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SAE Members revolt, challenge National headquarters

BY EMILY MCCARTER news@thedepauw.com What started as a normal recruitment for the SAE Indiana Delta chapter ended with six invalidated bids, a cease-and-desist order and the entire chapter undergoing membership review.

“The Sigma Alpha Epsilon national headquarters has placed its chapter at DePauw University under a cease-and-desist order as a result of health-and-safety violations, which means the chapter must suspend all activity until further notice,” wrote Brandon E. Weghorst, the Associate Executive Director of Communications of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity in an email on Thursday.

“In addition, staff and local alumni volunteers will complete a membership review, which evaluates the membership of each brother to ensure that our chapter men are living up to the mission, values and creed of the national fraternity.”

After several weeks of rumors flying around campus that SAE was getting shut down, several SAE members decided to share their story of why the Sigma Alpha Epsilon

chapter at DePauw University may not exist after this semester.

At noon on Sunday, Feb. 7, the chapter advisor, along with five SAE alumni commission members, held a meeting at DePauw’s SAE chapter. At the meeting, the commission separated the six new members from the actives and told the new members that they should seek to join another chapter. If they wished to stay, they would go through a member review.

The commission then informed active members that they are no longer allowed to continue with any chapter activities and they will be under membership review until further notice. All this was news for the 30 active members of SAE. “There is far more at play here than what is being said in the national statement,” said junior Colin Bradshaw, vice president of the SAE chapter at DePauw. “They do not care about us as individuals.

They care about public relations and wallets. That is what SAE is looking for out of its members.”

SAE President, sophomore Teague Hampton, said the members later found out that this

membership review has been in the works since last November, but SAE Nationals didn’t want to inform the active members then because they would be “too stressed with finals.”

Instead, SAE Nationals let the chapter go through recruitment, accept six new members, just to then revoke the bids and inform the chapter of the membership review and eminent drug tests.

“To us, that translates to, they wanted us to pay dues for a new semester,” Bradshaw said.

“No matter if you have a payment plan or paid in full, they are getting the money that they want you to pay them,” senior Jackson Mote added.

To make matters worse, during this heated meeting between actives and the alumni commission, the members also found out that the only grounds that SAE National’s had for a membership review this year were reports of a few fire alarms going off at the

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Tavis Smiley Chosen as 2016 Commencement Speaker

BY GEORGIA GREEN news@thedepauw.com With February coming to a close and spring break rapidly approaching, the thought of commencement has surely crossed several minds on campus, especially those of the seniors and staff members.

Tavis Smiley, one of TIME Magazine’s 2009 “100 most influential PHOTO COURTSEY OF DEPAUW UNIVERSITY

people,” was chosen to deliver the address to the Class of 2016 at DePauw’s 177th Commencement.

The process by which commencement speakers are chosen starts and ends with the President. The President consults with senior senators to discuss what kind of speaker the class would prefer and what kind of focus they want at commencement.

Ultimately, though, the President makes the final decision on who is

chosen.

Betsy Demmings, executive assistant to the president, said the excitement for Smiley to deliver the address is a two-way street.

“We are extremely excited about Tavis, and we know he’s really excited about it, too, because he is from Indiana and will have family coming,” Demmings said.

Tavis was born in Gulfport, Miss. and raised in Bunker Hill, Ind. He

eventually received a B.A. in public affairs from Indiana University. Years later, Smiley unsuccessfully ran for a Los Angeles Council seat. Afterward, he began his career in broadcasting commentaries for a Los Angeles radio station.

SPEAKER cont. ON pg. 3

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Congressman Lee Hamilton ’52 Addresses Syrian Refugee Crisis and U.S. Immigration

BY TILLY MARLATT news@thedepauw.com

Students, staff and Greencastle residents filled the Union Building Ballroom on Thursday to hear from Congressional Representative Lee Hamilton, a recent recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Congressman Hamilton addressed the Syrian refuge crisis and U.S. immigration.

Hamilton was a 1952 graduate of DePauw, where he was a history major and a basketball standout. He is a member of the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame and DePauw University Basketball Hall of Fame. He served 34 years in Congress.

John Schlotterbeck, Professor of History, facilitated the discussion. He opened by addressing two events that served as the focal points around the Syrian refuge crisis and U.S. immigration: when a 3-year old boy washed up on the shore after the boat he and his family were escaping on capsized, and when terrorists

SAE cont. from pg. 1 house. In the opinion of Bradshaw, Hampton and Mote, the membership review should have happened two and a half years ago when the alumni commission was started.

In fact, the Indiana Delta chapter had been making strides toward a better chapter; they doubled the number of their active members during recruitment last year and moved up three slots in the Interfraternity Council (IFC) GPA rankings. But this progress wasn’t good enough for SAE Nationals.

No communication between active SAE executive council members and Nationals boded any meaningful discussion that could benefit the chapter.

“They went about this in a way that was entirely uncorporative with us, inept and hostile from the beginning,” Bradshaw said. “They want to kick us out but they want to make it look like it’s our fault.”

The Executive Director of Finance and Housing of SAE also sent out an email to the active member’s parents explaining that the reasons for their membership review were due to use of marijuana in the chapter house, intentional

who impersonated Syrian refugees attacked a concert venue in Paris.

In response to the tensions and complicated conversations that resulted from these events, Hamilton returned to his alma matter to share his views on these matters.

“When I sit at that table, I want to know whether or not you want to make this country work,” he said. “That’s what I’m interested in.”

Hamilton said politicians are dealing with tough problems that are much different from the issues that former Congressmen have faced.

Immigration is such a hot topic because people are afraid of the country changing.

Sophomore Miranda Dafoe hosted a panel last semester on the Syrian refuge crisis.

“It was great to hear what an expert had to say on it,” she said. “I thought he did a great job of representing everything the government stands for and what their perspective is on the crisis, which is helpful, especially as a student.”

According to Hamilton, identifying from where these immigrants are coming and the

hardships they face will help us deal with solving the Syria’s fundamental problems. He said the U.S. has a major role in this, and we are not yet doing our share.

As Americans, Hamilton said our temptation is often to react with guns. However, we have other tools at our disposal that we can use to combat the issue. By sharpening our diplomatic and economic aid and getting the right people to the table, we can increase our chances of success.

“I enjoy hearing someone that is so knowledgable discuss such a relevant topic,” sophomore Erika Killion said.

Sophomore Victoria Houghtalen agreed.

“I appreciated Congressman Hamilton’s discussion not only because it was intellectually stimulating but morally stimulating,” Houghtalen said. “[I loved] the different ideas that he represented on what we should do as a county, not just what’s going on in our current news cycle, but what we should be doing and the responsibility that we have.”

damage to the chapter house, and the playing of beer pong, explained Mote.

Later, an email from the Associate Executive Director of SAE Nationals explained that the membership review is a result of “health and safety and chapter operational concerns.” No specific incidents were ever listed as evidence for this review, even after SAE members sent several requests for these documents.

“There’s no rape allegations, no battery allegations, no racial allegations, no hazing,” Hampton explained. “We’re diverse, tame. We throw one party a year. What does that tell you guys?”

“As far as SAE goes, we are one of their most docile chapters,” Bradshaw added.

For the membership review, the men will undergo an interview and a hair sample drug test.

At this point, every member of the chapter has refused the drug test. As a result, they will likely all be suspended.

If the members are, in fact, suspended or expelled from SAE, they may also risk the displacement of the 27 members living in the house. The good news, according to Bradshaw, which comes from Assistant Dean of Students for Campus Living Myrna Hernandez, is that even if members are suspended or expelled, they are still entitled to their rooms inside SAE for the rest of the semester, as long as they don’t violate the Master Lease for the house.

“We do want to apologize to the freshman,

the six freshman we had on bid night, because if we would have known this would have happened then we never would have held a third round [of recruitment],” Mote said.

Although it does not seem that SAE Nationals or the SAE alumni commission is on the side of SAE Indiana Delta, around 50 SAE DePauw alumnae support the 30 active members’ decision to fight Nationals and refuse the drug tests.

After speaking with SAE members on Thursday night, The DePauw reached out to Weghorst for further comment, but did not receive a reply by the time of publication.

The membership review will take place on March 12, and until then, the future of SAE at DePauw University will remain in question.

“We’re not disappointed in this seemingly inevitable end, but we are not loyal to the letters SAE,” Bradshaw said. “We are loyal to the men of the chapter that we joined for.”

Hampton added, “If this is how we’re gong to be treated then I don’t want to be in SAE anyway.”

The DePauw | News Retiring history professor Barbara Steinson discusses history of Women’s Studies at DePauw

BY NETTIE FINN

news@thedepauw.com The lights in Peeler auditorium went dark for a moment in the midst of Barbara Steinson’s talk, entitled “You’ve Got to be Kidding,” but neither the speaker nor her audience were phased.

Having been a professor at DePauw since 1978--and a key member of the committee that would eventually convince then-DePauw President Robert Bottoms to create the “Women’s Studies Coordinator” on campus--Steinson covered her own career at her lecture and how she came to be involved in women’s studies, as well as the creation of that department on DePauw’s campus.

“Barbara suggested that the focus could be less on her academic accomplishments—which are many—and more on her work as an activist on this campus,” said Women’s Studies Director Tamara Beauboeuf in her brief introduction.

Steinson, who is retiring at the end of this semester, garnered a laugh from the packed auditorium even before beginning to speak herself. During Professor of English and Women’s Studies Meryl Altman’s reminisces, Altman touched on the faculty vote for the creation of a women’s studies major.

“I was up all night the night before, thinking up these really good arguments for why this was a good thing, and answering questions and really prepping for this debate,” she said. “But we got in there, and someone made the motion, and someone asked a question and I answered it. And then there was silence. So somebody said, are we ready to vote for this? And everybody voted for it.”

At that, Steinson threw up a fist pump

SPEAKER cont. FROM pg. 1 In 1996, Smiley became a frequent commentator on the “Tom Joyner Morning Show” and eventually began hosting and executively producing “BET Tonight,” a public affairs discussion show on the Black Entertainment Television network.

In 2001, Smiley began hosting “The Tavis Smiley Show” at NPR. Three years in, he switched to Public Radio International (PRI).

Currently, Smiley is a host of the latenight PBS talk show entitled “Tavis Smi-

from where she was waiting behind the podium.

Steinson herself did not neglect to mention the names of other women important to the women’s studies movement on DePauw’s campus. She cited Mary Beard, a women’s rights activist who graduated from DePauw in 1897, as well as past DePauw professors Sarah Jane Williams and Margaret Berrio as inspirations and leaders.

After former DePauw President Richard Rosser “laughed in my face,” according to Steinson, when she proposed the idea of a women’s studies coordinator, she found Bottoms more receptive to the idea, and in fact even secured an endowment for the position from Janet Prindle, but there were still many hoops to jump through. A committee came together to outline what they were looking for in this position.

“We outlined—at minimum—three different jobs,” Steinson said.

Even once a candidate had been found, she wasn’t quite perfect. Though the committee hired her in the spring of 1897, she requested a year off to complete a fellowship at the University of Adelaide in Australia, and at the end of that year, announced that she had decided to stay down under.

“I probably broke his eardrum with my response, which I think was probably to scream, ‘are you kidding me?’” she said.

“I was just stunned. She hadn’t even had the courtesy to contact the women’s studies search committee. I’ve written here in capital letters: many bad words were uttered.”

This delay meant that it wasn’t until the fall of 1990 that a women’s studies coordinator was successfully hired: Meryl Altman. ley,” which began in 2004, as well as “The Tavis Smiley Show” on PRI. Smiley is a New York Times best-selling author for his memoir, “What I Know for Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America.” Additionally, “Covenant With Black America,” a book Smiley edited, became the first non-fiction book by a black-owned publisher to be a Times No. 1 bestseller.

Smiley most recently published “Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year.” He is currently working on another book entitled “My Journey with Maya,” in which he shares memories from his 28-year friendship with Maya Angelou.

Smiley is the founder of a nonprofit

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It was an honor meeting former DePauw graduate and retired veteran U.S. Congressman Lee Hamilton this morning.

Barbara Steinson addressing her audience assembled in Peeler AuditoBy the end of the evening, the floor was opened up to questions, upon which the discussion veered into some of the more interesting histories of DePauw: shared professorships between spouses and the male faculty-only nude pool hour—that was later invaded by a woman psychology professor and prompted swimsuits to be worn again.

She ended her talk with a “favorite” quote from Beard: “’If modern women could, in their thinking, move closer to the center of life, understand where they actually get sustenance, how they are in fact either building up or tearing down civilizations, then strengthened and glorified by their historic and potential role in culture, they might answer one of the greatest riddles of the universe: what do women want of life, and come nearer to getting it.’”

entitled the Tavis Smiley Foundation, which funds programs that develop young leaders. In addition, the foundation has embarked on a $3 million, four-year campaign entitled “ENDING POVERTY: America’s Silent Spaces.”

Smiley received the Du Bois Medal from Harvard University and the 2009 Interdependence Day Prize from Demos in Istanbul, Turkey. Smiley has also received sixteen honorary doctorates and will receive another at this year’s commencement.

The ceremony will take place on Sunday, May 22, at 10:30 a.m. in the Holton Memorial Quadrangle.

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The DePauw | News 4 Arne Duncan to be Final Ubben Lecture Speaker for the Academic Year

BY GRACE NODEN news@thedepauw.com

Former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will visit DePauw on April 21 to give the last Ubben Lecture of this academic year.

Described by The New York Times as “arguably one of the most powerful education secretaries in history,” Duncan was appointed in 2009 by President Obama and was the administration’s second longest serving member. Duncan stepped down from his position at the end of 2015. His speech this spring will be one of his first since leaving office.

“We try to get that person when they just hit the market or when they’re just hitting the news, so that it’s a lot more relevant, and you’re not getting someone who’s been to IU and Butler,” said Executive Director of Media Relations Ken Owen.

Relevance is key for the Ubben Lecture Series, and Duncan’s visit is no exception.

“He’s been a really important voice on issues of education, which is at the core of many of the issues we’re dealing with in America, whether it’s poverty, income inequality, finding a way to create new ladders for success in this country,” Owen said on why Duncan was se- Arne Duncan, the former Secretary of Education, sits next to President Obama as they talk to a classroom of students. lected. “To get a fresh voice who’s PHOTO COURTSEY OF DEPAUW UNIVERSITY really been in the thick of things for awhile is a powerful thing.” graduated magna cum laude from Education Initiative, which helped Have A Dream” program. Following Prior to his time as U.S. Harvard University and ran the fund a college education for a class this, Duncan was appointed Deputy Secretary of Education, Duncan nonprofit education foundation, Ariel of inner-city children under the “I Chief of Staff to the head of Chicago

Public Schools, and was chosen

by Mayor Richard Daley to lead the school system in 2001.

“I think there will be takeaways for everybody,” Owen said. “I think one of the really attractive things is that it’s hard in modern America to find somebody who is a changeagent but who also is able to kind of tick both sides off.”

Senior education major Susan John is looking forward to the lecture, and hopes to learn from Duncan’s experiences.

“I’m extremely excited that Arne Duncan is coming because when it comes to education, especially education policy, he’s a trailblazer,” John said. “For the last seven years he made so many different reforms at our federal level and he’s a man who truly deserves to be recognized on college campuses.”

Owen’s hope for Duncan’s speech--as well as the Ubben Lecture Series in general--is to open students’ minds to different ideas and paths to take.

“I think the value of being in the room, with whether it’s Jimmy Kimmel or Jane Goodall or Yeonmi Park or Douglas Hallward-Drienmeier or our next guest Arne Duncan, is that you’re exposed to somebody who’s made a difference in the world and can give you a bit of a roadmap to how to forge your own path or be a change-agent.”

VP of Academic Affairs Larry Stimpert named President of Hampden-Sydney College TDP STAFF REPORTS news@thedepauw.com

Larry Stimpert was named the 25th President of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia on Thursday morning. Stimpert currently serves as DePauw’s Vice President for Academic Affairs as well as a professor

of economics and management.

Stimpert will be replacing current Hampden-Sydney College President Christopher B. Howard, who will be leaving the institution to become President of Robert Morris University.

Stimpert joined DePauw’s faculty in 2013 after leaving Colorado College. He worked for multiple trans-

portation companies before entering academia.

“It has been easy for me to embrace Hampden-Sydney’s mission of ‘forming good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning,’” said Stimpert in a HampdenSydney press release Thursday.

Hampden-Sydney College is an all-male private liberal arts college

located in central Virginia. Within the 1,100-person student-body, 34% of juniors and seniors are Economics majors. The fact that this discipline is one of the most popular fields of study at the institution bodes well for Stimpert, given his extensive economics background.

“In the classroom, I have been richly rewarded by my interactions

with DePauw students and the oneon-one encounters that are such a part of the culture,” Stimpert said in a DePauw University press release.

“I am grateful for the opportunities I’ve had to work with DePauw’s talented and dedicated faculty members who so positively impact our students and prepare them for lives of great meaning and consequence.”

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First annual Okeechobee Music Festival to take place this weekend in Florida

BY BEN GORMAN

features@thedepauw.com This weekend, the portal will open and the first Okeechobee Music Festival will take place in Okeechobee, Florida from March 3-7. Boasting a lineup consisting of Mumford and Sons, Kendrick Lamar, Skrillex, Robert Plant, Hall & Oates, Fetty Wap, Portugal the Man, Ween and more, the event will be the largest independent music festival in the country.

Under the curation of Soundslinger Entertainment, the event will have five stages in two venues. The first venue, The Grove, will be similar to Centeroo at Bonnaroo or other popular festival grounds, consisting of three stages of music: Be, Here and Now. Moonlight Oasis, the other venue, is modeled after Electric Forest and Burning Man and will focus more on a visual aesthetic than nationally recognized musical talent. It will feature a forested village filled with art installations (Chobeewobee Village), a yoga center

(Yogachobee), a daytime beach stage (Aquachobee) and an all night jungle party (Jungle 51). While this seems like an ambitious undertaking for a first year festival, the Soundslinger team is more than qualified to put it together.

Soundslinger, while still very new, should be viewed as The Avengers of the music world. Founded by Paul Peck, one of the founders of Bonnaroo and the curator of the popular Superjams, the entertainment company has hopes to put on multiple events of similar size, scope and talent each year while continuing to operate as an independent company.

These are significant goals, considering independent festivals like Wakarusa and All Good recently announced retirement and Coachella and Bonnaroo have recently sold shares of their event to corporations like Live Nation and AEG. If they are able to manage their funds well and keep their autonomy, they may be able to bring back the grassroots ideals of Woodstock to an industry losing a battle consumerism, which can be reflected in the

Bud Light- and Playstation-sponsored stages at Lollapalooza.

Peck will bring his Superjam concept to his new festival and is producing the first ever PowWow! featuring Miguel and Win Butler (Arcade Fire) and a band led by John Oates (Hall & Oates) and Kamasi Washington (Kendrick Lamar). He has also organized a second collaboration to take place during Mumford & Sons headlining set where the band will be joined by The Avett Brothers, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine). Peck and the Soundslinger team promise more surprise collaborations and secret sets that will take place throughout the festival.

Tickets are still available at okeechobeefest.com for students looking to take an extended weekend.

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Opera performance of “Little Women

BY KATIE O’LAUGHLIN features@thedepauw.com Arias fill the air as DePauw’s spring opera, “Little Women,” concludes the 2015-16 festival “Little Women: Art and Transformation” tonight, tomorrow and Sunday.

Director Joachim Schamberger and conductor Orcenith Smith brought Mark Adamo’s Opera to life with the help of a group of talented DePauw students.

Based on the well-known coming-of-age Civil War novel by Louis May Alcott, Adamo’s contemporary opera conveys the heart of the beloved story though emotional arias that develop the characters and time lapses that brilliantly transform Alcott’s work to the stage.

This weekend’s performances have been a long time coming, with the “Little Women” festival having been in full throttle since September and the primary

auditions held last May. DePa had the privilege of gaining th self since early on in rehears Composers Festival.

“It was really cool to have rehearsals to work with the p ies,” cast member Ann Chase insight made the experience for all of us.”

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jor themes and historical elements in “Little Women,” both on stage and in literature. In celebration of the end of the festival, Adamo will return this Saturday and Sunday to watch the performances.

Cast member Julia Mascotte hopes that DePauw students will keep an open mind about the show.

“The words will be projected above the stage so the audience can follow along easily and fully appreciate both the story and the music,” she said.

“Classical music is a lot more accessible than you think,” said vocal performance major Abigail Martin.

Like Mascotte, she hopes that students will appreciate the hard work that the members of the cast have put in over the last few months by coming and supporting the Opera.

In addition to yesterday’s 7:30 p.m. performance, the opera will take place tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in Moore Theatre at the Green Center for Performing Arts. Admission is free to students and $7 to the general public.

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The Devil’s Lettuce and why it should be legal

Marijuana: also known as pot, weed, reefer, the devil’s lettuce, ganja, mary jane, the list goes on. It’s illegal in 46 of 50 states in America--not that anyone on DePauw’s campus cares--and has been a major controversy in the national news for the past couple of years.

To legalize or not to legalize--that is the question.

Whether your argument comes from the medicinal standpoint, the economic stimulation it would provide or the simple fact that you want to use it recreationally, the main reason marijuana should be legal is simply this: on what grounds should it not be? It’s undeniably safer than alcohol--it is relatively impossible to overdose on weed. Keeping it illegal supports illegal movement of the drug, which makes it incredibly difficult to monitor. If we’ve learned anything from Prohibition, it’s that making something illegal doesn’t mean people will stop consuming that product-and that’s exactly what’s happening in the United States where marijuana is still illegal.

As of June 2015, the state of Washington had made $83 million dollars off of marijuana tax revenues--money that would otherwise be going to illegal drug dealers. The number of traffic accidents as well as violent crimes have decreased dramatically as well. Whereas alcohol is more likely to spurn aggression and anger, marijuana calms people down.

Beyond financial reward, marijuana does have a lot of healing properties for an array of illnesses, both physically and mentally. Marijuana helps with anxiety and depression and may be able to replace traditional anti-anxiety or antidepressant medication. It can help people quit smoking cigarettes as well, not to mention helping people with epileptic seizures.

There are also studies that prove marijuana can stop cancer from spreading and can be used as a painkiller for chronic pain such as arthritis.

Those opposed to the legalization of marijuana argue that it makes users lazy and unproductive. This is simply not true. Some of the most productive people we know also smoke weed on a consistent basis.

Some argue that marijuana is a ‘gateway’ drug, and that legalizing it will make people reach for the ‘harder’ stuff later on. However, in a TIME article entitled “Marijuana as a Gateway Drug: The Myth That Will Not Die,” author Maia Szalavitz argues that if pot is legalized, people will not have to go to dealers to purchase it.

With this connection cut off, it would be immeasurably more difficult to seek out a dealer who would sell a stranger hard drugs.

“Compared with pot dealers, sellers of hard drugs tend to be even less trusting of customers they don’t know, in part because they face greater penalties,” she writes. “But if you’ve proved yourself by regularly purchasing marijuana, dealers will happily introduce you to their harder product lines if you express interest, or help you find a friend of theirs who can.”

Holland legalized the use of marijuana in order to avoid this gateway, and it has since seen fewer young pot-smokers who move on to harder drugs than other nations, including the U.S. So, what are we waiting for?

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Sticking with Greek Life MAGGIE ROTH With the busy panhellenic recruitment season over, I find myself reflecting on a time not too long ago when I pledged Pi Beta Phi. As a freshman, I was incredibly nervous and self-conscience about joining a house full of people I didn’t know. Getting a bid from a house where I didn’t know a single upperclassmen was daunting, but I assured myself that the hard part was already over: recruitment.

Within Pi Phi, I could count on one hand the number of girls in my pledge class I even recognized.

Many people, especially those with little to no experience in Greek life, assume joining a sorority means you have instant friends. Suddenly you’re forced into sisterhood with 90+ girls you probably don’t even know.

“Pledgeship” for a sorority is

vastly different than the notion most people believe. Apart from the meetings you attend to learn the history and values of your new chapter, you don’t really have a formal way of getting to know your supposed “new best friends.” Most bonding is done informally through flower-ins, pre-games at an upperclassmen duplex, or coming to the house to eat lunch or dinner.

This was one of the most intimidating experiences for me because I was already pretty comfortable with the friends I had and was not at all motivated to branch out of my bubble. Combine that with an incredibly busy schedule, and you have your own sisters asking if you’re a Pi Phi because they’ve never seen you before.

I want new members to learn from the mistakes I made as a freshman. I’ve felt that I made the wrong decision choosing the house that I did. I created a vision in my head of what being in a sorority should be, and it did not live up to reality. Many young women, and even men, are now probably wondering the same thing: why

did I choose this house because it feels like a mistake. You probably feel alone in your thoughts or are scared to admit it to someone else in your pledge class, but I guarantee there are other people feeling the exact same way. I struggled my second semester to fit in and make an effort to be involved with others in my house. I considered the possibility of dropping and making my way as an independent, but if I can give one piece of advice to new members, it is to stick with it.

After living in the house for only a semester, I discovered my best friends, and they were all people I had never encountered before. Everyday, I have the opportunity to live with some incredible women I never would have had the chance to meet had I followed through on my belief that I didn’t fit in. I encourage everyone, in sororities and fraternities, to at least give Greek life a shot. You picked a house for a reason, and even though it might feel like a mistake now, the house also picked you.

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Should We All Be Feminists?

ELISE Johns

Those of you that have taken a course in the Women’s Studies department at DePauw have most likely read or been introduced to the book “We Should All Be Feminists” written by the Nigerian Author Chimamanda Adichie.

Published just a few years ago, the book is small in size, approximately 50 pages in length, and overall unsuspecting.

Yet the argument Adichie makes is anything but small. She declares that “we should all be feminists.” And I agree.

The audience to which I am writing this opinion is of great importance. We, as DePauw University students, should all be feminists.

Our cohort, from ages 18-22, have the ability

to make significant impacts on our future society; therefore, we should do so as feminists.

It is of upmost importance that when we leave DePauw we leave as feminists. And when we go on in life either as teachers, managers, writers, and even parents, we must do a service to our students, employees, audiences, and even children. We must acknowledge gender inequality as an issue, live as examples to younger generations, and pass the torch onto them.

Our goal should not to simply make room for the roles of women within the patriarchy.

Rather to create a society that denounces negative patriarchal values and promotes equality between the sexes.

To achieve this goal, we must first remove the stigma around the word ‘feminism.’ Education about the objectives of the feminist movement is critical. It should be made clear that equality for women would improve not only the lives of women but also the lives of all.

Keeping gender in the issue is also significant. Many people will argue that are

not feminists but rather ‘humanists,’ dedicated to the equality of all humans not just women.

The same dilemma occurs in the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement. People will argue: Don’t all lives matter? Well of course all lives matter, but that is fundamentally not what we are talking about.

By making this sweeping claim you undermine the experiences people have had and are attempting to share, while also trying to bury the real issue at hand. In the case of feminism and humanism, of course equality of all humans should be sought after. But in this movement, we’re talking specifically about gender, and sight should not be taken from that endeavor by grandiose statements seeking to undermine the cause.

Adichie makes the profound statement at the end of her book: “all of us, women and men, must do better.” I challenge DePauw’s campus to do the same.

-Johns is a sophomore Geosciene major, Biology minor from Carmel, Indiana.

Compassion, Equality and Justice: A Sanders Mentality Amanda Buening

Recently an opinion piece titled, “Socialism: The Creed of Ignorance” was published, and it completely missed the point of what the democratic-socialist movement is trying to accomplish.

We live in a time where productivity and wealth has vastly risen, yet compensation has not adjusted to match. The wealthy continue to get tax breaks under the ideas of “trickle-down economics” and of the “invisible hand.” Trickle-down economics have not worked, and the invisible hand is a myth. Free markets left to pursue their own interests do not lead to the greatest public good. It leads to the system we have now with vast income inequality and greed, where the rich only grow richer and the poor only grow poorer.

Currently the highest earners in our economy pay less in taxes in comparison to the amounts they are earning than the middle and poorest, even though they have the most money to give. They should pay a rate that

is higher to be proportional and fair. Even in a democratic-socialist world, these people would still be the richest citizens. All this would mean is giving a bigger share of their wealth to taxes, which is not “robbing Paul to pay Peter” but expecting citizens, even wealthy citizens, to give their fair share in order to benefit the communities they live in and improve the lives of their fellow Americans.

In his article, “Why Conservatives Hate Fiscal Policy,” Tom Streithorst argues that it is not a desire to improve America or protect liberty that keeps the rich and powerful away from fiscal spending like Sanders is planning, but self-interest and a desire to protect their own pocketbooks.

Stimulative deficit spending would empower the working class at the expense of the very rich, and that is the real reason why Sanders’ plans find so much pushback. The rich control the media, and they do not want to show us how increased spending would create jobs or stimulate growth. They would rather us believe these projects are simply too expensive. This is a lie.

Sanders’ programs will benefit Americans without taking away freedom and liberty but expecting equality and balance.

In the end, I reject the piece “Socialism: A Creed for Ignorance” on both factual and moral grounds. His argument rests on a belief

of libertarian ideals of property, based on John Lockean principles that if someone puts hard work into something they deserve the products of their labor.

However, this idea is dependent upon whether they leave enough resources for equal opportunity. No one has the right to infringe on the liberties of others, but the way the rich act does just that. Not only do they prevent equal opportunity, these ideas also rest on a very selfish foundation that I do not believe stands for what it means to be a citizen.

The role of a citizen is to recognize that one lives in a community where one must help others and not only look out for oneself.

Self-interest is not the only thing that matters in the marketplace and government regulation is needed to protect basic values such as honesty, justice, equality and integrity. At the heart of the progressive movement is not envy and greed, but compassion, equality, and justice. These are not idealistic goals, but are attainable with progressive reform.

To read the full version of this opinion piece and more like it, visit https://comptoncenter.wordpress.com/ -Buening is a senior Communications major and intern at the Compton Center for Peace and Justice.

PHOTOPINION What qualities are you hoping to find in our next university president?

“Passionate, truly cares about the community and confident.”

Lin Ye, junior “I hope the president will be dedicated to making this campus a safe place for students and faculty from different backgrounds.”

Jonathan Li, senior “I would want someone who would follow in President Casey’s commitment to environmental efforts and sustainability.”

Melissa Guerrero, senior

“Competence.”

Grayson Pitts, senior Alex Weilhammer / the depauw

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The DePauw | Sports

March Sports Calendar SUNDAY

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Track and Field at North Coast Athletic Conference Indoor Championships Kenyon College; Gambier, Ohio Women’s Basketball DePauw at Wis.-Stevens Point NCAA Division III Championship First Round

Men’s Tennis DePauw vs. Gust. Adolphus @ Jackson, Wis.

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Baseball Manchester vs. DePauw @ Grand Park; Westfield, Ind.

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Men’s Golf Katman Klassic Twin Lakes CC; Carmel, Ind. Baseball Capital at DePauw 12:00 PM EDT

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Men’s Tennis vs. Carleton Baseball double-header vs.

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Men’s Tennis vs. Oberlin Baseball vs. Luther Women’s LAX vs. Redlands Women’s Tennis vs.

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Men’s Swimming DePauw at NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships; Greensboro, N.C.

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Men’s Tennis Wis.-Whitewater vs. DePauw @ Hilton Head Island, S.C. Men’s Lacrosse Elmhurst vs. DePauw @ Whittier College

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Men’s Swimming DePauw at NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships; Greensboro, N.C.

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Men and Women’s Golf vs.

Arizona Christian Baseball vs. Hamline Women’s Tennis vs. Carleton

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Men’s Swimming DePauw at NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships; Greensboro, N.C.

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Men’s Tennis vs. Georgia Gwinnett Baseball double-header vs. Gust. Adolphus Women’s Tennis vs. Emory

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Track and Field Baseball double-header Men’s LAX vs. Cornell Col. Women’s LAX vs.N. Central Men’s Tennis vs. Chicago Women’s Tennis vs. Chicago

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Women’s Golf Baseball double-header Softball double-header Women’s LAX vs.Mont. Union Men’s LAX vs. Calvin Men’s Tennis vs. Washington

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Track and Field Men’s Swimming Softball double-header Women’s LAX vs. Baldwin Men’s LAX vs. Kenyon

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Men’s Tennis vs. Emory Women’s LAX vs. Oberlin Women’s Tennis vs. Sewanee Softball double-header Men’s LAX vs. Denison

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Coach Profile: Erica Hanrahan, softball you recognize and you talk about with your team that last year was a wonderful experience…. But this is a new journey and a new year…

We try to give them that kind of talk where it’s a process, where we want to be the best at the end, not in the beginning… Now that [the season has] started and we didn’t quite have what we wanted, I think people are hungry to now prove that they are better. The jitters are gone, the freshmen got their first chances and the new people in new positions have kind of started to gel.

TDP: You guys have played Birmingham Southern, Berry, Averett and Emory to start the season. You don’t usually face these teams, correct?

EH: Emory we have faced before, but you’re right, the [others]…are new teams.

TDP: Did you just add them to face new competi-

BY AUSTIN CANDOR sports@thedepauw.com After taking her Tigers to the Division III World Series last year, Erica Hanrahan returns ready to do it all again. Despite going 1-6 to begin the young softball season, Hanrahan has seen plenty of potential and progress from her Tigers. This week, The DePauw sat down with the coach to discuss her thoughts on the 2016 season.

The DePauw (TDP): Having come off of last year’s success, how did you prepare your team mentally for this season? Obviously there’s a little bit of pressure.

Erica Hanrahan (EH): Well, we’ve taken the pressure off by going 1-6 to start the season. But in all honesty, when you lose three key players who played almost every inning of every game… and add seven new freshmen,

tion?

EH: [It’s] strength of schedule. All four of those teams were ranked in the top 25 at some point, if not the entire season, last year. So I figured, you only get better by playing the best. One of the things that I was aware of was that some of these teams may have a month on us because they start practice in early January, and yes they’ve gone outside, but all those things in my mind are excuses you make to justify if you don’t play well enough… We always want to play teams when they’re at their best so we learn what level we need to get to.

TDP: You always make sure to put them at the beginning of the season?

EH: I do them all over, but I don’t want it to ever be an easy schedule going into Conference, because then it’s easier to drop some of those early conference games.

TDP: You mentioned how you had

three critical seniors last year, and now this season you have six. How much emphasis do you put on senior leadership, or do you think whoever is willing to step up can be a leader?

EH: We actually have some diversity in leadership this year that come throughout all of the classes. I would say that every senior class really shapes the culture and the attitude of the team… Last year, we had a very intense, driven group of seniors who… really kind of ruled the class that way.

The year before we had two really earthy, spiritual, kind [and] meditative seniors… Again, we won the conference tournament that year, but there were two whole different feels to the team.

TDP: What do you think personally was the key to last season’s success?

EH: Selflessness. I think every kid on the team wanted the team to win more than their own role to be the starter or star player. I think when we went to the World Series, and there were eight teams there, and everybody had multiple All-Americans on their teams and we didn’t have one, it showed that we got there because a different hero stepped up in every game… There are a lot of jokes with the umpires I face because I make a lot of changes during games because people play certain roles: base runners then go in to play the outfield or pinch hitters then go in to play first base… You can have 16 [or] 17 kids in a double header, whereas a lot of teams stick with nine or ten.

TDP: You had previously said how selflessness is one of your three core values. What are the other two?

EH: Dedication and relentlessness.

I think last year, we had this fight in us, and throughout the playoffs, we got down in almost every one of our games. We were trailing, and we came back to win those games. Some were 3-0 deficits and some were 7-0 deficits, and we came back. And so the relentlessness comes with not just resiliency, but resiliency with this extra fight in it… Dedication is something that is, believe or not, easiest for us because the kids work out year round and really give into the weight lifting and condition program.

Tiger of the Week:

Emma Flynn

Sport: LaCROSSE POSITION: ATTACK Year: SOPHOMRE Hometown: INDianapolis Sophomore attack Emma Flynn earned herself Tiger of the Week after her superb performance against Illinois Wesleyan in the women’s lacrosse game on Wednesday night. Although the ladies were not able to pull out the win, Flynn propelled the team with her four goals. Flynn now leads the team in goals with seven in just two games.

The DePauw: What reactions do you have to Wednesday’s game?

Emma Flynn: Honestly it’s a tough loss. I think we really we could have won that game, but losses do happen. All we can do is take it as a learning experience and get better.

TDP: How does it feel to be the team’s leading scorer?

EF: I have to admit, it’s pretty exciting. But honestly, I really couldn’t do it without my teammates. Those goals are all great feeds from my team and came from us working together as a unit down on our offensive end.

TDP: What do you think contributed to your all-star performance last night?

EF: I think I came ready to play. Coming off of our first win, I was really excited to get better every game, and I think I was able to do so. My energy was up, and that’s when I think I play my best lacrosse.

TDP: What kind of goals have you set for yourself and the team this season?

EF: My goal for the team is to make it to the conference tournament. My main goal for myself is to score in every game, but also to improve every game.

TDP: What do you do before a match to “get your head in the game?”

EF: I listen to some really great pump up music and just think about what I’m going to try to achieve during the game. But most importantly, I watch “Miracle” before almost every game!

TDP: Do you have any advice for fellow student athletes?

EF: My advice would be to focus on why you love the game that you play. I think I forgot that for a while, but now that I’ve realized again why I love playing lacrosse, I’m such a better player because of it.

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Women’s lacrosse drops to 1-1 after nonconference loss

BY Mallory Dillon sports@thedepauw.com

Illinois Wesleyan University sealed their victory over DePauw on Wednesday night after a late goal scored with 1:39 remaining. With this loss, the Tigers’ record dropped to 1-1.

“Wednesday’s game was a big learning experience for us,” said Head Coach Julie Sargent. “We learned that we have to have a presence on the field for a full 60 minutes, and never to underestimate our opponents.”

Illinois Wesleyan jumped ahead quickly, netting three goals within the first three minutes. One of the goals

was scored inside the first 55 seconds of the match. They converted two more within 40 seconds of each other.

Junior attack Taylor Summers received the wake up call, however, and was able to put an end to the Tigers’ scoring drought just minutes later.

The Titans attempted to reassert their dominance, retaliating against Summers’ goal with one of their own.

With a 4-1 deficit and 18:30 remaining in the half, the Tigers thought it was time to make moves.

Sophomore attack and leading scorer Emma Flynn took over, scoring three goals within the final 13 minutes of the half. Junior attack Nicole Gibson and first-year Madi Lo-

zanoski were each able to add one point to the scorecard before the half ended as well.

At the first half’s close, DePauw had managed to fight back and lead the Titans with a score of 6-4. The second half, however, told a different story.

“While there were some great moments, we also had moments where we gave up easy passes and lost our drive and focus,” Sargent said.

The Titans evened the score early in the half, but Flynn retaliated with a goal to maintain a one-point lead in the Tigers’ advantage.

But Illinois Wesleyan tied it up again with 12 minutes remaining.

The final blow was delivered with just under two minutes left in the game.

Senior Abby Snively (right) plays defense on junior Kelli Peterson (left) during practice on Thursday. Snively has one goal and one assist this season.

SAM CARAVANA / THE DEPAUW

Illinois Wesleyan’s leading scorer managed to net the game winner in the 58th minute, ending the backand-forth battle in the Titans’ favor.

“When we lose such a close game, it only makes us that much more determined to win and play a full 60 minutes in our next game,” said junior defender Stefanie Buffa.

Junior midfielder Emily Scinta echoed similar sentiments.

“We are not going to let this loss get our spirits down,” she said. “Losing is never fun, but it’s the losses that make you a better team because you can learn from them.”

Flynn paced the Tigers with her four goals, while Gibson tallied one goal and three assists.

On the defensive side, junior goal-

keeper Liz Hawkins recorded eight saves, while Buffa and Scinta each collected two ground balls.

The Tigers had a total of 19 shots, 16 of which were on goal, and were able to win 12 out of the 17 draws presented.

DePauw resumes play this Saturday against the visiting North Central Cardinals. Faceoff is scheduled for 2 p.m. at Reavis Stadium.

“In our first few games we have time to learn from our mistakes and iron out all of the wrinkles,” Buffa said. “I’m excited to see the team readjust and come home with a ‘W’ on Saturday.”

Rachel Allen (left) is swarmed by defender Olivia Roseman (middle). The Tiger’s return to Reavis Stadium Saturday against North Central College at 2 p.m.

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