January 20, 2010

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Vol. 124 Issue 14

Committee finalizes proposal for sixth college

HAITI HITS HOME

Hayleigh Colombo hcolombo@butler.edu

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Butler community unites over earthquake tragedy Jennifer Pignolet jpignole@butler.edu The first week of spring semester, Butler University graduate student Kétura Isidor pulled three all-nighters in a row. But, she didn’t spend them studying or partying... she just wanted to know whether or not her family was alive.

Isidor’s home country of Haiti fell victim to a 7.0 magnitude earthquake last week, killing an unknown, yet undoubtedly horrific, amount of people. The media for the past week has depicted countless scenes of collapsed schools, hospitals and homes. The capital city, Port-Au-Prince, is in shambles.

“Sometimes the news exaggerates,” Isidor said. “But not now.”

Because her home is nearly a three-hour drive from the city, in a town called Les Cayes, her immediate family and the 30 orphans in the family’s orphanage all survived unharmed. But some of her friends were not so lucky.

“I have a friend who died,” Isidor said. “He went to school, and basically the school collapsed and everybody pretty much died.

“It’s very hard right now to communicate with people back there, so that’s all I know for now. There are friends of mine that lived in certain areas that I know are down that I’m thinking are probably already dead.”

Although her home, which is connected to the orphanage, is still standing, Isidor said her mother, siblings and the 30 children are sleeping outside with the rest of the citizens of Haiti.

“They are very scared because they are afraid there will be another earthquake,” Isidor said. “They are afraid that if there was a crack somewhere or if anything were to happen again, it would come down. That’s the state everyone in Haiti is in right now.”

As looting and a severe lack of resources hits the city, many of those who remain are moving outward toward the coast, to towns like Isidor’s.

“A lot of people are migrating to Les Cayes with nothing but the clothes on

Driver damages class gift

their back,” Isidor, a first-year student in the physician assistant program, said.

“My family has been helping the best they can by providing supplies from the clinic to the General Hospital and by providing shelter to many kids who have lost their family members.

“They already ran out of supplies from the clinic and the town itself will soon run out of food to feed the heavy traffic coming through.”

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Collegian photo courtesy of Kétura Isidor

SCENIC ROUTE: Physician assistant student Kétura Isidor is from Haiti, a country full of rolling mountains in addition to its streets of poverty.

Collegian photo by Rachel Senn

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If all goes well, Butler University will welcome its sixth college to campus next fall.

The proposal to create a College of Communication at Butler has been finalized and is in its approval stages, Kenneth Creech, chair of the Communication Convergence Transition Steering Committee, said.

With a 27-1 endorsement vote, the proposal was finalized Jan. 8 by faculty and staff.

“We’re really excited about this,” Creech said. “We really believe, very strongly, that this is a good thing for students, recruiting [and] the departments involved.”

Today, the Academic Affairs Committee of the Faculty Senate will vote on the proposal.

If it is approved, the Faculty Senate will vote on it at an upcoming meeting.

As of press time, the date was unknown.

After this happens, Jamie Comstock, university provost and vice president for academic affairs, and Bobby Fong, university president, will vote on the proposal.

“It really does depend on whether it makes the hurdles of the various committees,” Creech said. “In the best case scenario, barring no major revisions, it would probably go to the provost and the president in February.”

Creech said faculty and staff members on the steering committee are somewhat anxious to get the proposal approved in order to make it in time for the upcoming May Board of Trustee’s meeting, which is the final step in the proposal’s approval process.

“We’d like to get it done,” Creech said.

“Folks have worked really hard.”

If the Board of Trustees does not approve the proposal in May, it would be postponed to the board’s December meeting, pushing back the creation of the college until the Fall 2011 semester instead of the Fall 2010 semester.

“If this is approved, we will have everything in place to implement it in the fall,” Creech said. “Putting this in place will allow us to go to a new level.”

If the College of Communication is created, the departments of

Linda Hadley-Miller, a Butler University Spanish instructor, died unexpectedly last Friday, Jan. 15.

“She had so many plans,” said Kate Taube-Osborn, secretary of Butler’s Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department. “It was a big shock.”

Taube-Osborn described Hadley-Miller as a generous and energetic person who was always willing to take on extra work for the department.

“Whatever we needed for her to teach, she would jump in and teach it,” Taube-Osborn said. “She poured herself into her work. She was thoroughly dedicated to teaching and to her students.

“I’m not sugar coating it.”

Hadley-Miller taught at Butler since the fall of 2007. During her time at Butler, she taught five different Spanish courses including keystone courses like Intermediate Spanish 2 and more focused courses like Hispanic Masterpieces and Hispanic Film.

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Butler senior Rebecca Groesbeck was in Hadley-Miller’s Hispanic Film class, an experience which she said she remembers fondly.

“She just brought so much to the classroom,” Groesbeck said. “She was so outgoing and energetic.”

Groesbeck recalled the time that Hadley-Miller brought cake for the entire class in celebration of her own birthday. She also said that Hadley-Miller’s care for her students was apparent even outside of the classroom.

“She said ‘hi’ to me every time she saw me, even when I was out of her class,” she said. “I think she really valued students, even when she didn’t have the opportunity to teach them anymore, she still wanted to see that they were progressing.”

Both Taube-Osborn and Groesbeck agreed that Hadley-Miller made a positive impact during her time at Butler.

Funeral services will be in Crown Hill Funeral Home on Thursday, Jan. 21 at 1:00 p.m., with visitation hours beginning at 11:00 a.m.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Humane Society of Indianapolis.

Online condolences are welcomed at www.crownhill.org.

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Butler scholar wins award

Carson hires Butler alum

Tara McElmurry tmcelmur@butler.edu

Grace Wallace gwallace@butler.edu

A Butler University religion professor won the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise for his dissertation “Faith at the Intersection of History and Experience: The Theology of Georg Wobbermin, 1911-1931.”

Brent Hege was one of 12 scholars from six different countries who won the international award.

“Getting an award like this is a really good confirmation of the work that we do,” Hege said. “It’s nice to know that other people find it valuable.”

Hege won $10,000 with an option for another $10,000 in travel stipends in exchange for giving lectures at universities and seminaries around the world for a duration of two years.

Although he won this prestigious award for religion studies, that is not where he originally planned to end up.

Hege started his undergraduate studies as a history major.

But after taking one religion class he was “blown away” and walked out of that first class ready to sign the papers to switch his major to religion.

“I think it was just this whole world of questions that I’d never considered before, but it just felt like this was something waiting for me to just jump in and start thinking about,” Hege said.

Hege said he grew up with a lot of questions but was never sure if it was OK to have them.

“I got to a religion class and found out that there were many other people for many hundreds of years who were asking the same questions; it felt like home,” Hege said.

Junior Austin Blue, a psychology major with a religion and gender studies minor, has taken two of Hege’s classes.

“I think [Hege’s award] is very appropriate,” Blue said.

“He’s just very good at what he does. He knows a lot, so it doesn’t surprise me that he got that award.”

Blue said he likes the fact that Hege is the type of professor that really gets to know his students.

“He is definitely there to not only teach but to really add to students’ lives,” Blue said. “The things we talked about in class were big. They were very real and applicable.

“He does a great job at shaping our thought trains. He really lets us learn as much as we can and grow in that learning.”

Learning that suffering is an essential part of life from Hege’s “God and Evil” class was important, Blue said. Blue was also able to learn something more personal.

“I learned how I can see topics like creation and original sin,” Blue said. “I learned my own definitions of it. I’ve learned ways to interpret the Bible and my own faith, and that’s really nice.”

While Harry van der Linden, head of Butler’s religion department, only started working with Hege this year, he said this award adds to the reputation of the department.

He said Hege’s award stands out because the other winners were from institutions, such as Yale University, where the professors have much more time for research and publication

Justin Ohlemiller was just another freshman at Butler University 14 years ago.

Since graduating in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in telecommuncations along with a business administration minor, he has not only worked for former Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson, but was also recently named the new district director for Indiana State Rep. Andre Carson.

As district director for Rep. Carson, it is Ohlemiller’s job to manage the day-to-day affairs in the congressman’s Indianapolis office. Within the branch, they provide many local services including social security, veterans affairs and overseas travel. It is also their job to display the good work Carson is doing and to get the message out to local citizens on his representation in Congress, Ohlemiller said.

What is the secret to his success?

“What helped prepare me for my career most was the emphasis placed upon communication skills [including] both verbal and written,” Ohlemiller said.

The importance of effective communication is entirely vital to public services and is a skill used “every hour of every day,” Ohlemiller said. The Butler curriculum provides opportunities to hone those communication skills through campus jobs, activities or classes.

“My advice to students is to diversify yourself when it comes to communications,” he said.

Ohlemiller also stressed the need to take a great interest in the community surrounding you, whether it be the Indianapolis area or the nation as a whole. Being aware of issues and taking active roles on or outside campus helps to gain a grasp of the big picture in life and start working toward a change, he said.

While attending school, Ohlemiller was involved in the business fraternity Alpha Kappa Psi, the Hampton House (a program focused on servant leadership) while also working at the Clowes Memorial Hall Box Office.

These experiences helped educate him in the arts and culture, he said. “[Education] is vitally important for classroom success, but you need to be able to apply the skills you learn within a community and outside the [so-called] ‘Butler Bubble’,” Ohlemiller said. “The opportunity is there.”

Butler students agree that campus involvement and perfection of one’s communication skills are the most effective attributes of the liberal arts education.

“The four classes I’ve taken [toward my political science major] have been primarily discussion based either as a class or a small group, which is very helpful to promoting verbal communication,” sophomore Josh Ruff said.

The classes are also completely different in terms of subject material, so regardless of which route you choose to take with your major after graduation, you will have some sort of background experience, Ruff said.

Having the opportunity to better the Indianapolis community as Ohlemiller has is something that Ruff said he is interested in, although law school is also an option.

Having the opportunity to serve Carson and being a part of history is what Ohlemiller most looks forward to in his new position, he said.

Carson is part of a very active Congress and will soon be voting on the health care reforms that affect around 100,000 Indianapolis citizens with no health insurance, Ohlemiller said.

Collegian photo by Rachel Senn

INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIM: Brent Hege was one of 12 scholars to win the 2010 John Templeton Award. than professors due to strong focus on teaching.

“I think he brings a kind of open-minded liberal perspective to religion, and I think that’s very important,” van der Linden said.

He said that Hege is very popular among students.

“He challenges students, but students feel at the same time really comfortable to express their opinions even knowing that he might have different opinions,” van der Linden said.

The opinions of the students here at Butler seem to be one of the central things around which Hege said he shapes his teachings.

“Unlike seminarians, a lot of undergraduates are much more willing to question everything, to be open to new ideas and thinking about things in different ways,” Hege said.

“That’s been so much fun, to explore questions about religion with undergraduate students.

“The students here at Butler are really good at that. They’re willing to ask difficult questions, think about things in new ways.”

Hege said that the questions he and his students ask are questions about literally everything: religion, life, the world, relationships.

“The number one thing I hope [my students] gain is the feeling that it’s OK to ask questions, and that there’s nothing that can’t be questioned,” Hege said. “Also, that sometimes the most important questions in life don’t have answers, and that’s OK. That actually can be a beautiful thing.”

Hege’s future goals are to continue publishing and to find a permanent teaching job. He will travel to Heidelberg, Germany in May to accept his Templeton Award.

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Historic sign destroyed in car accident Collegian photo by Rachel Senn

HEART OF CAMPUS: The Butler University limestone campus landmark was partially destroyed in an accident caused by an allegedly intoxicated driver on Sunday morning. The sign was a gift from the Class of 1929. While plans to repair the sign are tentative, Vice President of Operations Mike Gardner said he hopes to have the sign fixed by the end of the spring semester.

Hayleigh Colombo hcolombo@butler.edu As Butler University students walk from their dorms to the heart of campus each morning on the way to class, a damaged campus landmark will be a new sight on their route.

Early Sunday morning, an accident by a drunk driver damaged the limestone campus sign that welcomes students and visitors to Butler at the intersection of Clarendon Road and Hampton Drive.

The sign, given to the university by the Class of 1929, still stands on the mall even though the right half is damaged.

At approximately 1:28 a.m., a crowd gathered around the intersection where a blue Ford was stopped on the grass after hitting the sign, according to a police report by Butler University Police Department (BUPD).

Witnesses who were at the scene said the driver left the vehicle and acted in an intoxicated manner, after hitting the sign.

The driver, Jeremy Henderson, 32, was lying on the ground when Officers Kevin Barrett and Chris Walls arrived at the scene.

“I crashed through your cement sign, arrest me,” Henderson, an Indianapolis resident, said.

After the officers arrived, Henderson was arrested for alleged public intoxication and operating a vehicle while intoxicated. He was transported downtown for a breathalyzer test and a blood sample.

Once results of the blood sample are returned to BUPD from the Marion County Forensics Lab, Henderson may be charged with another count: operating a vehicle while intoxicated with a blood alcohol content (BAC) above

0.08, which is the legal limit in Indiana.

BUPD Police Chief Ben Hunter said he suspects Henderson’s BAC was above 0.08.

Vice President for Operations Mike Gardner said while plans to repair the sign are tentative right now, it will optimistically be done before the spring semester is finished.

“I’m sure we’ve got some pieces of limestone that are broken, not just displaced,” Gardner said. “We’ve not had a chance to really see what we have in front of us but suffice it to say that we will put the sign back together again.”

Gardner said the issues are how much limestone will have to be replaced and how the sign will be financed.

At this time, the university does not know whether the blue Ford that hit the sign is insured. Henderson was also not the owner of the car.

“We’ve got to get all those questions answered first, but the sign will get repaired,” Gardner said.

Hunter said the accident highlights the importance of safe driving.

“It’s sad, a piece of history getting struck by a drunk driver,” Hunter said.

“It underscores the dangers of drunk

driving because our concern is [if] students would have been standing there.

That’s a main focal point of campus, even late on Saturday.”

Both Butler students who witnessed the accident, Hannah Cash and Melissa Hendricks, were unavailable for comment as of press time.

Collegian photo by Maria Porter

ROAD RAGE: After crashing his car into a sign, Indianapolis resident Jeremy Henderson was arrested and subsequently charged with two offenses.

State to bring major specialization requirement to education degree Jill McCarter jmccarte@butler.edu For a lot of education majors, their futures may be a little blurry. They might not know what they want to teach or to whom they want to teach it.

However, new state rules might make them find the answers to their questions a little sooner than they had planned.

New rules, passed by a state panel on Jan. 8, are changing which courses education majors will need to take in order to gain their teaching licenses.

The Revisions of Educator Preparation and Accountability (REPA) development now requires all education majors to major in their field of teaching and minor in education. For example, those who want to become high school science teachers would now need to major in science and minor in education.

Butler University President Bobby Fong said students currently enrolled in the College of Education do not need to worry about their certification.

The REPA developments will not affect current education students, only students after 2013.

To future teachers, like freshman education major Amy Coffman, the changes are alarming.

“It’s already getting hard to find a job,” Coffman said. “This just creates more of a disadvantage.”

According to Coffman, the change in plans may change the marketability of some teachers.

“It changes things when you go into the job market,” Coffman said. “If a school is looking for an English teacher and you majored in math and have an education minor, you can’t get that job. You’re not qualified enough.”

The changes were also something that Ena Shelley, dean of the sities across the state, as professors and educators were originally left out of the REPA discussion.

College of Education, found potentially problematic.

“You can’t change something that involves someone without “There has to be a balance between knowing your information and learning how to engage your students,” Shelley said. “You all of the involved parties present,” Shelley said. “You have to can’t teach what you don’t know, but if you can’t engage your stu- engage all stakeholders.”

While some educators and professors were concerned about dents, you’re just up in the front of the room giving a monospeaking up and asking for a vote in the matter, Fong spoke out logue.”

Coffman also agrees that teaching requires a balance of methods against being left out of the conversation.

“He [Fong] was a real model of leadership and I think he made and materials.

“The plan takes an emphasis off of the students’ needs and puts it easier for others across the state to say ‘if you change our proit on what to teach them,” Coffman said. “Students have different grams, you have to talk to us,’” Shelley said.

Fong spoke to stakeholder groups about the changes last year learning styles, and it’s definitely important to know leadership that were set to be made. He also sent letters to Gov. Mitch and how to control your classroom.”

Daniels and to Tony Bennett, Indiana While the plan has received some superintendent of public instruction, opposition, both Fong and Shelley “ You can’t teach what you don’t know, but if you suggesting that educators and deans are acknowledging its benefits.

“There is more flexibility in non- can’t engage your students, you’re just up in the front be present in voting and discussion.

Educators, parents, deans, admintraditional avenues by which adults istrators and other Indiana can retool to become teachers,” of the room giving a monologue. ” Association of Teacher Education Fong said. “Some will say the new - Ena Shelley (IATE) members joined forces to rules are less rigorous, while others Dean, College of Education gather 2,500 signed petitions from will hold that the options will all over the state to protest the origincrease the number of teachers.

What this might mean in a trade-off of quality for quantity inal plan and the lack of voices in the discussion.

“It was important for us to be present because our Butler proremains to be seen.”

Not only do the changes affect teachers, but they also affect the fessors of education have actual experience in the classroom and know firsthand what works and what doesn’t,” Fong said. superintendents’ requirements.

The efforts of both Fong and the IATE members helped in Now, if a person has a master’s degree in any field, they are eligible to be hired as a superintendent, as long as the school board changing the end result.

“The end result is definitely better than we had hoped for,” approves them.

The revision of the current plan faced opposition from univer- Shelley said.

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BUPDbeat Jan. 9 2:49 p.m. – BUTLER TARKINGTON NEIGHBORHOOD An officer took a report of damage to private property.

Jan. 10 8:48 a.m. – UNIVERSITY TERRACE PARKING LOT An officer took a report of damage to private property.

4:49 p.m. – BUTLER TARKINGTON NEIGHBORHOOD An officer took a report of burglary of a residence.

Jan. 11 1:03 a.m. — BUTLER TARKINGTON NEIGHBORHOOD An officer took a report of a theft from a motor vehicle.

5:44 p.m. — BUTLER TARKINGTON NEIGHBORHOOD An officer arrested an individual wanted on a warrant and for public intoxication.

NEWS HAITI: Volunteer Center collection underway for Haiti earthquake relief efforts Continued from Page One

But until she can return for spring break or during the summer, she’s stuck watching the news and waiting for phone calls.

“I feel helpless,” Isidor said. “I feel like I should be there, like I should be helping.

“At the same time, I’ve been encouraging myself, saying ‘Well, at least you can acquire a tool to go back.’ So I’ve been studying even harder.” * * * While the images of Haiti today show death and destruction, Isidor said her vision of Haiti is full of beauty.

“The people are just amazing,” she said. “It can be addicting. When people go, they always want to come back.”

Although Isidor described her childhood as “sheltered” as a result of growing up in the church, she said she was not immune to the poverty of her country.

“Although I lived in a poor country, and I’ve known hunger, and I’ve known what it’s like to live a hard life, I’ve gotten to see a lot of good things in Haiti,” she said.

“Growing up, I remember the hard times, but I remember mostly how great it’s been being a part of the people and the ministry my dad had.”

Isidor had the opportunity to travel the country with her father, who was president of the Lutheran church in Haiti before he passed away five years ago.

Their travels led her to understand how a country, even one the size of the state of Maryland, is made up of dif-

Jan. 12 11:48 p.m. – ROSS HALL An officer checked on the welfare of an individual.

Jan. 13 12:00 p.m. — BUTLER TARKINGTON NEIGHBORHOOD An officer took a report of a traffic accident.

12:49 p.m. — BUTLER TARKINGTON NEIGHBORHOOD An officer recovered stolen university property.

10:27 p.m. — BUTLER TARKINGTON NEIGHBORHOOD An officer took a report of a traffic accident.

Jan. 14 11:32 a.m. – OFF CAMPUS LOCATION An officer took a report of a traffic accident.

3:18 p.m. — HINKLE FIELDHOUSE An officer took a report of a traffic accident.

Jan. 15 8:56 a.m. — UNIVERSITY TERRACE PARKING LOT An officer took a report of a theft of property from a motor vehicle.

11:32 a.m. — BUTLER TARKINGTON NEIGHBORHOOD An officer took a report of a sick person.

Jan. 17 12:17 a.m. — PHI KAPPA PSI An officer took a report of public intoxication.

1:28 a.m. — HAMPTON AND CLARENDON An officer arrested an individual for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated..

12:42 p.m. — HAMPTON AND CLARENDON An officer took a report of an attempted theft of university property.

Collegian photo courtesy of Kétura Isidor

GOOD LISTENER: Kétura Isidor works with children in her home town of Les Cayes, Haiti.

ferent people, and no two areas are the same.

“Where I live, nothing happens there,” Isidor said. “It’s a small town and it’s always peaceful. We have missionaries that come all the time and nothing ever happens to anyone. Mostly what happens is in Port-Au-Prince. Even there, it happens in certain areas, not all.”

But wherever she went, she said, the common denominator was the heart of the people.

“The people are so resilient,” Isidor said. “They always have hope that they will survive one more day. And they have a sense of contentment. Even if they don’t have much, they’re still happy.”

Butler sophomore and pre-physician assistant major Lynn Okuley experienced first-hand the love of the Haitian people during four trips to Haiti.

“There’s something about the people,” Okuley said.

“Even though they’re so poor, they just love life.

“Going to Haiti changed my perspective on life completely. We have so much in America and we don’t even think we could live or have a life worthwhile if we lived somewhere like that, but these people live such great lives.” * * * For a country like Haiti, where nearly 80 percent of the people make less than $1 a day, a devastating earthquake Collegian photo courtesy of Lynn Okuley is like pouring alcohol on an open wound.

FAMILY: Butler University sophomore Lynn As a future physician assistant, the issue that drives Okuley (top) has been on four mission trips to Haiti.

Isidor is health care.

“A lot of people die of simple diseases that you would ketball game Saturday to donate to UNICEF, an internanot think anybody should die from,” she said. “I would tional relief organization. They also set up money colleclove to open a clinic for starters. I would like to have one tion points in Atherton Union and in Starbucks lasting of the best hospitals Haiti can have, especially for chil- today through Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Students dren.” may also check out a collection jar from the Center, colBut she doesn’t want to stop there, she said. lect donations during the day and return the jar to the cen“There are so many kids that have talent to do so ter at the end of the day. much singing, or poetry, or anything,” Isidor said.

Senior Jennifer Schwab, who works in the Volunteer “I’d like to have a culture center for them. I was Center, said she learned the importance of relief even portraying how you have those little gift efforts after a trip to Nicaragua to fix houses shops in the hospital, that it would all be after a hurricane her sophomore year of coltheir work in that gift shop.” lege.

But until then, Isidor said she wants “It was heartbreaking to see all these to raise awareness for her country and struggles that these people had to go the ways people in any country can through,” she said. “Once you see peohelp. She said she hopes to get a group ple in need, it’s hard to forget that.” of physician assistant students to travSchwab said the money collection is el to Haiti in the spring or summer. the Volunteer Center’s way of making “Even before this happened, Haiti students aware of the issue while doing was already in a bad shape,” Isidor what they can to contribute. said. “So it will take a long time “We do care about this and we do before they can reconstruct everywant to give whatever we can,” she thing, and repair for people personally said. “Whether it be a dollar or a hunCollegian photo by Rachel Senn is going to be really hard. I think it’s dred dollars, you’re showing that you going to take a lot of help, a lot of awarecare.” ness, a lot of money and time.”

Isidor said she hopes people will get involved The Volunteer Center at Butler is doing its part to offer any way they can. relief to the people of Haiti.

“We need people who have a heart to help,” she said.

The Center collected $1,446 at the Butler men’s bas- “Haiti needs that now more than ever.”

campusbriefs Butler band director performs at funeral of local alumna during winter vacation Olivia Ingle oingle@butler.edu David McCullough’s dedication and passion as a band instructor are reflected in the decisions he makes and the actions he takes for the Butler University bands. He demonstrated that dedication when he played the Butler War Song, by himself, at a Butler alum’s funeral.

Every year, the Butler bands get requests to play at special events around Indianapolis. If McCullough can gather the right instruments together, a band will attend the events.

During winter break, McCullough received a request from Victor Mercer, an Indianapolis resident. The request was for a small Butler band to perform the War Song at Mercer’s wife, Carolyn’s, funeral.

Carolyn was a Butler alum.

McCullough said he e-mailed local band members and asked if they would be able to perform the request. He received four positive responses from students, which didn’t include the correct instrumentation to play the song.

He got to thinking about another way the song could be performed.

“I told them I’d be more than happy to play it as a single trumpet because that would be a respectful way to play it,” McCullough said.

He said after sitting through the funeral service at Northminster Presbyterian Church and listening to all of the stories about Carolyn, he knew how he should play the song.

He began and ended the song with a version of Taps, normally played at military services.

“Most of the stories told were a celebration of Carolyn’s life,” McCullough said. “Carolyn sounded like a person that I would have liked to have known and the Taps version seemed like the best fit.”

McCullough said that he didn’t perform for any recognition, and that the Mercers seemed like nice people with a sincere request.

“The event had nothing to do with me,” McCullough said. “I was only there to do what they asked me to do. I could hear in his voice that Dr. Mercer really wanted this to happen, but we didn’t have the students to do it.”

He said the only option left was himself.

“Butler students do so much,” McCullough said. “This was something that I could do to make a contribution.”

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Communication Studies, Journalism and Media Arts will merge.

However, that’s not all that will change, according to the proposal.

If the college is created, current departmental structures will be abandoned and six programs will be formed.

The programs are as follows: Digital Media and Recording Industry Studies, Journalism, Strategic Communication, Organizational Communication, Critical Cultural Studies and Communication

Sciences and Disorders.

Creech said the Critical Cultural Studies program would focus on analyzing media rhetoric as well as media criticism.

Plans for the new college also include extended graduate areas of study including Integrated Communication and Digital Story Telling.

While Creech said merging the departments has been an idea in the works for years, senior Jaclyn Bevis said the

change will be beneficial to incoming freshmen who are interested in journalism.

“As a senior in high school, you don’t understand the difficulties that it presents when the two [departments] aren’t merged,” Bevis said.

Creech said he hopes the new college will make it easier for students who are multi-interested as well as attract new students, even though Bevis said she doesn’t think the new college will appeal

to students who wouldn’t otherwise come to Butler.

Bevis is double majoring in Public Relations and Electronic Journalism, two majors that are currently split between two of the three departments involved in the plans for the new college.

“As a student in both departments, [I think] there will be much more ease of use in the new college,” Bevis said.

“Each professor will be more knowledgeable within the college as a whole.”

Your first stop for what’s going on at and around Butler

- Butl er S emester i n S pai n Meeti ng Atherton Union 302 12 p.m.

- Queer Constructi ons of Col l ecti ve Identi ty Jordan Hall 083 1:30 p.m.

- S i ght + S ound!

Reilly Room 8 p.m.

No Ev ent s S chedul ed

- Dance Marathon HRC Gym 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

No Ev ent s S chedul ed

- Freshl y Brewed Audi ti ons Lilly Hall 141 7 p.m.

No Ev ent s S chedul ed

Required Eating Are Butler University’s meal plans worth their high cost?

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Journalism’s Fate What does the future hold for journalism students?

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Growing debt demands action OUR POINT THIS WEEK: Students should actively support legislation that will ease the growing burden of student debt.

The national debate concerning health care reform has had many effects, not least among them is the disappearance of other pressing issues from the public spotlight.

This has been the same fate of efforts addressing chronic problems in student lending.

In September of last year—a week after President Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress on the need for health care reform—the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3221, or the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009.

The bill includes numerous nuances and provisions, but its main goal is to increase direct lending to students from the federal government.

It does this by reducing private management of federal loans by companies like Sallie Mae. Because the government will ask less of the likes of Sallie Mae, it will no longer pay these companies huge amounts in subsidies.

Instead, funds will be diverted to increasing levels of government aid to students, particularly in the form of Pell Grants to students from lowincome households.

We at The Butler Collegian think this legislation is excellent. While we understand concerns about de-privatization, we believe that the financial needs of students and their families should take precedence over faith in the sanctity of free markets.

In recent years, student debt levels have spiraled out of control. As recently as 2008, The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education found that the price of college tuition has increased by 439 percent since the 1980s, tripling the rise of family income during the same period and even exceeding the much maligned growth of health care expenses.

Students have been forced to adjust—an adjustment that has meant more student loans. Today, nearly two-thirds of students graduating from four-year colleges are indebted.

For those who are, the average amount owed exceeds $23,000. To put things in perspective, only 58 percent of students were indebted upon graduation in 1996. Also, on average, they owed only $13,200.

As one would expect, student debt is an issue of

particular relevance for those studying at private institutions, particularly private institutions lacking large endowments like Butler University.

This is all the more reason for Butler students to support congressional efforts aiming to increase the efficiency and availability of student lending.

What remains is for the Senate to take up its own legislation, a process that is expected to begin upon the completion of health care reform.

We encourage the Senate to pass a bill and President Obama to sign legislation when it arrives on his desk.

Accomplishing this will not be easy. Private lenders are intensely lobbying Congress. And there are many on Capitol Hill who, in the clutches of ideology, cannot bring themselves to support any form of de-privatization.

To get the job done, students across the country must make it clear to their representatives that it is not OK for college to be financed through perpetually increasing levels of debt.

The staff’s view: 19 agreed; 6 disagreed; 8 neutral.

Visit www.thebutlercollegian.com for a dissenting viewpoint.

Student debt determines pursuits, aspirations, goals Caleb Hamman chamman@butler.edu This week’s staff editorial is about student debt.

Specifically, it’s about supporting legislation that would help reduce student debt. To me, this legislation seems to

be a good thing.

In this column, I want to address another facet of the debt issue. I want to talk about the relationship between debt and value and how indentured learning coerces students into certain ways of acting, thinking and ways of prioritizing.

Let’s begin with word about coercion: While coercion is often perceived as a physical thing, e.g., someone being tortured for information, it can also be immaterial—psychological, for example—or, in the case of debt, economic.

The coercing power of debt is straightforward enough. A student who owes lenders $23,000, which is just below the national average, must find a way to pay that money back to the lenders or bad things are going to happen.

Moreover, as few students have the credit necessary to obtain loans on their own, it is likely the case that bad things will not only happen to our delinquent (or should we say victimized?) student borrower, but also to his

or her family members, the usual co- business, pharmacy, marketing, etc.

And even those daring enough to signers. study a subject such as philosophy are In this fashion, a coercive relationcoerced into doing so in a certain fashship is established: Indebted students ion—such as with the intent of attendare systematically pressured to act in ing law school in hopes of becoming ways that guarantee a certain measure of debt free. future income. All the while, lurking in Lifestyles outside the classroom are the background, are consequences for not exempted from coercion. Unlike insubordination. their wealthy colleagues, indentured Thus, indentured status works to prostudents cannot whimhibit students from pursically spend their suing certain sorts of “This, then, is the spring breaks on servvalue, from pursuing ice trips to Mexico or ideas, activities and coercion of the summers building vocations that promote houses in Somalia. certain ends—mainly indentured, a They may certainly those ends that do not wish they could procoincide with high relentless tractor mote such laudable incomes or with ends, but these sorts of the accumulation of beam pulling the poor value are closed off to wealth. those who must devote What sort of values away from the most their free time to labor. am I talking about? To The process obviname a few, the ones noble pursuits.” ously does not end at that include peace and graduation.

Just as the justice, environmentalism and the arts, academics and human- indentured are forced to study in a ceritarianism. In short, those values tain fashion, so they must work in a which, when pursued professionally, certain fashion.

Our philosophy student turned tend not to command large salaries. lawyer, now saddled with another The function of debt is to pull studegree’s worth of debt, is again precluddents away from these types of value. ed from pursuing certain values. Public The process is readily apparent at the university, where debt pushes students defenders don’t get paid like corporate toward studying certain subjects and lawyers.

This, then, is the coercion of the studying those subjects in certain ways.

A liberal arts education is a dangerous indentured, a relentless tractor beam path for indentured students. A much pulling the poor away from the most safer route is a professional program— noble pursuits. The leisurely undertak-

ing of the highest values is a right not granted to big borrowers—it is one reserved for their more fortunate peers.

To focus exclusively on the realm of higher education tragically is to risk missing a larger point, for the closing off of realms of value begins at a much earlier age.

Long before divisions are made between university students, they are made among families, school systems and social groups.

Those from poor households and, generally from poor regions, are discriminated against from birth in the competition for value.

Whether peace activism or choral composition, such goals are too likely to seem either alien or out of reach.

When such values appear unattainable, those who are actually able to pursue them are prone to become objects of resentment or to become “elites” unsympathetic to the realities of “average Americans.”

Thus, not only can the poor be prohibited from professional pursuit of the highest values, they can be made antagonistic to them through processes of exclusion.

The question of debt, then, must be understood not merely as an issue of ability to pay back loans. It must also be understood as an issue of ability to live a certain sort of lifestyle and to participate in a vocation that endows one with purpose and fulfillment.

Such things should not be elite. They should be commonplace.

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Students need financial watchdog Andrew Merki Contributing Writer High cost, unregulated private student loans are just one example of why we need a strong Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA).

Indiana’s Sen. Evan Bayh sits on the Senate Banking Committee and is a key vote in creating a robust new watchdog that would keep an eye on the loan market for students, and set strong rules for fairer private student loan marketing and terms.

As someone who will graduate with about $70,000 in private loan debt from Indiana University-Bloomington (IU), I urge Bayh to create the CFPA. We’ve been told since we were young that a college degree is the key to our future. Now that I’ve been in college for a few years, I also understand how society benefits from our education. We are challenged to form a vision for impacting the world, and we get the training and tools necessary to do it.

I entered college intent on getting a business degree to make the big bucks. But now, I’ve set my sights on a career in public service when I graduate. My education at IU helped mold my political and social views in important ways and helped reform my priorities. I am deeply grateful for it.

However at some point, the benefits of a college degree are undercut by the deep financial risk students take on to get it. The Indiana Public Interest Research Group, a consumer advocacy organization at IU, just released a report finding that 62 percent of Indiana’s college graduates

carry student loan debt, averaging approximately $23,264 per student.

Most is in the form of safer federal loans. But a significant amount is in private student loans, which are unregulated and much riskier.

Indiana students graduated with an average of $3,556 in private student loans in 2008.

This is where the picture becomes even bleaker. Interest rates on private student loans can be as high as 18 percent, and fees can be pegged at 10 percent of the loan principal. Marketing is also aggressive, considering that two out of three borrowers with private student loans forgo taking out the maximum in federal loans for which they qualify.

The combination of shrinking state investment in higher education, stagnant federal grants and less parental assistance has left students picking up more of our educational tab. Against this backdrop, we are prime targets for private student lenders, standing by with the easy financing we need to attain our dreams.

The 33,000 students in Indiana who attend for-profit colleges are really taken for a ride. Graduates from for-profit colleges carry an average of $32,650 in debt. Many of these colleges make their own private loans to the students, promising students a high paying job at graduation to handle the repayment. In reality, those loans are a rip-off.

Corinthian Colleges Inc., a corporation that manages a collection of for-profit institutions, actually plans for more than 50 percent of its private student loan borrowers to plunge into default.

Being the third child to enter college, I am fortunate to have a father seasoned in the loan process. However even with a financially savvy

father, I haven’t gone through the past three years without some bumps in the road. My private loans were originally taken out through Sallie Mae. This year, my father and I discovered that the terms had changed significantly since my freshman year. As a result, we stopped borrowing from Sallie Mae and took out this year’s loan through my hometown bank.

Taking out these private loans was initially an easy decision I made together with my dad when I planned on a business degree. But now, I can’t help but feel a little trapped when I consider the reality of a lower paying social service career combined with high private loan repayment.

The bottom line is that the level of debt I have taken on for my degree is my choice, regardless of the consequences. But at the very least, students and families should be assured that the private loan products that are out there in the marketplace are fair and transparent. And students should be protected from the predatory lending practices of their own institutions.

I think that a strong CFPA would not only bring some badly needed security to the uncertain world of private student lending, but, speaking first hand, it will help keep student dreams of a better world within reach. But in order for the CFPA to first be created, strong student support for the proposal is necessary.

Andrew Merki is a junior at Indiana University-Bloomington, and the chair of the Indiana Public Interest Research Group. Visit www.inpirg.org for more information.

Butler demands high prices, Press sheds jobs, loses focus offers only mediocre meal plans Mary Beth Sekela msekela@butler.edu

Tom Fryska tfryska@butler.edu

isn’t the most comfortable or enjoyable existence.

The choices are sparse, questionable in their qualWhen I first came to Butler ity and rather repetitive on a week-to-week basis.

University, I was fairly That’s to say nothing of the hours that the dinimpressed by the dining options. ing courts are available. ResCo closes by 1:30 Compared to what was offered in p.m. What’s more, trying to visit the ResCo dinmy old high school cafeteria, the ing area around noon quickly dissolves into a long food at Butler seemed diverse, wait to get into the dining space, a struggle to find readily available and (most two empty seats and a general feeling of congested importantly) edible. overcrowding.

Sure, that sounds all right.

C-Club—the home of the meal exchange system But, remember that this was an introductory glance that theoretically allows students to grab food on at Butler’s dining experience through the eyes of the run and get on with their overworked, hectic someone who went to a high school that only lives—is nice because it stays open for much of the offered food that was drenched in grease. day. Yet, it also becomes a bit of a time eater from A year-and-a-half into my Butler education—with 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., when the crowds of students the benefit of my experiences, thoughts and the lacking other dinner options flock to it. accumulation of a catalogue of complaints from my When talking about Atherton, the thing that peers—my opinion of the general dining experience most people immediately note is that the food is far has changed more than a little bit. from exemplary. But even putting the quality of the The first thing that truly began to strike me as food aside, A-Town is still bothersome for a plethoquestionable about Butler’s meal plan was the sheer ra of different reasons. cost of it. Essentially, every student living in During the later hours of the day, a kind of smog Butler’s dorms is required to buy one of the four seems to fill the entire area and leaves those who sit meal plans that Butler offers (each of which costs in it with the feeling that they probably should take $2,485 per semester). a shower when they return to Since most people participate in “The bottom line is that their residences. this meal plan from Jan. 11 until Additionally, the place is still the bang for the buck May 8 (118 days), I figure that fairly crowded during the better comes out to a cost of about $20 parts of the day. per day in food costs.

The bottom line is that the ratio of Butler’s meal Perhaps I’m just an overly bang for the buck ratio of Butler’s stringent individual who realizes plan just doesn’t seem meal plan just doesn’t seem to the limitation of his own funds measure up to what could be (I’m living off of student loans to measure up to what offered. and wages made when I was actuI don’t mean any of this to ally employed), but this seems come off as belittling to the could be offered.” like a fairly high price for food, workers who do their best at our especially considering what we get school’s dining facilities. These for this price. individuals do what they can to give the students Personally, I know that I could live off of two dining options that they can appreciate and enjoy.

Jimmy John’s sandwiches per day for a cheaper Rather, I regard this to be a closer look at what price of $14. Or, if Butler could actually offer decent our administration asks of its students and what kitchens for their dorm inhabiting students, some kind of profit margins are involved. If everyone of us wouldn’t mind cooking for a change (which who lives within the dorms is required to buy into also would cost significantly less). one of the meal plan options, it truly should not be From what I’ve heard from my vegetarian friends, too much of a stretch to at least ask that the meal trying to avoid meat while on the meal plan at plans give some measure of quality to go along Butler isn’t exactly an easy task. with their price. The students deserve at least that Sure, there is a salad bar at both the Atherton small courtesy.

Union and the ResCo dining halls; and, the wraps But, hey; things can hardly be considered entirefrom C-Club’s deli do offer a touch of tasty diver- ly bad. For those of us who rely on coffee to sursity for those who avoid meat. And sometimes hot vive the day, our university’s wonderful Starbucks vegetarian meals are avaliable. gives us a convenient way to dispose of all our But nonetheless, being a vegetarian at Butler “Dawg Bucks.”

Paw Prints

By Ryan Murach

“My evolution class, Bio 310.”

Robbie Foote Junior

“Stage Craft is going to be a lot of work this semester.”

Jenny Hogan Sophomore

Traditionally, journalists have been concerned with information that the public needs to know in order to function in a democratic society. However, It’s no secret that the it seems nowadays that the news consists only of American press is experiencing what people want to hear. Essentially, the press has some significant difficulties been partisanized within an inch of its life. these days. Newspapers are dis- Accuracy still exists, thankfully, but bias sneaks in appearing left and right, and tel- time and time again. evision and radio news stations Varun Vora, a sophomore business major, said are constantly struggling to he doesn’t have much trust in American journalretain viewers and listeners who ism. appear to have become too disil“I feel that a lot of American journalism is lusioned to tune in. biased,” he said. “It could be accurate, but it could This trend bodes ill for college graduates hoping be misleading as well.” to enter the journalistic field, as the job market has Whitmore said that this tendency toward politibecome increasingly competitive in the face of the cal bias is, once again, due to economics. News faltering economy. A survey of journalism and sources are aware that they can attract readers and mass communication graduates gathered annually viewers with conservative sympathies by reporting by the University of Georgia found that job offers the news based on the rightist perspective, therefore upon graduation, interview opportunities and full- assuring themselves the income. Leftist news time employment levels had all declined in 2008. organizations exist as well, so no amount of finNancy Whitmore, director and associate professor ger-pointing will absolve either party of the guilt. of the Eugene S. Pulliam School of Journalism at “It makes economic sense to slant the news, Butler University, said this decline in opportunity unfortunately,” Whitmore said. “News organizais due mostly to the suffering tions are feeding the public what market, which has compelled they want to hear instead of edu“Money, while always companies to save money by cutcating them because they know it ting advertising and public rela- important, should never, will increase viewership.” tions spending. This financial It might make economic sense shift has had negative repercusto slant the news, but this gap in ever take precedence sions for newspapers, especially coverage is absolutely unacceptsince they rely on advertising for over fair, accurate and able. No agenda should exist a good percentage of their returns. when reporting the news, period.

In order to survive in the fierceMoney, while always important, objective coverage.” ly competitive field, Whitmore should never, ever take precedence suggested that graduates be preover fair, accurate and objective pared with multiple skills, including writing, coverage. If political bias persists, the public’s understanding of the web and social media, as well trust in American journalism, already fading, will as experience with video journalism. disappear entirely.

“You have to come out with traditional skills, The Pew Research Center for the People & the plus,” she said. “There are things that you can do Press conducts confidence polls throughout each to set yourself apart.” year, asking the public to note whether it be confiWhile the economy is largely to blame for the dence in the press coverage of certain events is high decrease in journalism job opportunities, it is not or low. Unfortunately, whether concerning the war the only factor negatively affecting the business. in Afghanistan or the outbreak of swine flu, very Technology, while it has opened doors to a mul- few people have a great deal of trust in news covtitude of possibilities, has disturbed the definition erage. This is nothing less than a tragedy — the of what it means to be a professional journalist. American press is supposed to be a bastion of fairHigh quality journalism certainly exists in today’s ness and honesty. Where, oh where, have the good world, but it has been drowned in a sea of televi- ol’ days gone? sion superstars and Internet bloggers who pull In order to survive the new decade, journalism information from print media without committing must reinvent itself. Graduates entering the field themselves to the excellence expected of the must be prepared to work across media by cultivatAmerican press. ing multiple technological skills, but they must The real journalists are the people on the ground also re-commit themselves not only to excellence who serve the public by gathering and compiling of quality, but also to fair and accurate coverage. the important information.

They must be prepared to resist the pull of politics If the definition of the professional journalist has and report what the public needs to know: the facts. been altered in recent years, then the definition of Because the facts are, after all, the main concern of news itself has undergone drastic changes. every journalist.

What is your hardest class this semester?

“Accounting.”

Trevor Davis Sophomore

“Introduction to Psychology is going to be tough because I am used to having theatre classes.”

Maggie Smith Freshman

“Music Theory.”

Daniel Benzel Freshman

The Evolution of Crazy Kellye Donnelly gives her opinion on how “Jersey Shore,” Lindsay and Britney have made our century immune to true craziness.

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New options for Conan despite boot Patrick Goldstein MCT I've been following the NBC latenight meltdown just like everyone else, watching all the jokes about it on TV: Jimmy Kimmel's sharpelbowed appearance on Jay Leno being the highlight, along with the kibitzing from network elders, ranging from Fred Silverman who heaped blame on NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker to NBC sports guru Dick Ebersol, who trashed Conan O'Brien, calling him "chicken-hearted and gutless" for taking a few jabs at Leno.

Even if it isn't absolutely official, it looks like Conan is finally a free man, getting a big payoff while Leno gets to return (after the Winter

Collegian photo from MCT

BACK TO 11:35: Jay Leno gets his old time slot back on NBC’s late night.

Olympics) to his old 11:35 p.m. EST time slot.

(And speaking of big payoffs, I can only wonder how many office pools have sprouted up in the past few weeks, with over and under bets on how long Zucker, who got everyone into this fine mess in the first place, keeps his job after the Comcast takeover is completed.)

But what about Conan? He clearly emerges with a big reservoir of sympathy as the poor guy (yes, the extremely highly paid poor guy) who got the shaft, losing his show after barely a couple of months on the job.

But as some of my TV-steeped colleagues have shrewdly pointed out, where can he possibly go to replicate the kind of late night talk show he's been doing for years? ABC has already said it's not interested in hiring him.

HBO isn't prepared to get into the late-night talk show racket. And Fox, the network that normally would be most aggressive in taking advantage of a competitor's misfortune, has a lot of issues to overcome, starting with a huge lack of enthusiasm from its affiliates who see a Conan show as a losing game, as well as the financial complications of footing the hefty bill for hiring O'Brien along with settling out the costly contracts for reruns on Fox's TV stations.

This creates quite a bind for Conan's team of WME talent agent advisers. They've sprung him from NBC, getting a big payoff, but where does he go from here? With the latenight landscape already crammed with talk shows, O'Brien (to use an analogy from his favorite sport) is like the

slugging first baseman who becomes a free agent in a year where there are already loads of great first basemen on the market.

Whatever he does, he's going to have to take a serious pay cut. Since that's a given, I'd like to see him go to where his audience already is instead of asking them to find him on an unfamiliar outlet. It's no secret that Conan's audience is at least a decade younger than Leno or Letterman's audience. We also know that the younger the TV viewer, the more likely they are to be watching cable TV, not the cobwebby programming available on network TV. So if I were Conan, since I have to take a pay cut anyway, I'd be focusing on cable. And I'd also want to go somewhere where I had a decent leadin for my show, not to mention a lead-in that might help me hang on to the younger audience that has been deserting TV in droves. Get my drift?

If there were ever a perfect setup for O'Brien, it would be Comedy Central, which already has a powerhouse double bill of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Conan would be a great fit following their shows, inheriting a small (by network standards) but intensely loyal audience of viewers primed for his droll, irony-filled comedy routines.

The money wouldn't be the same, but I think it would be a liberating, low-pressure experience for O'Brien, who looks like he could use a break from the high-stakes ratings death match of network late-night TV. Instead of being told to tone down his act and pretend to be an old fogy, as

Collegian photo from MCT

SO LONG, NBC: Conan O’Brien will face a decision-making moment after Jay Leno overtakes “The Tonight Show.” Possibilites are endless for this funny man.

NBC was asking him to do on "The Tonight Show," he could cut loose and get back to his roots, when he

was the most inventive, loose-limbed funnyman on TV. It's time to let Conan be Conan again.

Ke$ha’s ‘Animal’ stands out with upbeat club hits Kellye Donnelly kdonnell@butler.edu Kesha Sebert, known by the stage name of Ke$ha, comes off as the girl at the party whom everyone wants to know about: she’s wearing cowboy boots and a vintage cutoff Rolling Stones Tshirt and didn’t pay at the door. Dancing on the coffee table in the living room, she is the epitome of a stereotypical party animal.

Her No. 1 single, “Tik Tok” sold 610,000 copies during the final week of December, setting a record for most sales during one week for a female artist.

The concept for her debut album “Animal,” released Jan. 4, was that a woman who is sexist and inconsiderate can gain greater freedom by using sex, binge drinking and an immense amount of glitter. Interestingly, Ke$ha has recently been announced as an act for the 2010 revival of the Lilith Fair.

All of the songs on the album have potential to be top-of-the-chart singles, thanks to the producers and co-writers Dr. Luke (Britney Spears, Katy Perry), Max Martin (Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears) and Benny Blanco (3OH!3, Spank Rock), who have mastered the art of masking bland and sometimes nonsensical songwriting by using an amount of Auto-Tune to which Lil’ Wayne and T-

Pain would even be skeptical.

Ke$ha’s debut is ironic at times and almost selfmocking when she rants about partying. Even her name is ironic. The dollar sign symbol is replaced with a regular ‘s’ to show how she does not place emphasis on earning money.

Case in point: she refused to appear in Flo Rida’s “Right Round” video and did not receive any money from sales of the song, even though the song was a hit worldwide, thanks in part to her vocals on the hook.

Here, Ke$ha begins her irony-filled image and double-life of a record.

Sebert steps up her game from the hung-over

reminiscing “TiK ToK” in the single “Take it Off” and “Blah Blah Blah,” a song featuring electro boycounterparts 3OH!3, in which she tells boys to not be sensitive with all their “chit-chat.”

Though she comes off as a blonde party brat, she has legitimate experience partying in the industry.

Her mom, songwriter Pebe Sebert, used to bring Ke$ha to industry parties and recording studios when she was a child.

After gaining a publishing deal in Nashville, Tenn., Pebe began encouraging Ke$ha to sing and they began writing songs together, several of which are on the album.

“Your Love is my Drug,” a song similar to the

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Rating: 5 = perfect, 4 = outstanding, 3 = good, 2 = fair, 1 = poor

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PARTY ANIMAL: Following the release of Ke$ha’s sassy debut album, “Animal,” she was announced as one of the artists to tour with the revival of Lilith Fair in 2010.

Boys Like Girls’ “Love Drunk,” compares her love to, well, drugs.

Ke$ha tries to rationalize her party persona and foul mouth by trying to prove she has real feelings with songs like “Hungover,” with lyric proclaimer that her “heart is broken/like the bottles on the floor/or am I just hung-over?”

She tries again with “Stephen,” a crying-outsideyour-window song that almost comes off as pathetic when the whole chorus is dedicated to wondering “Stephen/why won’t you/call me?”

“Dancing with Tears in my Eyes,” in which she admits to living a double life and living up to the old saying “being alone in a crowded room,” begins the streak of only semi-believable ballads on the record.

Ke$ha’s best song lyrically, morally and musically is probably “Blind,” a ballad with enough of a beat to make you want to roll down your windows in the summer, but is also straightforward enough to not make you laugh at the bubble gum metaphors.

“Dinosaur” is a song all about an older man trying to hit on her, and its lyrics are dedicated to telling him he needs to get a CT scan and that he belongs in an retirement home. The beat sounds like a half-recycled Cyndi Lauper song and halfGwen Stefani’s “Hollaback Girl,” even taking it to the level where Ke$ha thinks it necessary to spell out the word ‘dinosaur’ in the chorus.

Even with songs like “Dinosaur” Ke$ha never comes off as rude or mean, just honest.

Overall Ke$ha, who is only 22 years old, sets up every feeling that young 20-year-olds have to electro-beat, whether it be wanting to party all night, waking up in a haze or having some feelings of bitterness and resentment toward friends or exes.

The concept of “Animal” is considering, seeing if it’s OK for girls to turn the tables and go all-out in sexual relationships, and is it OK to wake up in the morning in a bathtub?

The ballads don’t work as well as they should.

Considering the amount of them on the album, they kind of throw off the listener from the “TiK ToK” mentality, which, in general, is a fair representation of the album.

Ke$ha should definitely stick to party animal.

After all, her best songs come from the depths of dance clubs and late nights.

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“I Have a Dream”

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“Dream a Little Dream of Me” - Louis Armstrong

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“Dream On” - Aerosmith

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“All I Have to Do is Dream” - The Everly Brothers

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“Dream Love” - Yoko Ono

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“The Dream is Over” - U2

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“Daydream Believer” - The Monkees

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“I’ll See You in My Dreams” - Frank Sinatra

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“The Dream Song” - Joan Baez

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“Dream Girl” - Dave Matthews Band

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“In My Dreams” - REO Speedwagon

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“Sleep to Dream” - Jason Mraz

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“A Dream” - Jay-Z

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“California Dreamin’”- The Mamas and the Papas

“Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra” Jan. 21, 5 p.m.- happy hour, 6:30 p.m. - performance Hilbert Circle Theatre “Hip-Hop and its Influence on Global Culture” Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m.

Panel featuring: Mathew Knowles, Jeffrey Johnson, Young Joc, Sandy “Pepa” Denton and LeDeana Brown Clowes Memorial Hall “Leadership through the Arts Forum: Bernardo Rey” Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m.

Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall “Concert: Fiery Furnaces” Jan. 22, 8 p.m. (21+) Radio Radio “Theatre Performance: Bus Stop” Jan. 22, 8 p.m. (ongoing through Feb. 7) Indianapolis Civic Theatre “Barbie: The Fashion Experience” 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. (ongoing through Feb.) Indianapolis Children’s Museum

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Ledger lives last role Caitlin O’Rourke corourke@butler.edu “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus” has mostly everything right: the acting (with a few exceptions) is practically flawless, the imagery is dreamlike and the music sets the mood for each scene perfectly.

But by the end of the movie, I wasn’t particularly sure of what had happened during the last 20 minutes. Plot details are thrown at you one right after the other, and it becomes a little hard to keep track.

For the most part, Terry Gilliam’s film is an enjoyable two hours. Set in present day, it tells the story of Dr. Parnassus (Christopher Plummer) and his magical traveling imaginarium, in which audience members choose between a good or an evil visit. Unfortunately, Parnassus has been hiding a dark secret, having made a deal with the devil, Mr. Nick, (Tom Waits) many years ago for immortality and youth. In return for his youth, however, Parnassus pledged to give his daughter Valentina (Lily Cole) to him when she turned 16 years old.

With Valentina’s birthday three days away when the movie begins, Parnassus strikes one more deal with Nick involving his imaginarium, receiving a little help from a strange man named Tony (Heath Ledger).

Ledger keeps the audience enthralled throughout the entire movie. As the film was still incomplete upon Ledger’s death, his character was adapted to become a shape shifter, changing faces each time he enters the imaginarium. Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell manage to stay true to the original concept of the character that Ledger portrayed, with Depp standing out of the three.

Waits, as Mr. Nick, manages to give you shivers from start to finish. Words seem to drip from his mouth. He steals every scene. You just can’t take your eyes off him as he toys with Parnassus and tries to seduce every soul that enters the imaginarium. Plummer does well as the movie’s moral center and as a man trying desperately to save the only good part of his life. Only Cole’s acting leaves much to be desired.

Gilliam is perhaps best known for directing movies in the ‘Monty Python” series. Although perhaps not as ridiculous, “The Imaginarium” is certainly still full of slapstick humor and crazy situations that stay true to Gilliam’s roots.

However, it is certainly hard to compare anything

‘Jersey Shore’ sets new precedent for crazy behavior Kellye Donnelly kdonnell@butler.edu

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THE FINAL SHOT: Heath Ledger shines in his last movie role as mystery man Tony. with the imagery of the movie. The scenes set in present-day London are good, but those inside the imaginarium literally live up to its name. Based on people’s imagination, the scenes become different for each person. A small boy uses his video game controller to pop larger-than-life balloons, while an elderly, wealthy woman walks through a pastel dream full of enormous shoes, pearls and diamonds.

Nick’s temptations in the imaginarium are sleazy and inviting, appealing to each person’s specific weakness, whether it be alcohol or lust.

The end is chaotic and caused a friend and myself to discuss it fruitlessly for our entire ride home.

Although I understood the final scene, it felt off in a way. More could have been done to resolve a few issues.

“Imaginarium” is full of thrills and is an amazing last performance by Ledger. For me, that alone was good enough to make me want to see it again.

“The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus” MOVIE REVIEW Infinity Features Entertainment Directed by: Terry Gilliam Starring: Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Jude Law, Christopher Plummer Rated: PG-13 Time: 2 hrs. 2 min.

Rating: 5 = perfect, 4 = outstanding, 3 = good, 2 = fair, 1 = poor

likely to get in a fight at a club.

MTV has gone on record saying that the show is not intended to “offend or Oh, the days when Britney Spears and discriminate” against anyone. Yet they Lindsay Lohan used to be the worst have offended Winehouse: All her work influences we had to face. Sure, they has added up to being beaten out by were dabbling in who knows what, but at seven kids who fist-pump and drink… a least they weren’t starting brawls in bars lot. like in the new controversial show The show never got better as the sea“Jersey Shore” on MTV. son went on; it didn’t even try to redeem What is crazy is hard to define today, itself from the two-hour premiere which and it seems that it’s getting easier and landed all the cast members into the holy easier to ignore, making society more grail of more reality TV stars who don’t and more jaded. Not only do we see noth- deserve magazine covers or late-night ing wrong with a guy punching a girl in interviews. the face and (almost) televising it, we see It simply moved into more dramatic it as entertainment. themes: another roommate gaining jail Most of us were younger when time, confessions of eating disorders, and Angelina Jolie went off “the situation finally “Winehouse was the the deep end and had a getting out of control,” a vial of blood strung bad pun made in an reigning champion of episode summary on around her neck at all times, even while tv.com commenting on attending the Academy crazy, and no one could the absurdness of the Awards with her thenpersonalities in the husband, Billy Bob really stop her. That is house and Mike “The Thornton. On today’s Situation” Sorrentino. spectrum, it would “Jersey Shore” is one until ‘Jersey Shore’...” appear that Jolie was of those shows that you clearly just preemptively really into the can’t even describe to people; you just vampire craze. have to tell them to watch it because you Moving into more recent years, both won’t be able to get them to grasp how Lohan and Spears had their moments. ridiculous it really is.

Lohan proceeded to dye her hair a ParisThe show has already been reportedly Hilton blonde and throw away any picked up for a second season with the clothes that really covered anything. same cast, according to MTV, which is Spears, on the other hand, just felt that just more bad news for Winehouse. hair wasn’t really her thing anymore.

“Jersey Shore” is that kind of thing Yet, low and behold, they were you will tell your kids about, bragging upstaged by Amy Winehouse. about having lived through it, just as Winehouse, for a couple years now, your parents tell you they lived in the era has been the epitome of bad hair, bad that steroids weren’t in baseball yet. It’ll makeup, shredded clothes and addictions be savored, because who knows what can that even addicts wouldn’t be able to han- even take reign of crazy behavior after dle. Now, it’s to the point that two whole seasons of this mess?

Winehouse’s pictures rarely surface in the tabloids anymore, but when they do, it’s a simple update to the fact that she is still the same person.

Until recently, Winehouse was the reigning champion of crazy, and no one could really stop her. That is until “Jersey Shore” appeared on MTV in November.

Immediately after the debut, many Italian-American groups stood up to the network and protested its airing for degrading Italian-Americans and categorizing all New Jersey Italians into one stereotype.

Though those groups have legitimate stances, as the show essentially has finally one-upped Winehouse by bringing in not only one, but seven wild, brash and crazy people. That is what I call teamwork.

“Jersey Shore” is basically formatted Collegian photo from MCT like “The Real World.” But for some reaTHE HOT SPOT: Two ‘Shore’ natives son, if you tan or like Bump-Its, that pose outside the famous MTV hangout. makes you immediately 20 times more

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Split Games Women’s basketball split conference road games in Ohio last weekend.

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Men’s BB continues league success Sarah Black sablack1@butler.edu

Collegian photo by Maria Porter

EXTENSION: Shelvin Mack led all scorers with 24 points in the home game against YSU.

The Butler men’s basketball team made a good start for themselves in 2010, remaining undefeated in the Horizon League (7-0) by securing wins over Cleveland State (7-12, 3-4 HL) Thursday and Youngstown State (7-10, 2-6 HL) Saturday.

During Thursday’s game, the Bulldogs fell behind early, entering half-time down 31-30.

Viking sophomore Jeremy Montgomery scored 13 points in the first half and finished the game with 22.

However, Butler managed to battle back by taking advantage of numerous CSU turnovers.

Butler scored 20 points off 17 Viking turnovers in the game.

“Thankfully, there are two halves in a basketball game,” Butler head coach Brad Stevens said.

Senior Willie Veasley added, “They’re a good team. When we were down, we realized we weren’t playing our style of basketball.”

Starting out poorly on defense wasn’t the Bulldogs’ only problem, as sophomore Gordon Hayward had been severely ill earlier in the day.

“I didn’t know if he’d even play until 3:30 this afternoon,” Stevens said.

Hayward ended up scoring eight points and grabbing four rebounds in 30 minutes.

In the end, the Bulldogs found their game.

Butler shot 53.7 percent from the field, and Veasley led Butler with 16 points.

Saturday’s game against Youngstown State gave Butler their highest-scoring game of the season and a 91-61 victory.

Butler started strongly, beginning the game with a three-pointer from sophomore Shelvin Mack. Mack had 24 points, 22 of which were in the first half.

When asked if this game was Mack’s best of the season, Stevens said it wasn’t, adding, “I’ve seen Shelvin play well a lot. He’s a guy that can score, that’s for sure.”

Stevens said that a lot of components played into the Bulldogs pulling off a win.

“Our guys came out with a lot of energy,” he said. “We made some shots and shared the ball.”

The team looked to junior Matt Howard for a lot of shots inside, including three dunks.

“Their defense may have been focusing on other people,” Howard said. “The guards did a good job looking for me.”

Howard scored 22 points, the most he’s scored since Nov. 26 when he scored 23 points against Minnesota.

Veasley has been shooting at a noticeably higher percentage in recent games, including Saturday’s game against the Penguins.

“Everybody’s confidence in every game has grown,” Veasley said.

That confidence was evident in the play of junior Zach Hahn, who scored all 12 of his points from behind the arc.

With a large lead secured late in the game, the Bulldogs gave their younger bench players time on the court. Freshman Andrew Smith scored five points in six minutes, and redshirt freshman Chase Stigall scored a three-pointer during his three minutes.

“We’re going to need Chase to play in the future,” Stevens said.

Noticeably missing from this game and more recent ones was Howard’s trademark undershirt.

“It’s just something new,” Howard said. “It doesn’t have anything to do with how I play.”

As to whether he’ll keep playing without it he said: “I like the way it feels. We’ll see.”

Butler hits the road for their next four games to face Loyola Thursday, UIC Saturday, Green Bay Jan. 29 and Milwaukee Jan. 31.

Collegian photo by Maria Porter

INTERIOR STRENGTH: Matt Howard dominated the paint against the Penguins.

TRACK & FIELD Back in action, the Butler track and field team ran to three individual titles and two runner-up finishes at the Notre Dame Opener Friday.

Senior Rob Mullet won the men’s 8000-meter, senior Steve Lisgo clinched the men’s mile and freshman Lauren McKillop won the women’s mile.

Second place finishes came from senior Marbeth Shiell in the women’s 3,000 and junior Brent Sever in the men’s 60 hurdles.

The Bulldogs will compete at the Gladstein Invitational Friday and Saturday in Bloomington, Ind.

Hayward named to short list for John R. Wooden Award Michael Ellis mellis@butler.edu Sophomore Gordon Hayward has been selected to the Midseason Top 30 list for the 2009-10 John R. Wooden Award given annually to the player of the year in men’s basketball.

Originally presented in 1976, the award is named for legendary college basketball coach and Indiana native John Wooden, who piloted UCLA to an unprecedented 10 national championships between 1964 and 1975. No other program has cumulatively won 10 men’s basketball national championships.

Wooden, 99, remains active as the chair of the Wooden Award Board of Governors, comprised of 12 of college basketball’s greatest coaches.

Hayward, a native of Brownsburg, Ind., said he feels honored to be part of a list for such a prestigious award.

“I never thought I would see myself on this stage so quickly,” he said. “It’s humbling to look at some of the other players who were also selected.”

This marks the fourth consecutive year a Bulldog has been named to the Midseason Top 30 list. A.J. Graves was selected in 2007 and 2008, Mike Green was nominated in 2008 and junior Matt Howard was selected last year.

Hayward said he believes his nomination is primarily due to Butler’s recent team success.

“You don’t just get nominated for this kind of award as an individual,” he said. “The team game has really become a Butler staple.”

The results support Hayward’s assertion. The Bulldogs have qualified for the NCAA Tournament each of the past three years— the same years in which they’ve had players named to the Midseason Top 30 list.

Head coach Brad Stevens agrees with his emerging star.

“It’s a compliment to [Gordon], but it’s also a compliment to his teammates,” Stevens said. “Sure, it’s an individual award, but

the winning teams tend to have representatives.”

It is hard to deny that Hayward is becoming a more complete basketball player. Last season, he averaged 13.1 points and 6.5 rebounds per game. This season, he currently averages 15.8

Collegian photo by Maria Porter

HIGH PRAISE: Elementary school basketball players welcome Gordon Hayward as his name is announced at Hinkle Fieldhouse.

points and 8.4 rebounds per game, despite playing the same number of minutes.

Hayward credits his improvement to a range of factors, starting with the fact that he is now devoting more time to basketball.

“Basketball has always been my first love,” he said, “but I played every sport growing up.

“I would always go from one sporting event to the next; sometimes I even had to change in the car.

“Just being able to focus on basketball has been a lot of fun and helped me become a better player.”

Second, Hayward said working with Butler’s head strength and conditioning coach Jim Peal has helped him develop his skills. In turn, he said he has been able to more effectively drive to the basket and battle for rebounding position inside the key.

And third, he credits University of Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon, who served as Hayward’s head coach on the under-19 USA Basketball team, for being tough on him during practice and helping him to become a better all-around player.

As for the recent comparisons to NBA Hall of Fame member and French Lick, Ind., native Larry Bird, Hayward said that at this point in his career, he remains undeserving of such high praise.

“It’s an honor to be mentioned in the same sentence with [Bird],” Hayward said, “but he was on a completely different level.

“I have a long way to go to even be compared with him.”

Since Bird played most of his basketball before Hayward was born, he said has not modeled his game after the Boston Celtics’ legend at all.

“To tell you the truth, I haven’t seen [Bird] play very much,” Hayward said. “I’ve really modeled my game after [Phoenix Suns’ point guard] Steve Nash.

“I like the way he distributes the basketball and gets his teammates involved.”

The Midseason Top 30 list will be condensed to 20 players at the end of February. The winner of the 2010 Wooden Award will be announced in April.

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Women’s BB beats YSU, loses to CSU Michael Ellis mellis@butler.edu

Butler women’s basketball (10-6, 3-2 HL) finished their road trip 1-1 with a 7448 rout at Youngstown State (0-17, 0-6 HL) Saturday afternoon.

Senior Melanie Thornton led the way to victory with 19 points and nine rebounds, while junior Terra Burns added 11 points on a perfect field goal percentage.

Butler head coach Beth Couture said she was pleased with her players’ intensity and overall attention to detail.

“I felt like we accomplished what we needed to accomplish,” Couture said.

“We were more committed to defense, and we tried to get more shots in the paint as opposed to just shooting threepointers.”

The Bulldog defense surrendered just 14 points in the first half. They also scored 30 points off of 25 Penguin

turnovers, which Couture said she felt was a testament to her team’s commitment to the game plan and increased defensive intensity.

“It really showed our players that if we can mix up our defensive looks and be intense, we can get offense from our defense,” Couture said.

Although the Bulldogs have returned home on a high note, they suffered a disappointing 81-68 loss at Cleveland State (9-8, 4-2) Thursday night.

Butler was resilient, trimming an 18point half-time deficit to six with just more than 14 minutes remaining. But the Vikings quickly responded with an 80 run, widening the gap to an insurmountable 14 points.

Thornton and junior Alyssa Pittman led Butler with 17 points each, while junior Brittany Bowen contributed 16 points. The Vikings were led by senior Kailey Klein’s 19 points and 12 rebounds. Off the bench, they and

received 14 points from senior Angel Roque.

Bench play proved to be a crucial factor in the game, as Cleveland State’s bench outscored Butler’s 26-10.

Additionally, the Bulldogs were decidedly overmatched on the boards. The Vikings won the rebounding battle 4127, helping them to 15 second-chance points to Butler’s six.

“They just came out with the intensity that we didn’t have,” Couture said.

“We had three days to prepare for this game.

“We talked about the importance of boxing out and jumping to the ball.

“We simply could not get it done on defense and did not do what we needed to do to take them out of their strengths.”

Butler is currently fifth in the Horizon League standings, even though they have the second-highest overall winning percentage among league schools.

This week, the Bulldogs host ninth-

place Wright State (5-10, 1-4 HL) and second-place Detroit (6-10, 4-1 HL).

They hope to gain ground in the standings before heading north to face conference, leading Green Bay (16-0, 5-0 HL) on Jan. 28. Ranked No. 17 in the latest Associated Press Top 25 poll, the Phoenix are one of just five undefeated teams remaining in Division I women’s college basketball.

For now, Couture said that her team cannot afford to look ahead to spoiling Green Bay’s undefeated season.

“Right now, we really need to take care of business,” she said. “We have to be ready to play every night.

“We want to finish first, second or third in conference so we can play our first round [conference tournament] game at home.

“Besides Green Bay, the league is pretty even. The team that can improve and go on a winning streak will be able to get that home game.”

Collegian photo by Rachel Senn

GOING UP: Melanie Thornton led Butler with 19 points against YSU.

Women’s tennis falls to Hoosiers Freshman forward receives honor Steven Peek speek@butler.edu Butler’s women’s tennis team did not fare well on the scoreboard when they traveled to No. 46 Indiana Sunday. They lost 70 to the nationally-ranked Hoosiers, all matches ending in straight sets.

But head coach Jason Suscha observed pieces to build upon while in Bloomington.

“A real positive was that we didn’t play on our heels,” Suscha said. “IU is the toughest team we’ll play all year, and they hit the ball hard early in the point.

“We may not be used to that style of play, but we were able to play it.”

Senior Molly Casperson adapted to Indiana’s style the best. She took her opponent, junior Katya Zapadalova, to a first-set tiebreaker in the No. 3 singles match.

“Molly came to the net a lot and was really physical (in her singles match),” Suscha said.

“If she keeps playing like that, she could work her way up to the No. 1 spot.”

Casperson said that she felt really comfortable with that style of play and will continue to use it.

“It’s the easiest way for me to win points,” she said.

Zapadalova overcame the close first set to win the match 7-6 (7-3), 6-1.

“I think I capitalized on bigger points more in the first set,” Casperson said. “Plus, I had a strong start. I started up 3-0.”

Casperson also played in the No. 1 doubles match with senior Becky Jenkins.

“I saw one of the best doubles efforts from Becky,” Suscha said. “She and Molly played really well together.”

The pair lost to the Hoosier combination of freshman Leslie Hureau and junior Myriam Sopel, 8-5, after Casperson’s serve was broken twice.

“We rely a lot on Becky’s serve because it’s a really big serve in doubles,” Casperson said.

Sophomore Cam Thompson fell to Sopel in the No. 5 singles match. Thompson lost the first set 6-0 but had a 4-3 lead in second until Sopel rallied back to win three straight games and the match.

Freshman Brittany Farmer did well in her first official match for the Bulldogs, losing the first set by only one break.

“Brittany played one of her

best sets ever in the first,” Suscha said.

Farmer said she hit daily during the semester break in preparation for the early spring matches and felt good about her performance at Indiana.

“I was hitting the ball well and dictating play on most points,” she said. “(Junior Maria Guerreiro) was able to defend just well enough and pick her times to be aggressive.”

Guerreiro defeated Farmer 64, 6-0.

Butler women’s tennis continues its stretch on the road, when they travel to Louisville Friday.

“Louisville is a really solid tennis team,” Suscha said. “But we will have some opportunities to win some matches, if we can capitalize on some more game points.”

Farmer said she will look to continue striking the ball well and implement improvements.

“I need to increase my consistency and look for opportunities to close in at the net to finish points,” she said. “I will look to be aggressive with my groundstrokes and improve my serve.”

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Megan Moles mmoles@butler.edu College Soccer News recently honored Butler forward Julian Cardona by naming him to their 2009 All-Freshman Team. The freshman was selected to the third team of the honor squad that recognizes the nation’s top freshman performers.

Cardona, a native of Omaha, Neb., has been playing soccer since he was six years old and said the success of this season was more than he could have imagined.

“I really wanted to play Division I,” Cardona said. “And now I know that I can play at this level.”

Cardona adds this honor to his other award: Horizon League Newcomer of the Year.

Cardona led the Horizon League in game-winning goals, and he finished sixth in the league in scoring. During the 2009 season, Cardona led the Bulldogs in scoring with six goals and three assists while playing in all 19 matches.

Cardona also played baseball but dropped the sport when he chose to go to a school that specialized in soccer.

“I was pretty good at it [soccer],” Cardona said. “I had good friends playing it; my parents encouraged it. There was really no down side to playing soccer.”

Cardona was a junior at Shattuck-St. Mary’s, when he first caught the eye of Butler. “[Butler] is a great place, as well as great academically,” Cardona said.

Cardona credits his coaches for the success he had this season.

“I listen to my coaches; they know me and they show me how to fix problems and improve my game,” Cardona said.

To improve on the 2009 season, Cardona said that it is going to take more hard work but that he is up to the task.

“I enjoy it,” he said. “Everyday, I just enjoy it.”

As to the awards, Cardona says they help him look forward to next year.

“Not to downplay it,” he said, “but it’s not everything. After all, it’s awesome. It helps my confidence because I know I can play at this level, but now it motivates me to play at this high level all the time.

“These awards keep me hungry for more.”

Butler head coach Kelly Findley said he saw Cardona take it upon himself to work hard individually.

“I hope he continues to improve the way he did this season,” Findley said. “Otherwise, he will not be the player I know he can be.

“He has all kinds of potential.”

However, Cardona attributes all of his success to his team.

“We have a great team where I can really perform well,” he said. “It’s all about the team; that’s why I had the success I did this year. We have great chemistry as a team.”

Cardona’s first year of play led to a productive year for the Bulldogs, as they played to a 14-3-2 record, the third highest win total in school history. During the season, Butler was ranked as high as No. 17 in the nation, captured a regular season league championship and earned a trip to the NCAA Tournament.

“As the season progressed,” Findley said, “he was a vital player for us.”

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Coaching football for fame or fortune?

Emily Newell enewell@butler.edu Remember when you were little and your parents said, “Money isn’t everything?” I don’t think many football coaches ever heard that.

This season, college football saw University of Cincinnati’s Brian Kelly leave a program he turned into a Bowl Championship Series (BCS) contender for the University of Notre Dame. Despite the Irish’s recent struggles, the new job was sure to offer him more money, not to mention the ability to say he is the head coach at Notre Dame.

Kelly took the Cincinnati program and turned it into a team that went to two straight BCS Bowls. After becoming head coach for the Bearcats, Kelly led the team to their second ever 10win season in 2007, their first since 1949.

The next season, he led the team to their first ever outright Big East Championship and a spot in the Orange Bowl.

In 2009, Kelly led the team, unranked at the beginning of the season, to an undefeated regular season and a spot in the Sugar Bowl.

But then he got the offer from Notre Dame and left the team to be coached by assistant Butch Jones.

He first shocked, then abandoned, a team he took to the national spotlight. He left Cincinnati with an impressive 34-6 record.

Kelly’s story doesn’t stand

alone. He’s one of many coaches, both at the collegiate and professional level, who will stand on a different sideline next season.

Amid controversy about players’ gifts, University of Southern California (USC) head coach Pete Carroll made the shocking decision to leave a team that brought him great success.

As head coach for the Trojans from 2001 to 2009, Carroll led the team to an overall record of 97-19, going 62-14 in conference. The team went to three straight National Championship games between 2003 and 2005, winning the first two. They won seven conference titles and six BCS bowl games. They were called a dynasty.

But that dynasty meant nothing when Carroll was offered the opportunity to jump back into the National Football League (NFL) and become the head coach and executive vice president of the Seattle Seahawks.

Something drug Carroll away from the college football dynasty of the 2000s. The prestige of being a great college coach wasn’t enough.

To complete the coaching circle, University of Tennessee head coach Lane Kiffin announced he would be the next coach of the USC Trojans just one year after he accepted the position as the Volunteers’ head coach.

According to espn.com, Kiffin will have to pay $800,000 to the University of Tennessee to leave his contract.

But Kiffin’s situation may be different. It may not be money

which drew him away from the Volunteers and to the successes of USC, as he has been on the move lately.

Before his single Tennessee season, he spent slightly more than a year as head coach of the Oakland Raiders before he was fired from that position in September 2008.

In the 20 games he coached for Oakland, Kiffin achieved a meager record of 5-15. At Tennessee, Kiffin led the Volunteers to a 7-6 record, ending the season with a loss to Virginia Tech in the Chick-Fil-A Bowl.

However, Kiffin’s time at Tennessee was not without controversy. Before the team even played a game, Kiffin accused Florida Gators’ head coach Urban Meyer of recruiting violations.

Then, he was found to have committed three recruiting violations himself.

Maybe Kiffin was just trying to get the heck out of a school where he started with such controversy. Maybe he’s looking for great success at a program with a great history of success. But he is walking into a program, as mentioned above, that is dealing with NCAA investigations regarding possible gifts given to players It’s not the first season coaching controversies have occurred.

In 2007, Rich Rodriguez left the University of West Virginia, where he became one of the most successful coaches in school history, to become the head coach of the University of Michigan, a program steeped in rich history.

The announcement of

Rodriguez’s retirement came just four months after renegotiating his contract with West Virginia.

Because of this, Rich Rod was forced to pay $4 million to West Virginia for breaching his contract, $2.5 million of which was paid by Michigan.

So why coach? For the money?

For the prestige of coaching a team known for its successful programs? It’s hard to know.

But coaches should be respect-

ful in their decisions and not leave in a controversial way, as some of the coaches mentioned in this article have.

I respect those coaches who stay with their teams through thick and thin.

So to those coaches who are taking a ride on the crazy coaching carousel, leading them from school to school, program to program, NFL to college and back, take note of Joe Paterno, head

coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions since 1966.

Yes, he has two national championships under his belt as well as NCAA records for wins and bowl wins. But you know what else he has? Seasons in which his team went 3-9 and 4-7.

Joe Pa has stuck by his program through thick and thin. I respect that. And sometimes, respect means more than a paycheck or a title.

Collegian photos from MCT

CAROUSEL: (clockwise from top-left) Former USC coach Pete Carroll; former Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin; Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez; former Cincinnati coach Brian Kelly.

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Collegian photos by Rachel Senn and MCT Collegian illustration by Rachel Senn