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Form 990 reveals 11 highest paid employees at DePauw BY NICOLE DECRISCIO news@thedepauw.com
In an American culture where wages determine status and talking about income is taboo, the Internal Tax Revenue Form 990 brings to light the wages of a non-profit’s 11 highest paid employees. As a non-profit, DePauw University is required to not only file this tax form but also to publish it each year. Three years ago, the form changed from solely being based on compensation, investments and expenditures to adding an organizational governance section. In this section, there are a series of questions that ask about who reviews the information in the form. “It really became a compliance document,” said Brad Kelsheimer, vice president for finance and administration.
The form asks a series of questions on how the non-profit’s budget and expenditures are reviewed. DePauw is mostly compliant. “We have really one outlier,” Kelsheimer said. “Not every trustee reviews every part of our 990.” The one part that the entire board does not review is the top donor list. This list is not published publically. The form publishes total compensation, which includes salary and benefits. Each April, DePauw files their taxes with the federal government, and each May, the government returns the forms from the previous year. In April 2014, DePauw
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Dan Meyer, Bob Steele and Marcia Latta are no longer employed by DePauw University. Cindy Babington is now the vice president of admissions and financial aid, and Christopher Wells is now the vice president of student life. Information came from the 2012-2013 Form 990. GRAPHIC BY NICOLE DECRISCIO / THE DEPAUW
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#DearDePauw on social media websites BY LEXY BURTON news@thedepauw.com
Recently, senior Ashton Johnson introduced the hashtag #DearDepauw on Twitter. It has since been picked up by other students and utilized on Facebook and YikYak. The hashtag got started after Johnson attended an Association for African American Students event where a professor spoke about how social movements of the 60s began with college students. The professor mentioned using social media as outlet to continue discussions from last semester. Johnson began using the hashtag on her own personal Twitter account on Nov. 6, and two other students used the hashtag that same evening. Then, students began using the hashtag on Facebook a few days later. “Since I was the one to create this trend, I thought I might as well fully promote it so everyone has an understanding of what the hashtag meant when I created it,” said Johnson. Here is the direct quote from one of Johnson’s Facebook statuses about the purpose of the hashtag: "This is not a campaign to attack any person, group of people, etc. This is to foster engagement and dialogue about issues and concerns within the system and institution itself that need to be challenged and addressed. If people choose to engage through telling personal narratives, it is their choice. If people choose to engage by asking thought-provoking questions, it is their choice. If people choose to engage by remaining silent and utilizing their work within and outside the classroom, it is their choice. As long as you are actively engaging and participating in this dialogue in order to mobilize action, you are doing the work of social change and justice." Students have been using it for about two weeks now, and it has been used to address different issues that have been witnessed on campus. “I believe that the main message of DearDepauw is to bring awareness of some of the things that occur on this campus as well as for people to share their views,” said junior Kya Simmons, an active user of the hashtag. “The sentiments can be good or bad, but the point is to get the word out and for people to share their experiences.” Many students use it daily and others have just used it once or twice to get their opinion on the web where anyone can read it. “The audience that is intended is anyone who is willing to listen, but mainly those who have the power for institutional change are targeted because some of the issues that have arisen from using the hashtag affect being a student on DePauw's campus every day,” Simmons said. Although the hashtag has just begun to make its way across different social media accounts, students are excited about it. “I use [the hashtag] DearDePauw as a means of communicating with friends about different issues with students at DePauw, especially in the community of people of color,” senior Janel Corney said. Corney agrees with Simmons that the hashtag was implemented to distribute awareness on campus. “I wanted to shed light on events, incidents and occurrences that are never talked about except in the privacy of houses, dorms and rooms,” Johnson said. “I was frustrated, angry and tired of hearing my friends and people that I know tell me countless stories of injustices both inside and outside the classroom.”
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What started last year as a Tuesday night Bible study has grown to become its own potential space for the community. Senior Hope Jordan and a board of seven other students are starting a non-profit, Bagos Inc. and have signed a lease for a place on Indiana Street. They hope to offer coffee and bagels for a suggested donation, as well as provide a space for the arts for Greencastle and DePauw University. Bagos has evolved from weekly Christian meetings started last year. Jordan, president of Bagos, started Coffee and Christ in her campus residence, affectionately called the “Big Blue House.” Each Tuesday, students met and talk about the Bible and Christianity
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in the context of living on a college campus. “We’ve just kind of been expanding expanding expanding,” Jordan said. “This Bagos is an opportunity to expand the mission, but then also open a space to the arts.” The Bagos board originally wrote a business plan in August and began looking into locations then. “We found this space a week and a half ago, and we signed the lease last week so if things are a little jumbled because we’ve kind of just had to roll with it,” said Jordan. “Now that we have a space we can organize ourselves more.” They hope to have their grand opening Dec. 2, which will include speakers and performers from the community. Junior J.J. Holtfreter, marketing director, emphasized that its status as a nonprofit means it will require support from the outside. First-year management fellow Grant Potts has been working to file Bagos as a nonprofit. He first had to file Bagos, Inc. as an entity with the state. While getting declared a nonprofit can take up to a year, the students are using a more streamlined process available to smaller businesses that Potts hopes will take three weeks to a month. As a nonprofit, donations to Bagos would be tax exempt, and people would be more willing to help fund their venture beyond some of their small initial donations, as they are still in the start-up phase. They are publicizing using their Facebook page, word of mouth and their newly started website. They are also gathering donations via GoFundMe, a crowdsourcing webite, and personal donations directly to them. “It’s been wild. It’s been a learning experience," Jordan said. "We have gotten an entire education on top of our education." Read more online.
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Guest Artist Concert: “Arcomusical” BY AUSTIN CANDOR sports@thedepauw.com
On Sunday night, DePauw University had the opportunity to welcome Professor Grey Beyer and his Northern Illinois University quintet to the Green Center for Performing Arts Thompson Recital Hall. The program, “New Music for an Ancient Instrument”, featured the berimbau (bee-rim-bau), an AfroBrazilian bow instrument. “The music was really interesting,” said freshman Zach Suchanek, who is a member of DePauw’s percussion ensemble. “It was a little bit trance-like, just because of… the acoustics and the very physicality of their
playing. Overall, it was a very enjoyable concert.” The berimbau itself originates from southern Africa. For Beyer, his connection to the instrument came years ago. “It was kind of an accident,” said Beyer, who is the head of percussion studies at Northern Illinois University. “I was at a drum shop in New York City… and I heard this amazing sound coming from the back of the shop, so I went and took a look and saw what was going on. Someone was playing this instrument in a very virtuosic way. It was captivating for me, the sound, I fell in love with it.” Fifteen years later, in 2013, Beyer, along with one of his undergraduate students, Alex-
is Lamb, began Arcomusical. Each semester, the group is taking on a composition from berimbau chamber works, which will continue through the spring. Beyer and his group also led a master class yesterday in the Green Center, where they discussed important aspects of the berimbau and of music in general. “It’s very commonly said that music is a universal language,” Beyer said. “When you allow elements of a musical language to penetrate your mind, body, and spirit… then you can reassemble that material and give it back to the world. You’re assimilating a language.”
CAMPUSCRIME November 14 • Party Registration Violation • Made contact with House Representation / Verbal Warning Issued | Time: 10:39 p.m. | Place: Sigma Chi Fraternity • Assist GPDInvestigate for Odor of Marijuana • GPD Took Call | Time: 11:02 p.m. | Place: Marvin’s
November 15 • Welfare Check • Transported to Hospital / Forwarded to Community Standards Commitee | Time: 12:37 a.m. | Place: Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity • Investigate for Smoke • Officer Checked Area / Unable to Locate Source | Time: 2:12 a.m. | Place: Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity Parking Lot
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Salaries have not yet been set for the 2015-2016 academic year. “We all view employees as a priority asset,” Kelsheimer said. However, a member of the departmental secretarial staff, whose name has been withheld for job security, doubts that this viewpoint translates to fair wages. That member makes about $19,000 per year. “Secretaries and faculty are the ones with daily face-to-face contact with students, and we get paid a fraction of what they get paid,” the member said. “I am valued at a 20th of the president, who gets paid four times what the governor of the state of Indiana gets paid.” Indiana Gov. Mike Pence makes $111,688 a year. While there are many demands of the budget, Kelsheimer places special emphasis on making sure that employee compensation is fair. It is the first parameter that Kelsheimer places in the budget. “As far as an asset that DePauw needs to protect, employees are obviously at the top,” Kelsheimer. Kelsheimer claims that DePauw is at market value or competitive in their salaries. But for some, “at market value” isn’t enough. The member of the secretarial staff feels “completely undervalued and unwanted and uncared for.”
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turned in taxes for the 20132014 academic year. In May 2014, DePauw received and published the form from the 2012-2013 academic year. It shows university President Brian Casey’s salary as $461,819. This is a $45,502 increase from the previous year. The Board of Trustees determines the president’s salary. It first goes through the Executive Compensation Committee. This committee is chaired by the Chair of the Board of Trustees. In 2012-2013, Sarah Wallace chaired the board. Marshall Reavis currently chairs the board. “I know that committee goes through a rather elaborate process in which they compare my salary to those of other presidents in the Great Lakes Colleges Association,” Casey said in an email interview. “I am, of course, not privy to their discussions and their deliberations. I recognize that I work directly for the Board of Trustees, and thus my salary is set by them.” However the process for the rest of the staff and faculty is slightly different. In the spring, the Board of Trustees set a general salary pool in the budget. The size of that pool determines the general percentage that salaries will be raised. The Vice President for Academic Affairs, David Harvey in 2012-2013 and now Larry Stimpert, sets the individual salaries. Changes are not made by the VPAA based on performance. The percentage that an individual faculty member will receive in a raise is determined by years of service and time in their position.
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• Operating a Motor Vehicle While Intoxicated • Arrested: Dakota Willian Davis (non student) | Time: 3:35 a.m. Place: Bloomington Street • Possesion of Marijuana / Possession of Paraphernalia / Welfare Check• Forwarded to Prosecutor’s | Time: 7:15 a.m. | Place: Administration Lot • Alcohol Violation / Welfare Check • Transported to Hospital / Forwarded to Community Standards Committee | Time: 11:19 p.m. | Place: Humber Lot
November 16 • Alcohol Violation / Welfare Check • Transported to Hospital / Forwarded to Community Standards Committee | Time: 1:12 a.m. | Place: Inn at DePauw
• Suspicious Activity •Officer Checked Area / Unable to Locate Subjects | Time: 1:24 a.m. | Place: Montgomery Hall • Alcohol Violation / Welfare Check • Transported to Hospital / Forwarded to Community Standards Committee | Time: 2:17 a.m. | Place: Anderson Street • Fire Alarm / Housing Policy Violation•Forwarded to Community Standards Communitee | Time: 8:47 a.m. | Place: Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity • Hit and Run Property Damage Accident•Pending | Time: 11:55 a.m. | Place: unknown
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MOVIE REVIEW
“Interstellar:” Ambition isn’t lost BY ALEX MOSS features@thedepauw.com
In a world where three-minute YouTube videos dominate our attention spans, Christopher Nolan scoffs. In Interstellar, his nineth feature film, he attempts to not only dazzle audiences with visual effects like I’ve never seen before but attempts to infuse ambition back in his audience. Does he pull it off? Like the plot of Interstellar, it’s complicated. The film starts off in a futuristic Earth, but the only thing futuristic about it is the year. Earth, as Matthew McConaughey’s character, Cooper, so eloquently puts it, “is a treasure, but it’s been telling us to leave for a while now.” It’s an environmental disaster. The crops in the country are failing. There is barely any mention of cities, but we can assume they are struggling just the same, especially since the air is running out of oxygen due to blight sucking it all up. Lucky for the human race, we have McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and science to save the day. Through an array of theoretical physics principles and anomalies I can’t even begin to explain (I’m a film studies and English writing major, currently passing my Q course by the skin of my teeth), they travel through a wormhole, put there by the mysterious “they,” into a solar system with three potential new homes. This is extremely problematic for Cooper, who must decide between leaving in an attempt to save humanity and staying with his children. You can guess what he decides (the movie might have been much shorter had he decided to stay). I don’t actually want to get into the plot too much, because quite frankly, it takes too long. All you really need to know is that it’s full of science, emotion and exposition. If you pay attention, you will be able to follow along. If you don’t you’ll be lost, and it’ll be very difficult to find your way back. What you won’t miss, because it’s impossible to miss, are the breathtaking visuals. As reluctant as Nolan was to accept digital projection, we as audiences benefit from his decision greatly. Interstellar’s true ambition doesn’t lie in its content or plot, but rather in its filmmaking. No other film I have seen, from beginning to end, has left me in awe of what I was experiencing. If you take film as being the most aggressive art form,
meaning it engages multiple senses at once and not one at a time like music or a painting might, it’s one of the best films I’ve seen. The speed things move at, combined with the vivid imagery of things never seen before – like, oh say, a wormhole – make Interstellar a cinematic experience you’ll never forget. This is especially true if you see it in the IMAX format. Folks, I beg you to see it in the IMAX. You’ll not experience anything like it; until, maybe, Christopher Nolan’s next film. At the end of the day, Interstellar deserves to be seen the way it was intended, because it earns it. It’s plotline has issues, and believe me it’s not a perfect film in any sense. But it strives for it, just like the characters in the film trying to save the world. Let the minor flaws go and just admire the artist mastering his art, and take his ambition to heart. Nolan does, and he didn’t make the best science fiction film of all time, but his will brings it into the team photo. Here’s to making ambition cool again.
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ALUMNI PROFILE
When they were young
JON FORTT PHOTO COURTESY DEPAUW.EDU BY KEVIN KILLEEN features@thedepauw.com
Starting as an editor for The DePauw newspaper around the dawn of new Internet technology, Jon Fortt, ‘98, evolved into a professional journalist that intimately covered the opening of Steve Job’s first Apple stores. Although most of his journalism education at DePauw University was clouded with countless D3 sports season wrap-ups and greek philanthropy coverage, he eventually established himself as a successful editor for CNBC. The DePauw caught up with him, and here’s what he had to say: The DePauw (TDP): What do you do at CNBC? Jon Fortt (JF): My title is on-air editor for technology. You could say I lead the technology coverage. TDP: How’d you get into technology specifically? JF: I guess I sort of grew up in the age of technology. I got a computer growing up and found it fascinating. I came to DePauw in 1994, and the first web browser came out in 1994. I think we put The DePauw online for the first time in 1995 or 1996. TDP: How many late nights do you think you spent waiting for the Internet to load? JF: Back here at DePauw, we didn’t use the Internet much. If we wanted to write someone something we would VAX it to them. It was basically this black monochrome screens that was the equivalent of the Internet. TDP: How would you tell people about fraternity parties? JF: I wasn’t in a fraternity; I was the one get-
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ting asked to parties. How did they tell me … I think they actually just told me. TDP: Since your time at DePauw you’ve worked two successful media jobs on the West and East coasts. What have been some of your cooler stories? JF: Some of the cooler things I’ve gotten to cover would be the opening of the first Apple store. I flew out to Virginia from Silicon Valley to cover it. I think the Apple stores opened right before the iPod came out … early 2000s. TDP: What was meeting Steve Jobs like? JF: Steve Jobs could be incredibly gracious and incredibly bitingly mean with equal unpredictability — but he was fascinating because the guy was all in on whatever he was doing. He could be incredibly gracious if doing that brought more people with his cause or could be bitingly mean if you were in his way. TDP: Did you get in his way? JF: Yeah. TDP: Tell us about that. JF: At the opening of the first flagship Apple store he was incredibly proud of the glass staircase and how he laid the whole thing out. So I flew out for that and he asked me what I thought ... I said ‘It seems like you’ve just rearranged the space so that there’s more room for foot traffic rather than adding any specific features.’ And he cuts me off and he says ‘what do you expect, motor traffic?’ And then he walked away.
For more of Kevin’s interview with Jon, go to thedepauw.com.
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Climate Change must remain a priority
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HUSSAIN HABIB
Massive salary gap raises questions According to DePauw University’s 2012-2013 Form 990, released in May 2014, University President Brian Casey makes $461,819, before benefits. The president of the United States makes $400,000 a year, before benefits, according to a Feb. 17, 2014 USA Today article, “Report: The 10 richest U.S. presidents.” The next highest paid DePauw employee, according to Form 990, is Brad Kelsheimer, vice president for finance and administration, at $244,784 before benefits. From there, salaries on the list continue to fall until the 11 required listings are reported. To put the salaries in context, the total cost of attending DePauw in 2014-2015 is $54,026, before scholarships, according to the DePauw admissions and financial aid site. Assuming each student paid full cost (most don’t), Kelsheimer’s salary could cover a year at DePauw for 4.5 students. Casey’s could cover 8.5. This editorial board does not mean to discredit any of the employees listed on the Form 990 or the work they do. We do want to point out that these salaries are exorbitant. In The DePauw’s article, “Form 990 reveals 11 highest paid employees at DePauw,” The DePauw reported that one department secretary makes an annual salary of roughly $19,000. That’s $530 less than the 2013 poverty line for a family of three, according to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services. Granted, that secretary could have a spouse bringing in the same salary or could live alone, in which case the poverty line in 2013 was $11,490 and the secretary would have made well over that. But with administrators who make over 10 times the salary of the secretary, a small raise for faculty and staff that make less than $100,000 a year wouldn’t have to make an unreasonable dent in these administrator’s salary. In “Form 990 reveals 11 highest paid employees at DePauw,” published today, Kelsheimer is reported saying that DePauw salaries are competitive with the salaries of other schools in the Great Lakes Colleges Association. But DePauw doesn’t have follow the norm. DePauw is known for a lot of things: Greek life, engaged alumni and a bubbly President that isn’t afraid to tout his school’s reputation nationwide. While this Ed Board recognizes the importance of Casey’s networking, we think faculty and staff salaries should be reevaluated. Why not be a school known for more equal pay as well?
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Sociology and anthropology faculty on DePauw’s campus climate As professional sociologists and anthropologists, we are committed to the scholarly examination of inequalities related to race, ethnicity, class, gender, ability and sexuality. We explore their significance at the global, cultural, institutional, organizational and personal levels. As teachers we infuse our classes with these topics on a regular basis. As advisors we see the way our students struggle with these matters in their everyday lives. As faculty we experience—or see our colleagues experience—the feeling of being undermined or disrespected because of the color of our/their skin. And so it perhaps goes without saying that as members of this campus community we are both saddened and appalled by the enduring way some of our students and colleagues have been treated…not just recently but cumulatively and incessantly over the years. They have been pushed to the margins by the direct actions and tolerating silences of their majority peers, by the narrow-mindedness of certain professors, by the thoughtless comments of staff, by the lethargy of administrative action and by the entrenched power and benign neglect of “DePauw tradition.” At best, they’re told to politely accept this imposed marginality; at worst, they’re blamed for it.
We also recognize that the production of knowledge is not immune to racism and ethnocentrism. Students and faculty of color often feel silenced when dominant scholarly paradigms ignore their world-views. So we in the sociology & anthropology department vow to continue to talk about these issues in the context of our courses, to stand by those students and faculty who are reminded every single day of their “otherness” and to recognize the enormous toll this burden has taken and continues to take on them. Mona Bhan Rebecca Bordt Angela Castaneda Kelley Hall Danielle Kane Lydia Marshall David Newman Matthew Oware Alicia Suarez Rebecca Upton
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After the midterm elections, there has been much talk about the impending conflicts looming between President Obama and the now Republican controlled House and Senate. Whether it is Obamacare, immigration reform or foreign policy, the Democratic president and the Republican House and Senate will no doubt have disagreements on the appropriate courses of action for our country. Through all the gridlock, though, it is imperative that climate change remains a top priority for Congress. The current state of the climate is grim. NASA has estimated that the air contains more carbon than it has in over 650,000 years. Furthermore, NASA has reported that Greenland has been losing 258 billion tons of land ice per year, while Antarctica has been losing 147 billion tons of land ice per year. These numbers are alarming.
Although the country has a number of issues to deal with at the moment, it’s crucial that climate change remains at the forefront of United States’ priority list. While it is important that we deal with other issues as well, we must keep in mind that our very livelihood could be at stake if we continue to remain somewhat stagnant with climate change on a macro scale. Progress has been made. Recently, the United States and China reached a historic agreement to limit carbon emissions. As two of the world’s largest carbon emitters, the deal could be a landmark achievement in sparking an initiative to actively reduce carbon emissions on a grander scale. However, with the sheer force with which climate change has been affecting the environment, it vital that we not get complacent with our current efforts. As an individual, climate change can seem like a daunting task to deal with. Still, people must keep in mind the power individuals can have to effect change at the ballot, especially during midterm elections. We have the ability to vote for candidates that will be committed to passing legislation to combat climate change. Midterm elections have a significantly lower voter turn out than presidential elections even though Congress has just as much power to promote change as the executive
branch. If supporters of climate change awareness can make a dedicated effort to get out and vote for lawmakers they know will actively endorse progressive climate change legislation, we can effect positive change on a broader scale. The power to vote is an important and underappreciated vehicle for change; we shouldn’t forget the power we have as citizens. I address this issue because I’m worried about climate change getting put on the backburner. With such a currently polarized political atmosphere within the United States, it seems like one major party just seems to be trying to impede the progress of the other. But by practicing our right to vote, not just in the presidential elections but also in the midterms, we can do our best as citizens to try to break the gridlock. Older voters are much more likely to show up to vote in midterm elections. As the younger generation, we can change this and promote climate change awareness in a way that can truly bring about progress. -Habib is a first-year from Fort Wayne, Indiana. opinions@thedepauw.com
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f you’ve viewed your @depauw.edu email within the past few weeks, you’ve probably noticed a recent trend of spam emails invading your inbox. Have you seen the the subject lines “Job Opportunity,” “Copy of Project Plan,” “EBOLA IN USA” or “Review Soft Copy?” All of these are examples of spam emails that have reached our DePauw network. Even if you haven’t received the spam emails, you’ve seen their subject lines in the seven emails that HelpDesk at DePauw has sent in reaction to the recent influx of spam.
I recognize that cyber security is important and that on a daily basis, HelpDesk protects us from all sorts of nasty malware attacks and network issues. It is great that HelpDesk has the initiative to remind us to change our passwords and run virus scans due to the spam. However, their constant notifications (via tech-notices@depauw) of spam emails on the campus have become repetitive and furthers the issue of spam itself. I believe that users of technology should educate themselves and that being said, HelpDesk is doing us a favor by sending emails regarding spam emails that we may or may not have received and that affect our cyber security. However, individuals who use technology should be aware of the dangers surrounding their devices before they have to be incessantly reminded of incoming spam. When you see a suspicious email, it should be common sense to report it as spam if it is from a sender that you do not recognize and trust. Even though we are on a college campus and a large
amount of group work occurs between students, the subject lines “Copy of Project Plan” and “Review Soft Copy” should not fool you. Generic subject lines should immediately set off a red flag in your mind, before you even open the email. While some will say that these HelpDesk emails are not spam, I firmly believe that they are. Even though they do not fit the “junk” aspect of spam content, as defined by Wikipedia, open any of these seven emails and you’ll quickly notice that they are “nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by email.” HelpDesk at DePauw should research, develop and implement more efficient ways to notify DePauw University of incoming spam and virus attacks. Right now they are fighting spam with spam, and spam is winning.
What was your highlight of Monon weekend? “I frolicked in the snow on Saturday night. It was awesome.”
ANNA FUNKE, FIRST-YEAR “The highlight of my Monon weekend was playing hacky sack with a group of friends.”
DYAMOND WARD, SOPHOMORE “My highlight was cheering at the game through a megaphone with my friends.”
MARCUS DOZIER, JUNIOR “Seeing old friends and getting rowdy.”
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Men's basketball will look to deep lineup for success in 2014-2015 BY JACOB LYNN sports@thedepauw.com
Walking off the court after their 63-61 loss to Wittenberg University in the second round of the North Coast Athletic Conference tournament last season, players on DePauw University’s men’s basketball squad were confident their season wasn’t coming to an end. While the Tigers wouldn’t earn the conference’s automatic bid to the national tournament, the team was still confident that the National Collegiate Athletic Association selection committee would award them an at-large bid. Instead, the Tigers had to sit by and watch as Wittenberg and Ohio Wesleyan University, who both finished behind the Tigers in the regular season, received the bids. “Based solely on that, we must have been extremely close to getting into the NCAA tournament,” junior Mark Johnson said. “We just had too many ‘bad’ losses last year to teams we should have beaten.” Instead of focusing on the negatives, however, the team is looking to use that disappointment as motivation for their upcoming season that tips off tonight at Franklin College. “We were in the War Room expecting to be one of the last four teams invited to attend the tournament, but our bubble was busted,” senior Bob Dillon said. “Although it was extremely disappointing, I think our team learned a lot from the experience and will remember that feeling of missing out on the tournament as we try and make it this upcoming season.” There still will be obstacles to overcome in the coming season, however, after their impressive 19-8 (13-5 NCAC) record a year ago. The Tigers will be without four players from last year’s team: lost height from the likes of Pat Haggin and Cameron Burns and play-making ability from Mi-
chael Wilkison and Jeff Sustarsic. The Tigers will have to find replacements in the starting lineup for Haggin and Wilkison. “In the wake of their graduation, it has been clear that all of us improved facets of our individual games over this past summer,” Johnson said. “With that said, I expect players such as Bob Dillon, Mike Onuorah [senior], Clint Cunningham [sophomore], Luke Lattner [sophomore] and myself to see increased roles this season. We all seem prepared to help our basketball team which is exciting.” As far as size, the Tigers will certainly notice the absence of the six-and-a-half-feet Haggin and the sixfeet-nine-inches Burns. DePauw will look to senior Tommy Fernitz, who is the same height as Burns, to be a force down low. “Yeah, Pat and Cam were definitely big bodies to have in the middle, which helped our interior defense, so we will miss them but... I think we have the guys and size to replace them and still continue to be a dominant defensive team,” Fernitz said. “As for me, I don't think much will change. I'm still our team's rim protector, and I take great pride in helping our team defense.” The first team All-NCAC Fernitz will look to improve on his impressive numbers from a year ago. He led the team in both points and rebounds per game with 14.8 scored and 9.9 boards each night. His 238 rebounds came up just one shy of averaging a double double on the season. Another year of development for Fernitz and the added depth from seniors like Dillon, Onuorah and Frank Patton III helped the NCAC decide to rank the Tigers as second in the conference’s preseason poll, behind the College of Wooster. Fans won’t be able to see the Tigers play at Neal Fieldhouse until Nov. 25 against the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology when they return home after a three-game road trip to open the season.
Senior center Tommy Fernitz looks up as a teammate Adam Botts goes up for a layup during a drill in practice. The men’s team opens their season away at Franklin University today. SAM CARAVANA / THE DEPAUW
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XC Regionals | cont’d from page 12 in a competitive position within the field… Definitely my strongest race I’ve run with DePauw.” The Tigers’ 260 points were 214 points behind rival Wabash College whose team finished first in the event. While the results were positive for both squads, neither group had an individual qualify for the national meet. “I unfortunately fell just short of qualifying for nationals but [I] can’t be disappointed with my effort,” Gatwood said. The men will part ways with only three of their runners. “I’m definitely sad I won’t be wearing the Tiger stripes anymore,” Gatwood said. “Running
cross country for DePauw is a pretty unique experience that has largely shaped my time here. However, I find some sort of solace in the fact that I’m leaving a program that is continually improving and that I was a contributing member.” The women end their season saying goodbye to 10 seniors, but the large loss doesn’t mean there will be a dip in their success. “Next year should be one of our strongest years in a while,” O’Brien said. “We are returning six of our top seven runners and [have] the entire summer to train hard. Our top seven should come back even stronger and more prepared than we were this year.” The Tigers will look to carry over momentum from their solid finish in 2014 when they
Avoiding complacency key for women's basketball to continue success BY AUSTIN CANDOR sports@thedepauw.com
Success is nothing new to women’s basketball. In the 2012-2013 season, the team went undefeated and won the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III National Championship. Last season, the Tigers went a modest 30-2. But these past accomplishments, along with the fact that the program has not had a losing season since 1993, mean almost nothing to the Tigers, as they are prepared to work even harder than last year. “The dynamic of the team changes with the new players, and our strengths and weaknesses vary as a team every year,” senior guard Emma Ondik said. “We really try to… remember that we won’t automatically be successful just because the previous year had success.” The Tigers lost five seniors to graduation: guards Ann Sarkisian and Ali Ross and forwards Erin McGinnis, Alex Gasaway and Alison Stephens. However, this year’s incoming freshmen are more than ready to prove themselves capable of making an impact on the team. “You can tell the program has been successful in the past and expects nothing less this year,” first-year guard / forward Hannah Gardner said. “The intensity of every practice demonstrates a team who wants to win, and it all feeds from Coach Huffman.” DePauw head coach Kris Huffman is entering her 22nd season as head coach of the Tigers. Last year, she was voted Region Six Coach of the Year and was a finalist for the Pat Summit Trophy. “Coach reminds us everyday that we don’t have to have the best players, just the best team, and I think we have that when we all do our
parts,” first-year forward Kylie Morris said. “In past years, the team has lead the nation in offensive boards and the least amount of turnovers in the game, and Coach wants to keep that a priority since it’s who we are.” So far this preseason, the team has been working on defense, communication and playing together as a team. The Tigers plan to prepare day by day and one game at a time. Along with the talent and potential brought in by the first-years, DePauw is returning their leading scorer in senior guard Savannah Trees, along with Ondik and senior guard Hannah Douglas, who both were given North Coast Athlectic Conference honorable mentions last season. Most recently, the NCAC preseason poll picked the Tigers to win the NCAC conference championship for the fourth year in a row. The team is doing all they can now to make sure to live up to these expectations. “We have been working extremely hard all the way from preseason until now, and I am very excited to see how our hard work pays off,” Trees said. “We have a very tough opening schedule… so we are really focusing on being well prepared for these teams so we can start the year off on the best note possible.” This schedule includes Franklin College, who has already begun its season with a 2-0 record and will be the Tigers’ first opponents at Neal Fieldhouse. The Tigers will begin their season with the Paul F. Knueppel Classic at Wisconsin Lutheran on Friday. “There is always some pressure felt from the success of previous seasons,” Ondik said. “We have a lot to work on, but we are definitely headed in the right direction.”
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Five things I learned watching Achieved goals make volleyball's second round DePauw football in 2014 tournament exit a success BY ABBY MARGULIS sports@thedepauw.com
The DePauw University Tigers spent their weekend in Kenosha, Wisconsin where they made their fifth appearance in the National Collegitate Athletic Association Division III Tournament. The Tigers didn’t come home with the national title, but they accomplished a great deal as they won their match against the University of Chicago Maroons in the opening round 3-0 (25-19, 25-19, 25-18). It was the first win they got to take home in their last five visits to the tournament. Going into the weekend’s excitement, the team’s focus was to make it past the first round with the support of one another. On and off the court, the women are friends, which is what makes them stand out. “[We played with] no regrets and played for each other,” junior Brekiesha Weszley said. The opening match was a battle for the Tigers, but they were confident going in. Starting off slow, the Tigers bounced back wining the final six points with sophomore Rachael Lendermen serving an ace to lock down the win. “We were loud and working together,” sophomore Elisabeth Wilson said. In the final two sets DePauw, led and didn’t let the University of Chicago take anything. With a 6-1 lead in the second to an 11-point lead in the third, DePauw dominated. Junior Lauren Falotico led the Tigers with 10 kills, while Wilson and junior Sarah Burtensaw each had seven. First-year Emily Beckes led the team in aces with a total of five. Junior Keely McGrath and Lenderman each had 15
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digs to round out the opening game. After the team’s fresh start over the Maroons it was time for them to face 14th-ranked Carthage College in order to advance to the regional final. The Tigers were sent home after losing to the Carthage Lady Reds 3-0 (2523, 25, 19, 25 – 20). Despite the loss the team had reason to celebrate on the bus ride back. “Our goal was to make it past the first round and see how far we could go as a team,” Weszley said. “We are proud of our success but know as a team we can continue to push each other and make it further in the tournament next year.” The Tigers started out strong leading the Lady Reds 14-8, but Carthage came back, scoring the next five points and 12 out of the next 13. Down 20-15 the Tigers fought back hard and just missed the win, 25-23. The second set Carthage led the Tigers the entire time, but in the third set DePauw started out strong, ending in ties up until both teams were at 13-13. From there, the Lady Reds scored seven consecutive points. At 2314, the Tigers found their strength gaining five straight points, but Carthage’s Bria Hailey ended the Tiger’s run closing the set at 25-20. The Tigers may have not come home as champions, but they met their own goals and reached success at the end of the 2014 season. DePauw closed its season at 27-11 overall. “The highlight of the season was making the NCAA tournament,” Wilson said. “It was an opportunity that not every team will get and for us to accomplish what we did was the biggest highlight.”
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Hold your heads high Tiger fans. Despite an unfortunate result in the final game, this was an incredibly positive season for DePauw University’s football program. After three straight losing seasons, who could have predicted such a large turnaround in only head coach Bill Lynch’s second year on the sideline? This year has me really excited about the direction of the program. The Tigers have emerging stars at the quarterback, running back and wide receiver positions still with years to grow. The defense stepped up as a pleasant surprise this season and carried the team at times as well. This was clearly a transitional year for the team. An early loss to Wittenberg University and a clunker against Ohio Wesleyan University ended their chances at an entry into the Division III playoffs; however, I feel this season was about shaking off losing habits and creating a winning atmosphere for the years to come. All in all, here are five things that I learned about the Tigers this season and as they move forward into 2015:
Matt Hunt is really good.
I went into the season fearful of the dreaded sophomore slump that plagues players even in the sport’s highest level. Not the case for Hunt, who basically matched his numbers from his freshman season. Hunt appeared in nine games for the Tigers last season and dazzled us all. He threw for almost 1,900 yards, 17 touchdowns and only three interceptions. Hard numbers to replicate, but Hunt found a way. Hunt entered camp in August knowing he was the starting quarterback, which I think gave him an added boost of confidence. Despite other teams having film on Hunt, he managed to throw for 1,795 yards and 16 scores, and he was intercepted only five times. We also learned this season that Hunt is a mobile quarterback. In 2014, he ran for 345 yards and two touchdowns, while also using his legs to escape the reach of the pass rush. For the Tigers to continue their improvement, Hunt will have to continue putting up numbers like this.
Defense wins championships.
Three times this season the Tigers gave up more than 20 points. Coincidentally, those were the only three games the team lost. The Tigers gave up, on average, 24.2 points per
game last season and managed to lower the total to just under 16 this season. Wittenberg and Wabash College, the two teams representing the North Coast Athletic Conference in the national tournament, have some of the country's best defenses, and this is the main reason for their successes. For the Tigers to jump to the next level, the defense will be an important key.
The Tigers are joining the elite of the NCAC.
Their past few seasons, it’s been clear that Wittenberg and Wabash were the class of the NCAC. Now, DePauw is beginning to be thrown up in that elite class thanks to their third place finish this season. The NCAC is beginning to be stratified into three levels. In my opinion, there is Oberlin, Allegheny and Kenyon Colleges at the bottom. Denison University, Ohio Wesleyan, Hiram College and the College of Wooster are all in the middle with four to six wins on the season. I’d be disappointed in anything other than a topthree finish for the Tigers next year.
DePauw’s rushing attack could be one of the best in the conference next year.
A three-headed monster is emerging in the DePauw backfield. Junior Amen Galley led the rushing attack this season and will be back for his senior campaign. Sophomore Jason Kirchoff impressed in his second year with the Tigers as well. The biggest reason I’m excited about the Tiger running game is Jack Gruber's strong first-year performance. He averaged 4.3 yards per rush, higher than both Galley and Kirchoff, and led the team with eight touchdown runs. This gives Lynch the ability to sub players in and out keeping them fresh and lowering the chances of injury caused by fatigue.
Next year’s Monon Bell Classic could be very different. I felt the Tigers played scared on Saturday and that 27-3 scoreline doesn’t accurately show the talent level on the DePauw sideline. The Tigers are young and for first-year’s like Gruber, the atmosphere at Hollet Little Giants Stadium can be pretty intimidating. Next year in the comfort of their own locker room at Blackstock Stadium and with home crowd behind them, 2015’s Monon Classic could end differently.
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All too familiar result for Tigers in Monon Bell game Adams agreed. “We can't settle for the gains we've made,” Adams said. Similar to the way the DePauw University Tigers The final score of the game came off a blocked dominated Hiram College in their first five offensive and recovered punt in the end zone in the fourth possessions last week, the Wabash College Little Giants quarter. The final score was 27-3. scored on four of their first five possessions against the The Tigers only had 151 yards of offense total, Tigers as their 27-3 victory kept the Monon Bell in Crawaccompanied by six first downs. The Little Giants fordsville, Indiana for another year. held their usually dominant run game to 40 yards. The Tigers finished ranked third in the North Coast Meanwhile, Wabash had almost 400 yards Athletic Conference and 7-3 in their overall season. It of total offense, but they also had their usually was the first winning record for DePauw’s football prodominant run game considerably diminished by gram since 2010. DePauw’s defense. “Going into this game, I thought DePauw would Sophomore Will Longthorne had 14 tackles win,” WGRE Broadcaster Robert Sherman said. “Their on the game, followed by classmate Thomas Gray seniors never won the bell. The team was the best it's and senior Garrett Rice with 12 each. Senior Clark been in years. There was a clear plethora of talent...It just Costello had a blocked field goal attempt and seemed like the year.” shared a sack with sophomore Peter Nelson. In the first series of the game, the DePauw defense The defense held Wabash well below their held the Little Giants to a punt, where in turn they reaverage points scored per game, but the offense turned. Then Wabash capped off their first scoring drive wasn’t able to put the ball in the end zone. with a field goal, making the score 3-0. Despite the Monon loss, this is the best season That’s where the Tigers lost control of the game. the Tigers have had in four years, and the players “Going into the game, we were so confident, you aren’t letting the Monon Bell loss define their seacould feel the energy getting on the bus, but I felt that son. energy shift when we got on the sideline,” sophomore “The bell is obviously an important game, but quarterback Matt Hunt said. “We panicked, and we lost I would never consider this a bad season,” Hunt our poise. I lost my poise, and collectively we never got said. “We have done some great things as a team, it back throughout the game, and you can't do that in a DePauw University quarterback Matt Hunt tries to connect with a receiver downfield. and we couldn't ask for a better senior class. Obvibig game or any game for that matter.” ously we would like to send those guys out ringing SAM CARAVANA / THE DEPAUW After being forced to punt again, Wabash regained the bell, but they have done so much for this propossession of the ball. After a couple of big plays, they gram, and it has shown this season.” An overall theme of the game was the toughness of Wabash’s degot the ball in the end zone, bringing the score to 10-0, Wabash. Adams also felt the 2014 season was better. Right when it looked like DePauw was getting back in the game, fense, which limited the usually productive Tigers, forcing Hunt to “We had a winning record for the first time in the seniors' careers," Hunt hit senior J.D. Robinson for a 74-yard gain, and he was downed make three plays in a row for a loss in the next series and led to ex- Adams said. "We also won three more games than we did last year, at the five-yard line. The series ended in a field goal from sophomore cellent field position for the Little Giants and another field goal. The meaning three fewer losses. So much is put on this one game. While Marko Adams, making the score 10-3 in the beginning of the second score was now 20-3. certainly very exciting and a great tradition, this one game is not a “Wabash man handled us,” Hunt said. “We need to be bigger, fast- measure of the success our team had this season.” quarter. Wabash drove 75 yards down the field, finished with a three-yard er and stronger across the board. We are right with them skill wise, we just need to get stronger as a team.” touchdown run, now making the score 17-3 Wabash. BY MEG MORROW
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Both cross country teams wrap up season with solid finishes at NCAA Regionals BY JACOB LYNN sports@thedepauw.com
DePauw University cross country closed out its 2014 campaign this past weekend at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Great Lakes Regional with solid finishes by both the men and women. The DePauw women placed seventh out of the 35 teams, while the men finished eighth of 38 teams in the event held in Cincinnati, Ohio. “Finishing seventh in one of the most competitive regions is a huge accomplishment and puts the realization of the national meet in our main goals for next year,” junior Heather O’Brien said.
It was O’Brien who ended up leading the way on the women’s side for the Tigers, as she completed the course in just over 22 minutes. O’Brien’s effort was good enough for an 18th place finish in the individual portion of the event. “It was a bittersweet feeling,” O’Brien said. “Obviously the ultimate goal is to get to nationals. I missed the mark by only a few spots, so that was upsetting. But I ran one of my best races this season at the regional meet and gave it everything I had, so I was still pleased with my performance.” Next across the line for the Tigers was sophomore Emma MacAnally, who finished just four seconds behind O’Brien. For their efforts, O’Brien and MacAnally were
both awarded All-Region marks. The Tigers’ 221 points put them 160 points behind of eventual winner Calvin College and 148 points behind North Coast Athletic Conference rival Oberlin College who came in second with 73 points. “The results just give me more fuel and motivation for next season,” O’Brien said. On the men’s side, the Tigers were paced by senior Noah Gatwood and junior Paul Watts who both walked away with All-Region honors. “It’s really a great honor,” Watts said. “Each team having multiple people make all-region marks a huge step forward for our team.” Gatwood covered the 8000-meter course in just
under 25 minutes and placed 18th. Watts finished 33rd crossing the line 11 seconds after his teammate. “I was really pleased,” Watts said. “We always try to train smart and have our best race at the end of the year, and that’s what we did.” Gatwood was pround of his performance. “I went out aggressively from the start and stayed with the front of the pack the entire race,” Gatwood said. “I just focused on on keeping myself
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