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Tragedy strikes in France Students, staff share thoughts on Paris attacks

By Megan Powell

megan.powell@franklincollege.edu

Tragedy hit Paris last Friday night as six coordinated bomb attacks left citizens and the world in fear.

As of Wednesday, ISIS has come forward and admitted responsibility for the attacks.

Three teams placed bombs throughout Paris, including two restaurants, a concert hall and a national stadium.

According to a live Reuters article on the attacks, 129 individuals were killed.

In addition to the deaths, 352 people faced injuries, 99 of which were considered serious.

Seven of the terrorists who executed the attacks – including some suicide bombers – were also killed.

As Winter Term approaches, students travelling abroad are not taking the event lightly.

This January, students are going to England, Germany and Japan. All trips are still scheduled to depart.

Director of Global Education Jennifer Cataldi said she had at least one parent concerned about their child travelling abroad.

“We are monitoring the situation,” Cataldi said. “We can cancel it if needed, but at this time, we do not feel the need to do so.”

Junior Jaime Robbins is travelling to various cities around England like London and Liverpool.

“I am not afraid to travel at all,” Robbins said. “I am not going to shy away from an amazing experience based on fear. If we did things based off fear, then we’d keep ourselves from many wonderful opportunities.”

Junior Jess Seabolt is travelling to Germany and other places in central Europe this January.

“I wouldn’t say that I’m afraid to travel to Europe after the terror attacks on Paris,” Seabolt said. “I can’t lie though; I have thought about what could happen, but I don’t want worrying about something that could happen to ruin my experience.”

The recent Paris attacks follow another instance in the city this past January.

During the first week of 2015, a French satirical magazine named Charlie Hebdo was attacked over controversial Muhammad cartoons.

According to CNN, 12 were killed at the publication’s office.

Within the next few days, a police officer and four others died when the terrorist group made an attack on a Jewish grocery store.

During these attacks, Franklin students were studying abroad in France.

A group of students were two blocks away from the attack while exploring the city.

“A man tried to block us off and warn us but none of us spoke French,” senior Katie Cavin said. “I remember us telling him in English that we didn’t understand. Some other man stepped forward and said, ‘terrorist attack.’ We all looked at each other, thanked him and walked the other way.”

The talk of war on terror has extended outside of France after the recent attacks.

Diana Hadley, a professor of a non-violence course at the college, said it’s hard to find solutions other than

Ryanne Wise: Submitted photo The Eiffel Tower stands tall over the city of Paris, which was the target of recent terrorist attacks. Last semester a group of Franklin students spent their winter term in France when another attack took place. violence after centuries of conflict.

“Nonviolence has always been important,” Hadley said during the unveiling of her book, “The Peace Class” last year. “But now, there are more ways to harm people in conflict. … And we have to double down on how to prevent violence.”

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Around Town: Sit-down breakfast spot opens in Franklin

By Ashley Shuler

ashley.shuler@franklincollege.edu

Tom Lazaru said there are two things people look for in a restaurant: a good environment and good food.

Lazaru opened Tom’s Pancake House in Franklin a couple weeks ago to live up to that standard.

Lazaru said Franklin “needed” a bigger, family-style breakfast loca-

Ann’s Restaurant and Court St. Café offer a similar sit-down breakfast atmosphere.

Franklin is also home to a few breakfast chain options, like Waffle House and Bob Evans.

The restaurant serves breakfast items like apple cinnamon pancakes, “egg-straordinary” skil-

Lazaru said. “College students love pancakes, right?”

For lunch, Tom’s serves items like a Philly cheese steak panini, mushroom cheeseburger, and southern fried chicken salad until they close at 3 p.m.

Lazaru is no stranger to the restaurant business; this is his second restaurant venture.

He also owns Flap-Jack’s Pancake House in Bargersville, which is an independently-owned breakfast franchise with locations around the state.

Flap-Jack’s offers Nicole Hernandez: The Franklin the same menu Tom’s Pancake House has “The best pancakes in the market,” according to ownder items as Tom’s Tom Lazaru.

Pancake House.

Lazuru has been tion. He said Franklin lets, biscuits and gra- in the restaurant busidoesn’t offer anything vy and chocolate chip ness for about 35 years like it. crepes all day. ever since he got out of Nearby downtown “We have the best pan- school.

Franklin restaurants cakes in the market,” “I’ve been working in restaurants all my life,” he said. “I just liked the business.”

Lazuru said it’s been difficult balancing his work and home life with the second location.

“It’s not easy,” he said. “But someone has to do it. …

I’ll eventually get people.”

Although Lazuru said the restauNicole Hernandez: The Franklin rant isn’t currently A classic favorite at Tom’s Pancake House are chocolate-chip-covered pancakes. The looking to hire, he new restaurant features many breakfast items that are served all day, along with a smaller lunch menu.

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A new pancake joint joins a slew of new restaurants in Franklin. Tom’s Pancake House opened three weeks ago and is located at 1071 W Jefferson St. said he’s always looking for “good people.”

“You need good people to run restaurants,” Lazaru said. “You’re only as good as your people.”

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Tom’s Pancake House is open daily from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. It’s located a five to 10 minute drive from campus next to Long River Chinese Restaurant at 1071 W. Jefferson St. in Franklin.

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Students fundraise to ‘save those kids’ at St. Jude

By Dannielle Blunt

dannielle.blunt@franklincollege.edu

“Save those kids! Save those kids!”

That’s what the about 120 Up ‘til Dawn participants shouted from 11 p.m. on Nov. 13 until 5 a.m. on Nov. 14 during a fundraising event for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

This year, the event raised $15,096.

College campuses all over the country hold Up ‘til Dawn events to fundraise for St. Jude.

The event is held each year at Franklin College. Both fraternity Tau Kappa Epsilon and sorority Delta Delta Delta’s philanthropy is St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.

These Greek organizations raise money for the hospital throughout the year, and Up ‘til Dawn serves as their celebratory event.

“I know St. Jude can seem far away because it’s in Memphis,” said Darian

Eswine, the event’s executive director The event is celebrated with a series for the second year in a row. of challenges.

But Eswine Before each said the reach new challenge, of St. Jude is participants much more received a local; hospitext message tals like Riley with a clue on Children’s where to go for Hospital in the next chalIndianapolis lenge. follow the St. The overall Jude protocol challenge was where patients to see who Kayla Walker: The Franklin are receiving could raise the similar treat- Up ‘til Dawn participant and junior Richard Conway blows most money ment to St. bubbles during this year’s event. Students raised more than by the end of Jude. the night. $15,000 for St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital.

The event After the first gets its name from founder Danny two challenges, everyone involved Thomas’ statement, “no child should went to the dining hall to eat. die in the dawn of life.”

Students have grievances with 18-year-old scheduling system

By Allison Groves

allison.groves@franklincollege.edu

“You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” takes on a literal meaning when it comes to Franklin’s current scheduling system.

The Self-Service system that is currently used for registering and keeping track of grades has been used since 1997.

In fact, Associate Registrar Jennifer Whitson said she remembers using Self-Service when she attended Franklin less than 10 years ago.

Although there have been small updates to the system over the almost 20 years it’s been used, not much has changed with Self-Service, and the overall process of registering is still the same.

“Registration has always taken place early in the morning because nobody is in class and everybody’s available,” Whitson said. “Coaches are usually willing to work with us and will let athletes miss practice if registering is going to interfere.”

According to Whitson, there are always issues, and she even remembers experiencing problems during her own registrations as a student.

Most of the issues are technical.

When more than 500 people are trying to register at the same time, it forces the wireless and website to run slower.

“As long as students are patient and flexible the system works fine,” Whitson said. “Most issues are resolved within five minutes.”

The process Franklin uses for registering is similar to other universities.

Most colleges register according to credit hours.

Whitson said there are currently no plans to change or update the scheduling system to something like Indiana University Bloomington’s OneStart system that works more like apps on a phone or Indiana State University’s Blackboard that uses Self-Service in

partnership with the system Blackboard.

Both OneStart and Blackboard function like Moodle and Self-Service combined.

Sophomore Brooke Kistler said Franklin’s current system is “really frustrating.”

“Getting up super early and praying that you’re lucky enough to get all of the classes you need is super stressful,” Kistler said. “I think they should look into better ways to go about scheduling.”

Transfer student Hannah Johnson believes that registering at IUPUI was considerably easier because more sections were offered for each course.

“I don’t think it’s fair that it goes by class level because credit wise I’m a freshman,” Johnson said. “By the time I got to sign up, all my classes were filled up.”

During this time, executive event members taught the “Morale Dance” to the participants, which was be performed three times throughout the night.

“I feel like I have an obligation to be at Up ‘til Dawn to support my fraternity, St. Jude and the kids,” said junior Connor Shepler, a third-year participant in the event. “The phrase ‘Save Those Kids’ is something that I think TKE and Up ‘til Dawn have supported from the very beginning. […] It really is just a cry for morality for the event to support the kids who aren’t able to stay up like we are.”

Want to see more from this year’s Up ‘til Dawn? Visit TheFranklinNews.com to watch an exclusive web video of the event.

Mixed choir carols

By Megan Powell

megan.powell@franklincollege.edu

Choir members are joining with the nursing home residents to kick off the holiday season.

Music Department Accompanist Jan True heads the new mixed choir with both Franklin students and Morning Pointe assisted living residents.

“This is the first time going over and being a choir with some of the residents,” True said.

She came up with the idea while playing the piano during a visit to her mother, who has been a resident of the home for the past year.

“I would be playing hymns and several of the residents would start singing,” True said. “The activities director told me, ‘This was a dream come true.’”

The group sings Christmas tunes to the citizens of Franklin.

“It is such a blessing to see the residents enjoy music so much,” True said.

“They love being around young people, so I decided to involve some of the Franklin College choir members.”

Watch of video of the mixed choir singing at TheFranklinNews.com.

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news Holocaust survivor shares her story in convocation series

By Megan Powell

megan.powell@franklincollege.edu

Eva Kor’s convocation last week held three life lessons and a message of forgiveness.

Kor is a survivor of the experimentation from Josef Mengele while in an Auschwitz concentration camp with her late twin sister.

Her visit to campus marked her 182nd time giving that lecture this year, “one too many” times, the 81-year-old said, whose lecture was full of jests despite the grave situation.

Her parents, two siblings and twin sister arrived at the concentration camp after being packed in the cart “like sardines” with about 100 other people.

Within 30 minutes of being on the platform, Eva and her twin sister, Miriam, were separated from their family, never to see their mother again.

“There is no other strip of land anywhere on the face of this earth

that has witnessed so many millions of people being ripped apart from their families forever,” Kor said.

After being torn apart from their family, the twins were put into a group with 13 other sets of twins.

“At times, I closed my eyes and opened them again and hoped that maybe the nightmare would disappear,” Kor said.

During her time in the camp, Eva and her sister became test subjects of the German physician Josef Mengele.

“I refused to die,” Kor said. “[I made my] silent pledge that I would prove doctor Mengele wrong. I would survive. And be reunited with my twin sister Miriam.”

The twins were isolated and given rounds of injections. They were inspected every other day, and the tests were compared to the other twin.

The injections stunted Miriam’s kidney growth, and when they left

the camps, Kor gave her kidney to her twin sister.

Miriam died from cancerous cells in 1993.

Eva founded the Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors.

This organization has a museum and education center in Terre Haute.

She said she hopes to Kayla Walker: The Franklin shine some light on her Sophomore Alexis Bullock and president Thomas Minar introduce Holocaust situation, which is how survivor Eva Kor to a packed crowd in Spurlock Center.

Kor spoke to students and the organization got its visitors about her struggle for survival and forgiveness to those who wronged her. acronym – CANDLES. “I try and make it as fun as I can,” Kor said. said. “This was a real healing process.

“It’s a part of my life.” … This is not something that hapOne of the most impactful messagpened overnight, it took a long time.” es Kor promoted was forgiveness.

The college’s next convocation in “The part that struck me the most the lecture series is Jan. 18 regarding was that it took her years to forgive Martin Luther King Jr. and his faith.

[Mengele],” freshman Cody Burker

Out-of-state/country students adjust to Indiana weather

Event attendance had slight decrease

By Dannielle Blunt

By Makenna Mays

dannielle.blunt@franklincollege.edu

Sandwiched between Illinois and Ohio, Indiana is both blessed and cursed with Midwest weather during the fall and winter.

When sophomore Poppy Anantachai first moved to the United States from Bangkok, Thailand, she was shocked.

“We never had snow in Thailand,” Anantachai said. “We never had winter. It’s hot all year round.”

Anantachai said in Thailand there’s summer, when it rains all the time, and winter, which is “not really winter.”

This is different from seasons in the United States, but Anantachai said she is mostly adjusted.

Prior to coming to Franklin, she lived in Illinois for five years.

While she was in Illinois, however, she had a hard time adjusting. She

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said the snow was exciting to her, but it was too cold.

Junior Artur Schneider moved from Switzerland to Indiana his freshman year.

He said the weather in Switzerland is similar to Indiana, except it doesn’t get too hot in the summer or too cold in the winter.

Schneider said he is fairly well adjusted to the weather in Indiana.

“The winters are still a little too cold for me,” he said. “But I can live with that.”

Freshman Noel Butler is from New Jersey. She said she’s not adjusting well to Indiana weather.

“I keep assuming I won’t need a jacket when I go outside to go to class,” Butler said. “But then I go outside, and then I’m freezing.”

Butler said around this time in New Jersey, she could wear jeans and a short-sleeved shirt, as opposed to dressing for cold weather each time she goes outside.

Butler said she’s excited for winter because she likes snow, and New Jersey doesn’t get much snow.

Senior Sam Hu just moved to Indiana from Taiwan this past September.

Around this time of the year, Hu said Taiwan’s weather is dry, but similar to Indiana.

She said she doesn’t like the weather in Taiwan unless it’s autumn or winter, because it’s too hot in summer.

Hu is excited for the winter because she’s never seen much snow. She said she’s most excited to make a snowman.

Each week the college hosts ample events for students to get involved on campus.

But there is not always great attendance to these events.

Junior and Student Congress President Erika Brock said attendance levels are “poor” and that it’s always the same students who participate.

“Involved students will continue to stay involved,” Brock said.

Last year, the college had 466 programs. According to the student affairs division annual programming summary, there were about 25,000 recorded total in attendance for all of the programs.

This was about a 2,000-person decline in attendance from the 2013-2014 school year’s total of about 27,000. The college hosted 517 programs that year.

Brock said they are still trying to figure out what makes an event truly successful.

“It is all about fun and figuring out what the student body wants,” Brock said.

news Local organization helps decrease county’s homeless population

By Shelby Mullis

shelby.mullis@franklincollege.edu

It’s estimated 5,683 homeless men, women and children in the state of Indiana, according to the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority.

Johnson County participates in the statewide count each year.

The annual estimate does not include people who are couch-surfing, staying with friends or living in a hotel, but focuses on people on the streets, in their cars and other places not meant for human habitation.

According to a Daily Journal article, 38 homeless individuals were reported in Johnson County at the start of 2014.

Over the last several years, Indiana counties have implemented homeless shelters and resources for such individuals.

One Johnson County organization works to help provide resources and tools for clients between ages 16 and 25 to help beat the cycle of poverty.

Kids In Crisis - Intervention Team, known as KIC-IT, is a Franklin nonprofit organization that aims to raise community awareness and gain supportive resources.

Junior Ryanne Wise, an individualized poverty studies major, interns for KIC-IT as a life coach for clients.

Wise also manages KIC-IT social media accounts and is redesigning the website. “[I chose to intern for KIC-IT because] of my background growing up,” Wise said. “My mom has been bedridden for years and growing up, it wasn’t always as luxurious of a lifestyle as all my other friends had, but seeing people around me who suffered more than that from other circumstances made me want to help people.”

Wise said through the organization, she has been able to accomplish her main passion in life – serving people and ending homelessness and poverty.

“KIC-IT is important to me because this is my chance to experience what poverty looks like and the things behind it – the reasons why people are in that situation,” Wise said. “The impact [KIC-IT] makes on the community is amazing.”

KIC-IT assists young adults in paying rent and utilities, getting food and hygiene items, taking care of items for

children and finding shelter for individuals living on the street.

“Homelessness to me is someone who can’t afford to have the luxury of having a warm, safe place to return to every day and who live by the generosity of other people,” junior Haley Blaich said.

Blaich got a glimpse of homelessness when she volunteered at a women’s homeless shelter.

“Being from [Indianapolis], in the suburbs, there isn’t as much evident homelessness,” Blaich said. “There is a lot in the inner city though. Nobody should have to struggle with those circumstances, but I also feel as if some people choose to do nothing about their circumstances. That is the bigger issue.”

She said people choose their destiny, but the individuals who cannot help their circumstances due to a disability or other strain should receive exceptional assistance.

Blaich watched her aunt neglect her own responsibilities, prompting her to live in her paid-off car. Not paying rent, not seeking help for her mental disabilities and not being cooperative with people who were trying to help

initiated the hardship of her aunt’s life, Blaich said.

Burke Johnson, the KIC-IT administrative assistant and volunteer coordinator, said it is the organization’s mission to lead individuals to resources and get the word out within the community to shine a light on the issue of homelessness.

Johnson said he has met about 50 legally homeless people. Through the organization, he said these people have found jobs and housing.

Freshman Natalie Strunk said homelessness is an unavoidable feature of today’s society.

“The world runs completely on money,” Strunk said. “No money equals no chance of living by today’s standards.”

In her hometown, Strunk said homelessness isn’t an issue but has been exposed to it when visiting Indianapolis and heavily populated, inner-city areas.

“Homelessness is an issue being ignored,” Strunk said. “We could help them in many more ways if the government and upper classes of society would put their heads together and stop being concerned with money.”

savings and payments easier,” Powers said.

Sophomore Abby Morris said she would like to see the app incorporate Self-Service.

“It would be nice for a much easier way to get onto Self-Service or Moodle from your phone,” said Morris. “Notifications about events would be cool or a composite the Twitter accounts so they could post on the app and say what is going on.”

Freshman Nawwaf Elayyan said it would be great to have an app with homework reminders.

“It would be nice if they had a Moodle type of app or something like would show your classes [and] your grades in those classes,” Elayyan said.

“An app that notifies you when your homework is due that day because I know that all of my classes are dependent on Moodle.”

New college app expected to launch next school year

By Megan Powell

megan.powell@franklincollege.edu

On college campuses all around the state and nation, seeing a student without a smartphone or any smart device is slim to none.

Because of the high volume of smartphones on campuses, colleges have created apps for the student body to use.

A few years ago, there was an app on campus called FC Mobile that allowed students to access various websites used by the college.

The Information and Technology Services Director Larry Stoffel said some in-house IT staff created the app.

“Those people since have moved on to other things and are not here anymore, so no one was updating the app,” Stoffel said.

The app can no longer be downloaded on the Apple App Store anymore because of the operating systems updates outpaced the app.

Even though the app is currently nonexistent, a team of staff is working together to find an app suited for Franklin.

“We are looking for another app,” Stoffel said. “We hope to have a new app by summer … in time for school to start next year.”

Freshman Brady Powers said he would want the app to have easy access to financial aid information and a calculator function.

“It would be beneficial to students because I would make planning your

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Smartphone usage on college campuses has led to many new app creations. Franklin hopes to release a campus app for students by next fall.

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When Jackie McGinley isn’t working away in the basement in the Old Main, she’s baking away in the kitchen.

McGinley has worked at Franklin College for 21 years. She currently works as the college’s copier services technician.

Before starting in the Copy Shop in 2003, she worked in the mailroom doing bulk mailing and student mail.

“It was a big change,” McGinley said. “It’s just very hands-on. It’s not a very difficult job, but sometimes there’s a lot to it.”

McGinley prints booklets, handouts, tests and syllabi in bulk for faculty and staff.

She also does the printing for design students in assisJackie M tant professor of Copier Servic art and journalism Wendy Shapiro’s classes, which includes posters and booklets.

Students also visit McGinley to put more money on their printing accounts.

On the side, McGinley loves to read and also bake and cook for her friends and family.

She said she is known for her pies, and she loves to make chicken potpies and homemade dessert pies.

“It’s just a hobby,” McGinley said. “I think if I had to do it as a profession I wouldn’t like it anymore.

I just love to cook for people I know.”

McGinley’s talent in pies may be drawn from her

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hometown of Dover-Foxcroft, Maine – the home of the annual Maine Whoopie Pie Festival. She moved from Maine to Indiana in 1991 after her former husband was relocated to the area.

“New England attitude is a lot different than here,” McGinley said. “People in Indiana are more open.”

She said she tries to visit her family in Maine every two years or so, but they call her a “foreigner” now that she’s been out of New England for more than 20 years.

“Indiana is kind of like my home now,” she said.

McGinley spends a lot of her time with her two daughters and three grandchildren. She instilled her love of baking into her grandchildren.

“When they were younger, the boys McGinley, loved baking with ces Technician me,” McGinley said.

“Two of them still help out in the kitchen, and one cooks for his mom now. He’s pretty good.”

Much of McGinley’s love for cooking came from 40 years of hosting her family’s annual Thanksgiving dinner.

After hosting since she was 27 years old, McGinley turned the responsibility over to her daughter last year.

“When I get tense or nervous, if I go cook something, it relaxes me,” McGinley said. “Especially if I give my cooking away to family and friends.”

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BLUNT Starbucks new holiday cup leaves a bad aftertaste From Donald Trump to Ellen DeGeneres, people have made their opinion of Starbucks’s new holiday cup known.

I think my favorite opinion comes from internet personality and American Evangelist, Josh Feuerstein. He posted a video to his social media pages saying that Starbucks took Christ, as well as Christmas, off of their new holiday cups.

Why did Starbucks “remove Christmas” from their cups? Well, according to Feuerstein, it’s because they hate Jesus.

What?

Do you really want to throw Jesus in the trash when you’re done with your drink?

Tell me, what is so wrong with a simple holiday cup with no “Christmas” design?

Why does Christmas have to be the only holiday Starbucks recognizes during the holiday season?

What about our Jewish friends? Our Muslim friends? Our Atheist friends? Must we exclude our non-Christian friends so that our Christian friends need not stress over a simple red cup?

Why are we so focused on this? Why is this simple lack of snowflakes and reindeer causing such an uproar?

But really, the anger isn’t coming from the cup itself anymore. The anger seems to stem from the reactions we see other people have toward this “issue.”

Much of this started when Feuerstein’s video went viral. He was so proud of himself for creating a “movement” of people telling their baristas that their names are “Merry Christmas” so they have to put something more Christmas-y on the cup.

Feuerstein, do you understand what you’re doing? You’re trying to make a point to Starbucks, but what you’re really doing is convincing your followers to spend money.

At Starbucks.

Was this your plan all along?

Whatever Feuerstein’s intentions were, I think it’s safe to say we have worse things to worry about than a stupid red cup.

Take your anger and motivate yourself to do good things in the world. Instead of spending money on a cup you hate, donate it to something worthwhile.

After all, ‘tis the season to be jolly.

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Protest results in resignation; hope for change

Racial tensions on University of Missouri’s campus resulted in the resignation of both the president and chancellor on Nov. 9.

Tim Wolfe, president of the university, stepped down in response to student protests and hunger strikes.

In his resignation announcement, he took full blame for not taking action to alleviate racial problems on campus. Just an hour after Wolfe’s announcement Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin followed.

Wolfe said his decision came out of love, not hate. He urged the university body to listen to each other and stop the intimidation.

“This is not -- I repeat, not -- the way change should come about.

Change comes from listening, learning, caring and conversation,” he said. “Use my resignation to heal and start talking again.”

The president stated earlier that week he would not resign, regardless of student demands. However, this all changed when black players on the football team refused to compete until Wolfe resigned. Cancelling the Tigers upcoming football game could have resulted in a $1 million fine.

The protests, hunger strikes, boycotts and eventual resignations stemmed from years of racial issues and tension on the Mizzou campus.

Many black students at Mizzou said they have been threatened with physical violence from their peers.

And, often times they are referred to with derogatory slurs.

Former faculty spoke out against the racial issues, saying it has been ongoing for years and involved in many of their reasons to leave the

institution. Many former faculty felt threatened and said offensive slurs were hurled at them daily.

Overt acts of racism and vandalism have been ongoing and part of the campus culture.

In 2010, two white students – recreating images of slave plantations – distributed cotton balls across the lawn of the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center.

In 2011, a white male student spray painted a racial epithet outside a residence hall building during Black History Month.

Recently, a swastika – drawn in feces – was found in a dormitory bathroom.

Protestors held their first event “Racism Lives Here” at the end of September. Several events were held and tensions erupted when a white male student refused to leave an event after being informed it was strictly for black students.

The student, reportedly intoxicated, walked on stage and said several derogatory things before being escorted by security. At the end of the month, students formed the group, Concerned Students 1950, in tribute to the first year Mizzou admitted black students.

On Nov. 7, hundreds of students flooded Mizzou’s campus during the university’s recruiting day. They recreated several incidents, including the cotton balls on the lawn of Gaines/ Oldham Black Culture Center.

During the protests, the students created “safe place” encampments.

A student photojournalist, Tim Tai, tried to take photos of the event and was quickly confronted.

The protestors grew angry and told Tai he had no right to be there. Tai stood his ground, claiming his First Amendment right as the students were on public property.

In response, the protestors banded together and walked forward, forcing

Our Position Change is necessary at Missouri University, and the students on campus reserve their right to peacefully protest against the racial injustice.

Tai to back away and eventually leave.

The protesters said they wanted privacy from media, and reporters invaded this safe space used for congregating and exchanging ideas.

Mizzou students and Black Lives Matters members showed more outrage on different social media platforms after the Paris attacks. Many members said the racial injustices at Mizzou are acts of terrorism, too.

The student protestors at Mizzou made several strides for improvement very quickly. Within a week, the president and chancellor resigned in accordance with their requests.

Change is still necessary to improve the culture on Mizzou’s campus. It is unfair that many of the black students do not feel safe on their campus. They do not feel safe at an institution they chose and pay to attend.

The student protestors had every right to defend themselves and stand agains the daily injustices they face on their campus.

Students should realize that these protests can create a real change on college campuses and throughout the country.

The Editorial Board The editorial board represents the opinion of The Franklin and its staff members.

The board meets once a week to discuss pressing issues relevant to Franklin College students. Meetings are moderated

by Paige Clark, the opinion editor. Board members are junior Brittney Corum, and freshmen Dannielle Blunt, Jessica Kaiser and Megan Powell. Caitlin Soard, the executive editor, sits on the editorial board. If you have an issue you would like the editorial board to consider, please feel free to email Paige Clark at paige.clark@franklincollege.edu.

turkey day traditions megan

POWE L L Thanksgiving Day. A day to take a moment from our busy and hectic lives and be surrounded by loved ones.

As normally celebrated year to year, the meal for our family centers around the basics: a warm turkey, my mom’s Peeps salad and pumpkin pie.

Yes, I just said a Peeps salad. Before you say ‘ew,’ just try it first. I thought I was going to hate it, and now it is a family tradition.

But why eat these same foods, year after year after year? One word: tradition.

The normal, and my favorite, food groups of Thanksgiving include turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.

And apparently a Peep salad has hopped into the mix somewhere down the road.

But seriously, without tradition, why even celebrate Thanksgiving? I mean it’s just one day out of 365. Wrong, we have three days off next week for a reason.

The Pilgrims. Those who wanted a better life and took the opportunity they had to make sure that would happen.

We remember and stick with the traditional food that the pilgrims at on that first Thanksgiving years ago because we remember what they went through in order to simply live another month, another week and another day.

We remember the joining of the Puritans and the Native Americans. We remember the knowledge and the generosity that Squanto showed to those Pilgrims who travelled to the new world that first winter.

We remember the fact that we are able to have food on the table, when there are 70 to 80 different families going to the local food pantry every day.

I know that on Thursday I will be sleeping in, watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, eating as much turkey as I can and spend time with family. Which will include watching my Chicago Bears beat the Packers.

Don’t hate.

brittney

CORUM The typical American family, according to every television series and movie from the last 50 years, eats turkey, watches the Macy’s Day Parade and ends with a football game and big nap on the couch on Thanksgiving.

But, my family tradition isn’t the TV stereotypical tradition.

For the famous Thanksgiving feast, we serve the usual turkey and ham. However, we also have selections from Kentucky Fried Chicken; not so traditional.

And after meal activities do not include a long food-induced nap, but fun actitivities and games.

Holding Thanksgiving in a shelter house gives my family room to play corn hole. But, the fun doesn’t stop there.

Card games are very common and include Euchre and Gin. But, the real fun happens during Bingo. Yes, at my Thanksgiving we play Bingo.

My family brings items to wager as prizes for Bingo. Sometimes it’s “junk” that would often be a white elephant give, but, other times, the prizes are valuable “want” items.

The only thing you have to be careful of is that you don’t put up a gift that is from a family member given to you last Christmas or your birthday. That would be a very unsettling situation.

I know that my family’s Thanksgiving is a lot different than others, but I don’t care. It’s just my family getting along and having a good time together.

You can do it your way, but this is ours, and we always have a good Thanksgiving.

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KAISER

Don’t fake it ‘til you make it Messy bun tutorials are no longer for just women, as men have hopped on the up-do craze with “man buns.”

Ever since Brock O’Hurn posted the Instagram video of him just simply putting his hair up in a bun, the trend has gone viral.

According to Hollywood.com, the top five celebrity man buns are Jared Leto, Harry Styles, David Beckham, Jake Gyllenhaal and taking the number one spot is Chris Hemsworth.

These men dedicated themselves to growing their hair out just to join this hair trend.

But, wait, there’s more. Now you can get your very own man bun without having to grow out your luscious locks.

The clip on man bun is now available.

You can purchase them from almost anywhere on the internet including eBay. This lovely accessory comes in all hair colors including blonde, brown, black and the ever-so-trendy, gray. If that’s not enough, they even make them with real human hair. Yes, you read that right. Real human hair.

I personally believe that these clip on man buns are ridiculous. There is a very small pool of men that can pull off this hairstyle.

Pictures online showcasing these products are absurd. The men modeling the clip on man buns often have short hair and look odd with a clearly fake bun on top of their heads.

I can’t see this product actually being used because if guys really wanted a man bun that bad, they would grow out their hair. It’s that simple.

This business idea was a horrible one, and I will not be surprised when I hear that the business is going down the drain.

But, if you’re a man that’s craving a bun, go for it.

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sports Football makes up nearly 70 percent of sports injuries

By Laura Olivo

maria.olivo@franklincollege.edu

Max Bomber Weak conference good for Colts A tale of two cities, or two divisions: The NFC East and AFC South, home of the mighty offense of the Indianapolis Colts.

Each division has a losing team that could have a chance to win their division. The Colts lost their star quarterback and leader of the offense, Andrew Luck, for a month with an abdominal muscle tear and a lacerated kidney… Wait, what? A lacerated kidney, how?

One can only speculate how this happened, with the stellar offensive line, which has allowed Luck to be sacked 15 times on the season – this doesn’t account for the countless times Luck has gotten the pass off while being hit.

This means the Colts call on 40-year-old, Matt Hassleback.

Hopefully he’s nimble enough to outrun those big defensive linemen.

With that being said, Hassleback played relatively well earlier this season. Let’s see if he still has the sauce against the Falcon’s passing defense that is top five in the League. If the Colts break even on their win/loss ratio they have a good chance of winning the division, but the playoffs is a completely different story.

Head coach Tom Coughlin and the NY Giants find themselves leading the NFC East with a 5-5 record, after a tough loss to the Patriots on Sunday.

I would say every team in the NFC East has a chance to be at the top of the division, but the Dallas Cowboys. With the Cowboys owner saying that Tony Romo will under no circumstances miss the week 11 game against the Dolphins. I think it is a little too late.

By the looks of it, there very well could be a loser winning either one of these divisions.

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From dislocations to concussions, Franklin College athletes are feeling it.

This fall, Franklin athletes have more injuries than nearby Earlham College, which is a liberal arts college in Richmond with similar enrollment to Franklin.

According to Sports Information Director Dale Long, Franklin’s total sports injuries are at 189.

The highest injuries come from football, which makes up nearly 70 percent of the total with 126 injuries.

Women’s lacrosse has the least injuries at one.

According to Earlham’s Head Athletic Trainer William Kinsey, their total number of fall sports injuries is 121, about 70 less than Franklin.

Earlham’s highest amount of injuries also comes from football, but the sport only accounts for about 40 percent of their overall fall injury tally.

The injuries are spread more evenly across other contact sports, like men’s and women’s soccer and field hockey.

The lowest number of Earlham injuries stem from men and women’s cross-country teams. Combined, the teams have seven injuries.

Athletic trainers from other colleges similar to Franklin – like Defiance College, Manchester University, Hanover College and Wabash College – did not respond to requests for their injury numbers.

Anderson University told The Franklin they would not disclose their injury information.

Junior Kelsie Williams said she has witnessed two major injuries in the past two years as an athletic training major.

Williams said she saw an athlete dislocate and fracture their ankle and be rushed to the hospital for immediate surgery.

Another athlete collided with a player and hit her head twice on the turf, sending her to the hospital with a fracture in her spine and a concussion.

Both athletes have recovered and are back at the college.

Williams said the least traumatic injuries she’s seen have been random

ankle sprains, wrist sprains and small cuts.

Junior athletic training major Emily Day said she has been “lucky” to not see any traumatic injuries while at the college.

Day said because football is a highrisk sport with more series injuries, the athletic training majors have a football rotation before they leave Franklin.

Each sport has its own type of injuries. Junior Claire Bonnoront said the most common injuries seen by athletic training majors are sprains, bruises and shin splints.

In his two years as a basketball player, junior Cody Federmann has dislocated his pinky finger, had a concussion, had a hip flexion and rolled both ankles twice.

As a freshman, Federmann had to get an MRI. As a sophomore, he only played in nine of 25 games.

Sophomore golfer Madyson Elmore said she has not been able to play a tournament since 2011 because of reoccurring ganglion cysts.

The cysts are noncancerous lumps often found on the wrists and hands.

“Just a bad hit tore it,” Elmore said.

“The cysts keep coming back as my body’s way of trying to protect against another tear.”

Junior football player Clay Lumpe has been out this entire season because of a high ankle sprain that required surgery.

“First week of training camp this year it just got rolled up during a pile up,” Lumpe said.

Prior to Lumpe’s college football career, he has also had four hernias and a broken wrist.

Senior Arjun Bhalla is a tennis player and has been out for most of the season after an ACL meniscus tear.

“I was playing my second game against Hanover,” Bhalla said. “I was trying to land a backhand, and I lunged too far and twisted my legs.

That made my knee pop. … I just dropped down.”

Bhalla is going back home to India on next month to have ACL reconstruction surgery and hopes to play again in May.

Number of injuries at Franklin College vs.

Earlham College Franklin College Men’s Cross country: 7 Women’s Cross country: 12 Football: 126 Lacrosse: 1 Men’s soccer: 11 Women’s soccer: 19 Volleyball: 13 TOTAL: 189

Earlham College Football: 46 Cross country (co-ed): 7 Volleyball: 13 Field hockey: 17 Men’s soccer: 20 Women’s soccer: 18 TOTAL: 121

sports Women’s basketball prepares for Fred Raizk Memorial Tournament

Weekly Recap

By Jackson Barnes

jackson.barnes@franklincollege.edu

Zoie Richey: The Franklin

Freshman Maddie O’Day (left) and sophomore Kelsey Smith (right) dribble down the court at a practice last week.

The team hopes to improve communication in this weekend’s matcups.

TAKE THE PLEDGE

The women’s basketball team lost a hard fought season opener at Trine University last Sunday.

“This past weekend at Trine we found ourselves in foul trouble and not always making the best decisions on the court,” junior guard Kayle Comer said. “So this weekend we need to improve on not fouling as much and playing together as a team. If something goes wrong, we need to work on forgetting it and moving onto the next play.”

The girls credited a lot to the loss but are eager to improve on the things they messed up on.

“I think if we improve our communication more and ball movement we will be okay,” sophomore guard Kelsey Smith said. “We fouled a lot as well, but if we improve on these things, I think we will be a step ahead of our opponents this weekend.

This week at practice the women have been working on doing drills to improve their play to prepare for their games in the Fred Raizk Memorial Tournament at Wilmington University this Friday and Saturday.

“This week in practice, we worked on the little things like boxing out, running through passes, hustling in everything we do and working on our shot selection,” Comer said.

The Grizzlies will take on DePauw Friday, then Wilmington University Saturday.

Sophomore Riley Achenbach said the team needs communication.

“We need to work together as a team and push through adversity,” she said. “Communication is a big key to playing as a team as well. If we’re not communicating were not acting as a unit.”

All players must be on their best game to win this weekend.

“We all need to show up and be ready to play,” Comer said.

“Each person on the team has a role and each role determines whether we win or lose.”

The game tips off Friday against DePauw at Wilmington University at 8:00 p.m.

Nov. 14 Men’s Swimming and Diving Franklin vs. Coe W, 147-87 Franklin vs. Millikin W, 195-14

Women’s Swimming and Diving Franklin vs. Coe W, 144-81 Franklin vs. Millikin W, 179-39

Men’s Cross Country

NCAA Division III Great Lakes Regional Franklin finished 31st

Women’s Cross Country

NCAA Division III Great Lakes Regional Franklin finished 23rd

Men’s Basketball

Franklin vs. Wheaton (Ill.) L, 80-68

Men’s Football

Franklin vs. Hanover W, 53-1

Nov. 15 Women’s Basketball Franklin vs. Trine L, 69-58

Nov. 17 Men’s Basketball

Franklin vs. DePauw L, 84-79

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friends of franklin How do you handle stress from school?

“I have to get away from stress. I will try to think about work, work out, go to my room and watch TV. I am religious, so I pray.”

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