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Students Transported into another Culture at Galembo Gallery Opening
Kelly Walace, staff writer
Students and faculty headed
to the opening of Phyllis Galembo’s ex
hibit “Theater of Belief: Afro-Atlantic
Masking” in the Frankie G. Weems
Art Gallery on Thursday, Jan. 23. Ju
niors Stephanie Livesay and Leanna
Pai worked with the Gregg Museum for
several months to organize the exhibit.
“Galembo’s work is special in that it
transports the viewer into that culture.
Galembo captures it beautifully. I find
Galembo’s work very interesting not
only for the cultural subject matter
but also for the rich color and details
in each photograph,” said Livesay, a
Graphic Design major.
Phyllis Galembo, who is a Pro
fessor of photography at the Univer
sity at Albany-SUNY took these photo
graphs during many visits to Nigeria.
The photos that Galembo is exhibiting
are from her series Kings, Chiefs, and
Women of Power in the Benin and Yor-
kuba kingdom and among the Western
Igobo. Galembo’s art portrays the ritu
als that are related to power, social hi
erarchy, ethnic identity and wealth.
Many students and faculty at
tended the opening of the exhibit on
Thursday. “The photos are really inter
esting, and since I am from Morocco
I can relate to the art,” commented
Sophomore, Fatima Dali. Ashley Ford,
a sophomore, related to Galembo, “I
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too want to be a photographer. The
balance in each photo is great and I
was able to gather enough information
in each photo that I could sense the
emotion of the men and women. The
quality and the colors were excellent!”
The exhibit will be open from Jan. 23
till March 23 ip the Frankie G. Weems
Art Gallery. Phyllis Galembo will be at
tending Meredith College for a lecture
on her work on Wednesday, Feb. 12, in
Jones Auditorium.
English Department Hosts
Documentary Film Festival
Research Spotlight:
Lara Pantlin
Katy Koop, staff writer
The . English Department
hosted the first Documentary Film
Festival in Carswell Concert Hall, on
Sunday, Jan 26. The Southern Doc
umentary Fund, which sponsored
many of the films in the festivals,
states on their website that “Stories
are at the heart of the work of the
Southern Documentary Fund. Stories
that come from the varied landscapes
of the American South — its people,
its history, and its contemporary life.
Our mission is to help preserve and
share those stories by acting as a re
source for documentary artists.”
The festival showcased the
telling of a variety of stories, from the
tale of a senior women’s basketball
league in North Carolina in Granny’s
Got Game, to The Loving Story, a film
about the Supreme Court case that
ended bans on interracial marriage.
In the dinner break, current Meredith
College Junior, Kristen Rivera got a
chance to show the start of a story she
is telling with her short documentary.
The short film First, is “the start of a
series center[s] around change and
eveiything related to it.” Rivera goes
on to explain that she “wanted to ex
plore the idea of change because the
word makes Meredith students freak
out sbmetimes. We am a school that’s
very set on tradition and I think we
sometimes see change as a scary, neg
ative thing. It can definitely be scary,
but it’s not always bad. I’m hoping
that through this series, people will
see that.”
The festival concluded with a
talk with Elizabeth Havalind James,
director of The Loving Story, facili
tated by Meredith College Gradu
ate and Documentary filmmaker
Camden Watts. To young filmmak
ers like Kristen Rivera and others at
Meredith College James said “If it’s
what you really want to do, you just
have to keep doing it. You just have
to keep trying. It’s a hard industry in
independent film [...] but if you stick
to yourself, if you stick to what you
want to do, it’s possible.” For those
that want to make documentary films
or are interested in becoming a part
of the media, James’ film The Loving
Story will be featured at Full Frame
documentary festival which will be
held April 3-6 in Durham. More in
formation, along with many volun
teer opportunities, can be found at
www.fullframe.org.
Jenny Gerardo, staff writer
r; r ; iara: Pantlin is a senior wfaoser
interest in Neuropsychology led to her
becoming a research intern for the
Neruotoxicology Branch of the Envi
ronmental Protection Agency (EPA)
and the Co-Principal investigator of
the Meredith Emerging Adulthood
Longitudinal Studies (MEALS).
The research that Pantlin as
sisted with at the EPA made her real
ized that research was something that
she really enjoyed and led her to con
duct her own research at Meredith.
Last semester she created and distrib
uted surveys to study stress and social
support during the first year of col
lege. At the beginning of the semester,
Pantlin and her team collected survey
data covering different areas in order
to create a database of information.
She collected a second round of sur
vey around exam time which was then
compared to the data gather at the be
ginning of the semester.
The results of Pantlin’s re
search suggest that students that
identified a college mentors (i.e. advi
sor or Big Sis) or affinity groups (i.e.
honors program, teaching fellows) as
part of their support network instead
of pebj)ile from back home experienced
less stress when making the transition
: frombigh school toicollege.-The:results
also showed that all of the students
showed a high level of stress during
exam time but students whose social
support network consistent of people
from Meredith experienced less stress
than students that had support sys
tems back home.
The goal of Pautlin’s database
that was created during her research
was to start a research lab. There are
now 10 students using this database.
“’’The main purpose of having
this lab was to allow students to get
‘their feet wet’ so to speak in research,”
said Pantlin. “My goal is to allow any
one to learn how to conduct research
without having the high standards and
commitment level. This way students
can be eased into the complicated and
time-consuming research world and
this will hopefully end up with more
students conducting research. “
Pantlin will present Ijer study
at the Eastern Psychological Associa
tion (EPA) Conference in mid-March
and her work is currently under re
view for published and has also been
submitted for the Psi Chi Regional Re
search Award.
Meredith Students Selected for Who’s Who
The 2014 edition of Who’s
Who Among Students in American
Universities and Colleges will include
the names of 30 seniors from Meredith
College who have been selected as na
tional outstanding campus leaders.
They join an elite group of students
from more than 2,300 institutions of
higher learning. Students were select
ed based on their scholastic achieve
ment, service to the college, participa
tion and leadership in academic and
extracurricular activities, and potential
for future achievement. These students
will be recognized at an event during
Celebrating Student Achievement in
April:
2014 Meredith College Recipients:
Allison Adams
Bryana Bass
Cecelia Blair
Katherine Clary
Lorri Cole
Caitlyn DeBona
Bailey Dunn
Clare Fitzmaurice
Elizabeth Guiles
Emily Hawkins
Stephanie Hyppolite
Michelle Maiden
America Moreno
Ariel Nikas
Hannah Orr
Rodda Ouma
Lara Pantlin
Puja Patel
Lacy Pfeiffer
Yailyn Polanco
Angelica Ramkellawan
Mary Rawls
Katie Riggs
Meghan Thedford
Hannah Thornton
Monica Truax
HawaTuli
Britney Wiggins
Whitney Williams
Rebecca Wyatt
- Ann Gleason, Dean of Students