Sewanee Purple, 2007-2008

2 / October 19, 2007 www, sewancepurple.com Volume V Issue 3 etoanee iBurpIe ^^i TUP T TXTH ri-i^ «-.»^. , „ THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH Sewanee Speaks Out: Student Photo Project Raises Awareness Of Sexual Assault. By Ashley Gallman & Jacob Moore /^1 ommunity members were seen on campus last week bearing V^ the words "I Chose" emblazoned on their bodies in bold black Magic Marker. These words signified their involvement in a campaign to raise awareness of sexual assault on campus. As part of Understanding Sexual Assault Week (US AW), student photographer Katrina Ivey '08 photographed these Sewanee residents and their important message as part of an art project meant to convey the choices people make to eradicate sexual assault from their communities. In an effort she calls Healing Through Art, Ivey began taking photographs in order to make a difference her freshman year as a student in Professor Pradip Malde's 100-level photography class. When she displayed a series of photographs entitled Crimes Against Humanity, the Women's Center, after seeing her Crimes Against Women section, approached her about a project for USAW. For the last three years, Ivey and her photographs have become a key element in the program. Her inspiration for this year's project came after a friend's lecture on sexual assault at a Cookies and Condoms meeting in which she encouraged the students in her dorm to make good choices. As a result, she selected the theme "I Chose" for her photos. She explained, "Each person in the photographs chose to do something to protect or help heal those affected by sexual assault." Every photo not only contains these two words, forward with her own scarring experience and found mixed is help out there. but also bears a caption completing She reiterated, "I wan. people to know .ha. the sentence with what each reactions to her distress, including death threats from supporters whatever person your exoenence with it, there's chose to do in order to stand up against sexual assault. always someone there The active and positive language appealed to Ivey the most. "It's not as I want easy to make the choice to stand by the victim people to know that whatever your experience when so many people don't side with them," Ivey asserted. Ivey hopes that these optimistic and supportive with it... you are " words from so many noi alone. community members may dispel any disbelief or ignorance of the offending person. Dusenberry found courage in standing whether it be someone making regarding sexual assault. Ivey's favorite art to raise awareness or just being quote in the project was by her friend, and it's that kind of courage that Ivey is trying Jennifer to a shoulder to cry on, you are not alone." Dusenberry's choice: "I chose to stand by my friend embrace with her project. Ultimately, Ivey wants her photos to Ivey strove to choose when she needed me most." A friend of Dusenberry's had subjects for her photos that come remind those who have suffered from sexual assault that there See Sexual Awareness Page 4 Subscribe to Hit And Runs: Drivers Fleeing Wreckage Plague Sewanee Community. 3TI)e J£>etoaneje ftorple! By Meghan Plummer For $25 each semester, the same pattern: no hit-and-runs were reported until August, six issues of "The It was 10:30 on October 7 when senior Andrew Sewanee Purple" will Easton exited when the number jumped from zero to six in the course of as be mailed to your home the Pub, and flashing lights and the sound of a (familiar) nearby many weeks. or other address. Keep up with news at Sewanee car alarm greeted him. from the students' This concentration of crimes is not exactly perspective while support- "It sounded like it was ing one of the coming from near my car, but unprecedented; September 2006 and September 200,7 have an oldest, continuously run cai when I walked over there, I realized that it newspapers in the country. was my car," Easton equal number of DUIs. though only five DUIs occurred i/t,.mg says. The taillight of 's vehicle Easton had sustained damage, 2006 as compared to eight this year, and there are nearly three but "I Uiink the other driver's car took more damage than mine months left till 2008. Please send your name, addn did." See Hit-And-Runs and a check or money -or.! Easton was also witness to another hit-and-run that occurred in the parking lot of St. Luke's, an incident The Sewanee Purple which allegedly totaled the vehicle being driven. ^/_^r 735 Univi nue Though the police have obtained a description of Sewanee, TN 3 the said vehicle, no suspects have been determined. January through August of Inside Th is Issue: this year saw only four DUIs, but by Lord and the end of September the number had T Eloise Page 3 Field doubled. That is, as many Hockey Page 5 DUIs occurred in the first Sports Outreach Page 5 month of school as in the Proof Page 7 previous eight months Lake Dimmick Water Conservation Page 8 combined. Restaurant Review- Western Sizzlin' Page 11 Sewanee's hit- Police Blotter. Page 12 and-run record followed Bacchus Diaries Page 1 Halloween Page 14 ConservingWater. Page 15 TUDENT ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH 1 1 11 1 2 Cfje g>etoanee purple Page 2 The Student Organ Of The THE PURPLE University Of The South Letter From The Editors tE&e i£>etoartee purple Dear Sewanec, few, the bold, the gowned, and we offer you Congratulations! Kudos! "For what?" you our floppy, tattered-sleeved salute. More likely, may wonder. We as editors-in-chief would we would offer you a salute if our sleeves were Co-Editors-In-Chief Puzzle Master like to praise you for the recent increase in not caught on a banister somewhere (probably gown appearances this semester. Maybe it's it Ashley Gallman '08 Snommis '1857 Woods, has the most treacherous banisters). the weather getting cooler. Maybe it's Katie We would like to remind you, Jacob Moore '08 Business Pigg's Editor constant and fearless e-mailing crusade however, that the gown does not confer super Executive Editor Arden Grady '09 to increase gown participation. Maybe the powers. Jumping off the roof of Carnegie massive number of new gowsnmen are digging or Walsh-EUet Alex Pappas '09 Staff Writers will not result in a sudden their new threads. Or maybe, just the maybe, revelation of omnipotence. Despite its lack of Head Layout Editor Katie '07 gownsmen have Payne simply become cooler, perhaps, magical advantages, never forget the gown's '11 like a bunch of wizards. Alex Harris Thomas Ewers '08 Who knows? spiritual significance. As one English professor matter the No reason, we commend so terrifyingly put it, "Remember Layout Editors Gambrill Foster '08 that you you for bravely upholding a tradition that had swore before God to uphold the traditions of the '11 Allison Bland Claire Simmons '08 so recently declined from cowardice. As a gown. And if you don't, you might find yourself ' result, we would like to Kathryn Cochran 1 Clay Stewart '08 venture to say that there in Hell" is a direct relationship between gown wearing G. E. Simmons Falk ' 10 Jared '08 Wood courage. and Thus, our fine brethren, consider Your faithful yet impudent servants, Sports Editor '08 Esme Wright yourselves among the lion-hearted. You are the Ashley Gallman and Jacob Moore Colin Wilhelm '09 Laura Candler '09 Associate Editors Joseph Leray '09 Whitney Lehr Ray '08 Madison Murray '09 Hit-And-Runs Morgan Larkin '08 Sam Sheridan '09 Continued From Page 1 Becky McCann '09 Philly '09 As for hit-and-runs, Williams eleven were police are only permitted to ask permission * reported throughout 2006, five of which Meghan Plummer 10 Andi Broom '10 had to perform BAC (blood alcohol content) tests occurred by this time last year, only one less within Erin Rankin '10 JohnGuin '10 four hours of the accident. However, than the six hit-and-runs Sewanee has seen this refusal to submit to a BAC at a policeman's Photo Editor Maggie ' 1 year. Cloos request results in an automatic DUI violation It is '10 ' open for speculation how many Lexi Namer Liaren Harris 1 and consequential revocation of a driver's of the hit-and-runs could also be classified as license. Assistant ' Photo Editors Geoffrey Marolda 1 DUIs. Without physical evidence or a reliable Also, as Eric Hartman, Dean of ' Ashley Macon 1 Cartoonist eyewitness immediately able to inform the Students points out, "students just aren't police of the hit-and-run, KikiMcCaslin'10 Diana Patterson '10 it is nearly impossible thinking" when they do commit hit-and-runs, to discover the offender, let alone punish him which are not just limited to damage to another or her. Chief Parrott says. Fortunately, all six car. A hit-and-run occurs when a person leaves hit-and-run offenders have been arrested, the scene of any accident, even if the only which could mean anything from the issuance damage is to his or her car. Failure to report of a citation to being taken to FrankJin County damage costing over $50 to repair classifies as Jail. a hit-and-run. "We can't prevent hit-and-runs, Half of the hit-and-runs that have besides trying to convince students to be occurred this semester involved only the honest and take responsibility for the damage driver's vehicle.

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