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Transy embraces digital age with new site designDespite being the nation’s 16th oldest university, Transylva-

nia is anything but old-fashioned.The start of a new semester marks the premiere of several

newly designed websites that aim both to improve accessibility for those inside the Transy community and to positively promote the university to those outside of it, especially potential new stu-dents.

The school’s main website, http://transy.edu, and the athletics site were revamped, while a new site for The Rambler was created.

“We wanted the (main) site to look as clean and crisp as possible,” said Mariana Schochat, web development manager for Transylvania. “There is very little on the homepage. Instead, you have a basic over-view of what the site contains and links to the information you want.”

Sara Emmons, associate vice president for communications and public relations, also commented on the rationale behind the site’s new, more streamlined design.

“People don’t stay on a website very long,” Emmons said. “It must be easy to navigate.”

The new design reflects a “layers of complexity” model, where links to more detailed information are accessed via drop-down menus, rather than being visible as soon as one loads the site, said Shochat.

While all of these changes contribute to the site’s overall new image, the primary focus was on the admissions section. Brad Goan, vice president for enrollment and dean of admissions, spoke to the need to connect with potential new students in a way that they are already used to — electronically.

“What we hope the (new admissions) site will do is tell the story of the Transy experience,” Goan said. “We still use tra-ditional means of recruitment — visiting high schools, college fairs, sending out printed material — but can now supplement

all of that with the website. Students that may not be able to meet with us in person can still find out a lot of things online by visiting the new site, ‘liking’ us on Facebook or following us on Twitter. … Before, a potential student had to raise their hand, so to speak, and let us know they were interested by requesting information. Now, the information is there for them already.”

In fact, Goan noted, 30 percent of the students who applied to Transy last year did so without ever directly expressing an inter-est in attending.

Attracting new students was not only an interest to admis-sions, but also the athletics department. The new athletics web-site, http://transysports.com, was designed with the goal of cap-turing the interest of potential student-athletes.

“The athletics department is an ex-citing, dynamic place,” said Sports In-formation Director Glen Osborne, “and we wanted the website to reflect that. … The old site was very stagnant and bor-ing. Now, we can change the homepage several times a day so that you never see the same thing twice. We have even included a few fun frills here and there, like the (University of Kentucky) ver-sus Transy basketball game countdown counter. Our goal is to keep people inter-ested, to keep them coming back to see what we’re up to.”

Not to be left out of the technological reforms being made across campus, The Rambler also established a new online

presence for itself at the start of the semester: http://transyram-bler.com. In addition to being able to read the most current issue of the weekly paper, visitors can find archived issues in their original, printed format.

The Rambler has also added a social media platform, “Ram-ble On,” where readers are encouraged to share and comment using sites like Facebook and Twitter.

Despite the effort that went into giving the university a digital facelift for the new academic year, Schochat still sees room for improvement.

“This is only phase one,” Schochat said. “It is not a completed work, but an ongoing project.”

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Got a news tip? Call us at 859-233-8315 or email [email protected].

•Get to know SGA President Josh Edge through an exclusive Q&A.

•Learn about the details behind changes made to Transy’s intramural program.

•Get the first-hand scoop on this year’s first engagements reading, straight from a Transy first-year.

•Read as we debut the new ramen rating system for local eateries.

NEWS BRIEFS

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Greek rank falls•The Princeton Review has ranked Transy the No. 2 college with a “Major Frat and Sorority Scene.” The school ranked first is Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. The Princeton Review has also deemed Transy as one of the “376 Best Southeastern Colleges.”

Transy a “great” workplace

•Transylvania University was recently named a “Great College to Work For” by the Chronicle of Higher Education. The ranking is based on survey responses from nearly 44,000 people at 310 institutions. Transylvania is among the 111 colleges across the country to be named to the final list, each having received recognition in at least one of 12 categories.

Citizen Nakwa•Alumnus Lino Nakwa ’09 gained official U.S. citizenship Friday in Louisville. He was initially denied citizenship by the Department of Homeland Security’s Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services due to his abduction and subsequent military training by a terrorist group in his native Sudan at age 12.

Food & Fun•Greek members will reveal their letters and colors after classes on Friday, Sept .9, during a Block Party filled with food, games and music.

Transy embraces digital age with new website designs

James HuddlestonNews Editor

•View the photo essay documenting the class of 2015’s first days in the Bubble.

Introducing Gregg Muravchick

Gregg Muravchick takes the lead of the Depart-ment of Public Safety, following former Chief Richard Cook’s retire-ment after 11 years of service.

KELLY HIERONYMUS

SARAH ALLISON

“Hi, I’m Gregg Muravchick and I just got out of jail.”

Clearly joking, he’s a charmer from the start. Transylvania’s new Director of Public Safety, Gregg Muravchick, has the personality, the ideas, and the hard-core police background to fit right in.

Whether you are locked out, need a ride from the freshman parking lot, saw an unrecognizable person on campus or have a more serious issue, DPS is dedi-cated more than ever to keep everyone on campus safe. They also want to start a new friendly relationship with students and faculty.

“Chief Cook was a great guy,” Mu-ravchick said. “The only thing that I want to do is make sure that DPS has that user-friendly image to not only pro-tect and serve, but no matter what it is, to make everybody feel comfortable and welcome.”

Originally from Chicago, Muravchick attended Servite High School in Detroit and graduated college from Kentucky State University. He has high expecta-tions for himself and his DPS team.

Previously a youth basketball, base-ball, and football coach, and currently a softball coach for the Elkhorn Middle School girls’ softball team, Mu-ravchick puts effort and time into all of his endeavors.

“We actually started the (softball team) last year and raised over $17,000 to buy uniforms and equipment,” said Muravchick.

As former school resource officer of the Eastside Frank-lin County Public Schools, Muravchick chooses to spend much of his time with kids, finding ways to get them in-volved and active.

“I have also run three mini-boot camps for high-risk middle school students,” Muravchick said. “These camps were geared

Eryn HornbergerStaff Writer

See MURAVCHICK, Page 7

Director of Public Safety

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Bubble in the Box

The Class of 2015 has just burst onto the Transylvania University scene, and expectations are high. Transylvania is known for its ex-clusivity: Only about 25 percent of applicants are accepted into the school. No doubt these guys are talented, but just who are the mem-bers of the class of 2015? These statistics shed some light on Tran-sy’s newest arrivals:

New students: 259 Men: 100 (39%) Women 159 (61%)

Students from Kentucky: 212 (82%)

Students from outside Ken-tucky: 47 (18%)

Average ACT : 27Average high school GPA : 3.76Incoming students who identify

themselves as a member of a racial or ethnic minority group: 11%

Participants from the Kentucky Governor’s Scholars and Gover-nor’s School for the Arts programs: 34

William T. Young Scholars: 20

National Merit Finalists: 6 Students from foreign coun-

tries: 4 Number of states represented:

18Greatest distance: Junyan Fang

(Yichang, Hubei, China)Alumni legacies: 34 (13% of the

class)Approximately 30% of the in-

coming students are varsity student athletes

Anatomy of first-years

Upon entering the Atomic Café, I was aston-ished by the artful design of the interior. Oce-anic murals decorated the walls of this place and the music was laid-back and soothing. It was a clever replication of the Caribbean style, but the great care put into this atmosphere was equivalent to — if not more evident in — the food that this quaint establishment prepared.

This trip to the Atomic Café was the first time that I have ever eaten Caribbean food. To anyone wanting to try the cuisine, I strongly suggest you do it here. The flavor profile for Caribbean food is a cross between Indian and Spanish cuisine, which unite to make this de-lightfully warm and filling concoction of deli-ciousness. I ordered the Island Sampler, which included jerk chicken, fish fritters, coconut shrimp, rice and beans, chef’s steamed veg-etables and a caper mayonnaise dipping sauce.

The jerk chicken was wonderful. The sea-soning on it was well balanced with a tiny hint of allspice coming through, giving the spice a warm flavor unlike the burn attributed to oth-er spicy foods. The most defining dish, how-ever, was the rice and beans; they were some of the best I have ever had. The Atomic Café uses black beans in its rice and beans, which I thought was an interesting twist. They were cooked to absolute perfection and topped on a fluffy bed of al dente rice. What made this dish truly special, though, was the topping of the rice and beans with cool sour cream and fresh, mildly spicy salsa. It truly tied the rice and beans together in a beautiful way that melded wonderfully in my mouth.

While this is only one of many dishes that you can get at the Atomic Café, it is a fair re-flection of what the restaurant is all about. It fo-cuses heavily on the seafood you can get in the Caribbean, like shrimp, fish and even conch. Additionally, it is vegetarian-friendly. My friend Malynda, who is a vegetarian, accompa-nied me on my journey to this restaurant and left just as happy and full as I was. If you are in the mood to mix up your dining-out options and spend a little more money on some quality food, I highly recommend this restaurant.

Three ramens for Atomic Cafe

COMPILED BY VICTORIA SULLIVAN

“The Nosh” will utilize a ramen rating system, using the staple col-legiate food to put cuisine into per-spective. Think of it like this: If a locale receives a rating of one ramen, you’d be equally served nuking up some noodles in the dorm room as you would visiting the reviewed es-tablishment. If an eatery receives five ramen, stop what you’re doing at that very moment and take a trip to get some grub.

Ramen Rating System

ANDREW WILLIAMS

Campus LifePage 3 September 8, 2011

To start off the year, Rambler staffer Victoria Sulli-van sat down to try to get to know senior Josh Edge, the student elected to lead this year’s Student Government Association.

V.S.: What do you feel is the purpose of the student government here at Transy?

J.E.: The purpose of the student government is two-fold. Our foremost role is to represent the needs and opin-ions of the student body. Secondly, it is our responsibil-ity to inform the student body of initiatives happening within the university and gather their opinions on those matters as well.

V.S.: What do you feel are the major flaws in our student government system?

J.E.: I think that SGA’s biggest flaw has been its lack of communication between the organization and the stu-dent body. However, this year we will be taking steps to combat this. We are now on Facebook, and I encourage all students to “like” our Transylvania University Student Government Association page. Also, you can now follow @TransySGA on Twitter. Lastly, our website, which can be found on Inside Transy under student life in the stu-dent activities and organizations section, is going to be kept up-to-date on the happenings of the T.U. SGA.

V.S.: What are your main goals for the school year?J.E.: I have one main goal for the school year: to em-

power others to act. There are many issues that I want to tackle during my tenure, but I think it is more important for other senators and all students to know that they can do something. If students have an issue that they want addressed, I would encourage them to come and talk with me so that I can direct them to the appropriate people. SGA will be writing more proposals this year to the ad-ministration and following up on them so that we know that the proposals are taken seriously. In this way, many people will become involved with improving our cam-pus, not a select few.

V.S.: What are some changes that you would like to see in our student government?

J.E.: I think that SGA is going to be much different than it has in the past. We have many new senators this year, and I think that they will provide an impetus for action. The biggest change I would like to see is more student involvement. SGA meets every Wednesday night at 9 in Conference Room A of the Campus Center. All are invited to attend, and meetings are always open to the Transy community. During debate, any student is al-lowed to voice her or his opinion, although voting power is reserved only for senators.

V.S.: How do you hope to build upon your relation-ship with the rest of SGA?

J.E.: I have developed a good rapport with the return-ing students, and I am confident that we can continue to speak honestly and openly about any matter. The new senators will have an even stronger need to ask questions and voice their concerns, so I will make sure that their voices are heard during debate.

V.S.: How do you plan on using your position to better connect with the rest of the student body?

J.E.: There is much responsibility that is attached to being SGA president. Besides the pomp and circum-stance that surrounds being a student body president, I also have an obligation to every student. I will try my best this year to talk with student leaders, faculty and the administration about the needs of the student body. I think that my position also mandates that I show my support for our sporting events, drama productions, con-certs, lectures and the host of other events happening on Transy’s campus. This visibility, in my opinion, will put me in contact with a variety of different students, which will help me meet this obligation.

V.S.: What are some projects that are planned for SGA this year?

J.E.: I do not think that the student art initiative that began last year was fully realized, so I will be charging junior Hannah Johnson ([email protected]), our new student affairs chair, with continuing that project.

Also, with the removal of the fences around campus, some students have voiced their opinions about the safety of the campus. While SGA does not necessarily feel that students are more unsafe without the fences, we believe that street lights should be added around the parking lots to increase visibility, and we will be looking into the fea-

sibility of this idea throughout the year.SGA is also looking into assuming responsibility of

awarding organization status to new student groups. Di-ane Fout’s office is currently the main arbiter of whether a proposed organization becomes an organization. How-ever, as most student governments have this pow-er, we feel that the granting of organization status should be ours as well.

Academically, SGA hopes to lobby for a sepa-rate fund for those traveling to conferences; ide-ally, this fund would include not just conference registration fees, but also money for travel. Junior Andrew Goff ([email protected]), academic affairs chair, will be heading this effort.

V.S.: How can the rest of the student body get involved with SGA without being a part of the organization?

J.E.: As I mentioned, students are more than welcome at any of our committee meetings or full senate. They are also welcome to voice their con-cerns by any of the means listed below.

V.S.: How can the student body voice their concerns to you and to SGA?

J.E.: There are a variety of ways that students can voice their opinions. They can follow us on Twitter and tweet at @TransySGA. A student could drop a suggestion into the SGA mailbox outside the SGA office in Forrer Front Lobby. I also hope to keep regular office hours this year in the SGA office so that students can stop in and talk to me. A student could stop a senator or any member of the executive council and talk about an issue; students can also email [email protected] to voice a concern.

Edge ‘hopes to empower others to act’

Above: This year SGA President Josh Edge realizes he has an “obligation to every stu-dent.” Below: Edge helps a first-year move in during orientation weekend.

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Editor-in-Chief.................................Erin BrockManaging Editor..........................Jake Hawkins Design & Layout Editor..............Sally JagielskiPhoto Editor...........................Katelynn RalstonNews Editor..........................James HuddlestonEtcetera Editor.........................Victoria SullivanCampus Life.................................... Erica ClarkOpinion Editor.............................Lyman StoneSports Editor.............................Abby FergusonArts & Entertainment Editor.........Holly BrownChief Copy Editor........................John JohnsonAdviser........................................Terri McLean

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Letters to the editor should be:

No more than 250 words. The Rambler reserves the right to cut letters to the editor to fit our

length requirements, and we may edit your let-ters to fix grammar or spelling mistakes.

Signed, with contact information. Full name and telephone number or email address is needed.Letters must be original. We will not accept

form letters.

Send your letters to:[email protected]

Have something to say?

As the opinion edi-tor this year, it seems only proper that I should introduce my-self. I’m Lyman Stone, and I’m happy to be in my third year work-ing at The Rambler. Last year I featured, somewhat awkwardly given my actual politi-cal views, as the con-servative columnist. This year, I get to be the opinion editor, a most exciting posi-tion, though I’ve been informed that doesn’t mean I get to edit peo-ples’ opinions.

Rambler readers will find the opinion page this year some-what different than in the past. First, the columnists will be en-couraged to coordi-nate topics so that this page will feature both sides of a contempo-rary debate, rather than a random assortment of pieces. Second, last year, many columns were of merely tangen-tial interest to the Tran-sylvania community. This year, I will write a brief “Why It Matters” piece each week, dis-cussing why the issue at hand, whatever your position on it, should matter to Transy stu-dents (and thereby nar-rowing the scope of what columnists have

to cover). Third, we had a few letters to the editor last year, but we want more.

Indeed, as the opin-ion editor, I would like nothing better than to publish a letter to the editor every week. Whether it comments on positions taken in previous columns, on current events or on more Transy-specific issues, we welcome any and all letters to the editor. Letters to the editor of no more than 250 words in length can be submitted to [email protected], signed by their author.

Finally, The Ram-bler’s opinion page will require columnists. If you are interested in writing either a liberal or a conservative col-umn (or, actually, one from any interesting viewpoint), email [email protected] with your name and contact information, as well as a brief description of which column you would like to write and why. I’m looking for people of any political position who want to write, with or without experience. You’ll be supplied help with re-search and given top-ics well in advance. I look forward to hearing from you!

An open press for opinions

Another year has begun for Transylvania University and for The Rambler, a publication that has not always had a consistent presence on our campus. There were many years when the news-paper that you’re holding didn’t publish at all and others when an issue might surface once or twice a semester.

In the past four years, how-ever, The Rambler has been revi-talized and rebuilt into a student publication that this campus can be proud of. It’s no small feat for a staff of approximately 20 stu-dents to write, take photos, create art and design a completely origi-nal six-page issue on a weekly basis.

What’s even more amazing is that we do this with no reward but our own satisfaction when we hold that product in our hands, and the positive feedback we re-ceive from our audience — you.

Since my labors as the design and layout editor of The Rambler for the past 2 1/2 years have fi-nally paid off, I get column space where I can introduce myself to the student body, as well as let you all know my goals and hopes for the paper.

I’m a native of West Ches-ter, Ohio, a farming com-munity that has been turned into suburban hell by the construction of the IKEA store and countless other retailers and neighbor-hoods. I gradu-ated in a class of about 800 students from Lakota West High School, where I was the editor-in-chief of Voice, our student-run newspaper.

Four years later at Tran-sylvania, I’m now in charge of The Ram-bler, in addi-tion to being on the women’s golf team and working at the Writing Center as a tutor. I’m a writing, rhetoric and commu-nication and English double ma-jor, and this past summer, I was privileged enough to intern at Business Lexington, a biweekly newspaper.

That amazing experience has made me even more excited to be The Rambler’s editor-in-chief for this school year, and I aim to make The Rambler an even more integral part of our campus. We have an incredible staff of talent-ed and intelligent students, and I know that with all of us working together, we will be able to bring the Transy community informa-tion and entertainment.

So as part of this introduction,

I’d like to share a few things you may not know, and some that you may have forgotten over the sum-mer recess.

The Rambler is a student-run newspaper, not an independent newspaper, and it’s important to understand the difference. The Rambler is run by students, with the guidance of an adviser, but it is printed under the auspices of Transylvania University. In oth-er words, Transylvania picks up the tab for printing The Rambler each week during the school year.

Does that mean that admin-istrators, faculty, staff and even trustees can tell the student staff what to run and, more impor-tantly, what not to run? Techni-cally, the answer to that would be yes. Transylvania University is, in essence, the publisher, and the publisher has the right to publish whatever he or she sees fit.

Luckily, however, Transylva-nia University (i.e., the adminis-tration) saw fit some time ago to give students the right to publish this newspaper free of censor-ship. It’s in the student handbook, but we’ve excerpted it for you:

“Student-directed publications that are pub-lished under the auspices of the Univer-sity and/or are funded by the U n i v e r s i t y shall be free of censorship. The Universi-ty shall honor this freedom by publicly recognizing and protect-ing the stu-dent editors’ and manag-ers’ right to establish editorial poli-cies within the bounds of prevail-ing legal and journal i s t ic s t a n d a r d s . Specifically, student edi-tors and man-agers may not be suspended or removed in response to pressure by individuals or groups dis-

agreeing with editorial policies, positions, or opinions.”

Does that mean that The Rambler can publish anything it wants, without boundaries? No, definitely not. With every privi-lege and right comes responsibil-ity, and in our case, our respon-sibility is to establish editorial policies “within the bounds of prevailing legal and journalistic standards.”

And if we fail in doing that job by producing a publication that “endangers lives or property or is patently defamatory,” the student handbook states that the univer-sity reserves its right to censor distribution.

So as you can see, this student publication was created for a par-ticular role, but it has also been given careful boundaries.

The purpose of any student newspaper can be summed up with the following in mind: It should chronicle the campus ex-perience, documenting events that range from athletics to ad-ministration changes; it should provide an open forum for stu-dents, faculty and staff to collab-orate and discuss important top-ics; it should serve as a watchdog that can alert the community of important goings-on; and finally, it should function as an educa-tional tool, preparing all students involved in its production for their careers beyond college.

From a student’s very first day at Transylvania University, he or she is forced to ponder the con-cept of a liberal arts education. What is it? What purpose does it serve? How does it differ from vocational training? How can we use it to its greatest potential? And so on.

The Rambler, whether for the students working to put it togeth-er or for the students, faculty and staff who pick it up and read the words that have been written, is a tool that exemplifies the aims of a liberal arts education.

These aims are to bring togeth-er several elements in order to evaluate, analyze and synthesize information into a final product that, first of all, neatly packages such exemplary thought, but at its finest, encourages others to think for themselves and even contrib-ute to the ongoing conversation.

The Rambler has published some stories deemed controver-sial in the past few years, but we want you to understand that we do not make up the news. We are merely doing what we see as nec-essary — reporting the news and serving as a forum for students’ opinions, which they have a right to express.

Even though you may not al-ways agree with what we print, I want you to understand two things.

First, we want you to respond to us. We want you to write a let-ter to the editor. We want you to write a guest column. We want you to respond online. We want your thoughts to be heard and stated plainly for all to see. That’s one of our goals.

Second, our motives are not malicious in any way, shape or form. Good reporters do not run around looking for scandalous stories to sensationalize. But if something does go amiss, or something incredibly important happens, it is a paper’s respon-sibility to report on it. The paper was created to fulfill such a role, and it must do everything it can to accomplish its goals. Our aim is to be as professional as pos-sible.

There exists a mutual kinship — between a newspaper and its readers. Hopefully such a dynam-ic exists on this campus.

Just remember that we, The Rambler’s staff, do this because we love this paper. We love this school. We want every aspect of Transylvania to be envied among other colleges in every part of the nation, and that includes our newspaper.

We are passionate, and I urge you to find something you can be just as passionate about that will help transform this campus into one that has seized all of its po-tential. After all, we are pioneers.

Reflections on role of campus newspaper

“Just remember that we, The

Rambler’s staff, do this because

we love this paper. We love this school. We

want every aspect of

Transylvania to be envied among other colleges in every part of the nation, and that

includes our newspaper.”

SportsPage 5 September 8, 2011

Rachel BurnsStaff Writer

New coaches added to TU athletics roster

• In addition the two new lacrosse coaches (see above), Transy athletics has also welcomed two new personalities to coaching staff: Heidi Pinkerton is now the head men’s and women’s crosscountry and track and field and Kim Tack-ett has been named the head sofball coach.

Field hockey begins season strong• T.U. field hockey is off to an impressive

start with a 2-1 record. The team captured the Earlham College Invitation after beating Earl-ham and Saint Vincent College. Congrats to seniors Ruth Kloha and Laura Hammer, junior Molly Dean (who was also named the tourna-ment’s most valuable player), sophomore Caro-line Durham and first-year Sara Aschbacher for making the all-tournament team.

Soccer starts with landslide victory• First-year Alyssa Kruse led the Pioneers

soccer team with two goals in its 3-0 win over Marietta College in the Marietta Invitation-al. Other contributors were senior Elizabeth Schmitt, who scored the first goal of the match, and juniors Natosha Boden and Ashley Cobane, who added assists. Kara Hansel was tough be-tween the posts with three saves. The Pioneers had 25 shots against Marietta’s nine.

Cross-country has strong show at As-bury

• Women’s cross-country finished fourth in the Asbury University Invitational. Senior April Myers led the team with a ninth-place finish, while juniors Ria Keegan and Laura Clark fin-ished 11th and 19th, respectively. Junior Kelsey Meade and senior Tori Elrod were 23rd and 24th.

Women’s tennis captures five of six singles matches

• After an impressive 2010 season, women’s tennis is off to a solid start with a 7-2 win over Brescia University after capturing five of the six singles matches last Friday.

Volleyball impresses at Thomas More• Volleyball rallied for a five-set win in the

Thomas More College Invitational against Hi-ram College last weekend. First-year Amber Jackey was named to the all-tournament team.

Men’s soccer beats Marietta College 3-0 in season-opener

• Men’s soccer is now 1-1 after an impressive 3-0 win in its season-opener over Marietta Col-lege. Senior Ethan Collins led the team with a pair of goals and assisted on Transy’s third goal, which was scored by sophomore Christian King.

Foley, Millett start senior year strong•Transy’s women’s golf team took eighth in

the NCAA preview tournament last weekend at Zolner Golf Course in Angola, Indiana. Seniors Megan Foley and Janca Millett finished 10th and 20th overall. Today the team travel to Centre to take on the Colonels at the Danville Country Club.

Transylvania athletics has two new additions to the program: Terry Justice, a former University of Kentucky play-er and Lexington Catholic High School coach, and Georgia native and college standout Haley Marvine.

Justice was a key figure in starting the lacrosse program at the Universi-ty of Kentucky when he played from 1979 to 1983. After a successful career as a player he later became a coach at Kentucky from 1984 to 2004.

In 2004, Justice founded a lacrosse program at Lexington Catholic, where his success continued with a 73-33 re-cord, including an 8-5 mark this past spring.

Some of Justice’s accomplishments include being named the Kentucky High School Coach of the Year in 2004 and 2005 and leading Lexington Catholic to runner-up finishes in the Kentucky High School Athletic Asso-ciation state tournament in 2006 and 2008.

Justice has high hopes for the men’s program and understands the impor-tance of having well-rounded athletes.

He expects them to be students, ath-letes and highly involved individuals in the Transy community.

“First I want to start a tradition here. … We are pioneering the future of la-crosse,” said Justice. “I also want to recruit students that can succeed here academically and athletically.”

He is hoping that the players’ in-volvement on campus will “translate to people coming to see us play.”

For women’s lacrosse, Transy hired Marvine, a 2011 University of Cin-cinnati graduate and four-year letter-winner for the Bearcats. In addition, Marvine was a captain and a Big East Conference Academic All-American.

Marvine’s experience stretches far beyond playing Division I lacrosse. She has coached high school elite teams and recruiting camps for the past four years. Marvine also has experi-ence working camps in the South and Midwest, including some at Duke Uni-versity and Georgia Institute of Tech-nology.

The next year will be a busy one for the two coaches as they aim to be on the recruiting track. They will hit the road to meet players to ensure they get the best athletes.

“(I will be) working on really build-

ing my team and new Transy lacrosse traditions,” said Marvine. “I am work-ing hard to recruit some great girls to be my first recruiting class and set the bar for Transylvania lacrosse.”

Both Marvine and Justice believe that Transy is right for the game of la-crosse. They know that if they recruit the right players, lacrosse can and will succeed on Transy’s campus.

“Recruiting the right type of boys that work together and work hard for a

common goal,” said Justice. “Getting the right athletes. Girls

that work well together and really love to compete every day,” said Marvine. “Transy is such a great school that if I can bring in the right athletes, I know we will succeed.”

Pioneering a lacrosse traditionAbby Ferguson

Sports Editor

TU athletics revamps intramurals

The 2011 fall semes-ter marks the begin-ning of an initiative to restructure intramurals. From signing up to play a sport to designing po-tential teams, Transy’s intramural program is evolving in significant ways.

In an email sent out to staff and students, Mi-chael Fulton, the intra-mural director and head coach for women’s soc-cer, summed up the most prominent change: Intra-murals will no longer be centered around Greek life but will be more in-clusive of all students.

Students affiliated with a fraternity or so-rority have consistently been the major play-ers — literally — in the university’s intramu-rals, and while they will still be highly involved, abundant opportunities for unaffiliated students to participate will ex-ist. Students can choose to team up with their classmates or even their teachers to compete against other teams also comprised of a represen-

tative mix of Transylva-nians.

Another change af-fects the registration process for intramurals. They will now be man-aged on IMLeagues, http://imleagues.com, a website devoted to sim-

plifying this program on campuses nationwide.

By creating an ac-count, anyone who wish-es to participate in an intramural will be able to view important infor-mation about the where and when of games in

addition to joining or creating a team. Email reminders will be sent out to students who have signed up for a specif-ic event, so that in the midst of a hectic co-cur-ricular life, games won’t be forgotten.

The scope of the in-tramural program at Transy has noticeably expanded since its start in 1932. From the ex-pected events like bas-ketball and flag football to the less typical, such as ping-pong and bil-liards, everyone can find his or her niche. Winning competitions is accom-panied by both a sense of accomplishment and an intramural champion T-shirt.

The Intramural Coun-cil has members from every fraternity and so-rority on campus, and they were in favor of these changes.

According to Fulton, an average of 400 to 500 students annually were involved with intramu-rals in the past. He ex-pects to see an increase in popularity as soon as this semester.

Women Rebecca Luking - Supervisor Sammi Migliozzi - Supervisor Stephanie Townsend - Supervisor Robin McClanahan- AOII Laura Battaglia - Chi O Susan Hodgson- Tri Delta Alex Stanley - Phi Mu Stacey Corry - Indy Women

Men Tyler Mastin - Supervisor Justin Tereshko - Supervisor Lloyd Alverson - KA Colin Bussell - Phi Tau Chris Abel - Pike Joseph Porter - Sig Justin Tereshko - Indy Men

Intramurals Introduces New Sta� for '11-'12

Terry Justice Haley Marvine

PHOTOS COURTESY OF SPORTS INFORMATION

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Did you spend your summer read-ing novels by the pool or enjoying that last sip of lemonade? My summer was spent on something both educational and entertaining.

First Engagements is an annual book discussion centered around a volume chosen by the administration,

faculty and a few upperclassmen for the first-years to read. First Engage-ments has had a history of intriguing volumes and this year’s title was no exception.

The class of 2015’s book was “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” written by New York Times best-sell-ing author Rebecca Skloot.

The basic story is about a woman whose cells were taken without her knowledge; after she died the scien-tists realized that her cancer cells were immortal and used them throughout the world to help cure disease. The book is filled with the issues of bioeth-ics and the question of where the soul goes after death.

Class discussion between faculty, student orientation leaders and other

students created a learning environ-ment of understanding and civil dis-course. It brought up many issues that relate to today’s society.

Participating in First Engagements was an eye-opening experience for me, and my first taste of college.

When I received the book at my summer orientation and registration, I started reading it that night and couldn’t put it down. Many important issues were discussed in the book, and these made me better aware of bioethi-cal topics.

It was a book that held an interest to anyone, from the science person-ality to the bookworm well-versed in the humanities. It gave people a voice not often heard of and a story that was unknown besides the four-letter ab-

breviation of HeLa. It gave me a new perspective to think of the backstory of a product rather than just assuming the product always ex-isted.

It was a humanis-tic book in the sense that Lacks was made famous because of what she gave un-knowingly. Midway through the book you began seeing a

woman appear instead of a cell. The irony of the book is that Lacks’ family can’t afford basic medical attention.

Themes found in “The Immortal Life” pertained to a liberal arts mind-set because of the foundations the book held. The book makes you ques-tion everything, and society itself is reflected in it.

Does the patient have the right to his or her own tissue, does the social economic state of a person affect the way that he or she receives treatment, or does having your faith tested prove that anyone can overcome?

The author proves herself that she could accomplish much, but it takes time and trust for anything you want to achieve. The book held a poetic jus-tice but served more as a memoir of Rebecca Skloot and the journey that she took to find this information than as one of Lacks herself.

Despite being a memoir, it made me to think differently and not take so much for granted. Being a part of First Engagements broadens the mindset of an incoming first-year. Reading “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” is just the beginning of many books that I will indulge in, but it marks the begin-ning of my liberal arts education. This experience proves that Transylvania University offers a multifaceted and diverse community of learning.

First-year weighs in on First Engagements

• Sept. 9-11: The Lexing-ton Roots and Heritage Fes-tival will take place on Elm Tree Lane. This event will celebrate Lexington’s Afri-can-American cultural his-tory. Kicking off with a pa-rade and continuing through the weekend with an African marketplace, children’s pro-grams and live entertainment, it looks to be a great experi-ence.

• Sept. 11: The fall con-vocation will take place at 7 p.m. in Haggin Auditorium. This year’s speaker will be Harriet Washington, the author of “Medical Apart-heid.” This book is about the medical experimentation on and exploitation of African-Americans — an eye-opening topic that should provide a fascinating lecture.

• Sept. 12: Auditions for the upcoming theater season will be held in Little The-ater from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. If you’re interested in any roles during the season, you need to come with a memorized monologue. Contact Sully White at [email protected] for more information.

• Sept. 13: In case you skipped the article on it, the TangleTown Trio will per-form at 7:30 p.m. in Carrick Theater. The concert is free and open to the public. This group is passionate about making art music accessible to the average listener, so this concert promises to be a unique musical experience.

• Sept. 14: The Student Involvement Fair will take place at 4:30 p.m., presum-ably in Back Circle. Don’t miss this great opportunity to be exposed to a plethora of Transy’s extracurricular orga-nizations!

Looking for a unique yet academic evening of entertainment? Look no fur-ther than the Mitchell Fine Arts Center.

On Sept. 16, the TangleTown Trio will perform in Carrick Theater at 7:30 p.m.

This group, formed in Seattle, con-sists of mezzo-soprano and composer Sarah Mattox, violinist Jo Nardolillo and pianist Judith Cohen.

According to its website, the trio self-identifies as “an innovative new music group dedicated to living American com-posers and the idea there should be no barriers between art music and its audi-ences.”

“Most people feel like they can’t re-late and can’t connect to new music,” said Nardolillo. “I’ve made it my mis-sion to try to change that.”

While making the content of their music accessible to the listener is impor-tant to the group, the artists are also sup-portive of the increased availability of music that modern technology provides. The group indicates that embracing the possibilities of technology has allowed them the self-sufficiency of doing their own publishing and advertising, and they encourage other artists to investigate similar options.

The set that TangleTown will perform at Transylvania is titled “Song Nou-veau.” Literally meaning “new song,” this show is largely a compilation of new music.

The group also considers this show a reaction to inaccessible academic music, comparable to art nouveau. The songs featured in this show revolve around na-ture and life, topics the group hopes will be immediately accessible to their audi-ence.

In addition to providing new and re-latable music, “Song Nouveau” also con-tains some 20th-century pieces.

“What’s special about this concert … is that we have living composers but we’ve also included some music that shows where some of the living compos-ers got their inspiration,” said Cohen. “There’s sort of a nice link showing that some of the early 20th-century music was really seminal to what’s happening now. … I think that will come across in our music.”

This concert will be free and open to the public as part of the Transylvania University Guest Artist Series. Transy music professor Dr. Greg Partain has

been the concert’s organizer. “To augment the high-profile Smith

Endowed Concert Series, the World Music Series and the Delcamp Visiting Musician Series,” said Partain, “our fine arts division hosts a number of profes-sional musicians in concert each year as guest artists. … This regular interaction with artists of national and international stature keeps all of us inspired and re-freshed.”

After the concert, TangleTown will be available to talk to audience members, and the trio says they will be happy to answer any questions that students may have about their work.

Along with their concert, TangleTown will be engaging in workshops with some of Transy’s music classes. Specific times and classes have yet to be determined, but this information will be posted on Inside Transy for anyone interested in at-tending.

Transylvania won’t be the group’s only stop while they are in the state. Tan-gleTown will be performing at Natasha’s Bistro and Bar at noon on Sept. 17 and at the Kentucky Theater on Sept. 19 at 6:45 p.m. For more information, visit http://tangletowntrio.com/Upcoming.aspx.

Holly BrownA&E Editor

A group of first-year students discuss “The Immor-tal Life of Henrietta Lacks”during this year’s First Engagements.

SARAH ALLISON

COURTESY OF TANGLETOWN TRIO

TangleTown to treat Transy

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Holly Brown A&E Editor

Erica ClarkCampus Life Editor

Victoria SullivanEctetera Editor

Lyman StoneOpinion Editor

Abby FergusonSports Editor

John JohnsonChief Copy Editor

James HuddlestonNews Editor

MURAVCHICK From Page 1

Senior Erica Clark is the campus life editor for The Rambler. When she’s not thinking about interesting people on campus to feature in a Rambler profile, Clark spends her time pursing a major in writing, rhetoric and communication.

This is Clark’s second year with The Ram-bler, and she comes back to the staff this year fresh off the heels of an internship in broadcast journalism for Fox 8 news in New Orleans. During her time there, she got to meet New Or-leans Saints quarterback Drew Brees.

Clark hopes to learn more about the universi-ty while serving as the campus life editor, while also bringing stories to the community in a fun, interesting and informative way.

Senior Erin Brock, who has been with The Rambler since she was a first-year, is now serving as editor-in-chief of your student newspaper.

Brock, who was The Rambler’s design editor for over two years, brings to the staff years of journalism experience starting at her high school paper. She is a WRC/English double major and a member of the golf team. Over the past summer, Brock worked for the biweekly business newspaper Business Lexington, where she had two full-page articles published.

Brock is “determined” to improve The Rambler in every way possible — in content, design and style — and welcomes anyone from the campus community to contact her with input about the paper.

Psychology major and music minor Holly Brown, a senior, returns to The Rambler once again as editor of the Arts and Entertainment page.

Brown, who has been on the Rambler staff since her sophomore year, brings to it her up-beat personality and kindness. In her own words, she said, “I’m just having fun participat-ing in a worthwhile project with a great group of people.”

Over the summer Brown, who sarcastically refers to herself as the “first person” you should call when thinking about a construction project, helped construct a grain bin; she also served as a leader in the First-Year Urban Program.

Junior Jake Hawkins, this year’s managing editor, is a writing, rhetoric and communication major and politi-cal science minor. Hawkins has served on staff his entire time at Transylvania University, first as a staff writer and then as news editor.

This year, Hawkins hopes to im-prove Transy’s presence across digi-tal platforms, such as the website, Facebook and Twitter. Additionally, Hawkins hopes to work on in-depth exclusives for the paper that bring in-formative stories to the campus com-munity.

Hawkins, who is from Princeton, Ky., spent his summer working in the external affairs division of Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufactur-ing North America, and continues that during the school year.

James Huddleston, a sophomore majoring in political science and minoring in econom-ics, is this year’s news editor for The Ram-bler.

Before taking the news editor position, Huddleston was a staff writer for The Ram-bler, and he wrote for his high school paper called, coincidentally enough, The Crimson. He also briefly served on staff for Indiana University’s student newspaper before com-ing to Transylvania.

“Being on the Rambler staff forces me to stay abreast of the goings-on around cam-pus,” said Huddleston. “Consequently I feel more connected to Transy as a whole.”

Over the summer, Huddleston, who is from Louisville, Ky., worked for security at a UPS shipping hub. In his position he was able to “put some cool stuff” on his car and “occasionally got to run people off.”

Chief Copy Editor John Johnson, a senior classics major who hails from Nashville, Tenn., continues in the position he has championed for the better part of two years.

A valuable asset to The Rambler, Johnson has bested every college copy editor present at the annual Kentucky Intercol-legiate Press Association convention for two years running.

“I had no experience on a newspaper’s staff before joining The Ram-bler,” said Johnson. “I have grown to enjoy the nuances of proofreading and stylistic standardiza-tion. I look forward to gaining even more edit-ing experience this year, because this may become may career. Right now I am thinking of becoming an editor for a publishing firm.”

Over the summer Johnson was able to put down the red pen and enjoy the white sands of Destin, Fla., for a week-long vacation.

Junior Katelynn Ralston returns as The Rambler’s photo editor this year, after leaving briefly to pursue ventures at Nossi College of Art.

Ralston, who is a studio art ma-jor with a focus in ceramics and photography, has served as photo editor in the past. Additionally, Ralston completed an exclusive editorial photo shoot for Alt Noir magazine’s September-October is-sue, which is being considered for the front cover. Over the summer Ralston also worked on a layout for Votive magazine.

Ralston aims to “nurture a working relationship” with all of the Transy community this year, and urges everyone to welcome The Rambler’s cameras!

Lyman Stone, a junior, leaves be-hind his “What’s Right” column fea-tured on last year’s opinion pages, to serve as The Rambler’s opinion editor this year.

From Wilmore, Ky., Stone details his hopes for this year’s opinion pages more fully in his column on page 4. When not compiling the opinions of the Bubble, Stone serves as a resident adviser for the third floor of Clay Hall.

An economics major, Stone is ex-cited to announce that over the sum-mer he started a tax-deferred retire-ment account.

Sophomore Sally Jagielski (jag-el-skee), who is a chemistry and math double major, switches gears to serve as the Design and Layout Edi-tor for The Rambler this year.

From Winchester, Ky., Jagiel-ski was the Photo Editor of her high school newspaper, Smoke Signals, and was the assistant design editor for The Rambler last year. She hopes to continue to see the Rambler grow in all ways, just as it has in the past year.

Jagielski worked three jobs this summer and was able to boost her savings account, which she believes is “very exciting.”

Victoria Sullivan, a sophomore, is The Rambler’s Etcetera editor of for the 2011-2012 academic year.

Sullivan, who grew up in Vanceburg, Ky., is an English major and music minor, and wrote for The Rambler last year.

Over the summer, Sullivan toured western locales such as the Grand Canyon and Pike’s Peak.

Abby Ferguson returns to The Rambler for her second year in charge of the sports page, her third on staff.

A senior writing, rhetoric and communication major, Ferguson hopes to gain better writing skills and learn more ways to be an effec-tive journalist.

While back home in St. Louis for the summer, Ferguson interned at her local News Channel 4. Through this opportunity she was able to meet both Dick Vitale and Kurt Warner.

Meet the 2011-2012 staff

Sally JagielskiDesign & Layout Editor

Jake HawkinsManaging Editor

Erin BrockEditor-in-Chief

Katelynn RalstonPhoto Editor

Management Team

geared towards teaching the youth discipline and re-sponsibility for their actions along with a good physi-cal training regimen.”

At Transy Muravchick has already started working on getting the golf cart previously owned by Transy’s physical plant repaired to escort students across cam-pus at night. Additionally, he has created the Adopt-a-Dorm program so that DPS officers become recogniz-able.

“We’re actually going into the dorms and being pro-active instead of reactive in getting to know the stu-dents,” Muravchick said.

To some students, the idea of a DPS officer coming to their door unannounced and in uniform may appear alarming, but Muravchick said it as a way to break the barrier between officers and students so that if an issue were to arise, students will feel comfortable approach-ing DPS.

“There’s this image of a barrier or wall. … I don’t want anyone to be afraid to come in that (DPS) door and come up and say hello,” Muravchick said.

Muravchick said that he wants to know everyone

on this campus and that he hates how the DPS office is completely closed off from all outside contact. He hopes to solve this space issue in the future.

For now, he strongly encourages students to come by the DPS office, located in Forrer Back Lobby, and casually introduce themselves.

“The biggest thing that I use is the word ‘service’ — that’s what I’m here for, and I want everybody here to serve whatever the needs may be,” said Muravchick.

While Muravchick is encouraging all DPS officers to get to know the Transy community better, his im-provement efforts aren’t strictly within the Bubble. He has plans to increase student and faculty involvement in the surrounding area as well.

Muravchick explained that this will not only help with safety procedures but also create a positive name for Transy by encouraging students and faculty to get involved outside of Transy through volunteer oppor-tunities.

As part of getting to know the students, Muravchick said that he has rules and intends to allow for some leniency, but that he can and will be hard-core when

he has to.Previously serving as a Kentucky State Police ser-

geant, Muravchick has worked in a variety of settings. He therefore has the experience and knowledge regard-ing how the law should be abided by.

Muravchick expects responsibility and respect to go both ways, using the word “service” as his motto; he is here to serve everyone. Whether this means escorting students at night in his refurbished golf cart, handling a North Broadway wreck or being the voice of reason when bad decisions are made, he is not afraid to be “hard-core,” but he most definitely does not want to be.

Muravchick seems to be off to a good start. He has already garnered praise from one of his co-workers, Peace Officer Robert Walters.

“Chief Muravchick has been a pleasure to work for,” Walters said. “He has over 30 years of experience in law enforcement, including retiring from the Ken-tucky State Police. His enthusiasm and experience is an asset to the Transylvania community.”

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Greek rank falls

First-year olym-pics, an annual tradition, con-tinued this year with a rock, pa-per, scissors tournament as just one of the many activities.

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SARAH ALLISON

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KELLY HIERONYMUS

Transy first-years were encour-aged to make smart choices with the “Think Your Drink” event pictured above.

First-yearOrientation