Locals Angry About Bright Lights from Field

The Collegian Volume 110 2012-2013 Article 8 10-16-2012 Volume 110, Number 8 - Tuesday, October 16, 2012 Saint Mary's College of California Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.stmarys-ca.edu/collegian Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Saint Mary's College of California (2012) "Volume 110, Number 8 - Tuesday, October 16, 2012," The Collegian: Vol. 110 , Article 8. Available at: https://digitalcommons.stmarys-ca.edu/collegian/vol110/iss1/8 This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by Saint Mary's Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Collegian by an authorized editor of Saint Mary's Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA INSIDE 1111-NEWS: CaTS responds to criticism ... SPORTS: \fr e (ollegian Womens' volleyball sweeps Moraga, California Ii facebook.com/smccollegian Tuesday, October 16, 2012 . :l @SMC_collegian Volume no, Number 8 Breast Cancer Locals angry about bright lights from field documentary Saint Mary's agrees to turn of the lights during certain times of day sparks discussion b11 Justher Gutierrez Staff Writer In accordance with Breast Can cer Awareness month, the Intercul tural Center screened the 2011 Ca nadian documentary Pink Ribbons, In c. this past Thursday. Directed by Lea Pool, the documentary screening illustrated the discon nect between the warm, friendly marketing of the pink ribbon against the vicious nature of the cancer. With 56,000 women dying from breast cancer every year, the disease is not to be taken lightly. The documentary covers three main issues with 'pink ribbon culture:' the use of the pink ribbon for profit, the lack of significant progress made in breast cancer re search, and the hidden struggles of people currently living with breast cancer. The film's biggest issue ap peared to be the overall look of the pink ribbon - according to Barbara Ehrenreich, an author and breast j cancer survivor interviewed in the documentary, th pink ribbon was Charlie Guese/COLLEGIAN an attempt to make the disease bV Charlie Guese for College Communications and the opportunity to be involved in field lights in March 2011 and "Pretty, feminine and normal." Chief Copy Editor Vice Provost for Enrollment, of recreation in the evening." allowed them to stay on until 10 Breast cancer ribbons were first fered an update on the intramural Six Moraga residents countered p.m. Shortly after their installa created to spark critical thought After a passionate, hour-long field lights, explaining all the Saint Mary's comments, plead tion, neighbors complained, and around cancer prevention. Inter quorum between college delegates modifications that Saint Mary's ing the Planning Commission to Saint Mary's agreed to not use the estingly enough, the first breast and neighborhood residents, the performed while reiterating the change the shutoff time from 10 lights during the summer, holidays, cancer ribbon wasn't even pink - it Moraga Planning Commission importance in providing adequate p.m. to 9 p.m. weekends, and nights with inclem was a salmon-colored cloth ribbon voted unanimously that Saint recreation facilitie.s for its students. "How something like this was ent weather. Following the July 16 created by 68-year-old Charlotte Mary's College must turn off its "We want to remind people completed without neighbors Planning Commission meeting, a Haley, who had attached the intramural field lights at 9 p.m. that, in terms of context, we were knowing anything about it is ab Saint Mary's hired Zeiger Engi salmon ribbon to cards that said, At the joint meeting between reminded by our students, your solutely beyond me," said Judie neers to refocus the lights to ensure "The National Cancer Institute an the Moraga Planning Commission 1,600 neighbors who live in Saint Howard, who has lived for over 40 that they illuminate only the field. nual budget is $1.8 billion, only 5 and Design Review Board at the Mary's residences, that when we years off Bollinger Canyon Road Zeiger also turned off the upper percent goes for cancer prevention. Moraga Library on October 1st, planned our recreation center with her husband. "Those of us tier of lights after finding that they Help us wake up our legislators and numerous neighbors, mostly resid project, we reduced our available who are most affected and have were the main cause of the glare. America by wearing this ribbon." ing in the housing communities off field from 100,000 square feet to suffered a hideous invasion of our Still, none of these changes were After the growing popularity of her Bollinger Canyon Road, expressed 40,000 square feet," Beseda said. privacy were not even warned of enough for the residents of Bol their frustration over the glare and "The original impetus in putting this development." linger Canyon, who collectively ~ The film ended on a noise that spill into their homes. lights in that field was to extend the The Design Review Board ap see COLLEGE, p3 positive note, encourag Michael Beseda, Vice President time so that students would have proved Saint Mary's intramural ing viewers to be critical of all pink products National Coming Out Day inspires discussion of LGBTQIA issues and reminding them Presentation gives history of LGBTQ/A on Saint Mary's campus and beyond that they had the power to create change once b11 Audrev Auot a Love is Louder Panel, a t-shirt/ nator of Sexual Assault Awareness, created: the Gay and Lesbian As Assistant News Editoi· wristband fundraiser, and Safe Zone Outreach, and Education, conducted sociation (GALA). This name was they speak up Training. a PowerPoint presentation that con eventually changed to Gay-Straight October 11 was National Coming ribbons, Haley was approached by Safe Zone placards and posters tained everything one would need Alliance (GSA). Most recently, Co Out Day, a civil awareness day that magazines asking if they could use can easily be found at various spots to know about being Safe Zone Chair Maggie Powers has stated that is internationally observed by the the symbol. She refused, as she felt on campus, since they are printed Certified. the club is in the process of transition LGBTQIA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, such a move would focus more on with bright rainbow and emblazoned The presentation began with a from GSA to a new name: Pride. Transgender, Queer I Questioning, the corporations' bottom line as with the words "Safe Zone" in large, brief history of LGBTQIA involve As of now, the club is referred to as opposed to the interests of those Intersex, Asexual/ Ally) community. proud text. Safe Zones means are safe ment at Saint Mary's, which goes GSA/Pride. For Saint Mary's, though, one day affected by breast cancer. places where individuals are free to further back than one would think. Following the history segment was not enough. National Coming In spite of this, the corporations express themselves without the judg Initially, there wasn't any official was an extensive vocabulary lesson Out Day was extended to National decided to move forward- howev ment of others. To earn one of these organization that addressed the needs that attempted to touch on all areas er their ribbons would not be salm Coming Out Week, spanning Sun placards, one must officially attend a of the LGBTQIA community. Any of the LGBTQIA community. Part day, October 7, to Saturday, October on-colored, but pink. "The effect Safe Zone workshop. meetings were unofficial and held off of the workshop discussed gender 13. Saint Mary's Gay Straight Alli of the whole pink ribbon culture The Safe Zone workshop was held campus, sometimes at the homes of neutral pronouns, which are used ance (GSA)/Pride organized events in the Women's Resource Center last supportive professors. It wasn't until to avoid assuming an individual's· for each day of the week, including see PINK, p2 week. Gillian Cutshaw, the Coordi- around 1998 that an official club was see LGBT, p3 OPINION DETOUR News pg. 1 Crime Beat pg. 2 Detour pg. 4 Album Review pg. 4 Vice Presidential Debate Movie Review: Argo Opinion pg. 6 Catholic indulgence pg. 6 pg. 6 pg. 4 Sports pg. 7 Player of the Week pg. 7 2. Tuesday, October 16 , 2012 'filbe <tollegian E INSIDE P Chief of CaTS speaks on issues PINK: Film sheds light on cancer Staff working to get campus technology fixed continued trom page 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ was to drain and deflect the kind of the long term." bV Charlie Guese failure in the core," Greco said. "It militancy we had as women who But while hope does enable Chief Copy Editor has to do with the equipment pro were appalled to have a disease people to continue on, some visioned, which was put together that was epidemic, yet we didn't people feel that the pink ribbon Wireless networking has be in· a cobbled manner some time know the cause of," said survivor movement can make people with come an integral part of twenty ago. It's staffing, and not being Barbara Ehrenreich. Ehrenreich breast cancer feel "Alienated by first century collegiate life, with able to regularly test some systems. and other women interviewed in the overly optimistic approach," students, faculty, and staff all It's the nature of the way things the documentary claimed that the as Samantha King, author of Pink relying upon it for various impor were put in and. that the.network days of protests have disappeared Ribbons, Inc.: Breast Cancer and the tant tasks. It becomes very painful wasn't necessarily planned for the and been replaced with walks, Politics of Philantrophy stated in an THE very quickly when these wireless robust redundancy that's needed runs, and skydiving.

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