DIGGING TURKEY: A SUMMER STUDY ABROAD See our multimedia page at thedepauw.com to hear about the experiences of two DePauw students who participated in an archeological dig in Turkey.
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Mormon missionaries said driver crashed while giving them middle finger, looking back
Casey addresses student body after DePauw ranks in nation’s top party schools again
By CHASE HALL and JOSEPH FANELLI
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Driver who flipped car on S. Locust Street pleads guilty; sentenced to day in prison
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A Bainbridge man who flipped his car on S. Locust Street Saturday was sentenced to one day in prison and ordered to pay $820 in fines and court fees Tuesday in front of a Putnam County judge. Greencastle police arrested Benjamin Brewer, 24, Saturday after he flipped his silver Honda Civic in front of Sigma Chi fraternity and Gobin Memorial Church while driving intoxicated over the legal limit. The car was driving northbound when it reportedly crashed around 8:40 p.m. Scott Brezenski and Myles Anderton, two missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said that the driver crashed while he raised his mid-
"We were just walking, and he looked back and flipped us off...Then the car flipped 10 to 12 feet in the air." - Scott Brezenski, passing missionary, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
dle finger towards them while they walked past. The right side of the car hit the curb then ramped up the support of a telephone pole in front of the Studebaker Memorial Administration Building, launching the car into the air, they said. The car spun and landed on its top about 20 feet away from the pole in front of Sigma Chi,
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A silver Honda Civic sedan hit a curb on its right side then ramped up a support cable of a telephone pole, spun in the air and landed on its top about 20 feet away from the pole in front of Sigma Chi. In this cell phone picture minutes after the accident, witnesses describe the accident to Greencastle Police. PAUL FESENMEIR / THE DEPAUW
For the fourth straight year, the Princeton Review’s annual rankings listed DePauw University in the top 15 party schools in the nation. President Brian Casey wasted little time sharing his thoughts about the rankings when he sent an email to DePauw students, faculty, staff and parents who opted to receive university emails. Casey called the rankings, among other things, “extremely disappointing.” The Princeton Review’s Party Schools list, which placed DePauw at No. 12 this year, uses a combination of surveys from students — asking questions about drug and alcohol use and the popularity of the greek system to determine which schools in the nation party the hardest. DePauw has become something of a fixture on the list the last four years – peaking in 2010 at No. 10. In 2012, DePauw was the only private university besides Syracuse University in New York state to make the top 20. In the email, Casey said the ranking is “not an accurate reflection of the DePauw experience” and questioned the validity of The Princeton Review’s surveys. “The Princeton Review states that their lists are based on timely student surveys, but the quotations they offer from DePauw students have not changed in the last four years,” Casey said. “We have no reason to believe that the views of today’s DePauw students actually play any part in placing DePauw on this list.” In an interview with The DePauw, Casey went deeper, saying the rankings are “measurably damaging” to the university and its students. He said the placement of DePauw on the party school rankings
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Sophomore year is the lost year, but DePauw is working to make it a year of planning instead of one in which students waste, with the new Sophomore Institute. The Sophomore Institute was a daylong seminar on Monday at Prindle. Alumni and professionals came to speak to the students about ways to begin planning for their lives after DePauw. To stir interest, letters and emails were sent out to the sophomore class inviting them to attend. Just over 100 spots were available. The event drew a waiting list 20 names long and 90 sophomores attended the event. The purpose of the event was to get sophomores into the mindset that planning for the future should begin now, not just senior year. “The sophomore year is the lost year, it has been called the ‘sophomore slump,’” Raj Bellani, Dean of Experiential Learning and Career Planning said. “The reality is that it’s not a slump. It’s a newer transition. You ask big, deep questions. It’s about the heart and the mind. It’s about the future. Its about ‘I’m growing up.’” For sophomore Julie Wittwer, the institute triggered thoughts that might not have emerged this year otherwise. “[The institute] made me think about my future more than I had been,” Wittwer said. “The Sophomore Institute did it in a way that didn’t make the future sound scary, but it made me more excited than scared.” That was the goal of the event: to get students to realize that planning for the future should start now. “It’s an evolutionary process,” Bellani said. “It’s about starting in the second year and seeing what works and what doesn’t.”
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Students speak with Dean of Experiential Learning and Career Planning Raj Ballani (right), faculty and alumni during the Sophomore Institute, which took place this past Monday at Prindle. ISABELLE CHAPMAN/THE DEPAUW For President Brian Casey, the event was about helping students find their strengths with the Strengths Finder Test. “The idea is that you come in, you do a lot of testing on who you are as a person. And we say okay this is who you are, this is what you’re interested in and you have five semesters left,” Casey said. “You know what you’re doing academically because you have the curriculum, but how do you think about all these other things?” For Wittwer, the most valuable portion of the day was what the alumni had to say.
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“It was really cool to see successful people coming back and telling us about how they picked their majors when they were in the same spot as us,” Wittwer said. “[The Sophomre Institute] helped us build a resume, make a LinkedIn profile, and think about our lives and point us in the right direction.” This year’s Sophomore Institute is a test-run of sorts, and the university is looking for ways to make it better. “It was a high-scale event, that was uniquely DePauw,” Bellani said. “My hope is that 20 years from now [students] will realize how important it was to have this at DePauw.”
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The institute did not end after Monday’s event. It continues with a class offered for a quarter of a credit, which Wittwer is enrolled in. “[The class] will be an hour a week where I can focus on my future,” Wittwer said. The institute is just a trigger, the idea is that it will launch conversations and actions that help students define a path. “If it does nothing else than make people think, then we’re okay,” Casey said.
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Wayne Glausser to head search committee for VicePresident of Academic Affairs It isn’t President Brian Casey, nor even a DePauw administrator, who will conduct the search for the university’s next Vice-President for Academic Affairs. Rather, Professor Wayne Glausser – an English professor – will head the committee to replace David Harvey who has served as the VPAA since the 2009-2010 school year. Glausser, who wasn’t available at press time, has been with DePauw since 1980. He received his bachelor’s degree in literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz before earning a master’s in philosophy and a doctorate from Yale University. Glausser and the search committee will work closely with Alan Wichlei of Isaacson, Miller – a prominent executive search firm for not-for-profit organizations. The firm’s job will be to actively recruit candidates based on the characteristics defined by Glausser and the rest of the search committee. As the committee is still being fully formed, no definite characteristics have been named for the future VPAA, but DePauw spokesman Christopher Wells did emphasize that the position is an “extraordinarily important job” and that the vice-president will “serve as a rally point for putting ideas together.” The vice-president is essentially the dean of all things academic at DePauw. The leader works with faculty and students in decisions revolving around curriculum and academic programs. “This new VP would lead the on-
going discussions on the curriculum, on how to free up more faculty time to work directly with students, and on how to best develop and support our faculty members to ensure they continue to be eminent scholars and impressive teachers,” Wells said in an email. “The VPAA will also play a role in helping to steer fundraising efforts connected to DePauw’s academics.” Casey told The DePauw last May that he thought the search for the new VPAA would run through the entire 2012 academic year. He said he hopes the new vice-president could start by the summer of 2013. Casey also said the ideal candidate will have high academic credibility, served as a department chair or dean, been involved in academic planning at an institution and participated in the national discussion on pedagogy, curriculum and faculty development. In the past, high-level administrations have come from universities across the U.S. For instance, recently-hired Raj Bellani, dean for experiential learning and career planning, came from the Rhode Island School of Design while Brad Kelsheimer, Vice-president for Finance and Administration, was previously at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Harvey will serve as the VPAA until a new candidate is selected. Then he will return to teaching chemistry and biochemistry.
— Ellen Kobe contributed to this article.
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Flipped car | scene about five minutes later. Brewer registered a .17 blood alcontinued from page 1 Brezenski and Anderton said. “We were just walking, and he looked back and flipped us off,” Brezenski said, adding the driver was carrying a cigarette in the hand he used to make the gesture. “Then the car flipped 10 to 12 feet in the air.” The driver was uninjured. DePauw Public Safety and the Greencastle Police Department were on the
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Matthew Brewer (right), who crashed Saturday after gesturing towards two Mormon Missionaries with his middle finger, talks to a policeman after performing poorly in a field sobriety test. The 24-year-old from Bainbridge, Ind., was arrested shortly thereafter. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
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cohol content at the scene, Officer Matt Demmings of DePauw Public Safety said. Brewer pleaded guilty to operating a vehicle with a BAC of .15 or more and will have his driver’s license suspended for 30 days. He must then use a probationary license for 180 days. Angie Nally, director of Public Safety, said drunk drivers are “surprisingly common” on campus, although they tend to be local residents and
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not DePauw students. “Intoxicated drivers and pedestrians don’t mix well,” Nally said. In 2011, 19 people – three students, 15 non-students and one unknown suspect – were arrested for drunk driving. Brewer’s arrest marks the third person arrested for drunk driving on campus so far in 2012. The other two people were DePauw students.
— Ellen Kobe contributed to this article.
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Party school | continued among both high school students and their parents.” 20 minutes before I left from my first visit,” Burmeis- munity Development. However, Meyer did recognize that the major ter said. Meyer admitted that although the university has from page 1 reasons many students do not come to DePauw “What sold me was how genuinely [my tour taken a definite stand against the rankings, there are has a “direct and negative impact on admissions.” According to Dan Meyer, vice president of admissions and financial aid, Neustadt Creative Marketing performed a series of focus groups in the fall of 2010 involving prospective students who had or had not applied. In conversations with the students, which Meyer said he was able to overhear, students brought up concerns about the university’s placement on the party school list a “number of times.” He said students would note DePauw’s academic reputation, but said they were hesitant to commit to the school because of the party rankings. Meyer said in an email that he cannot determine the exact number of students that have been deterred from DePauw because of the high party ranking, but that the focus group research did indicate that the school’s ranking was a “major concern
concern other issues they have with the university, such as its location, size or majors offered. Freshman Dan Burmeister said that the he did
A classification as a party school “diminishes the perceived value of DePauw.” –Dan Meyer, VP of admission & financial aid
not get the impression of DePauw as a top party school and did not consider it a factor when committing to the school. “I didn’t know it was a party school until literally
guide] expressed his affection for this school,” he added. “Most of the people who have heard of [DePauw] know that it is good for something other than partying.” Casey also expressed his concerns that the rankings would have a negative impact on graduates looking for jobs. However, senior Taylor Horowitz doesn’t see this as a problem; the ranking might even help her. “I don’t think being on the top party school list will correspond with getting a job,” she said. “[DePauw] is not that well-known on the East Coast where I’m from. If anything it will help get the name out there.” Both Casey and Meyer pointed to DePauw’s high fraternity and sorority involvement as the primary reason the school remained high on the list. Just less than 70 percent of students are greek-affiliated, according to the Office of Campus Living and Com-
CAMPUS WELCOMES THE CLASS OF 2016 Continuing on an old tradition, bagpipers lead professors, administration and the 617 incoming freshman class from the North side of campus into Kresge Hall where a formal convocation was held. Pictured from left behind bagpipers is Student Body President Sara Scully, senior, and President Brian Casey, both of whom addressed the freshmen and their parents. Upperclassmen, athletic teams including the football and volleyball teams, and mentors lined the sidewalks, watching and cheering as the group walked across campus. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
those on campus who take on pride in the rankings. He cited students who feel that the schools high ranking on the party school list is the reflection of the student body’s “work hard, play hard” mentality. While Meyer said he can understand the sentiment, ultimately a classification as a party school “diminishes the perceived value of DePauw.” Meyer is aware students drink at DePauw, but still believes the rankings are inaccurate. “I’ve been to nine schools in 30 years and our students are no more prone to participate in alcohol use than any other campus.” Still, the best understanding of the university’s lifestyle probably comes from experience, as sophomore Claudia Gutierrez says. “It might have some influence on prospective students,” she said. “Overall, everybody knows what type of environment it is once they get here and see the whole picture.”
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A Q&A with Scott Perkins
New composition professor brings passion, experience to School of Music By STEPHANIE SHARLOW news@thedepauw.com
Due to a growing demand, DePauw University School of Music added a new course – composition — which hasn’t been offered for many years. New Assistant Professor of Music Scott Perkins, who came to DePauw from Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Conn., was hired to fill the opening and is eager to guide students of all interest levels into the art of composing. The DePauw: How did you come to teach at DePauw? Scott Perkins: I actually know someone on faculty – Greg Ristow, the director of choral activities. I found out about the position through him. I got a really positive impression of the place when I came out to interview. TDP: What education do you have? SP: I completed my undergrad at Boston University in theory and composition. Then I have a MA in music theory pedagogy at The Eastman School of Music, another MA in music theory from Eastman and then a Ph.D in composition from Eastman.
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TDP: How did you become interested in composing? SP: Well, I’ve been composing for a long time. I started composing when I was five, and I think I knew I wanted to be a composer when I was 14. There was a composition competition in which the Hartford Symphony Orchestra would perform the winner’s piece twice and the composer got to go out on stage. I won the competition with a piece I wrote when I was 12. I eventually applied to college for composition. That was kind of a gamble because I didn’t know any other composers so I didn’t know how I stacked up against anybody else. I kind of defected when I went to graduate school and went the theory route, but then came back
to it. TDP: What other musical experience do you have? SP: I am a tenor and a pretty active performer. I tend to specialize in early and contemporary vocal music. I guess because I was both a tenor and composer I was kind of the go-to guy for vocal music. TDP: What courses are you teaching at DePauw? SP: I am teaching Theory I, Musicianship I and Composition. TDP: What is the relationship between music theory and composition? SP: I am not sure there is always a one-to-one mapping between the two of them, but studying music theory opens up new possibilities about the way music works — the structure and materials. Knowing how other composers have done things before can help you solve composition problems. All of that is in the subconscious when one is composing. It’s not to say that theory never plays an active role in composition – that’s not true – but it doesn’t always. I do think that there is a difference between being a theorist and a composer. Just because you can put something together doesn’t mean you can put it together in a personal way. TDP: What do you hope to achieve at DePauw? SP: I’ve gotten a strong vibe from the faculty that there is a very positive climate here. It seems that there is a positive environment in encouraging new music. My main interests from the composer’s side is to generate interest here from the students, to draw attention to it. For more information on Perkins and his work, visit scottperkins.org.
TEMPORARY RELOCATION OF OFFICES DUE TO CONSTRUCTION Over the course of the summer, some administrative buildings moved. Consult this list to find the transferred offices.
OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS
OFFICE OF FINANCIAL AID
ASIAN STUDIES FACULTY
from 101 E. Seminary Street to 1st floor of Emison
from 101 E. Seminary Street to 2nd floor of Emison
from Emsion to 3rd floor of Harrison Hall
OFFICE OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
OFFICE OF ACADEMIC LIFE
RELIGIOUS STUDIES FACULTY
from 7 E. Larabee street to Julian 377
to 101 E. Seminary Street
from Emison to 3rd floor of Harrison Hall
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WeCar offers students access to rental car
• Recovered property • Owner notified | Time: 12:01 a.m. | Place: Pulliam Center for Contempory Media • Investigate for possible hit and run property damage accident • No report at this time | Time: 9:14 a.m. | Place: Olive Street Lot • Medical • Transport to Putnam County Hospital | Time: 7:39 p.m. | Place: College Street Hall • Assist GPD-property damage accident • GPD took call | Time: 8:36 p.m. | Place: Locust / Simpson streets •Alcohol violation • Released to custody of friend/forwarded to Community Standards Committee | Time: 11:15 p.m. | Place: Humbert Hall
August 19th • Fire alarm/Dealing in marijuana over 30 grams/possession of schedule of one controlled substance/possession of paraphernalia • Forwarded to prosecutor’s office/forwarded to Community Standards Committee | Time: 11:25 a.m. | Place: 109 W. Hanna • Hit and run property damage • GPD took call | Time: 12:35 p.m. | Place: Lucy • Medical • Ambulance refused/checked okay | Time: 10:48 p.m. | Place: Alpha Chi Sorority • Medical • Transported to hospital | Time: 6:01 p.m. | Place: Hogate Hall
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A WeCar vehicle sits in the Women's Center parking lot. DePauw recently implemented the vehicle-sharing program for DePauw students in need of a temporary car. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
• Medical • Ambulance refused/checked okay | Time: 12:42 a.m. | Place: Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
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• Medical • Transported to Putnam County Hospital | Time: 5:15 p.m. | Place: Humbert
August 22nd • Harassment via text • Under investigation | Time: unknown | Place: Campus •Alcohol violation • Forwarded to Community Standards |
Time: 11:42 | Place: Lucy
August 23rd • Mischief subjects turning over tables • Officer checked area/unable to locate subjects | Time: 1:50 a.m. | Place: East College Lawn
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DePauw has partnered with a car-rental service to allow students to gain easy access to cars on campus. WeCar, a by-the-hour rent-a-car service, was brought to DePauw this semester in order to provide students and staff members a new way to gain access to a car on campus. WeCar is owned by Enterprise Rent-ACar and is a sharing program based on renting environmentally-friendly cars to those who are eighteen years or older and maintain a valid driver’s license. International driver’s licenses are also accepted. Rather than shouldering the expense of owning and taking care of a personal car, WeCar rents out vehicles at a standard rate that includes the cost of fuel for 200 miles per day, additional miles at $0.35 per mile, as well as damage and liability coverage. DePauw has begun a partnership with this company and is introducing the program
this fall to make transportation for the community easier. “The WeCar program was introduced to campus in response to numerous requests from students for transportation options,” said Brad Kelsheimer, vice president for finance and administration. “We have explored a number of options, including ZipCar, but found the WeCar program to be the most practical.” Now students are able to rent out and reserve a high-mpg flex-fuel car hourly ($9.00 weekdays/$9.50 weekends), daily ($55.00), and overnight (6 p.m. to 8 a.m. for $45.00). In order to begin using WeCar, students and faculty must become a member at www.wecar.com/depauw. For students, a one-time application fee is free and an annual membership fee is only $35 a year, thus allowing rentals and reservations as many times as needed (with the payment of the rental fee). The WeCar service is also available for those who drive their own cars, and Kelsheimer feels the service will allow stu-
dents to leave their own cars at home. “Its presence on campus should decrease the need for students to bring their own cars from home to DePauw,” he said. The DePauw WeCar can be found by the Women’s Center at the corner of Central and Hanna streets. If demand increases, a second car likely will be brought to the university and be located in the parking lot at the Inn at DePauw.
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Walking through the doors of Peeler after a long summer without students, one may expect a somewhat empty atmosphere. However, turning the corner into the first gallery on the right will reveal hard work from the summer. The Richard E. Peeler Art Center has had a long-standing tradition of displaying the best artwork from students, faculty and nationally- and internationally-recognized artists. This year will be no different. For the first show, the most well-known DePauw artists, more commonly known as professors, have collaborated to create a collection of their artwork for the Faculty Art Exhibition, which opened on Aug. 22 and will stay open until Oct. 12. An opening ceremony to celebrate the hard work of part-time and full-time faculty will be held on next Wednesday, Aug. 29. “It’s been the tradition that full-time and part-time faculty are invited,” said Lori Miles, a sculpture professor. “This year, everyone entered something.” The 2012 faculty exhibition will feature the work of John Berry, Meredith Brickell, Chaz Evans, Lori Miles and Kevin Mooney and will highlight recent explorations in painting, ceramics, new media, sculpture and photography. “I particularly like getting to see the work of the part-time faculty. In general, they come in and out without recognition, and this exhibition gives them the perfect time and place to show their students and us … their work,” Miles said. Miles has been a sculpture professor at DePauw for the past eight years and is looking forward to her fourth showcase. The Faculty Art Exhibition is held every two years and Miles explained that there has been more interest from the faculty than in the past. This year, Miles entered a sculpture piece entitled “A Machine that Bottles Imagery,” inspired by the book “Birds.” “I spent a lot of time on planned work during my sabbatical [last year], but I have to show that work in the fall of 2013, so I wanted to do something that is sort of a composition of my work,” Miles said. “The focus was on houses, and it is an instillation with birds and a ladder. For this show, I got to try some new things out, so I am excited about it.” Miles describes her niche in the arts with an emphasis on contemporary colors, lowbrow imagery and pedestrian skills. Additionally, she’s quite interested in crafts and the way an average person might see themselves as creative, “a sort of Martha Stewart aesthetic.” While Miles has been around DePauw long enough for the
faculty to recognize her work as unique, a new face will be entering the exhibition this semester. Chaz Evans entered three pieces focused on software and electronics into the exhibition before he had even taught a class at DePauw. This will be Evans’ first year at DePauw after spending time in the theatre world and at UIC getting his master’s. Because of his background in theatre and performance, Evans enjoys working with multimedia. Although his artwork appears to be focused on software and multimedia, Evans considers media to be the “glue that holds it all together.” Evans has three projects on display in the Exhibition. All three are interactive projects, focused on multimedia and utilizing it in a unique fashion. “I am obsessed with history, particularly the history of technology and software. And John Baldessari is my inspiration. I wanted to do something as a tribute to a project of his I saw in Chicago,” Evans said. “It’s supposed to be a funny piece with a serious background.” Baldessari is an American conceptual artist that focuses on photography with a unique spin. His most recent works have incorporated text and photography on a painting canvas. Evans is inspired by the combination of artistic forms that Baldessari is known for. Evans, Miles and Professor John Berry see the exhibition as a way to allow students to see their work and get inspired for the new year. All three professors agree that the show allows them an opportunity to get to know their students outside of the classroom on a different artistic level. “A good professor does not taint their students with their own preferences, so I tend to not show students my work,” Miles said. “I don’t want them to think that’s the only vehicle for them to get a good grade. It’s nice to have an opportunity for them to see my work outside of the classroom.” Berry takes a different approach on the show. “I have seen students change what classes they want to take because of the show,” Berry said, “not necessarily which classes to take, but I have seen students sign up for art classes because of the show – most of them sooner rather than later.” Since students have to declare their majors sophomore year, Berry believes that it is important for the faculty to show what they can do at the beginning of the year. “I went to the Faculty Art Exhibition when I was a sophomore and loved it,” said Elizabeth Young, a senior studio art major. “It was the perfect opportunity for me to see my teachers in a different light. Instead of them focusing on me, I was able to see them as artists rather than teachers.”
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“Moonrise Kingdom, Anderson’s latest venture, is painted in familiar whimsical brushstrokes. But I’m not ready to ask Anderson to grow up just yet.”
Ceramics professor Meredith Brickell's piece "12201 Howard Lodge Drive," hangs in Peeler Art gallery. The faculty show opened this past Wednesday. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
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For students seeking outdoor fun with a bit of problem solving, Geocaching may be something to pursue. Geocaching, as defined on geocaching.com, is a “free real-world outdoor treasure hunt” involving GPS-enabled devices. By using the GPS coordinates, players try to locate small containers, known as geocaches, which have been carefully hidden by others. Since geocaching.com introduced the outdoor sport to the public in 2000, over 1.8 million caches have been hidden all over the world. Caches themselves can be just about any object or container that can be hidden or disguised and they range in size from, “a pencil casing to a five-gallon bucket,” according to junior Mackenzie Cremeans. Cremeans started geocaching in high school with her friends and picked the hobby back up this past summer when she was doing research in DeKalb, Ill. “That was how I got to know the area,” she said. Most traditional caches are relatively small containers that hold a token or object of some sort. Along with signing and dating a small log book of finders, the expectation is that when someone finds a cache, he or she is supposed to take the object inside and replace it with another. “I usually replace the items with these wooden coins that my hometown makes,” said Cremeans. “Some [caches] even have tracker bugs inside them so
that people can see where their items end up.” Along with the traditional caches, there are also many themed ones. Mystery caches, like the one at Greencastle’s Heritage Wall on the west side of Vine St., have clues hidden on the wall that provide geocachers with the coordinates of the cache’s location. Cremeans said that this particular cache is a great way for students to learn more about Greencastle since its clues lie in answers to questions about the town. Another example of a themed cache in Green-
“One was a magnetic water spigot stuck to the side of a building. I had walked around the building several times before I accidently bumped into it, saw that it slid and realized that it was the cache.” – Mackenzie Cremeans, senior
castle is the Fern Cliff Nature Preserve, an Earth cache located just a few miles outside of town. “There are a bunch of big sandstone cliffs there that they used to mine the sand from to make CocaCola bottles,” Cremeans said. Cremean’s favorite journey in search of a cache
took her, “on a hike through nature, past a waterfall and finally led to an overlook at the edge of the cliff.” The cache was an arm’s reach down the side of the cliff. Since she has found a number of caches, Cremeans said she considers two different caches to be her favorites. “One was a magnetic water spigot stuck to the side of a building. I had walked around the building several times before I accidently bumped into it, saw that it slid, and realized that it was the cache,” Cremeans said. “My other favorite cache was a plastic Easter egg in an actual bird’s nest.” Brian Stahly, who attended DePauw from 19871988, also has a few favorite geocaching memories. Stahly said his favorite place geocaching has taken him is to the Cave Hill National Cemetery in Louisville, Ky. “It is one of the most beautiful cemeteries that I’ve ever been in,” he said. Stahly, a current resident of Carmel, Ind., has been geocaching in just about every state in the midwest and southeast United States. He said one of his other favorite geocaches led him to a cache hidden on July 1, 2001. “It was on the banks of the Ohio River in southern Indiana. There were 70-80 foot tall limestone cliffs, and I had to climb to the top of one of the cliffs to find it.” Stahly believes that geocaching is a great activity for DePauw students to get involved in. “They can register for a free membership; it doesn’t cost anything.”
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go to local events to meet experienced cachers think outside the box Right: Mackenzie Cremeans, a junior, off a cache found on campus using a Global Positioning System this past Monday. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
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senior Kyle Uhlmann, his interest in geocachlted from a practical archeological survey projne of his classes in fall 2010. ad enough fun to keep going after the project nd have been doing it ever since,” he said in an terview. Since Uhlmann’s first caching experithe fall of 2010, he has cached in eight different s well as Spain and Portugal. pite his variety of caching travels and experiUhlmann’s favorite cache is one just right outMadison, Ind. a play on Freddy Krueger,” he said. “The cache y be found at night because you have to use a ht to follow little reflective dots posted on trees out the woods to find the cache.” e caches are more challenging to locate than and there are over 130 geocaches within a tenius of DePauw’s campus waiting to be found. eencastle has a pretty active caching communinew caches are always popping up,” Uhlmann
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DO YOU PASS ANY GEOCACHES ON A DAILY BASIS?
UPCOMING CACHING EVENT
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astle AT A TIME
What
2012 Indiana Geocaching Fall Picnic
When
Friday, September 7 & Saturday, September 8
Where
Lieber State Recreation Area- Hilltop Shelter in Cloverdale, Ind.
Details
WANT TO BECOME A GEOCACHER? To get started, simply log on to geocaching.com and search for caches that are near your current location. Each listing for a cache includes the coordinates for its location, called a “waypoint,” and usually a clue of some sort. Once you have the coordinates, you can enter them into any kind of small handheld GPS; even smart phones and car GPS’s will work.
Friday night’s “meet and greet” includes a chili dump and an organized night cache. Saturday’s Fall Picnic event includes a pitch-in lunch, door prizes, GeoSurvivor and Cachers Got Talent. For more information, including registration details, visit https://sites.google.com/site/2012indianafallpicnic/ home.
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THE DEPAUW | Editorial Board Ellen Kobe | Editor-in-Chief Chase Hall | Managing Editor Lizzie Hineman | Managing Editor Brianna Scharfenberg | Chief Copy Editor Anastasia Way | Chief Copy Editor
EDITORIAL
Ranking harms institution, not students We didn’t plan to write an article about DePauw’s promoted spot on the Princeton Review’s 2013 Top Party School Rankings. To us — and to most DePauw students — the list wasn’t news. We were there two years ago. We were there last year. If anything, it meant a few shared high-fives and a short flurry of light-hearted online bragging. Students are take pride in DePauw’s ‘Work-hard, Play-hard’ community and few see harm in the continued affirmation that they supposedly have more fun than many large state schools. But President Brian Casey and university administration attacked the ranking, despite dismissing others in the past. In our Aug. 18 edition, he says that although he keeps an eye on lists like Forbes Best Colleges or the Princeton Review, he puts little stock in their worth. Another high spot for DePauw as a party school changed that mentality quickly. Casey has said that the ranking causes “deep and measurable harm” to two entities: the institution and its students. We agree that the rating could pose negative effects on the university. Potential students may balk, and alumni may scoff at our loosened morals. We certainly don’t want people outside the bubble to think poorly of DePauw. We could lose fundraising and high-achieving students that would enrich this campus. But Casey also says that these ratings harm current students. While we’re grateful that he jumps at the chance to stick up for us, we just don’t see that as an issue. DePauw students are confident in the abilities they’ve gained at school. More often than not, if an employer is unimpressed by a graduate, it’s not because “DePauw University” is slapped across their resume. If students take advantage of the academic opportunities DePauw has to offer, there is no way they can be seen as just a party animal. Besides that, note that the Princeton Review’s party-school ranking is listed under “School Type,” and infers that drinking and revelry dominate DePauw’s culture, with study sessions or extracurriculars few and far between. Now, students and faculty know that this is not the case. Especially during these small hours of the morning as we finish the paper, we take offense to it. Casey wants what he sees as a false stereotype gone altogether. And call us partypoopers, but we agree that losing our spot on one of the most-searched college lists could only help DePauw move forward as an institution. We would rather see DePauw known as academically rigorous than party-crazed any day — and there is little to gain from party-school rankings. Ok, the bragging rights are fun. But past that — what value does it hold?
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The first two weeks: Just say hello MADISON BRINKER “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” —C.S. Lewis
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robably one of the best pieces of advice that I got last year as a freshmen was to try to introduce yourself to as many people as you can during the first two weeks of school. This is when people make first impressions, make new decisions and are usually their most vulnerable. The first few weeks of being a freshmen on campus, you don’t feel comfortable, you know no upperclassmen around you and everything is new. But, the bottom line is that when you are surrounded by people that make you feel good about yourself, you enjoy being with and whom you share common interests, every-
thing else seems just a little bit less intimidating. At the beginning of the freshman school year, everyone is going through the same thing, having the same struggles and is just as desperate to make friends and call this crazy, new, exciting place home. The way to get to that point though, is to allow yourself to be vulnerable, to put yourself out there and to take the first step and introduce yourself. It could be other students in one of your classes, it could be someone down the hall or it could be the person in front of you in line at the Hub. Anywhere and everywhere there are people that you don’t know. And you may never know them unless you make it happen. And it could turn out that those are the people that make you feel at home. I remember last year feeling so scared and so lost. The classes were more than I thought I would be able to handle. The environment at DePauw was nothing that I was used to in high school, and naturally, I missed my family. I allowed myself to feel lonely and talked myself into thinking that I was the only one that felt that
way. But surprise, surprise, I was never really alone. It took bonding at one of the freshmen events to show me that there were other people who shared those same feelings and who were just as desperate to make friends. And that was one of the biggest comforts, ever. Through realizing and acting on my desperate need for friendship, I was able to open myself up to new people and make some really amazing friends. Everyday we have choices to make. These choices can be the difference between making a life-long friendship or choosing to keep to ourselves because we are scared. Well, we are all scared in our own ways, but we will never know who is out there, feeling the same way we do, unless we put make the effort. So freshmen, welcome to DePauw. Go outside, and say hello. Also, I recommend that you check out the song, “Say Hello” by Rosie Thomas. — Brinker is a sophomore from Stevensville, Mich., with an undecided major. opinion@thedepauw.com
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Digging up journal from the past: the first week BRIAN AUSTIN
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ast year, I wrote this journal on what was going on in my head after about a week of college. Freshmen, I am sure you will be able to relate to some of this soon. I am 18 years old. I just ‘survived’ week one of college, and I am beginning to realize certain things about what I expected out of college. In high school, we are told how important writing is and taught to use MLA format whenever we cite sources. We were babied through research papers so it was just a series of small assignments, and it wasn’t much of a challenge to finish by the due date received two months prior. High school gave us the ability to sit in class, memorize some facts about certain subjects. Some were able to coast by with above average
grades that would earn admission to a good school. Some of us were accepted into schools based on our extra curriculars and decent GPA’s. But now, we are asked to think, and for some of us, it’s the first time our intelligence has been pushed past its comfort zone. I came to school with the hope of post-graduate job security and a new bunch of friends. Everyone wants friends, so when we endure our ‘Camp College’ for the first few days, we are all excited to get out and meet new people. Some of us remain shy while others are constantly trying to remember every single name and face they come across. All of our brain activity is wasted trying to meet new people and become accepted in our new environment, socially, for we have already been accepted academically. So once we meet people, then what? We decide our friends and assemble our own little cliques. Take the safe road and refuse to take any form of a risk, scared of the possibility of messing up and becoming
ostracized from our new fragile ecosystem. But why be afraid? Be yourself. What is job security anyway? Just a word made up by the adults of the world, right? If we leave this institution with a little more wisdom and critical thinking abilities, that’s all the job security we need. We all know that life is about who you know. I could have several jobs back home working for my friends’ parents or even hanging on the coattails of older siblings, or in certain cases, parents. But most of us are here to learn. Regardless if we retain anything, we all wish to learn something. Asher Roth would have us learn all about beer pong and sex, which we will of course pick up along the way, but we also want to get something more out of this great institution. But we don’t know how to really learn. High school crippled us. I, like most high school students, did not study. I tried, but I never really could. Now, I try, but end up browsing Facebook, watching viral videos and just chatting
away with my new friends. Why can’t we focus? This is our lives we are dealing with. Real Life. Since when do we make our own decisions? Between ages one and 18, our decisions were made for us. So how come the day we leave for college, we must flip a switch and just immediately become super students and adults and miraculously make our own decisions about classes, schedules, careers, majors, minors, drugs, alcohol, fraternities, friends, living units and food...Since when are we capable of all of this? I love college. I hope we all do. But why did no one tell us about all this? All the stress, all the tests, all the reading, all the people, all the time to ourselves. I’m scared for the future but also excited. Best years of our lives right? Lets make them last, lets make them worth it.
STEWART BURNS
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s the haze of the first few days of classes wears off and the thrill of arriving back on campus fades away, look to the next two weeks for much greater excitement. Every four years our country is blessed (or cursed) with a presidential election. Next week, the Republican National Convention will take place in Tampa, with the Democratic National Convention the following week, in Charlotte. What will take place over the next two weeks is of weighty importance. According to The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, who conducts research on civic engage-
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ment, 51.1 percent of eligible 18 to 29 year olds voted in 2008. This is the second highest voter turnout for that age bracket; second to 1974 or the year that 18-year-olds first gained the right to vote. A June 2012 poll conducted by Weber Shandwick, Powell Tate and KRC research reports incivility is causing 58 percent of Americans to tune out politics in general. Furthermore, 82 percent believe “the media is more interested in controversy than facts.” A poll released this month by NBC News/ Wall Street Journal reports that 61 percent of the country believes this nation is on the wrong track. With these polling numbers and
PHOTOPINION How does the top party school list affect you as a student? “I don’t think it really matters because we’re really rigorous academically. We have a good balance here between partying and academics.” DANIEL CHEN, freshman “I honestly don’t think it changes anything.”
— Brian Austin is a sophomore from Cincinnati, OH, currently undecided on his major. opinion@thedepauw.com
SHERIDAN GIBSON, junior
Upcoming election significant to everyone surveys results voters will only become further disenchanted. Our country needs the opposite. We need more people to become involved and to speak their minds, to not become discouraged. The two national political conventions present an opportunity for all who are dissatisfied, or who distrust the media. Messages will be disseminated directly from the Democrats and the Republicans. Although the conventions bring together a few days of what seems at time akin to a music festival, you will find valuable information while sifting through the pageantry. The two national parties will set forth their frameworks for how they envision our country should be. There will be stark differences in each respective platform on the role of the government and of the individual. The parties’ national priorities will be set in stone. Beyond red or blue, the parties’
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true colors will show. None of this will matter if nobody listens. Note the tone of speakers, candidates, ideas and messages. Challenge statements, seek the truth, work to understand foreign concepts and check the facts. Become educated and engaged. Seventy-four days from now, we will find ourselves with the right and the opportunity to vote. Do not let that pass. The most important vote of our lives was not in 2008 nor was it in 2000. The past votes have been cast. History cannot be rewritten. The most important vote of our lives is the one that comes next. — Burns is a senior from West Lafayette, Ind., majoring in political science. Kirkpatrick is a senior from Overland Park, Kan., majoring in political science. opinion@thedepauw.com
“It kind of devalues my education. Yeah we go out, but we’re equally academic.”
KELLY REEVES, senior “It hasn’t affected me much. It isn’t as important as our academic ranking.”
CALEB LEHMAN, sophomore ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
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Faculty Tenure, Interim, and Term Reviews
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Deadline: Monday, Aug. 27
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Faculty Promotion Reviews 2012 – 2013 Deadline: Monday, Sept. 10
If you have information you would like to share about your experience with any of these faculty members, please write to the Committee on Faculty, c/o Carol Cox, Academic Affairs, 377 Julian Science and Mathematics Center. Or, email at: COFcoord@depauw.edu. Tenure & Promotion
Sandro Barros – Modern Languages Cheira Belguellaoui – Modern Languages Maria Forcadell – Modern Languages Kellin Stanfield – Economics and Management Zhixin Wu – Mathematics
Interim Jeffrey Dunn – Philosophy Valentin Lanzrein – School of Music
Term Ellen Bayer – English Ronald Dye – Communication and Theatre/English Kathryn Millis – Library
Because of the University open file policy, all such submissions will be available to the individual faculty member. Thus, you are asked either to indicate your awareness of this fact in your letter, or to complete an open file form which can be obtained in the Office of Academic Affairs, 377 Julian Science and Mathematics Center, or on the COF website: http://2011.depauw.edu/acad/facgov/COFFiles/open_file_form.pdf The most helpful letters are those confined to personal experience of the letter writer. Since the criteria for review cover a broad set of categories spread over teaching, scholarly and artistic work, and service, your letter should only speak to your first-hand experience with the faculty member under review. It is neither helpful nor appropriate for a letter writer to make a recommendation for the outcome (e.g., granting tenure or promotion) since that implies a judgment based on incomplete information. A formal recommendation will be made by the review committees upon examination of all lines of evidence contained in the decision file. Nachimuthu Manickam, Chair, Committee on Faculty
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Richard Martoglio – Chemistry and Biochemistry Alejandro Puga – Modern Languages Jamie Stockton – Education Studies
Promotion to With Rank of Associate Professor Amanda Henk – Library Misti Shaw – Library
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Tamara Beauboeuf – Women’s Studies Rebecca Bordt – Sociology and Anthropology Julia Bruggemann – History Hiroko Chiba – Modern Languages Dana Dudle – Biology Aaron Dziubinskyj – Modern Languages David Gellman – History Eugene Gloria – English Ophelia Goma – Economics and Management Anne Harris – Art and Art History Robert Hershberger – Modern Languages Kevin Howley – Communication and Theatre Leslie James – Religious Studies Kevin Kinney – Biology Sherry Mou – Modern Languages Cynthia O’ Dell – Art and Art History Clarissa Peterson – Political Science Scott Thede – Computer Science Erik Wielenberg – Philosophy Lili Wright – English
Promotion to With Rank of Professor Joyce Dixon-Fyle – Library
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Freshmen progress into starting roles for inexperienced team By NICOLE DARNALL sports@thedepauw.com
Maggie Cochrane, a freshman setter, sets a ball during practice Thursday afternoon. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
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The DePauw women’s volleyball team is switching into high gear, preparing for the team’s first regular season match on Sept. 1. Currently, the squad includes nine first-year students, which is causing quite a bit of excitement from the coaching staff. Head coach Deb Zellers, who is entering into her 19th season, knew she had to recruit a large class with five players graduating last spring. She got what she needed. “Some might see this as a struggle or challenge, we see it as a fresh start with the freshmen,” Zellers said. “But we’re proud of our returning players as well.” Helping to lead the Tigers’ freshmen class are the two firstyear setters, Maggie Cochrane and Faith Rolwes. Because DePauw has no returning setters, one of the two freshmen will be filling the spot. “It’s a bit of pressure, but we need a setter,” Rolwes said. “It’s scary, but we have to do it. But it will be fun to lead the team and see where we can take it.” With the season opener only a week and a half away and scrimmages starting this weekend, there is a lot of pressure to bring the team together and build chemistry.
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“We put in a lot of work in the off-season and the team got very involved,” Zellers said. “But [bonding] is not a struggle, it’s an opportunity.” The newness of the team does not stop with the players,
“Some might see this as a struggle or challenge, we see it as a fresh start with the freshmen.” - Deb Zeller, head coach for women’s volleyball
however. Lauren Torvi was also hired since last season to be the new assistant coach. She was previously an All-American player at Springfield College. Altogether, the team is meshing to become what will hopefully be another Tiger powerhouse on campus. “[The team] is all striving for a common goal, together we’re really motivated,” Cochrane said.
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Sophomore Drew Seaman drops back for a pass at practice last week.
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Tigers who open up play against St. Olaf College
Football | continued from page 16 on Aug. 8 at Blackstock Stadium. work and get better.” With a cast of young talent at quarterback, it appears Seaman is a predictable choice for the
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“Definitely those two games last year helped me grow not just as a player, but a leader,” Seaman said on WGRE’s Tiger Talk. “I’m trying to help out the young guys and teach them things I needed to know last year.” Leadership and experience are the credentials for Seaman who claimed the most success-
ful stretch as the starter for a DePauw offense that normally struggled. “It was hard to get a rhythm down with every respective quarterback and we got into a rhythm with Drew,” said Taylor Wagner, senior wide receiver. “He threw my only receiving touchdown of the season.” Seaman has fully recovered from a concussion he suffered midway through the 2011 cam-
paign. He is excited about the opportunities of working with a more mature offense, while respecting the challenge of the upcoming freshmen quarterbacks. “We have a bunch of young guys coming in,” Seaman said. “They are talented in their own ways, and they have kept me motivated to get better.”
FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012
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Halterman back in goal After playing as a defender last year, Tony Halterman returns to his home in the goal for his senior year season. By CONNOR HOLLENSTEINER sports@thedepauw.com
Tony Halterman never saw much playing time behind Div. III AllAmerican goalkeeper, Nathan Sprenkel ‘12. This season, the senior is excited to return to his natural position. Halterman was given the opportunity to play in the field last year in hopes of benefiting the team in any way he could. He played on the back line in front of Sprenkel. Now his comrades will all be in front of him. “It’s been a seamless transition back. If anything, it has made me better,” Halterman said Wednesday on WGRE’s Tiger Talk. “I got to work with my feet a lot more, and I got a whole different read for the game knowing what the attackers will do.” Coming off an impressive season – winning the North Coast Athletic Conference title, the DePauw Men’s soccer team is training hard in camp in hopes of having just as successful of a season as last. Halterman will be critical in the Tigers’ hopes of repeating. “While [Sprenkel] was a very special goalkeeper, Tony is different. But I don’t think we’ll drop off at all,” head coach Brad Hauter said. “Tony is definitely capable of helping us win the conference again and even a national title.” Hauter said his experience in the field gives him one of the most unique perspectives of the game in the entire country. “There is no other keeper out there that played at a high level, was an all conference field player, and has this wealth of data and info now in his head that can help him as a keeper,” he said. Halterman started 14 games as a defender last season alongside his fellow backs. Louie Souza, a junior defender, thought Tony played well as a field
Tony Halterman, senior goalkeeper, yells instructions to his team during Thursday's scrimmage against Illinois Wesleyan University. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW player last season. “Tony was really great back there,” Souza said. “He solidified our defense during that strong push at the end of the season. Things could have been much shakier without Tony there.” DePauw finished 16-3-1 (8-1, NCAC), and made it to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2000. With just one week before their first regular season game, the team has been training hard in camp in hopes of having just as successful of a season as last. Hauter
has high expectations for his team this year. “It is exciting to be back, the energy level coming off of such a special season last year. We’re still carrying some of that emotion with us,” he said. “Looking into their eyes and seeing the hope and excitement from last year is great.” The Tigers will take the pitch for the first time against Hope College on August 31, starting at 6:30 from Boswell Field. That game can also be heard live on WGRE 91.5.
“I thought it was really generic [at first],” Jovanovic said. “But it
people saw it in print, we all thought it was really good.” The teams each have their own specific logo now available to buy in the bookstore. Those logos will be unique to each team. In less than a month of being released, the new tiger is growing on people. “I don’t think it really mattered what it was, it mattered that it was,” Fenlon said. “We settled on something, and we’re going to go forward with it. Everybody has an opinion, eventually you have to make a choice and more forward. I think it looks great on people.”
Tiger logo | continued from page 16 looks really clean on all of the stuff. It’s an intimidation factor — it has bit more than our initial idea. But it’s still a close version. We wanted to have that Tiger head you could do a lot of different things with. That face can become who you are.” The initial images and subsequent edits cost about $5,000, and sports-specific, print-ready logos cost another $4,000. The money came from Baker-Watson’s athletic director budget, and the DePauw communications initiatives budget. No money was taken from sports programs. Baker-Watson said another $10,000 will be spent to put up more logos around Lilly and the athletic fields precinct. Kate Jovanovic, a sophomore field hockey player, said she didn’t like the new logo at first, but said she has grown to embrace it.
that going for it. I like how we’re all being universal now. There’s one tiger, better than the ‘70’s tiger we had before. That was old school, and you can tell this one’s modern.” It’s modern for sure, but it’s not old gold. The school’s colors are traditionally gold and black. The yellow tiger face drew some questions from students for not being an old gold color. However, the yellow is consistent with the University’s East College logo which was created last year. “It’s not unusual to find graphic insignias of teams match up to the school’s colors,” Wells said. “We’re not changing the school colors from old gold to yellow.” Added Baker-Watson, “The coaches came to a conclusion that if we were a part of the institution, we need to fit in with what the institution is doing. We moved back to this yellow-gold color. Once
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A new Tiger on campus New athletics logo turning heads, and winning praise By MICHAEL APPELGATE sports@thedepauw.com
It’s hard to miss when one walks into the Lilly Physical Fitness Center. The image is imprinted on the doors entering the building, and then you see the looming, mural-like Tiger in the Neal Fieldhouse. That is the new DePauw Athletics logo, one which the University administration along with the athletic department was trying to find since fall 2011. The effort started because DePauw lacked a consistent image for each team. After contracting in May with Sports Graphics, an Indianapolis-based branding, marketing and production company, a new logo was found just one month later.
“This is our Tiger. No one has the brightness and pop that this one has. We won’t mistake it for anyone else’s.” – Stevie Baker-Watson, DePauw Athletic Director
In the past years, each athletic team has had their individual symbols, fonts and images. There has never truly been a consistent image for DePauw athletics as a whole until now. The above images are now the three official logos of DePauw athletic teams. The administration and athletic department hope that new athletic brand will present a more unified and recognizeable athletic program. IMAGES COURTESY OF THE
The process, according to Stevie Baker-Watson, DePauw athletic director, could not have gone smoother. “I look at this, and think ‘I don’t see this Tiger anywhere else,’” Baker-Watson said. “This is our Tiger. No one has the brightness and pop that this one has. We won’t mistake it for anyone else’s.” This past March, a committee of six head coaches and Bill Wagner, sports information director, assembled to decide what their vision of a new logo should be. After just one extensive meeting, head volleyball coach and chair of the committee, Deb Zellers, compiled the committee’s
information into one message. Head men’s basketball coach, Bill Fenlon, said the ideas which came from the meeting weren’t difficult to come up with. “What we were charged with was in-line with a lot of things Dr. Casey is trying to do, which is present a more unified front on who we are,” Fenlon said. “There are no new ideas. We basically fished around, and looked at what other people were doing.” In a PowerPoint presentation, the committee said the new logo should convey tradition and excellence, and be classic, simple and streamlined. They found samples they liked, such as Butler University’s Bulldog and University of Missouri’s Tiger. However, they wanted a forward facing, serious-looking, closed-mouth Tiger head that was “clean.” When the committee presented their ideas to Baker-Watson and Christopher Wells, vice president for communications and strategic initiatives, a decision was made to look for an outside company for the design. “We have some talented in-house staff that has significant design experience, but we don’t have a branding machine,” Wells said. “If given time, we could have designed something to be successful.” Sports Graphics was responsible for much of the Super Bowl advertising in Indianapolis earlier this year. It’s most noted image was the Roman numerals “XVI” with an image of the Vince Lombardi Trophy on the JW Marriott in downtown Indianapolis. Baker-Watson knew of the company from that, and contracted with them for some initial designs. She and Wells were more than pleased. “They showed up the first day with the drawing book, and Christopher liked it on sight,” Baker-Watson said. “We told them to run with it.” Fenlon added, “This isn’t the exact version we had in mind.
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FOOTBALL
Young players — Seaman, freshmen — drive preseason quarterback battle By PARKER SCHWARTZ sports@thedepauw.com
Amid a 2011 DePauw football season with four different players were at least once named the starting quarterback, the room for improvement at the position is inevitable. The theme for this season’s quarterback battle is youth.
“Guys are showing up every day, and they are getting great coaching,” said head football coach Robby Long on Wednesday’s WGRE Tiger Talk. “Whether you are talking about Seaman, who is a sophomore, or the young pups who are here as freshmen. Everyday they are showing up to get better.” With junior Jackson Kirtley sliding over to wide receiver, Seaman is the only returning quarterback
on the team. Seaman started two games and appeared in another last season, notching two victories for the Tigers on the road against Ohio Wesleyan University and Austin College. A sophomore from Scottsdale, Ariz., he threw for 280 yards with five touchdowns, two interceptions and a completion percentage of nearly 60 percent. DePauw brings five new freshmen QBs to the
fold. All worked hard in the summer to familiarize early with the DePauw offensive scheme. “We are extremely happy with this freshmen class,” Long said. “You don’t want to rely on that
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