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Fadel, Nazari, Scully nominated for Walker Cup By NICKY CHOKRAN news@thedepauw.com
Senior Ellie Pearson and Junior Erin McGinnis celebrate the women’s NCAC tournament victory over Kenyon Saturday night. EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW the field. By MICHAEL APPELGATE It was enough to garner praise Monday afternoon from Huffsports@thedepauw.com man, and give the team confidence going forward into its first NCAA Division III tournament game Friday against La Roche ColIt’s two of the three pillars of basketball head coach Kris Huff- lege. man prescribes to: defense and rebounding. Her words came in spite of a 9-32 shooting performance The other is free throws, which the DePauw women’s bas- from three point range. Top NCAC shooter, Savannah Trees, was ketball team hit when they needed, but it was defense and re- 3-12 from deep, and fellow sophomore, Emma Ondik, was 0-5. bounding that shined this weekend in the North Coast Athletic No matter, said Huffman, it’s still a great shooting team. Conference tournament final and semifinal. “That’s why we build our team on defense and reOn Friday against Wittenberg University, the Tigers out-re- bounds because you know you’ll have games and days that it bounded their opponents 35-23, and held them to 35.4 percent shooting. Basketball | continued on page 14 In Saturday's final against Kenyon College, DePauw held a 45-24 edge on the boards, and Kenyon shot 35.2 percent from
Seniors Mark Fadel, Arezoo Nazari and Sara Scully were announced as the three Walker Cup Award finalists for the class of 2013 in an email to faculty chairs and directors on Monday afternoon. The Walker Cup Award, “goes to the graduating senior who has done the most to advance the interests of DePauw,” said Associate Dean of Students, Cara Satchell. The Chair of Classical Studies, Rebecca Schindle, has distributed the three finalists’ resumés and biographies to faculty chairs via email and asked them to talk to
members of their department while preparing to vote, said Satchell. The results of the vote by the committee of faculty chairs and directors will be given as recommendation to the president. The vote by faculty chairs carries a significant amount of weight with the president’s award decision. According to Satchell, there has not been a year in recent memory when the president did not accept the Walker Cup recipient recommendation made by the committee of faculty chairs. The Walker Cup recipient will be announced on April 29 at the Academic Awards Convocation.
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First Semester White Papers Passed:
Second Semester Goals:
Student Activities Fee Proposal – Each year student organizations are created and the student body seeks more funding. The Student Activities Fee (SAF) has been raised from $205 annually to $215 for the 2013-2014 school year. This will add about $25,000 in funding annually.
Renewal of DePauw’s television contract – The television contract is up at the end of this semester and student government wants to know how students feel about the current networks. Student government will collect data this semester to gather student opinion.
Sustainability and Energy Efficiency Efforts – DePauw wants to become carbon neutral by 2040 and will continue towards this goal of carbon neutrality, solar power, wind power, geothermal pumps and all other viable renewable energy efficiency measures. Student Union – The Union Building offers students a centralized location for many activities but more common areas throughout campus will benefit students. The flow of information for students will improve by creating more study spaces or adding TVs and whiteboards to spaces.
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Students piled into the Watson Forum last Friday seeking comic relief and shelter from the bitter winds at the Latino Comedy Show event. The Committee of Latino Concerns, Lambda Sigma Upsilon Latino Fraternity Incorporated, Omega Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated and the Association of African American Students, co-sponsored the highly-anticipated event, which highlighted amateur comedians from Chicago. In a collaborative effort to bring more humor onto DePauw’s campus, junior Jorge Pule of Lambda Sigma Upsilon Fraternity Incorporated and senior Marycruz Baylon of the Committee of Latino Concerns invited Chicago comedian Jamie de Leon from “Pilsen Stand Up!” comedy show to lift students’ spirits during this rigorous semester. De Leon brought other Chicago comedians Alex Orozco, Abi Sanchez, and Gwen La Rock to perform.
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Greek Touch Stones – Fraternities and Sororities do not have a permanent spot on campus as some chapters have moved houses or are no longer active on campus. The idea is to acknowledge all of the chapters that have been present on campus. Issues around finals time – Professors often give out paper prompts or last minute assignments in the last few weeks leading up to finals. Student government wants to change the language in the student handbook so students can be more prepared and less stressed by these assignments.
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ROTC Recognition – DePauw should formally give recognition to the students who are involved in this organization.
After a brief weather-related delay, host de Leon began the show with an interactive trivia game that was based on Latino culture. Participants of this amusing ice breaker received headshots and CDs of the comedians’ latest stand-up show. With the crowd loosened up, comedian Alex Orozco took the stage as the show’s opening act. His initial jokes were greeted with amused smiles and laughter. However, as Orozco’s act progressed, the jokes became more offensive and culturally insensitive. The audience’s approval quickly evaporated as the jokes became progressively offensive based on the room’s cultural demographic. Several students responded to Orozco’s off-color comments by leaving the event prematurely. “His jokes were tradition, but not appropriate for a college setting,” said Baylon. Although his material received mixed reviews, Orozco’s overall performance and comedic delivery highlighted his overall performance. As the show progressed, comedian Abi Sanchez
shared personal tales of his family’s dynamic in a Latino household that left the audience in stitches. His smile and upbeat personality allowed the audience to feel connected to his stories. Female comic Gwen La Roka closed the show as the night’s last comic. Her comedic delivery, which relied heavily on her physical interpretation, was an immediate crowd pleaser. “She used her body to do a lot of funny interpretations of things that we usually do, like how women walk in bars and the relationship between someone and their pet,” Baylon said. Despite the evening’s earlier blunder, Baylon was pleased with the overall success of the event. Audience members left Watson Forum with sore stomachs and happy smiles. “I think it was a great learning experience for [CLC] and hopefully when our events get closer, we will be able to cater to the student body in a different sense,” Baylon said.
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DePauw should create a survey to actually gather some statistical data on the plague. I’d love to see percentages by house on who has it.
DePauw Post Office emails me 10 mins before it closes like I’m supposed to get there to pick it up! And I really needed that package!
I need to use all the money on my meal plan before I graduate b/c Depauw ain’t keeping a dime of my money. Anybody want something to eat?
Looking forward to a great weekend of basketball. @ DePauw_WBB hosting first round of the @ NCAADIII tourney.
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IFC confirms penalty for houses over quota, but no investigations yet By ALEX PAUL news@thedepauw.com
Mark Fadel
Sara Scully
Hometown: Fort Wayne, Ind.
Hometown: Dallas, Texas
Hometown: Mayfield, Ohio
Major: Biochemistry
Major: Philosophy
Major: Biochemistry
Activities: Three years as a student senator, student body president, first year mentor, peer mentor, ethics bowl team participant and captain for the past two years, Order of Omega, Mortar Board, Phi Sigma Tau (philosophy honor order), honor scholar, active member of Pi Beta Phi sorority
Activities: Vice president of student government, first year mentor, presidential ambassador, teaches science at Tzovanakis elementary school to fourth graders, did a research project with Putnam County Hospital on Zosyn, teaching assistant on a May term trip to Italy, established a chapter of Up ‘Till Dawn, student coach of the men’s swim team, swam for men’s team freshman year, and active member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity
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Future Plans: Will attend University of Toledo College of Medicine after graduation What’s your favorite DePauw memory? “My sophomore year I got invited to a dinner by my Italian TA, there were ten students there, each from a different country. On the table was food from all different countries. We hung out and talked.”
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IFC and the Greek Life Offices both stressed that they want to keep greek life healthy and thriving on DePauw’s campus. But houses have to follow the rules in order for that to happen. “We’re working on holding chapter houses accountable and working with chapters as a whole to have the ability to succeed,” Mitchell said. Fines levied to greek chapter houses will go to charity and promoting a healthier greek community. IFC plans to reexamine penalties in the future. Notch plans to put a certain amount of this money into philanthropy events chapter houses have on campus. This number will be uniform across the houses and will also be used to fund alcohol education but also uniform recruiting events with the chapters, giving equal exposure to all. “[The potential new members] will get to see more fraternities, not just the ones they go to on the weekend,” said Connor. “We want to try to get it so they see the houses more evenly.” In the past, the money collected from fines went to charity in Greencastle. “A lot of the chapter houses don’t know or understand where the money goes,” Notch said. “They think it gets distributed randomly.”
THURSDAY
Which accomplishment are you most proud of? “My most proud accomplishment was being on the Vice President of Academics search committee. I was the only student on the committee. It really will change how DePauw will transgress academically.”
How do you feel you’ve most contributed to DePauw? “I’ve always been grateful to my fellow students that I’ve been able to really contribute to DePauw student government and to learn the intricacies of DePauw, I’m constantly in conversations with students, faculty and Greencastle business members on how to further the interest of DePauw. I feel like I’ve had my hand in multiple areas of campus.”
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Future plans: Working in hospital administration for the Cancer Treatment Centers of America
Future Plans: Undecided. “I want to keep learning. Where and how I’m not sure yet.”
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Activities: Vice president of academic affairs search committee, leadership intern for the CLCD office, first year mentor, peer mentor, presidential ambassador, community standards counsel, 175th anniversary celebration committee, Little 5 steering committee, part of the sober monitor chapter assisting trained students (CATS) program, tour guide for the admissions office, mentor for College Mentor for Kids, VP of chapter operations for Alpha Phi sorority and vice president of student life for student government.
“One of the challenges IFC and the chapter presidents face is financial realities are not the same [for every chapter... one fine for a chapter is hard to pay, but another would have an impact but not the same impact.”
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Arezoo Nazari
Junior Tyler Notch, president of Interfraternity Council confirmed Thursday that IFC will penalize fraternities that violated terms of quota but hasn’t yet determined how much each fine could be or which houses specifically will be penalized. PJ Mitchell, a greek life coordinator, said that the executive board of IFC and chapter presidents have been working together to come up with alternative solutions to the fines. Fines given to certain houses are in the works to be reduced, either through a formal investigation through the Greek Life office or IFC. The investigative team consists of eight people: IFC’s VP of Risk, VP of Operations, VP of Recruitment, the IFC President, the chapter’s IFC advisor and three chapter presidents not involved with the incident. Mitchell said the formal investigations haven’t begun yet, but probably will in a week. “One of the challenges IFC and the chapter presidents face is financial realities are not the same [for every chapter],” Mitchell said. “One fine for a chapter is hard to pay, but another would have an impact but not the same impact.” If a chapter accumulates a large enough fine, a reduction of the pledge class for next year could be enforced instead. This reduction can be up to 50 percent if enough fines are accumulated, Mitchell said. He did not point out if this was a real possibility for the houses under investigation. “IFC continually looks into different ways [to enforce the rules] with the same impact as fining,” Mitchell said. He noted that for certain houses, the face-value fine they earned could be a financial death sentence. That’s especially true because some houses are willing to shoulder fines to exceed quota, Notch said. “There are so many loopholes,” said Notch. This year the potentially steep penalties were enforced to discourage fraternities from continuing the practice of taking more pledges than the set quota, Notch said. “We needed a reasonable fine so this doesn’t happen again in the future,” said Tim Connor, IFC’s
vice president of finance. Fines weren’t just because of going over quota, foul language during recruitment and Rho Gamma penalties factored into houses total.
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Material damage, hospital visits among consequences of excessive drinking By ZOE GRABOW and NICKY CHOKRAN news@thedepauw.com
With five hospital transports since the end of Winter Term and a total of 33 for the scholastic year so far, excessive campus drinking is still heavily prevalent. Students—many of them freshmen—are continuing to drink themselves to dangerously high blood alcohol levels despite DePauw’s efforts to curb the trend. Yet, according to Angela Nally, director of Public Safety, there is a silver lining to these alarming statistics. “We have to praise the fact that students are calling for help,” Nally said. “We’re doing well once they get to that level but how do we step in before they get to that level?” After Public Safety handles alcohol violation cases at the time of the incident, follow-up is done outside of Public Safety. Students who violate the alcohol policy go through a Community Standards Investigation. Nally said Community Standards is an internal judicial process. She explained that if Public Safety or a Resident Assistant cites a student for drinking, then the information is forwarded to Meggan Johnston, director of Community Standards. From there, Johnston decides whether Community Standards has enough information and cause to charge an individual. A meeting with the cited student is arranged, a hearing or private testimony is received, and if deemed guilty, the student is sanctioned by Community Standards within DePauw. “It’s really hard because if you say students’ should be more disciplined, people would be afraid to call,” freshman Jordan Lienhoop said, “but the rules aren’t working.” According to the Campus Crime Activity Report found on the Public Safety page of DePauw’s website, 25 of the 33 students sent to Putnam County Hospital so far this year came from freshman housing facilities. “Drinking is higher among first year students this year than in the past. More of them go through the Community Standards Process,” Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students Cindy Babington said. “I sense that being on the Princeton Review Party list for the past three years has to do with it—we now have three classes of
students who came in having seen DePauw on the list.” In 2012, DePauw University ranked 15th on a list of 20 party schools provided by the Princeton Review. Babington said she suspects DePauw’s party culture may play a part in attracting prospective students. “Students are coming to DePauw from high school having had experience with alcohol,” Babington said. “They’re coming to a more permissive environment, so they probably haven’t decreased their drinking.” According to Nally, a side effect of the constant partying is a cluttered campus. Looking to past trends, Nally said she had concerns about the rest of the semester. "We are entering the time of year where we will see a very active Saturday and Sunday," said Nally. "Our campus isn't presentable on Saturday [mornings] with people coming home from the bars and kicking over trash cans.” She said the administration can’t put up certain decorations, like banners, because students rip them from their poles so quickly. “Why is it okay with our students that other people [and students] tear up our campus?” Nally asked. Aside from material damage to campus, excessive drinking poses another harmful risk to the DePauw community at large. Babington explained that the while the primary concern is student safety the second concern is DePauw’s reputation. “When social life tips balances and becomes the prevalent part, that’s not a good thing.” Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council are the most recent student organizations to take on efforts dealing with alcohol education. “We’re doing as much education as we can possibly do,” Babington said. “We’ve been doing a lot and haven’t made much of an impact, though maybe we’re keeping it from being worse in some ways.” Nally recently met with the Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils to coordinate alcohol education programs. “Anytime our students reach out to each other I think it’s going to be effective,” Nally said. "I am concerned, but optimistic.”
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• Welfare check • Subject located / checked okay | Time: 1:39 a.m. | Place: Phi Delta Theta fraternity • Suspicious persons delayed report • Subjects left prior to report being filed | Time: 12:17 p.m. | Place: Delta Gamma sorority • Medical • Person chose to seek medical attention at a later date / time | Time: 7:55 p.m. | Place: Lilly Center • Battery / minor in consumption • Arrested: John Richard Penola (nonstudent)| Time: 11:32 p.m. | Place: Phi Kappa Psi fraternity
Feb. 23 • Possession of marijuana and paraphernalia • Forwarded to County Prosecutor’s Office and Community Standards | Time: 2:24 a.m. | Place: Olive Street parking lot • Alcohol violation • Released to custody of friend / forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 2:47 a.m. | Place: Longden Hall • Welfare check • Subject located / checked okay | Time: 12:01 p.m. | Place: Montgomery Hall • Sexual assault • Under investigation | Time: unknown | Place: Campus • Theft of iPhone • Unsecured / pending | Time: 4:57 p.m. | Place: Indoor Tennis and Track
Center • Criminal mischief to lights • Pending / forwarded to Facilities Management | Time: Unknown | Place: South Indiana Street
Feb. 24 • Alcohol violation • Transported to Putnam County hospital / forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 12:32 a.m. | Place: Inn at DePauw • Disorderly conduct • Subjects separated / issued separate verbal warnings / forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 1:05 a.m. | Place: Phi Kappa Psi fraternity • Suspicious vehicle • Officer checked area / checked okay | Time: 1:44 a.m. | Place: Blackstock Stadium lot • Noise complaint — loud music • Contacted house representative / verbal warning issued | Time: 3:11 a.m. | Place: Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity • Theft of sheet sign • Pending | Time: unknown | Place: 504 S. Indiana St.
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• Mischief to window • Officer checked area / checked okay | Time: Unknown | Place: East College SOURCE: PUBLIC SAFETY WWW.DEPAUW.EDU/ STUDENTLIFE/CAMPUS-SAFETY/ PUBLICSAFETY/ACTIVITYREPORT/YEAR/2013/
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Lunar New Year’s festival brings cultural guests to DePauw By NICKY CHOKRAN news@thedepauw.com
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian and Tibetan tradition came together in celebration of the Lunar New Year on Saturday when over 50 people gathered inside the Union Building ballroom for the annual festival. The A.S.I.A. (All Students Interested in Asia) Club organized the event. Customs from each country were incorporated into the twohour festival, which featured homemade food and cultural activity tables, as well as live music and dance. “The culture at DePauw is really greek oriented and events like this celebrate other things — global things,” said Phil Pascua, president
of the A.S.I.A club. “It strengthens the DePauw community through awareness of culture.” Special guests of the festival included a men’s choir and a women’s dance troop from the Indianapolis Chinese Culture Center Incorporated (ICCCI). Seven men in tuxes made up the choir, while four women in bright red and gold traditional costumes performed dances at various points throughout the festival. Also in attendance was Geshe Kunga, a Buddhist monk from Bloomington’s Tibetan-Mongolian Cultural Center. Kunga conducted a blessing to the festival crowd that he said was dedicated to peace and freedom. A line of dancers wearing brightly colored costumes and large dragon headdresses performed the dragon dance to the enthusiastic audience. Senior Son Pham, who organized the festival at DePauw two years ago, explained that the dance is one of the most typical and important
traditional dances performed during a Lunar New Year celebration. “The dragon brings luck and health and strength,” Pham said. “It’s good to see the dragon in the beginning of the year because it means that the people and their families are going to be lucky.” Later, event ambassadors demonstrated traditional Chinese wind instruments. They played melodies for the crowd and taught the Chinese New Year song to the audience in a repeat-after-me exercise. After the demonstrations, activity tables were open for festivalgoers to paint, practice calligraphy, or learn a few words in Chinese, Japanese or Korean. Lon Hoang, a junior from Vietnam that was at the festival, said he was grateful that the guests came to DePauw to share their celebration. “The Lunar New Year is a big deal,” Hoang said. “It’s is a time to spend with family but they’re here with us.”
The A.S.I.A. Club participates in a traditional dragon dance during the Lunar New Year Festival in the Union Building Ballroom on Thursday. THUY NGUYEN/THE DEPAUW
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Student play offers insight into Posse foundation By LEEANN SAUSSER features@thedepauw.com
Last week senior Nikaury Roman watched a dream come true as student actors performed a play she wrote this past semester. Roman’s play, “Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Please,” is a stagereading about the Posse Foundation in New York City and the journey those students take from the moment they are awarded the scholarship to the end of their first semester at DePauw. “I knew that I wanted to write a play all along, since I got here,” Roman said. “I wanted to write about something that is misunderstood, something that people don’t really know about unless they’re in it.” A member of the Posse community and a communication major, Roman has been heavily involved with the theater department with acting, dancing and singing but wanted to try something new. “With all her experience in theater, switching over to playwriting was not that much of a surprise to me,” junior Elise Lockwood, president of DePauw’s chapter of the theater honor society Alpha Psi Omega, wrote in an email. “She is a great example of a theater student who has tried her hand at just about everything, which is what you have to do at a small school like DePauw.” For Roman, writing a play challenge herself. “I’m always looking for ways to be a better version of myself,” Roman said. “I never considered myself to be the best writer, but I always had many ideas so I wanted to take the risk.” This risk began last summer, when Roman started brainstorming
her play. She thought about the Posse program, and knew that something so important to her was what she wanted to write about. “There are a lot of misinterpretations about it, and there’s just something really beautiful in it,” she said. “I wanted to at least give a glimpse to the DePauw community.” While the whole play is not “non-fiction,” as Roman put it, she was inspired by actual Posse members, both past and present.
“Posse chooses us to be leaders, but what’s beautiful about it is that we’re all leaders in different ways. I’m happy that I was able to tell a piece of the posse story through my craft.” - Nikaury Roman, senior
“I combined stories I've heard from scholars, and [they didn’t] necessarily have to be in the New York sector of posse,” she said. “I combined the struggle; I know that is something many people face.” After writing drafts last semester and revising over Winter Term,
she approached senior Elisabeth Sutherland about directing her piece. Sutherland found this job to be a rewarding challenge. “The process of working on a new play is so different from working on a normal play because you actually have the playwright there,” she said. “In ‘Stand Clear,’ these characters are actually based on real people and it’s based on a real program so... [Roman] was very attached to a certain interpretation of it. It was interesting on both sides.” Another challenge for Roman letting go of control of the script and handing it over to Sutherland and the actors. “It’s very easy to want to cradle the project, because you hear certain characters in your head a different way, so I just had to let go,” she said. “I really trusted the director, so [I thought] ‘I need to step aside, my job is done.’” The teamwork of Roman and Sutherland, combined with the actors’ hard work, led to the successful performances last Thursday and Friday. Roman could not “believe that it [was] over,” but was glad that her play got out there for people to learn more about Posse scholars and to show just how important the program is to her and all the other members. “Posse chooses us to be leaders, but what’s beautiful about it is that we’re all leaders in different ways,” Roman said. “I’m happy that I was able to tell a piece of the posse story through my craft.”
“One-hundred percent sure” actress Jessica Chastain got Oscar snubbed KATE HENDRICKSON
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hile Jennifer Lawrence nabbed the Oscar Sunday night for her portrayal of the quirky Tiffany in “Silver Linings Playbook,” poor Jessica Chastain was left out of the winner’s circle once again. Don’t get me wrong, I love Lawrence and her work alongside Bradley Cooper in the comical and heartwarming “Silver Linings.” However, Chastain convincingly plays a CIA operative in the political / historical thriller “Zero Dark Thirty,” a film that details the search for al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden. Chastain’s performance was nothing short of inspiring and displayed the emotional complexities of dedication to a common yet seemingly intangible goal. In the film, Chastain’s character, Maya, spends more than a decade hunting high and low for the elusive bin Laden. Even amidst critique from her co-workers and doubts about her toughness as a female agent, she discovers the Pakistani compound in which she believes he resides. She works for months to gather the evidence she needs to solidify a plan of attack. Although she has little ocular proof, she remains “100% sure” that SEAL Team 6 will find bin
Laden in the mysterious Pakistani compound. Chastain and her “Zero Dark Thirty” cast-mates take the audience into the trenches of warfare in the Middle East. Through Maya’s eyes, the audience sees the raw conflict in the Middle East and the tricky and dangerous search for al-Qaida’s leader. In addition, in the penultimate scene where SEAL Team 6 enters the compound and eliminates bin Laden, the audience views the raid through the eyes of the SEALs’ night vision goggles. This effect forces the audience to see what the SEALs saw that night and highlights every detail that Maya calculated in her master plan for the mission. These details make the film both intense and realistic for the viewer.
“Chastain’s performance was nothing short of inspiring and displayed the emotional complexities of dedication to a common yet seemingly intangible goal.”
The film also highlights the CIA operatives’ and the SEAL team’s hard work, sacrifice, allegiance to each other and dedication toward the successful mission, which would never have occurred in the first place without this resolve and grit. In the aftermath of the May 2, 2011 operation, the political figures in Washington D.C. received most of the credit for “pulling the
trigger” on the assignment that eventually eliminated the mastermind behind 9/11. Refreshingly, the film pays homage to the under-reported and under-appreciated bravery and commitment of Chastain’s character and the Navy SEALs who executed the mission. It was beyond awesome to see one Hollywood film give credit where credit is clearly and appropriately due. Chastain’s character and the film also follow relatively closely to the book, No Easy Day, Navy SEAL Mark Owen’s account of the mission that killed bin Laden. Owen’s book and the film act as compliments to one another. While the book tells the story strictly from the eyes of the SEALs, the film focuses on Maya’s point of view. Some of the details vary between book and film, but both are historical thrillers that champion the unsung dedication of those who work behind the scenes in Special Forces missions. Lawrence walked away with the statuette Sunday night, but she simply could not beat Chastain’s poignant portrayal of decade-long heroism. For Chastain’s brave and gritty performance, “Zero Dark Thirty” is a must-see historical thriller that was more than worthy of a Best Actress award. 100 percent sure. — Hendrickson is a senior Indianapolis, Ind. majoring in English literature and communication.
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Across the globe, Internet access is taken for granted and cell phone service is everywhere. Gone are the days of dial-up and families gathered around radios for their nightly news and entertainment. It has become easier to “friend” someone on Facebook than befriend them in real life, texting is more common than calling and when a question is asked the immediate response has become, “Google it”. It can no longer be argued that media has invaded every aspect of day-to-day life. Many colleges and universities are struggling to keep up. Whether they are media schools, liberal arts colleges or even public universities, faculty and staff are challenged in their efforts keep courses relevant in this environment of constant change and technical advances. “The biggest problem schools have is that they’ve all been slow to go into multimedia. They’ve trailed, as academia usually does,” said Mark Tatge, the Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at DePauw. Tatge be-
lieves that students are given insufficient multimedia training in their college years and find themselves unprepared for the tech-heavy work environment after graduation. “If you’re going to work in this world you’re going to have to be somewhat technically proficient and universities in general do a pretty poor job of preparing people,” Tatge said. Hans Meyer is an assistant professor at Ohio University who teaches a number of different multimedia classes. In a phone interview, Meyer said that the current media lag in the world of academia is exactly the opposite of what he would like to see. Meyer would prefer college students and professors take advantage of the learning environment they occupy and be the ones taking risks and trying innovative things with multimedia while they are still in school, instead of experimenting afterwards. “Really innovative things; things that aren’t going to work, but that fail in a way that is not only going to inform other colleges but that will inform the industry itself,” Meyer said. It seems that students themselves are starting to have a big voice in the current push for the integration of media into college classrooms. “They’re starting to ask, ‘why is this so
the depauw | old?’” said Tatge. Meyer said that students are the ones who want to understand technology the most, as demonstrated by their
hired in an effort to updat tures. He teaches media cla lows, but, he said, this is no multimedia should be integ college curriculum, and he and pencil” style of learning “It ought to be taught l Tatge said. “You have basic
proficiency in social media. Professors would benefit from utilizing student’s knowledge in this specific realm of media as well as teaching them how to use important programs such as HootSuite, InDesign, Sony Vegas, among other technologies. “Media is still struggling with how to use Facebook and Twitter, but our ~Mark Tatge, Professor of Journa students have used those almost since they came out,” Meyer said. “They’re really good at it—I’m not sure they need us [for social media].” Chicago, said in a phone int With students at the forefront of this technology approved a curriculum chan driven world, Tatge believes that colleges are going to have a number of classes, such a to take a serious look at what they’re offering students, and ing,” from electives to req whether or not it’s still relevant. ments starting in “With each freshmen class that comes in here, they’re more t h e mobile, they started with technology at an earlier age and we’re still offering them the same menu of stuff,” Tatge said. Tatge was
“If [DePauw] is go to continue to se the students, it’s go to have to evolve.”
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te DePauw’s own multimedia venasses and works with the Media Felot enough. His “philosophy” is that grated into every part of the modern warns away from the current “pen g. like English, or basic writing skills,” c composition skills, you have basic match skills and you have your basic multimedia skills.” However, even journalism schools are a long way from approaching this type of learning. Nancy Day, chair of the journalism alism department at Columbia College, in terview that the college has recently nge. This change would transform as “Digital Storytellquire-
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2013 fall semester of 2013. “Part of that change was made to infuse more multimedia into the core learning of each of our students no matter what specialty he or she may be considering,” said Day. This focus on multimedia will be taking place in both the graduate and undergraduate programs, and she has already started seeing results from the “Digital Storytelling” course— even though it is still currently optional. Just weeks ago Day spoke with a graduate student who seized the opportunity to secure film footage of a protest against gay marriage. Though this student is training as a print journalist and arrived on the scene by chance, she was able to pull out a camera and use the skills she had been taught in a digitally focused class to add video to the print version of the story that would be posted online. Though this experience speaks mostly to the important of digital learning for modern journalists, Meyer stressed that multimedia skills are increasingly important to employers in all fields. “The skills [students]
are learning even in basic journalism classes translate well to a real world context.” The biggest problems universities and colleges of all types seem to be having is the integration of multimedia. If it has taken the School of Media Arts at Columbia College this long to make classes concentrated on video a requirement how much longer will it take schools like DePauw? With changes in the technical world occurring as fast as they are, Tatge worries that “we are taking baby steps when we need to be taking big steps.” The key for colleges will to take these big steps and ensure that multimedia and college classes are in sync. “If [DePauw] is going to continue to serve the students, it’s going to have to evolve,” said Tatge.
Projected Percent Increases in Multimedia Fields (from 2010-2020) Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports & Media Occupations
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THE DEPAUW | Editorial Board Dana Ferguson | Editor-in-Chief Isabelle Chapman | Managing Editor Joseph Fanelli | Managing Editor Becca Stanek | Chief Copy Editor Anastasia Way | Chief Copy Editor
EDITORIAL The journalism industry might not be dead, but if the Board of Trustees and university president approves it, the famous Indiana University School of Journalism will be. IU Provost Lauren Robel recently approved plans to merge the nationally-renowned school of journalism with the telecommunications and communication and culture departments. The absorption of the journalism school in the College of Arts and Sciences would mean more than journalism students losing their building. It would be a loss of a one of the best journalism schools in the country, a loss of journalistic independence and a loss of history. But, according to IU President Michael McRobbie in a July interview with the Herald-Times, “There’s no point in saving a school that trains people to manage fleets of horses if the motorcar has taken over horse-drawn transportation.” Many at IU are outraged. Concerns about what this means for journalism school programs and other funding for student media are widespread. Protests have hit Facebook and IU’s campus, urging administration to recognize that journalism isn’t dead, it’s just in a state of change. It’s a change we’ve felt here at The DePauw as well. Printing on a bi-weekly basis has proven to be financially difficult, and, within the next year or two, a jump to online-only content is undoubtedly on the horizon of possibility. And as much as we hate to see that happen, as the journalism industry changes, student journalists have no option but to change, too. As upsetting as a loss of history may be and as uncomfortable as it may be to change valued traditions, change is not something the world of journalism is unfamiliar with. Perhaps it’s better to look at these changes with ambition and an eye for possibilities. Perhaps journalism is merely transforming -- the lines between print, radio and television are being blurred. As liberal arts students this is something we can handle. As student journalists at DePauw, we don’t have an independent J-school nor do we have the option to major in journalism. Our learning stems from our experiences from a liberal arts education, internships and creating our very own newspaper, twice every week. We are just as competitive in the journalism career sphere as they are. We have sent students to do internships at major daily newspapers all over the country -- The Salt Lake Tribune, The Oregonian, The Wall Street Journal. We have alumni who now work at The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and The Los Angeles Times to name a few. So, though the merging of Indiana University’s School of Journalism with the College of Arts and Sciences would undoubtedly be a hit to the journalistic world, it’s not one that they can’t take. It will be different, but that’s what the field is coming to. Journalism may be changing, but we as journalists won’t be going away any time soon.
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Geothermal energy combats rising tuition LEIF ANDERSON
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n November 2007, the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) approved Duke Energy’s plan to construct a coal gasification plant in Edwardsport, Ind. This plant will use coal to produce substitute natural gas, a process that is supposed to be a more efficient way of producing the same energy output as regular coal-fired steam plants. Originally, the project budget was approved by the IURC at just under $2 billion, but after significant cost overruns, it now stands at over $3.5 billion. The IURC has determined that Duke Energy shareholders will be held responsible for $900 million of the total cost of the project. This puts the responsibility of the remaining $2.6 billion on Indiana ratepayers. To cover the cost overruns, the utility company will be charging Indiana customers an extra 14 percent beginning in 2014. DePauw is a Duke Energy customer, meaning we will be directly impacted. These rate hikes will mean a significant increase in the utility costs for DePauw. Rate increases for the university will likely be reflected in our future tuition bills. But there is a course of action that we can take to avoid our already high tuition rates from increasing even further — now is the ideal time for the university to switch some of its energy consumption to renewable sources.
Adding renewables into the 2020 Plan is the perfect place to start. As I wrote earlier this semester, one renewable option for DePauw is geothermal heating and cooling, and the construction of the new Hoover Dining Hall is a great place to begin. Statistics show that a geothermal system can reduce the utility costs of a building by 25-50 percent. Switching the university’s traditional boiler system over time to a geothermal system would more than counterbalance the 14 percent in additional utility costs and there would even be extra savings to help pay for the remainder of the 2020 Plan. Of course, there are other renewable options that the university can take: a wind turbine or solar panels on the roof of Julian, for example. But geothermal seems to be the most practical. It covers the need of heating and cooling within the buildings, while drastically reducing utility costs. The rate increases of Duke Energy present the perfect window of opportunity for DePauw to begin the transition away from traditional energy sources to achieving carbon neutrality. Now not only would DePauw be a sustainability leader, but the financial impact of the Edwardsport plant would not be reflected in our tuition bills. — Anderson is a sophomore from Sycamore, Ill. majoring in political science. opinion@thedepauw.com
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New flower-in rules meant to keep tradition in tact RYAN KONICEK
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lower-ins — or kiss-ins, as they were once called — have been a part of campus greek tradition since the early 1970s. Since then, the name is the aspect of the event that’s perhaps been the least changed. With the new year bringing new member classes to DePauw’s greek chapters, the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council have mandated a new set of regulations for these events. While some might find these rules inconvenient, they are necessary to conserve an event that’s an important part of DePauw’s sense of community and its long history of greek life. The tradition goes that a fraternity is invited to a sorority where they then serenade the women of the house with a song. A boy and a girl from the new first-year class are still introduced to each other; the boy gets on his knee and presents the girl with a flower. Today’s flower-ins are much tamer than those in recent DePauw memory, due in part to the new
regulations imposed by IFC and Panhel. Gone are the days of tackling, chanting and the pressure to “make-out.” Flower-ins are now a night of heightened feelings of nervousness and excitement, where a sorority and fraternity focus their attention and give support to the new member classes. A flower-in may sound like a silly tradition, but it’s a silly tradition that is unique to this campus. I have heard of no other college greek systems having an event where each sorority and fraternity freshman class are able to be introduced to one another. Flower-ins reinforce the close knit, friendly atmosphere that attracted us to this campus in the first place. At DePauw, we want people to feel at home. This can be done by creating connections. Flower-ins have the ability to do this by putting a face to a name. Perhaps it’s not the most conventional way to meet new people, but it’s definitely a moment that you will always remember and a name you won’t forget. In light of the new flower-in policies being implemented by IFC and Panhel, I think flower-ins have been altered for the better. They are events that all in the greek community would like to keep on campus, and regulations are necessary to do so. Requiring one member of Panhel and one member of IFC should not be viewed as an
oppressive or overbearing new rule; instead, these officers are there to prevent risk situations and ensure that the greek system is being positively represented to new member classes. This means that there is no chanting, no hazing of the first-year and definitely no tackling of the poor soul presenting the flower. These are sacrifices we have to make to preserve the flower-in tradition. The rules might evolve, but the message is still the same. They are a fun way for people to break the ice, to create a stronger greek community, to make new friendships with people that perhaps you never thought you would. Yes, it may be a silly tradition, but it is one that has been around for decades. It’s one worth preserving, if people are willing to comply with the rules. If a greek chapter breaks the regulations that have been put in place to preserve flower-ins, then they should be rightfully punished and held accountable. These events are meaningful not just to current DePauw students, but for so many who have lived and learned here. Let’s do our best to keep the spirit of the tradition in tact.
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PHOTOPINION What do you think about the relationship between CLA and SoM students? “I see a lot of CLA students in my intro classes. Even though students are from different environments, they can take an interest in music.” CRYSTAL LAU, freshman “Wait, there’s a College of Liberal Arts?”
— Konicek is a sophomore from Geneva, Ill. majoring in education and sociology. opinion@thedepauw.com
EMMA SCHERER, senior
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
“The biggest difference I see is the workload for SoM students. They have nearly twice as many courses and are constantly practicing to perfection.”
Dear Editor, With DePauw’s new found embrace of varsity athletics as one of the “pillars” of liberal education, we know that trash talk is the discourse of choice by those who do not have game. The premise of Energy Wars is competition, that somehow the existential threat of climate change will be resolved through the forces of competition, as if it were a rugby scrum, a friendly game of gin rummy, or Hasbro’s Chutes and Ladders. In the real world of existential threat it is competition, especially between the economies of China and the United States that drives ever deeper into the abyss. In the looking glass world of DePauw sustainability, a competition to turn the lots off and lower the heat, is a competition to pick the lowest hanging fruit; a masking of our dearth of research, analysis, publication that constitutes the higher education elite. Playing energy games is what you do when there are no ideas, when ideas generated by research and publication are not the drivers of education, when our societal predicament permeates the symbolic domains of antiquated infrastructure and spawns the looking glass world of Wogswartian master plans. Instead of playing competitive games for the lowest hanging fruit, why not build a learning commons of collaboration and cooperation that seeks to become a laboratory of ideas, critique and analysis? If it must be a competition, why not make the competition over who has the best concept for retrofitting our existing buildings for the 21st century before we spend millions on new ones? Trash talk is the mindset of those who play games with the existential threat. It is time for DePauw to graduate from picking low hanging fruit and become a laboratory of learning for the 21st century. Glen David Kuecker Professor of History
THOMAS JOHNSON, junior
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Men’s lacrosse makes big strides in first game By ABBY MARGULIS sports@thedepauw.com
After four weeks of practice, the DePauw men’s lacrosse team traveled on Saturday to face Wilmington College of Ohio in its first game of the season and of the 2013 spring season. The DePauw Tigers lost 8-6 to the Wilmington Quakers, another first-year team. Head coach Carl Haas told the Tigers to go out and play as hard as they could. “We knew there would be mistakes but we wanted the effort to be 100 percent,” Haas said. “Without having any outside competition before this game we didn’t have a chance to see where we were at, so we just wanted them to play hard.” The team took Haas’s words to heart, gaining control of the face off and going straight for the goal. With nine minutes left in the first quarter, junior attacker Sam Johnson obtained the ball and took it to goal, scoring the first goal of the game.
The team ran the ball on offense, creating ball movement, and most feeds came out of the left side creating opportunities for the team to score. The team worked out of one offensive formation throughout the game. Senior Logan Patterson, a defensive player, said the team had a lot of passing on offense, but lost chances to score because the team is still growing. “If we can be more consistent with our passes we’ll continue to create better scoring opportunities,” Patterson said. The score stayed low throughout the game as the Wilmington Quakers dominated on offense, but the DePauw Tigers held their ground only losing by two goals. Junior goalie J.R. Strubbe saved nine out of 17 shots on goal helping the Tigers to keep the game close. Haas said the team executed individual defense well, an area they have been focusing on in practice. This week, however, the team will be focusing on working as a unit and utilizing all the defensive players. This first game showed a lot of potential for the men to succeed
TRACK AND FIELD
and was an eye opener for many as to what they need to improve on, said Haas. “We’re going to take a few steps back and focus on the small issues,” Haas said. “We need to go back to the fundamentals: passing and catching, working on communication and two on one offensive situations.” The last goal, scored again by Johnson, was the cleanest and encompassed what the team has worked on in practice, said Haas. The offense shared the ball, moved it around quickly and found the backside of the fan was open creating a final chance to score. Senior captain Chris Wright saw the team play hard leaving nothing on the field, but knows there are skills the team needs to work on. “We made some mistakes on the little things, but we went out there and gave it our all,” Wright said. “We just need to play smarter in the future.”
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Women take top spot at first away meet of indoor season Balser resets pole vault record; Droddy highlight of low-scoring men’s team By JOSEPH FANELLI sports@thedepauw.com
At the Fred Wilt Invitational at Anderson University on Saturday, the DePauw women’s track and field team scored 94 points and took first place out of a total of 10 teams. The men finished in a tie for 12th, with seven points, out of 15 teams. Wabash won the meet with 141.16 points. The invitational was the last meet of the season before the North Coast Athletic Conference Indoor Championship at Denison University next weekend. Leading the way for the Tigers was junior Jillian Balser, who broke the DePauw indoor pole vault record (10-feet-4), surpassing senior Taryn Owens’s own record-breaking performance last weekend at the DePauw Classic. Balser’s jump was good enough for a first place finish. Other meet champions included freshman Heather O’Brien in the one mile run (5:20.18) and the 4x200 relay team, which dropped almost
“The time wasn’t as fast as I wanted, but really the goal is just to go and just compete and get used to racing again.” - Noah Droddy, senior
three seconds from their previous best. Balser was pleased with her performance, especially just a week after failing to complete 10-feet-3, and only her second week of jumping
in competition this season. She said the healthy relationship between herself and Owens is something that both use to keep improving. “We’re both very supportive and we work off each other,” Balser said. “We’ll just have to keep setting the bar higher…we’re just really proud of each other whenever (one of us) does well.” Head coach Kori Stoffregen called it a “pretty good meet for the women.” “We’re still piecing some things together so it was nice to have something go well, and obviously winning the meet was fun,” Stoffregen said. Senior Noah Droddy was the lone champion for the Tigers on the men’s side, winning the 3,000 meter run (8:53.08), his first run of the 2013 indoor season. “The time wasn’t as fast as I wanted, but really the goal is just to go and just compete and get used to racing again,” Droddy said. “I was happy with it. It was a nice little rust buster.” As far as the rest of the team, Stoffregen was frank in his summary of the men’s team, calling attention to the number of significant injuries to athletes on the team as well as the lack of depth. “We just don’t have a lot of scoring power right now on the men’s side, so it’ll be interesting to see what happens next week at the conference,” Stoffregen said. Droddy expressed similar concerns about the team, but was hopeful about the team’s performance next weekend. “We don’t have a huge team right now,” Droddy said. “It’s really not beneficial to have a whole lot of people out. It’s always slow coming back from Winter Term. We just want to go out there and do as much as we can.” For two female athletes, the indoor championship started early with the weekend-long pentathlon at Wooster College. Senior Lee Harmon placed seventh overall. Owens also competed, but dropped out before completing all five events. The team leaves Thursday for Denison.
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Basketball | continued from page 1 doesn’t go in,” she said. “When you look at the matchups, you have Wittenberg playing all zone, they can take away the three point line, and they did. Kenyon is one of the best defensive teams in the nation, and they played solid man-to-man.” Going in to Friday’s game, the Tigers were dealt a blow to their starting lineup with an injury to Alex Gasaway. The junior forward was
hurt in Thursday’s practice, Huffman said, and a MRI was performed on her right knee Friday morning. Huffman said Monday afternoon Gasaway will meet with the athletic department’s orthopedic doctor, Michael Thieken, and athletic trainer Kara Campbell, Monday evening to be re-evaluated. “Right now it remains a question mark, and we’ll probably know on Thursday or Friday whether or not Alex can go,” Huffman said. Without Gasaway, however, the DePauw front court filled in nicely with her absence. Junior Alison Stephens started her first two games of her collegiate career, and pulled down 20 rebounds in the two contests. Fellow forward Ellie Pearson tallied 21.
Tigers to host La Roche in NCAA first round By MICHAEL APPELGATE sports@thedepauw.com
The DePauw women’s basketball team was selected as a host institution for the first two rounds of the Division III NCAA Tournament on Monday afternoon. The Tigers will host La Roche College at Neal Fieldhouse on Friday. This is the 10th straight appearance in the NCAA tournament for DePauw (28-0) after receiving an automatic bid to the tournament by winning the North Coast Athletic Conference tournament title Saturday. “I just have so much respect for these teams in our area, and I think the committee worked their butt off to put together this bracket,” head coach Kris Huffman said after the selection show. The Redhawks won their third straight Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference tournament title for the automatic bid. La Roche (24-2) is riding a 12game winning streak led by top scorer, Cygan Casie with 18.7 points per game. This will be the first ever matchup against La Roche in DePauw program history. “That’s all we know right now,” Huffman said about La Roche. “They have a great record, but it’s about the matchup. How do we match up with them, what are their strengths? Obviously we have a lot of homework to do.” The bracket is considerably favorable for the Tigers compared to the teams in the bottom left of the tournament. No. 2 ranked Hope College, No. 3 Ohio Northern University, No. 4 Calvin College and No. 11 Cornell College will all battle it out for a single spot in the final four. In DePauw’s bracket, three other ranked teams — besides No. 1 DePauw — are present: Maryville College (No. 22), Louisiana College (No. 23) and Washington University in St. Louis (No. 20). Huffman dismissed any notion that the path through her team’s bracket would be easy. Instead, she referenced last season when the Tigers downed Westminster College (Mo.), then lost in the second round to Carthage.
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“Last year we saw a good Westminster team who gave us all we could handle, and then a Carthage team that wasn’t on a lot of peoples’ radar,” Huffman said. “Rankings don’t mean much, and records don’t mean a lot. It’s all about the matchup.” What DePauw can count on is a veteran presence from its three seniors, and its juniors. Senior point guard Kate Walker has started in all four NCAA games in her four years, and remembers two opening round losses to Hope in her freshman and sophomore years and last season’s second round exit. “We need to make sure we’re ready no matter who we’re playing,” Walker said. “It’s national tournament time, and anyone can knock us out. “You can never think about the next game ahead. You have to play in the current game ahead. We have to beat La Roche first.” Added Huffman, “We had the same scenario last year, and we were excited about it. It takes one shot and your done, or one injury. We’re not looking ahead. We’re going to concentrate on La Roche, and we’ll be prepared for Otterbein or Maryville. We will assume nothing.” DePauw, if it defeats La Roche, will face the winner of Otterbein University and Maryville on Saturday at Neal Fieldhouse.
“We have built this team from day number one to have depth, so if there’s foul trouble or injury, we wouldn’t be impacted,” Huffman said. “But this team is ready for the battle and they battled all year long.” Added senior point guard Kate Walker, “When I got done with this past weekend I felt nothing but pride for my team. … I feel like we came to the occasion and rose to the situation and did a fantastic job.” The Tigers will face La Roche Friday in the Neal Fieldhouse at a time to be determined.
DEPAUW TIGERS (28-0) VS.
LA ROCHE RED HAWKS (24-2) MARYVILLE SCOTTS (23-4) VS.
OTTERBEIN CARDINALS (21-6)
TO BE ANNOUNCED
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SPORTS COLUMN
A weaving nightmare How the women’s basketball team uses motion to wear down an opponent MICHAEL APPELGATE
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ou can recognize it almost immediately. It’ll move you to the edge of your seat, and give any basketball aficionado goose bumps. When senior point guard Kate Walker sets one of DePauw’s most efficient offensive plays, you better pay attention. Because for the next 20 seconds, the defense will be on its toes, and their heads will be spinning afterward. But that’s the essence of what the Tigers’ offense is — a whirl of organized movement, with the ball constantly moving from player to player. It was on display in the opening minutes of Saturday’s North Coast Athletic Conference tournament title match against Kenyon College. Walker received a toss from a fellow guard at the top of the three point arc, and tore into the lane for an uncontested layup. The offense is called a three-man weave. And it primarily features the guards moving rapidly around the perimeter, looking for an opening in the lane. The forwards dart in and out of the key, and get out of the way when a guard finds daylight. Almost every collegiate basketball team in the country runs it, but to execute it relies on excellent guard play, and more often than not, aggressiveness to drive in the lane. Walker’s layup was the first of many for DePauw at the Neal Fieldhouse. Ali Ross, a junior guard, exploited the driving lanes to perfection for a game-high 16 points. The weave doesn’t just yield layups. A guard can dump the ball off into the post from the outside, or when driving in the lane, kick it out for a 3-point attempt. With the absence of junior forward Alex Gasaway this weekend, the offense favored an attacking brand of the weave, because the usual steady three-point shot was un-
commonly questionable. DePauw entered the weekend as the No. 1 team in Division III in 3-point field goal percentage (40.3). Sophomore sharp-shooter, Savannah Trees, who finished NCAC competition with a conference-leading 47.1 percent, was just 3-12 from beyond the arc in the final two tournament games. Similarly, the No. 2 deep shooter in the conference (43.8), Emma Ondik, was 0-5. DePauw was 9-32 from 3-point range over the final two games of the NCAC tournament, but shined in points in the paint. The Tigers scored 58 points in the lane, backed by 27 second-chance points off of offensive rebounds.
“The offense is called a three-man weave. And it primarily features the guards moving rapidly around the perimeter, looking for an opening in the lane. The forwards dart in and out of the key, and get out of the way when a guard finds daylight.”
And that’s the beauty of the three-man weave: it’s multifaceted. Who do you guard? Do you clog the lane to eliminate the driving ability of Walker and Ross? They can then just kick it out to a host of others who excel at range. Forwards junior Alison Stephens and senior Ellie Pearson proved they’re a force down low this weekend with a combined 15 offensive boards. They can clean up a miss, and start the offense over again. That means more confusion for an opposing defense. And more nightmares of the weave for days to come. — Appelgate is a senior from Kent, Wash. majoring in communication. sports@thedepauw.com
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name: ALISON STEPHENS, JUNIOR
sport: BASKETBALL
position: FORWARD
hometown: PRAIRIE VILLAGE, KAN.
Highlight: Junior Alison Stephens started the first game of her career Saturday against Wittenberg after junior forward, and leading scorer, Alex Gasaway suffered a right knee injury. Stephens played 53 minutes and had 13 points and 20 rebounds over the weekend.
On her first career start: “I was extremely nervous but I was more excited. I knew my teammates were being supportive and I had nothing to worry about. The whole game I was motivated by Alex. I knew she deserved to be out there so I knew I needed to give everything I had because she didn’t have the opportunity.”
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Tennis weekend results WOMEN’S TENNIS The DePauw women’s tennis team beat Washington-St. Louis and Case Western Reserve this past weekend. Winners: No. 3 singles- sophomore Claire Marshall 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (6-2) No. 5 singles- sophomore Julie Wittwer 6-1, 6-3 . No. 6 singles- sophomore Taylor Mahr 6-4, 6-2
No. 3 doubles- sophomore Kaitlin Pickrel / sophomore Julie Wittwer 8-6 MEN’S TENNIS The Tigers were defeated by Washington-St. Louis and WisconsinWhitewater in their last tournament. The men will host Butler on March 6. WInners: No. 5 singles- senior Reid Garlock 7-6, 6-2
No. 1 doubles- junior Caroline Emhardt / sophomore Maggie MacPhail 8-1
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Junior Meg Crowley sets up a serve during match play at a tournament held in the Indoor Track & Tennis Center on Saturday. Crowley and doubles partner Claire Marshall, sophomore, won 8-5 , helping the Tigers in their victory 5-4 over Case Western. STEPHANIE AANENSON / THE DEPAUW
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Asian Studies invites interested DePauw students to apply for an Asian Studies Klauser Summer Project Grant (2013) for travel/study projects related to Asia. Grants are intended to support first-‐year, sophomore, and junior students who wish to pursue summer travel/study projects in or related to Asia. Projects may include learning an Asian language (in Asia or in a rigorous domestic program), undertaking an internship in Asia, or conducting scholarly research in Asia.
Amount $2500 Application deadline March 11, 2013 Applications should include a personal statement and a projected budget for the project as well as a current resume. The personal statement of 500 words should include a description of the project along with educational goals to be achieved and a consideration of ways in which the proposed study abroad opportunity will impact future plans. Grants and funding that might make the project feasible should be clearly indicated on the application. Recipients should submit reports (2-‐5 pages) on their summer projects by October 1, 2013.
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