The Exponent Print Edition: Feb. 15, 2023

Stolen car slams into bus carrying students

On Jan. 28, while travelling on I-480, a stolen Kia Forte collided into a bus filled with members of the BW swim and dive team en route to their swim meet at Notre Dame College in South Euclid. The occupants of the stolen car were a 15-year-old Olmsted Falls female and a 16-year-old Cleveland male. Reports say that the female was trying to escape her pretrial home detention when she contacted the male who picked her up in the stolen car.

According to Laura WolffDemaline, head coach of the swim and dive team who was driving behind the bus at the time of the accident, the stolen car was swerving in and out of traffic before spiraling out of control and sliding in between her car and the bus. The Kia then drove into the guardrail before colliding with the bus.

“The two individuals – when their car came to a stop – they got out of their car and started running down the highway,” Wolff-Demaline said. “We saw the passenger and the driver

jump over the median and start to run up the hill.”

After the individuals attempted to flee, a North Olmsted officer and a Fairview Park officer began pursuing them with the help of the bus driver, Wolff-Demaline said, while she made sure everyone on the bus was alright.

Mason Kooyman, a junior sport management major and member of the swim and dive team who was on the bus at the time of the collision, said that students became immediately aware of what was happening after feeling the impact of the crash.

“It pretty much just felt like a tire popped, and then all you hear is that screeching noise, and then you hear the car slam,” Kooyman said.

Kooyman said that the students on the bus immediately pulled out their phones to document what had happened. Kooyman said this allowed news of the collision to spread swiftly after the incident occurred, and that students were quick to speak with their family and friends and let them know they were safe.

“Everybody got up and

started taking pictures and videos like it was a freak accident, I don’t know,” Kooyman said. “I would say after the initial event occurred, and we knew what happened,

Student Senate passes resolution on asynchronous election days

With a nearly full audience in attendance at the Quarry Room on Tuesday, Feb. 3, the BW Student Senate voted on a resolution of opinion as part of an ongoing attempt to change classes on federal election days to be fully asynchronous, with the exception of labs and oncea-week classes.

Sophomore neuroscience major Hannah Dodson, a Brain Fellow and co-director of the on-campus civic engagement group Jackets Engaged, brought the issue to Student Government and appeared over video during Tuesday’s session to make her case for the resolution which, while non-binding, would serve as a recomendation to the University administration.

election days “when students are already busy.”

Dodson argued that asynchronous classes would give students time to vote, or potentially be involved even further in the democratic process, such as volunteering as a poll worker.

A survey, also made by Dodson, asked a series of questions to students in an attempt to gauge how having asynchronous classes on election day would help. Dodson reported those results in her video presentation to Student Government.

The survey found that 85 percent of student respondents reported that they would be “affected positively” by holding classes asynchronously.

… [the team] didn’t know how to feel.” While another bus was eventually brought out to take

“My work with Jackets Engaged and with the Brain Center through programs such as Brain Fellows has allowed me to see a major hindrance in getting students to be active in our country’s democratic process,” Dodson said.

The hindrance, Dodson said, is classes being held on

“I have gathered many personal stories from students who could not vote in the last election cycle because of their classes,” Dodson said. After Dodson’s video concluded, the Student Senate conducted a roll call vote in which the resolution was passed with the Senate voting unanimously in favor.

While the resolution has

Supply drive helps fight poverty among Berea City School District students

The BW Student Senate has partnered with Berea City School District’s Titan Love and Care program to hold a supply drive throughout the month of February that will support BCSD’s most economically vulnerable students.

The drive will provide essential clothing and hygiene products to students in need. To donate, items should be bought from the TLC Room wish list on Amazon.com and shipped to 390 Fair St., Berea, Ohio 44017.

Derek Larner, a student senator and first-year political science major, said all donations will be sent to the BCSD’s Board of Education building, but students can also send donations to BW for the Student Senate to handle if that makes them feel more comfortable.

Managed by BCSD’s counseling department, the TLC program sets up rooms with various supply items and allows Berea students to confidentially shop for their basic necessities in order to improve their overall health and wellness.

“They’re looking for gloves, hats, scarves, mittens —

anything just to keep them warm throughout what has been a pretty cold winter so far,” Larner said.

Larner said that in addition to helping students in need, this drive serves as a great opportunity to integrate the surrounding communities with the work done at BW.

Community outreach events like this one strengthen community relationships and build trust with organizations outside of the college.

“Berea is a very tight-knit community, I think as a lot of us have seen,” Larner said. “I think it’s just cool to see us as older college students getting to work alongside so many

other people from different backgrounds to make a difference.”

As for the future, Senate Academic Affairs Chair Brenna Holliday said that she hopes to see more school supply drives just like this one in addition to other community outreach events.

“This is something that we kind of want to keep doing throughout the years,” Holliday said. “We also just want to do a lot of community service around here with local organizations, and a lot of people reach out to us, so we just want to take as many

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As ChatGPT enters the classroom, professors assess the dangers – and opportunities – posed by artificial intelligence

On Nov. 30, 2022, ChatGPT, the newest artificial intelligence technology that specializes in creating human-like conversations, was launched, sparking interest in students and faculty at Baldwin Wallace University.

ChatGPT has been reportedly used to write papers, code, solve math problems, conduct research and more for students since its release.

Brian Krupp, associate professor in computer science, said that while students are using the tool, faculty should focus on creating questions

that ChatGPT cannot answer with accuracy.

“I think as educators, we can’t just put a block and say you [students] can’t use this. I think there's always going to be a way to figure out how to bypass the system,” Krupp said. “So, what we [faculty] need to do is to think about what types of questions we can ask and what type of ways we can assess our students where GPT wouldn't be able to supply an answer.”

Students' use of internet technologies and software is not new to the educational setting. GPT-3, a less advanced version of ChatGPT, launched in 2020. In the Fall 2022 semester, a course on A.I ethics was taught, allowing students

to learn and experiment with the new technology.

A.I. technology, like ChatGPT, uses the internet to combine, sort, and then produce results that match most of the content that already exists. Krupp said that the A.I. takes an average of the information out there. If it is bad information, the information provided by the A.I. will also provide similar results.

“The answers are only as good as the information its fed,” Krupp said. “So, if it’s bad information, it’s not accurate and it will produce inaccurate results.” Krupp said. Krupp said his main concern with A.I. is about how it is replacing the creativity of

humans.

“Some people are comparing this to a calculator, or things that might have been able to solve a problem,” Krupp said. “But if you ask it, how do you solve it or what are the steps to break down this problem, that’s where I think it starts replacing that creative human process. I think that’s where it's different.”

Les Hunter, chair of the department of English and creative writing, also said he has concerns about the A.I., as some students have reportedly been plagiarizing papers via ChatGPT. However, Hunter also said that using A.I. within the classroom has its benefits and should not be overlooked.

“I think as educators, we

also have to look at ways that ChatGPT and other A.I. technologies can be used to our advantage to help students innovate, create and think critically,” Hunter said. “I think, for example, the tool might be useful in brainstorming possible ideas for a presentation or group project. Or it could be used to generate contrary ideas to an opinion you are forming, allowing you to interrogate your own thoughts better.

“We have wonderful, creative students and professors here who I think will be able to utilize the advantages of this new technology while at the same time maybe mitigating some of the deleterious effects.”

On-campus groups find success through social media

Many of Baldwin Wallace University’s on-campus groups have recently begun moving to social media platforms to spread information to a wider range of audiences.

According to BW’s website, the university offers more than 100 clubs and organizations for students. These groups vary from student organized clubs to academic departments run by university officials.

In addition to being represented in involvement fairs, holding meetings for their groups and promoting through activities for all majors, many on campus groups are taking to social

media to spread information and to engage not only current students but also prospective students, said Ryan Collins, a BW admission counselor and the manager of the BW admissions social media accounts.

“Our content is for prospective students and their parents, the main goal is to help build knowledge about BW and help students and their parents get excited,” Collins said.

These social media accounts spread useful information to the students that are a part of or interested in joining that group said Cadence Downey, manager of the social media accounts for BW’s Department of English.

“I think it’s great for communication because not everyone is in the same place

at the same time,” Downey said. “It’s good to check on social media where it’s always available all the time.”

Beyond academic purposes, social media accounts are being used by student-run organizations, such as the BW dance team.

Katie Colabianchi, co-captain of BW’s dance team, said the outreach achieved through social media is not as formal as through face-to-face communication.

“With social media, you reach a different audience,” Colabianchi said. “It's not as formal, in a good way. I really like that approach.”

Colabianchi also said that the more informal nature of social media has also benefitted the members of the Dance Team by allowing them to easily share information

among each other.

Despite social media proving to be a useful tool for on campus groups, there are drawbacks to this method of communication. Challenges posed include forming content ideas, ensuring that the content is professional and how much time it takes to make the content.

“More work goes into social media than most people think. Our team puts in hours upon hours of work; they put in blood sweat and tears to make these accounts fun and something for students to get excited about,” Collins said.

There are also concerns that the information being shared through social media is less professional than information spread through other tangible methods.

“There's such a different

approach with social media that it’s still not seen as a means of professional communication,” Colabianchi said.

Despite these drawbacks, on campus groups continue to find success when sharing information through social media.

“I think it expands to different audiences, whereas just posting one place, you can find it on Twitter, Instagram [and] Facebook, you can see it a lot more than if it was a flyer,” Downey said.

Disclosure: Katie Colabianchi, who was interviewed for this article, has contributed to The Exponent on a freelance basis.

Whether single or taken, BW students find own ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day SUPPLY: Senate gives back to Berea

Whether you are happily single, in a relationship, or dating, there are plenty of opportunities to celebrate Valentine’s Day on the Baldwin Wallace campus. Even though the holiday falls on a Tuesday, students are finding unique ways to celebrate with loved ones, and some student organizations are utilizing the holiday to raise money.

Mando Hodges, a sophomore theatre acting and directing major, and his group of single friends are planning on celebrating the holiday with each other.

Although Hodges is a selfproclaimed “very strong hater when it comes to Valentine’s Day,” he still sees the importance of taking the time to celebrate the people you care about.

“As long as you don’t spend Valentine’s Day alone, you know, [with] a couple of friends, I feel like it’s still worth it,” Hodges said.

The group planned an outing to best enjoy the day.

“Maybe we’ll go to Olive Garden or something. We might go to top golf. We’ll just go wherever the car takes us in the moment,” Hodges said. Hodges also explained how being single on Valentine’s Day, to him, is the best way to avoid any possible rejection or spending the day with someone you may eventually break up with anyway.

Other students on campus have taken the opposite approach.

Delilah Hartlage, a sophomore dance major with a minor in arts management, embraced the spirit of Valentine’s Day and planned a romantic day with her girlfriend. Hartlage finds Valentine’s Day to be a good opportunity to show her appreciation to her partner as well as have some fun celebrating.

“I really like Valentine’s Day; I think it’s really cute. I think it’s fun to celebrate even if you are not in a relationship,” Hartlage said.

Typically for Valentine’s Day, she gets together with friends and watches a ballet, but this year she plans on spending some time with her girlfriend.

The couple attended “Heartbreakers,” a Valentine’s Daythemed cabaret put on by BWU Prism the weekend before Valentine’s Day. The couple also planned on painting blank vinyl records to decorate their rooms with.

“She’s like my rock,” Hartlage said, describing her partner Alison Woodhouse, a sophomore theater dance and movement major. “She really helps me when my mental health is bad. She’ll be like ‘Great! You’re going to get up. We’re going to dance around. We’re going to clean up a little bit.’ It’s like she really knows how to cheer me up.”

Other groups on campus took the opportunity to raise funds with the holiday. Phi Kappa Tau, a fraternity on campus, had carnations available in the Union for students to purchase that would be delivered by them to the dorms

or housing near campus.

PKT sold the carnations for $3 to raise money for the SeriousFun Children’s Network, an organization made up of 30 camps and programs for seriously ill children. The organization offers free events and camp experiences to ill children and their family members.

“The carnation is actually known as a very romantic flower that grows around Valentine’s Day, and it’s actually the fraternity’s flower,” Mike Delsanter, a sophomore nursing major and PKT’s philanthropy chair, said. “It’s a really good way for community outreach for us as well as raising money for philanthropy, but also is a good way to do a little [good] on campus.”

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Holliday said that outreach events, such as the supply drive, are BW’s way of repaying the communities that have always helped the university.

“The communities do a lot for Baldwin Wallace,” Holliday said, “so it’s just good to give back and do as much as we can for the people who support us a lot.”

While the Student Senate does not have a set number in mind for the amount of donations they hope to receive, they are focusing on getting as many donations as possible from those who are in the position to give.

“We just appreciate any help that the student body — as well as the faculty — can provide in making this a success,” Larner said.

To contribute to this program, students can access the link to the Amazon Wish List on flyers around campus or through the link provided in the bio of @bwstugov on Instagram.

Cleveland City Council approves measure directing ARPA funds to residents continuing higher education

On Feb. 6, Cleveland City Council approved legislation that could allow Cleveland residents with some college experience to have their debt forgiven and resume courses.

The legislation passed by the city council will put $300,000 of the federal funds it had received as part of the American Rescue Plan Act toward advertising residents to finish their degrees and to show them that College Now Greater Cleveland, whose mission is to increase postsecondary education attainment, can connect them with various resources to pay off their debt and continue their education.

Maggie McGrath, the executive director of the Higher Education Compact of Greater Cleveland, said there are two main resources that they will be helping Cleveland residents connect with to pay back their debt and further their studies.

One program, the College Comebacker Compact, is a group of eight schools — four community colleges and four state universities — that offer up to $5,000 in debt forgiveness to return to any one of the schools regardless of which one of the eight a student had previously attended. The schools in this group include Cuyahoga County Community College, Lakeland Community College, Lorain County Community College, Stark State College, Cleveland State University, Kent State University, Stark State University and Youngstown State University.

McGrath said that BW is not a part of the compact because they differ in their “student profile” compared to the other eight institutions.

“If you think about BW, it’s a little bit more of a competitive institution,” McGrath said.

“Those institutions typically are on the same skill of competitiveness and have kind of the same profile in that regard.”

The other program is

up to $2,000 offered by the Cuyahoga County Council.

It is only offered to residents of Cuyahoga County who had previously been enrolled in any institution in Ohio, and they will only receive funds if they re-enroll in Cleveland State University or Cuyahoga Community College.

The $300,000 is planned to be spent over the next three years on hiring a communications consultant, using advertising and social media and outreach into the community to encourage Cleveland residents to seek the resources available to them to pay off their remaining tuitions and finish their degrees.

Cleveland City Councilwoman Jasmine Santana, chair of the Workforce, Education, Training & Youth Development committee representing Ward 14, said that the Cleveland City Council has learned how important marketing is.

“What we’ve learned throughout the years is that marketing and communication is so important so that our

New student organization represents AAPI community

Last week, BW’s Center of Inclusion announced the new cultural organization on campus, Asian Student Alliance. The rise of antiAsian sentiment during the Covid-19 pandemic inspired ASA’s president, Elanna Su, a history major student, to create a safe place where Asian students feel comfortable and represented. In addition, ASA aims to teach the student body about the different cultures among the Asian community.

“When I got to BW, there’s a defined space for cultural organizations and there isn’t an Asian student [group],” Su said.

Su is a first-year student from Pennsylvania. She graduated from her high school as the only Asian student in a heavily populated white class.

“I’ve never had, like, horrific instances of discrimination, but coming from a community where there’s a distinct lack of Asian-American or Asian

presence made me want to search for that sense of belonging,” Su said.

ASA executive members applied to become an organization in October 2022. It took them several months to be officially approved.

“The rest of the time was spent refining the charter, getting plans being approved, that kind of thing, we were approved almost two weeks ago,” Su said.

Su said organizations on campus, such as SALSA, Rotaract and Active Minds helped ASA with everything related to applying to be an organization, such as planning events, reserve places on campus and gain awareness via word of mouth or social media.

“The presidents of those organizations were pointing me in the right direction, telling me who to talk to. I liked it, it was great,” Su said.

ASA attended this Spring 2023 Involvement Fair and scheduled their first general meeting on Thursday Feb. 23

residents understand the resources that are available to them,” Santana said. “And you have to be very diverse in the way you communicate things. Not everyone has Facebook. Not everyone has Instagram. There’s just different ways to communicate with communities.”

McGrath said that the ARPA funds are a once-in-a-generation opportunity that people need to know about.

“That is the biggest thing, is just how do you make sure people know this opportunity exists?” McGrath said. “It felt like no better place than to use these one-time dollars to make sure that people knew about these opportunities.”

Santana said that if there had been something such as College Now Greater Cleveland available to her in the past, she herself would have benefitted.

“I was a mom and I had to

drop out of school. So if I had some program, a one-stop shop that, at that time, not now, was gonna help me get back to school, going to help me pay back any debt when I was low income, definitely I would have gone back,” Santana said. “They’re making it easier for people to access the system.”

Cleveland City Council takes this step while Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan

is paused until 60 days after litigation over the matter is finished. McGrath said that when Biden’s plan was seen to be in motion, College Now was moving along with it. “There were several weeks where there was nothing but calls,” McGrath said. “And the adult learner team was just handling those and trying to sign folks up for that.”

Summit participants

thoughts, suggestions on University’s sustainability efforts

Students from Baldwin Wallace University attended the Greater Cleveland Partnership Sustainability Summit at the Huntington Convention Center on Jan. 24.

at 5 p.m. in Sandstone 3, which is located in the basement of the Union. During the meeting, participants are expected to learn about ASA’s purpose and executive board as well as watch a Zoom conference presented by the First Amendment Museum.

“BW doesn’t have the highest diversity ratings. I feel like it’s especially important to raise up the voices here,” Su said. “ASA is a place where everyone can learn [about] the Asian American experience and just coming together as a community.”

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In an interview with The Exponent, Dodson laid out her next steps in her effort to convince Baldwin Wallace to implement the reccomendation, including bringing a resolution at an upcoming meeting with the Faculty Senate.

“Hopefully, they do [vote for

it], and then I will be taking it to the Provost,” Dodson said.

While Dodson is currently working to make voting more accessible to BW students, a new state law regarding voting was passed in January that could make the process more difficult. Along with other new rules, Ohioans must now bring state identification to vote at the polls without any previously allowed exceptions. Previously, voters who did not have official state I.D.s

could provide a different type of identification, like a bank statement.

Dodson told The Exponent that her survey found that the tightened identification requirements may be a barrier for BW students.

“A lot of students actually said in the response to my survey, they mentioned that they don’t have the right form of ID,” Dodson said. “And so I do think it is a hindrance in voting.”

Two students who attended the event were sustainability majors Emma Stamper, a sophomore member of the University’s sustainability committee, and junior Olivia Powell.

Powell said the central goal of the summit was for businesses to come together to discuss sustainability and how businesses can become more sustainable.

The summit provided the attendees ideas that they could implement into their own lives and businesses.

“One of the panellists that I listened to has her own company that consults small and medium enterprises on how they can be more sustainable,” Powell said.

Listening to that panelist sparked an idea for Powell. Powell said that her idea was that BW could benefit from hiring someone who is an expert in the field of sustainability.

Stamper said the university should look at integrating sustainability into their business strategy, and that hiring a sustainability officer with a designated sustainability office may be beneficial.

Powell said that for the university to become more sustainable, they need to allocate more resources towards sustainability.

According to Powell,

sustainability grants were mentioned at the summit. These grants are given out to organizations and companies, and Powell said she believes that there should be more action taken to allow BW to apply for those grants.

Stamper said that data from the Princeton Review states that 74 percent of students looking into colleges would have their decision impacted by the school’s responsibility to the environment.

“And as a committee, we’re keeping that 74 percent in mind,” Stamper said.

A change that Stamper would like to see on campus is for the Baldwin Wallace community to embrace sustainability.

“Every major should have a section that is sustainability related,” Stamper said.

Powell said that there are difficulties with conveying sustainability needs.

“It’s hard to really have effective messaging about [sustainability] because the only people who hear about it are the people who are already

aware and already interested,” Powell said.

To get more students involved in sustainability, Powell said she believes that it would be beneficial for classes to have outside projects that help the community.

Stamper said that some responsibility rests on the students, but agrees with Powell, and said it is up to the BW’s leadership.

“Gen Z is very passionate about being green,” Stamper said. “And a part of higher education is preparing you for your future, and sustainability is a large part of that.”

For more information on how to get involved with sustainability, the Sustainability Committee is having a meeting on the second of March from 4-5 p.m. at the Center for Innovation and Growth in Room 105.

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BWMT haunts Beck Center in ‘Ghost’ musical adaptation

Baldwin Wallace musical theatre students will give Lakewood’s Beck Center for the Arts a glimpse of the afterlife this February with the musical “Ghost,” premiering on Feb. 9 and running for three consecutive weekends.

Directed for BW by Victoria Bussert, “Ghost” is based on the hit 1990 film of the same name. The story follows Molly and Sam, a couple living in New York who are struck by tragedy when Sam is murdered and becomes a ghost.

Adjunct professor Lauren Tidmore, the production’s choreographer, said the production team approached “Ghost” as a “love story turned ghost story.”

“It's really following the love story of Molly and Sam, and how that quickly becomes a story about ghosts in the supernatural world,” Tidmore said.

Sophomore Jonathan Horowitz, an assistant stage manager, said that BWMT’s

version of this musical will not be a direct remake of the original movie, but rather, it will be a new take on the story and incorporate many different sources of inspiration.

Because “Ghost” centers around the supernatural, the cast and creatives for this production needed to learn how to convincingly pull off that Sam, played by senior music theatre major Mark Doyle, was a ghost that no one in the world of the musical could see.

“How do we do this scene without acknowledging that there’s this other person in the room, who we can hear, and we can see in real life, but in the story we cannot?” Doyle said. “It’s been fun to play with how to make that work on stage.”

Tidmore said she was excited to bounce off ideas with the cast and creatives of “Ghost” to create the world of this show because nailing the technical elements is difficult without the movie magic seen in the film.

Horowitz said that the company needed to use “clever

storytelling to achieve ghostly … effects in lots of practical ways.”

While the audience will be able to physically see Sam, audience members will see the story through the eyes of Molly, played by junior musical theater student Jessi Kirtley.

“Molly is the person that the audience gets to experience the story with because, obviously, the audience doesn't know anything about what it’s like to die,” Kirtley said.

Kirtley said that a big challenge for her was learning how to convey an emotional journey through her performance because her character has to deal with the grief of losing a loved one and how to live without them.

“It’s such an emotionally deep show, and I think everybody can relate to grief and then finding your way back to hope,” Kirtley said. “But, obviously, in real life that takes people months, and I have to kind of show people how to do it in less than two hours.”

Kirtley said that the music

for “Ghost” pulls from contemporary pop music, as well as other genres, which, when paired with the upbeat choreographed pieces, is both challenging and exciting.

Tidmore worked within these different music genres as well as varying emotional layers when creating the choreography for the production, and the students helped her with this creative process.

“It’s really inspiring as a creator,” Tidmore said. “They really are bringing a lot of their own ideas to the table, which is really wonderful to bounce off of while also taking my specific choreography and really elevating it.”

Performing “Ghost” at the Beck Center has given the students an opportunity to operate in a professional space that is unlike the facilities at BW. Doyle said that the theater is still “intimate” despite its larger size.

At the Beck Center, the cast and crew have also been able to work with professionals who are a part of the Actors’ Equity Association – the labor

union for live performers.

“You get to see more of what it's like to work with Equity,” Horowitz said. “[There’s] kind of a degree of professionalism that is still in BW shows, but it's just like, up a notch because [this is] semi-professional.”

Even in a semi-professional environment, being a part of “Ghost” is still a learning experience for all the students involved. Horowitz said that working with stage manager and BW alumnus Jack Ina has created a “forgiving environment” where students can “learn before the failure,” solving an issue before it becomes a true problem.

Doyle said that this learning experience was a “confidence boost” for him as an actor because it brought with it all the challenges of playing a lead role, something that he has not experienced in quite some time.

“I’m a senior, and I’m about to graduate, and I’m about to go to the real world and hopefully do more things like this, professionally,” Doyle said. “Just to be able to have the confidence that I can do all this

work and put all this work in and have a good product come out of it is a good thing.”

Kirtley said that she hopes audiences will leave the show inspired to treat others with kindness because life is not guaranteed, and the love shown to others will be the things remembered in this life and the next.

“It's just a really great show about connecting with people,” Kirtley said. “It just shows that there's nothing that can beat human connection and to love the people you have while you have them. But even if you have lost somebody, there's some[one] out there looking after you.”

“It really takes you on an emotional journey,” Tidmore said. “You'll laugh, you'll cry and maybe your feet will be tapping along to music too.”

“Ghost” runs the weekends of Feb. 10-26, with additional performances on Feb 9, 16 and 23 in the Beck Center’s Senney Theater in Lakewood.

Based on the 1990 movie of the same name, 'Ghost' is a 'love story turned ghost story' that will take audiences on an emotional and frightening journey.

CHROMA gives seniors an opportunity to share graphic designs

Running from Jan. 23 - Feb. 10, CHROMA, an exhibition showcase, displayed the work of senior digital media & design students’ work from their time at BW.

Since the beginning of the school year, the students-John Tarolla, Skylar Sakonyi, Oliver Savel, Matthew Morales, Jackie Kasai, Jaden Trivisonno, Brandon Hrnja, Lexi Prokopius, Courtney Carruthers, Lucy Cummins and Sandra Maciak – have been working in their portfolio review class to prepare for the showcase.

“All of the students put in a lot of hard work,” Kasai said. “It’s an accumulation of [everything] we’ve worked on since coming to BW.”

Through their years at BW, the students have touched all areas of graphic design including layout design, brand development, typography and many other subjects.

Each year since 2016, the program has put on an exhibition for their seniors. For 2023, the students decided on a theme of CHROMA, which the students learned about in their courses said Erica Lull, assistant professor in the art and studio department and the digital media coordinator of CHROMA.

“Chroma is a quality of color combining hue and saturation,” Lull said. “It’s something the students learn in their color theory class.”

With this accumulation of knowledge and pieces they have created, the seniors were able to develop their brand as creators. Sakonyi said she

was given the opportunity to work for the Digital Marketing Center on campus, as well as the Hive Design Group.

“Graphic design is something that we’re surrounded by every day …” said Sakonyi, “You don’t realize how much it affects the way we view things until you see these pieces individually.”

Working with their fellow classmates has increased this appreciation for the art. Multiple of the students recognize their liking of a skateboard program done by Brandon Hrnja, a senior in CHROMA.

“[It] was separate from curriculum design,” Kasai said, “I think it’s really cool that they are bringing different [pieces] into the show.”

The seniors also used CHROMA as an outlet to display personal connections

with their art.

Courtney Carruthers, a participant in the CHROMA design show, said that her favorite piece was BOWWOW dog packaging. Carruthers

said that creating this logo was very important to her, as it depicted her dog who passed away in 2021.

At the closing reception on Feb. 10, the students had

the opportunity to pass out business cards, resumes, job materials and self-promoting materials.

Cleveland Transgender Choir provides a safe space for all ages

The Cleveland Transgender Choir, located on the Baldwin Wallace campus, welcomes non-cisgender individuals to a non-discriminative environment where they create music.

Conservatory professor

Tracy Grady, a cis-gendered woman identifying with she/ her pronouns, is the director and co-founder of the choir. The CTC is a widely accessible singing group with a nonaudition policy that accepts a large range of vocalists starting at ages 14 and up, with no prior experience necessary.

The CTC is non-traditional and unstructured in comparison to a standard choir. Those involved with the choir can decide on the music choices through surveys as well as selecting their preferred vocal pitch they desire to sing in or switch to. Participants can try new names and new pronouns with the only requirement being that they bring their music. It is a space of zero judgment, Grady said.

Lin Godsey, a newer addition to the choir, who uses they/them pronouns, learned about the choir from Grady, who had previously been their voice teacher.

Godsey said: “The reality is that nearly every space is a safe

space for non-queer people, and we finally have our own. It’s definitely a place where I feel more comfortable to be myself. It's really comforting to know that I'm surrounded by people who have similar experiences to me and who are welcoming no matter what.” Rehearsals occur once a week for an hour and a half. If members feel dysphoric, they can step back mentally and physically and take the time they may need. The choir’s primary purpose is to exist for people who feel like there is not a safe place to explore their voices.

"It is all based on vocal comfort and about making music with other like-minded

people. It gives members the safest and healthiest option available for themselves and their voices" Grady said.

The members and their well-being take priority in this space. Grady understands that what she is doing has helped many members who don’t identify with cis-gendered labels feel like they belong in a musical setting. She acknowledges her privileges and wants to use those privileges to help others in creating a safe space.

Grady said: “Society tells us how we should be, but I don't impose that onto others."

The choir's current size is the largest it has ever been before and after the pandemic.

Vocal performance program produces Midwest premiere of contemporary opera

A new contemporary opera, “We’ve Got Our Eye on You,” was given its official Midwest premiere by members of the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music’s vocal performance program last weekend at the Kleist Center for Art and Drama’s Black Box Theatre.

“We’ve Got Our Eye on You,” written by composer Nkeiru Okoye, first premiered in 2015. BW’s production of this opera, which ran from Feb. 3 through Feb. 6, was the first in the Midwest region.

According to junior vocal performance major Katherine Fisfis, who spoke with The Exponent prior to the run, premiering a new show was a very challenging experience.

“The thing with new works is you don’t have anything to

base your performance off of,” Fisfis said. “You’re going from scratch.”

Fisfis noted that it was especially exciting to premiere this work, as it was composed by Okoye, who is a woman of color.

“It’s very rewarding to get to perform pieces that are done by historically underrepresented people,” Fisfis said. “It feels good to be able to take part in that.”

Okoye’s opera is a comedic commentary on modern hookup culture featuring figures from Greek mythology. This includes Perseus, son of Zeus; Pythia, an oracle at Delphi; a chorus of six storytellers; and the three leads of the show, the Graeae sisters.

Sophia Sorrentino, senior vocal performance major, noted that the contemporary style of the opera posed a unique challenge for many

cast members.

“This show is not your typical opera at all,” said Sorrentino. “It has definitely put a lot of us out of our comfort zone. But I feel like that’s been a good experience for all of us to have.”

Fisfis said “We’ve Got Our Eye on You” is unlike other operas she is used to singing because it "shares characteristics with lot of different genres," such as jazz, musical theatre and classical opera.

However, Fisfis said that the opera’s wide range of musical influence was not a negative thing. She said that it contributes to the show’s accessibility for a larger audience, along with other factors.

“It’s almost like a gateway drug for opera,” Fisfis said. “It’s only an hour long, it’s in English … It’s very easy to

consume.”

Sorrentino said another challenge of this production has been the short time frame for rehearsals, which started only a few weeks ago on Jan. 9. “Trying to put it all together in a month has definitely been an insane experience,” Sorrentino said. “But it has also been a very rewarding experience.”

“This show is not your typical opera at all. It has definitely put a lot of us out of our comfort zone. But I feel like that’s been a good experience for all of us to have.”

SOPHIA SORRENTINO Senior vocal performance major

The “intense and frequent” rehearsal schedule posed a challenge for Fisfis as well, who said it was difficult

A wide range of ages are represented amongst the members, from nineteen to early sixties. In an atmosphere based on music, membership in the ensemble offers queer individuals the opportunity to experience inclusion and to express their gender identities. The diversity and integration of so many ages allow for the youth to look forward to their futures all the while building connections.

Godsey said: “It’s just a very open and welcoming space. It's also really cool because we have quite a few members of the choir who are older trans people and I can't even express how cool it is to be in close contact with trans people

who are well into their adult life. And to just be able to see that and know that it's possible for us to live full lives to older ages.”

Grady hopes that a qualified trans individual will take over for her in the coming future.

Prior to Covid-19, the vocalists performed at Pride Cleveland, Pride Youngstown, Pride in The Valley and even walked in the parade for Mansfield Pride. Along with this, they perform annually on Nov. 20 at the United Church of Christ in Shaker Heights for Transgender Day of Remembrance.

coming back from break and “immediately having to hit the ground running.”

First-year vocal performance major Maribell Salazar also said scheduling was a significant obstacle, but otherwise has had a positive experience with the show.

“This is my first opera,” Salazar said. “So far, it’s been really easy to maneuver through everything. They [the show’s directors] have made it very clear on what they want and how to do it.”

Salazar additionally said that the most gratifying parts of the

experience were participating in her first sitzprobe – a rehearsal with a full orchestra – and working with her peers on other technical aspects.

“To feel myself singing with the instrumentalists … it was just so amazing. It really made me feel like I’m in a show,” Salazar said. “And seeing ourselves do choreography— that is so fun and so rewarding once it’s finally done.” FOLLOW

“All of the students put in a lot of hard work. It’s an accumulation of [everything] we’ve worked on since coming to BW,” said Skylar Sakonyi, one of the seniors displaying their work in the exhibition.

Life & Styles

Regal theater in North Olmsted the latest in rash of local, nationwide closures

The Regal movie theater inside the Great Northern Mall in North Olmsted has joined the ranks of several other recently closed Northeast Ohio cinemas. Jan. 27 marked the theater’s final day of movie showings.

The Regal Great Northern Mall closure adds to a growing list of local theaters going out of business.

Chagrin Cinemas and AMC Classic Solon 16 closed in January and – as The Exponent reported last year – the Regal Middleburg Heights multiplex closed in September of 2022. Regal Montrose in Akron is set to close soon, with a date not yet announced.

Baldwin Wallace film studies professor Paul Peters said that while he still manages to catch films in theaters, the rapid decline of available movie theater options is alarming.

“For me it’s a much greater concern that we’re losing movie theaters so quickly like this ... If I want to go to a movie theater and I’m local, there’s going to be a lot more limited options for me to actually go,” Peters said. Today, streaming is playing a pivotal role in the film industry, with many high-profile studios and production companies, like Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery, forgoing theatrical runs in place of streaming premieres for some tentpole films.

Despite the convenience and accessibility of streaming, movie theaters provide unique benefits for Peters as opposed to home viewing, including the heightened experience and early access to films with longer theatrical windows. The movie theater

Trans Ohioans still being denied gender marker corrections to their birth certificates

allows one to be immersed in the movie with its sound systems and projection screens, Peters said.

Regal’s parent company, Cineworld, filed for bankruptcy in 2022. The company’s debt is upwards of $5 billion for Cineworld as it struggles to shake off the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic and the decline in theater audiences nationwide. For Cineworld, closing theaters is part of a strategy to save money and pay off their debt.

The hope for the North Olmsted theater upon its construction in 2013 was that it would have increased attendance due to its location as a mall theater. However, the theater’s closure is not a first for the area. A previous, smaller Regal location in a plaza adjacent to the mall was closed in 2000 due to declining profits, according to Cleveland.com.

Peters said that while multiplexes – theatres with multiple screens like the 10-screen Regal Great Northern Mall or the 16-screen Regal Middleburg Town Square – will be the most affected since they require more customers to break even. Arthouse and specialty cinemas may stand a better chance going forward, Peters said.

“People are still going to go to arthouse cinemas, it has special appeal. If anything, I think movies might become

more of a specialty item,” Peters said.

Baldwin Wallace junior Nevan Quinn said that he has been an avid movie theater viewer his whole life. As a Regal Unlimited member, he sees roughly two movies per month. On Christmas Eve last year, Quinn saw the Santa Claus-themed slasher “Violent Night” with his family at the North Olmsted theater. Quin said he and his family were the only ones in attendance.

Quinn said that movie theaters provide him with a sense of nostalgia. Growing up he went to midnight screenings of Marvel movies with his brother.

“For a Marvel movie, for me, it’s an experience that you can’t really get at home,” Quinn said. “For example, my brother and I saw ‘SpiderMan: No Way Home,’ and when Tobey [Maguire] and Andrew [Garfield] showed up, the theater went nuts. That’s something that I won’t forget and something I won’t get at an at home movie experience.”

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On December 16, 2020, a Federal District Court ruled that it is unconstitutional to deny transgender people the ability to correct the gender markers on their birth certificates.

At the time, Ohio was one of just two states that still refused to grant trans people those corrections.

Now, more than two years later, probate court judges in Ohio’s more rural and conservative counties are still denying gender marker birth certificate corrections to trans Ohioans based on their individual interpretations of the ruling.

“The current situation in Ohio is nothing short of a constitutional crisis,” said James Knapp — an Ohio-based LGBTQ+ activist, attorney and chair of the board of directors at TransOhio.

Thankfully, Knapp also said trans Ohioans don’t have to navigate this crisis alone.

Creating a new process for trans Ohioans

For years, Knapp and other LGBTQ+ advocates and organizations across Ohio lobbied the Ohio Department of Health to implement an official process for correcting the gender markers on transgender people’s birth certificates.

“For a long time, ODH has been saying no,” Knapp said. He said that refusal is what led to the lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio in 2018.

After the case was settled in 2020, ODH created an official process for correcting gender markers on birth certificates via Ohio’s probate judges — like any other routine birth certificate correction.

“The Supreme Court of Ohio issued its own model probate [birth certificate correction] form, and each of Ohio’s 88 probate courts are supposed to accept it,” Knapp said. “So far, 27 of them have refused to do so.”

“They’re saying that even if they wanted to grant birth certificate corrections, they don’t have the authority to

do so,” he added. “We have a lawsuit that states otherwise.”

Ohio’s probate court judges still deny gender marker corrections

In order to correct the gender markers on their birth certificates, trans Ohioans must first obtain a court ordered correction of their birth record. Then, that order goes in front of a probate court judge.

In 2022 in Clark County, OH — a conservative county with a population of about 135,000 — a transgender woman submitted all the necessary paperwork for a gender marker birth certificate correction via Clark County Probate Court.

“Under probate court where she lived, she submitted everything she needed,” said Knapp, but her request was denied based solely on the judge’s transphobic interpretation of the word ‘correct’ as it refers to gender or gender identity.

In another instance, a Mahoning County Probate Court judge explicitly noted that he chose to deny a transgender woman’s request to change her gender marker on her birth certificate because he did not interpret the gender marker change as a ‘correction.’

Now, the Supreme Court of Ohio and other courts are using that case as precedent.

“Stark County no longer grants [birth certificate gender marker corrections],” Knapp said. “They say they might not have the authority.”

Trans Ohioans still have options

Knapp, a longtime resident of Northeast Ohio, said the recent treatment of trans people in courtrooms across the state is alarming and has been difficult to witness.

“The Ohio Name Change Legal Clinic has seen an uptick in [reports of] judges who are following transphobic lines of questioning during simple name changes,” he added. “This is exclusively impacting transgender people. That’s the worst part about this.”

In places like Franklin County and Cuyahoga County, probate court judges often grant gender marker corrections on birth certificates for trans people without issue.

In more rural, conservative

counties — where trans Ohioans run the risk of encountering a probate court judge who would deny their requests based on transphobic ideas about gender — Knapp said trans Ohioans do still have options.

For instance, a trans person must be able to prove they’ve lived in that county for at least 60 days in order to file for gender marker birth certificate correction via probate court, but they may also be able to file in the county where they were born.

If both of those counties are more rural or conservative, trans people looking to correct their birth certificates can also file in the county where their gestational parent lived while pregnant.

That change of venue could allow many trans Ohioans to take their case to a more liberal court in a more liberal county.

Where to

find legal help

TransOhio — along with Equality Ohio, Equitas Health and the Ohio Name Change Legal Clinic— offer free resources and legal clinics to help trans Ohioans navigate both name changes and birth certificate corrections.

“If you’re denied, you only have a short period of time to appeal,” Knapp said. “So please reach out immediately, because we can help.”

The ACLU of Ohio also maintains a detailed walkthrough of the entire gender marker birth certificate correction process.

Knapp said the road ahead is still wrought with legal obstacles for trans Ohioans, but he isn’t without hope.

“I want trans folks to brace themselves for another onslaught of antitrans legislation,” he said. “But know that we’re going to win. [Know] that this is unconstitutional, and we’re going to come out on top.”

The Buckeye Flame is a platform dedicated to amplifying the voices of LGBTQ+ Ohioans to support community and civic empowerment through the creation of engaging content that chronicles their triumphs, struggles and lived experiences. Its Editor is Baldwin Wallace University professor Ken Schneck. Visit thebuckeyeflame.com.

It is unconstitutional to deny transgender people alterations to the gender markers on their birth certificates. Some judges are denying them anyway.

110 YEARS OF THE EXPONENT

2023 marks the 110th year that The Exponent has informed the Baldwin Wallace University and Berea communities. In our new recurring series, we highlight the rich history of the Berea Community's Paper of Record.

The Sexponent?! Exponent alumni look back at bygone traditions

The Exponent's former editor in chief from 1992 shares her memories, including the annual spoof edition

Before advanced computers, smartphones, editing and layout software, a weekly edition of The Exponent was produced on the second floor of the Union – full of wax machines, exacto blades and old computers.

Around April Fool’s Day in the spring semester came another tradition that no longer exists for the current newspaper: The Sexponent, a parody edition that was entirely made up, from its bylines to its content and even the advertisements.

Molly Freitag, The Exponent’s editor in chief in 1992, said that the annual spoof edition was based partially on the Harvard Lampoon, a satirical humor publication produced by the students at Harvard University, and was created by Exponent staff members just for fun.

One memory Freitag shared

included the Sexponent’s parody bylines. The editor-inchief decided that everyone who wrote an article in the issue would take on a fake name inspired by Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

“It was just bizarre, but we were not the normal Seven Dwarves,” Freitag said. “We were just weird names that had nothing to do with our own character. I don't even remember who I was, but I just remember the news editor was stormy dwarf or something like that and it was just silly.”

Karen Ellicott, assistant news editor of 1992, and a ’93 BW alum, also shared that one year, The Sexponent featured former President of BW, Neil Malicky, as Mr. Clean.

“We wrote articles to poke fun at things that were happening on campus or in the news. There were a good number of comparisons made between the school president Neal Malicky and Mr. Clean because they were both bald men,” Ellicott said. “But I

remember it as relatively good-natured ribbing. As far as I know Dr. Malicky took it in stride.”

Outside of The Sexponent, other older traditions included personal ads, which were a large source of revenue for the newspaper. Anyone could pay to put an advertisement in, whether it was for a tutor, to ask someone to a dance or cheer on a friend.

“I mean, anybody could do it,” Freitag said. “A lot of times it was just silly, you know, cheering people on, saying oh, you know, hey, drop me a line or you know, goofy kind of stuff like that. But yeah, it was a pretty decent moneymaker for us back then.”

Douglas Tammaro, a former sportswriter and 1991 alum, said the production process of The Exponent included many steps. In the 1990s The Exponent had to be typed, printed, then cut and manually pasted onto sheets that were then taken to printers for final printing.

“I just remember there were tools involved that looked like dental things, for slicing and stuff. I don't even know how we did it back then without scanners. I don't know how we got a picture or a headline in, it’s crazy,” Tammaro said. “I just remember walking out of The Exponent with ink on my hands a lot. I don't remember how we did it, but I will tell you this: we got it done.”

Throughout all the stories and memories, each alumnus shared their love for the comradery in the newspaper and all the friends and stories

that were made during their time at The Exponent.

“The best part about The Exponent is that we had people from all walks of campus life working on the

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staff,” Freitag said. “It was like the one place where we really could all come together and do something for the whole campus community.”

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Women’s basketball bounces back, perseveres against Mount Union

After a tough loss to unranked Marietta on Jan. 28, the Baldwin Wallace Yellow Jackets women’s basketball team bounced back with a 6640 win over the Mount Union Purple Raiders on Feb. 1.

“We played a lot harder this game,” said junior Carolyn Wochele, the former Mentor Cardinal who picked up two rebounds.

The Brown and Gold Brigade went on a 12-0 run in the first quarter, and after the Raiders scored the next four points the Jackets went crazy on Mount Union, scoring 18 unanswered. This run lasted from the first quarter to midway through the second quarter.

“A lot of it came from crashing the boards, [Head] Coach [Cheri Harrer] emphasized that a lot this past week. Just like getting on the glass, offensively and especially defensively, and I think that sparked a lot of our runs and put us in a good

transition and got us up early,” said center Bella Vaillant, who led both teams with 16 points.

BW improved to an 18-2 record on the 202223 campaign, with an 11-2 record in the Ohio Athletic Conference. (The team now stands at 19-3, and 12-3 in conference play.)

While the Yellow Jackets outscored the Raiders 3814 in the first half, they only outscored Mount Union 28-26 in the second half.

“We talked a lot about playing to our standard, and today we kind of showed what that standard looks like. Just keep in mind playing that way for a full 40 minutes, and we’re still working towards that, but today was a really good step forward for us after last game,” Wochele said.

It was also the first win the Yellow Jackets have had over Mount Union in Berea all season. The women’s soccer team lost earlier this season at Finnie, the men’s basketball team lost in overtime to the Raiders at Ursprung and the football team lost on the final play at home.

Meanwhile, in Alliance, the Purple Raiders had their way with the BW men’s team, winning by a large margin of 102-69. Senior Anthony Mazzeo led all Yellow Jackets with 21 points, and Jack Simmons wasn’t far behind him with 17.

Since the Feb. 1 victory over the Raiders, the Jackets women followed with a 1-1 record. On Feb. 4, the team dropped a 58-55 decision to unranked Otterbein on the road. On Wednesday, Feb. 8, what could be the squad’s toughest test of the season, BW rebounded with a 66-62 win over no. 10 Ohio Northern in overtime.

BW has just two more games to go before it’s time for the OAC tournament, as they look to win the title in back-to-back years. The Jackets next face John Carroll on Feb. 11. (Note: This edition of The Exponent was printed before the conclusion of the game), with the season finale on Saturday, Feb. 18 at Capitol.

CRASH: Collision with stolen car delays swim and dive team's arrival to meet at Notre Dame College

Continued from page 1 the swimmers to Notre Dame, the team was stuck on the highway for a decent amount of time WolffDemaline said.

“We were on the side of the road for a little over an hour,” Wolff-Demaline said. “Then they moved the bus off the highway so the state troopers could interview the swimmers.”

The crash had delayed the swimmers’ arrival to the meet, causing them to show up at Notre Dame two hours behind schedule and significantly reduce their warm-up before competing. Despite this, the team still did a “great” job at the meet, said WolffDemaline, adding that she was proud of the swimmers for competing after a “less than optimal” warm-up.

Wolff-Demaline also commended the bus driver, Seville Barnes, for his quick response and helpfulness when it came to helping the police locate the drivers of

the Kia.

“Our bus driver did an incredible job because this all happened behind him, there was no way he could’ve anticipated what happened, and he handled the situation very quickly,” Wolff-Demaline said. “I think it was really impressive that he ran after them with the police, like that’s something that I think showed bravery.”

Wolf-Demaline also said she is thankful to the school for their support in handling the situation. Wolff-Demaline said that she kept in touch with President Bob Helmer, Vice President of Student Affairs Timeka Rashid and Director of Athletics Steve Thompson throughout the day.

Kooyman said he appreciated the efforts of their coaching staff for handling the situation effectively and professionally, citing Swim Coach Justin Hill, Swimming Graduate Assistant Brian Regovich and Assistant Swim Coach Dr. Michael Diamond

specifically.

“I feel like they were –from being in a situation like that – they were really prepared, and they came around and talked to all of us individually, made sure we were all calm throughout the process,” Kooyman said. “ ... Just being in a hit and run is a very stressful situation for everybody, so I wanted to make sure I gave a shout-out to all of the coaching staff on our team.”

There were no injuries associated with the crash, and the individuals responsible for the collision were taken into custody soon after the incident occurred.

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Humans of BW: Theatre and Dance professors share the art that shaped them

Our photo series gives a glimpse into BW community members' lives in their own words. Know someone who should be featured? Email exponent@bw.edu.

As told to and photographed by ALEX MINYARD

HEIDI HARRIS

Professor of Acting/Voice

“When I was a freshman in college I went to New York for the very first time … we went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and I remember sitting in front of Starry Night and just weeping. I thought about the pain and the anguish that this poor man indured while painting these beautiful paintings, and I think that may have been when the idea of the duality of art and the polarity of art sort of clicked with me. I remember thinking, if someone in such pain could make

TESIA BENSON

Professor of Costume Design

“I don’t know that I think that there’s one [piece of art] because I was so surrounded by art as a kid … It just felt like art was everything. To me everything about the world is a piece of art. I would say that when I go to the [Cleveland] Art Museum, I always go and I see that guy, it’s like a 18151820s portrait and he’s wearing these green glasses, and there’s something that I find really compelling about the portrait. I always go and I always end up sitting and looking at that one for a really long period of time.”

CHRISTINA LINDHOUT

Professor of Dance

“I directed and choreographed a contemporary dance piece [last] summer called Snack. It was a really personal story of artists and gig workers in general not feeling like they had safety and security: financially, emotionally, all of those things. Just not feeling like they had someone to back them up or a safetynet of any kind, and really kinda putting our butts on the line everyday to say something and to do our craft.”

something so beautiful, then art is definitely worth it.”