January 26, 2012Volume XCVI

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The front of Transy’s new bookstore revealed on Third Street earlier this week.

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Campus-wide efforts aim to increase diversity

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Sports, Page 5: Junior Brandon Rash is this week’s Athlete of the Week. Check out the Sports page to read all about it!

Opinion, Page 4: On this week’s opinion page make sure to check out senior Lillie Beiting’s totally serious suggestion to take the next step in being paperless.

With the new strategic enrollment plan in full swing, Transylvania Uni-versity’s admissions office is starting to see an increase in numbers.

“After implementing an astounding 33 new admissions initiatives, the plan is already paying off,” said President R. Owen Williams in his New Year’s email update to the university. “With the early deadline for applications hav-

ing just passed, we have 25 percent more applicants than ever before.”

As of Tuesday morning, applica-tions are now up 26 percent, according to Brad Goan, vice president of enroll-ment and dean of admissions, with out-of-state applications up 54 percent and in-state applications up 17 percent.

“We need make sure the right num-ber of those students come to Transyl-vania,” said Goan.

Concerning future goals for enroll-ment, Goan would like to see an incom-ing first-year class of 348 students.

“It would increase a little bit over the next five years,” Goan said. “If every-thing worked according to plan, we’d be looking (in) the fall of 2016 at en-rollment that was just short of 1,300.”

At the beginning of the fall 2011 term, enrollment was down to a slim 1,029 students, 259 of them being first-years. A strikingly low number, 259 is 55 fewer than the class before it and 51 fewer than the class average over the past five years.

Admissions amps up enrollmentMolly Crain

News Editor

English department welcomes Manning

Poet Maurice Manning has been hired as a professor of Eng-lish and will become active on campus as soon as this term.

“I am delighted to be coming to Transylvania and certainly look forward to this wonderful oppor-tunity,” Manning said in a press release from Transylvania Uni-versity’s public relations.

With both a Master of Arts in English and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing, Manning is expected to be involved in mul-tiple modes of writing. His most recently published book, “The Common Man,” was considered for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Po-etry.

After teaching at several col-leges, including Indiana Univer-sity and DePauw University, Man-ning will be returning to his native state of Kentucky when he joins the faculty at Transy.

Currently the English depart-ment has another search under way — a replacement for Dr. Tay Fizdale, who will retire after this school year. The next candidate, Professor Ryan Paul, will give a job talk titled “Iago and the Duke: Othello’s Critique of Political Ig-norance” today at 4:15 p.m. in Haupt Humanities, room 10.

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Director of Campus Diversity and Inclusion Eduardo Nino-Moreno eagerly anticipates change in campus culture.

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If Transylvania Univer-sity does, in fact, exist in a “bubble,” then that bubble might soon burst, thanks to a new focus on making the school more diverse.

“While we may not be where we want to be with the diversity of our campus in a whole range of things, or even our awareness of what diversity is on our campus, as a campus we have a commitment to it that has been renewed over the last year or so,” said Dr. Carole Barnsley, co-leader of Sexual Awareness and Gender Education (SAGE), adviser to T-Unity and as-sistant professor of religion.

A prime example of this commitment was the hiring of Eduardo Nino-Moreno as director of campus di-versity and inclusion four months ago. Nino-More-no’s background includes over 20 years of experience working for the United Na-tions, which has given him a deep perspective on issues of diversity. He has already become a strong voice for change at Transy. He said

real diversity goes beyond the parameters of race and religion.

“Everybody is part of di-versity. I am diversity, you are diversity, she is diver-sity, he is diversity. … All of us bring something different to the table,” Nino-Moreno said.

President R. Owen Wil-liams echoed that belief.

“I think of diversity as touching the lives of as many different kinds of people as we can make happen on our campus, and including the lives and perspectives of as many as is possible,” Wil-liams said. “I think of diver-sity as being about religious inclusion, racial inclusion, geographic inclusion, inter-national inclusion.”

In fact, international, geographic, religious, racial and cultural diversity are all areas that are being ad-dressed by multiple groups on campus as part of the di-versity focus.

Williams noted that less than 1 percent of Transy’s student population is from outside of the country, while other colleges with enroll-ment similar to Transy range from 2 percent (Centre Col-lege) to 10 percent (Grinnell

College). While 70 percent of Tran-

sy students study abroad, Williams believes that those experiences don’t bring enough diversity to the cam-pus.

“Obviously it’s great

that our students get away and experience the world through their own first-hand travel and education experiences outside of the United States, … but it’s not

See DIVERSITY, Page 4

Ever seen a flamenco dance?

Ale-8-One, Pepsi, Dr Pepper and other drinks are soon to be distant memories on the campus of Transylvania University after a newly reached agreement be-tween university administration and the Coca-Cola Co. to make Coke the official beverage pro-vider across campus.

The agreement, which will last at least five years, will provide Coke with exclusive selling rights on campus, including at sporting events and campus eateries and in vending machines.

Vice President for Finance and Business Marc Mathews, who vetted offers from both Coke and PepsiCo Inc., told The Rambler that a beverage spon-sorship was sought to generate more revenue for the university.

“The Coke proposal was by far the most comprehensive and also the most financially ben-eficial for the university,” said Mathews.

The deal will open avenues that are advantageous for both the campus and Coke. Mathews said that Coke will be allowed to request that Transy host events, such as taste tests, but that such requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Mathews also hopes the part-nership will allow for employ-ment and internship opportuni-ties for students.

The office of campus diversity and inclusion offers students a venue to voice their opinions about diver-sity on campus, as well as to propose events and programs that could foster a “dialogue between civilizations,” according to Director of Campus Di-versity and Inclusion Eduardo Nino-Moreno.

One such event coming to frui-tion is a flamenco performance. The show will begin with an introduction

discussing the period during which this dance style originated in Spain, a time when Jews, Muslims and Chris-tians all lived together in peace.

“The performance … is represen-tative of this mixing and develop-ments in the human condition that came as results,” senior Elliott Foote said.

The performance will be followed by a panel with several guest speak-ers that will focus on diversity.

“We would like our performance and panel to translate into a break-ing down of any and all barriers be-tween Transy and the surrounding community,” Foote said. “We want to stress how fruitful inclusion and coexistence has been in the past and, furthermore, how this relates to our own campus.”

The event will be free and open to the Lexington community.

EtceteraPage 2 January 26, 2012

With one location that is a short walk away from campus and another that delivers the pizza to you, Goodfellas Pizzeria is a primo pizza joint that puts out some wonderful pizza pies.

I actually did not eat at this particular location but chose to have it delivered to campus, which is really convenient considering the weather lately. Their deliv-

ery service is very prompt; I was quite impressed with how soon my pizza arrived. And the fact that they will deliver until 3 a.m. is a real perk. Now let us get to the food.

When I eat pizza, one of the things that I look at first is the crust. An overly thick crust, for me, is hon-estly disgusting, unless the pizza is in Chicago style, in which case it is fine. Goodfellas has a really great thin crust. The bottom of it is perfectly crispy and then the actual crust part is chewy — which I love in a pizza.

Another thing that I love about their pizza is the sauce. Some places slather it on and it just becomes overwhelming and can make the crust soggy. Goodfel-las puts the right amount of sauce on, enough that with every bite it makes an impact on the flavor profile, but not too much to where the sauce is all over your face.

The sauce is also very well seasoned and not too chunky. I am not a fan of chunky sauce; it is very out of place for a pizza. I want to get texture from the sauce, but I do not want to bite into a big chunk of tomato.

Finally, when I eat pizza I look at the toppings ra-tio, which is the amount of cheese in comparison to the amount of toppings. I do not want a pizza that has so much cheese that the crust gets weighed down by it, and the same idea goes with the amount of toppings. Pizza should not be weighed down by how much is on top of it, especially if you are prone to dropping food on your clothing, like I am.

Goodfellas has done a really nice job with this. There is enough cheese on it that you get the cheese stretch when you first take a bite, but the toppings do not weigh the pizza down enough to cause toppings like ham, pineapple and peppers to fall all over yourself and your plate.

I do not want to say that Goodfellas has the best piz-za I have ever eaten because I have eaten pizza in Italy and nothing will ever compare to that. But I will say that if given the option between a chain restaurant and Goodfellas, I would, without a doubt, pick Goodfellas in a heartbeat.

Goodfellas: An Offer You Can’t Refuse

All at aGlance

Locations: 110 North Mill Street 333 South Limestone StreetHours: (Limestone) Sunday: ClosedMonday-Wednesday: 11am-9pm Thursday and Friday: 11am-3:30am Saturday: 5pm-3:30am (Mill) open 7 days a week: 11am-3amPhone Number: (Limestone) 859.281.1101(Mill) 859.523.3353Pricing: $25 for a 22 inch pizza

Left: Goodfellas Pizzeria is perhaps the only pizza place where you can fill up for under $5. It is a spot first-years are urged to visit.

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From Page 1ENROLLMENTBut why the sudden drop? “The reason why we got banged up last year (was)

because people chose to go to places with lower cost that didn’t have as much opportunities as we have,” said Goan. “One of the things we needed to do was better explain to the market that this was a real value.”

Efforts to ensure that potential students understand this “real value” are already being executed, such as the posting of various Transylvania advertisement videos online.

The most recent of these videos compares the person-al Transylvania experience to that of attending a “Big-State College.” The next video to be posted will be about financial aid.

“This is a pretty aggressive plan,” said Goan. “To say that we are doing a hundred things, that’s not an exag-geration. … They add up.”

Other initiatives that will improve enrollment include

program, market, and process developments. Program developments consist of “things that we

aren’t offering that would attract students,” according to Goan. In an attempt to meet the wants and needs of potential students, various system changes and extracur-ricular activities have been added, such as an enhanced fine arts scholarships, as well as more athletic teams like lacrosse and a cheer and dance squad.

Market developments require outreach. The board of admissions has targeted seven metropolitan areas in which to advertise our university brand: Chicago; Cin-cinnati and Dayton, Ohio; Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas; Indianapolis; Nashville, Tenn.; Pittsburg; and the Virgin-ia, Washington, D.C., and Baltimore areas.

In these targeted locations, solicitors of the university either contact or meet guidance counselors and encour-age them to make a campus visit. Guidance counselors are the second biggest influencers in the college selection

process after parents.Right now, two programs are being planned to receive

50 out-of-state guidance counselors for a visit, 25 coun-selors for each event, “people who will go back and be brand ambassadors for us,” said Goan.

The biggest set of strategies, and considerably the “less sexy,” are the process improvements, “little adjust-ments — things that we think will matter,” said Goan. These include items such as making website changes and ramping up communication with students on Twitter and Facebook,

Even as numbers continue to increase, Goan wanted to add that the board of admissions will still be selective about the students it accepts.

“We feel like the strategies are working so far as we had hoped,” Goan said. “All that remains is for these stu-dents to choose Transylvania or not.”

A lot of people get bored with cafeteria options, especially by this point in the year. But play around with what’s there and come up with new ideas. If you have questions or new ideas, put them in the suggestion box on the wall by the front door. Even better, come to the Food and Dining Com-mittee Meeting Feb. 9 in the William T. Young Campus Cen-ter to share opinions and brainstorm as a group with the cafeteria staff.

Campus LifePage 3 January 26, 2012

After 3 weeks of lavish meals and stocking up on all your favorite homemade dishes, you are back at Transy, stressed already, and reaching for the Mad Mush coupons from last semester’s mail…yes, they’re expired. Sorry for the bad news, your pre-paid meal plan is going to have to satisfy hunger for a bit. But not to worry, I’ve got a few tricks up my sleeve. This is where a little extra work in the cafeteria pays off, and you’ll find that you can make some different, awesome and surpris-ingly healthy concoctions with what is there. Here is your cafeteria recipe book:

With love from the kitchen of:

TUIngredients:Salad Bar: Sandwich : Grill Station: Other:Black Beans Red Peppers Salsa Steamed Rice

Green Onions Grilled Chicken Red Onion

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Directions: Fill up a plate with the salad bar items (except for the cheese) and add grilled chicken from the sandwich bar. Then ask to have these items sautéed at the international bar. While the vegetables and chicken are being sautéed, use your empty plate and fill it with a layer of rice from the rice cooker (it looks like a crock-pot, and is located on the counter between the hot bar and grill station). When the sautéed portion is done, ask to have it put on top of the rice . Then add the salsa and cheese from the salad bar and pop it in the microwave for 10-20 seconds.

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Broccoli Red Peppers Steamed Rice

Celery Grilled Chicken

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Directions: Fill up a plate with all of the salad bar items. Next have the celery chopped into bite size pieces at the sandwich bar and add grilled chicken . Take these items to the international bar and have them sautéed with soy sauce (or add the soy sauce later at the salad bar). While they are being sautéed, fill your now empty plate with rice from the rice cooker. Once the vegetables and chicken are ready, ask to have them put over the rice .

With love from the kitchen of: TUMy Go-to Salad (all ingredients found on the salad bar):Base of romaine lettuce, then add spinach , shred-ded carrots, garbanzo beans or edamame, feta cheese, dried cranberries, raisins, and balsamic or raspberry vinaigrette. For a healthy substitution , have a slice of wheat bread instead of using croutons.

Accomplishing Your New Year’s Resolution…Eating in the Transylvania Cafeteria

While many spent the days after Christmas lounging on the couch recover-ing from festivities, a group of four Tran-sylvania University students and one dean took the opportunity to give back in the Dominican Republic.

“I thought a week couldn’t make a dif-ference,” said junior Will Bryant, one of the students to make the trip. “But living at an orphanage and getting to know the kids, you can put a face to poverty.”

According to www.friendsoftheo-rphans.org, in the Latin America and Caribbean region alone, there are over 9.4 million children who have been impacted by the loss of one or both parents. There are 8.8 million children who are malnourished, and about 40 million people lack reading and writing skills needed for daily life and work.

Joining Bryant were juniors Han-nah Johnson and Natalie Jones, first-year Elizabeth Hardt, and the group’s faculty adviser, Dr. Kathleen Jagger, associate vice president and associate dean of the college, whom Johnson de-scribed as “just one of the kids for the week, completely treating us as equals and trusting in our abilities to plan and facilitate.”

Since the summer, Johnson had wanted to do a service project during winter break. She looked for a reliable program to join, but soon had the idea to start an organization through the univer-sity.

After talking to Bryant, who had an experience in Cambodia the year before, both students met with Karen Ander-son, coordinator of community service and civic engagement, who helped them through the process.

“We wanted to give people who couldn’t find a service opportunity on their own to have a good bonding experi-

ence,” said Johnson. The group looked to travel to a place

where Transy had some ties to make the group’s first trip run smoothly. Jagger had been to the Dominican Republic before, so they agreed that it was a good place to start.

While in the Dominican Republic, the group stayed in an all-boys orphanage where they had camps, promoted English

and Spanish literacy, and had fun with the kids through arts, crafts and other means of recreation.

“The kids just wanted to read,” said Johnson. “They picked reading over games and crafts. I think people here (in the United States) take learning for grant-ed. They just loved it there.”

Bryant, who was in charge of the rec-reation station, said many kids brought

books to the station to read instead of play. “They love Clifford and other animal

books,” said Johnson. Despite the language barrier, both de-

scribed having the ability to communicate well, especially through nonverbal mes-sages.

“We just wanted to communicate love,” said Bryant. “You can do that through actions.”

“You could tell it meant a lot to the kids,” Johnson said. “You could go all week without talking to one of them, but they could come give you a hug at the end.”

Johnson talked about the attachment to the kids she developed.

“It was impossible not to want to adopt one and give them a good life in America, but the goal was to help the kids learn to

help themselves,” she said.Both Bryant and Johnson described the

level of poverty that surrounded them as “eye-opening.” One aspect of the trip that made an impression on Johnson was the amount of stray dogs.

“They don’t have animal shelters. They can’t afford to feed their people; they’re not going to feed their dogs,” she said.

One day the group went to the border of the Dominican Republic and Haiti for “Market Day,” where the citizens of the different countries were allowed to trade with one another. Even there, the poverty from Haiti was evident.

“You could tell the difference in those from Haiti and those from the Dominican Republic,” said Johnson. “The best way to describe it was it seemed like everyone went into ‘sur-vival mode.’ The Haitians were just wearing whatever they could find.”

“And there were five-foot Haitian men carrying 200- to 300-pound carts of rice,” said Bryant.

Though the experience was “fun but upsetting,” Johnson believes trips like these are necessary because they make people “better world citizens.”

“It was so humbling and it helps you to see the bigger picture of the world. Lots of times it’s hard to see outside of the Transy Bubble, but a trip like this helps you to realize things are still go-ing on, and problems still are pressing issues,” she said.

“It was such a personal experience and it really changes the way you see things, even in such a short amount of time,” said Bryant.

“I remember when I got home, I walked in and saw my dad and my dog and our big-screen TV, and I just started crying,” Johnson said.

In the future, they hope to possibly ex-tend their stay, wherever they may be.

“But even if we’re only there for a week, we’re a link in a bigger chain,” said Johnson.

Other Simple Ideas:

1. Using a bowl from the salad bar, fill it with 1 TBSP. water and a desired amount of broccoli . Heat this in the microwave on the cereal bar for 3-5 minutes. Steamed broccoli .

2. Use any combination of items from the salad bar and ask to have them sautéed at the international bar. Put the vegetables over rice or cooked pasta from the pizza station . Instead of using the marinara sauce, toss the pasta and sautéed vegetables with olive oil and a little salt and pepper.

3. Make a toasted or grilled bagel sandwich . Just get a bagel from the cereal bar and fill it with your favorite items at the salad bar and have it grilled at the sand-wich bar. You can do even more with this during weekend brunch—(eggs, bacon and cheese on a bagel—eggs, spinach , mushrooms and cheese on a bagel).

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Will Bryant, Hannah Johnson, Elizabeth Hardt, Natalie Jones and Dean Kathleen Jagger bring smiles to the faces of orphans in the Dominican Republic. The group of five spent a week there over winter break doing community service.

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Editor-in-Chief.................................Erin BrockManaging Editor..........................Jake Hawkins Design & Layout Editor..............Sally JagielskiPhoto Editor..................................Katie BrewerNews Editor....................................Molly Crain

Etcetera Editor.......................Victoria SullivanCampus Life.................................... Erica ClarkOpinion Editor.............................Lyman StoneSports Editor.............................Abby FergusonArts & Entertainment Editor.........Holly BrownChief Copy Editor........................John JohnsonDesigner........................................Rachel SmithAdviser........................................Terri McLean

Rambler The

With the new year come the generic promises of New Year’s resolutions and the social mores of convincing ourselves we’re actually going to do something this year that will truly affect us all on a molecular level. So, given this annual genesis of self-deceit, I think it’s by far time that we, as a commu-nity, buckle down to focus on not raping the earth for a few minutes. I think it’s time that we, as a body of responsible scholars, all band together to ensure that the fine campus of Transylvania University is au-thentically paperless.

I know that the” paperless” movement at Transy has his-torically been under fire, and I admonish and publicly threaten anyone who has ever criticized it. After all, taking a suffix like “-less” is the most effective means of suf-ficiently addressing the horrific reality of global waste and destruction. Truly, removing the abomination of pa-per from our campus is the only method by which we can be sustainable.

Unknown to many at Transy, we sadly have an entire building dedicated to wasting the precious lives of an-giosperms. This building does not care how many pieces of tree it uses to profligate its dangerous, liberal ideas. And while I know it may be shocking, I must tell you that the heinous and utterly evil Douglass Gay Jr. Li-brary is ruining our stance as an eco-friendly and paper-less campus.

We can no longer tolerate its “intellectual” assault on our planet.

We must do something to combat its waste, and I suggest that we, as a learned body of scholars, band to-gether to recycle the entire contents of the Transylvania University library. We must rectify the years of histori-cal wrongs compiled against our new eco-tastic modus operandi, and it will take the entire student body to ac-complish such a dream.

I’m not suggesting we throw the entire collec-tion to the Fayette County recycling program

— I truly suggest that we creatively reuse the paper these monsters have wasted on

something to further our responsive and creative public relations.

Looking for some attic insu-lation? The entire chemical ref-erence collection will pad your house for many years. Need some festive wallpaper? Use the pages from Man Ray art books. Dying for some kindling for your

apartment? Take anything by Ayn Rand. The possibilities for reusing our

priceless collection are endless! Get creative, recycling community! We can do so much!

The librarians who have depended on our use of this collection to ensure that they can feed their families will surely acquiesce to our recycling demands. We cannot be tempted to consider the historic usefulness of paper, as that will compromise our ethos. Instead, we must show the world that we mean what we said in all those brochures, and we must scrap the entire botanical assault on our school.

Who is with me, and what does your Saturday look like? Let’s do it, people.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle-the Library?

Recently, the opinion page has suffered from a dearth of writers. We need people with opinions who want to write about them.

The opinion page has gone through some changes this year. Beginning with the “What’s Right” and “What’s Left” columns, it has transi-tioned to include satire, “Cheers and Jeers” and a continuing presence of editorials, letters to the editor, guest columns, and other pieces.

Finding opinionated writers would seem to be an easy task at Transylvania. It should not be hard to find people with strong opinions and a capac-ity to express them on our campus. Unfortunately, that task has proved challenging for some time.

Of late, however, the Rambler staff has come to a realization: We weren’t asking the right peo-ple for opinions. Many students express strong opinions, implicit or explicit, every week. By participating in organizations, giving philan-thropically and attending meetings, we express opinions. Indeed, campus organizations, be they Greek organizations, clubs, sports or officially sponsored groups, form a vital component of our community.

As such, The Rambler would like to extend an invitation, nay, a challenge, to all of our campus organizations: If your organization could rec-ommend one change to how things are done at Transylvania, one change to official policy, or to institutional structure, or to curriculum, … what would it be? What does Transylvania need to change to be better?

We have extended an invitation to the lead-ership of several organizations already to write a piece, 500 words or less, about what should change at Transylvania. Next week, we will begin running those pieces.

In the meantime, if anyone has submissions you’d like to submit individually, you need only email them to rambler@transy.edu. The most in-novative, viable and intriguing proposals will be published here.

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Write for us.

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From Page 1DIVERSITYenough,” Williams said. “I want peo-ple to have a daily, ongoing exposure to international perspectives and cul-tures.”

Currently, students who call Transy home hail from such countries as Ger-many, China, Korea and Taiwan.

“Some of the best liberal arts col-leges in this country have students on their campuses from as many as 50 other countries, and it would be great if we had that … kind of diversity,” Williams said.

Last fall, representatives from Transy visited Panama in efforts to es-tablish a working relationship with the country that could lead to an increase in international students at Transy.

“We stand to receive easily a mini-mum of half a dozen students from there or more in the future, with the added advantage that there are students from all over the world there because there is a huge expatriate community in Panama,” said Nino-Moreno.

Other countries that could become the focus of recruitment efforts are China, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and perhaps Honduras, once a successful program in Panama has been formed.

“I think with time it would be great if we could get to around 8 percent international students on campus, but that will take five to 10 years to make happen, because we have to create an infrastructure to support that,” Wil-liams said.

Such infrastructure would include establishing host families, providing activities for international students to pursue over extended breaks, and other “safety nets” that might keep in-ternational students from feeling iso-lated, according to Williams.

There is also interest in increas-ing the number of states from which students hail, which currently stands at 27. Nino-Moreno stated that the of-fice of campus diversity and inclusion supports the efforts of the admissions office, which is actively recruiting stu-dents from outside Kentucky who will be representative of other ethnic and cultural origins.

“(The student body is) not as di-verse as it needs to be. … Too many people come with a fairly similar background, experience and perspec-tive, and what we need to do is expand that in a way that really opens our eyes to the whole world that you all are go-ing to be operating in,” Williams said.

This focus on diversity also touches religious life at Transy, as this year’s hiring of Interim Associate Dean of Interreligious Life Nancy Jo Kemper demonstrates.

“We have moved toward an in-terfaith approach to religion on our campus. We have far too few Jewish

students, Muslim students, Hindi or Buddhist students on our campus, and we need to have a religious dialogue that reaches out to all of those groups,” Williams said.

“We are … working to articulate what it means to be a church-related institution, rooted in the particularity of a tradition that is itself committed to dialogue, openness and hospitality,” Kemper said in an article in the Sept. 15 issue of The Rambler, “while ex-panding the capacity of the university to serve students from many religious traditions.”

While 86 percent of Transy stu-dents identify themselves as Cauca-sian, an increase in racial diversity is not the focus of new diversity initia-tives. Nino-Moreno noted that though it has been “historically easier” to identify diversity by appearance, “cultural identity” is the factor that expands understanding. Unlike race, factors such as religion, sexual orien-tation, financial background and cul-tural beliefs are not physically able to be detected.

“I think that … the whole issue with diversity and inclusion is to try and include the wide range of voices and perspectives, but the fact is that we don’t always get them because we belong to our own. We encounter new things,” Barnsley said.

Some of these new voices and per-spectives can be found in the Lexing-ton community.

Nino-Moreno, who is currently talking with several members of the greater Lexington community, includ-ing Mayor Jim Gray’s advisers, pro-fessors at the University of Kentucky, the Urban League of Lexington and the Community Action League, sees great opportunities in the future for Transy students to extend their experi-ences outside Transy.

“Since we all believe that Transyl-vania is not in a bubble, we have to go beyond our former fences and reach out,” Nino-Moreno said.

Numerous groups all over cam-pus, including the Diversity Action Council, T-Unity, SAGE, VOICE and first-year programs all offer students opportunities to both discuss diversity issues and make connections in the surrounding communities.

“I think that VOICE’s definition of diversity pertains to the idea that ev-eryone brings different experiences to the table, and that definition, if applied to Transy, would imply that our cam-pus is diverse. However, I also think that there is potential to become more diverse if people begin to share their experiences with one another,” sopho-more Anna Melnykovych, a member of VOICE, said.

Transy’s new connections in Pan-

ama, for example, have led to a dis-cussion with Gray’s advisers about the possibility of establishing a sister city in Panama — a connection which would get Lexington in touch with the country’s rich thoroughbred horse in-dustry.

Currently, a group of students and faculty make up the diversity and in-clusion advisory board, a group which will report its discussions and con-cerns to the strategic plan working group. These dialogues will affect the focus and goals of the new strategic plan for diversity and inclusion.

Nino-Moreno’s recently formed office has experienced a significant amount of feedback in many forms. A campus climate survey was sent out shortly before noon on Monday; by 5 p.m. that day, more than 40 responses had been submitted.

Nino-Moreno hopes to instill sev-eral programs in the future, including a student-run support network, a ro-tating gallery of student-contributed work to the Diversity Nook and more involvement from recent alumni.

While Transy’s liberal arts educa-tion philosophy encourages an expo-sure to different schools of thought and ideas, several members of the campus community share the opinion that classroom experiences just aren’t enough.

“If we’re really going to learn about religion, you can’t just study it on a theoretical basis in class; you’ve got to be surrounded by people who represent those different experiences and perspectives,” Williams said.

“If we think of people as coming from different perspectives and think-ing in different ways, you have to experience that. You can’t read about it, you can’t hear about it,” Barnsley said. “You have to go to other places. You have to have other people come to you. And that ‘other people’ doesn’t have to be from a different country. It could be from a different orientation of just about anything.”

Despite the new office and the amount of discussion it has fostered, Nino-Moreno believes that the task of increasing campus diversity lies with the students.

“It’s been only four months (since the start of this office), but it’s amaz-ing the number of things that have started happening,” Nino-Moreno said. “Now, things happen because of the students, not because of (adminis-trators).”

Williams agreed.“I’ve always believed that students

learn more from students than any-body else, so the more different kinds of perspective that we can bring to the table, the better. And that’s always been my hope for this place,” he said.

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Life takes all of us on dif-ferent paths not knowing where we may end up. These paths help create an understanding of where we are meant to be.

For Matthew Martin, assis-tant coach for the men’s basket-ball and golf teams, his paths led him to Transylvania. Be-fore Martin ended up at Transy, he attended Furman Univer-sity, where he was a practice player and manager for the basketball team. He left after a year to follow his coach to the University of Cincinnati. After spending one year there, where he continued to work as a stu-dent manager, he transferred to Transy to finish his college career.

While Martin was attending Transy, the golf team won the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference all three years and finished in the top 20 at the NCAA tournament each year. Martin also made the PING All-Great Lakes Region team his junior and senior years and was named a Cleveland Golf and Srixon All-American Scholar as a senior.

After graduating in 2010, Martin followed in the foot-steps of his mother, father,

brother and uncle by becoming a coach.

“I always thought coaching would be something I would want to do,” said Martin. “My parents (and family) are great resources, and now I know that coaching and teaching is all I want to do.”

Martin is in his second year of coaching at Transy, where he is also the head coach for the men’s junior varsity basket-ball team. He has come to cher-ish the time spent with other coaches.

“There’s no better coach to work for than Brian Lane,” said Martin. “Every day brings a new challenge and adventure. I’ve learned so much about coaching, people and relation-ships, and just how to enjoy what you do. Assistant coach Nate Valentine has also taught me a great deal.”

Another influence in Mar-tin’s life, both academically and with coaching, has been Don Lane.

“I was fortunate enough to have him as a professor for many of my classes and tried to absorb as much about coaching and teaching as I could,” said Martin. “He also knows how to teach, and I want to model my teaching style after his.”

Martin’s colleagues see

him as an essential part to the coaching staff because of his work ethic and experience.

“He has had the benefit of going through our program as a student-athlete and seeing the coaching from a different per-spective. … He is one of those assistant coaches that knows the little things that must be done to run a successful pro-gram,” said Brian Lane, head coach of both men’s golf and basketball. “He also spent time with basketball staffs at Fur-man and University of Cincin-nati, which enables him to draw from broader experiences.”

Coaching has been a re-warding experience for Martin and he understands the impor-tance of his job.

“I love developing relation-ships with people, and seeing players grow as people and ath-letes,” said Martin. “One of the biggest lessons I have learned is that you cannot treat every player the same. Some players will respond differently to the same methods. That is why it is extremely important to get to know both your team as a col-lective unit and your players as individuals.”

“Matthew is a tireless work-er that brings a great deal of experience to our staff,” Brian Lane said.

Transylvania basketball is experi-encing a bit of a resurgence this year. Pioneer fans can always expect strong season-long performances from their men’s basketball team; but after they kick-started the year with one of the most exciting games in program his-tory, a contest against the University of Kentucky Wildcats, the team has been in rare form.

Transy has lost only one of its scheduled conference games this year — a tight away contest at Defi-ance College — and finds itself on top of the Heartland Collegiate Ath-letic Conference once again. This is in no small part due to the efforts of 6-foot-4-inch junior forward Brandon Rash. Rash had arguably the strongest performance among many valiant ef-forts when the team faced UK, and he has ridden that momentum to a season many are calling All-American-esque.

“He is one of the best players I’ve ever seen at this level of competition. We saw it in the UK game, but he has shown time and again he has Division I ability and physicality. No one is go-ing to be able to stop him,” said first-year Daniel Lyvers. “Add the fact he has a great coach like Brian Lane and great playmakers and role players all around him, and it becomes easy to see why he’s been so successful this season.”

Rash was especially strong in the Pioneers’ most recent game against

Anderson University. With 2:49 to go in the second half, Rash hit the go-ahead bucket that gave Transy a lead it would not relinquish. Neither team led by more than seven points in the second half, but after Rash’s crucial bucket, Anderson could not find the rim again, ultimately falling 58-55 to its conference rival.

Consistency has been a key fac-tor to Rash’s dominant season. He is averaging 31.9 minutes a game and shooting lights-out from the field (57.4 percent) and behind the arch (50 percent), all while pulling about five boards a game and scoring 16.6 points a night.

Along with the numbers, it is clear Rash’s presence on the court alone is enough to help the Pioneers be suc-cessful.

“When (Rash) is on the court, ev-erybody else knows we have a great shot at winning,” said first-year for-ward and center Gavin Dunagan. “Sure he has a deep skill set and can stroke it from outside, but his effort and tenacity really set the tone for our team. He leads by example. I’ve al-ready learned so much from watching him play.”

Rash is only a junior and will be back to torment the HCAC once again next year. For the time being, how-ever, teams must figure out a way to stop what some are referring to as an offensive and defensive machine.

If you want to catch “B.R.” and the rest of the stacked Transy squad, their next game is a home contest Saturday at 3 p.m. versus Defiance.

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Over the past year Transylvania has continued to expand, from new programs and new athletic fields to more club teams. As of Nov. 7, Transy has a new trap and skeet club.

Trap and skeet are just two of the three disciplines in competitive clay pigeon shooting, the third of which is sporting clays. Clay pigeon shooting is the art of shooting a clay target (the “pigeon”) in the air with a shotgun.

The idea for the club came after first-year John DeReamer discussed it with a friend at Hampden-Sydney College who is on his school’s shotgun team.

“After talking to him about his club I thought it would be a great program for Transy,” said DeReamer. “I owe a lot of thanks to the (National Rifle Association) and (the University of Kentucky’s) shot-gun team president, Daniel Birkenhauer, who helped our club become legitimate in the collegiate community.”

DeReamer has only been involved with shooting for three years, but the club has members of all levels.

“I haven’t been shooting as long as some of the other guys, but most shoot-ers in collegiate clubs start in college or high school,” said DeReamer. “It is easy to pick up, and it can get quite addicting. … (The club) was formed with the goals of introducing new students to the sport, promoting gun safety and providing a competitive environment for experienced shooters to compete with other colleges. It is a great way for students to shoot in an organized manner.”

After DeReamer confronted senior Anderson Salinas, a fellow shooter, he decided it was time to get back into the game.

“Since I had gotten to college I hadn’t

shot as much as I used to in high school and middle school, and had never com-peted before. So the idea appealed to me as a way to get back into shooting and try a new sport,” said Salinas.

Salinas enjoys the competitive and so-cial nature of trap and skeet.

“Every Thursday we go out, and while we all are trying to beat each other and improve our skills, it’s also a very wel-coming environment where we coach each other and try to make everyone a better shooter,” Salinas said.

Even though some members are expe-rienced, not all those who join have to be well versed in trap and skeet.

“It is a great club sport for Transy students, faculty and staff. Both women and men can practice and compete in the same divisions with other colleges,” said DeReamer. “No experience or equipment is required; we have coaches that can in-struct new shooters.”

“Since Trap and Skeet is not a NCAA sport it’s not the sort of activity that is go-ing to be run by the athletic department; it is a student-run activity, and that’s a posi-tive thing. Because of that it allows for a greater variety of students to participate,” said Salinas.

Future goals for the club include at-tending UK’s tournament this spring, going to the national tournament in San Antonio, organizing a Department of Public Safety vs. Trap and Skeet Club tournament, and making plans to host a tournament at the Bluegrass Sportsman’s League in the summer that will help raise money for the club.

“Students who enjoy the outdoors, hunting or competitive shooting now have an avenue to develop those inter-ests through the university,” Salinas said. “I think it will help students considering Transy with those interests become more inclined to commit to coming here.”

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Before Transy, assistant coach Matthew Martin spent time on staff at Furman University and the University of Cincinnati.

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We all have something we would like to change. It could be about our-selves or someone around us; it could be a policy at our school or place of work. It could be anything. The problem, though, is that change is hard. It’s more difficult and more ter-rifying than other things necessary to survival like food or air. Luckily for us, Chip and Dan Heath have writ-ten “Switch: How to Make a Change When Change Is Hard.”

If it sounds like a self-help book, that’s because it is one. However, it’s low on the weepy emotions and cheap gimmicks common to many books of this type. “Switch” is an intellectual look at how and why changes (like many New Year’s res-olutions) fail and how to get around these problems.

The Heath brothers divide their findings into three sections, based on an unfortunately cheesy metaphor in which our emotional motivation is an elephant and our logical thinking is a human rider. The “elephant” must want to move in the same direction as the rider, or the rider will be pow-erless to keep it going in the long run. This is why it’s hard to resist a plate of cookies in front of you; the “rider” tires out and gives in to the “elephant’s” hunger.

The second section is about the rational mind, or the “rider.” The “rider” has to have a clear path and avoid confusion in order to direct

the “elephant” to an ultimate desti-nation. This is why vague ideas like “eat healthier” are difficult to keep to; there are innumerable definitions of this behavior. Something simpler like “switch to low-fat milk” is a much more attainable goal.

The third part of the book refers to the “path,” or the situation. As psychologists have been studying for decades, small changes to situa-tions can alter behavior significantly. Making the path clearer and provid-ing fewer distractions makes the change you are trying to effect much easier to accomplish. For instance, if you are trying to lose weight, not buying foods you know are triggers for overeating will help you because you will not have them around to eat.

It isn’t a perfect book. Some of the examples are very corporate and difficult to imagine applying to pri-vate life. Many of the “workshops” offered at the end of chapters are te-dious and I confess I skipped them after the first few. Still, many of the stories in the book are inspiring and eye-opening.

I learned a lot about change and the human psyche from this book. Psychology buffs may already know a lot on this topic, but I think there is still much to be gained from the examples found within. Some are the results of interesting psychology experiments, but others come from real-life situations in companies, ser-vice organizations, or daily life.

This is a book all members of the 21st-century world commu-nity should become familiar with. It offers valuable insights into the things that hold us back and how we can push forward. Members of the Transylvania community can (and should) read it for free by borrowing it from our library.

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Tomorrow: This is the last day that alumna Kathleen Burke’s show, “Preserved,” will be dis-played in the student gallery of the Shearer Art Building. If you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to check it out before it’s gone!

Jan. 27, 28: The choirs of Transylvania will present their annual “Evening at the Cabaret” concert at 7:30 in Carrick Theater. This year’s theme is outer space, so it’s bound to be an inter-esting show — and chances are you know some-one in it!

Ongoing: “The Millennials” will be in Morlan Gallery until Feb. 10. Go take a look while you can.

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For some people, winter break means putting in long days of sleeping in and other tiresome activities that tend to happen in front of electronic screens. For the Transylvania Choir, however, it meant going on its annual tour.

Though the choir had planned to tour Europe in May, by Octo-ber it was clear that the current state of the economy was going to prevent many of the partici-pating students from affording the expense of an international trip.

Instead, the group chose a do-mestic tour, with performances Jan. 3-6 across four venues in Georgia and Florida and then a final concert at Transy Jan. 11.

Dr. Gary Anderson, professor of music and director of choral ensembles, always coordinates tours with contacts suggested by the alumni office, and this year it recommended a cluster of alum-ni in Florida.

“That turned out to be not only a great deal of fun for us, frankly, because we went to Fort

Myers, Fla.,” said Anderson, “but we connected with a lot of alumni, which made it, as a uni-versity tour, really worthwhile, too.”

Though Anderson had cho-sen the concert’s repertoire last summer with a European audi-ence in mind, the same selec-tions worked well for a domestic tour. The concert included sev-eral pieces by European com-posers, followed by a few songs from Transy Boys a Cappella (TBA), and ended with a sec-tion of American folk songs and spirituals.

The tour is undoubtedly an enjoyable experience for the choir, but Anderson also empha-sized its role in promoting the university. Each of the concerts was attended by alumni, and many high school students were introduced to Transy through the concerts, as well.

“For me one of the best expe-riences was singing at the high school in Brandon, Fla., because the students were so excited to host us,” said sophomore choir member Rachel Norris. “After the concert, several students came up to me and said that they

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would now be looking at Transy as a possible school.”

“It turned out to be a terrific, terrific tour, even though we put it together really quickly. We connected to alumni, we connected to stu-dents. … Our folks had a ball,” Anderson said.

This year’s tour follows a long-standing tra-

dition for the Transy Choir; with the exception of a single year, the choir has made an annual tour since the 1940s.

While Anderson has yet to determine when the choir will next plan a tour to Europe, he ex-pects to reach a decision on the issue at some point this May term.

The Transylvania Choir toured Flordia and Georgia during the last week of winter break. They performed in four venues but still had time left over for some fun activities.

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TU students danced the night away to music from the 1980’s at Alpha Omicron Pi’s Dance of the Decades last Friday.

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