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son crowd was from the college or the MEREDITH MCDERMOTT, PHOTO EDITOR
Floyd County community, some in the Paul Rusesabagina rescued 1,268 people during the Rwanda genocide and spoke at the Steven
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WinShape student performs alleged exorcism

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during one of the nightly Bible study sessions held in his
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Google Books settlement writes new chapter for online student research
JESSICA HOOVER
Copy Editor

In the time it takes to decide which

delectable snack to purchase and wrestle
out of a library vending machine, an alter-
native vendor could print you a copy of
your favorite book courtesy of the Espresso
Book Machine.
The Espresso Book Machine is one
example of the growth of electronic
books printed on-demand as a result of
Google Books’ digitization of books in
print. There are currently three university
libraries in the country with the Espresso
Book Machine. They include: University
of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Brigham-Young
University — Pravo, Utah and Missouri
University- St. Louis. The machine allows
students to select a text, pay for printing
and watch the machine print out a personal
copy in minutes. And as of a new agree-
ment with Google Books Sept. 17, students
using Espresso Book Machines may access
and print any of the 2 million books cur-
rently online via Google Books.
Even for schools without the Espresso
Book Machine, the growth of books online
through Google Books will continue to
expand if the New York state courts agree
on the Google Books settlement currently
under review. If the courts approve the
settlement, Google could begin to digitize SHIHO FUKADA/CHICAGO TRIBUNE/MCT
certain libraries’ collections, load them Jason Epstein, co-founder of On Demand, stands with the Espresso Book Machine at New York public library, September 12, 2007.
on the Internet and charge fees for public
access to books still in copyright if the pub- +DUULQJWRQ VDLG WKH *RRJOH %RRNV VHW- ric and writing Michael Mejia also said “It’s hard for me to envision assigning
lisher agrees to terms of payment and dis- tlement represents academic publishing’s he appreciates the increased accessibility electronic assignments online or using elec-
tribution. Items out of copyright would be gradual move from print to online as most to texts for his classes because he doesn’t tronic textbooks,” Lewinson said. “That’s
freely accessible. academic journals are already accessed via have to make sure the whole class has the not to say there isn’t good stuff out there;
School and university libraries would the Web. physical text. I think some of the online textbook stuff is
be offered free reading access to the entire “Even with more books being available “Professors often have to turn in book great, but right now, it’s hard to envision
database, though libraries would have to online to students and academic commu- lists for spring semester to the bookstore assigning things online. I do think student
pay a subscription or work out funding for nities, it will probably take awhile for a in October,” Mejia said. “To have all the UHVHDUFKFDQUHDOO\EHQHÀWZLWKWKHEURDGHU
printing the material. complete transition to E-books to happen, WH[WVÀQDOL]HGULJKWQRZLVDELWGDXQWLQJ access to quality books through Google
This means that a Berry student could which is why we’ll probably be seeing more but if there is a text I want to add to the Books, though. ” Lewinson said.
conceivably go to Memorial Library, access print-on-demand options like the Espresso reading list later as I continue to get new Even with access to more texts through
Google Books and have access to reading Book Machine as online books continue to ideas about the course, it’s nice to know I Google Books online, the free access only
ÀOHVRIERRNVIURP+DUYDUG·VFROOHFWLRQRU JURZµ+DUULQJWRQVDLG can have students easily access additional extends to read-only viewing.
other institutions’ collections. Schools’ free access to the growing readings online.” Belvin said Google Books are often
“I really didn’t know about Google database means the scope of inquiry for Mejia said though he still prefers having cumbersome in that sometimes they don’t
Books until last week when someone men- students of all ages is broader and allows the text in his hands to write on and engage allow you to print, and scrolling through
tioned it in class,” freshman Danielle Buch- students to easily research topics for class with the written product, he said a plus to pages of text can be frustrating.
QHUVDLG´,WZRXOGUHDOO\KHOSZLWKÀQGLQJ discussion that offer a more global per- researching with Google Books is the ease Students said they would like the access
information for class and make research spective. Current education students will of searching within books without having to books online but having a print-on-
easier and more diverse.” EH RQH RI WKH ÀUVW JHQHUDWLRQV RI WHDFKHUV to page through books physically looking demand option would be ideal.
Director of Memorial Library Sherre to integrate these growing databases into IRU VSHFLÀF VHFWLRQV (OHFWURQLFDOO\ VHDUFK- “I really like the idea of having so many
+DUULQJWRQ VDLG WKH ELJJHVW FKDOOHQJH classroom activities and assignments. ing key words in a book saves a lot of time resources so easily accessible, especially
to the project is how to handle the rights “Teachers can incorporate multiple in the research process. IURPELJOLEUDULHVOLNH+DUYDUGµVDLGIUHVK-
and access to a group of books known as global points of view by telling a student Associate Professor of Anthropology man Emily Nicholson. “But I think I would
‘orphan works.’ to go search a different aspect on an issue Anne Lewinson said she thinks students really like having a hard copy of my own to
“Orphan works are the books that just they’re studying in class and not worry are more critical readers and engage better write on and be able to keep my notes and
don’t have the information as to who actu- about students having trouble accessing with reading assignments when the read- mark pages. Being able to print something
DOO\RZQVWKHULJKWVWRWKHVHZRUNVµ+DU- information,” said Associate Professor of ing assignments are in print rather than right there with a book vending machine
rington said. “What Google is proposing is Teacher Education Lynwood Belvin. online. would be weird but cool.”
an opt-out system in which questionable Belvin also said the settlement’s pro- Especially with the emergence of text- Is Berry ready to get a print-on-demand
copyrights or ownership gets put online, posal to allow all schools to have free read- books with increasing amounts of supple- Espresso Book Machine?
and then if the copyright holders are found ing access to the database helps to cut down mentary Web-based material, such as read- “Probably not any time in the immedi-
and can indicate their rights to the work, on the issue of schools not having enough ing, quizzes and even tests, Lewinson said DWHIXWXUHµ+DUULQJWRQVDLG
the work could be removed from free texts and books for entire classes. it will take awhile to transition to thinking
access.” Assistant Professor of English, rheto- in that mode of electronic teaching.

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LAUREN NATION
Staff Writer
Weekends can mean sporting events or a day to
sleep past noon. But at Berry, last Saturday meant the
second farmer’s market.
The Berry Enterprise Student Team organized
the Farmer’s Market that was held in the Clara
Bowl despite the week of rainfall. The event was not
rained out until the last hour, leaving plenty of time
for market festivities. With the showing of live ani-
mals, the market could not be moved inside.
Vendors were made up of residents from the
Rome-Floyd area and Berry. Besides the beloved
farm animals, such as rabbits, cows and chickens
the farmer’s market had a wide variety of intriguing
things to experience. There was jewelry, furniture,
TA K E Y O U R
jams and jellies, beauty products, and cakes — all of
which were homemade by Berry’s neighbors. Fresh
okra, squash and many other varieties of vegetables H E A RT
were available.
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body to become aware of the student enterprises and
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their progress,” senior Erika Chester, a member of YOU COU LD LIVE LONG E R.
the Berry Student Enterprise Team said. The farm- Walking is good medicine for your heart. In fact it’s great medicine. Did you know that
er’s market was certainly an indication of the team’s for every hour of regular, vigorous exercise we do, like brisk walking, we could live two
dedication and love for what they do. hours longer? Imagine, if we could walk to the moon and back, we could live forever.
Freshman Lisa Means said she enjoyed the farm- Take your heart for a walk today. Join the Start! Movement at
er’s market. americanheart.org/start or call 1-800-AHA-USA-1. You could live longer.
“The market was so well-organized, and every-
thing they had to offer was very fun to look at,”
Means said. “I hope more students will be aware of
this event next year.”
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Spicing up drama education
Academic departments are
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they serve their purpose to the
best of their ability. This goes
the same for the Berry College
Theatre Company, which may
not be able to draw in “big tal-
ent” but works with what it has
to be successful.
Although one may think that
a theater department would
be highly focused on perfor-
mance, there are only two act-
ing classes, one beginning and
intermediate, at Berry. John
Countryman, associate profes-
sor of theater, teaches these two
classes as well as other theater
OPINIONS OCTOBER 1, 2009
potential students. However,
Countryman said the depart-
ment is not able to support
such a program.
“[With] our current physical
resources and personnel, [we]
weren’t able to give justice to
that program,” Countryman
said. “[We] felt that it was mis-
leading to attract students on
the basis of a program we were
not in a position to deliver.”
Without a doubt, attract-
ing students to a program is
a cycle. The program has to
offer what potential students
Combining strengths suggests success
want in order to help the pro-
gram grow. Expansion will also
classes and is the Berry Col-
lege Theatre Company’s only
director.
With the faculty’s heavy
work load and the students
missing out on acting instruc-
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department to have an act-
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focuses on technique, offers
private acting lessons and
directs productions.
Otherwise, students mainly
interested in performance are
left with little option to expand
their learning except during
rehearsal if they are cast in a
production. This training situa-
tion might not be the most con-
ducive to learning without any
additional coaching.
One must keep in mind that
Berry offers a bachelor of arts
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arts degree, which is a broader
type of arts education.
“The main mission is to pro-
vide theater knowledge and
training in a liberal arts setting,
which means that we want to
be able to groom our students
to be good theater generalists,”
Countryman said.
The department encourages
its students to be well-rounded,
but at the same time students
wanting specialized training
may be missing out. The musi-
cal theater concentration has
been removed, for example,
which loses another group of
The Carrier editorial reflects a consensus of the The Carrier’s editorial board.
need proper faculty and sup-
port to improve the program
and hopefully draw in stu-
dents. Currently, the program
attracts quite a few non-theater
majors, and with Shorter Col-
lege’s reputation as the theater
and arts school of Rome, the-
ater students may be looking
elsewhere.
Drawing more students is
essential to performing larger
productions, such as musicals,
which attract a bigger audience.
However, having a smaller
amount of students in the pro-
gram allows each the chance to
gain hands-on, theater-related
training. At a larger school or
a more popular theater depart-
ment, this opportunity may not
be possible.
Blackstone Hall is a func-
tional location for the theater
program, and the department
has used the facility effectively.
But the department could be
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above-and-beyond on produc-
tions with a better stage area
in the E.H. Young Theatre and
classrooms tailored to scene
design with drafting tables, for
example.
As a small program, the the-
ater department has limitations
and could gain more by expan-
sion, but it offers an intimate
learning and cultural environ-
ment for those who make use
of it.
CORY PITTS
Asst. Sports Editor
The month of October means
many things: a drop in tempera-
ture, colorful leaves, pumpkins
and costumes; but to sports fans,
the thing it’s most known for
is playoff baseball. In October,
America’s pastime changes from
a calm, fun and peaceful sport
to nail-biting, pressure-packed,
win-or-go-home baseball.
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their wild card spots in the post-
season, a few teams have already
clinched a playoff berth. One
of these teams is the National
League West champion St. Louis
Cardinals, who I think will be
the future 2009 World Series
Champions.
The Cardinals have all the
tools needed to take home the
trophy this season, including
pitching, chemistry, coaching,
offense and experience. The Car-
dinals last won the World Series
in 2006, and the team still con-
sists of many of the same players
from that season. The Cardinals
are led by head coach Tony Lar-
ussa, the same coach who in 2006
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ship and has been the coach since
1982. In fact, Larussa is only the
second coach to win a cham-
pionship in both the National
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League’s probable most valuable
player, Albert Pujols, leads the
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majors in homeruns with 47, sec-
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Matt Holliday.
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ting average, 24 homeruns and
105 RBIs to the team. This addi-
tion no longer allows opposing
pitchers to walk Pujols but forces
them to pitch to him because of
the threat of hitting behind him
in the order. If these two play-
ers produce it will be a successful
postseason for the Cardinals.
The Cardinals are dangerous
offensively, but they may be even
stronger pitching-wise. They are
the only team in the major league
with three starters with 15 wins
or more. These starters include
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and a 3.24 ERA.
With pitching being one of the
most important, if not the most
important, aspect to a success-
ful playoff team, the Cardinals’
odds are good. Critics have been
skeptical of the Cardinals, saying
that their closer Ryan Franklin is
questionable.
They are correct in saying the
majority of championship teams
have a stronger closer. The Yan-
kees had Mariano Rivera, and
the Red Sox last season had Jon-
athan Papelbon.
On the other hand, Franklin
had a strong year for the Car-
dinals, accumulating 38 saves,
which is more than Papelbon,
and a 1.95 ERA, which is almost
identical to Papelbon’s 1.94 ERA.
Franklin’s only issue is the fact
that he has had no playoff expe-
rience. This is the only question-
able player the Cardinals bring
to the playoffs.
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rently have a 90-66 record and are
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tage throughout the playoffs.
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as it has been all season since the
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baseball since July 24.
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with strong pitching support,
will make it hard for any major
league team to beat the Cardinals
this season.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009
Waste burns smokers’ freedom
ERIN
DEMESQUITA
Staff Writer
I don’t know who you are. I don’t
care who you are. What I do know is
that you should probably keep your
cigarette butts off the ground.
The entrance to our beloved Memo-
rial Library is being disrespected. Have
you seen how many cigarette remains
are scattered over the stairs and side-
walk? I’m sure you have because if you
go to the library at all you can’t miss
this cigarette cemetery.
There are no excuses for this. Here’s
a fun fact. If you stand in the middle at
the top of the steps there are two dif-
ferent ashtrays no more than 12 paces
to your right and to your left. Trust
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measurements.
Berry College offers a privilege. This
institution allows students, faculty and
staff to smoke on campus. Some might
Provoking thought reaches limitation
NICOLE
NESMITH
Asst. Features
Editor
How far is too far? I ask myself this
from time to time on various issues,
and it usually is decided by what I
deem appropriate.
A few days ago I read an article on
CNN headlined “Teacher disciplined
for unusual creative writing assign-
ment,” and it caught my attention. I’m
not sure what I was expecting, but it
certainly was not what I read.
According to the article, a teacher
presented her senior class with the
essay question “If you knocked your
brother down, would you urinate in
his mouth?”
“Wow,” was my reaction. Well, hon-
estly, I laughed really hard before think-
ing about it. It was almost too ridicu-
lous to take seriously. I didn’t really
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the rest of the article, I found out that
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the teacher was trying to “motivate”
her students, it was not related to their
reading material at all.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Last week a dear friend of mine
left WinShape and Berry College after
enduring 10 months of harassment at
the hands of students from both cam-
puses. Ironically, she moved out of her
dorm in the middle of the WinShape
College Program’s Community Week.
Being an alumnus of both Berry and
WinShape, I am deeply grieved by
what has taken place, and I long to see
both organizations address the prob-
lem directly.
The leaders of WinShape are great
people with very idealistic views on
what the program is as well as what it
could be. Idealism aside, the program
tends to breed entitlement among its
students. The program is a competitive,
Christian character-based scholarship.
For some students, acceptance
into the program sends the message
that they have arrived and are above
reproach concerning anything that they
OPINIONS
not consider this a privilege, but to a
smoker it is. In Rome, ours is the only
campus that doesn’t require you to be
in certain designated spaces to smoke.
Georgia Highlands College consid-
ers itself a smoke-free campus, which
means you either have to leave the
grounds or sit in your personal vehicle.
To me, hot-boxing it in your car doesn’t
exactly make for a pleasant perfume.
The two other main college cam-
puses in Rome, Georgia Northwestern
College and Shorter College, have des-
ignated smoking sites that require, for
example, that you travel to a secluded
benched area to light up. It’s not a very
common privilege to be able to walk
anywhere in the fresh air and smoke
freely on a college campus. So I ask you,
why would you want to disrespect the
allowances you’ve been given?
Memorial Library welcomes you
with columns of strength, wide steps
of acceptance, a door with automatic
open arms and a stone-faced presence
offering you wisdom and knowledge.
It’s pretty “ballsy” of you to offer it
your spit-soaked cigarette leftovers
in return. I wouldn’t judge a person’s
of creativity and “thinking outside the
box,” I’m still not sure what the teacher
was trying to accomplish.
If the teacher was really just trying
to motivate her students, couldn’t she
have considered other topics that were
just as thought-provoking? Her job not
only employs her to utilize a creative
license but also to act tactfully. There
are many students that probably felt
very emotionally blocked by that ques-
tion. Although I can understand pos-
ing an essay question in order to allow
the students an opportunity to work
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simply not appropriate.
Acting tactfully in that same situ-
ation would have meant considering
the feelings and reactions of all the
students. Some students simply don’t
know how to handle topics like that
and would feel very uncomfortable.
Generally, I am very open to hard top-
ics that press buttons and are a little
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feel uneasy.
Take any hard topic or any contro-
versial issue like abortion, gay mar-
riage, death penalty, assisted suicide,
etc., and I will do my best to write out a
thoughtful, well-researched essay that
addresses the points given. However,
if a professor gives me the essay topic
“If you knocked your brother down,
say or do. This attitude lends many
students to pass legalistic judgment on
other students according to their own
values and expectations.
This last week, the results of this
entitlement were worse still. The pro-
gram’s leadership, who pride them-
selves on reinvention and rethinking,
must sit down, put their heads together,
and address the sense of entitlement
that is growing among their students.
More importantly, Berry College’s
Viking Code must include language
that requires a more victim-centered
approach to dealing with charges of
harassment and other similar crimes.
Trained counselors or victim service
providers should attend every meeting
between Berry staff and a student com-
ing forward with accusations of harass-
ment. This will ensure that Berry is
focused on the victim’s needs rather
than on expedient results.
CAMPUS CARRIER PAGE 5
character on the grounds of litter; how-
ever, it doesn’t make me smile when I
see it happening.
I’m sure we are all guilty of tossing
something onto the ground at some
point in time, but at the same time we
can’t make excuses. It is always possi-
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even if there are no ashtrays available.
For example, there is actually a porta-
ble ashtray product that can be carried
in your pocket or you could get a little “What game would you add
creative and put the extinguished butt
in the outside of your pack for the time to Mountain Day
being for a makeshift holder. Either
way you look at it, your reasons for
Olympics?”
“butt-tossing” are not valid.
This is not a nasty nod in the direc-
tion of the nearest smoker; it’s a plea
for a conscience. As an adult, I have
no problem saying that I like to have a A dance-off.”
cigarette just as much as you, my little
library litterbug; however, as a mature
adult, I also have respect and common
sense enough to know where my butt
belongs. It will only take a second to
take those 12 steps, so, please, take that Erica Raisanen
walk, friend, and put your butt where Senior
it belongs.
would you urinate in his mouth?” Charades.”
don’t expect anything more than mini-
mal text that includes my name, date,
class and assignment.
How would I answer that question?
If I actually had that essay topic in front
of me I could answer nothing more
or less than “No, I would not urinate Alex Whitaker-Lea
in my brother’s mouth.” Maybe I’m Senior
missing the point and perhaps I’m not
“thinking outside the box,” but I think
it was overall very tasteless.
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is now being closely monitored so that
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nitely think this is a good idea, because
swimming.”
although the teacher was certainly out
of line in assigning that question, she
had a history of motivating her stu-
dents and had a great presence in the
school.
I’m not sure whether it was a lapse
in judgment or not, but the article Taylor Thompson
poses an issue that all teachers should Sophomore
be aware of. It is a teacher’s job to not
only offer knowledge to students but
to also show great care in presenting
ideas. Teachers are monitored more
closely and are expected to think about
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Although they should employ their cre- Hot dog
ative license and go beyond the bland eating contest.”
routine that school often imposes, they
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Seth Smith
Junior
My friend silently stood under this
harassment for 10 months and then
was given about one week to break that
silence. She should have been given
compassion, understanding, time and
options rather than blame, frustration Blind tag.”
and ultimatums.
All students would do well to
remember this story and take part in
voicing their concerns to Berry Col-
lege. My innocent friend was viciously Alisha Dosani
harassed by other students, but it just Sophomore
as easily could have been someone
else. All students have a stake in how
Berry responds to these oversights. If
it happens again, closer to home, what
care would you want your friend to
receive? LETTER SUBMISSION POLICY
Letters to the editor must include a name, address and
- Jesse Demonbreun phone number, along with the writer’s class year or
(08C) title. The Carrier reserves the right to edit for length,
style, grammar and libel.
E-MAIL: campus_carrier@berry.edu
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palooza
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of this World
Marthapalooza is an all night
carnival that will be taking place in
the Clara Bowl from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Saturday. Entry for students, faculty
and staff is free with an ID. Entry for
adults is $10, and for children under 12
years old, it is $5. However, all adults
and children must be accompanied
by someone with a Berry ID.

SYDNEY BURFITT sponsered by the Black Student Alliance. Their One of the things the Marthapalooza Committee
Features Editor booth will feature "Men in Black" pictures and always acquires for the night is an assortment of
an alien bottle toss. Other booths include games rides.
such as "Star Wars" trivia and laser tag. The Young “We will be having four rides this year including
Democrats are even featuring pictures with a space- the Ferris wheel as always. We will also have a moon
This Saturday night, students will come together
ready president. walk and specialized picture taking,” said Rebecca
to participate in the all-night carnival that is
Reagan, Marthapalooza entertainment chair. “We
Marthapalooza.
have some really great rides this year, and I am
Marthapalooza is organized and held by students, G
really hoping that they go over well.” LO
many of whom get involved through on-campus BIN
“I really enjoyed going to Marthapalooza last BY
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groups who host booths at the carnival. This year RI B U
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year,” sophomore Hilary Gann said, “and I’m really T
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looking forward to the moon walk on Saturday.”
that will be going on throughout the night. When
Besides the rides, there are several other events
the night ends, campsites will be available in the
that will be taking place throughout the night,
Clara Bowl until 10 a.m. Sunday morning. Every
including an outdoor movie "Space Jam" at the end
year Marthapalooza has a unique theme, and this
of the night.
year is no different. This year, Marthapalooza will
“We will also have four different bands playing
be “Out of this World.”
during the night. Two are from Berry, and two are
“‘Out of this World’ means anything dealing with
off-campus bands,” said Reagan.
outer space: planets, cosmos, aliens, rocket ships,
“I think I’m looking forward to the rides and the
spacemen, stars, you name it,” said sophomore
bands the most,” Petrowski said.
Kelsey Petrowski, Marthapalooza theme chair. “We
Besides the rides and booths, there will also be
really wanted the theme to be fun for everyone. The
free food given away throughout the night, including
committee thought a lot about it during the summer,
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different ideas. There were a ton to choose from,
The Marthapalooza Committee has planned
but in the end, we thought outer space was unlike
every aspect of the night from the entertainment, to
anything Berry has done before.”
the food and the budget.
The theme committee worked to integrate "Out of
“I absolutely love working on the Marthapalooza
this World" into many aspects of Marthapalooza.
Committee. It is so exciting to see how an abstract
“Marthapalooza is only a few years old, and
idea that a group of students talk about for a couple
we are constantly trying to make the theme more
months culminates into an actual event, and it’s the
exciting and have it touch on all aspects of that
largest event on campus at that,” Petrowski said. “It
night,” Petrowski said. “The theme is in the
"I am most excited about Obama in a space is a ton of work, but it is well worth it, especially
decorations, both in Krannert and in Clara Bowl the
suit for pictures," said sophomore Lesley Lane, when you hear people in Krannert talk about how
night of. It’s in the posters, T-shirts and movie, of
Marhapalooza booth chair. "I have to say, that is awesome the lobby looks or when people the night
course, but it is also in the rides, the give-aways and
probably the second thing I'm going to do after of Marthapalooza really get into the theme. It’s a
the club-sponsored booths.”
getting a funnel cake of course." very rewarding experience.”
One of the "Out of this World" booths will be
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JESSICA GILKER
Staff Writer
MEGAN GILKER
Opinions Editor
Combine bruises, blood, mud, a map and 16-plus miles,
and you’ve got a scavenger hunt on steroids.
The 7 Hills 3 Rivers Adventure Race proved to be an
unexpected and unforgettable survival game for the “G”
Team. Our 61-year-old father completed our three person
team. Although we admired him before, he gained more of
our respect after this exploit.
We knew that when required equipment included tire
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and one liter of liquid, we might be in over our heads. But
that didn’t stop us.
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buckets containing paper with the names of Rome’s hills
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us under the bridge near Olive Garden on a trail torn up
by leading bikers (basically all the other competitors). At
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rocks, then sprung up saying “Keep going, I’m alright!” as
blood ran down her leg.
Our mountain biking experience was more of a race to
see who could drag their bikes the fastest than a speed race
through the woods. After moving through the marshy area,
we had the real mountain biking experience, which made
making us wish we had participated in mountain biking
classes and hope that we wouldn’t face-plant in the gravel.
We made it to all our checkpoints and re-routed through
the marsh back to the start of the race to shed our biking
gear and to take off to complete the short running section,
during which the rain started.
Our next section included a bike ride through the heart
of Rome, which gave us a chance to enjoy the city, river and
cemetery sites we never had the opportunity to see before.
Given an etching sheet at the top we were told we could
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among the headstones. It was not “Where’s Waldo?” but
“Where’s Ramdle?”
Leaving behind the spirits through a concrete pipe, a
volunteer yelled down helpfully that we should go across
sideways with our bikes in front of us. The volunteer con-
gratulated us and wondered if there was anyone behind
us, which there wasn’t. We were troopers.
Next, the “Hobo Coin Search,” where we had to retrieve
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We had the choice between two very steep, slick hills to
drag bikes and ourselves up. We decided to make a noble
effort to go up the hill without the rope and line, and even
though we clung to roots and rocks, we failed. The cliff
with the rope proved to be much easier to get our three
bikes up.
Our next portion of the race was to canoe down the
river. It was easy enough. Unfortunately, we kept missing
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the only reason we didn’t just end up all the way down-
stream; the current was moving so fast. But we didn’t go
too far as the Rome Rescue Team took us out of the water
due to the “severe thunderstorm warnings.”
Next, we meandered through Rome only to get lost
again because our dad relies on two directionally chal-
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faithfully standing under an umbrella, our unfailing sup-
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through Rome.
Maybe we wouldn’t survive in the wild, but we would
die together trying, and that’s all that matters.

CANDLER HOBBS, ASST. PHOTO EDITOR CANDLER HOBBS, ASST. PHOTO EDITOR KATIE KEEGAN, VIKING FUSION NEWS PRODUCER

Guitarist ‘evokes’ Livestock to steal the show

musical images
GORDIE MURPHY
Asst. Graphics Editor
Music is an art that takes a long time to
master. In learning any instrument there
are numerous factors to study and prac-
tice before the whole thing comes together
in a presentable whole. Saturday night I
had the opportunity to go see a guitarist
who has risen to a level of mastery over
his instrument—the classical guitar.
Lucasz Kuropaczewski is a Polish gui-
tarist who has been studying his art for
18 years, and the time spent shows.
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is capable of pulling in all
of the aspects expected
of a good classical
musician: technical
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tic expression
and stage pres-
ence, but Kuropac-
zewski manages to
do so.
One of the things about
Kuropaczewski’s playing that stood out to
me was sheer technical virtuosity. Being a
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can be to play swiftly and clearly at the
same time, but Kuropaczewski man-
aged it almost effortlessly. His selection
of pieces represented his ability to play
at blinding speeds while still sounding
each note with clarity—pieces that would
make most of us cringe if we had to come
up against them.
I was impressed that he managed to
play so quickly while maintaining his
expression and interpretations of the
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the notes to utilize tricks like changing
the dynamics or the tempo or timbre to
make the piece more interesting. Watch-
ing him play I could see the hours of prac-
tice behind every movement as he carried
out the functions dictated by a very care-
fully written program that he had obvi-
ously spent a long time scripting.
These things came together to
present what was
Kuropaczewski’s big-
gest talent: the ability to
evoke. Music tells a story, I
think, the way many other forms or
art do, even music that doesn’t have
words. This was clear listening to
Kuropaczewski play. He chose as one
of his pieces for the evening a collec-
tion of traditional Polish folk tunes,
and suddenly, listening, I found myself
no longer in America but transported
back in time a hundred years to Poland
where a story of Kuropaczewski’s imag-
ining unfolded before me.
Capturing an audience’s imagination,
especially without such an accessible
convention as spoken language, is a dif-
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know I have studied for some time, and
(Begining left) Dalton Sharpe, Ashley Milam, Meaghan Walters and
I suspect that many other musicians have
Megan Gafnea will show some of Berry’s prided livestock at Coosa Valley
done the same. It is an inspiring thing to
Fair next week. A team of six students will show calves on Wednesday Oct.
witness someone else with the capacity of
7 at 1 p.m., and a team of four will show lambs on Thursday Oct. 8 at 5:30
an expert, and it is an excellent chance to
p.m. The students have been working with the animals every day since the
learn.
school year began.
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SWWC aims to improve society through literature
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of writing.
LAUREN PRATER
Viking Fusion Staff Writer
It is “the job of a novelist” to enact change in her society,
author Sharyn McCrumb said.
While the broad range of topics in the Southern Women
Writers Conference included inadequate health care, abuse
and molestation, racial tensions, NASCAR and one’s con-
nection with nature, each speaker showed a desire to insti-
gate improvement in society through literature.
McCrumb quoted Charles Dickens, “never be inducted
to suppose that I write merely to amuse or without an
object.”
Mab Segrest’s “My Mama’s Dead Squirrel: Lesbian
Essays on Southern Culture” is a light-hearted lecture on
her ideas of southern humor. The subject of Thursday’s
discussion was her newest project on Milledgeville’s Cen-
tral State Hospital, Georgia’s largest facility for persons
with mental illness and developmental disabilities. How-
ever, during the 1950s it was the largest in the world and
the worst in the country.
Segrest said patients were left in various situations,
some isolated, many overcrowded, and all suffering from
poor sanitation and little medical attention.
The fear of being stripped of all civil rights and thrust
into an insane asylum without really being mad, only dif-
ferent and therefore “eccentric,” worked its way into south-
ern consciousness and literature at the time. Many patients
were committed not for what are now considered psycho-
logical ailments, but merely for defying social norms.
The voices of the Milledgeville patients “reverberate in
every county of the state…If fully realized [they] would
confront us today with our own spiritual inconsistencies,
our own new normals, how we limit our own imagina-
tions, our visions, our exaltation, in fear that somebody
might say we are crazy and carry us away,” Segrest said.
Segrest wove intellectual and spiritual discussion into
her research of the social concern of mental health.
Senior English major Ashley Bollinger said she enjoyed
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Sharyn McCrumb, an award winning North Carolina native,
whose books celebrate the history and folklore of Appalachia,
spoke during the conference.
when Seagrest “engaged with the audience” during her
presentation.
Author, journalist, poet, playwright, opera singer and
Grammy Award Winner Thulani Davis presented Friday
morning.
“I didn’t understand my own southernness as a writer
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until I started writing ‘1959,’” Davis said
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focused on her most recent work, “My Confederate Kin-
folk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her
Roots.”
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ing the Civil War shows. From the once-nameless photo-
graphs and almost-forgotten stories of her family, Davis
“knitted from their experiences a narrative to explain her
own existence.”
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work while attending graduate school at Virginia Tech; she
said the professor didn’t care for the idea. Several years
later she wrote “St. Dale,” the retelling of “The Canterbury
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of Virginia Award and the Appalachian Writers Associa-
tion Book of the Year Award.
“My books are like Appalachian quilts. I take brightly
colored scraps of legends, ballads, fragments of rural life
and local tragedy, and I piece them together into a complex
whole that tells not only a story, but also a deeper truth
about the culture of the mountain South,” McCrumb said.
McCrumb said she uses a multicultural approach in her
works, such as mixing auto racing with a 14th century text,
to reach a broader audience and alter their views on a par-
ticular subject.
It was “especially gratifying to hear from newcomers
and returning participants that they felt energized and had
a strong sense of motivation coming out of the conference,”
James Watkins, associate professor of English, rhetoric and
writing, said.
Christina Bucher, associate professor English, rhetoric
and writing, said the opportunity to discuss the process of
playwriting with Marsha Norman and then seeing “Get-
ting Out” performed by Berry students was a “unique and
amazing experience.”
The directors said they are appreciative of both the stu-
dent volunteers and the Berry community for supporting
the conference.
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Mountain Day full of athletic history

Varsity sports
aim to maintain
historic excel-
lence during
homecoming
weekend
ASHLEY MCINTYRE
Sports Editor
Although Mountain Day has
become a time-honored tradition
at Berry, sporting contests are a
fairly recent addition to the week-
end’s itinerary.
Less than a decade after
Mountain Day became a tradition
to honor Martha Berry’s birthday
in 1914, sporting contests became
a regular feature of the event. The
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to play “outside athletics” (as
opposed to strictly intramural
sports) in 1921.
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book “The Viking Tradition,” the
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Mountain Day was not played
until 1970, when the men’s soccer
team played Erskine College from
Due West, S.C. Even then, inter-
collegiate competition at Berry
was a young concept. The school
entered the Georgia Intercolle-
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which presented a closer version
of the intercollegiate athletics as it
is known today. Much like Berry’s
current conference, NCAA’s Divi-
sion III, the GIAC did not offer
athletic scholarships. The confer-
ence was also strongly focused on
basketball and baseball.
In recent years, the Vikings
have been virtually undefeated
during Mountain Day weekend.
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and 4-1 at home, will play two
matches: one against Faulkner
University on Friday night at 7
p.m. and another against Colum-
bia College on Saturday at 4 p.m.
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season.
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season record of 3-1-3.
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Head coach Richard Vardy said
of the women’s soccer team, has Above: The Berry College annual
that playing during Mountain
been with the Lady Vikings since Mountain Day Alumni soccer game,
Day weekend is a good experi-
1996, and since 2004 the Lady played in 1981.
ence with lots of good memories.
Vikings have been 4-0-1 during
“We try to schedule a good Right: Berry’s Viking mascot was
Mountain Day weekend.
game on Mountain Day knowing revealed on Mountain Day in 1987.
“Mountain Day always draws
that we will have good crowds The student body and Varsity Club
a big crowd, and we’re going to
and be even more motivated,” he selected the mascot as the “Viking”
treasure the moment of having so
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Lacrosse recruiting for 2010 Intramural Standings

6v6 Soccer League Flag Football
The NCAA’s sponsorship of like Berry that do not have the budget to give their
coaches this year to prepare. Instead, the coaches Standings Standings
lacrosse leads to the addi- are brought in the summer before the season and
have to scramble to do many things, like recruit
tion of men’s and women’s an entire roster in two to three months.
Men's Upper Men
programs at Berry. Both coaches have experience in starting col- 1. Stepdads (4-0) 1. Bus Drivers (3-0)
lege lacrosse programs from scratch. Delfausse led 2. Kick, Save 2. Geriatric
Adrian College’s men’s squad in Adrian, Mich., in & A Beauty (2-2) Domination (2-0)
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experience has helped him to learn to be patient 3. Ray John (1-2-1) 3. Trendsetters
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“slower process” when a coach is trying to estab- 4. El Pollo Loco (0-3)
Lacrosse has gained immense popularity in lish a program that recruits have never heard of
the Southeast in the past decade. Now that Berry before. Delfausse said he sees a new program as
has joined the NCAA, a lacrosse program has also a blank sheet and a new chance to develop a pro- Women’s Blue Lower Men
been added. gram into a household name at the Division III 1. Soccer Ballers (3-0) 1. Blood & Guts (2-0)
Athletic Director Todd Brooks said the move level. 2. Viking Rage (4-1) T2. Stepdads (2-1)
of adding the sport was “strategically looked at Williamson said he also saw how hard it could
3. Berry Bombshells (2-2) T2. Average Bro’s (2-1)
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move to add the sport was made soon after. The for the Belmont Abbey team, he said he tried to 5. Kibbles & Vick (1-2)
NAIA did not sponsor lacrosse as a varsity sport. use the fact that Belmont Abbey was in a confer- Women’s Silver 6. David Esbeck (0-3)
However, the NCAA does, making it a more pop- ence with “established lacrosse programs” to his
advantage. By mentioning the other programs,
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ular sport in the NCAA. The next step in the pro-
cess would be hiring coaches for the men’s and recruits knew the kind of competition they would 2. Wingnuts (2-2) Women
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coaches were hired a year ahead of their inau- assistants. Williamson and Delfausse said they
both have candidates in mind and will choose T2. Oh Yeahs! (1-1)
gural seasons. Similarly, women’s lacrosse head
coach Shaun Williamson and men’s lacrosse head their respective staffs by the summer of 2010. 4. What You’ve Got To
coach Chris Delfausse were brought in a year Berry joins Oglethorpe University and Mercer Look Forward To (0-1)
ahead of the 2010-2011 season. Brooks said he con- University in adding NCAA lacrosse teams. 5. Exponentially
siders Berry’s athletics program lucky to have the
budget necessary to allow the coaches a year to
Devine (1-1-1)
recruit, order supplies and prepare facilities. He 6. Berry
said there are a large number of smaller schools Bombshells (0-1-1)
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Exorcism
CONT. FROM PG. 1
The student could not be reached for
comment as of press time.
Harvey Hill, associate professor of
religion and philosophy and an ordained
Episcopal priest, said his Christian tradi-
tion believes in the practice of exorcisms,
but the Episcopal Church does not perform
them often.
“Exorcisms are exceptionally rare,”
he said. “I’d be amazed if even one has
occurred in the Episcopal Church in the
past few decades.”
Hill also said there is a certain process
by which one should go about performing
an exorcism, including enlisting the help of
a doctor or psychiatrist for health and psy-
chological purposes.
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someone might be demon-possessed is
consult a bishop,” he said. “I would also
insist that there be a health professional at
hand.”
Dean of Students Debbie Heida said she
met with Mallory last week and offered
him similar advice.
“My caution to Nathan was that it
could’ve been multiple things he was see-
ing,” Heida said. “So the best thing to do
would have been to seek help from the
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Heida said, while religious experiences
are respected and encouraged at Berry,
she does not feel last week’s events were
appropriate.
“There are obviously a lot of religious
events that go on at Berry each week,”
Heida said. “But a college campus is not a
place for an exorcism.”
Heida also said Mallory was removed
from his position as a resident assistant at
Pilgrim as a result of last week’s events.
Hill said the decrease in recorded exor-
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cisms over the years is due to the discovery
of mental illnesses that had previously been
seen as signs of demonic possession.
“Things that would have been con-
sidered demonic possession in the early
church have since been discovered to be
mental illnesses,” Hill said. “So it’s safe to
assume that the symptoms you’re seeing
aren’t demon possession.”
College Chaplain Dale McConkey said
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tinction between demon possession and a
treatable mental illness.
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or not it’s true demon possession or some-
thing psychological going on,” McConkey
said. “There is really no simple litmus test
to determine whether or not someone is
possessed.”
Last week’s alleged exorcism, how-
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campus.
In October of 2008 students reported an
exorcism on the campus of Columbia Uni-
versity in New York. Several witnesses said
a student’s ailment was “cured” through
the exorcism.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal also
said he performed an exorcism on someone
while he attended Brown University in the
early ‘90s.
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rience performing the supernatural.
“When I was in India, one person had
malaria, typhoid and jaundice, all at the
same time,” he said. “And God spoke
through me and healed the man.”
He said his experience in India showed
him that there is “spiritual warfare” in the
world and that he feels God has chosen to
work through him to impact those around
him.
“What is happening in WinShape right
now is a product of what happened to me
in India,” he said. “When I came back, God
used me for whatever reason.”
Junior Gabe Steinmeyer said while he
believes the experience Mallory describes
is legitimate, he does not believe Mallory
handled the situation properly.
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welcome to submit their work.
“I can believe that Mr. Mallory had a
life-changing experience in India, and I
can believe that he feels extremely passion-
ate because of his experience. But I do feel
that he is mishandling the situation by dis-
cussing the events of that night so openly,”
Steinmeyer said. “An exorcism is such a
personal thing that it should be something
you don’t talk about.”
Mallory said the exorcism is just one
part of a larger movement on campus.
“This is a revival. This is not a WinShape
thing,” he said. “In fact, people from main
campus are some of the most faithful people
that come [to the Bible study sessions].”
While Mallory said there are many, both
in WinShape and on main campus, that
support what he and others are doing, he
also said there are some who disagree with
him.
“The people that are against what is
going on are the same people I would’ve
associated with if it hadn’t happened to
me,” he said. “It’s the people that have
theological issues with it through their
intellectualism. I call it ‘intellectual retar-
dation,’ what I suffered where I literally
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Mallory said he met with WinShape
leadership upon his return from India and
was given their full support.
Hill also said a close community like the
one at WinShape can be negatively affected
by such a sensational event as an exorcism.
“WinShape is obviously a tight, closed-
off community,” Hill said. “And events
like this can be problematic because of the
intensity of the relationships of the people
involved.
WinShape College Program Director
Garland Vance could not be reached for
comment after repeated attempts to contact
him.
Several WinShape students also declined
to comment on this story.
Friday, Viking Fusion interviewed Mal-
lory for the “Casual Friday” podcast. From
the time the podcast was posted Friday eve-
ning until Monday afternoon, the Viking
Fusion Web site received more than 13,000
For more on this story and a
podcast interview with Mallory,
check out www.vikingfusion.berry.edu
Want to get
published?
Send your poetry, prose, photos, and other art-
work to Ramifications by October 7th.
E-mail submissions to
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or send them to campus box 5027.
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hits, a number highly above the weekend
average, Viking Fusion Adviser Mark Han-
nah said.
Heida said the event had sparked a
lively discussion on both sides of the issue.
“It’s obviously fairly polarizing,” she
said. “But we encourage our students to
discuss issues like this.”
Heida said she feels that one of those
issues is the division between WinShape
and main-campus students.
“I think students have responded well by
saying ‘don’t label everyone in WinShape
because of this,’” she said. “We’ve come a
long way in the past few years in terms of
bridging the gap between WinShape and
main campus and realizing that WinShape
students are Berry students that just live
three-and-a-half miles up the road.”
But Mallory said he doesn’t mind the
negative feedback he’s received since last
week.
“Praise the Lord that there are people
out there who are hostile against this,” he
said. “The Bible says those who do right
will be persecuted. Since I’ve come back
[from India] I’m happier than ever and
two-thirds of my friends are gone.”
As for the former student, Mallory said
she is doing well.
“She’s cured of physical ailments, and
she’s happier than she’s ever been,” he
said.
Mallory said he advised those who may
attempt an exorcism in the future to use
caution.
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Satan head-on like that,” Mallory said. “If
the Holy Spirit is not in control of the situ-
ation, you better be physically prepared to
try to survive something.”
Mallory said his Bible study sessions
are open to everyone, and he encourages
those who are skeptical to come. He said
the group meets every night at 9:30 p.m.
either in his room in Pilgrim 205 or at Frost
Chapel on mountain campus.