Walk together. Stand
together. Take Back the Night.
Last Thursday, April 23,
Sexual Assault Awareness
Support and Advocacy hosted
its seventh annual Take Back
the Night. The goal is to spread
the awareness of sexual assault
while giving survivors a safe
place to share their stories. The
event started at 5:30 p.m. in
the Community Center with an
array of musical performances,
t-shirt designing and food
provided by Meriwether
Godsey.
As students walked in, they
were greeted by music from
senior Abigail Murray-Nikkel,
senior David Wheaton and the
campus a cappella group Friend
Sings My Mind. The mood was
light: attendees could grab
some ice cream while entering
their names to win fun prizes.
The room soon filled with
deep emotion as guest speakers
stood up to talk about sexual
assault awareness.
“When I tell my story and
people come to me to thank
me and to share a portion of
themselves with me, (this) is
the best gift I can receive,” said
Cease And Love Myself co
founder Robin Ranae Shakir in
a phone interview.
As the last guest speaker’s
speech ended, SAASA handed
out prizes such as donated
books, consent cups and
t-shirts. SAASA then led the
room to the lake where the
candlelight vigil and speakout
were held.
“The entirety of the Speakout
was the most (memorable)
because of how emotional it
was and how eye opening it
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Looking back on an eventful school year
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BY ANNIE FULLWOOD
Staff Writer
Mary Hobbs fire
It was a September morning when construction workers
in Mary Hobbs Hall called 911 to report a fire.
“Our crews made an offensive attack into the attic area
looking for the fire,” said Greensboro Fire Chief Greg
Grayson to the News & Record. “Once they got into the
attic, they determined the fire was not in the attic: it was
on the second floor.”
Whether ghosts or a simple construction accident are to
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blame for the fire is still widely disputed to this day.
“The ghosts are angry,” said senior and former resident
of Mary Hobbs A.C. Canup. “Mary Hobbs is an all female
dorm so she’s probably like, what the f— are all these males
doing here?”
Edwin Black protest
Edwin Black, acclaimed journalist and author, visited
Guilford College on Nov. 4 for a presentation titled
“Financing the Flames.” He previously visited campus in
2011 to discuss his book “The Farhud-Roots of The Arab-
Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust,” which some interpreted
as Islamophobic and insensitive.
In response, the Students for Justice in Palestine arranged
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a peaceful walkout during Black’s talk with support from
many fellow students and faculty.
Black considered the walkout disrespectful and asked for
a full retraction of the SJP’s statements, which called Black
a “notorious racist.”
The GreenleaPs many locations
At the beginning of the fall semester, the Greenleaf was
moved into the basement of Milner Hall.
“The move has been generating a lot of excitement in
the Greenleaf,” said senior and Greenleaf member Chelsea
Yarborough. “We are hoping to open (it) up to a vast V
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