From Townsend, Delaware, meet Rebecca (Bec) Green, a sophomore political science major with a communications minor.
Green said there’s a few reasons why they chose Elizabethtown College as their home for the next four years.
“The environment felt very welcoming, and I had [now-senior] Griffin McClaren as my tour guide, and he was very upbeatl,” Green said. “I’m overall happy here. The people here are very nice, it is a good environment [and] it is a generally clean campus.”
Green also relied on the guidance of their mother to help choose a school.
“I toured like seven schools, and I toured all of them with my mom,” Green said. “At the end of all of them, my mom was like ‘you’re going to hate it here, [or] oh you’re going to like it here.’ But at the end of at the end of this [Etown] tour she was like, ‘this is the only place I’ve seen you be genuinely excited to be at.’”
Green decided to major in political science.
“We need people who are active in the current climate and community that aren’t going to make rules and laws in their best interest instead of the communities best interest,” Green said. “Which is what we currently have. I feel like that’s something that needs to change.”
After Etown, Green’s career aspirations include policy change, specifically lobbying.
“Things need to change, and I want to be a factor in that change. I want to be somebody who can be the voice for people who don’t have one,” Green said.
Actor and political activist Misha Collins from Green’s favorite television show “Supernatural” inspired them to want to create change in the United States political system.
“Misha Collins is such an inspiration. Collins takes every opportunity to make his moral values and political standpoints known without fear,” Green said. “Following Collins in his movies and shows and then finding out about his political influence was truly amazing. I feel like it is rare to see someone take their platform and use it for what they believe in.”
One of Green’s favorite interests is watching horror movies. Green’s favorite horror movie is the first “Scream.”
“I like the suspense of it,” Green said. “I like the anticipation and how a lot of them keep you on your toes. To me, horror movies are very engaging. If I’m watching a romance, everything is the same. Boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy and girl fall out, boy and girl get married. But I feel like in horror movies you see a lot of different dynamics.”
Horror movies have helped Green through tough experiences in their life.
“Sometimes it’s not so easy to feel anything. I spent a really, really, really long time feeling just simply numb,” Green said. “Watching a horror movie or something scary was something to feel. It wasn’t just nothing; it wasn’t just numbness anymore. Now they are a comfort for me because they helped me when I couldn’t feel anything.”
Horror movie lover Bec Green will continue to gather the tools and skills necessary in their next three years at Etown, as she strives to fight for social change in her community and government.
