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Led by former Editor-in-Chief Lindsey Hobbs, the T&C staff earns recognition After two years and repeated public records denials, a national journalism award has recognized the T&C and previous staff member Lindsey Hobbs’ efforts to effectively cover public safety at Otterbein.

The T&C and Lindsey Hobbs received the Betty Gage Holland award for excellence in college journalism last Thursday.

The award recognized the paper for a series about disclosure of public police records on a private college campus.

The Holland Award is sponsored by the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and is one of the most prestigious awards available for college journalists.

The T&C series reported on the university’s transition from a security force to a police depart-

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ment in 2011 and the restriction of public information.

The T&C challenged the university to provide public records in accordance with state laws.

In October of 2012, Robert Gatti, Otterbein’s vice president and dean for Student Affairs, responded to the articles by stating that the limitation of the police records was in the best interest of the students, helping to protect their privacy.

As this situation has continued, the T&C has received support and encouragement from Randy Ludlow of the Columbus Dispatch, Mark Horvit of Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc., the late Jeff Donahue of This Week Community News and Frank LoMonte of the Student Press Law Center. “(Hobbs) and her reporters have spotlighted crucial short-

comings in America’s transparency laws, enabling private colleges to exercise state police powers while evading public accountability,” LoMonte said in the press release issued by the University of Georgia.

As is stands now, the T&C is continuing to press the university to change its policies and is working in conjunction with the SPLC to pursue legal options.

Otterbein has continued to refuse requests for police records.

Last week, Otterbein student and Otterbein360.com staff writer Josh Overholser was denied access to an incident report from Otterbein police department regarding a public indecency complaint.

Disclosure of public records is an important means of ensuring that university students can

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Drug abuse and paraphernalia was reported at Dunlap King Hall.

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Criminal mischief was reported in the Campus Center East Lot.

4/20 Underage consumption, hosting, drug abuse, paraphernalia and receiving stolen property, such as street signs, were reported at 79 South Grove St. 4/20

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According to the Otterbein University Police Daily Crime Log, the following has been reported between April 13 and April 23.

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have faith in the law enforcement system. Students deserve information about campus safety.

While the Holland Award makes special mention of Lindsey Hobbs, this has been a team effort. Mike Cirelli, Katie Taggart, Evan Matsumoto, Lindsay Paulsen, Jeremy Morgan, AnaJaye’ Diggs, Turp Ricketts and Josh Overholser have all contributed to this project.

Despite the T&C’s upcoming transition to a magazine supplemented by the daily website Otterbein360.com, we remain committed to seeking safety information to better inform the campus community.

Underage consumption was reported at College and Grove streets. information compiled by chelsea coleman

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Also check out a slideshow of the featured students.

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Created Equal demonstration received with student resistance

By Evan MatsuMoto Web Editor

This semester is flying by!

Created Equal, a Gahannabased anti-abortion organization, set up signs of aborted fetuses on the sidewalk in front of Otterbein’s Campus Center Tuesday.

The group’s goal was to spark conversation about abortion with students. During the event, Created Equal encountered multiple opponents, including a spontaneous pro-abortion rally that formed across the street. “(College campuses) should be the place where we exchange these types of ideas, even as controversial as they are,” said Mark Harrington, executive director of Created Equal, who was at the event. “If anywhere, this is the marketplace.”

Videos on Created Equal’s website, createdequal.net, show students at other universities taking signs down.

Senior creative writing major, Jessica Bryant, did just that.

“If I knock down a sign, which I did, they tell me it might be criminal mischief,” Bryant said. “Arrest me.”

The signs showed pieces of aborted fetuses on a dollar bill and a child’s face, among others,

aborted at different stages of pregnancy.

“It’s not about (Created Equal’s) viewpoints, which I think they are able to express, but it is absolutely about these pictures,” Bryant said.

Created Equal sent notice to Otterbein that they would be set up from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday. They did not, however, need permission. The sidewalk in front of the Campus Center is public property, not the property of the university.

Hannah Farver, a senior women’s gender and sexuality studies major, sat in the grass across the street with a group of students holding handmade signs on pieces of cardboard. Among the makeshift signs were Planned Parenthood banners.

“I saw (this event) on Facebook through some of my classmates, so I decided to come out here and protest,” Farver said. “I do intern with Planned Parenthood down in Columbus.”

Farver does advocacy work for Planned Parenthood, which sometimes means going to hearings for proposed laws. Recently, Farver and Planned Parenthood have been in a debate about House Bill 298, which prioritizes

funding for family planning programs.

This kind of reaction from Otterbein was typical of other college campuses, Harrington said. Created Equal has been to Ohio State University, Ohio University, Capital University and Columbus State recently, and he said each student body is similar and therefore produces a similar reaction.

Otterbein police were on the scene to keep the peace and, even though there was opposition to Created Equal, no arrests were made.

Groups from the organization visit campuses once a week. After leaving Otterbein for the day, they planned to set up at Westerville South High School.

The graphic nature of the pictures was too much for some students. Students walked by frequently and exchanged words with the pro-life group. Some even cheered on the pro-choice rally.

“Open a dialogue, have a conversation. I’m fine with that,” Bryant said. “This is overkill and ridiculous, and I can’t believe Otterbein can’t do anything about it.”

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Dancers travel road to Rockettes

By Josh Park Arts & Entertainment Editor

Becoming a Rockette was a persistent idea in Kelly Loschelder’s mind. At age 10, she did her first dance solo to “I Want to be a Rockette,” by Debbie Gravitte.

A decade later, the sophomore math education major and dance minor would be that much closer to becoming what she envisioned as a child.

The Rockettes, a precision dance company, have become eponymous for their jazz, tap and kickline numbers, where the all-female ensemble kick their feet to eye level in unison in one long line across the stage. They also make annual performances for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade as well as “Radio City Christmas Spectacular.”

On Feb. 10, Loschelder and Kelsey Gorman, a senior psychology and public relations major and dance minor, arrived with nerves at Civic Light Opera Academy’s Rockettes Summer Intensive audition in Pittsburgh.

At 2 p.m., the two began stretching in a long hallway cramped with girls in tan tights, high cut leotards and three-inch heels. The girls scanned the room and stared at one another, eyeing them up and down to gauge the competition. Not everyone would make it through the Rockettes Summer Intensive audition.

The audition process followed. About 80 girls piled into one room and learned classic

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Rockettes numbers as well as tap dances in front of the judges.

Individually, they performed before the judges, doing pirouettes, or body turns common in ballet, and a tap number.

“You just do the best and hope they see your technique,” Gorman said. “It was just hard for Kelly and me because we had never been exposed to this type of dancing, as I’m sure a lot of those girls haven’t.”

Those accepted into the Summer Intensive are further exposed to Rockettes training through the company’s dancers and choreographers. After the Intensive, dancers are not guaranteed a spot on the Rockettes.

However, the experience and training achieved through the weeklong process has become a segue into the Rockettes, as more than 50 Intensive dancers have moved on to become dancers for the company, according to rockettes.com.

Loschelder was in Mexico on her last day of vacation, March 22, the day she received an email from the Rockettes Summer Intensive. Upon reading, she found out she was accepted into the program. While family and friends were excited for her, she felt she needed to contain her excitement upon telling Gorman.

At that time, Gorman had not received any notification that she was accepted, and both girls worried that Gorman was rejected from the program.

“I was so upset because I didn’t get an email,” Gorman

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Gorman and Loschelder dance in their 9 a.m. dance class.

said. “(Kelly) didn’t want to get excited because she didn’t want me to feel bad. I called her and screamed at her, ‘You know, you need to be happy.’”

It wasn’t until that upcoming Wednesday when Gorman received an email saying she would be in the program, too.

Gorman called Loschelder, and the two were screaming through the phone.

The Summer Intensive occurs seven times over the summer at Radio City Music Hall with seven different groups of girls. Loschelder and Gorman happened to be randomly placed in the same week of July 21 through the 26.

During the week, they will be taking class every day from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. where they will have several jazz, tap and kickline classes. This is all to prepare for a final show on their last day.

While both girls have been dancing since they were about 3 years old, they both said the Rockettes’ technique and choreography is vastly different from anything they’ve learned before.

Gorman said it’s their way or the highway.

“Your finger has to be precisely at 45 degrees or you’re not going to make it,” Gorman said.

“That’s how specific it is. It’s really scary.”

Gorman and Loschelder, who practice about five hours of dancing a day, will do double that in the Intensive week. Gorman said this will be very interesting and incredibly challenging to their bodies and minds.

“There is so much to learn about the Rockettes, and this experience will really help future auditions for the Rockettes,” Loschelder said.

While Gorman has two majors, she said dance has and will be her focus in life. Being a Rockette is a goal, but Gorman said her primary goal is to teach.

In a couple years, she said she would love to pursue a Master’s degree in dance and teach at the college level. Of course, that’s after signing a four-month contract with the Rockettes if she happens to get it.

During the spring semester of her senior year, Loschelder said she will audition for the Rockettes, and with her Intensive experience behind her, she hopes to be a Rockette.

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Donica shatters stereotypes about ‘How to Succeed’

By Lindsay PauLsen Editor-in-Chief

Jordan Donica walks with the swagger of an athlete, speaks with the booming voice of a singer and exudes the presence of an actor.

He does not appear to be a stereotypical theater student, as his tall, lanky frame dressed in swishy athletic pants and a quarter-zip sweatshirt make him look more like he was plucked from a weight room rather than a stage.

The freshman BFA musical theater major from Indiana has a lead role as J. Pierrepont Finch in Otterbein’s rendition of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.”

Donica was born in Minnesota and then lived in Chicago and Tennessee as well, but didn’t pursue acting until he moved to Indiana when he turned 8 years old.

He went to a Catholic high school in Indianapolis and grew up playing basketball and football, as well as doing theater.

“It made me more disciplined,” he said. “In order to do all of those things, you have to have good grades. And so, it really helped me focus more. I think that if I wasn’t involved in all that, I would have just kind of laid around and not done anything.”

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As a part of his school’s theater program and as a player on the football team, Donica balanced two different identities.

“I played football,” he said.

“I was on the team, but I wasn’t good until junior year, so the people on the football team freshman and sophomore year kind of made fun of me. I was the kid who played, but not really, so people made fun of me.”

In high school theater world, his identity was a different story.

“I made an impact in the theater world my freshman year,” he said. “So they were like, ‘Oh, you play football, too, so it’s cool you can do that.’”

Donica said that he finally earned respect from his teammates on the football team after he devoted the summer after his sophomore year of high school to improving at football.

“I’m one of those people that if I’m not good at something I’m interested in, I’ll work as hard as I can to be good,” he said.

His hard work paid off, as he started for the varsity football team during his junior year.

Off the field, Donica’s love for theater began after seeing “The Phantom of the Opera” when he was a kid.

“My ultimate goal, like my dream, is to be the phantom of the opera,” he said.

“I’ve seen it five times. It was the show that made me realize

that I wanted to do theater.”

Donica said that one of his main goals in theater is to change people’s views regarding stereotypes of what kind of person could play a certain role.

“What a lot of people these days think of when they think of ‘How to Succeed,’ they imagine Daniel Radcliffe, who played J. Pierrepont Finch, or Robert Moore or Matthew Broderick,” he said. “Short little white guys, and that’s what I thought, too.”

While Donica explained the importance of shattering stereotypes on stage, it sounded like he could have almost been talking about his own identity as an individual who balanced the role of an actor and an athlete.

In fact, Donica said that he discovered Otterbein his junior year of high school when he was initially looking at Ashland University to play football.

His aunt, who lives in Columbus, encouraged him to visit Otterbein and investigate the musical theater program. He was reluctant at first, but soon fell in love with the school.

“If I didn’t get in to Otterbein for musical theater, I’d be playing football somewhere else,” he said. “It’s kind of like fate.”

Here at Otterbein, he said that he loves the close-knit feel of the theater community and the emphasis on ensemble and support.

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Donica performs the male lead in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.”

“Yeah, we all compete for roles, but no matter what happens, we’re all there for each other,” he said. “At the drop of a hat, we would all go into battle for each other and would all have each other’s backs.”

Donica explained that there are a lot of theater communities where the attitude tends to be every man for himself, but that’s not the case at Otterbein.

“You can see that obviously in the lunchroom and theater people walking down sidewalks in packs,” he said.

But when he leaves the Otterbein community in future years, Donica said that he has a long list of things he hopes to accomplish.

He wants to be a teacher. He wants to be a director. He wants to be on Broadway, too. But that’s not the end of it.

“I obviously want to be on Broadway,” he said. “I’ve learned that (Broadway) is an awesome destination, but I’ve learned that

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that’s not the end-all, be-all of theater. Once you get there, all you can do is keep growing.”

Donica said that he hopes to avoid an office job and always be acting.

“As long as I keep growing in my craft,” Donica said. “I will be satisfied no matter what I’m doing.”

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When words collide

By Evan MatsuMoto Web Editor

Blue painter’s tape held a thick piece of paper onto a large metal drum. The crank attached turned smoothly as it propelled the drum over the top of the letterpress.

Carly Marburger cranked the drum back to reveal an embossed Shakespeare quote.

She pulled the paper away from the drum, examined it and set it on a pile of discarded paper and scrap cardboard that all experienced a similar beginning.

The old machine is a No. 14 Vandercook Proof Press.

Marburger, who is a sophomore English education and art double major, has a job working with the press and teaching others how to use it.

“This one is still wet,” Marburger said as she held one of the scrapped pieces. “Usually, the first one is a little too inky.”

The ink she used on the letters was still shiny like fresh paint.

The words pressed into the paper are Theseus’s from Act 5, Scene 1 of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

“And as imagination bodies forth,” Theseus said, “The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen/turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing/a local habitation and a name.”

A professor’s husband donated the letterpress to Otterbein in spring 2012.

It came with a number of mostly-complete font sets, though lots of the individual letters were oxidized or covered in ink.

“I am planning to do an independent study,” Marburger said of her work with the press.

“And I don’t know how much I’ll use (the press) yet. I’m still kind of in a ‘figuring-things-out’ sort of phase.”

Marburger has been an artist since she was young, but her career was almost derailed before it even began.

“I always kind of did art as a kid, but I never thought ‘Oh, I

profile could do this as a career,’” Marburger said.

When school forced her to follow a teacher’s directions for her art, she quit taking visual arts classes. She fulfilled her high school art requirement by taking a choir class instead.

It wasn’t until she took a twoyear independent art class during her junior and senior years of high school that her career path shifted from marine biology to people and art.

“When I realized I wanted to work with people, I went the teacher route,” she said. Although she originally wanted to teach art, Marburger decided to focus on English instead.

Visual art and English aren’t unrelated for the Westerville native, though. Through a few creative writing classes and a poetry class required for her English major, she began to see a relationship between the two disciplines.

“I really saw a connection in my creative processes in both mediums and how we can connect words to images,” Marburger said. “We do that all the time without even realizing it.”

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Julianne D’Errico uses her skills to sew, paint and design the set

By Clark Tieman Staff Writer

Julianne D’Errico is a lot of things: a star student, a featured artist, a Greenworm sister, a soon-to-be graduate and, as of last summer, a working professional.

D’Errico, a 22-year-old senior BFA theatre design and technology major, signed on last year as a summer crafts artisan of the Glimmerglass Festival, one of the leading repertory opera theatre companies in the country.

This summer, D’Errico will be returning to Glimmerglass Festival, which is housed annually in Cooperstown, N.Y. After leaving near the end of May for a 12-week contract, she will be one of three artisans working full time for the company.

While at Glimmerglass, D’Errico does what she refers to as “detail work” on costumes and accessories.

Last year, D’Errico applied to Glimmerglass as an intern in order to receive a required internship credit to complete her BFA degree. When she arrived, she was surprised to learn that she had actually been hired on not as an intern, but as a fully contracted employee.

“I thought I was just going to be some intern, but then I got there. They were like, ‘Oh, yeah, you’re a staff member,’” D’Errico said as she climbed onto a ladder on the Fristche stage in Cowan Hall. “I said, ‘Um, okay,’ and that was that.”

This year, she said she will be in a very similar situation.

“Last year, I worked in their craft shop,” she said. “I did hats, shoes, accessories. I did a lot of dying and painting. I altered shoes and stuff for all four Glimmerglass shows.”

D’Errico’s work at Glimmerglass last summer helped her tackle an experience not often granted to students at Otterbein:

the chance to fully design a mainstage production for the theater department.

D’Errico was granted creative control of costume design for this past fall’s production of Spring Awakening.

“I found out in May of 2012 that I was doing Spring Awakening,” D’Errico said. “They rarely give a full production-design position to a student. You really have to earn it and prove yourself.”

When she came back from Glimmerglass, she could make all the hats and painted shoes to her liking for Spring Awakening.

After spending May through July at Glimmerglass, D’Errico will return to school, this time at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh for a Masters in Fine Arts.

CMU is recognized by multiple publications, including U.S. News and World Report, as having one of the top three theatre programs in the nation.

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D’Errico sews, cuts and hems her way to a perfect dress.

D’Errico said that the application process was intense.

She had to put together a portfolio of all of her work, transcripts and cover letter to send in.

She was then asked for a personal interview with the entire design faculty and department head. A day after the review, she got offered a spot.

After Carnegie Mellon, she

said that costume design in general is her main focus.

“I want to work in theater. Or music videos. Or movies,” she said, wiping some paint off of her fingers onto a rag. “The sky’s the limit, you know? That sort of thing.”

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Golfer looks back on family heritage at Otterbein

Senior Taylor Harle, winner of OAC player of the week, continues a family tradition while competing on the golf course

By Kendra Schwarz Staff Writer

From standing next to the 2002 cardinal mascot on Otterbein’s old basketball floor to wearing the Otterbein cardinal logo on his polo as he gets ready to tee off, Taylor Harle has always had a special place in his heart for Otterbein.

Harle, a senior secondary math education major, was raised by two Otterbein graduates who took him and his sister around campus and to various basketball games when they were kids.

Growing up, Harle and his father would play golf together as a fun activity, but it grew into a love for the sport.

“When applying for colleges, the big decision was whether or not I wanted to play golf,” Harle said. “I knew if I wanted to play golf, I would have to go to a division II or division III school.”

After looking at schools like Ashland University, Wittenberg University, Miami University and Ohio State, Harle said Otterbein was where he wanted to spend the next four years.

“I knew I was going to have great opportunities with athletics and academics,” Harle said.

“I was never the biggest kid, so I knew football wasn’t a good sport for me. Golf was perfect because you don’t always have to be the biggest, strongest or the fastest.”

Coming in as a freshmen, Harle and the golf team made it to nationals, which took place in Hershey, Pa. “I played really well at nationals, which was really exciting as a freshman because going in, I didn’t really have high expectations,” he said. “Making it there was a great accomplishment.”

After a great first year, Harle said he hit a sophomore slump but came back strong his junior year making it to nationals again.

But, Harle said his greatest accomplishment came this spring, when he won his first tournament and received the medalist title at the OAC spring invitational.

“I was even par through 45 holes,” Harle said. “It was a great feeling. I had never been in that position before to win my first

tournament, so the last couple holes I just wanted to par out and not make any mistakes.”

With that performance, Harle also received OAC Player of the Week this past Monday.

Harle said he is humbled by the entire experience, even with the excitement from winning his first ever medalist title.

“It’s been great,” he said. “All the hard work I put in the past three years has definitely been worth it this final year.”

For three years, Harle has been coached by Matt Cooperrider the head men’s golf coach.

“The kid, I have the utmost respect for as a person,” Cooperrider said. “He is a coach’s dream. He understands the role he plays on the team and understands his talent that he manages on the golf course.”

At every Ohio tournament, Harle could look out into the crowd and see his family.

“My family is always there supporting me,” Harle said. “I

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love having them there to watch, it’s great.”

Not only does it take concentration and a love for the game, but Harle said his emotions were one thing that set him apart from his opponents and has made him the golfer he is today.

“I never get too excited,” Harle said. “I never get too down on myself, and that is the thing that you really need to be a successful golfer. Things change from hole to hole — you never know what is going to happen.”

“He is peaking at the best time,” Cooperrider said. “He couldn’t of scripted it better.”

Being a big asset on the Otterbein golf team, Harle has also worked to help in many different areas other than just a player.

Harle has worked as a station manager and video coordinator on the team all four years and said the friendships he made would not have been possible without that experience.

“It was really cool to see two

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Taylor and Alissa Harle take a photo with Cardy wearing their 2002 Otterbein basketball championship shirts.

completely different coaching styles,” he said. “I made some great friends, and that group of friends are a group of friends I would never have if it wasn’t for Coach Reynolds.”

Once Harle receives his diploma, he hopes to teach around the central Ohio area, as well as coach at the middle or high school level in any sport.

Harle’s younger sister and sophomore public relations major Alissa Harle said she is proud of him as a golfer and for earning medalist honors.

“He is great,” she said. “I couldn’t be more proud to call him my brother. He is going to be an excellent teacher and an excellent coach.”

Looking back on his four years at Otterbein and reminiscing about his childhood that was strongly influenced by Otterbein, Harle said he couldn’t be hap-

pier with his choice to keep the Harle-Otterbein tradition alive.

“It has been unbelievable,” Harle said. “I would not have changed it for anything in the world. I will cherish it forever.”

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