MeredM Herald
Volume XIV. Issue 10 We attract bright, talented, ambitious students. Naturally we’re a women’s college. November 5.1997
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inside:
Rape Awareness Week promotes understanding
□ Noel House
pulls out the
stops to scare off
kidsV socks.
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Q Fall music
concert features
perfect pitch
without a hitch.n
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□ Soccer team
stomps Newport,
finishes the
season with a
bang.
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□ Students show their
strength as they "take back
the night” at NC State.
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Tbe first annual Rape Awareness
Week, made possible by ilie Creative
Ideas Fund grant and ilie initiative of
several students, promoted awareness
of violence against women on the
Meredith campus last week.
Junior Caroline Fleming, along
wiib junior Betty-Shannon Poates,
planned tbe week. Tbey agreed the
event was successful in its niission to
educate, spread awareness, and aid
survivors’ healing.
“Rape isan issue that lots of people
try to ignore, but 1 think we’ve done a
pretty good Job of making people con
front the issue,” said Fleming.
A display of T-shirts with vio
lence awareness messages written on
them, known as the “clothesline
project,” was set up Tuesday in the
courtyard and remained standing
throughout the week. The 21 T-shirts
were designed by survivws of rape,
sexual assault, and childhood sexual
assault, and by secondary survivors -
family and friends of abuse survivors
who have to deal with the attack sec
ond-hand.
This project provided awareness
about all kinds of violence against
women, not just sexual violence. Hach
shirt was color-coded according to the
violent act it spoke out against White
stood (ot women who have been mur
dered, yellow was for domestic vio
lence, grceo was for sexual child abuse
or incest, orange stood for rape, and
purple represented those who bad been
attacked because of their sexual oricn-
tatioo.
Reming says that tbe cloth^line
project served several purposes. Be
sides making a statement about tiK
seriousness of sexual violence, she said
it also served as a “visual reminder that
sexual violence happens everywhere.
Every shirt on the clothesline repre
sents at least one attack on a either a
Meredith student or employee or a
friend of someone in the Meredith
Literacy lab plays race card
□ Meredith hosted the 8K
Run Tor Literacy this past
Saturday.
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A moderate course, cooling rain,
and extravagant spread made charity
sweet for last weekend’s intrepid run
ners. About 220people ran and walked
forliteracyinthe USATF-certifiedSK
Run For Literacy Saturday morning.
The small, not too
competitive crowd
converted an uphill
start and finish and
some unexplained
delays into an occa
sion for stinking in
the rain.
Hazyskiesgave
way to a cloudburst
35 minutes after the
race began, dividing the dry running
elite from the damp middle-of-the-
packers. Runners received therain well,
since it broke theoppressivehumidity.
“lk)ve the rain,” saidflnisherNadia
Dadas. “In Morocco you don’t see so
much of it.”
“It wasn’t so bad," agreed Erin
Schryver, who finished second iji the
19 and under age division. “It was
pretty ftin.”
The race raised funds fora literacy
lab being developed by Beth Weir of
Meredith’seducaticmdcpartmeDLWcir
is backed by Keri and Stan VanBttis,
who, according to Weir, organized tbe
race and have already given $30,000
of their $125,000 pledge to the lab
projecL
*“111086 folks are wonderful!” Weir
wrote in a re(]ucst for volunteers.
llie project itself
is still in the planning
stage. According to
the race’sentryform,
tbelab would provide
“affordable tutoring
services to Wake
County elementary
school children who
are baving^difficulty
reading and writing.”
The literacy lab's reach is oot limited
to theeducatioodepartment’s, and may
not necessarily be under education's
direction when it is completed.
The VanEttens harnessed over 40
sponsors for race. The post-race events
included a lottery for a sport utility
vehicle and a raffle for a diamond
tennis bracelet.
community.
Tbe actual T-shirt designing was
the catharsis for those who helped cre
ate them.
“It’s a way for them to express
their feelings —anger, hurt, sadness—
and to deal with what’s happened to
them,” Fleming said. “A lot
of times it's just tlie begin
ning of the healing process,
and I know it can go a long
ways toward making some
one feel whole again.’'
This projea received a
lot of attention. Meming
noted, “Wednesday night 1
was walking back from a
meeting late at oight, and it
was freezing cold, and there
were four or five people
reading the shirts on the
clothesline.”
Unfortunately.seveoof
tbe 21 T-shirts were miss
ing Thursday and have not
been recovered.
The “Take Back the
Night” march and rally took
place on the NCSU campus Thursday
nigbL More than 40 Meredith repre
sentatives were f»esent.
“We'd hoped for more, but it was
a good number, and we all had a lot of
spirit and energy,” Fleming said.
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Various students who have been rape or assault
vtclims designed T-shiits telling their story.
Photo by Sandy Stephens
New photo exhibit opens
□ Frankie G. Weems
Gallery holds the 17th N.C.
Photographers Exhibition.
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Wimesses reported over 100 shots
in tbe Frankie G. Weems gallery in
Gaddy-Hamrick, but no oneseemed to
mind.Tbe opening reception for tbe
17thannualN.C. Pbotograpbers Exhi
bition, sponsored by the Raldgb Pho
tographic Arts Association, tbe
MeredithCoUege Art Department, and
Ajinomoto U.S.A. Inc,was held titere
on Sunday,November 2,1997from2-
4pjn. Over90photographers submit
ted their work to the show.
One “Best Of Competition” win
ner was entitled “Greene’s Store #2,'’
and portrayed a small-town gas station
scene. Pliotograplied by W. Cameron
Dennis, it showed old Coca-Cola and
Pepsi machines beside acracking brick
building whidi bad rusty signs hang
ing on them.
“Postcard Series- AZ, EL, NC.NJ,
NV” submitted by Linda C. Samuels,
won an Award of Merit. It was a col
lection of 16 black and white and color
pictures including scenes such as a
playground, a telephone booth, an in
terstate, and a ccmetery.
“Hatteras, NC 1995,” by John
Scarlata, caught many viewers’ eyes.
It porU’ayed several wooden beach
houses under a cloudy sky.
Another photograph, which many
observers commentedon, was “Diner”
by F. Iladen Edwards III. which de
picted tbe perfect 50s malt shop scene
complete with silver bar stools, Coca-
Cola straw holders, and a black and
white checkerboard floor.
Sophomore Ginny Bond said,
"This is my first year taking a photog
raphy class, and I feel that attending
tliis year’s exhibition was a very re
warding experience for me. Tbey bad
agoodsbowingofalldifferenttypesof
photography.”
The event was well-attended. Dur
ing the two hours, the gallery was so
packed with guests that people could
bardly walk.
Professor of photography Nona
Short said, “I thought that Sunday’s
showing bad a really nice turnout. U
was one of the largest number of en
trants that we had ever had. Tbe j uror
spent tlie whole day making decisions
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