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The end of Ben: Tradition or vandalism?

CHRISTINA RAMEY

christina.ramey@franklincollege.edu

The Benjamin Franklin statue that stands in front of Old Main is a symbolic icon for the college.

For many years, students would paint this statue for various reasons and the college would tolerate it.

In 2014, the college spent an estimated $2,000 stripping away leftover paint and repairing the statue. Since then, students haven’t been allowed to paint Ben. Many students consider painting Ben a tradition.

“When I was an incoming student and came for an overnight, Ben was painted,” junior Jonna Kauffman said.

“I thought that was such a cool thing that Franklin let their students do. It added character to the school’s campus.”

The college doesn’t see it as a tradition like the students do.

“What the college realized was more often than not it wasn’t being painted – it was being vandalized,” said Steve Leonard, director of security. “People wouldn’t request permission, and there was no theme to it. They would take a gallon of paint and just throw it on the statue.”

There have been themes for some of Ben’s paintjobs in the past: Ben has been painted “Colts blue” in homage to the state’s football team, painted with yellow tennis balls in support of the college’s tennis team and painted

pink for breast cancer by the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority.

Kauffman was among the Zeta Tau Alpha women who painted the statue, and she said painting Ben is a fun way to show school spirit, not vandalism.

“If your organization did something awesome like win chapter of the year [where a sorority meets or exceeds criteria created by the main organization], they would paint on Ben,” Kauffman said. “It was basically a fun,

“ It was something that Franklin College did that stood out from other schools.

– Jonna Kauffman, junior

innovative way to say that your organization rocks.”

The college sees it more as a problem than a way to show school spirit, saying Ben’s painted appearance sometimes looked shabby.

“There were times when what was painted on it was just paint thrown at it,” said Ellis Hall, vice president student affairs and dean of students.

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“Other times, there may have been an attempt to make a point or do something thematically, but it looked bad. It’s right at the front door of campus.”

Senior Emily Meese said she disagrees that Ben looked bad.

“I don’t think there’s any harm in painting him,” Meese said. “As long as we’re tasteful with what we put on him and clean up our mess, I don’t think there’s an issue.”

Kauffman said the tradition of a painted Ben was special to Franklin College.

“It was something that Franklin College did that stood Submitted photo | Campus archives out from other The statue of Ben Franklin at the entrance of the college was painted schools,” Colts blue for the Indianapolis football team.

Over the years, the statue she said. was decorated by students, but painting it is now banned by the college.

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Casey Hayes, the head of the music department, calls himself an “old soul.” When you step into his on-campus space, it’s no wonder – from a pink boa to blue velvet chairs, Hayes stuffs his collection into his small, windowless office. “[I keep these things in here] to get students talking and make them comfortable,” he said. Take a tour of Hayes’ office.

3/12 LEGO Exposition This family-friendly event at the State Fairgrounds will feature hundreds of creations from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

BEER STEINS GERMAN BIBLE “Way cool,” Hayes said.

“It’s actually from 1860 and was brought over by an unknown person.”

3/13 The Hamlet Project Support theater students by attending their play, “The Hamlet Project” at 2 p.m.

BOOK COLLECTION Almost all of the books in Hayes’ collection deal with research on the Weimar Republic or lesbian and gay studies. “And, of course, music,” he said.

3/15 The End of Vengeance The last convo of the year will feature Michael McCullough, who will be discussing the idea of revenge at 7 p.m. in the Branigin Room.

The majority of the beer mugs in his collection are actually music boxes from the 19th and 20th centuries.

One of the steins in Hayes’ collection – a silver one with tiny engraving on the front and back – has a prisoner number imprinted on the bottom.

“This was passed down from my grandmother,” Hayes said. “She was taken from her village and was sent to Auschwitz. When she came back, this is what she found in the rubble that was the family’s.

This is the most valuable stein I have, and I could never replace it.”

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The organ – which is completely restored – came from the home of a former state senator at the turn of the century.

PIANO Although it’s currently being restored, the 88-key beauty was a gift from The Marshmallow Monkey, a home wares shop in downtown Franklin.

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PHONOGRAPH The old turntable lets Hayes play his 1919 music records.

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Grad opens first photography exhibit ASHLEY SHULER ashley.shuler@franklincollege.edu

Mounted on matte board, strung from metal wire and hung waist-high, the photographs in “Monuments of the City” are a little unconventional.

And that’s exactly how Steve Polston planned it.

“I wanted the exhibit to be a little uncomfortable,” he said. “When you’re walking into a traditional fine art exhibit, it becomes easy to ignore the small things because you can see the whole environment at once. This makes you bend down to see the photograph. It isolates you.”

Polston, who graduated from the college in 1987, opened his first fine art photography exhibit in Indianapolis a few weeks ago.

The exhibit – named “Monuments of the City” – features 17 full-color photographs of old, deteriorating buildings around Indianapolis.

The photographs are displayed on d-ring hardware, metal traffic barriers, heavy tripod heads and other industrial items city dwellers run into on their daily commutes but may not notice – just like the buildings pictured in his work.

Polston’s lifelong appreciation for old buildings and their deterioration began when he was growing up in Shelbyville and watching his dad and brothers rehab old buildings.

Too young to help, he mostly hung out with his grandma.

“When you’re three-foot tall and holding someone’s hand, you stare at

things,” he said. “You look at things longer than people usually do. I’m also very near-sighted, so it took me a while to get the full picture.”

While at Franklin College, Polston was executive editor for The Franklin and was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

He contributed news editorial articles and occasional photographs to the paper – but his love for photography didn’t bloom until four years ago.

“I think someone who is interested in fine art photography should be in some art classes [while at Franklin College],” he said. “Find a way to use photography in your art, and push the professors to allow you to do creative photography and help you develop projects that are meaningful to you.”

Polston’s biggest takeaways from his time as an undergraduate student journalist are to be honest.

“It’s not just about being factually correct, but it’s about the right tone and how you communicate with others,” Polston said. “That applies to art.

It’s important to talk about your truth, and a camera and photo editing creates a manipulated reality – you have to be able to say that.”

Polston, who now lives in Indianapolis, finished his fine arts master’s degree from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco two months ago after his husband urged him to go after his interest in photography – something he had been “putting off” for a

long time.

“I decided I wanted to go to graduate school before I turned 50,” he said.

“I wanted to do something meaningful for the last third of my life, and that was becoming an expert in fine art photography.”

Polston has been planning Submitted photo | Steve Polston the exhibit for This photo of an Indianapolis building is featured in Steven Polston’s phoone and tography exhibit. The Franklin grad’s art will be on display until April 13. half years.

“At the end, Polston also received a grant from the images from the beginning of this project fit with the Indiana Arts Commission to dethose at the end,” Polston said. “It was velop a bicentennial project this sumcomforting to know I had a vision I mer. He plans to capture photos of the state’s legacy using pinhole cameras. didn’t know was there.”

“Photography is something mechanPolston has plans to build on his interest in old building photography and ical, chemical and artistic,” he said. expand his “Monuments of the City” “It’s evolving just like Indiana.”

Polston’s fine art photography exseries and capture old buildings and monuments in New York City, Wash- hibit, “Monuments of the City,” will be on display at the Bona Thompson Meington, D.C. and San Francisco.

Although these photos will center morial Center in Indianapolis through around the same theme, they will be April 13.

The center is a 35-minute drive from composed differently than the shots of Indianapolis, with absence of color campus and is located at 5350 University Ave. in Indianapolis. and inclusion of people as subjects.

GRIZ ON THE MALL: FAV O R I T E A L B U M S SHELBY MULLIS shelby.mullis@franklincollege.edu

“ R e g i o n a l A t B e s t ” b y Tw e n t y O n e P i l o t s

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“It has a brilliant composition and very different vibe than most artists.

Their lyrics are brilliant and so wonderful.”

Marie Ostendorf, freshman

“It changed my life. If I could get amnesia and listen to the album for the first time again, I would.”

Kyle Sauley, junior

“Every Kingdom” by Ben Howard

“ U n b r e a k a b l e S m i l e ” b y To r i K e l l y

“I connect with his songs very deeply. He does a great job of expressing his emotions through his music. The album is a beautiful piece of art.”

“Although I don’t have a favorite album, I made a recent discovery of Tori Kelly and her album “Unbreakable Smile.” It’s beautiful. She is a genuine artist who truly speaks what she is feeling. She has a variety of songs that you can either jam to in the car or cry and sing while in the shower.”

Paige Lundy, junior

Allen Abbott, freshman “I Melt” by Rascal Flatts “It’s the first album I bought, but I don’t listen to albums. I listen to artists.”

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IT offers tips to keep away phishing emails SHELBY MULLIS shelby.mullis@franklincollege.edu

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IN BRIEF: STUDENTS HAVE MISUNDERSTANDINGS ABOUT WEIGHT ROOM SCHEDULING Hefty complaints about the college’s weight room usage have been stacking up.

Some of those complaints come from non-athlete students, saying they can’t find time to use an unoccupied weight room.

“When students go to work out in the morning, the weight room is typically overcrowded with one, sometimes two, sports teams,” senior Sophie Abner said. “Most of the equipment is being used, and sometimes the coaches will even ask you to leave because they have it reserved for a class.”

Abner said some coaches don’t mind when other students are in there and let them have space.

To accommodate for the number of sports at the college and to ensure every athlete has weight training time, athletic teams have certain times when they have sole use of the weight room.

“There are days and times reserved for athletic teams – or sometimes portions of teams – since this is the only way we can possibly serve 21 sports with a single weight training facility,” said Kerry Prather, athletic director. “That schedule is coordinated with all our coaches by coach [Lance] Marshall [the assistant athletic director who oversees facility scheduling] and coach [Dan] Watson [the head strength coach].”

Abner, who uses the weight room regularly, said she was unaware of the priority scheduling and where to find that information.

“I don’t think it would be fair to have a priority list either, considering the weight room should be open to everyone,” Abner said.

Prather said if any student is being barred from using the weight room, they can talk to him.

“If student-athletes are in any way being disrespectful to fellow students in the weight room, I would hope that would be brought to my attention so it can be addressed appropriately,” Prather said.

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Hundreds of spam, phishing and malware emails are sent daily to students and faculty, but only one to two of the malicious emails earn their way into the inbox every month.

IT Systems Administrator Solomon Seal manages the campus email servers, working to block these types of emails before they reach the inboxes of faculty and students.

“A phishing email is an attempt to collect information from a user,” Seal said. “This information could include login credential or other sensitive information such as bank information.”

By researching emails in large databases or breaching email accounts, scammers find ways to gain more email addresses in an attempt to access sensitive information.

Brad Kinder, the college’s information security administrator, works with Seal to configure the campus email servers.

He said scammers send emails from all over the world, constructing them in ways that a spam filter would miss.

Often, Kinder said the emails sent most are ones asking students or faculty members to enter their username and password to update their server or

other information.

If a student or faculty member enters this information, both Seal and Kinder advise them to change their password and report it to IT immediately.

“Identify if what it is talking about is something that pertains to you,” KindWHAT SHOULD YOU DO IF YOU THINK AN EMAIL MIGHT BE PHISHING? Ask yourself if the email directly applies to you Forward the email to Franklin College’s IT Department Report the email to Microsoft Categorize the email as junk mail Change your password to eliminate chances of hacks

er said. “People will question something that identifies itself as a FedEx package and in trying to make the decision of whether it is real or not, I ask them if they’ve ordered anything recently that would go through FedEx. If they say no, then probably it’s not real.”

The campus experienced a jump in phishing emails at the end of 2015, prompting Kinder to send out a few warning emails.

“Over the past few weeks, and particularly the last few days, we have seen an increase in the amount of phishing attempt emails arriving into Franklin College email,” Kinder said in a December 2015 email. “We understand that it sometimes is difficult to distinguish a legitimate email from a phishing attempt. … Be very suspicious of emails regarding holiday deals. Phishing attempt emails often contain many spelling errors and poor document formatting. Be very cautious.”

Seal said these emails are common everywhere, especially for large-domain accounts.

“Report suspected spam, phishing, and malware emails to Microsoft and IT by marking them as junk in your email client,” Seal said. “Be aware – IT will never ask for your password. We will warn you when you need to reset or update your password. This should only be done via a [Franklin College] computer or on our website at password.franklincollege.edu.”

FBI and Apple feud brings privacy worries JESSICA KAISER jessica.kaiser@franklincollege.edu

Apple and the FBI have recently been tugging back and forth over iPhone user privacy rights.

The conflict pits the power of the government against the power of a corporation, as the FBI wanted Apple to give them access to the phone of one of the shooters involved in the mass murders in San Bernardino, California.

Apple said no, so the FBI filed a suit.

The 1789 All Writs Act boils down to the idea that individuals and corporations (like Apple) may have to assist law enforcement in accessing information that may connect someone to a crime.

Multimedia journalism professor Joel Cramer, who teaches a media law class, said the FBI’s argument is that the individuals must be investigated to see whether or not they’re connected to potential terrorist attacks.

On the other hand, he said Apple’s argument is asking the question: “Where does it end?”

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ties,” Cramer said. “I think that if the justice department wins in the suit and can in some fashion force Apple to assign its own workforce for developing a code to break into their own product, I’m not sure where that particular power ends.”

Some students side with the FBI. “I think that after you kill someone, you kind of lose the right to privacy,” freshman Mary Jane DeWitt said. “I don’t agree with the idea that they are withholding information from the FBI, especially if there were other people involved.”

Freshman Brittany Love agrees, calling the pushback from Apple “intense.”

“I don’t really see anything wrong with it,” Love said. “But that’s coming from someone who doesn’t have anything to hide from the government or the FBI.” Others, like freshman Alex Kleiman, stand by Apple.

“I think that giving them access to that software is setting a really negative precedent,” Kleiman said. “It’s

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Apple is refusing to release access to the San Bernandino shooter’s phones to the FBI.

very obvious that the FBI has the ability to get into whatever they want, and they just can’t publicly use that sort of evidence because then they’re admitting that have that sort of software to get into anyone’s device. So they had to publicly go to Apple and ask for it. … I think that it’s a breach of privacy and a breach of the trust of citizens.”

Faculty, staff members don’t pay to park on campus ASHLEY STEEB ashley.steeb@franklincollege.edu

Faculty and staff members don’t pay to park at Franklin College – and they don’t pay for their tickets.

When an employee gets a parking fine, the ticket is charged to their department budget, not them.

To compare, faculty and staff members pay the same amount as students to park at surrounding schools like Indiana State University and Ball State University.

Some students, like junior Claire Sheets, think this policy is unfair.

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Cars fill the parking spots in the Elsey lot. Faculty and staff members don’t have to pay for parking passes to park in these spots–unlike students, who have to pay $40 for a pass.

“I think that they [Franklin employees] should have to pay for a parking pass like the students,” Sheets said.

Freshman Natalie Strunk disagrees, saying the free parking policy for faculty and staff is fair.

“They work here, whereas we live here,” Strunk said. “There is a big difference. In addition, it just shows them respect and how much we appreciate their dedication to the college.”

As well as not paying for parking passes, college employees don’t pay for their own parking tickets.

“Students have to pay for their fines, so I only think it’s fair that they pay for their own as well,” Sheets said.

Unlike faculty and staff members, students who want to park in a college lot – without fear of being ticketed – must buy a parking pass.

The price for a parking pass is $40, and Steve Leonard, security director, said a price increase is “not being considered at this time.”

Franklin’s price is cheap compared to area Indiana colleges.

At Indiana State, students are charged $64.80 a year. At Ball State, students pay an initial registration fee

of $65 plus an additional $90 a year.

Strunk said $40 parking pass price tag is reasonable compared to other area schools.

“I think the prices are more than fair, especially when compared to other schools,” she said.

But Sheets said the price is too steep.

“I’m never a fan of paying $40 for anything, so I think they are a little pricey,” she said.

Beyond a yearly parking pass, students can rack up ticket fines throughout the semester.

The amount of a ticket fine varies on the offense.

The first time a student receives a parking violation during their college career, it’s a warning. The second time, it’s $5. For every time after that, the fine increases to $25.

Exceptions include $50 fines for blocking a dumpster, dock or delivery area, parking or driving off of pavement and parking in a handicapped space without the proper placard.

A complete breakdown of the fines in can be found in The Key: Student Handbook on myFC.

Annual BSU fashion show illuminates issues MAKENNA MAYS makenna.mays@franklincollege.edu

Students involved in the Black Student Union will be strutting their stuff in the club’s eighth fashion show tonight.

Although the main purpose of the show is to be fun and entertaining, the participants are also helping the audience learn about black culture and real life problems surrounding the culture.

The BSU fashion show is one of the organization’s most popular events.

Not only does the show raise money for their philanthropy, but it also is an event where the audience members can enjoy themselves while learning about social issues.

Sophomore Doryaun Harvey said the fashion show is important because of the message it conveys to the audience.

“It sheds light onto black culture, and you really learn what is going on,” Harvey said.

The storyline for this year’s show has yet to be revealed, but each scene in

the show has a meaning behind it, as well as the music and fashion choices.

The theme of last year’s fashion show was “Life is not always a fairytale,” and its main message was that change is a

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It’s really about the message and theme– not about the clothing.

– Zaghaun Thorton, BSU president

good thing.

The money raised from the fashion show will go towards the organization’s philanthropy, Women in Motion.

Women in Motion is an Indiana-based nonprofit that provides education on the prevention of HIV and AIDS, as well as education on other

topics that lead to unhealthy behaviors such as substance abuse, domestic violence and obesity. The program targets primarily women of color.

For this year’s show, audience members can expect a fun show with dance acts, crazy costumes and acting with big issues intermixed.

Zaghaun Thornton, president of BSU, was in the past two fashion shows.

“It’s really about the message and theme—not about the clothing,” Thorton said.

The show is tonight at 6 p.m. in the Branigin Room.

Student admission is free.

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Junior Ty’Ronte Files and freshman Tetee Dahn practice their moves for the annual Black Student Union fashion show. The show takes place in the Branigin Room tonight at 6 p.m. @THEFRANKLINNEWS

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a teacher and a clinician at the same time. It’s a good job.

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Even though Frank Becker holds three jobs in Chicago, he still manages to commute back to Franklin on the weekends.

Becker – who is the husband of the college’s president, Thomas Minar – has been a physician and assistant professor at Northwestern University’s main campus in downtown Chicago for 22 years.

He’s also been the director of home and critical care for Lake Forest Hospital for four years.

He started the job when Northwestern merged with the hospital and asked Becker to establish a new pulmonology group – which treats lung conditions – and run the intensive care unit.

“I’ve always enjoyed patient care,” Becker said. “I’ve always wanted to be in a position where I can help younger physicians learn how to become a better physician. I enjoy being both a teacher and a clinician at the same time. It’s a good job.”

Becker said he knew he wanted to be a physician early on.

His journey in the medical field began when he graduated high school and was accepted into a combined degree program at Northwestern for his undergraduate and medical schooling.

During the middle of his residency at the University of Minnesota, he realized he wanted to specialize in pulmonary critical care and deal with lung conditions.

He did his critical care fellowship at the University of Michigan.

Becker came to Chicago because of his parents, who raised him speaking an unusual German dialect.

His parents are World War II refugees from Eastern Europe, and they grew up in an area that is now Serbia and Romania.

For a period of time, Becker’s parents were in concentration camps before traveling to Austria, Germany and then to the United States.

“My parents still live in Chicago in that suburb that they moved to in 1972 when I was 11,” Becker said. “They’re still in the same

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house and doing really well.”

Becker and Minar met online when they were both living in Chicago.

They bumped into each other through mutual friends and similar interests for a year before becoming a couple.

Becker and Minar have been together for more than 19 years now.

All the while, the pair has lived together but have been commuting back and forth for more than eight years because of their careers.

“Because we have jobs in different states, we get together on the weekends,” Becker said.

“There were two weekends that we were not able to be together. One, Tom was traveling in China. Two, I caught the swine flu.”

When he’s not working or commuting, Becker enjoys listening to soft rock, including artists like Train and Imagine Dragons.

He loves dogs, the color olive green and is currently watching “Downton Abbey” on Netflix.

Becker also likes amateur athletics – similar to sports played at the college.

“I’m a Big 10 person, but the sport has become to semi-pro for my liking,” Becker said. “I enjoy the real amateur athletics that I see here at Franklin because the students who are studying also enjoy playing their sport.”

Becker’s hobbies are photography and collecting old film cameras. He’s collected about 100 cameras over the years.

“They’re elegantly designed, and they’re wonderful machinery,” Becker said. “When I was a kid, I couldn’t afford them, but now on eBay, I can buy them for $10.”

Since he began calling Franklin College home this semester, Becker has attended many social and sporting events.

His most important attendances were the welcoming of the new students, the judging of the privies during homecoming and homecoming king and queen crowning.

“I like Franklin a lot,” Becker said. “It’s a great little community and people have been absolutely friendly here.”

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CHRISTINA RAMEY

Hourly wage needs raise Minimum wage is always a hot topic, especially for college students who are busting everything they have in order to pay for tuition.

My main question: How can someone live on $7.25 an hour? Really?

The argument most people use is that jobs at local business or a fast food restaurant are not meant to be careers. They are starter jobs or stepping stones. Therefore, people say they should not be paid more than minimum wage.

People who are against a higher minimum wage baffle me.

As a college student who works minimum wage jobs, I can’t help but wonder why so many people are against raising it to even $8. That’s only an extra $0.75. It really isn’t that much.

Before you start saying something along the lines of, “Well, it hurts local businesses,” or “It’ll cause them to move and people will lose their jobs.”

That’s actually false.

In an article by the Washington Post, it’s explained that raising the minimum wage doesn’t hurt local businesses and many businesses don’t leave the town or city where it’s located.

Instead, businesses raise their prices to help balance out the higher wages they pay their workers.

Many people who work minimum wage jobs could use the extra few dollars.

I know I could. Between paying tuition, keeping up my car, buying groceries and paying bills, I have very little left, if any, in my paycheck to do other things.

When people are paid more, they buy more. That means they’re putting more money back into the economy.

That’s what everyone wants, right? A good economy?

A higher minimum wage will only help the economy to grow.

Imagine back to your early pre- cedures. teen years: You are at the stage There are also some children where Disney is popular and you and young teens who are comThe editorial board represents the opinion of The are just learning about the histo- ing to the United States to seek Franklin and its staff members. Opinion editor Mery of the United States, when the asylum because they are in dangan Powell moderates the board and its members, best thing on the earth is having gerous situations that have “ofincluding Brittney Corum, Christina Ramey and Ashley a snow day in the winter or go- ten fatal consequences if they Steeb. Caitlin Soard, the executive editor, sits on the ing to your best friend’s house were to be deported back to their board. If you have an issue you would like the board for sleepovers. home countries,” according to to cover, email megan.powell@franklincollege.edu.

Now, could you imagine your- The Washington Times. self going to court in the United Some of these children don’t States of America and and not only go through the court proESTIMATES OF THE LAWFUL PERMANENT have a lawyer? cess without a lawyer, but also RESIDENT POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES In October and November, without their parents.

January 2013 more than 10,500 children Courts have ruled, in many crossed the U.S.-Mexico border cases, that there are no constiby themselves–the vast majority tutional rights granted to immifrom El Salgrant chilChina vador, Guad r e n , Mexico OUR POSITION temala and though 5% 25% Honduras, they’ve according to h i n t Philippines U.S. governed there 4.4% ment data could be analyzed by specific India the Migracases in 4.1% tion Policy which a Institute. govern“I don’t ment-apsee how you can make a credi- pointed lawyer is required, acble argument that a 10 year old cording to an analysis by the can represent themselves, and Congressional Research Service. Other so the due process clause is what As the Democrats stand with 61.5% demands this representation the issue that the children are — and not only the due process fleeing from dangerous situaThe above four countries where lawful permanent resiclause, but human decency,” tions in their county, Republidents immigrated from in the year 2013. said Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Cali- cans are fighting for deportation. fornia, the top Democrat on the They are making the argument House Judiciary Immigration that, “most of the children are Subcommittee. like other illegal immigrants, Lofgren introduced the legisla- coming to join family here, or to Florida tion, along with about 80 other work or to join criminal gangs,” 9.6% Democrats. according to The Washington Congressional Democrats Times.

Other introduced legislation in late With this being an ongoing 42.5% Texas February that would grant ille- problem for the past few years, gal immigrant children taxpay- the Obama administration has 10.1% er-funded lawyers to argue their been able to slow down the decases, saying once they get into portation rates. Unfortunately, the U.S. they deserve constitu- they have not been able to grant tional due process protections lawyers. to make sure their cases are The Department of Justice has New York fairly decided, according to a re- tried to recruit volunteer law12.6% port from Stephen Dinan of The yers to help with the civil cases, Washington Times. but advocacy groups say many Because they are born on more volunteers are needed to California American soil, they are Ameri- meet the demand.

25.2% can citizens. Now, their parents, Because these are children, The above states saw an increase in population from the on the other hand, should and no matter where they are from, addition of these lawful immigrants. have to go through The Depart- they should have the right to ment of Homeland Security pro- have a lawyer.

Imformation gathered from Department of Homeland

Children immigrants who come to America to seek safety should be granted lawyer representation.

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Dress code or hit the road: SCHOOL UNIFORMS

CONFESSIONS OF

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BRITTNEY CORUM brittney.corum@franklincollege.edu

MEGAN POWELL megan.powell@franklincollege.edu

From St. Rose of Lima Catholic School to Roncalli High School, I’m so blessed for the opportunity to have spent eight years in a private school setting.

In the private school system, I had the option of wearing either a navy blue, red or white polo shirt with a pair of khaki pants. This was when the world of picking out clothes for the next day was at it’s simplest.

Before attending a private school in fourth grade, I was in the public school system for three years. (Reasons for leaving would need a whole other column, so I won’t get into that.)

I have been on both sides of having and not having a uniform, and, I’ve got to say, having a uniform rocks.

For one, you could wear the same shirt and pants for a week and no one would ever know because we all had multiples of the same shirt in different colors.

I never had to take time and plan what I was going to wear because, well, I had a uniform. Some say students can not express themselves with uniforms. With that I chuckle and say false.

For starters there are a lot of ways to express yourself while not having to break the bank for clothes. In high school my parents paid around $100 for my clothes, $25 a year.

That was for five brand new polo shirts and then a few pair of pants here and there.

You could express yourself in the classroom, on the field or court, but most importantly in your actions when you did service in the community.

Uniforms are not there to make student’s lives miserable, it makes life a heck of a lot easier in the morning.

Trust me.

When I came to college, it was a big switch to the whole “I have to wear this scarf with this shirt and these pants” thing. Not to mention having to try on the outfit and switching the different accessories.

Sometimes I honestly want to go back to grabbing my navy blue shirt and khakis and call it a day.

Uniforms just make life easier.

ASHLEY STEEB ashley.steeb@franklincollege.edu

School corporations use uniforms for many reasons.

One, to put more of a focus on student studies.

Two, to reduce bullies.

I attended a private Baptist school for kindergarten and returned for fifth grade. When I was there, everyone had to wear a uniform.

Now, lets talk about the stereotypes for a quick second. Normally, people see uniform students as nicer and smarter than their non-uniformed peers.

I’m not saying that applies to everyone who attended a school where they were able to choose what they wanted to wear, but it does apply to some.

For example, every day I saw people being bullied for their “ugly” book bag and the type of folders they used when I was in the fifth grade.

People were even bullied over the amount of art supplies they owned when I was in kindergarten. Yes, you heard me right – art supplies. A 64-crayon pack ensured someone being popular.

Clothes that weren’t apart of the uniform were also fair game for bullying.

Students who were not able to afford the name brand clothes or hot new pair of Nikes were always victims of bullying, mainly because they had to make purchases from Wal-Mart.

I am not even going to discuss the fact of parents having to buy their children two different wardrobes when some of them could barely afford one. They had to have their “school” clothes and then their “after school” clothes.

That could take another complete piece to explain.

Uniformed clothing does not keep kids from bullying, and it doesn’t promise intellectual greatness.

Even with uniforms, success cannot be guaranteed.

If these traits can only be instilled at an early age, kids should not be forced to wear clothes they would not normally want to wear.

Students should be able to have the freedom and the choice to choose what they want to wear.

I’m just happy that in college I have that chance every day.

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If anyone told me during my freshman year that I would eventually work behind the scenes of a collegiate production, I would have looked at that person and laughed.

I honestly never thought that I would be a techie, or someone that helps put on a production who isn’t an actor.

Being on a college technical team is different compared to the theater productions at Lincoln High School in Cambridge City, where I attended.

At Lincoln, the cast was the crew of the productions. We usually had to use what we had on hand to save money and we hardly bought any of our own props.

We made a good majority of the props and materials we needed for these productions.

In addition, it is an interesting experience to work on something to help tell a story, like the college’s “The Hamlet Project.”

At Lincoln, we brought stuff from home to get outfits or costumes the majority of time. We did have some costumes that we ordered, but that was for special occasions. Now, in college, I get to see what a wardrobe person does for a play and it’s interesting.

Although cutting out the pieces of paper for the blood scene was tedious and time consuming, it was kinda fun.

To see the finished project is also awesome and just thinking, “Hey, I had a part in making that.”

We also didn’t have sound board for our productions at my high school. Our “soundboard” was the combination of a stereo and keyboard.

Now I find myself working on the sound board, too.

Looking back on all of my experience with theater, I must say this has been the most enjoyable one I have done in my life so far.

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Lacrosse opens season with a win

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SPORTS

WEEKLY RECAP 3/1 MEN’S BASEBALL

Franklin vs. Milwaukee Engr. W, 5-1

WOMEN’S SOFTBALL

Franklin vs. Wartburg W, 6-2 Franklin vs. Mt. Vernon Naz W, 6-5

3/4 MEN’S BASEBALL Franklin vs. Albion W, 4-3

The women’s lacrosse team is starting its second season as an NCAA Division III program.

“The fact that our lacrosse team is stacked with younger players is great for us,” senior Emily Erlenbaugh said.

“They will be here to help continually build up our program. In the end, age doesn’t really matter in lacrosse; it’s the skill that matters.”

Franklin will be busy at home to open to start the season with four straight home matches in the first two weeks. On Saturday, the Grizzlies will take on Hendrix College of Arkansas, a program that is only three years old.

Hendrix is currently 2-4 on the season.

“Being a new and younger program can be hard, but we will still expect the best out of Hendrix like I would hope they do for us,” Erlenbaugh said. “It should definitely be a great game with

solid competition between two new lacrosse teams.”

Early games in the season are an opportunity for the team to gain confidence and get well connected before conference play.

“It’s a game we can use to shake off the rust,” senior Paige Clark said. “It’s a game we can overcome nerves and to work on our offensive and defensive plays.”

Before the season, Franklin was picked to finish sixth in the Ohio River Women’s Lacrosse Conference’s preseason coaches’ poll. The team finished with a 3-8 record in its inaugural season last year.

This year, the goal is to not only maintain a winning record but compete as one of the top teams in the Ohio River conference. The expectations for

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Junior Lexi Ingram catches the ball during practice. Junior Alysia Funderburg looks on.

Saturday and the season are high for the Grizzlies.

“We expect a lot of this season,” Erlenbaugh said. “We are new and young but we play together like we’ve been playing together for years. We have a great team chemistry on and off the field.”

New men’s golf coach prepares for spring season 3/5 MEN’S BASEBALL Franklin vs. Albion W, 3-2 Franklin vs. Albion L, 8-3

3/6 WOMEN’S SOFTBALL

Franklin vs. Kalamazoo W, 7-0 Franklin vs. Kalamazoo W, 13-1

MEN’S BASEBALL

Franklin vs. St. Vincent L, 7-5

3/8 WOMEN’S LACROSSE Franklin vs. Dallas W, 13-6

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The men’s golf season opens up its new season under a new head coach.

Franklin College alumnus Curt Holcroft will lead the team this season.

“Once you get Franklin College in your heart, it’s pretty hard to get it out of there,” Holcroft said. “I really enjoy the college, the atmosphere, the community and everything up here.”

During his time as a college student, he met his wife, whose family also attended Franklin. Holcroft said the college runs in the family.

Before Holcroft started his career as a college golf coach, he was a high school coach at Franklin Community.

Holcroft described his career as a golf coach as “ironic.” While in high school he never played golf; he was a football, basketball and track player.

He helped with golf on the side, then the school asked Holcroft he would be interested in a head coaching position.

At Franklin Community, he coached the boy’s team for nine seasons and the women’s team for seven. He recorded 128 victories, including an 8862 mark with the men’s team. As head coach, the men’s team earned the 2012 sectional title.

In addition, he had either a golfer or his team advance to the regional round of the state tournament in 14 of his 16 seasons. Holcroft guided his first state THEFRANKLINNEWS.COM

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finals individual participant during the 2015 season.

“I’ve always wanted to coach at the college level,” Holcroft said. “Being a person who strives for perfection, I’ve always wanted to coach at the highest level. To get to the college level was something that I really challenged my-

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Once you get Franklin College in your heart, it’s pretty hard to get it out of there.

– Curt Holcroft, men’s golf head coach

self to do.”

During the fall, the team plays a few matches and then takes a break to prepare for the spring season. Just before the men wrapped up their fall schedule, they clinched the first place spot at the Wabash Invitational.

“I think a conference championship is definitely an expectation,” Holcroft said. “It’s something we’re working and striving toward to achieve that and to go out and win as many tourna-

ments as we can and be as competitive as possible,” Holcroft said being a first year coach can prompt many challenges, such as making sure academics come first, weather cooperates and players adapt to staff changes.

“Developing a tough mindset in the players is another challenge,” Holcroft said. “I mean playing in these conditions and doing this kind of stuff is going to do that.”

The team has no home matches for the spring 2016 season.

“We won our last tournament in the fall leading into the spring season here, and that was a big boost to get everybody on board and going even more,” Holcroft said. “These guys are falling in line. They’re doing a good job. It’s a work in progress.”

Sophomore Tom Parkhurst said the team was excited for the new coach.

“We are excited to build a foundation,” Parkhurst said. “Especially with a new coach. We want to kind of build a foundation for the program and build a foundation for what this group wants to do having no seniors and being able to return everybody next year.”

Women’s basketball has eyes set on next season

BEN BROWN Golden State Warriors chasing a record

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Left: Junior Kayle Comer plays defense in a game earlier this season. Right: Senior Katie Brewer blocks her opponent.

DARRELL CRENSHAW

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Next season is in full swing for the women’s basketball season after the team’s 68-55 loss to Rose-Hulman.

Improving from a 14-11 record from the year before, the team finished with 19 wins and eight losses.

“It’s a big improvement from last year,” Head Coach Dana Haggenjos said. “This team had amazing chemistry and we accomplished a lot of things that we had set out for ourselves.”

But the girls were not just shooting to be better than last year’s team; they wanted to win the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament.

“To say that we were disappointed that we didn’t finish the season how we wanted to is a understatement,” Haggenjos said. “Our goal was to win the conference tournament, but we had a great group of kids that put their heart and soul on the line every game and I couldn’t be more proud of them.”

The Grizzlies will be losing lone senior Katie Brewer who averaged 11.4 points and nearly nine rebounds a game.

“Katie will be a big loss for us,” Haggenjos said. “Not only for what she does on the court, but also being a leader off the court.”

The team will rely on its upcoming junior class and also the incoming freshmen to help them continue to build and improve as one unit.

“Moving forward, knowing the girls we have returning and some of the kids we have coming in, I’m very confident going into next season that we hopefully will be better off than we were this year,” Haggenjos said.

With the improvement the Lady Grizzlies made from the 2014-2015 season to this past season, they will have high expectations going into the year. Haggenjos said she already has that on her mind and has high expectations herself.

“You will see a lot of what you saw last year from a defensive standpoint but we will have a little more offense and depth coming in from our upcoming season,” Haggenjos said.

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The 1995-1996 Chicago Bulls made NBA history finishing the season with a 72-10 record. This season the Golden State Warriors could be on pace to break that record.

The team already broke the record for best NBA start at the beginning of this season by winning the first 24 games of the season.

According to ESPN, the Warriors have a 60 percent chance to match a record of 72-10 and only a 35 percent chance to actually break the record as of Wednesday prior to their game against the Utah Jazz.

The team, with 19 games remaining, plays the majority of the games at home. According to ESPN, the team has only lost two games at home between this season and last.

Ultimately, this would be a big record to break for the team. In most cases I would argue against teams pushing for records like this due to the fact that the playoffs are still coming up. Teams in this position should make sure the players are healthy and well-rested.

The Warriors, however, are a different case. They are beating opponents by an average of 10.7 points a game. This still gives the option to rest starters. They lead the league in scoring and assists per game.

The team is pretty young, and they would have the energy to go the extra mile. With 20 games left in the season, however, the team will have to nearly go undefeated for the remainder of the season. As shown from the start of their season, they have a good chance at doing this.

Whether they break the record or not, this season is proving that they are even better than they were a season ago. Last season the team won the NBA Championship, and I believe this season will end in a repeat.

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