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Volume 63 No. 14
Campus to come together to march for unity, diversity Hannah Pollock Managing Editor
Students and other campus community members will march Thursday to stand up for unity and diversity during the 33rd annual Martin Luther King Jr. “March for Humanity.” The pre-rally program is at 3:30 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel followed by the march. The featured speaker, Keshia Hannam, is a co-founder of Camel Assembly, a women’s movement of activists and artists across the globe. She has spoken for The New York Times, Fortune 500 companies and at the United Nations, according to SU News. According to Kapri Brown, assistant to the director of MSA, the march originally started to honor and remember the legacy of King. “In addition to that, today, to bring the campus together to stand in support of unity and diversity. The march is a time to come together to address the issues that get in the way of us being a unified community,” Brown said. The march originally started in 1987 by students Tyrome Smith and Crystal White, members of the executive board of the Afro-AM Organization, according to Brown. The march will immediately follow Hannam’s address. Both events are sponsored by the African American Organization, ACT and the office of Multicultural Student Affairs. Brown encourages all students and faculty to attend the program not only to hear Hannam’s remarks, but also see and hear why students march. “Together we get a chance to not just talk the talk, but we get to exercise our right to stand for justice,” she said.
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Members of Vigilant Hose Company #1 walk alongside a member of the Penn State Health Life Lion Critical Care Transport Team carrying an injured minor. Life Lion transported an injured child to the hospital.
Life Lion lands at SU, transports minor involved in accident to hospital Jonathan Bergmueller Editor-in-Chief
A Penn State Health Life Lion Critical Care Transport helicopter touched down outside Seth Grove Stadium at Shippensburg University Sunday afternoon for an emergency. The air EMS arrived shortly after 1 p.m. to transport a twoyear-old child, who was injured in an accident, to Penn State Hershey Medical Center. The minor sustained unknown injuries in the accident and
State grant to improve sexual assault resources at SU Noel Miller
was transported to the field by EMS to be moved to the hospital. Local responders including members of the Vigilant Hose Co. #1, Shippensburg EMS and borough police were on-scene to assist. The victim, whom a family member declined to identify, was carried to the helicopter by firefighters and EMS personnel. Life Lion took off shortly after the child was aboard. The Slate will continue to provide updates as more information is released to the public.
Who is Molly Pitcher? The story behind the popular local namesake
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Austin Stoltzfus
Shippensburg University received its third “It’s On Us PA” grant to improve sexual assault resources at the university. Gov. Tom Wolf issued the $25,000 grant as a part of the “It’s On Us PA” campaign to help end sexual violence, according to an email from SU President Laurie Carter. The grant will improve the anonymous online reporting system for sexual assault, develop public service announcements and create a peer-education system, according to a SU press release. SU received its first grant from the campaign in 2016 and again last January. The “Ship Says No More” program and the campus Green Dot program were both established using these grants. Ship Says No More works to “continue enhancing a safe environment at SU by centralizing all sexual misconduct education, prevention and resources onto one centralized webpage,” according to its website. The Green Dot program is an “evidence-based bystander prevention program,” according to the press release. The “It’s On Us PA” campaign seeks to build on the momentum of the national campaign by bringing college administration, faculty, staff, families, students and communities together. The campaign’s goal is to help improve and change the conversations surrounding sexual violence. The “It’s On Us PA” website includes a pledge for visitors to take: “Recognize that non-consensual sex is sexual assault, identify situations in
Located on High Street in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, is the brewery, Molly Pitcher Brewing Co. While it may seem like an average business, its name of Molly Pitcher, fits a pattern found in Carlisle. It’s not too difficult to see Molly’s name on a stroll around town, whether it’s a brewery, apartment building, plaque or even her large statue found in the Molly Pitcher Cemetery. So, the natural question arises, who was Molly Pitcher? While the answer lies muddied in mostly unrecorded history, historians have reasons to believe that Molly Pitcher was only a slang term used in the Revolutionary War to describe women who carried pitchers of water for the troops and that there were many Molly Pitchers. Steven Burg, a Shippensburg University history professor and the department chair, explained that while there were many women who served in the Revolutionary War, the one most often seen in Carlisle refers to Mary Ludwig Hays, who was a Carlisle resident. “She is someone who is very well documented in terms of she what did,” Burg said. Burg explained that Hays
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The Women’s Center, located in Horton Hall, is one of the on-campus resources that will benefit from the “It’s On Us Pa” Grant. which sexual assault may occur, intervene in situations where consent has not or cannot be given, create an environment in which sexual assault is unacceptable, and survivors are supported.” The “Ship Says No More” website has on- and off-campus resources as well as national resources available for stu-
dents. The on-campus resources include the Women’s Center, the Counseling Center, the Shippensburg University Title IX Coordinator Daniel Velez and several others. For more information about the national “It’s On Us” campaign visit itsonus.org.
joined the Continental Army to follow her husband as did many wives during the war. Cara Curtis, the library and archives director at the Cumberland Valley Historical Society, explained that proving the stories of various Molly Pitchers, including the famous story of Mary Hays at the Battle of Monmouth, is extremely difficult. However, by referencing a U.S. government pension given to Mary Hays for “services rendered,” historians can confirm that she was somehow active in the Battle of Monmouth. Burg described a soldier’s diary that mentioned Mary Hays helping man a cannon after her husband, William Hays, went down. Small diary entries and notes are the closest thing historians have to reference besides the pension. The story, which some people debate in its accuracy, tells of Mary Hays’ husband being either wounded or dropping from the fight due to extreme heat. Mary then stepped into her wounded husband’s place and manned the cannon at the Battle of Monmouth when an enemy cannonball flew between her legs, narrowly missing her and tearing her petticoat, according to battlefields.org. See “PITCHER” A2