Transylvania University wel-comed award-winning writer Harri-et Washington, author of “Medical Apartheid,” to Haggin Auditorium Sunday.

The convocation focused on Washington’s highly successful book that was published in 2006. “Medical Apartheid” has earned numerous awards, including the Best Book of 2006 by Publishers Weekly and the 2007 nonfiction award from the Black Caucus of American Library Association.

As part of the First Engage-ment series, “Medical Apartheid” relates to bioethics and injustice toward African-Americans. The book is about the experimentation on African-Americans throughout history, from the colonial period to the modern day.

Divided into three parts, the book reveals that medical research wasn’t always ethical. It starts with the antebellum period and ad-dresses the plantation slaves that

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Amid homework, tests, 10-page pa-pers and the general hecticness of col-lege life, religious reflection or practice among students may fall by the wayside. Nancy Jo Kemper, newly appointed in-terim associate dean of interreligious life, hopes to change this.

“College students are invited to ex-plore many dimensions of life,” Kemper said, “(and) religion represents the cul-tural systems, belief systems and world-views by which persons interpret the meaning and purpose of life. My hope would be that a church-related college would help students evaluate the belief systems which they brought to college, challenge them to wrestle with those big questions and work for some kinds of personally chosen values, rather than merely con-tinuing their lives with the belief systems of their childhood.”

A Lexington native, Kemper grew up as a member of the Dis-ciples of Christ church, the Chris-tian denomination with which Transylvania is affiliated. Fol-

lowing her graduation from Transy in 1964, she attended three years of semi-nary at Yale University Divinity School, which awarded Kemper with the Wil-liam Sloane Coffin Jr. Peace and Justice

Award in 2010. The only female to receive the award

in its history, Kemper has also earned a litany of professional accolades from other organizations such as the National Council of Churches of Christ, the Cen-tral Kentucky Civil Liberties Union and the Interfaith Alliance of the Bluegrass. In 2001, Kemper also received an hon-orary doctorate of humane letters degree from Transylvania.

Though now retired from full-time work, Kemper was still happy to accept a one-year appointment to this newly formed position.

“I accepted this one-year appoint-ment by President Williams in order to be of assistance to Transylvania,” said

Kemper, “and out of love for my alma mater. With the new presi-dent, Transylvania will be mov-ing in some new directions, in-cluding … working to become a more diverse institution. Helping Transylvania develop a new com-mitment to interreligious dialogue and a greater religious diversity seemed to suit my skills.”

While Kemper herself does

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Dosset unveals master plan

Overheated pump disables MFA elevator

A fire alarm sounded automati-cally in the Mitchell Fine Arts Cen-ter Wednesday, causing area fire-fighters to respond and evacuate the building.

It was determined that the hy-draulic pump in the MFA eleva-tor was overheating, causing the alarm to deploy, Director of Pub-lic Safety Gregg Muravchik con-firmed. Muravchik also said that Norman Mudd, Transylvania’s op-erations manager, is working to ensure that the problem is fixed as soon as possible.

The elevator has been disabled, but the building will still have handicap access. In the mean-time, the alarm system has been put in standby mode to silence the alarm.

“We will do everything we can to assist handicapped students, staff and visitors during this time,” said Muravchik.

Members of the Kappa Alpha Order display their colors with pride for Spirit Night. For other fraternity pictures from the night, visit http://transyrambler.com.

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Author reveals racial injustice

Sarah AllisonStaff Writer

Once upon a time, college students were a shoo-in for the job of their choice. Over the past 20 years, however, the college graduate’s life has become harder and harder as opportunities for employment plummet. The decline of the national economy has caused lay-offs and cutbacks in nearly every field

of expertise and forced students to hold off their plans for a permanent career.

In a recent New York Times article, this age group was dubbed “Generation Limbo”: a group of individuals who are stuck in part-time jobs while they wait out the economic storm. Unfortunately, Transylvania has not remained unaf-fected. But there are some opportunities for students wrestling with the question

Hope remains for job-seeking college grads

Victoria SullivanEtcetera Editor

Junior Andrew Goff waits in the Career Development Center, located in the basement of Mitchell Fine Arts Center.

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The sustainability council will be announcing a new framework for campus sustainability, this af-ter meetings last year of the spe-cially assembled council.

Sustainability Coordinator An-gela Dosset said that the new master plan, which will define sustainability for Transylvania Uni-versity, contains six visions. These include curriculum goals, campus culture, land and building use, and changes to food and dining services.

The full master plan can be found on The Rambler’s website, http://transyrambler.com.

The presentations will take place outside the Rafskeller on Sept. 22, and a lunch presenta-tion will be held during open hour on Sept. 27 in the cafeteria.

Additionally, the framework will be promoted through Inside Tran-sy and other venues.

“The sustainability framework touches nearly every aspect of campus life,” said Dosset.

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Bubble in the Box

So, first-years, college is here. You’re experiencing many things. You’re challenging yourself intellectu-ally, making new friends, experiencing voice changes and growing hair in new places.

But most important of these chang-es (after the hair) is your encountering of new ideas, and having friends that believe the wrong ones even after you best them in a Facebook comment war.

Because of this, you will also find fear of not knowing what to think in college. You’ll know you should be thinking about religion, politics and ethics, but won’t know how. Well, fear not! I have tips that will make your life much less scary.

Choose your friends carefully. If you choose friends that only affirm your beliefs, you aren’t shaken; if you choose friends that only challenge your beliefs, you won’t be trite.

Both of these views are ridiculous in full, though, so I choose a third route — avoidance. If you avoid others com-pletely, you won’t be presented with so many ideas.

Another tool is finding others with a higher ACT score, because they are inherently smarter and more likely to believe the correct things. Don’t actu-ally ask them questions, because that admits weakness. Never ask questions.

If you’re not sure what they think, say things like “So-and-so believes this.” Try to put some condescension in your voice, just in case it’s a silly idea. But not too much, because your smarter friend may agree with it, and then you might even be asked to clarify your position. Avoid this at all costs!

When you read an article and are unsure of its credibility, email it to your smarter friends and see how they respond. Generally, you shouldn’t send them everything you read on the In-ternet. If you did that, you could be thought less intelligent because some-thing you sent was wrong.

Instead, see if other friends talk about it or link it on Facebook first, and then ask about it. By becoming a sy-cophant, you’ll appear smarter. And re-member! If you appear smarter, you’ll eventually actually be smarter.

Now, even alone, you’ll be tempted to read, and this may present you with new ideas. Because you must avoid thinking, join five organizations on campus and do lots of community ser-vice. If all goes well, nobody will know that you’re afraid of thinking. Every-one will simply assume that you are too busy being a leader to do so.

You may think that you’ll have those dreadful, new-idea-filled conver-sations if you join organizations, but you won’t. You’ll be too busy asking Diane Fout about the night-and-week-end fund, and others will be too busy depending on you to have a conversa-tion. It’s perfect.

College is scary, and so is think-ing. You have a reputation to protect, and you also must protect your sanity by avoiding ideas that will make you think. Just try your best to keep think-ing as your smarter friends think, and stay busy, busy, busy, and you’ll be just fine.

Facing new ideas

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From Page 1DEANhave any long-term goals due to the brevity of the appointment, she hopes to work with other faculty members and the president to plan for what the posi-tion should entail on a full-time basis.

“We are … working to articulate what it means to be a church-related in-stitution, rooted in the particularity of a tradition that is itself committed to dia-logue, openness and hospitality,” Kem-per said, “while expanding the capacity of the university to serve students from many religious traditions.”

Among the ideas for programs Kem-per would like to see developed is one she calls “Intersections,” which would involve inviting a prominent member of

a particular religious tradition to have dinner with students and faculty, where he or she could engage in open conversa-tion about various issues.

Kemper also aims to encourage greater dialogue among those of differ-ent faiths, or different sects of the same faith, on campus.

“I hope to introduce students to persons who are living their lives as a Buddhist, or Hindu, or Muslim,” said Kemper. “I hope also to bring the cam-pus Christian organizations together more often for dialogue and deeper un-derstanding. I firmly believe that the divisions in Christianity have negative consequences for our presentation of the

Gospel to agnostics or nonbelievers.”With high hopes for her new position,

Kemper expects its development into something more permanent and influen-tial to take time.

“These aren’t the sort of goals that are ‘accomplished,’ ” Kemper said. “We work at them. We establish a path and walk it for a while to see if it feels ap-propriate. If so, great; if not, we change the way we are doing things. This is a year in which we will be trying to move in some new directions, and then it will be someone else’s responsibility to move the idea of interreligious activities on Transy’s campus into the future.”

From Page 1INJUSTICEwere experimented on to determine race comparisons. Slaves sometimes endured these biological theorems and abuse from their white masters.

It was the stigma then that blacks were biologically different than whites, and people’s curiosity as to what those differences were often got the best of them. Some of the bodies were even put on display after their death for inquisi-tive onlookers.

Washington also touched on the Tuskegee syphilis study, where over 600 impoverished sharecroppers in Tuskeg-ee, Ala., took part in an experiment on how to treat syphilis.

The study, sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service, started in 1932 and ended in 1972; it aimed to track

the progression of syphilis in infected persons. However, the study falsely in-formed the test subjects that they were treating it for free when, in fact, they were not treating it at all.

Almost 400 subjects already had the disease and a little over 200 that did not contracted it. The male test subjects that were being treated for it were never told that they had it.

Over a 40-year period, the Health Service tracked the male subjects but did not treat them, despite the availabil-ity of penicillin in the 1940s and a viable cure. Thus, many died an unnecessary and painful death from syphilis.

This type of racial experimentation is what “Medical Apartheid” is based on. The horrors of experimentation are

shown to the world though Washington’s words. Everyone that reads it should be disgusted by the government’s actions towards human beings.

Washington began writing the book while a research fellow in ethics at Har-vard University Medical School. It is the first comprehensive book describing the social history of African-Americans involving medical research and experi-mentation.

Based on medical journals past and present and medical ethics research, “Medical Apartheid” explains why many African-Americans distrust the public health system. It should make ev-eryone conscious of the experimentation of drugs and studies when you go in for any type of procedure.

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All the cool kids are doing it, but that’s not the only reason to see what all the fuss is about. The Lexington farmers market is the place to be right now. And with the Fifth Third Bank Pavilion, it’s even bigger than before.

Not only does the market support the ef-forts of local farmers and the livelihood of Kentucky families, but it is also the most relax-ing, yet lively place to be on Saturday morn-ing. So when you’re not mentally prepared to start studying, mosey on down to Cheapside Park with a few friends.

The farmers mar-ket does not only offer fresh produce, but you can also find artisan cheeses, local wines, homemade pasta, local free-range meat, baked goods and flowers. You can even buy a freshly prepared breakfast or lunch from local ven-dors. Not to mention you can taste almost everything, so get there no later than 10 a.m. and take your time. The homework can wait.

As college students, the common goal is to get as much for your money as possible and to accept all of the free pizza you are given. At the farmers market, however, you must have a different ap-proach.

You don’t have to spend a lot of mon-ey, but whatever you spend, use it wisely. Take the time to talk to vendors and taste-test before you buy anything. This is what you’re paying for, the farm-fresh produce and the friendly vendors

who want to tell you all about what they have to offer.

Feel free to walk up to vendors and ask them how they raise their chickens or how they pick their peach-es. Unlike shopping at the grocery store, the vendors know exactly how their merchandise was grown, picked and transported.

One common mis-conception is that the produce looks dirty. Let me remind you, it did most likely grow in the ground, outside, and/or in a tree. Expect imper-fections in the produce, because most likely it was grown naturally and that’s the way it was lying against the tree or bush as it grew.

And although it may be new to some at first, you will soon find that there is nothing better than farm-fresh food grown or raised with care. Take tomatoes, for example. Picked ripe from the vine, they taste completely differ-ent than chemically rip-ened tomatoes that sit out at the grocery store after traveling thou-sands of miles. Who would have thought?

The food tastes bet-ter, it’s healthier for you and it’s something different to do with your friends on the weekend. What’s not to love? September and October are harvest season. Embrace it. Try new foods, find a new recipe and cook dinner with friends.

Whether it turns out well or not, you’ll have stories to tell. Just don’t burn down Rosenthal Commons in the pro-cess.

Campus Greek life philanthropies explained

Greek letters. They’re everywhere. With such a large percentage of Greek affiliation at Transyl-vania University, one may wonder “what’s the big deal?” With this in mind, The Rambler sat down with the philanthropy chairs for each of Transy’s fraternities and sororities. Here’s a look at the phil-anthropic side of the eight Greek groups on cam-pus:

Erica ClarkCampus Life Editor

Erin BrockEditor-in-Chief Sponsored Charity: Ju-

venile Arthritis Foundation and other forms of arthritis re-search

Most Successful Event: Strike Out, an annual event where teams can sign up and pay a certain amount for an afternoon of bowling. A portion of the proceeds is donated to arthritis research.

Plans for this year: “We hope to increase the num-ber of direct-service projects we participate in on Tran-sylvania’s campus,” said sophomore Kimberly Shain. “While we, as a chapter, fundraise on campus and par-ticipate in direct service off campus, we have yet to host an event where the two can be combined.”

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Jude’s Research Children’s Hospital and children’s can-cer research

Most Successful Event: “In 2006, Tri Delta set a goal to raise $10 million for St. Jude in 10 years,” said junior Emily Shepp. “Instead, we reached our goal in just four years! Our current goal is to raise $15 million in five years and the Beta Zeta chapter here at Transy has helped with that through events like Delta Dash and Water Wars, our two most successful events.”

Plans for this year: The Delta Dash will take place on Oct. 8, and Water Wars will be held next term.

Sponsored Charity: Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, whose local branch is the University of Kentucky Children’s Hospital

Most Successful Event: Annual Hoop-A-Paluza during spring term, which always raises over $2,000, as well as the talent show during last May term that raised over $1,000 for Kentucky Refugee Ministries.

Plans for this year: “This year we plan on focusing on a direct-service event for the fall semester — Transy builds a house in which we will invite the entire Transy community to help with Habitat for Humanity on a cer-tain day in October,” said junior Bethany Davenport. “We will be partnering with Amanchi, an organization that sets mentors with children who have had incarcer-ated family members. We will also be having a party with the unmatched girls to develop confidence.”

Sponsored Charity: The Red Cross

Most Successful Event: “This past May term Delta Sigma Phi and Phi Mu co-

sponsored ‘Transy’s Got Talent,’ which benefitted the Kentucky Refugee Ministries,” said sophomore John Culbertson. “The talent show featured different Greek and non-Greek contestants performing a variety of acts. We took donations and sold Fro-Jo’s and concessions, raising money for the local organization.”

Plans for this year: A new event in the fall will re-place the Cereal Eat, and monthly service projects will be scheduled.

Sponsored Charity: Muscular Dystrophy Asso-ciation

Most Successful Event: “Our biggest success so far

is our annual MDA walk that we do each May term,” said junior Donald Combs. “We walk from Frankfort (starting at the steps of the capitol) to Old Morrison. This year we raised around $7,000 for the cause and got a good number of people to walk with us from Rupp Arena to Old Morrison.”

Plans for this year: “Staying as actively involved as we can with other philanthropic events, and help-ing with the Lexington hearing-and-speech-impaired school,” said Combs. The MDA walk will once again be held in May term.

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Toys for TotsMost Successful Event:

“Annually we do a Ninten-do-thon,” said junior Eric

Kaper. “Last year we raised a lot of money for Toys for Tots. It’s a campus community event.”

Plans for this year: “We’d like to do more commu-nity service,” said Kaper. “We’re trying to raise money in appreciation for the Lexington firefighters since a fire truck is the mascot for the fraternity. This semester we will also be trying to raise money for the local firefight-ers’ memorial downtown.”

Sponsored Charity: Hole in the Wall Gang

Most Successful Event: “Historically our most suc-cessful event has been King

of the Wing,” said junior Andrew Lock. “This event brought in great donations and participation campus-wide. We will no longer be able to hold this event.”

Plans for this year: “Last year we went to the Hope Center to serve food every Sunday morning during May term,” said Lock. “We hope to set up a similar schedule to help our community.” Other plans include a corn hole tournament and an Olympics event.

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Make-A-Wish Foundation and God’s Pantry

Most Successful Event: Campus Sing and Make-A-

Wish Silent Auction. Last year Campus Sing raised over 11,000 pounds of food for God’s Pantry and pro-duced one of the most entertaining events to date. In addition, Chi Chapter of Chi Omega has, overall, spent 2,300 hours volunteering for the Make-A-Wish Foun-dation and has raised over $51,000 for it.

Plans for this year: “This year, Chi Chapter will be sponsoring a trip for a Make-a-Wish child named Sarah to take an all-expense-paid Disney cruise with her family,” said junior Whitley Hill. “(We also plan for) another successful silent auction and Campus Sing event.”

“What comes next?”First and foremost, students can do a number of

things to appear more appealing to the competitive job market. Susan Rayer, Transy’s director of career de-velopment, and Michael Cronk, assistant director, urge students to plan ahead while they are still in school.

They cited the “four-step plan,” which consists of “effective documentation of skills and experience, re-search into possible job opportunities, networking and the actual job search itself.”

Rayer in particular emphasized the importance of networking, saying that the competition in the job mar-ket is so high that making connections is a sure-fire way to dramatically increase one’s chances of being noticed by a potential employer.

Another useful way to improve your chances of em-ployment is to explore internship opportunities, many of which are listed on Inside Transy or provided by the Career Development Center, located in the basement of the Mitchell Fine Arts Center.

Internships are a wonderful way to get noticed by potential employers as well as obtain job experience that applies to a wide variety of careers. Cronk and Rayer said that the office is making particular efforts to ensure that every student has the opportunity to pursue an internship.

In general, Cronk and Rayer advised that all stu-dents, whether graduates or currently enrolled, should take great pains to make themselves more marketable to employers.

“While professors help students academically,” said Rayer, “the Career Development Center helps students professionally.”

The Career Development Center also has a Facebook page that aims to keep students up-to-date on relevant articles and opportunities available to them.

If those techniques fail, it is important to remember that “waiting it out” is nothing to be ashamed of. Part-time jobs that do not apply to students’ majors can still be essential in the final job search. The time that gradu-ates are not employed in their field can be used to hone their skills for the next job interview, which may very well be the one that lands them the job they desire.

Cronk emphasized the need to be employed, even if it means accepting a less-than-ideal position.

“Individuals who are not employed for over six months are usually not hired again,” said Cronk.

Tackling the job market can be a daunting task, but it does not have to be. Resources abound for students looking for employment, and with enough persistence and effort, their job search can be a success.

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The recent address that President Barack Obama devoted entirely to the employment crisis positively proves that job creation will be one of the most important issues for anyone participat-ing in the 2012 election. So far a major theme of some of the candidates has

been to declare, in typically vague terms, their plans to mobilize the government to create jobs and re-store prosperity.

Our president’s speech high-lighted this trend, especially

when he provided a lengthy list of new government

jobs without addressing the concerns he recog-nized as coming from other government leaders. Particularly entertaining features of the speech in-cluded his repeated authoritarian state-ments of “This is a good bill; you should pass it.”

While this is all very fine rhetoric for po-litical elections, it is based off the brute assumption that the govern-ment has a helpful role to play in this situation, which the

simple state of our economy seems to immediately contradict.

I would like to ex-plore the possibil-ity that o u r

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ernment is not prepared to improve the economy at this time, and that rather our nation’s citizens hold the key to solving the problem.

The nation’s issues with the national debt prevent it from doing much to cre-ate jobs. Right now the U.S. govern-ment is already the nation’s highest employer, paying roughly 17 percent of America’s population according to a Gallup study.

Already this creates a major drain on our national funds that we can’t simply get rid of. Increasing the number of citi-zens on the national payroll will work not only to further public debt, but to also worsen the economy.

Under the current cycle, as the government creates more jobs it will, by consequence, have to increase the amount of funds with which to pay for these jobs, further driving the country into debt. This will, in turn, depreciate the value of the money earned by all jobs in the public sector.

While the unemployment rate, which stands at about 9 percent accord-ing to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is certainly a problem to deal with, the in-creasing public debt, at almost $15 tril-lion according to the U.S. Debt Clock, is a far greater problem that effectively cripples the government’s ability to make a positive impact on this issue.

As difficult as it may be, it is up to the private sector to right this by trying to create jobs. Private enterprise has a vested interest in making sure employ-ment rates increase, considering the fact that only employees who earn a certain salary can become potential consumers of their products in the future.

Independent from government in-volvement, necessity will dictate that the citizens of our country find more innovative ways to better themselves, thus bettering our national economy. Under this system we see a different cycle, one in which private business works to better the economy, which then creates an economy that can plug money into its government.

This system, rather than accelerat-ing the debt crisis, will work to slow and eventually stop it. If there is to be a solution to both the job crisis and the national debt, it must start from the citizens up, not from the government down.

Private sector can be trusted

The president has noted in the past that “solutions come from nei-ther the left, nor the right, but from the center.” But last week’s job pack-age came directly from the right, highlighting just how desperate the president is to pass something with-out a drawn-out, murderous battle with Tea Party Republicans.

As he said himself in last week’s speech, the people “don’t care about politics.” We just want him to pass something — unless, of course, that “something” is actually worse for the American worker than doing nothing at all.

Somehow, that is exactly what the president has proposed to do. Embedded in the package are three Bush-era free-trade deals, which Obama pledged to veto as a candi-date, that he is now pushing as cen-tral parts of the package.

In theory, free trade should be a good thing. It allows companies to produce goods more cheaply by using cheaper labor, which should mean that those same companies lower their prices accordingly and make goods more affordable for ev-eryone by helping to ease inflation.

But in practice, free-trade deals simply boost corporate profits, leav-ing American workers jobless and uncompetitive in the global market.

Inflation as measured by the consumer price index continues to increase unmitigated, and the only beneficiaries are CEOs and foreign workers. Sustainable eco-nomic growth requires trade policies conducive to growth in domestic companies, both large and small, something both Republicans and Democrats refuse to promote.

Free-trade deals with Colombia and Panama are terrifyingly similar

to deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Cen-tral America Free Trade Agreement, which were opposed even by strong free-trade proponents, including Ron Paul, because they are so im-balanced.

Essentially, the American gov-ernment will impose zero tariffs on goods. However, these goods are produced much more cheaply by foreign laborers, and with much more lax envi-ronmental regulations.

Opening free-trade deals with Colombia and Panama means that high-paying, unionized workers in particular will lose their jobs to outsourcing, as corporations can pay laborers in Colombia and Panama to do the same jobs for much lower wages.

Current ly, the only thing that stops corporations from pro-ducing their goods much more cheaply (and with com-plete disregard for the environ-ment) is the very tariffs the Obama administration is asking Congress to repeal.

Though “protec-tionism” has some-how become a dirty word in the modern political debate, it is in some cases (including this one) the only thing that keeps manufacturers from fleeing the United States in favor of foreign workers.

Free-trade concessions eliminate jobs

Transylvania students, already beset by parents and peers asking what we plan to do with our liberal arts edu-cations, may be understandably concerned about the job market after graduation.

With unemployment over 9 percent according to the Congressional Budget Office, and with some states such

as Oregon and California restricting internships due to concerns over fair-labor practices, the situation is one of great concern for students.

Moreover, starting salaries have declined over the past five years from $30,000 to $27,000, according to the Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers Uni-versity.

Beyond even this, while historically unemployment has been lower among recent college graduates (since 1985 it peaked at 6.9 percent, compared to almost 8 per-cent for the nation on the whole), it has equalized with the nation on the whole in the present recession at around 9 percent.

As such, Transy students should have a vested interest in the future of job creation and employment policy by the federal government.

Whether and how the government chooses to act with regards to job (re-)training programs, trade adjustment programs, internship regulations, payroll and other tax

incentives, foreign trade policy and general economic policy will profoundly affect the future of our graduates.

Our columnists this week offer their divergent views on this issue. John Blankenship, our liberal columnist for the week, argues that “free-trade agreements” will en-danger traditionally American jobs. Gray Grisham, our conservative columnist, suggests that the predominant focus should be on private-sector growth.

Whatever the case, there is a silver lining for Transyl-vania students. Most of the jobs we will be taking remain relatively mobile. Lawyers continue to be in strong de-mand. Doctors are needed around the world. Academics can work across borders with relative ease.

Much of the rising unemployment in our nation, ac-cording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is centered on manufacturing losses. It is perhaps some relief, then, that most of Transylvania’s graduates are more likely to enter the service sector of our economy, where our nation still has a trade surplus.

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Fulkerson named HCAC Player of the Week

•Senior Kelsey Fulkerson helped the Pioneers grab a 5-4 win over Anderson University last weekend. Fulkerson teamed up with senior Stephanie Townsend for an 8-3 win at No. 1 doubles. She then had a de-cisive 6-1, 6-2 win at No. 1 singles.

Women’s tennis remains

unbeaten•After a strong showing against

Anderson, the women continued their success with a 6-3 win over Hanover College. Singles winners were Fulkerson, senior Andi Mong, junior Kaitlyn Hizny and sophomore Torsi Haugli. Doubles winners were the pair of Hinzy and Mong and the duo of Haugli and junior Samantha Voss. The women are now 3-0 on the season and 2-0 in the Heartland Conference. The Pioneers host rival Manchester College at 10 a.m. Sat-urday.

Men’s golf captures Centre College Invitational

•The men were led by senior Jus-tin Tereshko, who shot a five-under 67, tying the school record for the lowest competitive round. Some Transy notables were junior Hunter Frazier, who fired a 69, putting him in second, while sophomore Clay Hinton (74) placed sixth. These scores earned them spots on the all-tournament team. Overall, Transy finished with a total of 285.

•The men took second at the Transy Fall Invitational. Tereshko also led the men with a four-under-par 68 opening round and then a 69 for a 137 total. Other contributors for Transy were juniors Stephen Mont-gomery (12th) and Frazier (21st), as well as sophomores Hinton (15th) and Jantzen Latham (61st).

Women’s soccer sweeps College Soccer Showcase

•Women’s soccer came back from a 1-0 deficit Saturday to beat then-No. 3 Otterbein University in a dou-ble-overtime win in the Transy Col-lege Showcase. In this clutch win, first-year Alyssa Kruse tacked on her fifth goal of the season by scoring with 1:24 remaining in regulation. To grab the win in overtime, senior Elizabeth Schmitt found the back of the net off a corner from sophomore Abby Felthaus.

•After a tight first half, the wom-en pulled away from the University of Rio Grande yesterday with goals from Felthaus and fellow sopho-mores Amy Ghibaudy and Zan Hamilton. The Pioneers outshot the Red Storm 20-2 as they tallied their fifth straight win. The women are back in action next Thursday against Maryville College.

Volleyball battled in the Juniata College Invitational

•Transy performed strongly at the Juniata College Invitational in Huntingdon, Pa., over the weekend. In their first matchup the women battled back to take a 3-1 win during the first round against Franklin and Marshall College. First-year Alex Lilly had 12 kills while sophomores Katie Ash and Meghan Bowers had eight each. First-year Lauren Ketron also added seven kills. Senior Re-becca Luking contributed 34 assists. First-year Rachel D’Agnillo had 22 digs while Luking added 12. On Saturday the Pioneers battled hard against Randolph-Mason College in a five-set match to get the 3-2 win in the second round.

•The Pioneers had a decisive 3-0 Tuesday over Spalding University, bringing them to 4-4 on the season. Their next stop is the Centre Invita-tional in Danville, Ky., where they face Fisk University.

Men’s soccer ties Kalamazoo•After a tough loss Friday to

Trine University, the men battled Kalamazoo College Saturday, which ended in a double-overtime tie. Pio-neers goalkeeper Alex Schmitt, a sophomore, had nine saves. Transy’s lone goal came from fellow sopho-more Kyle Smith, his first goal of the season.

After a rocky 2010 season, the Transyl-vania field hockey team started its season off with two decisive wins. In the process, the Pioneers took home the Earlham Col-lege Kookaburra Invitational trophy.

“We started this season with winning our first trophy and we are determined to continue pushing ourselves all season long to bring home more and more wins,” said senior captain Alexis Schuman.

The offseason proved to be challeng-ing.

“We worked incredibly hard and had a good time at it,” said Schuman. “Getting up at 6:30 to run the gauntlet is a whole lot easier when you are surrounded by friends and people who can push you to do bet-ter.”

The preseason was geared to push the team and get them prepared for upcoming contests.

“Preseason was hard — but it was sup-posed to be. We need that intensity to gear us up for the season,” said senior Amelia Reesor, who is also a captain. “That (pre-season) training, combined with our en-ergy and desire to win, really helped push us about the competition at the Earlham Kookaburra Invitational.”

Preseason called for the team to endure three practices a day.

“(This) quickly got us in shape for the harsh and demanding games we played during the tournament,” Schuman said.

Apart from the hard work, the team has also set goals to keep themselves motivat-ed. Not only have their goals pushed them forward, but the coaching staff has as well.

“Coach (Tiffany Underhill) is great about pushing the team and encouraging us at every step along the way,” Reesor said. “We’ve established goals for our-selves and the team, and I think we are just pushing ourselves to achieve those goals and set new ones.”

“To keep motivated we keep a set of goals in our locker room and before every game we go around and say what we are thankful for,” said Schuman.

The players also use previous seasons as a way to keep them moving forward and to push them to get better.

“We look at our past seasons and all the ‘almost’ games and use that as motivation during preseason and before we approach each game,” said senior Laura Hammer, also a captain. “We try and stay positive through the hard practices and just try and have fun when we’re together.”

On the coaches’ side, they are doing their part to keep the ladies motivated.

“We (the coaching staff) keep remind-ing them of the potential we have and the records we can break,” said Underhill.

Along with its tough preseason, the team heads into the 2011 season with a mixture of players from all years.

“The team this year is definitely com-ing into the season at a higher skill level than we’ve been at in the past,” said Re-esor. “The team has gelled together in-stantly, and I think we are all dedicated to

make this the best season in Transy field hockey history.”

“This year we have an excellent line-up of players that are both skilled and determined. Each of us enjoys the game and can’t wait to step out on the field,” said Schuman. “We are a very tight-knit and encouraging group, so we have been working together to push ourselves to new levels.”

Looking forward to their upcoming contests, the women are anticipating get-ting better and hurdling each challenge as it arises.

The strong start is not all the team is after, though.

“(We want to) be a big contender and an even bigger threat for our opponents,” Underhill said.

With a record of 2-2, the women will face Sewanee, the University of the South, Saturday at noon, followed by a bout with Centre College at 1 p.m. Sunday.

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Athlete of the Week: Alyssa Kruse

Just five games into the season, first-year striker Alyssa Kruse has hit the ground running as she begins her collegiate soccer career. A Lexington native, Kruse recently racked up four goals in two games at the Marietta College Showcase.

As a team, Transylvania started its season with a surge of en-thusiasm and well-warranted hype after being voted the preseason No. 1 by the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference coaches and dominating the University of Pikeville in a scrimmage before the official start to the season.

A quick reality check came with a season-opening loss to Cen-tre College. But the team rebounded well by picking up a 4-1 win against Point Park University in the opening game of the Mari-etta Showcase, and then turned in a resounding shutout victory against the hosts, 3-0.

Kruse shined brightly in both wins. Along with a pair of goals in each game, she also contributed two assists against Point Park.

Coach Michael Fulton has been impressed with Kruse’s skill set, and he agrees with the first-year that her speed is her greatest asset.

“Alyssa is a talented player with a good mix of speed and skill, so she causes problems for any opposing team,” Fulton said.

Equally as impressive has been her quick acclimation into the collegiate game.

“Alyssa played at a high level with her club team, and her high school team was very good as well, so her experience puts her ahead of the game,” said Fulton.

Kruse exhibits the quality and intensity of a player several years her senior, blossoming at a stage when many first-year play-ers are still struggling to find their feet.

Kruse credits a large part of her early success to the advice of a club coach.

“He told me that when I came to Transy, I wasn’t a freshman, I was a player,” Kruse said. “It helped me to relax and keep my focus on the game.”

That relaxed focus has served Kruse well, leading to success on the field. In addition, the familial bond she shares with her teammates has allowed her to play without distractions.

“The girls on the team have all made the transition much easi-er on me. They made me feel welcome from the first day,” Kruse said.

Fulton is confident Kruse will continue performing well.“I know she will continue to score goals and only improve as

she gets more experience at this level,” Fulton said. “If she keeps up this pace she will be a candidate for HCAC Freshman of the Year.”

Taylor DeatonStaff Writer

Preparation pays off for TU field hockey team

Abby FergusonSports Editor

First-year Macaulay Schifferdecker, a Louisville native, has performed well in the midfield as part of the team’s early-season success.

MOLLY CRAIN

First-year Alyssa Kruse has already amassed five goals this season. This offensive dynamism has helped the Pio-neers to their current 5-1 record.

MOLLY CRAIN

48 DAYS

until the UK vs. Transy game

Have you ever thought that a painting or a photo was talking to you? Now is your chance to actually talk back.

The two events going on this weekend are the Studio 300 Digital Art and Music Festival and the Morlan Gallery’s new ex-hibit, “Unveiling the Painted Curtain: 21st C Interactive Art.”

The Studio 300 Music Festival is the first of its kind to come to Kentucky and will be hosted at Transylvania. It will fea-ture various manifestations of interactive art and music.

These two events have been brought to campus through the collaborative efforts of Transylvania faculty, including music technology professor Dr. Timothy Polas-hek, and Morlan Gallery director Andrea Fisher.

“It was just a crazy thing Andrea and I decided to do late last year,” said Polas-hek. “If you get out all of the equipment for (a digital arts performance), why not have other artists with you?”

Studio 300 drew the attention of a va-riety of domestic and international artists. While the festival will feature 28 works, these were selected from a total of 125 digital art submissions. The works that will appear in the show hail from at least

eight nations.In addition to visiting artists, the fes-

tival will also feature the work of Tran-sylvania faculty, including Polashek and music professor Dr. Larry Barnes.

Another noteworthy aspect of the festi-val is that it will display the talents of both visual artists and musicians from the digi-tal arena, and promises to feature a wide array of digital genres.

“I think this festival is a really good fit for Transylvania. … It’s just classic lib-eral arts,” said Polashek.

The festival will also involve a lec-ture series component, including talks from two composers and an artist on their works with the applications of digital me-dia.

James Cadwell will discuss the inter-action of Wii controllers on Friday, Sept. 16, at 10:30 a.m. in the faculty lounge. Lecturing artist Adam Kendall will then discuss and demonstrate his creation of “Toys’ Opera” in the Morlan Gal-lery at 2:30 p.m. On Saturday, Momilani Ramstrum will present a lecture-demon-stration called “The MIDI Glove, PD, and Real Time DSP” at 1 p.m., again in the faculty lounge.

The Morlan Gallery is hosting three interactive pieces from the festival. The opening reception of “Unveiling the Painted Curtain” will be 5-8 p.m. on Fri-

day, and the exhibit will be open t h r o u g h Oct. 28.

Besides the festival ac t iv i t i e s there will also be a BYTE ki-osk, an in-t e r a c t i v e station that will fea-ture works by inter-n a t i o n a l artists and composers. The kiosk is located in the lower level of the Mitchell Fine Arts Center across from the Rafskeller and can be viewed at students’ convenience.

Not simply a transient feature of the festival, this kiosk can be used later to display student works.

In addition to several on-campus events, the festival will include a concert at Al’s Bar, a local venue just a few blocks from Transy.

For a complete schedule of the festi-

val’s events, take a look at http://www.transy.edu/music/STUDIO_300/Sched-ule.html.

While “Unveiling the Painted Cur-tain” will be available until late October, there will only be one weekend to catch the festival’s live performances, and all members of the Transy community are encouraged to come out and enjoy it.

“I know people are going to just love it. It’s really fun stuff,” said Polashek.

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•Sept. 16: Several events happen on this day in relation to Studio 300, Transylvania’s first digital arts festival. In conjunction with the fes-tival, Morlan Gallery will open its interactive exhibit “Unveiling the Painted Curtain” at noon. The Mitchell Fine Arts Center isn’t too far, so come out and join the fun! Also, the Gypsy Po-etry Slam, hosted by Bianca Spriggs, will take place at the Downtown Arts Center starting at 6:30 p.m.

•Sept. 17: The Festival Latino de Lexington takes place from 5 to 11 p.m. in the Robert F. Stephens Courthouse Plaza. There will be music, dancing, vendors and fireworks.

•Sept. 20: Is your dorm room looking a little bare? You’ll soon be given a golden opportunity to fix that. There will be a poster sale in Forrer Front Lobby from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on this day.

•Also Sept. 20: In honor of Constitution Day, the Creative Intelligence Series presents a lec-ture by University of Minnesota professor Timo-thy R. Johnson in the Cowgill Center, room 102, at 4:30 p.m. If you’re a political science type of person, or you just want to hear an enlightening lecture, this could be a great use of your after-noon.

•Sept. 21: Canadian Brass performs at 7:30 p.m. in Haggin Auditorium. This concert is this year’s installment of the Smith Endowment Concert Series, which has brought several no-table artists to campus. The group’s repertoire envelops a plethora of genres, so there should be something for everyone. You can pick up your two free tickets to this concert in the Campus Center. Get yours before they’re gone!

Chomet’s “Illusionist” modern masterpiece

I have always felt that animation has a lot of unused potential, in part because our culture tends to synonymize it with children’s enter-tainment. Some visionary animators, however, have managed to step outside of conventions to produce works of astounding beauty and originality. Sylvain Chomet’s “The Illusionist,” nominated earlier this year for Best Animated Feature, is one of those films.

You may remember Chomet as the French animator who startled critics with his quirky comedy “The Triplets of Belleville” in 2003. Here he has crafted a very different kind of film, one that uses his magical gifts for caricature not for garish comic effect but rather to express the melancholy emotions of a life that is fading and another that is just beginning.

Tatischeff is an aging stage magician who finds that time has passed him by: People now prefer pop groups to stage magic. After failing in one music hall after another, he ends up in Scotland, where he befriends a young, presum-ably orphaned girl named Alice.

Alice has all of her capacity for childish wonder intact. She becomes fascinated with the illusionist, believing his tricks to be real, and a bond develops between them.

Tatischeff treats her as he would a daughter, buying her first a pair of shoes and later a nice coat even as his career continues to plummet.

Alice in her innocence does not understand how much he sacrifices for her, nor can she un-derstand his feelings toward her. Crushed by an uncaring world, the illusionist longs to shelter her from the cold realities of life, but knows that he cannot.

The film impresses ever so gently that the loss of innocence, though painful, is a necessary part of growing up, and that this moment of dis-covery can be devastating to the one who walks through life with his or her head in the clouds.

The movie plays out like a visual poem, beautiful yet somber. It sparkles with poignant little throwaway moments.

One scene, for example, finds a clown beaten up by the children he wants to entertain. Later he tries to hang himself in his hotel room, but is interrupted when Alice suddenly stops by to of-fer him some soup. This bit of kindness inspires him to take another chance at life.

Because animation is an art of exaggeration, I believe it can sometimes convey the arc of an emotion, idea, or experience more effectively than live action. The film contains almost no dialogue, nor does it need it. It communicates everything it needs to purely through visual means.

I absolutely loved this movie. In fact, it has gone on to become one of my new all-time fa-vorites. I sincerely hope that Chomet, with his singularly innovative artistic vision, eventually goes down as one of the most important fig-ures in animation, along with Walt Disney and Hayao Miyazaki. If “The Illusionist” is only his second film, I cannot wait to see where he goes from here.

Festival brings digital art and music Sarah Allison

Staff Writer

It’s the start of another academic year here at The Rambler and I’m starting off by sharing with you all the best book I read this summer. It’s called “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” by Lionel Shriver, and there’s a film in the works starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly. Published in 2003, the book won an Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005.

It’s the dark and intense nonlinear psychological tale of a young man who perpetrates a school shoot-ing. Told through the vehicle of letters from Eva, the mother of the eponymous Kevin, to her estranged

husband, the book tells the entire story of Kevin’s life from conception to the crime and beyond. It explores the questions of violence and maternal love — why do mothers love their children, and what happens when they don’t? Are monsters born or created?

Kevin is a problematic character from the start, hos-tile toward his mother from infancy. From early child-hood he displays signs of sociopathy, frequently hurt-ing others on purpose. He does not like games or toys like other children, and his babysitters have a tendency for nervous breakdowns.

Eva never bonds to her son, and often feels as though she is the only one who can see him for what he is. This causes friction between her and Franklin, her husband, who is a loving and self-deluding man with the inability to see the truth in his idyllic family. Things unfold at a frenetic pace as Kevin enters high school, and although the question of “why” is never satisfactorily answered, a few hypotheses are put forth for the reader to ponder.

The novel walks a fine line. It is not interested in laying blame for the outcome of Kevin’s life. In-stead it sensitively deconstructs the formative events of Kevin’s development and displays all the victims:

those Kevin shot, their families, his family and pos-sibly even Kevin himself.

None of the characters are perfectly likable, but by the end of the book I felt bonded to them anyway. They are people making real and concrete mistakes, which are sometimes painful to contemplate. The story is as absorbing as it is disturbing and takes the reader on a journey inward as well as outward.

This is not recommended for those with low emo-tional stamina, as it is one of the most affecting and intense books of my lifetime so far. Still, for you who enjoy a side of thinking with your reading and don’t mind a few tears (and there will be tears), I suggest you tab over to Amazon.com right now for the procure-ment of your own copy. If you have even the slightest interest in what I’ve described, you won’t regret it.

As always, I’m on the lookout for more books to read and review. If you know of a book you would like to see in this spot, please toss me an email at mabo-rie12@transy.edu. The Rambler is a student organiza-tion and we want to know what you want to read. I would love to hear from you.

‘WNTAK’ intense but absorbing

COURTESY OF ANDREA FISHER