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Ticket sales “on track,” 1,000 remain unsold By NICOLE DECRISCIO news@thedepauw.com
For the first time, DePauw opted to sell online tickets for the Monon Bell game, rather than utilize paper tickets as they have in the past. The result: 1,000 tickets left unsold two days before kickoff. “Every year they’ve come close to selling out, if they haven’t sold out,” said Lisa Link from the Athletic Office. Link handled Monon ticket sales this year. “We’re pretty close to being on track with that, and I anticipate that we’ll sell a lot within the next couple of days as well,” she said. Link offered a possible explanation as to why the tailgating spots sold quicker than tickets. “I think the difference is with the tickets, you have about 6,000 and with the parking spots, because they only have about 250, they went a lot quicker just because of the quantity for each,” Link said. While Wabash University is still selling physical tickets, Link thinks that the online system has gone well. “It’s easy to use, and I haven’t had any issues with it so far,” Link said. The move to an online system was a result of several issues that occurred in 2011, namely that some people did not receive their tickets in time for the game. That year, students, faculty and staff were given their tickets in the Union Building. They were required to present IDs, and they would be marked off of a list once they had received their ticket. However, it was sometimes difficult for those outside these categories to get their tickets. While they could be ordered online, they had to be sent in the mail. “We had a lot of problems with the
system because it relied on the Post Office,” said Jeanne Servais, who sold tickets both in 2009 and 2011. As a result, ticket sales had to be cut off a week and a half before the game to ensure that there would be adequate time for the tickets to be received. “Even with that cutoff time, some people never received their tickets in the mail so we had some very late deliveries,” Servais said, “which put us in a difficult position in that we were having to give out duplicate tickets.” Servais said that she does not believe that DePauw sold out the Monon game in 2011, but she could no longer access the information. However, she noted that they sold out in 2009 within a couple of days after ticket sales were made available to the public. Sophomore Erin Crouse liked that she did not necessarily have to try to make a special trip to the office for her ticket. “I think it made it easier in that [students] can do it on their own time,” Crouse said. However, Crouse ended up missing the last day that students could retrieve their ticket by themselves online and had to go to the athletic office to retrieve her free ticket anyway. She believes that having multiple email reminders about the deadline to use the code or making the code usable at all times could have resolved the issue for students. “We’re all busy, and we might have forgotten to write it into our schedule,” Crouse said. Link offered some advice for those who received a free ticket. “For the game,” Link said, “everyone who received a free ticket has to bring their paper ticket printed out and their DePauw ID with them to get into the game.”
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Left: Sophomore Sarah Dela Cruz protects her flame from the wind alongside sophomore Maria Nguyen at a candle light vigil on the steps of the Green Center for Performing Arts on Thursday, Nov. 14 for the typhoon that hit the Philippines resulting in an estimated 2,500 deaths. Dela Cruz decided to attend the event because she currently has family residing in the Philippines. Right: Junior Carlie Vaugh co-sponsored the typhoon vigil with senior Maggie Repko in hopes of reflecting on what happened in the Philippines as well as relating the disaster to the larger issue of climate change. When asked about the timing of the event, Vaughn stated she did not want the event to coincide with any of the other events that were occuring on campus that evening and because it was at 5 p.m. it wouldn’t discourage students who were getting a head start on the Monon Bell festivities. “I hope that they choose this over getting drunk. I’m putting my faith in DePauw students right now,” she said. The event was not listed on the DePauw calendar and was spread via word of mouth. In the end, 14 students were in attendance to pay their respects and to express their ideas about how global issues could be connected to DePauw. Vaughn and Repko can be contacted if students are interested in donating money to help those affected by the disaster in the Philippines. CLARISSA ZINGRAF / THE DEPAUW
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Seeing Michael G. Santos sit in front of Watson Forum Tuesday night, wearing a knit sweater atop a shirt and tie, one would never know he had been in prison little over a year ago. Lambda Sigma Upsilon fraternity brought Santos in for his presentation entitled “Mass Incarceration: Up Close and Personal” as part of their HYPEFEST 2013. “I decided to bring awareness outside of the classroom because issues such as incarceration should not only be studied inside closed doors but also to the wider DePauw community,” senior Jorge Pule, founder of the fraternity on campus, said. Professor of sociology and anthropology Rebecca Bordt introduced Santos. She had been a prison guard years prior and pointed out that just one year in the prisons had changed her tremendously. Santos served 26. He grew up in stable home in Seattle with his father, a Cuban immigrant. Toward the middle of the 1980s he moved to Miami, where he got caught up in cocaine trafficking. On Aug. 11, 1987, he was arrested and later convicted on all counts. “I felt remorse,” Santos said. “I had humiliated Michael G. Santos discussing his experiences in the United States prison system. Hosted by my family. What could I do to gain people’s respect?” Lambda Sigma Upsilon Latino Fraternity, Santos discussed his pursuit of education during his 26 He decided the answer was to get an education. year stay in prison and what has occured in the 92 days leading up to this talk after his release. By 1992, while still in prison, he had his undergradu- CLARISSA ZINGRAF / THE DEPAUW ate degree. After writing to countless law school and graduate programs, Hofstra University offered him a complaining about his drug use and how wrong it school age the number of prisoners will be nearly 10 master’s degree in the field of his choosing. He chose was. They began chatting through letters. million. to study mass incarceration and prison systems. At this point, Santos stopped his monologue and “I see it as the greatest social injustice of our time,” “What better place to study this than in the com- pointed to a woman in the audience. Santos said. munity of felons?” said Santos. “And one thing led to another and I married her.” Some audience members wished for more elaboIn his studies, he discovered many flaws in the He began sending her his written books. She ration on Santos’ suggestion, “be active and be heard,” prison system. typed them up, and would work with a publisher to for creating change. “We should be working to enrich the lives of our get them printed. Today he has seven books pub“I would have wished that he had given the aufellow men, not make them worse,” he commented. lished, as well as several articles, many of which are dience more direction in terms of what we can do After earning his degree, he wanted to obtain a used across the country in criminology classes. to help stop mass incarceration,” sophomore Grace Ph.D. but was halted by the warden. Education had On Aug. 13, 2012, after spending 9,135 days be- Flinkinger, said. “I will say, however, that I found Mr. carried him through his first eight years in prison, so hind bars, he was released to a halfway house. When Santos’ story fascinating and refreshing because he for the remainder he began to write. he gave his speech on Tuesday, he had been a free was able to hold such optimism amidst adversity.” “The dedication he put in on his own to become man for a mere 92 days. Many other students found his presentation inthe very much success of what I saw in him on TuesAccording to Santos, there are more than 2.3 mil- spiring as well including Murray. day is something I revere a great deal,” first-year Paris lion people in prison, which accounts for nearly $75 “As much as he is trying to learn from everyone,” Murray said. billion per year. This is a dramatic increase that has Murray said. “I think everyone could learn a lot from Santos received a letter during his sentence from happened extremely quickly. If the trend continues, him.” a woman he had known as a child, Carroll Goodman, by the time the current generation’s children reach
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Alumna Kyle Smitley’s Detroit Achievement Academy Pushes forward after break-in By CAROLINE EMHARDT features@thedepauw.com
Ten days after Detroit Achievement Academy, a free public charter school in Detroit, founded by Kyle Smitley ’07, opened its doors this school year, burglars broke in and stole the computers. Smitley sent out an email asking for help to raise money to replace the computers. After contacts forwarded on the message a few times, it ended up on the desk of Ellen DeGeneres and her production team. Smitley was flown out to the Ellen Show and interviewed on Nov. 1 about the school. The photo printing company, Shutterfly, donated $25,000 and the show matched that donation. In six years since graduating, Smitley has opened a charter school in Detroit and before that, launched an organic clothing line for children, named barley & birch [sic]. The clothing company has celebrity moms as clients and pledges over half of its profits to social issues around the globe. The charter school educates forty children and currently has two grades, kindergarten and first grade. The school plans to add a new kindergarten class each year until it serves kids through eighth grade. “Every kid in Detroit deserves to have a high quality option,” Smitley said of the city’s education system. Seeing areas of improvement with public and charter schools, Smitley realized there was an opportunity to do a lot of good. “Nothing really held a candle to Detroit,” Smitley said, realizing after traveling around the world. She is drawn to how historic and relevant the city is. Although Detroit has become victim to crumbling aspects, Detroit Achievement Academy hopes to reverse that pattern. Their goal is to deliver the best results for students and to become the best school in the country. Smitley says they can accomplish this by hiring really ac-
complished teachers and having small class sizes. In addition to the unexpected gifts received earlier this month, the school has fundraising models of its own. When schools don’t fundraise and stick to the state budget, they often get teachers who are underpaid and under-qualified. Detroit Achievement Academy has started to sell the kids’ artwork. The pieces brought in nearly $10,000 to date, Smitley said. At DePauw, Smitley was a geoscience and philosophy double major, and also worked as a DJ for the radio station. She recommended that students take classes that might not seem to have an apparent use in a future career. “You’re nineteen—you have absolutely no idea what you’re going to be doing, even though you think you might,” Smitley said. She took a year off after graduation, lived in California, and then earned a law degree from the University of Toledo. She is from Defiance, Ohio. While in law school she launched barley & birch, which she recently left to establish the charter school. “Take a job that you are excited about,” Smitley said for advice to current seniors. “Don’t take a job that you think you need to take.” She recommended that since you are only 22 once, you don’t need to take a job that you are going to be doing for your entire life. “Take a job that you really want to experience,” she said, because that is the only way you won’t end up forty-five and miserable. At 28, Smitley has the life she wants, working on the school and living in the Midwest, close to friends and family. She has returned to DePauw several times to teach senior capstones on entrepreneurship. Thursday she was on campus to teach Beth Benedix’s First Year Experience class “Fixing Broken Systems.”
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• Sexual assault • Under investigation | Time: Unknown | Place: Campus
November 14
• Investigate for odor of marijuana • Officer checked building / unable to locate source | Time: 11:20 a.m. | Place: Senior Hall • Medical • Transported to Putnam County Hospital | Time: 11:57 p.m. | Place: Hogate Hall
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Nancy Shaenen Visiting Scholar Jordan-Young fosters conversation on sex, sexuality and gender BY NETTIE FINN news@thedepauw.edu
Kyle Smitely ‘07 founder of Detroit Achievement Academy speaks to the DePauw student body about her accomplishments in the fall of 2011. COURTESY OF DEPAUW
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The fields of biology, the humanities and the social sciences were brought together Tuesday and Wednesday nights by Rebecca JordanYoung. Jordan-Young is this year’s Nancy Schaenen Visiting Scholar at the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics, brought to campus with help from the Asher Fund of Psychology. On campus, Monday through Friday, Jordan-Young visited many classes and gave two talks, which were open to the campus at large. Tuesday night’s speech, “From Sex Testing of Athletics to Conversion Therapy for Gays: Science, Sexuality and Ethics,” took place in the Prindle Auditorium while Wednesday’s talk in the Watson Forum was focused on “Sex, Hormones, and Hardwiring: Rethinking Sex in the Brain.”
Both talks were well-attended by the DePauw community and both focused on the ways sex, sexuality and gender tie together in a larger way than is possible for any one discipline to entirely explain or understand. “Usually, sex is over with the scientists, sexuality is maybe more with the social scientist and gender is over with the humanities,” said Ann Harris, director of the Women’s Studies Program. “We can really think of this event as one of the first concerted attempts to have an interdisciplinary conversation about sex, sexuality and gender.” Jordan-Young began to see these topics in a new light when doing street-based AIDS prevention programs for injection drug users and street-based sex workers. “In the context of those programs I really learned that sexuality was a whole lot more varied than I knew,” she said. “I thought I could kind of recognize gay people and straight people, but what I encountered in that work really
blew my mind.” Though her Ph.D. is in socio-medical sciences, Jordan-Young has worked with medical anthropologists specializing in sexuality and gender, as well as those involved in cognitive and developmental neuroscience. She is now an associate professor in the department of Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Columbia University’s Barnard College. “In general, the work that I do always combines an interested in reciprocal relationships between science, how science is done and structure of though and structure of power about what makes groups of people different,” she said. Professor of biology Jim Benedix, who attended both Tuesday and Wednesday nights, felt that Jordan-Young succeeded in pulling these many ways of thinking together. “I was interested in seeing the approach that someone who’s truly interdisciplinary takes, since she’s sort of in both realms,” he said. “So
often you have somebody on one side or the other and this is somebody who bridges the gap and actually interacts with people on both sides.” Harris gained two important concepts from this interdisciplinary discussion. Jordan-Young focused much of her two talks on the framework of the questions that are asked when discussing sexuality and identification. “The framework of questioning is just as important as the content you’re after,” Harris said, of her take on the subject. Harris also felt that Jordan-Young’s discussion of these topics shifted the viewpoint through which understanding sex, sexuality and gender should be viewed. Rather than “causes and origins,” Harris feels that Jordan-Young is examining “permutation and changes.”
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NOVEMBER 15-24 FRIDAY, November 15
• Noise — loud music / public indecency • Subject located / verbal warning issued | Time: 1:09 a.m. | Place: Phi Gamma Delta fraternity
6-8:30 pm: Coatesville Bluegrass Jam; Coatesville Community Center
SATURDAY, November 16 11 am-3 pm: Garage sale; Center for Women’s Ministries 6 pm: Euchre; Putnam County Museum
• Noise — loud people • Made contact with residents / verbal warning issued | Time: 1:18 a.m. | Place: Bishop Roberts Hall
SUNDAY, November 17 3 pm: Coffee tasting and kids chalk party; Starbucks
MONDAY, November 18 6 pm: Walk or bike from Starbucks
• Investigate for odor of marijuana • Forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 1:45 a.m. | Place: Humbert Hall
7-9 pm: Covered Bridge Country Chorus; Greencastle Presbyterian Church
WEDNESDAY, November 20 5-6:30 pm: Free dinner; Greencastle Church of the Nazarene 6:30-8:30 pm: Family night at Starbucks
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Dr. Rebecca Jordan-Young, an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, speaks on “Sex, Hormones, and Hardwiring: Rethinking Sex in the Brain” in Watson Forum on Wednesday, Nov. 13. CLARISSA ZINGRAF/THE DEPAUW
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Blockbusters duke it out in the 2014 Academy Awards By ADRIENNE WESTENFELD features@thdepauw.com
With summer blockbuster season having breathed its last sputtering, over-produced breath, the film industry can at last turn its sights to its true passion: the season of the critical darlings. As Oscar season is now in full swing, attention has turned to the scrabbling for acclaim, and with that comes the autumn and winter halcyon days of the crème de la crème of filmmaking. Here are some of Hollywood’s most promising Oscar contenders thus far. Inside Llewyn Davis: As the latest excursion from Academy darlings Joel and Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis stars a bedraggled Oscar Isaac in the titular role as a world-weary singer-songwriter in the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s. Davis juggles no shortage of suffering— this melancholy meditation on grief and accomplishment sees him struggling to overcome the suicide of his musical partner, to stay afloat while migrating from gig to underpaid gig, and to acknowledge his own artistic mediocrity. The film also boasts cameos from familiar faces like Justin Timberlake, incarnated here in an atypical role as an old-timey folk singer, and Carey Mulligan, his sour, embittered wife and musical partner pregnant with a baby that may or may not be Davis’. Saturated in a steely palette of somber gunmetal and sepia, as well as in the mellowed chords of bluesy sixties folk,
Inside Llewyn Davis is already being billed as the Coens’ most heartfelt, nuanced feature yet, and with them behind the wheel, Oscar gold seems a foregone conclusion. 12 Years a Slave: Helmed by visual-artist-turned-film-visionary Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup, a black man born free and yet unjustly dragged into slavery in pre-Civil War New Orleans. 12 Years picks up where last year’s Django Unchained left off in its unflinching slave’s-eye-view of America’s most shameful onetime institution. Regardless of Ejiofor’s tormenting performance under McQueen’s always-stylish direction, 12 Years might also benefit in the awards season race from the debt owed by the Academy for McQueen’s prodigiously underappreciated 2011 feature Shame. Shame depicts a harrowing journey down the rabbit hole of sex addiction starring 12 Years supporting player Michael Fassbender in a tremendous performance as the film’s monstrous protagonist. Let it never be said that the Academy is disinterested in consolation prizes, and although such nominations often go to the undeserving, soothing the sting of Shame with acclaim for 12 Years seems like poetic justice. Blue Jasmine: As the latest entry in Woody Allen’s recent creative renaissance, Blue Jasmine stars Cate Blanchett as Jasmine, a pill-popping divorcee and so-
cialite teetering on the precipice of a nervous breakdown after the dissolution of her marriage due to her husband’s infidelities and imprisonment. When Jasmine shacks up with her estranged yet kindhearted working-class sister in San Francisco, the film raises compelling discussions of class, self-destruction, and the limitations of familial loyalty. If not a Best Picture nomination, Blue Jasmine should undoubtedly net a Best Actress nomination for Blanchett, who delivers a formidable, spellbinding performance as a neurotic society wife whose seams are unraveling stitch by stitch throughout her fall from societal grace. Already lauded by many as Allen’s most wry and wrenching film in decades, Blue Jasmine seems a shoe-in for Oscar gold. Gravity: Starring George Clooney and American sweetheart Sandra Bullock, the duo play astronauts stranded in space after the destruction of their shuttle and a spacewalk gone wrong. Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity is a dreadful palm-sweater of a film, visceral and heart-stopping as it is in its sick sense of terror. However, Gravity is as much an exercise in restraint as it is in masterful direction— its performances are tense and tightly wound, and although its cosmic vistas are technically stunning, they are also chillingly austere. Critics’ response thus far to Gravity has been overwhelmingly ecstatic, and with that sort of buzz for a veteran director working with two of Hollywood’s best-loved thespians, too many planets are aligned for Gravity to falter in the Oscar race. 71413
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Be excited, be spirited, but most importantly, be there In 1997, a huge snow storm blew through the Monon Bell Game. Fans endured the bizzard in the stands, cheering the whole time. This year, it should be a comfortable cloudy day with temperatures in the mid-50s and though weather will not be a reasonable excuse for absence our stands will have portions of empty bleachers by halftime. The excitement that surrounds the Monon Bell game is unifying and boosts morale on campus. But the excitement seems to surround the drinking culture more than anything. The thrill of this tradition will be lost if we do not sustain what started it in the first place: the game. While this is nothing new to students, it is worrisome that this may have something to do with a decline in ticket sales this year. One too many conversations in the past few weeks have been about students not buying tickets because they will be too intoxicated to get themselves there.We find this extremely troubling, and degrading to the long-standing tradition. The drinking culture on campus is always present and has been discussed long before this year’s Monon, but it does not excuse the lack of support for the men who have worked for months to play this game to the best of their ability. The tailgate, parties and alumni reunions certainly make the weekend fun. But the whole rivalry tradition is based around the game, not the alcohol. In fact, let’s consider how many students will alot their time this weekend. Saturday morning usually starts around 8 a.m. for the ambitious fans. The game starts at 1:07 p.m., giving students four to five hours to drink. Football games last a little over two hours. We can certainly give those few hours to our team. People around the country, especially alums, will be seeking out places to watch this game and to devote their afternoon to cheering on their alma mater. It would be embarrassing to represent our school in this manner for the people who love this school as much as we do. The University has made getting to the event very clear and easy, as they do every year. While the process for getting tickets was a bit more complicated with the vendor, Brown Paper Tickets, being completely online. Perhaps the new online format has something to do with the low ticket sales, but tickets have been available through the Athletic Department as well. Not to mention, with the game conveniently at home this year, tickets are free. And student government even offers free t-shirts to make us look and feel spirited. So what is the disconnect? We realize the drinking that comes with this weekend is very present, but we urge our peers to moderate their celebrating enough to attend the game the celebrating is intended for. No matter your prediction for outcome of the game, the Tigers deserve our support. Wabash fans have been and will be all over the fact that we consistently have poor attendance. We do not need to give them yet another reason to heckle us. Be excited, be spirited and please, be there. email us at edboard@thedepauw.com
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n fifth grade I tried to steal a candy bar from the convenience store across the street from my school. My best friend of the time, Justin, had dared me to do it and not wanting to seem like a coward, I gave in. My life of crime lasted around thirty seconds as the cashier grabbed me by the shirt as I casually (not so casually) tried to walk out. My mom pulled up to the school and asked a question most mothers will have to ask at some point in their life, “Why is there a Korean lady escorting my 10-year-old son across the street?” She, understandably, decided to get out of the car and investigate. The cashier told my mom about the candy bar and how I tried to shoplift, but before she could finish her story I put up my ultimate defense, “Justin made me do it.” My mom who was calm until this point, then shot me a look I remember to this day. Justin didn’t make me do anything; I chose to do it and suffered the consequences.
After every big party weekend I hear somebody say, “Did you hear [insert random letters here] fraternity sent [insert number here] people to the hospital?” I hate this. A frat has never sent anybody to the hospital; people send themselves to hospitals, and the administration continues to blame the greek scene for it. This needs to stop. The administration needs to have the students take some personal responsibility for their actions. Right now, with the current punishment structure, the University is doing a disservice to students by giving them the idea that when they get blacked out and wake up in a hospital or jail-cell that it is not entirely their fault; the fraternity is partly to blame. The truth of the matter is that the fraternities are doing all that they can. Each party has a team of sober monitors, door duty, and sober drivers; we even have free pizza to stifle some of the drinking. But all the precautions set forth by the University and learned through our risk management’s experience over the years cannot prevent the ultimate risk: some students just want to get really, really drunk. I’ve been there. Heck, I once made the decision to make and consume a drink called “riot punch” which did exactly what it sounds like
it would do, and no amount of pizza or sober monitors could stop that evil, and I wouldn’t expect them to. Why? I’m a big boy; I can vote, go to war, buy booze, and go to prison, all on the same day if I want (Riot Punch + November 6th). If college is supposed to prepare us for the real world (and there is some debate about that) there needs to be some sort of personal responsibility and accountability here. Frats don’t get you drunk - you get yourself drunk. People in frats don’t care how drunk you get - they usually just care how drunk they get. You know how expensive parties are? If you are offered a shot or a beer, take it or turn it down – whatever you think is best. You are in the driver’s seat of your own life, which means you get to make your own decisions and that is a huge chunk of why you went away to college in the first place. If the decision didn’t end the way you thought it would, don’t blame Justin. – Weiner is a senior from Chicago, Ill. majoring in political science opinion@thedepauw.com
hen I arrived at DePauw, I intended to follow a premed track. The career path was one that everyone always said would provide me with a difficult yet comfortable lifestyle. But it did not take me long to realize that was not the track I wanted to take. Not because I have anything against medicine, but because I found something that I actually wanted to pursue: technology. I have always been a ‘handy’ person, but never really thought to translate that love for fixing things into a potential future. Computers are that future; technology is the trajectory that human ingenuity is
following. That is why I find it troubling that DePauw does not require, or at least offer, more technology-based classes. If we acknowledge that technology is the future, then why is DePauw not reflecting this in our academic curriculum? DePauw has already shown an interest in pushing for a progressive liberal arts education. The School of Music is undergoing a transformation to establish it as a school ready to prepare music students for the realities of the twenty-first century music industry. The College of Liberal Arts should follow suit and look to prepare students, regardless of their academic focus, to work alongside the technology that will define the twenty-first century job market. A few possibilities to fix this issue would be for the University to either require a ‘technology’ credit to graduate, or to simply offer more
technology-based classes for the students to choose from. The first potential reform would accomplish this issue completely. The course will not need to be a computer programming focused course, because that is too demanding and too specific a skill that is not entirely applicable going forward. Instead, I believe it would make sense to structure a class for non-computer science majors that focuses on the vital skills required to work with technology going forward. This sort of general techliteracy would provide every DePauw graduate this important knowledge going into the work force. If the school believes adding another requirement to a student’s graduation checklist goes against the liberal arts mentality, DePauw should just make a conscious effort to offer more of these types of classes. Students understand that they need the ability to work with technology.
By providing more classes that would prepare students to work alongside technology, the university would be giving students the choice of whether they view this skill as important going forward. It is impossible to dispute the impact that technology has on the ‘real world.’ DePauw prides itself on being an institution that prepares its students for a future filled with success. Technology is instrumental to this success. If DePauw is unwilling to acknowledge this flaw in its course offering, the school is doing its students a disservice. If DePauw does not step up, it will fall behind other similar institutions. —– White is a senior computer science major from Tulsa, Okla.
JEN DICKMAN
It’s been a week of firsts: the first snow in Greencastle (to everyone who didn’t know that it snowed during Fall Break), it was the first time my best friend could legally buy booze, the first time some of my fellow seniors did a boulder run and the first time I turned in a paper more than a day late. For some of you, this week will bring a special first: your first Monon Bell Classic. Whether you are a visiting student from another university, an alum, a parent or you just came for the good time, welcome! This really is a fantastic time to be at DePauw. With new renovations and updates to even the light poles and sidewalks, campus is absolutely stunning. Thank you to all of the DePauw community for your efforts in shaping our university to be as esthetically appealing as our students are. The campus really feels like a different place than it did three years ago. My first Monon was in 2010 and took place on
PHOTOPINION What are you looking forward to this weekend for the Monon Bell Classic? “Ready to storm the field after we win the bell back.”
EMILY KAUFMANN, junior “The entire school uniting against Wabash.”
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Senior perspective: I remember my first Monon the enemy’s turf. I rode a fraternity bus to Crawfordsville, with people whom I had only known for a few weeks, and I had no idea what to expect. Today, a first-year international student in my French 101 class asked, “Is Monon really that big of a deal?” Everyone in the room offered their collective, affirmative response. “Yes.” “Well what do you do?” She asked with honest curiosity. There was more variance in the answers to this question, but they were loud somewhat aggressive and expressed the same theme. You celebrate (and by that I mean party). She said she had never been to a fraternity, which we encouraged her to try. It really is a part of the DePauw experience, especially this week. If you’ve read any issue of the Princeton Review’s “Top Party School” lists in the last five years, you would know we were not lying to our classmate. Anyone who goes to DePauw, went to DePauw, has a child at DePauw, knows the Monon Bell. The tradition is long-standing, and has really come a long way. If you haven’t checked out the old photographs of DePauw in the Lilly Center or the Union Building of the football teams with only ten people and yearling trees where the giants next to East College now stand, you should check them out. DePauw has a rich history, and the Monon Bell is a big part of that.
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The point is to have fun, and that’s exactly what we do. Whether or not you drink or go to the tailgate, there is a high-level of energy that is beaming from the DePauw family this week, Greencastle included, which I find impossible to ignore. This same pride will be expressed on game day, at Nick Mourouzis Field at Blackstock Stadium (I’ll admit I only learned the name of the field from Walker Chance’s email just yesterday). Although I am, as I’m sure many others are, extremely proud of the DePauw and Wabash collaboration in support of Freedom Indiana, I must say I am not in support of the four consecutive wins the Little Giants have achieved, and I hope that everyone is in support of one thing: ringing that bell. There is a strong chance that some individuals won’t even go to the game on Saturday, but you can still show Tiger pride. This weekend is a big deal, and it will hopefully make all of you first-timers to feel lucky to take part in. In case you didn’t read Director of Public Safety Angie Nally’s email, the parking lot opens for tailgating at 9 a.m on Saturday morning. I’ll see you there. —– Dickman is a senior from Zionsville, Ind. whose majoring in english writing. opinion@thedepauw.com
CLAIRE HALFFIELD, senior “A tie between the WGRE broadcast and the Poms performance at halftime.”
CHRISTINE WEBSTER, senior “Taking home the bell!”
CHIP POTTER, senior ARTHUR SMALL / THE DEPAUW
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2013
Promising men’s soccer season ends in disappointment
Senior David Large races Principia College’s Matt Jones for the ball on September 14. The game ended with the Tiger’s winning 3-0. The Tigers ended the season with a conference record of 5-2-2in NCAC play. CLARISSA ZINGRAF / THE DEPAUW By JACOB LYNN sports@thedepauw.com
After a promising 10-0 start, DePauw’s men’s soccer team closed the season with a disappointing finish. Upon losing in the first round of the NCAC tournament to Ohio Wesleyan University, the Tigers were denied an at-large bid into the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament on Monday. From the first game, the season began on a high note for the Tigers. They won a hard fought game over Centre College, 2-1. After a scoreless first half, things really heated up in the last 45 minutes of the contest. With less than 20 minutes remaining, Adrian Ables gave the Tigers a 1-0 lead, but just three minutes later, the Colonels tied it at one a piece. DePauw would answer back with three minutes to go, as first-year Julian Gonzalez notched his first goal of the year, securing a 2-1 win for the Tigers. The Tigers would make it two in a row the following day, as they traveled to Knox College and trounced the Prairie Fire 6-0. The Tigers returned home and after a five day break began a three game home stand against Franklin College, Earlham College and RoseHulman Institute of Technology. DePauw would win each of these games 2-0 behind great goalkeeping from junior goalkeeper, Jacob Pezzuto. The Tigers, then ranked 21st in the nation, traveled to Hanover College to take on the Panthers. An early goal by junior Andy Morrison would be all DePauw would need to secure a 1-0 win. The win earned DePauw their sixth straight to open the season. With the shutout, Pezzuto extended his scoreless streak to five games. On September 14, the Tigers improved to 7-0 with an easy 3-0 win over the Principia Panthers. Two Morrison goals and one tally from
first-year Zach Hoffman gave the Tigers all the offense they needed. When the Tigers took on Hiram College, Pezzuto’s shutout streak would end, but their hot start would stay in tact. DePauw survived a scare from the Terriers, earning a 2-1 overtime victory. Not even a minute into the extra period, Alieu Musa put one behind the Hiram goalkeeper, keeping the Tigers perfect. DePauw would go on to make it ten in a row with wins of 4-2 against Olivet and 2-1 on the road at Anderson. Over the two game stretch, Gonzalez notched three goals, including the game winner against Anderson. The winning streak would come to an end when the Tigers took on Kenyon College, but the undefeated start would continue. The Tigers and the Lords battled to a draw after 90 minutes of scoreless soccer. DePauw had plenty of chances, but Kenyon goalkeeper Sam Clougher was up to the challenge. Clougher stopped all eight shots the Tigers challenged him with and helped place the first blemish on DePauw’s record. Now ranked tenth in the nation, DePauw traveled to the College of Wooster for a North Coast Athletic Conference matchup with the Fighting Scots. DePauw quickly returned to its winning ways, notching 2-0 behind goals from Morrison and Ables. The Tigers then headed home for a date with top ranked Ohio Wesleyan University at Boswell Field. After 77 minutes of scoreless soccer in which DePauw controlled the majority of the possession, Colton Bloecher of the Battling Bishops gave them a 1-0 lead. As they had done all season however, the Tigers responded quickly. Just 16 seconds later, a handball in OWU’s defensive box earned DePauw a penalty kick. Morrison stepped up and drilled the PK to tie the game at one.
Unfortunately, the Battling Bishops would tally two late goals, thus ending DePauw’s 12 game unbeaten streak. “I think one of the tricky parts of navigating a season is sustaining greatness with a target on your back,” said DePauw head coach Brad Hauter. “The higher we climbed in the ranking the bigger prize we became for teams.” The Tigers rebounded well, however, earning a 6-1 blowout victory over Wittenberg just four days later. On October 19, the 11th ranked Tigers would suffer an upset at the hands of the Oberlin Yeomen. DePauw never got into an offensive rhythm and fell 1-0 on the road. Adding an actual injury, in addition to the insult of the loss, was the fact that star defender, Brandon Johnson, would go down with a broken collarbone and thus end his season. “We had to make adjustments accordingly,” said Morrison. “It caused us to switch people in a bunch of different positions looking for a fix, but we never really found it.” Following the loss, the Tigers earned a 2-1 win in Pennsylvania against the Allegheny Gators and a 4-2 win over bitter rival Wabash. In the season finale, the Tigers found themselves down 2-0 on the road at Denison University. However, two late goals by Morrison forced the game into overtime. Neither team was able to cash in with the extra 30 minutes of soccer and the game ended in 2-2 draw. With the weak finish to the season, DePauw entered the NCAC tournament as the fourth seed. It seemed like destiny when the Tigers got another chance at Ohio Wesleyan in the first round of the tournament. Goals by Morrison and Gonzalez matched two tallies by Evan Lee and the game headed to overtime. After a scoreless half hour, the game went to penalty kicks. Each team converted in the first five rounds. The game would be decided in the sixth frame when DePauw’s Matt Reda hit the left post and OWU’s Alex Stanton converted. The Battling Bishops had won the game with a 6-5 penalty kick advantage. “Right after the game, we didn’t really see how we wouldn’t end up getting an at-large bid,” Morrison said. “We weren’t happy, but we were still confident.” With the automatic bid for the NCAC champion out of the question for the Tigers, they waited to hear if their season would continue on Monday at the NCAA selection show. DePauw’s lackluster finish to the season was enough to convince the NCAA that they did not deserve an at-large bid into the tournament that will decide the National Champion. “I felt our resume was good enough,” Hauter said about the decision. “We were in the conversation for the last six picks and had a better strength of schedule and record than those selected.” With the announcement, the Tigers would end with a regular season record of 14-2-3 and 5-2-2 in NCAC play. Amidst the sadness of the conclusion of the season, the DePauw soccer program did receive a bit of positive news when it learned that 2012 graduate and standout goalkeeper, Nathan Sprenkel, signed a professional contract with the Indy Eleven soccer club. “One of the easiest players I’ve ever had the chance to work with,” Hauter said about his former player. “Always motivated. Always focused. Incredible discipline and ridiculously talented. Makes it easy to be a coach.” Sprenkel will make his debut with the squad in the North American Soccer League in April. “He is more than ready to be an impact player at the next level,” said his former coach. “There isn’t a moment too big for him and he handles them each with the same steady intensity.”
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
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Tigers prepare for season opener against Oberlin
NCAA Div. III Tigers prepare to pounce in opener against Trinity
By ERIC ST. BERNARD sports@thedepauw.com
The men’s Tigers basketball team is preparing for a 2:30 p.m. season opener against Trinity International at North Central College in Naperville, Ill. The team is coming off an exhibition game against Butler University, in which senior forward Pat Haggin put up 17 points against his Division I contenders. The Tigers showed promise against Butler, going into the second half losing by only nine points. Junior Tommy Fernitz showed strength against the Bulldogs alongside Haggin, grabbing seven boards and adding 14 points in the contest. The team has four forwards and three centers on its roster, each 6-foot-5-iches or taller. Fernitz and senior Camron Burns are the tallest on the team, each player listed at 6-feet-9-inches.
The team hopes their height will help improve last years’ 16-10 record. Last years’ team lost the North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament Quarterfinal by one point against Wittenberg University. During the game, Wittenberg held a 24-16 advantage in the paint. Wittenberg center Scott Masin finished the contest with 25 points an eight rebounds, two short of a double-double. He shot 70 percent and went to the free throw line a total of 14 times. The Tigers front court will take on the Trojan team that went 14-17 last year. Trinity graduated four seniors, including their leading scorer, Daniel Metzelfeld. The team is rebounding from a 87-77 loss last week against the Clarke Crusaders. Head Coach Bill Fenlon and his squad anticipate getting off to a good start for their 2013-14 season.
SCHEDULE FOOTBALL Saturday: vs. Wabash College @ home - 1:07 120th Monon Bell Classic
By ERIC ST. BERNARD sports@thedepauw.com
A week after receiving their NCAA Division III championship rings, the No. 1 ranked women’s basketball team is preparing for their season opener at the Franklin Tip-Off, playing Otterbein Univesity on Friday night. The top-ranked team in the nation returns from an undefeated season, going 34-0 in the regular season, and winning both the North Coast Athletic Conference Tournament and the NCAA Division III Championship. The team only lost three graduating athletes this season – guard Kate Walker, forward Ellie Pearson and guard Kathleen Malloy. However, coach Kris Huffman’s class of 2013 was essential to the Tigers’ perfect season. The three players won their 100th game together in a 91-46 win at Hiram College. The game, one of the highlights of the season, clinched the NCAC Conference title for the Tigers, the second in a row for the program. Last year’s season was filled with awards and recognitions, including a handshake with President Barack Obama and an honorable mention of “the 34-0 DePauw Tigers” at a White House event this past June. Last year also saw head coach Kris Huffman’s induction to the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in late April. Huffman was also the recipient of several coach of the year awards, including a Divi-
sion III Coach of the Year award courtesy of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association. All of Huffman’s starters, forwards Pearson and senior Alex Gasaway and guards Walker, junior Savannah Trees and senior Ali Ross all earned All-NCAC awards for stellar performances. The starters helped DePauw win all their games by an average scoring margin of 26 points. On the average game of the 2012 season, the team outbid its opponents in every statistic, including a +12 rebounding margin and +6 on turnovers. Huffman acknowledges her players’ hard work, which has them ranked as the top team in the nation again this year. “One of the costs of being a really good program is that you cannot take moments off,” Huffman said. “It truly makes you respect what our women’s basketball team endures every time they step on the court.” One of Huffman’s returning players is Alison Stephens, a 5-foot-10-inch senior forward from Kansas. She notes the team is preparing for this season just as they have previously. “We’re going in like we have all games. We respect our opponent and make sure we do our fundamentals,” Stephens said. And after a season with no losses, Stephens said they do not worry about the added pressure. “This in itself is a new season and we’re going to do the best we can to win the championship,” she said. “It’s the same as any other season.”
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2013
Tigers take Aqua Bell in blowout meet By JIM EASTERHOUSE sports@thedepauw.com
The DePauw men’s swim team kept tradition intact as they defeated the Wabash Little Giants to win the Aqua Bell Wednesday night. The swimming Tigers cruised through the competition in front of a packed Erdmann Natatorium, winning 11 of the 14 total events en route to a 181.5-89.5 win. This is the team’s 27th consecutive dual meet victory. Although beating Wabash isn’t new to the Tigers’ swimming program, a number of instances on Wednesday night were. Junior Casey Hooker continued his stride toward the national spotlight by winning the 200-yard butterfly (1:52.49). This places Hooker at second in the country in the event. The Tigers also warmly welcomed a new member to the squad. A few weeks ago, freshman Caleb “CJ” Copeland was racing in a downpour storm at the North Coast Athletic Conference Cross Country Conference Championship in Meadville, Pa. Now, the Columbus, Ind. native has strapped on the speedo as a diver. After only a week of practice to prepare, Copeland won with 179.83 points. “The win against Wabash felt good,” said Copeland. “Unfortunately, Wabash was able to best us in cross country, so it was enjoyable avenging DePauw.” On his return to the water, Copeland said “Getting back into diving feels refreshing. I’m excited for the rest of the season to see how I can improve.” An array of Tigers picked up individual wins as well. Sophomore Alex Grissom took home the 200 free with a 1:44.02. Juniors George Morrison and Alex Alfonso both
won their events. Morrison won the 100 backstroke (54.10) and Alfonso in the 100 fly (52.66). Senior Matt Gleason took home first in the 100 breast stroke with a 59.59. “I just tried to get after it. Backstroke is a stroke that is hard to see where you are against your competition,” said Gleason. “My only option was to go – luckily I had enough to get to the wall first.” The Tigers further displayed their dominance in relay races. The 400-yard freestyle relay reveals this, as three DePauw teams placed first through third ahead of any Wabash squads. Sophomore Blake Lehmann, juniors Alfonso and Hooker, and senior Jack Burgeson rounded up the winning relay with a 3:10.97. The Tigers’ 200 medley relay of Lehmann, Hooker, Burgerson and senior Matt Haeske took first with a 1:34:31. “There was a lot of energy on the pool deck. Everyone was excited for everyone else’s races. I think that that reflected how well our times were,” said Gleason. The Tigers noted the packed natatorium as a key to Wednesday night’s success. Interactive students, passionate parents and a number of DePauw faculty and staff members stopped by for the showcase. “We were glad to see so many people from the DePauw community come out and support us,” said senior Joe Hessburg. “It makes the meet a really fun environment.” This will be the last time that the Tigers host a meet until January 18 against Illinois Wesleyan University and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technoloy. The DePauw-Wabash rivalry will ignite again on November 22-23 at the Patrick Woehnker Invitational in Crawfordsville, Ind.
Senior Matt Gleason swimming the 200 breaststroke in the meet against Wabash on Wednesday, November 13th. Gleason got 3rd place in the 200 and was 1st in the 100 he swam prior to this. The entire meet ended with DePauw winning with the score of 181.5 89.5 CLARISSA ZINGRAF / THE DEPAUW
CROSS COUNTRY
Men’s and Women’s teams high tail their way to NCAA Regional By BRIAN AUSTIN sports@depauw.com
After a season of mile repeats in the Nature Park and time trials on the track, the men and women are ready to race for a spot at the national meet next weekend in Hanover, Ind. The men and women cross country teams will be racing in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Great Lakes Regional Championship in Grand Rapids, Mich. on Saturday, Nov. 16. The top two teams from each region qualify for nationals and the top seven individuals, not on those teams, also qualify. The NCAA gives at-large bids to teams based on performance in conference and regional championships.
The men’s team is looking great coming off of their 5th place finish at conference. They have officially groomed their facial hair into seven deadly mustaches with senior captain, Dillon Raidt, commanding the pack with his powerful beard. Junior Will Bond is pumped for the race on Saturday. He says he likes to listen to Coldplay, or “Tootsie Roll” by the 69Boyz, to get psyched for the race. “It’s all starting to come together,” Bond says. “Our fitness, our legs, our ‘staches, I’m excited.” The Tiger Women’s team placed 6th at conference without a full squad. This week, they plan to wow the region with a national qualifying performance. With leading ladies Emma MacAnally, Siri Retrum and Heather O’Brien, the team will perform at their highest level. The
team is ranked 29th nationally and is the first ranked women’s team since 2010. The Tigers have been preparing for the regional meet all season. This is where they are going to see the results they have been training for. With experience on the regional course, the Tigers know what to expect and have been training accordingly. They have one thing on their mind: nationals.