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Thompson to Receive 2013 Lovejoy Award Thompson to receive Students adjust to 2013 Lovejoy Award return from abroad By KRISTY ADLER Students at the event repre- NEWS STAFF sented countries from around the world. Together they explained the "How was Africa?" or "How vast cultural differences of their was Europe?" are two questions temporary homes, as well as their students frequently ask one another similar experiences back on the on the College campus. Just three College campus. words each, the phrases request a Park initiated the conversation comprehensive response concern- by asking the group to describe ing not only a town, a city or even their first moments after landing. a country, but an entire continent. One student recounted eagerly car- With 67% of the student body rying her luggage from the Madrid choosing to study abroad, Colby airport only to find a seemingly is full of people either intending to never-ending line of taxis swarmed study abroad or having already re- by locals and tourists. She later turned. Adjusting to an entirely dif- found this was representative of ferent way of life is no easy task , the hustle and bustle of Madrid and assimilating back into the Wa- city life, which she described sim- terville community can be difficult. ply as "urban chaos in comparison On Sept. 29, a group of students to Colby." and the Office of Off-Campus Another student discussed step- Study sponsored an ice cream so- ping off of the plane only to dis- cial to discuss life after studying cover that August is the hottest abroad. Kelsey Park '14 helped to month in Japan. She described """ " " ' ~'~~ ~ ' " '~~ " ' ""' " " " '" COURTESY OF THE COLBY WEBSITE make the event a reality. Having reading a sign that said, "Have a A.C. Thompson, a journalist for the independent newsroom ProPublica. will receive the 2013 Lovejoy Journalism Award spent a semester in Rwanda, she refreshing mist," while simulta- ists who follow in the tradition of cooperation between a journalistic said she understands the unsettling neously feeling droplets of water By SARAH BARRESE Elijah Parish Lovejoy, who was, in world devoted to freedom of the feeling of returning to the College spritzed on her face. LOCAL NEWS EDITOR the words of President John Quincy press and a liberal arts college de- and knowing that one's experienc- A female student studying Adams, the "first American martyr voted to academic freedom." es are unique. abroad in Beijing explained how On Oct. 27, "journalism" will be to the freedom of the press and the Thompson joins a prestigious In explaining why she chose her physical appearance set her the word on the Hill as A.C. Thomp- freedom of the slave." group of Lovejoy Award recipients to begin the conversation. Park apart from native Chinese stu- son receives the 2013 Elijah Parish According to the Goldfarb Cen- including Bob Woodward, whose in- said, "Students coming back from dents. "People would assume I was Lovejoy Journalism Award and the ter 's statement, the award is intended vestigative reporting uncovered the abroad shouldn't feel forced to a tourist. Besides being in classes, Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs to "honor and preserve the memory Watergate scandal in 1 972, Soraya act like everything is the same. It I never felt like I was a student—1 and Civic Engagement hosts a one- of Elijah Parish Lovejoy; to stimu- Sarhaddi Nelson, an international isn't. It is important to have a sup- didn 't fit in ," she said. In contrast, day conference on the ethics and re- late and honor the kind of achieve- correspondent for NPR, Jerry Mitch- port network to figure out how to students studying abroad in France sponsibilities of reporting. ment embodied in Lovejoy's own incorporate your experiences yet and Denmark recounted their de- Established in 1952 courageous actions; and to promote still be able to function while back , the Lovejoy See LOVEJOY AWARD, Page 2 Award recognizes esteemed journal- a sense of mutual responsibility and at school." See STUDENTS. Page 3 SGA hosts first Story Time of year "I saw a lot of hypocrisy and really was really going to change for the I THIS WEEK'S ECHO I By SAM LEBLANC simplistic understanding of really good," she explained. That was the NEWS EDITOR complex issues," she explained. summer she learned she had cancer. After an educational mission trip "I think a lot of people would Camille Gross ' 14 was this year's to Uganda during the summer be- probably expect when you're diag- first Story Time speaker. Sponsored nosed with cancer you would cry and organized by the Student Gov- or be really angry or throw some- ernment Association (SGA), Story Story Time thing....All I felt was really, really Time provides the opportunity for a numb.... 1 didn't know how to talk single student to speak to the com- provides the about it," she said. "I pretty much munity about his or her story for opportunity sat at home having isolated myself half an hour. from a lot of people,... I felt really, "My story begins on July 3, for a single really angry at the Church and at 2012. I woke up feeling like I had a student to Christians. But at the same time, I really bad sinus infection," Camille felt a peace inside. I knew that even said. After visiting the doctor and speak to the if [the doctors] were like, 'oh you're undergoing extensive tests, Camille community going to die,' I knew that I would be learned that she had a cancerous tu- okay. God was there. He was there mor on her thyroid. about his or with me. He wasn't connecting with As the middle child of five in a her story for me in a church... it was just in my southern, Christian family, Camille room at home when I was alone." explained that she learned from a half an hour. Camille described the day she young age how to deal with things finally was able to let herself feel by herself. "1 didn 't really want to something. She had met with her cause trouble for my parents.... I fore her sophomore year at Colby, surgeon for a follow-up appoint- became really good at bottling ev- Camille became more depressed ment. In thinking about how care- erything up," she said. than ever before. She thought seri- ful he had been to ensure that the In middle school , Camille strug- ously about transferring, but at the surgery to remove her thyroid did gled with depression. Around the last moment , decided to stay. "1 had beginning of high school, she began tins distinct feeling that my lite was See CAMILLE. Page 2 to question her \ieus of reli gion. about to change, and I felt that it Lovejoy award recipient Gross tells her story to campus A.C.'s reporting has been coura- said. "I really learned about this December to have a scan that will From THOMPSON, Page 1 geous and exhaustive. He is an in- From STORY TIME, Page 1 obsession I had with overcommit- verify whether or not her treatment dependent thinker, always searching ting.. the truth was I didn't have to fight the new cancer worked. ell , who exposed the involvement for news that would otherwise go not eliminate her capacity to sing to be busy to feel happy." Though "My doctors-are optimistic that my of K.u KIux Klansmen in racially uncovered. That is hard to do, and it (something she she continued to health will improve, and so am I. motivated murders, Daniel Pearl takes a particular sort of courage to loves doing very feel frustrated But there is also a lot of mental and of the Wall Street Journal, who persist in pursuing a story where oth- much), she finally Camille spent with the Church emotional stuff that comes along later died at the hands of Al-Qaeda ers have determined there is none." recognized how kind and Christians, with cancer, and I know that will while reporting in Pakistan and In conjunction with the Lovejoy he had been to her. a semester Camille felt probably stick around for a while," David Halberstam, who actively Convocation, the Goldfarb Center "I just start sobbing abroad during closer to God be- she said in a follow-up email. reported on the Vietnam War and conference, "You Tweeted What?: in the middle of the cause she said he "Not only has my body changed, Civil Rights Movement. College Journalists Reporting in the Duke cancer cen- which she was was helping her but my heart has changed, my "There was a broad consensus tflnformationAge", will draw col- ter lobby," she said, able to open break down the spirit has changed....I have be- that [Thompson is] a strong emerg- lege editors, reporters, advisors and and continued to cry barriers she had come a much softer person if that ing leader in American journalism, aspiring journalists to the Hill for a until "finally we got up to people been setting up to makes sense. I want to be vulner- particularly in crisis reporting," Di- series of discussions on the ethics of to Whole Foods and and be protect herself. able, I want to be genuine and I rector of the Goldfarb Center for reporting in the digital age. I stopped crying. This past sum- want to be honest about what I've Public Affairs and Civic Engage- Panels will address the compli- Whole Foods cures vulnerable. mer, Camille been through.... I know that cancer ment Dan Shea said. cated issues that face college report- any problems," she learned that she played a huge role in freeing me Thompson works for ProPublica, ers skirting the line between pleasing joked.
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