Sewanee Cheston Concert International Raises Students Over Experience $2,100 For Blue Culture Shock Monarch on Mountain By Rebecca Dickson and By Sonja Friederichs Margaret Clinard Last August, thirteen new Welcome to the Neighborhood: On Sunday. March 30th. the Theta international students arrived Kappa Phi sorority hosted a at Sewanee. These students come Tuckaway benefit concert for Blue Monarch, a from a variety of and non-profit different countries- Hunter organization Go Co-Ed designed to China, France, Germany, Hungary, By help the oppressed women of Middle Becky McCann residential life system. One ever- this trend showing no immediate Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, Tennessee. Mary Grace Hinkle. the semester, a man present ducking issue is the fact that, without end (the projected female to male South Africa, Spain and the Ukraine. Next community service representative of out of Hunter or a woman the alteration of either Elliott or ration for the class of 20 1 2 is 52/48), Now, their second semester at TKP, organized the event in an effort to exiting Tuckaway in the Tuckaway, senior women (who are it became apparent that dormitory Sewanee is drawing to a close. bring the entire Sewanee community morning will likely not a mark walk not in suites) have no real chance to modifications would be needed to While the international freshmen together to celebrate the mission and of shame but the end of these dorms' live in an air-conditioned single room adequately accommodate all of the are looking forward to three more spirit of the Blue Monarch. existence as single-sex residence on central campus. Perhaps even more University's students. years on the Mountain, this year's The concert was held at Lake halls. In a few weeks, for the first notably, over the past several years, If the problem is a shortage of six exchange students will return to Cheston where students, Sewanee time, both men and women will be the women to men ratio of Sewanee rooms for women, why make Hunter their home countries within a few community members, and those able to acquire rooms in Tuckaway students has increased considerably, co-ed as well? Simply put, with co- weeks. During their time here, involved with the Blue Monarch all and Hunter, both of which have leaving the University with the ed dorms, the ratios can be skewed of them have added enjoyed the music of local musicians. to the campus' served as single-sex dorms up until predicament of finding enough to make room for everyone. And cultural variety and have become a Several student bands including The this point. rooms for all the female students with the upcoming implementation part of the Sewanee community. For Wet Bandits. Paul and the Twinscales, The conversion of Tuckaway from each semester. (The female to male of the Living Learning communities, this reason, the Purple decided to ask Headband, and T-Sex performed all-male an dorm to a co-ed dorm is rations for the classes of 2009, 2010, Hunter has been chosen to provide the them to reflect upon their experiences as well as Sean McConnell from mainly the result of two problems and 2011 are roughly 53/47, 52/48, possibility for a sustainability dorm. at Sewanee. Nashville, playing familiar songs for that have consistently frustrated the and 54/46, respectively). And with See Although the international DORMS Pg 4 those who purchased the $5 ticket. students come from many different Along with ticket sales, money cultural backgrounds, most of them donated at the event and earned Senior Art Majors from refreshments sold by sorority lived in Showcased in had American cities before members was collected coming to Sewanee. Adjusting to life to further help See SEWANEE SHOCK Pg 2 Art Exhibit See CONCERT Pg 7 By Lee Timraons The intention is to embody what is thought collide harmoniously with Subscribe the fall of 2006, six Sewanee difficult to know and to understand. the unseen, undiscovered, and largely Instudents entered into a difficult, Therefore, the manipulations of the unknown underbelly of existence. - to long-term commitment with the body the cuts, the extensions and Photography allows me to take the Art department and a chosen medium. the reconfigurations - are meant pulsing world out of context and into purple The individual work that began in to symbolically represent inner two dimensions, where I can capture their Junior Tutorial class nearly four thoughts and feelings. By making the and explore the simultaneous Editor-in-Chief l£>etoanee and ®f)e semesters ago culminates this month sculptures in materials such as steel, fluid states of being." Alex Pappas purple! with the Senior Art Exhibition held in bronze and wood, I am rendering This Thursday, April 10. Amy Executive Editor Art Building. Four of the six these "thoughts and feelings" the Nabit as fixed Johnson considers The Name of the Meghan Plummer senior Art majors are seeking honors, objects in the context of time. And in Jar, her Photography exhibit that Managing Editor For $25 each semester, six is- which requires a separate seminar this way, I hope to make it possible to explores the intricacies and subtleties sues of "The Sewanee Purple" class, thesis paper and exhibition, reflect on the fluidity of time and its of relationships, particularly within Alex Harris will be mailed to your home or as well as a public presentation and impact on experiences." her own family, and the way in which Section Editors other address. Keep up with of the exhibition. Last Thursday, Angela Berry we affect and are defense effected by one Simmons Falk news at Sewanee from the First to present on March 27 was presented her photography exhibit another in the places and events of Becky McCann students' perspective while Lauren Busey, using sculpted body and accompanying thesis, entitled our lives. supporting one of the old- parts of various materials to explore Looking, Seeing, Comprehending, The last of the Honors Exhibitions Erin Rankin est, continuously run campus the way we perceive cultural symbols in which she discusses the effects will be presented on Thursday, April John Guin wax visual newspapers in the country. and archetypes. Wooden bones, of experience in the 17 at 4:30 pm by Emily Glass. Her Philly Williams and steel lungs are only a understanding of our surroundings, thesis considers loss, vertebrae, isolation, Photo Editor Please send your name, few of the many impressive pieces and how those three different ways and the struggle to communicate Lexi Namer address, and a check or Lauren created for her final exhibition of viewing the world - looking, manifested in a physical form. Her money-order to: at Sewanee. "I am attempting to use seeing, comprehending - vary and collection of black and white images Copy Editor the body as a common language, and work together to affect our idea of combines silver gelatin and digital Clark Welch Sewanee playing off of the different ways what is going on around us. "My prints to explore the isolation that The Purple I am Business Manager 735 University Avenue body has been understood, art work explores a world outside comes about through the experience that the Arden Grady Sewanee. TN 37383 both literally and metaphorically, of walls where deeply internalized, of loss. throughout history to create stories. known structures and systems of See ART Pg 7 THE STUDENT ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH Clje ^etoanee purple Page 2 The Student Organ Of The THE PURPLE University Of The South Letter to the Editor etoanee purple "Sexual Assault in Btait Writers Sewanee" Lauren Byram Jacob Moore By Sewanee Men Against Rape, All of the women interviewed felt an acute President Frank Margaret Clinard Sarah Pinson Champion; lack of support, both from the administration Secretary Simon Gooch and the community Andrew Gotten Spencer Pollock itself. Various ladies comes a time when every There community said they felt "completely trivialized." that Ceci Creagh Allah has to examine its values Ragbar own to they experienced "condescending attitudes'" determine what it truly believes, and Rebecca Dickson Sam Sheridan we of from (he administration, and felt diey had "to Sewanee Men Against Rape believe that at run away" because they Sonja Friederichs Jesse Shupack did not feel safe on this time we need to rum a penetrating gaze to campus. These quotes portray a failing of Liaren Harris the issue of Sexual Lee Timmons Assault and Rape on this both the administration and the community, campus. Some might say, "But Sewanee is a Matthew McGraw Dave Walker and we of Sewanee Men Against Rape feel safe place— why else would they call it the that as a community we need to ask some 'Sewanee Bubble?'" Others might say, "Yes, hard questions. Why do the victims of sexual we all know that sexual assault is a problem assault feel unsupported on this campus? here, just like everywhere. What can we do Why are the women who do pursue formal Cgtablisljco in 1892 about it? Why is it our concern?" Sewanee charges so often vilified by the students of Men Against Rape is of the belief 735 University Avenue that this does this University, as is often the case? Why occur here, and that it Sewanee, TN 37383 is a problem that we as do women feel discouraged from pursuing a community must address. Only through the action after being sexually assaulted? involvement of the entire community can this These questions all need to be answered, issue be properly addressed with any lasting but they beg two bigger questions. What impact. about our community fosters the attitude that If we are to examine sexual assault at sexual assault is not that big a deal, that it can Sewanee, an excellent place to start is by be tolerated to the extent that it is? Of course, examining the University's sexual assault we feel the most penetrating and hardest policy.