The DePauw | Friday September 28, 2012

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Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

VOL. 161, ISSUE 12

IFC chapter presi- Howey/DePauw Poll creates buzz on, about campus dents to meet after confusion about tailgating rules By ELI CANGANY

news@thedepauw.com

By JOSEPH FANELLI news@thedepauw.com

Tailgating | cont’d on page 5

discussion with the two pollsters.” The polls provide insight into the minds of Hoosiers. The results show Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Republican gubernatorial candidate Pence leading in Indiana by roughly 12 percent. Senatorial candidate Joe Donnelly leads Republican Richard Murdock by 2 percent, with 15 percent undecided. The senate race’s numbers are too close to predict who will win the race. Polls were conducted this past spring and another poll will take place in October as the election comes closer.

Senior Jacob Bonifield, a political science major, notes that with Indiana’s past, it is not a surprise the state is turning red in the presidential race. “For the presidential race, Indiana is a conservative state,” Bonifield said. “The 2008 election was once in a generation.” Bohmer suggests the Howey/ DePauw Poll to be one of the most reliable polls in the state and to

Polls | cont’d on page 5

Indiana Howey-DePauw Statistics Affordable Healthcare (Obamacare) 55% believe it should be replaced 37% approves of it 8% are undecided of their opinion

40% Obama

undecided

Email conversations Wednesday between Athletic Director Stevie Baker-Watson and DePauw Interfraternity council chapter presidents led to confusion about tailgating policies on campus, causing some negative feelings toward rules that some thought were “unfair.” The chapter presidents and IFC president Tyler Witherspoon will meet with Baker-Watson today to discuss an email that laid out several policies for tailgating at Saturday’s home football game against Washington University – St. Louis. Issues regarding cars at the tailgate, music and alcohol consumption seemed to be the most controversial of the policies, Baker-Watson explained. Baker-Watson said that she did think the first home football tailgate on September 8 against St. Olaf College “went well,” but that the point of the email was to address some “safety issues.” She planned to speak with the presidents at the IFC Wednesday night, but decided to send the email after the meeting was cancelled. Baker-Watson said there were three areas she wanted to address after regarding the first September 8 tailgate. The first was the use cars in the “fan friendly” area. She said there was a concern for pedestrians as cars being used to tailgate began to leave the crowded areas early. The second was music playing. Baker-Watson said she had several complaints about the amount of areas playing loud, and often conflicting, music during the day. She was also concerned with some of the profanity in the songs selected. As a solution to the problem, a student suggested using one common source of music in the middle of the tailgate that would eliminate the “competing music.” Baker-Watson said in an interview with The

DePauw donated $5,000 to help fund the Howey Politics Indiana polls for the senate, governor and presidential elections, tacking the university’s name onto the end of the poll. The results of the latest Howey/DePauw Poll were released Thursday morning. “I think Brian Howey wanted to have affiliation with a university, and he approached us because it would provide some academic credence to the poll itself,” David

Bohmer, director of the Media Fellows program said. Bohmer has known Howey, a leading Indiana political columnist, for many years and played a roll in bringing the poll to DePauw. “I have been involved as the local chair for the democrat party here,” Bohmner said. “I have gone to [Indiana Democrat Editorial Association] convention for a number of years. I met [Howey] there many years ago, and we sort of hit it off as two political junkies. Essentially like the others who have sponsored [the poll], I get to listen in on the

52% Romney

Indiana presidential polls

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1% H 88% ispan Am Cau ic or Lat eric cas ino i a an n

Ethnic background of voters (4% Other) GRAPHIC BY FRANKI ABRHAMS


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