Events

by Rebekah Warren 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 travelled 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 i...

  By Ashley Walling Boonearoo, Trevecca’s end-of-the-year music festival, will not take place this year and is being replaced by several other events. The main event now called “School's 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 attendance 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. (more…)

by Olivia Kelley The Trevecca theatre program opened it's winter production, "Radium girls," Thursday night. The play is based on a true story that takes place in the 1920's when Radium was considered a miracle drug. People used it to make watches glow in the dark and believed it would prolong life. The story follows Grace Fryer, who was a dial painter and fought against radium use when she realized it was poisonous. It also shows another side of the story, the side Arthur Roeder, the president of the dial painting factory, who still believes Radium usage is beneficial and fights for it. "The play beautifully portrays both sides 0f the historic lawsuit in a truly heart-wrenching and historically accurate retelling," said Ingrid Rekedal, sophomore theatre education major. The ...