March 21st, 2013

York County goes green

CSL elections to begin in April

see SCIENCE & TECH pg. 5

March 21, 2013

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S.C. Secretary of State visits business department see NEWS pg. 3

Editor questions entitlements see OPINION pg. 6

LAX Big South star player named see SPORTS pg. 7

Charlotte’s mayor introduces project see NEWS pg. 3

SPORTS

Lady Eagles to play in national tournament

By Shelby Chiasson chiassons@mytjnow.com

Many may be captivated by the first round of the anticipated March Madness tonight, but Kevin Cook will lead the Lady Eagles to the Women’s National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) to complete against Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers, Fla. at 7 p.m.

The game will also be broadcast on Winthrop’s radio stream.

The Lady Eagles enter the WNIT Tournament after an incredible season with Cook, who is in his first year coaching with the team.

see BASKETBALL pg. 7

OPINION

Feminism, a changing ideology

By Tracy Anderson Special to The Johnsonian Brandi Shepherd, the president of the Feminist Society at Winthrop University, climbed out of bed, cleaned herself up and hopped into some shorts. She put on a blue and white-striped tank top with a white cardigan, pulled her hair back into a tight ponytail and drove to Charlotte.

“I was trying to look as innocent as possible so the cops wouldn’t think to arrest me,” Shepherd said.

It was 9 a.m. on Sept. 1, 2012, Shepherd was standing quietly on the side walk of an abortion clinic.

see SOCIETY pg. 6

see NEWS pg. 4

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NEWS

Student body president says goodbye to Winthrop

By Kaitlyn Schallhorn schallhornk@mytjnow.com Winthrop’s first democratically elected student body president in 10 years has accomplished more than enough in his 21 years than the average college student.

However, in 30 minutes of speaking to Kambrell Garvin, the senior political science major praised the works of the Council of Students Leaders as well as the influences of several Winthrop faculty.

“I didn’t try to promote myself,” Garvin said about his time as the student body president. “My goal was always to try to promote the student body.”

For anyone who knows Garvin, it is easy for them to see that he lives out his personal motto by Ghandi: “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

Unlike most college students who change majors as much as they change pant sizes, Garvin knew that he wanted to be a political science major since he was in high school.

Garvin began his political career in 2004 when as a 12-year-old he accompanied his mother to a local meeting and worked on his first presidential campaign.

“I was the youngest person in the room and they were all impressed

Prior to becoming Winthrop’s student body president, Garvin served as the state president for the youth and college division of the NAACP. Garvin was responsible for overseeing about 30 college chapters of the organization across the state including the NAACP chapter at Winthrop.

But believe it or not, Garvin did not immediately step down as the NAACP’s youth and college division president.

He spent five months fulfilling both presidential roles not to mention balancing academics and a personal life.

“It was definitely a challenging five months Student body president, Kambrell Garvin, served as a member of the NAACP, but I was definitely Alpha Phi Alpha, participated as a peer mentor and served on the All Greek happy,” Garvin said Judicial Board. Photo by Claire VanOstenbridge • vanostenbridgec@ laughing. mytjnow.com Garvin applied the social activism skills that he developed while with by this 12-year-old who Association for the Adthe NAACP to his run and was sitting there,” Garvin vancement of Colored reign as CSL chair. remembered. “I went to People (NAACP) and fell While CSL chair, Garvin that meeting and I’ve been in love with social activserved with his peers on politically engaged ever ism. since.”

A member from Garvin’s CSL by sponsoring a Trayvon Martin candlelight Garvin wasn’t kidding. church saw early on what vigil, campus-wide voter One year later Garvin would become so evident registration drive and continued on the political to anyone who meets LGBT programs. activism path by organizGarvin today—his innate Garvin also promoted ing his first voter registrapassion to want to make a CSL’s latest project—a tion drive foreshadowing difference in the world. program about suicide. his own involvement in The church member Winthrop’s voter registraencouraged a barely teention drive in 2012. age Garvin to attend an It was around this time NAACP meeting and from see GARVIN pg. 3 that Garvin became a there he began his involvemember of the National ment in the organization.

NEWS

Teachers silenced in student homicide case

By Kaitlyn Schallhorn schallhornk@mytjnow.com Just before the start of Spring Break, the Winthrop community was rocked with the news that one of its own students had been arrested and charged with the homicide of a five-year-old girl.

Phillip Gleason, charged with homicide by child abuse in the death of his

girlfriend’s daughter, was denied bond.

Gleason has also been suspended from Winthrop’s campus until Winthrop’s campus police grants the 27-year-old permission to return, according to Rebecca Masters, assistant to the president for public affairs.

Facing another type of suspension is Winthrop’s faculty who has been

banned from speaking about the Gleason or his case.

In an email sent to all faculty by Dr. Peter Judge, Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Science, teachers were warned of reporters in Kinard Hall gathering information about the case from students.

“Students, of course, can speak for themselves,” the

email stated. “Under no circumstances, however, are you, your faculty, staff, or any other employee of Winthrop University to say anything about this student or the case.”

Faculty was advised in the email to send any requests for comment to Masters or the university relations office.

NEWS

Poverty stricken schools open students’ eyes

By Adam Matonic Special to the Johnsonian

Winthrop’s own Dr. Carol Marchel presented her short documentary, “It Takes an Anchor: Meeting the Challenges of Poverty in South Carolina Schools” in tandem with a panel discussion with South Carolina educators in public schools on Tuesday night in Richardson Ballroom.

The documentary was spawned

by Marchel’s sabbatical work and research as she began to follow Winthrop graduates who majored in education out into the schools at which they taught. The documentary begins with some eye-opening statistics about South Carolina public schools: 40% of schools are rural and 10% are in extreme poverty.

The documentary, which showed interviews with educators, both administrative and in the classrooms, followed Andrew Jackson High School and Middle School in Lancaster, South Carolina.

The most severe problem posed by the documentary is teacher retention. Since the 2008 economic downturn teachers were less willing to make long commutes into rural areas, like Lancaster.

The documentary make a point of noting that the low teacher retention was not caused by lack of passion and enthusiasm in teaching at a small school in a rural area, but because of increasing economic restraints.

The documentary opened up many points on which to be elaborated and segued perfectly into the panel discussion featuring Kim Camp, principal of Alma Elementary in Gaffney; Keri Fersner, a Winthrop student who volunteers with students in rural areas.

Kara Keale, a first-year teacher at Burke High School in Charleston and a member of Teach for America Corps; Ronnie Robinson, a teacher at South Middle School in Lancaster; and lastly Mary Barry, a retired principal at Andrew Jackson High School in Lancaster, were featured in the documentary.

When asked about the biggest challenges they face as public educators, the panel members agreed that it is most important to help students break free of the labels thrust upon them, living in underprivileged areas and to provide them with the inspiration to realize that they can do anything.

see SCHOOL pg. 8

College of Arts and Sciences gets new leadership

By Shamira McCray mccrays@mytjnow.com A new dean has been selected to head the College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Karen M. Kedrowski, chair of the Department of Political Science, will replace Dr. Peter Judge, interim dean of the college, as the new dean beginning July 1, 2013.

According to a university press release, Kedrowski plans to build on the college’s strong reputation for high-quality academic programs and its student-centered focus. As dean, she will lead 14 departments and will oversee more than 200 full and parttime faculty and staff and a $14.5 million budget, the report said.

“I’m honored and humbled and

very grateful for the opportunity,” Kedrowski said. “There are several things that lie ahead.”

Kedrowski said she knows a lot about the College of Arts and Sciences but certainly does not know everything she needs to know. Making a large amount of changes to the college is one thing Kedrowski does not want to do. She said she does want to

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With this new role, Kedrowski said she will need to focus her attention on learning the job which will result in her not teaching initially.

see DEAN pg. 4

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"First Dog" to visit this week see NEWS pg. 4

Students go back in time to Shakespeare see A&C pg. 8

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Student body president leaves lasting legacy at Winthrop GARVIN • from front Garvin’s political background served to make Winthrop’s campus a little more politically minded. The voter registration drive registered over 1,000 people in nonpartisan efforts. The student government also worked on a legislation that took the stance that the voter ID laws would disenfranchise student voters.

Garvin, a firm believer that “everything happens for a reason,” became CSL chair at a time when the organization needed his leadership skills the most.

CSL hasn’t always had a history of being held in the highest of regards. Since Garvin has been elected by the student body, the reputation of the organization has changed from one where students could not always trust peers that had been appointed their leaders by the administration to one where their voices could be heard.

“We’re no longer just that group of elite students that are sitting in room making decisions on behalf of the student body,” Garvin said. “To be able to turn the image and the reputation around for the entire organization is a big deal.”

“CSL has always done great things, but they weren’t always given the credit for the great things that they were doing,” Garvin said, keeping in style with showcasing the positive.

Garvin’s biggest cheerleaders have been his family.

Garvin grew up in a single-parent household, raised by a mother who put herself through two masters degrees while at the same time raising two sons. Later on the woman who Garvin said was one of his greatest influences would also earn her doctorate degree.

“I’ve been inspired by the things that she’s been able to do,” Garvin said.

Eventually Garvin’s mother would change

her career path to that of a speech therapist in order for her to help Garvin overcome a speech impediment he had as a child.

It was Garvin’s grandfather, the first African-American to be elected to city council in Marion, S.C., who instilled in the CSL chair a love for social justice.

“Being involved and being politically engaged and really trying to make a difference is something that my family as a whole, we’ve really sought to do,” Garvin said.

Winthrop became Garvin’s home for his collegiate years due to the university’s beautiful campus, the political science and the diversity on campus.

“I was definitely pleased to see a diverse campus, a campus that represents the population of South Carolina,” said Garvin.

Although it’s near impossible to tell by Garvin’s life, he did say that “you can’t do everything and expect to be good at anything.”

CSL chair and NAACP youth and college division president weren’t the only extra-curriculars that Garvin threw himself into while at Winthrop. Garvin served on the search and selection committee to help provide a student voice while choosing Winthrop’s next campus president, served as the NAACP representative to CSL prior to his presidency, served on the All Greek Council Judicial Board and was a peer mentor.

Garvin has also been a member of Alpha Phi Alpha since Spring 2010. While a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, Garvin helped to establish the Jordan R. Smith Memorial Scholarship in memory of a brother who was tragically killed in a car accident. What makes Garvin’s involvement in creating the scholarship more remarkable: Garvin never met Smith.

The Jordan R. Smith Memorial Scholarship awards $1,000 annually to a male student who demonstrates a commitment to service.

“Jordan Smith was all about service,” Garvin said about his late fraternity brother. “I felt

that we should have honored him in a very special way. Everything I’ve heard about him, ever since I got here, was always positive. “ It’s easy to see why Garvin would wish to immortalize the legacy of a person who he deemed so selfless.

Garvin couldn’t even talk about his least favorite class—Spanish—without singing the praises of his Spanish teacher, Victoria Uricoechea.

What’s next for Garvin? The soon to be Winthrop graduate is not actively pursuing another leadership role within the NAACP but said that he “wants to continue to move forward so we’ll just see what that means in regards to the future.”

Garvin has applied to several law schools across the nation and has also been accepted into Teach For America, an organization which is dedicated to improving educational experiences for youth across America.

While Garvin could have chosen to go anywhere in the country, he picked S.C. and has been assigned to teach in either Charleston, Orangeburg or the Pee Dee area. The schools in these areas have severe issues which could mean anything from a lack of library books to a lack of heating or air conditioning.

“That’s a great opportunity to be able to go out there in my state and make a difference,” Garvin said.

“I think there’s power in education,” Garvin said. “Knowledge can absolutely take someone from poverty and living in an impoverished community to success.”

If Garvin chooses to pursue the Teach for America program, he would have to defer his law school admission for two years.

The secondary education minor more than likely attributes his passion for education to his family who he described as always valuing education.

While Garvin says that he has no current plans to become President of the United States

one day, he also did not have any plans of becoming student body president while in college. Garvin served as president while in middle school and held a vice presidency role in high school.

“I never say never but at this point I’m taking it day by day,” Garvin said amid some laughs. “I don’t know what the future holds at this point but I know who holds it.”

Garvin is open to one day holding a public office as public service does remain important to the Garvin family.

Garvin hopes that his predecessor can remember to remain humble, much like he has done. For CSL, Garvin hopes that the Council can remain focused on students and student empowerment in order to move forward and to greater depths.

“My goal has always been to utilize the opportunities that have been afforded to me,” Garvin said.

Garvin’s message to Winthrop’s student body hasn’t wavered since the day he first took office.

“Stay engaged,” Garvin echoed. “Be an engaged student, be an engaged alum. Support athletics. Don’t just go to college for four years and then at graduation look back and say ‘I wish I did this’ or ‘I wish I did that.’”

Garvin credits President Anthony DiGiorgio with being a great influence on his time at Winthrop while speculating that the working relationship between the two leadership men will continue past Garvin’s graduation and DiGiorgio’s retirement this year. Dean of Students Bethany Marlowe also impacted Garvin’s career at Winthrop during her dedicated role as CSL advisor and a listener to Garvin.

“College has taught me a lot about life and people,” Garvin said. “Every day might not necessarily be a good day but make it a good day.”

Charlotte mayor discusses challenges in leadership

By Frances Parrish parrishf@mytjnow.com

Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx speaks to students about his accomplishments as mayor and how he hopes to improve Charlotte in the future. Photo by Coleman Krietemeyer • krietemeyerc@mytjnow.com

Mayor Anthony Foxx of Charlotte spoke to Winthrop about the challenges of leading a city and his accomplishments, like lowering the crime rate and enacting Project L.I.F.T. (Leadership and Investment for Transformation) on Thursday, March 7 .

Foxx’s goals are economic development, to improve quality of life for residents, and to improve relations between the governments in Washington and Raleigh.

Foxx has a background in legalities with a bachelor’s degree from Davidson College and a law degree from New York University’s School of Law. Foxx explained that, like all cities, Charlotte is impacted by globalization. It is one of the main challenges he faces. Jobs have become more competitive.

“The local government is dependent on the relationship and financial health of the federal government,” Foxx said.

Since Foxx took office in 2009, he has decreased the crime rate, expanded the police force, privatized recycling and much more.

Foxx said Charlotte has proved itself able to hold large conventions. There is a possibility that the city of Charlotte may apply to host the Olympics.

The Democratic National Convention proved to Charlotte that they “can do this,” Foxx said. The city has learned that they need to improve and expand their public transit system.

“I’m not afraid of an Olympics,” Foxx said.

Foxx said that schools have to be diverse,

S.C. Secretary of State delivers lecture about business practices

By Kaitlyn Schallhorn schallhornk@mytjnow.com South Carolina’s Secretary of State Mark Hammond (R) visited Winthrop on Tuesday afternoon despite an apparent neck injury in order to speak during a Whitton Best Practices Series event.

Hammond, who began his service as secretary of state in 2002, at-

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tempted to explain to an audience eager to learn about business practices just what his office does. Hammond also promoted and explained his office’s new website which can be detrimental to businesses statewide.

Hammond said that he was at Winthrop “to meet voters and answer questions on how to do business.”

Also present at the event on the

legal implications of setting up a business was Shannon Wiley, deputy legal counsel, and Joanie Winters, a local attorney.

Elaine Whitton Davis, responsible for the naming of the auditorium as well as the series, was also in attendance at the event.

The presentations were from 2 p.m to 5 p.m. with a reception following in the Macfeat House.

and they are not diverse any more. For example, West Charlotte high school is 75 percent free and reduced lunch and 95 percent African American.

He compared China’s schools to American schools in regards to competitiveness.

China’s students understand the competitiveness of school, and American students don’t.

Foxx has come up with a solution to this problem. He has developed project L.I.F.T. to raise attention to issues within the school, like the graduation rate.

Project L.I.F.T. will improve the quality of teaching, improvements for technology to conquer the digital divide. Foxx is discussing making Charlotte school attendance year-round to prevent students losing information over the summer.

Teachers who are part of Project L.I.F.T. have a higher salary in order to recruit better teachers and motivate teachers.

There is also a parent portion of Project L.I.F.T. Foxx told the audience a story of how his grandparents were teachers, and as teachers, they visited their students’ parents. Project L.I.F.T has adopted and adapted this approach. Parents have expressed support for a year-long school term.

Foxx passed on his most important leadership advice to the students: “To know how to give a good speech.” He explained that he was an only child, which allowed him to learn a lot about building relationships through his time in office since December 2009.

Foxx’s presentation was a part of the College of Business Administration Leadership Series.

Sec. of State Hammond speaks to Rock Hill buisness community.

Photo courtesy of Claire VanOstenbridge• vanostenbridgec@ mytjnow. com

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Student body election New fiscal year to bring changes to Winthrop’s future season is well underway

By Frances Parrish parrishf@mytjnow.com

Winthrop’s budget will not increase as the state continues appropriations legislation within the week.

However, tuition can be expected to rise as the state House and Senate prepares to meet later this month in Columbia, according to an email sent from President Anthony DiGiorgio.

The S.C. House of Representatives is preparing to meet within the next few weeks to discuss higher education funding for the next fiscal year which will begin on July 1.

Sequestration may impact

Winthrop in funding cuts for financial aid programs for work study in the next academic year, but pell grants are protected.

“The continuation of this trend in higher education funding is deeply troubling, not only for those engaged in our calling, but also for the entire state,” DiGiorgio said in the email.

He further states that South Carolina is making no plans to use economic recovery to invest in higher education.

On the other hand, Rep. Gary Simrill (Rep.) has worked with the ways and means committee to recommend Winthrop to receive an allocation of $750,000

for roof repairs, upgrades or replacements of safety alarms such as fire alarms in multiple buildings on campus.

Currently, funding for Winthrop from the U.S. Department of Education, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Justice will not be impacted for the remainder of the federal fiscal year, ending on Sept. 30.

According to the president’s email, funding for the next academic year could be affected despite the fact that the intensity of the impaction is unknown.

By Shamira McCray mccrays@mytjnow.com Four candidates are set to campaign for the positions of student body president and vice president during this semester’s elections.

Christopher Aubrie, the current vice chair of CSL and Ian Deas, annual member of CSL, will run on one ticket. Dillon Donolds, annual member, and Alexandra Jensen, secretary of CSL, will run on another ticket.

These four candidates were the only students to complete and return applications for the positions. Christine Counts-Davis, election commissioner, said as a committee they were not looking for specific qualities in the candidates. However, they were just looking for individuals with completed applications.

As a council, CSL was in search of candidates who could fulfill their constitution.

“The council was looking for qualities none other than fulfilling the duties that are out-

lined in our constitution,” Counts-Davis said.

On April 1, CSL will host an election rally and debate at 7 p.m. in Dina’s Place.

“The candidates may decide to do other things as a part of their campaign, but the council will host one rally,” Counts-Davis said.

Voting will begin on April 2 and last until April 3. Student wishing to participate in the election will be able to vote online via the Winthrop University website.

Two years ago, eight percent of the student body voted in the campus elections, and last year the turnout increased to 11 percent.

Counts-Davis said the council’s goal is to have voter turnout increased to at least 25 percent of the student body this year.

“We really want to get students to vote,” she said. “If they get out and vote, their voices will be heard.

Winthrop Poll offers research opportunity for students

By Tori Wright wrightv@winthrop.edu The Winthrop Poll is a regional and statewide survey, garnering national attention for the university and provides students with hands-on experience in political research methodology. The most recent poll results were released in February.

“It’s a great opportunity for Winthrop to serve its state,” said Scott Huffmon, political science professor and founder of the poll. “It get’s Winthrop’s name across the country.”

The poll was created to provide a snapshot of life in South Carolina. and provide policymakers in South Carolina with a baseline of information. Many different news outlets like CNN, BBC, the New York Times and ABC News use the poll’s findings.

Conducted four times a year, residents of South Carolina and the South are surveyed on their views of national, state and local issues. Approval ratings and attitudes towards the economy are generally given the most attention.

First conducted in 2006, the Winthrop Poll is the primary

research endeavor of the Social and Behavioral Research Lab (SBRL), and it serves as an educational laboratory for students to gain real world experience in surveying methods.

“I really wanted students to have hands-on research,” Huffmon said. “Why not find ways to serve South Carolina? At the time, there was no snapshot of the state,” Huffmon said.

Data is collected through phone calls to residents in South Carolina and throughout the South, to both landline and cell phone numbers.

“It is illegal for robo-calls to call cell phones,” Huffmon explained. “But if you are not calling cell phones, you’re missing out on a large percentage of the population.”

Human callers are used to reach out to the many people without landlines. There are around 50-60 poll callers, and students account for the majority of those. The polling generally last around 6-7 days, and the most recent poll took place Feb. 9-17.

“People care about approval ratings,” Huffmon said.

The Feb. 2013 poll results show that President Obama’s approval rating in S.C. is at 48 percent, four percentage points

Political science professor becomes dean of CAS

CSL discuss elections, “First Dog” fundraiser

By Kris Gaitan gaitank@mytjnow.com The Council of Student Leaders met on Thursday and discussed the upcoming CSL elections and Cocoa’s charity fundraiser.

The election supervisory committee announced that incumbent CSL Vice President Christopher Aubrie and Dillon Donolds are competing against one another in the election for CSL president. Aubrie will be running with Ian Deas and Donolds with Ali Jensen.

“I really had fun serving under Kambrell and want to extend my time,” said Aubrie.

On April 1, the two candidates and their running mates will debate at 7 p.m. in Dina’s Place.

Students will be able to cast their votes for the next CSL president online April 2-3.

Christine Counts-Davis, CSL’s election supervisory committee chair said voter turnout last year was at 11 percent and that they are looking

lower than the national approval rating. Gov. Haley has an approval rating of 43.7 percent among registered voters.

“To me, the most important findings are buried down there.

Food insecurity, poverty and the homeless are things concern me,” Huffmon said. “Not a single news outlet mentioned it.”

Results show that over 21 percent of S.C. respondents answered that they were “sometimes” or “often” worried food would run out in their household before being able to afford to buy more.

“We try to find a different angle every time,” Huffmon said.

For instance, during the Clinton and Obama democratic race in 2008, Winthrop Poll results showed that one-third of African Americans were voting for Obama, one-third were voting for Clinton and one-third were undecided.

“After our results came out, both campaigns changed the way they targeted African American women,” Huffmon said.

Huffmon said health and well-being are important, and the poll is trying to get a better picture of the quality of life in South Carolina.

for an increase in voter turnout.

She continued on by saying that the election kiosk in the DiGiorio Campus Center, campaign buttons and a commercial from the video production club will increase this year’s voter turnout.

The Cocoa fundraiser event will allow students to meet Winthrop President-elect, Jamie Comstock, her family and their 9-year-old Chesapeake retriever, Cocoa.

The event will also have student organizations competing to collect the most pet supplies and non-perishable food for Meals on Wheels. The student organization that collects the most will win a $1,000 check from the board of trustees.

“Look alive people…lots of work that needs to be done,” said Kristi Schoepfer, the CSL faculty advisor on the organizations upcoming events.

Kambrell later called for a vote on the meeting to be adjourned, the vote was second and he declared the meeting closed.

DEAN • from front ”I don’t think it will do anyone any good if I teach badly because of my focus on my new role,” she said.

Kedrowski has a five year goal to see the College of Arts and Sciences “continue to do well” and see improvements across the board.

Specifically, she would like to build an environment in which everything can improve, Kedrowski said.

Overall, Kedrowski feels that the “arts and sciences faculty and students are an invigorating group to be around.”

As stated in the university

press release, Debra Boyd, vice president of academic affairs, said that the College of Arts and Sciences and Winthrop will benefit from Kedrowski’s interaction with a number of academic initiatives and her planning skills.

“I think Dr. Kedrowski is a very student-centered individual,” Boyd said. “She will be very collaborative in moving the college forward.

Boyd, who served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences for eight years prior to Peter Judge’s leadership, said it is important that a dean understands what the faculty and students need.

“I expect to see even more

collaboration among programs within the College of Arts and Sciences,” Boyd said. “I anticipate some heightened civic engagement in the college since that is definitely one of Kedrowski’s strengths.”

Currently, Kedrowski is a professor of political science and serves as director of the John C. West Forum on Politics and Policy and the Global Learning Initiative.

Also in the running for the dean was Beth Costner, chair of the mathematics department.

POLICE BLOTTER 2/25/13 Petty Larceny On the date noted above a Winthrop female student, age 21, reported that her wallet had been stolen out of a lounge in Owens Hall while she was in class. The victim states that she left her floral Vera Bradley wallet on a glass table by mistake before she walked into the classroom. Shortly after she realized the item was missing, she returned to the scene to discover it missing. It contained debit and insurance cards, the victim’s student identification card, and keys, all along with the wallet making a combined value of $175. According to the police report, the victim was able to point out a Caucasian female wearing a black and white jacket and a pink backpack retrieve the item, look at its contents, and walk away with the item in hand. The victim was given a victim notification information card to file her report. The case remains under investigation.

3/9/13 Possession of Marijuana with Intent to Distribute On the noted date above, the reporting officer pulled over a black male, age 19, because he was not wearing a seatbelt.

While speaking with the victim the officer noted a strong odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle. According to the police report, the officer asked the subject to step out of the vehicle and then asked if the subject was carrying marijuana. The subject stated that he had some in his left jacket pocket. The officer was able to recover a pill bottle containing 7 grams of loose marijuana and multiple individually wrapped bags containing a gram of marijuana a piece, appearing to be packaged for sale. The subject was arrested for possession with intent to distribute and placed into the Rock Hill Law Center for booking. The subject was served an arrest warrant for violation of drug laws.

3/10/13 Driving under Suspension (3rd offense and subsequent) On the noted date above, the reporting officer on South Cherry Road at the time, conducted a traffic stop on a black male, age 27, for not wearing his seatbelt. According to the police reports, when the officer checked the subject’s information through the Department of Motor Vehicles, he noted that the subject’s driving privileges had been suspended for failure to pay traffic tickets. The officer placed the male subject under arrest for driving under suspension and had him transported to the Rock Hill City Jail. The passenger riding with the suspect was permitted to take the vehicle. A $2,100 bond has been set along with a court date later in April for the suspect.

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Game Review: MLB 13: The Show vs. MLB 2K13 Businesses in York County continue going green

By Michael Owens owensm@mytjnow.com

When the calendar turns to the months of March and April, and warm weather arrives, you know that can only mean one thing.

Baseball is back. As we lie in wait for another, hopefully action-packed year of baseball, in comes the annual battle for diamond supremacy in the digital realm. The battle between Sony’s Playstation 3’s exclusive MLB: The Show franchise and 2K Sports’ iteration of America’s pastime is one that is quite intriguing among both parties. In the end, however, only one will reign supreme.

MLB 13: The Show Sony’s San Diego Studios is coming off yet another fantastic year when it came to The Show. Last year’s game was critically acclaimed, some even claiming that it was the greatest, most realistic sports game of all time. It’s annual successor does the series much justice, improving upon the few mistakes that last year made as well as keeping up with what makes The Show so great. For starters, there’s the variety of control. There is a great variety of gameplay options, which range from how you pitch, bat or play the field.

Another huge positive is the arrangement of difficulty. The beginner difficulty is perfect to those new to the game, and the difficulty builds up based upon your performance while playing the game. The game itself looks fantastic, as the player models look so unbelievably realistic. A testament to how great this game looks came when I was playing the game at home over Spring Break, when a friend of mine literally mistook this video game for an actual game (even though he knew Opening Day wasn’t until the first week of April). However, the stadiums and fans still look the same

as last year, and hopefully this is something that could be fixed as we jump into the next generation of consoles. Another possible nitpick could be regarding the commentary and fielding controls, which feel like they have remained untouched. Overall, The Show is great once again, and is definitely the prominent choice for a baseball simulator on Playstation 3.

MLB 2K13 2K has been fairly consistent with sports games in recent years. With the highly-acclaimed NBA 2K series, the publisher made their name known with said series. However, their interpretation of Major League Baseball hasn’t quite made it to the plateau of their basketball simulations. Here with 2K13, unfortunately, it feels like more of the same. No real new features have been implemented this year, and the game overall feels like it suffers from “copy and paste” syndrome. The only real progression that has been made is the commentary, which is very fluid and appropriate most of the time. With that being said, it feels like everything feels the same as it was in 2K12, and it’s a shame that there is no real progression being seen here. While the game is easy to play and easy to adjust through a few settings, it still doesn’t feel very authentic compared to The Show. The graphics are also the same, if not a little worse, than last year and it appears that this game was rushed along (given that nothing about the game was announced until January). The only way I could recommend this game to someone is for one of two reasons. Those reasons being that you either only own a Xbox 360, or if you just want the updated rosters for 2K (which also includes the new-look Houston Astros of the AL West).

Winner: MLB 13: The Show

By Casey White whitec@mytjnow.com

York County hosted its third annual Green Business Conference March 7. The yearly conference is part of an initiative to encourage York County businesses to take steps to lessen their environmental impact while increasing their productivity and profitability.

“We want to show businesses they can save money and be green at the same time,” said Rock Hill Environmental Education Specialist, Elizabeth Morgan.

Morgan, who was also on the planning team for the conference, said that the conference this year was not only about telling businesses what they can do, but providing them with tools and resources that they can use to make their businesses greener.

Around 150 people attended the conference this year, and included representatives from non-profit organizations, locally owned businesses, educational institutions and large corporations.

There were a number of sessions held throughout the conference including sessions on transportation, sustainability, eating locally and landscaping. The day opened up with keynote speaker Scott Tew, of the Center for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability.

“Our keynote speaker was excellent and pro-

vided some great overviews and real world examples of how businesses need to be sustainability minded in order to remain relevant and maximize their profitability,” Morgan said.

Morgan believes that taking the step in urging businesses to be greener will go a long way in encouraging the citizens of Rock Hill to live green.

“We have always encouraged our residents to think about their community and the environment by recycling, not littering, conserving resources and taking care of our surroundings,” Morgan said. “We are taking that a step further by asking the same things of our business organizations. It makes sense to continue the habits of sustainability when you are at work.”

In order to instill the idea of being green into the people of Rock Hill, the city is educating the people who they believe will encourage others to take steps forwards as well.

“We want to educate managers, employees and decision makers on ways they can set the culture at their place of work,” Morgan said.

In instilling a culture of being green within businesses, the city hopes that Rock Hill will continue making progress towards becoming a greener city. Rock Hill will continue hosting the conference yearly and have already made plans to host their next Green Business Conference in March 2014.

Winthrop to celebrate Earth Hour

By Casey White whitec@mytjnow.com Winthrop’s chapter of the Student Environmental Action Coalition will be holding a candlelight vigil to celebrate Earth Hour on March 23.

Earth Hour is a global event in which people are urged to turn their lights off for an hour in order to show their concern for the envi-

ronment. The event, which is the single largest symbolic mass participation event in the world, takes place in over 7,000 cities and towns across 152 countries and territories by millions of people.

SEAC’s vigil will begin at 8:30 p.m. on the campus green. The organization urges students to attend the vigil and show their support for the environment.

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Game Review: How the new Tomb Raider holds up to the series

By Charner Boney Special to the Johnsonian

Tomb Raider, an existing game franchise that started in 96’, received a well-deserved reboot this spring. Going back to Lara Croft’s origin story, Tomb Raider (2013) shows off an impressive display of gameplay, visuals, music and story. While every game has its downsides, Tomb Raider’s impressiveness heavily outweighs the subtle flaws. Here’s the breakdown: Story Lara Croft, 21 and attractive as ever (sorry Angelina Jolie), has just graduated college and is going on her first archeological hunt to find the lost kingdom of the Yamatai, south of Japan. They praise the Sun Queen, Himiko, who is said to hold mystic powers.

Without going into too much detail (nobody likes spoilers) Lara and her crew shipwreck on an island in the Dragon’s Triangle south of Japan. Separated due the crash, Lara struggles to regroup with her companions. Through a series of events we find that Sam, Lara’s best friend is the next candidate in the ritual performed by the island’s inhabitants. These inhabitants, a cult of worshipers to the Sun Queen, are ruthless, brutal and show no mercy towards Lara.

Though the story was good, it was predict-

able. No major plot twists happened. You knew the bad guy, and that never changed.

Fortunately, without complex rhetorical devices, Tomb Raider still stands as a rich, lore filled adventure with lots, and I mean LOTS, of backstory. With relics to find, tombs to raid (yes actual tombs) and journals to read through, you’ll find yourself intrigued by the Yamatai.

Just as a side note, the game is 100% voice acted. If there is any text to read, they have someone read it to you. A perfect time to set the controller down and relax for a moment before jumping back into the fray.

Gameplay The gameplay in Tomb Raider is quite impressive. Lara travels in a linear story path around the island, never visiting the same area twice. The scenery in every area is absolutely stunning. I’ve never been a big fan of linear games, but the areas you explore are usually expansive enough to where you won’t see everything that’s there unless you’re really digging for all those little pieces for 100% completion.

Puzzles are a key component to the game.

Some are optional but most are there to block your one path to the next area. Amazingly, Crystal Dynamics has been able to create that

History of the Week March 21, 1994 On this day in history the popular software designing company Novell purchases Quattro Pro a spreadsheet business for $145 million. The company also agreed to purchase WordPerfect for $1.4 bllion in stock options.

The purchase of both companies would allow Novell to compete with applications and operating system leader Microsoft on a wider range.

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same sense of mystery as the brain teasers in The Legend of Zelda series in their puzzles. I raided every tomb I could just to test my puzzle solving skills.

One thing that bugged me, however, was the somewhat simplistic controls of special actions. There were times when you slip from a ledge, and by pressing square you’d regain your grip. About a third of the way through the game I made a habit of always hitting square when jumping for a ledge. The same thing happened with some combat situations. When kill commands came up you always pressed the triangle at the right moment. Some button variety would have made it more of a challenge.

Combat Second to the puzzles comes another key factor to Lara’s adventure, combat. The amount of violence and brutality that comes out of the combat is the kind that makes you cringe.

Fighting the people of the island kind of makes you feel bad for them. Sure they are trying to kill you but they want to escape the island just as badly as Lara does.

There are multiple ways to deal with enemies in the game. There are stealth kills, in which Lara creeps behind someone and quietly ends their cult activities by extreme hemorrhaging or suffocation. Or you can skip the

subtle approach and go head on with an arsenal of weapons. By far the bow was my favorite though. Something about getting a headshot on someone with an arrow brought some satisfaction to my joystick controlling hands. The fighting contains a pleasant mixture of Gears of War, Uncharted and Assassin’s Creed. Sneaking around, ducking for cover and all out open firing on angry men created a great system for Tomb Raider. I found myself doing a mixture of all three. Being able to pick off a few targets before being detected definitely helped.

Though combat was intense and exciting, controlling Lara sometimes got frustrating.

Not to the point that you would accidentally jump off a cliff, but turning and looking for cover sometimes could be a challenge. Running forward and making a sharp turnaround sometimes ended up having Lara make a Uturn instead. Don’t get too excited Lara.

Final Thoughts Taking about 20+ hours to beat, Tomb Raider has earned a spot in my top action/adventure games. Having completed the story on normal mode, hard mode comes next!

Replay value: High Should you get this game?

YES 8/10

Tech Tip of the Week The Internet is huge and full of interesting content, but at times all that interesting content is hard to find. The website StumbleUpon helps with this, and it’s exactly what it sounds like giving users the ability to search and find online content from books, blogs, games, music and videos.

Just by moving through the site’s home screen, users discover interesting content they never knew existed.

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Fighting for rights for everyone, the feminist way SOCIETY • from front

Five other Winthrop students parked their cars and joined her and Sunsara Taylor, a passionate prochoice activist, on the sidewalk.

A wall and a gate engulfed the clinic, making it difficult to see inside. A road led up to the main gate where most of the anti-abortion supporters were standing with their signs. Shepherd, Taylor and the other Winthrop students were asked to remain on the sidewalk.

Shepherd, 20, with a pale face and glasses resting upon her nose, lying over her light blue eyes, wanted to yell and shout at the anti-abortion group hassling her, while yelling at the pregnant women. The rights group was forbidden by the employees at the clinic to yell.

“They yelled in our faces, shoved pictures of aborted fetuses and brochures, riddled with inaccurate facts about abortions, under our noses,” Shepard said.

While standing on the sidewalk with her fellow protestors she heard “Your mother should have you sterilized.” Shepherd was angry because her mother died several years earlier. The anti-abortion group yelled and cursed, then they yelled

and shouted some more, but the found the energy she would need to pro-choice group kept their cool and start the Feminist Society at Winremained calm. throp. She joined forces with Dr. By the time the pro-choice group Jennifer Leigh Disney, women’s got to their next location it was dark. studies teacher at Winthrop and curThey were outside a small building, rent advisor for the Feminist Society almost like an office and one could and started organizing the club. hardly tell it was a strip club except “Women’s studies is where my for the loud music blaring through passion lies. I was excited when the streets.

Brandi Shepherd approached me Rain was pouring yet Shepherd about creating a student run organiand her fellow protestors were zation about feminism and explicitly yelling, “Danger. Danger. Crimes using that word. A lot of men and against women,” and women avoid using “No purity rings. No Gthat word,” Disney Strings. We aren’t your said. little play things.”

Both Disney and People in their cars Shepherd want to were driving by and male use this club to credrivers were taking their ate awareness about The truth is gonna feminism so people flyers; only the women passing by seemed to can understand set you free, but think it was funny. what feminism is first it’s gonna piss about. “ Don’t be “We didn’t want to protest the strippers, afraid to label youryou off. just the establishment. self as a feminist.

- Gloria Steinem It had been run down Part of your power and it was degrading. comes from that laMen wrote comments bel,” Shepherd said. on Google about how some women “I am a feminist. It’s like calling looked like they had been beaten up. me Jennifer Leigh Disney—It’s who Others said the establishment was I am. I feel proud, normal, when dingy, dirty and unsanitary,” Shepsomeone calls me a feminist,” Disherd said. ney said.

After these protests, Shepherd Once I received an email from the

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Winthrop list-serv about and the initiation of a feminist society. I was excited. I knew I had to join immediately. It is the first feminist club at Winthrop to use the word feminist in its title. Given that I classify myself as a feminist it was something I deemed necessary to be apart of.

There are so many different negative connotations about the word feminism. There is this idea that feminists are angry, man hating, bra burning women, which is not the case. People are afraid to use the word feminist because of the negative connotations and they shouldn’t be.

In the feminist society we want to take back the word feminism and shed some light on what it is about.

Feminism today is about much more than just equality between men and women. It is about the equality of the masses, which encompasses everyone. This includes people within the LGBT community, people of different ethnicity, races, sexual orientation, gender, age, social status, economic status and etc.

Currently there are a lot of issues in our society that have not been addressed. In most states in America the law still does not recognize homosexual marriages; currently there is no civil rights law that prohibits

discrimination based on sexual orientation, although there are laws for just about everything else.

We should be fighting for the beliefs or rights of every individual in this day and age. We need to be able to respect one another and also demand respect for ourselves.

The Feminist Society at Winthrop is a place of acceptance and understanding, where women and men can sit down and discuss issues in a respectful manner. It is a safe haven for people to feel comfortable with themselves and other people.

For more information about the Feminist Society contact Brandi Shepherd, the president, by sending her an email at feministsociety@ mailbox.winthrop.edu or her personal email at shepherdb2@mailbox.winthrop.edu.

Along with the Feminist Society club there is also a women’s study minor. If you are interested and want to minor in this program you can contact, the director, Dr. Leigh Disney by email at disneyj@ winthrop.edu, call her at (803) 323-4668 or drop her office at 237 Bancroft Hall.

Entitlements: abusive or OUR SAY rewarding to citizens

Entitlement, the word itself has a negative connotation these days.

Oftentimes the word is enough Jacob Wingard to provoke Opinion Editor well-meaning people into frenzy.

On one hand there are those that believe that entitlement programs are draining away at the coffers of hard-working citizens; on the other hand, there is a sect that believes that it is in place to care for those who have fallen on hard times. As the old saying goes, “somewhere in the middle lies the truth.”

For those of you who didn’t pay attention in government classes, entitlements are government run programs that provide benefits to those that meet certain qualifications. The most well-known of these are food stamps, social security, veteran’s benefits and medicare, there are 19 well known programs, yet there are actually 1607 documented programs receiving about $2 trillion a year collectively.

Government today abuses the situation as many members of congress and the senate receive funds from the organizations. Furthermore, members lobby to increase funding to these groups creating bias and resentment between politicians.

Abuse does not just occur in the offices of politicians. In 2008, a high school dropout cheated society out of $105 million through medicare by electronically submitting 140,000 fraudulent claims over four years for equipment and services.

These abuses extend to doctors, patients and all the way to normal citizens. What makes this upsetting is just how preventable most of it is.

Increasing accountability to companies and organizations while simultaneously enforcing stricter regulations on the review of claims would greatly reduce the issue.

When studies by the senate show that 30 percent of medical equipment reimbursements are falsified are our priorities in the right place?

Closer to home is unemployment pay, and this is the one everyone gets upset about. See, entitlement has a

negative connotation because it is a negative word. When defining it by characteristic, it is a state of narcissism where one believes that they deserve something for nothing.

Let’s all be honest, we know people who have a sense of entitlement. They are the ones that walk through life feeling that everyone owes them for just being around, or that because they had hard time early on they deserve a by.

I’m a sure a great deal of us also know people who abuse unemployment or refuse to look for work because they believe manual labor is beneath them or feel they would make more doing nothing.

This is no way saying everyone on unemployment is like this. I know there are people who genuinely can’t find work or are unable to work in certain conditions. Regardless, entitlement programs are an important part of society; however, they are easily abused and taken advantage of.

Society has taken an altruistic principle and bled it dry out of an over-inflated sense of ego. America has proven that the honor system doesn’t work and in the end a few bad apples spoil the bunch.

Crack downs on these entitlement programs need to be enforced, investigations should take place to ensure that they aren’t abused.

Beyond this, there are sections of government services that need to be trimmed up. I can already hear people screaming at me about this; however, hear me out before flinging that first tomato.

The United States is in a rough patch, one that is worsening due to our demand for low taxes and high services; there is no magic that can make this happen.

Constant borrowing gave the illusion of achieving low taxes and high services for a few years, but in the end it came back to bite the U.S. In order to stabilize the country without losing mass amounts of jobs and breaking everyone is simple-gradually begin closing tax loop holes. Afterwards gently raise taxes and begin to cut spending. Prime areas for cuts are military and yes, entitlements. Do without so those that come after can have.

Judgement is based upon appearance. The better the campus looks, the more likely people will want to attend. The more put together a person looks, the more likely someone will trust the individual. Appearances have become very important in our society today, but we must not let appearances speak for the character and actions of a person but instead enhance them. Appearances will only get an individual so far in life; it’s the actions of an individual that speak louder than any words.

Spring break Winthrop style I’m from Myrtle Beach, so I know that spring break for some involves beach parties, alcohol and communiZane Repp cable diseases.

Freshman exercise People at the science major beach know that. They want college students to come spend money on wild parties.

We all expect it so much though that “spring break” has become rather stereotyped. Now don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with a good stereotype, but you eventually have to wonder if that stereotype is right.

My spring break consisted mostly of sleeping, studying, seeing some friends and doing my taxes. A lot of people that I’ve talked to said that they either had or were planning on having “boring” breaks like mine.

Of course, there were some who just planned to get drunk, but there were less than I expected. Overall, I found a real mind blowing fact: some students have the crazy, fun spring break, and some do not. Who knew?

I do think that the whole stereotypical “spring break” is

a bit overblown. I’m sure that the businesses and hotels are happy for spring break business, but quite frankly, as hard-working college students, we are dirt poor.

So, if I have to choose between either paying a couple of hundred dollars on a “wild” spring break or paying about $20 for a nice dinner with friends; it’s not a hard decision.

Honestly though, I think a lot of my peers simply settled for a lazy week off from classes.

Then again, Winthrop isn’t the biggest party school. There are definitely the college kids here and there who meet those wild expectations.

In Myrtle Beach, they rent beach houses and do naughty things.

Also, they hog my beaches, which is very upsetting. Basically, everyone knows that the college students are coming down to party, and they welcome it.

Many, if not most students will have that crazy spring break adventure at some point, but I don’t think that defines spring break. After asking quite a few people what their spring breaks are like, I asked a good friend expecting to hear some story about a crazy party that he couldn’t remember.

The answer surprised me. He told me that the best spring breaks that he’s had are not the wild parties.

They were the simple ones spent on the pier at night with ice cream and friends.

In my opinion, college students are generally lazy. They don’t really want to “do” much over their breaks.

Of course, we all get the urge once in a while to do something crazy and stupid, but I really don’t think we’re as bad as we think we are. Most of the time, we are content to do something cheap with people that we like.

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Let the Madness begin Rhode Island sweeps away Winthrop The eagerly anticipated men’s basketball tournament kicks off March 21st Tonight, hundreds of colSport from the University of legiate athletes will compete Central Florida. The study in the opening round of also showed an improvement the NCAA Men’s Division I in overall graduation rates, Basketball Championship, rising from 67 percent to 70 which is more commonly percent. When this new rule known as March Madness. is officially established next While some of you dread this Shelby Chiasson year, it will be interesting to Sports Editor time of the year because the see which schools will make limited channels you have in the cut academically and your apartment are filled with a sport physically. you care nothing about, the rest of us Winthrop has appeared in nine eagerly anticipate the nineteen-day NCAA tournaments, though the event, filling out brackets and placing Eagles have only once made it past wagers on the best teams in the divithe first round. That historic win was sion. in 2007, when the Eagles defeated The 2012-2013 season has seen a Notre Dame 74-64, but then lost in fair share of complete upsets. The the next round to Oregon 75-61. The Kentucky Wildcats, who have previmost recent appearance the Eagles ously earned eight NCAA Championhave made in the tournament was in ships and won the title last year, have 2010, when the University of Arkanbeen snubbed from the tournament. sas-Pine Bluff handed us a heavy The success of Gonzaga University’s blow in the play-in game, defeating stellar season comes to a shock to the Eagles 61-44 in Dayton, Ohio. some. Gonzaga has found themselves With Louisville, Gonzaga, Kansas at a number one position in their reand Indiana leading the brackets, it gion. While the Bulldogs have made will be interesting to see how things fifteen appearances in the NCAA play out this season. With this surtournament, they have never made it real season, I am finding it difficult to the final four. to fill out the rest of my bracket. Will In addition to the several upsets Miami pull through to take the title? we have witnessed this season, the I find it doubtful, but the Southern NCAA recently made changes to the team is the favorites of many sportsrules regarding Academic Progress casters and fans alike.

Rates. If the school’s rate falls below Just remember, Winthrop, gam930 next year, the team is ineligible bling is illegal in the fair state of for play. Six schools participating South Carolina. So as you fill out this year (Oregon, Oklahoma State, your bracket, choose your champions James Madison, Saint Louis, Southand empty your spare change into ern New Mexico and New Mexico the communal pot, remember how State) fell below the 930 rate, acrewarding winning that “scholarship” cording to a study released by the money will be. If you choose the right Institute for Diversity and Ethics in team, of course.

Senior Eric Ruth pitches for the Eagles in Sunday’s series final against Rhode Island. Photo courtesy of Winthrop Athletics

By Shelby Chiasson chiassons@mytjnow.com St. Patrick’s Day didn’t leave Winthrop it’s fair share of luck this Sunday as the Eagles fell to Rhode Island 2-1, according to Winthrop Athletics.

This loss was the third loss in a series of three consecutive games hosted at Winthrop this weekend.

The Eagles first match against the Rams ended in a 4-0 shutout.

Rhode Island’s Mike Bradstreet was able to keep five hits while striking out six. Bradstreet’s determination prevented the Eagles from digging their feet into the ground and finding a balance in the game.

Several Eagles had injuries, which did not make it easy for the team as a whole. Junior Cody Dolan (hand), senior Matt Lobacz (wrist), junior TJ Olesczuk (back) and sophomore

Shannon Gallagher awarded honors, LAX falls to Longwood

By Shelby Chiasson chiassons@mytjnow.com

Shannon Gallagher defensively carries the ball in last week’s match against Longwood. Photo courtesy of Winthrop Athletics

Monday afternoon, Shannon Gallagher was named the Big South Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week due to her performances in two matches last week, according to Winthrop Athletics.

During that week alone, Gallagher earned 11 goals and four assists, helping the team earn a recorded 15 points.

This is the first award Gallagher has received, and the third Winthrop lacrosse player to gain this honor.

Previously, Hayley Krause and Claire Feeney have won the same award.

This good news for the Lady Eagles follows a loss against fellow Big South compeitor Longwood last Wednesday. Winthrop fell to the Lancers 14-11 in Farmville, V.A. This match was the first conference game for the Lady Eagles.

With the loss, Winthrop falls to a 4-4 overall record and 0-1 in the conference.

According to the Athletics website,

Longwood gained a quick start, scoring their first goal in the first minute.

It was not until the 25th minute that Gallagher scored her first talley of the evening, thanks to an assist from Claire Feeney.

Freshman Megan Wallenhorst tied the game a few moments later, taking the score to 2-2.

Though Winthrop fought back, the Lancers pushed back just as hard.

Close to the end of the first half, Longwood earned five goals to take the lead before the half.

As the second half started, both teams were hestiant to take reins of the game. It was 21 minutes into the game when Longwood finally scored, pushing the score to 10-4.

Sophomore Mary Accomando and freshmen Logan McCarthy and Feeny each scored to help bring the score to 14-11 right before the end of the match.

The team will travel to Jacksonville to take on the Dolphins Friday night, and will host Detroit Mercy Sunday at 1 p.m.

Clay Altman (shoulder) all had endured injuries prior to the game, according to Winthrop Athletics.

The Eagles did not make much noise during the second match of the series either. The Rams pulled ahead again, ending the match 4-2. Sean Furney of Rhode Island collected his first win of the season, pitching out eight innings and striking out on five.

Senior Mitchell Knox pitched 3.1 innings, which assisted the Eagles offensive. Though Winthrop took this opportunity to fight back, two strike outs left the runners stranded, which helped the Rams secure the win, according to Winthrop Athletics.

The Eagles failed to find their footing in the third and final match of the series Sunday afternoon, ending with a score of 2-1.

Though the Ram’s starter Steve Moyer was able to shut out the Eagles through seven innings, Winthrop was able to come back to lead in the eighth thanks to freshmen Kyle Edwards and Stephen Wallace.

Winthrop had a chance to tie the game at the bottom of the ninth, but the opportunity slipped through their fingers as the Ram’s Bobby Dean left the runners for his second save of the season, according to Winthrop Athletics.

Thanks to superb pitching from seniors Tyler Klitsch and Eric Ruth and freshman Joey Strain, the Eagles were able to stay close to Rhode Island throughout the later innings.

The team will host East Tennessee on March 20th at 6 p.m.

Riginos announces summer camps

By Shelby Chiasson chiassons@mytjnow.com Last Wednesday, head baseball coach Tom Riginos announced that the baseball staff and team would be hosting a series of three camps this summer at The Winthrop Ballpark, according to Winthrop Athletics.

The first camp will be held from June 17 to the 21st from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for children from ages 7 to

13. The second will be held on July 22nd to the 26th, also from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the same age group.

The cost for each camp is $225.

The final camp will be for prospective students for high schoolers. This will be held on August 24 and 25 and will also last from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The cost for the High School Prospect Camp is $250.

For more information about the camps, visit winthropbaseballcamp. com.

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Coach Cook and the Lady Eagles to appear in the 2013 WNIT Tournament BASKETBALL • from front

3/21 - Men’s golf @ Furman 3/22 - Women’s tennis vs. Liberty - 1 p.m.

3/22 - Men’s tennis vs. Liberty - 2 p.m.

3/22 - Lacrosse @ Jacksonville - 4 p.m.

3/22 - Baseball vs. Presbyterian - 6 p.m.

3/22 - Men’s track and field vs. SC State - Jet Johnson Relays 3/23 - Women’s tennis vs. Radford - 1 p.m.

3/23 - Softball @ Charleston Southern - 2 p.m.

3/23 - Baseball vs. Presbyterian - 3 p.m.

3/24 - Lacrosse vs. Detroit Mercy - 1 p.m.

3/24 - Baseball vs. Presbyterian - 1 p.m.

3/24 - Men’s tennis vs. Radford - 1 p.m.

3/24 - Softball @ Charleston Southern - 2 p.m.

3/26 - Women’s tennis vs. Gardner-Webb - 2 p.m.

Winthrop finished the 2012-2013 season with an overall record of 20-11 and 14-4 in the Big South Conference and finished second behind Liberty. The 20 wins the Lady Eagles have earned this year ties them with the 20072008 team for the most wins in a season.

Flordia Gulf enters the tournament with a 27-6 record and has won the A-Sun Conference title for the fourth consectutive year.

Florida Gulf also is one of the Nation’s top 3-point scoring teams. This will be their fifth straight appearence in the WNIT. Probable starters for the game include junior Dequesha McClanahan, freshman Aliyah Kilpatrick, senior Diana Choibekova, sophomore Taylor Calvert and freshman Schaquilla Nunn.

The Lady Eagles have a short history of post-season play. The team has only made one other appearance in the tournament, leaving their post-season record at 0-1. This appearance was in 2009, when the Lady Eagles played against Georgetown in Washington, D.C. The game did not end in Winthrop’s fa-

vor, which is evident in the 73-45 final. If the Lady Eagles can pull this win, the victory will mark the first post-season win since becoming a Division I program in 1986.

With stellar players like McClanahan and Choibekova, the Lady Eagles look rather intimidating. McClanahan is only 43 points away from being Winthrop’s all time scorer.

The junior from Fayetteville, G.A. also is second on the Winthrop career assist list with 518. Choibekova reached 215 3-point field goals in two seasons and ranks nationally this year in 3-point field goals per game. She is only second behind Tiffany Rodd, who played at Winthrop from 2005 - 2009 and currently holds the school record for the most field goals per game. Nunn, Calvert and Kilpatrick have all earned numerous awards this year from both the Big South Conference and Winthrop for their outstanding performances this season.

If the Lady Eagles are victorious in the opening round, they will continue next to play either Florida International University or the University of Florida.

Shelby Chiasson | Sports Editor chiassons@mytjnow.com

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TJA&C English majors and faculty experience Shakespeare firsthand

Correction

Although The Johnsonian always strives for accurate reporting, everyone makes mistakes. In our March 7, 2013 article “MSC educates students about LGBT rights for teachers,” the first The group was also given a behind-the-scenes tour mistake is that the Johns Committee of the Blackfriar’s, seminars on Shakespeare’s use of was called by its official title, which was rhetoric and directing and a Q&A breakfast with one the “Florida Legislative Investigation of the actors.

Committee” created by the state governLinh Tran, freshman, said, “There’s nothing quite like getting to know your professors by spending a fivehour van-ride together, laughing at Shakespeare lines with them and hearing them say things like, ‘Pssshah!’.”

Dr. Hiner, a professor on the trip said “the department’s trip offers our students an invaluable opportunity to see Shakespeare’s plays as they would have been performed during the Renaissance. The trip really made the plays ‘come alive,’ as we got to see how they would have been staged, performed, and received by audiences in the 16th and 17th centuries.”

He also said that the trip offered students the opportunity to bond with each other and with faculty members while witnessing and experiencing literature in a new and exciting way.

By Lauren Mills Special to the Johnsonian

Twelve actors in American Shakespeare Center (ASC) perform a different play each night at the company in Staunton, Virginia. Performers rotate the five plays so that they never do repeat productions. On Friday, March 15 a group of 11 English majors and three professors visited the ASC. The ASC is the only recreation of Shakespeare’s Blackfriar’s Playhouse in the world. During the visit, students were able to see Two Noble Kinsmen, The Custom of the Country, The Country Wife and Julius Caesar in just three days.

Each production was exceptional and inspiring.

The ASC was in the middle of their “Renaissance Season,” in which they try to recreate the conditions that Shakespeare’s men performed in as closely as possible. This means very limited rehearsal time, the use of cue scripts, no formal director and putting on five plays consecutively.

The ASC theatre is extremely unique and similar to Shakespeare’s day as they leave the lights up on the stage and the audience the entire time. There is seating on all four sides of the stage, and even stools on the stage. During each production, four of the students were given the opportunity to sit on the gallant stools on stage where the actors interacted with them during the production.

Sophomores Katie Wilson and Colby Dockery said this was their favorite part of the trip. When asked what her favorite part was, Wilson said,“sitting on the stage on the gallant stools and feeling like a part of the show; it was like living history!”

Colby said that her favorite part was “having the opportunity to sit on the stage; it was a whole other level of immer- English majors gather on the stage at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, sion. I could go on and on, but that was my Virginia. Photos courtesy of Lauren Mills • Special to the Johnsonian favorite part by far.”

International Women’s Day celebration races issues of equality and achievement

By Parker Quinlan Special to the Johnsonian

Never has the issue of women’s rights, and the principles of feminism been more important than in our current generation. Though there is a lot of work left to be done in the struggle for women’s equality, the Winthrop community managed to come together on March 6 to celebrate the challenges that women have overcome, and the challenges they still face, with the annual International Women’s Day celebration.

Though the real date wasn’t until March 8, this did not stop four campus groups from coming together and sharing their take on feminism and women’s rights. The Feminist Society, The Socialist Student Union (SSU), College Libertarians and Plain Jane each showed presentations, which were then discussed adding each groups perspective.

ment.

We said that the documentary was called “Behind Closed Doors” but it is called “The Committee” created by honor students and faculty at the University of Central Florida and was created in 2012. Fountain requested the documentary from The University of Central Florida History department.

Winthrop’s international students

By Allie Briggs briggsa@mytjnow.com Alizeé Lesénéchal is a senior integrated marketing communication major from Paris, France. Some of her favorite things to do in Paris are to go to the parks, art exhibitions, the cinema and just walk the streets of Paris. Lesénéchal enjoys the architecture throughout the streets of Paris.

Lesénéchal said that she has noticed a difference in the food between Paris and southern food. She said that there is a lot of variety of food in Paris, especially of cheeses. Goat cheese is her favorite.

Lesénéchal said that people in Paris are always very busy and stressed and that people in the South like to take their time and enjoy themselves.

Topics ranging from women voter turnout in the US and world wide, to sweatshops in Bangladesh were discussed by the panel. Though the panel had varying perspectives on almost all of the issues, they each addressed the same issue that women have a long road ahead of them before they can reach true equality.

Though there are many branches of feminism, they all try to link the movements by a single issue: the problem of getting women together.

“The main issue of Feminism is mobilization - getting women together,” said Sarah Sladek, senior political science major.

With mobilization in mind, it makes sense to hold things such as International Women’s day to better inform both women and men alike of what the issues are and the myriad of possible solutions to those problems.

Panel discusses challenges in education SCHOOL • from front Boosting morale is “all in the little things,” says Robinson.

For example, he gives each of his students high-fives on the way into class every day.

Both Camp and Fersner agreed that inspiring change in students’ attitudes about themselves and their futures starts with providing them with solid role models.

Ways that Barry and Camp were able to improve morale was taking an active interest in their students’ lives outside of school. For Camp, as principal, she made a point to “recognize the body language” of her students and ask them about their lives based on that.

Asheland Hightower, a senior early childhood education major who attended both Andrew Jackson Middle School

and High School and Hicks said, “It was nice micro insights to a works with Camp at to see the sense of commacro issue. The evening Alma Elementary as a munity that comes out focused on the struggles student teacher is not of a smaller school and and triumphs of these dissuaded by the long community.” Whereas South Carolina public commute. She drives 42 Moore realized that “just educators and raised miles to Gaffney five days because schools are unawareness for how it is in a week. She realized how derfunded doesn’t mean rural and impoverished lucky she was to grow they can’t do well.” areas, not only for teachup in Lancaster county, The screening of the ers, but for students. which has a lower poverdocumentary and the ty rate than Gaffney. She, panel provided some in turn, tries to compliment her students every day. Hightower plans to return to Lancaster county to teach so she can to “further provide a sense of community there.”

Winthrop students London Hicks and Brendan Moore, both freshmen, enjoyed the positivity exuded Mary Barry, Kim Camp, Keri Fersner, Kara Keale and Ronnie Robinson sit on a panel from each of about challenges in education. Photos by Kathryn Funderburk • funderthe members burkk@mytjnow.com of the panel.

Allie Briggs | Arts & Culture Editor briggsa@mytjnow.com

Alisha Kennerly | Arts & Culture Editor kennerlya@mytjnow.com

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Orianthi’s “Heaven in This Hell” Correction delivers a fiery punch of blues

By Michael Owens owensm@mytjnow.com

playing, as well as the lyrical and vocal work.

However, the real standout of these qualities comes in the form of the lead single “Frozen.”

It seems that guitar goddess Orianthi has been The song itself encompasses everything that this on quite a roll over the new sound for Orianthi is all past few years. From about. playing gigs with the With its catchy lyrics, likes of the late Michael smooth vocals and a fantasJackson, to being the tic guitar solo, “Frozen” is by first ever female member far my favorite song on the in Alice Cooper’s band, entire 40 minute album. to scoring a pop hit Unfortunately, the enwith “According to You” tire album itself is not very back in 2009, success consistent as there are quite has been no stranger to a few forgettable filler tracks Orianthi. throughout. This is really With her latest LP, the only complaint I can “Heaven in This Hell,” find, however, as this album it seems that a different still packs an awesome direction is being taken bluesy punch. and it is one for the betOverall, Orianthi’s change ter. in musical direction is a welThe most obvious come change, and it is one change is the overall that I myself would really sound of the album. like to see her explore even Gone are the poppy, more as her career continues shred-stylings seen in Orianthi poses with her guitar. Photo courtesy of to progress.

“Believe” and in it’s place Pierre Journel www.lepcc.net is a bluesy, Hendrix-inspired mix of interesting guitar licks and solos.

Many who know Orianthi’s true potential will be happy to know that this album is full of excellent guitar solos. She was not selected to play Artist: Orianthi with such high-profile musicians just for the fact that she’s a female guitarist, and this album is a testament to what Orianthi is capable of.

Album: Heaven in This Hell Songs such as the title track, “Fire”, and “How Do You Sleep?,” which both appeared on her Release Date: March 12, 2013 Fire EP, are standout tracks thanks to the guitar

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Although The Johnsonian always strives for the accuracy in our reporting, everyone makes mistakes. Our March 7 issue published “Seven plays, 24 hours and the one and only Alpha Psi Omega.”

In the eighth paragraph, Norman Burt

is listed as director of “Imaginary Friends Support Group.” Krista McBride directed that play, stage managed and worked with the backstage crew. Burt directed “Paid Programming” and ran the music.

By Allie Briggs briggsa@mytjnow.com

finance major, is helping collect student pieces for the exhibition.

Regarding his expectation for this year’s annual event, Smith said that he overheard students speaking to Karen Derksen, Director of Winthrop Galleries, about submitting proposals for installations.

“One of the students is interested in using the space around the columns in the Rutledge Gallery in her installation, which is something I have not seen,” Smith said.

“However, we do not know what the juror, Paul Matheny, will select.”

Smith said that Matheny’s selections may reflect his own artwork, which many students reference when choosing what pieces to submit.

“Regardless, one can expect submissions to consist of paintings, screen prints, sculptures, photography and a variety of other mediums,” Smith said.

For more information on the 25th Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, visit the College of Visual and Performing Arts Winthrop page and click on “Spring 2013 Exhibitions.”

Annual undergraduate art show coming soon Fine Arts students are preparing their most recent works for submission into the 25th Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition. The exhibition, to be held in the Rutledge Gallery, is scheduled for display on the dates of April 8 through June 14, 2013.

Students have submitted pieces that were created within the past 12 months. Many are submitting work from their foundations arts courses such as Drawing I and II, as well as Media Studies.

The exhibition is expected to feature a variety of media types including drawing, painting, photography, prints, mixed media, jewelry, sculpture and ceramics.

Artists will have some of their work available for purchase during the exhibit.

Paul Matheny, art curator for the South Carolina State Museum, will be the juror of this year’s exhibition. Juried awards will be announced during the “Opening and Patron Awards Reception” on Friday, April 5, from 6:30 p.m. until 8 p.m.

Greyson Smith, senior printmaking and

“Nothing Happened” touches on domestic violence issues

C R O S S W U R D

By Kris Gaitan gaitank@mytjnow.com

The Winthrop Council of Student Leaders will be sponsoring a performance and cultural event entitled “Nothing Happened,” written and directed by Charles Curtis on March 26.

Curtis is a Columbia, S.C. based playwright. Winthrop students may remember Curtis from his one act play, “Like Peeling an Onion,” which was the play CSLs sponsored last year.

The event flier for CSL states that after the main character “becomes a victim of a vicious attack, his seemingly perfect life falls apart.” He then tries to pick up the pieces

and “regain his balance in life.”

“It’s about a dedicated husband and father,” said Masharo Morton, the public relations chair for CSL. “After he’s attacked, he is angry and paranoid.”

The performance will take place from 8 p.m. until 10 p.m. in Tillman Auditorium and is open to students, faculty and staff who are interested in the performing arts or domestic violence related issues. There is no admission fee for the event.

“It’s very shocking and it’s very different,” Morton said.

For more information, contact Masharo Morton, the public relations chairwoman for CSL at 864-556-6736 or at mortonm@ winthrop.edu.

Sculpture is well worth wait

By Alisha Kennerly kennerlya@mytjnow.com

After years of waiting for the sculpture to be installed, the 25 foot tall golden tree finds its new home in front of the Conservatory of Music.

The original site fell through and since then the fine arts department has been waiting for the sculpture to be installed.

The golden tree is at the end of Scholar’s Walk and features leaves that spin in the wind.

Thomas Whitard, a Winthrop graduate, created the sculpture while he was a student at Winthrop.

The University encourages student artwork by promoting student art around campus.

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1. Juror for the 25th Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition.

4. Coach Cook and the Lady Eagles will appear in the 2013 _______ tournament.

5. Hometown of director for the Council of Student Leader’s play “Nothing Happened.”

6. Shannon ____________ was named the Big South offensive player of the week.

8. English majors and faculty visited the American ___________ Center last week.

10. Alizeé Lesénéchal’s favorite cheese is ______________ cheese.

11. Guitar solo from Orianth’s album, “Heaven in This Hell.”

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2. 1996 game franchise, featuring Laura Croft, that rebooted this spring.

3. York County hosted its third annual Green Business Conference on March 7 as part of an initiative to encourage York County businesses to lessen their _____________ impact.

7. The president of Winthrop’s Feminist Society is Brandi ____________.

9. Winthrop’s chapter of the Student Environmental Action Coalition will hold a candlelight vigil to celebrate _____________ hour on March 23.

 ARTS & CULTURE EVENTS CALENDAR 

March 21 March 22 March 23 March 24 March 25 March 26 Model UN XXXVII Tillman Auditorium 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Model UN XXXVII Tillman Auditorium; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Student Environmental Action Coalition Jewelry Sale DiGiorgio Campus Center 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Price ranges $1-$5

The Hunts Community Performance Center, 249 E. Main St 7:30 p.m.; $25 members, $30 nonmembers

D

Music Duo Tall Heights The Edge; 8 p.m.; $5 w/ ID, $10 w/o ID, free w/ Spring Pass

G

Sculpture Exhibition Lewandowski Student Gallery

Arts Ball D Spring Byrnes Auditorium 7:30 p.m.; free

Open Mic Night The Edge; 8 p.m.; free

G

Sculpture Exhibition Lewandowski Student Gallery

For Fun

Art History Undergraduate Symposium Mint Museum, Randolph Rd. Charlotte, NC; 1 p.m.

F

Faculty Recital Barnes Recital Hall 7:30 p.m.; free

G

Les Misérables Dina’s Place 6 p.m. & 9 p.m.; $2 w/ ID, $5 w/o ID, free with Spring Pass

B.F.A. Senior Exhibitions Lewandowski Student Gallery

World Star Epidemic, Twitter Virus, and Google Takeover Dina’s Place; 8 p.m.; free “Nothing Happened” Tillman Auditorium 8 p.m.; free

Earth Hour DiGiorgio Campus Center, Campus Green 8:30 p.m.-10 p.m.

MythBusters: LGBT Edition Owens Hall G01 8 p.m.; free

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Cultural Event

Emeritus Series: Eugene Barban, piano Barnes Recital Hall 7:30 p.m.; free

Melancholy Play Johnson Studio Theatre 8 p.m.; $5 w/ ID, $10 w/o ID

F

Film

G

Galleries

D

Dance

T

Theatre

M

Music

Due to sizing restrictions, this calendar may not represent all events on campus. More detailed calendar coming soon at mytjnow.com

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