PLAYING THEIR PART Seniors Alex Thompson and Ann Marie Elliot direct student performances this spring. See page 6 and 7. PHOTOS EMILY GREEN
TUESDAY MARCH 20, 2012
Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper
VOL. 160, ISSUE 39
New position: dean for experiential education By LEANN BURKE news@thedepauw.com
DePauw’s Civic, Global and Professional Opportunities Development (CGPOPS) Department, in charge of coordinating everything from internships to study abroad programs to service opportunities, is on the hunt for a dean. The department is hoping to get the perfect candidate to fill the new position of Dean for Experiential Education and Student Services to help them to better prepare students for postgraduation and to strengthen the department as a whole. DePauw has hired a search firm — Isaacson Miller — to find candidates for the position. “We want students to be ready when they graduate for the variety that the world is offering them,” said Dr. Pedar Foss, dean of Academic Life. “They are going around finding good candidates and asking them quietly if they would be interested in the position as all the good candidates will already be employed somewhere else.” There is also a faculty search committee in charge of reviewing the candidates and deciding whom to interview. The committee includes Foss, professors Lili Wright, Doug Harms and Russ Arnold, Ken Kirkpatrick from the Registrar’s office and Vice President of Student Life Cindy Babington. President Brian Casey chairs the committee. The faculty search committee, with the help of the hired search firm, will select the top eight candidates, who they will interview. “We are looking for a person who has been in the academy, someone who understands how the university works, who has worked with nonprofits,” Casey said. “It’s a stunningly complex search.” Then the committee will select three from those eight and invite them to campus for an on campus interview. According to Harms, during their on-campus interview they will meet with students, the search committee, and staff members in CGPOPS. Then, based on all the input, the committee will then make a selection and submit it to administration. According to Foss, the dean’s job will consist of four main areas: Articulating what experiential
CGPOPS | continued on page 3
for threatening student safety
Student Government suggests strict hard alochol ban for registered parties By ABBY MARGULIS news@thedpauw.com
Underage drinking is not at the heart of the current discussion of the Alcohol Learning Collaborative about DePauw students’ alcohol use. Rather than tackle consumption, the current initiatives hope to address safety and health education. The conversation about the consumption of hard alcohol and students’ drinking habits surfaced once
again at the student government senate meeting on Sunday. The university’s concern for student safety and consumption of hard alcohol has transpired a discussion of amending the current alcohol policy for the next school year. The policy change would prohibit hard alcohol at registered events. If students are caught in possession of it, even in a private room, they would receive a higher sanction. Both administrators and students working on this change emphasize that this is
not a ban on hard alcohol, but a preventative safety measure to protect students’ health. “The main goal of the policy change is to make campus safer. It's not about cracking down on underage drinking, rather it's to lower the rate of extremely high-risk drinking,” said student government representative for the Learning Collaborative on
Alcohol | continued on page 2 ILLUSTRATIONS BY MARGARET DISTLER