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An analysis of Doane’s toilet paper usage

BY ALEX DAWSON Staff Writer The length of toilet paper used in one year at Doane College is longer than the flight distance from Nebraska to Paris.

Doane spends around $14,000 a year on approximately 4,800 miles of toilet paper Custodial Services Manager Bobbie Fye said.

Freshman Taylor Hester said this figure blew his mind.

“If we’re going to spend that much on toilet paper, I’d like to have better quality instead of sandpaper,” Hester said.

The quality of the Georgia Pacific 1-Ply White Bath Tissue also frustrated others, including sophomore Ryan Schilling. Schilling compared the toilet paper to using “shards of glass.” Having to use copious amounts of toilet paper to prevent tearing or leakage irritated not only Schilling’s state of mind, but also his skin, he said.

Schilling said 1-ply toilet paper was what he used for arts and crafts activities with his younger cousin, but not in the bathroom.

In the bathrooms on campus, he used his own store bought, double quilted paper, which he also offered to students for a small fee, he said.

Doane goes through over 5,500 rolls of toilet paper yearly; over 25 million square feet, Fye said. This equals approximately 4,800 miles of toilet paper. The distance from the college campus in Crete to the Eiffel Tower in Paris is 4,550 miles.

Junior Jenna Alswager thought the quality of the toilet paper led to excess use.

“If it’s extremely thin then you’ll have to use more so that your hand stays clean. I imagine our school goes through a lot of toilet paper because it’s not good quality,” Alswager said.

The amount of toilet paper used on campus is harmful to the environment, Alswager said. The school might be using thinner toilet paper because it is more biodegradable, which is good for the environment, but if students are using large amounts because of the poor quality, then it isn’t really solving anything, Alswager said.

Freshman Tyler Kuhfahl said he was disappointed to come to a college where the fees were $32,000 per year, and the school didn’t have good quality toilet paper. For that much money, he should not have to worry about the quality of toilet paper causing him pains after going to the bathroom, he said.

“There is no way they can’t find nicer toilet paper for $14,000 a year,” Kuhfahl said.

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Community garden blossoms potentials

BY AMY PETERSEN Staff Writer

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One Doane student has branched out and produced a garden for the Crete community.

Over the past two years Junior Ryan Corrigan cultivated the idea of a community garden into a real place for people to plant and grow their own food.

“It has blossomed from theory to being able to till the ground,” Community Garden Committee Member Karla Cooper said. “He was a freshman with that fantastic idea.”

At 10th Street and Thornwood Avenue, half an acre of dirt will soon hold seeds that grow into food for Crete community members.

“This will help families have cheap, healthy food,” Corrigan said. “They (kids) can get dirty and muddy and find out what asparagus is.”

Corrigan said he fundraised over $1,400 from Crete businesses. Sunday, Doane Student Congress also donated $250 for a fence to surround the garden.

“This will help families have cheap, healthy food.”

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Corrigan hasn’t done it all alone, though. The Roots and Shoots Conservation Club and community members have helped with logistics and getting the garden ready for planting, said Brad Elder, Roots and Shoots adviser and assistant professor of biology.

The hardest parts of starting the garden were finding the space and organizing it, Elder said.

“We’re not exactly master gardeners so there are a lot of issues,” Corrigan said. “I figured out that the manure I was spreading on the ground wasn’t ready yet so I had to remove it all.”

Corrigan said the garden

would be divided into 6 feet by 12 feet plots that would be sold for $25 from April to November. There could end up being anywhere from 40 to 50 plots depending on whether or not people choose to purchase the normal dimension plots or combine multiple plots. Two plots have been sold so far in this pilot year.

Corrigan said he hoped the garden would be used for education as well as community building.

The community garden can be a fabulous classroom, said Linda Kalbach, professor of education and community garden committee member. She said it would be wonderful for kids to experience the raw opportunity to connect with water, dirt and air.

Kalbach said people used words such as blossom and root often as a metaphor for relationships in our lives.

“There’s a root; there’s a reason we use that word,” Kalbach said. “Our connection to how things grow is a part of our language because we need it.”

Forensics places in top 20 at Nationals

BY HANNA BAUER Staff Writer Doane’s forensics team placed No. 18 out of 83 teams at the American Forensics Association National Individual Events Tournament (AFA NIET) in San Marcos, Texas, Monday.

Coach Dawn Bartlett said since the team qualified for fewer national events than in the past, the chances of placing in the top 20 looked less likely.

“Frankly, the odds were not in their favor,” Bartlett said.

“Their top 20 ranking is a testament to the quality of the events

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“Doing this for however many years, it’s always been a dream to go up there and get a trophy that’s symbolized the year you’ve had.”

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they had.”

Sophomore Queeny Pimentel, who made quarterfinals, said she didn’t think the team would be able to do it.

“It’s the last time I doubt my

team,” Pimentel said.

Junior Bekah Ehly also made quarterfinals, and junior Jordan Johnson took two events to quarterfinals.

Senior Kyle Carroll said he

did not question his team’s ability to succeed.

“I felt like with the team we had, finishing in the top 20 was within our power,” Carrol said.

Carroll said it felt great to go on stage with the other top 20 to receive Doane’s trophy.

“Doing this for however many years, it’s always been a dream to go up there and get a trophy that’s symbolized the year you’ve had,” Carroll said.

Bartlett, who was in her twelfth and final year as coach at Doane, said the event was bittersweet.

“Nationals was a good way to top it off,” Bartlett said. “It was a good way to say goodbye.”

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Junior Amy Peterson performs on the violin Tuesday night for an audience in Heckman auditorium. As a music major, she is required to give a junior recital.

Award-winning professor takes job offer with USD

BY TYLER WEIHE Managing Editor

Usually colleges are known for recruiting sports players, but the University of South Dakota (USD) had something else in mind when they recruited Molly Rozum, associate history professor.

“It’s very gratifying,” Rozum said, “to have someone specifically interested in your work and to see the potential of your work.”

Rozum was contacted by the head of the search committee for the history position at USD. “One thing lead to another, and they invited me to the campus and made me an offer that I thought was a good offer,” Rozum said. “This was an opportunity that was difficult for me to turn down.”

USD currently has 10,100 students enrolled with a student to teacher

ratio of 15:1, according to http://admissions.usd. edu. Rozum said she liked the small class size at Doane, and her classes at USD will be a little larger.

She will still have a reduced teaching load with the new position, and it would allow her to spend more time on her research and writing in her speciality field.

“My work very much applies to the South Dakota area,” Rozum said.

“They’re very interested in my research and feel like they want to support it.

Rozum is originally from Mitchell, S.D., where she still has family.

That 117 miles away from USD which is located in Vermillion, S.D. That’s a lot closer than 280 miles away in Crete, Neb., according to google maps.

“That was hard to pass up,” Rozum said. “So it was kind of a personal

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She’s also had award winning publications that have won awards. Her latest work, “Small-town Boy, Small-town Girl” was published in 2009.

“I edited the two memThe memoir cover edited oirs in there and wrote the

by Rozum. The book won a introduction to it, and it publisher award. won an Independent Publisher of America award,” program and is making sure she hands the proRozum said.

Rozum said this posi- gram off to good hands.

“I’m working with Dean tion will also put some more pressure on her to Burney on my various reget more of her research sponsibilities here at Doane,” Rozum said. “I won’t out.

“I’m about ready to have a final say, but I’m bring out a book, and I working to make sure evhave some other projects erything is taken care of.”

Rozum said there’s a lot in the hopper,” Rozum said. “This position will she doesn’t know about help me and be very much teaching at USD. “In life you need to take required and as a part as my position to lead in re- risks and advance,” Rozum said. “This was an search.”

At Doane Rozum did a opportunity that came my lot of work outside of the way, and I thought I needclassroom. She was the ed to take it and challenge Director of the Honors myself.”

Loan default has big consequences

BY LYNDSEY HRABIK News Editor

Consistent rising tuition costs force many students to take out more loans. But when students can’t make the payments, default can occur with damaging consequences. Know the risks of defaulting and how to avoid it.

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Interfaith Center welcomes all faiths

Default happens on federal loans when students fail to pay back borrowed money after 270 days of delinquency, which is the period right before default.

What happens after I default?

Once default occurs, a lot can happen. Know the risks so you know what to expect before you default.

1. Law states that the government can withhold part of your paycheck, but not all of it. They are entitled to 15 percent of your

take-home pay.

2. The defaulted loans could show up on your credit history for up to seven years after money is paid back. This could affect your ability to gain loans, as well as your job search.

How do I prevent default?

Nobody wants to go through the process of getting out of default. Here are some ways that you can assure you don’t.

1. The most obvious solution is to borrow as little money as you can, and to not get in over your head.

2. Make a checklist with your loans, the names and phone numbers of the lenders and the types of loans and the interest rates. By being more organized, you will chances to miss payments.

Go to doaneline.com for more default tips and information. *Information compiled from finaid.org.

Junior Jordan Renkert said he thought the Staff Writer Interfaith Center would A multicultural Inter- be a good place to share faith Center has been set knowledge about different up on campus that wel- faiths. Multiple perspeccomes the religious back- tives are one of the founding pillars in a liberal arts grounds of all.

The Interfaith Center is education, he said. Rentemporarily located in the kert is Jewish, and said Trobough Room in Perry he was sometimes quesCampus Center, with the tioned about his beliefs.

“Knowledge is power, intention of moving to a more permanent location the more you know about in the future, President things, the better,” RenJacque Carter said. Do- kert said. “The more peoane’s chapel was not used ple who know about it because of its location (his religion), the less silly in the Business Center, questions.”

Renkert said which Carter he appreciated said was an “Anybody who the creation of administrabelieves in a higher this new multitive buildcultural center. ing. He said power deserves the “Anybody if he were chance to share that who believes in a student, the room with someone else.” a higher power deserves wouldn’t feel the chance to spiritual to Jordan Renkert-Junior share that with him. someone else,” The center Renkert said. was created Carter said that historibecause Carter wanted to identify a place on cam- cally Doane was connected pus where students could with the United Church of explore their spirituality Christ, but over the years through a variety of faiths. the affiliation became “Wherever you go in the less prominent. He said world, regardless of your that now Doane was not major… different people aligned with any particuyou work with will have lar church but was open different religions,” Carter to students of all interests, said. “You need to be able faiths and religions.

“The better liberal arts to understand these becolleges in the country not liefs in a global world.”

The Interfaith Center is only address the needs of also open to those who are the mind and body, but spiritual but not religious, also the needs of the soul,” Chaplain Karla Cooper Carter said.

Doane was lacking the said. She said there were various beliefs and no one third piece which would was absolutely sure who enable students to complete themselves as a perwas right or wrong.

“Doane’s Interfaith son, and they now have Center is a place where the opportunity if they students, faculty and staff choose, Carter said.

“Religion is an indican connect, find community, learn about other vidual choice, and it is any faiths, deepen their own human being’s decision beliefs, values and iden- whether or not they practity,” Cooper said in an tice a certain faith,” Carter e-mail sent to Doane stu- said. “All students are welcome here.” dents.

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Summer research projects approved

BY HANNAH BAUER Staff Writer All 23 submitted summer research projects were approved, Academic Affairs Vice President John Burney said.

Of the 23 projects, 18 are science related. Junior Amy Craig will work with the biology department to test plant genomes.

Craig will work Monday through Friday, seven to eight hours a day, for 10 weeks, during which she will do plant imaging. The imaging process uses a camera hooked up to a microscope that takes pictures every nine seconds for 20 to 30 minutes. Craig said she will examine over 200 sets of images.

Craig said Nebraska’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCor) gave her a $5,000 grant for a full summer of research, while Doane gave her just under $2,000 for half of the summer. Unless she can accept both, Craig will not take Doane’s grant money, though she will still work on Doane’s campus.

“It’s kind of interesting I ended up with the biology department, but I kind of fell in love with it,” Craig said. “I’m actually looking to go to grad school for biophysics now.”

Burney said summer research projects allowed students to

get a taste of their possible futures.

“It helps students decide if this is what they want to follow as a profession,” Burney said.

Junior Grant Dewey will also help with plant imaging for the genome project, as well as work on his own individual project, for which he received just under $2,000 from Doane. In his individual project, Dewey will study the process of crosspollination in the same plants the genome project is studying the growth of. Dewey participated in summer research with bone mineralization two summers ago.

“You really see that what happens behind all of the big scientific discoveries is a bunch of smaller ones,” Dewey said. “It reinforced the idea that things take time.”

Burney said the faculty recommendation committee said all the proposals were good.

“Students are really trying to help develop new knowledge, not just find an answer out of a textbook,” Burney said.

Dewey said he was ready to gain new experience in his field.

“I enjoy learning for learning’s sake, so that’s what pushed me toward science,” Dewey said.

“Working with plants is an experience in itself.

And I don’t really have a green thumb, so a lot of them are going to die.”

Junior Grant Dewey scans aradopsis plants for growth patterns.

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Task force works to build Doane Plan

BY ERIN BELL Staff Writer A task force has created a working proposal to revise and strengthen the Doane Plan.

“If you think of your program of study here at Doane, you kind of have your major, and then you have the Doane Plan things to check off,” Alec Engebretson, information science and technology professor, said. “The question is, do you see much interaction between the two?”

In order to help students see the interaction, the proposal includes multiple liberal arts seminars.

Instead of just taking LAR 101 freshman year, students would take a LAR classes all four years.

The classes would build on each other, Engebretson said.

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from p. 1 TOILET Sophomore Nick Clark said he would also like a change in toilet paper. The college could save money on toilet paper and spend it on improving other areas around the school, such as the food, Clark said.

“If we got better toilet paper we wouldn’t spend so much money on it,” Clark said. “I never realized toilet paper could cost that much, that’s half our tuition.”

Hester said he would like to see money spent on boxes of Kleenex as opposed to vast amounts of toilet paper. These

boxes would be available for students in the bathrooms as an alternative to using toilet paper to blow their nose. Schilling said he would prefer money spent on improving the bathrooms in Frees Hall to prevent flooding.

Overall, many students said they were in favor of buying more expensive, higher quality toilet paper.

“It would cost more to buy better quality paper,” Hester said, “but at least that way when I go to the bathroom, I’m not going to use half a tree.”

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Engebretson said general education courses should allow students to do the same.

According to the curriculum presented to the faculty in August, the LAR 101 courses available would still introduce students to college-level writing, discussion, critical thinking and critical reading.

The LAR 201 courses would require students to address complex questions.

Teamwork and leadership skills will be focused on in the LAR 301 classes. These courses will allow students from different majors to come up with solutions to real-world problems.

Students will get a final opportunity to examine their growth as a result of their general education experience in LAR 401 courses.

The Doane Plan requirements would also include courses from the major areas of study, English Assistant Professor Philip Weitl said.

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semester to modify its curriculum plan and will have a meeting at the beginning of the summer to finalize the plan, Engebretson said.

Engebretson said his goal was to present a revised general education framework to the faculty in the fall to be debated and voted on.

If the faculty were to approve the framework, it would take at least two years to implement the changes; one to prepare for the changes and then one for the changes to begin to occur as new classes came in, he said.

Senior Adam Hunke, a student representative on the task force, said he thought changes to the Doane Plan could be beneficial for students.

“It (the current Doane Plan) is a list of items to check off, and that’s what this program wants to get away from,” he said.

“We just hope it (the new Doane Plan) gives them (students) a broad base of knowledge.”

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“I still want students to learn about history, biology, math; but why can’t we do that and talk about how it all fits together, and how they (students) can apply what they learned?” Weitl said.

Engebretson said the college is actually considering reducing the number of credits, which could result from a decrease in Doane Plan credit hour requirements.

Doane currently requires 132 credit hours to graduate, Engebretson said, whereas most institutions require 120 to 124 credit hours.

“On this campus we have a dangerous culture of busyness,” Weitl said. “Students and faculty have a lot of things on their plates all the time, but I don’t think we take enough time to think about what we’re doing and why we’re doing it.”

Weitl said being busy doesn't mean students or faculty were accomplishing more.

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Doane Plan revisions will benefit all Current Doane Plan requires too much from students The possible Doane Plan revisions that the task force are discussing could be of great benefit to the college; specifically to the students.

At Doane, it is extremely easy to get involved. This can be both a good thing and a bad thing. Some students need that ease to create friendships and grow beyond the classroom. Other students find themselves leading three major committees and participating in a dozen other campus organizations. That is on top of taking 21 credit hours.

The current credit hour requirement of 132 is much too high.

In order to finish in four years, students need to take an average of 16.5 credit hours each semester. This is often on top of multiple jobs and activities.

Take this example. There are 168 hours in a week. A student spends 16 of those hours in a classroom. An additional 48 hours are spent studying. Assuming that student gets at least six hours of sleep each night, 42 hours each week are spent dreaming while the brain processes the information gathered throughout the day.

That leaves 62 hours for a student to eat, shower and be actively involved enough to make a decent resume.

If the student is involved in sports, the time left for daily rest and relaxation is almost nonexistent. Baseball players, for example, spend roughly 25 hours each week at practices and games.

Those athletes are left with about 37 hours each week to eat, shower and socialize.

The stress of completing the current number of required credit hours with enough time to sleep, eat and get to extracurricular meetings leaves students doing the bare minimum. The creative learning process is lost because students will do just enough to make the passing grade.

By reducing the number of credit hours required to graduate to a number closer to 124, students will have more time to make the connections between classes. The liberal arts part of a Doane education will be more meaningful; there would be more time to realize that the lesson they learned in economics could be applied to what they are learning in philosophy.

Adding more liberal arts seminars could also be beneficial in order to prepare students for life after college. Some skills that LAR classes teach like writing, leadership and team building can get lost in the upper-level classes in certain majors. If a senior has not done much writing since his/her freshman LAR class, he/she may not be prepared for graduate school or a career.

Most professors make it a goal to include the four aspects of the Doane Mission Statement into classroom learning, but sometimes there is too much material to cover and certain learning skills may get lost. By adding LAR classes, students will be able to focus on leadership, inquiry, values and engagement.

Some may argue that reducing the number of required credit hours will make college too easy. In actuality, it will only benefit students in the long run. Instead of skimming the surface in classes and activities, students can grow deeper and find more significant learning.

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High efficiency shower heads like this one can save Doane nearly $6,000 and more than one million gallons of water.

Green Committee can fund projects Last week, a student posted to the Doane Student Congress Facebook page inquiring about the possibility of putting in filtered water bottle fillers around campus to cut down on the number of water bottles used by students.

This is a great project and, if students actively participate as planned, it could have a major impact on student pollution.

What many students don’t know is that there is funding available for campus green projects like this one.

In the inaugural year of the green fund, the Green Committee received only three proposals; this leaves almost $26,000 available for next fall.

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could be installed in buildings around campus, and students could be provided or sold reusable water bottles.

While expensive at first, this system has the potential to create a green culture around campus, and this culture can lead to many other projects. Below are several proposal ideas that stu-

dents could pursue for next fall.

Over the next few weeks, I will research and provide information that can spark projects around campus. This starts with high efficiency shower heads.

Since being installed in Hansen the spring of 2011, high efficiency shower heads have re-

duced student water consumption by thousands of gallons as well as saved Doane money.

According to research by Environmental Science Professor Russ Souchek’s 2010 climate change course, changing all shower heads on Doane’s campus would cost just over $1,000, and save Doane nearly $6,000 and more than one million gallons of water.

During the research period, students found almost no difference in quality despite switching 2.5 gallons per minute to 1.5 gallons per minute. The heads are also adjustable and have massage settings.

Projects like these are a winwin situation because they save the college money and reduce its water consumption.

Ways to avoid housing search problems

BY MORGAN HOLDER Editor in Chief As the end of the semester approaches, it’s time to start thinking about next year’s living situations. The task of finding roommates and a place to live can be dramatic, but there are quick and simple solutions to easing that drama.

1) Know where you want to live. There’s a huge difference between Sheldon Hall and Colonial Hall. If you’re an extrovert and you get your energy from others, you might look for a suite-style or quad-style room.

If you like to be more secluded while you study, investigate traditional-style housing like Smith Hall or Frees Hall. If you love movies, imagine how you can use the theater in the Frees base-

ment. If you’re a gamer, check out the game room in the basement of Smith. If you qualify for off-campus housing, think about whether you want an apartment or a house. Each housing situation has its own benefits and drawbacks, but there’s usually a right fit for each student.

2) Find a roommate. This will be the hardest and the easiest part of the process. Many students have already completed this step, so the selection is getting more narrow by the day. The good news is if you’re still searching for a roommate, you’re not the only one. Ask around in your classes, talk to your friends and notify your Residence Director and Residence Assistant that you’re still looking. He or she will probably know of some students who are in the same boat and will keep

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Hopefully the changes can help the community become more than just the town with the college on the hill.

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3) Have a backup plan. It’s not a surprise that many of the plans we make fall through at the last minute. The room you think you want might not be available or your roommate might not be able to afford it.

Keep your fingers crossed your plan works out, but keep in mind you might have to keep searching. Once again, notifying your RD or RA will help make the process smoother if you hit a bump in the road.

4) Make negotiations early. If you and your roommate have a prospective issue, discuss how you can make it work. If you know your roommate is messy, ask them to work on those skills

over the summer so the transition in the fall is as easy as possible. Also improve your own roommate skills. If you know you stay up late studying, but your roommate likes her beauty sleep, find a new study spot around campus and make those small sacrifices.

5) Be open minded. When figuring out my housing situation for sophomore year, my two friends and I filled a nine-person suite with transfer students. As we began the year, the nine of us were nearly strangers. By the end of the first semester, we had become a family. Those were girls I never would have come in contact with if it hadn’t been for our random housing assignment, but since I approached the situation with an open mind, it became one of the best experiences of college so far.

Thumbs down to the excessive use of toilet paper on Doane’s campus and the poor quality of the toilet paper purchased by the college.

Thumbs down to the departure of Softball Head Coach Barry Mosley. We wish you the best in your retirement and a strong finish to your last coaching season.

Thumbs up to the community garden project for bringing the community together. By gardening some of our own food, Crete can become more sustainable and environmentally friendly.

Thumbs down to the large amount of e-mails students receive on a daily basis. Inboxes flooded with updates on cafeteria birthday drawings and various meeting times leave most students pressing delete before opening the message.

Thumbs up to summer research projects for providing students with the opportunities to investigate topics that interest them.

Thumbs down to not being prepared when taking out loans. Students should investigate before taking out a loan so they don’t have to default on it later.

Thumbs up to Mind Expo for giving students an opportunity to showcase research and projects that they’ve done. We hope there’s better attendance this year than last.

Thumbs down to long lines at Common Grounds on Thursday nights.

Extra help would benefit both students and the barista.

Thumbs up to the Forensics team for its top 20 finish at nationals. The season was definitely successful, and we applaud you.

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Students pack Common Grounds Thursdays Barista works by herself on Thursdays during big rush

BY MIMI SHIRLEY Staff Writer On Thursday nights, students can be found dashing in to Common Grounds to cash in on leftover meal credits.

At 10 p.m. on Thursdays, the meal plan week ends. If students have anytime meal plans, their unused meal credits are lost, and they start again with 14 or 21 for the new week.

In order to avoid lost meals, students often visit Common Grounds on Thursday nights to use their extra meal credits and stock up on bottles of water and granola bars or muffins.

Long lines at Common Grounds leave some students growing impatient and others feeling sorry for the barista behind the counter.

Common Grounds barista Shayla Budura is usually the only employee working on Thursday nights. She has worked at Common Grounds for nearly a year.

Budura said her normal 2:3010:30 p.m. shift Monday-Friday is not a problem until Thursdays. “I want a second person working on Thursdays just because it’s busy,� Budura said.

Budura said she thought another barista may not be available because of the cost. “It might be a budget thing or a schedule issue, but I only need help for part of the night,� she said.

Freshman Riley Miller said he

“I like this job. It would just be helpful to have another person working on Thursdays. Helpful for me and the students.�

Shayla Budura-Common Grounds barista

noticed Common Grounds was typically busiest around 8:30 p.m. He said the barista was not as friendly during the rush. “Whoever works on Thursday nights is cranky,� freshman Riley Miller said. “I haven’t cashed-in in a long time, but when I do it’s not like I’m ordering 12 smoothies; it’s usually waters and maybe a muffin.�

Miller said he thought the employee was unfriendly because of the chaos at that time. “If they had another person... one making smoothies and one clicking in the 12 bottles of water‌that would work,â€? Miller said.

Sophomore Gabrielle Chavers said she thought another employee at that time would be helpful. “I think Doane should work on better staffing Common Grounds and Tiger Inn to maintain a smooth flow on customer cash-ins,� Chavers said.

Budura said she just wanted assistance. “I like this job. It would just be helpful to have another person working on Thursdays,� Budura said. “Helpful for me and the students.�

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Junior Brad Higgins reaches to grab a water. Students like Higgins often use their extra meal credits to get water on Thursdays from Common Grounds before the new meal week starts. This makes the night extra busy for barista Shayla Budura.

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Junior Laura Andersen said she only received 10 to 15 e-mails per day. She said she had a hard time keeping track of them all. “A lot of the time the important ones (e-mails) get lost,�

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Freshman Jamie Riddle agreed with Martin and Stevens and said the overflow of e-mails was ridiculous. “I get all excited when I see all those e-mails, and then I see they’re not for me,� Riddle said.

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Freshmen Sydney Johnson, Krista Couton, Brianna Golka and Lindsay Wilson read four books in the Hunger Games series.

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Students crave “Hunger Games�

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You have been chosen as tribute for your district in this year’s Hunger Games, so “may the odds be ever in your favor.� “The Hunger Games� broke box-office records and moved its way up to score the third best opening of all time, according to Entertainment Weekly. It brought in $116.1 million in only three days, according to The New York Times.

The attention this book adapted film has and continues to receive does not go undeserved.

This action packed film starts by introducing the audience to the poor-stricken area of District 12 as the wealthy elite set up a stage to pick tributes.

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The emotional intensity that unfolds is only one of many intimate moments that pull you into the story as Katniss, the main character, volunteers to take the place of her younger sister when she is chosen as the District 12 female tribute.

For those of you who are familiar with George Orwell’s 1984, the storyline of “The Hunger Games� is similar as it portrays a futuristic society oppressed by government rule.

“The Hunger Games� was created after the government faced a national rebellion. The purpose of the games was to remind citizens of the government’s absolute power and to reward the lone survivor.

As the games begin, the audience is immediately swept in as tributes run to kill, and run to survive.

You cheer when valiant efforts are made to help another tribute survive, and cry when the greatest of the tributes die.

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Mind Expo presents top research

BY AILEEN GELB Staff Writer Doane students have an opportunity to share their research projects at the upcoming Mind Expo event.

The program has become an annual event for students to present their work to the Doane community and will take place from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. April 19.

Mind Expo began in 2001, Psychology Professor Rod Peters said.

This year, Mind Expo will have 31 posters and about 15 presentations from students sharing research ranging from biology to psychology to math to business, Economics Instructor Jennifer Bossard said. “In the (Nyrop) Great Hall will be their posters,� Bossard said. “Students will be standing by their poster for one hour. And

then people can just come by and walk through and look at the posters and ask questions; see what the students have been working on.�

Students are encouraged to attend and will be given refreshments at the event. Students that attend both a poster and a presentation will be eligible for one of three door prizes.

The Mind Expo is mainly composed of science majors, but students of other disciplines are given the chance to present, Bossard said. “We’re doing something different this year,� Bossard said. “We’re having a panel discussion for business students to discuss their internships. That kind of works better for the business discipline because not a lot of students are doing research, at least not that you can see.�

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Marley said. “So most of my students are doing projects with that. Sometimes there’s a cancer feature to their question.�

Marley said Mind Expo was a positive experience for students to participate in or attend. “Most of the students that present at Mind Expo are there because they’ve already been successful,� Marley said. “Mind Expo is a celebration of our students’ accomplishments.�

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Take a ‘Chance’ for Doane baseball

BY AUSTIN BENSON Staff Writer Like most children, Senior Chance Brull was introduced to the game of baseball at a young age.

It wasn’t until high school that Brull realized he liked baseball more than the other sports he was playing.

“I played football and basketball, but baseball seemed to fit more with me,” Brull said. “I didn’t like running that much and getting hit all the time.”

While in high school, Brull said he attended summer baseball camps regularly, where scouts watched.

When he received his first call from an interested scout, he said he was a little anxious.

“It was exciting because Doane was the first school to contact me,” Brull said. “I was anxious because I knew I wanted to play college ball, and I wanted to perform.”

Four years after that phone call, Brull has been named to the All-Conference team, the NAIA AllAmerican team and was a preseason All-American this season.

Senior Jake Arbuckle said Brull found ways to get the job done whenever he was on the field.

“He knows how to pitch,” Arbuckle said. “He has a good fastball and has learned how to mix speeds really well.”

Brull has been in the starting rotation for the past two seasons and has grown to know how hitters are thinking. He has also played in the Northwoods League the last two summers.

The Northwoods League is a summer baseball league composed of top collegiate players from across the country and North America.

“I think I have matured a lot as a person. I don’t just throw now, I pitch,” Brull said. “I have learned how hitters think, and my overall maturation has gotten me to this point.”

This season, Brull is 5-2 and has thrown four complete games. The opposing batters are hitting .235 average, and he has nearly 50 strikeouts.

“When I pitch I am aggressive without showing my best stuff early,” Brull said. “Once the hitters adjust to the velocity, that is when I mixed in more off-speed stuff.”

In sports winning is everything, and that is what Brull and the rest of the Tiger baseball team is about.

“Chance is a guy who doesn’t want a lot of credit,” Arbuckle said. “He just goes about his business.”

Individual awards don’t mean as much as team success, Brull said.

“I would like to be named All-American again,” Brull said. “But more importantly, Photos by Ryan Corrigan/The Owl I want the team to have a Senior Chance Brull has been named to the All-Conference team, NAIA All-American and preseason All-American. He is 5-2 this season. great season.”

Illegal bat helps Doane defeat Dordt

BY KEVIN ANDERSON Staff Writer On March 31, Doane’s baseball team won the first game of a double-header against Dordt 6-4. Behind by three runs in the last inning, Doane made up the difference and managed to go into extra innings because of an uncertified bat.

Neither team had a run going into the fourth inning.

Dordt slowly crept their runners onto the bases and with

a solid hit, brought in the first run of the game. Doane’s head coach, Jeremy Jorgensen, called to the umpire, and they started examining the bat with Dordt’s coach. After a strikingly quiet discussion over home plate that kept the crowd tense for several long minutes, the run was revoked, the batter called out and the bat deemed “illegal” by the announcer.

“With the new rule changes, its our responsibility to know which ones are legal and illegal,” Jorgensen said. “I recognized it

was an illegal bat and had the opportunity to bring it to the attention of the umpire.”

While there are inflated stories of bats being illegally improved in malicious schemes, the bat used, like most bats that are banned, was not usable because of recent modifications of league rules.

“There is a regulation to measure how much ‘pop’ an aluminum bat has,” one of Doane’s assistant coaches Sam Bjorling said. “It’s called BBCOR.” At the start of the 2011 sea-

“With the new rule changes, its our responsibility to know which ones are legal and illegal.”

Jeremy Jorgensen-Baseball Head Coach

son of collegiate baseball, the National Collegiate Athletic Association changed the standard by which bats are certified, using the “Bat-Ball Coefficient of Restitution” (BBCOR). In its official statement explaining the new standard, the NCAA described the new standards of bat length, width, weight and how

much a ball bounces off. These new standards bring down how far balls have bounced off bats in previous seasons of play.

In an email explaining the situation to league officials, Athletic Director Greg Heier gave more specifics on the situation.

“The batter was using the ‘Rip It Prototype I’ bat. The ‘Rip

It Prototype I’ bat was not on the approved bat list, though the ‘Rip It Prototype II’ is.”

The “Rip It Prototype I” that was used by Dordt was a valid bat before the 2011 season, but the model was too springy to meet the BBCOR standards of play.

“I think it’s been a very good thing,” Bjorling said describing the change to BBCOR. “It’s been one step closer to playing with wooden bats, which is how the game was designed to be played.”

Quidditch tournament to ‘fly’ at Doane College

BY RICHARD CREEGER Sports Editor From wands to wizards to snitches, Quidditch is a game that expands your mind and your magic.

For Doane College, it’s the sport that is here to take over.

Led by leading scorers junior Jordan Renkert, sophomore Jacob Biaggi and junior Kurt

Harders, Quidditch has a record of 3-3.

In the International Quidditch Association, Doane’s team has a record of 0-1.

This isn’t bad given that this is the inaugural season.

The team was started by former Doane student Austin Booher. Booher left the program in late March, but the team has fought on without him.

Biaggi took his place as In-

terim President throughout the season.

This weekend Doane will host its first official Quidditch Tournament, the First Annual Nebraska Cup. For Doane, there are 40 players in the club, but the team will only bring 15-20 to the tournament.

Originally, nine teams were invited to the tournament, but a few of them couldn’t put togeth-

Morris, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Augustana College, and the Denver Dementors (a community team).

In my eyes, Doane has a good chance of winning this tournament.

We have been able to catch the snitch in every game we have played. The snitch is 150 points, which is a huge advantage to those who catch it.

Since Doane has been suc-

cessful in the past, there is no reason for this trend not to continue.

All the other teams are traveling a good distance to come to this tournament, and Doane will have the home field advantage.

It sure seems like everything is on our side, and maybe we’ll see a little Harry Potter skill come out in our Quidditch team this weekend.

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

TUESDAY

Men’s Tennis @Briar Cliff University 2 p.m.

Softball @Northwestern College 1 & 3 p.m.

Softball @Briar Cliff University 1 & 3 p.m.

Baseball @Bellevue University 4 p.m.

Women’s Tennis @Morningside College 10 a.m

Baseball @Mount Marty College 1 & 3 p.m.

Baseball vs. Morningside College 1 & 3 p.m.

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Men’s Golf @Blue River Classic

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Taking a bite out of supersitions

BY KEVIN ANDERSON Staff Writer No matter where you go in the world, there are just some baseball traditions that go unquestioned.

You don’t step on the foul line when a game is in progress, you don’t talk about the statistics of a player stepping up to the plate, and for the love of god, you don’t talk about a perfect game until after it is over.

The great American pastime is riddled with odd traditions and superstitions in every league, in every country.

Worldwide, batters tap the home plate with their bat the same way every time before a pitch or take a practice swing after each strike. As many teams do, Doane’s baseball team has their fair share of eccentricities.

Senior Outfielder Mike Albert drinks Monster energy drinks without fail before and during games.

Senior Pitcher Chance Brull never steps on to the pitching mound in a game unless he kisses a medallion he wears around his neck.

Sophomore Closer Nathan Roth eats a brown sugar Pop-Tart each game before he comes in to close.

Senior Pitcher Nick Dawson always does the same warm-up routine before each game and listens to the same 3 songs, but he preferred to keep which ones to himself.

“I think there is a lot of superstition because there is a lot of

luck involved,” Dawson said. “For example, you can throw a perfect pitch, and a guy can take a horrible swing, and if the fielders are not in the right position, manage to get a hit. Or you can throw a horrible pitch, and strike a guy out.”

Some of the Tigers’ traditions are minor; calling loved ones or reciting personal mantras. But anybody that comes to a game can see the Tigers in a few of their more public traditions.

Before games, the team huddles and receives a private pep-talk from one of the seniors starting the game. The most noticeable team tradition is any time the team gets a batter out. The ball is thrown to all of the infielders in a specific order in quick succession, ending with the pitcher.

“It’s to get everybody involved and on their toes,” Student Coach Jake Arbuckle said. “It is hard to keep everybody involved all the time. Plus, it gets everybody excited.”

Senior Catcher Anthony Dunn said he had a few strange traditions of his own.

“If I have a good game,” Dunn said, “I try to keep the same undershirts on for the next game, and I let my facial hair grow out. If I have a bad game, I shave it.”

Dunn said that some players take the superstitions a bit too far.

“I’ve heard of some people wearing the same boxers each game without washing them when they are having a winning streak,” Dunn said. “Nobody on the Doane team, however.”

Sophomore Closer Nathan Roth eats a brown sugar Pop-Tart before he enters each baseball game to pitch.

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Softball Coach Barry Mosley resigns

BY KEVIN ANDERSON Staff Writer Barry Mosley, head coach of the women’s softball team, announced on Friday that he would retire at the end of this season.

“It just became overwhelming over the last couple of years,” Mosley said. “It’s a position that needs a lot of dedication and focus, and I feel I haven’t been able to give it what needed these last couple of years. I gave it a

lot, though.”

Mosley’s full-time job is in Lincoln. Mosley said between coaching, his job, his family and his hobbies of painting and photography, he needed to make a change.

“I had to make a personal choice based on the weight of so many things,” Mosley said. “I have to put my family first.”

Aside from his plan to finish out the season, Mosley said he did not know what would happen to the head coach position.

“We’re going to finish the sea-

“I had to make a personal choice based on the weight of so many things. I have to put my family first.”

Barry Mosley-Softball Head Coach son out, and Doane will do what they do,” Mosley said. “They just need someone full-time.”

Junior Jenna Alswager said she understood Mosley’s decision.

“He loves coaching,” she said. “It’s just time for him to dive into his other passions.”

Alswager said Athletic Director Greg Heier spoke to them about next season.

“Greg told us that he’s going to do the same thing that he did with basketball and soccer,” she said. “Look for someone with a great track record who’s going to help us do well. . . Coach Mosley’s got some big shoes to fill.”

Heier said the process would begin immediately.

“I will be starting a search immediately to fill the position,” Heier said. “Though a new coach will not be named until this year's team completes its season under Coach Mosley's leadership.”

Mosley said he was leaving Doane on good terms, and in his letter announcing his retirement, gave his fondest wishes to the college and his team.

“I will forever embrace the memories of my time with Doane, spent with the players in vans, buses, dugouts and restaurants, as well as on the ball field,” Mosley said. “I sincerely appreciate the support of the college, the athletic staff and all the alumni and current players and wish them the very best.”

Men’s golf goes to Blue River, eyes GPAC

BY AUSTIN BENSON Staff Writer The Doane Men’s Golf team is competing in the Blue River Classic this weekend hosting the first day Friday afternoon at the College Heights Country Club.

The classic is that last meet before the third round of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Championship at Fremont Country Club on April 23.

“All the guys need to build momentum in this meet,” Head Coach Myron Parsley said. “The team needs to continue hitting good shots and making good swings.”

Sophomore Colby Blackman said the team needed to focus on scoring well and capitalizing on good opportunities.

“We all have to work on our short game before Friday,” Blackman said. “If we play well as a team, Archived Photo/The Owl it will definitely be a confidence Doane’s Men’s golf team is competing in the Blue River Class this weekend. The tournament builder.”

With only one senior leading the will be a tune up for the third round of the GPAC Championship.

“We all have to work on our short game before Friday. If we play well as a team, it will definitely be a confidence builder.”

Colby Blackman-Sophomore golf team, Parsley said he needed Senior Bo Cribelli to lead the young squad.

“Bo is our only senior, and we are looking for him to lead us,” Parsley said. “The team needs him to play well.”

Parsley said he implemented everything he could this season and now the team just needed to perform the way it can.

“Everything is in place,” Parsley said. “Now it is a matter of gaining momentum and the team peaking before the GPAC tournament.”

Cribelli agreed that momentum can be gained this weekend, and the team does need to perform.

“It is a good chance to put up some good numbers,” Cribelli said. “Hopefully we shoot well this weekend heading into conference.”

Doane is sitting second in the GPAC standings heading into conference. The Blue River Classic should act as preparation, Parsley said.

“All these tournaments are in preparation for conference, and the guys know that,” Parsley said.

Just because it isn’t a conference meet does not take away from the serious mentality the Tigers will take, Cribelli said.

“We are going into this meet with the expectation of winning.”