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Ethics Bowl Team Wins Nationals per school is allowed to advance to nationals.

Before the competition, teams are given cases that contain ethical issues to analyze.

Scully explained that during the competition, a moderator asks a question about a case and the team must give a 10-minute presentation of an answer.

“That’s definitely the hardest part [of the competition],” Scully said.

Afterwards, another team has a chance to respond to the first argument presented by pointing out holes and inconsistencies.

“We lost one of the preliminary rounds, so we thought we were cut out [from the competition], but we got wild-carded in,” team member Alex Landreville said. “It still doesn’t feel real.”

According to Scully and team member Ben Hoffman, the team has been practicing hard for the past few months.

Hoffman said the team practices about 10 to 12 hours a week, usually on the weekdays but sometimes on Sundays too.

“During Winter Term we’d get lost in conversation, so we’d end up practicing like three hours a day most days,” said Scully.

Members of both regional Ethics Bowl teams at DePauw attended practice to help everyone prepare.

“We think of it as a single team,” said Landreville.

Hoffman emphasized the lively practice dynamic.

The DePauw Ethics Bowl team claimed the national championship title in San Antonio, Texas “We all come from very different backlast Thursday. The team consists of seniors Sara Scully, Alex Landreville, and Ben Hoffman, grounds, so the way I prepare arguments is very as well as junior Ethan Brauer and December 2012 graduate Mohammed Usman. COURTESY OF different from the way others do,” Hoffman said.

SARA SCULLY “The arguments we come in with [individually] The competition was held as part of the 22nd lay the foundation of how we talk about a case

By NICKY CHOKRAN annual meeting for the Association for Practical during practice.” news@thedepauw.edu Hoffman said the team is comfortable around and Professional Ethics.

each other due to the extensive amount of time DePauw’s Ethics Bowl team has a history of DePauw’s Ethics Bowl team returned from they spend together, mostly in practice. He strong performances.

The university’s website San Antonio, Texas, as national champions afsaid teammates are not afraid to “badger each ter winning the 17th Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl reported that the team’s journey to San Antonio other” or point out weaknesses in each other’s marks the eighth time in nine years that the team Championship on Feb. 28. The national champiarguments during practice. on team consisted of senior Ben Hoffman, senior qualified for the national championship.

“It gets pretty vicious,” Hoffman said. “[But] According to team member Sara Scully, a secAlex Landreville, senior Sara Scully, junior Ethan it builds us from a teamwork perspective and inBrauer, and December 2012 graduate Moham- ond Ethics Bowl team comprised of five students tellectual growth perspective.” at DePauw also qualified for nationals during the mad Usman. regional competition. However, only one team

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Senior Kraska earns Fulbright

By ALEX PAUL news@thedepauw.com

Senior Katie Kraska found out she won a Fulbright scholarship to research in Indonesia before DePauw’s other eight finalists.

Kraska, a biology and art history double major from Kentucky, opted to complete a research project instead of teaching English. She will conduct research on wildlife tourism and community empowerment in Bandung, Indonesia for ten months. “[Teaching English] makes me feel a little imperial,” said Kraska. “I’d rather learn about [Indonesian] culture.”

The project will investigate how to make land profitable for the people of Indonesia, as opposed to for the foreign corporations who buy up land, but do not put any of the money back into the country.

“Indonesia has arguably the richest ecological diversity anywhere except the rain forests,” Kraska said. “It’s threatened by any industry.”

Kraska is passionate about animals. She has ridden horses all her life, and she has been a vegetarian since she was in seventh grade for moral and ethical reasons. Her passion inspired her to find constructive way to help animals.

Her junior year Kraska studied abroad in East Africa. Her experience abroad gave her a basis for her experience in the field of wildlife tourism.

“Indonesia is similar to East Africa,” Kraska said.

“I kind of got my hands dirty there.”

While in Indonesia Kraska also received the Critical Language Award, a program that is part of the Fulbright, to learn the native language of Indonesia.

Kraska began the application process last year by going to informational meetings, and crafting a project idea. She credited Robby Jacobs, who graduated last year, for getting her excited about Indonesia. Jacobs’ father was a diplomat for Indonesia, and their family still owns a house in the country.

“My entire being was consumed by Fulbright,”

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Faculty discuss search for VPAA, new courses in March meeting

By MEREDITH REED news@thedepauw.com

With 20 faculty members missing, attendance was low at the monthly faculty meeting on Monday.

“Call a colleague?” Bridget Gourley, chair of faculty, quipped about the small turnout.

At the meeting, faculty members discussed issues including an update on the search for a new vice president of the Office of Academic Affairs, this year’s participation in the student-faculty research survey of student alcohol usage, changes in course requirements for anthropology and sociology majors and new ideas to promote sustainability on DePauw’s campus.

“I’m sure we can choose a VP before the Vatican Chooses a Pope,” Wayne Glausser, representative for the vice president of Academic Affairs search committee said.

The four finalists for the VPAA position will appear on campus during the course of this semester, faculty will submit their opinions of the candidates in an online survey.

Pam Propsom, professor of psychology, an-

nounced that this year marks the last installation of the student-faculty research survey of student alcohol usage. “’Cause you know, we really solved the alcohol problem,” Propsom said sarcastically.

For the past eight years, professors have proctored a student alcohol survey during the first week of March. DePauw has used the results from this survey as a primary source of data regarding the attitudes and behaviors of students towards alcohol.

Faculty members in attendance unanimously approved the installment of two new classes to the sociology and anthropology department course catalogue, including a quarter credit pro-seminar in anthropology and sociology. According to the Management of Academic Operations, the addition of this course would bump the required credits for future anthropology and sociology majors from 9 credits to 9.25 credits.

Faculty members also approved the addition of a 200-level medical sociology course to the catalogue as an additional option for sociology majors.

While the DePauw community has actively partici-

pated in Energy Games, Christopher Wells, vice president for communications and strategic initiatives, presented the Sustainability Committee’s plans to further increase awareness on campus.

“We plan to work hand-in-hand with the renovations to Lilly Center,” Wells said.

Representative for the Committee of Administration (COA), Kent Menzel, discussed the results of the faculty survey regarding the 3-2 workload. The 3-2 workload plan would reduce the number of courses taught by faculty members from six courses a year to five courses a year.

A quarter of responses to the survey’s first question commented on the concern for scholarly and artistic growth. Thirty-four percent of the responses were related to teaching while 10 percent believe the time should be used to attract new faculty to DePauw.

Menzel also commented that the COA would also investigate the possibility of long care insurance as an option for faculty members.

The next faculty meeting will be held on Monday, April 1 in the Union Building Ballroom.

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and are experienced writers,” McInnis said. “They are well positioned for Fulbrights.”

A large sampling of different types of majors, from political science students to music students, earn Fulbright scholarships according to McInnis.

Part of the process of applying for a Fulbright at DePauw is the support and editing of essays by not only faculty, but also peers.

“One of the nice things is there are so many countries,” Gellman said. “Students are not really competing with each other. They are support groups really.”

In 2012, DePauw was on a list of schools that have shown success receiving Fulbright Scholarships. In order to make the list a school needs to send at least three Fulbright scholars. and last year DePauw sent four students. DePauw has made this list a total of six times.

The preparations for next year starts this Friday in Harrison 104, and mid-October is the deadline for the aplication.

For Kraska, the reality of the scholarship has not fully settled in.

“It’s starting to sink in,” said Kraska. “But not completely. It probably won’t until I’m on the plane.”

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Kraska said. “After being so consumed I blocked it out.”

Kraska said she had forgotten about applying until she heard she was a finalist, and decided not to make a plan until she got the scholarship. But Kraska heard back in February, sooner than she expected.

“She heard back unusually early,” David Gellman, a history professor and a program advisor for the Fulbright scholarship, said. “It’s kind of exciting.”

To earn the Fulbright, Kraska went through two separate interview rounds, one in America and the other in the foreign country, and wrote a 500 word personal essay and a project proposal. 9,626 people applied for the scholarship in the fall of 2012, and only 35 percent made it through to the next round according to an email from Marnie McInnis, Director of Nationally Competitive Fellowships and Awards Office. Typically 53 percent of DePauw applicants make it to the finalist round.

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Art competition raises issues through the lens of art

By ALEX BUTLER news@thedepauw.com

The second annual Art of Awareness Competition is currently taking place at the Union Building ballroom and winner will be announced Wednesday.

The event, co-sponsored by the Prindle Institute of Ethics and the Civic, was started last year by a group of Prindle interns, the event is a photo competition that invites students—both art and non-art majors—to submit photographs they captured during their time abroad.

According to interns in charge of the event, the purpose of the competition is to raise community awareness of ethical issues through the lens of art.

Junior Tyler Davies, a Prindle intern and student organizer for the event, said that these photographs act as symbols of what students have taken away from other cultures, places and people during the time they spent off campus.

“We’ve seen some really cool images highlighting various global situations not only from around the country, but from all over the world as well,” Davies said. “The range we’ve gathered is awesome.”

The photographs submitted for the competition were posted to the Art of Awareness event’s electronic page on Friday, March 1. Students are encouraged to look through the array of photos and vote for their favorite image online using their student ID. “We really encourage students to stop by on their daily walks through the Hub and check out their fellow students’ work,” Davies

said. “Whichever one had the greatest impact on them is the one we encourage them to vote for.”

Voting closes at midnight tonight, March 5. Photographs will also be displayed in the UB ballroom until the winner is announced tomor-

“The competition isn’t just to submit a pretty picture, all of these images have a message.”

-Tyler Davies, junior

row, Wednesday, March 6.

In order to eliminate any confounding basis for voting, the identity photographer remains anonymous until voting is finished.

As a gift for the winner, the university will enlarge and frame the image for the student. The student will also have the option to donate a copy to the university to be hung in the Global Opportunities office.

Students were allowed to submit up to four images and were re-

Book to teach students about “richer” life

By BRIANNA SCHARFENBERG features@depauw.edu

Finances are one of the most formidable obstacles students face when they graduate college. Most of us push off that reality for as long as we can. However, Zac Bissonnette’s book, “How to Be Richer, Smarter, and BetterLooking Than Your Parents,” makes fiscal management 101 easy.

The book speaks true to its appealing title; Bissonnette explains how you can achieve all three conditions and one more — happiness — through smart saving and spending, and even better, he makes it quick and enjoyable for our age group to learn.

“Richer” is the central adjective of the title since Bissonnette’s main focus is on providing a basic personal finance education, but each chapter explains how to avoid pitfalls made by parents, friends and celebrities through the voice of a narrator you wish you were friends with. The book is a quick read, and you can get it from your public library if you don’t want to drop the 12 bucks it will cost you on Amazon.

With witty humor and startling statistics, Bissonnette explains the tough-love point that while life is easier with money, like it or

not, you have to be smart enough to earn that money. The book covers topics such as 401(k), FICO, debt (even student debt), mutual funds and even tips on getting a job.

Bissonnette graduated with an art history major and at age 24 has authored two books, written for the likes of Time magazine and The Wall Street Journal and currently works as a contributing editor for Antique Trader.

By no means will you be an expert money manager after reading this book, though. The economics majors will still run circles around you when it comes to spreadsheets, taxes and the intricacies of the stock market. However, you can be informed enough to take care of yourself, balance your budget and start saving.

After reading the book, I was left with a calmer, better-informed outlook on finances and enough motivation to start a mutual fund.

If you pick up a copy of Bissonnette’s book and educate yourself early on finances, you may glean from it the keys to achieving riches, smarts and better-looks all while saving yourself a lot of worry as a future college graduate.

— Scharfenberg is a junior from Sylvania, Ohio majoring in English writing.

quired to write a caption elaborating upon the meaning of their piece.

Aside from those requirements though, students are allowed to experiment creatively.

“The competition isn’t just to submit a pretty picture,” Davies said.

“All of these images have a message.”

That being said, Prindle interns working on the event were careful to alert submitting students about proper etiquette of snapping photos in different cultures. The Prindle interns composed a pamphlet listing a set of guidelines students should be aware of.

“Taking pictures around campus is one thing, but taking pictures in other places should be handled much more sensitively,” Davies said. “You can’t just snap a picture in public in some countries. That could get the camera knocked right out of your hand.”

To promote the competition, the interns tabled at the Hub the month before DePauw’s Winter Term. They also used multiple social media pages and posters hung around campus to advertise.

“The point is to bring something back to campus that you have learned from another setting,” Davies said. “You learned something through the lens, and now you can bring it back and share that experience with everyone else.”

Senior Chrissy Wildt, a Prindle intern, said she thinks Art of Awareness is an exciting competition and hopes that DePauw can continue it in the future.

“The heart of it is combining arts and ethics. They are linked in ways that we students don’t think about everyday,” said Wildt. “I hope that this competition gets students to think about the dimension of ethics in art and nature.”

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Grammy award-winning

By MADISON HARTMAN features@thedepauw.com

Among the many events that the DePauw School of Music offers, hosting a Grammy award-winning composer is surely one that stands out.

Guest composer Libby Larsen was on campus Feb. 27 to March 3 for the annual Music of the 21st Century residency, a program that hosts outstanding composers on a yearly basis.

The series has allowed students and faculty to have personal interactions with the composers. Larsen, who is one of America’s most prolific and most performed living composers, offered a full calendar of master classes and coaching sessions throughout her five-day stay at the university.

There were three concerts during her stay, which focused on some of the composer’s chamber works. The clos-

ing concert on Sunday featured the DePauw University Band alongside music faculty member Scotty Stepp as an alto saxophone soloist.

School of Music students valued their personal interactions with Larsen, given her impressive background and success in music. Her numerous awards include a 1994 Grammy for her production of The Art of Arlene Augér, a CD which features Larsen’s “Sonnets from the Portuguese.”

“Libby Larsen contributed a fantastic energy to the School of Music,” Laura Neel, junior School of Music student said.

Fellow music school student, sophomore Brooke Addison added, “The fact that Larsen is a successful and ambitious female composer is inspiring to me.”

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composer visits School of Music commented on Larsen’s importance in the series.

“Her interpretation of music form is unique...her music just isn’t notes on a page,” the two said.

Freshman School of Music student Stephen Shannon agrees. According to Shannon, Larsen taught students in her master class about how to be inspired by everyday things around them, like traffic noises or nature.

“She helped us how to get past writer’s block that composers typically experience.”

USA Today also selected Larsen’s opera “Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus” as one of the eight best classical music events of 1990, hailing her as “the only English-speaking composer since Benjamin Britten who matches great verse with fine

music so intelligently and expressively.”

Dean Mark McCoy also praised Larsen at the closing concert, stating that the School of Music was “graced and inspired by her presence.” The concert featured pieces composed by Larsen; the sounds of the songs were unique and unexpected.

“Libby Larsen’s music could only have been written by an American composer,” Amy Lynn Barber, coordinator of the Music of the 21st Century program and a percussion professor at the DePauw School of Music, said. “It is so steeped in American folklore, history, mythology and literature. Audiences connect immediately to the beauty, expressivity, color, rhythm, wit and humor in her music.”

Larsen spoke at the concert, telling the audience that she is looking forward to the future of technology and music.

“Music exists in an infinity of sound,” Larsen said.

“It is the composer’s task to order and make sense of sound, in time and space, to communicate something about being alive through music.”

Playwright Sean Graney visits DePauw as part of quarter credit class

By KENDALL QUISENBERRY features@thedepauw.com

PHOTO COURTESY OF SEAN GRANEY

Sean Graney has a passion for theater, which he shared with DePauw students the last week of February through a discussion of his current work, “All Our Tragic.”

The play, focused on the Trojan War is one of a series of plays that will eventually be built into a 12 hour play.

“Sean’s goal is to have a conversation with the audience,” Tim Good, professor of Communication and Theatre said. “There will be meals built into the performance to encourage conversation with the audience.”

In 1997, Graney created Hypocrites Theater Company in Chicago.

Since its creation, he has directed over 30 productions. He has won many awards including two Joseph Jefferson Citation awards. According to Good, his specialty is doing adaptations of Greek plays.

“We knew each other in college,” Good said. “I’ve kept up with his career in Chicago. When I found out about ‘All Our Tragic,’ I tracked him down, called him up and asked if there was a way colleges could get involved to help him put together this huge show.”

Graney’s entire work encompasses 36 tragedies. The workshop at DePauw just focused on two of the works throughout the 12 hours of discussion. The group met for three hours Tuesday through Friday during the last week of February to talk and workshop the play.

“He challenges the students in a different way than I do. With him, there are world class expectations and limitless possibility,” Good said.

“He also can discover things with students that he can’t with professional actors.”

Graney came to DePauw as part of the Nancy Schaenen Visiting Scholar program through the Prindle Institute for Ethics. Along with the workshop, Graney has also led conversations about the ethics and effects of war with Prindle interns. He is doing similar programs at Lakewood University and Illinois State University.

“A play workshop is kind of a different animal than a normal class; you’re really there for the playwright, so he can hear his words outside his head and in other people’s mouths,” senior Elisabeth Sutherland, a student taking the class said.

Professor Good created the .25 credit class for a variety of students interested in all aspects of theatre. Students like Sutherland are interested in directing, while others were focused on acting and set design.

Sophomore Jessica Maginity took the class because she is a literature major interested in the writing aspects of theatre inspired by literature.

“[Sean Graney] challenges students in a different way...he can also discover things with students that he can’t with professional actors.”

-Professor Tim Good

“I wouldn’t say I learned specific lessons. Watching him helped me see how much a work changes from before readings to the final production,” Maginity said. “It was interesting to see how much he got out of what we had to say.”

Graney will be back on campus April 17-19 and has a public reading on the April 18. During Winter Term 2014, there will be a class working on the production and performance of this play.

“For me, Sean’s work is great,” Good said. “It’s different in that it scares me in the way that it will help me grow and learn as well.”

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Backstage pass: the making of “Battle, Baby, Bird”

By SOPHIE HOFFMAN features@thedepauw.com

“Battle, Baby, Bird” can be described in this way: three short shows, one massive production. After months of planning and collaborating, three student-written shows will be performed and filmed in Moore Theater starting on Thursday, March 7 and running through Sunday, March 10.

In the fall of 2012, Steve Timm, a professor of theater and communication at DePauw, had students in his “Stage, Screen, and Television” course take on the task of playwriting. He then chose just a few pieces that would be performed on stage and filmed for D3TV. Out of the 16 plays submitted, Timm narrowed it down to just three: “Potato, Potato” by Will Freske, “The Curse” by Amanda Feller, and “Hawk” by Elise Lockwood.

“It’s a big deal to have a play produced,” Timm said.

Timm believes that there is a huge transformation from the writing of a play to the performance of that same piece. While writing may be a “solitary” task, production most definitely is not.

“Student actors, directors, producers, faculty, designers, crew, publicity and marketing folks, the D3TV staff all work toward realizing the piece,” Timm said.

The writers started work on these plays in October of 2012 and have had to do up to six rewrites to perfect their pieces. Each play is one 25-minute act that is a complete literary story.

“Potato, Potato,” the first play performed, is a comedy about a family feud. The act has a definitive style and unique language.

“I’m a big Shakespeare fan and I had an idea that I wanted to parody him a bit,” said Freske, a senior communication and English major.

Freske started working on his story in October and said the hardest part was making sure the heightened language he used was accessible for the actors. In general, Freske expressed excitement about seeing his work performed.

“Seeing someone interpret my work and have fun with it has been just great.”

The second play, “Cursed,” written by senior Amanda Feller, is a darker drama that tells the story of a pregnant girl living with her grandfather.

“It’s about love and family and trying to make the two work when they are both rather dysfunctional,” Feller said.

Feller said her favorite part of this production has been, “having an excuse to follow Steve Timm around.”

The third and final show, “Hawk,” was written by Elise Lockwood, a junior, and

is considered a dark comedy. The story portrays two children, long grown, who go home when their mother’s dog is eaten by a hawk. Lockwood came up with the idea for her story through observing her own family.

“My mother has a small dog that I really hate,” Lockwood said. “Once I thought about how upset my mom would be if the dog died and sort of how funny it would be.”

Aside from the writers, there have been TV directors, actors, producers, and many others involved in putting these shows on stage and screen.

Rachel Phennig, a DePauw alumna who graduated in 2009, was asked to come back to help with the show. In 2007, Phennig filmed a show written by Steve Timm called, “Steve Here” live for D3TV. Since graduating, Phennig has worked on two seasons of “So You Think You Can Dance?” and toured as the production coordinator for the Black Eyed Peas. Back at DePauw she has helped with all aspects of the one-act shows: from giving advice to TV directors, to showing the camera crew the basics.

“That show becomes your life for a time,” Phennig said. “A whole group of individuals come together and create a united production. Then, to share that with an audience, to hear their reactions, knowing they are entertained and enjoying themselves. That makes all the long hours worth it.”

Senior Kaitlin Klose is another person directly involved in D3TV’s production of these plays. As a student producer, it is Klose’s job to help organize everything and make sure that the writers, actors and directors are all on task.

Besides Phennig and Klose, there are other TV directors for each show. Lisa Sutherland is directing “Potato Potato,” Stephanie Fernandez is directing “The Curse,” and Felicia Santiago is directing “Hawk.”

The main job of a TV director is to, “capture the essence of the play and transfer the largeness of theater to the detail of TV,” Sutherland said.

The three acts will be broadcast live on Sunday at 3 p.m. and can be viewed on D3TV. The shows will only be filmed once, but the theater version will be performed Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. Tickets are $3 for students and $6 for the general public.

From written word to live performance, these plays have been in the hands of their creators. The time has come for those who put so much time and effort into these pieces to release them into the public sphere.

“I am so excited for people to see these plays,” Lockwood said. “Everyone is so ready for an audience.”

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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

Questions about Adderall use and abuse With midterms coming up and the recent New York Times coverage on Adderall related deaths and addictions, a conversation sparked in our newsroom about why the drug is so prevalent on campus. We are not writing to preach about the benefits nor harp on its dangers, but rather to bring up the question of why.

Heavy usage, used mostly for but not limited to studying, is an accepted part of our cultural norm here at DePauw, and apparently at colleges across the United States. There have been increasing statistics about college students becoming dependent, and in rare cases, overdosing or committing suicide from the tumultuous mood swings that can occur from being denied further dosage. There are obvious benefits to taking these pills, otherwise it wouldn’t be so rampant. They help you focus and they keep you awake. There is a significant proportion of the population who medically depend on them, however most people, especially on this campus, do not.

Obviously, we can’t say that all of this prescription drug abuse is a result of illegal drug use. No doubt, our generation is overmedicated. Twenty-five percent of kids in America today have a chronic drug prescription. Depression, Attention Deficit Disorder, Attention Hyperactivity Deficit Disorder, these terms are constantly being tossed around but doctor’s always have a simple solution -- medication.

But why? Is it because our generation actually needs this medication to function properly? Or perhaps it’s because prescription drugs have become so accessible.

Accessible to those who are prescribed and but also to those who aren’t.

It’s overwhelmingly common to come across kids in Roy O. West popping Adderall in hopes of blazing through a book or cramming for a test.

What has happened to our generation that we would risk the possibility of these minor to severe consequences to finish a paper? Is it the over-stimulation we have grown used to from being constantly plugged into technology? Perhaps that’s too sweeping of an excuse. Maybe it’s the higher academic expectations and growing competitive nature of our society. That sounds like a cop out answer too though.

Dare we say, that maybe, we’re just lazy? Something to ponder over your next all-nighter.

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Sequester demands attention for midterm elections JONATHAN ROSARIO

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he fiscal cliff, government shutdowns, defaults on our debt and now the sequester — it seems that our government is always in a state of emergency and irrational, last minute decision-making.

The sequester is a series of across-the-board spending cuts that could potentially risk our economic recovery, sluggish as it currently may be. The plan originally passed as part of the Budget Control Act of 2011, better known as the debt ceiling compromise (yes, there was a debate on whether we should pay our country’s obligations that Congress itself implemented). Unlike past showdowns in which Congress has been able to simply kick the can down the road, the sequester in effect will cut $85 billion in 2013 — which is only a fraction of the total $1.2 trillion in cuts it mandates over 10 years. Cuts include, but are not limited to, funds for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the FBI, special education and Head Start programming.

But the cuts are not the result of bipartisan consensus.

Rather, they have been triggered as a result of the Supercommittee to agree to their own deficit-reduction and debt-ceiling increase package by Nov. 23, 2011. Because they failed to reach a compromise, we now must face the automatic spending cuts of the sequester.

Under these across-the-board cuts, legislators don’t have discretion over what programs are affected, since the intent is simply to hit all equally. In 2013, funding for nondefense programs will be cut by nine percent, and defense programs will be cut by 13 percent. These drastic measures were meant to put pressure on our legislature to make a budget deal. But even that seemed to be asking too much

of our elected officials.

Most parties agree on common sense spending cuts.

But in Washington’s zero-sum game of politics —where a victory for one party is a loss for the opposing party — there is no room for sensible compromise. The sequester is just another reminder of why we cannot wait till the next presidential election to vote. We must take the 2014 midterm election seriously.

Our congressional leaders are incompetent, and it’s evident by national polls. The 112th Congress ended their legislation session with a 10 percent approval rating. In a humorous comparison, Public Policy Polling firm found its favor ranking somewhere below cockroaches, traffic jams and the rock band Nickelback in Americans’ esteem.

But the public’s dissatisfaction with Congress contradicts election results. In the 2012 elections, voters elected 90 percent of Congressional incumbents running for reelection. The gridlock in Congress, along with reckless defaults like the sequester, that put our economy at risk, is why voters need to head to the polls in 2014 and replace their congressional representatives.

Political engagement and excitement is at its highest during presidential elections. But the public is barely engaged for state and local elections. Due to the fact that one third of U.S. Senators and all House of Representatives assembly members are up for reelection every midterm election cycle, it is important to increase voter turnout during all election cycles.

We cannot focus all of our political energy on presidential elections. While our executive leader shares a great deal of responsibility in the legislative process, a partisan, stagnant Congress is the root of policies — like the sequester — that are harmful to our country.

— Rosario is a senior from Brooklyn, N.Y. majoring in political science. opinion@thedepauw.com

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Class participation means more than a raised hand EMILY BRELAGE

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t DePauw, we spend a considerable amount of class time engaged in dialogue. Meaningful dialogue. These discussions encourage process of exploration and engagement rather than absorption or regurgitation. They exercise not only our abilities to learn, but to unlearn.

So what happens when your 8:10 class just isn’t a particularly chatty bunch? To spark these critical conversations, many professors have a class participation policy in place. Some are worth as much as 30 percent of a student’s final semester grade. Professors intend to assign such high values to participation to provide the impetus for discussion. But instead of positively contributing to the academic atmosphere, these policies end up detracting from what could be a more welcoming space for learning.

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not the most talkative student out there. As a writing major, I find myself most articulate when I have a pen in my hand or keyboard at my fingertips. That’s not to say I don’t try to interject when I find it appro-

priate, but that I illustrate good thinking in other ways. Sometimes, I think this is undervalued in our classes at DePauw. In a world where people can’t seem to shut up, I think it’s important to be selective in what we contribute to the conversation. Words carry a lot of weight.

Assigning a numeric value to the frequency that a student speaks in class, from my observation, also yields a lot of cut corners. To snag that low-hanging fruit that is the day’s participation grade, some students end up skimming readings, half-heartedly “snowballing” off a classmate’s previous remarks or providing loosely related personal examples to explain abstract theories. The attitude being that every verbal contribution to class ensures they’re in the safe zone — even if it’s a surface understanding of the material.

To be fair, I realize the burden that professors take on when they include that participation requirement in their syllabi. It’s difficult to calculate, makes faculty vulnerable to more grade challenges and can be applied inconsistently. It seems like the only way to both preserve the integrity of the classroom and make sure everyone’s voices are equally heard. But it still leaves out those who aren’t the first to jump out of their seat with an insightful commentary.

That’s not to say I think the quieter students should get away with their silence — in fact, the

best professors I’ve had were ones who had no participation grade, but weren’t afraid to call on students to expand on a part of their recent paper or something they’d mentioned in office hours.

Which brings me to propose that we begin to measure course participation not in terms of how many times our hands shoot up in class, but in more holistic terms. Does a student visit a professor during office hours to discuss readings, papers, grades? Does the student demonstrate a strong grasp of the material verbally and in writing responses? Does the student really seem to invest — really own — their education?

Taking these factors into consideration would lessen the negative pressure to speak for speaking’s sake. We’d have more organic, productive conversations both in and outside of our classrooms. We’d acknowledge the multiple ways that students learn and demonstrate competency. And we’d form communities that aren’t competing to get the first word in edgewise. At DePauw, we don’t engage in dialogue to sound intellectual at cocktail parties. Let’s not reduce it to that.

have their challenges as well. Our business is unusual in that we have to produce our product the instant it is needed. So far our industry does not have the technical capacity to store large amounts of power from these intermittent energy sources.

That’s a problem because we need energy sources that are available around the clock.

Edwardsport is a key part of our responsibility to supply electricity 24/7, 365 days a year. It operates with far less environmental impact than the plant it replaces, while producing 10 times as much electricity.

And for students at DePauw, it means when you turn on your laptops or charge your cell phone, the power is there.

Angeline Protogere Class of 1984 Dear Editor, “Battle, Baby, Bird: New Works by Student Playwrights” is a big deal. There are very few colleges that would ever take a main stage production and devote it to new works by current students. There are very few professors who would treat those student playwrights like professionals.

But DePauw is doing it. Steve Timm is doing it.

And it has been the best experience of my college career.

How will the new campus construction affect you?

“The [completed] Anderson Street construction really affected me, but I don’t think this new phase will that much.”

MEREDITH LOCKMAN, sophomore “I live in South Quad, so I expect it might be inconvenient to walk to and from there soon.”

— Brelage is a senior from Indianapolis majoring in English writing. opinion@thedepauw.com

MATT PIGGINS, freshman

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor, As a DePauw alumna and a Duke Energy employee, I read with interest the recent column about rising energy costs.

While electricity costs at DePauw are not insignificant, they are less than 2 percent of the university’s annual budget and unlikely to be the key driver in any tuition increase.

Also, the column implied the rate increases related to our new Edwardsport plant would in add to current electric bills. More than half of any increase related to the Edwardsport plant is already part of customer bills, including those of the university.

We recognize, though, that every part of a university budget can eventually contribute to higher student costs, which is why we are currently exploring with the university energy efficiency improvements to reduce DePauw’s power consumption and electric bills. Duke helps fund efficiency investments for large power customers such as universities, sharing some of the upfront costs of moving to high efficiency lighting and heating and cooling systems. The savings can add up when you consider that at Roy O. West Library alone there are 779 lights that are on for more than 5,000 hours per year.

We’re interested in alternative energy sources such as wind and solar, too, but these sources

PHOTOPINION

Yes, every year DePauw does the Playwrights Festival, which, although fun, tends to be pretty casual. The festival is important; I’ve participated every year. But this is not the festival. This is different. This is bigger. Much bigger.

Not only is “Battle, Baby, Bird” the first main stage show of the semester, it’s also going to be filmed by D3TV and the three plays are each going to be made into live TV recordings. I know nothing about television. I’ll say that right now.

I basically just nod my head and agree with what former station director of D3TV Kaitlin Klose tells me. I do know, however, that when the theatre department flies in an alumna from Belgium to advise us, it is a big deal.

But it is not a big deal in that it is overly serious or boring or dry. There are sword fights, break-ups, dead birds and, dare I say it, pee in a jar. So, when you’re thinking about how to waste that couple of hours before it’s appropriate to go out on Friday or Saturday, or how to procrastinate on Thursday or Sunday, there’s a huge amount of students who have made this show their life for the past few months. And it’s $3. Come on, that’s like one gin and tonic at the Duck. If I see you there, after the show I’ll buy you one.

Elise Lockwood Class of 2014

“I work with housing, so we had to relocate some students for the construction.”

SHARON HAYES, senior “I haven’t noticed it much actually, and I don’t know how directly it will affect me.”

LAURA DREW, sophomore EMILY BRELAGE / THE DEPAUW

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TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2013

Softball splits opening weekend in Memphis

By MICHAEL APPELGATE sports@thedepauw.com

No one was panicking Saturday evening.

After losing its first two games of the season, players of the DePauw softball team admitted there were opportunities missed to come away with two wins.

But the Tigers weren’t phased, and instead, took the losses as learning opportunities and rebounded.

DePauw came away from the campus of Rhodes College with an even record, 2-2, and a realization of strengths and some early weaknesses. In both losses on Saturday to Rhodes and University of Wisconsin-Platteville, errors in late innings were too costly to overcome.

It’s those four errors during intermittent snow flurries and piercing cold that made the difference in the results, but it didn’t unnerve head coach Erica Hanrahan.

“They were playing with a lot of aggression and excitement,” the first-year coach said. “What happened was there were routine plays.

They were pressing because they wanted to win so bad because it was their first outing.”

In the season opener against Rhodes, DePauw went down 2-0 in the third inning, but the Tigers scored three runs on back-to-back doubles by Amy Hallett and Linsey Button and then Haleigh Chasteen hit a two-run home run — her first career home run in her second collegiate at-bat — to gain the lead, 3-2.

In the decisive sixth inning with the Tigers still leading by one, Rhodes loaded the bases with two outs in the frame, and scored two runs when senior Alison Towery committed an error at first base.

Emily Bichler took the loss in the contest after giving up just two

earned runs while striking out four. The senior also walked four batters.

“It wasn’t my best first game of the season,” she said. “I think having the new fielders behind me, the cold weather and just having new coaches all contributed to my performance.”

In the second game of Saturday against Wisconsin-Platteville, DePauw scored the game’s first run in the top of the fifth, then in the bottom half, Tigers’ pitcher Emily Dieckmann was charged with six earned runs after tallying the first two outs in the inning.

DePauw went on to lose 8-1, and begin the season 0-2 for the first time since 2004.

“Everyone was kind of shocked, no one wants to start the season losing two games,” Bichler said. “I wasn’t personally worried about it… Some people had a hard time with it, but we have a really new team. We have a lot of upperclassmen who haven’t played.”

Added Hanrahan, “Our seniors needed to settle down. They will be major contributors and factors in the success of the team. It’s 70 percent of a mental game, and you have to get yourself in the right mental framework.

“There wasn’t really time to dwell on the negative.”

On Sunday, Chasteen made her first start on the mound against Rhodes. The freshman tossed a complete game giving up two earned runs, striking out five and walking six. DePauw won its first game of the season backed by three RBI’s from senior Gwen Anderson, 6-3.

In the afternoon against Wisconsin-Platteville, Bichler, a native of Belgium, Wisc., took to the pitcher’s circle and shut down the Pioneers for three innings. The senior surrendered two runs in the third, but the Tigers already held a five run advantage backed by freshman Sammi Bell’s two RBI’s.

“I think my performance on Sunday was much more representative of how I pitch in the season,” Bichler said. “It helped that it was 10 or five degrees warmer, and my hand didn’t feel like it was going to fall off. I felt more comfortable in the circle, and I didn’t feel pressured to perform. I felt more comfortable with the people around me.”

Bichler led a contingent of five Tigers pitchers during the weekend. Hanrahan said Bichler, Dieckmann and Chasteen all earned starting roles, and Hailey Freres and Kahla Nolan will make appearances in tight situations.

“I thought they both responded well to it,” Hanrahan said of Freres and Nolan in relief duties. “Dieckmann and Chasteen had tremendous outings.”

On the offensive end, Hallett led the charge with 10 total bases backed by four doubles. She and sophomore Jennifer Ridge — who hit leadoff — both chipped in with six hits, and both have an on base percentage of more than .533.

“Amy loves and thrives in pressure situations with runners on base, and she was able to do that,” Hanrahan said. “(Ridge and Hallett) really showed a good tandem. Sammy Bell and Catherin Conte came up huge in multiple games.”

DePauw next travels to Georgia for six games in the NFCA leadoff classic. The Tigers will face State University of New York College at Cortland, Claremont McKenna College and Christopher Newport University.

“It’s not how you start the season its how you finish it,” Hanrahan said. “If you have a few peaks and valleys in the first part of the season, I can live with that. We have six huge games coming in to this weekend facing top competition.”

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Tigers place fifth at Division III ITA nationals

By CLARE POLEGA sports@thedepauw.com

The underclassmen on the women’s tennis team stepped up this past weekend in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Div. III Women’s Team Indoor Championship. On Friday, Johns Hopkins defeated DePauw, 6-3. Saturday the wind changed and the DePauw Tigers beat Wisconsin-Whitewater and Washington Lee, both 8-1. Playing against the top eight teams in the nation, the Tigers finished fifth.

The work the team did in the offseason helped the success of the team as a whole in their first tournament of the spring season, sophomore Claire Marshall said.

“We worked in the weight room a lot because we had so many small injuries and our coach wanted us to strengthen every part of our game,” Marshall said.

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His team shot 58.3 percent from the field while being out-rebounded 19-9. On the offensive rebounds, DePauw gained eight, while Maryville gained none.

“What they did to us on the backboards was impressive,” Travillian said.

Ellie Pearson was again the catalyst, operating down low and earning the Tigers extra chances. The senior led the first half rebounding effort with six, but DePauw only converted the eight offensive rebounds for six points.

Instead, it was Trees and Kathleen Molloy who both nailed two 3’s apiece that gave DePauw the lead at half. Trees led all scorers in the first with 12 points.

In the second Trees continued her hot shooting, hitting another 3 and pilling on 12 more points. She finished with a career-high, 24.

“I was trying to find the gaps,” Trees said. “In their zone, they were spread pretty wide so I just tried to drive to the middle. Kate (Walker) and everybody else did a good job of creating shots for me, and moving the ball so well, it made it easy to score.”

After four and half minutes in the second half, Depauw led 50-36, and a steal

by Ross ignited the Tigers offense.

“We have one of the toughest schedules this year and there will be no easy matches.”

Captains, junior Meg Crowley and senior Elizabeth Young, set a high standard for the rest of the team.

Sophomore Julie Wittwer said, the younger girls look up to the captains’ work ethic and follow their example during practices and games.

“Being a sophomore, I’m still learning from the older girls and our only senior sets a good example for us,” Wittwer said.

“My goal is to be a good leader like Elizabeth. Our team has a good dynamic, but I would like to keep building up the team and encouraging people to do their best in every single match.”

Marshall and Wittwer proved to be tough competition for their opponents in the indoor championship helping the team to finish fifth. Marshall won five out of six matches and Wittwer winning all

three of her singles games.

Head coach Scott Riggle has seen the two improve from last season.

“Julie did extremely well,” Riggle said.

“She is really fit and she is never out of position. Claire is getting better and better every week. She has accuracy with her shots and she’s rounding out her game, I’m proud of her.”

Although the team is doing well early in the season, their goal is to get to the national tournament and win. The team is continually improving, but must continue to improve until the end of the season.

“We’re still a young team and we’re making a lot of progress, but as a team we need to round out our game,” Riggle said.

“Since we are playing top twenty teams, I expect us to rise to the occasion and hopefully get to the national tournament,” Marshall said. “We are a deep team this year.”

The junior scored on an uncontested layup to spark a 15-0 run over the next four minutes that put the game out of reach for Maryville.

day was Ellie Pearson with 18 rebounds.

We had 20 rebounds as a team, and she had 18. That’s making light of Stephens with 10. They rebound the ball like absolute beasts. They are relentless on the ball, and I’ve never seen a better rebounding team than that team right there.”

The game marks the 50th straight game DePauw has out-rebounded its opponent. The Tigers tallied 17 points off of 17 offensive rebounds.

DePauw finished the game shooting 46.2 percent from the field while the Scots hit 45.7. At half, DePauw was edged in points in the paint, 22-20, but ended the game with the advantage, 34-28.

Next Friday, DePauw will face Washington University in St. Louis (22-5), who defeated Rhodes College on Saturday night, 78-75. The Tigers downed the Bears, 60-59, on Nov. 24 — DePauw’s smallest margin of victory during the season. The location is to be decided.

“Both teams probably changed tremendously,” Huffman said of the impending matchup with Washington.

“We’re a different team offensively than we were at that point at time. I’m sure Wash-U has as well because they are a very young team. It’ll be a lot of scouting this week.

“They have some length, and are a tough team to defend.”

“[Pearson and Stephens] rebound the ball like absolute beasts. They are relentless on the ball.”

-­­Darrin Travillian, Maryville head coach

“You’re down 11 at the half, my thinking was you have to win the first four minutes if you have any chance at it at all,” Travillian said. “I was trying to stop the bleeding more than anything else.”

Pearson ended the game with 18 rebounds. The forward has tallied a combined 37 rebounds in the NCAA first and second rounds.

“I try to always be moving and beating my player to the spot that they don’t have a chance to block me out,” Pearson said.

“I’m trying just to stay active, because that’s the key. A lot of it is just you’re in the right place at the right time.”

Added Travillian, “The difference to-

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name: JULIE WITTWER, SOPHOMORE

sport: WOMEN’S TENNIS

hometown: GROSSE POINTE, MICH.

Highlight: Wittwer was named the North Coast Athletic Conference Women’s Tennis Player of the Week on February 27 after posting a 3-0 record in singles and doubles with sophomore Kaitlin Pickrel. This past weekend in the ITA Indoor Championships Wittwer won all her matches against Johns Hopkins’ University and Washington and Lee University.

On being named NCAC player of the week: “It was a big honor because to be recognized by the whole conference rather than just your school is a big deal.”

— COMPILED BY ABBY MARGULIS / SPORTS@THEDEPAUW.COM

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TRACK AND FIELD

Men finish 8th, Women 4th at NCAC Indoor Championship

TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2013

Tigers move on, undefeated, to Sweet 16

By ABBY MARGULIS sports@thedepauw.com

Three school records were broken and one woman, senior Taryn Owens, won an individual championship over this weekend’s North Coast Athletic Conference Indoor Track and Field Championship.

The men totaled 36.5 points and finished last out of eight teams, while the women totaled 63 points, finishing fourth behind Ohio Wesleyan University, Oberlin College and Denison University.

Senior Myron Burr, on the men’s team, placed seventh in the 60-meter hurdles at 8.67 seconds after setting a school record in the prelims at 8.65 seconds. Burr also competed in the 60 meters dash placing eighth at a time of 7.35 seconds.

Burr said it felt nice to break a record.

“This was my last year to do something cool and a nice way to end the indoor season,” he said.

On the women’s team, Owens placed third in the pole vault and finished sixth in the 60-meter hurdles in 9.82 seconds after breaking the school record in Friday’s prelims at 9.66 seconds. Last week Owens finished seventh in the pentathlon with 2,782 points.

Owens was shocked she ran a 9.66, as the school record of 9.7 was her own that she set two years ago.

“I can leave knowing I did the best I can do,” Owens said. “It was something I was pushing towards accomplishing but knowing I beat my own record was awesome.”

Other notable performances were freshman Katharine Kondry who placed first in the triple jump at 10.78 meters and freshman Heather O’Brien, second in the 3,000 and the 5,000 meter runs. For the men’s team, freshman Mitch Metzger won the high jump and junior Kyle Mackey placed second in pole vault.

After concluding their indoor season Burr looks forward to the outdoor season.

“The indoor season leaves us with a lot to improve on and look on to a great outdoor season.”

The DePauw Men’s and Women’s Track and Field teams will begin their outdoor season March 23 at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Owens said the team had great performances all around.

“People came ready to compete and it showed,” Owens said. “The atmosphere was really fun and could you tell people enjoyed being there.”

Senior Kate Walker (left) and junior Alison Stephens celebrate a point during Saturday’s National Collegiate Athletic Association Div. III tournament championship game. The women defeated Maryville, 78-51, and will advance to the third round. EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW

By MICHAEL APPELGATE sports@thedepauw.com

When it was all over, Ellie Pearson turned to fellow-senior, Kate Walker, and said, “Finally.”

After three years of being ousted in the first and second rounds of the Division III championship tournament, the DePauw women’s basketball team will play in the third round. This is the first appearance for the team in the Sweet 16 since the 2007-2008 season.

It came with a 78-51 win Saturday over Maryville College in the Neal Fieldhouse. There weren’t many teams during the regular season that could match up with the Tigers’ prowess of scoring in the key. Maryville was that team, but even their effort wasn’t enough.

The Tigers once again out-rebounded, outplayed and out-scored their opponents in a game that tallied more than 60 points in the paint between the two teams.

Each squad also shot better than 40 percent from the field, but it was DePauw who held the edge in rebounding, 42-20.

“That is a very good team,” Maryville head coach Darrin Travillian said. “Absolutely relentless on the boards, and are so well coached. They execute their stuff, and have such a good understanding about who they are. It’s an impressive team and an impressive program.”

The Scots came into the match the No. 4 team in field goal percentage in Division III (46), and DePauw was tasked with matching their buckets with its own.

After eight minutes and two free throws from Emma Ondik, the Tigers led 15-10. A minute later, a familiar face trotted to the scoring table to sub in.

That was Alex Gasaway, DePauw’s leading scorer who had not played in the past three games due to a right knee injury. Wearing a knee brace, Gasaway missed her first shot — a jumper on the baseline — but her presence undoubtedly sparked

the Tigers’ offense.

Over the next five minutes, DePauw went on an 11-5 run that featured Gasaway converting a layup down low, Savannah Trees nailing a 3 and Ali Ross scoring four points on a layup and a baseline jumper.

“We mixed things up well,” head coach Kris Huffman said. “We ran some ball screen offense and our regular offense well. We got Alex Gasaway in, and we ran a couple of sets for her. Ali Ross got to the rim, you can list a lot of things that happened, but it was just good team offense and good team movement.”

A jumper by junior Alison Stephens capped the scoring run, and put the Scots in a 26-15 deficit.

The 11 point lead lasted till halftime, and Travillian thought his team played defense well,

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