NOV.
12, 2007 EDITION
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HEADLINES: International Week 2007; IT department
battles spam; PADS needs volunteers; BU Unity Foundation; Lincoln Laureate-Bradley Callard; Historic house on campus; Spirit Squad cheers on; Tim O'Connell "graces" the music scene; Movie reviews--American Gangster and Transformers (DVD); Fashion 101; Opinion--grading inconsistencies, immigration, Da Vinci, Krasa needs a makeover and cell phones/PDAs dependency; Sports--men's basketball
NEWS
SECRETS: Over
the course of the week students submitted their most intimate
secrets to the Psychology/Sociology club. Photos by Fadi
Shihadeh.
Confessions from the halls of Benedictine
University
Story by Rachel Huska
Guest Writer
Confessions and secrets of
relationships, vanity and even rape were brought to light
for the first time when executive members of the Psychology/Sociology
Club unlocked the secret boxes they had placed on campus last
week.
You may have noticed while crossing the hall from Birck to
Kindlon or while talking with friends in the lower level of
Kindlon, a table with a locked box and dozens of pieces of
colored paper on it. The instructions said to "write
a confession or wish,” and the only rules were it had
to be “something you have never told anyone else”
and “completely honest.”
“This was the first time the club has done anything
like this,” said Sonia Chitalia, a senior in psychology
and president of the Psychology/Sociology Club at BU. The
club got the idea for the project from an ongoing community
art project called PostSecret, which was started in Washington,
D.C. in 2004. People who participated had to decorate a four
by six postcard, write their secret on it and then send it
in. “It is supposed to be a cathartic experience,”
Chitalia continued.
For a week, BU students passed these tables. Some never noticed
them. Others read the instructions and were interested. But
some took the opportunity to get something off their chests.
“I had no idea what the project was about, but when
I read the instructions I knew what I wanted to tell right
away,” one BU student said. “I actually felt better
about the situation after seeing it written down.”
According to Chitalia, some of the confessions were humorous
and some had to be thrown out because they contained a name
or just seemed made-up. The idea was not to incriminate anyone
but rather to see what students were doing and thinking.
Some of the confessions deal with sexuality, love, hate, friends
and bad habits. The compiled cards of secrets were given to
Brooke Murphy and other administration and staff members to
look over them.
“I feel that they should
trust our call,” said Mary Boulos, a senior in psychology
and vice president of the club. “We’re students
with good judgment. We’re doing it for the right reasons.”
Added Chitalia, “The
university is a diverse group of people, with diverse religions
and beliefs. We believe that we should be accepting of all
these differences.”
According to Boulos, “There
were a few secrets that Marco [Masini] did not want us to
post. As a compromise…the Psychology/Sociology Club
is to hold an open forum to discuss the secrets that did not
make it into the ‘okay’ pile. Holding this forum
will be beneficial to the ‘What’s Your Secret?’
event because, that way, none of the secrets will disappear.”
“I definitely want
to do this again,” Boulos continued, “We had a
really good response.” The secrets will be displayed
in Kindlon Hall near the elevators by next week. Stop by the
table so you too will be able to see what secrets the students
at BU are hiding.
“Friends of the Library” offers workshops to preserve family photographs
By Jorie Livingston
Business Reporter
Benedictine University’s “Friends of the Library” Program is hosting two, two-hour workshops on Saturday, Nov. 17 on the 5th floor of the library, which are designed to help preserve valuable photographs.
The “Friends of the Library” is an organization designed to help support the library by raising funds to enhance library collections and services. They make it possible to offer programs and events such as these two workshops for the Benedictine community.
Along with the “Friends of the Library,” Benn Joseph, a special collections librarian, helped put these workshops into action.
“We wanted to have a series of interesting workshops available to students, staff, alumni and the surrounding community,” said Joseph. “People have so many photographs in their attic and basement and they just don’t know what to do with them.”
These two workshops have been newly added to Benedictine’s event calendar after some initial contemplation about how they would be received.
“After some discussion about the potential attractiveness of the topic, we decided to offer both the family memories and scrapbooking program,” said Jack Fritts, director of library services.
The first workshop on Nov. 17 is “Preserving your Family History,” from 10 a.m.-noon. This workshop is designed to inform students of the best storage methods but also old papers and documents, films, audio recordings, books, slides, and anything else the attendants have questions about. Joseph, along with Nathalie Wheaton, assistant archivist at Rush University Medical
Center Archives, will be instructing this workshop. Not only will participants acquire storage ideas, they will also receive an archival box filled with file folders, binder sheets, cotton gloves (to handle old photographs), labels and a series of resources to get them started on their project.
The next workshop, “Scrapbooking 101,” follows and will be held from 1-3 p.m. Veteran scrapbooker Ellen Struck is conducting this workshop to help beginners gain ideas about scrapbooking. Each participant is asked to bring a pair of scissors, a 12-inch ruler and his/her imaginations, because during the two-hour session participants will create and complete his/her own scrapbook.
All are invited to take part in these workshops. The cost is a $25 for each workshop or $40 to attend both. There is a 20-person limit per workshop to make it a more intimate atmosphere rather than a lecture. The deadline to register is Nov. 14. For more information about these workshops or becoming a “Friends of the Library” member, please visit www.ben.edu/library/news or contact Joseph at (630)-829-6064 or bpjoseph@ben.edu.
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FEATURES
Reflections of a Mother's Mind
Short fiction story continued from The Candor page
13
By Katherine Braun Dan
Staff Writer
In the middle of the room
stood her precious little girl; mascara and blush mixed in
streaks down her face and she was panting as hard as a marathon
runner. A massive biology textbook laid facedown next to her
daughter’s full length mirror-correction: her daughter’s
full length mirror frame. For wedged in the plush white carpeting,
in thousands of segments, like the knocked over pieces of
a puzzle, was the remains of the once whole, demonic mirror.
Understanding flickered like the rising sun across the mother’s
face.
She looked up to meet the icy blue, penetrating eyes of the
young woman standing as straight and solid as a firmly cemented
pole before her. The mother’s eyes softened and her
face relaxed for the first time in what felt like decades.
Carefully tiptoeing around the knife sharp mirror remains,
she made her way to her daughter’s side and securely
wrapped her arms, still prickled with goose bumps, around
the mature young lady who now presided in this room. Her determined
daughter tightly embraced her mom back and gently placed a
long overdue kiss upon her mother’s finally dried cheek.
SPORTS
BRIEFS
By Andy Schultz
Sports Editor
Bob Corey earns IBFC honor
Senior defensive end Bob Corey was named the
Illini-Badger Football Conference Co-Defensive “Player
of the Week” after having a magnificent game to end
his collegiate career. Corey had nine tackles, five of them
solo, and two sacks in BU’s heartbreaking 7-0 loss to
conference champion Concordia (Wis.).
BU volleyball has three named to
NAC First-Team
Despite their NAC championship loss, three
Lady Eagles were named All-NAC First Team.
Freshman Kayla Leyden and seniors Danielle Mikos and Angela
Vitto earned honors.
Leyden was also named American Volleyball Coaches Association
All-Midwest Region honorable mention. In addition, she was
named to the NAC All-Rookie Team and took home NAC “Rookie
of the Year” honors.
It was the third time Mikos has achieved All-Conference status
and the second time for Vitto. Junior Sarah Flores was an
NAC honorable mention.
Two Lady Eagles earn ESPN honors
Seinor women’s soccer
player Kiera Vizza and senior volleyball star Danielle Mikos
were named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District
5 team.
Because she was selected to the first team, voted on by the
College Sports Information Directors of America, Vizza will
be considered for a spot on the Academic All-America ballot.
Mikos was named to the second team.
Last year, Vizza was an Academic All-America choice, becoming
the first-ever BU female student-athlete to receive the award.
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ANSWERS
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