The Reporter Fall 2017 Issue 1- 130th Anniversary Edition

The Reporter

Florida’s oldest collegiate newspaper since 1887 Special Edition DeLand, Fla. | Stetson University 130th Anniversary Issue

Students use a huge Hat cutout to advertise copies of the student newspaper, The Reporter, during Homecoming.

Year unknown.

Photograph courtesy of Stetson University Archives

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2 news The Reporter Special Edition Editor-in-Chief Kait Forsythe

Managing Editors Veronica Faison Brianna Lopez Creative Director Maeve Coughlin Lead Designer Nikki Schmidt Photo Editor Kitty Geoghan Staff Writers Shaylen Vitale Naomi Thomas Alex Bocco Sam Hadelman Aja Williams Danielle Comeaux Courtney Coleman Hannah Zeller Photographers Cat Keve Sydney Lee Conner Sullivan Raisa Bailon Designers Paige TenBroeck Acacia Zack Colette Cacciola Sami Hartman Videographers Angelo Sarno Staff Advisor Crystal Baroni

Dear readers,

Letter from the Editor products, rather than solely The Reporter.

Safety Report Highlight Reel, students’ perspectives on newspapers, fashion, and jazz music, So if The Reporter is a magazine, a healthy dose of nostalgia via then why am I holding a newspaper? “throwbacks”, a look at logo Great question, reader. changes, and a sincere invitation to celebrate this milestone in our shared The simple answer is: We’re suckers history. for some good, old-fashioned nostalgia. This special edition newspaper is an homage to 130 years Kait Forsythe of student journalism at Stetson. To Editor-in-Chief honor her in the medium in which Hatter Network she began, we assembled an anniversary issue of The Reporter. It seemed like the only appropriate move.

Welcome to our 130th anniversary issue of The Reporter. For some of you, this is your first exposure to student media at Stetson and others of you may have been wondering, “What ever happened to Stetson’s student newspaper?”

Answer: We’re still here, Dr. New York Times. We changed up the game a bit in order to stay hip with the kids, to react appropriately and accommodatingly to the changes in media consumption.

According to our 2015-16 student media survey, the people want glossy Stetson’s first efforts in student pages, feature stories, and listicles. journalism were in 1887. Miss Lizzie (It’s a real word, look it up.)

Webb and her staff published a monthly 8-pager. I guess that was all Some two years ago, a group of it took to get the ball rolling. And enthusiastic student journalists here we are, 130 years later. initiated two big changes: Well, Miss Lizzie, a lot has transpired 1.The Reporter newspaper in the past 130 years. Some of it transitioned to a 40-page features might have delighted you. Some of it magazine. might have not. Though, I imagine 2. Hatter Network, a student media you would feel proud that our entire collective, was formed. It absorbed Editorial board staff are women.

The Reporter (now) magazine, Touchstone literary journal, and So, reader, in this issue, you can WHAT Radio. In short, we joined expect an honest mix of old and new. forces and combined resources.

You can expect writers reflecting on 3. The Editor-in-chief would oversee Stetson’s past policies, some production of all Hatter Network comedic relief courtesy of the Public

SGA Flashback

Faculty Sponsor Andy Dehnart Mission Statement Hatter Network is a media collective staffed and run entirely by Stetson University students. Comprised of The Reporter-- Florida’s oldest collegiate news publication-- WHAT Radio, WHNN Hatter News Network, and Touchstone, the literary and creative arts division.

Remember that we are first and always committed to our fellow students. We will deliver content that’s fair-minded and respectful of the diverse opinions and viewpoints of our readers. We are responsible for covering the Stetson community and providing our readers with consistent, accurate and factual information in new and creative ways. To the best of our abilities we will maintain the standards expected of any professional and credible news organization, which includes a serious commitment to honesty, transparency, and growth.

We remain conscious of our influence, holding ourselves accountable to our readers and to our own standards of journalistic integrity.

Photos courtesy of Stetson Archives.

Students staff the ballot box for Student Assembly Elections, 1978.

Public Safety Report Highlight Reel September 1996 A student who was eating in the commons reported that she may have swallowed a small piece of glass. The student was seen by staff members at the Health Services building and was later released. There were no apparent injuries.

September 1997 The information desk in the lobby at Stetson Hall was turned over.

Unknown person(s) poured mortar mix in Holler fountain. Grounds crew had to drain the fountain in

order to clean it out.

April 1999 A complainant called Public Safety to report that a fax machine was missing from her office. The officer informed the complainant that due to the fact that there was no indication of a break-in and that only the fax machine was taken, it appears someone may have a key to the door and be familiar with the office.

April 2006 Student is disrespectful to another

student and was asked to leave the area. The student left the area.

February 2007 A guinea pig was confiscated from Emily Hall. Res. Life present.

August 2007 Fax machine found outside Alumni House. The fax was brought to Public Safety.

January 2010 Two swords were confiscated from the Village Apartments.

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WHAT Radio Show Schedule Fall 2017 live broadcasting on Mixlr podcasts on Soundcloud

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ella & louis:

jazz so good even Jim Crow tapped his feet

Are You Not Entertained?

4-6pm Thomas Wasman, David Royal, and Dennis Lynch On cinema of the past and present

tuesdays Duly Noted 4-6pm Damien Bléus, Carlos Nolla Current events, pop culture, politics, campus life

wednesdays The Undergrad 2-4pm Sam Hadelman Talking music and reviewing albums

thursdays Hatter Hour 4-6pm Sam Hadelman, Dennis Lynch Political commentary Gametime 6-7pm Kevin Sullivan, Gabe Smith Sports The Random Show 8-10pm Carlos C. Reyes S T R E A M I N G Consciousness 12-2am Sydney Lee, Gordon Silvia

fridays TERRESTERIAL sounds 2-4pm Gordon Silvia A curated look at underground electronic music from leftfield bass to lo-fi hip hop Jazz Culture 4-6pm Tyler Thomas Attention Hour 6-8pm Sydney Lee Fresh new sounds you should be paying attention & current events Godspeed Zak Berkel

Veronica Faison Managing Editor

It’s the 1956 and our favorite black musicians still had to sit in the back of their own tour bus. Drink your milkshake and put your records on, but don’t forget about Jim Crow.

Bringing new life into the jazz standards we already know and love, Ella and Louis accomplished what Elvis’ “Love Me Tender” could not: authenticity.

To be able to discuss the magnitude of the collaborative album, we first have to discuss the individuality musicality of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.

Ella, our First Lady of Song and scatting queen, once more reclaimed her place on the throne as the most vocally conscious Woman of Jazz, in a way that icons Billie Holiday Sarah Vaughan, tending to under-sing and over-sing, respectively.

Fitzgerald’s tone, uniquely and notably pure, is matched only with Armstrong’s ability to capture New Orleans within a single blue note of his horn. Armstrong, also known as “Satchmo,” has been the literal “trumpeter” for jazz transitioning from big band production to featuring soloist individuality.

His stage presence and the unique gravel-like quality of his voice made the production of Ella and Louis balanced yet exciting. It also greatly appealed the white audiences, who consumed music sung and produced by black artists and written by Jewish playwrights.

A wonder.

The strongest elements of the album were captured in their version of the jazz standard, “Tenderly,” where Armstrong’s horn trilled both merrily and sorrowfully, aware of the pain but able to keep find light.

That light led into Ella’s sweet vocals uplifting what is traditionally and melancholy piece —even featuring Ella

imitating Louis’ voice in her final scatting-phrase.

“Stars Fell on Alabama” managed to pull at our hearts to strongly that it didn’t seem to matter than we endure in Florida. Much like Edith Piaf sang in La Vie en Rose—the world was pink and in love because the album afforded its listeners with rose-colored glasses.

That way you couldn’t see when streets are full of blood.

Ella and Louis, much to the critique of civil rights leaders, didn’t use their musical platform to advocate, despite literally being a black voice in white spaces. Though their interests fought for equal opportunity through the stage of their music, their advocacy was behind closed doors.

However, as echoed in the fourth song in the album “They Can’t Take That Away From Me,” their social critics cannot take away the momentum for progress to which their achievements contributed.

Less than a year after this album’s production, Fitzgerald became the first African American to perform at Mocambo, a famous nightclub in West Hollywood, California. Armstrong, while his acceptance of tokenization led to other black figures noting him an “Uncle Tom,” meaning that he kowtows to white society at the expense of black people as a whole, he gained access to spaces and privileges that even other famous black artists could not, breaking old and making new precedence.

They kept silent about the pain in their realities, a silence magnified in the joyful music they made together, however this decision, arguably made performances like Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit,” a song explicitly about the lynching of black people in the south, so much more jarring and impactful.

Ella and Louis, just like the

album after their namesake, offer balance with jazz so good Jim Crow himself found himself humming along to the refrain of two black artists singing, “isn’t It a Lovely Day.”

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Dating through the Decades

The evolution of dating policies at Stetson Hannah Zeller Staff Writer

With the advent of technology, dating in college appears to be more convoluted than ever. Between an ever-expanding arsenal of dating apps and constantly changing lingo, it can be almost impossible to keep up.

It’s easy, then, to think that dating must have been simpler in years past. However, a little digging around seems to prove the opposite.

Stetson’s old Student Handbooks show the evolution of dating in college, and illustrate how, no matter the decade, dating is never as simple as it should be.

1925

“Girls may walk to and from town with boys…If a girl is seen in town in the company of a gentleman she shall be considered to be taking a date.”

The 1925 handbook had an overwhelming amount of stipulations pertaining exclusively to female behavior.

Female students had to have a chaperone almost everywhere they went, as any interaction with a male student unsupervised was frowned upon.

They were not allowed to ride

I delivered newspapers in 2017 Kitty Geoghan Photo Editor

Print isn’t dead, but I am.

When most people think of newspaper carriers, they usually picture a young boy on a bicycle in 1946, pedaling around and tossing bagged papers into people’s yards.

Most probably don’t imagine a 21-year-old college student in an old Buick listening to science podcasts while folding papers into tubes. But believe it or not, the latter was how I spent the second half of my summer.

In 2017, I was a contracted newspaper carrier.

To cut a long story short, after a car repair that set me back several hundred dollars, I found an ad looking for a paper carrier in a local newspaper from my hometown of York, Pennsylvania. I called them, sent in a resume, went in for an interview, and was asked to start that night. I spent two days riding along with my supervisor, Brian, and then

alone with boys (except for senior students), and had to have special permissions to ride into town at all.

Female students were allowed to take dates only on certain days and at certain times, and were never allowed in the boys’ dormitories.

Almost any activity, including church, could be considered a date.

1945

“Serenades, after 10:00pm, must be calendared with the Dean of Women”

The year 1945 was a progressive one for students’ dating lives. Both men and women had rules in the books, and restrictions on visiting hours began to ebb.

The importance of chaperones had all but vanished, and interactions between male and female students occurred more freely.

Nevertheless, restrictions still remained, as seen above. This kind of “scheduled romance,” while hilarious to us today, is a common theme that occurs throughout the early decades of Stetson’s history.

1960

“To discourage secret marriages, a student who marries while in residence must notify the administration in advance; failure to comply is grounds for suspension.”

Yes, you read that right. Secret marriages were such a big issue in the 50s and 60s that Stetson had an official policy on them.

Even so, dating regulations continued to evolve for the better.

Visiting hours for the dormitories were extended and less restrictions were placed on female and male interactions.

1995

“Residential Life’s relationship with students is based on the assumption that residents are adults, capable of initiating reasonable decisions to ensure their own rights and to respect the rights of others. Freedom, self-direction and responsibility are emphasized.”

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, very few dating policies were added, and many were disposed.

Visiting hours for the dorms were still in place, but they continued to extend longer with each passing decade.

In 1995, dating policy makes a distinctive shift in the way it regulates student dating. The focus is no longer on frequent chaperoning or preventing students from eloping, but on the protection of the right of each student to form safe, healthy, respectful relationships.

It is one of the first handbooks to take a clear and definitive stance on

harassment and assault,

and shows how policy worked towards creating an inclusive and safe dating environment on Stetson’s campus.

2017

Today, Stetson’s dating policy surrounds one very important theme: consent. Everyone is free to date whomever and in whatever way they choose, so long as relationships remain safe and respectful. Stetson University has attempted to make its campus a secure, inclusive environment for all.

Is dating really more difficult now than it was almost a hundred years ago?

Though some of these policies seem archaic at best and discriminatory at worst, they’re a reflection of the time in which they were created.

Taken together, these dating rules not only give us a peak into the daily lives of the Hatters that came before us, but also show how far Stetson and its students have come.

So the next time the modern dating struggle has gotten you down and you find yourself longing for a “simpler time,” keep in mind that though the rules may have gotten simpler, the dating game remains just as complicated as ever.

I was on my own, working a daily shift for commission based on the number of papers I delivered.

My nights went like this: I drove down to the depot (a single storage unit in the middle of nowhere) at 1 am, picked up my stacks, and filled up my car with papers.

Then I followed a planned route through rural Pennsylvania for about 40 miles, tossing papers into yards or stuffing them into tubes according to the directions Brian gave me.

On weekdays, I delivered two papers: the York Daily Record, which had previously been the morning paper, and the York Dispatch, which was once delivered in the evenings. Saturdays were Daily Record-only, but I also delivered the Lancaster Farming Journal, which frequently took me far off my weekday route down back roads and dirt driveways. (The fact that I heard Sam Hunt’s Body Like A Back Road about six times an hour on my local Top 40 station was nothing short of ironic.)

When I told my family and friends about my new job, they couldn’t believe it.

“People still do that?” one person said. “Wait, so you get up at 2 am?

You never get up early!”

Well, that’s true. If you ever see me up before 9 am, something is probably wrong. But at this point, I had already been staying up until 3 or 4 am, since it was summer, and I didn’t need to be up in the morning.

I just pushed that back a little further to 6 or 7, and slept during the day.

It took some adjusting, especially since my room has a lot of windows, but I managed to make it work, although not without serious help from McDonald’s $2 mocha frappes. Sundays were the worst – as you’re probably aware, the Sunday paper is not only larger than the dailies, it’s also more popular. In addition to tripling the size of the stacks of paper filling up my car, I also added several news stops to my route, some of which required going far out of the

way. Thankfully, I had an extra hour to deliver on Sundays, but I still didn’t have a minute to spare. So of course, that would be the day my poor, little old lady of a car decided to get herself stuck in a ditch.

Overall, aside from that one little hiccup, my summer as a newspaper carrier felt like a journey back in time. I got to see the inner workings of the newspaper industry, which most people don’t even think about. I drove through wealthy communities, rural back roads, and huge farms of all kinds...

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Fashion Trends: Then and Now How Our Styles Have Changed Over Time

Photo courtesy of Stetson Archives

Alpha Xi Delta members pose for a group picture in their chapter meeting room located in Sampson Hall, 1939.

Shaylen Vitale Senior Staff Writer

Fashion is perpetual. Trends constantly are changed, recycled and forgotten. Fashion, however, still remains as important an interest as it has been throughout decades and can help one generation understand another, despite decades of separation in between.

One such example of a window into the past is the article featured, which was displayed in the January 11, 1939 issue of the Stetson Reporter. Authored by student Joy Reese, the article discussed the female fashion trends of the past year, 1938.

To the 2017 Stetson student reading this article, probably with a smartphone in hand, the year 1939 may seem as ancient as petticoats.

Seventy-eight years have passed since that infamous year in which has been forever ingrained in history books. Yet, this article gives us modern readers a window into the past that does not seem all too different than today.

Joy Reese, our tour-guide to 1939 Stetson, describes the most popular trends of the past year from all four seasons. First impressions of winter styles of 1938 may seem as antique to us as that year, but the trend of wearing “pastel jackets over dark skirts”, but then again, pairing a jacket over a skirt has not gone out of style. Spring saw Stetson women wear hats with “large swaying brims’ and of course the classic pleated skirt was an essential.

These styles are not too distant than what the modern shopper might find in the endless racks of

Forever 21 or the picture pins on Pinterest. However, there were a few trends which the 2017 Stetson student would mark as out of date.

“Kerchiefs under chins”? Hoop Skirts? Coats with (presumably real) fur? It would be near to get any student to wear these now! (I mean, maybe if you paid me enough….)

Other fads of 1938 Joy that could have been for this year. The invogue color was “Luggage tan” and white nail polish was the style.

Reading this little excerpt of a time on campus long gone can make the people of past years seem more human rather than printed names. It also brings to light how different our world was from students of ’39.

On this edition’s publication date, January 11, 1939, the world was still holding its breath. The world had eight months to breath before witnessing Nazi Germany invade Poland, igniting the deadliest war in history. The killings of the Holocaust and the creation of nuclear weapons was the stuff of nightmares.

In the United States, the Great Depression was still a presence, though the economy was steadily healing. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the President and the theaters were announcing the exciting new blockbusters, “Gone with the Wind” and the “Wizard of Oz”.

But for Stetson students, like Joy Reese, these events would not have been known, just as we have no knowledge of the future in eight months. The Stetson of 1939 was not the same as now; it would be twentythree years before integration, the Holler fountain was yet to be donated

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and the school of music was three years old. But, some elements of college will always stay the same: Homework to be completed, exams to be passed and the latest trends to wear.

The world is not the same as it was eighty- years ago, but what can be said to remain the same is the consistency of fashion to have a presence among young people, especially Stetson college students.

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Homecoming

Top photo by Sydney Lee; bottom and right photos courtesy of Stetson Archives

Top: Elizabeth Hall in 2017.

Bottom: Elizabeth Hall in 1979 before the oak trees were planted along Woodland Boulevard.

Right: Elizabeth Hall in 1892 before the north and south wings were added.

Right photo by Sydney Lee; left photo courtesy of Stetson Archives

Left: DeLand Hall in 1890.

Right: DeLand Hall in 2017.

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Photos courtesy of Stetson Archives.

Captions read down and across: Students gathering in front of the ‘Mad Hatter’ statue in the Hat Rack patio, ca. 1960s.

Students enjoy a cup of coffee in downtown eDeLand, 1994.

Two students swing on a tree swing behind the duPont-Ball Library, 1973.

Six coeds pose, dressed as sunflowers, on the porch of Stetson Hall, 1889.

Female students dress up for Sadie Hawkins Day, 1944.

Students stand in waves up to their knees at a beach party in Daytona Beach, 1958.

Three students and the ‘Mad Hatter’ mascot peek out from behind a tree, 1980.

Eight male students in silly poses wearing bathrobs, 1908.

Students practice archery as part of their physical education class, 1946.

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