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MENTAL SENIOR SOCCER PRETERITE ILLNESS PLAYERS LITERARY NOT A HONORED AT COMIC-CON HOLLOWEEN LAST HOME COSTUME Page 8 GAME Page 6 Page 15 CEDAR CREST COLLEGE’S STUDENT RUN NEWSPAPER THE CRESTIAD Thursday, October 20, 2016 | VOL. 102 No.2 “Finding Jenn’s Voice” film screened on campus to bring awareness to domestic violence BY ALLISON RITTLE LIFE AND CULTURE EDITOR sentences in jail. The Social Work depart- The Snyder family contacted ment hosted the screening of Tracey Schott, the filmmaker, in the film “Finding Jenn’s Voice” order to give Jenn a voice. Schott IN Alumnae Theater on Monday investigated the story and dis- Oct. 17. covered that there was generally The film, released in 2014, is a higher risk between pregnancy based on twenty-seven year-old and homicide in relationships. Jennifer Snyder of Allentown, The film includes Jenn’s story Pennsylvania. Working as a and highlights the stories of 11 veterinary technician, she was survivors of abusive relationships. was murdered in 2011 by her “It was important to me to share boyfriend, Veterinarian David all of these stories,” said Tracey, Rapoport, who was already mar- “survivors always need to be safe.” ried to another woman. After he This film gives a voice to the learned that she was pregnant scared and voiceless in abusive with his child, he killed her. relationships. Intimate Partner Rapoport shot Jenn twice in Violence (IPV) can include many the mouth, once in the back and forms of abuse including physical then dumped her body into the violence, sexual violence, repro- ductive control, emotional abuse, woods. He was arrested six days PHOTO | FINDINGJENSVOICE.COM after the incident, and pleaded and social/emotional control. It is pervasive and a serious global guilty to the murder charges. See FILM, page 2 He is currently serving two life problem. “As Flies to Whatless Boys” author shares his novel at Moravian Bookstore in Allentown BY REBEKKAH PARSONS EDITOR-IN-CHEIF Robert Antoni, a West Indian Writer, visited Cedar Crest Col- lege as part of the visiting writ- ers series. After visiting with the introduction to Creative Writing class taught by Professor Alison Wellford in the early afternoon, students and members of the community were invited to a reading and book signing at the Moravian Bookstore in Allen- town to see Antoni speak. As the author of five novels, Antoni writes about the British West Indies in a way which he describes through his regional characters, atmosphere, folklore, PHOTO | JULIANA WALL and his vernacular language. Novelist Robert Antoni reads several chapters from his book, “As Flies to Whatless Boys” at the local Moravian Bookstore in Allentown. See AUTHOR, page 2 Follow us on: thecrestiad The Crestiad NEWS 2 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 From AUTHOR, Page 1 Students gather at President Antoni’s books have been widely trans- lated and he’s won a variety of awards for his works. Ambar’s house to watch the final At the book reading, Antoni read from his novel “As Flies to Whatless Boys” a title that he says comes from Trinidad Presidential Debate colloquialism that means “without what, worthless” and brings a little bit of Shake- speare into his work. The novel itself took place in 1845 as an engineer, philosopher, philanthropist and bold-faced charlatan, John Adol- phus Etzler, invented powerful machines in the hopes that it would transform the division of labor and free all men. After forming the Topical Emigration Society, TES, he recruits London citizens to take his machines to the utopian community of Trinidad. Among these recruits, is the young boy and the stories narrator, Willy. The novel then follows the groups voyage overseas to Trindad. He speaks in a rustic vernacu- lar as he tells the story of this voyage to Trinidad that took place when he was just 15-years-old. Included in this historical narrative are e-mails from the director of an archive and a journalist. Each page of the novel offers something new to read- ers and keeps them engaged for the en- tire story. “It’s important to me that I convince you it’s real, not that it is real,” Antoni said re- ferring to the settings and things he de- scribes in his story. For Antoni, the hardest part of the novel to write was the romance between Willy and Marguerite, a mute woman born without vocal chords. “I tried forever and ever to bring her to life and I just couldn’t do it.” Antoni said. “I was told Willie has to fall in love with Marguerite not despite the fact that she’s mute but because of it. That was some of the best advice I was given, and from that moment I was able to truly write the char- acter.” Antoni borrowed ideas for characters from the people he knows, but “the hard- est part of creating a character is hearing their voice... The hardest part is getting myself out of the way and just let the character speak. The character’s voice will dictate them completely and they’ll even do things the author doesn’t want, that’s how you know they are alive.” The novel is interactive with a website with the hopes that he can “break through the page and go beyond the boundaries of the page,” but there’s hardly any indi- cation in the book for readers to know about the interactive part so it hasn’t been as successful as Antoni would have liked. The website offers some of the his- torical documents that he refers to in the PHOTOS | JULIANA WALL novel as well as short films to supplement the work. “When we read, we create a film in our From FILM, Page 1 between one’s parents or thing. mind, so I thought what if I supplied you caretakers is the strongest “There is support. There with some of those image very subtly. Homicide is the number one risk factor for passing vio- is help. You matter,” said How does that change the reading pro- case of death during preg- lence from one generation Tracey as advice to victims cess?” said Antoni. He didn’t have an an- nancy. Up to 20 percent of to the next. Boys who wit- of domestic violence. “Get- swer for how it changed the process, but pregnant women experience ness domestic violence are ting help does not make you he’s interested in learning that from the violence during their preg- twice as likely to abuse their weak. It makes you stronger, eyes of the readers themselves. nancy. Twenty-eight percent own romantic partners and and you deserve better.” The students really noticed a difference of women will experience children when they become between what he hears and sees when intimate partner violence adults. Thirty to 60 percent writing his book versus what the students in their lifetimes. More than of perpetrators of intimate hear and see when they are reading the three women are killed every partner violence also abuse book. day in the United States by a children in the household, “The way he writes is very vernacular. current or previous husband and most instances of inti- It’s awesome to hear the accents he was or boyfriend. Two-thirds of mate partner violence are hearing in his head when writing the women killed during preg- never reported. book apposed to the accents I was hear- nancy are killed by an inti- Most women remain in ing in my head while I was reading it.” mate partner. Twenty to 30 these relationships because said Ellen Sherman, sophomore double percent of men who kill their they are afraid to leave. It is major Dance and Public Health major. pregnant partners have no never because they are try- Antoni is already in the works of finish- previous history of violence. ing to “protect their abuser.” ing another novel and hopes to be releas- Women are nine times more They are afraid because they ing that one soon enough, even making a likely to be killed by an inti- know their abusers might joke in the beginning about it being the mate partner than a stranger. try to kill them or their chil- last time he’ll be doing a reading from Among women killed by an dren if they did. They also “As Flies to Whatless Boys.” intimate partner, guns are stay because everything is the most common cause of taken care of for them since death. Witnessing violence they aren’t allowed to do any- THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2016 NEWS | PAGE 3 Getting Creative at the Creative Time Summit in D.C. BY MALLORIE MCILWAIN and “Do It Yourself” to sections like “Under NEWS EDITOR Siege”, “Queer and Now”, and “Enter the Apothrocene” and were brought to the stage by some unfamiliar as well as familiar faces like Wallace Shawn. The sections, though The C.R.E.A.T.E. Living Learning Com- very different, all flowed together to make for munity couldn’t wait until spring break to a great experience. take a trip and delve more into communities “The summit was a great experience. I feel surrounding art. Instead of going abroad the it’s important for creative people and art- class decided to stay here in the states, but ists to get together and talk as well as create go to a different community that with similar artists many of the students weren’t used “It was so nice that we with similar mindsets to being around. (Cedar Crest students) because it will only Jill Odegard, the professor, and could be there because it create new ideas and her ten students got in a van and start connections drove down to Washington D.C.

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