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CAMPUS LIFE (Honor Code Continued) are currently working on a medical am nesty policy for Meredith College. With this anticipated policy, if EMS is needed and called in a situation on campus in volving alcohol, all parties involved will not be required to go to Honor Council. The creation of this new rule comes from the belief that each individual has Jody Williams Comes to Lizzie wood, staff writer Jody Williams, a Vermont native, has devoted her life to advocacy. She attended the University of Vermont and went on to receive her Master’s Degree from Johns Hopkins in Inter national Studies. She also has a Mas ter’s Degree in International Teaching from the School for International Training. Her work abroad began in Nica ragua and El Salvador with efforts to build awareness of US Policy. During eleven years working with Central America, she led humanitarian relief projects and established several educa tion organizations. She is the founding coordinator of ICBL, or International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which was estab lished in 1992. The organization was launched by six different nongovern mental organizations. Her efforts with ICBL have gained her international attention. The organization focuses on ban ning landmines internationally. The organization has now expanded to an ethical responsibility to help those in need (i.e. the campus does not want people to be fearful of being referred to Honor Council). The first concern of the campus is the safety of students. It takes all students to be part of the Meredith Honor System - to act respon sibly while also encouraging and sup porting fellow students. Meredith over sixty countries worldwide and is recognized by over 1,000 nongovern mental organizations. She also led efforts in 1997 to ban antipersonnel landmines in Oslo, Norway. That same year, she became one of ten women who have earned a Nobel Peace Prize, and one of only three American women to become a Nobel Laureate. After being honored with a Nobel Peace Prize, she founded the Nobel Women’s Initiative in 2006, a conference which brings together all female Nobel Peace Prize winners in hopes to use their power and circum stance to promote women’s rights. The conference previously included Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan Peace prize Winner who spoke at Meredith College in 2009. Still an international activist, Wil liams has published many books and articles along with her memoir in March 2013, My Name is Jody Wil liams: A Vermont Girl’s Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize. Summer Reading Book Chosen Rachel Pratl, staff writer Opinion— The last time I read a book about soccer, I was maybe 8 years old. I think it was the kiddie version of “Soccer for Dummies.” My parents were trying (unsuccessfully) to get me into a “regular sport,” anything other than horseback riding, what my heart been set on at the time. But just recently for my English 200 class, I sat down with a new kind of soccer book. What started as just another class assignment led me on an “armchair adventure” around the world with Gwendolyn Oxenham, the author of “Finding the Game,” this year’s select ed Summer Reading Program book. Oxenham tells her owm story as a former starter and leading goal-scorer for the women’s soccer team at Duke. At just 16, she became the youngest Division I athlete in NCAA history. Her life-long dream was to join the women’s professional soccer league, but it folded shortly after Oxenham graduated. Struggling to pick up the pieces and pursue her dream any way she could, Oxenham went on to play professionally for a Brazilian women’s soccer team. Then, she changed her mind and went on to earn an M.F.A. in creative writing. That’s when things get interesting. Oxenham did what we are all doing. She went to all her classes, earned her degree, and tossed her “childish dreams in the back seat, but still, she wasn’t fulfilled. She had a dream, Tniwvtjrs, ^ Twenty-Five Cou^Ufes, and tne Search for PkK^> Soccer GWENDOLYN OXENHAM FINDING THE GAME Cover art via us.macmlllan.com so she chased it. What started as a crazy idea transformed into a worldwide journey looking for pick-up soccer games. Her story is one we can all relate to. At some time or another, we’ve all sur vived through the experience of seeing a dream crumble before us, watched life get in the way of our big plans, and then learned to pick up the pieces and find happiness. “Finding the Game” is a literary adventure; a poignant and beautifully descriptive trip through unfamiliar countries and cultures— a moving story of self- discovery'. Dr. Kathleen Bogle discusses “Hooking Up” Marzia Nawrozi, staff writer On Monday April 1st, Meredith Col lege’s department of sociology hosted Dr. Kathleen Bogle to give a speech on her book “Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus.” Bogle is professor of sociology and crimi nal justice as well as the director of women’s studies in LaSalle University in Philadelphia.Bogle received her master’s degree in Criminal Justice from Saint Joseph’s University in 1998 and her doctoral degree in Sociology from the University of Delaware in 2004. Bogle’s major areas of research interest include gender, sexual behav ior and intimate relationships. “Hook ing Up” was released in 2008 and has since received a lot of national media attention. Dr. Bogle described “Hooking up” as “anything from kiss ing someone to sleep ing with someone to anything in between.” Through her research she found that the ma jority of hook ups occur when alcohol is involved—or possibly it is a catalyst or even the excuse for hooking up incidents. Bogle believes that the college campus cultural environment promotes “causal relationships” between students. “Students also tend to overestimate ,, what their peers are ^ doing” and they often justify their actions by comparing it to someone else’s more outrageous behavior. Bogle also discussed how relationships among students on college campuses raise questions about the safety and health of re lationships on college campuses. Bogle also utilized many examples of the interviews that she conducted of students attending two differ ent colleges in the U.S; one a small, faith based college; the other, a large state university. Students that she inter viewed shared their hooking up experi ences, how they would define hooking up, and what it meant to men and women differently. Currently Dr. Bogle is working with a fellow colleague researching how na tional media has portrayed teen sex in the US and internationally. ASK GIGI My next door neighbors are SO LOUD. I have really tried to over look the noise, but it is getting to be a problem. I have tried listen ing to headphones, a fan, and even putting a pillow over my head. It is really starting to distract me from studying and is influencing my sleep. I don’t want to be rude, and I know its college and sometimes people will be loud, but I cannot take it anymore. What should I do? It is not rude to ask your neighbors to quiet down occasionally, but you need to approach the conversation calmly and fairly. Try speaking to them when they are not being noisy so you don’t come to the conversa tion angry or upset. You need to have a calm, non-confrontational talk and discuss a way for you to communicate to them when they are being too loud. Be sure to tell them that you do understand that they may have different sleeping patterns and/or schedules, but that this is a community and you would like to figure out a way to resolve the issue. It is completely normal for two people to have different lifestyles in college, but college is all about learning to deal with people politely and effectively! Figure out a plan for how they would like for you to let them know that they are being noisy from here on out. I’m sure you can solve the problem and remain friendly neighbors! Good luck!
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