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TODAY’s WEATHER LIFE SPORTS The Life staff finds out how Vanderbilt sweeps to survive the impending another SEC foe, Alabama cicada invasion 11-3, 7-0 and 11-6 SEE PAGE 5 SEE PAGE 6 Thunderstorms 73 / 50 THE VANDERBILT HUSTLER THE VOICE OF VANDERBILT SINCE 1888 MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2011 WWW .INSIDEVANDY.COM 123RD YEAR, NO. 35 CAMPUS NEWS Zeta Tau Alpha HOLI brings a little bit of coming to color to Wilson Lawn campus next year LUCAS LOFFREDO Staff Writer The sorority Zeta Tau Alpha will come to Vanderbilt next year, holding their first formal recruitment in the Spring. Vanderbilt’s Panhellenic Extension Committee, composed of current students and alumni from the university’s Panhellenic organizations, picked Zeta Tau Alpha on Thursday from the group of three finalists that also included G. Komen Foundation and in Phi Mu and Delta Zeta. association with the National “All of the groups that Football Association and presented clearly demonstrated Yoplait Yogurt, also helped an enthusiastic commitment them stand out to the Extension to establishing a new group at Committee. Vanderbilt,” said Vanderbilt “Their main focus on cancer Director of Greek Life Kristin awareness I think will add a Shorter. “But ultimately, Zeta very interesting, helpful, and Tau Alpha seemed to be the best important philanthropy on fit for our campus.” campus,” Trant said. “I’m hoping that it’s a new Zeta Tau Alpha could opportunity for a lot of the potentially struggle with NICOLE MANDEL/ The Vanderbilt Hustler students who haven’t had a the same issues that other previous opportunity to join a Panhellenic organizations On Saturday Masala-SACE organized HOLI on Wilson Lawn. The event, a spring religious festival for Hindus, was celebrated with water, colorful paint, water balloons and shaving cream. sorority to still join one,” said recently trying to form a chapter Vanderbilt Panhellenic Council at Vanderbilt have faced. President Allie Trant. “It will “We’re lucky enough that allow more room for the large they will be a house sorority, so CAMPUS NEWS amount of women who want to that will put them on an equal be Greek.” playing field with everyone else,” Shorter cited many reasons Trant said. “With the correct for Zeta Tau Alpha’s selection, support and the rest of the Greek Meet Vanderbilt alumni including extensive financial community’s help, I would hope and staffing resources. that it would only take a few “The organization has years to have numbers equal to some dynamic anti-hazing, the other chapters.” risk management and social The next step for the authors at Heard Library responsibility programming organization will be developing that we think would be a good fit a presence on campus before ANN MARIE DEER OWENS research, including court author conducted oral history of Breach of Peace: Portraits of for VU,” Shorter said. recruitment next Spring. Vanderbilt News Service transcripts, contemporary interviews with more than 100 the 1961 Mississippi Freedom “They also have strong alumni “The Panhellenic Council and newspaper reports, archived march participants – ranging Riders (Atlas, 2008). The book network in Nashville that will be Office of Greek Life will work with Eric Etheridge, Charles papers, letters, FBI documents, from high-profile Civil Rights features 40-year-old mugshots able to provide great mentorship the leadership from Zeta Tau Euchner and Alex Heard — interview transcripts and other leaders to average Americans of more than 300 arrested for a new group.” Alpha to identify opportunities three Vanderbilt University untapped sources, along with who endured abuse while riders in Jackson, Miss., as Their national philanthropy, for involvement and building alumni who have written the recollections of family standing up for what they well as new portraits and “Think Pink!” breast cancer awareness throughout the fall important books about the members whose parents or believed. excerpts of interviews with 80 awareness through the Susan semester,” Shorter said. ■ early years of the Civil Rights spouses were involved in the Euchner, who majored in of those riders whom Etheridge Movement — will return to their case. political science and received has tracked down through CAMPUS NEWS alma mater for a discussion Heard, a native of Jackson, his bachelor’s degree from extensive research. and book signing on April 21. Miss., came to Vanderbilt as Vanderbilt in 1982, went on Twenty portraits from Breach “From Jim Crow to the a transfer student in 1978. He to earn a master’s degree and of Peace were part of the “Road March on Washington: Alumni enjoyed writing for student doctorate from Johns Hopkins to Freedom” exhibition of Civil Authors Look Back on the publications and earned his University. His research has Rights photography displayed ‘The Girls Beginnings of a Movement” will B.A. in English in 1980. After focused on the grassroots in museums across the nation. take place in the Community graduation he moved to level of politics. Books that he Although the book is finished, Room of Vanderbilt’s Central Washington, D.C., where he has written or co-authored Etheridge continues to look for Library from 5:30 to 7 p.m. began working at magazines. include Extraordinary Politics, surviving riders to document John Seigenthaler, founder of Heard is the editorial director Selecting the President, Urban this remarkable historical Next Dore’ The First Amendment Center of Outside magazine. He also Policy Reconsidered, The Last period. and host of WNPT’s A Word on has worked as an editor and Nine Innings and Little League, Etheridge grew up in KYLE BLAINE 18 years old and must be a Words, will serve as moderator. writer at Wired, The New York Big Dreams. Carthage and Jackson, Miss. He News Editor registered full- or part-time Heard wrote The Eyes of Times Magazine, New Republic Euchner has taught at majored in English and was a student at Vanderbilt. Willie McGee: A Tragedy of and other publications. Yale and the University of student journalist at Vanderbilt Vanderbilt women will have Playboy photographers Race, Sex and Secrets in the Jim Charles Euchner’s latest book Pennsylvania and served as before earning his bachelor’s the opportunity to bare it last came to campus in Crow South (HarperCollins, is Nobody Turn Me Around: the executive director of the degree in 1979. He has worked all for Playboy’s “Girls of the the spring of 2007, stirring 2010), the story of a young A People’s History of the 1963 Rappaport Institute for Great as an editor for The Nation, SEC” pictorial Tuesday. controversy throughout the African American man March on Washington (Beacon Boston at Harvard University’s Rolling Stone and Harper’s, The special feature, which community and soliciting a from Laurel, Miss., who was Press, 2010). He addresses the John F. Kennedy School of among other publications. showcases nude female petition against the recruiting executed in 1951 for allegedly significance of the August 28 Government. Before becoming Currently, he is a photographer coeds from the Southeastern event. Approximately 30 raping a white housewife. The March on Washington with an academic, he was a staff in New York City. Conference, will print in the women auditioned, and Washington Post named it a Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic writer for Education Week. This event is free and October 2011 issue of the one Vanderbilt student was Best Book of 2010. “I Have a Dream” speech Euchner is also the creator of open to the public. For more popular men’s magazine. selected for the September To tell the story, Heard relied in the context of the overall The Writing Code. Etheridge is information, call Celia Walker Candidates must be at least 2007 issue. ■ on exhaustive documentary Civil Rights Movement. The the author and photographer at 615-343-4701. ■ 20% OFF ALL SERVICES WITH VANDY ID Hair • Nails • Skin Care • Makeup Med Spa Services • Waxing Men’s haircuts starting at $29 Women’s haircuts starting at $39 2 Monday, April 11, 2011 THE VANDERBILT HUSTLER www.InsideVandy.com FEATURE PHOTO GO Got time for just one campus event this week? Here’s our pick ... GREEK ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS CELEBRATE INDIVIDUAL AND CHAPTER ACHIEVEMENTS • WHAT: Chancellor Heard Greek Awards • WHEN: Monday, April 11 at 7 p.m. • WHERE: Student Life Center Ballroom The Chancellor Heard Awards celebrate individual and chapter achievements in the Greek com- munity on campus. Fraternities and sororities will be rewarded for outstanding work in community service, philanthropy, education- al programming, faculty relations, alumni relations and campus involvement. Awards are also given to Outstanding Academic Achievement and to the Chapter of the Year. Individual recognition will be given to outstanding com- munity servants, new members, a Greek man and a Greek woman. BECK FRIEDMAN/ The Vanderbilt Hustler Outstanding chapter advisors The Vanderbilt Community Concert Band practices on April 5, 2011 in the MRH to get ready for their upcoming concerts on April 12 at the Children’s Hospital and on April 16 at Dragon Park. The concert at Dragon Park is honoring the past band director, Joe Laird, who died in December. The concert at and house directors will also be Children’s Hospital is premiering a piece which was composed for kids to promote kindness. The Community Concert Band is composed of members from honored. all Vanderbilt undergraduate and graduate schools as well as people who work at Vanderbilt and live in the Vanderbilt community. NEED The top news stories from around the nation TO KNOW that you need to know to NATION be informed this week. 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