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S.O.A.R. discontinues surveys after seven years

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Timothy Ubben '58 and his wife, Sharon Ubben '58, recall their DePauw memories during the dedication ceremony for the Timothy H. and Sharon W. Ubben Quadrangle on Thursday afternoon. The quadrangle was renamed to recognize the Ubben's contributions to the university, which total over $76 million. Members of the Board of Trustees, university administrators and students joined on the lawn of what was formerly called North Quadrangle to celebrate the renaming.

President Brian Casey gave a brief history of the quadrangle and spoke about the Ubbens’ positive impact on DePauw’s campus. Sharon Ubben joked about Casey’s interest in planting more trees on campus and said the lawn of the Ubben quadrangle will feature many new trees and will be Greencastle’s botanical garden. The event included free Marvins’.

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It’s the last year for S.O.A.R. alcohol surveys.

For years, the Student Organized Alcohol Research project (S.O.A.R.) has provided DePauw with information on students’ drinking habits in an endeavor to change them. The data has been seen by students, faculty and staff alike.

According to senior member Lian Weinstein, S.O.A.R. is having trouble replacing the students who are leaving.

“A lot of the members are graduating this year,” Weinstein said, “so [it’s discontinuing] because there’s not a lot of interest.”

With the aid of faculty adviser Pam Propsom, S.O.A.R. has sent out results of its annual surveys to students in the spring.

Research done by the surveys provides insight as to why DePauw students continue to binge drink.

“The research finds that students are often inaccurate about their peers’ attitudes and behaviors, and this might contribute to increased perceived pressure to drink,” DePauw’s S.O.A.R. information webpage said.

Ridding students of the “it happens to other people but it won’t happen to me” mentality by educating them is a key component in decreasing risky or unhealthy drinking habits among the student population.

Among those who have access to S.O.A.R. results for educative purposes are mentors and RAs as well as university faculty and staff.

First year students especially hear a lot about alcohol statistics as part of their orientation activities.

Adam Cohen, head coach of men’s swimming and diving, works with alcohol training for athletes and has noticed a positive effect of S.O.A.R. on DePauw’s campus.

“S.O.A.R.’s done a great job of making people stop and think about how much they need and how much they truly are drinking,” Cohen said. “It’s doing a great job of raising campus awareness.”

A continuing pattern in the surveys was the overestimation of other students’ drinking habits. S.O.A.R. hypothesized that misperceptions might have played a role in DePauw’s massive party culture by highlighting students’ conformity to an ideal: believing a high level of drinking is the norm would cause students to aspire to a similar standard.

It’s not just students who are misinformed though. In a recent re

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While the School of Music will not be changing the amount of money it distribute for scholarships, it will be changing the packaging of scholarships.

In the past, scholarships for those wanting to go to the School of Music were stacked, meaning they received a merit scholarship from the College of Liberal Arts in addition to a performance award from the School of Music.

Now, School of Music students will have the option of taking the School of Music performance scholarship, which will include the amount from the College of Liberal Arts in it, or taking the merit scholarship from the College of Liberal Arts, which will by its nature be less than the performance scholarship.

For freshman Richard Brown, the decision to change from the School of Music to the College of Liberal Arts next year wasn’t an easy one, especially after learning that he would lose some of his scholarship money.

“I ended up losing $4,000 of my overall scholarship,” Brown said. “To gain $3,000 of it back, I will be taking clarinet lessons and will be playing in the band.”

Brown will be taking out loans to cover the difference and working in order to help immediately pay the loan off. Brown thinks that the difficulty for most students to make up this difference leads students to double major in order to study both and keep their scholarships to remain at DePauw.

“Normally, it doesn’t work out this well,” Brown said. “For most students, they primarily have a music scholarship, and when they try to switch over, they won’t give them an academic scholarship. If they switch out of the School of Music, they would be losing everything.”

The main difference is the number of scholarships being reduced to only one,

but the monetary value is the same as before. As far as Dani Weatherford, director of admissions at DePauw, understands it, this move makes the School of Music scholarship breakdown more similar to the competing conservatories.

“There’s been a change in the way that we award performance awards, not necessarily a change to the dollar amount,” Weatherford said.

According to Weatherford, the old model was confusing for families. Sometimes the scholarships would not come out all at once because they dealt with different offices.

“The problem with [the old model] is some people thought their music scholarship was being short changed because they were smart,” Mark McCoy, dean of the School of Music, said. “In the end the same student got the same amount of money. It’s just that when we made our decisions, we didn’t take into consideration what the [College of Liberal Arts] was doing.”

For students who wish to change from the School of Music to the College of Liberal Arts, the effects of what happens will remain the same. They will be able to still maintain some of their scholarships.

“We have records of what they were offered in their merit award as a student at the College of Liberal Arts,” Weatherford said. “They will keep their merit award as it was awarded to them as a freshman.”

In fact, these students also have the ability to maintain some of the performance scholarship as well.

“If students are strong enough performers that they can make it into our ensembles, then we offer scholarships to CLA students to perform in SOM ensembles,” McCoy said. “That’s the same no matter what your major is.”

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Members of the DePauw Debate society argued about whether taking Adderall to increase focus while studying is cheating.

Freshmen Mickey Terlep and Matt Piggins argued the government stance that taking Adderall is a form of academic integrity, while juniors Ronnie Kennedy and Vincent Guzzetta argued the opposition.

“At best, the placebo effect motivates people to study. When society perpetuates the idea that the pill is a God-send by labeling it a ‘smart pill’, it makes people want it more.”

Adderall is a prescription drug used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Like Ritalin, another drug used to treat ADHD, Adderall contains amphetamines, the same substances in meth and cocaine. According to the Drug Enforcement Agency, Adderall is a Schedule II drug, which means it has a high potential for both physical and psychological dependence. Schedule II drugs are considered dangerous. On college campuses, students use Adderall and similar drugs to increase their focus while studying and to boost their GPAs. The DePauw debate centered on what the university’s stance should be on Adderall as it relates to academic integrity. The government side argued that Adderall use is cheating because it gives some students an unfair advantage over others.

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they perform,” Terlep said. “If you have students who can study longer using Adderall, then they are going to perform better.”

Terlep also pointed out that using Adderall when not prescribed is a federal offense and that Adderall use has been labeled cheating in professional athletics.

“If it’s illegal and cheating in sports,” Terlep said, “why should it not be illegal and cheating in academics?”

The opposition argued that Adderall use should not be considered cheating because Adderall has the same effects as caffeine, allowing students to focus better and stay up longer. The opposition sited studies showing that Adderall does not improve complex memory, or a person’s ability to reason and manipulate information.

“The idea that ‘I’m going to take a pill and be Sherlock Holmes for a day’ is simply not how it works,” Guzzetta said. “Labeling Adderall as a “smart pill” creates the idea that there is some advantage.”

The opposition did acknowledge the Adderall improves wrote memory, or a person’s ability to memorize facts. Still, they maintained Adderall is not useful for college students.

“At best, the placebo effect motivates people to study,” Kennedy said. “When society perpetuates the idea that the pill is a God-send by labeling it a ‘smart pill’, it makes people want it more.”

The debaters talked a lot about the side effects of Adderall as well. Besides addiction, side effects include cardiac arrest, psychological defects and death due to overdose.

“Side effects are a good measure for if [Adderall] is legal or not,” Kennedy said.

University policy, the opposition to Adderall said, needs to take a stand against the drug.

“If the university says [Adderall use] is not cheating,” Terlep said. “They’re condoning the use of a drug despite its side effects.”

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S.O.A.R. | continued on page 3 port presented to the Chicago Midwestern Psychological Association’s (MPA) annual meeting in 2012, 248 DePauw faculty and staff members were surveyed about students’ drinking habits. In survey results, many of them overestimated factors such as the “’liberalness’ of student drinking attitudes” and “the number of times

students ‘partied’ per week.” Also of note were the facts that greek caucasian males and varsity athletes drink more than their counterparts.

Besides this, the problem isn’t being solved.

Students aren’t changing their drinking habits, Weinstein said, although their estimates are becoming more accurate after years of surveys.

Conducting the surveys and sharing the results provided a way to better understand DePauw’s drinking problem and take the right measures to solve it.

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When themed parties are deemed offensive

By JACLYN ANGLIS investigate@thedepauw.com

When sophomore Krizza Jimenez read about the Mexican themed party thrown at Penn State last December, she was appalled.

Since then, some Greek chapters have thrown parties deemed offensive to different groups. Two weeks ago, IU’s Kappa Delta sorority threw a homeless party. Not long after, Irvine’s Lambda Theta Delta fraternity posted a blackface video on Youtube for an event. DePauw students and Greek life coordinators commented on such themed parties and what should happen if such parties took place at DePauw.

The Penn State party Jimenez read about featured photographs of Chi Omega women in sombreros and ponchos, holding signs that read, “Will mow lawn for weed and beer,” and “I don’t cut grass, I smoke it.”

“I found that one to be very offensive because you’re basically making a mockery of someone’s culture,” Jimenez said.

Jimenez thought the IU homeless party was also classless, as it was poking fun at others’ social statuses. But she also thinks that some parties that have happened at DePauw recently could qualify as offensive.

“I know that one of the fraternities here had an event where you had to dress up like a redneck,” she said. “That was just one party that I didn’t go to.”

Another DePauw party Jimenez avoided involved a theme of “business hoes,” which she thought sexualized women.

When asked about the Cinco de Mayo celebrations often thrown on campus, Jimenez said that if the party was a celebration, she wouldn’t think it was offensive, but if it involved people dressed up as stereotypical Mexicans, she would.

Senior Marycruz Baylon, a member of Sigma Lambda Gamma, said that during her freshman year, there was an incident involving a Cinco de Mayo party thrown by a fraternity on campus.

Baylon said the party was planned around the time of Cinco de Mayo, with a theme of “Mexican celebration.”

“There [was] a Facebook event that kind of said, ‘Let’s party, take some time from not mowing lawns … thank all our Mexican workers and just come out to so n’ so fraternity to have a good time,” Baylon said.

Baylon, as a member of Committee for Latino Concerns, was part of a protest against the event and an educational process about the holiday. CLC had also involved President Brian Casey, and the Facebook page was eventually taken down. The person who created the page had to apologize to the people they offended.

“I am a Latina on DePauw’s campus, and for me, that experience was really horrible being a first-year,” Baylon said.

“It kind of hit home because it just brought up a lot of stereotypes.”

She said if a Greek house has thrown a party that may be offensive to a group, that action against it should be taken.

There could also be a forum with Greek life coordinators, President Casey, and anyone who was offended, where they

could talk in a safe space and educate the Greek house why the theme could be offensive.

Myrna Hernandez, a Greek life coordinator, said that if an organization at DePauw were to throw a party that could be seen as offensive, the reflective conversations on the back end are very important.

“It’s not just one single thing that determines a response, it’s more multilayered than that,” Hernandez said. “It’s not only just talking with the organization who threw the party, it’s talking to students who may or may not have been impacted.”

It also depends on how the Greek life coordinators find out about the party. Although they do have an event registration process, they don’t have a specific party approval process.

In regard to themed parties in general, Hernandez said that she thinks there’s a difference between a party focusing on a period of time and a party focusing on a group of people.

Hernandez said that when parties focus on a part of the population, things can be problematic. But she also thinks the reason why people throw events plays an important role, such as different reasons for throwing a Cinco de Mayo party.

“It’s one thing to go to Party City and to buy decorations and serve margaritas, and it’s another thing to be costumed and try to represent a culture,” Hernandez said.

Though she said many things in the media about themed parties in and of themselves haven’t been positive, there can be a positive result in terms of preventing future offenses.

“I think students learning from other people’s mistakes would be one really good way of prevention,” Hernandez said.

P.J. Mitchell, another Greek life coordinator, said that they have tried to educate students about certain holidays that may create potential opportunities for insensitive behavior and caricaturing.

“In terms of offensiveness, I think it’s the job of students who are hosting it to consider the impact that their events might have on students,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell said they also try to keep in mind that what might be offensive to one student might not be offensive to another.

Educating students who host events, opening up conversations on campus, and learning from other campuses’ themed parties might be effective ways to prevent future offenses.

“How do we learn from Irvine? How do we learn from IU? And how to we take that and turn it into productive conversation for our students who are hosting?” Mitchell said.

Using the timeliness of national and local news stories and their impact might spark important questions on any campus, and give people the opportunity to consider and reconsider their actions, and their potential impact.

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CAMPUSCRIME April 30 • Animal control — animals left in vehicle • Subject located / checked okay | Time: 3:28 p.m. | Place: Lucy Hall • Fire alarm • Candle / alarm reset | Time: 5:39 p.m. | Place: 409 Jackson St. • Student concern • Forwarded to Campus Living | Time: 5:42 p.m. | Place: Union Building • Welfare check • Subject located / checked okay | Time: 11:57 p.m. | Place: Prindle Institute

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DePauw uses rare, expensive psychology equipment

• Noise — loud people • Forwarded to Campus Living | Time: 10:13 p.m. | Place: Reese Hall

cific stimulus,” Ledwidge said.

As a result, the study looks at whether or not the brain recognizes that it is the wrong sound even if the participant thinks that it is the right sound.

• Noise — loud music • Made contact with house representation / verbal warning issued | Time: 10:31 p.m. | Place: Alpha Tau Omega fraternity

“It’s so expensive that many schools like DePauw don’t have the funds [for the equipment,]. I think this a good example of the DePauw Liberal Arts education and what DePauw can really offer students. There’d be no way that we could learn this in the classroom.”

• Noise — loud music • Made contact with house representatives / verbal warning issued | Time: 10:34 p.m. | Place: Phi Kappa Psi fraternity

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• Noise — loud music •Made contact with house representatives / verbal warning issued | Time: 11:53 p.m. | Place: Phi Kappa Psi fraternity

May 2 • Noise — loud music •Made contact with house representatives / verbal warning issued | Time: 12:26 a.m. | Place: Beta Theta Pi fraternity

A student wears the electrode net as part of a psychology study titled “An ERP study: does visual context affect the identification of sounds?” PHOTO COURTESY OF TERRI BONEBRIGHT

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A study conducted by psychology professor Terri Bonebright will look at the correlation between processes within the brain and the behavioral responses of the participant.

The study uses electroencephalography (EEG) to measure brain activity. The equipment consists of a net of 128 different electrodes with sponges on them.

"Four different computers are coordinating to run this software,” senior psychology major Patrick Ledwidge, who has been involved in the study since this past summer, said.

In the study, Ledwidge and Bonebright are using the EEG to measure event-related potential.

"The great thing about it is that it's measuring brain activity at all times,” Ledwidge said. “We have participants making certain behavioral responses.”

Participants in the study, which is titled “An ERP study: does visual context affect the identification of sounds?” view a picture and a sound pair at the same time. They have to determine which category sound falls in correlation to the picture: exact same sound, similar sound or a completely different sound.

“Over time, we can average those brain responses to that spe-

The equipment used in the study, which costs around 150,000 dollars, is a loan from the University of Nebraska.

“It’s so expensive that many schools like DePauw don’t have the funds [for the equipment,]” Ledwidge said. “I think this a good example of the DePauw Liberal Arts education and what DePauw can really offer students. There’d be no way that we could learn this in the classroom.”

In fact neither Ledwidge nor Bonebright could think of a similar school that also had the equipment available to them, but they both said that several larger schools have the equipment.

“I know, for example, that they just got one at IU a couple of years ago,” Bonebright said.

The opportunity to actually use the equipment as an undergraduate student is even rarer than the possession of the equipment itself.

“The training to use it correctly is pretty intensive,” Bonebright said. “If you don’t know what all this equipment is doing, then, you’re not going to be able to collect good data.”

Junior Andres Munoz, who has been trained this semester to assist Bonebright in the study this summer, has also acted as a participant in the study. “[Being a participant] can be sort of intimidating,” Munoz said. “Part of the job of the researcher is to make sure that the subject has a good experience during the experiment.”

According to Munoz, although the entire experiment only takes about 40 minutes, the most lengthly aspect of the experiment is putting on the net of electrodes.

Ledwidge believes that his involvement in this study has not only helped him get into graduate school, but also prepare him for future research. Munoz feels the same sentiment even though he is just beginning the process of participating in the research.

“I want to go to graduate school,” Munoz said, “and having that research experience will help me a lot with that.”

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Writing faculty captures small but dedicated audience

By NICKY CHOKRAN features@thedepauw.com

Peeler auditorium was a little more than half packed Wednesday night for the creative writing faculty reading.

Samuel Autman, Emily Doak, Peter Grahm, Lili Wright, Joe Heithaus, Chris White, Debby Geis and Ron Dye read from their recent projects for an eager but small crowd.

The reading was a chance for students to see professors of DePauw show off their work. Each faculty member was given five minutes.

“It was interesting hearing professors work and the work they go through,” junior Camron Burns said. “They said themselves that they go through a lot of the process and problems that we have.”

The event began with Samuel Autman’s reading of an excerpt of his memoir, which is in pre-production for a short film. Next, Emily Doak read an excerpt from one of her short stories.

Doak’s story was written after Osama Bin Ladin was killed. The story took place in a town much like Greencastle, a small farm town with a college that included many students involved with Greek life.

“I thought the final performance sent a message about the creative endeavors of the English staff,” junior Megan Carter said. “They're not just writers, they're actors and performers.”

Peter Graham followed, reading a piece written about sabbatical called ‘Seven Year Itch.’

“It feels good, reasonably safe,” Graham said about his piece.

He and professor Lili Wright are going on sabbatical next semester. During their last sabbatical the two went to New Mexico.

“We just have to read and learn and promise to get back to writing,” Graham said.

Some students were surprised by Graham’s reading. “[Graham] recanted his sabbatical experience from a few years back, that was crazy,” Burns said. “At first I thought it was fiction because of how ridiculous it was but it was all true.”

In the story Graham goes to Mexico with Wright, and he gets stung by scorpion and contracts hepatitis. To make matters worse, their maid steals from them throughout the trip.

Graham’s wife, Lili Wright followed his reading, with a piece about methamphetamine addicts.

“They make great diggers,” Wright said, prefacing her piece.

Poet Joe Heithaus went next, with a reading from his own sabbatical two years ago in New Mexico.

Heithaus read two poems accepted by the Southwest Review, three experimental pieces, and one poem for a colleague.

“Heithaus's poetry sketches were a creative spin on poetry,” said junior Megan Carter. “They sounded like prose poems and were experimental which was thought-provoking.”

Chris White was up nest, reading from a piece called “The life list of Adrian Mandrig.” The piece was funny and sexual.

Debby Geis took the podium next with an energetic performance dedicated to the students of her beat literature course. “[Geis] enlivened the audience as she wrote and performed a comical and thus engaging poem,” Carter said. “She defines what a professor should do—inspire her students.”

When Ron Dye took the stage he held a guitar in one hand.

“Well I’m going to do a song,” Dye said.

The song, lyric and country, wrapped up the talents of the creative writing department in a crowd-swaying song.

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The Shakespeare Spring Spectacle

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For a university that is sometimes critized for a poor town-gown relationship, DePauw’s Spring Shakespeare Spectacle is one of several emerging annual events that unite both the community and DePauw.

Tonight and tomorrow night, students from all over the Putnam County area will flock to DePauw University’s Moore Theatre, not be entertained, but to do the entertaining.

The Spring Spectacle of Shakespeare was started on DePauw’s campus three years ago and is a collaboration between Shakespeare and Company, DePauw University and all eight county high school and middle schools, including Cloverdale, South Putnam County, North Putnam County and Greencastle.

Each spring semester, students can sign up for this class, labeled on e-services as “Shakespeare Festival.” The students in the class are then divided into groups of two and three, and will spend every Monday, Wednesday and Friday of their semester working with kids from their assigned school.

This combined program and class has grown exponentially since its inception.

“Our first year, we just had Greencastle high school and middle school,” Amy Hayes, director of the program and part-time professor of communication and theatre, said.

By the second year, five schools were involved, and this year marks the first time all eight county high schools and middle schools are involved.

“The idea behind it is that adolescents are sort of the perfect hands to put Shakespeare in,” Hayes said.

Hayes believes that this program can help kids avoid the negative experience many have when they first read Shakespeare. The DePauw students help local adolescents experience Shakespeare as he was meant to be experienced: through watching and acting, not reading.

“Doing it the way we do it, is meeting Shakespeare on his terms. They’re plays, they were writ-

ten to be played,” Hayes said.

Though the plays are cut down from their original lengths so that they all run for around 90 minutes each, in keeping with the true Shakespeare experience, none of the language itself is changed.

“We like to say we’re not doing Shakespeare for young people, we’re doing Shakespeare with young people,” Hayes explained.

Though, according to Hayes and a few of the DePauw student directors, the kids often find the language difficult to understand at first, there is almost always a break through moment.

“The best part is when they actually understand what’s happening,” sophomore Grace Lazarz, director for Cloverdale’s production of “The Tempest,” said.

Often, these breakthroughs in the language of the scripts lead to a deeper connection with the plays themselves.

“I had one girl this year say, ‘Oh wow, my character is exactly like me,’” Lazarz said.

“Those kinds of moments are I think what makes it rewarding, that they can find connections with these characters that they completely did not associate themselves with before.”

But of course, the twelve-week long program doesn’t start out with breakthroughs and epiphanies; it begins where all productions do: with casting.

“We don’t really technically audition kids,” senior Lisa Sutherland, another director for Cloverdale’s “The Tempest,” said.

“We just took a week to recruit, and we went in and asked them to play games with us for a week, and that’s literally what we did.”

The games began as large group activities, and

then students were broken up into smaller and smaller groups so that they could be more closely observed.

“It’s as simple as, ‘oh, this kid’s running around trying to get other kids to laugh—let’s put him in a clown role,’” Lazarz said.

The actual assignment of roles, however, can be a lot more complicated.

“We split up the characters to give more roles, so instead of one man, it’s like a man and a woman,” freshman Kristen Lang, a director for Greencastle’s, “Much Ado About Nothing,” said.

This means that more than one student can portray the same character. To better explain this technique, Hayes described an instance last year, where three different students acted in the role of Lady Macbeth.

“Sometimes they were all onstage at the same time, and one of them was the speaking Lady Macbeth and the others were sort of her shadow selves. Other times, they would assign this scene to this Lady Macbeth and this scene to another.”

At all times the actors were dressed alike, so that the audience would realize they were three different actors all playing the same part.

Once roles were assigned, rehearsals themselves could begin.

“The time commitment is big, it’s probably bigger than any other class,” Hayes said.

And that’s just for the DePauw students. The Putnam County students are also pushed to their limits. They are expected to attend three rehearsals a week aside from activities they should complete on their own time, like memorizing lines.

Luckily, both sets of students seem willing to commit themselves to the productions, and all feel

the experience has been well worth the time and effort.

Olivia Boler, a seventh grader from South Putnam Middle School, said that the experience has helped her grown as an actor.

“I had my first play a couple of months ago, and I’ve learned to act a lot better since then,” Boler said. “I mean, I was a dog in my last play so I didn’t really have to do a lot of acting.”

On the other end of the age spectrum is Brianna Bryant, a 12th grader from South Putnam high school.

“I still get stage fright, so that makes it a challenge,” Bryant said.

Even with stage fright, Bryant feels the experience has been well worth it.

“It’s definitely fun working with DePauw students. You learn more than what you do with high school plays.”

DePauw students, too, feel that that have benefitted immensely from this experience, some more than others.

“It’s awesome to see them go through this transformation and build up their self-confidence,” Lang said.

Lazarz was so struck by her experience last year with the Shakespeare Spring Spectacle that it caused her to rethink her earlier decision to transfer schools.

“I didn’t transfer because of this. I realized I wouldn’t have had this experience without DePauw,” she said.

Hayes feels that this program is the perfect opportunity for any kind of student, DePauw or Putnam County, 7th grader of 12th grader, smart or athletic. She believes it teaches more than just Shakespeare.

“It’s really a way to make something together,

FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2013

SHOWS Much Ado About Nothing- Greencastle, directed by Will Freske, Kristen Lang, and Sasha Pena The Tempest- Cloverdale, directed by Grace Lazarz, Lisa Sutherland, and Brittany Biddle Henry V- South Putnam, directed by Amanda Feller and Henry Johnston Julius Caesar- North Putnam, directed by Rick Allen and Bri Dennison

SHOWTIMES Friday, May 3

Moore Theatre, GCPA

6 p.m. Much Ado About Nothing (GHS, GMS) 8 p.m. The Tempest (CHS, CMS)

Saturday, May 4

Moore Theatre, GCPA

6 p.m. Henry V (SPHS, SPMS) 8 p.m. Julius Caesar (NPHS, NPMS)

TICKET PRICES Student - $3 Adult - $6

Adult Festival Pass - $18

Student Festival Pass - $9

Top right: Junior Henry Johnston gives direction to students of South Putnam High School for DePauw’s annual Spring Shakespeare Spectacle. Johnston and senior Amanda Feller direct the play Henry V, which which be performed in Moore Theatre on Saturday at 6PM. Left: Students of South Putnam High School perform an act of Shakepeare’s Henry V in French. Bottom right: Four South Putnam students perform an act of Henry V in Moore Theatre. SUNNY STRADER/THE DEPAUW

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FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2013

THE DEPAUW | Editorial Board

ISABELLE CHAPMAN

Editorial board election a conflict of interest

email us at edboard@thedepauw.com

EDITORIAL POLICY The DePauw is an independently managed and financed student newspaper. The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of DePauw University or the Student Publications Board. Editorials are the responsibility of The DePauw editorial board (names above).

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The DePauw welcomes letters to the editor. Letters must be signed and accompanied by the author’s name and phone number. Letters have a 350-word limit and are subject to editing for style and length. The DePauw reserves the right to reject letters that are libelous or sent for promotional or advertising purposes. Deliver letters to the Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media, email the editor-in-chief, Dana Ferguson, at editor@thedepauw.com or write The DePauw at 609 S. Locust St., Greencastle, Ind. 46135.

the depauw | opinion

Plan B’s age limit adds to teen pregnancy problem

Dana Ferguson | Editor-in-Chief Isabelle Chapman | Managing Editor Joseph Fanelli | Managing Editor Becca Stanek | Chief Copy Editor Anastasia Way | Chief Copy Editor

Our editorial board is hired by a group of individuals known as the Publications Board. The student members of this board are appointed by DePauw Student Government, and overseen by Gary Lemon, who is the director of the McDermond Center for Management and Entrepreneurship, as well as a professor of economics.

This group of individuals is also responsible for managing The DePauw’s budget.

Let us clarify that the money in the budget doesn’t come from the university, but rather a generous donor by the name of Barney Kilgore and a group of his friends and family.

Let us examine this momentarily. Imagine that the United States government appointed the editor-in-chief and managing editors of The New York Times. This would be, quite clearly, a conflict of interest. This is an extreme example, but relevant, nonetheless as we are a large news source for DePauw’s campus.

The students on Pub Board are all well-respected and intelligent individuals.

Gary Lemon is also someone we respect enormously. We do not intend to criticize the people who make up the board that hires us. We are grateful to them for appointing us to our positions and allowing us to our jobs.

However, we do intend to criticize the system. It makes little sense that The DePauw editorial board isn’t hired by our own staff. At other schools, editorial board members are often elected by previous editorial board members, or the entire staff takes a vote. The Harvard Crimson, for example, not only elects the editor-inchief, but they also hire a student to make editorial and financial decisions called a “guard.” Each year the new guard is chosen by the outgoing guard.

This makes a lot more sense to us. This would mean that those most invested in the newspaper—those who put it together twice a week—would be in charge of deciding the fate of the paper. The staff members know exactly what goes into making a paper. They are in here 20 plus hours a week putting it together. They know what is required of the editorial board to not only manage the content of this publication, but to defend it.

We haven’t felt the chokehold of the board. Our relationship has been good, as we have always strived for the same success. However, if DePauw Student Government didn’t have good intentions, this could be potentially problematic for the fate of the paper.

As much as we appreciate all that Publications Board does for us, we can’t help but wonder why a group of individuals who are not on staff here at The DePauw have such power over the future of our publication.

FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2013

T FRANKI ABRAHAM / THE DEPAUW

Pre-professional students suffer from “SPAC attack” STEPHANIE GRAUER

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s I anxiously refreshed my email for what seemed like the hundredth time on Monday, the long awaited message finally arrived: “Your Fall 2013 schedule is available!” I quickly logged on to the DePauw e-services page and was astounded by the results.

Miraculously, I had gotten into all of the courses I had requested. The times, the classes and the professors all matched the ideal schedule I had spent weeks intricately designing and maneuvering into the e-services form — the complexity of which rivals an alien mathematical matrix. I logged out of e-services relieved, having narrowly escaped the SPAC attack frenzy that usually accompanies scheduling.

This semester, I got lucky. But there are many students who didn’t fare as well as I did. How is it that DePauw students do not always get the courses that they request? From personal experience, I know that it is unusual for DePauw students to get the classes that they want.

Whether it’s a discrepancy in time, professor or subject matter entirely, DePauw students are forced to consistently rework their schedules every single semester when course request time rolls around. In some instances, students may not even gain access to more than two classes, and their standing as a full time student can be compromised if their courses are not adjusted.

In theory, getting enrolled in an unexpected class may not seem that bad. After all, aren’t all classes at DePauw supposed to be intriguing and relevant, enriching the liberal arts experience? Why would it matter if you don’t get the specific courses that you want? Shouldn’t you be exploring beyond your interests anyway?

Short answer to both questions: yes. But the issue becomes problematic when a student is denied access to a course that may serve as a necessary prerequisite for medi-

cal school, law school or other graduate program. Graduate institutions will not understand that a student spent a month emailing and virtually harassing uncompromising professors to no avail. Without certain prerequisite courses — despite your extracurricular, academic and social success at one of the finest liberal arts colleges in the nation — your application simply will not be considered. No stunning extracurricular record or 4.0 standing can compensate for the failure to complete a checklist of necessary classes.

This is not to say that there are not professors, departments and advisors here that are more than willing to work with students to achieve these goals and to help make sure that students’ schedules comply with graduate school admission requirements. But the stress and uncertainty that accompanies scheduling can become overwhelming for students who plan to pursue graduate work.

Not only do these students have to struggle to fit the fluctuating distribution and competency requirements into their schedules, but they also have to organize their schedule in such a way that it fits future school admission guidelines. To top it off, virtually no two graduate school admissions criteria are identical, and there is a big difference between simply applying with the necessary requirements and applying with a well-rounded, competitive schedule that just might land you an acceptance letter to that dream school.

The remedy is twofold. Students need to be more proactive about seeking pre-professional advising opportunities sooner rather than later during their four years at DePauw.

But scheduling needs to be modified to help these driven students fulfill these requirements without the “SPAC attack” hassle. Additionally, courses that often serve as prerequisites for graduate programs should be designated as such and made easily accessible to students who absolutely need them first. With these small adjustments and the strengthening of pre-professional advising here at DePauw, scheduling classes can become a less stressful process for students.

— Grauer is a sophomore from Rocky River, Ohio majoring in art history. opinion@thedepauw.com

his week a federal judge ordered the FDA to make Plan B One-Step, a brand of emergency contraceptive, available to women 15 and older without a prescription.

This is great — if this isn’t appealed by the FDA

by May 5. This means that Plan B will be more readily available to teens between the ages of 15 and 18.

However, there shouldn’t be an age restriction on this in the first place.

America has the highest teen pregnancy rate of any country in the industrialized world. Unfortunately, this statistic includes teens from ages 13 to 15. The FDA should be doing anything and everything within their power to lower America’s teen pregnancy rate.

Clearly, there’s no age restriction on sex. And the average age of puberty is right around 11, meaning that kids become sexually curious at this

time as well. The fact that Plan B is not available to under 15 year olds will not discourage kids from experimenting sexually.

Preventing under 15 year olds from purchasing Plan B could, instead of preventing sex, allow for an unwanted pregnancy. There are few pregnancies that are less wanted than ones involving an under 15 year old.

In addition, Plan B is expensive. There is little risk that teens would use Plan B as a regular contraception. Depending on where its purchased it can cost anywhere between $30 to $60. It doesn’t cost so much that its impossible for a teenager to purchase, but I doubt that any teen would prefer to purchase Plan B over a condom, which can cost as little as 50 cents per condom.

Not to mention, a person doesn’t need to be of a certain age to buy condoms. If the FDA is trying to prevent teen sex by making Plan B unavailable to those under 15, shouldn’t condoms also be made unavailable?

And what about sex education in schools?

Should schools not talk to kids under the age of 15 about sex and how to have sex safely?

It’s worth noting that approximately 80 percent of teen moms end up on government welfare. So

the FDA could be allocating government spending for girls who could have just spent the $40 on emergency contraception and prevented teen motherhood.

And then there’s the requirement that in order to prove one’s age upon purchasing emergency contraception, an I.D. is necessary. In urban areas, it is far less common for kids between the ages of 15 and 21 to have identification, because drivers’ licenses are less necessary, not to mention expensive.

So the FDA is not only preventing under 15-year-olds from accessing Plan B, but also those without identification. Before I had my driver’s license at age 16, I didn’t have an I.D. card with my birth date on it, and I doubt that I was the only one.

By preventing those under 15 and without an I.D. from purchasing Plan B, the FDA is effectively preventing two groups of women from acquiring Plan B, who are perhaps most needy in terms of contraception availability.

— Chapman is a senior from Lake Bluff, Ill. majoring in English writing.

MARGARET BURKE

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hen I start to reflect on my four short years at DePauw, it is difficult to know where to begin. Looking back, I see nothing but a blur. Someone please tell me again how we are exactly two weeks away from graduation and I am this old? Didn’t I just move into Hogate?

Speaking of freshman year, it took me awhile to adjust to DePauw, and I’m not sure that I fully fell in love until the spring of my sophomore year. You can’t deny that DePauw is indeed a special place in a number of ways.

The isolating floor plan of Hogate was hard to navigate and I was in awe of all the friends that my BR and Lucy acquaintances had. The then-distance to Starbucks was nearly enough to make me cry. The lack of non-greek activities was overwhelming, and my aversion to fraternities through the roof — it just wasn’t my scene. Even so, I skeptically joined the Greek system knowing that I wasn’t the typical “sorority girl.”

Somewhere along the line though, things changed.

PHOTOPINION Do you think DePauw has a problem with study drugs? Why or why not?

“I’m not sure if there’s a problem, because if more people take [study drugs], then everyone has the same advantage.”

STEPHANIE KOHLMAN, senior “I saw more of a problem in my high school.

The problem is doctors overprescribing when it’s not necessary.”

opinion@thedepauw.com

Soaking in all that is uniquely DePauw I accepted the fact that my flip-flops always have, and always will, stick to the floor at fraternities. I declared my major and had a rough path paved for myself. I embraced DePauw and made it my home.

Fast forward to senior year, and I can’t picture myself a student anywhere else. DePauw has been my home for four years and it will always hold a special place in my heart for a multitude of reasons.

The professors I’ve encountered at DePauw have been both fabulous teachers and friends. From eating pizza in my professors’ living rooms to going on daylong shopping excursions with my advisor to attending a four-day professional conference with a professor, I’ve truly had an academic experience that is unprecedented and something I’m certainly convinced doesn’t happen everywhere. I am not sure how it is even possible for a small university in the middle of rural Indiana to employ a faculty that is as diverse, challenging, loving and dedicated as DePauw’s.

The friends I’ve made and continue to make at DePauw are the best. They are the people who will be a part of my life, every step of the way. The ones who will come pick me up from Julian after class when it’s raining and I’m too much of a weeny to walk back to my house. The friends who will listen to me practice my seminar presentation and then attend the very same presentation a couple hours later.

The experience I’ve had these four years is just as

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Bess Evans described it in her keynote address at the academic awards convocation: “uniquely DePauw.”

Where else on this earth is a boulder run an acceptable consequence for losing a game or a bet? What other school has flower-ins or GCBs? What other school can turn its name into a multitude of words (DePauwsome, DePlague, DePauwty)?

These are just a few of the things that are “uniquely DePauw,” but perhaps the thing that is most uniquely DePauw is the feeling you get walking around this campus on a sunny day, Easy College beckoning over the fully blooming tulips and adirondack chairs scattered around.

It isn’t something that can be articulated, words surely don’t do it justice.

It is just DePauw. The many familiar and smiling faces you inevitably see on a walk across campus, the classes being help on East College lawn, the amazingly crafted sculptures scattered about campus or the sound of a campus bike bell as someone happily rides it.

This is the feeling that I will be basking in for the next couple of weeks before I walk across that stage, flip my tassel and throw my cap. Until then, you can find me on the Adirondack chairs on East College lawn, soaking it all in.

CHENEY HAGERUP, sophomore “I don’t think [the problem] is just at DePauw.

It’s anywhere that has a competitive academic environment.”

HILLARY EGAN, senior “I don’t think there’s a problem. Students have to do what they have to do.”

JOE HAYNES, freshman EMILY BRELAGE / THE DEPAUW

— Burke is a senior from Nashville, Ind. majoring in education. opinion@thedepauw.com

Have a question you want answered? email opinion@thedepauw.com

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the depauw | sports

May Sports Schedule

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FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2013

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• Men’s & Women’s Track at NCAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships Gambier, Ohio

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• Men’s and Women’s Golf at NCAC Championship Event 2 • Baseball at Allegheny • Softball vs. TBD

• Men’s Lacrosse vs. Olivet

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• Men’s and Women’s Track at Cardinal Twilight

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FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2013

Women’s lax ends season with loss; looks forward to next year

By NICOLE DARNALL sports@thedepauw.com

The DePauw women’s lacrosse team finished off its inaugural season at the hands of the Wittenberg Tigers on Monday night, 22-3.

It came down to Wittenberg having a solid defense that gave DePauw an extra hard time to get any shots off.

“Wittenberg had the best defense we’d seen all season,” head coach Susana Wilcox said. “Just a lot of strong defenders that were able to work together very well. We had a better shooting day, we took more shots but they just weren’t falling. Their goalies did a very nice job, just a very tough, aggressive defense.”

This ended their season with a 4-8 overall record and a 1-7 record in conference. All eight of their losses happened in the last eight games of their season.

“The second half of the season we played a lot of better teams,” freshman defender Abby Snively said. “We played teams that were top in our conference as opposed to teams who were also beginning programs, so when we got to conference we played teams that were also established for years and had lots of backing. We started to lose not because we didn’t have the skill level, but because we didn’t have the background.“ The three goals on the tigers side were scored by the trifecta of sophomore middie Mary White, senior attack Natalie Swiler and sophomore middie Jamie Powell. Sophomore middie Carey Kunz

added an assist.

“I think the last few games we’ve started to play together better, starting against Kenyon,” Wilcox said. “I thought we actually played a much better game and it’s starting to build on stick skills and fundamentals.”

The team was starting to finally come together toward the end of the season as they continued to work on building their program.

“As an inaugural season we had a really good season, especially at the beginning,” sophomore defender Ella Smoot said. “I think from here the team can only get better with new recruits and such.

I think that we lost what we had at the beginning for a while, like when we started losing. But toward the end we started to pick it up more.”

Even though their season was a losing one, the Tigers did fulfill many accomplishments in their inaugural season. Freshman attack Elizabeth McCracken had a fifty-point season with thirty goals and twenty assists. Plus, three separate players on the teams scored twenty-five plus points: Jamie Powell, Natalie Swiler and Elizabeth McCracken.

The inaugural season has come to a close, but they are already looking toward next year.

“We have a strong incoming freshman class,” Wilcox said. “So hopefully the returning girls will see it as motivation to work hard and improve because hopefully we will have more depth next year.”

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Softball picks up win before NCAC tournament

By THE DEPAUW STAFF REPORTS sports@thedepauw.com

In DePauw softball’s final game of the season, they walked off the field with two more wins in their hands to improve to a 21-15 record. The team won both games, 7-3 and 5-2.

DePauw trailed 1-0 until the fourth when freshman Linsey Button slid across home plate after freshman Sammi Bell knocked a double out to bring her in. DePauw scored two more runs before Wittenberg came back.

Wittenberg caught up to DePauw in the bottom of the sixth scoring two more runs until the seventh when the Tigers took the rest of the game.

In the seventh DePauw had four runs to round out the final score to 7-3. Lauren Krumwiede crossed home plate after Amy Hallet hit a single to center while Button followed in with a two-run double and scored on Bell’s hit.

The Tigers began the nightcap with a single homer hit by Hallet to give them the lead. By the end of the first, DePauw led the game, 3-0.

Overall, the Tigers totaled six hits in the second game and totaled five runs. Now the Tigers focus their attention to winning the NCAC tournament and continuing onto regionals.

Softball | continued on page 11 teams are bringing to the plate.

The tournament will be a double elimination with Friday morning’s winners playing at 2 p.m. in the afternoon, while the losers play at 4 p.m. to determine the standings for Saturday’s play. The winner from Friday’s 4 p.m. game will face the loser of Friday’s third game on Saturday morning to determine the final slot in the championship round. The championship round will conclude Saturday afternoon.

This year four teams went 10-6 in their season, Wittenberg, Kenyon, Denison and Allegheny, with DePauw leading the conference by three games. This is the first time in conference history that a team has held a three game margin.

After winning the title last year, and a total of six since 2001, Denison did not make the cut to compete in this year’s tournament.

Having a home field advantage will be key in the Tigers’ excelling throughout the weekend.

“If we can use our field and the ins and outs of the infield bounces and the outfield rolls this will give us a little bit more of what we need,” Hanrahan said.

The team will be up against tough opponents and just because DePauw is the number one seed doesn’t mean they have won just yet. It’s still anyone’s tournament, Hanrahan said.

“The teams in this tournament are well coached. We’ll have to put our best softball in.”

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BASEBALL

Tigers shutout in last game of regular season

FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2013

The NCAC comes to DePauw The DePauw softball team to host North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament

THE DEPAUW STAFF REPORTS sports@thedepauw

Indiana State University scored in five different innings to defeat DePauw 7-0 in the last regular season game of the season.

The Tigers will travel to Allegheny College this weekend to start the cross-divisional series for a bid to the conference tournament.

Sophomore Greg Kulhman started the game for the Sycamores going three innings and allowing two hits. In total, Indiana

“We can choose to hang our heads and sulk about this past weekend or we can shake it and make something happen against Allegheny.”

- Zach Galyean, senior outfielder

State used seven pitchers and held the Tigers to eights hits and no runs.

“The main difference I noticed was their pitchers had tighter spin on their breaking balls so it was more difficult to see out of the hand as a hitter,” senior outfielder Zach Galyean said. “The pitchers we saw painted the corners well and just knew how to get our hitters out.”

DePauw was competitive against the division one team as they put runners on in eight of nine innings. However, they were unable to drive in any of the runners as the team stranded eight on the bases. Despite the lack of runs, the Tigers feel like they will benefit from facing the caliber of pitching they saw.

“The team benefited because we won't see better pitching than what we saw last night,” Galyean said. “I expect us to hit very well this weekend.”

DePauw’s overall record dropped to 16-21 while the Sycamores reached the 500 mark with an 18-18 record.

This weekend, the cross-divisional series between the East and West divisions of the North Coast Athletic Conference will kick-off. It’s a three game series with the winner of the series moving into the 2013 NCAC baseball tournament. Overall, four teams will move on to the tournament. The Tigers have not played Allegheny this season, but are looking forward to the opportunity.

“Moving forward, the biggest thing is that we need to focus on is beating Allegheny,” Galyean said. “We all would've loved to have a home series this coming weekend, but things didn't work out. We can choose to hang our heads and sulk about this past weekend or we can shake it and make something happen against Allegheny.”

Sophomore Kahla Nolan winds up for a pitch to Denison last month. The Tigers now hold a record of 21-15. They will now focus their attention to winning the NCAC tournament and continuing onto regionals. SUNNY STRADER / THE DEPAUW

By ABBY MARGULIS sports@thedepauw.com

Ranked number one in the North Coast Athletic Conference, a 13-3 record, the DePauw Tigers softball team will be hosting the NCAC Tournament seeded in the number one title spot this weekend. This season marks the first NCAC softball title for the DePauw Tigers who lead with a three game margin, marking the first in the history of the NCAC. The Tigers will face three teams: Wittenberg University, ranked second; Kenyon College, ranked third and Allegheny seated in fourth. Friday at noon, DePauw will face off to Allegheny to begin their battle to hopefully becoming the 2013 NCAC champions.

Wednesday evening the team faced Manchester College in their last game before facing the competition in the tournament. Senior Kate Hendrickson said the team’s two pitchers are similar to Allegheny’s giving the team more practice to prepare for their game on Friday.

“We hit really well [against Manchester] and are expecting to carry it

over into the next game [against Allegheny,” Hendrickson said.

The team is turning to past games played against the teams to look towards success over the weekend.

“We are going to be facing three teams that have three totally different styles of play,” head coach Erica Hanrahan said. “We’ve seen these teams, so we know what we’re up against but the challenge is that they’re very different in what their strengths are. We’re going to focus on all of their strengths in practices.”

It is one thing to train to play to one team’s strengths, but the key to this weekend will be focusing on combating all three teams.

Against Allegheny the Tigers are up against a dominant pitcher, Wittenberg has the top stolen bases in the league and Kenyon has an excellent offense. DePauw will have to defend all three very different styles these

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