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Roger Williams University DOCS@RWU Hawk's Herald Student Publications 10-12-2007 Hawks' Herald -- October 12, 2007 Roger Williams University Follow this and additional works at: http://docs.rwu.edu/hawk_herald Part of the Education Commons Recommended Citation Roger Williams University, "Hawks' Herald -- October 12, 2007" (2007). Hawk's Herald. Paper 77. http://docs.rwu.edu/hawk_herald/77 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Publications at DOCS@RWU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hawk's Herald by an authorized administrator of DOCS@RWU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. "' The student newspaper of Roger Williams University October 12, 2007 Vol.18 Bristol, RI THE Issues Two years later, hatchery .still on agenda Women's rugby Phil Devitt versity's existing hatchery program, struction would officially begin, gains respect, News Editor currently housed in MNS. Students adding that no specific "deadline Construction will begin this year and faculty cultivate oysters, quahogs date" had been set. club sport status on a state-of-the-art shellfish hatch and scallops in the wet labs to repop Shellfish Hatchery Manager ery behind the Marine and Natural ulate Narragansett Bay with shell Karin Tammi said she did not have Sciences Building, more than a year fisQ. any updates on construction status. Jake Dumond after the university broke ground on "We're going to go ahead with the She called the expansion a "very im Herald Staff the site overlooking Mount Hope Bay, original project, and we'll put our portant component" to marine stud Hard hitting. Bone Crushing. President Roy J. Nirschel said re shovels in the ground as soon as pos ies throughout New England. Full Contact. Sounds like a sport for cently. sible," Nirschel said at an Oct. 2 stu "Presently, the hatchery is in full grown men right? Well at Roger The 12,000-square-foot facility dent forum in the Hawk's Hangout. volved in several state, federal and Williams University, it's the women would allow more space for the uni- He declined to say when con- who are doing the tackling, and just See HATCHERYp. 4 as hard as the men. In the past few years, women at •t • { b • h •1d }d • RWU had a chance to be part of the AU th or Sh ares reaI 1 IeS 0 e1ng a C I SO Ier women's rugby club, however this year, it is officially a club sport. The team currently has an overall record Kelleigh Welch of 3-0 and a firm hold on first place in ~ Features Editor their conference. By age 13, when most American Ashley Walker, senior co-captain, children receive a new Barbie or G.I. said it all started freshman year Joe to further their childhood imagi when "we presented an idea of a nation, Ishmael Beah received a gun women's rugby club to the student and was forced to enter the reality of senate and gained club status." his war-torn home. Howev.er. Walker and her friends Following his rescue, Beah, a 26- ' year-old native of Sierra Leone, the team fell apart that spring. moved to the United States in hopes Walker was still determined to keep of gaining an education. During his the club alive, and give girls at RWU time at Oberlin College in Ohio, Beah the chance to participate in the fast began writing a painful, yet thera growing sport of rugby. peutic story of his firsthand experi The following fall, Walker re ences as a boy soldier. cruited "a good number of girls at the On October 4, Beah came to involvement fair, and it really grew Roger Williams University to speak from that point on." on his book, "A Long Way Gone: Athletic Director George Kolb Memoirs of a Boy Soldier," and his ex said he "was excited" about the de perience and reasoning behind writ termination of these few young ing it. women. When they stuck it out and "I wanted to write something that recruited more dedicated girls, Kolb showed that yes, there was a difficult said, "They proved it wasn't about time in Sierra Leone's history, but it just two people." hadn't always been like that," Beah According to Kolb, there are lots of students who look to start a club, said during his speech. "And out of Courtesy of Public Relations and get three or four very dedicated the frustration that children caught Survivor ofmilitarily oppressed Sierra Leone Ishmael Beah spoke in the Campus SeeBEAHp.7 Recreation Center to discuss his book "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs ofa Boy Soldier." See wo~s RUGBYp. 12 Taking a STAND Local produce supplies RWU with healthy options Lorin Richardson Herald Staff against genocide "Get plenty of rest, don't overspend your_ Athena Aguiar credit card, and eat your veggies!" Herald Staff This is a good example of what parents might say as their tearful words of advice to Since 2003, over their teenager who is about to start their expe 450,000 people have died and millions of others have riences in college. But how can parents be so sure that their been displaced as a result students are getting nutritional benefits out of of the genocide in Darfur. the vegetables at Roger Williams University? One of RWU's newest Since the beginning of August, RWU is clubs, STAND, with club president junior Amy Tor using a new initiative to produce, and buying regrossa at the helm, is try from local farms .. ing to make a difference by Three farma aupply veptablu to the school promoting awareness and campaigning for action. located in Portsmouth and Tiverton, R.I., but STAND is a national student anti-genocide the main producer, Mello's Farm, is located coalition. The name formerly stood for Students across the bridge in Portsmouth. Taking Action Now: Darfur, but it has broadened Despite the limited land at Mello's Farm, itself to bring awareness to genocide around the farmers still grow vegetables for RWU such as peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, and corn. Just for Leria RkUnho• world, not just in Darfur. tomato sauce and salad tomatoes, approxi- Mello's Farm, located across the bridge in Portsmouth, is the Torregrossa first heard about the genocide in main supplier ofvegetables to Roger Williams University. Darfur dur- See STANDp. 8 See MEILO'S p. 6 Page 2 The Pulse The Hawk's Herald • Friday, October 12, 2007 OP-Ed: ''A mdtter of THE manners and principles" HAWK'S HERAID Courtney Nugent Et>rroa IN Cmmr SARAH COURNOYER There are a lot of stigmas surrounding college traction. Whether it was the group of girls I saw MANAGING EDITOR students throughout the United States: we don't leaving who were shuffling their flip flops along MlcRAEL HuRLEt care about the world outside of our dorm rooms, the floor, or another girl talking on her cell phone we are rude, we are selfish. while leaving, I stood with a gaping mouth at the BUSINFSS MANAGER I do not always agree with these generaliza door in realization that I go to school with these KATTE HEUSTON tions about the students on the RWU campus as ignorant individuals. I don't even get service in NEWsEorroa well as throughout the nation. After watching a the gym, nevermind would I be so bold as to pick good number of students get up from their chairs up my cell phone during a presentation. l'HILDEVTTT and the bleachers and loudly exit the Recreation I was especially appalled at the number of F~F1>ITOR Center Gym while Ishmael Beah was still speak people who would exit at one time: many students COURTNEY NUGENT ing last week, however, my mind was changed know enough to leave class to use the bathroom about some of the students at this university. following someone else who has returned back SPORTS EDITOR First off, it is not everyday that we are from being out of the room. Apparently the stu SHAUNHOCAN granted the opportunity to listen to a former child dents at Beah's presentation missed that memo &slsrANr ~ EDrroB. soldier from Sierra Leone speak to us about his because groups of friends and even adults would experiences. I can safely say that very few stu all converge at the doors together. K.Eu...E1cn WELCH dents who attend RWU have even come close to I guess I have been giving many of the stu R.i!aurrMBNT AND RJrrmmoN living through such tragic and horrific events as dents at RWU too much credit. In their own de FLORENTINE LEHAR Beah, let alone reforming and becoming an au fense, it was not only students leaving but thor afterward. members from the community and faculty as well. During his engaging and eloquent presenta However, this appears to be a matter of man STAFF PHOTOGRAPBEB tion, Beah expressed gratitude for his life and for ners and principles overall. We are taught from a ELIZABETH CORREA the opportunities he has been granted in his very young age to say "please" and "thank you" life .. .if someone who grew up in a war-torn nation but I have never actually thought that students can be grateful for the advantages he has been need be taught what is considerate. Also, this is a STAFFWamms given, so should an entire student body at a col world issue: there are still child soldiers through ERIC SULLIVAN lege campus right on the water. out the world today, there are genocides occurring Beah coming to our campus to talk should not all over the world.