The DePauw April 5, 2016

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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper

vol. 164, issue 38

Stellar and beyond: What’s up next for Greencastle

BY NETTIE FINN

news@thedepauw.com As construction on Greencastle’s square wraps up, so too does funding from the Stellar Communities Grant.

The grant was awarded to Greencastle in 2011, and since then the $19 million that was awarded to the town have been spread over a variety of projects, including the Anderson Street entrance to DePauw University, the arrival of Eli’s Books and Starbucks, the new parking lot on Indiana Street and construction on the square to update roads and building facades.

“I view Stellar as funding primarily for infrastructure around the square, between DePauw and the square,” said Vice President for Finanace and Administration Brad Kelsheimer.

Stellar money, which was funded by three state organizations—Community of Rural Affaira, Indiana Department of Transportation and the Indiana Housing Authority—is definitely running out.

“We’re nearing the end of the

Construction continues on Indiana Street in between Washington and Walnut Street. With the Stellar Communities grant, DePauw University and Greencastle aim to fix the facades of the buildings on and near the Greencastle Square. REBECA BAGDOCIMO / THE DEPAUW

program,” said Greencastle Mayor Bill Dorry. “Obviously our former mayor Sue Murray did a fabulous job of pulling the team together to get the job done. Now my task is to help complete the work and get things closed out.”

But as the Stellar Grant dries up, what’s the next step for Greencastle and DePauw?

According to Kelsheimer, it’s not just one step--it’s three. The first phase consists of downtown revitalization, the second phase is updating housing and the third and ultimate phase is to increase the tax base. Currently, we’re in the first phase: focusing on the resurgence of Greencastle’s downtown.

“The more pride we can develop in our downtown, the better,” Kelsheimer said.

To this end, Kelsheimer is thinking big. He doesn’t want Greencastle to be one of many Indiana small towns--he wants it to become a destination.

STELLAR GRANT cont. on pg. 2

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STELLAR GRANT cont. FROM pg. 1 “When we think downtown revitalization, we’re thinking bigger than just serving the campus, and bigger even than serving Greencastle,” he said.

According to Kelsheimer, there are 75,000 to 100,000 visitors to DePauw each year. 10,000 vehicles pass through Greencastle on Highway 231 every day. 30,000 vehicles pass by on Interstate 70 every day. According to ESRI Data, and economic development database tool, there are $19 million worth of unmet demand for sit down restaurants within a 20 mile radius of Greencastle.

These numbers add up, and fast.

“There clearly is demand,” Kelsheimer said. “We just don’t have the supply.”

Two new restaurants that are just around corner and primed to meet this demand are Tap House 24 and Wasser Beer. Tap House 24 should be open by early June and Wasser Beer plans to be serving patrons by late April or May. Meanwhile, Mitch Meyers, owner of Meyer’s Market, has purchased Chief’s old restaurant location, and plans to use the space for pop-up restaurants, as well as renting out the space.

“We would love to see a rooftop venue along [North Indiana Street], but it’s too early, probably, to call that a specific project,” Kelsheimer added.

Again, those numbers add up. Considering the restaurants already serving in downtown Greencastle, the two additional restaurants make a total of eight food-serving establishments

DSG cont. FROM pg. 4 also bring about opportunities for students from a wider range of socio-economic backgrounds.

“We often have awesome individuals join DSG their freshman or sophomore year only to leave their junior year because of other paid leadership opportunities,” said Katie Kondry, the executive vice president of DSG. “Similarly, we

on the square, not including 2 West Bistro or The Fluttering Duck. That number also doesn’t include the two pages of interested third parties Kelsheimer has tucked away in a binder full of revitalization ideas.

Aside from restaurants, stores like Crickets and Conspire: Contemporary Craft have started giving the square more of a retail presence.

According to Kelsheimer, DePauw had nothing to do with the arrival of these two new shops.

“That’s just Greencastle stepping up and being entrepreneurial,” he said.

Above Conspire is the Black Cat Gallery, which provides a space for local artists on a rotating basis. Kelsheimer would like to see a continued expansion of the arts, perhaps including another gallery near Music on the Square.

Another of Kelsheimer’s big dreams is to see the cinema move onto the square and into a renovated space. This lines up with one of his key terms: density.

“We want to focus on density,” he said. “We don’t want to pop up retail right next to our campus because if we do, it dilutes from often try to recruit other outstanding students only to have them turn down the opportunity to join DSG because of work study commitments. Many of these students could have been won over if they would have been partially compensated for the hours spent working on items for DSG. Compensation allows us to compete for these students, as their voices are important and we want to ensure that DSG is an opportunity available to any and all DePauw students.”

Another case the members have for enforcing compensation

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the density on the square.”

Though density is important, Dorry is set on ensuring that all parts of Greencastle are growing, not just the square. In keeping with that goal, projects off the square are also in the works for Greencastle.

The fire station has received a grant for renovations that will take place over the summer. These will include interior renovations as well as updates to the brick façade.

Dorry is particularly excited about Greencastle’s partnership with the YMCA of the Wabash Valley, which will hopefully lead to the building of a community center, but it’s still very early on.

“We haven’t even gauged an architect,” he said. “We don’t have any existing buildings that could handle it—other than our school, is that the executive board for student media outlets such as The DePauw, WGRE, and D3TV all receive pay for their hard work. While DSG is unique from these organizations, many students choose paid extra-curricular activities over unpaid ones.

It is also unusual for a University not to compensate executive members of their Student Government, given their impact on student life. The American Student Government Association’s website reads, “77% of schools nationwide offer some sort of compensation.”

and we won’t take over our schools for this,” Dorry joked.

On or off the square, Kelsheimer believes that DePauw needs to be involved in Greencastle’s continued growth.

“There’s an infrastructure in place in Greencastle and I think it’s a great one,” he said. “In my view it’s energizing work so I like to do it, and I also think DePauw has a responsibility to do it. We’re socially responsible to this county.”

Dorry sees the city’s responsibility in another manner: a responsibility toward following through, and following up on the opportunities the Stellar Grant jumpstarted.

“We’re just going to try to pursue whatever opportunities present themselves in the next few years.”

“Compensating DSG Executives is extremely important to increasing the brand awareness of DSG,” Kondry said. “Student government is an organization deserving of DePauw’s best and brightest talent.”

The DePauw | News Professor Clarissa Peterson Wins Teacher on the Year from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists

By EMMA MAZUREK

news@thedepauw.com Professor of Political Science and Director of Africana Studies Clarissa Peterson won the 2016 Anna Julia Cooper Teacher of the Year Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) on March 29.

NCOBPS was formed in 1969 to address issues within the African American community in the context of the Political Science field.

Those involved strive to promote research and analysis of marginalized groups.

The award was created 10 years ago and has been given to either one or two black political scientists each year. Those selected demonstrate excellence in their fields, as teachers and as mentors.

“The professor who gets this award should have a track record in mentoring and Professor Peterson had been mentoring African American students on campus very effectively for many years,” said Sunil Sahu, chair of the Political Science department.

Peterson said she has enjoyed guiding students through their time at DePauw.

“I’m really a classroom person and a person who values mentoring,” she said.

After professors are nominated, they must send in documentation from the last three years if they are junior professors and from the last 10 years if they are seniors.

Peterson is considered part of the senior category. She sent in syllabi, course evaluations and letters from students to be evaluated.

“This organization said we think that what you’re doing is extremely important to the university, but also to the larger political science community as a whole,” Peterson said.

During her time as an undergraduate student at the University of Akron, Ohio, Peterson was accepted into the Ralph Bunch Program. Throughout this program the summer before her senior year, Peterson met Courtney Brown, a man who used complex

mathematics to discuss political science.

“I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, I can do math and political science at the same time!’”

Peterson said. “After talking to him and learning how to do what he did, I realized it was what I wanted to do.”

Peterson continued her education at Emory University for graduate school and kept working with Brown as his graduate assistant.

She then began to teach mathematical modeling at the University of Michigan over the summer as part of the Interuniversity Consortium COURTESY OF DEPAUW UNIVERSITY for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) for be unpopular or outvoted,” added graduate students and faculty Jennifer Everett, associate profesacross the world. sor of philosophy and co-director Peterson then took her exof the Environmental Fellows tensive educational experience Program, via email. behind the teacher’s desk.

David Gellman, chair of the “Students find her courses chal- History department, believes it lenging, and she teaches imporwas Peterson’s dedication to her tant subjects in Political Science students that truly won her the and Africana Studies that push award. students outside their comfort “Professor Peterson is a person zones,” said Rebecca Bordt, profes- of great principle,” Gellman, said. sor of sociology and anthropol“One of her principles is addressogy, via email. ing the needs of her students.”

Members of the Political SciPeterson’s favorite part of her ence department believe that job is mentoring students and usPeterson’s winning of the award ing her own experience as a black has positively affected the depart- woman to shed light on issues of ment as a whole. race.

“At a time when there is so “[I love] letting [students] unmuch national discussion about derstand and know that we have race, to see a colleague who is many possibilities as black people, really not only teaching but also and in particular as black women, excelling at doing what she’s and the images that people see on doing, makes us feel very good television and in other venues are about her being a member of her not the complete picture of my department,” Sahu said. community,” Peterson said, “and “She has the courage to stand they also have a different underup for her principles in a forthright standing of me and of race and of way, knowing her position might how important it is to understand

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The DePauw | News

DePauw Student Government proposes compensation for 2016-17 school year

BY KATIE O’LAUGHLIN

news@thedepauw.com With the unanimous consent of the DePauw Student Government Executive Board, a compensation proposal has been released that would compensate various members of DSG for their time and dedication in improving the university experience for all DePauw students.

“The executive board works on so many projects and does a lot of intricate work behind the scenes to help the student body, improve things that concern students and better the university in general, and when these are full time university students at a rigorous school like DePauw, who are devoting their time to making things happen, compensation is a great way to appreciate the work being done and hold the members accountable for their work,” said Erin Mann, the PR director for DePauw Student Government. “There’s an expectation of excellence and diligence that comes with a monetary compensation, which is a great way to safe-guard that members of the board are consistently putting their best foot forward.”

The compensations would be in a tiered structure dependent on the time commitment of each student, with the President and Vice President receiving $500 each, the Vice Presi-

dents of Student Life, Academic Life, Community Relations and Allocations receiving $400 each, and Director of Public Relations, Parliamentarian and Secretary receiving $300 each.

These members will be paid out of the Student Activity Fee budget, for which the 2016-2017 school years totals approximately $600,000, with $7,000 of this budget going to DSG compensations.

This payment system was decided after considering many other options, including university scholarships, work study eligibility and university stipends, but this option seemed the most optimal, for the other options have significant downsides.

“I feel it is important to have compensation for executive members of DSG to provide a higher level of access,” said Student Body President Craig Carter. The compensation has been long discussed due to the “chronically low retention rate” of DSG members, leading to executive members with little experience due to a lack of previous DSG involvement.This leads to low productivity in meetings, DSG Carter said. cont. on pg. 2 The compensation would

Cindy Babington named Chief of Staff; Anthony Jones to lead DePauw’s admission efforts TDP STAFF REPORTS

news@thedepauw.com Effective July 1, the same day Mark McCoy will assume the presidency of DePauw, current Vice President for Admission and Financial Aid Cindy Babington will become the Chief of Staff for the new administration. Along with this change in staff, Anthony E. Jones, the current Vice President of Enrollment at Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., will become the new Vice President of Enrollment at DePauw.

“The Chief of Staff role is very much one of support, data gathering and problem solving,” Babington said. “I anticipate that I will be working with the President and the rest of President’s Cabinet to implement programs and solutions, many of which will benefit students. I love DePauw and am excited about the energy and ideas Dr. McCoy is bringing to the presidency. I am honored to be asked to serve in this key role.”

After serving as the director of institutional research from 1993 to 2008, Babington became the vice president for student life and dean of students until 2014, when she took charge of DePauw’s admission.

“An effective president needs a chief of

staff who understands the college, its people and its culture, and no one is better prepared to serve in this important role than Cindy,” McCoy said in a press release on DePauw’s website. “I thank her for the great work she has done in DePauw’s Office of Admissions and throughout her career here. Her leadership is to be emulated and admired and I look forward to working more closely with her. I am thrilled that Anthony Jones, who has overseen a 57% increase in enrollment at Fisk over the past six years, is bringing his talents and terrific personality to our campus. Anthony is a person of high commitment and strong values and will add much to this stellar team.”

A graduate of Fisk University, Jones served as the director admissions at Fisk from 1997 to 2000 and returned in 2011 to further aid in this process.

“DePauw is a school with a powerful history,” Jones said in the press release. “With graduates such as Vernon Jordan, Brad Stevens, Barbara Kingsolver, Percy Julian and thousands of others, it has proven it can provide a significant return on investment. Enrollment shapes the future of an institution; therefore, I’m honored to have the opportunity to impact such an outstanding legacy of producing leaders who positively impact the world.”

DePauw Dialogue 2016 Building Community by Engaging Difference

Schedule

Wednesday, April 6, 2016 9:30 a.m. - Keynote speaker: Rev. Jamie Washington in the Lilly Center Gym

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11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. – Breakout Session 1 throughout campus

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12:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. – Lunch in the Lilly Center 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. – Breakout Session 2 throughout campus 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. – Discussion groups of students, staff, and faculty throughout campus 4 p.m. – Community Event

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Breakout Sessions

Being Poor in Higher Education Building Community Community Building within the LGBTQ+ Community Cross Cultural Communication DePauw Alums on Diversity During and After DePauw Disability in a Diverse Society Ethics of Comedy and Humor Freedom of Opinion and Expression First Generation College Experience Greek Communities at DePauw University Greencastle and DePauw Implicit Bias International Experience at a Small Liberal Arts College Micro-aggressions Moving from Safe Space to Brave Space The Privilege of Oblivion Reading Coates Social Justice through Creativity Trans* Experience in Higher Education What Do We Mean by Diversity and Inclusion?

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The DePauw | Features

Sarah Gerkensmeyer dazzles audience during Kelly Writers series

By Kienne Coram

features@thedepauw.com Students and faculty gathered in the Peeler auditorium on Sunday evening to listen to and appreciate the words of Sarah Gerkensmeyer.

Her attendance was supported by DePauw’s Kelly Writers series. The Kelly writers series is a present given by the James and Marilou Kelly family, providing a free reading of various types of literature to the public.

Gerkensmeyer is a 2001 DePauw alumna. She received her M.F.A from Cornell University shortly thereafter. Gerkensmeyer is happily married with her husband, a man she met while in an English writing class at DePauw with Professor Eugene Gloria.

Associate professor of English Barbara Bean and Professor of English Joe Heithaus praised Gerkensmeyer in their introductions at the beginning of the night. After taking center stage behind the podium for just a few minutes, Heithaus exclaimed, “be prepared to be dazzled,” adding that Gerkensmeyer’s unique voice and pieces of work are both “real and unreal” compositions.

Gerkensmeyer began her talk with a poem from Heithaus, which led to a reading from her own work, including “Produce,” “Monster Drinks Chocolate Milk” and “Ramona.” Common themes in Gerkensmeyer’s works consist of love and care between people, internal personal problems, ethical issues and courageous questions one asks while growing up.

Gerkensmeyer spoke with an admirable amount of confidence and self worth. Often times, she made significant eye contact with her audience members, asked questions of her listeners, and revisited stories of her past. Gerkensmeyer was grateful for the opportunity to share her work and was sincerely respectful of everyone’s time on a Sunday night.

Alli Dennie, a sophomore and biology major, chose to take a study break from her regular science homework and attend the talk with a couple friends. While Dennie does not consider herself a writer, she found herself inspired by Gerkensmeyer’s readings.

“I loved her piece ‘Monster Drinks Chocolate Milk,’” she said. “I am not a writer by any means, but Gerkensmeyer made me want to write and explore the words of others more frequently. ...it was really nice to escape the stress of all my homework and relax in Peeler.”

After attending this Kelly Writers series speaker, Dennie finds herself itching to go to more, and to bring her friends.

“Sarah Gerkensmeyer was both comical and honest with her poems and short stories,” she said. “Everyone should try and put out the effort to go to the Kelly Writers series speakers… I wish I went to more.”

With only two Kelly Writers series speakers left in this academic year, everyone should try to make the time to unwind and reflect with these visiting influential writers and learn from their words.

Rihanna: ANTI

By SUSIE SCHMANK

features@thedepauw.com The summer of 2005 was a transitional one for me.

Finally, I was no longer an elementary student. I was moving on to something bigger and better: middle school. My friend group was thriving and expanding into a co-ed one, and I was going on my first dates with the cutest boy from Kehrs Mill Elementary who I would have automatic dibs on going into Crestview Middle School. Puberty was right at my toes. And my taste in music was flourishing in a sporadic assortment from User to Nelly Furtado to Fall Out Boy. The artist who stuck with me, though, was Rihanna.

Every night that summer, I’d plug a pair of chunky headphones into my very cool portable CD player, flip the switch to FM, and tune the small dial as closely as possible to Z107.7. At around 10:00 pm, Saint Louis DJ Curt Copeland would start his weeknight show in which he’d spin newly arrived songs from Top 40 artists. I can recall the night he interviewed the then seventeen-year-old Rihanna.

As a ten-year-old I was not very interested in hearing something I hadn’t already repeatedly heard on the radio 1,500 times, but I gave “Pon De Replay” a chance, and I really enjoyed it. After hearing it once, I was Pon De Replaying her debut single every night at 10 pm for the rest of the summer.

That’s why it was to none of my surprise when I overheard Micas, my eighth grade Danish host brother, blasting Rihanna’s “Work” from his room a couple weeks ago. Utterly annoyed with the song’s almost untranslatable lyrics and its relentless presence at every party, gathering, nightclub and car ride, I rolled my eyes when I heard it. A few minutes later, however, I began to overhear the heavy bass intro to Tame Impala’s “New Person, Same Old Mistakes” from their 2015 album Currents. What a change of pace, I thought.

I was then shocked to hear it was not Tame Impala’s, but rather the now twenty-eight-year-old Rihanna’s cover of the Aussie band’s recent hit.

The next day I decided to listen her album ANTI, released in January, on my train ride to class in Copenhagen.

From the intense, punchy and penetrating bass line in the album’s starter “Consideration,” to the exhilarating, hazy sounds of “Needed Me,” to the soulful, Erika Badyu-sounding vocals of “Love On The Brain,” Rihanna elucidates a dynamic, cover-to-cover range that puts her in a new ball league.

Rihanna has successfully adopted sounds from a giant range of artists and reconditioned their feel-good sounds into her own flavor. Her enlightening echoes of alternative artists old and new made me appreciate the “Work” she’s put into ANTI a lot more than I had before.

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The DePauw

Laguna

Student clothing business stri

By KATE MARBURGER

features@thedepauw.com

The boys enlisted fellow freshman Gracie Norton to help model their new line of t-shirts. PHOTOS COURTESY OF LAGUNA SHORES

For first-years Josh Krutchik and Michael Wittenberg, last August was full of beginnings. While starting college, the pair also co-founded their own clothing company.

They saw people wearing expensive, ill-fitting and poorly-made clothes, and were inspired by a desire for quality apparel.

“One day we were at golf practice, Mike and I, and we were hitting on the range in the stalls next to each other, and I turned around and was like, ‘Mike, we need to start a company,’ and he was like, ‘Yes, we do’,” Krutchik said.

Eight months later, Laguna Shores now sells shirts for both men and women.

“All of our products are really, really high quality because we care about the comfort of the clothing and the confidence it’s gonna give you,” Krutchik said.

First-year Brooks Hepp is one of Laguna Shores’ customers.

“They feel exactly like a Vineyard Vines shirt, which are like 60 dollars, they feel like it, they look just as nice, and they’re 25 dollars, so it’s 35 dollars less for just as nice of a t-shirt,” Hepp said.

At first, Krutchik and Wittenberg kept their idea to themselves. “We just kind of locked ourselves in a room at night and hammered it out and after about a month or so we came up with Laguna Shores, which kind of blended the California lifestyle, where I’m from, and Mike kind of adapted it to show what the people of the Midwest would like. It kind of merged those two markets,” Krutchik said.

In October, after they had decided on the name and logos, the two took their company to the Hubbard Center to lay out a plan for their business.

“From there, we probably spent about two months figuring out exactly what clothing we wanted, finalizing the designs, and early February we actually sent in our order and then we got our first order in mid-February,” Wittenberg said. Laguna Shores is looking for further support from the Hubbard Center’s entrepreneurship program; they have a meeting with the program soon that

will assist Laguna Shores with networking and funding.

Now, however, one way that Laguna Shores networks is through the assistance of brand ambassadors.

First-year Francesca Moya is one ambassador for the company.

“Brand ambassadors, our goal is kind of to market toward the DePauw community, using traditional marketing or digital marketing, whether it be like word of mouth, or representing Laguna Shores, like wearing their clothing, or social media,” Moya said.

Krutchik stressed student involvement as a way to further brand the newfound company.

“The biggest thing is that people can be involved, people can be a part of this,” he said.

Laguna Shores also received assistance from Indiana alumni entrepreneurs.

Wittenberg said that they met with different alumni at least once a week throughout the process, and continue to do so now. These professionals have helped them with their long-term planning strategies.

“At first, we were getting ready for the spring but we weren’t doing it until December or January, where you really should be doing it probably three or four months ahead,” Wittenberg said. “Right now we’re already trying to figure out what exactly we want to do for the fall and the winter.”

Along with the support from the Hubbard Center and alumni, Krutchik said that something else has helped Laguna Shores succeed: determination.

“There hasn’t been a day where we’ve skipped something for Laguna Shores or put it off,” Krutchik said. “When we have the opportunity to meet with someone or we have to get something done or want to get something done, we make the time for it.”

“It’s awesome, for especially freshmen,” Hepp said, “since they’ve only been on this campus for like six, seven months, and they’ve already put the time and effort in to make their own company. It’s incredible.”

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Shores:

ives for quality and comfort

Freshman golfers Josh Krutchik (left) and Michael Wittenberg (right) came up with the idea of the t-shirt company while golfing together at Windy Hills Country Club outside of Greencastle.

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The DePauw | Opinions

the depauw| editorial board Emily McCarter | Editor-in-Chief Meg Morrow | Managing Editor Julie Block | Chief Copy Editor email us at edboard@thedepauw.com

DePauw Dialogue 2.0: Diversity in our newsroom With the much-anticipated DePauw Dialogue 2.0 right around the corner, the Editorial Board of The DePauw has been reflecting on what we want to learn and take away from what is sure to be an eye-opening day of campus-wide discussion.

We are privileged. First and foremost, we need to recognize that, as white sorority women at a top liberal arts college, we have inherent privileges that many other people don’t. And that can be tough to think about.

Another privilege we sometimes take for granted is that of the press. At The DePauw, we are privy to information that not all of campus knows. We have the power to tell a story the way we feel it should be told. We write, edit and design our newspapers through the film of our privilege. People read what we write. People learn from the way we tell stories. But would people learn differently, read stories differently or have different takeaways from the content in the newspaper if that film was lifted and the Editorial Board was composed of people of color, members of the LGBTQ community, non-Greeks, etc.?

We have no doubt that they would.

The phrase “check your privilege” has become ever more apparent in our newsroom.

With each issue we put out, we are more conscious of how people may perceive content, if there are microaggressions in any of the pieces, if we have different groups represented in our photographs. The discussions we have been having on campus have allowed us to check our own privilege and realize how we may be unconsciously contributing to the hurt that has been expressed by so many of our peers. Were it not for the brave and vocal Tigers who expressed their discontent with the systematic oppression, we may never have learned to check our privilege. Of course, we are still learning--as we probably will, for the rest of our lives--but you have to start somewhere.

As we head into the DePauw Dialogue tomorrow, we hope to come into contact with people who can further open our eyes to the ways we can make our content as fair and relatable as possible, despite the film of our privilege and the lack of a diverse staff to help us lift that film. We hope to meet students who are interested in telling stories from different perspectives. We hope to be a part of taking the first steps to creating a more inclusive DePauw community. We hope you, our readers, will help us get there.

EDITORIAL POLICY The DePauw is an independently managed and financed student newspaper. The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of DePauw University or the Student Publications Board.

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Who the heck are the good guys in Syria?

MICKEY TERLEP

You’ve probably heard a lot about the war in Syria since it began five years ago. The conflict has since evolved into multi-faceted civil war between the Bashar al-Assad led government and a multitude oppositional forces, leading to the deaths of more than 250,000 Syrians and creating the worst refugee crisis since World War II. With so many groups involved in fighting for so many different causes, discussions of what is actually going on in Syria and who the US should support can quickly become convoluted. Are there any good guys left to root for?

Let’s start with who exactly is doing the fighting.

First we have the Assad regime, backed by both Iran and Russia. Next are the so-called secular, ‘moderate’ rebel groups, namely the Free Syrian Army (FSA). Included in the broader opposition are Islamist rebel groups, led by Jabhat al-Nusra, an al-Qaeda linked terrorist organization.

Then we have the closely linked Kurdish rebel groups, which include the Turkish Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Syrian People’s Protection Units (YPG). And then, of course, there’s ISIL. There’s no way the US should be supporting Obviously Assad and the Islamist extremists. But what about the FSA, the leading secular rebel group? Or the YPG and the PKK, the Kurdish groups fighting ISIL? Since the late 1970s, the PKK has been an active political organization in Turkey, vying for Kurdish sovereignty in the region. It has a well-documented history of violence, hence the justified terrorist label. The group showed signs of moderation in 2013, but the short-lived peace ended last summer, stirring up a potential civil war in Eastern Turkey. Since then, the PKK

has executed several recent bombings against innocent civilians in Istanbul and Ankara, including the most recent attack on March 13. So to say the U.S. shouldn’t fund the PKK is a no-brainer.

But here’s the problem: the U.S. has funded and trained members of the YPG, the PKK ally that’s currently fighting ISIL. The YPG is closely linked with the PKK, but the YPG is also our crucial ally in the war against ISIL. So what if the YPG were to prevail over ISIL? Would that lead to the PKK’s rise? I’m not sure, but I don’t think we want to find out.

Then there’s the Free Syrian Army. On the one hand, these are the guys we should be rooting for. They’re ‘moderate,’ secular, and they want to create a modern democracy in Syria. Sounds like a group we can get behind… except for the fact they may be vulnerable to al-Nusra, the alQaeda affiliate in Syria. Here’s why: many of the rebel groups in Syria share the common goal of ousting Bashar al-Assad. And while this objective is a noble one, terrorist groups such as al-Nusra have capitalized on this populist goal, branding themselves as fighters for the people.

What’s worse, a recent report from the American Enterprise Institute declared al-Nusra’s low-profile makes them “more dangerous” than ISIL. Yes, the FSA has explicitly denounced alNusra, and the two often fight over land. But this isn’t always the case. According to BBC, the groups have worked together on occasion, and there is concern from Washington that U.S.funded weapons could make it into al-Nusra’s hands in the future, especially if the groups see that taking down Assad is within their sights.

So what does this leave us with? We can’t root for a violent, dictatorial government or an antigovernment terrorist group. But we also can’t get behind moderate groups that have the potential to foster more terrorism in the future. Taking Assad out of power is only the first step in the process.

We need good guys to take over once he’s gone.

Regrettably, we have none.

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The DePauw | Opinions 9 A hard look at misogyny in the Greek system PHOTOPINION Connor Gordon

My first year on campus, I wrote a column that took a critical look at misogyny in Interfraternity Council (IFC) recruitment. At the time, I had also just joined a house. I was confident that, despite the attitudes displayed by some during recruitment, the system was sound as a whole. I thought, or perhaps hoped, that it was the case of a few bad apples with too much liquor and too little common decency.

Three years later, I still believe some of this to be true. Yet, my junior year, I found myself unable to be part of the IFC system any longer.

I struggled for months to act as a positive voice in the fraternity system, but preserving my own mental health required that I cut ties with the house I was once excited to join. I did not leave my fraternity because of a few bad apples. I left because I could not be part of a system that does not do enough to address the root causes of its behavior.

During my time in the IFC system, I heard

sexual activity talked about as an act of conquest and achievement, a marker of a man’s quality. I watched another chapter dole out hard alcohol solely to women, making it abundantly clear who they were trying to intoxicate. I saw sexual assault treated as an unfortunate but inevitable cost of DePauw’s social life. Such behavior took place regardless of a chapter’s reputation on campus. And without a renewed focus on the culture that lies at the heart of the matter, I fear it will continue.

Certainly, not all fraternity members subscribe to such damaging ideals. Different communities and different subcultures exist in each chapter on campus. Yet they all operate within an institution shown to foster dangerous attitudes towards masculinity, women and sex.

For example, research published by Dr. John Foubert of Oklahoma State University suggests that members of fraternities are more likely to commit rape than non-members, even when both groups engaged in “sexually coercive behavior” at roughly equal rates before coming to college.

These statistics are not limited to those who commit sexual assault; a study published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence in 2005 suggested that fraternity membership correlates with “greater ease and comfort in

situations where women are being mistreated.”

These are issues widespread within fraternities as institutions, and, given DePauw’s long history of a strong Greek community, they are certainly relevant to our campus.

Why, then, are discussions of fraternities so often exempt from larger dialogues?

The problems with fraternity culture demand a cultural shift in how questions of masculinity are handled within IFC. It is unacceptable, for example, that men accused of sexual assault are able to go through recruitment and join a house, yet consent education is not included in DePauw’s new member education policies.

Adding discussions of consent to new member education is a small but necessary step, one that should accompany much-needed dialogues about masculinity and fraternity culture within IFC. Our campus is at a unique point in time. Now more than ever, we are discussing the ugliest of our problems. Yet widespread dialogue on toxic masculinity, especially within the fraternity system itself, is strangely lacking. Without a more comprehensive commitment at the IFC level to discussing the problematic aspects of masculinity, I worry that any progress made by well-meaning individuals within the fraternity system will be piecemeal at best.

Where you at?

Michael Chavez Disclaimer: I may pull the “race card” and call out fellow self-identified men, in particular white men (I just pulled a card) and IFC and Panhellenic Greek members. This article is coming from a place of genuine concern, love and hope for the humanity on our campus to grow.

This does not necessarily represent the views of the larger--yet not so large-community of color at DePauw; and this is for clarification for those who universalize the movements, behaviors and beliefs of a single person of color among the larger community because, in all honesty, we do not all think alike, though our experiences may overlap frequently; that’s just how institutionalized oppression functions.

I recall reading Dr. Beverly Tatum’s, “Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” and snapping my fingers in agreement not only when addressing the development of racial identity in relation to racism, but also when reframing the question

at the other end of the binary: “Why are all the white kids sitting together in the cafeteria?”

See, privilege is blind to introspecting on the same questions and demands it places on those who are not warranted privilege in our system of advantage. Privilege manifests a gaze, which is used to describe an asserted power relation through a constructed cultural and ideological “Other.” Similarly, those who gaze on black students who sit together fail to recognize that I, as part of those Black and Brown students sitting together in the Hub, ask questions too, otherwise known as “peeping” things. It’s called the reverse gaze.

Throughout my four years at DePauw, I have been inspired by individuals and student organizations, such as Feminista!, who have fought resiliently to dismantle institutional marginalization. However, I recognize a pattern of majority students (more frequently white, Greek members) who continue to: 1. walk and grin away from Stands in Solidarity on the Academic Quad, 2. create (similar) It’s on Us campaigns but have not or have silently followed through, 3. argue against the Day of Dialogue, yet are prompt to walk out of class if the professor does not arrive 15 minutes after class begins and/or 4. boast of their service trip experience,

yet have not participated in an international/ cultural-based event within their time at DePauw-- to say the least.

Within this student population, some are aware of the socio-political issues on campus and openly state their grievances and support, yet consistently fail to follow through.

It becomes expected that most majority students are not authentically concerned about issues that do not directly affect them.

It is not surprising, though. I would like the larger student body to know that I “peep” deceit (my ancestors taught me). I give people who often shed white tears the benefit of the doubt. However, when activists constantly invite students (out of hope and transformative love) to participate, and they tell us they care about equality, when do they intend to visit? I am not asking majority Greek, white students to solely participate in student protests because we all have our own mediums of supporting social justice. I simply continue to wonder why, after years of inviting students to our events, meetings, solidarities, etc., all the white kids continue to sit together in the cafeteria. This is an invitation. This is a call for true solidarity.

What are you looking forward to at the DePauw Dialogue?

“I’m looking forward to future genuine and intelligent conversations that will be spurred by this day of inclusion.”

Joe Gallagher, sophomore “I’m looking forward to further understanding the struggles of my fellow students and gaining empathy and perspective.”

Molly Madden, sophomore “I’m looking forward to having a safe space for people to show their true emotion and make mistakes so that they can be appropriately corrected.”

Jordan Horton, freshman “I’m looking forward to the parallels drawn between issues at and outside DePauw, and how clarifying these issues will help all of the school’s community members.”

Muhammad Sarib Haroon, senior K ALEB VANARSDALE / the depauw

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Men’s and women’s golf plagued with difficult weather conditions last weekend

By MIKE WETOSKA

sports@thedepauw.com The men’s and women’s golf teams took their talents to Illinois last weekend to compete in two separate events. The men’s team went to Normal, Ill., to compete in the Illinois Wesleyan Invitational at Ironwood G.C., while the women’s team went to Peoria, Ill. to compete in the Bradley Invitational at Weaver Ridge G.C. The men began the first round of the IWU Invitational on Friday, and although the event was intended to be continued on Saturday, inclimate weather forced the cancellation of the second round.

Weather played a major factor in the women’s tournament as well. The women’s first round did not actually start until Saturday, so they were forced to cut the first round short due to similar inclimate weather that the gentlemen experienced. However, they were able to complete both the end of the first round and the entire second round on Sunday.

The men’s team finished in a tie for fifth out of the 21 teams that they were competing against. They were led by sophomore Jackson Mihevic and first-year Josh Krutchik, who both shot 73s on the day.

This round had a lot of significance for Mihevic.

“I’d say it was one of the better competition rounds I’ve played in a pretty long time,” Mihevic said. “The conditions out there weren’t exactly ideal, but I got it together after my

fourth hole or so, and then I started to play pretty legit golf.”

Krutchik was less optimistic about the weather conditions.

“Conditions were pretty miserable the first day, it was really windy and incredibly cold,” Krutchik said.

“It actually started snowing a little bit when we were on the driving range the second day before they cancelled it.”

These nagging conditions made it tough for both teams to perform this weekend. First-year Rachele Miller saw that the conditions made it difficult both to focus and perform this weekend.

“It was very, very windy and very cold, and that made it very difficult to focus on playing and not just going into survival mode.”

The difficult conditions did not serve the women as well as it did the men. When the final round concluded on Sunday, the women’s team finished in a tie for 11th out of the 13 teams that participated. Miller led the lady Tigers with two 82s to put up a collective 164 to finish in 21st place.

Not far behind, first-year Larisa Luloff finished tied for 27th place, shooting an 82 and an 83 for a collective 165 on the weekend.

Although the women did not fare very well over the weekend, they were up against some stiff competition. Regardless of the outcome, Miller thinks this type of event is great for experience.

“We played in a Division I tournament this past weekend, which is a

Sophomore Jackson Mihevc taps in a putt. PHOTO COURTSEY OF DEPAUWTIGERS.COM completely different ballgame,” Miller said. “Because you’re DIII, they don’t expect anything from you, so you have absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain, and I think we all realized that and took advantage.”

For the men, the start to the spring season has been relatively strong. In addition to the positive outcome of this weekend’s tournament, Krutchik believes they can carry the good performances from this year

even further.

“We’ve had a lot of guys playing some really good golf,” he said. “We are coming into the heat of our spring schedule in the next few weeks and we have five guys peaking at the right time. We think we’re gonna shock a few big teams come conference and hopefully farther than that.”

The ladies have also had a good spring season thus far, and are looking to display their talents in the few

events that are left in the season.

“We only have seven more rounds or so if we don’t go to nationals,” Luloff said. “We need to just try to push through to the end, and if we just remember that, I think we’ll be okay.”

Both teams will have another opportunity to score low today in the Big Four Classic at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel, Ind.

Women’s Tennis tops Carthage 5-2 this weekend

By MIKE WETOSKA

sports@thedepauw.com The 16th-ranked DePauw women’s tennis team scored a 5-2 victory over Carthage College on Saturday in the consolation bracket of the Midwest Invitational in Madison, Wis. The team swept doubles play with three wins. First-year Ali Bush and sophomore Alyssa Senevirante recorded the first win with a score of

8-3. At number two, first-year Colleen Morris and first-year Megan Galle were 8-6 winners. Meanwhile, junior Maddie Lee and first-year Sarah Wilder won the third doubles match by a score of 8-3.

Due to an injury to junior Gretchen Wilder, the team had to alter its lineup at the last minute. Using its strong depth, the team was able to overcome the injury.

“The team had to adjust quickly

to a different line up,” Wilder said. “I think everyone handled it really well and played with a lot of confidence.”

The Tigers lost in tournament play to Kenyon the day prior, but Head Coach Scott Riggle was happy with how the team corrected its mistakes from the previous match.

“We were just beating ourselves too much with too many low percentage attempts too early in the point,” Riggle said. “And we seemed to

make a good step in correcting that against Carthage, so that’s good.”

Carthage challenged the Tigers more in singles play than in doubles by taking two wins. However, Bush scored a 6-3, 6-1 win and Galle won her singles match 6-0, 6-2 to seal the victory.

Lee believes the team is starting to head in the right direction after the win and has confidence for how the rest of the season will go.

“We are really starting to settle in as a determined, talented team,” she said.

With this win, the team’s overall record improves to 7-8. Carthage falls to 13-5 with the loss.

DePauw continued play last night against University of Indianapolis, whom they lost 7-2. They return to action at home on Friday, April 15 against Ohio Wesleyan at 4:30 p.m.

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Women’s lacrosse dominates in win over Hiram

By Mallory Dillon

sports@thedepauw.com The women’s lacrosse team snapped its seven game losing streak in a convincing fashion after defeating the Hiram Terriers 22-5 on Saturday.

The Tigers claimed the first six goals of the match, allowing them to establish their lead right off the bat.

“Saturday was a great example of our team clicking,” said junior defender Stef Buffa.

With their six goals in the first 15 minutes of play, DePauw led with an

11-4 halftime advantage.

Although Hiram scored the first goal of the second half, they proved to be no match for the hungry Tigers.

DePauw took off on an 11-0 run to seal their victory.

“We needed this win and it has brought a lot of members of the team their confidence back and reminded them of why they are playing this game,” said junior attack Taylor Summers.

The Tigers significantly outshot the Terriers 38 to a meager 12 points.

Sophomore attack Emma Flynn led the Tigers with six goals and junior midfielder Emilye Denny

followed with four goals. Junior and senior attacks Nicole Gibson and Maryclaire Heldring, respectively, each added three to the effort.

Summers led the team with four assists on the day.

On the defensive side of play, first-year goalkeeper Maddie Allen recorded three saves in the victory.

The Tigers led Hiram in ground balls, 22-19. DePauw also won 18 of the 28 draw controls, with first-year Madi Lozanoski claiming six draw controls, and Gibson leading the team with five ground balls.

DePauw now moves to an overall record of 2-7 on the season and 1-1

in North Coast Atlantic Conference play. The Terriers drop to 0-2.

“The win this weekend definitely boosted team morale,” said first-year attack Rachel Allen. “We know we played some very skilled teams before conference play to get us ready, but having a streak of losses was not easy to accept.”

With the team remaining positive and hopeful amidst their record, hopefully this win will be the spark the team was looking for in order to get the winning results they want.

“We can expect a lot of momentum going forward in the games to come,” Allen said. “Our win this

weekend will continue to fuel our fire moving forward and we are going to continue to work harder and harder to climb to the top of of our conference.”

Summers echoed similar sentiments.

“I think if we keep up the morale in practice it will emulate into the game regardless because we need to keep that drive alive if we want to finish strong this season,” she said.

Looking to continue with another win, the ladies will resume play on Saturday at Kenyon College (6-2).

Faceoff is scheduled for noon.

Baseball comes up big after doubleheader loss: Splits Wittenberg 2-2

By AUSTIN CANDOR

sports@thedepauw.com Things could only go uphill for the Tigers after their first doubleheader against Wittenberg (6-10) on Saturday.

DePauw (11-9) not only dropped both games, but lost both of them in extra innings, with the final loss coming from a 12-run ninth inning for Wittenberg.

“After the games on Saturday, morale was pretty low,” said junior pitcher Riley Futterknecht. “Losing both games of a double-header is always tough, but to drop two games at home in extras made it hurt even more.”

Game one looked promising for the Tigers, as DePauw held the lead for most of game one on thanks to another quality start by pitcher Wyatt Spector. The senior gave up three runs on four hits over seven innings.

Apart from junior infielder Tate Stewart’s RBI single and senior first baseman Conner Einertson’s two-run homer in the fourth, the Tigers failed to get any runs on the board during the later innings.

After scoreless seventh and eighth innngs, the Tigers had no answer for Wittenberg’s go-ahead run in the ninth that gave them a 4-3 victory over DePauw.

Game two saw DePauw lose and regain the lead three times before allowing the 12-run inning. The 5-17

loss overshadowed yet another quality start from the Tigers’ pitching staff. This time it came from Futterknecht, who pitched seven innings and gave up four runs, only one of which was earned.

“I thought we still showed our competitive nature Saturday,” he said, “because we were losing for a majority of both games but managed to get ourselves to a situation where one hit late in each game could have gotten us a win.”

In order to climb back over .500, the Tigers knew they had to forget Saturday’s disappointment, and quickly.

“On Sunday, we came in with a chip on our shoulder,” said Ryan Grippo. “Sometimes, you just need to get beaten badly to wake up and see how good you actually can be.”

That turned out to be the case for DePauw, who proceeded to sweep Wittenberg in the second double header.

Game one was led by junior pitcher Mike Hammel, who surrendered only one run on two hits, moving to a perfect 4-0 on the season in the Tigers’ 4-1 win.

Led by a big inning of their own, DePauw’s offense exploded in game two, as the Tigers scored 13 runs on 13 hits. Sophomore outfielder Collin Einerston led DePauw’s lineup, doubling and tripling while knocking in two runs.

Junior pitcher Andrew Quinn led the Tigers in game two with the

Junior Andrew Quinn releases a pitch during the Tiger’s sweep of Wittenberg Sunday afternoon. Quinn only allowed four hits on the game as DePauw finished their first weekend of NCAC play with a 2-2 conference record.

ERIN MANN / THE DEPAUW Tigers’ fourth straight quality start, giving up only two runs over seven innings in DePauw’s 13-2 win.

“After we won the first game… I knew I had to give us a good chance to win the second game and finish with a 2-2 split on the weekend,” said Quinn, who has normally worked as a reliever this season. “I was definitely excited, especially with the lineup I had giving me run support

and the defense I had behind me.”

Sunday provided a second chance for DePauw’s defense, which was perfect through both games after committing five errors in Saturday’s 17-5 loss alone.

“As a group, I think we learned a lot about ourselves this weekend,” said Quinn. “We’re a team that can beat anyone in the country when we’re at our best, and I think we

know what kind of intensity we need to bring to the ballpark from here on out.”

DePauw will continue conference play this weekend in Ohio, where the Tigers will take on Denison in Saturday and Sunday doubleheaders, with the game one first pitch scheduled for noon on Saturday.

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Women’s softball back on track with sweep over Hiram

By AUSTIN CANDOR

sports@thedepauw.com After getting off to a slow start in the regular season, DePauw softball made sure not to do the same with the beginning of conference play.

In the midst of 50 mph winds, the Tigers (8-11) dominated Hiram College (5-17), sweeping the doubleheader and outscoring the Terriers 14-1 over the two games.

“I think the two conference wins helped us calm down,” said first-year pitcher Brooke Bandy. “We played some tough teams early in the season, and it’s nice to know all that hard work paid off.”

Head Coach Erica Hanrahan

agreed.

“The team played with excitement, intensity and focus while staying loose,” Hanrahan said. “No one pressed the panic button when adversity reared its face.”

But there was little adversity at all.

DePauw broke out the bats early in game one, scoring three runs in the first inning. By the third, the Tigers had a commanding 7-0 lead, and would cruise to a 9-1 victory.

“We need to continue to score in every inning, because we play some strong offensive teams who could come back,” said senior first baseman Linsey Button, who knocked in two of the team’s runs. “[It’s] more comfortable to play with a lead, and

increasing that lead only takes pressure off our pitcher and… defense.”

First-year starter Ashlee Gibson picked up the win, holding the Terriers scoreless through five innings of work.

Much of the same was seen in game two.

After both teams failed to score through the first three innings, DePauw finally broke through. The Tigers took a 2-0 lead in the fourth and later added three insurance runs to win 5-0.

Bandy also produced a quality start, striking out six over five innings to pick up her third win of the season.

Gibson and Bandy, both groundball pitchers, were perfect fits for the

day’s conditions, as they kept the ball out of the air.

The Tigers’ sophomore ace Emma Baldwin was given most of the game off. “[Baldwin] makes many hitters pop out because she has so much spin, especially on her rise ball,” Hanrahan said. “We knew that when the ball got in the air, it would be hard to track down and catch.”

Baldwin still made an appearance in relief, striking out four over two shutout innings to close the game for the Tigers.

“Honestly though, the wind came in bursts and… didn’t affect the pitching too much that I saw,” said Baldwin. “It did make it harder on

the catchers, though, because the ball would move late sometimes with bursts of wind.”

The Tigers continue conference play today with another home doubleheader, this time against Ohio Wesleyan. The program has not lost to the Bishops since the 2012 season. “[This past weekend] reminds the team that we are still the same people who have come out strong in conference each year, and this year should be no different,” Hanrahan said. “We perform in April and May at our best and they should believe that this year should be the same.”

First pitch of game one is scheduled for 4 p.m today.

Sophomore Gabby Smart, batting .346 overall and a .571 in conference play, lines up another shot in the Tigers sweep of Hiram on Saturday.

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