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A document titled “A Proposal for Winter Term Changes and New Summer Programs” circulated to select faculty members this week, detailing ideas for a Winter Term condensed from a current three full weeks to two and for regular DePauw courses taught during the summer. Larry Stimpert, vice president for academic affairs, said an updated copy of the document that reflects the material from the original draft will be sent to faculty members this weekend and will be discussed at the monthly faculty meeting Monday. “We don’t have anything that we’ve decided that is perfect or that is final,” he said in a phone interview Thursday night. The proposal suggests dropping the existing Winter Term requirement, paying faculty who teach the two-week courses a “flat stipend” and discontinuing the incentive for faculty of “banking” courses for year-long sabbaticals. Both drafts of the document say, “Incentives for Winter Term are lacking.” For students, the required, but not graded classes do not generate enough incentive to work hard. For that reason, Stimpert said the proposed, shorter Winter Term would be an improvement. “Students should want to engage in activities,” Stimpert said. “If they’re great experiences, there shouldn’t need to be a requirement to do it.” The document also addresses lacking incentives for faculty members with respect to Winter Term teaching and trip leading. “Faculty members see Winter Term teaching as either an unattractive obligation or as a means to work toward a fullyear sabbatical,” the document says. Stimpert said motivation by obligation for faculty members hardly seemed likely a good enough reason to continue the tradition. “We’re obviously willing to compensate, but we shouldn’t say they have to do them,” he said. “That’s bad motivation for doing anything.” While past “banked” time would still transfer for professors working toward sabbaticals, guiding future trips or teaching classes would not. Instead, the document said the committee members advocating the change, “anticipate offering additional opportunities for faculty members to obtain full-year sabbaticals through grant-writing, opportunities offered by consortium partners and possibly by teaching extra courses if the university moves to a five-course teaching load.”
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Fifth-year Peeler interns Alex Chamberlain, Emily Wilson and Brittany Sievers struggle to financially support the Low Road Gallery located on West Washington Street after the Vice President of Academic Affairs’ Office cut funding. SUNNY STRADER/THE DEPAUW By NETTIE FINN news@thedepauw.com
On the whitewashed walls of a basement level space on Washington Street just off of Greencastle’s town square, hang entrancing pieces of modern art: something not every town of 10,331 can boast about. Three Peeler Center fifth-year interns, Alex Chamberlain ‘13, Brittany Sievers ’13 and Emily Wilson ‘13, have taken it upon themselves to make sure this space, the Low Road art gallery, remains up and running through its
present financial predicament. Currently in its fifth exhibition season, or third year, the Low Road began with two previous 5th year interns, Lukas Schooler ’11 and Julie Rooney ‘11. “They started this space because they wanted a place where contemporary art could be showcased to the Greencastle community, as well as the DePauw community,” Chamberlain, the Arthur E. Klauser Collection and Community Outreach Intern, said. Unfortunately, the Low Road has fallen upon hard times.
Two years ago, the students in charge of the gallery at the time received a grant from the Vice President of Academic Affairs’ Office (VPAA). This grant would supply the Low Road with funding to last them two years. “Last year’s manager told us, ‘Oh you’ve got another year of funding.’ […] Well, on the second day of the job, we found out that wasn’t true,” Chamberlain said. The funding from the VPAA’s office ended last semester, leaving Sievers, Wilson and
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DePauw launched student research pages on its website last week in an effort to engage more students—particularly underclassmen and non-science majors—in the undergraduate research opportunities. Professor of psychology Terri Bonebright, who originally came up with the idea of creating these pages, has been working with faculty across all fields for the past year in order to get the website up and running. “What we didn’t have was one visible place either for our current students, faculty or staff to really understand what we were doing,” Bonebright said. “Nor did we have a place for prospective students or the outside world in general to get a really good look and understand all of the interesting and exciting things students are doing for research.” During the creation of the Student Research pages, Bonebright made sure that professors from all departments were aware of and involved in the process so each department could use the site to its full advantage. She even had students look at the page and give feedback to involve everyone on campus. “You want everybody to understand what you’re doing and why you’re doing it,” Bonebright said, adding, “It was a collaborative process.” Michael Roberts, a professor of psychology said that
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undergraduate research has been coined as a “high-impact experience.” He hopes that the new website will draw more students’ attention to the research opportunities on campus because he sees it as a vital component of an undergraduate education. “Having this kind of research experience develops critical thinking skills in students,” Roberts said. “Given that there are a lot of undergraduate research opportunities provided on campus, we want to make students aware of that and, ideally, aware of it early on.” Seniors Jack Burgeson and Chelsea Ohler, who have been working with Roberts for the past three years through the Science Research Fellows program, are interested to see how the pages will bring new students into the research field. “I think a huge advantage for the underclassmen is to have this as a resource and point them in the right direction if they are interested in research opportunities,” Burgeson said. “It’s never too early to dip your toes into this.” Ohler thinks that the new pages will be beneficial to DePauw because they make finding research opportunities much easier. “Now [DePauw] has a whole website of faculty research projects and their interests, and it’s a lot better organized so it’s a lot easier to find,” Ohler said. A large part of the website’s purpose is to allow people to conduct undergraduate re-
search outside of their majors. On the ‘Common Questions’ page on the new website, the question “Is undergraduate research only for students in the sciences?” is answered, in bold print, as the following: “Undergraduate research can be done in any discipline.” This statement is reiterated in three different questions on the website. A major goal of the website is to attract people in other disciplines to the idea of research in an area that they are not necessarily studying inside the classroom. As a bio-chemistry major conducting research in psychology, Burgeson is a strong advocate for doing research in areas outside of one’s major, and he is excited to see how these pages bring different types of people into the research field. “This definitely opens up the door for anyone to conduct research at DePauw,” Burgeson said. “You can test out different areas that you’re interested in and find something that you love.” Bonebright hopes that this website will encourage different ways of learning. “I really hope that students will take advantage of the opportunities that these [pages] present to them,” Bonebright said. “It’s a really good way to help students in their academic enterprises at the university.” The Student Research pages can be found under the ‘academics’ section on the DePauw website.
geological digs in the Grand Canyon or other exploratory trips. Summer courses would be optional. The documents mention the potential for summer courses to charge tuition and fees, bringing in additional revenue that could augment DePauw’s operating budget. Stimpert said the addition to the operating budget would be welcome and that having warm bodies on campus during summer months would attract more prospective students. “Campus is essentially dead in the summer,” Stimpert said. The document mentioned opportunities for high school students and incoming first-year students to enroll in summer courses along with current DePauw students. “Some of these opportunities would target high school students, teachers and guidance counselors, all with the aim of enhancing DePauw’s recruiting and admissions effectiveness,” the document says. Stimpert, formerly a professor of economics and business at Colorado College, said some of his ideas for the proposal stemmed from the Block System at Colorado in which students take one course at a time. He said the proposal is a starting point and that over the month of October he will hold meetings at which he hopes students and faculty will contribute ideas about the possible changes.
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When Valerie Rudolph, Compton Center for Peace and Justice coordinator, went digging through the center’s closets, a student-made film from 1969, with a letter from the maker still intact, was not what she expected to find. “The College Radical,” was shown on DePauw’s campus for what is possibly the first time since its making Wednesday night at this year’s Compton Center Peace Camp. The film documents the planning of a protest by radical liberal DePauw students at a time steeped in racial tension and unease. The film and enclosed letter that give insight into DePauw life in the turmoil of the 1960s seem to have laid undiscovered until Rudolph uncovered them just recently. “I’m going through all our old VHS tapes and things like that, and I come across this one called, ‘The College Radical,’ so I’m thinking, ‘What the heck is this.’ I open it up and find this letter inside,” Rudolph said. The letter, postmarked April 28, 2003 is from the filmmaker himself to Russell Compton. It begins: “We talk at the Duck reunion a year ago. I excavated the enclosed film from a storage bin a few months ago. I thought you might get a kick out of it in any case.” Thatcher Drew’s documentary-style film covers the student-led protest that took place in January 1969. Radical DePauw students planned to stage a walk out from, what was at the time, mandatory weekly convocation unless the University’s president, William Kerstetter, was willing to answer their questions. “This film was made about the planning process of these four or five white students who were planning this protest,” said Rudolph. The opening scene shows a grainy picture of DePauw’s living units, sorority and fraternity houses, many of which have since changed location or no longer have chapters at DePauw, and academic buildings. It then cuts to show students, all white, planning a protest.
“Everywhere a black person looks, there’s white faces. We have a duty to make a living situation where anyone could live well here,” said Laurie Duncan ’71. Rudolph feels that Duncan’s statement showcases how little input students, even radically liberal students like Duncan, had from fellow African American students. “There’s this group of white students who are wanting to advocate for the African American students on campus,” said Rudolph, “but in doing so they don’t ever talk to the African American students.” When the protest planners finally did ask for African American input, many black students at the time were not pleased. “I’ve never been so insulted in my life that I’ve been asked here, at the last minute, as the token black for the white man,” said an unnamed black male. Articles published in The DePauw at the time also make it clear that tension between races, even between whites and blacks that were supposedly working towards the same goals, was at a high point. “Ed Green, the second Afro-American student on the faculty committee said, ‘It’s time for black students to speak for what they need and whites to stay out of it.’” Don Prosser reported in the January 31, 1969 issue of The DePauw. The film, which lasts around 23 minutes, continues to follow the protest to its eventual ending when Kerstetter finally agrees to answer the students’ questions. “Like most archaeological artifacts it seems so quaint now…kind of revealing too, but I’m not sure how,” said Drew in his 2003 letter to Compton. Keith Nightenhelser, coordinator of convocations, was part of the film’s first viewing audience, and feels it is important not to lose this rediscovered piece of history again. “This definitely needs to go in the official DePauw archives,” he said. “It’s an important piece of DePauw’s history.”
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Low Road | continued from page 1 last semester, leaving Sievers, Wilson and Chamberlain in a “lurch,” according to Sievers, the Efroymson Arts Intern. “I think we had one month’s rent total, to our name. And that was it,” Chamberlain said. Sievers added that “It was a rude awakening at the very beginning of our internships.” As fifth-year interns, all three women had other jobs to do. In fact, running the Low Road is usually a small part of the internships. “The Low Road gallery is completely voluntary, and really a side thing,” Sievers said. “It’s turned into a bigger project than any of us thought it would be.” Sievers went on to say that in a regular year, she would expect the time put in at the Low Road to be only around six hours any given week. With this year’s difficulties, that number has gone up significantly. “It’s at least 10 to 20 hours a week, which doesn’t sound like a lot but when you’re thinking I’m doing 40 hours a week with my internship, it starts to build up,” Sievers said. Wilson, Sievers and Chamberlain have had to put substantial amounts of their time towards fundraising events. A recent t-shirt sale raised $750,
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and they are currently seeking grants and donations from the DePauw and Greencastle communities. They have even invested in the “Square”—a credit card reader for iPhone and iPads. “People are always like, ‘Well, I would donate but I don’t have any cash.’ That’s when we can say, ‘Hey, I’ve got you taken care of,” Chamberlain said. Costs for running the gallery add up quickly. Chamberlain estimated that rent costs a little over $300 a month while utilities run up to $100 every month. “That’s just the basics,” Chamberlain added. “That’s just getting us through having a space.” The odds may have been stacked against them, but the three women feel they are making progress. “Right now we can get through December,” Chamberlain said. Plans for a pumpkin painting fundraiser, as well as a Speakeasy party and a silent auction to raise further money are currently in the works. Chamberlain remains hopeful. “It’s going to happen somehow, we just don’t know how yet,” she said.
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Conversation filled the Union Building Ballroom on Thursday afternoon as students handed out resumes, networked and gained insight on varying industries at the 31st annual career fair. Liz Freedman, a career advisor at the Hubbard Center said the career fair is for all classes, not just seniors. “We do the career fair here on campus to give opportunities to our students so students can come and just network with people and ask them about their job, their industry or their organization,” she said. “Maybe a lot of underclassmen like to do that for some career exploration,” Students found out about the career fair through many resources, such as through TigerTracks, emails and the Hubbard Center’s Twitter page. Almost of the employers present at the fair had at least one alumnus present at their table to talk to DePauw students, including Kyle Sherer ‘11. “I came back [for the career fair] be-
cause I was fortunate enough to have an alumna reach out to me and offer me a job, so I thought, ‘Why not try and give back?’” Sherer said. Sherer works for Accretive Health, a health care consulting company based out of Chicago. Most of the companies present have entry-level jobs to offer students right out of college. However, some companies or organizations were only there to recruit interns. Most importantly, the fair was a chance for students to network and think about possible majors and jobs. First-year Sam Alkema knew alumni would be present and was most interested in hearing from them. “I just wanted to figure out where they were working and any opportunities that could be present in the near future,” Alkema said. Although over 40 organizations and companies attended the career fair, one fixture of the past was not in attendance. “The Peace Corps didn’t come due to the government shut down,” Freedman said.
The career fair at DePauw has grown over the years to the point that it has had to move some tables out of the ballroom and into the main level of the Hubbard Center. The fair had a wide range of companies and organizations present for various fields such as healthcare, marketing, finance and banking and technology, but it lacked smaller businesses and non-mainstream job opportunities such as jobs related to journalism, art and culture. “I think [the career fair] is a great thing to have. There should be more of them throughout the year and not as late as October,” Sherer said. “I think from a student perspective, they could do a better job of bringing in more companies. There’s a select group of companies here.” First-year Camille Refauvelet also thought that the career fair only represented selective fields of work. “I got the email about [the career fair],” Refauvelet said, “but I didn’t go because most of the companies that are represented are for business or finance and that is not my center of interest.”
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Spoiler alert: What leaking show details on social media sites means to us By EMILY OJIKA features@thedepauw.com
Spoiler Alert! Hear none, see none, speak none! DePauw students must strategically fight the perilous battles against devastating movie and television show revelations that linger in the trenches of Facebook and Twitter. Whether it comes through word of mouth or through the spoiler-abundant social media sites, DePauw students are ducking and diving to avoid spoilers every day. It’s true that many could not care less whether or not they know what happens before they watch popular show. But for the pious devotees, who religiously patronize certain shows or sagas, spoilers can be quite upsetting. “I hate it when people do [spoil],” first-year Jeffery Frimpong said. “I used to watch ‘Catfish’ and sometimes I’d be busy, so I wouldn’t watch it on the day it came out. Then, I’d go on Facebook or
Twitter, and people would just ruin the whole episode for me.” For Frimpong, it’s about undergoing a journey with the characters and experiencing the events of the show. Sophomore Dylan Sheldon agrees. “I want to watch it for myself,” Sheldon said. “I want to see it for the first time, as opposed to hearing about it.” Senior Drew Rohm-Ensing didn’t even get the chance to begin watching the hit series “Game of Thrones” before references to plot twists were revealed to him through social media. “You could tell that something big had happened,” Rohm-Ensing said. “I didn’t get the references at the time, but later it was kind of disappointing because throughout the episode, you’re expecting something big to happen.” Although spoilers may get a bad rap, some people, including “Game of Thrones” fan sophomore Stephen McMurtry, decide to spoil shows out of
excitement instead of ruining the show on purpose. “The only big TV show I watch is ‘Game of Thrones,’ and I’ve already read the books, so I think it’s actually really funny when people spoil it,” McMurtry said. “I don’t always spoil things but when I’m in the position to spoil, I think it’s kind of funny to do. It’s mean, but it’s funny too.” Junior Montinique Garner said she is one of those people who spoil shows but she doesn’t spoil with cruel intentions. “Sometimes I feel like people do it purposely just to rub it in for people who didn’t get to see something,” Garner said. “It’s just because I’m really excited about the show.” Since we cannot stop friends from spoiling details of episodes on social media websites, there are a few applications on the Internet that could help with blocking these secrets. The Twitter application called Philtro allows users to block spoilers by keywords. The app learns what types of tweets you
like based on your rating of thumbs up or thumbs down. When the app becomes familiar with your tweets, it then only notifies users with tweets they would like to read. Sophomore Mary Xiao and her friends have a special way of finding out the big picture of an episode they like without telling too much. “My friends and I have an unspoken code that we don’t talk about the big details, but we’ll talk about smaller things,” Xiao said. “That’s nice because afterwards, I can go back and still be surprised.” Whether you are like Xiao or not, Rohm-Ensing makes it quite simple in what runs through the heads of students who just want to enjoy their favorite show without it being ruined. “Stay off the computer until you’ve seen the episode,” Rohm-Ensing said. “Avoid social media at all costs.”
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Creepy aliens in racy lingerie and bright party outfits will parade the stage of Moore Theatre in song and dance as “The Rocky Horror Show” returns to DePauw on Thursday, Oct. 3. Richard O’ Brien’s cult classic “The Rocky Horror Show” takes place in the 1950s when engaged couple Janet Weiss and Brad Majors experience a flat tire and seek help from the mysterious home of Dr. Frank N. Furter. The couple is greeted by Transylvania aliens who dance The Time Warp and along the way uncover their true sexualities. Steve Timm, director and professor of communication and theatre, had the opportunity to direct the “Rocky” production in 2005 and decided that it was time to reintroduce it to the Greencastle community. When faculty member Steve Michael asked about playing guitar for the production again, it gave Timm more of a reason to put on the show. “There’s a political angle in this,” he said. “There are people in campus factions on campus that don’t want us to do it, there are people in town that don’t want us to do it.” Timm said signs and a big banner promoting “The Rocky Horror Show” have been torn down by people who
were against the production. The banner’s disappearance for a show is something that many of the students in the production have never had happen to them in any other performances. Junior André Williams who plays a leading role as Rocky believes that the themes of the play shouldn’t be taken so seriously. “I’m very liberal with my choices and I think that it’s art and if a musical is put on and it’s played with all transvestites, then so be it,” he said. “I don’t think it’s something that should be so criticized—it’s just a way of life.” Despite some of the disapproval against the show, many students in the production decided to participate because of the excitement they’ve seen from older generations who are fans of the show. Senior Elise Lockwood who plays the character of Columbia became familiar with the cult tradition through her mother. “My mom actually played Columbia when I was younger and I wasn’t allowed to see it,” Lockwood said. “So I knew it was a show that I wanted to be a part of.” Lockwood is also in charge of all the public relations and marketing for the show. Lockwood wanted to spread the word about “Rocky” because of its tradition of its popularity with older generations. “The cult phenomenon is because it has absolutely no inhibitions,” she
said. “The audience gets to yell and throw stuff and the actors get to do it right back.” Lockwood created theme nights where audiences are encouraged to bring a friend and dress up based on the theme to get half price tickets. The themes include bring a Republican, bring a zombie, lingerie night, bring a transvestite and bring a virgin night. Although many are familiar with the movie adaptation of the show called “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” the group decided to stick to the play script for this production. Along the way the cast found how flexible the script was and decided to make it their own. “I had all these people who could tap dance and so we made this decision of Columbia’s ‘ability’ because all these other people could dance really well,” said Timm. In addition to playing Rocky, Williams also is in charge of costumes and choreography. Williams’ creativity was tested when he realized that the costume shop did not possess many of the pieces needed for the show. “Normally in the costume shop we do a lot of building and things, but with the production being more lingerie and unusual articles of clothing,” Williams said. “We had to do a lot of buying even though we’d done this production a few years back,” he
said. The well known “Time Warp” number with the Transylvanians is still included in the show in addition to a number of different dances. Williams and junior Jacob Peterman worked on adding some swing dancing to their version of the show. Senior Rick Allen also faced many challenges as he took on one of the lead roles as Dr. Frank N. Furter. Allen’s character is the transvestite in the show who challenges the sexualities of both Brad and Janet. For the role, Allen had to utilize both is masculine and feminine sides in order to give justice to his character. “It’s kind of a constant consciousness thing where as somebody who is straight, it’s kind of interesting in keeping yourself in check for both sides of the spectrum.” he said. Allen said the hardest aspect of playing Frank is the straight part rather than playing a homosexual. He also mentions that learning how to walk in heels was difficult. “I have a much higher amount of respect for women at this point for putting up with that crap, because that’s awful,” he said. The whole production wouldn’t be possible without the music that pulls all the themes of “Rocky” together. Junior Jennifer Peacock is the music director and in charge of teaching the music to the cast,
directing the Rock band and playing the piano. “ A lot of people know its [music] really well and so there’s this weird thing I have to balance of doing it the way people are used to but also giving it something of our own and unique and not like the movie.” she said. Peacock worked with a cast that’s made up with a majority of students from the school of liberal arts with the exception of lead characters Brad and Janet, played by senior Dakota Dalton and junior Brooke Addison. She worked with harmonizing the songs so they had a different feel to them. Sophomore Laura Loy who worked alongside Timm as stage manager hopes that people who come to watch the show come with an open mind. “I just want people to have a good time and not say anything bad just because it’s something they haven’t seen before or be-
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Enduring the first-year faux-frat boy phenomenon
THE DEPAUW | Editorial Board Dana Ferguson | Editor-in-Chief Sunny Strader | Managing Editor Becca Stanek | Managing Editor Kelly Killpack | Chief Copy Editor
CHRISTINE WALSH
Winter Term proposal lacks student voice A draft of some startling changes to Winter Term that has surfaced seems to be missing the opinion and needs of a certain group on campus: the students. The proposal focuses mostly on how faculty will be rewarded for Winter Term work and the “banking” incentives for sabbaticals. It is disheartening that the financial benefits of leading Winter Terms overshadow the chance to instead reap the benefits of providing students, whether it be through a course, a trip or an internship opportunity, with life lessons a regular semester course load cannot provide. Perhaps Winter Term needs some revamping on a financial side we do not see as students, but this option strips Winter Term of the richness it brings to campus. This initial proposal swirling around does not at all emphasize the way this will affect students. The passion we have for this inspiring month needs to be considered before changes, if any, are made to the way we spend our January. For instance, many trips abroad would not be plausible in a matter of 10-14 days. The cultural immersion process would change to the equivalent of a vacation with peers and faculty. The same goes for service-based trips. The reality of the work students do on these trips does not settle in until many days into the trip, and shortening that experience detracts from the change we can make in over three weeks of time. Trips will become a sampling of a place rather than a life-changing period of college that we happen to receive school credit for. DePauw students crave to be enlightened, and Winter Term fills that void. Internships would function similarly under this new proposal. A two-week internship over what would now be one very long winter break, would simply provide training for the position at hand. The three to five weeks students spend in Winter Term internships is limited enough, but still provides a fulfilling sampling of a job that may serve as a stepping stone for future, more long-term positions. The newly proposed time frame seems to nearly eliminate the internship option for Winter Term. We distinguish our university from similar schools by Winter Term; some students choose to come to DePauw solely based on the option. We have ultimate bragging rights to inspiring courses, trips and overall experiences. This proposal underestimates the value students put on Winter Term. It is embedded in us long after graduation. Future students may not be so lucky. DePauw is rich in tradition. Winter Term is certainly one of the highlights. It would be a shame to see this DePauw staple of alternative education fall by the wayside at a school steeped in tradition. The generalization that professors don’t have a desire or motivation to lead a winter term class or trip is disheartening. We know there are professors and students alike that value the educational and experiential aspect of Winter Term. Unfortunately, the voices of the people concerned abut the money side may be louder in the upcoming discussions. We recognize that there are faculty members who are passionate about Winter Term opportunities. Students want to be heard for our passion too, and we hope you’ll listen. -- Dana Ferguson did not contribute to this editorial
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2013
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Uninsured students lack healthcare options NICOLE DECRISCIO
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s a college student, I never thought having health insurance would be a concern. I always thought my biggest worries would be trivial: finding a job, passing a class and managing time. I was on Medicaid and had been since I was 12. That was, until this summer, when I received notification that my benefits would be terminated at the beginning of September. I immediately made a phone call to the Medicaid office with the hopes that I would be able to get some sort of benefits after September. I found out that I lost health insurance because I turned 19 over the summer. In Indiana, those over 19 have only three ways to be covered by the state-– none of which I am eligible for, nor do I hope to be eligible for within my time at DePauw. The first option is to already have a dependent and to be below the poverty line. The second option is to be pregnant, at which point I could get limited Medicaid to pay for prenatal and delivery costs. The final option is for those with a disability. While most states are expanding their Medicaid coverage under Obamacare, Indiana is not, which means the criteria will remain the same.
With this, the government is almost encouraging people to depend on them. These programs were designed to aid people temporarily, but the criteria doesn’t allow it to be that now. Personally, I would continually be paying the aid forward. I would be graduating and ideally getting a job that would provide these benefits While most people are under their parent’s health insurance, there are cases where parents don’t have health insurance. Albeit a minority, I’m in that minority. The lack of coverage has left me with four options. First, under the Affordable Healthcare Act, I could purchase catastrophic insurance, which only starts to be worth something if something were to happen to me. If I were in an accident or need to have major surgery, I’d have something to help me pay for it, but there wouldn’t be coverage for medicines or going to the doctor if I’m not on campus. Or, I could buy health insurance from a private company. This tends to be expensive. Even with no pre-existing conditions, my premiums would be upwards of $200 a month. When my full time job is to pursue an education, I simply can’t afford that. I also have the option of waiting six months and trying to get coverage through the Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP). HIP provides health insurance to families or individuals that are low income. Premiums are set based on
income. You’re only eligible for HIP if you have been uninsured for six months. However, even though my room and board is paid for and I never see a penny of it, I have to claim my scholarships as income. As a result, my premiums under HIP would be just as expensive as the private sector. My final option is to simply go without, pray that I don’t have an accident and use the Wellness Center as my primary source of medical care. However, the same piece of legislation that provides me with the option of catastrophic health insurance, also mandates that I purchase some form of health insurance. The fines associated with the lack of insurance are progressive, meaning that each year I don’t have insurance, I have to pay a higher fine. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and Indiana University have “insurance” plans that cover students while they are on campus. The difference is, each of these schools have better medical facilities than DePauw, which is a direct result of their medical school. To me, there’s just something intrinsically wrong with the situation. There’s a lack of viable options for part of the population. The system in place almost rewards not being self sufficient, but those who are on their way to becoming so are swept under the rug. —Decriscio is a sophomore philosophy major from Fort Wayne, Ind.
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here’s quite the phenomenon plaguing the weekends of us first-year students, well more prominently us female first-year students. It’s what I like to call the faux-frat boy phenomenon. Around 10:30 p.m. on a Friday or Saturday night, first-year boys’ phones all across campus light up from that magical text inviting them to come over to [insert confusing name here] fraternity.
And why in the name of Natty Light would they say no? There really aren’t any consequences for them. There’s no enforcement of the Oct. 12 rule, with that being the first day our nervous first-year feet are allowed to touch greek property. Rather, they receive positive reinforcement for ignoring that rule, as the fraternity boys keep inviting them back. Most girls however, honor this rule out of great fear. For we greatly jeopardize our chances at recruitment, with all the quite serious repercussions outlined for us by the Panhellenic Council. Let’s be honest here, due to
the catty nature of girls, there’s a very large chance that we would be caught and subsequently blacklisted. So, it’s easy to see why most of us end up watching Netflix in our dorm rooms, while most boys are partying out of their not-yet-frat-boy minds. In conducting a poll, 18 out of 20 first-year boys said they had been on greek property, while only three girls out of 20 had. However, the problem here really isn’t the golden Oct. 12 rule. No, the problem is the discrepancy within how it is enforced, or rather isn’t enforced. Let’s cut the gender bias crap, and have it equally enforced for both sides.
The rule isn’t pointless, rather the intentions are very intelligent. It makes us get to know our classmates, the people we’re spending our next four years with. And of course, it keeps us out of trouble, at least for a short while anyway. Starting college is overwhelming enough without being thrust immediately into greek life. It gives us time to begin to get acclimated, and it makes the transition easier by being around people who are in the same boat. —– Walsh is a freshman from Crown Point, Ind. whose major is undeclared.
JULIE BLOCK
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thought that college was going to be more accepting than high school. I thought that people here were going to be supportive of one another, or at least respectful of the hard work that their peers were putting into their activities. Clearly, I was wrong. When I found out that people had torn down a few posters for “The Rocky Horror Show,” the fall musical this year, I was a little upset. However, it was not until a banner that was located outside of the Green Center for Performing Arts for the show was not only torn down, but someone
‘boo’ you on the field? If people began laughing at you while you were giving a class presentation? These actions are unnecessarily hurtful, so why do we continue to act like this? Breaking each other down like that is going to do nothing but hurt people. We are not in high school anymore, and we should stop acting as if we are. The bottom line is that we have a respect issue on our campus. Not everyone can like theater. I understand that. I recognize that some people would feel uncomfortable seeing the “The Rocky Horror Show,” especially considering the fact that it deals with instances of transsexuality and homosexuality. However, that does not constitute people going around and damaging posters that people took time out of their day to design and put up. Losing 45-0 sucks, but that does not
mean that the football team deserves the scorn that it has gotten. The lack of maturity on this campus disappoints me. I only hope that people will learn to respect and support one another soon, because if we cannot cheer each other on, then we are not the college that we pride ourselves on. With this, I am not trying to bash on the school, per se. I want to advocate for change. DePauw is an amazing place, but if we can perform the simple task of changing our spirits so as to be a little more supportive of one another, it can be even greater. I think that, as a school, we are better than tearing down signs and making fun of one another. Now we just have to show it. — Block is a freshman from Glen VIew, Ill. whose major is undeclared. opinion@thedepauw.com
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Performance-enhancing drugs should lead to lifetime ban for MLB players I am a strong advocate for the introduced notion that a player taking performing-enhancing drugs (PEDs) should receive a lifetime ban in the game of baseball. A suspension is absolutely not a strong enough punishment for the action committed. When thinking about baseball I immediately think about all the greats that have played this game,
especially back in the day. Pete Rose specifically comes to mind when I think about being banned and unable to join the Hall of Fame. Why? Simply because of betting on his own team to win. How does this add up to the taking of a banned substance in baseball? The taking of the PEDs obviously affect the outcome of a game, which in return can affect the series and even the playoffs, all the way up to the World Series. These men are given a slap on the wrist and sentenced to a suspension but then come
PHOTOPINION How do you feel about the proposed changes to Winter Term? “Their intention to limit the partying is good, but if that means taking away positive opportunities for students, I don’t support it.” GEORGE MACY, sophomore
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Ridicule and Rocky Horror, enough already had physically taken a pair of scissors and cut it up, that I became angry. That banner cost $40. Add that to the countless posters that have been torn down or damaged for no good reason, and the number rises. This is not just about theater. When the football team lost its first home game 45-0 to Wittenburg University, students showed no mercy. I understand that it is disheartening to lose by that much, especially for our first game, but that does not make it okay for the team to receive that much ridicule and mockery. The fact that we lost does not mean that the team has not been working hard in practice, nor does it mean that they have not been working hard to improve since then. Would you be upset if someone began vandalizing a piece of artwork that you had worked so hard to create? If your own classmates started to
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back and continue to wrong America’s greatest past time. To keep Rose out of the Hall of Fame is one of baseball’s biggest mistakes. The man was a great player and his betting on the team did not affect the game of baseball as it is played on the field. Ban the drug users and get Rose in the Hall of Fame where he deservingly belongs. --Katherine Keener
“I don’t really want to see changes to Winter Term.”
MEGHALI DESHMUKH, junior “I feel that it is going to take away from a part of the DePauw experience and that it’s a nice break between academic semesters.” JARED HASLER, senior “I like the fact that they are pushing the freshmen to look for off campus Winter Term plans.”
RANYERLIS GALVEZ, freshman ARTHUR SMALL / THE DEPAUW
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Field hockey improve to 6-0 in conference By MICHAEL JENNINGS sports@thedepauw.com
DePauw field hockey has extended its winning streak to seven games after back-to-back defeats of Ohio Wesleyan University and Rhodes College. Senior Midfielder Chelsea Cutler was instrumental in both wins providing four goals over the weekend. The Tigers have now improved to 6-0 in the NCAC, and taken sole possession of first place. DePauw’s success has been greatly attributed to the team’s all around high quality of play both offensively and defensively. DePauw has outshot six of their last seven opponents by 15 or more. The only exception in that span has been Denison University, DePauw’s main rivals in a close match, but shutout performance nonetheless by the Tigers. In the span of their seven-game winning streak, the Tigers have managed to concede only one goal. The Tigers have also exploded offensively scoring a staggering 25 goals over the same time span. In addition to winning seven games in a row, the Tigers also improved their NCAC winning streak to 20 games dating back to last season. The Tigers now stand alone at the top of the standing in the NCAC with a 6-0 conference record, and an 8-3 overall record. The Tigers have not, however, found their way back into the NCAA top 20. Cutler described the Tigers defense as a huge factor in DePauw’s success not only overall, but offensively as well. “When everyone plays good defense, it
keeps the ball in their end of the field,” said Cutler. “In most of our drills, defense is outnumbered, so we’re used to it. We can handle being outnumbered, and stopping the attack which keeps the ball in their end.” Clearly, defense has been the best form of offense for the Tigers. The Tigers defeated Ohio Wesleyan in an NCAC matchup 3-0 on Saturday. Cutler completed the hat trick scoring all three goals in the contest. “I always try to put myself in the right place at the right time to help out my teammates. It’s all about practice,” Cutler said. Practice appears to be paying off for Cutler as she continues to contribute both offensively and defensively for the Tigers. Rhodes also could not match the Tigers, falling 4-0 to the winning Tigers machine that keeps on rolling. Junior forward Paige Henry continued stay in goal-scoring form, starting off the scoring just under 11 minutes in on an assist by Cutler. Junior forward Maggie Campbell also contributed on the score sheet putting the Tigers up 2-0 going into half time. The Tigers added two more in the second half on Cutler’s goal assisted by sophomore midfielder Grace Goodbarn, who later added an unassisted goal of her own with just under seven minutes remaining. The Tigers look to continue their winning ways as they take on NCAC opponent Wittenberg University on Saturday in Springfield, Ohio. Wittenberg stands at 3-3 in the NCAC with a 5-6 overall record.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2013
Tiger basketball has high hopes for upcoming season
WEEKEND SCHEDULE OCTOBER 4-7
CROSS COUNTRY
FOOTBALL
VOLLEYBALL
Men & Women: 10/05 @ Hanover
10/05 @ Denison 2 PM
10/05 @ Kenyon 1 PM
FIELD HOCKEY
MEN’S GOLF
10/05 @ Wittenberg 2pm
10/05-06 @ Wabash
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SOCCER
Women: 10/05 @ Wooster 1 PM
Men: 10/05 @ Wooster 5 PM
By CHRIS FEDERMANN sports@thedepauw.com
Basketball is just around the corner for the Tigers. The start of the season for each squad is a little more than a month away, and it’s shaping up to be another good year for DePauw. Coming off exciting 20122013 seasons for both teams, each squad is looking to further the legacy of success when it comes to DePauw basketball. “We’re really excited [for the upcoming season],” senior Camron Burns said. “We’re working hard, guys are getting in the gym, lifting weights, and working out…I’m excited.” The women’s basketball team is coming off a magical year that resulted in an undefeated season and the second Division III National Championship in school history. The women made it look easy, averaging 71.4 points per game and an average margin of victory of a whopping 25.9 points per game. Coach Kris Huffman, who was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame this past April, reflected on the season fondly. “We had such an incredible experience…we’re so thankful that the student body, the Gre-
encastle community, and the DePauw community jumped on board and helped create such a wonderful environment down the stretch,” Huffman said. “There was a lot of momentum last year from the school spirit and the fan base, we enjoyed every minute of it.” The accomplishments from last year haven’t made the squad any less focused on going out and achieving even more success during this upcoming season, according to senior Alex Gasaway. “A positive to take from last year is that you can get what you work for, and it’s a motivator to do it again,” Gasaway said. “It’d be great to be that senior who goes out on a win, it was great for the seniors last year and we want that too.” The beginning schedule is tough for the Tigers, as they face Millikin University, also former National Champions, in the Centre College Classic and Otterbein University, a Sweet 16 team, in the Franklin Tip-Off Classic. The men’s basketball team is coming off a successful season of their own, with a 16-10 record and a fourth place conference finish in their second year in the North Coast Athletic Conference. They are looking to improve on their performance in the conference tournament especially.
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Last year, they lost a close game against Wittenberg University 63-62 in the quarterfinals. One of the biggest highlights of the year for DePauw though was senior point guard Alex Payne’s buzzer beater in overtime to beat Wittenberg 68-66 in the regular season. Burns still remembers the excitment. “I’ll never forget Alex Payne’s game winner [against Wittenberg]…that’s a great memory I’ll always have from last year.” Heading into their third year as members of the NCAC, the Tigers are looking to have their best year yet since joining the conference. The team is hoping to make it to their 15th NCAA Tournament, and their third appearance in the past seven years. Senior point guard Michael Wilkison has high hopes for this year. “I’m feeling really good about this season, I feel like we’ve improved a lot as a team,” Wilkinson said. “We’re starting to work together to achieve the same goal, which is to win the NCAC.” Both the men’s and women’s teams open the season with an exhibition game at Butler University. The men’s team plays Saturday, Nov. 2 while the women’s team plays on Sunday, Nov. 3.
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tiger week of the
ELIZABETH SEEWER sport:
FIRST-YEAR
SOCCER
position: FORWARD
hometown: LOUISVILLE, KY.
The women’s soccer team has won six games in a row, after a 0-4 start. A key factor in the Tigers’ success is the emergence of their first-year players.
over and over again. TDP Sports: What has caused the positive turnaround for the team this season? ES: Our hard practices, our teamwork First-year Elizabeth Seewer’s dominant and chemistry on and off the field. performance makes her The DePauw’s TDP Sports: What’s your prediction for Tiger of the Week. We caught up to the season? Seewer before she and the rest of the ES: I would say the plan is to win the squad travel to Wooster, Ohio to take NCAC. We may lose one or two games, on the Fighting Scots. but I predict a good season. TDP Sports: What is the key to winning TDP Sports: What made you decide to this weekend’s upcoming tournament? attend DePauw? Keely: A lot of focus and energy...and Elizabeth Seewer (ES): The size of the having fun. Staying determined and school was perfect for me... and soccer. taking each opponent as a team. TDP Sports: Funniest moment of the TDP Sports: Highlight of the season season so far? thus far? ES: In our second home game, I had Keely: Playing Heidelberg this weekend a one vs. one breakaway. I thought and beating them 3-0. They were a I was going to score but instead, I big part of why we didn’t make the tripped onto the ground. When we were tournament. watching the tape, coach would play it
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Volleyball on 16-game winning-streak
Cross Country set to take on pre-national meet in Hanover By RYAN KONICEK sports@thedepauw.com
Freshman Elizabeth Wilson spikes the ball against against Anderson September 18th in Neil Fieldhouse. The Tigers beat Anderson, 3-0, and have defeated six teams since for a 16-0 winning-streak. CLARISSA ZINGRAF / THE DEPAUW By NICOLE DARNALL sports@thedepauw.com
The DePauw women’s volleyball team is continuously adding to their win-streak. Currently, they have won 16 games in a row, with the only loss of the season coming in their first contest. Most recently, they dominated Ohio Wesleyan University Tuesday night with a final score of 3-0. It was the Tigers’ third North Coast Athletic Conference match-up of the year. They have won all three. “The success of the women’s volleyball team mirrors the success, energy and excitement that our department and many of our teams are experiencing,” Athletic Director Stevie Baker-Watson said. “The volleyball program has made great strides in the last two years and that’s a credit to the coaching staff and the student-athletes who have chosen to be a part of this program.” Senior Kelly Doyle had ten kills in the team’s dominant performance at Ohio Wesleyan. On the defensive end, sophomore Keely McGrath led the team with 16 digs, while firstyear Rachael Lenderman had 13. The win is not anything the team is taking for granted, however. Last season, the team’s 17-game winning streak was broken by a 3-1 loss against Wittenberg University, who the Tigers meet again this coming Tuesday. Sophomore Sarah Burtenshaw believes the team is ready. “Obviously it’s going to be a big match for us. Having such a young team last year, we’re
a year more experienced and a year more confident than we were, and we’re really just focusing on ourselves,” Burtenshaw said. The key for the team is to keep the pace and momentum on DePauw’s side. “We’re ready to show them what playing DePauw volleyball means,” Burtenshaw said. This season, Wittenberg is ranked 12th nationally. Competition has been good for the Tigers though, according to Baker-Watson. “As I have watched our team this year, they have utilized their strengths and exploited weaknesses of their opponents,” BakerWatson said. “Our team is going to need to continue with that mentality and be flexible... Tuesday night will be a great match-up and measuring point for our program; the winning streak isn’t what folks should be focusing on.” Before the big match-up, the Tigers first have to face Kenyon College this Saturday. Last season, they beat Kenyon 3-0. Lenderman said the season has exceeded her expectations with the win-streak and it has bonded the women, which was especially important for the first-years, including Lenderman. “It was a little intimidating joining a team that had done so well last year especially because beating a 17-game winning streak is no easy feat,” Lenderman said. “We’ve already had a great start to our season, but DePauw volleyball is never satisfied.”
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The DePauw men’s cross country team is headed to Hanover College this Saturday, Oct. 5 to race in the NCAA Division III Pre-Nationals meet. More than 20 teams from across the United States are committed to participate in the meet. The run will take place at the L.S. Ayres Athletic Complex in Hanover, Ind. at 1 p.m.. Five ranked men’s teams will compete, including No. 6 Bowdoin College (ME), No. 9 Trinity College, No. 12 Wabash College, No. 22 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and No. 26 Manchester University. Co-captain of the team Stu Newstat, a senior from Western Springs, Ill. said, “Matching up against regional ranked teams, seeing how teams are doing, we are motivated to see where we are after the past few weeks of hard practice. It’ll be good to make the gap smaller against some of those teams.” Five ranked men’s teams will compete in the pre-national meet, including Wabash. This weekend, Newstat intends to “make the gap a lot smaller and get closer to Wabash.” “We also want to beat teams that we know we are capable of beating,” Newstat said. DePauw’s last two meets were the Calvin Knight Invitational in Grand Rapids, Mich. and the Little State portion of the Indiana Intercollegiates in Bloomington, Ind.. At the Calvin Knight Invitational, DePauw men earned a total of 327 points
and finished ninth among the 27 schools at the meet. And at the Little State Portion of Indiana Intercollegiates paced by sophomore Paul Watts’ 21st-place showing, DePauw received a total of 176 points earning them sixth place. “We are in a good spot,” Newstat said. “Our last race wasn’t as great as we wanted. If we race how we practice it’ll be scary.” But in the past couple of weeks since their last meet, the team has been working hard, pushing each other to the best of their abilities. “After Intercollegiate, we knew we would have time and we are a team that races better in the later half of the season,” Watts, a sophomore transfer from Granger, Ind., said. “While it was disappointing, it definitely was a good starting point.” The NCAA Division III pre-nationals meet this weekend will be a good test to see just how far the DePauw men’s cross country team has come. Both Newstat and Watts believe in their team and believe that as a team they have come far in these last few weeks of training. “Everyone’s here to work hard compared to the team I was on [before transferring to DePauw]. You can tell everyone wants to succeed which is something I haven’t had before,” Watts said. “We want a breakout race this weekend. The shape we are in now is head and shoulders above what it was at Intercollegiate. We need to go out and prove what we’ve been proving to ourselves everyday.”