Does anyone else find it a little more than ironic that, just a few weeks after ETSU installed and tested an arguably hyper-paranoid, Cold War-era siren system on campus, the same campus allowed a student organization to hold a "no experience necessary, open to everyone" shooting range in the Mini-Dome? Yes, apparently there were waiting lines for the chance to shoot glocks and sub-machine guns with silencers.
Maybe there are more new waves of feminism than we thought. The New York Times recently published an article called "Students of Virginity." Sounds ... harmless, right? Well, these closed-legged students have made quite a splash in world of feminism by claiming that by keeping their pants zipped and legs crossed, they have reclaimed a sense of female empowerment.
On March 18, nearly 1,200 students, faculty and community members filled the stands of the Mini-Dome to hear writer/filmmaker Spike Lee speak. But how many of those attending took the time to go to the on-campus screenings? How many attempted to participate in the roundtable discussions of Lee's "She's Gotta Have It," "Do the Right Thing" or "School Daze"? Oh, I'd say around 25, at the maximum.
On Tuesday, April 2, the ETSU Society for Intellectual Diversity (SID) held a showing of the Evan Coyne Maloney film "Indoctrinate U." Held in the Brown Hall auditorium, the event attracted the attendance of students and faculty from a variety of departments and political persuasions.
Ever since Eve Ensler, playwright of "The Vagina Monologues" and creator of the anti-violence organization, V-Day, arrived on the scene in 1998, she's worked to remove those global blinders that we as Americans are so fond of wearing. On Saturday, April 12, V-Day hosted its 10-year anniversary celebration turned call to action at the New Orleans Arena.