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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW MUSICIANS HOUSING CO-OP OPENS MARCH 1ST
RICHMOND, IN (February 20, 2012)– An organization of artists known as The Musicians Cooperative has selected a property in Richmond to call home beginning March 1, 2012. The group will set-up camp on a 60 acre horse farm just outside the city limits. Founders say the cooperative will provide local musicians with affordable housing, studio space, and even the opportunity to star in a web reality series!
The Musicians Cooperative is part of an initiative to assist passionate artists in networking with like-minded individuals. Members of the cooperative will work together to share resources, knowledge, and inspiration. “Its like a brotherhood,” says co-founder Tyler Tree, “we feed off each other’s creativity”.
Members of the co-op will live together in a pre-civil war farmhouse nested at the center of the secluded property. The updated space features an in-house recording studio, rehearsal space, 7 dorm-style bedrooms, communal kitchen, meditation room, and commons area. The artists intend to utilize the acreage to raise organic meat and produce. Members pay $300 a month, including the cost of utilities.
Regular events are to be hosted by the co-op including Sunday night dinners, weekday jam sessions, and monthly house shows. Members work together to facilitate new projects that benefit both the cooperative and the community.
An innovative household video project serves as a way for members of the cooperative to reach out to new fans and followers. Members of the cooperative act as cast members of a documentary series posted as weekly webisodes. The series will follow the housemates as they move in, adapt to life in the cooperative, and pursue their musical dreams.
The Musician’s Cooperative of Richmond continues to seek new members before its opening on March 1st. Membership at the cooperative is open to artists of all sorts. If interested in moving into the house visit http://www.themusicianscoop.com for more information.
News contact:
Tyler Tree
Management@themusicianscoop.com
(765)914-9251
Hello,
I am writing to reiterate the sentiments expressed by Ben Hastil in his response to the article “Sexual Aggression Advocacy Returns to Earlham.” I also was a Sexual Assault Survivors’ Advocate from January of 2008-May of 2009. I also was very involved in advocating for the continuation of the program, as I served as one of two student representatives on the committee working to build a new program. I also encourage you to visit and read the links that Ben shared. The program was, and is, incredibly important and I think it’s also important that EC students current and future know the true history of the original Advocates’ program and how the program came to it’s end. THank you running a piece highlighting the new program!
Hannah Larson
EC ’09
I was pleased to read about the return of the Peer Advocacy program. I participate in the program from my sophomore year in 2006 until graduating in 2009. Thank you for covering this story. I can’t stress enough how important this program was for my personal and professional development. Having worked with survivors of gender-based violence for the last 2.5 years since graduating, I am only more clear on the quality of training the program provided in its previous form. I would be curious to read more about what form the program will take now and what components will be included in the curriculum.
I would also like to echo Ben’s comment on the end of the program in our last year. The discontinuation of the program was announced towards the end of our junior year. We had a particularly large class of advocates all of whom were very concerned about the continuation of the program. We and the advocates from the class behind us dedicated a lot of our time in following year to organizing students and faculty to demand a continuation of the program. There were many raising sophomores and juniors who were very disappointed to miss out on the opportunity to be trained in the program.
Thank you for covering this important issue. I will look forward to reading more of your coverage about the program.
To the Editor of The Word:
I just read your recent article online, “Sexual Aggression Peer Advocacy returns to Earlham”–thank you so much for your coverage of this important issue! It is terrific news to hear that a new advocacy program has begun at Earlham.
I was a Sexual Assault Survivors’ Advocate who served from January 2007 to December 2008 in the original program and I was deeply involved with all the other Advocates and many other students in working to continue the program.
As someone who invested blood, tears, and sweat into fighting for the continuation of the program, I am SO dismayed to see the discontinuation of the program incorrectly portrayed in your article like this: “The SAPA program has existed on campus before, but fell inactive in recent years. The past peer advocates graduated without installing people to fill their responsibilities. Because of this, the past faculty advisor discontinued the program.”
Over a dozen Advocates and many students (the Earlham e-mail list that student allies of the Advocates program created to organize in support of the program still has over 50 members) worked tirelessly for years, lobbying Earlham’s administration to support the Advocates’ Program and to make a way forward possible for the program.
I encourage you to not only read “An Incomplete History of the Advocates” on the Action Against Sexual Violence website (https://sites.google.com/a/earlham.edu/aasv/allies/advocates/history), but these articles, published in The Word, which more accurately portray the events that led to the discontinuation of the program and the Advocates’ and student campaign that attempted to prevent the ending of the program:
1. 9/12/08 – Survivors Advocates fear end of support program: http://ecword.org/index.php/2008/09/news/survivors-advocates-fear-end-of-support-program/
2. 10/2/08 – Support the Advocates program: http://ecword.org/index.php/2008/10/op-ed/support-the-advocates-program/
3. 10/10/08 – Students discuss future of the Sexual Assault Advocates: http://ecword.org/index.php/2008/10/news/students-discuss-future-of-the-sexual-assault-advocates/
4. 10/30/08 – Earlham needs the Advocates Program: http://ecword.org/index.php/2008/10/op-ed/earlham-needs-the-advocates-program/
5. 11/7/08 – Advocates are intrinsic to Earlham’s mission: http://ecword.org/index.php/2008/11/op-ed/advocates-are-intrinsic-to-earlhams-mission/
6. 4/10/09 – Bureaucracy, negligence threaten program: http://ecword.org/index.php/2009/04/op-ed/bureaucracy-negligence-threaten-program/
7. 4/24/09 – Proposed change to Advocates not comprehensive: http://ecword.org/index.php/2009/04/op-ed/proposed-change-to-advocates-not-comprehensive/
8. 9/24/09 – Advocates program seeks sustainable future: http://ecword.org/index.php/2009/09/features/advocates-program-seeks-sustainable-future/
9. 9/4/10 – Action needed to support survivors: http://ecword.org/index.php/2010/11/op-ed/action-needed-to-support-survivors/
Thank you again for your coverage of this important issue, but will you please run a correction in the next issue of The Word, correcting your article’s incorrect portrayal of the reasons for the discontinuation of the program?
Thank you for your time, and I look forward to hearing back from you!
Sincerely,
Ben
Ben Hastil
EC ’08
P.S. How can I reach The Word by e-mail?
Hello,
I am writing regarding Abilities Thrift Store located at 1813 National Road West next to EZ Pawn. We would like to talk to someone about doing a article on our store and ultimately our mission which is to provide individuals with disabilities work experiences, which will enable them to discover and develop their unique capabilities and potential, and to help them achieve the highest degree of independence and self-respect.
We are also looking for volunteers to help at the store in many areas to include going through donations, pricing and putting out donations, ebay sales, maintaining and updating our website and facebook page and much more. There is always need for help.
Thank you,
Tami Johnson
Founder
Abilities Richmond
765-966-0066
The “Weekly Poll” makes me wonder if it speaks more to “gender expectations” than to “who is the most ridiculous Professor on Campus?
Peace and Love, Stephen Johnson (Athletic and Wellness Group Fitness instructor)
PRESS RELEASE: MUSICIANS HOUSING CO-OP TO OPEN IN RICHMOND
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW MUSICIAN’S HOUSING CO-OP OPENS MARCH 1ST
RICHMOND, IN (January 23, 2012)– An organization of artists known as The Musicians Cooperative has selected a property in Richmond to call home beginning March 1, 2012. The group will set-up camp on a 60 acre horse farm just outside the city limits. Founders say the cooperative will provide local musicians with affordable housing, studio space, and even the opportunity to star in a web reality series!
The Musicians Cooperative is part of an initiative to assist passionate artists in networking with like-minded individuals. Members of the cooperative will work together to share resources, knowledge, and inspiration. “Its like a brotherhood,” says co-founder Tyler Tree, “we feed off each other’s creativity”.
Members of the co-op will live together in a pre-civil war farmhouse nested at the center of the secluded property. The updated space features an in-house recording studio, rehearsal space, 7 dorm-style bedrooms, communal kitchen, meditation room, and commons area. The artists intend to utilize the acreage to raise organic meat and produce. Members pay $300 a month, including the cost of utilities.
Regular events are to be hosted by the co-op including Sunday night dinners, weekday jam sessions, and monthly house shows. Members work together to facilitate new projects that benefit both the cooperative and the community.
An innovative household video project serves as a way for members of the cooperative to reach out to new fans and followers. Members of the cooperative act as cast members of a documentary series posted as weekly webisodes. The series will follow the housemates as they move in, adapt to life in the cooperative, and pursue their musical dreams.
The Musician’s Cooperative of Richmond continues to seek new members before its opening on March 1st. Membership at the cooperative is open to artists of all sorts. If interested in moving into the house visit http://www.themusicianscoop.com for more information.
News contact:
Tyler Tree
Management@themusicianscoop.com
(269)599-5403
Hello, my name is Russell Ries, Jr. In a previous life I was an Earlham student & editor of the Word’s Sport section. Today, I am the President of Xplor Corps LLC, a product invention and development company based here in Nashville. I’m writing to you today about, BreathalEyes, an iPhone application recently released by our subsidiary, Xplor Apps.
BreathalEyes works by scanning a subject’s eye to detect for symptoms of Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN), an involuntary fluctuation of the eye which is a side effect of alcohol consumption. If detected, BreathalEyes measures the rate of HGN and uses that information to determine an approximate Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) reading for the user. Tests have shown it to be accurate to +/-.02%. In other words, BreathalEyes gives it’s users the functionality of a breathalyzer on their iPhone. (This video shows BreathalEyes in action)
I wanted to reach out to you as both a former student & as an inventor who believes in the new technology we have created. For $0.99, BreathalEyes is a quick, affordable way to help people make smarter decisions when they go out drinking. I realize that isn’t as big an issue on a “dry” campus but you never know when BreathalEyes might come in handy. So I wanted to make sure to contact some representative of the students on campus & went with the Word because I used to be one of your ranks.
If you would like, I have a press kit for BreathyalEyes, which I will gladly send you. Just let me know where it needs to go.
Thanks for your time and consideration,
Russell
Good afternoon. To whom might I address a press release that may interest students at Earlham and to what e-mail address?
Thanks so much,
Andrea Beale
Communications Assistant
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
Hi! As I am not an Earlham but a BSU student, I was curious how interested your college newspaper is in covering events in the community. The new National Road Heritage Site at the Huddleston Farmhouse in Cambridge City, IN, will be opening in September and I thought it may be of interest to your newspaper and your students. If you could provide me an email address, I’d be happy to share our press release with you.
Thanks so much!
Hi Anya,
I saw your post and wondered if you might be interested in contributing to our facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/richwaycovibe since you have an interest in the Wayne County area? If so, please e-mail me at jdishman@visitrichmond.org.
Hello,
I am an alumni that is currently doing International Development work in Tanzania. My current (fortunate) position is largely due to my wonderful Earlham education and time spent on the East Africa study abroad program. I would love to work with you to write an article for the Earlhamite or the
Earlham Word. Please let me know if you are interested in doing a piece on the work that I am doing. Also, feel free to follow or blog at http://thebunguproject.wordpress.com as well as The 2Seeds Network website at http://www.2Seeds.org.
Thank you for your time, I hope that you do take me up on my offer.
Jessica A. George
Earlham College Class of 2011
Please contact me via e-mail at jessica.a.george11@gmail.com. I apologize for the lag in response time as that internet is hard to come by in my new home!
This e-mail from Doug Bennett was just sent out to some alumni (and current students?)–I didn’t receive it, but it was forwarded to me. Additionally, it seems like some coaches didn’t even receive it. So, since not everyone is getting it, apparently, I thought it important to ensure that The Word definitely has it. – an Earlham alum
From: Earlham College
Date: Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:54 PM
Subject: Update on Intercollegiate Athletics at Earlham
March 8, 2011
To Friends of Earlham Athletics:
I am writing to give you an update on intercollegiate athletics at Earlham. It’s been a turbulent year, but one in which we are renewing commitments to vital and successful programs for our students.
There have been some wonderful moments this year. Our Women’s Soccer team won the league championship in the Heartland Athletic Conference, and its players thrilled the campus with their élan and teamwork. Six of our players were named to the all-conference first team, and two others to the second team. Senior Karman Duchon was selected as the League’s Offensive Most Valuable Player, and Coach Jocelyn Keller was named the League’s Coach of the Year.
Our Men’s Cross Country team won honors as the NCAA Division III team with the highest overall grade point average, and our Women’s Cross Country also was named an All-Academic team. As an individual, Jacob Naegeli was named to the All-Academic team for his running and academic accomplishments. In Indoor Track and Field, Chad Wertman won the League championship in the shot-put, and Ramona Hemmings won the League championship in the triple jump.
We have also had more than our share of disappointments. Men’s Soccer was competitive throughout the season and compiled a 7-10-1 record, but other men’s teams struggled. We compiled losing records in Football (0-10) and Men’s Basketball (2-23); and in other women’s sports we experienced losing seasons in Field Hockey (2-15), Volleyball (6-21), and Women’s Basketball (0-25).
I believe we can and should do better. We should expect excellence in everything we do. We have not had high enough expectations for our athletics teams, and I bear the principle responsibility for this. I am writing to say we are resolved to do better in the future.
In 2005 we wrote a statement about “Athletics and Wellness at Earlham” that voices our best purposes, and it was approved by both the Faculty and the Board of Trustees. The statement makes it clear that we aspire to win when we compete athletically. It also makes it clear that we expect student-athletes to be full participants in the life of the community. It says that we are committed “to offering a model of college athletics in which academics are fully complementary.” We need to work harder to fully live up to this statement.
Over the past few months, we have been working on a new policy statement about “The Evaluation of AWPE Faculty (Coaches),” and that work has now been completed. We all agree that in athletics we strive to win, and therefore success in terms of winning must be an essential part of the evaluation of coaches. We also all agree that there is more to good coaching than just winning, so in this statement we have voiced other expectations for coaches, especially teaching of the sport, recruitment and retention of students, and teaching of wellness courses to students most of whom are not involved in intercollegiate athletics. (About a quarter of our students participate in intercollegiate athletics in any one year; perhaps a third participate at some time over their four years.) We also expect our AWPE Faculty (our coaches) to have an excellent professional understanding of issues around conditioning, nutrition, and the cognitive, psychological and spiritual aspects of preparing for and playing sports.
Here is what the new statement says about our expectations for coaches regarding winning:
“We expect Earlham student athletes and athletic teams to play to win. While we know that factors beyond the control of a coach can influence whether a team wins, we also know that a coach can and will play a major role through recruitment and retention of players, development of players’ skills, and learning of essential values of teamwork, effort, intensity, discipline, resilience and confidence. We expect our teams to play with unusual intelligence, poise and teamwork, whatever the physical gifts of their members.
“We expect that Earlham athletic teams will have a realistic chance to be competitive in most of the athletic contests in which they compete. In a four year period we expect that an athlete will be on a team that wins at least as many contests as it loses; and, at least once, will be on a team that competes for a conference championship. When a team struggles one year, we will look to see improvement in competitiveness in following years.”
Again, we expect more than winning, so the document also says:
“In evaluating coaches, we should look to see whether students are learning individual skills in the sport, growing in their understanding of how to play together as a team on and off the court, and learning competitive values that can be acquired through participation in athletics: self-confidence, perseverance, personal responsibility, respect for oneself and others, sportsmanship, integrity and others. We also look to see whether student athletes are developing a closer affiliation with and pride in the college they represent in competition.”
By these standards, we have not been achieving what we strive to do at Earlham College in intercollegiate athletics. We can and will do better. All of us at Earlham who have any role in athletics are committed to a higher level of achievement. This new policy with regard to the “Evaluation of AWPE Faculty (Coaches)” is one important step along the way.
Earlham provides a superb setting for a young man or woman who seeks an excellent education in the liberal arts and sciences and also wants to play competitive athletics while in college. I hope you will recommend young people you know to come to Earlham. This spring we will be searching for new coaches in Men’s Basketball, Women’s Basketball and Women’s Volleyball. I hope you will recommend promising coaches in these sports to us as well.
I appreciate your support of Earlham and Earlham athletics.
Best regards,
Doug Bennett
Douglas C. Bennett
Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion
801 National Road West
Richmond, Indiana 47374-4095
765/983-1211 · E-mail: prexy@earlham.edu · http://www.earlham.edu
To whom it may concern:
Hello, my name is Sean Gower, and I am the president of the Class of 2011 at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. I didn’t how else to reach the editors, but I write to you today to request your participation in a project being undertaken by our senior class. As a gift to the University upon graduation, we intend to reestablish a campus landmark called the Tree of Knowledge—but we cannot do it without help.
The Tree of Knowledge was originally planted in 1959 to commemorate the inauguration of our school’s new president, Dr. Lloyd Bertholf. Dr. Bertholf, president from 1958-1968, envisioned a liberal arts institution that was part of a larger global community. During his term he collected soil samples from over 200 colleges and universities, both domestic and abroad. As he collected more soil from more places, the Tree of Knowledge grew to represent the diversity of ideas, students and professors from all over the world that are present at our University. President Bertholf planted the seed of globalization at Illinois Wesleyan over 50 years ago, and still today our mission statement emphasizes that students be prepared for life in a global society.
The Tree of Knowledge no longer stands on our campus, and we, as a senior class, are hoping to restore both the tree itself and what it represents. Post-9/11 restrictions on mailing soil samples make replicating Dr. Bertholf’s project impossible. Still, the spirit of globalization represented by the 1959 Tree will live on in the 2011 version. To that end, we kindly ask that mail to us two copies of the front page of your student-run newspaper. We will plant one in the soil at the base of the new Tree to symbolize Illinois Wesleyan’s connection to students around the world, and we will keep the other on file. Your school—and newspaper—will forever be a part of our project. Your newspapers can be mailed to our staff liaison at:
Illinois Wesleyan University
c/o Jeff Mavros
PO Box 2900
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
If you have any questions, feel free to reach me at sgower@iwu.edu, or call Jeff Mavros in IWU’s Advancement Office at 1-309-556-3024. Thank you very much for your consideration. Our class, as well as the entire campus community, looks forward to reviving an important part of our school history—and we cannot do it without you!
Sincerely
Sean Gower
Class President ’11, Illinois Wesleyan
Hello,
this is a great idea! I am the sports editor and the webpage editor. I will forward your message to our editor-in-chief and faculty advisor, and hopefully we will do what we can. Good luck with the project!
Hello,
I am the press representative for The Acting Company who will be performing The Comedy of Errors on campus at the Goddard Auditorium on Feb 26.
Ive been working with Lynn Knight, getting some publicity for the upcoming show. A preview story in the campus newspaper would be great.
Can someone contact me so I can send you the press release and information on the show?
Thank You
Sean Katz
Thank you, I will forward your comment to our editor-in-chief! I assume you don’t want your phone number and email online, so I will remove that for you.
-Jesús, Web Editor
Still no word….