Thursday COLLEGIATETIMES 101st Year, No. 48 ▪ Blacksburg, Virginia ▪ November 13, 2003 An independent student-run newspaper serving the Virginia Tech community since 1903 www.collegiatetimes.com Show ends season under protest Grant to ▪ by VTTV. Sex Talk Live hosted “Where is everybody?” asked a a smaller audience than member of the audience. help fi ght “The protest obviously had a huge its September show and effect,” joked interim co-host Byron focused more on educa- Kennerly, a sophomore theatre arts and history double major. tion last night in Squires The live show was slow to start domestic with Kennerly and co-host Vanessa by Eric Beidel Pricer coaxing the audience into ask- Associate News Editor ing questions. Once underway, the show bore violence Sex Talk Live is calling it quits for little resemblance to the September the semester as VTTV searches for a show. new co-host. Sexual prizes were kept under ▪ The grant was presented to Last night, the final show of wraps in black garbage bags, and the semester was taped in Squires Pricer led the audience through a the Women’s Center and the Colonial Hall in front of a crowd slide show on sexually transmitted ROBERT DRAKE/SPPS office of judicial affairs to of less than 60, which pales in com- diseases complete with graphic pho- Nicholas Kiersey, Anna Nicholas and Stephanie Nicholas said that fund training, personnel, mate- parison to the almost 500 people tos and details about symptoms. VTTV’s Sex Talk Live is degrading to women. that came out for the live taping in “We’re just protecting ourselves,” rials and student outreach September. Kennerly said. “Everything that hap- represented himself during an inter- Stephanie Nicholas, a senior the- Prior to the show, three students pened last time really hurt us.” view with Virginia Delegate Robert atre arts major who organized the by Christina Peña stood outside Colonial Hall wear- Former host and creator of Sex Marshall, a harsh critic of the show. small protest, actually took part in ing T-shirts bearing slogans such Talk Live, Jarett Henshaw, sat in the “We originally intended the show the live taping of Sex Talk Live in News Assistant as “VTTV, Please stop degrading audience for the taping, but said he to be much more educational, but September, distributing condoms women!” and “Maybe she doesn’t has no affiliation with the show since with so many prank calls, the show and information on healthy relation- The Women’s Center and the office of want it in her eye” in response to he was fired from VTTV in October. became less serious than what we judicial affairs will be able to continue T-shirts made to promote the show Henshaw was fired after he mis- wanted it to be,” Henshaw said. See SHOW, page 4 their efforts to fight violence against women, thanks to a renewed $300,000 Violence Against Women Act grant from the U.S. Department of Justice. The grant is used to raise aware- ness on campus about sexual assault, ‘Rent’ instills prospect of hope, love relationship violence, stalking and cyber- stalking. The first grant was received in August do is love.” 2001 and has been used to pay for training, ▪ The Broadway play A younger crowd filled Burruss personnel, materials, programming, web brought issues including Hall than the usual Lively Arts design and everything concerning stu- Productions, selling more than dent outreach and education, faculty and drugs and sex to a sold- 2,000 tickets and, according to Elyse staff, said Maureen Lazar, victim services out crowd in Burruss Hall Gonyo, director of Lively Arts for outreach coordinator for the Women’s VTU, the show was a the first to sell Center. last night out in a long time. Lazar said about 65 other schools “I really wasn’t expecting it to around the country also receive the grant by Anne-Henley Beck sell out,” said Gonyo, a junior com- through an application process. Staff Writer munication major. “I can’t remem- With the renewed grant, the Women’s ber the last time a Lively Arts show Center and the office of judicial affairs will Drugs, sex, transvestites, and sold out. It’s really a turning point continue educational efforts and the peer oddly enough, a musical. that a series can be popular with education program, along with increas- It’s not often that Broadway students and an older generation. ing awareness and the development of a transforms issues of today into ‘Rent’ is a higher caliber show, and protocol for dealing with sexual assault, music and dance, but Jonathan the turnout proved that students relationship violence, stalking and cyber- Larson did in his award winning, want something a little more chal- stalking. “Rent.” Performed last night in lenging, and something that reaches All materials and training sessions will Burruss Hall, the national tour of out to their generation.” also be continued. Rent featured a cast of up and com- Many of the audience members The two recipients also said they hope ing actors and actresses. were previous viewers of “Rent.” to create new evaluation efforts and design The musical encompassed con- One University of Virginia student a new outreach video specifically for troversial issues such as drugs, said she loves the show so much, Tech. gender preference and HIV, impart- she traveled to Blacksburg to see it. The office of judicial affairs handles ing a theme of hope in the midst of “It’s amazing that Tech was able cases about violence against women, in distress. Based in the heart of New to get them to come here,” said addition to participating in programs and York City, the musical addressed Katie Dressel, a junior music major presentations. these issues of modern society with from UVa. “I am very impressed One of the office’s goals is to have more the lives of seven people and the with the auditorium. The lighting crimes against women reported so people narrator, Mark, who brings the story is amazing and the set design is can get the necessary help. to the audience and shows how fantastic.” “What we are doing is very good and these issues can impact the commu- The characters comprise of strug- important work, and if nothing else, if nity and his circle of friends. gling artists, people with HIV, a we reach one person, then it’s successful,” “It’s a very exciting piece and a transvestite, gays, and lesbians. said Colleen White, judicial coordinator beautiful message to love and not They have dreams of filmmaking, for the office of judicial affairs. give up on today,” actor Brian Gligor singing, finding that significant In the period of the last issued grant, said, who plays Mark. “Everyone is other, being able to pay rent on time, 25,000 resource cards were given, a mass given these special moments, and and making it through the next day mailing to faculty and staff was sent and the play tries to remind us to cher- without the need for snuff. on-campus students received brochures DAVE FRANUSICH/SPPS ish those moments. Everyone leaves “Mark tends to try to separate and post-its. the theatre uplifted with a sense of himself as a defense mechanism to Roger, played by Constantine Maroulis, dreams of becoming a rock star, hope. The audience leaves with the but has to deal with lost love and and creating a new life for himself. message that the best thing you can See RENT, page 6 See GRANT, page 2 Restructuring leaves some departments unhappy HNFE move could dilute programs Administrators hope college by Michelle Hershman started enrolling in the university. Human Resources. shift will improve diversity Associate Sports Editor With classes such as food prepara- Ritchey, who was the depart- tion and home management, the ment’s first male faculty member, by Michelle Hershman a minority in his major and interest in nutrition and More than 80 years ago, Virginia curriculum was aimed at the few played a vital part in changing the Associate Sports Editor was soon to be a minority in continued that concentration Tech admitted its first female stu- female students trying to find their name of the college. his career field. Still, in the by venturing into a field of dents. Looking around campus place in a small military college “(The students) felt the name year 2003, he wondered, “Is study created uniquely for today, 41 percent of the student dominated by men. was too old-fashioned and female- Jason Newman walked that the way it should be?” female students. body is female and some are Starting out as a department oriented,” he said. “I think most into his therapeutic nutrition Newman is the only male “I kind of expected (to be a inclined to say, “You’ve come a in the School of Agriculture, it people regarded it as a female class and looked around. student in the dietetics option minority),” Newman said. “I long way.” eventually came to stand on its major, partly because of the He wasn’t surprised — after of the human nutrition, foods wasn’t as surprised as most Others, however, wonder if own feet in 1964 as the College of name, home economics. When three years, he was used to it. and exercise major at Virginia people are. I’m definitely the female participation at Tech is Home Economics — one of Tech’s we changed the name to human He’d come to accept that he Tech. Because of a childhood not so much a story of progress, six colleges at the time.