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Student Congress held its debate Wednesday night., where only the presidential position was contested.

Freshman Adam Flamion (left), senior Tanner May (middle), and sophomore Jessica Ayer explained their platforms for presidency.

Student Congress holds presidential debate

By Megan Banta

mbanta@franklincollege.edu

Only one position for the Student Congress executive board was contested this year. And the organization still has a handful of positions open, according to its adviser, Keri Ellington.

Six students participated in the debate that took place Wednesday night before yesterday’s election.

Three of them – sophomore Jessica Ayer, freshman Adam Flamion and senior Tanner May – were running for president, the only contested position. The other three were running uncontested – junior Kurt Davis for vice president, junior

Shelby Pierson for secretary and sophomore Matt Haggard for treasurer – and were only required to give opening and closing statements.

They debated before a handful of people, most of whom were Student Congress members.

The sparse turnout was due in part to a change in the day and time of the debate. The debate was originally scheduled for Tuesday night – the same night as the baseball team’s game against Hanover College at Victory Field. Ellington said because of that conflict and because the deadline to apply was

extended to Monday, the organization decided to push back the debate.

Joel Foreman, a sophomore who was one of the few non-members present at the debate, said he went to see what it was all about. He said he wanted to have information so he could make an informed vote.

Foreman said he thinks there should have been a better turnout to the debate, given all the things Student Congress does on campus. He said he doesn’t think students take the organization seriously – at least, not as seriously as they should.

He said based on what he heard in the debate, it seems like the candidates all want to change that perception.

Ayer, Flamion and May all talked about making students and student involvement in Student Congress a priority and making sure the student body as a whole understands what the organization does and how they can be involved.

Ellington said while the turnout to the debate was low, the people who were able to attend “can still go out and tell their friends what their impression of the debate was.”

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Caitlin Soard

Outgrowing tours impossible Every summer since I started high school, I’ve attended The Van’s Warped Tour.

And while I have outgrown most things about the tour, it’s still something I end up planning my summer around. Warped isn’t the only festival or summer tour to get excited about, though.

As much as I look forward to being finished with classes and not stressing about homework for a few months, what really makes this time of year great is that it’s when all of the late spring and summer tours get announced. Between Bled Fest in Michigan, Warped, Brand New’s first Midwest tour in years and Modern Baseball’s absolutely stacked headlining tour, it’s going to be a good summer for live music.

The Brand New tour in particular is something to get excited about—if you were lucky enough to be able to snag tickets before they sold out, which, in most cities, was mere minutes. They haven’t gone on a proper tour in probably years—just one-off dates and festivals, when they even managed to make an appearance.

I’ve never seen them, but they are responsible for inspiring the majority of bands that I listen to today to create music. Between seeing them and seeing Saves the Day on Warped Tour (multiple times, hopefully,) I’ll be privileged enough to see two of the bands that really made me learn to love music and musicianship in the first place—Saves the Day, particularly.

Their musicianship is incredible.

Summer 2014 is going to be a great one. Get ready.

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Sophomore Alix Hatfield (left), who plays the lead role of Lola in the play, and freshman Julia Dembroski (right), who plays Sarah in the play, act out a scene during rehearsal. Dembroski’s character requires her to speak in a made-up language for many of her lines.

Theatre department to perform ‘Twilight Zone’-like play

By Danielle Faczan

danielle.faczan@franklincollege.edu

The theater department will present “The Internationalist” at 8 p.m. from April 30 to May 3 and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 4.

The play is about a woman, Lola, who travels to a foreign land on a business trip to solve a company problem at another branch.

Lola winds up in a world different than she expected, containing surreal qualities and a made-up language to which she must adjust in order to solve the problem.

“I call this one ‘The Office meets The Twilight Zone,’” said Nick Crisafulli, director and theater professor. “It has some strange elements to it.”

The play, originally written for four men and two women, will be performed by a cast of all females. Freshman Julia Dembroski plays the role of Sarah, who is the lowest person in the company but wants to achieve manager status. She said the all-female cast has added different dynamics.

“I was really excited for that, honestly,” Dembroski said. “There are no male roles so the relationships are between females – all of them. I can’t imagine how the play

would be if that wasn’t the case, now that we’ve been going through these roles. I feel like this is right and how it should’ve been.”

Crisafulli said although the gender changes have created different dynamics, people shouldn’t be scared away.

“I hope people will find it to be an intriguing dynamic,” Crisafulli said. “I kind of like having this cast of six women that are excited to dive into the character and see how they push the story forward. In this one, it’s not easy to see how the story gets pushed forward.”

Sophomore Alix Hatfield plays the lead role of Lola, who is work-oriented and simply wants to arrive at the office, solve the problem and leave.

“Because the character is so unfamiliar with the place, there are a lot of things that kind of throw her for a loop,” Hatfield said. “She meets people she didn’t expect to meet.

The customs are not familiar to her.

The language she has no idea, even the slightest, how to speak any of it.

She didn’t even get a phrasebook.”

Dembroski said although she was excited for the made-up language because she loves speaking gibberish, learning the language has been, “the hardest thing I have ever done in the theatre aspect of my life.”

“But now that we’re getting it down, it’s hilarious,” she said. “When it flows really well and is fast, it sounds just like another language.”

Hatfield said she was lucky enough to only have a few lines of the madeup language that she repeats back to the speaker. She said the language sounds loosely Slavic-based, and some Latin words can be heard but, “others are randomly thrown together syllables and consonants.”

She said some characters have huge monologues in this made-up language, so the actresses have created their own stories for each monologue to give the speaker context.

“A lot of it is like (Lola’s) in one of those classic foreign films where everything is completely bizarre and no one knows what’s happening,” Hatfield said.

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Formal recruitment to have slight changes in fall

By Danielle Faczan

danielle.faczan@franklincollege.edu

The Panhellenic Council will vote at 8 p.m. on Tuesday during its regular meeting about slight changes to recruitment rules next fall.

Natalie Brewster, Greek Life coordinator, said every year after formal recruitment, women who are directly involved in planning recruitment get together to discuss what went well, what can be improved and how to keep streamlining the process to “make it the best possible process for potential new members, while keeping it fair between all chapters.”

Brewster said the biggest change involved restructuring the recruitment rules document so it’s more user-friendly for chapter women.

She said the National Panhellenic Council has recommended chapters pair down recruitment rules as much as possible to make them easier to understand and to keep

the focus on potential new members having positive experiences.

“The recruitment rules packet had been reconstructed so many times that there were rules contradicting themselves,” said Molly Preston, a sophomore and Panhellenic Council president. “And last year with recruitment, I know it was really hard because we didn’t clarify those rules.”

Some potential rule changes include no Rho Gammas are allowed in the suites during recruitment rounds; the registration fee will be raised; affiliated women may drive freshmen to places like WalMart or to Franklin College events; and Rho Gammas will be allowed to have an alternative Facebook page during recruitment, whereas affiliated women must set their Twitter and Instagram accounts on private and not accept potential new members’ friend requests on Facebook.

Caitlyn Farris, junior and Pi Beta Phi president, said many of the rule changes are official rules in the “Green Book,” which is followed by the Panhellenic Council.

“The Green Book applies to a lot of different schools and to a lot of different Panhels,” Farris said. “Because of that, we’re trying to follow the Green Book more so we’re on the same level as other schools. We’re implementing stuff that we need to implement, that we’re supposed to be implementing but never really have.”

Farris said the restructured rules should help all affiliated women be on the same page.

“Last year there was a lot of ‘follow the spirit of the rule,’” she said. “There wasn’t a lot laid out, so this year we’re trying make up specific rules so people aren’t taking them the wrong way.”

The social media rule, which has received the most amount of feedback from chapter women, was suggested by a chapter president as a compromise to help with infraction claims and communication with potential new members.

Preston explained how during the week of formal recruitment, there is supposed to be minimal contact between affiliated women and potential new members and no contact with them that weekend before Bid Day. Preston said Brewster would receive emails that weekend with screenshots of affiliated women liking a potential new member’s picture or status on social media. The sender would claim it was a form of communication and therefore an infraction.

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Franklin Fit pairs students with faculty for fitness

By Adam Lee

adam.lee@franklincollege.edu

The Franklin Fit program pairs exercise science students with faculty and staff members in hopes of creating a learning experience for the students and a healthy lifestyle for the faculty and staff.

It is being done in coordination with the EXC 375 class.

Kyra Noerr, the instructor of exercise science, said the program has been done in previous years but has been changed recently so that the instructor is not always present when the pair is working out or meeting. This allows the students to do more on their own. Since this change, the students have been showing professionalism, Noerr said.

The participants were chosen by an email that was sent out asking for those interested. The first 25 faculty members were accepted and given students to set up a program that fit their goals.

Alongside the faculty are two students with intellectual disabilities who have graduated high school.

Their involvement in Franklin Fit allows them to enter a transition period from high school to beyond as well as workout and eat healthy, Noerr said. The feedback from the participants has been positive so far.

One participant and public relations professor Ray Begovich said the Franklin Fit program is, “an amazing opportunity to get very good health and fitness advice from some very sharp students.”

He is paired with junior Eric Drake, who has given him a regiment to increase strength and endurance and get back into shape, Begovich said.

“For the first time in many years I’m lifting weights and I’m loving it,” Begovich said.

He spoke highly of Drake and said he was a “superb motivator,”

but did not push him too hard.

Begovich wanted to do the program because he said he used to be a multi-sport athlete and was an avid weightlifter in the past.

“I feel very fortunate to have this kind of program available for free right across Dame Mall and I’m very appreciative of my coach Eric for his expertise, understanding and his professionalism,” Begovich said.

The program has the ability to expand and will likely change in the future, Noerr said. One possibility is to open the program to allow the training of students, along with faculty. This would allow the exercise science students to train individuals with different goals that may lean towards sports training, Noerr said.

The only problem with having students in the program would be the pairing up of friends, which could hinder work being done.

In order to keep it productive, some sort of monitoring would need to be done, she said.

“I feel very fortunate to have this kind of program available for free right across Dame Mall and I’m very appreciative of my coach Eric for his expertise, understanding and his professionalism.”

Ray Begovich, journalism professor

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cook on campus: allergy and sensitivity edition Left: These are some cookies from Allyn’s mother.

While they look slightly different from regular cookies, these gluten- and egg- free snacks are safe for people with those food allergies and sensitivities.

Juniors Allyn Pearson and Ellie Price share their stories of dealing with health challenges.

Ellie Price I spent the first 20 years of my life without food allergies.

So when I was diagnosed with severe allergies to gluten and eggs and moderate allergies to milk, peanuts and pineapple last August, nearly my entire diet had to change.

This semester, I have written about several cooking adventures, but unfortunately, these foods that I wrote about contain a lot of materials that some people have sensitivities or allergies to. I don’t want to exclude anyone with an allergy or sensitivity, so I went to a friend for a recipe I could share that everyone could enjoy. Trust me, it’s good.

Last weekend, one of my friend’s mother made her some of these cookies I am about to share, so I have actually had a chance to try them. They are, believe it or not, as good as normal, gluten-filled cookies. I almost like them more.

Pearson Family’s Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies 2 1/2 cups of blanched almond flour 1/2 tsp. sea salt 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1/2 cup coconut oil 1/2 cup honey 1 tbsp. vanilla 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips Necessary baking items: Spatula Whisk 2 Bowls Cookie pan Parchment paper

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The Steps: 1. Combine the flour, salt, baking soda and chocolate chips together in one mixing bowl.

Next, combine the coconut oil, honey and vanilla in another bowl. If you have two different sizes, I would recommend putting the liquids in the larger bowl so it is easier to mix in the dry ingredients a small portion at a time. Make sure to mix everything into a smooth batter.

2. Drop cookies onto baking pans lined with parchment paper. As I mentioned in my sugar cookie recipe, I love using parchment paper, but I didn’t say it was mandatory. This recipe says use it. I highly recommend using the parchment paper because it will not secure your cookie to the bottom of the pan and saves cleaning time.

3. Bake the cookies at 350 degrees for seven to 10 minutes.

4. Once the cookies are done baking, they need to cool for about 20 minutes or they will crumble and fall apart. That would make dipping them in almond milk a bit more difficult.

Allyn Pearson Over spring break, I was diagnosed with multiple moderate sensitivities to severe food intolerances. A food sensitivity is different from a food allergy; with food sensitivities, a person’s body identifies particular foods, such as gluten, lactose and casein, as pathogens.

Because there are members of my family who have food sensitivities, it is easy to avoid foods that will make me sick while I’m home. While I am at school, however, it is almost impossible to eat in “Saga.”

To avoid accidentally eating something to which I am sensitive, I have been eating food my mom or I prepare at home and then bring back to school.

Even though there is little I can eat in “Saga,” I have decided to keep my meal plan. In case my parents or I are unable to cook safe food for the coming week, I can eat certain items from “Saga,” so I don’t go hungry. This hasn’t been easy, and even my social life has changed due to spending less time in “Saga.”

Thankfully, though, my family, friends and even my professors have been very understanding and supportive.

I couldn’t find enough allergen-free meals in “Saga.”

Sodexo does provide gluten-free bread and a few other options, but it becomes more challenging to find safe foods when I have to combine all of my allergens.

Even though I live in a dorm and am required to have a meal plan, I received approval to drop my Sodexo meals for medical reasons.

Preparing food with only a microwave, sink and refrigerator in a dorm room has presented its own set of challenges. I didn’t realize how convenient eating in the cafeteria was until I had to start preparing my own food. With little free time and without a convenient, clean stove or oven to use on campus, I’ve relied on cooking real meals at home and freezing them, so I can reheat them when I’m on campus. And I’ve discovered creative options for food, such as using lettuce instead of bread for sandwiches and preparing gluten-free pasta while boiling the water in the microwave.

Consuming the allergens contributed to my constant headaches. And even though the headaches have since gone away, they return almost immediately after eating one of the allergens. It’s not easy to avoid all of these common ingredients, especially when I’m on campus. But it’s worth it because it has allowed me to feel well again.

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Security tries to maintain adequate lighting

By Paige Clark paige.clark@franklincollege.edu New lights were installed to four locations on campus after a Student Congress audit last fall.

“This past fall Student Congress again did a lighting audit and marked any and all areas we felt had concerns,” said Tess Anglin, Student Congress president. “However, as a whole, the campus is very well lit.”

Each year Student Congress inspects the lighting on campus with Steve Leonard, head of security at Franklin, and other members of the facilities staff.

“The comprehensive safety and security committee requests that members of Student Congress join them in conducting a lighting audit each year,” Leonard said. “The last one was conducted in late October 2013.”

Leonard said areas identified as could have been more well lit were

Dietz Center circle, southeast corner of Elsey parking lot, east side of Barnes Hall, area between Johnson-Dietz and Barnes Hall, far north area of Branigin lot, area between Tau Kappa Epsilon and Welcome Center, areas directly south of Hoover and Cline Halls, Center of Hamilton parking lot and southeast corner of Hamilton parking lot.

“Of these identified areas, additional lighting has been added in the area between TKE and the Welcome Center, the Hamilton parking lot and the east side of Barnes Hall,” Leonard said. “Improvements will continue to be made as budgetary limits allow.”

Some students continue to express concerns about lighting on campus.

“There’s a reason that I go to painting during the day because I don’t want to walk from JCFA

to Dietz at two in the morning,” said junior Allyn Pearson.

Anglin said Leonard is very approachable about concerns and he cares about student opinions.

“He always works with facilities to ensure the lighting is what the students need to feel safe and also makes sure it is eco-friendly,” Anglin said.

The lighting issue was a big discussion on campus after a student was attacked on campus at night.

An assailant attacked a student last spring behind the Dietz Center.

Some students worried the attack occurred because the area is not well lit, but both Anglin and Leonard disagree.

“There are multiple lights, with high brightness, and an emergency box directly where the incident occurred,” Anglin said.

There are several emergency boxes on campus, mostly near the dorms.

“While the emergency boxes have never actually been used for an emergency, they are used here and there,” Anglin said.

Leonard said anything to make it easier to communicate with security is useful.

“The best we can do is to be diligent in our efforts to make campus safe,” Leonard said. “That means reminding students to be aware of their surroundings, try not to travel alone at night and stay in well-lit areas.”

Heating and air depends on average temperatures

By Ray Brents rbrents@franklincollege.edu Due to the fluctuation in temperatures between seasons, when to turn on the air or heat is not always an easy choice to make, but previsions are formed to try and accommodate everyone’s needs as much as possible.

“It’s more of a collaborative decision between facilities and student affairs,” said Thomas Patz, director of physical facilities and energy management. “We monitor the weather forecast, and every year there are different dates where either the heating or the cooling will get turned on.”

However, every need is not going to be met when the units in dorm rooms and buildings are switched to air or heat. For example, students may wonder why the air is on in their dorms if it is still cool outside.

“It might say 60 during the day but at night it’s still cool and they have the air conditioner on and you can’t even turn it off,” sophomore

Mohannad Alrosan said. “Even if you put your thermostat on off, it won’t even turn off. What’s the point in having a thermostat if they are just going to control it for us?”

There has also been recent construction with the heating and air conditioning units in Hamilton Library.

“We are replacing all four air handlers and replacing two very antiquated steam boilers with four much smaller and more efficient hot water boilers,” Patz said. “We are replacing a very large part of that entire heating and cooling system.”

The construction began this past fall and should be completed around the first of August.

Unlike someone’s house, it usually takes longer and more energy to raise or lower temperatures in a dormitory or academic building because of the larger size.

Students have various ways of coping with how hot or cold it can get in dorm rooms. Some students take cool showers when it’s hot in their rooms or just double up on blankets when it’s cold. Junior Aubrey Magodlyo said he tries to cope as well.

“If it’s cool outside and the air conditioning is on, I will sleep with sweat pants on,” Magodlyo said.

Facilities base the switch on average daily temperatures. If day-to-day temperatures are generally over 72 degrees, then the air conditioning will get turned on. But if the temperatures are consistently somewhere under 65 degrees, the heat will be turned on.

“We monitor the weather forecast, and every year there are different dates where either the heating or the cooling will get turned on.”

Thomas Patz, director of physical facilities and energy management

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Music, art majors have post-graduation options

By Natavia Howell natavia.howell@franklincollege.edu Music and art majors may discover that finding careers in their fields post-graduation can vary in difficulty.

Antonio (Tony) Quintana, a senior art history major, said he doesn’t worry as much as he used to about finding a job after graduation.

“In the beginning (I did worry about finding a job),” Quintana said.

“A lot of people and family members consistently told me it’s not a top 10 career avenue. Now I don’t think there’s so much of a worry.

I just think it’s a lot of work.”

Quintana said he got interested in art his sophomore year after he took an art history class with Svetlana Rakic, professor of fine arts.

“When I took this class I realized that I had always been interested in art and (this class) fortified my interests,” Quintana said. “I

took a leap of faith and changed my major to art history.”

Casey Hayes, assistant professor of fine arts in the music department, said it’s not hard at all for music or art majors to find jobs after graduation.

“Every one of our majors had a job immediately after school,” Hayes said. “Some of them are teaching in schools, some are running nonfor-profit music programs for underprivileged students, some are working at music theaters, (etc.)”

Hayes said some students take their music degree and go to graduate school.

“We find that students in music and art are infinitely more marketable in grad school because it shows that they have the ability to understand, comprehend and make sense out of abstract concepts,” Hayes said.

Joshua Hyde, a senior music major and theater minor, said he knows there are a lot of career options for music majors as long as one searches for them.

“It’s a lot deeper of a field than I think a lot of people think,” Hyde said. “There are a lot of things you can do with music that aren’t music performance - music therapy, music production, lots of things that aren’t just, ‘finding somebody to play with and getting money for playing.’ That’s really hard.”

But, Hyde said finding a job in music - or any field, for that matter - is diffiult with today’s economy. He said it’s all about “who you know and what you can do.”

“I’ve always kind of been concerned (about finding a job in music),” Hyde said. “Before I came here, I knew for

a fact the areas I wanted to study were music and theatre. That wasn’t a decision I made when I got here. I knew what I was getting myself into.

I don’t really know the scope of what I was getting myself into, but I knew, in a general sense, what it was like.”

Hayes said, however, that the history of humanity is wrapped up in the development of music and art. He added that a liberal arts education is a good asset for music and art majors.

“We have guys who never sang a note in their lives, come here, take a class, get completely turned on with it and now they’re leaving as music majors,” Hayes said. “Had they gone anywhere else they would have never been required to take a music class and their lives would have been completely different.”

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Freshmen, seniors voice fears

By Amanda Creech amanda.creech@franklincollege.edu As freshmen, students may not think about what they want to do after graduation.

A few of them are more concerned about making friends and passing their classes. Before graduation, however, a few seniors at Franklin College voiced their fears about entering the real world.

Freshman Janelle Mason said her biggest fear coming into college was that she might fail.

“I was afraid that I wouldn’t make any friends and that the classes would be too hard and I would fail,” she said.

Now that her second semester of her freshman year is nearly over, she realized that her fears were unnecessary.

“I made a ton of friends from people on my floor and my professors helped to make the classes as easy and understandable as possible,” she said. “I get pretty good grades now.”

Freshman Victoria Dillon had similar fears as an incoming fresh-

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man. She said during Orientation Weekend, offered by the college, she was able to meet other freshmen.

“Focus Day and Orientation Weekend helped because we were all a little afraid that we were kind of just afraid together,” Dillon said.

For senior Joshua Hyde, his fears stem from trying to find a place to live after graduation.

“Me and all my friends really are just trying to figure out where to live and all kinds of other things because to some degree going back to your parents’ house isn’t necessarily an option for some people,” Hyde said. “So we’re all trying to figure out where we’re going to live, how we’re going to pay for it.”

Hyde also said he was afraid that, although he is searching, his degree in music and minor in theater might create a struggle to find a job.

“The problem is that, especially me with my specific skill-set, I’m not really suited for business jobs,

so I always feel like I’m unqualified to do anything,” he said.

Hyde’s fears are justified. An article by Tami Luhby titled “Recent College Grads Face 36% ‘mal-employment’ rate” claims that degrees in accounting, engineering or computer sciences have a better chance at finding a college-level job. Hyde added, however, that he may pursue a career in marketing.

“I realized recently with the help of some people that I would be really good in marketing so I’m going to talk to some people and see if I can get a job in marketing,” he said. “And hopefully that will pay more than McDonald’s.”

Senior Trey Thurston shared Hyde’s fears concerning finding a job after graduation.

“The market isn’t exactly at its largest point right now,” he said. “Especially with there being a flood of bachelor’s degrees that people have received.”

Thurston plans to begin work in Orlando at Walt Disney World starting in May, and is putting off going to grad school.

“I didn’t get my applications out fast enough so that’s my own fault,” he said. “I will be working as an attractions cast member so there’s a chance I could be using my degree and there’s also a chance that I couldn’t to start, so we’ll see.”

Thurston said he also thinks Franklin does a decent job at helping students become independent, but that there could be some changes that could help further.

“I think that (it would help students become independent) if they were to let people live off campus a little more or offer as part of the liberal arts education a home economics class to help take care of yourself,” he said.

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Photos provided by Brittany Harcourt

Sophomore Brittany Harcourt created an Instagram account this year to inspire students to eat healthier. Harcourt uses the account, @SurvivingSodexoFC, to show students what healthy food options there are within a Sodexo meal plan, such as the screenshots on the right.

Sophomore creates healthy Instagram account

By Ellie Price

ellen.price@franklincollege.edu

Brittany Harcourt, a sophomore and health science major, started the @SurvivingSodexoFC Instagram account at the beginning of this spring semester as a way to show others how to find healthy food options on campus.

Whenever Harcourt returned to her table after choosing food from the cafeteria, her creative, healthy options surprised her friends.

They hadn’t thought to combine those foods from different serving areas. Harcourt’s roommate encouraged her to create a social media account to share her meals.

“People say they can’t eat healthy,” Harcourt said. “So it’s kind of my personal mission to show that it is possible to be healthy in ‘Saga.’”

She uses the mobile photo-sharing app to photograph her meals and snacks and share her healthy ideas with her 173 followers.

Her secret to finding healthy options is getting food from multiple serving areas.

“The easiest solution in my experience to eating healthy is to look over

all the lines once, twice or three times and make a decision from there,” Harcourt said. “You can always do simple things like asking Lou to not cook your eggs in butter.”

Les Petroff, food services director, said he wasn’t familiar with the Instagram account. But he said he’s glad that some students are interested in healthy eating.

Petroff said the signs above each station list the nutritional information and ingredients for each item. And the options in the mindful station near the salad bar are less than 500 calories, he said.

He said he rarely receive complaints about Sodexo not providing enough healthy options. He said he’s noticed that some students try to eat healthy a few times a week and then choose to eat unhealthily the rest of the time.

“I’d like to think that there are always healthy choices available,” Petroff said. “It’s just what selection the person is going to make.”

Harcourt said she tries to avoid making negative comments about Sodexo’s food. “(The account) is mainly positive and how you work around the negatives,” she said.

Freshman Kelly Marcelo said she likes how innovative and creative Harcourt’s account is.

“She’s proving that there are a lot of options available,” Marcelo said.

“A lot of the time, people will complain about the food, but there’s a lot of variety that you can do, even with healthy food.”

Harcourt said she enjoys the challenge of making food from the cafeteria look appealing for photos.

“I know that presentation is not always on the forefront,” she said.

“But I like the challenge of pushing food around on my plate and trying to get it from a good, artistic angle.”

Harcourt previously took a nutrition class with Kim Eiler, assistant professor of physical education.

Eiler said she enjoyed having Harcourt in her class because she

could tell that Harcourt enjoyed the content area and wanted to apply her study of nutrition to areas of her life.

“You can see her jump-starting her passion toward working with nutrition,” Eiler said. “She’ll be able to help a lot of people with nutritional ideas and concepts.”

Harcourt said she has always considered herself to be a healthy eater. But when she’s at home and feels tempted to “wimp out on a meal,” she reminds herself to eat healthy because she could post the photo on the Instagram account.

“I have tried to adapt my meals at home to fit the needs of people in apartments who still go to Franklin,” Harcourt said. “Hopefully it reaches someone and gets them to think outside the box.”

After graduation, Harcourt hopes to pursue a career in either food sustainability or dietary counseling. She plans to study abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark this summer and will spend a few of her weeks there learning about sustainable food systems.

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features Senior Allison Bayley grew up with the game of golf, and it has become a priority in her life.

She started playing when she was about five years old because her father works in the golf industry. She would play on and off for several years before competing during high school and college.

The finance and accounting major said she has learned many life lessons while out on the green. “(Golf) teaches you a lot about integrity and leadership,” Bayley said. “You are dependent on yourself, but you are still on a team. Integrity on the golf course is counting all your strokes that you have for your score. In life I use that as, obviously, not cheating on tests. (Golf) makes you hold yourself accountable.”

And she said she holds herself accountable and stays organized by writing “everything” down.

Bayley participates in Zeta Tau Alpha, the Student Athlete Advisory Committee, accounting club and several honorary societies.

Even though she is very busy, she said she keeps her priorities in line.

“I always knew that school would have to come first,” Bayley said. “Sometimes I had to miss tournaments because I had too much work to do or I couldn’t miss a class. That’s the sacrifice that you have to be willing to make.”

She also said her coach makes it a priority to help his players understand their own priorities as well as his expectations.

“At our meeting at the beginning of the year, he is very big on saying, ‘ok this is how it should be: God, your family, school, golf, friends,’ and he lays it out and I think that’s nice because coming in, freshman year, you kind of know what his expectations are,” Bayley said.

At Franklin College, there are more than 60 organizations students can join aside from sports teams. Bayley said freshmen need to remember they are students first, as well as learning to say no. Bayley said it took her about two years to learn to say no and not overcommit herself.

“You want to be involved in everything and in high school it was manageable because you did not have that much to do,” Bayley said. “In college it’s different because there is so much that you can do and all the organizations do so much.”

After college, Bayley has already lined up her next priority. She said she has secured a job working for Umbaugh in Indianapolis as a staff accountant.

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Tess Anglin, a junior who is currently Student Congress president, said she still expected the number of people who vote in the election to be right around the 400 mark.

She said people usually vote “because it’s just something they do.”

She said Student Congress did a better job with publicity this year, but “we always seem to hit a plateau.” She said she thinks that barrier – and the shortage of applications for positions – can partially be

attributed to the fact that it’s April and people are focused on summer.

Student Congress, she said, will advertise the open positions in the fall and generally get a more enthusiastic response from people who are ready to pick back up and get involved.

Ellington said the organization is no stranger to having to fill positions in the fall – in addition to filling the freshmen positions – and that it typically has been able to do so easily.

>> Recruitment Continued from page 3 “I think one of the problems last year was that there wasn’t a lot of education (about the infraction process) that the women already had before I got here and after I got here there wasn’t time for education,” Brewster said. “The infraction process is laid out in the recruitment rules, it always has been, but I don’t think anyone has sat down and actually looked.”

She said the infraction process requires, first and foremost, a mediation session. No punishments occur until both sides of the story are heard and the rules are clarified. In fact, Brewster said there were no actual infractions last year during recruitment.

“I think the perceived idea is that there are a ton of violations happening, but in reality none of those were actual violations,” she said.

To keep women from patrolling social media for infractions, chapter women may be required to set all their accounts on private from freshmen move-in day to Bid Day and not accept any new members’ friend requests. If the chapter woman and potential new member were already Facebook friends prior to recruitment, the chapter woman would not have to delete her friend and the rule would rely more on “common sense,” Brewster said.

This, Brewster said, would suspend communication with potential new members over the Internet and also give affiliated women a break.

“During recruitment, you’re constantly worried about making a good impression on a PNM all the time,” Brewster said. “It gives sorority women a break and helps PNMs focus on the central message

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of ‘Go Greek.’ Sororities are values-based. We want you to join our community and find your fit.’”

Brewster said Indiana State University’s sorority women completely deactivate their social media accounts for the first month of school, which isn’t uncommon. But, the Panhellenic Council decided that would be too extreme for Franklin College.

“Social media has become the trend and now we’re trying to figure out how to manage that to keep everyone fair and following the spirit of the rules,” Brewster said.

Formal recruitment will begin Sept.

22, three or four weeks earlier than usual. Brewster said the National Panhellenic Council actually dictates formal recruitment must happen within the first month of school. Rho Gammas shouldn’t disaffiliate for longer than a month, and it can be easier on potential new members who join a sorority for a support system, she said.

Brewster said there will be an all-sorority recruitment meeting at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 13 to help women better understand the rules and infraction process and prepare for recruitment early. There will be another all-sorority meeting in the fall before formal recruitment.

“I think we expect downfalls because it’s something new that we’re doing,” Preston said. “I know a lot of girls are worried about the whole social media thing, but you really don’t want – or at least I don’t want – a girl getting into my chapter just based on social media. If that’s how you have to recruit people, then we need to rethink recruiting.”

State unemployment rate drops

By Lesley Weidenbener

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INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana’s unemployment rate continued to fall in March, dropping to less than 6 percent for the first time since July 2008.

The state’s rate of 5.9 percent is better than the national rate and those in surrounding states.

“Our rate has dropped by 2 percentage points in one year, which is the third largest decline in the nation,” said Scott Sanders, commissioner of the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. “The Hoosier labor force has grown by more than 25,000 in the first quarter of 2014 alone, which is also remarkable.”

Indiana added 3,200 private sector jobs in March and the state ranks eighth in the nation in total private sector job growth since July, 2009, the low point of employment in the state. During that time, Indiana has grown 215,500 private sector jobs, lead in part by strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

State officials also said claims for state unemployment insurance in March were nearly 10,000 below March 2013 levels and are at their lowest since 2007. Initial claims for unemployment insurance are at their lowest levels since 2000.

>> Majors Continued from page 6 Quintana also understands the importance of a liberal arts education for a music or art major.

He said it has helped him be successful in interviews, acquiring internships and even smaller things like holding conversations about things science- or math-related.

Quintana has interned at Raymond James Stutz Art Gallery in Indianapolis, which led to personally working and assisting an artist in the Stutz building.

After graduation Quintana will head to Syracuse University to continue his Master’s studies.

He said his dream career would be to work in a museum or to teach in higher education.

“I think incoming students who are considering an art major should really pursue it,” Quintana said. “If you really have a gift or talent for it, you should really work on it and brand yourself. Showing your skills will really help you get somewhere.”

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INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana Education Roundtable endorsed new state standards for math and English during a meeting Monday despite boos from opponents who say the new education guidelines are too much like Common Core.

The standards passed easily and now move to the State Board of Education for a final up-or-down vote.

Members of Hoosiers against the Common Core – a group that has been fighting standards that have been adopted by a majority of states and endorsed by President Barack Obama’s administration – rallied at the Statehouse then marched to the roundtable meeting Monday to show their protest.

“We’re going to that meeting to have them looks us in the eye,” said the group’s co-founder, Erin Tuttle. “We are the people that have to live with the consequences of their decision.”

In 2010, Indiana adopted the standards for math and English but opted out of the science, social studies and history standards set by the Common Core. But as the state began phasing in Common Core, became increasingly controversial.

Last year, the General Assembly paused Common Core’s implementation and ordered education officials to take a second look. Then one month ago, Gov. Mike Pence signed SB 91 – calling for new standards written “by Hoosiers for Hoosiers.” Superintendent Glenda Ritz and the state board have been working through that process.

Pence said Monday that the new standards were created by “the best process” with “more Hoosier input and transparency than ever before.” They combine some of Indiana’s past standards with Common Core and ideas from other states.

The crowd against the new standards booed and laughed as Pence spoke.

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“I teach for various colleges here in Indiana and I put together some of my own curriculum,” said David Lantz at the rally prior to the meeting. “I have a master’s degree and so what Common Core does is it pushes anybody that has any knowledge about their subject matter from creating competing text books.”

Molly Chamberlin, chief assessment and accountability officer for the Center for Education and Career Innovation, said the process included an evaluation board, assessment board, and a college and career ready panel.

For the first time in Indiana, the standards included math beyond algebra two – trigonometry, pre-calculus – and focused on the integration from high school to post-secondary options.

“There are things that other states will learn from our process,” Chamberlain said. The crowd, again, responded with a laugh.

“We always worried the that we would have a Common Core rebrand, but what I never imaged is that they would produce a set of new standards that is actually worse than the Common Core. That really shocked me. It contains more of what of we didn’t want and less of what we advocated for,” Tuttle said. “To me the new standards are really a smack in the face to parents who have fought really hard in opposition to Common Core.”

>> Theatre Continued from page 2 “And there aren’t any subtitles to give her any indications of what’s going on.”

Hatfield said the concept of “circles” is played upon throughout the play, with circular motions, movements and scenes that end precisely in the same spot as they started.

“The entire play, in my opinion, is a big circle getting nowhere,” Dembroski said. “There’s really no solution or result to this play, so it’s really a big circle.”

As campus golf has made its comeback and more classes are being held outside, students are becoming creative in ways to spend their time outdoors.

Freshman Julia Dembroski recently went with her family on a camping trip with an Indiana University wildlife class. On this trip, she examined wildflowers and made practical things from the woods, like pine needle tea.

Dembroski learned about the trip because her mom’s boyfriend is an instructor at Indiana University. This opportunity was not open for everyone, but she said that she encourages all students at Franklin to try to make time in their schedules to spend some time in nature and relax.

“Personally I love to go camping, but I wouldn’t call myself a ‘camper,’” Dembroski said. “I just feel like I was so stressed and especially during that week before the trip, so when it came to weekend I was so excited to go camping.

It’s just so random and fun.”

Sophomore twins Kate and Sarah Bugelholl also spend some of their time away from school in nature. They like to go hiking all across the states in order to relax and take a break from their hectic college schedules.

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“Hiking is a fun way to bond with my family,” Sarah Bugelholl said.

“We never know what is going to happen and even though some of the mountains we hike more than once, the experience is always different.”

Kate Bugelholl said she enjoyed hiking, as well.

“Hiking is something that is fun and challenging,” she said. “It is also rewarding. When you are on top of the world and you know everything else is easy, all downhill.”

Whether it’d be camping or hiking or something in between, all three ladies agreed students should take time away from campus and in the environment while the weather is nice.

“You may observe wildlife, meet new people and hear of their adventures, or there is that chance that you sometimes might get chased by a moose,” Sarah Bugelholl said.

With the school year coming to a close, Dembroski said she encourages students to go have an adventure somewhere in nature to refresh themselves before finals week.

“Going on that camping trip has just given me a new perspective on everything,” Dembroski said.

“I feel as if I am ready to conquer the rest of this semester now.”

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Senior farewell: Hard to leave college ‘family’ With less than a month until graduation, I’ve been thinking back on the last four years a lot – and “a lot” is an understatement. And as I do, I’m realizing that when people tell us that time flies, they mean it.

I still remember getting out of my parents’ van on freshmen movein day, having a horde of people asking where my things were going and then hauling it all away.

It feels like it was just yesterday, not three and a half years ago.

It still amazes me how quickly the time has gone by since that day – and how much I’ve enjoyed every moment of it. Saying goodbye is bittersweet.

I’ve made friendships here I know will last forever. Most importantly, I’ve found a family that I never expected to find: the Pulliam School of Journalism.

I’ve found my second, third, fourth and fifth moms in Ann, Lesley, Diana and Cindy.

I’ve learned the “appropriate” response when John tells you to “take care,” though I can’t repeat it here.

I’ve stayed up so late I laughed without knowing the reason while putting the paper together with some of my favorite people in the entire world.

And I can’t say thank you enough.

Thank you to my wonderful PSJ family members who accept me and love me despite the fact that I am…quirky. Thank you for supporting me and preparing me for the “big kid” world.

As much as I would like to stay (but really, can I?), I’m ready to go (kind of). And I know I can always come back to my family.

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Living on campus is privilege, students should be respectful of buildings, others Living in a dorm is considered to be part of the “typical” college experience in most Western countries.

Students are willing to go into extra debt and shell out more money just to have the experience of living on their own and being independent.

For most students, living in a dorm is a positive experience that allows them to make new, lifelong friends and learn how to be self-sufficient.

But what many students fail to realize is that living in a dorm is a privilege.

Not every student is able to afford the additional expense of room and board, which means that not every student gets to have the “typical” college experience. Some students prefer commuting because it saves money or allows them to be closer to their families, but others are genuinely disappointed when they are unable to live in a dorm.

We all know that privileges shouldn’t be taken lightly, but we also know that they usually are. Students tend to treat entire dormitories, not just their own rooms, as their personal dumping ground, which can, and often does, lead to extreme conflict.

If you live in a dorm, there’s one basic rule that can eliminate almost any roommate/hallmate problem: Clean up after yourself.

It’s really quite simple, yet a good number of students don’t seem to be able to grasp the concept.

If you spill something, clean it up. If you make a mess in the bathroom, clean it up. If you leave hair in the shower, please, clean it up.

The people you live with will really appreciate your efforts.

This rule should not be as hard to follow as it is.

We’re taught as little kids to clean up our own messes, but somewhere around puberty that idea leaves our brains and doesn’t come back until adulthood (or never at all, for some people).

However, it’s even more important to be clean when living in a dorm than when you’re at home.

Your family may be used to your messes and willing to clean them up, but your classmates and peers certainly are not your personal maid service.

Another major issue with dorm life is the noise level. Again, this should be common knowledge, but it’s a real struggle for people our age.

Of course, it’s really fun to live with your friends, and you’re going to spend some nights laughing, talking and having a good time.

But, when these nights turn into regular occurrences, the people living around you become less than pleased.

It’s OK to be a little loud every once in a while, especially during the weekends. But if your volume is frequently turned all the way up, people get annoyed.

It’s particularly important to be cognizant of how loud you are in the evenings and at night when students are trying to study or sleep.

If you get in the way of someone’s precious and rare time for sleep, be prepared to suffer the consequences.

Finally, be respectful of your buildings as a whole.

Don’t break tables or chairs, don’t leave doors propped open and don’t leave Sodexo plates outside random doors.

You share your building with 100 other students; don’t make their lives any harder by creating unnecessary fines for them.

Our Position:

The Franklin editorial board believes Franklin College students should be respectful of campus housing: the dorms, their roommates, their hallmates and the campus as a whole.

Basically, dorm life can be pretty easy if you follow the basic rules of respect you were taught in kindergarten. We all have to share our space, and no one likes to live in a mess.

Despite what you may think, your needs are not anymore important than anyone else’s.

Everyone matters equally when living in a communal space; if that weren’t true, the dorms would be in constant states of anarchy.

Like we said, living in a dorm is a privilege, and if you can’t respect the needs and space of others, that privilege should be taken away.

Franklin is our home in more ways than one, but for many students, it’s a literal home.

Treat it nicely.

The editorial board represents the opinion of The Franklin and its staff members. The board meets once a week to discuss pressing issues relevant to Franklin College students.

Meetings are moderated by Olivia Covington, the opinion editor. Board members are juniors Ann Gilly and Adam Lee, sophomore Caitlin Soard and freshman Brittney Corum. Ellie Price, the executive editor, sits on the editorial board. If you have an issue you would like the editorial board to consider, please feel free to email Olivia Covington at olivia.covington@franklincollege.edu.

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provs. con Incoming freshmen profiles

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By searching for “Meet the Class of 2018” on the Franklin College website, students can find profiles of incoming freshmen for the fall of 2014.

Profiles pressure students to stay

Profiles make transition easier

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I was utterly confused by what I was seeing when I clicked on the “Meet the Class of 2018!” link on the FC homepage.

Are these freshmen? Who is that? Oh… wait.

These are incoming students?

My first thought was, “Well that’s creepy,” followed by, “Why do we have this?”

This page on the website shows photos and testimonies of incoming freshmen, along with the school and city they are from. Not only does this seem invasive, it can also put pressure on the students being featured.

Nothing is definite, especially when it comes to colleges. Money situations change and minds, in general, also change. While I doubt any students will be memorizing information about the featured incoming students, these new students may feel pressured into staying with their choice of Franklin because they are so prominently displayed.

Not that we don’t want them to stay, but we don’t want them to feel forced to, either.

I don’t understand the point of featuring these students. Sure, it “introduces” us to new people, but why not let them do that on their own when they get here? I don’t know if any of those students want to be known as “that girl/guy from the website.” Awkward.

I’m all about meeting new people, but I think this page crosses a line. We should allow these students the opportunity to create their own identities when they step on campus, instead of painting them in the light of a short testimonial they probably wrote in five minutes.

The Franklin College website has a new section this year that profiles incoming freshmen, which I think is a step in the right direction toward eliminating the awkward first weeks of college of breaking the ice.

And, it might help with enrollment for years to come.

Coming in as freshmen, many people don’t know the students around them, but the profiles give upperclassmen a sense of who each new student is.

They aren’t overly detailed, but a quick rundown of why the students chose Franklin College and information about their high school gives older students the basics to start a conversation.

If nothing else, the profiles allow incoming students to feel like they’re already part of the college before they even take their first classes.

Seeing their name on the website along with their basic information could also lead to new students being more involved on campus and putting more effort into school work. And, the profiles are beneficial to the college in terms of potential enrollment numbers by showing the variety of students that are planning on coming to Franklin.

Prospective students can also see why others have committed to this campus, which might make the difference for someone on the fence between two schools. If they see a friend has decided to go to Franklin or if someone’s reasoning relates to them, they might be persuaded to come to Franklin, too.

This small addition has the potential to make campus a better place and increase enrollment in the future, which never hurts.

We’ve had some great singers in our nation’s past: Billie Holliday, Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Louis Armstrong and, of course, Frank Sinatra.

On April 25, 1917, another one of our country’s greatest singers, known as “The First Lady of Song,” was born: Ella Fitzgerald.

Fitzgerald was born in Newport News, Virginia. Music critic Frank Rich said she “could turn any song into an oxygen rush of bouncing melody that reached the listener’s ears as pure, untroubled joy – the eternally young sound of a young country.”

While the music of Sinatra and Holliday could be darker, Fitzgerald’s music tended to be more hopeful.

Fitzgerald’s life, however, was darker than her songs. Her mother moved north to Yonkers, N.Y., shortly after Ella was born, and she spent her childhood dancing and singing in Harlem, where she would get her break.

Her break almost didn’t come, though, because her mother died when she was 15, leaving Fitzgerald broke and vulnerable to the Great Depression.

Ella dropped out of school and ran into trouble with the law.

She was then placed in the Riverdale Colored Orphan Asylum, but soon ran away. This led to her being sent to a tough reform school near Albany, N.Y. called the New York Training School for Girls. Fitzgerald rarely spoke about this low point in her life.

In 1934, she first performed at the Apollo Theater during amateur night and, thus, started her career.

Fitzgerald passed away in 1996 at the age of 79 in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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Boston Strong

For the first time since 1983, an American broke the finish line tape at the 2014 Boston Marathon.

38-year-old Meb Keflezighi won the men’s division with a time just under 2 hours and 10 minutes. But for the 36,000 runners of this year’s marathon, finishing the race was a nostalgic victory.

After the 2013 marathon left three dead and hundreds injured, the running world had reached its darkest hour. But with the event in 2014, America proved yet again it was stronger than any attack it may face.

Whether it was the intent of the bombers to shake the psyche of the running world could be debated, one thing certainly cannot: Runners are resilient and the city of Boston showed us all why. From the powerful rendition of the national anthem sung by Bostonians at the Bruin’s playoff hockey game the night after the bombings to the New York Yankees becoming ‘Boston Strong’, America became united behind its marathoners.

These athletes exemplify resilience, battling injuries and thousands of miles of training in to achieve their goal of completing the race.

I am certainly not a runner, but in this instance, does it really matter?

Regardless of the sport, America is strongest when faced with adversity. As countless stories of resilience spread after the 2013 marathon, I could not help but become captivated by this ultimate comeback story.

Though most will never complete a marathon, America finished one as a nation over the past year. The 2013 marathon may have shaken America, but as many of my runner friends say, the pain is worth it in the end.

So here’s to you Boston. A nation has mounted yet another improbable comeback to glory. Because of you, we are all ‘Boston Strong.’

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The second annual Special Olympics of Indiana swim meet will be hosted by the Franklin College swimming and diving team on Sunday at Franklin Community High School.

After having a great turn out last year, the Special Olympics committee approached Head Coach Andrew Hendricks proposing that Franklin College host the event on an annual basis.

Hendricks took over the responsibility of securing a positive outcome once again this year. With help from his swimming and diving teams, Hendricks created a positive atmosphere for all the athletes involved in the competition.

“They do a great job and it means the world to the athletes who are competing,” Hendricks said. “The greatest satisfaction to our kids

is seeing how much it means to the kids and knowing that they made a difference in their lives.”

Special Olympic athletes from every corner of Indiana come to compete in the contest. The competition is as serious as it gets in athletics, as athletes’ times are used for national qualifying times for the National Special Olympics.

Not only does Hendricks head the event, but he is also personally invested in it because of a family friend.

Rita Able, director of the Johnson County Special Olympics, babysat for Hendricks and also has a son, Ryan Able, who is a Special Olympic Athlete and will participates in the event.

Hendricks said it’s not an easy task to organize the event, especially with such a large group, but once everyone is there it comes together well.

Junior David McAfee said a lot of behind-the-scenes work goes on that people do not see at the event.

“It’s very rewarding to help out other people who are just as passionate about swimming as we are,” McAfee said. “It gives us a good chance to work with the community and have a fun time experiencing the other side of a meet. The opportunity means a lot to the Franklin swim team and we are happy to help.”

“To our student athletes, I think that when they see the expressions of the Special Olympic Athletes, it can be overwhelming to them,” Hendricks said. “To see what the special Olympians get out of it means a lot to our team.”

Franklin lacrosse making great strides as young program

By Carney Gillin

carney.gillin@franklincollege.edu

The recent investment in the lacrosse team appears to be paying off, as the program has made tremendous strides toward graduating from a club program into a Division III varsity program.

The loss of Franklin’s initial hire of a head coach set the program back slightly, but a new coach is at the helm and the women have goals to improve.

“Our main goal is to build as a team and get a better feel for each other on the field,” said Taylor Tichenor, a fresman lacrosse player. “With a little more practice, we will accomplish that.”

Tichenor is one of the many young athletes on the team with previous lacrosse experience. With only underclassmen who have been recruited to Franklin to play lacrosse, it has been up to them to lead the charge toward varsity status.

Head Coach Veronica Mitchell said even the inexperienced players are coming along well.

“We have great players, players that have played before as well as those who haven’t,” Mitchell said. “If you have ever played a sport before, then the transition is easy. The new girls are already showing great improvement. They are really coming together in terms of playing as a team.”

Taking the step into Division III would mean a number of things that would greatly benefit the program: more games, more funding and more recruits.

This season the Grizzlies had difficulty filling a schedule. Due to lack of funds invested into the program, the team was unable to afford any kind of travel, leaving them with only home games. An increase in games played and the allure of varsity status could also help bring in more recruits that would boost the program even further.

But, making the leap to the next level also means better competition.

“I think that all sports at the club level have to make the jump,” Mitchell said. “It may be uncomfortable the

first year, but varsity status would be a bigger selling point for the players that Franklin wants to have.”

Franklin is affiliated with the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference conference in most sports.

However due to a lack of schools with lacrosse programs in the HCAC, they will be combining with the President’s Athletic Conference. The Grizzlies said they believe they can make the jump to the next level.

“We can be competitive with most of our conference schools, and with more time we will definitely be a contender in the HCAC,” Tichenor said.

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Junior Patrick Ellis shooting to be an All-American

By Seth Morin

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A junior at Franklin College majoring in sociology, Patrick Ellis seems like your average guy, but he is anything but that.

He is not just a Franklin College record holder for both the indoor and outdoor triple jump.

He is also ranked in the top 10 in the nation. That is something very few people can brag about.

However, when he first came to Franklin, he started off by being a basketball player, not a track-and-field star.

Knowing Ellis’ history as a track and field record holder in the long jump at Shelbyville High School, head coach Paul Sargent kept his eye on Ellis.

“Coach Sargent kind of talked me into coming out to the conference meet my freshman year,” Ellis said. “Ever since then, I’ve been a track runner and don’t play basketball anymore.”

So what is it exactly that motivates one of the nation’s best jumpers?

“Just seeing all the big jumps out there and knowing that if I get myself back to where I used to be, I could be one of the top jumpers in the nation,” Ellis said.

With being such a talented and high-ranking athlete comes the role of being a leader on the team. Ellis said he accepts this role through “having a good attitude and positive vibe.”

“I joke around with everybody and am friends with everybody,” Ellis said. “I try and bring them up and cheer them on.”

Track season is almost over with the conference meet coming up this weekend. Ellis expects to win triple jump but also expects a battle right down to the wire in the long jump with freshman Taylor Christensen.

“He’s been pushing me this season,” Ellis said.

It will be nearly a full month after conference when the NCAA Division

III Outdoor National Championships begin on May 23. Ellis expects to give it his all and be one of the top competitors for the number one position.

“I definitely want to be an All-American,” Ellis said. “For that I have to be in the top eight.”

The HCAC championships will be held this Friday and Saturday at Defiance in Ohio. The NCAA Division III Outdoor National Championships also will be held in Ohio at Ohio Wesleyan.

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Junior Patrick Ellis poses for a photo during sunrise on the track.

Franklin track and field heads to Division III Championships

By Will Reno

wreno@franklincollege.edu

The men and women’s track teams are set to compete in the HCAC Championships this weekend at Defiance College in Ohio.

Both teams expect to have a strong showing, each aiming for a second place finish. On the men’s side, Rose-Hulman is heavily favored while Defiance is favored to take home the women’s championship.

Coach Paul Sargent said the challenges both of his teams face this weekend are unique.

“We do not experience a twoday meet at any other time in our schedule,” Sargent said. “Traveling off campus, having prelims on a Friday and finals on a Saturday, having to spend the night – these are all new things to us.”

For the men’s team, senior Leighton Gough cited the im-

portance of mental preparedness in order for team success.

“Conference is a big meet for us,” Gough said. “It’s pretty tactical and we need to race to the best of our ability.”

Senior Kris Sandlin continues to find success late in his collegiate career. Sandlin’s performance in the 5,000-meter this past Friday marked just the second time in program history that a runner broke the 15-minute barrier with a time of 14 minutes and 49 seconds. He is favored in both the 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter races, Sargent said.

Along with consistent season-long performers Gough and Sandlin, junior Patrick Ellis continues to rack up accolades in field events. Ellis currently ranks 14th in the country

in the long jump and is the reigning 2014 Indoor Field Athlete of the year.

Sargent said he believes Ellis has a great chance at setting a meet record in the long jump.

On the women’s side, the team heads into the HCAC Championships seeded third behind Defiance and Hanover.

Though Defiance is heavily favored, Sargent said second place is anyone’s to grab, as he noted the loaded field in the women’s competition.

“Even if we’re hanging onto third, we’ll be doing what we need to do,” Sargent said.

Junior Anna Murdock is the reigning 2013 Athlete of the Meet for the HCAC and is favored in two events heading into the weekend.

Murdock said she believes the best is yet to come in what has proved to be a solid season for the Grizzlies.

“Usually every year, we have a meet where we all show up,” Murdock said. “I’m really hoping it’s conference.”

Other key performers for the women include junior Hilary Cain and sophomores Natavia Howell and Emily Young.

“Our ultimate goal for both teams is to represent ourselves well,” Sargent said.

The HCAC Championships begin Friday night at Defiance College in Ohio.

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Greek Week 2014 1. Fraternity members prepare for the water balloon toss on Tuesday during the second night of Greek Week.

2. Members of Kappa Delta Rho – sophomore Grant Finlan, junior Jake David, junior Ethan Kegley, senior Chris Wilham, sophomore Jacob Broyer and freshman Michael Zehner – participate in the tug of war event. KDR placed second out of the three fraternities that participated.

3. Junior Morgan Whitaker participates in the campus golf event for Delta Delta Delta.

Tri Delta placed second out of the three sororities.

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