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Students spend spring break

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News

Budget approved
for 2016-2017
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BY reBeKah WarreN

CONTRIBUTOR

The Lorraine Motel at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn. Photo provided by
Keaton Butler.

NEWS

Books will be included in

tuition starting next year
BY OliVia Kelley

ONLINE EDITOR
Four years after it was initially approved, a plan to include textbooks in the cost of tuition will go into effect in the fall.
Trevecca will increase tuition 3.6 percent, or $1,167, to make 2016-2017 tuition $33,215.
Included in that tuition increase will be textbooks every student needs for every class they
are enrolled in.
The program, originally known as Books Fly Free, was proposed by Tree of Lifes chief
executive officer, Darren Campbell, in February of 2012. The idea was to charge a book fee
based at $20 per credit hour that would cover the cost of books for each semester. The program has since evolved into Textbook Butler. Instead of a book fee, the cost will be included in students tuition and is based on a flat rate rather than number of credit hours.
Tree of Life is the company contracted by the university to manage the on-campus bookstore.

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On a Friday afternoon
in Alabama, Julie Gant
stood where Martin Luther King Jr. had heard
the voice of God.
I was impacted by
just being where he
was, said Gant. We
stood where he stood
and talked where he
talked to people. We
were in his home, everywhere that revolved
around him and his legacy.
During spring break,
Matt Spraker, associate dean of students
for community life, and
Jamie Casler, director of
the J.V. Morsch Center
for Social Justice traveled with 12 students
through
Tennessee,
Mississippi, Louisiana
and Alabama, experiencing the civil rights
and musical history of
the south.
Spraker
developed
the idea for the trip after
an important member
of the civil rights movement came to Trevecca.
We had Fred Gray,
who was the attorney
for Rosa Parks, speak in
chapeland it just blew
me away that I got to
meet this person, and
he just had to travel up
from Alabama, said
Spraker. It just hit me

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news

Trevecca administration undecided

on applying for Title IX exemption
By

Bailey Basham

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Administrators at Trevecca are in the

process of deciding whether to apply for
exemption from a federal law that deals
with gender equality and now inlcudes
provisions for transgender and gender
non-conforming students.
The Board of Trustees discussed applying for a Title IX exemption at their meetings on March 17 and 18, but no decision
was made.
Title IX is a law that was signed as part
of the Education Amendments of 1972.
This law requires gender equity in all educational programs that receive federal
funding. Since the 1970s the law has mandated that no person in the United States

shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from

participation in, be denied the benefits of,
or be subjected to discrimination under
any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance, but in
2012, language was added to the law that
specifies an extension to claims of discrimination based on gender identity or
failure to conform to stereotypical notions
of masculinity and femininity.
Faith-based colleges and universities
are allowed to apply for exemptions if they
believe what is outlined in Title IX goes
against the beliefs of the institution.
Fifty-six colleges and universities in
26 different states have sought exemptions
as of December 2015. Three Tennessee

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Four Trevecca faculty to retire this month

Doug Lepter is the chair of the department

of communications studies and professor
of communications.
BY Christy Ulmet & Bailey Basham

STAFF WRITER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

At the end of the semester,

four long-time faculty members will retire.
Trevecca employs about
100 faculty members, according to Steve Pusey, university
provost. Each year around
three to four faculty retire.
Here are some short stories about this years retirees.

communication, advanced
public speaking and principles of public relations, but
Lepter said his favorite class
to teach is interpersonal
communication, with intercultural communication and
organizational communication following closely behind.
Some things students
may not know about Lepter
is that he has an interest in
target shooting, stamp collecting and reading. He and
his wife of 44 years, Samuella, have one son and four
grandsons.
Lepter had some advice
he wanted to leave for students: think less of yourself.
Now that sounds contrary to what we stereotypically
teach in communication
studiesnonetheless, thinking less of yourself is the essence of servant leadership
understood in our Christian

dorf, associate vice president

for academic services, who
has worked alongside Niece
over the years. She deeply
cares about her job and the
people she is serving. She
has always been a person
that will go the extra mile
and demonstrated a Christlike attitude in her work.
Nice helped Trevecca
transition through two operating system overhauls,
which was a long process
that she took with stride.
I owe Trevecca for what
I am today, she said. And
wanting to be a part of the
team at Trevecca as an employee, I felt like that would
be the best opportunity to
impact and minister to other
students. Needless to say
there has been a great opportunity for that here.
Niece said that her advice
to current and future students is to not be afraid to

the Madrigalians is classical, with the implementation

of straight-tone music and
is led by student conductors and directors within the
group.
The group works very
hard to include the more
300 alumni in their yearly
gatherings, tours and more.
These kinds of gatherings
create a strong bond between
both current students and
alumni, Cierpke said. During
the 1992-93 school year, the
group began a tradition of inviting all alumni to the front
to sing with them for their
last song, A Gaelic Blessing,
as the benediction.
David Diehl, current chair
of the department of music
and dean of the school of
music and worship arts, said
he got to know Cierpke years
ago. He began as Cierpkes
student in his senior year at
Trevecca and reconnected

Dr. Doug Lepter

Nearly 25 years. That is
how long Doug Lepter, professor of communications
and chair of the department
of communications studies, has worked at Trevecca
Nazarene University. For
longer than most of its students have been alive, Lepter
has worked to educate students in Treveccas communications department. Serving as the communication
studies department chair,
Lepter has taught classes focusing mainly on organization and interpersonal communication. Lepter joined
Treveccas teaching faculty
in the fall of 1992 after completing his doctoral coursework, but he hasnt always
been a college professor.
Lepter said he felt the
growing call to ministry in
Christian higher education
through different stages of
his life. He began his work
through continuing studies
at Asbury Theological Seminary for his Masters degree
and continued on to the University of Kentucky for his
Ph.D. He also served as a pastor at a church in Kentucky
during this time. Lena Welch,
dean of the school of arts and
sciences, said Lepter has applied many of his pastor experience in the classroom.
He brings a pastors heart
into teaching and advising.
He is a friend to students,
and he is endlessly passionate and supportive, Welch
said.
Some of the classes he
teaches include theories of

Timothy Cierpke is the director of the Madrigalians and professor of music. Photos by Griffin Dunn.

worldview, he said. In the

spirit of John the Baptist,
[Jesus] must increase, and
we must decrease.
Lepter, who said he is
excited to take lots of long,
meaningful naps when he
retires, will finish his 24-year
career at Trevecca at the conclusion of this school year.

Ms. Becky Niece

Becky Niece has worked
as the university registrar
since 1997 and served as the
assistant registrar for four
years prior. But in June, shes
hanging up her hat and retiring after 31 years of working at Trevecca. Before she
began working in the office
of the registrar, Niece was
a graduate assistant at the
university after she graduated with an executive secretarial bachelor of science in
1970. She said shes enjoyed
being on campus with students over the years.
Becky is about as sincere
and authentic as you can
get, said Dr. Tom Midden-

take on new tasks.

I would like to [encourage] the college generation
to be determined to take on
responsibilities and follow
through. Life is ahead of the
students, and the sooner
they can learn to be responsible and follow through
with things, the better it will
be for them in life. I think it
will help them to accomplish
their goals much easier,
Niece said.

Dr. Timothy Cierpke

Those at Trevecca are
probably quite familiar with
the perfect hum of the Madrigalians, whether from
chapel or at a concert in the
Cathedral of the Incarnation
downtown Nashville. The
prestigious a cappella music
group began in 1983 under
the direction of Prof. Mary
Bates George, and was later
taken over by Timothy Cierpke, professor of music, in
1992.
Cierpke said the style of

when he returned to campus

as a junior faculty member in
1997.
Dr. Cierpke was one of
my primary encouragers and
mentors, and I am glad that
over time we became colleagues and friends, Diehl
said.
Cierpke said some of his
favorite memories from his
time at Trevecca include the
seven EuroTours taken by
the Madrigalians. The trips,
which were held every four
years, were open to both current students and alumni.
The Madrigalians became
a family affair for Cierpke
when all four of his children
participated in the group
during their college years.
Being a part of all things
musical was a natural thing
for them, and I was pleased
to have them around, obviously, he said.
While the Madrigalians
are the most notable of his
career, theyre certainly not
the only group Cierpke has
taken on.

Cierpke also leads choral

union, a choir made up of
various students from different departments at Trevecca.
Additionally, he took on the
role of conductor for the
Trevecca Symphony Orchestra during his first year
teaching at the university in
1988.
Cierpke will be retiring
from his 28-year tenure at
Trevecca at the end of this
school year.
The final Madrigalians
concert be held at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in
downtown Nashville on Sunday, May 1 at 2:00 p.m. The
concert will be open to the
public.

Dr. Linda Collins

From Metro Nashville
school teacher and principal
to Trevecca Nazarene University director of advanced
graduate programs, Linda
Collins has influenced many
students during her time in
education.
Collins has been at
Trevecca since 2006 where
she began working as an
associate professor. In 2012,
her role at the university
changed to program director for graduate studies and
grant related programs.
After a lengthy and distinguished career in the Metro Nashville School system
as a classroom teacher and
long-time elementary school
principal [Collins came on]
full-time at Trevecca and
part-time this year when she
offered to delay her retirement to assist the teacher
education program through
our reaffirmation of national accreditation and the
state approval process, said
Pusey.
In 2008, Collins was recognized as Metro Nashville
Public Schools Elementary
Principal of the Year.
Collins did not return contact for requests for an interview.

Becky Niece is the university

registrar. Niece has worked at
Trevecca for 31 years.

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civil rights history

continued from page 1

how close we are geographically to a lot of very important

parts of American history.
The students began in
Memphis with the National
Civil Rights Museum and the
Lorraine Hotel, the location of
Martin Luther Kings assassination. They also visited Sun
Studios, the place where Elvis
began his career. According to
Spraker, race issues and music
are inseparable in American
culture.
Race has played into modern music with the blues, and
jazz, and rock and roll, said
Spraker. This is a good way to
get people who are interested
in music to learn about the civil rights part and then people
who are into civil rights, who
may not realize its impact on
music in our culture.
Gant was especially moved
by how close history was to
the present. Students stood
at poignant locations, such
as Edmund Pettus Bridge in
Selma, which was unchanged
since the time of the infamous
march to Montgomery, Alabama that put Selma on the
map.
Its astounding because
people talk about this movement as if it occurred during
the dark ages, said Gant. The

Twelve students from Trevecca with Martin Luther King Jr. parsonage tour guide Shirley Cherry on the Southern Culture, Music and Civil
Rights tour.

majority of information we
learned took place less than a
century ago.
Part of the trips purpose
was to provide a common experience for students from different backgrounds and majors.

There was a diversity of

the students and a diversity
of majors, said Casler. Seeing different students from

This story rst appeared on

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Boonearoo replaced by
Schools Out for Summer

Boonearoo 2015 in the quad. Photo provided by TNU Marketing.

By

ashley WalliNG

CONTRIBUTOR

Boonearoo,
Treveccas end-ofthe-year music festival, will not take
place this year and
is being replaced by
several other events.
The main event now
called Schools Out
for Summer will be

a day to relax in the

quad the last Saturday of the semester.
SGA decided to
cancel
Boonearoo
because the $15,000
cost was too much.
With the increase of attendance of all events
this year, the steadily declining attend-

ance to concerts and

Boonearoo, and the
demand for better
bands which cost
exponentially more,
the decision was
made to cancel it,
said Griffin Dunn,
SGA
communications director.
The Schools Out
for Summer will

different backgrounds come

together and share a common
experience definitely made it a
successful week.

take place on April

30 and will include
food, games, and a
time to relax in the
quad for students
before exam week.
This event will
have a lot of the
same elements of
Boonearoo and some
surprises. Instead of
a full day concert
festival, it will be
more of an end of
the semester chill
experience,
said
Matt Spraker, associate of students for
community life.
SGA will pay for
half of every students ticket for an
upcoming
Kings
Island trip and will
also use some of the
money to offer free
tickets to a Lecrae
concert at Lipscomb.

Upcoming Events

Kings Island Trip

Sat., April 16
Cost: $40 per ticket
$25 with slap card
Buy tickets at the SGA booth

Lecrae concert
Thurs., April 21, 7p.m.
Location: Allen Arena
Lipscomb University- Nashville, TN
Tickets available at the SGA booth

Schools out for summer

Sat., April 30
Location: The Quad
Free event to all students

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Retirement of
Madrigalians director
leaves future of the
ensemble uncertain
BY Jessy aNNe Walters

COPY EDITOR

The Trevecca Madrigalians. Photo provided by

Olivia Kelley.

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Budget for 2016-2017 school year

approved by Board of Trustees
BY Bailey Basham

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
An operating budget of $47,421,252 was approved for the 2016-2017 school year by the
Board of Trustees at their March meeting.
The approval of next years budget also included a tuition increase of 2 percent with the
addition of another 1.6 percent due to the realignment of fees, according to David Caldwell,
executive vice president of finance and administration. This increase will include the cost of
textbooks that every student needs for every
class they are enrolled in. Tuition for next year
will increase by $1,167, making the annual cost
to attend Trevecca $33,215.
The $47 million operating budget will go toward expenses during the academic school year
and renovations on campus over the summer.
The budget includes a contingency of $1 million.
The only large renovation planned and budgeted for this summer is a new roof that will be
put on Tennessee Hall.
Work will also be done in UTA building C to
complete the renovations that were not completed last summer.
On UTA, our current plan is to work in C
building and complete the upgrades of the
kitchens in the 2 bedroom apartments. Other
improvements are still being evaluated, but we
are gathering budgets, said Caldwell. Painting,
new carpet and kitchen upgrades for the single
bedroom units are the additional items being
contemplated.
Renovations for the building on the Volunteer Trucking property, which is the future home

of the School of Music and Worship Arts, are

also planned for this summer. The building will
be under full construction as soon as all permits
are in hand, according to Caldwell.
[The Board of Trustees approved our] moving ahead [with renovations] for the new music
building on the site of Volunteer Trucking with
permission to borrow up to $3.9 million for that,
said Boone. We fully intend to raise every dollar
of that.
Increasing tuition helps offset the rising cost
of doing business.
The tuition increase may be as low it has
been since weve been accredited, said Caldwell.
[Its] hard to determine, but we dont see where
the total cost to attend Trevecca has increased
any less than this in modern times.
Some of the increase if for the new textbook
program, Textbook Butler. The cost of textbooks
will be included in tuition, and students will be
charged based on a flat rate. rather than number
of credit hours they are taking.
Administrators at Trevecca say the Textbook
Butler plan will help the university with retention, but also allow the university to begin to
pursue other options for traditional textbooks an
academic matter, according to Caldwell.
Were saving students money by doing this.
Even students that dont want to buy books, this
isnt costing them very much money at all. The
university has literally given up tuition increase
money that we normally would get to be able to
provide students books, said Boone. Its one of
the ways we can lower the price of their education by bartering on their behalf.

The future of the Madrigalians at

Trevecca is unclear.
On March 2 David Diehl, dean of
the School of Music and Worship Arts,
told music studens that the Trevecca
vocal ensemble would be disbanded
with the retirement of Timothy Cierpke, professor of music and Madrigalians director.
But then, on March 21, Diehl released the following official statement to the TrevEchoes as a response
to a request for an interview.
There was an announcement regarding the disbanding of Madrigalians the Wednesday before Spring
Break, however after a discussion
with members of the Presidents CabBY Bailey Basham
lican party, with 47.5 percent of the responders choosinet, it was decided to not move foring the red party, 16.67 percent choosing Democrat,
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ward with any official action until the
29.17 selecting independent and 6.67 percent choosIn the March issue, the TrevEchoes ran an article
ing the option labeled other.
new choral director is hired. We do
on the contenders for the Republican and Democrat
The most popular primary candidate among stuanticipate that changes will be made
presidential nominations.
dents was Bernie Sanders with 25.8 percent, followed
in regard to several of our current voThe TrevEchoes partnered with the Student Govby Marco Rubio at 22.5 percent and Ted Cruz at 13.3
ernment Association to send out a poll to students
percent.
cal ensembles during this transition,
#ElectionYear2016
SurveyMonkey
via email on what political party they sided with, who
Sixty percent answered that they thought most
but have decided that those changes
they were planning to vote for in the presidential priTrevecca students sided with the Republican party,
will not occur until the transition in
maries and what political party they thought most
with 25.83 percent saying they thought most Trevecca
Trevecca students stood
The
pollyou
was respondQ2 with.
Who
do
plan to votestudents
for inwere
theDemocrats.
2016 Eleven percent of students
personnel is complete and the new
ed to by 120 Trevecca students.
said they thought most at Trevecca were independchoral director is able to have input
Trevecca students mostly alignedPresidential
with the Repub- primary?
ents and 2.5 percent chose the option labeled other.
into those decisions.
Answered: 120 Skipped: 0
Diehl said he would not comment
beyond the written statement.

Poll results: Trevecca students: lean right, vote left

2016 Student Body Primary Vote

SUNDAY

Ben Carson

Bernie Sanders

M AY 2016

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2 p.m.
Madrigalians Farewell Concert

Hillary Clinton

John Kasich

Marco Rubio

At the Cathedral of the Incarnation

in Downtown Nashville

Ted Cruz

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specify)

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Nearly 26 percent of surveyed students said they would vote for Sanders, while self-described Republicans polled in at 48 percent.

Answer Choices
Ben Carson

Responses
10.83%

13

25.83%

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no decision made on title ix exemption for university continued from page 1

Religious affiliations of schools requesting Title IX exemption

Five schools did not identify a religious affiliation. Info provided by Human Rights Campaign.

schools have applied for exemption. Union

and Carson-Newman were granted exemption. Freed-Hardmans application is under
review, according to Patrick Meldrim, vice
president of the Tennessee Independent
Colleges & Universities Association,
The number of schools seeking Title
IX exemptions grew from one in 2013 to 45
in 2015. Requests for waivers were infrequent prior to 2014 when the Department
of Education expanded Title IX to include
the statement transgender and gendernonconforming students.
For Trevecca administrators, the main
concern with the law is that it will interfere with their ability to conduct university
business according to the religious tenets
of the university.

Steve Sexton, Treveccas Title IX coordinator, said an exemption would not be a

waiver for the entirety of the law just for
the portions that might interfere with the
religious beliefs of an institution, such as
housing arrangements for transgender
and gender nonconforming students and
the hiring of openly gay faculty and staff.
The main concern from the universitys perspective is the safety of the student. Everything we do, we need first focus
on having a safe environment for our students, said Sexton.
Boone said a major point in preventing him from applying for the exemption is
how that might make the current Trevecca
students who identify as LGBTQI feel.
I wouldnt apply for the exemption be-

cause LGBTQI students who are already on

our campus might feel like, in some way,
that we have made a statement about them
that would make them feel uncomfortable
at Trevecca, he said. My concern with
their ability to live on this campus, have a
great education here and be a part of this
community is the one factor that is holding
me back from applying from that particular exemption.
Boone also said the only reason they
would seek the exemption is to be free to
make decisions as a university without a
federal mandate.
I want the freedom to be able to make
the kind of decisions we would be able to
make for the entire community rather than
for individuals that are there. The only reason I would seek the exemption is that we
believe that we can handle these issues
internally from our position of faith better
than under some kind of federal mandate
telling us what we must do before we even
hear the story of the person to determine
what might be best for them, said Boone.
The exemption would hinder us from being loving in the way that we think we have
been historically as a university.
Steve Harris, associate provost and
dean of students, said that in his 37 years
at Trevecca, no student has ever been dismissed from the university on the grounds
of sexual orientation.
Trevecca has been Title IX compliant
since the year it started. To suddenly have
a federal mandate that we deal with these
situations in a particular way instead of
having the ability to choose, thats a place
we are not willing to go at this point, said
Boone. If we can continue to operate the
way weve been operating since Title IX
first came out, then we dont need to file
for the exemption. I have full confidence
in the integrity of Trevecca that we would
ask, What is the best thing for this student
and for the students who are around them?

We would look for the win-win in that situation.

David Toney, legislative assistant for
the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities, provided a statement about Title
IX exemptions in relation to their member
schools:
Our schools are supportive of transparency and any attempt to suggest that
they are not is disingenuous. Student conduct codes are made available to students
concurrent with their application and
they must sign them prior to matriculation. What is unfortunate in this recent
development is not that the list of schools
that received an exemption is being made
public, rather that the exemptions are being portrayed as something nefarious. The
exemption has been in place since Title
IXs inception in 1972 and institutions that
have received an exemption are simply following the law.
Toney also said the CCCU supports
their members schools in doing what is
best for them and that the CCCU works to
keep the schools informed of their options.
In order to be granted a Title IX exemption, the highest ranking official at a university is to submit a document outlining
the points that Title IX interferes with the
beliefs of the school.
I think the failure of the American
public society is that we have moved from
an understanding that society works in
terms of covenantal responsibilities to the
point of, What are my rights? As a result,
weve become a rights-oriented culture
that is much more about protecting my
space, what I want and making you do
what I want than just asking the question,
What is in the good of the communities of
freedom and justice that we are trying to
build? said Dan Boone, university president. It is the hardest decision that Ive
had to make in 11 years as the president of
Trevecca.

books with tuition

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David Caldwell, executive vice

president for finance and administration, said university officials
didnt originally implement Books
Fly Free because of concerns regarding the cost per credit hour.
There were still some questions about implementing it, and
there was enough gray in the execution that we werent sure if we
were ready for it. If it didnt execute well, we thought there was a
big chance for having a lot of egg
on our faces, said Caldwell.
This year, after working out
some kinks, the presidents cabinet decided it was time to move
forward with it.
We arent adding a lot of other
expenses, and because we have
more students attending, we are
able to take that income amount
basically and allocate it towards
the books. We are also able to negotiate a better rate through Tree
of Life. We negotiated in bulk, basically, said Caldwell.
Caldwell said he is unable to
say how much of the tuition increase is because of textbooks.
Weve agreed on one price, but
then there are many variables related to our agreement that would
directly impact the price, but
arent easily identified, he wrote
in an email.
While the books will be based
on a flat rate and not on number of
credit hours, Caldwell did say the
charge could be roughly $10 per
credit hour.
Is it in there? Yes it is. Theres
definitely an expense for the included books in the tuition cost.
We invested in that thinking it
was a meaningful investment for
the average student, he said.
Caldwell attended an SGA

This breakdown of annual cost with the inclusion of textbooks provided by David Caldwell, executive vice president for finance and administration.
meeting on March 14 to explain
the changes and give students a
chance to ask questions.
As a group, I think people
were mostly positive, said Sarah
Hogan, ASB president. It was really helpful to have him there to
explain it to us, and we saw that it
could potentially save a lot of students money.
Whether the program actually
saves students money depends
on how much students are already
spending on textbooks, according
to a chart Caldwell presented to
SGA.
For instance, if a student spent
$200 this year on textbooks, they
would experience a $967 increase
in tuition. But, for a student who

spent $1,000 on textbooks, their

tuition will increase by $167.
Caldwell estimated that students spent an average of $600 a
year on textbooks during the 20152016 school year.
I believe if theres a $300 a
semester cost creating a 1.7 % increase, thats probably the lowest
annual increase for a returning
student in 20 years or more, he
said.
According to an annual survey
conducted by College Board, students at 4-year private universities spend around $1,200 a year on
textbooks.
Some students said the new
plan takes away their options to
buy books at lower cost from other

sources.
Alaina Edens, a junior worship
arts major, posted on Facebook
and urged students to fight against
the new policy.
I get that tuition goes up regardless, but if it can be reduced
in every way possible then why
would we not fight for that? she
said.
Edens said she has spent on
average $120 a semester for books
by purchasing from online resources such as Amazon or Chegg.
The power to choose where I
purchase my books is gone, she
said.
Hannah Duke, a junior nursing
major, said she thinks the program
could save some people money,

but it will be different depending

on how much students normally
spend.
I think it could save me money if its actually going to work the
way they say it will, she said
Duke said she spent about
$800 on her books this year, even
though she purchased them from
outside sources.
In general Im not a huge fan
of books being included in tuition,
she said. I just like to have options
I guess. I dont want anyone telling
me I have to get my books from
here.
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OP INION

TrevEchoes staff wins seven Associated Press awards

STAFF REPORT
Five students won a total of seven awards at the
annual Tennessee Associated Press Broadcasters
and Media Editors college
career day and awards ceremony The First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt
Univerisity.
The purpose of the banquet was to honor excellence in college newspaper, online, radio and
television
journalism,
according to the banquet
program.
More than 10 public
and private universieis
submitted 225 entries in
the contest.
These awards prove
that our students are competitive with any other
journalism students in the
state, said Jo Ellen Werking-Weedman, TrevEchoes
faculty
advisor
and
journalism
instructor.
Im thrilled for the students, our program and
Trevecca. Student journalists work incredibly
hard and Im proud that
professionals from around

Seven journalism andcommunications students at the Tenn. AP Awards.

the state were able to affirm the good work we already know theyre doing.
Entries were judged by
professional
journalists
from around the state.
The TrevEchoes re-

ceived
the
following
awards:
First Place: Mannon
Lane:
Specialized/topic
reporting
First Place: Jessy Anne
Walters: Feature Story

Second Place: Bailey

Basham: Best Newspaper
Reporter
Second Place: Olivia
Kelley: Online Investigative/In-depthreporting
Second Place: Jessy

Anne Walters: Investigative/In-depth Reporting

Third Place: Hannah
Pollok: Feature Story
Honorable Menton: Bailey Basham: Investigative/
In-depth reporting

Column: graduating
senior offers perspective
BY Jessy aNNe Walters

COPY EDITOR
As graduation comes running at us, its
hard for seniors to not reflect on our past
few years.
I wasnt on SGA, Im not president of
any class, I didnt even live on campus
very long I wouldnt consider myself
popular.
But maybe this will offer a different
perspective.
I have loved my time here, Ive grown
up, Ive questioned everything, and Ive
become a person Im proud of. But is everyone at Trevecca using their time to really learn, are they becoming people who
actually learn to think bigger, ask harder
questions, keep moving forward?
This could be filled with advice for
seniors about the next few years or how to
cherish the last months, but instead, Im
looking at the other classes the freshmen who are just beginning, the sophomores who can still change their major at
least two more times, and the juniors who
can see the horizons of future just enough
to be excited and not worried.
You all have something us seniors
dont: time.
Time to learn about who people really
are and make friends worth having. As
tacky as it sounds, keep your Leap friends
in mind, after all they faced some of the
most awkward weeks right by your side.
When that weird kid down the hall asks to
hang, out just do it four years later, they
just might be the one sitting next to you
wearing a matching cap and gown.
How much time you have left in chapel might seem a bit overwhelming. Im
not saying dont sit in the back and finish
up that homework assignment thats due
at 10:45, Im just saying sit closer to the
front every now and then. Heather Daughtery has a lot to say and she is definitely
someone worth listening to. Im also not
saying that God is going to come down

and smack you with a holy epiphany,

but I guess just realize that even in those
forced, mandatory hours of chapel, God is
working.
Take the time to talk to your professors;
one of the greatest things you can learn is
that they are, in fact, people too. Dr. (Lena)
Welch and Jo Ellen (Werking-Weedman):
Thank you both. Thank you for opening
your hearts and lives to students like myself, and showing us that college goes beyond a grade. In your classrooms, I learned
more about life and what it means to truly
challenge yourself than I did any subject
matter. You showed me that failing can
actually be good for you, as long as you
learn from it. Professors here teach their
students material, but if you listen close
enough and are willing to acknowledge
that each of these instructors is striving to
make the world better through you, then
maybe youll learn more than just how to
give an informative speech.
Time is going by fast, in just a few
years or maybe even just one, youll be
sitting in Waggoner, wondering how you
made it through four years so quickly.
Soon youll have a job and other people to
answer to and maybe even other people
to be responsible for, but right now you
have time to learn about someone youre
going to have to deal with your whole life
yourself. Take the time to actually look
into who you are as a person, as an individual, as someone worth knowing. Go to
the counseling center do you know how
expensive that is in the real world? Or go
see Jason Adkins on the farm just a different form of therapy. But take the time
to truly question yourself and your beliefs,
find out why you think the way you do and
learn how you can grow further.
College can be the best four years of
your life, if you do it wrong.
If you do it right, this time will be a
great foundation for the best years to
come.

(l-r) Design Editor Cydney-Nichole Marsh, Online Editor Olivia Kelley,

Editor-in-Chief Bailey Basham and Copy Editor Jessy Anne Walters.
Not pictured: Photographer Griffin Dunn.

EDITORIAL STAFF
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Bailey Basham
COPy eDitOr
Jessy aNNe W alters

DESIGN EDITOR
C yDNey -N iChOle m arsh

ONLINE EDITOR
O liVia Kelley

PHOTOGRAPHER
GriFFiN D UNN

STAFF WRITERS
MANON LANE
ANDREW PRESTON
CHRISTY ULMET
ANALI FRIAS
BROOKLYN DANCE
BRITTNI CARMACK
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The views expressed in TrevEchoes are those of the individual contributors and
do not necessarily reflect the views of Trevecca. Contributors may be edited for
grammar, spelling, content, or space
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Sp o r ts

Trojan player thought career ended after high school

Senior guard Byron Sanford at the Nov. 2015 game against the University of Alabama. Photo
provided by Trevecca Trojans.
By

aNDreW PrestON

STAFF WRITER

Byron Sanford left

high school thinking
his basketball career
was over.
A lot of Sanfords
high school friends and
teammates, including
current Trevecca players, Tyrell Corlew and
Percy Blade, were getting Division-I scholarships for basketball
something Sanford was
not offered.
I had the opportunity
to play, but it was [with]
some smaller schools
in smaller towns, and I
didnt really want to do
that. I didnt think that
was for me, so I took the
Kentucky route, said
Sanford.
After
graduating
high school, Sanford
enrolled at the University of Kentucky where
he spent two years.
I kind of wanted to
get away from home,
and they offered scholarships, so I took that
route, said Sanford.
Coach Harris reached
out to Sanford at Kentucky and brought him
into Trevecca. Thus began Sanfords run as a
member of the purple
and white.
Sanford
was
the
first Trevecca athlete
to score 1,000 career
points since the school

YEAR

G AMES
PLAYED

MINUTES PER
GAME

has competed in Division-II. He is also is the

40th Trevecca athlete
to reach the 1,000 career points pinnacle for
the school.
The night I scored
my
1,000th
point
against St. Joes was really special, said Sanford.
This year, Sanford
was third in scoring
in the G-MAC at 18.3
points per game. He
was third in rebounds
at 7.5 a game. He placed
second in assists at 4.3
per game. He was third
in steals per game with
1.5. He played the most
minutes in G-MAC, but
averaged fourth most
due to playing more
games than the top
three at 33.9 per game.
My first game here
ever was really special.
It was my first time experiencing a college
game, and thats something Ill never forget,
said Sanford.
That game was the
2013
Homecoming
game at Trojan Fieldhouse. Trevecca played
Tennessee
Wesleyan,
and the Trojans won
75-69. Sanford scored
13 points.
Hes had the type
of senior year that you
want all your seniors
to have. What I mean is
that Byron came in at
one level and has got-

ten better every year

since hes been here,
Harris said.
Prior to the beginning of the 2016 season,
Sanford was in the gym
for 30 straight nights
working on his game.
He did general workouts, practiced free
throws and shooting a
lot of times by himself.
I try to never be outworked. I try to be the
hardest working player
in the gym, said Sanford. There were a few
times Id be in there so
late that security would
have to kick me out.
At Trevecca Sanford
has not only played
basketball, but grown
in his spiritual life as
well.
Being a collegiate
athlete
has
really
strengthened my faith.
Just having faith and
trusting that everything was going to be
alright, that its not in
my control, but His. My
faith in God has carried
me and really blessed
me and set me up to
keep my career alive
and play at the pro level, said Sanford.
For Sanford, family
has always been there
to support him. His
father would come to
home games whenever
he could and his brother lives in Nashville.
My brother was at

FIELD GOAL 3 POINT

FREE THROW REBOUNDS A SSISTS
PERCENTAGE PERCENTAGE PERCENTAGE P ER G AME

STEALS

POINTS
PER GAME

1314

25- 24 736- 29.4

.484 %

.200%

.714%

5.2

70

51

12.2

1415

28-28

954- 34.1

.486%

.329%

.754%

6.6

125

76

18.1

1516

31-31

1050- 33.9

.489%

.389%

.697%

7.5

133

55

18.3

Sanfords individual player statistics for the 2013-2016 seasons. Information provided by the
department of athletics.

every game this year. I

always tell people hes
my biggest fan. When
I saw him walk in, I
always get that extra
boost of confidence,
said Sanford.
One game this season a good number of
Sanfords family came
to watch him play.
About 35 to 40 of
family members came
to my first game this
year and that was another really special
game, said Sanford.
Sanford is on pace to
graduate in May with a
degree in Exercise Science. During his time
at Trevecca, Sanford
was recognized as the
2016 G-MAC Conference Player of the Year,
First Trevecca Division
II player to reach 1,000
career points and Division II- 2016 Honorable
Mention All-American.
Sanford plans to sign
with an agent and potentially sign a contract
with a European team.
Overseas is probably the route Im going to go. I am going to
try and crawl my way
up and make [Developmental League], and
eventually the NBA.
I never put a limit on
what I can do to try and
reach those goals of
mine, said Sanford.
Sanfords career at
Trevecca is one that
has influenced several of his teammates,
coaches, and many that
attend the games, said

BYRON SANFORDS
PRE - GAME RITUAL
Shower before every
game
Wears two socks on
his right foot and one
on his left
Eats gyros
Listens to gospel music
Fist pump and nger
point upward to God
before & after every
game

Harris.
Any time there was
a loose ball or a big rebound and he was going after it, regardless
of how big our opponent was, I always felt
like he would come up
with it, said Harris.
Mark Elliott, director of athletics, echoed
Harriss sentiments.
Tough. Driven. Warrior. Those are three
words that I would use
to describe Byron as,
just from talking with
him and watching him
play, said Elliott. I
want to have a lot more
Byrons.

Senior Byron Sanford. Photo provided by Trevecca Trojans.

TREVECHOES MAY2016

F eatu r e

Business major interns at U.S. Congressmans office

Rocxana Estrada. Photo provided by Rocxana Estrada.

BY BrOOKlyN

DaNCe

STAFF WRITER
Rocxana Estrada spent the fall semester interning
in the United States Congressher third internship
in two years.
The junior business management major, a selfprofessed political junkie, took the internship even
though there was no academic requirement for it.
Nicole Hubbs, the internship coordinator for the
school of business, communications, and arts and
sciences, said that 25 to 45 of students take internships each semester. They are almost always off
campus, and the students are the ones who take the

notified and responsible for reading the articles and

deciding what to put on the website.
Estrada recalls being surprised by how fast paced
and intense even simple tasks were.
There was such a competition between all of us,
because everyone wanted to grow and get their name
out there Estrada said.
She also learned how to give tours of Congress to
visitors, learning about the underground passageways that connected all four office buildings and
Congress.
Through CHCI, Estrada was able to meet both Barrack and Michelle Obama, Jennifer Lopez, Bernie
Sanders, Hilary Clinton, Martin OMalley, and several
more republican candidates.
Estradas semester in D.C. came to a close and she
was back in Nashville. Soon after, she was offered
an unpaid internship with Congressmen Jim Cooper, one of Tennessees representatives. There was a
possible job opening attached, but Estrada decided to
turn it down and pursue finishing her education.
Estrada used Schuy Weishaar, Ph.D., one of her
English professors as a reference for the internship.
[The internship] seemed to make sense for who
she was. Weishaar said.
Weishaar explained how Estrada was always curious in class, especially when they covered politics.
The next year, whenever Estrada ran into Weishaar
she always had a question about something she
wanted to know more about, Weishaar said.
Internships where you have to go somewhere else,
and live differently than youre used to leave such an
impact, Weishaar said.
Weishaar recalls seeing pictures of Estrada working in D.C. on his facebook and said
It made me happy to see her out in the world,
blossoming. Weishaar said.
Since she has spent a semester away without
earning college credits, Estrada typically takes 18
hours a semester and still plans to graduate on time.
The internship impacted me in countless ways. I
have become more aware of how our countrys legislative system works, Estrada said. I am anxious to
continue to grow my experience in our government.

initiative in getting the internship.

Internships are crucial to your career field. Its
the first chance you get to work in your major, off
campus, not in your job, and really have a concentrated time to work in your field. It really gives students
a first person perspective of, Yes this is what I want
to do, or, No I dont want to do this. Either way you
go, it is a good experience because you work with a
supervisor. It teaches you about your future job after
college, and it builds up your resume.
Estrada has always been fascinated with politics
and the government.
I am really interested in the Department of State,
Estrada said. I hope to end up in D.C. again someday.
In 2014, Estrada joined LULAC, the League of
United Latin American Citizens, an organization that
seeks to better the community and the daily lives of
Latin Americans in the United States, according to
the groups website.
Estrada went to a three-day conference in Washington D.C. through LULAC, where she joined other
Latinos as they learned about public policy, civic engagement and advocacy.
At the conference, Estrada met members of the
CHCI, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute,
and quickly began networking. She attended the
same LULAC conference in New York City, and between the two she learned about the internship opportunity in Congress, and knew she wanted to be
involved.
Estrada was accepted, and soon joined 20 other
students from around the country at the nations capital in the fall of 2015. CHCI paid for her housing, a stipend, transportation, and the flights there and home.
The group of students was divided in half, either
working with Senate or Congress. Estrada and another student were assigned to intern for Congressman Steve Cohen, the U.S. Representative for Tennessees 9th Congressional district (Memphis).
Estradas tasks included filing callers comments,
writing letters back to constituents and taking notes
on the Congressmans hearings. Every time Cohen
was mentioned in any form of media, Estrada was

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