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Plans solidified, funded to renovate Lilly and athletic fields By BECCA STANEK news@thedepauw.com
Thanks to the support of alumni gifts, plans are underway for the expansion and renovation of the Lilly Physical Education and Recreation Center and improvements to DePauw’s athletic fields. Planning efforts for the improvements and renovations are already in the works and will continue throughout the summer. Stevie Baker-Watson, director of Athletics and Recreational Sports, and Richard Vance, associate vice president for facilities, will collaborate with well-guarded athletic architects Hastings+Chivetta to review current athletic facilities and draw up plans. “This process is a natural outgrowth of an institution that has long been committed to athletics and recreation in its fullest form,” said Baker-Watson, who oversees athletics programs for DePauw’s 500 varsity athletes. “It presents an opportunity to pair the long-standing history of Tiger athletics with a plan to build upon that foundation in the years
ahead.” Fundraising plans are underway, with several gifts already pledged by alumni, according to President Brian Casey. Details about specific gifts are to be announced in future months. “On a campus with our tradition of student athlete success, this process presents us with an opportunity to significantly enhance the spaces dedicated to fitness and recreation” Casey said. With DePauw students’ high level of activity and engagement in fitness, many students are enthusiastic about the university’s plans to improve facilities. According to the National Survey of Student Engagement, 74 percent of DePauw first-year students exercise or participate in fitness and wellness, compared to the 61 percent of first-years at other universities. Sophomore Mallory Bushee, who works at the Lilly Athletic Center, thinks the changes are much needed. “I’m glad it’s finally being done,” Bushee said. “Compared to the rest of the campus, Lilly has been somewhat of an eyesore. Students are so involved in
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athletics and fitness that it’s necessary.” “I think that it is something that they need to do in order for DePauw to stay competitive with rival schools from an admissions standpoint,” said sophomore Jacob Weiner. “Every liberal arts school is going to boast about its wonderful faculty and community feel. However, students do not recognize how true this is at DePauw until they get here. What they do understand right off the bat is that our sports complex is outdated compared to the athletic center at Kenyon or Denison and for many that is a deciding factor that could send them to one school or another.” Casey echoes student enthusiasm, and is excited upcoming work and what it will mean for the student experience on our campus. “We’re fortunate to count dedicated alumni, parents and friends among the supporters of DePauw athletics,” Casey said. “This is the beginning of a process that will, without question, leave a lasting legacy for our students, as well as faculty and staff.”
The portion of Hanna Street near the athletic fields will undergo construction to resemble this rendering. In the early stages of planning, the project’s start date has yet to be announced. PHOTO COURTESY OF KEN OWEN
To celebrate the religious spring festival of Holi, students were invited to participate by throwing colored powder outside of Reese Hall on Wednesday. The event was hosted by the International Student Association and the Office of Spiritual Life. HOANG NGUYEN / THE DEPAUW
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In another step to address campus’s drinking habits, DePauw offered students an opportunity to take an alcohol screening survey to gauge the safety and health of their drinking habits. On Thursday, DePauw hosted a venue for students to take the alcohol screening survey in the Union Building Ballroom as a part of National Alcohol Screening Day (NASD) on Thursday. NASD is an outreach program, used by colleges, community organizations and the military NASD, to educate communities on safe drinking habits and to help people with drinking problems find help. DePauw has held NASD events for several years now. This year, DePauw held observed NASD on April 12, a week later than the national observation day, which was April 5. “Because of timing, we couldn’t do it last week, so we’re doing it today, [April 12],” said Julia Sutherlin, director of student life. Quamina Carter, the alcohol and drug task force
coordinator and a counselor in the Wellness Center, has headed the even for the past several years. “I have a strong investment in alcohol education and teaching students how to reduce the risk [of drinking], what a standard drink is, and protective behavior,” Carter said. The main goal of the day was to screen students to analyze their alcohol use. There are several different screening programs available. According to Sutherlin, one of the most common is a ten-question survey called “The Audit,” but DePauw chose a program called “The Basics.” “The Basics” is a relatively in-depth program that takes about fifteen to twenty minutes. “It asks a lot of questions,” Sutherlin said. “It’s not just about drinking, but about the effects — what are the desired effects, what are the actual effects and what does the person hope to get out of drinking.” “The Basics” also provides users with personalized feedback, including a personalized blood-alcohol level chart. The program also includes a section on drugs, specifically marijuana. Junior Lian Weinstein, a student involved with
Student Organized Alcohol Research (SOAR), volunteered to help out at the event. While Weinstein believes alcohol consumption is a problem on DePauw’s campus, she is unsure of how useful surveys like “The Basics” are in solving the issue. “I’m not sure how much [alcohol screening] helps,” Weinstein said. “It can be beneficial, but they’re flawed. I mean, I just took that and it told me I drink an obscene amount, and I don’t.” Sophomore Sandy Tran, a student who took the survey, was curious what the results would reveal. “I just wanted to see where my drinking is and whether I’d be considered as having a problem,” Tran said. “I thought I didn’t, and I still don’t think I do.” Tran did find that the information was useful. “It was helpful because when you’re partying, you don’t think about how much you drink. Looking back, I can say, ‘Ok, maybe I need to keep track of how much I’m drinking,” said Tran. “I guess it helps out because I can keep of track of what I’m doing,”
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Campus farm pulled for now, advocates look elsewhere for funding By MATTHEW CECIL news@thedepauw.com
Taylor Cantril would like to have been planting seeds in a university farm by now, which would in turn provide food for campus dining halls and local food pantries. But after 10 months of planning and submitting multiple bids to university administrators, supporters of the twoacre on-campus farm learned in early March that their proposal wouldn’t take shape as soon as they’d hoped. “The denial of the funding was just around the basic issue that we face with many things here at the university at this moment,” said Carol Steele, director of sustainability. “There just wasn’t any money.” Since then, Steele and Cantril, who graduated last year and now works in the sustainability office, have been looking for sources of funding outside of the university. They haven’t found that funding yet, but both remain optimistic and Steele
says it may only take one source to get the ball rolling. “It’s a chicken and egg situation,” Steel said. “If there was some external place that would be willing to give us some money to get this started in some sort of a viable way, then there would be others who would be willing to also participate.” Steele said the startup cost for the farm would range from $20,000 to $22,000, with the biggest single purchase coming from fencing — around $16,000 — to keep animals out of the two-acre plot. The farm would also require annual maintenance, seeds, salaries for the farm employees and other associated expenses. Those employees, Steele said, would likely be hired from Sodexo dining hall staff with farming experience that normally only works during the school year. According to Steele, the university would donate the majority of the food grown in the farm to Sodexo to use in the dining halls but save 10 percent to
dole out to food pantries in Putnam County. Christopher Wells, who oversees the sustainability office and presented the campus farm proposal to the university administrators, said it’s more about money than support for the project. “The proposal wasn’t denied. So the response of the cabinet was we should absolutely commit to doing this,” Wells
cabinet was not, ‘No, we shouldn’t do this,’ the response was, ‘Yes, we should do this.’ We don’t have funding for it right now.” The process started last summer when now sophomore Ashley Conard and Stephen Hesterburg, now a junior, began rallying support for an on-campus farm. When Conard and Hesterburg returned last fall they started talking with Cantril about the project. Neither Conard nor Hesterburg could be reached for comment in time for publication. Hesterburg is currently studying off campus. Cantril says they have time as they won’t be able to start planting seeds until next spring if they’re able to secure funding by then. Last fall, Steele attended a campus farm conference at Dickinson College with 250 people from 50 different universities to learn more about how the process could be applied at DePauw. The farms represented at the conference ranged from small plots of land on street corners to a 550-acre farm on a campus in Virginia.
“The response was, ‘Yes, we should do this.’ We don’t have funding for it right now.” -Christopher Wells
said. “There’s support from a bunch of folks on campus, including a number of faculty. There seems to be a sense that it would be enjoyable, educational, a nice piece of the puzzle of our overall sustainability efforts. The response from
The conference’s host college, for example, provides money to its campus farm, but Steele said the sustainability team there was also able to find recycled farming equipment and old solar panels to use on the farm for little to no cost. “In every instance that I know about, the farms never broke even,” Steele said. “They either ran at a deficit and the university made it up in their budget, or they looked for outside funding of one sort or another.” And that’s the funding Cantril and Steele say they’ll continue to seek out as they remain optimistic about another 10 months of planning and proposals. “I recognize that sometimes the timing just isn’t right for an idea and that you go back and you talk to someone different or you come up with a slightly different way in which your original concept could be adjusted and you’re able to make it go,” Steele said. “I’m still of the opinion that this would be a very valuable addition to this campus.”
Prindle Institute to continue tradition in annual Ethics Symposium This weekend DePauw will host the fifth annual Ethics Symposium, welcoming professors and students from universities around the country to engage in a discussion on “Ethics and Relationships: Friends, Family and Community.” The event, which will take place at the Prindle Institute, began Thursday evening and will continue through the day Friday and Saturday. Students will be examining ethics through the works of scholars, creative writers, filmmakers
and photographers. Thirty-two students from 24 different universities have been selected to participate in the symposium, based off of essay and creative project submissions. The symposium will feature workshops and lectures by various professors. DePauw professor Claudia Mills, University of Colorado Boulder professor Patricia Raybon, Beloit College professor Matthew Tedesco and professor Steven Dietz will each be leading discussions this weekend. Linda Clute, organizer of the Ethics Symposium, said the symposium pro-
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HOW DO WE LEAD?
April 8 • Theft of GPS — unsecured • Pending | Time: 3:25 p.m. | Place: Hogate Hall parking lot
• Suspicious person • Subject located / checked O.K. | Time: 1:55 p.m. | Place: Alpha Chi Omega sorority (outside)
April 9 • Criminal mischief to boulder • Pending | Time: 10:38 a.m. | Place: East College lawn
April 12 • Assist Greencastle Police Department — attempt to locate sunjects • Subjects located | Time: 1:38 a.m. | Place: Poplar Street
April 10 • Investigate for drugs • Under investigation | Time: 1:13 p.m. | Place: Off campus April 11 • Noise — loud people • Forwarded to Campus Living | Time: 12:40 a.m. | Place: Humbert Hall
Judith Edstrom ‘70 (right) speaks with Mary Leonard ‘70 (left) and director of The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics Bob Steele (center) as part of both the 175th anniversary and Leading with Excellence and Ethics series. Students, faculty and staff gathered at Prindle Wednesday evening to listen. EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW
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Cheesy situation: Dining “My Week with Marilyn” captivates the complex life of an acting icon needs more diversity NATALIE WEILANDT
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e all know that feeling: It’s Friday and you’re all done with classes, it has been a long, hard week and all you want is a little time to relax. Maybe you’ll catch up on some TV, maybe read the Hunger Games, whatever you feel like doing. It’s your time, and I won’t tell you how to use it. But before anything, what you really need is a snack. A nice little pick-me-up to recharge and get you prepared for all the suspicious activities you’ll probably engage in later. You make a beeline for the Hub, your mind clouded by a whirlwind of options. All those other snacks are fine, but you know what you really want. You know what your body needs right now….
“‘A cheese and grape cup,’ you whisper to yourself, only barely loud enough that you can hear. After what seems like an eternity, you’re finally there. But as you stand in front of the cooler, you discover something. All the cheese cups… There is something wrong.” -Natalie Weilandt, freshman
“A cheese and grape cup,” you whisper to yourself, only barely loud enough that you can hear. After what seems like an eternity, you’re finally there. But as you stand in front of the cooler, you discover something. All the cheese cups… There is something wrong. No, it can’t be. Is that Pepper jack? It’s ALL
Pepper jack? Okay don’t panic, maybe there’s something promising toward the back, just stay calm. You sift through the cups like a lion on a hunt: Quiet, alert, prepared to pounce. But your efforts are futile. There’s nothing. Just a sea of white speckled disappointment. Defeat. It’s time to retreat, let’s go home, boys. You snake your arm back through the forest of failure. Your arm flops back to your side, and you turn around to go get some water or something. I don’t know, are you even still hungry after this? As you walk away, you look over your shoulder at what could have been. They stare back at you. Apologetic phantoms of what could have been. Okay so it’s probably not that dramatic for anyone except me. But really, I think we’d best be getting some different types of cheese in those cheese and grape cups. Cheddar, Provolone, Munster — the possibilities are endless, and are they really that hard to provide? As a matter of fact, this is the state of Indiana. It’s mostly farmland, right? I’m sure it’s possible to get access to some decent cheese. I’m even going to go out on a limb and say that it’s possible to access of some really great cheese if we put our minds to it. The cheese and grape cups are a really great idea. The combination of tastes is good, and you have to love the club crackers that come with it. The problem is the lack of variety. Some days it’s better than others, but if this pepper jack problem persists, I see no other solution but to abandon ship and find a new favorite snack. Bottom line, everyone has their own personal cheese preferences, and I think it’s time they were addressed. No more of this favoritism. Everyone’s voice should be heard. As a cheese and grape cup regular, I think I can safely say that these goals are possible. It’s been done before, and we can do it again. We can brave this storm together, DePauw. One cheese and grape cup at a time. — Weilandt is a freshman from Winnetka, Ill., with an undecided major. features@thedepauw.com
ADRIENNE WESTENFELD
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ultural critic Camille Paglia once referred to Marilyn Monroe as “one of our sacred monsters.” Paglia is right — Marilyn has become such a sacred monster in that, as a culture, we feel compelled to recreate her again and again, to put a new spin on her tragic story, to attempt to figure her out once and for all. The new movie “My Week With Marilyn,” the latest entry in this tradition, is the true story of a young Englishman named Colin Clark, who cleverly talked his way into a job as a production assistant on the set of “The Prince and the Showgirl,” a 1957 film directed by and starring Sir Laurence Olivier, thespian royalty at the time and Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood megastar. Throughout the course of the week, Colin becomes Marilyn’s on-set confidante and chaste lover, supporting her throughout her marital strife with Arthur Miller, her on-set difficulties with the chauvinistic Olivier and the demons associated with her vices and insecurities. Michelle Williams is luminous in her embodiment of Marilyn — in the space of one role, she personifies the whisper and wiggle of the sexpot, the rampant insecurity of the wannabe serious actress turned film star, and the wounded Norma Jean beneath it all, aching to be free of her persona and to be loved. Williams captures the magnetism of Marilyn and the vulnerability of Norma Jean, evoking both the public and the private Marilyn, the real and the imaginary Marilyn — in essence, Williams plays a woman who longs simply to be human. “Shall I be her?” she asks of Colin before putting on an impromptu show for a yard of schoolboys. In another scene, Marilyn laments, “All people ever see is Marilyn Monroe.” Williams is effortless in portraying what Marilyn refers to as the ability to flick the switch between the incandescent movie star and the sweet, sad woman ultimately pushed,
pulled, and left out in the dark by those around her. Kenneth Branagh is wonderfully florid as Olivier, and Eddie Redmayne, as Colin Clark, is sweet, articulate and protective in the way that all men endeavoring to save perceived damsels in distress are supposed to be. One of the most memorable lines of the film suggests that Marilyn was a film star who longed to become a great actor, and Olivier was a great actor who longed to become a film star — “The Prince and the Showgirl” was not the vehicle to actualize either dream. The only dream actualized on set belongs to Colin, as “My Week With Marilyn” is as much Colin’s story as it is Marilyn’s. Colin is a man struggling to find his place in the world in order to prove himself, and his relationship with Marilyn seems to be the catapult that he needs. However, as with seemingly every aspect of Marilyn’s life and every aspect of her identity, it isn’t Marilyn calling the shots — it’s those in her inner circle. “Be careful not to get in too deep,” one of Marilyn’s handlers warns Colin. “That’s what she does, she breaks hearts. She will break yours,” warns another. “My Week With Marilyn” is marvelously entertaining, heartbreaking and magnificently portrayed. As much as it addresses Marilyn’s bewitching magnetism, it addresses her loneliness, her insecurity, her fragility. As fervently as the film endeavors to show the vulnerability and authenticity beneath the veneer of the sexpot, we must remember that the film sees Marilyn as Colin Clark saw her — whether or not Colin sees the “real” Marilyn remains questionable. However, semantics are not the point of the film. Ultimately, “My Week With Marilyn” lends compelling insight to Marilyn’s rampant insecurities, to the question of whether or not anyone could have saved her from herself, and, above all else, to the reasoning behind the fact that, even after decades of being haunted by her, America still isn’t finished with Marilyn. — Westenfeld is a freshman from Fort Wayne, Ind., majoring in English writing and literature. features@thedepauw.com
“MY WEEK WITH MARILYN” This film is no longer playing in theaters, but consider renting it from Redbox or the video store for a night of entertainment. Westenfeld deems the film “marvelously entertaining, heartbreaking and magnificently portrayed.”
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every fraternity and every sorority, it happens everywhere,” Clayton said. Senior Michelina Ferrara spoke during the discussion Thursday about the gravity of the situation surrounding assault on campus. She said that in order to create an environment in which sexual assault does not occur with such frequency, individuals need to rethink much of what the social culture teaches. Greek Life Coordinator PJ Mitchell also by sexual assault. By DANA FERGUSON Senior Ellen Clayton, a campaign leader, spoke at the event, specifically addressing the news@thedepauw.com said the outpouring of support brought a smile men present. He challenged the men to be conto her face despite the somber subject matter. scious of sexual assault that occurs on campus Surrounded by over 100 of her peers, Brit- Clayton and to “make it their problem.” became tany Slate told the story of her rape. “It’s a willinginvolved in Code Another DePauw student, whom she consid- TEAL over a year ness to be naïve, ered to be her friend, took her to his apartment ago and has since and it’s almost “Because it’s so invisible you can’t going out of our where she thought they would hang out as they been interested in had done before. He sexually assaulted her. to be naïve bringing light to like look at me or look at somebody way The group clad in teal face paint, some the issue following because it’s a whose color was washed away with their tears, the discovery that sitting next to you in class or tough problem to stood in a large circle in Holton Quadrangle lis- a close friend had Mitchhanding you your coffee and be like, confront,” tening to Slate’s story Thursday afternoon. ell said. been sexually asSlate, a junior, spoke along with a host of saulted. Interfraternity ‘Hey, I can tell they’re a survivor of other students and staff members as part of Council member She said the turn sexual assault,’” the Code TEAL campaign. The campaign is in- out for Thursday’s Walker Chance, a tended to shed light on sexual assault on cam- march and discussophomore, said pus and to take action through “(T)eaching, (E) sion far exceeded that in order to -- Senior Women’s Center intern, J.C. Pankratz educate men and ducating, (A)dvocating and (L)istening.” her expectations. Women’s Center intern and one of the directo help prevent “Marching tors of Code TEAL J.C. Pankratz, a senior, said through the Hub, many cases of she hoped that campaign programming would when does that ever sexual assault frahelp give a face to sexual assault, seen specifi- happen at DePauw?,” Clayton said. ternity presidents and risk managers will attend cally through the teal paint on people’s faces. The strong turn out in part resulted from an a program entitled Wing Man 101. Chance said “Because it’s so invisible, you can’t like look increased interest from men in getting involved in coming years all fraternity men at DePauw at me or look at somebody sitting next to you in the conversation on sexual assault. The Code will go through the program. in class or handing you your coffee and be like, TEAL leaders invited representatives from “What we’re trying to do with the men is to ‘Hey, I can tell they’re a survivor of sexual as- various organizations to take part in planning get back into the conversation because there a sault,’” Pankratz said. “The thing is that it could meetings and to participate in the two weeks of lot of people who feel they have been targeted be anybody, and because we can’t see it, we events. or attacked, so we’re trying to restart the condon’t act like it’s a problem, but it affects a lot Initially the leaders planned to post a map of versation,” Chance said. of people, like an incredible amount of people.” campus on which sexual assault survivors could The Code TEAL campaign will continue proThe campaign directors created sheet signs post pins on the locations where they had been gramming into next week including a Campus that drape campus and planted teal ribbons on assaulted. Pankratz said the potential of putting Climate discussion Sunday night in the Union East College lawn to symbolize those individu- up a map drove some representatives to the Building Ballroom. Dorian Shager, dean of camals who are sexually assaulted on campus. The meeting at which they were able to voice their pus life, will moderate the discussion. Shager group took data from concerns about the said the discussion will focus on the state of the the Center for Disease campus climate, why the climate is as it is and map. Control, which they “People who how students would like the campus to be. applied to DePauw’s He said the discussion will serve as a good “In my opinion, pins would did not want the student body and deterbeginning to discovering what the DePauw map were afraid have been in every fraternity mined that one in four that if they repre- community is looking to change in order to alwomen and one in 33 sented a communi- leviate sexual assault cases. and every sorority, it happens men, a total of 367 stu“The forum itself cannot solve an issue, but ty and a pin might dents on campus, will be everywhere,” be in that commu- it can be a springboard,” Shager said. “It can be sexually assaulted while nity it would inhibit that springboard to action.” at DePauw. Following attendance levels far greater than the people in that The group present -- Senior campaign leader, Ellen Clayton community from she expected Pankratz said she hopes the supfor the discussion in coming to events,” port and conversation will continue. Holton Quadrangle be“Hopefully it’ll keep moving, because that’s Pankratz said. gan a journey around Clayton said what movements do, they move,” Pankratz said. campus before stopping in front of Roy O. West she remained neutral about the map during library. They paraded their wave of teal around planning meetings, but believed that if the map East College and through The Hub chanting, “It had been posted the effects of sexual assault could be me,” which meant that any of the indi- would be widespread. viduals present could be one of those affected “In my opinion, pins would have been in
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Left: Over one hundred students gathered in the acadmenic quad Thursday afternoon, chanting “It could be me!” in support of Code T.E.A.L.’s movement to raise awareness of sexualized violence. Freshman Katie Tozer (far right) marches with students in academic quad on Thursday afternoon in support of Code T.E.A.L. “I went because I’m really excited that they are doing Code T.E.A.L.,” Tozer said. “I think it will make people start talking about sexual assault and those kinds of issues more. People need to realize that it can happen here.” Because sexual assault is a personal issue, Tozer thought it important to show her support for her colleagues dealing with the issue. PHOTOS BY EMILY DIRECTLY BELOW:
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Far left: Students participating in the Code: T.E.A.L rally walk past East College to their assemble site in front of Roy O. Library this Thursday afternoon. Near Left: Students rally to listen to victims tell their story in front of Roy O. West library this Thursday afternoon. PHOTOS BY HOANG NGUYEN / THE DEPAUW
SATURDAY APRIL 14: AIDS WALK CONTINUING Bowman Park, 11:30 a.m. CONVERSATIONS, Show support for those living with AIDS CONTINUING ACTION *Wear Red*
SUNDAY, APRIL 15: CAMPUS CLIMATE FORUM
UB Ballroom, 6:30 p.m. Are you an ally? Come and discuss Code TEAL and share your reactions! Moderated by Dorian Shager
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18: GIRLS FIGHT BACK! SELF DEFENSE WORKSHOP Meharry Hall, 7:30 PM - 9:30 p.m. Learn how to fight back against domestic violence and abuse. Everyone is invited — bring a friend!
THURSDAY, APRIL 19: VAGINA MONOLOGUES
GCPA Great Hall, 5:00 p.m. A production to represent stories of women and men from all backgrounds and identities.
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EDITORIAL Thumbs up: Athletic facilities, coming right up Last night, President Brian Casey emailed the student body stating that donors will help provide the funding to update the Lilly Center and additional athletic fields. Students have complained about much-needed renovations — and there is no denying that our athletic facilities need an update — both for the athletes on campus and for those students who want to maintain a healthy and active lifestyle. It is wonderful to see alumni stepping up to improve our school and community. We are extremely grateful to have such generous donors. Let’s not take them for granted. In addition, we are impressed that the university has already hired an architecture firm. We’re glad that the institution’s bureaucratic structure hasn’t prevented it from starting the planning of this project in a timely manner. But these new steps are particularly heartening for us, even as students who will graduate in the next few years and won’t necessarily reap the benefits of the DePauw 2020 plan. As the university takes giant steps toward this plan, it becomes easier for us to visualize the future of DePauw.
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Summertime is YOLO time NICOLE DOBIAS
Thumbs up: Coaches touch the heart of a DePauw experience DePauw’s athletic programs promote excellence on and off the field, and that is due to the exceptional coaches that inspire student-athletes. Women’s swimming head coach Mary Bretscher and men’s and women’s tennis head coach Scott Riggle, both featured in this issue, prove to be examples of this. Both of these coaches promote personal, as well as intellectual, growth of our studentathletes. Bretscher has served as women’s head coach since 1974. Under her guidance, the women saw their first national championship and sent at least one woman to nationals almost every year. Bretscher is a testament to dedication and the strength of Tiger athletics. As she retires from her coaching position, we thank her for her many years of dedication to developing students into strong athletes and hardworking individuals in and out of the pool. Riggle has battled Parkinson’s disease since 2010 while continuing full-time coaching. His unwavering positivity has proved to be another teaching moment for the teams. His persistence to lead a normal, full and happy life doesn’t keep from successful coach. By teaching his athletes to never give up, he rounds out the student-athlete experience. email us at edboard@thedepauw.com
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t’s finally April. The weather is nice, the birds are chirping and half naked guys are playing soccer across the street! Could it get any better? I think it’s safe to say that 99.99 percent of us are coming down with a case of spring fever. However, as summer waits for us right around the corner, something seems to be overshadowing our blissful spring mood: The hunt for a summer job. Summers used to be spent going on vacations, laying around by the pool and hanging out with friends. We would have competitions over who could get the tannest and spend the warm summer nights going to concerts of our favorite bands. Summer was a stress free time meant for a little rest and relaxation. Summer was our time to detox and forget everything we learned during the school year. But now that we are well into college, we feel the need to start preparing for our future by lining up internships, jobs and summer programs. Consequently, summer has taken on a new meaning.
I have to admit that I have fallen victim to the seemingly endless job-hunt. I have spent the past few weeks trying to get an internship but no place seems to by hiring. I even spent my spring break going to interview after interview for prospective jobs, but to no avail. Let’s face it. The economy sucks and no one is hiring. As of now, my only option is to keep my job at Abercrombie. That means loud music and overpowering perfume — yay.
How about we stop worrying and just enjoy the last few summers we have left? Let’s face it, unless I decide to become a teacher, there is no such thing as “summer vacation” in the real world.
It really isn’t just that the economy is bad. Employers have a long generic list full of reason as to why “I’m just not the right fit.” They want someone with more experience – well how am I supposed to get more experience if no one will hire me? They want someone older – I’ll be 21, how is that not old enough?
They want someone closer to entering the job world – I graduate in two years; that’s pretty close. My major isn’t what they are looking for – well last I checked there is no pre-law major at DePauw. So what do I do now? I can’t spend another summer working at a clothing store with a bunch of juniors in high school. Well, I have given it a lot of thought and have come to a well thought-out and insightful idea. How about we stop worrying and just enjoy the last few summers we have left? Let’s face it, unless I decide to become a teacher, there is no such thing as “summer vacation” in the real world. Your parents may hate me for saying this, but people please, we are young — live it up. So let’s keep our meaningless jobs and put the internships on hold, that’s what we have winter term for anyways, right? Let’s go lay out in the sun, take random road trips to visit friends and eat ice cream and popsicles until our stomach hurts because in a few short years. After all, YOLO: you only live once. — Dobias is a sophomore from Fishers, Ind., majoring in communication with a minor in political science and computer science. opinion@thedepauw.com
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FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012
Male passivity against sexual assault not enough for change SAM HOLLEY-KLINE
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y now, you’ve likely seen the Code TEAL initiative signs around campus. Teal sheet signs, staked ribbons and fliers went up Tuesday night to raise awareness about sexual assault on DePauw’s campus. You may have also read Shelby Bremer’s column in Tuesday’s issue of The DePauw. But in case you missed it, Code TEAL — short for talk, educate, advocate and listen — aims to bring new voices into the conversation about sexual assault. So far, things are going well. Greek-affiliated and independent men alike have been attending meetings and events, helping to dispel the myth that sexual assault is a women’s issue alone. Yet women still far outnumber men. But isn’t the fact that a lot of people are involved good enough? Do the participants’ genders matter? I think they do. Since male stu-
dents are also against sexual assault, why aren’t they more involved in campaigns like this? It seems to me that the issues are of ignorance or passivity. It may be the case that some men simply don’t know the extent to which sexual assault happens on this campus. It’s easy to read the statistics, but they can be hard to visualize. As Bremer noted in her recent column, “According to the Center for Disease Control, one in four women and one in 33 men will be a victim of sexual misconduct in their college career.” To make those numbers concrete, Code TEAL has staked 367 ribbons in the ground near the Hub to represent the 335 women and 32 men who will statistically be victims during their time at DePauw. Hopefully, the sheer magnitude of those numbers will help those who don’t realize the extent of this issue to understand it. Of course, knowing and acting are two different things. Ask any man on this campus if he is against sexual assault and the answer is likely to be yes. But just holding a certain perspective is a passive way of acting out against an issue. Just
being against sexual assault does not ensure that any change will happen. Acting passively towards sexual assault also looks a lot like ignorance. Not speaking out against this issue makes it look as though
“Men can help to solve the problem by publicly denouncing sexual assault through attending events, talking with others and supporting groups that are working on the issue.”
you haven’t read the statistics, you haven’t seen the signs and fliers, and you don’t know anyone who’s been affected. None of these things should be true and, as Code TEAL progresses, none of them will be. The alternative, then, is for more men to actively speak out
against sexual assault. Luckily, it’s not a difficult thing to do. Go to events. Stand in solidarity with survivors. Talk to people about the issue. There are always opportunities. For example, this Sunday there will be a campus climate forum at 6:30 p.m. in the UB Ballroom. If you can’t make it then, there will be other events. You’ll see the fliers and you’ll get the emails. It’s easy to assume that everyone on this campus is against sexual assault. But it still happens. Men can help to solve the problem by publicly denouncing sexual assault through attending events, talking with others and supporting groups that are working on the issue. Not knowing isn’t an excuse, and just thinking sexual assault is wrong isn’t enough. We, as men, should make sure that everyone knows that we do not condone sexual assault and will work to fight against it. Do not be afraid to speak out on this issue. —Holley-Kline is a senior from Anchorage, Ala., majoring in Spanish and anthropology. opinion@thedepauw.com
LETTER TO THE EDITOR “A letter with love from a senior woman who cares...” Dear DePauw Community, Please continue to fight for a world and a campus without sexual assault including the campus map idea. The campus map is a student-led initiative that would give agency to survivors of sexual assault to place a pin on a public map of campus indicating the location of their assault. The purpose of the map is to visualize sexual assault on campus and make everyone feel accountable for each others safety. Wherever there would be even one pin, we as a community would have a responsibility to make that space safer together. This map would be by the students for the students. One in four women and one in 33 men will or have already been sexually assaulted — that is a lot of us. In recent forums some individuals have claimed that they feel threatened and attacked by this idea. I urge you to ask, what do we feel threatened by? Are we threatened to face a reality that has been consum-
ing our campus? It is not just about me or you, it is about all of us. We are coming from a place of love but also pain and frustration. We know too many women that have been affected by this reality. We need your help. This map is not meant to blame any groups where sexual assault occurs but to inform campus of this silent epidemic, make sure all members of campus are committed to making campus safe for all people and be able to hold ourselves accountable. We can no longer consider reputations or defensiveness viable excuses to turn down progress and activism that could lead us to a campus without sexual assault. How do we end sexual assault? By making it impossible for people to do it, by stopping it before it happens, by not harboring those who assault in our peer groups, fraternities or housing units, by getting the campus to a place of healing, by letting women and men know that we, as a community, will make sure this never happens again. Let’s make DePauw University a better place — a place without sexual assault today. — Margarita Villa, senior
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the depauw | sports
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012
Men’s tennis tramples Little Giants, now undefeated in NCAC By COLE HANSON news@thedepauw.com
The DePauw Tigers men’s tennis team is off to a promising start in their first year in the NCAC conference. The Tigers improved on their 2-0-conference record and their 11-4 record with a 7-2 win over rival Wabash College at home on Wednesday evening. Wabash fell to 12-8 overall and a 0-2-conference record. The Tiger’s went into singles play up 2-1 after doubles. The sophomore number one doubles duo of Sam Miles and Ben Kopecky defeated Wabash’s Wade Miller and Peter Gunderman 8-2 with attacking teamwork and small adjustments to their return strategy. “Lately, Sam and I haven’t been playing as well as we know we can,” Kopecky said. “So in search of a solution we switched sides on the return. We haven’t had the success returning that we used to, and that used to be our greatest strength — the ability to consistently break our opponents serve. Yesterday was the first time we tried the switch. After missing six out of our first seven returns, we figured it out and rifled off seven straight games.” Senior Michael Rardon and junior Reid Garlock, positioned in the number two spot, also won 8-2 over Wabash Ian Leonard and Evan Bayless. Their victory
gave the Tiger’s the 2-1 advantage moving into singles. Junior Noah Swiler, who usually plays doubles with Rardon, was out for the day with a minor back injury. He hopes to return to play this Sunday against Indiana University. DePauw rounded out singles play by winning five of the six matches, four of them coming in straight sets. “We knew that if we played to what we’re capable of we could have some decisive wins,” Garlock said. “When the team is firing on all cylinders like that, we can do some damage. That’s how I feel we performed on Wednesday.” The lone singles loss for DePauw came to the number one singles player, miles. Wabash sophomore Wade Miller defeated Miles in a heated match. Miller eventually took in a super tiebreaker set 10-8 after losing the first set 2-6 and winning the second set 6-4. Rardon gutted out his singles match in the third slot with a 6-1, 5-7, 1-0 (10-8) defeating Peter Gunderman. The Tigers will be away this weekend, as they travel to Oberlin College to participate in the NCAC-MIAA challenge. They will face Calvin College and Hope College on Friday and Alma College on Saturday hoping to continue the excellent play. The team then travels to Bloomington on Sunday to face the Div. I Hoosiers of Indiana University.
SPORTS AT DEPAUW THIS WEEKEND FRIDAY, APRIL 13 Men’s Lacrosse vs. IUPUI 5:30 p.m. SATURDAY, APRIL 14 Baseball vs. Wabash 12 p.m. SUNDAY, APRIL 15 Men’s Lacrosse vs. Eastern Kentucky TBD Men’s Lacrosse vs. Eastern Illinois Sophomores Ben Kopecky and Sam Miles celebrate a point during Wednesday's match against Wabash. ISABELLE CHAPMAN/THE DEPAUW
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FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012
MEN’S LACROSSE
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tiger week of the
name:
BRITTANY SIEVERS, JUNIOR
sport: Lacrosse players watch the game, which they won 24-7, against Rose-Hulman on Wednesday afternoon. The team’s next home game is this afternoon at 5:30 p.m. ISABELLE CHAPMAN/THE DEPAUW
Riggle | continued from page 12 There is no cure for Parkinson right now, but that doesn’t mean in 20 years there won’t be one…You still have to prepare yourself psychology and mentally for what’s going to come.” “It’s kind of sad, but you have choices in life. You can either dwell on those sad days and be sad for a while, but if you let that overwhelm you, then that’s no Scott Riggle good.” PHOTO BY STEVE GEBERT As a coach, Riggle strives to set an example for players. Riggle talks with his players about turning a negative situation into a positive, which is one of the reasons he founded the not-for-profit Team Riggle foundation. The focus of the foundation is for research targeting the early onset of Parkinson’s. “The day I got diagnosed my wife was with me,” Riggle said, “The first question I had for the neurologists was
‘are there any spousal support groups’ and he said ‘oh yea, there is one that meets at 10 o’clock on Sunday mornings at the senior center… That was the first clue I had that I was going to have a different set of problems than most Parkinson’s patients.” The eventual goal of the foundation is to create a center in Greencastle or Indianapolis. A good remedy to slow the symptoms of PD is exercise. The center would be targeted for those younger diagnoses of PD to do things like play tennis or rigorous workouts. Riggle and the rest of the Team Riggle foundation are still in the planning process of their first official event for sometime next fall, but the DePauw men’s and women’s teams have already started taking action. This Sunday, April 15, the teams have organized an event hosting free tennis lessons from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. out at the DePauw tennis courts. Participants can also feel free to just come and hit around with some of the players. All donations from those in attendance will go towards the Team Riggle Foundation. Junior tennis player Elizabeth Young was vital in the planning and organization of the event. “We’ve been planning this since the summer and it’s finally happening now,” Young explained. “A typical tennis lesson is like 50 dollars, but we’re not going to ask that much from col-
lege students…but really anything that someone can give is great. Like every little bit helps.” Riggle stressed that the idea for the event came wholly from his players. He finds it extremely touching that the team would go to all the trouble to do this for him and his foundation and thinks it is a generally great idea. Young and the rest of the women’s and men’s team are hoping for Sunday’s event to become an annual staple for the Team Riggle foundation. “(Coach Riggle) means a lot to us,” Young said. “It’s really inspiring that he took his diagnosis and turned it into a positive and it’s going to benefit so many more people than just us. It’s a good life-lesson for us to learn and he’s all about life-lessons.” In some ways, PD has focused Riggle’s life. He has this disease, but he also has friends, tennis and family. Although Riggle tries not to think about the future too much, he made somewhat of a bucket list. “I didn’t want to climb Mount Kilimanjaro or go sky-diving,” Riggle explained. “Those things don’t matter to me much. The thing I wanted to do was be with my family.” Those interested in assisting with the Team Riggle Foundation and Parkinson’s disease research can attend the charity event this Sunday, April 15 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
TRACK AND FIELD
position: THROWER
hometown: NORTH MANCHESTER, IN
Highlight from DPU Invite: Sievers was one of three event winners for the DePauw women’s track and field team at Saturday’s DePauw Invitational. Sievers finished first in the discus throw with a throw of 41.26 meters. The throw was also good enough to rank Sievers in the top 20 nationally in the disc and gives her a chance to qualify for Div. III nationals.
On her performance at the DPU Invite: “It was definitely a confidence boost, but now that meet is over. I’m just looking forward to the next one and hopefully I can throw just as well. If I can consistently throw 40 I’ll probably be a little more confident in my throw, but right now it’s all about being consistent. I’m just focusing on staying in the top 20 now…Hopefully I can add another five to ten feet on my disc.” — COMPILED BY JOSEPH FANELLI / SPORTS@THEDEPAUW.COM
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FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2012
Head women’s swim coach Mary Bretscher retires after 37 years By PARKER SCHWARTZ sports@thedepauw.com
After a career record of 185-133 in dual meets, two top ten national finishes and 37 total years in which at least one swimmer competed in a national event, DePauw women’s swimming head coach Mary Bretscher retired after her team placed fourth in the NCAC this season. “I was fortunate enough to coach the first female national c h a m Mary Bretscher pion at PHOTO DEPAUW.EDU/ATH DePauw,” Bretscher said of one of her greatest individual memories. “But the real memories you carry are the women on the team and the funny things that happened in practice.” Bretscher’s success as a coach will be sorely missed. Since her arrival to DePauw in 1974, Bretscher has headed the women’s swimming and diving team that has been one of the most successful programs in the DePauw athletic department’s history. “There has been a lot of consistency and success with our DePauw women’s swimming program,” Athletic Director Stevie Baker-Watson said. “[Coach Bretscher] was a pioneer in women’s athletics when a lot schools were not allowing women to have or-
ganized athletic competitions on their campus.” Bretscher’s success has been exemplified strongly in recent years including an overall mark of 129-52 in dual meets over the past twenty years. During a 13-year run in the SCAC, her team finished in the top three every year, including the conference a championship in 2003. Her coaching staff has also won staff of the year honors four times. “It was certainly something that was not hard to do every week,” Bretscher said. “There were few days where I woke up and said, ‘is there something better I could do?’” In the 2011-12 season, Bretcher’s squad finished 3-3 in dual meets, finished fourth in the NCAC and tied for 39th at the NCAA Div. III Nationals behind an All-American performance from senior Catie Baker in the 100-yard breaststroke. With a subsequent and immediate search for a new head coach underway, the women’s swimming program is undoubtedly undergoing a period of transition for a 2012-2013 campaign that will pose unprecedented challenges. “I think we’re looking for someone who believes in the Div. III philosophy,” said Baker-Watson. “The idea that there is a comprehensive educational experience and that athletics and academics are fully integrated.” With challenges ahead and a tenured coach lost it will be up to the DePauw athletic program to maintain the integrity of a program that will have to compete in a tough new conference. Bretscher will remain at DePauw and assume duties as the Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Associate Athletics and Aquatics Director.
HIGHLIGHTS OF BRETSCHER’S COACHING CAREER - 2003 SCAC Conference Championship - 7th place Div. III finish in 1985 - 9th place finish in 2008 - A 185-133 all-time dual meet record, 129-52 over last 20 seasons
- Has had a swimmer compete in 27 of the 31 NCAA Div. III Championships since 1982 - Never finished less than third in 13 years of SCAC competition - Six teams finishing in top 20 nationally
Tennis coach Scott Riggle watches his team defeat Wabash on Wednesday. The players are offering free tennis lessons Sunday to benefit the Team Riggle Foundation, the not-for-profit organization started by Riggle to further Parkinson's disease research after he was diagnosed with the disease last year. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
Coach finds support through family, tennis By JOSEPH FANELLI sports@thedepauw.com
Playing tennis is about playing tennis — until it is not. Sometimes playing tennis can be about other things, like learning lessons, something DePauw men’s and women’s head coach Scott Riggle is always eager to share with his team. He preaches mental toughness, a strong will towards adversity and the importance of a positive disposition. These are things he shares with his team, but in the fall of 2010, Riggle had much more serious news to share. Riggle was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease on September 14, 2010 at the age of 44. He has been coaching college tennis for over ten years and lives in Greencastle with his wife and two children, a nine-year-old son and five-yearold daughter. “It took a couple months for me to, I don’t know, get adjusted if that’s the right phrase,” Riggle said. “Just to get over the shock and the desperation, you know? The first thing when you get diagnosed is you, at least with me, is I
thought about my wife. And I was pretty young when I got diagnosed. I was forty-four, I’m 45 now, and my wife is 10 years younger than I am. The first thing I thought was she’s 34 and it’s possible in a few years she’ll be changing and clothing me and that was the toughest part of it. It could be twenty years for me --you don’t know how it affects different people.” PD is one of the most common degenerative disorders, but what makes Riggle’s case more unique is his age. Ninety-five percent of people who are diagnosed with PD are over the age of 50. It is generally a disease associated with the elderly. General side-effects of the disease include shaking, rigidity at the joints, a slowness of movement and difficult walking during the early stages. There is no cure for PD. Medication is available and often brain surgery is used at later stages to help reduce sideeffects, but much of this is based on ongoing research. The cause of the disease is unknown and even testing for it can be difficult. There is no real test for Parkinson’s,” Riggle explained. “They test for every-
thing else and by process of elimination they come up with PD. The final test for me was a brain MRI to see if I had a stroke. Driving back from the brain MRI, I got to thinking, ‘hopefully, I had a stroke’ — which is pretty weird to think — but if I didn’t have a stroke I have Parkinson’s. So what am I going to do with that information?” So far Riggle has tried to maintain his daily life. He still coaches because he loves the game and cites it as a large part of his life. His family and friends have become more important than ever to him. He and his wife always talked about traveling after they retire, but since his diagnosis they have made it a point to do more vacations between themselves and the kids. He takes medication which helps with the symptoms, but he understands it will only last for so long. But Riggle is about lessons — he tries to stay positive. ‘I guess I stay pretty optimistic,” Riggle said. “You have to prepare yourself.
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