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Student Dietetic Association sponsors Farmer's Market
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Megan Scott| Photo Editor
Samford's Student Dietetic Association sponsored the Farmer's Market with Jones Valley Urban Farm on Tuesday.
Senior nutrition major Katie Snider helped with the event in Ben Brown Plaza.
Samford Theatre presents
‘Thoroughly Modem Millie”
Ttilly Taylor
News Reporter
Samford Theatre will present the mu¬
sical “Thoroughly Modern Millie” in the
Wright Center Concert Hall Friday and
Saturday April 30 and May 1 at 7:30
p.m. and Sunday, May 2 at 2:30 p.m.
The musical centers around a small¬
town girl with big ambitions whose path
gets diverted, director Mark Casde said.
“It’s about a girl who comes to New
York to make her fortune in the modern
world,” he said. “But instead, she finds
true love in the form of a young man she
meets who she thinks is penniless. But it
turns out he is a millionaire.”
The concept of “Thoroughly Mod¬
ern Millie” has been around since 1967
when it was released as a musical film.
From there it was converted to a musi¬
cal, male lead and senior musical theater
major Jordan Bondurant said.
“It was originally a movie starring Ju¬
lie Andrews that was made into a musi¬
cal about eight or nine years ago and it
won a bunch of Tony Awards,” Bondu¬
rant said.
Senior musical theater major Chelsea
Reynolds has the opportunity to play
the tide character of the story, Millie
Dillmount. It is a role she is cherishing.
“It’s one of my dream roles. As cheesy
as it sounds, it is a dream come true,”
she said. “It’s such a fun, fun part and really challenging. She
is on stage every single scene except two, I think. It is very
demanding, but it’s so rewarding. I love her.”
Reynolds is surrounded by a talented and dedicated group
of 32 other cast members and a 22-piece orchestra. It’s been a
wonderful experience working with the group, she said.
“It has been so great. It’s a big cast. We’ve been working on
it since January, so we definitely bonded over that,” she said.
“The chorus is really strong and the ensemble is really strong.
We have some really, really great dancers.”
While the cast is a lot of fun, there is also a level of work
ethic that has made the experience all the better, Bondurant-
said.
“It’s been a lot of fun because of how professional this cast
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Don Orrj Photographer
Senior music theater majors Jordan Bondurant and Chelsea Reynolds
play the lead roles in Thoroughly Modern Millie".
See Millie, page 2
Organizations across campus sponsor
first “Tunnel of Oppression”
Riley Westmoreland
News Reporter
The Samford community has had the op¬
portunity to participate in several social jus¬
tice-related events before, but this Friday
there will be a new and unique opportunity
for students to be a part of. Different campus
organizations are coming together to sponsor
Samford’s first “Tunnel of Oppression” on
Friday, April 30.
Students will have the chance to go to the
Pete Hanna Center between 1 1 a.m. and 4
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p.m. to participate in this interactive exhibit
On and off campus groups have come to¬
gether for this event targeted at presenting
pressing societal issues and concerns to the
student body.
Senior political science major Jonathan
Coley, lead coordinator of the Oxfam group
at Samford, has been a key figure in the de¬
velopment of this project. The focus of Ox¬
fam at Samford is to raise awareness about
and mobilize students to action around im¬
portant social justice issues, Coley said, and
See Tunnel, page 2
Reburn replaces Taylor as interim
Dean of Brock School of Business
plishments.”
When "Taylor leaves at the end of the semes¬
ter the current associate dean, Dr. James Re-
П
Maddie Taylor
News Reporter
i Orr| Photographer
Back Taylor recently accepted a job as
president of Whitworth University.
Dr. Beck Taylor will be leaving the Sam¬
ford community after the current semester to
take on a new role as President of Whitworth
University in Spokane, Washington. Taylor
said his role as dean has prepared him for the
job of a university president.
“I have a very external role here, and perhaps
I’m afforded, as dean of the Brock School of
Business, opportunities very similar to what a
president would experience,” Taylor said.
Taylor has been the dean of Samford’s Brock
School of Business since 2005.Since his term
began, Taylor has made improvements inter¬
nally in the areas of curriculum and faculty, as
well as externally by strengthening ties with
alumni and donors and making the Brock
School well known to the business commu¬
nity in the Southeast.
As dean of the Brock School, Taylor has
overseen a period of growth.
“When I came in 2005 we had two ma¬
jors, we now have seven,” Taylor said. “So
the ability to add more breadth and depth of
academic exjpericnce for our students, I think,
has been one of ray most satisfying accom-
Don Orr| Photographer
Jim Rebum, former associate dean of Brock
School of Business, will replace Beck Taylor.
See Taylor, page 2
Hollywood’s dark green
agenda
Samford
outdoor
Alabama passes
first anti-human
trafficking law
Blake Tommey
News Reporter
House Bill 432, Alabama’s first anti-human trafficking legisla¬
tion, passed in both houses of the Alabama State Legislature mere¬
ly hours before the 2010 legislative session ended on Thursday,
April 22. The bill, which provides extensive protection for victims
of labor and sex trade, will add Alabama to the list of 44 states
that have striedy criminalized human trafficking under state law,
according to the Polaris project.
The passage of the bill will create new human trafficking crimes
and penalties, provide mandatory restitution for victims, allow
victims to sue their trafficker and provide for asset forfeiture.
Along with the Polaris Project and the DA’s Association, local
anti-human trafficking coalition Freedom to Thrive helped draft
the bill and said that anti-human trafficking legislation has been
a long time coming for Alabama. Supporters of the bill say that a
state law will now lead to more prosecutions of what is considered
modern-day slavery.
“It’s a huge victory,” Sara Jane Camacho, director of Freedom to
Thrive, said. “Having legislation on the books is really the starting
point for educating law enforcement and the community about
human trafficking.”
After a tangible encounter with child sex slaves in Thailand
at age 16, Camacho returned to Birmingham “ticked off” that
people were not aware of young children enslaved for labor or sex
abroad and in Birmingham, she said. In 2009, Camacho helped
form Freedom to Thrive, which was created as a response to the
growing prevalence of human trafficking in the southeast and in
Birmingham.
According to the Birmingham News, a lawsuit filed in Birming¬
ham federal court in 2009 claims that a Mississippi man paid in¬
adequate wages to two male Guatemalan guest workers for work in
Mississippi and Alabama, forced them into debt, confiscated their
visas and threatened to report them to immigration officials.
In addition, a federal grand jury in Birmingham indicted a man
from Florence, Ala., in December for harboring a female minor
in Lauderdale County and forcing her to perform sex acts for pay-
See Trafficking, page 2
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