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October 4, 2012 • VOL. 96 , ISSUE 4
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Transylvania University received this week one of the largest monetary gifts in the college’s history. The match grant, valued at $5 million, comes from the William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment Fund for Student Scholarships.
The grant will go toward establishing 10 new premier scholarships for incoming students effective for next year’s entering class, according to Vice President for Enrollment and Dean of Admissions Brad Goan.
The grant also includes stipulations that the university must raise an additional $5 million over the next three years and all funds will join the university endowment, increasing it by 8-9 percent, said Vice President for Advancement Kirk Purdom.
“It’s all for student scholarships, which is why we’re here,” said Purdom.
According to Goan, the 10 scholarships will be merit based and will be valued “just beneath” the value of the William T. Young Scholarship which awards students the full value of tuition and fees for four years.
“We’ve often heard from students
that our scholarships aren’t level, and we needed to have a level between the Young and the President scholarships,” said Goan. “We wanted to be able to provide that opportunity for students who came to the interviews, were very accomplished but were not able to have a Young [scholarship].”
The President scholarship awards $14,000 a year to recipients.
The Kenan grant came after solicitation from President Owen Williams.
“This new scholarship program is a significant addition to the group of merit scholarships that we are able to offer outstanding students from across the country,” said Williams in a press release. “We appreciate very much the generosity of the trustees of the Kenan Charitable Trust in making this award and for their belief in the value of a Transylvania liberal arts education.”
The Kenan Charitable Trust also funds the grant to establish the William R. Kenan Jr. Lecture Series established in 1985 and the Kenan Fund for Faculty and Student Enrichment, which provides support for faculty and student research in the liberal arts.
Editors Note: Rachel Smith contibuted to reporting in this story.
Transylvania’s Student Government Association is looking to students to revise the statement of student rights and responsibilities.
The statement, according to SGA President Charli Fant is largely unknown to students.
“Our first goal in re-examining this document is to simply publicize what has already been written,” Fant said. “In order for this document to carry any weight, students, faculty and staff must first be aware that it exists.”
In its current form, the statement outlines 15 rights for students and five responsibilities. The document also charges SGA with responsibility to “consider and reflect issues from their constituents to the administration and to consider and disseminate administrative issues back to their constituents.”
The statement may not change at all, but Fant wants a
dialogue over its contents to begin and, if the student body finds the document insufficient, SGA will work to make the document more organized and the language clearer.
“We want student expectations to be made clear,” said Fant. “We feel that we must firmly communicate the rights and responsibilities of students to the community at large. This document, if effective, should provide us with a basis to ensure that these rights are not infringed upon.”
Changes to the document, while recommended by SGA, would go through approval processes from faculty and administration.
Rights outlined by the statement currently range from the right to discuss and express opinions, freedom from unlawful discrimination and the right to impartial treatment, among others.
The right for students to freely publish publications without censorship from the University is also outlined in this document.
The section on student responsibilities says that
students “must recognize” the unique relationship between the University and the larger community. The five responsibilities include the responsibility to uphold high academic standards, the responsibility to act to ensure other students’ rights, the responsibility to adhere to rules and regulations and laws, and the responsibility to maintain a learning atmosphere.
The statement also outlines the student role in institutional decision making.
The full statement of student rights and responsibilities can be found is included in the official student handbook.
Fant encourages all students to read the statement and contact SGA with comments or suggestions on how it could be improved.
New grant establishes Kenan scholarship
SGA seeks feedback on student rights and responsibilities statementJake Hawkins
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Class of ‘16 is second largest in TU historyAfter multiple student enrollment initiatives were launched
over the past year, numbers for this fall’s incoming class are the second highest in Transylvania history with 350 students.
That’s a 35 percent increase—compared to last year’s incom-ing class of 259 students.
Expectations for geographical and racial/ethnic diversity have also been exceeded.
According to an announcement released today, 99 of the first-year students are from out of state and create the most geographical-ly diverse class for Transy in 38 years. In terms of racial and ethnic diversity, 47 students of the first-year class consider themselves to be of a minority race, or 13.7 percent.
The 2012 incoming class has also received an hike in inter-national students, with 12 first years coming from China, Mexico, Poland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and Vietnam, according to the release.
These numbers are a notable change from last year’s statistics. In a story appearing in an Oct. 6, 2011 issue of The Rambler,
Brad Goan, vice president for enrollment and dean of admissions, confirmed that the 2011 incoming class was 55 fewer than the class of 2010, and 51 fewer than the incoming class average from the previous five years from 2007-2011.
Of last year’s first-year class, the class of 2015, 88 percent maintained enrollment for this year.
With the new class counted, total enrollment in now 1,074. By the fall of 2016, the student body is projected to be 1,272
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The Transylvania University Class of 2016 is second largest in the University’s history and the most diverse in 38 years.
Ramble On:What do you think about the statement of student rights and responsibilites? Let us know at [email protected].
Transylvania welcomes fall foilage
With the arrival of October, temperatures are beginning to cool and signs of autumn are slowly appearing around campus.
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It can be difficult to find food that can be easily made in a dorm room.
There is the issue of space as well as not having a stove, but Senior Eryn Hornberger’s monthly cooking classes offer creative meal ideas that are not only cost efficient, but can easily be made in the comfort of your dorm.
This past Tuesday, Carolyn Gilles, owner of the Wholesome Chef Cooking School in Lexington came to Transylvania to teach her craft to a few of the students from 4 to 5 p.m. in the MFA Hospitality Kitchen as one of Hornberger's monthly classes.
Before the actual cooking began, Gilles took time to explain how she had chose par-ticular ingredients, considering how many processed ingredients lose much of the nutri-ents between being picked and being served at the table. Gilles distributed handouts detailing this information in addition to the recipes of what they were going to cook as a class.
Starting off, students were given different tasks to help prepare a small communal meal. While one student cut the onions, another began to remove the seeds from the peppers. After showing the students the basic how-to of the job, Gilles took a step back from the process and limited herself to offering advice or help when needed.
Gilles was pleased with the results.“The students were interested in trying
new food and enjoyed the opportunity to work as a group,” she said.
With the meal prepared, students sat down to dine on their tasty creations: Cumin Lime Chickpeas and black bean quesadillas. Afterwards, everyone divided up the leftovers to be taken back to their dorms - no portion remained unclaimed.
“I couldn't have planned for the great results and participation. The sign-ups both times have filled up extremely fast, and stu-dents are always asking me when the next one will be – it brightens my day every time,” said Hornberger. “I feel like I'm helping to change the way people understand food on both a social and political basis. My hope is that people will recognize the importance of what they choose to eat.”
For those interested in cooking their own cheap food check out budgetbytes.blogspot.com for recipes. The classes are held monthly and dates can be found on T-Notes.
Stow the cup of ramen and snack cakes; fresh hot food is now just a stone’s throw away!
Transylvania students’ days are jam packed, even on the weekends; it’s only when night falls and there are no more sched-uled meetings, or sports games, that they can pull on those PJ’s and live on their own time.
Unfortunately, as soon as there is time to have a meal with friends, all of the purveyors of campus cuisine have closed up shop for the night.
But now there is some relief in sight, thanks to the efforts of Vice President for Stu-dent Affairs and Dean of Students Barbara LoMo-naco.
Every Friday and Saturday night from 11 p.m, to 3 a.m. a member of the Bluegrass Food Truck Association will be waiting in a convenient Back Circle location.
Now Transy students can enjoy a brief respite from their books, and their rumbling tummies.
“It’s like being a kid waiting for an ice cream truck,” said LoMonaco. Her idea was to create a safe late-night com-
munity.“I realized that students come alive after ten,” she said.Students already congregate in Back Circle and the dor-
mitory halls in clusters of tired laughter and well deserved relaxation, only now there’s no need to pine after the idea of food; it’s a tangible, tasty reality.
The food trucks on campus will rotate each weekend of-fering a new and varied culinary experience, although LoMo-naco admits that the menu items may not exactly be health food.
“Luckily, we have a great fitness center so students can go and run it off,” said LoMonaco.
And the food’s taste is, for some, worth the calories. This past weekend TNT Barbecue, boasting the “Best
Butt in Town” had taken up temporary residence behind For-rer. With tantalizing options like ‘BBQ nachos’ and ‘Butt in
a Bowl’ it was hard to avoid the marriage of tender pulled pork and sweet BBQ sauce.
Before the truck even had time to turn on its lights students were trickling out of their dorms and forming a line, joining in lively con-versation about the various smells wafting from TNT’s fabulous BBQ.
“This will be a new, fun and vibrant late night alter-native for on campus din-ing,” LoMonaco said.
LoMonaco plans to keep the food trucks coming as long as students continue to line up behind them, pro-vided the noise level stay in check and alcohol doesn’t accompany hungry bodies to Back Circle.
First-year Iyabo Erinki-tola is one Transy student who has already sampled the cuisine on wheels.
“I really liked the food trucks in back circle because I didn’t have to go off cam-
pus,” said Erinkitola. “The food was affordable and delicious, and I got to be with my friends.”
With positive reception so far Transy may have a new tasty tradition.
Class teaches dorm friendly cooking
Weekend food truck brings late-night meal options to Back Circle
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The food truck will be in Back Circle on Friday and Saturday nights from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. and allows students a choice for late-night food on the weekends without having to leave campus.
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With a Transylvanian10 Questions
Jeremy Paden1. What’s your guilty plea-sure?Chocolate, isn’t yours?
2. If you could create a new Transy mascot, what would it be?I’m perfectly fine with a coon-skinned capped, fanged pioneer that sparkles in the sun.
3. What was the last song you listened to on your iPod/last CD you put in your car’s stereo system?CD in car: Andreas Scholl’s Bach Cantatas. IPod Ghostland Observatory’s Sad, Sad City
4. What’s the first thing you’ll do when you retire?Take up competitive knitting.
5. If you were a cartoon character, who would you be?Joseph Amadeus von Dracula, also known as Pepito.
6. In high school, were you a jock, an artsy kid, a prep, a band geek, or part of some other clique?Half-way through my 10th grade year, I dropped out of High School. I spent the re-maining 2 1/2 years reading novels, interpreting for Habitat for Humanity work groups that would come to the Dominican Republic, and working in triage and pharmacy for my dad’s health clinics.
7. What is the craziest dream you have ever had?It’s been years since I’ve remembered my dreams. Though I do remem-ber dreaming and do remember being conscious that I am dreaming and unable to do anything about the state of my clothes. I just don’t remember them but for the feeling that I had dreamed when I wake up. Half the time, it’s a jumble of fantasy and NPR news coverage.
8. What celebrity would you choose to play in a movie about your life, and what would be the most fitting title?Some blue-eyed, blond haired waif of a boy. “Nothing Here to See” 9. Answer this question: Why did the chicken cross the road? (“To get to the other side” is NOT an acceptable answer.)It was a big Lou Reed fan and was convinced that it was on the tame side.
10. Other than your current job, what other profession would you like to pursue?A food cart vendor. There is, perhaps, no more noble profession than providing succor in a time of need. And no need is more acutely felt than hunger as it wracks the body of the tourist or the business person at midday. Nothing is more disastrous than poor decisions made or angry words spoken when their cause is not bad judgement or justified wrath but hypoglycemia. Is there, then, anything more civilized than a warm salty pretzel slathered in honey mustard?
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1. Gotothecafeteriaforagourmetmeal,availablethisweekendonly.
2. Don’tcrossthestreetatyourleisure;DPSwillbethere.Allweekend.No,really.
3. ReschedulethatpartyyouhadplannedforSaturday.Gotothechoirconcertwithyourparentsinstead.
4. Ifyouseesomeonewholooksalittletooyoungtogotoschoolhere...you’reprobablyright.
5. Ifyouseesomeonewholooksalittletoooldtogotoschoolhere,it’sprobablysomeone’smom.Inotherwords,donothitonthisperson.
6. Ifyourfriendshavebeendaringyoutostreakthroughcampus,thisweekendisprobablynotthebesttime.
7. TakeyourdadtoDoodle’sforbreakfastandorderthebeignets.Hewillloveit.
8. Goontheghosttour!Notthatwe’veeverseenone,butitsoundsawesome!
9. TakealookattheWelcometoFamilyWeekendban-ner!Andthenmoveon.
10. Ifyouhaven’tbeenhomeyet…it’sFamilyWeekend.Gohome.
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OpinionPage 4 October 4, 2012
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•Cheers for me being in last week’s edition of The Rambler! And this week’s! I quite enjoy the magical fonts they chose to use for this column.
•Jeers to September for only having 30 days – I can’t believe it is already October! I still have no idea what my costume is going to be for Halloween...
•Cheers to the music faculty’s annual showcase concert taking place in Carrick Theater on October 3! I can’t wait to see my piano teacher, Angela Eaton, perform! Oh, and the other 11 faculty members.
•Jeers to the cars on North Broadway that cannot comprehend that PEDESTRIANS HAVE THE RIGHT-OF-WAY! I am pretty sure that I am going to die on that crosswalk within the next four years.
•Cheers to the food truck being in Back Circle! I didn’t try any of the food; but hey, it’s food.•Jeers to teachers that assign a butt-load of homework on the weekends! Staying up all Sunday night has become
inevitable. This is why I wish Jazzman’s was open on Sunday nights.•Cheers to the Studio 300 festival! This festival featured 18 different staged performances and more than 160 individual
installations, interactive pieces and video/sound works by artists and musicians from around the world!•Cheers to the Latino Multicultural College Fair taking place on October 16! Volunteers are needed for this event, so
if you are going to be here during Fall Break, check out TNotes to find out how you can help.•Cheers to Transy’s involvement with MLK Day of Service! There is a meeting taking place at 3:30 p.m. in the CARE
House on October 2 for the planning of the event. For more information, contact Kaitlin Haggard at [email protected] or Karen Anderson at 8182 or [email protected].
•Jeers to lacking creativity and inspiration and thus, being forced to have three Cheers in a row. My OCD is killing me right now.
•Cheers to Family Weekend approaching for those of you who actually miss your parents!•Jeers to Family Weekend approaching for those of you who are happy to be away from them! •Cheers to the first Work-Study payment coming up! Time to get paid for all of those “hard-worked” hours!•And a special cheers to the staff of The 1780 Cafe for always reading The Rambler!
At Transylvania University we pride ourselves on the close-knit community that our campus creates. Having a student body of just over 1,000, many of us could not imagine going to a school with a group any larger.
But it won’t be long before we find out what that’s like. By the fall of 2016, Transy’s student body is projected to be 1,272. We’re in for some big changes over the next five years.
August term and the record-setting class of 2016 were just the beginning.
For many, this is not a welcome change. A larger student body means everything from longer lunch lines and fewer quiet places to study. More students means a change to the system.
Or does it?Transy often points out that the average class size is only
14 students. Such a small class size is a huge small-school perk. This is what separates us from other universities. So if we grow, there is a fear that we will lose the small-school feel.
Not so fast, though.The administration has no intention of changing the
class sizes, student to faculty ratio, or anything else about the classroom experience.
“There is an understanding that that is a part of our DNA,” said Brad Goan, vice president for enrollment and dean of admissions.
As the student body grows, so will the number of faculty members, and this has been pretty much guaranteed.
“The best thing in all of this growth is that the President is adamant that classes still remain small and that the student to faculty ratio actually get better,” said Shane McGuire ’09, admissions counselor.
Thank goodness. But what about facilities? We can’t expect to fit all these new students in existing dorms. State-of-the-art students deserve state-of-the-art facilities. And where is everyone going to park? The numbers don’t add up.
There seems to be an answer for that too.Over the next five years, new facilities will be built to
accommodate new students and campus will extend further into Lexington.
But for the admissions office, the Strategic Enrollment Plan is less about numbers and more about opportunities. Transy hopes to provide new programs and expand existing ones in order to attract more students. The addition of lacrosse is a perfect example.
We aren’t just looking for new athletes, though. Fine arts scholarships have tripled; competitive academic scholarships have also increased. By doing so, the administration hopes to entice the kind of students that will preserve our academic quality.
To offer more opportunities for students, the university’s revenue must increase to pay for it. Hence, increased enrollment. More students equals more revenue.
“Individual students, though, won’t feel any sort of strain from that. But what they will feel is more opportunity,” said Goan.
It’s hard to argue against increased oppotunities. But what can be scary is the potential for this change to happen too quickly. Will we return one Labor Day and all of a sudden campus is packed with an additional 200 students?
No way. This change, which has only been planned out through fall of 2016, is going to happen very gradually. Total enrollment won’t be increasing by more than 60 students per year. Assuming everything goes according to plan.
Which never happens. The numbers set are to be used as guidelines as we move into the future. But what is certain is that the Transy population is going to become more diverse.
To make sure that happens, Transy is expanding its reach in out of state and international markets. Admissions counselors are spending more time in targeted areas like Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Nashville, Washington, D.C., Dallas and Chicago.
Does that mean Transy is abandoning its biggest market, Kentucky? Of course not. To achieve these increases, we need as many Kentucky students as ever, Goan said. We just need more students from everywhere, too.
The college experience at Transy for students from Kentucky and elsewhere “will be richer by having a more diverse geographic representation in the classroom,” said Goan.
Why else is diverse expansion good for current students? Prestige.
“In all honesty if Transylvania continues to become better and more well known, the value of my degree only increases,” McGuire said.
So if expansion is good change, how do we keep what we don’t want to change? The way for us to preserve our beloved campus culture is to embrace its new members as they join our family. Transy must prepare for change by proactively expanding to prevent overcrowding.
But we also have to keep an open mind. Whatever number we reach, Transy is always going to be a small school. Our community will always have the same feel if we keep attracting the same quality of students.
So calm down. Expansion plans aren’t popping the Transy Bubble, they’re just making it bigger.
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Transy Says...Would increased enrollment change our small-school feel?
"Yes without a question it would. To keep the small school feel we need to stay the size we are. Because even if we hire more professors to compensate for the student-faculty ratio, the bottom line is we are adding more people and that takes away from the small school feel." Kim Guy ’14
“I can see why people are afraid that the campus culture will change with a couple hundred people, however, with those extra students we will gain many more opportunities for Transylvania. Historically people freaked out when we moved from 700 to 1,000 students and yet the campus culture stayed the same, so I wouldn't be worried but rather excited!”
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"I personally feel that increasing enrollment would in turn decrease the feel of close community that so many enjoy here."
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Adjunct art professor Derrick Riley has created a series of prints illustrating local, chilling creatures in a display known as the Kentucky Monster Mash – and they’re here for a limited time on campus at the Shearer Art Building.
Requests made to Riley to comment on his work were unreturned.
Given Transylvania’s own reputation for vampires, the Kentucky Monster Mash should be an entertaining event for the fall season. Riley heads his own companies, dRock Press and Walk In Closet Tees, as an adjunct professor at the University of Kentucky.
Kentucky Monster Mash features detailed woodcuts depicting spooky creatures that, legend has it, are located right here in the Bluegrass. Such monstrous haunts include a local Lake Monster, 24 Foot Alligator and a Giant Catfish, to name a few.
Folklore has placed these creatures in such places as Paducah, Louisville, Winchester, Hopkinsville and the Kentucky Lake. Riley’s website claims the series of fourteen
prints that comprise the Kentucky Monster Mash “is intended to be viewed as one continuous narrative.”
Each print includes a description of the monsters conveyed along with the origin of their legends. The series of images “can be rearranged and put into almost any order and still read as originally intended.” This sequential arrangement artistically illustrates the legends and myths of some of the most distinct creatures whose names have fearfully passed the lips of Kentuckians.
Transy Monster Mash:Cynthia [email protected]
Fourteen woodcarvings comprised artist and professor Derrick Riley’s collection allowing for creative arrangement. The artwork can currently be seen at the Shearer Art Building in the student gallery.
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Lexington's Gay and Lesbian Services Organization (GLSO) has partnered with sQecial Media to reach out to the Lexington community on Sundays at 2 p.m. with a new film series intended to enlighten everyone in the community about the struggles and dilemmas someone who is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered or Queer (LGBTQ) may face in the present world.
Three films are featured and will be shown in the Farish Theater of the Lexington Public Library's central branch. Admission is free and open to the public.
Films to be show include “North Sea, Texas” for Oct. 7, Pariah for Oct. 20 and “Heartbeats” on Oct. 28.
Each one was released within the past couple years with directors Bavo Defurne, Dee Rees, and Xavier Dolan, respectively, attempting to capture what it means to live as a non-heterosexual.
Iya Morgan, part of the committee who selected the films for this series (as well as for last month's Rosa Goddard International Film Series), said that, “The idea [for the series] came about because we felt that queer cinema was something the Lexington cultural landscape was sorely missing. We
approached the GLSO with our idea of a Queer Film Series because we like the GLSO and wanted to work with them.
“This being the first year for the Queer Film Series we wanted to test the waters and see how much interest there is in Lexington for the series,” she said. “So the recently renovated Farish Theater at the Lexington Library seemed to be the perfect fit.”
Morgan added that the intended audience is very much the same for this series as it was for the Rosa Goddard series. She also stated that should turnout be good she hopes this will become an annual event.
As for the international film selections, Morgan likes to expose viewers to different takes that can be radically different or startlingly similar to current situations in our society.
“In regards to both series our passion tends to veer towards films made outside of the U.S,” she said. “We try to mix it up a bit, with next years line-up slated to include films from Brazil and Japan. That being said, we are definitely suckers for French cinema.”
Transy LGBTQ group, T-Unity has stated that they encourage students on campus to attend.
For more specifics, including an event schedule, head to glso.org.
Film series seeks to enlighten Lexington
Ameka [email protected]
Halloween – the celebrated holiday of a university whose name inspires unrelenting vampire jokes – is quickly approaching at Transylvania. With the occasion looming, local haunted houses are beginning to kick off their scaring seasons.
But what is it like to be on the other side of the scare? To be the one scaring, rather than screaming?
Michael Huelsman, a first-year student employed at Mayhem Mansion in Morning View, Ky., about an hour and half north of Lexington, described the experience as “really fun.”
Mayhem Mansion is an old-school haunting attraction that does not use any animatron-ics, relying instead on the use of live actors and improvisation to scare people. The house is structured around the character Mr. Haverford, a 1920’s bootlegger whose daughter died and whose business was being threatened by the repeal of Prohibition. Distraught, Haverford “invited all his friends on the night of the wake... to a big dinner and he poisoned all of them,” including himself.
The mansion also features a haunted trail based on Haverford’s moonshine-making busi-ness. The haunted house scares the pants off of customers for a good cause, donating at least 75 percent of their profits to the northern Kentucky “Shop with a Cop” program, which helps children from impoverished families buy Christmas presents for their relatives.
Huelsman, who plays the role of a priest giving a eulogy for Haverford’s deceased daughter, enjoys putting a “fire and brimstone” twist on his character.
Huelsman discussed using what he calls “control scares,” with which he makes his vic-tims believe they will not escape the house unless they do what he tells them. According to Huelsman, past customers have crawled on their knees and repented their sins to escape Mayhem Mansion. He also revealed other scare tactics like “shock scares,” which involve jumping out at passersby, and “creep scares,” which involve, quite simply, being creepy.
According to Huelsman, being told it’s okay “to be that sadistic, weird person” is what has kept him working with the haunted house for five years. Being required to scream at people as part of his job, Huelsman said, has been a huge stress reliever for him and he feels that “every year, I... learn something new about acting or haunting.”
Huelsman recommends attending Mayhem Mansion outside of their busy season – the closer it gets to Halloween, the busier the attraction is – so that the actors can spend more time scaring each customer more thoroughly. The house is open from 7 p.m. to midnight every Friday and Saturday through November 2.
Scare season kicks-off for local haunted attractions
Kaitlin [email protected]
“North Sea Texas” is a Belgian film that seeks to enlighten viewers of how love can find people unexpectedly and survive through grief and troubles.
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Folklore creatures haunt wood carvings
Other popular Halloweenattractions in the Lexingtonarea include: •The Wicked World Scaregrounds, which fea-ture haunted hospital and carnival attractions.(http://www.2scary.com/#/home) •Fright Nights at Jacobson Park, at which cus-tomers can be terrorized by the Willow family char-acters in the Dark Forest and chased by the undead in Zombie Mayhem.(http://www.lexingtonhauntedhouse.com/) •The Screampark, which includes various haunted attractions like the Castle of Fear and the Insanity mental hospital.(http://www.thescreampark.com/index.html)
If you’re interested:Check the gallery out online at www.drockpress.com/Kentucky_Monster_Mash.html
Sports Page 6 October 4, 2012
Sometimes, hardship is the harbinger of greatness. From loss there is gain; from darkness, light; from pain, eventual triumph.
It’s a message that alumna Holly Milburn takes to heart because on and off the court, she’s always found a way to rebound; she has turned misses into makes.
The hardship: Milburn’s chance to excel in college bas-ketball was nearly taken away before it started. In her first year at Transylvania – her first season as a Pioneer - she’d never see the court in the games that mattered. Her joints failed her. She succumbed to injury and required surgery. And suddenly, a season was lost.
“It was miserable,” Milburn said. “I couldn’t do any-thing and the surgery aftermath was terribly painful.”
But from that pain, there was triumph. “But in that,” added Milburn, “I learned to cope with
unforeseen challenges. There are some life events you just can’t control.”
The greatness: Milburn could control herself. She grew stronger; more tenacious. She didn’t take this sport for grant-ed. She knew how easily it could be taken away. She’d seen basketball at its worst.
The next season, she saw it at its best. “We had a real dream team my sophomore season,”
said Milburn. That dream team won the conference cham-pionship, going the distance until the eventual runners-up knocked them out of the National Tournament. A year before, she’d been immobilized on the sideline. The next, she was a part of something special.
“I had so much fun with that team,” said Milburn. The low-post threat had done in life what she did, time and time again, on the court. From a missed chance, she rebounded. With tenacity, she scored.
It’s a theme that continues to define the life of Holly Milburn.
After four years at Transy, Milburn joined a service corps in New York City, working with homelessness, hun-ger and the children of incarcerated parents. She didn’t just see, first hand, a life of hardship and struggle; she lived it.
The program entailed poverty, a minuscule bud-get and finding sustenance with the aid of food stamps.
It’s a life that would break many a person, but not Milburn. Once again, from struggle, she found reward, success, a brighter side.
“One of the most rewarding aspects of the program was intentional poverty,” said Milburn. “That dimension enabled us to live in solidarity with those whom we were serving.” And from that empathy for others, she also found a self-definition.
“I learned what was really important to me,” Milburn said. “I also learned how much I can get by without and not really be affected by it. Not feeling tied down by material necessities is a re-ally liberating thing.”
The reward of rising from struggle was something Milburn had felt before.
“It was the same feeling I had as an athlete,” she said. “Just like in sports, doing your job well feels amazing when you work past the point that you want to pause or settle for less than your best.”
It’s a feeling - a lesson of life - which Mil-burn hopes to pass on to those that follow in her footsteps at Transy.
Before leaving for her next adventure in South Africa, Milburn returned to the campus and the court on which she’d once been a stand-out. This time, she wasn’t passing and scoring goals; she was passing on her story, telling stu-dent-athletes how to achieve their own goals.
She was telling them that these lessons go beyond four years of NCAA eligibility. “I still rely on the same skills I learned playing sports,” Milburn said. “It looks different because I’m not shooting baskets all day, but it’s really not that different. Setting goals, pushing yourself, work-ing with others; it’s all the same really.”
Now in Cape Town, South Africa, Milburn continues to relive the cycle. She’s joined a new team, working for a social development program run by the Anglican Diocese.
She’s set new goals. She’ll face new struggles. But since her playing days at Transy, Milburn has time
and time again proven two things: she always rebounds. And for those she cares to help; she always assists.
NFL-referee contract dispute reveals larger problem
Grown men were seen exultantly bawling. Small groups of non-sports enthusiasts caught the buzz and started hurl-ing ambiguous athletic epithets, “GOOO TEAM!” Teens es-chewed their social obligations and gathered, harmonizing the fourth symphony of that great American Classic, “Mon-day Night Football Theme in E Major…”
Such was the scene when NFL commissioner Roger Goodell (finally!) ended the childish, selfish standoff over the terms of an embattled contract detailing referees’ compensa-tion. The acquiescence came after myriad popular criticisms (even from President Barack Obama, who called the replace-ment refs “ridiculous”), universal repulsion from pundits and a comedy of on-field errors.
The proverbial final straw came during the closing play of the Seattle Seahawks – Green Bay Packers game last Mon-day night. By now, you’ve all seen it.
Replacement officials ruled that Golden Tate caught the winning touchdown; while everyone else witnessed M.D. Jennings, Green Bay’s safety, come down with the ball
clutched to his chest. Those witnesses included millions of people watching on ESPN or online.
Such an egregious, game changing err could not be ig-nored, and after the vitriolic response from fans – especially those fond of wearing cheese on their heads – commissioner Goodell had little logical recourse other than bringing back the veterans.
Let’s take a second to attempt to understand how this whole thing came about.
Why, exactly, is the head of an industry – currently ac-cruing $9 billion a year – jeopardizing the quality of his league’s product and the safety of its participants by quib-bling over proper compensation for those who help make those capital gains possible?
Why was an industry famous for compensating its com-petitors more richly than almost any other so stubbornly rigid over an issue like referee pensions?
Considering the NFL’s central role in the national con-sciousness, the opportunity to set a seldom-seen example of corporate anti-greed, and the high level of performance of-ficials have consistently demonstrated, why couldn’t the ex-ecs take the moral high road for once? Instead of opting for fair mediation, suited bullies have penny-pinched their way to a problematic perception. It seems the NFL and its own-ers have forgotten, again, that these are people their miserly greed is affecting.
“The game is being tarnished by an NFL that obviously cares more about saving some money than having the integ-rity of the game diminished,” said Aaron Rogers, reigning MVP and originator of the “Discount Double Check Dance,” in an interview with ESPN 540 in Milwaukee.
And he’s right.The details of the newly signed agreement are still forth-
coming, but we know that all of the referee’s demands were NOT met. We also know that all of their demands would have amounted to only around $3.2 million – a mere 4 percent of the $9 billion revenue pie.
Besides perpetuating the stereotypical, hyper-masculine, Type-A, hetero-normative attitude that has accompanied the increasingly cynical perception of CEOs by Americans, NFL authorities have simultaneously created an inverse Citizens United – corporations are people, therefore people are not people.
Pause. Such petty posturing is disappointing. Once again, an
American populous desperate for positive corporate role models has been reminded that, as the Wu-Tang clan so el-egantly stated, “Cash Rules Everything Around Me.”
This is the direction our culture is moving towards. Even in the face of disapproval and abhorrence, the one-percenters continue to horde their wealth in the face of rising economic disparities and ever increasing poverty.
Hopefully one day we can return to the communal spirit that propelled America out of other recessions.
Hopefully one day I can learn to pen more traditional sports articles.
But until then, be a Pioneer, strive for generosity and, most importantly, realize that all my commentary will be rendered superfluous by the established economic powers and the safeguards in place to guarantee the status quo won’t shift.
Cory Collins
Milburn always rebounds, always assists
Age is just a number. Or so the cliché reads. But so are these: As the weekend expires, Transylvania’s
volleyball team has won 5 matches in a row. They’ve won 7 of their last 8. In the early stages of conference play, the number in that loss column is a zero.
And so are these: All of this is happening on a team comprised of 9 first-years, 3 sophomores and 4 juniors. The number in that senior column –zero.
So maybe age is just a number. Because the numbers that matter to a team –wins and losses –are often accom-panied by the intangible notions of proven leadership and experience. That’s not something this team has in abundance.
But they do have the wins…and the promise. Some of that promise rests on the shoulders of first-
years Sarah Jonas and Erin Romito. Still new to campus, they’ve already made their mark on the court. Jonas leads the Pioneers in assists, while Romito’s 188 kills is second only to the strong arm of junior Meghan Bowers. And both women are fierce from behind the line, contributing 25 and 17 service aces respectively.
It’s early success that even they didn’t necessarily see coming.
“I didn’t know how much playing time I would get,”
Romito admitted. “I wasn’t really expecting to be a starting player. I just wanted to work hard and help my team be suc-cessful.”
Jonas and Romito have had to work hard on and off the court, transitioning not only into a higher level of sport, but into the college lifestyle.
“It’s a whole lot of responsibility with time manage-ment,” Jonas said.
“It’s tough,” Romito added. “But it’s manageable.” The first-year volleyballers have
done more than manage; they’ve achieved Romito’s goal, key pieces to their team’s prognosticated success. And that’s where their focus is: the team.
“It’s a lot of pressure,” Jonas said, “but at the same time you want to be able to help your team do the best they can.”
“Ultimately,” Romito agreed, “it’s a team effort.”It’s a team that, despite the lack of experience, Jonas and
Romito aren’t willing to write off for this season. “I think that we could go really far,” Romito said. “Even
this year.” If Romito is right, and the Pioneers go the distance, per-
haps age truly is just a number. Perhaps the numbers that matter –wins—can be achieved without leadership and ex-perience.
But Jonas doesn’t think that’s something this team lacks. In the void left by an empty senior class, she claims leaders have stepped up.
“The upperclassmen that are around are helping us along,” Jonas said. And by season’s end, she feels that class rank won’t define who leads and who follows. “Everyone will be able to be a leader on the court.”
Already, players like Jonas and Romito seem ready to step to that challenge.
It’s a challenge they aren’t alone in facing. Across Tran-sylvania athletics, teams are facing young rosters, searching the underclassman ranks for players that can step up, grow up, show up. For example, men’s golf features 11 first-years. Men’s swimming will hit the pool with only first-years and sophomores. The field hockey team has as many first-years as juniors and seniors combined.
No matter the cause, there’s a widespread effect: Tran-sylvania’s sports teams are young. Young leaders will have to rise.
Today, for rising players Jonas and Romito, these are the numbers: 5 wins in a row, 7 of 8, and the question of “Can it last?” with 9 first-years and zero seniors on the roster. Those are the numbers, rock solid, certain.
But something else is certain. Across campus, under-classmen like Jonas, like Romito, are stepping to the line, the net, the pool’s edge, striving to overcome their age, the expectations, the pressure.
To overcome the odds –to overcome the numbers that don’t matter.
Cory Collins
Holly Milburn talks to Transylvania students about her journey.
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Volleyball leads TU sports youth movement