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Couple marries in frat Track personal bests house on whim 6 reflect high OAC expectations 8

Mama Rose, played by Emma Brock, daydreams of her daughter’s fame while holding onto Herbie’s hand, played by Evan Zimmerman.

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editorial T&C takes stance on OPD policies Recap

Last week, the T&C took an in-depth look at how campus crimes are handled by Otterbein. We don’t want to go into too much detail now, but here’s the fast version: After a student is caught engaging in illegal activities, the police officer determines whether the student is charged criminally or referred to campus judicial. In the judicial system, a student’s charges are not listed on a public criminal record, and the student is subject to a lower standard of evidence than if he or she were charged through the criminal justice system.

The other part of the equation

This week, the T&C is reporting that not only are campus judicial system records private, but so are certain other records like Otterbein police reports and personnel files.

The Otterbein Police Department has said that because it is a part of Otterbein, a private entity, it does not fall under the Ohio public records laws

that would normally make such documents accessible to the public.

The Ohio Public Records Act says that if “there is clear and convincing evidence that a private entity is the ‘functional equivalent’ of a public office, that entity will be subject to the Ohio Public Records Act.” That makes us wonder, if the Otterbein Security Department’s training to become a full-fledged police force didn’t make it functionally equivalent to any other police force, such as WPD, then what will?

Conflict of interest?

And we foresee another problem. If the OPD is a private agent of the school, and not its own public entity, then this means that in the campus judicial system, only one office — Student Affairs — both handles all cases and acts as the student’s advocate. Student Affairs is essentially assuming the roles of judge, jury, prosecutor and defense attorney all rolled into one. Even though many other schools in our athletic conference operate this way,

wednesday, april 25, 2012 this type of system would never exist in the American justice system, and we don’t think it allows students to have a completely fair trial.

Solution

We think students sent through judicial need to be provided with an advocate who does not work for Student Affairs and therefore does not have a vested interest in the office. This would ensure that all conflicts of interest are avoided and that students are receiving fair trials. This would also give students the help they need while navigating the complex campus judicial system.

Otterbein is a tightly-knit community, and frankly, we trust that each and every one of the administrators’ actions is carried out with the greater good of the student in mind.

However, no matter how good the intention, it still doesn’t change the fact that when a student decides to pay tuition to a college or university, he or

she is subject to a whole different set of rules than those in the real world — rules that are keeping details of even the most mundane campus crimes, let alone any serious crimes that we hope aren’t happening, pretty vague. This fosters an atmosphere of secrecy between the Otterbein police force and the Otterbein community that scares us. How can we have faith in the system if we don’t know what’s going on within?

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The difference in disclosure

After transitioning to a new police system, public records that were once easy to access are now difficult to acquire

BY LINDSEY HOBBS, JEREMY MORGAN, EVAN MATSUMOTO AND ANAJAYE’ DIGGS

Once readily available, public records dealing with safety issues have become sparse since Otterbein University commissioned its own police department.

Since September 2011, the Tan & Cardinal and Otterbein360.com have requested records including campus crime reports, personnel files and the Police Department budget.

Although the Police Department budget total was later disclosed, personnel files were not released and campus crime reports were scant.

The Otterbein Police Department said that because Otterbein is a private institution, it does not need to comply with the Ohio Public Records Act and does not have to release full documentation.

Access to Otterbein police records

The Ohio Public Records Act states public offices are required to make available public documents for copying and investigation purposes.

A public office is defined by the Ohio Public Records Act as “any state agency, public institution, political subdivision or other organized body … established by the laws of the state for the exercise of any function of government.”

Otterbein is a private institution. According to the Ohio Public Records Act, a private entity can be defined as a public office if it performs a governmental function.

Stephen Dyer, a former state representative and a lawyer in the Akron area, said the Otterbein Police Department should be disclosing the crime or incident reports to the community because it is serving a public function.

“If you have a police force out there that is acting like a police force, even though it is for a private institution, the fact that it is arresting people and charging people would tend

to tell me it is serving a public function regardless of who is paying for it. People should have the right to know what is going on with their police force. You don’t want there to be no accountability for people who have to operate under the constitution,” Dyer said.

Despite the records that were not released, a few requested articles were eventually disclosed.

Among these were a blank parking ticket, an exact number of parking tickets issued and some parking committee minutes.

According to these released documents, from July 2011 to the end of January 2012, 806 parking citations were issued across campus lots.

Some information was not disclosed because the justice system at Otterbein is split into two divisions, criminal and judicial.

If a student is charged criminally, charges appear on that student’s criminal record, which is public.

If, however, a student is investigated through the judicial review process, the charges are not disclosed to the general public.

“Regarding disclosure of personally identifiable information, we follow the guidelines identified by (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act). According to FERPA, the only time we are allowed to disclose personally identifiable information regarding student records and disciplinary hearings is in the case of a victim of an assault,” Robert Gatti, vice president and dean of Student Affairs, said in an email statement.

Dyer said, “You should be able to walk into any police station in the state of Ohio, ask for the incident reports and get them and go through them and be able to find out what your police force is doing. Otherwise … they are not being held accountable; you need to hold them accountable.”

Otterbein President Kathy Krendl did not respond to multiple interview requests via email and phone by the time this story went to press.

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Otterbein police reports (right) reveal minimal detail compared to Westerville reports (left).

Otterbein is not alone in its system. Private colleges with police forces exist all over the country, but recently a couple of states have ruled that those police forces act as agents of their respective states, and not those of the schools of which they patrol.

In the state of Indiana, for instance, Judge Rudy Lozano ruled a little less than a month ago that the University of Notre Dame Police Department was liable for the lawsuit against them by a pro-choice protester on their campus that claimed the police violated her First Amendment rights and falsely arrested her.

The defense of the police department was that only government officials could be accused of violating the Constitution, and they represented the private entity of Notre Dame.

Lozano noted in his opinion and order that the “broad grant of power to police officers for private universities leaves little to differentiate them from any other police officer in the state of Indiana, at least if they are on the university’s property.”

Also, in North Carolina in November 2011, the state Supreme Court ruled that the Davidson College police in North Carolina were ultimately under the power of the state, after a student’s attorney argued that her drunk-driving arrest should be thrown out because Davidson is a church-affiliated college and the state can’t delegate its police powers to a religious institution.

The court said, “When campus police officers exercise the power of arrest, they must ‘apply the standards established by the law of this state and the United States.’”

Otterbein enforcement a onestop shop

Currently, all the roles and responsibilities of the judicial process at Otterbein — the charges, the judge, the jury, the prosecutor and the best interest of the student — reside in the same department of Student Affairs. This structure, however, is not atypical in the Ohio Athletic Conference. Six other schools in the conference — John Carroll, Marietta, Mount Union, Muskingum, Ohio Northern and Wilmington —

are structured with all processes running through Student Affairs.

“This structure seems problematic,” Frank LoMonte, executive director of the Student Press Law Center, said. “From a public disclosure standpoint, it helps the colleges make the case that records created by police are really disciplinary records.”

LoMonte said that this structure has the people who are accusing a student working for those who are prosecuting the student through the disciplinary system.

“In theory, it could also create a ‘conflict of interest’ situation … (but) at some level everyone in the process will work for the university, just like the police and the prosecutor all work collaboratively together for the ‘state’ in the off-campus world, so you can never have a wall of separation there,” LoMonte said.

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The documents mentioned in this article are available on Otterbein360. com. Lindsay Paulsen, Turp Ricketts and Katie Taggart also contributed to the reporting of this story.

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Less participation results in lower proceeds

Otterbein’s 2012 Relay for Life event fell short in fundraising and student participation compared to past years.

Relay for Life is a worldwide fundraiser that aims to bring awareness to the ways cancer affects the community and the individuals within it. Relay, as it is commonly referred to, is a walkathon-type fundraiser that is often held on a Friday evening and lasts until the following Saturday around noon.

Members of the Otterbein community bring Relay to campus every spring to get students involved in raising money for cancer research.

This year, Relay took place April 13-14. The event began at 6 p.m. and continued through the early hours of the morning until

the last lap finished around noon on Saturday.

This year, 19 teams signed up to participate in Relay. This is down 10 teams from last year.

More than just participant numbers went down. Compared to last year, Relay made $11,900 less in fundraising.

Last year, the event raised approximately $23,000, while this year it raised $11,100.

Ashley Weir, the co-chair for Otterbein Relay for Life, said, “I think that moving to the semester system and the event being a month earlier threw everyone off, and that led to not as many people signing up as there were last year.”

The earlier date of the event also affected Greek Life participation. Last year, Relay was counted as an event in Otterbein’s annual Greek Week activities, where fraternities and

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One possible cause for the low participation was a change in Greek Week’s service requirements.

sororities received Greek Week points by participating. Last year, 12 Greek teams were present at Relay compared to eight teams this year, according to Weir.

Mike Stumpf, assistant director of the Center for Student Involvement and Greek Life, said the Greek Week Committee offered Relay as an event for Greek Week last year because it coincided well with the Greek Week schedule. “The Greek Week Committee decided to add the Relay events as it was the week-

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end before Greek Week started and they wanted to try something a little different,” Stumpf said. He also said the Greek Week Committee encouraged Greek participation in Relay this year even though it was unable to offer points for the event.

Sophomore education major Jessica Ramey, a member of Epsilon Kappa Tau sorority, would have liked to see Relay be counted as part of Greek Week. “I feel it should have been associated because more Greeks would have

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showed up. Since Greek Week is planned way in advanced, the chances of scheduling conflicts is fewer,” Ramey said.

Cory Ott is a sophomore early childhood education major and the co-chair for Otterbein’s Relay for Life. He said that even though the Relay event itself is over, teams and individuals can still donate funds until Aug. 31 by visiting www.relayforlife.org/ otterbein.

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According to the Otterbein University Police Daily Crime Log, the following has been reported May 17-24.

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Shoes were reported stolen from a locker in the stadium. The investigation is still pending.

4/20

Two subjects had their wallets stolen from their lockers in the stadium.

4/21 A suspect was pulled over on the intersection of Home Street and Grove Street for having only one headlight showing. It was found that the suspect was intoxicated and was reported for driving under the influence.

4. 4/21 A student filed a report saying that a pair of shorts and a wallet with money and identification were stolen from the student’s room in Garst Hall. The investigation is still pending.

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Costumes and critters When it comes to producing ‘Gypsy,’ there’s more than meets the eye Arts & Entertainment Editor and Contributing Writer

While the actors in Otterbein’s Theatre Department shine on the stage, the crew is always working hard behind it.

“Gypsy,” the department’s latest endeavor, opens Thursday.

This musical is about the pursuit of fame and how far a mother will go to ensure her daughter achieves it.

With 1920s vaudeville setting the scene, decisions for costumes were made with this in mind.

Lindsey Rowland, a sophomore assistant costume designer, and Rebecca White, theater professor and costume designer, worked together to create the characters’ wardrobe.

Rowland said she researches and studies the script to make sure the clothing pieces chosen are accurate to the time period and overall concept of the show.

Rowland is also the wardrobe master for the show. She and junior Assistant Wardrobe Master Rachel Heine must keep track of all of the costumes in the show.

According to Heine, when deciding on costumes they must

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Some of the costumes used in the show were borrowed from the Broadway production of “Gypsy.”

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consider look, fit and mobility. A lot of the costumes for “Gypsy” were rented from the recent Broadway production of the show.

“The costumes for this show are just really gorgeous,” Rowland said. “It explores vaudeville and burlesque, and those are among the most rich and fun garments to look at. It’s really amazing how, when an actor puts their costume on, they take that final step into their character and really get to feel that identity in a new and exciting way.”

“Gypsy” will also feature a different breed of actor: Mick, a poodle mix, and Sasha Fierce, a lamb. Student Animal Trainers Rachael Bardnell and Zach Paugh are in charge of these animals during the production. The animals have been well-received by the cast and crew.

Henie said that while Mick has been very calm and sweet, Sasha Fierce has been difficult because the trainers aren’t used to working with a lamb. “Luckily, we have plenty of food to keep them happy,” she said.

Paugh said this is his first experience in animal wrangling.

“I find some of the hardest moments on the job is finding

the time to pick up the animal from the barn and making sure it has all of its necessities,” Paugh said.

He said his job is hard because a lamb can’t be trained like a dog can. It won’t go up and down a staircase, so it needs to be carried each time.

Before every appearance on stage, Paugh said he dresses the lamb in a doggie diaper to prevent accidents.

Heine said, “Having living animals in the production is an adventure because you never know what they are going to do.”

WOBN’s biannual 24 Hour Marathon will be held this Friday, April 27th, through Saturday the 28th! Our DJs will be up all night playing the best tunes right in front of the Campus Center!

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Fritsche Theatre at Cowan Hall Performance dates: April 26 at 7:30 p.m.

April 27-28 at 8 p.m.

April 29 at 2 p.m.

May 3-5 at 8 p.m.

Tickets: Each student gets one free ticket with a Cardinal Card.

General admission is $25.

WOBN will be interviewing Otterbein Alumni and there will also be some fun games! So come listen to some great music and join your college radio station in celebrating Alumni Weekend!

arts & entertainment 6 Going to the Zeta house, and we’re gonna get married

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Engaged Otterbein couple ties the knot during a spontaneous late-night ceremony among family and friends

BY LAINA THOMPSON Arts & Entertainment Editor

Friends, family and a dog in a bow tie all crammed into the Zeta Phi fraternity house’s chapter room as Ben Cooper and Patience Barker shared their first kiss as husband and wife.

Eight hours earlier, the couple had no idea they were going to wed that night.

Barker, a junior molecular chemistry major, and former Otterbein student Cooper were married Tuesday night at 11 p.m.

Deciding to marry on a whim, Barker called Cooper at work and asked him if he would like to hold their wedding that night.

The two have been dating for about a year.

They met when Cooper came to Otterbein as a freshman during Barker’s sophomore year.

Barker was friends with Cam Change, a resident assistant in 25 W. Home, where she lived. Cooper became friends with Change while they both played on Otterbein’s football team. When Change first tried to set the two

up, Barker could not stand Cooper and wanted no part in it. The following quarter, Change tried again and the couple hit it off.

They hit it off so well that the following year in March the two were engaged to marry when Cooper proposed to Barker during a Rho Alpha Chi (PAX) sisterhood event.

Barker accepted. She said they are a very spontaneous couple.

“Why not just spontaneously get married?” Barker said.

They planned on going to the courthouse soon to get married, but with a baby on the way and Cooper preparing to enlist in the Army, the couple said the timing just felt right.

Barker said she thought, “Wouldn’t it be funny to just send out a mass text: ‘Getting married at the Zeta house, who wants to come?’”

Their parents are supportive of the wedding. Barker said her parents were initially shocked, but both Barker’s mother and Cooper’s were in attendance.

Barker picked up a cake at Walmart for the reception.

For the wedding, Barker wore a white, single-shoulder dress

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from Nordstrom. Cooper was in jeans and a white button-up shirt. About 30 people were in attendance.

Cooper leaves for basic training in July, but the couple hopes to fit in a honeymoon during the summer. Although they have no

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Patience Barker junior, molecular chemistry plans yet, they figure it will be spontaneous like their wedding was. They also plan on moving in together in the future. Currently, Barker lives in 25 W. Home.

The minister who married the couple was Otterbein student Chelsea Coleman, a junior journalism and public relations

major and a copy editor for the T&C. She obtained her license to become an ordained minister in March.

First, she had to fill out a form online, which took about half an hour and cost $10. After she was approved and sent the appropriate papers in the mail, she registered with the state, which cost her around $50. She then received a certificate and official card. Now she can preside over weddings, funerals and baptisms.

Barker and Cooper selected Coleman to marry them because she is a good friend. Coleman is in PAX with Barker, and the two have been friends since their freshman year.

The couple said they chose the Zeta Phi house because they each care so much about their chapters. Cooper was a member of Zeta before leaving Otterbein and still lives in the house.

In the future, they plan on having a bigger wedding in a church and a reception.

“For now we just want a good ol’ get-together,” Barker said.

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The happy couple signed their marriage licenses shortly after being wed in a fraternity house.

opinion 7 Student examines drug charges and financial aid www.otterbein360.com

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College students are at risk of losing financial aid because of drug charges for crimes they can easily prevent America’s War on Drugs has failed. With an estimated trilliondollar cost, the War on Drugs in America has actually resulted in a small increase in reported drug users as well as creating the largest prison population DENNISON in the world: SLEEPER The United States makes up less than 5 percent of the world’s population, but almost 25 percent of the world’s prison population, according to the New York Times.

And our misguided policies have spilled over into the world of college as well, attacking financial aid and scholarships. This article will focus on how drug charges can affect you and your financial aid, and what to do to avoid such problems.

To date, over 200,000 students have been deemed

ineligible for financial aid due to misdemeanor drug charges, according to the Students for a Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP).

Being convicted of a misdemeanor drug charge can also affect your ability to get government-sponsored aid such as federally funded housing, Free Application for Federal Student Aid approval, Pell Grants and school-run scholarships.

Not only do you lose thousands of dollars in aid when you are charged, but the government requires you to attend federally operated or outsourced rehab programs, which can cost thousands of dollars.

It’s not like the government thinks you really have a drug problem, and if it did it really wouldn’t care about treating it; that’s why jail is so popular.

There are multiple benefits to the government getting you charged: It saves money on loans and grants, it makes money off the rehab centers it runs and, additionally, it receives more fund-

ing if it sends more people to rehabilitation because statistically, it appears there is an increasing drug problem.

In reality this increasing drug problem is an increase in firsttime offenders with marijuana charges.

Let’s pretend some guy with disheveled dreads skateboards by you with a smelly backpack, and he drops a white cigarette-looking thing as he shreds by. You think to yourself, “Wow, that guy sure is radical. Maybe if I imitate him people will think I am radical as well.” So you spark up this mysterious thing you found on the ground, and then an overzealous resident assistant catches a whiff. Before you know it, you’re surrounded by the entirety of Otterbein’s finest, who have made sure to call in backup just in case you decide to fight back, you rebellious hippie, you.

Unless you have an incredibly strong case, like, say, if the cops filmed themselves getting high with you and you all went to see

that new Michael Cera movie where he plays a lovable but awkward underdog, you’re going to get aid suspended for up to a year.

At the end of this year you can reapply to FAFSA, but for many students a year without aid means a year without college. I feel like if you really did have a drug problem before you got charged, losing more money and support probably won’t help the habit.

Making blanket laws to stop people from using drugs is like patching up the Titanic with SpongeBob Band-Aids. If you are going to experiment with drugs or alcohol, that is your choice, but you have to be safe about it.

This means staying in private homes, not driving a car or running around in a gorilla suit while intoxicated. Make an officer work for his or her conviction. Do not assume that honesty will net you a free pass and remember that his or her job is to arrest you.

With school coming to a close shortly and summer right around the corner, you probably have a lot of ideas running through your head. Summer plans such as hiking, long walks on the beach with your significant other, ROBERT swimming and SZABO camping are all healthy activities for college students. Many of you also would like to be in better shape and be happy with taking your shirt off or wearing your swimsuit.

What if I told you that if you start planning now, you could feel great about your body inside and out and enjoy your summer even more?

With May closing in quickly, we don’t have the usual threemonth period to get a photoshoot-ready body that we had under quarters, but that doesn’t mean we can’t start now. The most important factor, considering your time frame, is diet. After

diet comes your exercise routine, which will have to consist of a weight-training routine and cardio.

So, what exactly do you have to do to drop those winter pounds in time for the first day at the beach? The three factors above: diet, weight training and cardio.

Here on campus, we are lucky enough to have a great catering service, Bon Appétit, which not only has healthy options every day, but accepts requests and follows through with them very quickly. You’re going to have to drop your calories lower than what your body needs in order to lose weight. You can find many tools online to give you your daily requirements. Subtract 500 from that number, and you’ll be easily losing a pound a week.

Now, what to eat? I always recommend starting off with a salad consisting of as many vegetables as you’d like and topped with three whole eggs. Dressing is optional, but remember it is part of your calorie count. By

doing this, your body obtains vitamins and minerals from great, fresh sources.

These foods tend to also be low-calorie for the weight they carry. The entire salad mentioned above has no more than 400 calories, compared to the small portion of mashed potatoes you may have chosen instead. Other foods I recommend would be fruits, whole grains such as wheat bagels and lean proteins such as chicken, eggs and tuna. As for tracking calories, I would suggest using an online program, such as MyFitnessPal, which even has an app for Android and iPhone.

Cardio: Some love it, some hate it. An easy solution is to just walk. Use the treadmill, go to the park, go wherever. I’ve lost more pounds this way than I have with any other method. When you keep your heart rate at around 120 beats per minute, the body tends to use fat as fuel.

Walkers, try 40-60 minutes a day of continuous activity.

Runners, try to keep it around 30 minutes to spare muscle tissue.

In weight training publications, you’ll find whole workout routines telling you to do this and that. Well, we have two months at max. So what do I suggest? Just go. Grab a buddy and go grab some weights. Watch others or even ask for help. Use what you feel comfortable using and do it right. There are plenty of videos on YouTube showing how to do different exercises online.

This will make your body healthier on the inside and out, but it won’t make you into a fitness model or a bodybuilder. It takes years upon years of strict dedication to reach a physique like that.

You will see improvements, however, and will be amazed at how beautiful your body is becoming. If you are truly wanting to improve yourself, take this advice and expand on it. Even doing one of these will help you improve your health. t&c ROBERT SZABO IS A JUNIOR

You have the legal right to deny a search of your things without a warrant, and you have the right to ask an officer if you are free to go. If the officer says you are not, then you are being detained and he or she must charge you with a crime.

Check out flexyourrights. org for a quick rundown of what to do when approached by an officer. These provisions are harsh because they save the government time and effort, but this is money you earned.

You are going to do things that aren’t acceptable, and sometimes you are going to break the law.

I’m not advocating either. But it is important to know how to screw up while limiting the consequences. Remember how little mistakes now can mean big problems later.

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BIOCHEMISTRY MAJOR AND A STAFF WRITER FOR THE t&c.

• Sleeping more helps you maintain a healthy metabolism.

• So does eating breakfast.

• Eat many small meals instead of a few big ones.

• Walk and use the stairs more.

• Drink coffee or tea in the morning.

• Substitute empty calories for whole grains.

• Use fat-free salad dressings or dips.

• Stay active • Look up YouTube videos of new workouts before hitting the gym.

sports 8 On track to perform well at upcoming OACs

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Men’s and women’s track and field excelled last weekend with many runners earning their personal best times

BY MORGAN HENDRICKSON Staff Writer

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As the track and field season winds down, the Cardinals prepare for the Ohio Athletic Conference Championship at Wilmington, reflect on their season and set goals for the remaining part of the year.

Last Saturday, the women’s and men’s track teams traveled to the Kenyon Spring Invitational.

The meet was not scored as a team competition, but personal bests on both the men’s and women’s teams were broken.

The day started out with senior Wesley Pierson winning the 110-meter hurdles. Freshman Devon Fitzgerald took third, and freshman Daniel Pfeffer followed behind with a fifth-place finish at 16.53 seconds.

For the women’s 100-meter hurdle event, sophomore Rachel

McKeever won with freshman Abbey Gray close behind in second place with a time of 16.10 seconds, a personal best. Senior Sammie Corbin placed seventh.

Corbin looks back at the Kenyon Invitational with disappointment. “I have had great practices, but just haven’t put it on the track during a meet yet. I am a little frustrated, but excited for conference, where it really counts,” she said. Even though Corbin is not completely healed from an ongoing injury, she is happy she has been able to run her last couple of meets.

The men took over the pole vault, with senior Karl Wunderle winning the event after clearing 15 feet and junior Aaric Milligan placing third. Freshman Cory Wunderle cleared 14 feet and beat a personal record as well.

Karl Wunderle said taking first in a field of other talented

pole vaulters gave him a boost of confidence going into conference week.

He said that this season has been a tough one. “I have had

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my ups and downs and not competed as well as I expected, but I have learned a lot recently,” he said.

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Karl Wunderle’s goal for the remainder of the season is to compete at the national level. He hopes to become All-American.

For the women’s pole vault, junior Jordan Long won the event and matched her personal best with 10 feet and 11 3/4 inches.

For the men, sophomore Kyle Jefferson finished fifth at 11.37 seconds, a personal record.

Junior Arnez Franklin placed second in the 400-meter dash, and sophomore Andrew Mantell finished seventh with 52.11 seconds, also a personal record.

The women’s 100-meter dash had all three of the Lady Cardinals beating their personal best times. Sophomore Jasmine Troyer finished third with 13.14 seconds, while freshman Altheria Siler followed with 13.18 seconds. Freshman Kristen Norris placed sixth with 13.43 seconds.

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For the 400-meter dash, sophomore Kailia Cramer placed seventh with a time of 1:06.28, a personal record.

For the 800-meter dash, junior Rebekah Reese placed third with a personal record time of 2:24.91.

For the 1,500-meter run, senior Andie Pautsch ran her personal best time of 5:12.97 and took ninth place.

For women’s long jump, freshmen Norris and Gray both showed an impressive place in events again. Norris placed second with 15 feet and 4 3/4 inches, and Gray took third with 14 feet and 10 1/2 inches.

The men and women will compete at Wilmington for the OAC Championship April 27-28.

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