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Alumni Directory opened to students By SOON-HYANG YOON news@thedepauw.com
Senior Jack Burgeson creates model huts with a visiting child at African Adventure: Imagine Uganda, an event in the Union Building Ballroom on Sunday, Nov. 17. The event was desinged to teach children about life in rural northern Uganda. CLARISSA ZINGRAF / THE DEPAUW
Students will now have the opportunity to connect with alumni in a much easier way. DePauw’s alumni gateway, or alumni directory, will open for students today to support students in their career development, according to the Office of Alumni Engagement and Kathryn F. Hubbard Center for Student Engagement. As a result of this change, all students will have individual permanent accounts which will let them search 30,000 alumni and strengthen connections with alumni. “Our alumni have a wealth of experience, and they want to help students, but sometimes are unsure of the best ways to be of service,” said Raj Bellani, the dean of experiential learning and career planning, in a press release. “These new initiatives will provide students with greater insights, experiences and opportunities to develop their professional networks before they ever leave campus.” The directory will include all living alumni’s information such as name, graduation year, major, greek chapter, current city of residence, email address and occupation. “It is a searchable database for students,” said Steven Setchell, the associate vice president for alumni engagement. Students can search alumni by simple search or advanced search. Simple search allows students to find particular alumni by entering the name and class year, while advanced search allows students to find alumni that meet specific criteria by entering more detailed information such as major, occupation and company.
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MARTIN LUTHER KING III: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of Two Pivotal Events: My Father’s ‘Dream’ and JFK in Dallas. Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013 • 7:30 p.m. • East College, Meharry Hall
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The Union Building Ballroom was transformed on Sunday from a lecture hall to the site of an African safari. “African Adventure: Imagine Uganda” offered children from the Greencastle community the opportunity to see Uganda from the eyes of Ugandan children their own age. The event, which took part as a part of Social Promise, was underwritten by Beta Theta Pi fraternity, making it free to the Greencastle community. Sharon Crary, president of Social Promise and Professor of chemistry and biochemistry, founded Social Promise in 2011. Through her 2000 work in Uganda with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Crary was exposed to needy children in the St. Jude Children’s Home in Northern Uganda and Lacor Hospital in Gulu. “When she came home, she couldn’t forget,” Laura Paul, vice president of Social Promise, said. Though Crary has been helping raise money for the St. Jude Children’s Home and Lacor Hospital since 2001, Social Promise wasn’t her means of spreading
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As America prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King III will speak about how events in 1963 have shaped his life at DePauw University. King, the son of the late Martin Luther King Jr., will speak at 7:30 p.m. Thursday night in Meharry Hall. The lecture, which is part of the Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture Series, is titled “Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of Two Pivotal Events: My Father’s ‘Dream’ and JFK in Dallas.” Doors will open for students, faculty and staff at 6:45 p.m. and 7 p.m. for the general public. “We contemplated moving to Kresge [Auditorium], but the play [“The Women”] opens that night,” Ken Owen, executive director of media relations and Ubben Lecture coordinator, said.
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awareness yet. “I was deathly afraid of starting a non-profit,” Crary said. Finally, eleven years after her initial visit to Uganda, Crary was able to incorporate Social Promise as a non-profit, helping to raise money and awareness for these two institutions. The “African Adventure” event was created through the joint efforts of Crary and Sarah McGee, Crary’s sister-in-law and treasurer of Social Promise. “Uganda’s always been a part of our children’s lives,” McGee said. “Our kids really inspired us to realize that even at a young age they can understand that people from other parts of the world live differently than we do.” “My younger son has a hidden kindness where he gives money to Social Promise all the time,” Crary said. “I don’t think that’s because he’s just genetically like that, I think it’s because he’s been raised to think, ‘Oh, we have to help the kids there, it’s a no brainer.’” During the event, the kids start out at the first station, where they are provided with a suitcase and a passport. “Then, they report to their flight to Uganda,” Paul said. Many other stations were spread throughout the room. One taught children how to wrap a baby
around their back as mothers, and even older siblings, in Uganda would do. Another station offered children the opportunity to create toys for themselves using only items that Americans might consider trash such as Popsicle sticks and used water bottles. “When I was there a few years ago with Sharon [Crary], we saw some girls throwing what literally seemed to be a piece of cloth with some pebbles or beads in it, playing monkey in the middle,” Paul said. “Those kids are so tough and so self-reliant and so creative and inventive and they work with what they’ve got. They’re just survivors.” The “African Adventure” event was first born in 2012 in New York, where McGee lives. They held it again in New York earlier this year and hope to take the program to Indianapolis and Minnesota sometime in 2014. Though Social Promise does accept donations at these event, they are all free of charge to those attending. “We want to raise money for our partners [in Uganda],” Crary said, “but we also really want to inspire people here to help make a change.”
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“What I was worried about was our event was probably going to let up while the play was still going on,” Owen said. “The kids have worked so hard on the production. The last thing I wanted to do is screw up the play. When we booked this, we were kind of late to the party.” Meharry is the next largest venue available at DePauw behind Kresge. “What we don’t have is an 800-seat venue, that kind of sweet spot in the middle of Meharry, which is close to 500, Moore [Theatre], which is about 420, and Kresge, which is 1,440,” Owen said. Overflow seating will be in the Union Building Ballroom, which will have a live video feed. “I think we’ll have a nice robust full house,” Owen said. “I’d be surprised if we didn’t fill.” Owen said that he had one student tell him, “It will be like being with royalty.” He believes that for this reason, there will be a decent student presence
at the event. “There’s this sense that he is someone who represents something very large,” he said. Owen has allotted an extra long session for the question and answer, with approximately 45 minutes or so. He also mentioned that microphones will be in the aisles for those wishing to ask King a question. “I want to get as many questions in there as I can,” Owen said. Junior Lucy Gough is excited about the opportunity to see King speak. “I’m interested in seeing how he has furthered his father’s legacy and seeing what causes he’s individually invested in,” Gough said. First-year Emily Nasseff echoed Gough’s sentiments. “Since his dad contributed so much to society,” Nasseff said, “I think it’s really great that we’re getting a chance to speak and hear his experiences.”
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Acosta kicks off International Education Week
Curtis Acosta, leader in the Chicano Studies educational movement, speaks to a packed Union Building Ballroom on Monday, Nov. 18 about the “Pedagogies of Hope and Resiliency: Responding to the Criminalization of Chicano/Latino Youth.” CLARISSA ZINGRAF / THE DEPAUW
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A packed Union Building Ballroom jittered with anticipation as long-time teacher and civil rights activist Curtis Acosta took the podium Monday. His presentation, titled “Pedagogies of Resiliency and Hope: Responding to the National Criminalization of Latino/Chicano Youth,” kicked off DePauw’s International Education Week, which continues through Saturday. Acosta taught Mexican American Studies at Tucson High School in Arizona for 16 years until, in 2012, Arizona passed House Bill 2281, which shut down his program and countless other like it. Sophomore Asucena Lopez introduced Acosta. She met him in Chicago earlier in the year. When her class about banned books began talking about the bill, she knew to give him a call. Acosta set up a conference with her class through Skype. “I thought it was selfish to keep him in my
The Office of Alumni Engagement and Hubbard Center collaborated to create this program after learning that other schools’ alumni offices and career offices worked closely together to support students. Previous programs such as Graduate of Last Decades (GOLD), the Sophomore Institute and informational interviews with alumni have come to fruition as well from the joint effort. “Our first strategy for this year is to connect the alumni to one another, to the institution and students,” Setchell said. “So this is just the first step to strengthen our network and connection that our alums have.” Holly Enneking, the associate director of alumni engagement for career and online programs, said that students can access the directory by visiting the Hubbard Center tab on the University’s website. Students can create their own accounts by entering an activation code which will be sent to them through an email today. Unlike Moodle, DePauw emails and e-services accounts, which disappear when students graduate, the username and password for the alumni directory will remain after the graduation as students will automatically become a part of alumni network. “This is the directory that you will have access for rest of your life,” Bellani said. The online website will also provide the downloadable templates such as sample introduction and thank you notes which students can edit and use. This will allow students who want to connect themselves to alumni to contact them in more “thoughtful and polite” ways, Bellani said. “The reason why we put the templates is to help students create a positive first impression,” Bellani said. “The students actually now have tools.” Students look forward to the opportunities this may provide. “Alumni can teach you what you want to do or what you should do in the future,” first-year Shiyu Su said. “So I think it is beneficial to students.” However, first-year Eric Heaton said he wasn’t sure how it will actually help him. “I haven’t thought about using alumni connection before and it does not pertain to me at this moment,” he said. Bellani, Setchell and Enneking all said that they were very excited to announce “the big surprise” to students.
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class,” Lopez said. “So I decided to share him with the rest of campus.” She talked to professors and other organizations on campus and eventually raised the money to bring Acosta to DePauw. Santos started off his presentation by having the audience recite the poem “In LakEch” by Luis Valdez in unison, which is how he started off every class he taught. The poem consists of verses which insist that loving one another helps in loving ourselves. He then showed a video of the University of Arizona basketball team. At the end of the video the words “This is Arizona” flashed on the screen as sirens blared in the background. “The sirens are ironic,” he stated as an image of House Bill 2281 blew up on the screen, “because this is also Arizona.” Numerous photos of streets lined with protestors filled the screen. Other states have also passed similar bills, including the Hoosier state. These states claim the bills are stopping racism, but the statistics of these classes suggest otherwise.
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In Acosta’s classes alone, 97.5 percent of the Mexican American students graduated high school. This is in contrast with the 44 percent national average for Mexican Americans. Seventy percent of his students are attending post-graduate school versus the 24 percent national average of Mexican Americans. Instead of putting state money into programs like these that help Latino and Chicano youth, states are putting it toward prisons. “The amount of money states spend on prisons is six times the amount they spend on education,” Acosta explained. Sophomore Amanda Volel expressed her concern about these facts. “We have a lot of work to do,” she said. “There is hope, though,” Acosta said. He displayed a slide that said “This is 2013” and underneath, presented pictures of gay rights rallies and diagrams of the states that have legalized gay marriage. His next slide, however, revealed how far the U.S. still has to go. Images of Trayvon Martin were exhibited and the audience let out a sigh of remorse. “It is cases like these that are causing America to regress,” Acosta said. He explained what students can do to help make a difference. “Stop being scared,” Acosta said. “And remember In LakEch!” Acosta has started up new classes that meet on Sundays, with no funding, in an attempt to make a difference in at least a few Mexican American students’ lives. “In the most regressive spots, we find the most hope,” Acosta said. “This is our continent together: your history as well as my history. We must show the kind of courage our ancestors did if we want to make a change.” Many students found his words motivational, including Volel. “There is a lot to be said about the honesty and love he had to share with his audience; it was revolutionary,” Volel remarked. “The fact that he could do it in an hour was astounding.” Others felt it was a call to action, such as firstyear Jacqueline Perez. “How can we expect to make a change,” Perez inquired, “if we are too afraid to make the first step?”
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November 15 • Investigate for odor of marijuana • Officer checked building / unable to locate source | Time: 12:53 a.m. | Place: Senior Hall • Suspicious vehicle • Subject located / checked okay | Time: 10:02 p.m. | Place: Julian Science and Mathematics Center lot
November 16 • Possession of marijuana • Released to custody of a friend / forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 12:53 a.m. | Place: Bishop Roberts Hall • Operating while intoxicated / minor in consumption • Forwarded to Prosecutor’s Office / released to custody of friend / forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 1:18 a.m. | Place: College St. / Hanna St. • Alcohol violation • Transported to Putnam County Hospital / forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 2:42 a.m. | Place: Humbert Hall lot • Suspicious person • Subjects located / verbal warning issued | Time: 3:53 a.m. | Place: Pi Beta Phi sorority • Civil disturbance • Subjects separated / verbal warning issued | Time: 12:42 p.m. | Place: Olive St. lot
• Assist Greencastle Police Department - public intoxication • Arrested: Mitchell Tipsword (non-student) | Time: 11:07 a.m. | Place: Blackstock Stadium • Welfare check • Subjects located / checked okay | Time: 1:07 p.m. | Place: Madison St. • Assist Greencastle Police Department - public intoxication • Arrested: Tyler Rasmussen (non-student) | Time: 1:11 p.m. | Place: Blackstock Stadium • Welfare check • Subjects located / checked okay | Time: 1:34 p.m. | Place: Blackstock Stadium • Public intoxication / interfering with medical services • Transported to Putnam County Hospital / arrested: Riley Kinsella (non-student) | Time: 2:57 p.m. | Place: Inn at DePauw
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November 17 • Party registration violation • Forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 12:00 a.m. | Place: Alpha Tau Omega fraternity • Welfare check • Released to custody of a friend | Time: 12:49 a.m. | Place: Hanna St. • Minor in consumption / criminal mischief • Forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 2:55 a.m. | Place:Bishop Roberts Hall • Minor in consumption • Arrested: Steven C. Rutherford (non-student) | Time: 3:07 a.m. | Place: East College (outside) • Property damage to vehicle • Report filed | Time: 5:17 p.m. | Place: Nature Park entrance
• Hazard - subjects on roof • Forwarded to Campus Living | Time: 5:31 p.m. | Place: Burkhardt Walk
• Welfare check • Subjects located / checked okay | Time: 7:51 p.m. | Place: Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity
• Criminal mischief to wall • Under investigation | Time: 5:42 p.m. | Place: Kappa Alpha Theta sorority
• Investigate for odor of marijuana • Subjects located / forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 11:07 p.m. | Place: Strasma Hall
• Minor in consumption • Transported to Putnam County Hospital / forwarded to Prosecutor’s Office / forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 11:16 a.m. | Place: Union Building / Hub
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New medical fraternity, Phi Delta Epsilon, will be chartered next April By LUKE BERNARDI news@thedepauw.com
A new chapter of Phi Delta Epsilon will be launched on April 4, 2014 to help prepare the lives of aspiring doctors studying at DePauw. Senior Ben Hazen, a sports medicine major, founded the Phi Delta Epsilon chapter at DePauw, which is a nationally renowned medical fraternity that was first established at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. in 1904. During the beginning of his first year at DePauw, Hazen, who is the colony coordinator of the fraternity, recognized the lack of premedical advising on campus. “This medical fraternity will serve to guide and advise premedical students with class selection, MCAT preparation, service work, clinical experience and the application process to medical school,” Hazen said. He also mentioned that the fraternity’s work
toward guiding its students does not end when they graduate. “It will continue to help through medical school, getting matched in residency and then also as a practicing physician,” Hazen said. “I brought it here to help with the premed advising, but this is also a lifetime fraternity that will do more than just that for individuals.” Junior Collin Henry, president of Phi Delta Epsilon, has spent many hours organizing ideas and putting together measures to give this fraternity a name on campus. “I want DePauw to offer students a chance to achieve their ultimate goal,” Henry said. “I will make sure our members uphold the morals and values of this fraternity so we can guarantee students get what they need for life after college.” Like Hazen, Henry has been working to find ways to get Phi Delta Epsilon on its feet since he was a first-year. As president, he is in charge of conducting the bi-weekly meetings that will take
place as soon as the fraternity is chartered. “I will make sure the fraternity is fulfilling the necessary requirements for service hours, social events, philanthropy events, the clinical experience for those working at hospitals, those kinds of things,” Henry said. Hazen, Henry and the other members of the fraternity have done liberal amounts of research and networking to obtain a charter. There are currently six people who make up Phi Delta Epsilon, all of whom make up the executive board. “We are doing interviews all this week and have 38 possible candidates who have shown interest in joining the fraternity,” Hazen explained. “We’ll continue interviewing and taking in people as long as we see respectable candidates who would serve as valuable members to our association.” Hazen found the fraternity’s six current members by speaking in front of a large interest group. He handed out applications to the group and eventually determined the current six to be intelligent
and worthy affiliates. On top of that, it took a year and a half for Hazen and his colleagues to complete Phi Delta Epsilon’s charter requirements. “We are [one of] two schools out of 92 who applied to get this charter, so it’s pretty competitive,” Hazen said. “We all are very grateful for receiving the charter, but after all our hard work, not at all surprised.” There are only about five more months until DePauw will have its first-ever medical fraternity here on campus and the members are ecstatic. “I felt like before, students couldn’t go straight from DePauw to medical school because they weren’t prepared well enough or didn’t totally understand what needed to take place for them to apply and go directly into the real world,” Hazen said. “We just want to help more individuals who want to pursue medicine to ultimately succeed at their dream.”
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Entrepreneurial spotlight: DePauw Cookies By PANYIN CONDUAH features@thedepauw.com
First year students Nicholas Ailstock and David Kobe created a way to mix business with pleasure. The pair have combined classroom skills and Grandma’s chocolate chip cookie recipe in their business, DePauw Cookies. After listening to an alumnus talk about the success of his business during the McDermond Lecture series, Ailstock knew it only made sense to start thinking about putting his goals of being a future entrepreneur to work. When Ailstock began to bounce the idea around with Kobe, the two decided to combine their skills to create DePauw Cookies. Since Ailstock and Kobe saw the lack of midnight snack services on campus, the two first-years decided to take advantage of a classic gulty pleasure treat: cookies. Ailstock and Kobe launched DePauw Cookies during the second week of October, only baking cookies from scratch. Ailstock and Kobe base their business on the well-known cookie business, Insomniac Cookies. The late night business is known for delivering a variety of cookies, but the first-years decided to
start off with only one type of cookie. “What’s better than a chocolate chip cookie? It’s classic and everybody loves it.” Ailstock said. “It’s a good place to start.” Ailstock said they are planning to see which flavors of cookies are in high demand through tweets from their Twitter handle, @Depauw_ Cookies. The bakers use this page to receive orders from hungry students and also via phone. After an order is made, Kobe is usually the one to deliver. “I just hop on my skateboard with a brown bag and roll over there like a classic delivery guy,” Kobe said. Although the business is off to a good start, the pair has faced challenges. They have been working on technical things, such as getting a business license. Kobe also said that working in the kitchen is tough too. He said that keeping up with the orders can become difficult since their requests for cookies fluctuate throughout the night. DePauw Cookies only operates on Fridays from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., a time when most students are starting off their weekend of partying. Ailstock and Kobe don’t mind baking cookies
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“I just hop on my skateboard with a brown bag and roll over there like a classic delivery guy.” - DAVID KOBE ‘17
to them, to sell cookies,” Ailstock said. The business is not currently making much profit so most of the money goes back into the business to keep it up and running. With the explosion of student-run businesses on campus, Kobe mentions that there isn’t much competition. Instead, the student entrepreneurs from
businesses such as Pizza Dude and ITS For You usually share advice with one another. The firstyears said that it is sometimes hard to put the advice into practice though. “It sounds kind of remedial, but keeping a spread sheet, keeping track of what you make profit ... it’s a lot more complicated than we thought it would be,” Kobe said. Both Ailstock and Kobe hope to make more money through their business so they can also give back to charities. Cookie businesses such as College Cookies run by Purdue alumni Kerry Kirk and her family sell a variety of cookies, giving a dollar for every sold box to help support education in the developing world. Ailstock and Kobe plan to start giving back on a small scale by working with Greek chapters and other organizations. For now the two businessmen are enjoying their run with baking cookies and delivering to the grumbling stomachs of DePauw’s campus. Despite the hard work they’re putting into building their business, they enjoy seeing the satisfaction that their customers get from their cookies.
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Alumni database should be a step in the job search process, but not the first step For a number of us, one of DePauw’s most attractive features was (and continues to be) its pool of loyal alumni who seek to help students and recent graduates of their alma mater. Thus, the new DePauw alumni directory poses an extremely useful resource in reaching out to those who have come before us for guidance and support in seeking internships and employment opportunities. But we hope students will take into consideration the purpose of this rare tool and not abuse it. While it may be simple to throw one’s resume to anyone willing to read it, we hope our peers will be strategic. The alumni on this directory have voluntarily provided their information to students and should be used more for reference and knowledge exchange, rather than a contact in desperate job-searching times. Instead, use the proper resources first. Craft an effective resume, revise it with peers, professors and other knowledgeable sources and really consider what you’re aiming to achieve prior to sending an email to someone with whom you may have never spoken. Alumni provide an excellent resource and are often eager to help students on their paths to future careers, but they should not be the first step, nor should they be the only step. Consider reaching out to professors, advisors and others about who would be logical networking connections and seek more authentic relationships with alumni by working with those University representatives to make your acquaintance. Once you’ve been introduced electronically or in person, work to get to know an individual prior to sending a resume and cover letter and hoping the rest works out. Get your foot in the door and allow the alum to get to know you while you’re there. Odds are that he or she will be willing to fight harder to get you back through that door if you give them favorable things to say on your behalf. Hopefully at this point your accomplishments, awards, and internships will speak for themselves and you’ll get whatever job you’re seeking. Whether or not this is the case, however, follow up with your contact (preferably with a hand-written ‘thank you’ note) and let them know how much his or her help meant to you. We’re very fortunate to have this directory, to have such supportive alumni and to have people sticking up for us out there after we graduate. Let’s use it wisely.
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Monon is our Superbowl: Cheer like it ALEX WEILHAMMER
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f there is any football game the student body should care about, it’s the Monon Bell Game. I suppose it’s important to preface my opinion by saying that you have to care (at least a little bit) about football, and, more specifically, DePauw’s football team. If you are apathetic toward one or both of these things, then this opinion doesn’t really apply to you. However, if you enjoy football and consider yourself a supporter, then please read on. Put simply, Wabash College students cared more than we did. They filled their respective stands and made their presence known with chants and cheers. Sure, we did too, but we go to school here. We only have to walk a little distance, and we are there. Perhaps it was the bright red of the Wabash crowd, but they stood out much more than we did. Throughout the entire game, the Wabash crowd seemed lively and excited to be there. The bell never stopped ringing. Wabash never stopped
reminding us who had the Bell. Wabash didn’t even get complacent, really, not even when they have a one loss record and a four-consecutive Monon Bell Game win streak. Wabash’s success didn’t stop them, and our failures made us indifferent. I got the sense, after talking to various friends throughout the week about the game, that most people thought the game would be a blowout, or at the very least, we had no real chance of winning. It’s hard to explain, but these sorts of rivalry games are quite different from regular season games. DePauw hates Wabash, and they hate DePauw. The Bell is their Lombardi trophy, and the victory is legendary. Regular season records and statistics become marginalized compared to the passion and intensity. Speculation isn’t really that important or relevant—it’s all about the game that Saturday, not the tailgate. I’m not trying to tell people what to care about or what they should go to, but I will say the game is worth our attention. The Monon Bell Game is quintessential DePauw, and to ignore the game completely just isn’t fair to your DePauw experience. It isn’t fair to the football team, either. They work hard all season for this one game. Missing some regular season games is one thing, but missing the Bell Game is disrespectful to
the players. When we host the game, when Wabash students have to drive to our turf, we should be the loudest, most excited fans—not Wabash. It’s easy to forget about a team if they don’t have a good record, but it should also be easy to care about a team when they play in a rivalry game that represents our school. Having a strong support group is critical for the players, especially during crunch time. Football is a game of preparation and practice. The players dedicate so much of their time to this game only to have their fans leave at halftime. The game is bigger than the tailgate, bigger than the alumni returning and bigger than the nap that follows it. Our football program is only getting better with each year. I’m sure I’m not alone when I say that we can surely win the Bell within the next few years. I just don’t look forward to the bandwagoning and sudden excitement from our student body when we do it. We are bound to win the Bell here soon, and I know DePauw will be excited. I just hope they won’t be excited for the wrong reasons. – Weilhammer is a sophomore English Writing major from Indianapolis, Ind. opinions@thedepauw.com
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2013
Rock climbing facility would improve community ARTHUR SMALL
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ePauw desperately needs a rock climbing facility for not only DePauw, but also the Greencastle community. I fell in love with the sport over the countless summers I spent growing up in the hills of Brown County, Ind. at Camp Palawopec. It is the best stress reliever I have been able to find. The first thing I do when I return to Zionsville from DePauw for breaks (after a quick catch-up with my parents) is drive directly to Hoosier Heights Indianapolis. Hoosier Heights is a world-class rock climbing gym located five minutes from my house. Climbing as a sport is different from just about any sport out there. Everything is based on per-
sonal improvement. I have never felt like I am competing against the people I climb with. Instead, the people I climb with help me in tricky problem spots or push me through my exhaustion to complete a lead route. The climbing community, by definition, is friendly to a fault. The number of long-time friends I have made from simply asking a stranger at the gym if they want to climb with me for the day is astounding. No one will give a beginner a cold-shoulder because they think it is a waste of their time. Climbers love climbing more than anything and want to pass that love onto others. You may wonder why DePauw needs to embrace climbing as a student activity. It is no secret that the “towngown” relations can be strained at times. If the University were to open a climbing facility that would be open to anyone interested in being exposed to the
sport, DePauw students would inevitably end up meeting and befriending Greencastle residents. The welcoming nature of the sport of climbing would help all participants involved view other climbers as peers, not as snobby DePauw students or “townies.” This would be a huge step for improving our relationship with the people who live in Greencastle. More importantly, climbing is a great total-body workout. Climbing is consistently rated as one of the best ways to work out your entire body. The sport requires more than upper-body strength, some climbers even claim too much arm strength can be detrimental. To be a good climber, you need to strengthen muscles you never thought you had. Can you imagine actively working out your finger? Climbers consistently do. Other fitness improvements you’ll notice once you commit to climbing are increases in flexibility, core-
strength, and balance. Each of these could be considered more important to a climber than pure arm strength. A gym on our campus here at DePauw would help students diversify their workout schedules. Climbing is a fun, physically exhausting activity that can be enjoyed by climbers of all experience levels. The gym would also create a bridge for students and locals to build relationships as peers, creating an in-group mentality rather than the segregated one that seems to cause any strained relations. DePauw has nothing to lose by investing in a sport that is rapidly gaining popularity. I want a gym because I would practically live in it, but I would not be the only one who would get a lot of it. —–Small is a senior from Zionsville, Ind. double majoring in history and political science.
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HANNAH MEYER, sophomore “I know I struggle with making those connections on my own, it will help me know who is willing to reach out to DePauw students.”
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Tailgating’s negative impact on Monon attendance REED JAEGER
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o one on DePauw’s campus will disagree that the Monon Bell game is the biggest sporting event every year here at DePauw. But for some reason the excitement leading up to the game throughout the week does not seem to translate into excitement in the stands for many DePauw students. A few of the changes made to the pregame experience, especially tailgating, are responsible for this. As a senior, I have seen a change in the tailgating environment over the past years at DePauw. There were very few “rules” associated with the tailgating experience before. The Greek chapters had no limitations on when they could begin tailgating and were scattered across the parking lot in their “traditional” locations. This was the way it used to be before the construction and changes to tailgating. Everyone knew where each of the chapter’s tailgates would be, and they were comfortably spaced
out. The benefits of the old system are lost on the new group of first years who never experienced it. I feel like the old tailgating style facilitated a lively student body at home football games and more intermingling of student and alumni tailgates. The added space for tailgating in the past prevented the congested feel that the tailgates have come to be defined by in the new system. For many upperclassmen, myself included, this congestion results in an aversion to the fraternity tailgating area. The best part of DePauw’s greek system is its openness. The old tailgating format exemplified this openness on fall Saturdays at DePauw. Members of every chapter were able to drift among all the tailgates to mingle with old friends from other houses. This consistent cross-fraternal tailgating experience helps to make our greek system unique and special. By consolidating all of the fraternity tailgates into such a tightly packed area, mingling is made nearly impossible. You end up spending 15 to 20 minutes squeezing through an onslaught of other game day participants trying to walk a measly fifty yards to see an old friend. This is aggravating and makes the tailgate significantly less attractive to older DePauw students who don’t want to deal with all the headaches associated with it; especially compared to the comforts that the old system provided. Another part of the old tailgating model that
was especially advantageous for the student body was how close the student tailgates were to the tailgates of alumni and parents. One of the selling points of DePauw is how strong the alumni network is. It was always nice to converse with old alumni and hear stories of their days at DePauw. This interaction with alumni also helped translate to excitement in the stands for game. They come back for tailgating, but also to watch the rivalry game. Because the student and alumni fans are segregated, this cross-pollination of school spirit never occurs and students do not see the importance of attending the game. By changing the way DePauw students tailgate, the university has given students more of an opportunity to succumb to apathy. We feel like the game is a second priority to the drinking and partying of the tailgate. If we do not have the opportunity to comfortably converse with our peers and see DePauw graduates excitement to cheer on our Tigers, attendance at the tailgate will continue to be socially mandatory, and the game will continue to be an after-thought. —– Jaeger is a senior conflict studies major from Wyoming, Ohio.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2013
Tigers lose NCAA tournament in overtime, 1-0 By MICHAEL JENNINGS sports@thedepauw.com
DePauw’s field hockey team ended its season on Saturday in a hard-fought overtime loss to Catholic University in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Catholic was the Tigers’ first opponent in the tournament due to the Tigers’ first round bye. DePauw fell 1-0 after only one minute into the seven-on-seven overtime period. The goal came on a hard shot slotted low into the corner from the top of the circle on a corner penalty. Senior midfielder Chelsea Cutler commented on how the goal transpired, and the importance of corners. “Penalty corners in overtime are a huge advantage because the defending team can only have three defenders and the goalie back,” said Cutler. The game was a true defensive battle in which one lapse of concentration proved to be fatal, sending one team home, and the other advancing. It also proved to be an even matchup given that the teams were level in the number of corner penalties at five each, and Catholic only held a slight advantage in the shots category leading 10-6. The tournament atmosphere of the game also added to the heightened sense of desperation on both sides. Junior forward Paige Henry reflected on the atmosphere of NCAA tournament play. “After 70 minutes of scoreless play, we were all exhausted but so excited for overtime. We beat No. 1 ranked Middlebury [College] last year in overtime to move on to the final four and I honestly thought we could do it again. We were very confident walking on the field and the sideline and our parents were louder than ever,” said Henry.
Despite their confidence, a corner decided the game in the end. Having seven players on the field also certainly quickened the pace of the game considering that the scoreless deadlock ended merely one minute into the overtime period. “It was a hard fought battle and an even game,” junior forward Maggie Campbell said. “It was a lot of midfield play, but we played a great game.” With this loss, the Tigers end their season with a record of 17-5 and a 13-1 conference record. The Tigers won the North Coast Athletic Conference tournament, as well as the regular season crown, giving them an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament for the second year in a row. In a season filled with tough losses as well as dominating team performances, the Tigers season proved to be entertaining to say the least. The Tigers developed into a total team in which every player on the field contributed. Despite falling short of their ultimate goal of the national championship, senior Micheline Figel recognizes all that the team has accomplished this season. “The season went really well, we met the majority of our goals, two being to win the NCAC regular season and tournament championship and then go to the NCAA tournament,” said Figel. The seniors stepped up and led the team to a successful season, but many non-seniors made large contributions. Campbell and Henry provided numerous goals, and midfielders Addie Ball, first-year and Grace Goodbarn, sophomore, dominated the midfield at times alongside Cutler. The Tigers look to improve upon this season next year in the NCAA tournament as well as continue their NCAC success. “We had a great season and there is so much to be proud of,” Henry said. “We won back-to-back titles in our conference and in the
Senior Micheline Figel fights a Kenyon player for the ball during the game on Saturday, Nov. 9. Figel put in the winning goal of the 2-1 game in order for the Tigers earn their third straight North Coast Athletic Coast title and advance to the the NCAA tournament. CLARISSA ZINGRAF / THE DEPAUW
Men’s Basketball defeats Trinity and North Central Wilkison named Tip-Off Tournament’s Most Valuable Player By JACOB LYNN sports@thedepauw.com
As DePauw’s fall athletic teams closed out their seasons, men’s basketball began at the Chicago Marriott Naperville Tip-Off Tournament hosted by North Central College. On Friday evening, the Tigers opened their 2013 campaign against Trinity International. Things could not have started off better for the Tigers, as they began the game on a 16-2 run. Nothing would change much from there, as the Tigers cruised to a comfortable 44-18 lead at halftime. Three-pointers were the key to DePauw’s first half success. In the opening period, the Tigers were nine of 16 shooting from beyond the arc. Junior guard Connor Rich led the deep attack for the Tigers in the first half with 12 points on 3-4 shooting from deep. “My teammates were just finding me open in the right spots,” Rich said. “We were playing against the zone and I was just able to find myself open in the corner.” While DePauw was able to knock down its threes, Trinity International was unable to get in a rhythm from anywhere on the floor. The
Trojans shot just 22 percent for the first half. Andy Stauffer led Trinity with seven first half points. Nothing changed very much in the second half, as the Tigers continued their dominating performance. With a large lead, Coach Bill Fenlon was able to let some of the reserves see more playing time. They fed off of the energy of the starters, as DePauw’s bench outscored their Trojan counterparts 41-19. Rich led the Tigers with 14 points and senior Pat Haggin, dropped 12 points while securing ten rebounds in the contest. DePauw was able to capture its first win of the season without much difficulty, by a score of 85-39. Only a few hours after the DePauw football team was unable to take the Monon Bell away from Wabash College, the basketball team gave DePauw fans something to be excited about. In the finale of the season opening tournament, the Tigers battled host North Central College. This proved to be a far more challenging test as the Cardinals came into the matchup as the sixth ranked squad in Division III. Midway through the first half, the Tigers found themselves trailing until senior point guard Michael Wilkison led the Tigers on an 11-0 run. Wilkison had nine points during that key stretch.
As the second half got underway, North Central made a charge while trailing 29-25. Vince Kmiec led the attack, connecting on two threes to open the second frame and regain the lead for the Cardinals. However, DePauw countered with a pair of three pointers of their own to regain the lead for good. The Tigers were able to stretch out the lead and win handily by a score of 77-64. “We actually went into that game feeling like we could win,” Rich said. “What gives us confidence is that we had that feeling and were able to follow through on that belief.” DePauw continued its hot three point shooting from the night before, going 10-19 from beyond the arc. However, free throws proved to be an issue for the Tigers as they were only 11 for 19 from the charity stripe. Wilkison went off for the Tigers, dropping 24 points and securing a career best of eight rebounds. The performance earned Wilkison the tournament’s Most Valuable Player honor. “I had some things that I needed to do and I did them,” Wilkison said. “The rest of the team sort of played off my energy and we earned the win.”
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2013
FOOTBALL
DePauw loses Bell Game 38-21 Tigers score most points in Monon Classic since 2008 By ERIC ST. BERNARD sports@thedepauw.com
If there is still such a thing as a moral victory in the world of sports, the DePauw football Tigers team experienced it in a 38-21 Monon Bell loss against the visiting Wabash College Little Giants. The Tigers finished their 2013 season at 4-6, while Wabash improved to 9-1. This is the sixth year in a row that Erik Raeburn has coached his team to less than two losses in a season. It is also Raeburn and the Little Giant’s fifth Monon Bell win in a row, dating back to their 2009 season. The Little Giants got off to a perfect start, scoring touchdowns on each of their first five possessions. On their first drive, Wabash wide out Sean Hilderbrand scored on a 10-yard reserve. The next time the Little Giants got the ball, after a failed fourth-down conversion, quarterback Michael Putko wasted no time, connecting with wide out Jon Laird for a 64-yard pass. The No. 17 ranked Little Giants were able to stunt the Tigers’ offense while scoring two more touchdowns in the first half. After scoring 28 straight points, first-year quarterback Matt Hunt and the rest of the Tiger offense had the chance to respond to the Little Giants. Hunt led a 67-yard series, including two crucial penalties on Wabash’s nationally-ranked defense. Hunt found his favorite target, senior wide out Barry Flynn, for a 7- yard play. It was the first time the Tigers scored in a Bell game since 2011, a 45-7 loss. The Little Giants didn’t allow the Tigers the last strike of the half, however, as they responded on the next drive with another touchdown, making it a 35-7 lead going into half. When DePauw returned from the tunnels of Nick Mourouzis field, however, they looked like a completely different team. “I think it was really an eye opener when we were in that position,” junior tight end J.D. Robinson said. “We all came together [at half] and knew if we didn’t play like we should, it wouldn’t be our day. We got our stuff together but unfortunately it was too late.” Robinson was single-handedly the star of the second half of the 120th Monon Bell game. After senior tail-back Nikko Sansone broke a 44-yard run against the Little Giants, Robinson
caught a 6-yard pass from Hunt for the Tigers’ second touchdown. At 35-14, the Bell game looked less like it did in the past few years. Since 2009, the Bell game has been won by Wabash by a combined score of 115-7. After a Little Giant field goal on the following drive, Robinson and Hunt were able to scorch the Wabash defense once again. Robinson caught a 40-yard pass from Hunt, who threw for 172 yards in the contest. Only two plays later, they connected again for a 38-yard touchdown, Robinson’s second and Hunt’s third in less than two quarters. Robinson credited Flynn for his breakout game. “I really think those things were open at the time and Matt [Hunt] did a good job of finding them,” Robinson said. “We have a big weapon in Barry [Flynn] and that leaves a lot of other players open.” The game ended with a final score of 38-21. For the seniors, who played their last college game on Saturday, it was a bittersweet loss. For one, they left the football field for the last time in a loss. However, it was by far the best Monon Bell contest they have experienced in their Tiger career. Senior wide out Jackson Kirtley has been with the program since he was a first-year, when the team went 9-2. That team won all nine of its games before a 47-0 Monon Bell loss. Since then, the seasons have not been as successful. “We, as a senior class, have been faced with adversity through coaching changes and losing seasons,” Kirtley said. “We came in with a [firstyear] class of over 50 players and finished this season with 16. It hasn’t been easy, but it’s a good feeling to have persevered through it all.” The 21 points scored by the Tigers were the second most against Wabash’s defense all season. It was also the most points scored by the Tigers in the Bell game since 2008. DePauw’s second-half resurgence in the Bell game is the theme of the season. The team started 0-4, before winning four of their last six games. As for players like Robinson, who will return next year, there’s nothing but hope for the future. “Hopefully next time this year the bell is ringing here in Greencastle,” Robinson said with a smirk. Until then, he and Hunt will be preparing for what hopes to be a successful 2014.
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sport: FIELD HOCKEY TDP Sports (TDPS): Best memory in your time with the program? Micheline Figel (MF): It has to be beating Middlebury College last year in the Elite 8. They were the No. 1 team, and we ended their season. I’ve never felt like that in my life. It was one of my greatest moments. TDPS: What impact has Coach Regina Wills had on your career here? MF: We have come a long way with her. We started out my first year just trying to win the South Coast Athletic Conference, and that was a big deal. Now we compete to go far in the NCAA. She’s deserved every one of her wins. She didn’t do it for herself. TDPS: So, you just played your last collegiate game. How do you plan to stay involved with the sport? MF: I told Taylor [Helms], we should start a club or something. There’s adult leagues that I plan to play for. Chicago has a few, and there are tournaments out there as well. I have to keep playing. I literally feel like I have so much more in me. TDPS: You scored what happened to be the game winning goal in the NCAC
championship. What was going through your head at that moment? MF: The first half we were playing well, and after the second goal [scored by Figel], I didn’t think it was going to be the game winner. I didn’t realize it until later that night when my mom posted it on Facebook. It always feels good to score, and even better when it’s for an NCAC title. TDPS: Give us as unbiased of a prediction as possible for next year’s team. MF: We had a deep bench this year. Our coach subbed more than I’ve experienced. Playing time during the game is huge. I think next year we definitely have a chance of getting the NCAC [title]. They’re going to lose the defense they’ve had all four years, and [junior goalkeeper Maggie Steele] really enjoys having them back there. But they have good players returning and they’re not going to expect anything different. We lost Margeret [Ellis] last year, and people stepped up. I’m expecting the same next year.
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Cross-Country finishes 7th at NCAA Division III Great Lakes Regional By BRIAN AUSTIN sports@thedepauw.com
During this weekend’s Monon Bell Classic, the men’s and women’s cross-country teams competed in the NCAA Division III Great Lakes Regional Championship in Grand Rapids, Mich. for a spot at the NCAA National meet. The Lady Tigers finished seventh out of 33 schools, with a total score of 197 points. Senior captain, Siri Retrum, led the pack, placing 16th overall and receiving All-Region honors. Retrum finished with a time of 22:22.3, qualifying for nationals as an individual. “I was prepared for the last race of my career,” Retrum said. “I knew I would be happy either way.” Retrum will be competing this weekend in Hanover, Ind. “I had such a great time this season with the team, qualifying was icing on the cake,” she said. Sophomore Heather O’Brien and first-year Emma MacAnally followed Retrum, each receiving All-Region honors. O’Brien finished 23rd with a time of 22:35.7 and MacAnally finishing
right behind her in 33rd with a time of 22:52.7. The rest of the pack was made up of junior Hope Jordan, senior Ashley Guevara, and first years Becca Conley and Lois Miller. The men’s team, all sporting mustaches, placed 13th out of 35 teams at the NCAA Division III Great Lakes Regional Championship. Junior Noah Gatwood led the pack, finishing in 42nd place with a time of 26:16.5 for 8,000 meters. Senior captain Stu Newstat followed Gatwood with a time of 26:23.7. The rest of the pack finished within 60 seconds of one another. Junior Will Bond has had his setbacks this season, but he managed to overcome, running the eight kilometers in 27:17.7. In early August, Bond was hospitalized due to health complications while running. “I was so ready for the race, it had to have been the 69 Boyz I was blaring on the bus”, said Bond. It has been a successful season for both the men and women’s team. Now many of them get to rest for the first day in months as they recover and begin to prepare for indoor track and field.
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