious. To put it lightly.

Side note: I could totally take that “Lord of the Rings” com-parison way further, but I have chosen to spare you. It is Pity that now stays my hand. (Sorry, couldn’t resist one last Tolkien reference, in my last piece for The Carrier.)

The obvious answer to this intimidating dilemma of TGUAG must needs be the same answer that I found to my smaller-scale dilemma when I was first driving: I need a GPS. But what does that really mean, in the context of real life? “Global Positioning System” doesn’t seem to work.

I think, personally, the best way to determine where I’m going is to first determine how and when I’m finally going to be able to get my puppy.

Thus, for me, GPS now stands for “Get-Puppy Scheme.”

Think about it. If I first evalu-ate every decision I make hence-forth by how quickly I will fea-sibly be able to own and care for a puppy, in my opinion, I will always be heading the right direction.

What does your GPS stand for? Whether it’s “Garner Paren-tal Support,” “Gather Party Sup-plies” or “Go Poop Somewhere,” no matter what year you are in school, it’s time to prioritize.

Honestly, when you get right down to it, the hardest part is the wordsmithing (obviously G, P and S aren’t the easiest letters to work with). And if that’s it, then maybe TGUAG won’t be quite so scary after all.

BONNY HARPEREditor-in-Chief

“Spend a couple of weeks in the mountains.

Have you looked around lately? Isn’t it beautiful outside? The smell of freshly cut grass, wonderful sunshine, clear blues skies; it’s just lovely. You would think that everyone would be out enjoy-ing the weather, but whenever I take a look around campus, I see all of the won-derful springtime wonders… and people looking down. And they all seem to be looking at the same thing: their phones.

All around there are tons of people just looking down at their phones and missing the wonderful days of beauti-ful weather we’ve been having. And it’s not just when walking around outside. You’ve probably seen whole groups of people at a dinner table all looking at their phones or friends just sitting around not really paying attention to anything other than what’s on their little screen.

It’s depressing how much our whole lives have become centered around the little rectangles in our pockets. I per-sonally love my little rectangle, and I am certainly guilty of getting caught up in texting or games or SnapChat or the Internet; it’s really addicting. The ability to switch between so many things with just the little computer in my pocket totally satisfies my very short attention span because of all the texting or gaming

or SnapChatting or Internetting that I can do. But the purpose of a phone is to con-nect us and modern cell phone modifica-tions are actually tearing us apart.

There have been countless times I’ve been with a friend and they’ve been com-pletely distracted with their phone and it basically cut off any further communi-cation. Sometimes it was for work or a situation with family members which is totally understandable; but sometimes it was just a random text message that basi-cally stopped the entire conversation.

This is the part where you say, “But, Austin, I paid good money for my phone; why shouldn’t I use it?” I’m not say-ing that we shouldn’t use our phones because I definitely need mine every day. The problem is with people becom-ing so obsessed with their phone that we can’t be without it for a couple hours at a time or we’re so absorbed with it that we don’t watch where we’re going. Just last week I saw someone walk into a stop sign because she was texting or Googling or whatever.

What I propose is a happy medium. Go ahead and text and game and Snap-Chat and Internet when you’re not doing something like eating or meeting friends or walking. Take a good whiff of the freshly cut grass and feel the sunshine on your face and look at the clear blue skies while you can, because they won’t be around forever and you won’t be around forever. Don’t let all of your memories be from the little rectangle in your pocket. Look up and see the beauty around you.

OPINIONSAPRIL 25, 2013 PAGE 5, CAMPUS CARRIER

Snowboard down Mt. Everest.”

“If you could do anything with your summer, what

would it be?”

“Tour Europe/ Missions.

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Cell phones are not real life

Go to New York to watch unlim-ited Broadway plays.”

So, as you may have noticed, the semester is ending, and we are all careening inevitably toward finals. Seniors are going to graduate and go on to higher callings, but until then we are struggling to cross the same sea of cof-fee, over the oceans of our exams and essays, until at last we come shaken but safe to the far shore of summer.

Preliminarily, I want to quickly address readers unduly racked with anxiety. You can do it. You’ll get your stuff done and handle your business, and it’ll be beautiful when you lay yourself to sleep for the first time with finals behind you.

But while we work, it can become easy to invest ourselves so completely in our academic accomplishments that we fail to remember that we are humans who exist to do things other than pass classes. While we dive into books and slave over papers, burning our retinas with screens and filling our bellies with coffee, schoolwork can quickly become the source from which we derive our identity.

This warning may not be necessary or well timed since, of course, we have to put in some extra hours during finals week at the ends of the semesters. I do not want to encourage you to forsake that extra work; it is important, espe-cially this time of year.

But even outside of the context of finals week, there seems to be a culture at Berry that bloats the importance of external, quantifiable accomplishments.

The next time you’re in the library, listen to the brief encounters as people greet each other in passing. Likely you will notice that the majority of those interactions are not moments of sharing relevant, enlightening, interesting parts

of life. Rather, they are often soliloquies that can be summed up with something like, “Man. I am so busy. So inconceiv-ably busy.” And to this the other party will likely respond with something like, “I’m busy too. I hold this position in that one organization, and I’m taking that one professor whose class keeps me still busier!”

I’m not communicating these par-ticular observations of mine as if from a position of exemption. When I have to work hard, I want the world to know it and to praise me accordingly. (Coinci-dentally, I’ve been working really hard this semester.) I’m also not claiming to have identified a trend that is true of all Berry students.

However, I have talked with some friends who have noticed the same thing. We tend to focus so much on staying busy, on accomplishing aca-demic and vocational feats, getting the right grades and the right jobs that we lose the time and energy to do anything else.

It’s not uncommon for me to feel a twinge of guilt for making time to be with a friend, hang out at Waffle House, play video games or read a book that I actually like. (Fun fact: that English major is really getting in the way of all the reading I want to do.)

But we can avoid the unhealthy stress that results from that kind of environment. It’s actually not that hard conceptually, though I won’t make that kind of claim about practicality. We just have to be a little kinder to ourselves when we commit ourselves. We have to remember that we are students, and we are working on generating résumés that will get us good jobs. We also have to remember that we are humans, and we need to hang out together and talk about stuff and take naps.

I may not be equipped to make a metaphysical claim about why we are on this planet, but I’m pretty sure that it is not so that we can get good grades and stay really busy until we’re out of time.

Eat it.”

Don’t Like What you reaD?

Whether you think he’s a crazy loon or right on tar-get, Paul wants to hear your opinion! Send your opinions,

rants, etc. to paul_itics@yahoo.com. You could see your opinion published

right here in The Carrier!

What you aren’t seeing

A few months ago, there was a huge movement against the ACTA and SOPA bills, which would censor the Internet. Companies blacked out their websites in protest and the peo-ple made their strong opinions known.

Now there’s a new threat that not many companies are talk-ing about. It’s called the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Pro-tection Act, or CISPA. It would grant the government the abil-ity to, without warrant or even notification, search a person’s entire web presence if they’re deemed a “cyber threat.”

That doesn’t seem so bad, right? Threats should be addressed! But to be labeled a threat, you literally have to post a photo on Facebook that isn’t yours. Once you do so, the gov-ernment has every right to take your information.

Besides the obvious Consti-tutional infringement, there are reasons you should care. What does the government plan on doing with this information? Glad you asked. The govern-ment then can give this infor-mation, again without consent, to any company who’s inter-ested, from Google to Facebook, to do with it what they want. Including prosecuting you for downloading that one song ille-gally that one time. In essence, companies would make bank from this bill, so they’re conve-niently keepting their mouths shut this time.

President Barack Obama has already said he will veto the bill if it passes the Senate (it already passed the House of Represen-tatives). Even so, with things like this bill and surveillance drones in the skies, it makes you wonder just what kind rights will be violated in 1984...er, I mean 2013.

AUSTIN SUMTEROnline Editor

Staying too busy at Berry

MICAH BHACHECHOpinions Editor

FEATURESPAGE 6, CAMPUS CARRIER APRIL 25, 2013

The Class of 2013Seniors by the numbers

AUTUMN CLARKEFeatures Editor

OLIVIA BROWNAsst. Features Editor

As classes begin to come to a close and exams wait just around the corner to terrify students, we’ve decided to use the final Carrier issue as a tribute to our seniors. Not everyone makes it out of college and it’s no secret that Berry isn’t exactly a walk in the park.

For all our seniors, the light is finally begin-

ning to shine at the end of the tunnel. Each day brings more hope that they just might live to hold a coveted college degree in their hands and they’ll soon venture out into the world pursuing bigger and greater adventures. So hold on just a little bit longer seniors, all your hard work has almost paid off.

1. Animal Science

Expected four-year graduation rate:

*The expected four-year graduation rate is based on the current projections for fall 2009 first-time students graduating in May 2013. This number will not be finalized until after graduation and could potentially change.**This percentage includes those from the fall 2009 cohort who have already graduated as well as those scheduled to graduate. Also note that the graduating class includes students from other cohort years.

Seniors from Georgia

Seniors who are international

students

2. Psychology3. Biology4. Early Childhood Education5. Exercise Science

Top 5 Majors Among Graduating Seniors

56%

272

3

Number of graduating

seniors

of May 2013 gradu-ates have submitted résumés to the Career Center for suggestions and

revisions

Overall, Berry College has a freshman retention rate.

Among 29 other private four-year schools in Georgia Berry ranks

in graduation rates with 60.1 percent of students graduat-ing within six years and 50.8 percent graduating with in four years.

344

96.2%

77.9%

7th

The following statistics represent the senior class of 2013. These numbers were obtained from Registrar and Director of Institutional Research Bryce Durbin and Career Center Director Sue Tarpley.

Seniors who transferred

to Berry

31

FEATURESAPRIL 25, 2013 CAMPUS CARRIER, PAGE 7

1. One of the best moments I’ve had as a senior was being awarded the Ned Peterson Award at the Communication Department Dessert Awards. I’ve spent the past four years soaking up every opportunity I could find in the Comm. Department and being recognized for that was truly special. I will never be able to fully articulate how much it meant, primarily because I was being honored for doing what I love and doing it with the people I’m closest with. Not many people have such a lucky break!

2. Without a doubt, my Berry experience would have completely different without Viking Fusion. From the moment I walked into that studio, I was in love. It has been the place that I’ve grown as a student, a leader, a professional and a friend. I knew Berry was a right fit for me when I chose to enroll, but Viking Fusion made this campus my home. 3. I’d like to go into narrative video production after I graduate, eventually as a producer. For now, I’m picking up jobs here and there as a pro-duction assistant and, hopefully, I’ll move up from there!

1. Definitely would have to be when I performed on the stage for the last time at Dance Concert. It was so bittersweet knowing that was my last time performing with the amazing Dance Troupe dancers, while also thinking back on all the in-credible times we've had being in Dance Troupe the past four years. 2. I can think of 1,000 different things. Two that stick out the most are studying abroad in Europe last summer, and being a SOAR leader for two summers. I learned so much from each one and

they were both opportunities that I never would have expected to have in col-lege. 3. Taking a year off, then attending the University of Tennessee Chattanooga where I was accepted into the Graduate Athletic Training program.

1. Spring break with my homies at Myrtle Beach! Even though it was freezing cold, we still had an amazing time! (Also, picking up my cap and gown was another favorite!) 2. I love the friendships that I have made at Berry and I know that the people in my life were placed here for a reason. I’m very thankful to have met such an incredible group of people. The hardest part about graduating is getting used to the fact that I won’t be able to see these people every day.

3. I’m still waiting to hear back from graduate schools so I’m not 100 percent sure about my plans for the next year. I’m also applying for jobs and internships.

1. This is tough, but the first thought that comes to mind is going undefeated and winning the championship with the Berry College club Ulti-mate Frisbee team at the Matt Hopper Tournament in Cookeville, Tenn. The first ever Color Run at Berry probably represents a close second. 2. Having the opportunity to serve as a SOAR Leader for two summers probably tops the list of things that were both fun and fulfilling during my time here at Berry, and I made a lot of great memories with my fellow SOAR leaders. 3. I will be attending law school at the University of Tennessee next fall.

1. Winning the Conference Championship at Birmingham-Southern College with the soccer team. It was a great way to leave the Berry soccer team.

2. Making so many great friends from all over the world, on and off the soccer team. They have truly made these past four years the best years of my life.

3. Working in Chile with an exporting business for a while.

1. My favorite senior moment encompasses my entire senior year, but the highlight was winning the Southern Athletic Association Conference Championship (soccer) with a great group of guys and outstanding coaches. 2. The best part of Berry College is bonding with life-long friends whom I have gotten to know over the past four years and who have become like family to me. 3. After graduation, I plan on working for Delta Airlines. I also intend to volunteer at hospitals in Atlanta and hopefully have the chance to shadow a Physician’s Assistant in a local hospital to help me prepare for a PA program for the following year.

1. My favorite “senior moment” has to be finishing out my SGA tenure earlier this week. I experienced a lot of the nostalgic “senior” sadness, given that I will be leaving my SGA family. As I handed the reins over to Ben Riggs, I realized how close I was to leaving Berry and how sad I will be to leave all of my friends here.

2. One of my favorite Berry memories has to be when a small group of friends and I got together to grill out and play poker with the Berry Col-lege Police Department. Being able to get to know the BCPD in a different way from most students (and how I might have known them in the past) was definitely an awesome experience!

3. After Berry, I plan to spend my summer reading, blogging, watching movies and enjoying life with my friends. In the fall, I will be beginning an academic residency in the John Jay Fellows Program in Philadelphia. In the following fall (2014), I will be attending Yale Divinity School to earn a master of arts in religion with a concentration in philosophy of religion. Beyond that, I hope to teach at the college level.

SYDNEY KELLY

MARLEY SIMONIS

KAYLA DAVIS

CAMERON KAPPERMAN

LEONARDO GUTIERREZ

KARTEE JOHNSON

JACOB STUBBS

Seniors who are international

students

We asked these seniors:1. What's been your favorite "senior moment" (as in the past year)?

2. What has been your favorite memory/part of Berry over the past four years?

3. What's your plan for after Berry?

ENTERTAINMENTPAGE 8, CAMPUS CARRIER APRIL 25, 2013

LYNDSEY HERMANStaff Writer

The eighth annual World Music Festival was well received by students this Saturday.

The festival was an all-day event, lasting from 12:30 p.m.- 10:00 p.m. on the Memorial Library lawn. Nine local bands were selected to perform a variety of music.

There was a mix of community members and Berry students and faculty. The environment was relaxed; people sat in lawn chairs and picnic blankets, some were dancing, others hula hooping.

And just in case the festival-goers got hungry throughout the day, the Unitarian Universalists of Berry were holding a bake sale.

Jeffrey Lidke, associate professor of religion, organized the event for the eighth year in a row.

“My favorite thing about the festival is the experience of community that comes together to celebrate music, spring and how fortunate we are to have this Berry community,” Lidke said.

The bands that played were SaddleMountain Bluegrass Boys, Kirtan Bandits, Ruth Demeter, Zuther Enloe, Mirabai, Blue Spirit

Wheel with Wynne Paris, Flying Mystics, Ogya and Miwase. They performed various genres, ranging from bluegrass, rock, jazz, reggae, funk and even Middle Eastern and Afro-Indian-Cuban world dance music.

Junior Gregg Starcevic said it was culturally educating and enriching.

“I love the music, it’s awesome,” Starevic said. “There’s a great variety, it’s well performed and has good sound.”

Lidke said world music is his favorite genre of music.

“Both original music of any tradition and things inspired by jazz [are my favorites],” Lidke said.

The first World Music Festival was a benefit concert for the victims of the tsunami that hit many Asian countries in 2004. In following years the music festival has occurred out of tradition.

Several on-campus groups helped to sponsor the event, including Religion in Student Experience (RISE), KCAB, Berry Muslim Heritage Group, Buddhist Studies Group and the Unitarian Universalists of Berry.

Throughout the day, people came and went, but there was a steady number of around 50 present at all times.

PHOTOS BY NATHAN SUTTON, Staff Photographer

Variety at festival Big kid games for summer

SOPIO This card game’s rules all fit on one card. The

goal, hitting 1,000 points, is relatively simple. What sets this game apart is the creative cards, which are hand-drawn images featuring titles like “stick figure porn” and “turned into a wombat,” with various random instructions, such as losing a turn, gaining 400 points, etc. “Sopio” is the Latin word for penis, a joke for only those of us with an inner 13-year-old still living in our hearts.

CARDS AGAINST HUMANITY

This game is for only the sickest of minds. Similar to the very popular Apples to Apples, Cards Against Humanity features such card titles as “Scalping,” “A monkey smoking a cigar,” “Being a motherf*@&ng sorceror,” and “What’s the most emo?” turning what used to be a PG game into a rather perverse free-for-all. Recommended only for the brave of heart, and not for the easily offended.

DIRTY MINDS None of the words described here are dirty, or

related to sex at all. The dirtiness comes entirely from you, the player, and the people around you. By describing perfectly average words in totally dirty ways, this game is an elaborate way of estab-lishing who among your friends is the biggest perv. Not recommended for the pure of heart; you’ll spend the game naming household objects and wondering what is so funny.

BALDERDASH While not technically an “adult” game for its con-

tent, this game is pretty challenging. You are given a word you’ve probably never heard of and must ask everyone at the table to invent a definition they find probable. It is next to impossible to get it right, even for this well-read English major, but every once in a while a definition fits so perfectly, so randomly, that you can’t help but wonder whether or not coinci-dences exist.

LOADED QUESTIONS Ever wanted to grill your friends for incred-

ibly personal information and blame it on a board game? Here’s the answer. “Loaded Questions” begs the questions you’ve always wanted to know. What celebrity would they want to see nude? If they had to swim in a pool of any food or drink, what would it be? If you were an adult film star, what would your screen name be? Open this box up and prepare for the knowledge.

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Spending the summer at home? Looking for a way to pass the time that doesn’t include corralling your younger siblings? Here are some grown-up games to

help you feel like an adult even when you’re sleeping in those Buzz Lightyear sheets you got back in elementary school.

COMMENTARY BY ALI MCINTOSH

Asst. Entertainment Editor

Jim Watkins and alumnus Thomas Ryan rock some bluegrass tunes above. Jeffrey Lidke provides percussion below.

ENTERTAINMENT PAGE 9, CAMPUS CARRIERAPRIL 25, 2013

MADI MCEVERStaff Reporter

Students, faculty, staff and their guests flocked to the Cage lawn on Saturday to enjoy Exam Jam 2013.

American Idol winner Phillip Phillips was the featured per-former for this evening of music and fun.

According to KCAB, around 1,400 people attended this event, creating an atmosphere that was abuzz with excitement. People of all ages littered the Cage lawn with their chairs and blankets to hear Phillip Phillips play some of his most popular songs.

After a last-minute change made by Phillips’ management, New Zealand artist Gin Wigmore opened the show with a unique style that has been described as “folk pop.” Junior Alden Pro-copio said she enjoyed the open-ing performance.

“I liked her voice.” Procopio said. “She was entertaining.”

Wigmore garnered many cheers from the crowd as she sang and made witty comments about life and love.

Phillips then took the stage and played songs from his album, such as “Gone, Gone, Gone,” “Hold On” and “Home.” He also threw a couple of cover songs into the mix. Sophomore Abby Strawn said she thinks that Phillips was well received by this audience.

“From what I could tell, the people were very excited to be there, even if they only knew a little about Phillip Phillips,” Strawn said.

Many of Phillips’ songs fea-tured long instrumental sections that were not as widely enjoyed as some of his more upbeat songs.

“I just wanted to hear his famous song, ‘Home,’” Procopio

said.Phillip Phillips ended the

concert with “Home,” which debuted on the Billboard charts as No. 10.

For the most part, the event seemed to run quite smoothly; however, there were a few com-plaints about the way bags were handled at the gates. Emails sent out by KCAB specified that no large bags, purses or backpacks would be allowed through the gates. Many people showed up with small purses and expected to be able to enter, but were not permitted to enter until their handbags were stored elsewhere.

“I understand why they did it, but it was the fact that we didn’t know about it until we came to stand in line,” Strawn said.

Despite the inconvenience to some attendees, Exam Jam drew a sizable crowd and allowed stu-dents to have some fun before the stress of finals week.

Phillip Phillips visits our ‘Home’

PHOTOS BY CHRISTIAN TURNER, Asst. Photo EditorPhillip Phillips strums his guitar during his performance at the 2013 Exam Jam on Saturday.

COMMENTARY BYPAUL WATSON

News Editor

When I had a little free time on Saturday, I wasn’t really sure what to do with myself. I knew I wanted to see a movie, but nothing stuck out to me. I had heard a few good things about “42,” so I decided on that.

This is probably the best decision I’ve made in a long time.

“42,” directed by Brian Helge-land (“Robin Hood,” “A Knight’s Tale”) is the story of Jackie Robin-son, the first black baseball player in Major League Baseball. The film follows Robinson as he struggles to keep his cool and perform well, even while being heckled by fans and players and having racial slurs thrown at him by opposing managers.

One of the main elements in this film is the bond between Robin-son and his teammates. Of course, when Robinson was first put on the Brooklyn Dodgers, his teammates resented him (for the most part). They knew a black player on their team would lead to trouble, and they weren’t wrong.

One of the most pivotal moments of this relationship is shown through a meeting between short-stop Pee Wee Reese (Lucas Black) and the Dodgers’ general manager Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford). Reese says that he is scared about playing so close to his hometown in Kentucky because he received a hate letter regarding playing with Robinson. Rickey then proceeds to open a filing cabinet, pulling out three thick folders of all the hate mail and death threats that Robin-son had received since starting for the Dodgers. Reese realizes how much impact Robinson has in the Big Leagues, and he (with other teammates) begins supporting him, even sticking up for him when he can’t stand up for himself.

To describe this movie in one word: powerful. It can make any-one’s blood boil to see even a dra-matic representation of the living hell that Robinson went through to

do what he loves. I wanted to throw things at the screen when I had to hear the slurs and watch the vio-lence used against Robinson—and even more so when I thought about how much of this movie is accurate.

Beyond the storyline, this movie was incredibly well made. The cin-ematography of the film was beau-tiful, especially the use of subtle brown lighting to portray the 1940s.

The aspect that impressed me most was the ability of the actors. Unlike a football movie, in which anyone could be under all the pads and the helmet, there is no hiding in baseball movies. The actors have to know what they’re doing, or at least be very good at pretending they are. It was especially amazing to see how well Chadwick Boseman portrayed Jackie Robinson. From his stance to how he swung the bat, Boseman had the part down to a tee—he even looks like number 42.

I would not be surprised to see this film at the top of the Oscar nominees next year. Even if you aren’t a sports fan, this is a movie worth seeing. It is one in which you can empathize with the characters, so much so that you may be ready to pick a fight with the next person who makes a racial slur. At the very least, it will make you appreciate and respect this man, this player who is so respected, his is the only number retired by the entire MLB.

‘42’ fights racism

WARNER BROS. PICTURES

SPORTSPAGE 10, CAMPUS CARRIER APRIL 25, 2013

Friday April 19Baseballat Birmingham-SouthernL: 1-10

Saturday April 20Women’s Lacrossevs. Birmingham-SouthernW: 16-12

Men’s Lacrossevs. MillsapsW: 17-4

Baseballat Birmingham-SouthernL: 1-3

Sunday April 21Softballvs. LaGrangeW: 14-0, 10-9

Baseballat Birmingham-SouthernW: 12-6

Monday April 22Men’s Tennisvs. EmmanuelL: 4-5

Women’s Tennisvs. EmmanuelW: 9-0

CHELSEA HOAG, Staff Photographer

Softball at 27 wins, set to break own winning recordOLIVIA DONNALLY

Asst. Sports Editor

The Lady Vikings softball team is currently at 27 wins this season, a record that surpasses last year’s 20 wins out of 36 games.

This year’s team currently pos-sesses the Berry softball record for most wins during a single sea-son. Over the course of April the Lady Vikings have won eight out of 10 games and are currently on a five-game winning streak.

The winning momentum started on April 16 when the Lady Vikings played Birming-ham-Southern in a double header and won both games. The scores of the two games were 4-3 and 3-0 respectively. These wins made the Lady Vikings record in the SAA (Southern Athletic Associa-tion) a winning record of 17-5.

After their win against Bir-mingham-Southern, the Lady Vikings learned that they had earned the inaugural SAA regular season title.

Throughout both games the Lady Vikings never lost their lead, even after the Birmingham-

Southern Panthers rallied to earn their three runs in the first game. In the bottom of the ninth inning the Panthers earned two runs, making the score a close 4-3, and had the bases loaded.

At the start of the season senior third baseman Lindsey Campbell said, “Our team is dif-ferent this year in the sense that we have a huge freshman class.

This will help us greatly on the field.”

The talent in the freshman players was evident throughout the course of this game, as many of the big plays were made by the freshmen.

The Lady Vikings managed to finish the inning, preventing any additional runs by Birmingham-Southern by getting the final out

with a caught pop-fly ball out to right field where freshman Shelby Smith made the catch.

Pitching for the game was freshman Alison Corando who took the win and improved her pitching record to 9-4. Through-out the game Corando let up two runs and four hits and struck out four batters.

The Lady Vikings then took the field to face LaGrange in a double header for their last home game during season. This game was the Lady Vikings’ senior night and ended the seniors’ last season with two wins against LaGrange.

The Lady Vikings won the opening game with a score of 14-0 and managed to rally in the nightcap to defeat LaGrange with a close score of 10-9. These two wins put the Lady Vikings with a final season record of 27-9 and an SAA record of 17-5.

Pitching for the women’s soft-ball team in the first game was senior Caillee Shamoun who had a winning record of 11-3 this season for pitching. Shamoun pitched for five innings.

Sophomore Courtney Hodges

managed a grand slam home run in the bottom of the fourth inning, which helped give the Lady Vikings nine runs through the course of that single inning. Additional hitters were junior Jes-sica Washington who made three hits and freshman Abby Daniels who made two.

In the second game, the Lady Vikings began with a two-run lead in the bottom of the first inning. However, LaGrange made a come back in the top of the third inning by bringing in five runs making the score 2-5. The Lady Vikings slowly began to come back from the loss and managed to tie the game in the bottom of the seventh inning and then win in the bot-tom of the eighth. Senior second baseman Lacey Herring brought in the final run with a RBI double to right field and won the game.

The Lady Vikings are now the number one seed and will com-pete in the SAA championship in Danville, Ky. on Friday. They will receive a first-round by as the top-seeded team and will then play the winner of the Millsaps-Centre game at 4 p.m.

Lady Vikings sophomore third baseman Courtney Hodges pre-pares to swing at a pitch against LaGrange College on Sunday. The Lady Vikings won the first game 14-0 and the nightcap 10-9.

Crew team buys new racing shell

Mens Lacrosse wins in quarterfinals

STEVEN EVANSSports Editor

The Berry Vikings Crew team purchased a brand new Vespoli Ultralite II Midweight 4+ rac-ing shell, making it the first boat that the team has purchased since 1995. Racing shells are the types of row boats used in crew competitions.

Opposed to the much heavier, less durable wood finish that rac-ing shells are typically made of, the new boat is composed of car-bon fiber, which is much lighter, and will not have a tendency to swell after years of exposure to the water.

The new racing shell was given the name “Jane Dixon,” named after a former avid rower in the Rome community who was a member of the Atlanta Rowing Club along with her husband, Hamilton Dixon.

Funding for the boat came primarily from the Student Gov-ernment Association (SGA) and the Student Activities Office (SAO) which was complemented by a $2,000 donation by former crew member Haley Brown’s grandmother.

“This is a new chapter for the Vikings crew team,” Head Coach Andrew Williams said. “most teams have four or five coaches, a six-figure funded program, and many of the rowers are recruited and receive scholarships.”

CONTRIBUTIONS BY JORDYN HEBERT Asst. Online Editor

STEVEN EVANSSports Editor

The Vikings Lacrosse team (12-4) defeated the Millsaps College Majors (5-9) in the quarterfinals of the Southern Athletic Association (SAA) tournament 17-4 on Satur-day to earn a spot in the tourna-ment’s final four.

This game was the second that the Vikings defeated Millsaps this season. On Sunday, April 14 the Vikings beat the Majors with a score of 15-2 to claim the SAA regular season title.

In the quarterfinal match soph-omore attack Blake Gwizdalski scored four goals and added four assists, being a primary scorer for the Vikings in the match.

The Vikings held a 7-3 lead at halftime, but scored the majority of their points in the third quarter.

“We actually came out pretty slow because we were wrongly playing down to [Millsaps],” sophomore goalie Brandon Sand-ers said. “It was about the third quarter that we started scoring and started playing as a team like we normally play. Because it was the quarterfinals game, we should have come out stronger, but we finally realized that this game was a big game especially for momen-tum, so we finally showed up after halftime.”

Sanders made three saves in the game, while starting goalie junior Jordan Boreman made four and freshman goalkeeper Nick Voso added one save.

Sophomore attack Cory Hall added four more points for the Vikings, while sophomore mid-fielder Grand Phillips scored three more.

“The game was a good build-ing block for what we have to accomplish,” Hall said. “It was the first round for us, and we got an easy win. Now we have to

show up and play Centre on Fri-day and come out and play like we did this weekend to beat them and play most likely Sewanee: The University of the South in the championship game.”

The Vikings defeated Sewanee on April 6 when Hall made the Vikings’ game-winning shot with one second left in regulation to prevent the game from entering overtime.

The Vikings will play in the semifinals against the Centre College Colonels tomorrow. The

Colonels handed the Vikings their SAA loss this season, defeating them on March 23 with a score of 16-14 after the Vikings blew an 8-5 halftime lead.

“The game [tomorrow] is a redemption game,” Sanders said. “They are the only team who beat us in regulation. We just have to come out playing the best game we can. We have been working all week to be able to beat them this time. Sewanee beat them, and we beat Sewanee, so I think we can turn this game into a win.”

NATHAN SUTTON, Staff Photographer

Junior midfielder Bryan Byers rushes down the field with possession of the ball against Millsaps College on Saturday in the quarterfinal match. The Vikings defeated Millsaps with a score of 17-4 and will play Centre College tomorrow for rights to play in the championship game.

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PHOTOS BY WILL MILLER, Staff PhotographerArts and Crafts Festival

The Art Society hosted the annual Arts and Crafts Festival Saturday, April 20 on Moon lawn. Students, faculty and alumni showed up to sell items from photographs to paintings to jewelry. Some works were created in classes while others were made in their spare time. The Berry and Rome communities had the opportunity to walk around and look at the different pieces while listening to groups perform in the World Music Festival that was occurring on the Memorial Library lawn on the other side of Opportunity Drive. There were around 40 tables.