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vol. 92, issue 6

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Den menu strikes student’s fancy 5 Are you plagued by imaginary illnesses? 2 Council issues shake up OU’s makeup 3 Lady Cards stay strong toward season’s end 8

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This weekend is Homecoming Weekend.

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Senior volleyball player Rayna Coleman was named the OAC Player of the Week.

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The OtterDen opens this Friday.

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A U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” can be reinstated temporarily.

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Ohio State Football fell out of the top 10 in the BCS standings.

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Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell didn’t know the components of the First Amendment.

Information compiled by Hannah Ullom. Information from otterbein.edu and msnbc.com.

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IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD:

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Currently, there are no known causes of hypochondriasis. However, there may be genetic factors attributed to the diagnoses.

Confessions of a ...

Freshman finds humor in the reality of living with the constant threat of fabricated conditions Cough. Sniffle. Hack. Oh my God. Is it pneumonia? Is it whooping cough? Bronchitis?

Or worse ... cancer?

For hypochondriacs such as myself, flu season is the time of year when our imaginations run wild, turnLINDSAY PAULSEN ing the smallest head cold into some deadly disease that we will certainly die from.

As a freshman in high school, I experienced headaches on a regular basis. To me, the only logical diagnosis was that I was cursed with an incurable brain tumor and destined to never make it beyond the ninth grade.

For real.

It so happened that when I came out of the doctor’s office after three months of dwelling

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on my imminent death, I did not leave with the diagnosis of having a brain tumor, nor any physical affliction, but rather with the title of hypochondriac.

Some of us are innate worriers, but thanks to modern technology that provides us with quick and easy access to a mass of information on any one topic, we are given more to worry about on a daily basis.

Just for kicks, I logged on to WebMD to see what types of deathly illnesses I could diagnose myself with today. I used their symptom checker and systematically went through all of the aches, pains and sensations I felt at the time.

After sitting still at my computer for an hour or so exploring possible causes of my looming death, I noticed that my hands were cold. But WebMD had a diagnosis for that. According to the site, I suffer from Raynaud’s phenomenon, a blood circula-

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tion problem. There’s no cure, of course, and no way to test if one has it, for that matter. Go figure.

I also noticed that I felt a sense of “fullness” in my abdomen. The symptom checker said that this sensation could be a symptom of Giardiasis, Helicobacter pylori infection, peptic ulcer disease or any of 11 other possible conditions that it listed.

Never mind the fact that I had just demolished a bag of honey mustard covered pretzels, a bowl of Easy Mac, a bottle of Powerade® and a package of Gushers all within about five minutes.

A simple case of being a fatty? Nah. It was most definitely Helicobacter pylori infection.

I’m no psychologist, but if you’re reading this right now and thinking to yourself, “Oh my gosh, I have that too,” it’s probably safe to say that you too are indeed a hypochondriac. If your time on WebMB cuts into your

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Facebook time, you have hand sanitizer on one of those nifty key chain clips or if you think you should have your own parking space reserved at the Health Center, there’s a high likelihood that you are a hypochondriac.

If that’s the case, you’re not alone. According to Bryn Mawr College, Americans spend over $20 billion per year on unnecessary procedures due to perceived illnesses.

While procedures might not help cure your hypochondriasis, and there are no official treatments for the condition, the least we can do is see the humor in it all. And don’t let WebMD go to our heads. As the saying goes, laughter is the best medicine, even for the disease that you probably don’t have. t&c

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GRAND OPENING:

Center for Student Involvement employees arrange furniture and décor in time for Friday’s opening of the OtterDen.

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news

City, Otterbein reach agreement regarding land and police force Art and Communication Building may lose a section City council grants future Otterbein police permission of its parking lot to new Community Data Center to enforce WPD codes on campus starting in January

BY FALLON FORBUSH Contributing Writer

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The amount of parking spaces behind the Art and Communication Building will be reduced once construction commences on the Community Data Center.

BY AMANDA WEED, LINDSEY HOBBS & LAINA THOMPSON Contributing Writer, News Editor and Assistant News Editor

Art and communication students of Otterbein University may soon experience another round of construction at 33 Collegeview Rd. On Oct. 5, Westerville City Council approved the sale of bonds in the amount of $5.75 million for the construction of the Westerville Community Data Center.

Westerville will purchase the land from Otterbein for $104,925. The data center will be constructed on 1.4 acres behind the Art and Communication Building.

The land purchase will include a section of the parking lot at the Art and Communication Building currently used

by Otterbein students, faculty and staff.

While the data center is under construction, parking may be diverted to the 167-space parking lot adjacent to the Business & Education Innovation Center, located at 60 Collegeview Rd. Whether construction will impact building usage at 33 Collegeview Rd. is not known.

“Otterbein will certainly protect the students and its interests during the construction process,” said Dave Bell, director of the Otterbein University Physical Plant. President Kathy Krendl added that Otterbein will provide input to the thursday, oct. 21, 2010 | vol. 92, issue 6

construction company building the data center and to project consultants.

Students have conflicting opinions on the possible impact of the construction.

“It’s not that big of a deal, because we do have that parking lot across the street,” said Mindy Reckart, junior art major.

However, Courtney Kent, junior public relations major, said the construction will cause an inconvenience.

“I feel like we need as many parking spaces down here for students as possible,” said Kent.

Westerville is considering using an easement on the west side of the property to create a construction entrance, or restricting hours of construction deliveries. “We are working to see what we can do with that,” said Todd Jackson, chief information officer for the city of Westerville. “Even deliveries on the weekend would be a possibility.”

The data center is slated for construction in early 2011, “as soon as the weather breaks in the winter,” he said.

After construction is completed, the data center will store electronic information for numerous city departments, Westerville City Schools, the Westerville Library and any Westerville businesses that choose to lease rack space from the city. t&c

All of Westerville City Council voted in favor of an agreement Tuesday granting Otterbein police the authority to enforce Westerville City Code on campus starting Jan. 1, 2011.

The agreement calls for the city of Westerville to handle the dispatching services for Otterbein police at a monthly expense of $1,200 to the university.

This includes answering 9-1-1 calls, dispatching Otterbein police units to emergencies, required and requested report generation and maintenance expense for hand-held and vehicle radios.

According to the agreement, the university will also pay up to $5,000 for a one-time fee to purchase six hand-held radios and two vehicle radios.

According to Deputy Chief Del Robeson, both Otterbein police and Westerville police will be working with each other on the same radio frequencies.

“I don’t mind going forward with this, but there are two areas that I just want more meat added on the bones,” said Michael Heyeck, Westerville Council chair.

“One is procedures where we’re in charge against where they’re in charge …

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second is anything that Otterbein has to do, because we’re dispatching them.”

Nothing in the agreement limits the jurisdiction of city police on the campus.

Westerville Mayor Kathleen Cocuzzi said, “We are going to need to do a big public information campaign on this because our residents aren’t used to another police force here, and I can see a lot of confusion resulting in walking through Otterbein campus and seeing police officers there who have jurisdiction … we’re really going to make sure we do this right so that everyone is aware of what their responsibilities and duties are and what an Otterbein police officer can and cannot do.”

According to Otterbein’s director of security, Larry Banaszak, when the Security Department fully transitions, Otterbein police will be able to give out citations to Westerville Mayor’s Court and arrest students just like the WPD. The officers would also have the discretion to refer students to the Otterbein judicial process. t&c

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Homecoming schedule

Thursday, Oct. 21

Saturday, Oct. 23

-9 p.m.

-Hollywood Theater

-10 a.m.

-Starts at Main and N. West streets

CPB Free Movie Night

Parade

Friday, Oct. 22

Forever Tan and Cardinal Festival

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-Behind Campus Center

Football Game vs. Muskingum

Homecoming Bonfire

-11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

-Campus Center west lot -2 p.m.

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Summit reports red areas in Otterbein budget The vice president of business affairs explained that budgeted expenditures have surpassed revenue collected

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Despite last year’s tuition increases, Otterbein will fall short of the budget needed for 2011.

“I wish we had better news,” said President Kathy Krendl at Tuesday’s budget summit.

According to Rebecca Vazquez-Skillings, vice president of Business Affairs, the estimated revenue for the 2009-2010 school year was $58.9 million, while expenditures budgeted for the 2011 fiscal year equaled an estimated $59.16 million.

Vazquez-Skillings said that her primary goal for the budget meeting was to educate the campus, herself included, on Otterbein’s finances.

She also said that, although the tuition revenues brought in by increased undergraduate enrollment exceeded expecta-

tions, it also led to an increase Vazquez-Skillings said that it in financial aid offered. “You is currently unclear as to how should expect that when the move to semesters will your number of enrollimpact the budget in the s ments exceeds what future. t fi ne ce you planned on … it “At this point e r B enan is not inconsistent in time we are not e h t in Ot to see an increase operating as if % % Ma 6 ies there is going t i in the amount 2 l i t 3% U of aid being ofto be new net ice revenue, for rv e fered.”

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Vazquez-Skillings, She said there is no full-time undergraduplanned increases in salaate enrollment has inries or retirement benefits. creased by 56 students.

Conversation about next Also, the annual GRAPHIC BY KRISTEN SAPP year’s semester transition fund was able to also made its way into the BREAK-DOWN: The pie chart separates the areas in which surpass their goal Otterbein spends the most money by their percentages. summit. in new commit-

47% Salaries

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ments for the 2009-2010 school year.

“Some of these numbers will look a little overwhelming, perhaps, in a positive way.

But the good news is that we surpassed the overall $805,000 goal,” said Donna Burtch, executive director of development for the Office of Institutional Advancement.

According to Burtch, in 2011, the Office of Institutional Advancement would like to achieve a $1 million target for annual giving.

Vazquez-Skillings also looked toward the future.

According to her, one of the future goals of the department is to have a budget that is “informed by what we’re really doing, not what we think we’re doing,” she said. “Everyone is in the loop and the loop gets closed.” t&c

Financial aid seeks facelift New financial aid program hopes for higher retention rates

BY LAINA THOMPSON Assistant News Editor

Students who found filling out financial aid difficult can now take matters into their own hands.

In an attempt to persuade more high school graduates to seek higher education and raise college retention rates, MTV and The College Board, with support from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, created the Get Schooled program.

“This competition calls on young people and college students nationwide to harness the power of technology, and to reimagine the financial aid process,” Jason Rzepka, vice president of public affairs for MTV said.

Tom Yarnell, director of financial aid, is on board with the idea. “The MTV/College Board partnership to solicit ideas about simplifying the aid process and encouraging folks to obtain a college degree deserves praise.”

Stated in a recent report from Georgetown University, “Difficulty paying for school is one of the key reasons many college students fail to graduate.”

“The first point that we are targeting is college affordability,” Jason Rzepka vice president of public affairs, MTV However, nearly two-thirds of college students don’t apply for the $70 billion provided for financial aid purposes.

The College Board discovered that this failure to seek the financial aid money is due to the lack of understanding while filling out or finding financial aid documents, a problem at Otterbein.

“Although the Department of Education has been working towards simplifying the process, many families find the aid process challenging,” Yarnell said.

“I just had my mom fill it out for me,” said senior music business major Liz Weger.

That was one of the issues that led to the making of the Get Schooled program.

“The way that we at MTV are taking and making Get Schooled is by making a sustainable commitment to help more students graduate college,” said Rzepka. “The first point that we are targeting is college affordability.

Recently, the Get Schooled College Affordability Challenge was launched with the help of MTV to help change the financial aid process for students.

Students can find an entry form for this contest on MTV’s website. The winners will receive $10,000. The deadline is Dec. 17. t&c

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The OtterDen’s House Roasted Sirloin is a juicy roast beef sandwich with spicy mayonnaise.

Den menu gets rundown A T&C reviewer checks out six items on the OtterDen’s menu

BY MIKE CIRELLI Arts & Entertainment Editor

After sampling some of the food the OtterDen will be serving when it opens this Friday at noon, I’d bet a good meal that it will be a hit on campus.

While its late hours, lounge area and diverse menu are pluses, the most exciting thing about the OtterDen is that students can use a meal swipe to purchase an entrée, side and drink.

Students can order specific kinds of sandwiches off the menu or create a completely customized one using the ingredients in all the other sandwiches.

The menu will feature much more than what is listed here, including hot dogs, burgers, salads, soups and — best of all — milkshakes.

House Roasted Sirloin Housed between two warm and perfectly semi-crunchy slices of bread, this roast beef sub was juicy and tasty. With a dash of pepperjack cheese, the different flavors of the ingredients melded together like food coloring in water.

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Veggie Pita Pocket This hodgepodge of vegetables was served between two dry wedges of pita bread and slathered in hummus. As healthful as the sandwich may be, its diverse flavors, which included cucumbers, tomatoes and mushrooms, didn’t really come together.

Rating: && Hot Italian Hoagie This delicious sandwich featured a thick stack of roasted turkey and honey-glazed ham blanketed in a layer of delicious melted cheese, shredded lettuce, tomatoes and onions. But what really ignited this firecracker of flavor was the house-made Italian dressing.

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While the heaping amount of cheese was perfect for university student appetites, an unwelcome smoky flavor crept into the dish somewhere during the cooking process.

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Grilled Banana PB&J Sandwich Who knew peanut butter and jelly were down for a threesome?

It sounds kind of gross, but the ingredients in this interesting confection come together almost as naturally as the childhood favorite they were based on.

Tasty enough to be a dessert, this oddball recipe adds some fun to the menu.

Rating: &&&& Giant Cupcakes What made the OtterDen cupcakes the perfect end to my meal was not their taste so much as their density. They were like black holes of batter, chocolate chips and frosting. Even though both the chocolate and vanilla cupcakes tasted slightly off (just like the brownies at the Cardinal’s Nest), they were heavy enough to satisfy anyone with a sweet tooth. && Rating: &&

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Join us for a special open house.

Thursday, Oct. 21 3 – 6 p.m.

Communication Dept.

33 Collegeview Rd. Watch Otterbein’s own TV news production and maybe see yourself on the screen.

Hear yourself on radio.

Chat about your experience on our social media networks.

See what debate is all about.

Be the reporter through an online investigative simulation.

Ride Otterbein’s own “Cash Cab” at 3, 4 and 5 p.m. to win prizes.

Pick up the WOCC van at the Library.

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The 2010 “Medal of Honor” takes place in Afghanistan right after the 9/11 attacks.

‘Medal’ not on honor roll Despite realistic gameplay, “Medal of Honor” doesn’t hit its target

BY LUCAS GATES & CHRIS THAYER Contributing Writers

“Medal of Honor” is a game that excels in what it tries to do: be a well-working, polished firstperson-shooter war game. Where it fails, however, is in bringing anything new.

The game inserts the player into the boots of various soldiers in modern-day Afghanistan, fighting against the Taliban.

Unfortunately, it feels like the makers forgot to insert anything into the boots of the gun-toting automatons standing in for your brothers in arms. The game plays like a movie, heavily scripted and featuring a plot so tightly linear you can practically see the railroad tracks.

While the game does make you feel for the overall situation the soldiers are placed in, fighting against an enemy unlike anything they’ve faced before, the individuals you interact with, well … aren’t. They’re completely soulless, only differentiable by varied code names and faces, and

in the end, you just don’t care when they die.

Where the game really shines in the campaign mode is in its mastery of the rough, grittily realistic terrain, landscapes and battle scenes. The whole thing really does make you feel like you’re in an actual firefight.

The guns are well-balanced and the use of iron sights allows you to feel like you’re staring down the barrel of your weapon.

Another interesting and fun element of the single-player mode is the repeated digressions, which are additional events in the game. These digressions are among the most fun portions of the game, giving the soldier the ability to call down air strikes with varied capabilities, ride ATVs on intelligence missions and even ride as the gunman on a helicopter.

Unfortunately, these little side-trips also reveal one of the major flaws in the game. Not only do your comrades seem replaceable, but so do you. The player switches between three different characters within the

first two hours of the game, changing identities and groups so swiftly that connections can be formed to none of them.

The multiplayer mode is probably the best we’ve seen of its kind. The major problem is that it’s been done before by that other war game, the one involving a certain “Call,” one might say that of “Duty.”

We tend to not be very fond of online multiplayer, especially with first-person shooters.

Much to our surprise, though, we found ourselves enjoying the flow of gameplay, which did not require that we be a diehard firstperson-shooter master to jump in and play.

The end result of playing the game is that if you ask us a few weeks from now if we enjoyed it, we won’t be able to say we enjoyed “Medal of Honor,” but just that we liked “that one war game.” It’s just too similar to the other games in its genre. Sadly, we are unable to award this offering a medal of honor. t&c

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opinion

Insensitive jokes don’t strike funny bone Junior detests the carelessness with which serious topics, such as rape, are thrown around in everyday conversation

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it’s more like a hit to the stomach, especially to those whose truth is being minimized.

I used to think it was amusing when someone would say, “Man, that precalc test totally just raped me.” I’m a master and appreciator of exaggeration, but somewhere down the line I discovered that sometimes comparing certain circumstances — in this case, failing a test and being raped — is insulting.

According to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN), there were 248,300 sexual assaults in the U.S. in 2007, which “comes out to one sexual assault every 127 seconds, or about one every two minutes.”

Otterbein’s 2009-2010 Annual Campus Security/Fire Safety Report, compiled by the Security Department, says that there have

been three forcible sex offenses on campus since 2007.

So this isn’t just something that happens somewhere else and to “other people.”

And these are just the cases that have been reported. According to RAINN, 60 percent of sexual assaults go unreported.

Males, who make up about 10 percent of sexual assault victims, are least likely to report it.

And even if it is reported, there is only a 50.8 percent chance of arrest, an 80 percent chance of prosecution, a 58 percent chance of conviction and finally, a 69 percent chance the convict will spend time in jail.

What this boils down to is that there are literally hundreds of thousands of sexual assault victims every year, and very few of them ever receive any kind

DOES IT AFFECT YOU WHEN PEOPLE USE “RAPE” OUT OF CONTEXT? “I take it as being offensive. I don’t use words like that out of context.”

“I’m not offended, but I find it really awkward and wouldn’t talk to you.”

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–Kylie Cassidy junior middle childhood education

“Honestly, it annoys me and it can be offensive to others.”

“It doesn’t offend me, but I can see how it would be offensive.”

–Liz Luther sophomore broadcasting

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Yes, yes, “sticks and stones” and all that, but anyone who has ever endured middle school can probably agree that words can indeed hurt, even if you try not to let them get to you.

I am not the morality police and it is not my intention to sit on some high horse and pass judgment over all.

Instead, I aim to break through the desensitization and reveal some of the hidden truths that thoughtless jokes bury and downplay.

It’s not about having or not having a sense of humor — it’s about being conscious of the true impact of supposedly humorous statements. t&c LEAH DRISCOLL IS A JUNIOR JOURNALISM MAJOR AND IS A COPY EDITOR FOR THE t&c.

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of justice under the law, adding insult to injury.

So it’s not funny to say that you would “totally rape” a celebrity if you ever got the chance to meet him or her and it’s not funny to cry “rape” when one of your friends playfully grabs you by the arm or flirts with you.

Yes, the point of many jokes is to offend and shock, but this “rape culture” that we live in is a serious problem. People are afraid to report rape because not even the justice system takes it seriously.

You don’t know who you’re offending when you make such remarks, and I don’t think any victim of sexual assault could reasonably be told to “get a sense of humor” if a careless remark about rape elicited a negative and painful response.

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There are those who say that no subject is off-limits when it comes to jokes, and that anyone who thinks some topics are taboo needs to lighten up and get a sense of humor.

I disagree.

Specifically, jokes and quips LEAH about rape are DRISCOLL not funny. They are tasteless, disrespectful and ignorant.

I am all for bold and daring humor, for venturing to say what others are embarrassed to admit or speak out loud, but there is a line.

When a gutsy joke exposes a dark or hidden truth, it hits the funny bone. When a joke instead obscures or downplays the truth,

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Senior Lindsey Rudibaugh and the Lady Cards failed to score in the first half against Marietta Wednesday despite taking 16 shots. Otterbein went on to win 2-0, taking their conference record to 6-0 on the year.

Lady Cards’ persistence pays off

Second-half goals, strong defense propel the Lady Cards past Marietta. Three conference wins stand in the way of an undefeated season

BY AARON ANGEL Staff Writer

The rich just get richer. Otterbein women’s soccer (13-0-1) notched yet another win in their belts Wednesday afternoon, downing Marietta 2-0.

The game matched Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) leader Otterbein against last place Marietta (2-12-2), and the performance on the pitch showed as much.

The Pioneers were held to just one shot on goal during the match.

“I feel like we controlled most of the game, but there were a few opportunities where we could have finished better,” senior defender Laura Vasbinder said.

While the Lady Cardinals dominated the first half with 10 corner kicks and 16 shots on goal, Marietta stood firm the first 45 minutes of play as the game stayed scoreless.

“It was really frustrating … we were doing all the work and all we needed was to finish a couple of goals,” senior midfielder Tara Smith said.

“Coming into the second half we wanted to bring it to them.”

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Jenny Knox, the ball found the head of senior midfielder Rachel Degen, who flicked it toward Smith for a beautiful first goal.

Otterbein would find the back of the net once again four minutes later.

“There is pressure being highly ranked and everyone talking to you about it ...”

Tara Smith, senior midfielder This time the goal was scored off the head of senior midfielder Cristen Herold in the 51st minute.

“At halftime we worked out a couple things and I feel like we took it to them in the second half,” Smith said.

The win marked shutout No. 13 for the Lady Cardinals, who have allowed only three goals during the 2010 campaign.

“It feels great because everyone just steps up when they need to

and it really makes it easier for the team,” Vasbinder said.

“Defense always starts at the forwards ... if we can keep possession, then that limits the other team. We’re quick, catch everything and we are always out there talking to each other,” Smith said.

The Lady Cards will face middle-of-the-pack Wilmington in between cellar-dwellers Muskingum and Mount Union to finish their season, a light schedule compared to years past.

“One thing we have realized is that, unlike last season, our major rivalries (ONU, Capital) weren’t at the end of the season,” Smith said.

The team’s lighter schedule has not changed the mentality on the pitch for Otterbein.

“It does give us a chance to make a few adjustments and get better in a few places, but we are going into each game with everything because if we don’t, that’s when trouble starts,” Vasbinder said.

Otterbein will travel to face Muskingum Saturday afternoon as the ladies look to stay perfect.

“There is pressure being highly ranked and everyone talking to you about it, but honestly, we never really talk or think about it until after the games,” Smith said. t&c thursday, oct. 21, 2010| vol. 92, issue 6