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Buzz mounting ahead of Andrew Luck Ubben lecture
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As with every Ubben lecture, Ken Owen attempts to entice students to attend interesting lectures Owen said that for this semester he has achieved a “wow factor.” Andrew Luck, the quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts, is set to speak at DePauw on April 24 at 7 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium. “I think [Luck] brings a really good case study to a liberal arts college where the people that are involved in athletics play for the love of the game. They’re here to study first and foremost and athletics is a second thing to them,” said Ken Owen, Executive Director of Media Relations. Luck’s lecture, entitled “Creating Your Personal Game Plan for Success,” will be open to DePauw students first. “The idea will be that the program will be about life choices and about coming up with a schematic of what you’re going to do with your life and how you make decisions,” Owen said. “[This lecture will] get his ideas as to what compelled him to stay in school, how did he
make the choices he made, how do you balance study and work and having fun outside of class.” Luck (25) would have been the first pick in the NFL draft his junior year of college at Stanford, but he chose to stay in school and complete his degree in architecture. After he graduated, Luck was drafted number one overall. “He is an advocate for studying hard and having goals in life,” Owen said. DePauw’s own football coach Bill Lynch will moderate Luck’s lecture, but the topic of football will mainly be discussed in a separate meeting between Luck and DePauw’s football team. “I believe our team will enjoy their conversation with Andrew. He’s not far removed from being a college student-athlete himself, so he’ll be able to share how he handled the difficult balance between academics and football,” Lynch said. “Hopefully we’ll be able to talk about his background, his experience at Stanford and in the NFL with the Colts. I’m sure he’ll have some great stories to tell as well.” Sophomore quarterback Matt Hunt agrees with Coach Lynch. “It’s a great opportunity for our school and our football team. He’s a great role model for student athletes and I’m looking forward to [hearing] what he has to say,” Hunt said. “I’m interested to hear his thoughts on balancing academics with athletics at a school like Stanford. I’ve followed him throughout his career and looking forward to listening to him and meeting him.” Many students are aware of his academic, as well as football background, and know he will offer a lot of substantial advice for DePauw students. “I think he’s going to be a really great speaker at DePauw because he’s not only a football player, he’s also really intelligent; he graduated from Stanford with a degree in architecture,” said sophomore Sarah Wilson. “A lot of football players that know they’re going to go professional kind of blow off academics but he most definitely did not so he is a great example of a superb student athlete.”
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VOL. 163, ISSUE 25
First Flower-ins, now IFC and Panhellenic bring change to Spring Recruitment
North-American Interfraternity Conference, Inc. and National Panhellenic Conference, Inc. crests. COURTESY OF NIC AND NPC. LEXY BURTON news@theDepauw.com
First the fresh cut flowers, now the Black Monday festivities. Members in Greek chapters on campus will have to wait before celebrating their new pledge classes. Last semester DePauw’s Interfraternity and Panhellenic councils revised bylaws regarding Spring 2015 recruitment creating changes to structure and function of recruitment. Voted into the bylaws back in 2007, National Panhellenic made a unanimous agreement that all 26 organizations on campus would agree not to have a grade point average requirement. National Panhellenic has rules against discrimination against women regarding their age, race, sexual orientation or grade point average. DePauw’s National Panhellenic Council was unaware of the grade point average rule as of 2007. Last fall, the council amended their bylaws making a decision no longer requiring women to have a 2.5 GPA requirement for this spring’s 2015 recruitment. The requirement was previously required because National Panhellenic Council values the importance of academics. Although there is no longer a requirement
to register and go through recruitment individual chapters have their own GPA standards. According to Maggie Hayes, coordinator or sorority life, all six houses require above a 2.5, except Kappa Kappa Gamma, which requires a 2.67. “Despite no longer having a GPA requirement we didn’t want women to have false hope,” said Libby Warren, Panhellenic President. Although there is no longer a GPA requirement, Panhellenic does not have the authority to delegate if chapters choose to select women below their specific requirements. “Rho Gammas have really stressed the importance of academics in Greek 101, Ice events,” said Warren. “Alexa Masters, [vice president of recruitment] has done a good job making sure these women know that academics are important to individual chapters.” Although chapters have individual GPA requirements they do have the ability to welcome women with a lower GPA. “It is difficult to say if this change will effect numbers this year,” said Warren. Although the freshmen class is smaller than last years, percentage of first year women
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