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Faculty Trio, featuring Winifred
Goodwin, Robert Jesselson and
Constance Lane, 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
the School of Music building
Free.
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PENESHIA GRAHAM
Imagine that you're a member of society
in the Game of Life. You have just
been denied a loan at the bank, even
though you were more than qualified.
The housing agency you went to has
miraculously found a buyer for the home
just after you showed interest in it And
even though the restaurant you have
entered looks empty, you have yet to be
waited on.
The Game of Life, sponsored by the
Peer Conduct Board, is one of several
activities taking place this week for Carolinian
Creed Week.
This activity is free and open to all
students, and ifll be held at 7 p.m. Monday
in the Towers Area Lobby.
The participants in the Game of Life
aren't aware that they're being discriminated
against as they travel from
business to business in this pretend
community.
The whole point of the game is to
show the stereotypes that plague our
actual society, said Jasmine Wright,
Peer Conduct Board president.
Creed Week is based on the Carolinian
Creed, an institutional document
that attempts to discourage discrimination
and disrespect by outlining
a code of civilized behavior for individuals
and the entire university
community to follow.
"[The Carolinian Creed] is there
to set an ideal standard for faculty, staff,
students and the overall university community,"
said Scott Lewis, director of
judicial affairs.
Lewis, along with Assistant Director
of Judicial Affairs Alisa Cooney, are
the coordinators for this year's Creed
Week celebration.
Throughout this week, students,
university organizations, faculty and
staff will use events, activities, WKHA
movies and discussions to promote the
Creed's five tenets.
In spring 1989, a group of faculty,
staff and students led by Dennis Pruitt, |
then the vice president for student affairs,
got together to study what ap- 1
peared to be a growing number of hate
crimes and incidents of uncivilized
behavior on college campuses across
America. i
The group recognized that, in addition
to academics, members of the
Carolina community should know how
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features editor KRISTIN FWEESTATE
If Robert Walton ever wants
his fortune told, he won't
look through incense-laced
air into a crystal ball; instead,
hell look through a camera at
a globe.
Walton, a senior, is a photographer
whose inspiration comes from "being
somewhere different, seeing new
things."
"Some people don't want to travel,
and thafs unfathomable to me," he said.
"People should definitely travel, even
if it's just around the block. I've sat in
front of the TV long enough."
Walton's love for the camera and
the road is the focus of "The Random
Roads Project: A Celebration of Travel
Near and Far." his first exhibition
and sale.
The exhibition, which runs from 7
to 9:30 p.m. through Wednesday at
Gallery 80808 on Lady Street, features
24 of Walton's pictures, regional and
international, color and black and white.
Walton wrote short sketches for each
picture that tell a little about the shots
and the impressions they made on him.
"The point [of the exhibition] is to
show that a trip 60 miles down the road
is just as valid as a trip overseas," Walton
said. "Sixty miles away can be
just as different as across the Atlantic
Ocean."
"It was the first morning I woke up
in a my dream. I had dreamed of
the Caribbean for years, longing for
the day when the water would be a
clear, blue-green color I could lose
myself in. It was the first journey I
ever made."
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Walton's journey with the camera
began when he joined his high school
newspaper.
He worked his way up to editor
there, but was so displeased with the
quality of the photography that he began
doing some of the shoots himself.
The school had a darkroom, and his father
taught him about photography.
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The goal was to develop an institutional
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standard of behavior for all Carolinians
to follow.
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The interest stayed with Walton after
graduation, and, as he also enjoys
traveling, the combination of the two
seemed natural.
Walton took his first trip three years
ago to St. Croix, one of the U.S. Virgin
Islands.
He took one particular shot there,
"St. Croix Sunrise," which shows the
dark outline of hills and building tops
against layers of orange sky and orange
clouds, and liked it so much that he
framed it and hung it on his living room
wall.
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Shortly after that, he took a weeklong
trip to southern Mexico for the sole
purpose of shooting pictures.
He ended up liking seven or eight
shots from that week, framing them,
and hanging them on the wall, too.
Since then, Walton has also shot in
Ireland, Italy, Spain and towns near
Columbia ? and each time, he hung
all the pictures he liked on his living
room wall.
"When I first took these pictures,
they weren't for anyone to see," he said.
"The pictures really say something to
me. Every one of them speaks to me
very personally."
But the living room wall became
more and more filled up, and eventually,
Walton began to play with the idea
of having an exhibition.
"It was other-worldly, with shafts of
light cutting through the torn-tin
roof and falling on pieces of industrial
junk. This piece stood out to
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Although Walton wanted to show
his pictures, he admits that's not what
the exhibition is about.
"It has very little to do with the photographs
on the walls," he said.
Instead, it was more of a challenge
to himself ? a challenge to see if
he could put together his own exhibition,
complete with invitations and a
formal opening reception, which was
held Friday night.
Walton said about 70 people came
to the reception, and that he sold six
pieces.
Although fewer people have come
since then, he considers the show a success.
"The pictures look so different on
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The pictures cut a line across the
white of the gallery walls.
The color shots, which he takes on
trips overseas, stand out starkly; the
black-and-white ones, which he takes
in South Carolina, more subtly.
The color pictures, Uke "St. Croix
Sunset," show brown, wrinkled faces,
ruins overlooking the sea, a row of tomatoes.
The black-and-white shots, like
"Emerging," show pieces of discarded
scrap metal, the remains of a burned
roller rink, panes of glass.
Walton said each picture is special
to him, not necessarily because of its
quality, but because of the memories it
evokes.
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from the hundreds of rolls of film he's
shot in these three years.
In spite of all the experience, though,
Walton still considers himself a novice
of sorts.
"Everything I do is practice," he said.
"I've never taken a perfect picture
and probably never will."
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then I walked away."
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The picture, taken in Oaxaca, Mexico,
is of a beggar woman shrouded in
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left shoulder and down the sidewalk.
"Each trip is made up of these moments
that I wouldn't trade for anything,"
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ever been anywhere I didn't like. It's
such an amazing world."
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integrity, Cooney said the Carolinian
Creed has added to the university in
other ways.
"When outside students are evaluating
colleges [to attend, the Carolinian
Creed promotes USC because] it's
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he said. "Traveling is an amazing
experience. If s a veiy purifying experience."
As it happens, the experience is as
much one of suspension as it is of action.
There's a movement to getting in
line at customs, exploring a foreign city,
trying to understand the people
there.
But the movement is exclusive to
what happens in front of the camera,
not behind it.
"After a while (taking pictures), you
stop thinking," Walton said. "You just
watch, look for details, for people's faces,
for light, and you click the shutter. You
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you're trying to become as a student
and also as a person, he said.
Students also see the importance of
recognizing the Creed.
"It reminds students to be honest
and respect other students on campus,"
junior Jamar Rutledge said.
Rutledge said he's seen copies of the
Carolinian Creed in the Russell House,
residence halls and on pamphlets all
over campus.
"The Creed lets everyone know that
there is a standard at Carolina and that
you have to respect others," senior Lateca
Wise said.
While some might think the Creed
tries to define personal morals, Director
of Judicial Affairs Lewis disagrees.
"It does not legislate morality," Lewis
said. "The Creed is very vague."
He added that because if s so vague,
it leads to discussion of what can be defined
as bigotry, respect or integrity.
Discussion of such topics, Lewis said,
is very important.
Professors and instructors have been
asked to incorporate discussion of the
Creed into their classes this week.
Sophomore Lauren Clark agrees
that the Creed is not an attempt to define
morals.
"I think it says what most people
would consider right or wrong, anyway,"
Clark said. "I don't think it compromises
too many people's morals by being
so specific."
Creed Week is sponsored by several
on-campus organizations, including
Omnicron Delta Kappa, the Residence
Hall Association, Student
Government, Carolina Productions, the
Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Association,
University 101, and the Honors College.
In addition to activities, Web Ser
vices of Columbia sponsored a $500
scholarship for the Creed Week essay
contest. The winner will be announced
this week.
Other events for Creed Week include:
"Albatross," an exercise in diversity,
8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Patterson Hall.
Phi Beta Kappa sponsors Philip
Zimbardo in "Social and Personal Dynamics
of Shyness," 11:15 a.m. Wednesday,
the Russell House Ballroom.
Omicron Delta Kappa and Mortar
Board present "Would You Get An 'A'
in Cheating 101?," a faculty and staff
panel, 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, the
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really learn to see, you have to really
learn to look."
His picture of Dingle, Ireland, "Irish
Storm," has in the foreground a rocky
bank that curls around the dark, lapping
water, and winds against a background
of perfectly green hills. The remains
of a stone castle stand crumbly
and gray against a sky mottled pink
and purple.
"Hiking around the Dingle peninsula,
on the West coast, I slept on high cliffs
overlooking the sea. And when this
storm rolled in, more sound than
fury, I found what I was looking for."
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