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Sending Uptown under the knife City Council hopes to maximize State Street’s economic growth potential with a revamp

BY LINDSAY PAULSEN AND KATIE TAGGART Contributing Writers

Tired of antiquing?

Plans for shopping, entertainment and parking improvements are in the works to maximize Uptown’s economic growth.

Developers have also suggested opening an “Otterbein University store” as well as additional entertainment venues that would capitalize on the university’s theatre program.

These changes are currently under discussion by the Westerville City Council and the Uptown Review Board. During a council meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 13, members assessed suggestions for improvements that would introduce more shopping, entertainment and parking opportunities.

According to a market report produced by Randall Gross/Development Economics, Uptown Westerville is home to almost 80 retail establishments totaling around 150,000 square feet, and some stores are in need of cosmetic and structural attention.

In order to fix these problems, a facade improvement plan has been created.

Aspects of the plan include Uptown come to take advantage the restoration of historical of the local dining opportunities facades, the replacement and while only 11 percent come to repairs of shutters and archishop. One objective of the plan tectural features, landscape is to encourage the establishimprovement and awning instalment of more specialty retail lation and replacement. These stores that will attract shoppers. changes should help to increase Uptown seeks to promote the the aesthetic appeal of the area. establishment of stores such as While the city women’s apparel, of Westerville electronics and has budan OtterIf Uptown Westerville is even geted up to bein University $100,000 per more vibrant looking, it store.Many stuyear for improvements, dents seem to will be more vibrant. changes defavor the idea of pend on the a more vibrant initiative of Uptown, but Mike Heyeck the business others are opowners. posed.

Westerville council chair Council “I think the Chair Mike whole idea is Heyeck said, dumb,” fresh“If Uptown Westerville is more man music and psychology major vibrant looking, it will be more Taylor Lehotay said “We have vibrant.”

Polaris and Easton. We don’t According to the research need anything else. Anything conducted by Randall Gross/ that would prolong my commute Development Economics, the would upset me greatly.” majority of the Uptown retail Their business development stores are locally owned. Surveys strategy also suggests tapping conducted by Randall Gross/ into the entertainment market Development Economics reveal by providing a greater number that half the people who visit of venues. Family entertainment

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complexes, game and video stores, cinemas and stage theatres are all up for consideration.

These venues could possibly accommodate Otterbein performances.

According to council, the issue of parking availability has always been a concern, and they are currently investigating options to improve conditions.

“Getting through there during rush hour is terrible,” sophomore early childhood education major Kaitlyn Jones said.

Research by Randall Gross/ Development Economics states that there are at least 11 free parking lots available to shoppers, but space availability still remains an issue. Some council members proposed the construction of a parking garage, but this prospect raised concern over available space and visual appeal.

Mayor Kathy Cocuzzi suggested the improvement of bicycle parking conditions due to the widespread use of bike trails throughout the city.

A presentation on Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. at City Chambers will include further details on these plans to improve the Uptown district. t&c

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President Krendl awarded

President Kathy Krendl was one of 15 recognized as Ohio’s most powerful and influential women at the fourth annual Ohio Diversity and Leadership Conference.

This honor is based on criteria such as demonstrated leadership and commitment to community well-being.

Among Krendl’s accomplishments are Otterbein’s name change from college to university, a growing number of online courses and an associate-to-baccalaureate degree articulation agreement with six two-year institutions.

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The “I am a” section of Otterbein’s website is meant to showcase the school’s many opportunities.

Website features fake students Temporary photos to be replaced after campus reshoot conducted

BY MELISSA KENT Staff Writer

Recognize the students in the “I am a” section of Otterbein’s new website? Chances are you don’t.

The photos of non-students came from a stock photo website through Otterbein’s marketing agency.

The design team chose to do this temporarily so that there would be a consistent theme and common background to all of the photos, according to Jenny Hill, director of marketing and communications.

Hill also said no cost was associated with the stock photos.

The most recent admission photos, which were taken back in the spring, weren’t positioned properly for use in the “I am a” section of the website, but they were able to be used elsewhere on the site, Hill said.

“We plan to reshoot Otterbein students within the next month to get a similar look,” Hill said.

“We wanted a consistent look to each photo and will soon get that now that students are on

campus and we conduct a photo shoot.”

Kylie Cassidy, senior middle childhood education major, said it would be a nice way to give back to students by having them take photos and be models for the website.

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Jenny Hill director of marketing and communications Currently, the marketing and communications department is accepting photo submissions from students, as well as volunteers for photos.

For all the photos seen on the website and other publications on campus, Otterbein hires a photographer to come and photograph the grounds.

The marketing department sets aside approximately $2,500

for new admission photography, which is used in all admission photos, according to Hill.

Otterbein uses the photos in different admission and marketing publications and on the website, according to Ben Shoemaker, senior associate director of admission and enrollment data analyst.

“Each year, we do our best to bring a photographer to campus so that we can capture images and expand our photography library of Otterbein,” Shoemaker said.

Models or real students aside, Hill said the new website has been well received by alumni who have commented that they like the new design, and she said that most students have enjoyed it as well.

Joshua Daniel, freshman psychology major, said, “I liked the old one better. This one seems more complicated. It looks nice, though.”

According to Hill, the website was not only redesigned, but also built on a new content management system that will now save the university $13,000 a year in outside service fees. t&c

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Otterbein moves up

Otterbein University has jumped from the 16th to the 14th ranked university in the U.S. News and World report in the 2012 Regional Universities Midwest since last year.

Otterbein was among 146 colleges and universities in the Midwest that offer a full range of undergraduate and some master’s programs with few doctoral programs. Last year Otterbein was named an “Up-and-Comer”

by U.S. News.

There are 15 measures of “academic excellence” the rankings are based on.

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New student interest group raises questions Before becoming an official campus fraternity, the men must meet specific requirements and earn approval

BY JOSH ADKINS News Editor

A new student interest group on campus will remain a student interest group until it fulfills specific requirements to become a fraternity.

Currently, nine men have an interest in forming an Otterbein chapter of the national fraternity Phi Delta Theta.

Jake Ramirez, president of the Interfraternal Council, said he’s trying to remain neutral and that there are pros and cons to a national fraternity taking its place at Otterbein.

“It all depends on how things pan out. Some fraternities are meant for certain campuses and some aren’t,” Ramirez said.

While some students are concerned of the impact that

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bringing another national fraternity to campus would have, Ramirez doesn’t think its national status should be the main qualm.

Ramirez wouldn’t elaborate further on his concerns.

Colleen Grant, president of Epsilon Kappa Tau, said her chapter supports the addition of a new fraternity.

“This new interest group can provide another option for men to look into, possibly increasing the amount of men interested in Greek Life as a whole, or even just Otterbein in general,” Grant said.

Otterbein President Kathy Krendl said, “At this point, my sense is that we respect the right for students to organize and join associations to promote their common interest.”

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“Each of these groups will discuss at great length the advantages and disadvantages of adding another fraternity at Otterbein, and there will be ample opportunity for students to participate in this process,” she said.

Mike Stumpf, the assistant director of the Center for Student Involvement and director of Greek Life, said it’s important to remember that a new fraternity will still have a set of rules it must follow. “(A new fraternity) is expected to follow the same rules that all other groups follow.”

While Stumpf was a member of Phi Delta Theta during his time at Iowa Wesleyan College, he said that was not the reason the students are inter-

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He said students aren’t limited when it comes to forming these groups.

“We’re not about limiting students’ choice of freedom of association,” he said.

In a recruitment attempt, members of the interest group asked sororities for the names of men who may be interested in joining.

Stumpf said this attempt does not violate fraternity recruitment policies, but sororities are encouraged to follow a more structured process. t&c

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ested in bringing this particular fraternity to campus.

“A group of students came last school year, and the leader of the group has family who are Phi Delts,” Stumpf said.

Currently, none of the prospective members have gone through any pledging process, Stumpf said.

While Otterbein’s Interfraternal Council bylaws say 10 men are required to form a fraternity, the new interest group won’t go through an official education period until they have acquired 25 members, required by Phi Delta Theta’s national headquarters.

After the group obtains 40 members, they will leave “colony status” and become a full-fledged chapter, according to Stumpf.

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wednesday, sept. 21, 2011

New shooter sets the bar for winter releases The third installment of Gears of War wows one T&C gamer with its epic storyline and new co-op mode

BY LAINA THOMPSON Contributing Staff

The wait is finally over.

Those who have followed Marcus and the other members of the Coalition of Ordered Governments since the beginning can finally see how their story ends. After fighting the locust for two games, they think they have finally won.

Having sunk their city in the conclusion of “Gears of War 2,” the COG army has moved to an island. They thought they were safe until a new enemy started showing up, the Lambent. The Lambent infected what is left of the Locust, the enemy from the previous two games, and now both enemies are out to claim the world under the order of none other than Queen Myrrah.

Marcus also finds out that his father, thought to be dead in the earlier games, is alive and has a solution to save humanity. His father has been kidnapped and

the COGs must fight harder than they ever have to rescue him and ultimately end the war.

New to the series is a fourplayer co-op of the storyline.

The first player will play as either Marcus or Cole Train, depending where he or she is in the story, and everyone else will be assigned another character in the old gang. I like that you can play as multiple players, but when I was playing with my boyfriend, I was stuck playing a character I’m not fond of and that took away from my experience.

The storyline itself is heartwrenching. All the towns the characters once lived in are in ruins, most of humanity has turned to dust figures, entire towns are underwater and — spoiler alert — one of the main COGs doesn’t live to fight along his brothers to the very end.

The COGs are worn down and saving Marcus’ father is everyone’s last hope. Their emotions really bleed through to the player as they explore the final game in this journey.

New weapons will aid them in fighting the war. Some of these include the Retro Lancer, the One Shot and Incendiary Grenades.

While the new weapons are cool, I still prefer the old Lancer of previous games.

New Locust enemies will also be met, along with all of the new Lambent enemies.

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The Gears of War series isn’t the average shooter, as the player has a third person point of view.

when not playing co-op, the main character is always surrounded by at least four others from his or her side. This time they actually help shoot and pick injured people up instead of just standing there in previous games. This makes taking down Berserkers an easy task.

Completely new to the series is Beast Mode. Beast Mode follows the same concept of Horde from “Gears of War 2,” where the player is a COG fighting off waves of Locust enemies, except Beast flips the objective of Horde upside down. Now the player is the enemy, using special attacks to fight members of the COG army. The best part about Beast is that by earning money and experience, bigger and badder beasts can be bought, which keeps the mode fresh and challenging.

Developer Epic Games did not use it to its full potential, however. A similar mode to the versus mode of the Left 4 Dead series would have made it so much more fun. That way, instead of fighting artificial intelligence COGs, the beasts would be pitted against actual people playing the army. aMaZon.coM Another issue in the gears 360: There are several different variations of the game that can be game is the slightly rebought, including an Xbox 360 bundle with the game and two controllers.

petitiveness of gameplay. Going from room to room and defending those rooms takes up much of the story mode.

Could this be the end to the Gears of War series? Hopefully not. But if it is, what a wonderful way to go out. t&c

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According to T&C food critic Vinny Sanfillipo, guac with queso during Happy Hour costs around $3.

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Rancho Alegre offers in-house hot sauce and unique queso sauce

BY VINNY SANFILLIPO Contributing Writer

Whenever the semester gets too stressful, I endeavor to find a small escape to help me get through it.

Open since the spring, Rancho Alegre on Cleveland Avenue and I-270 offers that kind of escape. Relatively high ceilings, a fun color scheme, soft yet festive music and secluded booths provide a lively and intimate atmosphere.

As with most Mexican restaurants in the U.S., my meal was started with complimentary tortilla chips and salsa. The tortilla chips came out hot and perfectly crisp and with a sprinkling of salt. The salsa was on point, featuring a chunky consistency and tasting both fresh and refreshing.

Rancho Alegre’s various dips for the chips were both affordable and tasty. Their queso dip was creamy and hot, featuring just a touch of spice.

The guacamole was full of flavor and served with a pico de gallo, which is an uncooked tomato, onion and jalepeno dip, that added both taste and texture to the creamy avocado.

I also sampled their choriqueso with avocado, and

it was unlike anything I’ve ever had before. It’s a cheesy dip filled with Mexican pork sausage called chorizo, which provided a slightly spicy edge to the dish, and avocado that lightened the dip up and really stood up to the heaviness and richness of the chorizo and cheese.

For my entree, I tried their lunch chimichangas, and I was impressed to say the least.

The chimichanga was crispy and soft at the same time and filled with deliciously moist chicken. They topped it with their in-house queso sauce and served it with refried beans and fresh lettuce, tomato and sour cream. I felt that it needed a little heat, so I requested some hot sauce. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that they actually make their own hot sauce inhouse, and it provided a spicy and acidic edge that livened everything up.

Into combination meals?

Rancho Alegre features a host of choices from tacos and enchiladas to chile rellenos and tostadas. They also feature traditional sides such as Mexican rice, refried beans and guacamole salad, and their combination meals provide a suitable match for everyone.

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The service was relatively good. However, there was a period of time when I was in need of some hot sauce and our server was nowhere in sight.

But other than that, our service was really good, as my glass was always filled with water and our chip bowl was always full.

Is the wallet feeling thin, but you still want to go out?

Rancho Alegre features a happy hour from 2-6:30 p.m. All appetizers, including dips, are half off, meaning that queso and guacamole together come out to be around $3. The featured drink specials are sure to quench your thirst, and a la carte options are available for something small and not too expensive.

All in all, this was a pleasant Mexican restaurant experience for me, and I plan on returning in the future. t&c

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Senior puts new phones on hold

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Can you even make phone calls? lol how long does it take u 2 send a txt?

It may not play TV or predict the weather, but this student’s phone suits him just fine My phone is, for lack of a better word, dumb. It’s not the most apt; its app-less, in fact.

It was a year and a half ago when my Verizon LG VX5400 first pathetically flipped its way into my personal and private life.

My original JT phone was an HILLIER EnV2, which I have long since theorized to be the prime culprit in the phenomenon that came to be known as “butt-dialing.” One way or another, it accidentally flew headlong into a concrete dorm room wall two springs ago. Envy, I think not.

The day I got my current phone was a memorable enough endeavor. I had an emergency that evening that required I keep my phone attached at the hip (imagine that), and it’s hard to do that when your phone is lying in pieces on your dorm room floor. So, the kindly sales rep at Verizon Wireless went out to his car, jimmied into a glove compartment and handed me what I thought would be a mixtape, but turned out to be a free phone.

But here’s the truth: I’m more than satisfied with my dumbphone, and have been since that

day a year and a half ago. I don’t know if it’s necessarily that I love my phone or that I just don’t like yours.

Call me old fashioned, but I don’t like any of my technology to be a Jack of too many trades.

I like my CD player (that I wish I still had) to play my music and to play it well. I like my vacuum to clean my carpet. No one gizmo dominates my lifestyle completely; they all do separately and equally.

Come to think of it, of all the gadgets we had to evolve into the modern-day equivalent of a Swiss army knife, why phones? Why not a printer or a leaf blower or a coffee maker?

Admittedly, introverts and social loners such as myself are not equipped for the robo-phones of today, but I’d be all for the Swiss army coffee maker concept. I like coffee, at least a lot more than I like phones, anyway.

And let’s face it, these, “smart phones” — are they even phones anymore? I mean when you really look at the entirety of what these phones do, the phone-like activity is tremendously outnumbered by all the emailing, the apps, the quail-hunting or whatever it is you kids do today.

Here’s my point. I know that my phone may be a piece of crap, but it is a phone. It

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Phones with fewer functions and apps at least make dropping away from the world a lot easier.

looks like a phone, it smells like a phone, it calls people like a phone — the best that it can, anyway.

But last week I considered enrolling in one particular class, a class I was excited about, that required a smart phone.

I know, right?

Granted, it was an audio production class and it made perfect sense for the subject matter and course material, but it was still a startling moment for me: For the first time, I looked at my phone and wondered if it would be enough to get me by anymore.

So, should I advance? Or maybe I could just revert backwardly, learn how to make smoke signals or walk around with a can and some yarn all day. There is probably an app for that on your smart phone anyway.

My mother reminds me of my eligibility for upgrades

constantly, among other little reminders that make me want to throw my dumbphone into some more drywall (which I can do with this phone).

But honestly, I think I’m just not a prime smarter-phone-thanmine customer. I can’t handle the stress of multitasking; I can barely walk and chew gum at the same time. I drop things exceptionally often. I’ve lost every respective seasonal jacket, every season for 20 years running. Me and my dumbphone, we’re meant to be.

I like falling off the face of the earth entirely too much to have a personal tracking device.

Every blip, beep and bop on a phone would suck me right in, right into the Facebooking, the emailing, the Internet-ing. When my phone dies, I don’t mourn its death, and believe me, it dies often.

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Shouldn’t I be ashamed, just a little? The first culturally accepted technological step forward in my adult life and I’m already using old-man language like gizmo, gadget and conflabbing.

I shan’t give up on the thought of purchasing an iPhone someday; I’m probably just in denial. I’ve always been the last person to get the joke, to know who got married in Taiwan last week, to buy the Crocs. (OK, my Dad bought those, but I do wear them begrudgingly, I admit).

So for now, while my inability to remain caught up with any of the Joneses remains intact, I’ll have to keep waking up to alarmingly dated-sounding alarm ringtones, doing my best at texting the way I talk and working up that old thumb strength.t&c JT HILLIER IS A SENIOR ENGLISH MAJOR AND A CONTRIBUTING WRITER FOR THE t&c.

“No, it has Google, and Google knows all.”

“No, the phone spells better than I do.”

“No, because my phone keeps track of Starbucks rewards.”

“Yes, it has amazing possibilities, but they can only be used when I tell them to.”

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Lefty and righty won’t shake on it

It’s a right-handed world, and two seniors hand off their soapbox to offer two different perspectives on the issue People like telling me that I’m lefthanded.

“I didn’t know you were left-handed,” they say, like it’s this really interesting fact I’d forgotten to tell them, on par with fighting whale hunters off the coast of New Zealand or something.

No one bothers LEAH to tell me that I’m DRISCOLL brunette or short or in possession of some stupidly thick eyebrows, so I know people realize that I’m aware of basic physical facts about myself. So why is it that when I’m seen gripping a writing utensil, those around me feel the need to point out which hand I write with?

Other left-handed people I know have reported similar experiences. Not

right-handed people, though. And it’s baffling.

I’d rather not have the world treat me like some oddity, but National Geographic claims that just 10 percent of the world’s population is left-handed. So if I’m going to be called out on it, couldn’t the world do a bit better to accommodate me?

Pens at the bank are impossible. Elevator buttons are on the right and computer mice are on the right and I can’t even count the number of times I’ve smeared ink across a page. Why do I have to buy a lefthanded baseball glove when right-handed people can buy just a plain glove?

No, I will not sit at the left-handed desk, thank you very much. “Normal” desks are no hassle at all, and I’m not going to move just because you don’t want to walk around to the other side of the aisle. I don’t want to, either. Deal with it.

LEAH DRISCOLL IS A SENIOR JOURNALISM MAJOR AND THE OPINION EDITOR FOR THE t&c.

You are spacing out in class and realize something is terribly wrong. The person sitting next to you is writing with her left hand.

You feel like you’ve been thrown in an “Inception”-style situation and you wait for your constructs to attack them, but they don’t, because it’s not a dream.

Left-handed people ALYSSA are anomalies. They have COOKleft-handed stores that ALEXANDER sell left-handed things like notebooks, calendars and pens. I hate to tell you this, left-handed people: All the special left-handed pens and paper in the world aren’t going to help you in a left-to-right writing society.

Leah has helped me develop my theory about left handed people: They complain about the dumbest things.

A great example was her complaint about the pens in banks, especially the ones attached to the chains. Apparently, they are hellish for lefties because they aren’t long enough. Don’t know what bank in the 1960s you are going to, but my bank has you sign everything electronically at a keypad to the left of you. We help you out and you still complain.

Obama is a lefty. Why isn’t that in the information box when politicians are on TV? President Obama — democrat — left-handed. If people voted based solely on their religious beliefs, it’s fair for me to keep lefties out of the presidency. You see what happened with Hitler. He’s a lefty too.

I have too many lefties in my life to truly be bothered. But, if you’re ambidextrous, you can get out. t&c ALYSSA COOK-ALEXANDER IS A SENIOR PUBLIC RELATIONS MAJOR AND A CONTRIBUTING WRITER FOR THE t&c.

Student undecided on Internet-age speech trend Phrases like “Google it” are common, which is good for companies but could become troubling for vocabularies

The Facebook craze has driven our cyberspace wild, and to promote the site and get new friends, people tell each other at work or school, “Facebook me” — a promotion of the brand name, but also quicker and easier than telling JO them to “look me SPENCER up on Facebook.”

Time is of the essence; we don’t have much time to stand around and talk.

But Facebook has connected us and is now one of the most popular sites on the Internet to date, with people in every country getting on Facebook at least once a day. An obsession for some, a hobby for others.

The sites Google and Bing are now asking us to “Google it” and “Bing it.” The promotion of the brand name has been ultimately turned into a verb.

This “verbing” (changing a noun to a verb) frenzy has swept the globe clean of some of our standard English language.

The Concise Oxford English Dictionary has now introduced

to its 21st century edition words such as “retweet.” This comes from the social networking site which seems to have somehow opted out of the verbing: Tweeting is the verb, but Twitter is the name of the site.

Mobile phones have a unique way of verbing, too. Text is a verb and a noun and phone is a verb and a noun.

But when will verbing become a well-known word in the dictionary?

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As new sites and brands are created, the craze continues to add to our vo- subjected to verbing wherever something we should hang on to it, as do many of us. And I can’t deny that it has helped create a cabulary and may eventually end in dictionaries? Has it made our they go and lose the true meancommon kind of language for up in Oxford English dictionarEnglish language lazier, as we ing of words? our world to use together. ies all over the world. don’t use as many words?

This is a concern to me. I To look at the other side of I am still undecided on how I enjoy the language I have grown t&c this verbing craze, will it pollute up speaking, and verbing really is feel about this fad, yet I find my- JO SPENCER IS A SOPHOMORE our well-put-together English self using them at least once or a great tool to promote a brand THEATRE AND MEDIA MAJOR AND vocabulary? Will our children be twice a day without fully realizing A CONTRIBUTING WRITER FOR THE such as Facebook. But is it really t&c.

sports 10 Otterbein equestrian team does more than just ride

wednesday, sept. 21, 2011

Tan & Cardinal

The equestrians become both riders and handymen as they prep to host IHSA’s Tournament of Champions

BY EVAN MATSUMOTO Staff Writer

The horses have been cleaned. The fences have been both painted and polished. The smell of manure still holds strong, but the barn looks professional as Otterbein prepares to play host to its first ever Tournament of Champions.

Sixteen riders will be saddling up for Otterbein. They will be divided into two teams, spread across one medal class and eight different divisions — five flat and three fence divisions. “(The tournament) wouldn’t work if it weren’t for the girls,” coach Riyad Gandhy, an Otterbein alumnus, said. “A lot of work goes into setting this up.”

Before the show begins, the dust is cleared from the walkways, the arena walls are wiped, the tack for the horses is cleaned and polished, the fences are

painted and set up, the track is cleaned and the barn is made to look professional.

Not only does the arena have to look good, but the horses have to maintain a certain look, too. They have to be clipped or shaved and free of any loose or long hairs, their manes have to be a certain length, they have to be brushed and bathed and they have to be assigned a saddle that fits to avoid creating sore spots. “(The riders) make sure the horses are ready for the show, and they take care of them afterward,” Gandhy said.

Riders are more involved in the hosting of an event than teams in other sports.

The Otterbein riders will display their talents as well as compete among some of the nation’s most elite horses and collegiate riders from schools like Purdue, Xavier, Cornell and Ohio University, to name a few.

The team will be providing horses for the competition, but will have to supplement those with another 14-16 horses from other schools.

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It’s my sport. And I love it.

Madi Rohl freshman, equine business management

One of the horses being shown belongs to sophomore Alissa Witkowski. The Ann Arbor, Mich., native owns and stables her 11-year-old Sunny at Otterbein. Sunny will be one of the many horses drawn from a hat this weekend for someone to ride.

Freshman rider Madi Rohl said, “People ask me all the time if I think this is a real sport. I don’t care if they think it is; if it isn’t, it is very different from any other sport. And it’s my sport. I love it.”

Rohl is a freshman equine business management major from Glen Ellyn, Ill., and is the only Otterbein freshman showing a horse this weekend. She is one of two riders who will be competing in the open, or medal, class at the tournament. Sophomore Hannah Gorman is the other rider showing a horse in the medal class.

Otterbein is in the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association and not the NCAA like other school sports. In the IHSA, riders don’t saddle their own horses as they would in many competitions outside of school; horses are assigned to divisions and from there, the athletes draw the

name of a random horse in the division they are competing in.

Riders are not given any time to warm up or to get to know the horse, according to Gandhy.

Rohl said, “The beauty of this sport is that we all grew up on horses and in horse shows, but here you draw a horse out of a hat. It’s no longer about who spent the most money or who has the best horse … It levels the playing field.”

The Tournament of Champions begins at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at Otterbein’s Center for Equine Studies and is free. Competition concludes at 5 p.m. t&c

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Tournament of Champions

Saturday, Sept. 24 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Otterbein’s Center for Equine Studies Free admission

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Otterbein Cross Country Course Men- 8k

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Women- 6k

soccer field loop- 1 time soccer field loop- first time through only woods loop- 1 time woods loop- twice

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MoVin’ along:

Senior Tim Williard will lead the men’s side this week as their strongest runner this season.

Cards look to rally at home

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Now our team can show everyone how hard we have been working.

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Bekah Reese junior, health promotions and fitness The course travels along Alum Creek around the Westerville Sports Complex soccer fields then back through Otterbein’s practice fields. The women will run a 6-kilometer (3.7 miles) course while the men will run 8

kilometers (5 miles) on the same course.

Alpeter explained the event will have teams not only from other states like Kentucky, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, but also a team from Canada running alongside the Cardinals.

The men will be counting on Williard, who has been the men’s fastest runner this fall, to lead them. Mantell and Montoya have also been top finishers and will be helping get the Cards a top place.

“I think we can have a solid race,” Williard said. “A lot of us were tired Saturday and we will want to redeem ourselves.”

The women will be looking to Elliott and fellow senior Meghan Gibson as well as to Reese to score points and earn a top place finish for the women’s team.

“I’m really excited that Otterbein is hosting Saturday’s meet,” junior Bekah Reese said. “Now our team can show everyone how hard we have been working.”

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Otterbein Invitational

Saturday, Sept. 24 Women’s 10:45 a.m.

Men’s 11:30 a.m.

Otterbein’s Cross Country Course

Friday, Sept. 23

The men’s and women’s cross country teams are set to compete in and host the annual 2011 Otterbein Invitational this Saturday in Westerville.

After coming off a third place team finish at the Washington and Lee Invitational on Sept. 12, this past weekend was not as swift for the men at the Cedarville Friendship Invitational combining for a sixth place finish.

Senior Tim Williard, who placed 22nd out of 95 runners with a time of 27:25.89, led the men’s team. Following Williard was Andrew Mantell, placing 34th with a time of 27:54.74, and Joseph Montoya, who came in at 28:03.38, leaving him the 38th spot.

The women combined for a fourth place finish out of seven teams at the same meet.

Junior Bekah Reese, who ran 19:10.03 and earned a fourth place finish individually out of 106 runners, led the women’s side. Following her, senior Nicole Elliott placed 12th overall, finishing with a time of 19:26.07.

The men had two fourth place finishes at this event in 2010 and 2009 while the women

have earned two second place finishes those same years.

“We are looking to improve on a regular basis and hopefully get to the end of the year running our best races then rather than now,” men’s cross country coach Scott Alpeter said. “It would be nice to finish fourth or fifth in this meet. I’m anticipating that if we run much better than we did a week ago and, say, finish seventh, that we will be pretty pleased with that.”

6-9 p.m. Annual Student Homecoming Cookout 8 p.m. Music Festival and Bonfire, Campus Center back patio; Sponsored by Bon Appetit, Panhel and IFC 7 p.m. Uptown Westerville 4th Friday Community Block Party 7 p.m. Premiering the Otterbein Young Alumni Award Winners, Towers Plaza

Saturday, Sept. 24

BY JORDAN LABATTE Sports Editor

Are you Red-y?

Cross country hopes to progress with the Otterbein Invitational

10 a.m. Homecoming Parade 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Roll Out the Red Festival sponsored

by Student Life: Rock climbing, inflatables, face painting, penny fishing and carnival food 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tournament of Champions Horse Show 10:45 a.m. Cross Country - Otterbein Invitational 12 p.m. Volleyball vs. Heidelberg 1 p.m. Women’s Soccer vs. Earlham 2 p.m. Football vs. Heidelberg 4 p.m. Volleyball vs. Columbus State

Roll Out the Red with us!

sports 12 Volleyball opens OAC at home against old foe

wednesday, sept. 21, 2011

Tan & Cardinal

Otterbein’s volleyball team has returned home after a stellar opening season to face 11th-ranked Heidelberg

BY DOM PORRETTA Staff Writer

Many people will be on campus Saturday for the homecoming gridiron matchup against Heidelberg, but there will be an interesting pregame at noon inside the Rike Center as the women’s volleyball team comes home to play host to the 11thranked ’Berg on the court.

The Cardinals (11-3) were picked to finish second in the Ohio Athletic Conference Preseason Coaches Poll this season behind Heidelberg (9-2).

“It’s definitely an exciting match,” said head coach Monica McDonald, who is the reigning OAC Coach of the Year. “If you look at the conference standings and you look at the way things worked out last year as well, it’s unfortunate that No. 1 and No. 2 by the OAC rankings have to

play the first conference match of the year.”

The ’Berg got the best of Otterbein in 2010, winning 3-2, before the Cardinals reeled off eight straight conference victories to finish 8-1 in league play.

“The Heidelberg game is going to be a tough match, but we are definitely more than excited to play against them,” junior Alley Nagel said. “Winning this game is a crucial start to conference play. We have some revenge to seek upon them from last year since they beat us by two points.”

McDonald said, “I think the girls remember that and I think they know that they can compete, but I think they know that if we play anything less than our best, it’s probably just not a match we’re going to win.”

McDonald said the team is preparing for Heidelberg’s fast style of play, quick offense and

tendency to make the other team “uncomfortable.”

“The speed of the game is going to be very fast paced and at a quick tempo,” she said. “So this week in practice, that’s kind of what we’ll focus on — just keep the balls coming and not give them much time to think about what’s going on.”

The Cardinals, coming off their first ever NCAA tournament appearance in 2010, have already had plenty of early season success, dominating with a combined 10-2 at three early season tournaments.

Perhaps the biggest success belonged to senior libero Lindsey Russell, who became the school’s all-time digs leader.

She surpassed the 10-year mark of 2,046 digs against Geneva at the Hiram Invitational.

She currently has 246 for the 2011 campaign.

hands Up:

Russell is not the sole stat leader for the Lady Cards.

Sophomore outside hitter Annie Juenger is leading the team in kills with 151 and freshman setter Tabatha Piper has totaled 525 assists so far this season.

Otterbein posted a 3-1 record over Labor Day weekend at the Thomas More Invitational with wins over Transylvania, Hiram and Thomas More, which the coach said are big regional wins for the team.

“Those are the types of wins that keep getting the Ohio Athletic Conference more than one bid into the NCAA tournament every year, so that was a really good way to start the year,” McDonald said.

The sole loss came to top-ranked Calvin (3-1), who knocked the Cards out of last year’s tournament on its way to the national championship.

“We definitely came out and we didn’t play intimidated,” McDonald said. “I thought the girls played really well ... and it showed us and showed the girls that we really can play with anyone in the country.”

The Cards then went 4-0 on their way to a tournament championship at the Marcia French Memorial Invitational hosted

by Baldwin-Wallace Sept. 9-10 before going 3-1 at the Hiram Invitational Sept. 16-17 with its sole defeat coming in the final game against Mount Union.

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Volleyball

Saturday, Sept. 24 12 p.m. vs. Heidelberg 4 p.m. vs. Columbus State Rike Center

photo by kristen sapp

Sophomore Liz Palmer and junior Kristen Bennett jumped up for the block last season.

Volleyball has 117 blocks so far this season and will need to continue the solid defense to beat Heidelberg.