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Members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon officially expelled from national fraternity

BY GEORGIA GREEN news@thedepauw.com

As of Monday, current members of the Indiana Delta Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) Fraternity have been officially expelled from the national fraternity. On behalf of the INDE Alumni Commission Chair, Mike Murphy of the Indiana Delta Alumni Commission sent an email to SAE member, Junior Colin Bradshaw, outlining the expulsion.

The email read: “Based on recent actions and/or behavior following your suspension from the Indiana Delta Chapter, the Indiana Delta Alumni Commission has found you to be in violation of Fraternity Law, specifically conduct unbecoming of a gentleman and conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline. With such, the Alumni Commission has moved to expel you from Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity.”

“Therefore your membership rights in Sigma Alpha Epsilon have been EXPELLED indefinitely,” the email continued.

Murphy continued to explain

the repercussions of the members’ expulsion, such as their disaffiliation with the Fraternity, as well as all of their rights and privileges of membership. The members are, however, “not released from the pledge of secrecy given at the time of your initiation.” The members are required to surrender their badges, certificates of membership and membership cards.

The email concluded with the steps to appeal the expulsion, if desired, wherein the members would send a “Letter of Appeal” addressed to the Supreme Council by May 18.

Brandon Weghorst, the associate executive director of communications for Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity, emailed Nationals’ official statement to The DePauw. It read, “Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s chapter at DePauw University has been closed for no less than two years as a result of members’ health-and-safety violations and their inability to adhere to the national organization’s standards and expectations. In addition, the members of the chapter have been expelled by the alumni commission,

which means they are no longer brothers in the fraternity.”

The statement continued to describe the Fraternity’s zero-tolerance mentality “for any actions or behaviors that are not consistent with our mission and our creed, ‘The True Gentleman.’”

Lastly, Nationals said they hope to eventually re-establish the chapter at DePauw “with a group of men who exemplify our beliefs and who serve as leaders and role models on campus.”

According to Bradshaw, this whole issue began the morning after bid night, in which six members of the chapter’s alumni commission, none of whom were actual DePauw alumni, separated the new members from the active members.

“They told us the bids we gave out were invalid and that all of our ACTIVE membership statuses were tenuous, at best,” Bradshaw said.

STAFF / THE DEPAUW Bradshaw expressed the members’ surprise, calling this information an “ambush, if you will.”

According to sophomore Aaron Orr, the Financial and Housing (F&H) organization had planned this cease and desist order since November.

He then questioned why they would allow the chapter to continue

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Text, Tweet, Trigger: The ethics surrounding trigger warnings

By ZACH TAYLOR

news@thedepauw.com On Thursday evening at the Undergraduate Ethics Symposium, Professor Kate Manne began her speech with a warning: “I wanted to start today by giving you a quick heads up that there will be some discussion of sexual assault in my talk.”

Manne was standing in front of the 25 hand-selected students opening her lecture on the topic of trigger warnings. After waiting a moment for her statement to set in, she added, “What is a trigger warning? Well, that was one.”

The DePauw Undergraduate Ethics Symposium began in 2007 and has been reoccurring every year since. Students from across the country are asked to submit

work discussing any ethical issue that he or she may see as pressing for this generation. Only 25 to 28 students are selected to attend a series of ethics workshops and lectures.

A trigger warning refers to the public announcement that what one is about to say may cause stress, anxiety, emotional trauma, etc., to a listener. While it may seem impossible to know exactly what can set off an internal alarm for a listener, Professor Manne believes that, through the use of rational thinking, people can predict these triggers without fully knowing another person. If something sounds as if it may be a sensitive topic, Manne encouraged announcing a warning first.

However, the discussion goes much deeper than simply asking people to think rationally before

speaking. Manne believes social norms have pushed this generation to discredit people who are triggered by the words of others.

The idea of a “survivor mentality” implies that what one has experienced in the past is now over. It can no longer affect the victim who survived the trauma.

In turn, the idea of an “antivictim” sentiment moves society to view victims as being, “an infant, but also an aggressive infant,” as put by Manne. Calling oneself a victim in contemporary American society is viewed with a negative, almost pathetic connotation, rather than an accepting one.

Sophomore Lindsey Jones found the lecture to be both thought provoking and educational.

“I had thought about trigger warnings at DePauw before, but thinking about it on a philosophical

level and the discourse surrounding it was something that was different for me,” she said. “She made me think about aspects of trigger warnings I had never thought of before, such as victim culture.”

Jones said she would have liked to hear more real-life examples of when and how to use trigger warnings, but in the end, understood the complexity of giving specific situations.

When asked if she was prepared for the sensitive talk, Jones responded, “yes, but luckily it wasn’t triggering for me.”

Whether or not one agrees with Manne, or the use of trigger warnings in general, her argument and research is an overlooked topic of ethics, perhaps one that is so simple for people to perform it is often ignored completely.

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A moment of crisis: How does DePauw handle mental health emergencies?

By MADISON DUDLEY news@thedepauw.com During Cate Hensley’s second semester at DePauw, an ambulance pulled up to the front of Humbert Hall, where a paramedic strapped her onto a gurney and asked her why she wanted to kill herself.

Today, Hensley is a junior at DePauw, and believes that the university needs to take mental health more seriously, in and out of the counseling center.

“There’s clearly an issue of mental health not being prioritized or talked about,” she said.

Outside of DePauw Wellness and the counseling center, there are other resources for students seeking aid: specifically, Resident Assistants (RAs) and first year mentors, the student disabilities office and, in extreme circumstances, public safety, are all open resources for students in need.

RAs on campus talk about mental health extensively, given that they are supposed to be the first resource for students who need help.

“We talk a lot about how important it is to have intentional conversations with students,” said Director of Campus Living and DePauw graduate Wendy Wippich. Wippich is one of the coordinators of the RA program.

RAs undergo intensive training in the weeks leading up to the fall semester, where they learn how to help a student in crisis in a fourhour session dedicated to identifying signs of concern and keeping students safe. The training is led by counselors from the wellness center. RAs then participate in role-play scenarios to help put lessons into practice.

“Obviously, we’re not equipped to handle any situation,” said junior Brock Turner, the RA for the third floor of Bishop Roberts Hall. “It gives us a crash course to make sure students are safe.”

There is pressure placed on RAs to be watchful of their residents’ health, but it is by no means their full responsibility.

“I don’t want to suggest that they are mental health professionals, but they do have a lot of training,” said Dean of Student Life, Christopher Wells.

“It’s stressed that the training we provide and the support they [the RAs] provide is not the end-all-beall,” Wippich added.

Outside of the resident halls, students can resort to disability services and its director, Pamela Roberts.

Roberts said the increase in mental health aid is a “national trend across the country,” and not specific to DePauw.

When a student makes it to disability services, Roberts will sit and talk with the student to discuss the best options. If there is a diagnosis, Roberts can then organize formal accommodations, such as extended time on homework and assignments, or taking exams in a room alone instead of with the class. Roberts said she has seen students struggling with post-traumatic stress and ADHD, among other things, but the most typical diagnoses are for anxiety and depression.

“They are thieves of our motivation, thieves of our energy and they steal our focus,” said Roberts of mental illness.

“Pam was always available and always able to go out of her way to help me,” said Hensley about Roberts. “[She] has always been an advocate.”

Hensley is now thriving at DePauw. She is a communication studies and English writing double major and works in the costume shop for the theater department. In addition to volunteering at the Women’s Center and being an active member of her Greek chapter, she is also a member of Alpha Psi Omega theater honor society and Vice President of Programming for Panhellenic.

Hensley is even a member of Active Minds, a student organization founded this semester that works to make mental health conversations easier to have on campus.

But not everyone can be helped, and there are students who have to leave DePauw in order to treat their

mental health.

“The student may be too ill to be able to be successful,” Roberts said.

“It may be that you need to take some time off.”

DePauw does not, however, keep track of how many students take time off or leave the university for mental health reasons. An exit interview is conducted when a student withdraws, but mental health is under the category of physical health, and so there is no indication of how many students leave for mental health-related reasons.

For students who need immediate attention, public safety becomes involved. Director of Public Safety Angela Nally said DePauw’s public safety is a 24-hour resource for students, and can connect students to a counselor on call or dispatch a public safety officer to their location in times of crisis.

“You don’t have to wait until Monday,” Nally said.

Public safety protocol in these situations is to make an initial assessment of the situation and determine if counseling services can be utilized. Then, public safety creates a plan between the counseling center and the student.

“Many times the counseling center is already meeting with the student,” Nally said.

In Hensley’s case, she called public safety herself and an on-call student life administrator came and sat with her until the paramedics arrived. Nally said that students are taken to Terre Haute, the closest psych evaluation center to Greencastle, around two to three times a semester.

Even though Hensley’s interaction went relatively smoothly, she said that there have been incidents with her friends where the needs to the person in crisis where not fully met.

Hensley said she once called public safety to help a friend in need who was showing self-destructive tendencies and abuse of substances. After an evaluation, Hensley was still concerned for her friend’s safety and requested that the student re-

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4 SAE cont. FROM Pg 1 through recruitment and concluded that it must have been for financial gain.

“F&H was not making enough money for their liking so when they noticed only six gentlemen came back for bid night, they promptly scheduled a meeting for noon the day following bid night, at which time they not only physically threatened a brother saying, ‘I will break your hands,’ but also informed us that we were on cease and desist and we would have to submit to a Membership Review,” Orr said.

“It took weeks for them to tell us why they were doing this, and even then their reasons were vague and unconvincing as to their severity,”

The DePauw | News Bradshaw said. “We were told that the Membership Review really should have been two or three years ago, and basically they were just putting it off. Well, yes, it should have happened years ago, but was completely unnecessary in the present.”

Nationals notified members of the cease-and-decist order and the membership review in early march.

At that time, Weghorst released a statement to The DePauw, which read, “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. 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.”

The Membership Review required that the members take a hair follicle test, which all refused to take, believing it was an infringement of their rights. Consequently, nationals cancelled the interviews and placed the members on probation.

“They then proceeded to send a security guard to live in the house as well as the house mother, who they infringed upon the lease in hiring by not involving us in the process,” Orr said. “We asked for assistance from the University, who have been very helpful and we are extremely grateful. They had negotiations with our Nationals and eventually had the house mom move out because she would do anything and everything to try to get us in trouble, which interfered greatly in our academic and

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social lives here at DePauw.”

For a time, members were concerned about eviction and the inevitable search for university housing. They reached out to the Head of Fraternity Life, Nick Stepaniak, and the Dean of Campus Living and Community Development, Myrna Hernandez, to inform the university of the situation, “because SAE didn’t tell them anything,” according to Bradshaw. Both, he said, were very supportive and ensured that the members were not taken advantage of.

The men are allowed to remain in the house until the end of the semester, but will not be allowed back in afterward.

“As far as affiliation goes, this is it: we aren’t SAEs anymore. We’re technically not allowed to wear the letters and have to give back the ‘gear’ we were given upon initiation,”

Bradshaw said.

“Once they came and placed us on cease and desist, we all knew our time as SAEs was coming to an end,” Orr said. He described the house’s future as “an empty shell full of memories.”

“None of us care about the organization,” Orr continued. “We joined this house for the people, not the letters. At the end of the day, it’s been a great experience and I don’t regret joining. I’ve learned the what a poorly run organization is like, and most importantly, read the lease before you sign.”

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Ferid Murad Medal and Walker Cup Finalists Announced

By GEORGIA GREEN

news@thedepauw.com

The Ferid Murad Medal, named after DePauw graduate and Nobel laureate Dr. Ferid Murad ’58, recognizes one senior who has had the most significant scholarly and/ or artistic achievements at DePauw.

After department chairs, program directors, a representative from the School of Music and the dean who oversees independent majors nominates those to be considered for the award, the Faculty Development Committee nominates three finalists.

The Vice President of Academic Affairs will make the final selection and announce the recipient on April 25 at the Academic Awards Convocation.

Since 1922, The Walker Cup has awarded graduating seniors who are “judged to have contributed the most to the university during his four-year collegiate career.” Three finalists are selected by their peers in the Class of 2016, then department chairs vote and make recommendations to the university President, who makes the final selection. The winner will also be announced on April 25 at the Academic Awards Convocation. He or she must also give an address to the senior class during the commencement ceremony.

The DePauw had a chance to sit down with these six finalists to hear what they had to say about this recent honor.

Sheridan Schulte has been nominated for the Ferid Murad Medal. She is a biochemistry and history double major with minors in French and European studies from Houston, Texas, intends to pursue a career in medicine. She served as president of Timmy Global Health throughout her junior and senior years, in addition to working with Dr. Sharon Crary in the biochemistry department to create a diagnostic test for the tropical disease, leishmaniasis. Her goal is to become an obstetrician and gynecologist and use her public health background working for a global health nonprofit organization with a focus on women’s health and empowerment.

The DePauw: How do you feel about being a finalist for the Ferid Murad medal?

Sheridan Schulte: I am incredibly honored to be a finalist for this award, especially the more I learn about what past Ferid Murad medal winners have accomplished. I think it shows that hard work really does pay off.

Megan Bailey has been nominated for the Ferid Murad Medal. She is a political science major, a Rector Scholar and an Honor Scholar from Columbus Indiana. Her sophomore year, she interned at the Sagamore Institute in which she worked on research projects, such as her “Mapping Ohio’s Compassion,” a project for the Governors Office of Ohio in which she analyzed data relating to Ohio’s nonprofits. This year, Bailey completed two theses, one examining securitization theory regarding the refugee crisis in the European

that I am well qualified.

From West Lafayette, Indiana, Sydney Cason has also been nominated for the Ferid Murad Medal. She is a neuroscience major, an Honor Scholar and a Peer Mentor. As a firstyear, Cason held leading roles in two operas during her time in the School of Music, then created the independent major in neuroscience, combining multiple fields of thought. She cofounded the Neuroscience Education and Research at DePauw (NERD), in addition to being one of the 2,000 individuals nationwide selected for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Cason plans to attend the University of Pennsylvania next fall and pursue a career with a focus on the aging brain and neurodegenerative diseases.

The DePauw: How do you feel

about being nominated for the Walker Cup? Katie Kondry: I was initially quite shocked to hear that I had been nominated as a Walker Cup finalist. Much of what I do on campus involves work that is often done behind the scenes, so to know that I made a positive contribution to the experiences of my peers is extremely humbling. I can think of a good twenty seniors who are deserving of this award, so I’m very honored. It’s been a cool experience to come full circle and reflect on the memories I’ve made and the changes I’ve encountered at DePauw over the last four years.

Student body President Craig Carter has also been nominated for the Walker Cup. He is a biology major from Chicago’s south side. Carter played football his freshman year

“When I first received the news, my heart began pounding with excitement and I started to cry. I was able to pull myself together in order to call my mother, but after sharing the news with her, there wasn’t a dry eye from either of us. I am so beyond humbled and honored to be a finalist for this year’s Walker Cup.” -Kevin Bugielski Union, the other examining women’s roles in conflict using the Democratic Republic of Congo as a case study.

Bailey will work in Indianapolis at KSM Consulting. Afterward, she intends to pursue a Masters degree in international security.

The DePauw: How do you think this honor will affect your future after DePauw?

Megan Bailey: Just being nominated for this award will have effects for me after DePauw. For two years after graduation, I’ll be working in Indianapolis at KSM Consulting as part of the Orr Fellowship. After the fellowship ends, I plan to attend graduate school in international security and human rights. Having an award of this caliber under my belt certainly strengthens my application and will show my future graduate programs

about being a finalist for the Ferid Murad medal?

Sydney Cason: I am honored and humbled to be nominated and, now, a finalist.

Katie Kondry has been nominated for the Walker Cup. She is the student body Vice President, is an economics major and a political science and philosophy double minor from Naperville, IL. Her sophomore year, Kondry pushed for the creation of the Intercultural Community Conservation Facilitator (ICCF) program and sustainable to-go containers.

She also served as a Status Quo and ICCF Facilitator, as well as a student representative of CAPP. Kondry will join BMO Harris Bank as a Commercial Analyst in Chicago.

The DePauw: How did you feel

and became the president of Men of Excellence as well as a first-year resident assistant his sophomore year. His junior year, Carter was elected Vice President of Community Relations for DePauw Student Government, in which he aided the revitalization of the Association of African American Students’ mentorship program for Greencastle youth and DePauw students. Carter’s commitment to cross-cultural discussion and love for the DePauw community can be reflected by his organization of DePauw Dialogue 2.0. Carter hopes to pursue a PhD in biology and eventually become president of a small liberal arts college like DePauw.

The DePauw: How do you feel about being a finalist for the Walker Cup? Craig Carter: I am honored that

the class of 2016, which is full of bright and captivating leaders, nominated me to be a finalist for the Walker Cup. It is a humbling experience to know that my peers believe in my ability to create change and lead our campus. But I want to make clear that without the dedication of the entire DePauw community, I would not be in the position I find myself today.

Finally, Kevin Bugielski has been nominated for the Walker Cup. He is both a Holton Memorial Scholar and a Civic Fellow, as well as an English writing major and Education Studies minor from Oak Park, Illinois.

Bugielski served as a Mentor his sophomore year, then a Peer Mentor Program Specialist his junior and senior years. Bugielski was named a Men’s Hall Achievement Scholar, and he eventually released a campaign entitled “DePauw Human Rights,” in which a space was created for students, faculty and staff to engage in conversations regarding race, sexual orientation, feminism, and nationwide happenings. Bugielski contributed to both DePauw Dialogue and DePauw Dialogue 2.0. Upon graduation, Bugielski will move to New York City to join “The Gotham Group,” a marketing agency where he will serve as Creative Brand Strategist.

The DePauw: How do you feel about being a finalist for the Walker Cup? KB: To be completely honest, I am still in shock. When I first received the news, my heart began pounding with excitement and I started to cry. I was able to pull myself together in order to call my mother, but after sharing the news with her, there wasn’t a dry eye from either of us. I am so beyond humbled and honored to be a finalist for this year’s Walker Cup, and I still can’t believe it. I have done quite a lot of introspection after hearing the news, and I can’t help but think back on the amazing relationships that I was able to form here at DePauw. I get my energy and enthusiasm from all of you, and my love for DePauw and everything I have done here runs deep. I am forever honored, grateful, and thankful to my amazing classmates and friends for nominating me for this award.

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Walking to Remember the Rwandan Genocide

By MADISON DUDLEY

news@thedepauw.com In April 1994, genocide broke out in Rwanda, killing close to one million people within 100 days. On Friday, students at DePauw remembered the genocide and made an effort to learn more.

A Walk to Remember took place after a week of commemoration events that were led by DePauw junior and proud Rwandan Amata Grimata, in partnership with DePauw Oxfam, the Compton Center and the Embassy and people of Rwanda.

A Walk to Remember was started in 2003 by a 15 year-old Rwandan boy and has since spread, with events now being hosted in over 100 countries. In Rwanda, the walk lasts

five miles; it begins at the Parliamentary building and ends at the national stadium, which housed the largest number of survivors. This year’s topic of discussion for the walk was the idea of Genocide Ideology.

Forty-five percent of Rwanda’s population is under the age of 35, with 65 percent of which were born after the genocide. Grimata says that the youth of Rwanda take it upon themselves to keep the stories alive.

“It is our duty for the history not to happen again,” she said.

Between 35 to 40 people took part in Friday’s event. The walk started at the Union Building, where participants wrote messages on posters

bons in remembrance and were broken up into groups of two. They were then handed a topic involving genocide ideology to discuss on the walk.

“The victims deserve to be recognized, and deserve to be respected,” said first-year Mandy Britton. “When people aren’t educated about this, when people ignore these things, it’s kind of like silencing the victims, sort of punishing them again.”

The walk ended at the academic quad, with participants stopping along the way to discuss their conversations with the

“The victims deserve to be recognized, and deserve to be respected. When people aren’t educated about this, when people ignore these things, it’s kind of like silencing the victims, sort of punishing them again.”

-Mandy Britton, first-year about the genocide and the importance of remembering these events.

Participants were given purple rib-

group. At the conclusion of the event, four testimonies from the genocide were read, followed by a moment of silence.

“I think it is really important that we as a world, as students, are supportive of a global community. ... I learned a lot,” said junior Claire Halffield, who talked with her partner about international court and its role in genocide ideology, a topic that she was not knowledgeable about before the walk. “I think it’s important to remember [this tragedy] every year.”

Grimata was moved by the support she received from her fellow students in conjunction with this event.

She said, “It was tremendous to see how many people wanted to learn where I come from, who I am and my history.”

On Friday April 15th, participants gathered in front of East College with their signs sharing insight on the ideas of genocide ideology. PHOTO COURTESY OF AMATA GIRAMATA

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Ubben Lecturer Arne Duncan to speak Thursday

By Emma mazurek

news@thedepauw.com Arne Duncan, former U.S. Education Secretary under President Obama, will speak on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium in the Green Center for Performing Arts as part of the Ubben Lecture Series.

Arne Duncan served as the Secretary of Education from 2009 until early this year. Before he was the Secretary of Education, he was the superintendent of Chicago Public Schools.

“I think the great thing about Arne Duncan is that he just left the White House at the end of the year, and he really hasn’t been on the speaker circuit, so we are getting a fresh message from someone who has been at a prominent position for a while now,” said Ken Owen, Executive Director of Media Relations. “It’s been many years since we have had an education secretary.”

Owen typically looks for potential lecturers who are new to speaking to large crowds and whose messages are relevant to life here at DePauw.

“I think Duncan is a timely speaker, and I think he is someone who challenges both Republicans and Democrats to reconsider their long held views and to really focus on the needs of students,” Owen said.

While this Ubben Lecture may, at a first glance, appear to only focus on and appeal to education and political science majors, Owen believes Duncan’s involvement with education has potential to impact both students and professors alike.

“I think we have many students who want to go into lives in public service or be influential change makers and I think he is a great role model as somebody who, from a young age, decided that he wanted to make a change in the world and then did it,” Owen said. “I’m hoping we get a lot of educational leaders from around the state to come, spend time at DePauw and hear him. I think it reinforces the fact that the Ubben Lecture really opens the doors to the world and brings in viewpoints we don’t always hear on campus.”

Students are looking forward to the event.

“I would go see him because I grew up under him being Secretary of Education and the policies he implemented affected my experiences in the public school system,” said firstyear Kiara Goodwine.

First-year Regan Giesting agrees.

“It’d be interesting to get the perspective of someone who had the responsibility to maintain the reputation of America’s education system,” she said. “I think it’d be cool to hear his point of view to about the whole

education crisis with teachers and their pay.”

Owen thinks this is a talk that many students might take an interest in because the prioritization of education within our government directly affects college-aged people.

“I think having a discussion about education, about how we prioritize education, what is happening in this country now, and what will happen if we don’t make education a priority is extremely timely,” Owen said. “With Arne Duncan you have someone who is a change agent and someone who is really working both at the grassroots level and the top levels of government to make the world a better place. ...I think there’ll be some great take-aways for students who themselves want to be change agents.”

While this is most likely the last Ubben Lecture of the year, Owen reached out to the U.S. presidential campaigns to see if any of the candidates would like to hold a rally on DePauw’s campus.

“I don’t know if that would happen, but that invitation is out there,” Owen said.

If this were to happen, there would be very little notice or turn around time, but the student body would be informed in a timely manner, according to Owen.

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WATERMUSIC:

An Immersion Experience

By KIENNE CORAM features@thedepuauw.com

Students, families, faculty, staff and locals gathered in the Green Center for Performing Arts on Sunday to observe and give attention to WATERMUSIC: An Immersion Experience. The school of music integrated various choirs and percussion ensembles at DePauw to promote community change through harmonious melodies.

The event began as four percussions dressed in all black emerged from all sides of Kresge Auditorium and met at center stage. Lit up bowls and other objects were used to create a visual sense of music by reflecting the movement of water on the ceiling. The room remained dark as the audience focused solely on the interaction of space, water and performance from their seats.

Sophomore Maddy Burds was impressed with the performance.

“The percussion performance was out of this world. . . It was so cool because it was something I had never seen before,” she said. “Madeline Piscetta [a coordinator of the performance and a member of the School of Music] did a really great job promoting the event.”

Burds was also surprised at the creativity behind the whole event and the way that Kresge was utilized as a space to promote visual representations of the music, as opposed to just seeing any other performance.

“It amazed me that water, people and music could connect as one when working together,” she said.

The night carried on with a myriad of vocal performances done by an assortment of music students and faculty. Different grouping arrangements were made on stage as the professional attire of all black clothes unified them. A screen hung above the performers, providing the ability for audience members to sing along and/or further digest their experience by reading the lyrics.

Guest speakers and student leaders,Madeline Piscetta, Rachel Amalfitano, Annie Chase, Kurt Clare, Dana Hart and Kenna McWilliams tirelessly contributed to the formation of WATERMUSIC: An Immersion Experience.

Musicians involved with the performance later led audience members to the lobby area by song. Chairs and musical instruments were already closely positioned near one another in the Great Hall, as the second interactive half of the experience took place outside the theater.

Different people performed readings on the staircase located in the lobby, while a drum performance and vocal showing was done in the circular sector of the GCPA. The audience remained engaged, as they were able to pick their seats scattered around the lobby, weaving the community together even more. Posters and pictures encouraging water and community awareness surrounded the walls, providing another level of conscious learning. Single and group performances continued until the end of the night.

Sopromore Ines Hayouna, who is also in the School of Music and was an active vocalist in the event said, “The personal interaction in the last song where everyone came along was my favorite part of the night.” Hayouna described her last moments of the night as “nothing but beautiful.”

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Far left: Senior Jared McKinney lets water dribble out of his hands and back into a bowl during DePauw’s Percussion Ensemble performance of Water Music. With their hands, members manipulated cups, bells and other instruments within the water. SAM CARAVANA / THE DEPAUW Top middle: Members of the University Chorus sing “Rivers of Baylon” on Saturday night.

SAM CARAVANA / THE DEPAUW Bottom middle: First-year Kurt Clare along with the Men of DePauw University Chorus and Chamber Singers perform “De profundis” in Kresge Auditorium Sunday night as part of WaterMusic: An Immersion Experience. SAM CARAVANA / THE DEPAUW Above: Décoda, a chamber ensemble and this year’s artists-in-residence, perform as the final guests in the Green Guest Artist Series Saturday night. TILLY MARLATT / THE DEPAUW

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

Why we’re moving to one print issue a week We, The Editorial Board of The DePauw, have decided to change the print schedule from twice a week to once a week. While we used to publish a 12-page edition of The DePauw every Tuesday and Friday, we will now be publishing one 16-page issue every Wednesday.

This switch comes for many reasons, the first one being the push for online content. We realize that our viewers read and share most of our content online at thedepauw.com.

The traditional print schedule is also weighing down on our ability to adapt to the continuously changing online world of journalism, due to the hours of labor it takes to place and design pages, check every page meticulously for formatting errors and ensure that the issue makes it to the printing press. It would simply be too much work to push our online presence more while still publishing two issues full of content each week.

This decision was discussed with our advisor, Meg Kissinger, and the Media Fellows and Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media (PCCM) director, Jonathan Nichols-Pethick.

“This move represents the students’ commitment to providing readers with more timely coverage of campus and community news through their online presence. It also allows the print edition to be dedicated to more in depth coverage of stories and expanded coverage of important issues confronting campus and the Greencastle community,” Nichols-Pethick said.

Furthermore, we want people to be informed as soon as they can. If a story happens on a Thursday night, we need to get that up online as soon as we can. We live in a “News Now” world. If we want to be prepared for what a newsroom is like post-graduation, we need to make that shift now.

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Competing Desires GRAYSON PITTS

Last week, I spoke with an old couple. They’re both in their sixties now, but when they married each other, he was seventeen and she was eighteen. Sounds crazy, right? Furthermore, they were both virgins when they put the rings on each other’s fingers. A situation like this is nearly unheard of today—especially for millennials. On college campuses across America, casual sex has become the norm, and long-term relationships and marriage are generally regarded as an endeavor to undertake far in the future.

This revolution in the treatment of sex and relationships has many causes, one of them being our addiction to instant gratification. I believe this addiction is negatively affecting our capacity to form and keep lasting romantic relationships.

In America today, we can have nearly anything at the push of a button. We have fast food, internet access everywhere, instant communication, television, porn. When we have a need or a desire, it doesn’t take long to see it fulfilled. Why? “There’s an app for that.” Whereas, years ago, you might have to make a trip to the bank to deposit a check, now you can take a picture of it with your phone. Boom, done. The efficiency of meeting our wants and needs has increased tenfold, and with it, so have our expectations. We cannot accept inefficient means to our desired ends.

As a result, young people today view sex

differently than previous generations. At the same time, we live in a very sexually heightened age.

Sex is everywhere. And the threshold for what is accepted in terms of sexual promotion today is extremely low. The combination of sexual freedom and the desire for instant gratification means… people be bangin’. And often. It’s not uncommon for young people, and especially college students, to have multiple partners. And with each successive partner, these young people become more and more used to a laissez-faire treatment of sex.

Maybe this isn’t a bad thing. Sex can be extremely liberating and obviously pleasurable.

However, sex holds a unique place in the realm of relationships and marriage—things that many perpetuators of casual sex still seem to desire for their future. There are all different kinds of relationships, marriages, partnerships, etc., but the prevailing idea in America is that they are defined by monogamy. Thus, indulging in casual sex now, with the hope of a monogamous relationship in the future, creates problems. Those who take part in it set themselves up for a rough transition, increasing the likelihood of failure in relationships and marriage.

So, what is our responsibility to these competing desires? All habits can be broken, but it seems that preventative measures could increase the likelihood of reaching the long-term goals that many of us have. However, any addiction is hard to break.

-Pitts is a senior Prindle Intern from Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Counseling Services:

Committed to supporting students Julia Sutherlin

For the past six years, my main responsibility has been to work with students in a variety of personally challenging situations. I have been directly overseeing Counseling Services for the last two years. I know firsthand that the demand for support via our therapists has hit an all time high this year.

In recent years, we have grown the Counseling Services staff from only three full time counselors to two full time psychologists, two full time counselors, three doctoral interns and a part-time psychiatrist. Many students would not have been able to stay at DePauw in the past because the level of care they needed exceeded the scope of our services.

The average time elapsed between when a student calls for an initial appointment and the date of the intake appointment is approximately seven calendar days, and most students are seen within 14 days, or two weeks. Factors that may contribute to the wait time extending beyond two weeks is when a student requests a specific therapist--regardless of that potentially

meaning a longer wait time, appointment availability that does not match with a student’s availability and peak times of need.

One thing that has impacted availability of appointments at Counseling Services this year is the significant number of students who “no show”, i.e. have not cancelled in advance, increasing by 49 percent from fall 2014 to fall 2015. Students are sent email reminders the business day before their appointment, if they have opted-in to receive appointment reminders. Many students call in advance to cancel their appointments. The number of students who cancelled their appointment increased by 220 percent from fall 2014 to fall 2015.

We are fortunate to be able to provide access to a psychiatrist for DePauw students.

Most institutions our size are not able to provide psychiatry. We do so at no additional charge to the student, which is very unique; most college counseling centers with psychiatry charge a fee for those services. But as need increased for psychiatry, up 68 percent from fall 2014 to fall 2015, combined with the large numbers of missed appointments without prior cancellation, we needed to do something. Students are only charged for missed appointments if they do not cancel in advance. This practice is the same as what you would find a most healthcare provider’s offices. A missed appointment does a disservice to the student-patient because

he or she is not getting the care needed and prevents a student who needs an appointment from having access.

Ultimately, our Counseling Services staff does their best to meet the needs of students.

They work with the Wellness Advocates to do preventative education and self-care programs. They run group therapy sessions on a variety of topics. They respond to emergency consultations at all hours of the day. Their job is to take care of students who may be in the worst place they have been in their lives. They care.

We are committed to reviewing feedback, identifying ways to alleviate the strain on services and seeking additional input from students about their experiences with Counseling Services.

I welcome you to read more about the DePauw Counseling Services at http://www. depauw.edu/studentlife/wellness/counselingservices/.

There is no online scheduling system, as The DePauw indicated. Only Health Services, provided by Hendricks Regional Health, uses online scheduling.

-Sutherlin is Assistant Dean of Students at DePauw University.

Calorie trackers: the right way to eat Stephen mcMurtry I have had a surprising number of conversations about food recently. As a senior, I am nearing that time when I—gasp!—have to cook for myself; as a fraternity man, I have had conversations regarding our house’s food selection in response to an increasing number of vegetarian brothers; and as an athlete, I have been working hard to lose weight for collegiate cycling.

Food is at the center of the human experience. I’ve also read that it is pretty important biologically, too, but you’d have to ask an expert. In recent years, America has experienced an awakening with regards to what we consume. Books like “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and movies about the reality of fast food culture have raised questions about both the food we eat and our relationship to it. Now,

food culture is heading in hundreds of directions at once: from the all-natural juicer crowd to proponents of Soylent, a mostly-tasteless meal replacement powder. Whether or not you are eating more healthily, you are most definitely more aware—a favorite term that allows one to feel good without having to inconvenience oneself.

What is the absolute best way to be aware of your diet? Calorie tracking.

The humble calorie tracker has evolved in recent years. What started out as journaling the food you ate has evolved into a number of apps and services that can give you micronutrient breakdowns of the foods you consume. Two of the most popular calorie trackers are MyPlate

by LiveStrong and MyFitnessPal from Under Armour—I don’t understand why they both went with the tacky MyBlank branding; I would have chosen something like “plate” in an alllowercase sans-serif font. These two systems are excellent for losing or maintaining your weight.

If I may briefly shill for MyFitnessPal, I’ve lost 12 pounds by just being more mindful of what I

eat: the need to record everything prevents me from super-sizing, grabbing the second cookie, or deciding that Tuesday night is a great time to drink four beers.

(Note to all: every light beer is the caloric equivalent of an all-white hot dog bun. Gross!)

Exercise and an active lifestyle are of course parts of the equation for maintaining a healthy weight, but eating unhealthily and doing 20 minutes on the elliptical—who uses that machine, anyway?—will never trump a mindful diet that focuses on eating right. What do I mean by eating right? Lots of vegetables, whole grains, and minimal red meat. Don’t be fooled by hipster diets like keto and my mom’s favorite juice cleanse: eat healthy food and don’t eat too much of it.

In exchange for all of this healthy lifestyle advice, I will accept repayment in the form of a hot dog bun and/or beer at the Duck.

-McMurtry is a senior computer science and English literature major from Covington, Kentucky.

PHOTOPINION How do you feel about this year’s Ubben Lecture speaker being Arne Duncan?

“No idea, but stop by the waste audit Thursday 10-2 on the Mason Lawn.”

Logan Miller, Sophomore

“What.”

Rebeca bagdocimo, Junior

“I need to focus on my own education so hurry this up.”

David Prabhu, Sophomore

“I don’t really know anything about him.”

Alec Barker, Freshmen K ALEB VANARSDALE / the depauw

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Ten Questions for Arne Duncan 1. What’s the best apples-to-apples comparative

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evidence that school choice and frequent testing saves money?

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. Is it fair to link school funding and teacher compensation to their students’ performance on standardized tests? Does this approach encourage teachers to “teach to the tests,” and unduly punish schools that are not as well equipped to do the same because of a lack of resources?

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. Given that, as John Wilson once commented, “the knowledge of words is the gate of scholarship,” what do you make of the new changes to the SAT that merge two previously independent sections on critical reading and writing, effectively eliminating one of them, and now also makes the written essay optional?

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. Why has your administration not aggressively addressed basic questions of inequity between schools and high rates of poverty amongst families with school aged youth? Why are you relying upon a system of accountability that most directly punishes the schools, students, teachers, and administrations most strapped for resources?

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According to the Washington Post, in January 2010 you said that Hurricane Katrina was “the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans.”

Aside from the callousness of this remark, is the “shock doctrine” approach to school reform, wherein government and private foundations spend billions on local school systems after a disaster, a viable strategy for US education policy?

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. What’s the best apples-to-apples comparative evidence that school choice improves outcomes?

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. Progess toward closing the “performance gap” stalled around 1990. Why? and what change in the gap should we see for your years heading the Department of Education?

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. What are your thoughts regarding the many states, including Indiana, that either chose to not implement the Common Core, or have since maintained the curriculum but have withdrawn from the national tests?

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. Resistance to standardized testing and school privatization is growing nationwide. Here in Indiana, record numbers of students are boycotting the statewide ISTEP test. What do mass protests in New York, Seattle, Chicago, and right here in the Hoosier state, suggest about your legacy as Education Secretary?

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Advocates of charter schools, like you, routinely call for greater accountability for teachers and school administrators.

However, a recent report by the Center for Media & Democracy found that, “The federal government has spent a staggering sum, $3.3 billion, of taxpayer money creating and expanding the charter school industry over the past two decades, but it has done so without requiring the most basic transparency in who ultimately receives the funds and what those tax dollars are being used for, especially in contrast to the public information about truly public schools.” Why is accountability good for educators but not for the charter school industry?

Since stepping down as US Secretary of Education in late 2015, Arne Duncan has signed with Creative Artists Agency (CAA) to arrange speaking engagements, negotiate book deals, and identify business opportunities for the former cabinet official and onetime CEO of Chicago Public Schools. Arne Duncan visits DePauw University later this week to deliver a speech titled “Why Our Schools Matter More Than Ever.” In addition to his prepared remarks, we urge Mr. Duncan, a champion of high-stakes testing and market-based school reform, to address the following questions regarding the “education business” and America’s broken public school system.

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Tigers bring back second NCAC win,

Take down Hiram 15-6

By MALLORY DILLON sports@thedepuauw.com

It was a beautiful day for a win on Saturday when the men’s lacrosse team took down Hiram College for their second North Coast Atlantic Conference win of the season.

The Tigers scored 10 straight goals to fight back from an early deficit, eventually defeating the Terriers by a score of 15-6.

“This weekend was a huge win for us,” said junior Joe Ross. “It was great to get another NCAC victory under our belt.”

Hiram took the lead initially with a score of 3-2. However, the Tigers were able to close the first quarter with a pair of goals to put them on top 4-3.

Carrying their momentum into the second quarter, DePauw held Hiram scoreless while managing to convert four points of their own, heading into the locker room at the half leading 8-3.

With goals from juniors Nick Woerner and Grant Skipper, sophomore Ben Sherman and first-year Buck Dorger, the Tigers put the game away in opening 2:22 minutes of the third quarter.

Finishing on a high note, DePauw scored a final two points in the fourth quarter to seal their 15-6 victory.

“It was a great win. ...because we improved our play throughout each quarter of the game,” said first-year Sam Rivera.

Dorger led the Tigers with his five goals, while first-year Sam Alkema contributed two goals and first-year Austin MacDonald added five assists.

Defensively, junior Connor Patterson represented the Tigers in goal with 12 saves, earning himself his first win.

“I can’t say enough about Connor Patterson stepping up into the role of starting goalie halfway through the season. He has played better than anyone could have asked of him,” said first-year RJ Klinke.

The players are taking this win in stride,

acknowledging that this season hasn’t necessarily been ideal for them. They’ve had to deal with injuries, lack of communication and players quitting the team for other reasons.

“This win is a nice boost to team morale.

It’s always a good feeling earning a ‘W’,” Ross said. “This season hasn’t necessarily gone the way a lot of us expected it to, but guys on the team continue to battle through adversity and play hard.”

With this win, DePauw moves to 5-8 on the season overall, and 2-4 in NCAC conference play. Hiram dropped to 2-10 overall and 0-6 in the NCAC. “The whole team demonstrated that we’re not done with this season yet. We’ve got two big games coming up this week and I’m excited to see what we can do,” Klinke said.

The Tigers travel to Ohio Wesleyan tonight for a contest against the Battling Bishops. Faceoff is scheduled for 5 p.m.

Women’s Tennis, ranked No. 22, defeat No. 23 Big Red

By MALLORY DILLON

sports@thedepauw.com The women’s tennis team split its two matches this weekend against NCAC West conference opponents, Wittenberg and Denison University.

The No. 22-ranked Tigers fell to the 23rdranked Big Red 5-4 earlier in the day, but turned it around to finish Saturday with a 9-0 win against Wittenberg.

“We had great energy as a team the whole day,” first-year Megan Galle said, “and we’re all starting to become more consistent and stay in points longer.”

In the match against Denison, DePauw took an early lead, inching ahead 2-1 with the help of No. 2 doubles team consisting of sophomore Alyssa Seneviratne and firstyear Ali Bush and No. 3 doubles team with first-years Megan Galle and Colleen Morris. The two doubles pairs each won their matches 8-5.

With DePauw trailing 4-3, the final two match-ups boiled down to No. 2 and No. 6 singles. At No. 2, Seneviratne fought back

in her second set, but lost the match in the second set tiebreaker. Galle at No. 6 was able to close the match with scores of 6-3, 4-6, and 6-1.

“Coming into the match with Denison, we knew it wasn’t going to be easy and every spot had to play at their best level,” said first-year Nicole Pamphilis. “Every player stepped up their game in doubles and in singles. No one gave up or was fatigued at any point of their matches.”

Strong performances were showcased at No. 4 singles, where Ali Bush dominated 6-0, 6-3.

In their second match of the day, the Tigers were able to bounce back from the rival loss and dominate with a 9-0 win.

“We feel like we were able to play our game and maintain a high level of play throughout the match. We started off strong in doubles and then we were able to carry that intensity over to singles as well, so we feel really good about it,” said Galle.

Junior Gretchen Wilder echoed similar sentiments.

“The win against Wittenberg was a nice

confidence boost after a tough loss earlier in the day,” she said.

Playing in the same spots from the earlier match, the ladies combined to drop just three games throughout the contest. No. 2 dropped one game of the set and junior Maddie Lee went 6-1, 6-1 at No. 1 singles.

Every other player managed to go 6-0, 6-0.

After these two matches over the weekend, the Tigers close their regular season with an overall record of 9-10, and a North Coast Atlantic Conference record of 2-1.

The team heads into conference tournament play on April 28 and will be spending the next week maintaining their conditioning and working hard to improve as a team. Additionally, the team will be participating in a charity event on April 24 from 12-4. To support their head coach, Scott Riggle and The Riggle Foundation, the team will be providing free tennis lessons from 12-4 and then hosting a doubles tournament from 4-5 to raise money for Parkinson’s research. The event will be held at the DePauw tennis courts.

Tigers split with conference rivals

By BROOKS HEPP

sports@thedepauw.com The men’s tennis team split a pair of matches against rivals on Saturday after falling to Denison University 5-4 and defeating Wittenberg University 9-0 at home.

The team’s first match was against Denison, and the Tigers found themselves up 2-1 after doubles play.

Juniors Patrick Farrell and John Daseke won No. 2 doubles by a score of 8-6, while juniors Harold Martin and Nate Wallace won No. 3 doubles by a score of 8-5.

Head Coach Scott Riggle has been impressed with the team’s doubles play throughout the season, but thinks singles play could use some work.

“We are playing pretty good doubles. You know, as you saw, we won five out of six doubles that we played, and that’s coming along really nice for us,” he said.

“There are still some things we could do better. ...As for singles, we are going to have to get more precise.”

After taking the lead in doubles, the team lost the lead in singles play. Senior Alec Kaczkowski gave them a 3-1 lead with a win at No. 3 singles, but Wittenberg took four straight singles wins at No. 6, No. 5, No. 2 and No. 1. Junior Matt Stanten finished the match off with a win in No. 4 singles, but the match had already been decided.

Kaczkowski was upset with the loss but is excited about the potential opportunity to face them again.

“It’s a tough pill to swallow, but again, we will see them again in two weeks and we will be ready this time,” Kaczkowski said.

Looking to bounce back after the Denison loss, Kaczkowski and senior Dan Rodefeld won No. 1 singles 8-1, and Farrell and Daseke took home their second win of the day at No. 2 doubles with a 8-0 win.

Wittenberg forfeited the No. 3 doubles match up because they did not have a group to participate.

The Tigers changed up their singles lineup by moving Kaczkowski up to the No. 2 spot. He responded with a 6-2, 6-3 win. The senior class had a strong showing with Rodefeld, Nick Thompson, Nick Makowiecki and Zach Jonas winning No. 1, No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5 singles, respectively.

After losing earlier in the day, Riggle was pleased with how his team took on Wittenberg.

“After receiving that first loss, the team responded well against Wittenberg and took care of business,” Riggle said.

Riggle believes that the team could potentially face Denison in the conference tournament, and that his team will be ready for the rematch.

“If we play them again in conference, we’ll have to be ready for a good team that will play us tough and not give us too many points,” he said.

The team is now 9-9 overall and 2-1 in the NCAC West division. They conclude the regular season when they travel to Rose Hulman on Tuesday.

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Women’s lacrosse season back on track as they sweep the weekend

By Mike Wetoska

sports@thedepauw.com After losing eight of their previous nine games, the Tigers were finally able to make a major stride this weekend with a 13-12 overtime victory over Allegheny on Saturday and a 20-2 thrashing of Concordia Chicago on Sunday.

This newfound success that the Tigers ran into this weekend was not as surprising to first-year Emma Flynn as it may have been to others.

Despite the poor results the team had seen throughout the regular season, she doesn’t believe that they were too far off from success for most of the season.

“I feel like we’ve had this team and this talent all along, and, for whatever reason, we’d kind of been struggling to find that,” she said. “It feels really good to finally have some success.

We knew we could do it this whole time but there’s just been some pieces missing that I think we finally got back.”

Saturday’s game against Allegheny was a battle until the very end. The Tigers jumped to an early 2-0 lead as Flynn and senior attackman Elizabeth McCracken buried the first goals of the contest. Allegheny quickly responded with a score, but they were sent right back to their two goal deficit when senior midfielder/attackman Maryclaire Heldring put one away.

Although another goal allowed Allegheny to keep the game within reach, goals from Flynn and junior attackman Taylor Summers helped

establish a more convincing 5-2 DePauw lead. However, Allegheny was able to work its way back into the game, scoring four straight goals to steal the lead from the Tigers with eight minutes left to play in the first half.

The scoring went back and forth from there, as junior midfielder Emilye Denny and Heldring each scored one more goal heading into the end of the first half. When the first half finally came to a close, the score sat at a stagnant 7-7 tie.

The second half was very similar to the first in that neither team was able to pull away from the other. Allegheny scored first, but they were quickly followed up by a goal from junior attackman Nicole Gibson.

This cycle of goals continued to repeat itself, as another goal from Allegheny was followed up by goals from Summers and Gibson. However, from that point on, the momentum of the game shifted entirely.

The Tigers gave up three straight goals to Allegheny. Although their great efforts to stay in the game prevailed early on, the Tigers trailed by two goals with ten minutes remaining.

Desperately looking to stay in it, Flynn was the saving grace for the Tigers. She scored twice in the final ten minutes to knot the game up at 12. Neither team was able score in the final minutes of regulation, so the game had to be decided in overtime.

It was a brief three-minute overtime period, but it was enough time for the Tigers to pull off the victory, as Denny buried the winning goal with

Junior Emilye Denny looks for a pass during the Tiger's game against Oberlin on March 26. Denny scored the game winner against Allegheny on Saturday. COURTESY OF DEPAUW UNIVERSITY just 24 seconds remaining.

Summers described the scene in excitement as the team erupted with joy and stormed the field to celebrate one of the best team wins they have experienced all season.

“It was so close, we just wanted that goal so bad,” she said.

The excitement from the win over Allegheny carried over into Sunday, as the Tigers were able to rout Concordia Chicago by a score of 20-2.

The game was never a contest for the Tigers; they scored 12 goals in the first half alone.

Heldring said that this win, al-

though satisfying, may have been a tad more expected than the Allegheny win, as Concordia’s lacrosse program isn’t as experienced. In addition to the inexperience of the Concordia players, Heldring credited the different style of play the Tigers implemented on Sunday as well.

“Concordia is a first year program, so they were not as skilled,” she said.

“But I think we took a lot of risks that we wouldn’t have necessarily taken in the Allegheny game.”

The Tigers have now won three of their past four games, and they only have four more remaining. The

Tigers, who currently standing with a record of 4-8, still have a chance to close out the season at .500. Summers thinks the challenging conclusion to the season should give them the opportunity to bring out the best in their play.

“We’ve got some iffy games coming up, but we can definitely come away with the wins in those games,” she said. “We just have to go into it kind of like we did at Allegheny, wanting to get the upset, and not letting their past record or reputation or conference let us think otherwise.”

Lackluster weekend finish leaves Tigers hungry for Conference

By Mike Wetoska

sports@thedepauw.com The men’s golf team traveled to Springfield, Ohio over the weekend to play in the Rosencrans-Maurer Invitational. Out of the nine teams that participated, the Tigers finished in seventh place, shooting a collective two-day score of 614 (+38). They would have needed dramatically lower scores to have had a chance to win, as Wittenberg University shot a collective two-day score of 565 (-11).

“As a team, we really didn’t play

that well,” junior Quinn Smith said.

“Two rounds under 310 is pretty solid for us, but in terms of the rest of the field, we kind of struggled. Seventh out of the nine really isn’t necessarily where we wanna be heading into conference, but there is definitely some positivity to take away from this.”

First-year Michael Wittenberg expected the scores to be higher than usual, as the conditions made for a difficult day of golf.

“The way that the course was set up it pretty much just tested every part

of your game,” he said. “Especially the greens. The greens were really tough.”

The Tigers’ top individual performance came from Smith, Wittenberg and sophomore Andrew Derringer.

Smith shot two consecutive 74s for a collective score of 148, which was good enough to give him sole possession of 15th place. Wittenberg posted rounds of 77 and 74 for a collective 151 while Derringer posted rounds of 75 and 77 for a collective 152, which placed them at 24th and 25th place, respectively.

First-year Jackson Mihevic noted that Wittenberg University was a few steps ahead of the competition this weekend, along with most of the others competitors.

“Wittenberg [University] is definitely a national powerhouse,” he said. “I don’t know the exact number of times in a row they’ve won our conference, but they’re definitely the favorite, by far the best team. The other teams there were pretty solid as well.”

With the conclusion of play this weekend, the Tigers have officially begun their postseason, as they will

be playing in the NCAC Conference Championship for the next two weekends.

“It’s gonna be very tough,” Smith said. “Obviously, we just lost by 49 strokes to Wittenberg and we have to beat them over two weekends and four rounds so we’re just trying to get the right people in the lineup to give us our best shot.”

The Tigers will begin play in their first two rounds of the NCAC Conference championships this weekend at Boulder Creek Golf Club in Streetsboro, Ohio.

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Senior Marcus Dozier headlines track and field meet once again

Senior Marcus Dozier practices discus Tuesday afternoon. With a discus throw of 57.13 meters Saturday, Dozier ranked first in the nation, which also earned him NCAC Track Athlete of the Week. SAM CARAVANA / THE DEPAUW

By AUSTIN CANDOR

sports@thedepauw.com With Conference approaching, the Tigers turned out a number of strong performances at the Indiana Division

III Track and Field Championships last weekend at DePauw.

The men’s team finished an overall fourth out of nine teams, while the women finished seventh out of eight teams.

Senior Marcus Dozier once again

headlined the men’s team in his quest for a Division III championship.

The senior won the discus (57.13m) and the shot put (15.75m), breaking both the school and meet record in the discus. The performance earned him the honor of being named

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NCAC Field Athlete of the Week.

The men also received another strong performance from first-year Paul Christian, who won the 5,000 meter with a 15:25.99 finish.

Sophomore Polo Burguete placed second in the 3,000-meter steeple-

chase (9:46.47), while senior Paul Watts finished second in the 10,000 meter (32:35.13).

On the women’s side, the Tigers received three first-place finishes.

First-year Ashley Hash won the high jump (1.63m/5-4.25), sophomore Rachel Gutish won the pole vault (3.25/10-8) and junior Claudia Monnett finished first in the 10,000 meter (40:54.67).

“Jumping only 10-8 so far this season is definitely a letdown compared to my 11-9 last year,” said Gutish, who spent most of the indoor season recovering from a broken foot. “However, if you’re out with injury and unable to run for nearly three months, that’s bound to happen.”

The Tigers will travel to Terre Haute this weekend to compete in the Rose-Hulman Twilight, a meet that has brought the team success in past years.

“The team is getting better… and that is always our goal… at the end of the year,” said Head Coach Kori Stoffregen. “We are looking forward to our meet at Rose-Hulman on Friday night. The team loves competing at night.”

Gutish agreed.

“I think that we do have…potential to regroup and improve on our team’s performance” Gutish said. “I trust my team to go out and deliver the best performance that we possibly can.”

The meet, scheduled for a 5 p.m. start, is one of only two remaining before the Tigers head to Ohio Wesleyan for the NCAC Decathlon.