The Franklin: April 6, 2018 by The Franklin

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Panhellenic House turning into graduate student living this fall PG. 8

COLLEGE HIRES TWO CABINET MEMBERS PG. 3

ATHLETES TALK MENTAL HEALTH PG. 13

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NEW CABINET MEMBERS BRING EXPERIENCE TO COLLEGE Finance, alumni engagement directors come with goals QUINN FITZGERALD | STORY elizabeth.fitzgerald@franklincollege.edu

Dana Cummings and Joseph Hornett have more in common than just being newcomers at Franklin College. Cummings started her role as vice president for development and alumni engagement March 12, replacing Evelyn Buchanan. Hornett replaced Dan Schluge, who retired in February, as vice president for finance and chief financial officer. Hornett began his new position March 19. Cummings and Hornett said their new positions stem from a similar interest in nonprofit work. Hornett attended the University of Notre Dame where he received a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He went on to graduate school at Butler University. Hornett said his aspiration to become a chief business and financial officer attracted him to the college. Cummings earned her bachelor’s degree at DePauw University before moving to Chicago for two years. That’s when she discovered her interest for non-profit work. After learning about Indiana University’s top-ranked non-profit management program, Cummings applied to the school and later earned her master’s degree. At the completion of her schooling, Cummings went on to work at the Indiana University Foundation and served as the associate vice president for development at DePauw University. Similar to Hornett, Cummings has aspired to become a vice president in alumni engagement since the beginning of her career. “I’ve inched my way up with each position I’ve gotten,” she said. “When I found out that this one was becoming available, I

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DANA CUMMINGS, VP for Development and Alumni Engagement

JOSEPH HORNETT, VP for Finance and Chief Financial Officer

was immediately excited. I’ve always had a fondness for this place and followed how things were going from a distance.” Cummings said her goal is to continue conveying the message of support to Franklin alumni and donors for future students to gain a worthwhile college experience. As vice president for finance and chief financial officer, Hornett said one of his goals is to extend the college’s contract with Sodexo, the dining service. He said he also wants to engage the student body in important decisions, especially when it comes to the school’s annual budget process. “That not only affects the staff, but it does affect the students,” Hornett said. “It affects tuition that is paid and rates for rooms, rates for meals, all those kinds of things. The annual budget process is really driven by the students. If the students aren’t here, there’s no revenue, and there’s no purpose for being.” Cummings and Hornett will not only work closely with each other, but also with other members of the president’s cabinet, including President Thomas Minar.

INBRIEF

NEW JOB SEARCH SITE REPLACES GRIZJOBS

The Career Service Office is offering a new career development platform for students. Handshake replaces GRIZJOBS, the college’s former job search site. The office decided to transition to the new platform in October. Kirk Bixler, assistant dean of students and director of career services, said the site offers more functions than GRIZJOBS. More than 1,000 employers and nearly 750 active jobs are currently available online. Students can upload resumes, access internships and jobs and schedule interviews through Handshake. It also provides updates and recommendations for new jobs and internships users may be interested in. Bixler said Franklin College student accounts are preloaded. To access your account and complete the registration process, visit joinhandshake.com. FORMER HISTORY PROFESSOR NAMED BRANIGIN LECTURE SPEAKER Daniel Jones, founder and CEO of 21st Century Parks in Louisville, Kentucky, will deliver the 31st annual Branigin Lecture April 18. Jones is a former Franklin College history professor. The lecture, “The Park and the City: Explorations of the Past, Present and Future of Urban Life,” will show examples of metropolitan parks’ roles in the development of modern cities. The lecture will begin at 8 p.m. in Richardson Chapel. It is free and open to the public.

4/12 ‘BROADWAY’S NEXT HIT MUSICAL’

4/14 ANTIQUE AND VINTAGE MARKET

Spend an evening at Victory Field when the Indians open their 2018 season.

Be a part of musical magic when “Broadway’s Next Hit Musical” comes to town April 12 at the Franklin Performing Arts Center. The interactive show uses audience suggestions to create a fullblown improvised musical.

Browse a wide selection of antiques and vintage collectibles during the Johnson County Antique Market. Vendors from Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky will offer a variety of furniture, linens, jewelry and more.

The game starts at 7:15 p.m., and tickets are available at milb.com.

Tickets start at $10 and are available online at broadwaysnexthitmusical.com.

The event is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Johnson County Fairgrounds, located at 250 Fairground St. Admission is $2.

4/6 INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS VS. COLUMBUS CLIPPERS

B.O.L.D. HOUSE RESIDENTS ADDRESS LIVING CONDITIONS Alumnus calls themed campus house ‘neglected, avoided’ by college EMILY KETTERER | STORY emily.ketterer@franklincollege.edu

Residents of the Maple House, also known as the B.O.L.D. House, have expressed their concerns with living in what one alumnus called a “neglected” home. In the winter of 2016, the house’s furnace had several issues, leaving residents without heat. Junior and current resident Marie LeClair said the house representative, junior Taylor McElwain, submitted several work orders to facilities about the issue. “They would come to the house, fix it, it would work for a few days, and then it would break again,” LeClair said. “This went on from the winter of 2016 to this winter.” LeClair said the residents of the home were given space heaters for both winters to help with the problem. “I couldn’t walk in my house barefoot or anything. I would shiver in the hallways because of how cold it was,” LeClair said. “It was just as cold inside the house as it was outside, and the only way I could get comfortable was if I was in my room with my space heater full blast.” LeClair said McElwain submitted several work orders in fall 2017 as the issue persisted. She said McElwain finally sent an email to Assistant Vice President of Physical Facilities Tom Patz asking for a “long-term solution.” LeClair also went to Facebook to express her concern during that time. Patz said no work orders were submitted by the Maple House residents involving heat during the fall of 2017, and he was only made aware of the issue by the email McElwain sent on Dec. 9. Director of Residence

Life Jacob Knight also confirmed there were no work orders submitted at that time. McElwain declined to comment for this article. Patz said facilities originally planned to replace the furnace in the summer of 2018, but after receiving an email about the issue, the department pushed up the date to replace the furnace.

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How you feel about where you live affects your overall mindset. ALUMNUS MATTHEW ALLEE

“The following week, which was holiday break, the facilities department replaced the old furnace with a new furnace,” Patz said. LeClair said she knew there were work orders submitted, and she said even if they weren’t all specifically for that, the facilities department was aware of the issue. “They still knew about the problem and chose to not fix it immediately,” LeClair said. In addition to the broken furnace, current and former residents said the house has faced years of neglect. “It just doesn’t look nice,” LeClair said. “There hasn’t been paint jobs done in a while. I have peeling paint on my walls and all over the house.”

Matthew Allee, a Franklin alumnus and former B.O.L.D. House resident, said the house has severe cosmetic issues. In response to LeClair’s December Facebook status about the issue, Allee said the house has been “neglected and avoided” since he lived there. “As soon as you walk in the house, it’s dark and uninviting,” Allee said. “The wallpaper up the stairwell on the right-hand side has been torn and ripped for several years. How you feel about where you live affects your overall mindset.” Allee worked at facilities during his time at Franklin College. He said he knew for a fact that work orders were submitted for issues, and he also had access to tools to fix issues if needed. “There was, without a doubt, communication, but in terms of fixing the underlying issues outright, I feel as if they were swept under the rug,” Allee said. Allee said during his time working at facilities, very little preventative maintenance was being done to any buildings. “It was mostly, ‘Something broke again or for the first time, let’s go fix it,’” Allee said. LeClair said the college should put more money into maintaining its buildings. “This is an issue of where our money from the college is going and needs to be more focused on making sure the dorms and homes we live in are livable,” LeClair said.

‘FORTNITE BATTLE ROYALE’ GAINS POPULARITY ON CAMPUS How one video game is taking over the gaming world one victory at a time TAYLOR BROWN | STORY taylor.brown@franklincollege.edu

Photos of a TV screen reading, “Victory Royale,” are consuming Snapchat as one new video game takes over campus—and the world. “Fortnite Battle Royale” is a free-to-play, multiplayer game launched by Epic Games in September 2017 as a console and PC game. It has since drawn more than 45 million people worldwide to its fandom. Now, it’s available on the Apple App Store. Senior Emily Eveland said she isn’t an

avid video game player, but hopped on the “Fortnite Battle Royale” bandwagon after finding it easy to navigate and less gruesome than most games. The objective of the game is to survive a brutal storm, find materials to build a shelter and ultimately be the last person or small team standing of the 100 players in the game. Each user only has one life, and must plot against each other to kill one another. Several users said they enjoy the game

because no two matches are ever the same. “I love finding chests in the game because you never know what you’re going to get,” Eveland said. “It’s an adrenaline rush when you get a win or a cool gun.” Senior Jimmy Phillips said he likes the game because it connects him to friends from home while he’s at school. “I hardly get to see them but we all play SEE “FORTNITE” PG. 5

CAMPUS FLOODING TURNS DAME MALL INTO ‘DAME LAKE’ Rain garden, raised sidewalks could prevent future flooding JESSIE MCCLAIN | STORY jessie.mcclain@franklincollege.edu

The city of Franklin received a significant amount of rain Tuesday, placing Johnson County under a flash flood warning until mid-afternoon and causing the college’s largest sump pump to fail. In a campus-wide email Tuesday, Tom Patz, assistant vice president of facilities, said the sump pump drained 400 gallons of rainwater per minute from the Napolitan Student Center perimeter. It was first installed 14 years ago. A replacement pump was immediately installed and no damage was incurred; however, the campus bookstore did have groundwater in the entryway. Patz said the college has a storm water infrastructure with inlets, or narrow water vents, and piping to drain storm water and rain water away from campus. The system is connected to a larger system that handles the city of Franklin’s storm water. “We have had our storm water system cleaned to ensure flow and invested in raising sidewalks to improve the situation,” Patz said. “This year—and it’s not only this year—but this year particularly, we’ve had a challenging spring. The ground is saturated. There’s just no place sometimes for the rainwater to go.” Patz said when the city infrastructure has more rainwater than it can handle, the college’s drainage is affected. “Rainfall outside of buildings is a little more difficult issue as when the city storm system is at capacity it will take longer for storm inlets to help drain areas of standing water,” Patz said.

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together, so it’s fun to squad up and get to talk about everything we’re up to,” he said. Phillips said he thinks people play the game because it’s different from other video games like “Call of Duty.” “Fortnite Battle Royale” has been compared to “Minecraft” and other battle royale games, which blend survival, exploration and scavenging elements with a last-man-standing framework. “With ‘Fortnite,’ it’s so much fun to team up and go after the Victory Royale,” Phillips said. “It gets your heart racing when you’re one of the last two teams.”

Because the inches of water typically rise on Dame Mall after heavy rain, students have started to dub the mall “Dame Lake.” The sidewalks are swallowed by water, and students often joke that a canoe is needed to make it from Elsey Hall on the east side of campus to Old Main on the west side. “Flooding is kind of inevitable on this campus,” senior Shayla Jones said. “If I know it’s going to rain, I try to prepare by wearing my rain boots and carrying an umbrella to stay as dry as I can.” In 2008, the city of Franklin sustained record amounts of rain with 7.6 inches reported in Franklin, according to the United States Geological Survey. “The flood of 2008 was what is described as a 500-year event, meaning insurance companies have calculated that a flood that extensive happens about once every 500 years,” Patz said. “The city of Franklin and Columbus sustained very significant flooding compared to relatively little damage on campus.” Flooding during that year affected the Napolitan Student Center, Hoover-Cline Hall, Elsey Hall, the fitness center and the Lambda Chi Alpha, Tau Kappa Epsilon and Kappa Delta Rho fraternity houses. One plan to combat future flooding is the implementation of rain gardens, which are being installed with the new Franklin College Science Center. “Rain gardens are designed to reduce flooding due to overwhelming storm water systems, filter pollutants in storm water and replenish good water,” Patz said.

According to Epic Games, “Fortnite Battle Royale” hit a record high of 3.4 million players playing at the same time in February. The company expects numbers to increase. Although Eveland and Phillips joined the “Fortnite Battle Royale” craze for different reasons, they both can agree on one thing; nothing beats a solo win. “When I got the final kill and saw that I won my first solo, I was freaking out,” Phillips said. “I was getting extremely hyped for just being the only person in the house.”

Senior Bailee Couch walks barefoot through standing water near the Wellhouse Tuesday. SHELBY MULLIS | PHOTO

Tyler Urban, assistant municipal separate storm sewer system coordinator at the Franklin Department of Public Works, said the science center is also being built to sustain a 100-year flood to ensure the building is protected from extensive flooding that typically occurs every 100 years. Certain buildings on campus also have sump pump alarms. If a sump pump is not working properly, Patz is notified by an alarm, allowing maintenance to respond. Patz asked students Tuesday to report the sound of an alarm to facilities. He encourages students to be patient and remain aware when Dame Mall is flooded. “You may have to make a right or left turn,” he said. “But just be aware.”

Senior Ryan Conner plays “Fortnite Battle Royale,” a game taking over campus by storm. The game was released by Epic Games in September 2017. BRYAN WELLS | PHOTO

ART MEDICINE the

Professor’s research bridges two worlds

It started with an idea. If David Cunningham could prove the correlation between the principles he teaches in his art classroom and surgical procedures followed daily by trained medical professionals, he could play a key role in implementing artistic training at the Indiana University School of Medicine. The Franklin College art professor discovered his passion for art at just five years old. And every moment since, he’s developed a way to apply art to his day-to-day motions. “Most young kids do art of some sort,” he said. “I just didn’t stop. It was my thing. I was dyslexic in school, and art was one of those things that helped me make it through.” For Cunningham, spending hours in the studio wasn’t enough. He wanted to take his passion elsewhere, for the common good, and apply art to medical practice. “I’m always looking for connections between what I do in the visual arts and application outside in the ‘real world,’” Cunningham said.

“Pre-dental students are required to take ceramics because the dexterity development helps them in dentistry. I knew there was a correlation there.” Cunningham learned from his dentist that dentistry requires precise hand-skill. The same skills translated to surgery, as Cunningham discovered from his friend, a surgeon. As a quick test, Cunningham and the surgeon completed a series of drawings. “His drawing was outstanding,” he said. “For someone who had never drawn before, he was maybe in the top 5 percent.” From that moment, Cunningham knew he wanted to turn his theory into an experiment to determine whether drawing could be useful in a school of surgery. As a result of the lack of funding and availability, the idea never took flight until 2015. “[My friend] was at a conference about art and surgery,” Cunningham said. “There was a young surgeon from Japan who was interested

In our current society, there’s been this split between the sciences and the arts that somehow they’re opposed to each other. – DAVID CUNNINGHAM

in doing some research to see if the study of art could improve laparoscopic surgical performance.” Cunningham and Tomoko Mizota, a research fellow at Indiana University’s School of Medicine, connected immediately via email, and before he knew it, the two were on track to complete their research bridging art with laparoscopy, a minimally invasive surgery using small incisions. Over the last year, Cunningham has developed a series of patterns and an evaluation system for surgeons to analyze and recreate. The subjects will be divided into two groups—a control group and a group that attends a workshop led by

Cunningham where they’re introduced to the exercises. “They’ll have to analyze particular anatomical parts, and the speed and accuracy at which they’re able to analyze that will determine their score,” he said. “We’re going to see about the correlation of that score with whether they attended the workshop or not.” The patterns become increasingly more complex, requiring subjects to recreate non-dominant lines and overcome distractions similar to what they see in the operating room. “I have to understand what they do in order to figure out what assignments to make, what the workshop is to look like, because there’s nothing like this,” Cunningham said. “We’ve gone through a whole bunch of different renditions.” He said the ability to quickly and accurately identify features within a particular surgery can ultimately determine whether someone lives. If the study is successful, Cunningham said the School of Medicine has expressed interest in implementing a similar training. From Mizota’s studies, no research has been done like this before. “The very beginning of the study of science and medicine was done by artists,” Cunningham said. “In our current society, there’s been this split between the sciences and the arts that somehow they’re opposed to each other. Through working with Tomoko, I’ve realized how much of what I do is so much like what they do. It’s like this coming back of art and medicine back from the Renaissance—these things coming back together.”

Residents pictured (clockwise from bottom left): Junior Megan Powell, senior Adrianna Patterson, senior Megan Helterbrand, senior Shayla Jones, junior Danielle Nuckols. Not pictured: Sophomore Tisha Townsend.

LEAVING A HOME BEHIND College to close Panhellenic House for graduate housing, despite petition When junior Danielle Nuckols discovered the on-campus house she had lived in for two years would be transformed into a home for graduate students, she started rallying support to save it. Nuckols, a member of Pi Beta Phi, is one of six students who currently resides in the Forsythe House, commonly known as the Panhellenic or Green House. The house is the first home Franklin College is designating as a graduate residency. The first three on-campus homes opened in 2009 due to a lack of space in residence halls for the number of students living on campus, Dean of Students Ellis Hall said. “The whole reason was we needed additional beds for students,” Hall said. “Otherwise, we probably never would have done it.” The on-campus homes, located on Forsythe Street and Maple Street, further developed into themed houses. The first was La Casa, currently known as the Modern Language House, located in the Nelp House. Since 2014, all the campus homes have had

a theme concept. In 2015, the Panhellenic Council created a living situation different from other universities where women from all three sororities could live together. Although Franklin College’s fraternities have houses for their chapters, no sororities do. “This is a place for us to gather and just create a unity between all chapters,” Nuckols said “I don’t really think that’s fair to take that away.” Hall and President Thomas Minar, who initially developed the idea of graduate student housing, said the campus homes were never intended to be a long-term venture. “We don’t have the same housing problem we did nine or 10 years ago,” Minar said. “We have vacant beds in the residence halls, and we’d like to fill as many as possible.” Residents of the home, including Nuckols and junior Megan Powell, said the house has been praised for its “unique Panhellenic nature”—something Nuckols said the college doesn’t recognize. Powell said a consultant from her sorority

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Delta Delta Delta said Franklin’s Panhellenic House was the first of its kind she had known of. Throughout its existence, the house became a place for sorority members to host events or weekend festivities, said senior Adrianna Patterson, a resident and member of Zeta Tau Alpha. Patterson has lived in the house since it started three years ago. “I have had so much fun in here—in this room just with my friends—and that is what is going to be missing,” Patterson said. For senior Megan Helterbrand, who is the house representative and a Pi Beta Phi member, the house has been “the epitome of Franklin College.” “The house is special, even though it’s not the nicest house in the world,” she said. Nuckols started a petition in March in an effort to save the house. The petition gained 161 signatures. Minar, however, said transforming the house was a sound decision, and the decision is not up for discussion because each home is only a yearlong assignment. Hall said

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9 students can apply to live in one of the other two on-campus homes next year and call it the Panhellenic House. “In terms of ‘saving the house,’ the perspective is, there are going to be two homes next year,” Hall said. “People can apply to have a group live there on a theme-house basis.” After discussing the situation with Director of Residence Life Jacob Knight, sorority members interested in living in the Panhellenic House next year were offered the basement of Hoover Hall, which contains three quadruple rooms. Each sorority would receive a room. The basement also includes a lounge for activities and events. However, members from all three sororities must fill each room in order for the floor to be considered the “Panhellenic floor.” Nuckols said she is concerned that the atmosphere of the Hoover basement will not be the same as living in a home together. “The dorm room isn’t going to create the community and that home feeling we all feel for this house and for each other,” Nuckols said. For the future of the Forsythe House, renovations are planned before graduate students arrive on campus in July, Hall said. Helterbrand said her immediate reaction to hearing about the renovations was “infuriating.”

“That’s really annoying because our carpet is pretty gross,” Helterbrand said. “It’s interesting to hear they are going to renovate when they couldn’t the past three years.” Hall said the renovations will be minor, but includes replacing the floor. “This isn’t a fixer-upper here that’s going to suddenly be this magnificent house,” Hall said. The funding for the renovations will come from housing revenues. Minar said there

is no specific allocated fund for the Forsythe House. Hall said the college has not determined how much graduate students will pay to live in the house, but their expenses will differ from regular undergraduate room and board costs. Minar said he is hopeful graduate housing will be successful in its first year. He said current graduate students have expressed a demand for housing and the college needs to take care of those students, as well. “However many beds we will get out of the Forsythe House, we will be able to fill in, we think, in the first round or first attempt essentially,” Minar said. As a senior, Helterbrand said it’s “bittersweet” to see the house go when she leaves, but she said she is also upset its legacy will end. “I want it to be able to carry on, and I want people to make the same memories and the same bonds,” Helterbrand said. “Because there were some girls that I never would have talked to until I lived in the house with them.” Powell said she found sisters when she joined her sorority, but she gained a different set of sisters when she moved into the Panhellenic House. Her housemates became a support system for her.

A P P LY I N G F O R T H E M E D H O U S I N G D e a d l i n e : F r i d a y, A p r i l 1 3

The person who wants to be the main representative for the house proposal should fill out the application.

Explain the benefits and educational value the house will bring to campus.

Find the link to the application in the email Dean of Students Ellis Hall sent regarding themed housing. (goo.gl/forms/0RlZO5KPxDt2zov82)

Explain how students will be encouraged to get involved with your themed house.

Have a department sponsor, theme and housemates picked out.

Know the types of events your house would host.

If your house is chosen on April 13, you and your roommates will be reassigned to a house.

Fill out the 2018 housing application between April 9 and 13, and try to pick a room with your potential housemates.

OPINION

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EDITORIAL TRANSFER CREDITS SHOULD COUNT TOO

Students shouldn’t have to retake classes they’ve already taken Junior Jesse Crebbe is one of many transfer students who has credit hours that didn’t transfer over when he came to Franklin College. Crebbe transferred to Franklin from Houston Baptist University in Texas. While nine of his credit hours counted for the 120 credit hours that everyone must have to graduate, they didn’t replace any required classes. Essentially, they’re empty credits that don’t do anything. “It was frustrating,” Crebbe said. “I had to put in a lot of time. I was up studying late at night for my other classes, and I come here and they’re like, ‘They count, but they don’t count towards your degree.” Because he had some credits not transfer, Crebbe had to retake a history class similar to one he already took at his old school. “It’s kind of dumb,” Crebbe said. “It’s an unfortunate situation that I have to take more classes just because those didn’t transfer over when I was putting in work and effort and time at my other school.” This isn’t the only time transfer students have had to retake classes. Last November, The Franklin reported about senior Taylor Smith who had to take two extra semesters to get all of the classes and credits she needs to graduate. Some students who have had to take additional semesters had to pay out of pocket for their tuition cost because their financial aid ran out after four years. This is a major disadvantage to students who have paid a lot of money to earn college credit, only to be told it didn’t matter. Transfer credits are often misunderstood and aren’t talked about much unless students express concerns over their own credit hours. “Our transfer policy is that we only except credits from regionally accredited colleges and universities,” Academic Records Registrar Lisa Mahan said. “Our accrediting body basically says that we can only award credit for things that we have some comparable

type of program.” That makes sense. There would be no point in accepting credits for classes that aren’t taught at the college. But what about classes the college does teach? That’s where it gets more complicated. Each department decides whether a class credit counts. For example, if you took an English class at a different college, the Franklin English department here would decide if the class you took will count toward your English classes. “Typically we’ll request a syllabus from the student, and we send that off to the appropriate department,” Mahan said. “We have them evaluate it to determine whether is it comparable to a specific course here or do we just transfer in as undescriptive credits.” The Higher Learning Commission, Franklin’s accrediting body, states that a class at another institution has to meet 75 percent of the content that the courses at Franklin college offer for it to be transferred in. Seventy-five percent is a pretty large chunk. Why is that percentage not lower? It seems unlikely that two classes will match at least 75 percent of their content. Each professor is different and has their own reasons for what they teach. Students transfer to different colleges for

The Franklin staff believes students should be able to transfer more credits from other colleges. THE FRANKLIN OPINION BOARD

several reasons and shouldn’t have to retake classes they already spent a lot of time and money on to do in the first place. It’s understandable that the courses need to be similar and that a student is learning relatively the same material, but 75 percent seems like a high number to match, especially at a liberal arts college. This policy needs to be revisited and adapted so students aren’t paying more money than necessary to complete their degrees. College is already expensive enough. “I’m not taking these classes just for them to transfer over and be like, ‘Hey you did a good job, but it doesn’t count,’” Crebbe said. “I’m not paying money and stuff for a good job. I’m paying money for something to matter.”

#FRANKLINVOICES The Franklin’s poll board in the Student Center atrium gives students, faculty, staff and the larger Franklin community a chance to voice their opinion. SHOULD THE COLLEGE CREDITS YOU EARNED IN HIGH SCHOOL TRANSFER THE SAME TO ALL COLLEGES?

133 PEOPLE SAID YES 24 PEOPLE SAID NO

*157people participated in this poll

FACULTY, STUDENTS ATTEMPT WEEK WITHOUT PLASTIC STRAWS Study attempts to show how much careless waste is created Disposable straws. We use them almost every day. Want a drink from Starbucks? Straw. Polar Pop? Straw. JESSICA KAISER Even just a simple glass of water at a restaurant has a straw. But what effect do these thin cylinders of plastic have on our planet? According to thelastplasticstraw.org, a website about the movement to eliminate single use plastic, 80 to 90 percent of marine debris is made from plastic. You might think, “Why can’t we just recycle them?” Most plastic straws, even after being thrown into the recycling bin, don’t make it through the process. Their slender shape falls through the cracks and ends up just in a

heap of trash. After watching a Goodful by Buzzfeed video titled “I Got 100 People to Give Up Straws for a Week,” I got the idea to do a study. I challenged 52 students and faculty, myself included, to give up straws for an entire week. This experience wasn’t exactly easy. Throughout the week, I used two plastic straws but only realized it after I had already begun to use them. After the week was over, I sent out a survey about the experience that everyone had. Twenty-seven people who participated responded. One third of them said they would continue not using single use straws. More than 60 percent of participants used less than five straws the entire week. The majority said that the experience was easy.

WAYS TO REDUCE PLASTIC WASTE

Want to reduce plastic waste but don’t know how? Here are some tips from greeneducationfoundation.org, a national non-profit organization committed to creating a sustainable future.

Stop using plastic straws. If you have to use a straw, then purchase a reusable stainless steel or glass straw. 1

Instead of using plastic bags, use a reusable produce bag. Plastic bags take up to 1,000 years to degrade. 2

Reuse plastic containers for storing leftovers.

Use a reusable bottle or mug for your drinks.

“What made it easy was that I tend not to eat out often or buy soft drinks from fast food outlets,” sophomore James Hone said. “Drinking a drink without a straw doesn’t bother me at all. It is a habit of mine to try and use as little plastic as possible.” Although the majority found it easy, some had difficulty. “What made it so hard was the fact that you’re just given a straw in the drink already and then you are kind of stuck,” senior Elisia Ott said. “You can’t just give it back. I went to a bar on that Saturday and all of my drinks had straws already in them when they were handed to me.” Plastic is all around us, and small steps can be taken to lessen your use. “Switching disposable plastic products with reusable ones is something that I strongly support and would use cool products to help,” Hone said. Cut down or eliminate your use of plasticware at home and when you get takeout. 5

Pack your lunch in reusable containers and bags.

Use a razor with replaceable blades instead of a disposable one.

Try to buy things in boxes, not bottles.

SENIOR FAREWELL: GOODBYE TO THE FRANKLIN, HELLO TO NEW START

Copy chief reflects on time spent working on school newspapers

I always tell the story about how my first experience with a newspaper was when I started my fifthLEIGH DURPHEY grade classroom’s newsletter. One day each month, several of my classmates and I skipped lunch in the cafeteria and worked over our Lunchables at our desks to write articles for our parents to read. I directed this extremely official meeting, and then I typed and formatted the newsletter at the end of the month. Seven years later, I took on a leadership role in my high school newspaper as well, working my way up to the editor in chief position my senior year.

Of course, college was no exception. I started writing for The Franklin the first week of my freshman year. I quickly moved into an editor position my second semester and have been in one ever since. In all of these positions—from a 10 year old writing about a class field trip and using clip art to design, to a 22 year old dedicated to telling the stories of a college through written and visual means—I’ve learned how to be a leader, how to narrate the human experience and how to be committed to the truth. Because I’m an English and secondary education major and won’t be a working journalist after graduation in May, my time as an editor of a newspaper will officially be over. But you can’t keep me out of a newsroom.

There’s something about the chaos of deadline nights, the difficulty of investigating a tough story and the satisfaction of a flipping through a strong issue on Friday mornings that makes me go back for more. For that reason, I plan to revive a newspaper at the middle school I will be teaching at next year. I hope to reverse roles and be the motivator of young people who, like I was at their age, are driven to tell a story. I hope to be the leader who guides them to become great journalists who are committed to accuracy and hard work and who understand the sheer importance of honest and fair journalism in today’s climate. But, truth be told, I’ll probably still be eating Lunchables at my desk with my students as we work. Some things never change.

‘BLACK PANTHER’ IS A CULTURAL PHENOMENON Newest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe sees unprecedented success Since the release of “Black Panther,” the film has accumulated an exceptional box office total. CHAZ HILL As of April 3, the film has made over $650 million in the United States and over $1.2 billion worldwide, according to boxofficemojo.com, a website that reports on films in the box office. “Black Panther” has made more money than “The Dark Knight,” “The Avengers” and the original “Spider-Man”—and those were some popular films. In fact, “Black Panther” has now made more money than every single comic-book movie ever released. Whatever. I’m sure plenty of films have made that kind of money, right? Wrong. Black Panther is now the fifth highest grossing movie in the U.S. ever. Only “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” “Avatar,” “Titanic” and “Jurassic World” have made more money domestically. By the end of this weekend, it will pass “Jurassic World.”

All right, so? Sure, the movie has made a lot of money, but what does this mean? Why is this film in particular making this much money? “‘Black Panther’ has a primarily black cast, proudly displays African culture and traditions and was directed by a talented director who also happens to be black,” said Jose Martinez, assistant Professor of Education at Franklin College and frequent moviegoer. This representation is critical and goes beyond movies. “Representation is important everywhere. Who you see on the TV, but also who’s taking leadership roles, who’s someone you confide in. It’s important to young people,”

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NEED A MOVIE FOR APRIL? WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED Columnist Chaz Hill explains buzzworthy films on his must-watch list Avengers: Infinity War “Avengers: Infinity War” will be the nineteenth film in the ongoing Marvel Cinematic Universe and is the culmination of 10 years’ worth of story threads and teases. After the fracturing events of “Captain America: Civil War,” Earth’s mightiest heroes will need to come together, with some assistance from some new friends, to face their greatest foe yet—Thanos, played by Josh Brolin. With the Russo Brothers at the helm, “Infinity War” is a sure-fire epic, reportedly clocking in at more than two and a half hours. If you are even relatively interested in superhero flicks, or even pop culture in general, you have probably already preordered your tickets, like me.

Martinez said. “They idolize the media they are exposed to. It’s important to see someone like yourself in any kind of leadership role. It gives you the idea that ‘I can do that, too.’” Seeing someone like yourself on the big screen plays a considerable role in one’s attachment and engagement to a movie, especially for viewers of younger ages. King T’Challa, the main character of “Black Panther,” is someone any child from any background can look up to. But ultimately, the significant success of this film shows that the world has been waiting for a film like this—something fresh and from a different perspective.

A Quiet Place “A Quiet Place” premiered at the South by Southwest film festival in early March and garnered high praise from critics in attendance. This horror film follows couple John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, who are actually married to each other in real life, and two children, living in quiet isolation, hiding from a horrifying threat that attacks anything it hears. This film’s trailer scared me senseless. If you need your horror itch scratched, this one should do the trick. With Jordan Peele directing last year’s masterful “Get Out,” Krasinski could follow suit as an actor with a comedic background directing a fantastic horror film.

WE’RE GOING STREAMING Hill shares some of his Nextflix favorites Wind River “Wind River” is the directorial debut of Taylor Sheridan. The film is a gripping murder mystery and modern-day western set on an Indian reservation in Wyoming. One of my top ten favorites of 2017. Fruitvale Station Written and directed by Ryan Coogler, “Fruitvale Station” follows the true story of Oscar Grant, 22-year-old black man who was fatally shot in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 2009 by a police officer. He’s played by Michael B. Jordan. Want to see how Ryan Coogler earned his shot at directing “Creed” and “Black Panther?” This is how.

SPORTS

MORE THAN A GAME

GAMES IN REVIEW BASEBALL vs. Transylvania University W, 15-6

College athletes discuss sports and mental health

MEN’S TENNIS vs. Brenton Parker College L, 6-3

ERICA IRISH | STORY erica.irish@franklincollege.edu

Five-time All-Star championship winner and Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love wrote an open letter describing a mid-game panic attack last month. “I’d never had one before. I didn’t even know they were real,” Love wrote in his The Players’ Tribune post. “But it was real—as real as a broken hand or sprained ankle.” Among college-level athletes, one group of interviewed students said they recognize the effects of mental illness among their peers, but, in the end, the team and the game prevail over individual obstacles. COMMUNICATION FIRST Junior Davillious Masayile, a defensive back on the football team, connected his love of the game with his ability to process his mental health. “Outside the gates of football, nothing else matters,” he said. When he was an infant, his parents, Victor and Momsa Masayile, migrated to the United States from Zimbabwe to pursue education. Masayile said they raised him to be “mentally strong.” But, in Mooresville, Indiana, they were never free of obstacles. In their first days there, they received letters urging them to leave. When he was in middle school, he heard football fans yell racial slurs at his mother and sister during one of his first games. Davillious said he “couldn’t care less” about racist jokes about him. But, he said, it’s a different story watching his family and friends experience prejudice. Communication, Davillious added, is key to understanding mental health. “No one is bullet proof at all, even if they say it,” Masayile said. “Everyone goes through something.” SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE TEAM Sophomore Samantha Collier, a second-year member of the lacrosse team, said pressure on athletics dropped in college. As an athlete since age six playing softball,

Sophomore Samantha Collier said she feels her lacrosse coach helps her team have mental stability. ERICA IRISH | PHOTO ILLUSTRATION

soccer and track, Collier said female teams are more emotionally involved in general. The way one player feels, she said, could offset the entire group. “It’s kind of like a Christmas light,” she said. “If you get one bulb undone, then everything else just goes out.” She said policies set by Head Coach Chris Wilham support her team’s mental stability. If a player ever needs time to collect their headspace, he lets them leave practice. In high school, Collier remembers feeling pressured to spend as much time as possible in the weight room before school ended at 2:45 p.m. By 3 p.m., she was expected to be ready for a two-hour practice on the track. “Here, I have so much more time to explore, to do the things that I want to do,” she said. BROTHERS Senior and infielder Frank Podkul remembers his hardest day. It arrived in fall 2013. His father, also named Frank Podkul, passed away in his sleep at age 59. He was known by many student athletes as director of athletics at Andrean High School. Alongside his brother, Nick Podkul, now a junior infielder at the University of Notre Dame, Frank persisted in his sport. Frank and his brother would often play catch in between basketball practices that fall — a pastime that reminded them of days captured in childhood photos and set their goal of playing collegiate baseball. “I know it’s helped both of us baseball-wise because we’ve basically looked at it knowing we’ve gone through one of the worst days we could go through,” Frank said. For the full, in-depth story, visit TheFranklinNews.com.

LACROSSE vs. Transylvania University L, 24-2 SOFTBALL vs. Wisconsin - Platteville Split MEN’S GOLF 1st of 4 Saints Spring Invitational

UPCOMING GAMES LACROSSE 4/4 vs. Thomas More College

BASEBALL 4/5 vs. Hanover College

SOFTBALL 4/7, Hanover Invitational MEN’S TENNIS 4/7 vs. Transylvania University MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD 4/7, Grizzly Invite

WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD 4/7, Grizzly Invite

IN BRIEF NAUMOVICH NAMED CONFERENCE PLAYER OF THE WEEK The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference selected junior Drew Naumovich, a first basemen on the Franklin College baseball team, as its player of the week in an announcement Monday afternoon. Each week, the HCAC selects athletes across its affiliated colleges and sports based on their performance statistics. For Naumovich, this looks like a .792 batting average and two home runs in a game against Transylvania University from Lexington, Kentucky, March 31. Franklin College Athletics reported this as Naumovich’s first multi-home run game. This is Naumovich’s first-ever Player of the Week selection. In 2016, he received several HCAC Honorable Mentions and a Pitcher of the Week selection. Senior pitcher Christian Sullivan also received the Pitcher of the Week award in the HCAC’s week one picks this season. For more updates on HCAC selections, follow the conference on Twitter @HCACDIII.

INDY ELEVEN UPGRADES VENUE, DRAWS CROWD IN OPENER In January, the Indy Eleven soccer team announced it was accepting a place in the United Soccer League over their original position in the North American Soccer League. Part of the transition included a venue change. The team originally played in Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis’ Michael Carroll Stadium, an arena with no built-in restrooms or locker rooms. Now, home games will take place in Lucas Oil Stadium. An estimated 17,000 people were in attendance at the team’s home opener at Lucas Oil Saturday. Despite a record number of attendees, the Eleven lost 1-0 to FC Cincinnati. Fans personalized the new experience with a “Stranger Things” banner, based on the science-fiction television series on Netflix. Eleven, a main character in the series, was drawn on with blue and red with a famous slogan from season two — “You better run!” The child actress who plays the supernatural character, Millie Bobby Brown, later tweeted her support. The season ends in early October. Visit indyeleven.com/tickets to purchase tickets to their next home game April 14.

PODKUL: ‘WE JUST NEED TO GO PLAY BASEBALL’ Team persists with near-perfect record, reaches top 25 in collegiate rankings

Senior Frank Podkul swings at bat in a home match against Michigan’s Calvin College March 9. Podkul leads the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference at the bat with six home runs and 28 RBIs for the season. PHOTO | ZOIE RICHEY JADA JONES | STORY jada.jones@franklincollege.edu

The baseball team is 15-1 after its first loss against Capital College of Columbus, Ohio and a four-game winning streak over spring break. While in Auburndale, Florida, the Grizzlies started off with an 11-6 win over Keuka College of Keuka, New York. Following their success over the Wolves, the team made out with a double-header win against Schenectady, New York’s Union College, scoring 8-3 in their first game and 8-2 in the second. To top off the trip, the team pulled a 14-7 win over Colby College of Waterville, Maine before a homecoming win in a double-header against Transylvania University from Lexington, Kentucky. The Grizzlies secured a 11-3 win in round one and ended with a close 7-5 win in round two. Now, the players reflect on their success. Much of the team spends a lot of time outside of athletics together, senior infielder Frank Podkul said. He said the young men have connected around shared living accommodations, eating meals together and trying to take the same classes. Overall, that bond exists on its own and doesn’t account for the team’s overall success, Podkul said. “No one cares [about], ‘I’m batting in this spot,’ or, ‘I’m not a starter, I’m a reliever,’”

Podkul said. “Everyone’s like, ‘We just need to go play baseball.” Podkul is ranked as one of the Grizzlies’ top hitters, with six home runs this season. Veterans like Podkul dominate the team. Eight seniors, five juniors and nine sophomores have played through games since the beginning of the season in February. Head coach Lance Marshall said the combination of returning and new players offer a powerful dynamic. The majority-veteran team is especially useful to the lineup, he added. “I don’t think we will ever be satisfied until we are as good as we can possibly be at each phase of the game,” Marshall said. As the number one team in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference, each athlete pursues the same vision of success—regionals first, then a chance at the College World Series. With a strong starting record, however, the team will face additional obstacles, said junior Jordan Clark, a pitcher and outfielder who is currently recovering from an arm injury. He said the team now has strict expectations for how each game should turn out. The Grizzlies will face Bluffton University tomorrow in Bluffton, Ohio.

MAKING SENSE OF MARCH MADNESS

Early upsets break brackets, NCAA rules limit athlete participation BRANDON BARGER | STORY brandon.barger@franklincollege.edu

After Monday night’s matchup, fans can now reflect on the madness of this year’s NCAA tournament. Villanova University of Villanova, Pennsylvania, won its second national title in three years after defeating Ann Arbor, Michigan’s University of Michigan 79-62. As is tradition with every March, famous athletes, celebrities and Franklin College fans participated by trying to create the perfect bracket and predict who would cut down the nets in San Antonio, Texas. Few, however, made far strides in the challenge. For those who had a bracket, it was more than likely busted on the first day. According to ESPN’s Men’s Tournament Challenge game, only 6,306 brackets were still perfect after the first 16 games. That is only a small percentage, about .036 percent of the 17.3 million brackets entered in the challenge. After reviewing brackets submitted to multiple sites, not a single one was perfect, ESPN reported. At first, it looked like it would be a year where the higher seed beat the lower seed in the first round. That all changed six games into the first day. In that game, the No. 11 University of Loyola-Chicago Ramblers upset the No. 6 University of Miami Hurricanes of Coral Gable, Florida, 64-62. Then a small school in Baltimore, Maryland—the University of Maryland-Baltimore County—defeated the No. 1 overall University of Virginia Cavaliers of Charlottesville, Virginia, in the first round. To put that into perspective, since the tournament’s birth in 1939, a No. 16 ranked seed has never beaten a No. 1 ranked seed. Most of the March Madness bracket challenges have a large sum of money involved.

For college student athletes, some of these contests are off-limits. Per NCAA rules, student athletes are not allowed to bet money on any sporting event in which the NCAA conducts collegiate championships. If a student athlete is paying to get into a contest, whether it is an online fantasy league or bracket competition, it is considered betting. “This is one of the areas where the NCAA is really coming down hard,” Director of Athletics Kerry Prather said. If caught, a student athlete can lose eligibility for their sport. “This also applies to anybody else that is related to athletics,” Prather said. “That means coaches, athletic directors, and even all the way up to college presidents.” Athletes and others are safe as long as they are not putting money into a contest, Prather said. However, they may win money in a contest as long as they do not pool money as part of the entry. Garrett Burkhart, a freshman guard on the basketball team, disagrees with the policy. “It’s unfair because most kids do it their whole lives, and then all of a sudden you can’t do that because it will hurt your eligibility even when it won’t affect anything at all,” he said. On campus, the Student Entertainment Board traditionally hosts a bracket challenge. This year, however, there wasn’t one to be found. “It didn’t come up in our planning,” said Taylor Dwyer, coordinator for student activities. “Whether that is because we forgot about it or not, there is just no reason, we didn’t get to it in our planning process.” Last year, Dwyer said only about a dozen people participated. The contest was free to enter.

BRACKETS BY THE NUMBERS

17.3

million brackets sent to ESPN Fantasy Sports in 2018

6,306 perfect brackets after 16 games

0.036 percent of all submitted brackets

perfect brackets at the close of the NCAA tournament on online public platforms

ZOIE RICHEY | PHOTO ILLUSTRATION

ESPN FANTASY SPORTS | SOURCE

LAST LOOK JESSICA BAKER, SENIOR

Baker is one of 15 students who took a bowling class at Hi-Way Lanes for an activity credit this semester. She said she enjoyed playing in the bowling alley she grew up going to. “It’s a good way to blow off steam after hard classes,” she said. NICOLE HERNANDEZ | COVER PHOTO ZOIE RICHEY | BACK PHOTO