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Special Olympics to bring a weekend of basketball and support from DePauw community taken up the leadership role as President of SAAC where he helps provide volunteers with scoring and news@thedepauw.com cheering for the game. Although the event is intended to be fun and DePauw’s campus will be filled with basketball games, getting it all together had its difficulties, acand cheers this weekend as The Special Olympics cording to Hazen. He found it difficult to come by take over the Indoor Track and Tennis Center. volunteers because some Interfraternity Council The Annual Special Olympics basketball tour(IFC) and Panhellenic social events clash with the nament is hosted by the Panhellenic Council and Olympics this weekend. Student Athletic Advisory Committee (SAAC). The “We’ve had more formals than normal on this event will take place this Saturday and Sunday. particular weekend,” Hazen said. The 32 Special Olympics teams divide into 25 fiveAmelia Marvel, director of service and philanon-five teams and seven three-on-three thropy, also had problems recruiting groups to show off their skills of the student volunteers, but was hapgame. py when athletic teams leant The event will open a helping hand with setting with welcoming speechup. Matthew Nealson, es from Director of SAAC advisor and footAthletics and Recreaball coach, recruited tional Sports, Stevie his players to volunBaker-Watson, and teer with setting up a Special Olympics and cleaning. Athlete, along with C h e l s e a a performance by Pritchard, who is DePauwCapella. currently the inDirector of tern at The SpeSports Management cial Olympics, has of Indiana, Dave also experienced Breen has helped to difficulties with pre-Amelia Marvel, continue the Special paring the teams for director of service Olympics on DePauw’s the event because of the campus for 20 years, but and hilanthropy cold weather. added that the event has been “It’s been kind of difficult going on before his time. getting the teams motivated because Between 25 and 30 years ago, Greenthey didn’t have much of an opportunity for castle resident Dan Tegrottenhouse, who also them to play practice games,” Pritchard said. worked for the organization, reached out to PanPritchard described how the scores from all the hellenic for support in the games. After the Council practice games help with determining the team’s agreed to help, SAAC later joined in with the event, placing for the state tournament. Athletes’ individualong with other DePauw student volunteers. al scores are also important since players are placed According to Breen, the all-women’s tournain groups with similar skills. ment is the only event of its kind in the world within Marvel enjoys the support the special athletes the Special Olympics. The event allows women ages receive from the cheer block of volunteers as they of 16 and up to compete. play in the game. Senior Ben Hazen has been part of the Olym“My favorite part was seeing how happy the athpic tradition for four years. This year, Hazen has By PANYIN CONDUAH
“My favorite part was seeing how happy the athletes were that people were showing up for them. It was really motivating.”
letes were that people were showing up for them,” Marvel said. “It was really motivating.” Breen describes how, this year, the special athletes will also receive the chance to support DePauw’s women’s basketball team during their tournament this weekend. “If [DePauw] makes it to Saturday night we’ve been invited to cheer for them during their game, which is kind of nice because the Panhellenic council has always cheered for our girls during the tournament,” Breen said. “So it gives us an opportu-
nity to give back to the university”. At the end of the weekend tournament, the athletes will celebrate with awards and the Dance and Dinner party where they will eat pizza, receive manicures and possibly dance. Breen said the overall Olympics gives the special athletes a chance to engage socially with college students. “Not only is competition important for our folks,” Breen said, “but they enjoy the social aspect of what they do.”
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Three students who attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. were killed last Friday when the SUV they were driving spun out on the icy highway and collided with a semitruck. There were five students in the car. James Adams, 20, of St. Paul, Minn., Paxton Harvieux, 21, of Stillwater, Minn. and Michael Goodgame, 20, of Westport, Conn. were all killed on the scene. William Sparks, 20, of Evanston, Ill. and Conor Eckert, 19, of Seattle, Wash. suffered serious injuries. The driver of the semitruck was unharmed. First-year Carolyn Jedd, upon hearing the news, became fearful that these types of accidents could happen to anyone. “It’s really scary to think these things happen to college students,” she said, “and it makes me concerned for the students of our campus.” Junior Jake Pezzuto thinks that this tragedy could be a learning opportunity for college students. “People think they’re invincible at times,” he said. “They think that nothing bad can happen until something
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to realize that these things do happen, and sometimes they make no sense at all and they can be very very painful for a community to go through.” Nally cautions students to be careful when they are driving, especially in the icy conditions that the DePauw area has been experiencing recently, as this was what caused the accident just outside of the Carleton campus last week. While Green knows that sudden deaths happen from time to time, he had not been prepared for something like this. He described the event as a learning experience. “It’s not like anyone could see this coming and it certainly took us all by surprise,” Green said. “I suppose we can all learn from this.”
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Romance hit the airwaves of WGRE 91.5 FM when a male inmate from Putnamville Correction Facility proposed to his girlfriend over “Welcome to the Metal” in September. An inmate had been calling into the show for many months. In September, the inmate wanted the disc jockeys, senior Carter Gorman and junior Jon-Mark Sabel, to propose to his girlfriend on air during their show. “We read his proposal on air,” Gorman said. “She called like 10 seconds after we got off the air and said yes. Then we came back on the air after one or two songs and said ‘Oh she accepted…Congratulations.’” More recently, the DJs received a letter from the inmate saying they would be wed on March 3. “Last week [on air] we were saying ‘Good luck to you guys on your ceremony and hope all goes
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ceive their using us as an outlet for their relationship, thus being a conduit between the two,” Gorman said. “We just say, ‘we’re fine with it.’” Although this type of activity may seem strange to some students, the “Welcome to the Metal” DJs know this is normal for the show and see the good side of it. “That’s the only time [the inmates] can listen to metal,” Gorman said. “We are their sole outlet for metal. I’ve always thought of it as a really good public service to people who aren’t often given public service.” Newton stresses that the DJs need to be aware that the prison isn’t their only audience and to make sure they aren’t “stepping into stuff they don’t understand [at the prison].” “We try to make whoever is doing the heavy metal show aware of that it’s more than just playing the music back when we’ve got a static population like that that uses this show to communicate within the prison,” Newton said. “You need to be aware of what you’re getting yourself into.”
DePauw Student Government changes structure to improve its voice on campus By ALEXIUS BURTON news@thedepauw.com
The DePauw Student Government executive board, representatives chamber and senate chamber are discussing ways to improve the effectiveness of the chambers and improve communication with the community. “The structural changes to [student government] will lead to an even more functional and efficient governing body for DePauw,” said first-year Student Senator Perrin Duncan. The structural changes towards the senate, representative chambers and assembly meetings are
geared towards updating and improving the sections of student government’s constitution. “I am interested to see what the structural changes will make the work student government does more visible to the student body,” said junior Celia Klug. “I know they have been working on things but it isn’t visible. I’m looking forward to see what changes they implement.” One visible change that will affect the student body includes the replacement of assembly meetings by ‘student forums.’ Student forums will be a space open to all students, but the attendance of senators, representatives and executive board is required. The goal of these meetings is to allow senators
and representatives to vote on legislation and provide both chambers and executive board the opportunity to present updates. The forum is aiming to be a voice for the student body. The structure of the senate will mostly remain the same; however, the senate will now have standing committees that will improve the way student senators approach legislation. “I feel like the new standing committees are going to help the student body with issues and combining that with the new PR position,” said first-year Student Senator Charlie Douglas. “It allows students to know exactly who is specializing in the topics of their issues. It also allows [student government] to become better at what we do, by
specializing in certain topics we will become better servicing students needs.” The student senators have already had temporary internal committees but now they are moving towards making the committees more concrete. “I think there is confusion in the student body that the only thing we are working on is the changes to our structure,” Perrin said, “but we are making other changes on campus.” If students want more information about the changes being made to student government, an assembly meeting in the Union Building Ballroom Sunday at 7 p.m.
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does happen.” panel of the car. The pedestrian was Carleton College sophomore Jon not crossing at an intersection. Green did not personally know any of Nally explains that, on or around a the students involved in the accident, college campus, drivers and pedestribut he explains that the atmosphere on ans alike need to be hyper-aware of the campus after the crash was noticeably amount of foot traffic. more somber. “Students should be aware that, Green was in his floor lounge on especially at nighttime when they are Friday night crossing the street, when he heard they should “People think they’re invincible that the news. use crosswalks,” “We found Nally said. “As drivat times. They think that out late that ers on our camnothing bad can happen until pus, we need to be night,” he said in a phone inextra aware of the something does happen.” terview. “All increase in pedeswe really knew trian traffic.” -Jake Pezzuto, junior then was that While telling some of the a college student members of the to look both ways frisbee team had been in a car accident, before crossing the street may seem and we got the details the next day.” childish, Nally says, it is important that Last Tuesday night, a DePauw stu- students do all they can to keep themdent was hit by a car on Locust St. while selves safe. crossing the street. The driver looked Nally agrees with Pezzuto, in that acat his speedometer, and pressed on the cidents such as the crash that occurred brakes and turned his wheels when he in Northfield, Minn. provide a brief light saw the pedestrian, Nally read off the into the reality that is life and death. Indiana State Crash Report. “[It’s] one of those few glimpses According to the report, the con- that we’re not invincible,” she said. tact occurred at the right front quarter “[It’s] part of maturing, where you start
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Phantogram’s sophomore album the result of longtime friendship between members BRIAN AUSTIN Some albums draw you in with an interesting album cover, some with an interesting title, but the best way to catch a listener’s ear is with the music. But a sweet band name couldn’t hurt. After only hearing a few songs by Phantogram prior to the release of their sophomore album, I must be honest I was drawn in by the band name. In an interview with The Dallas Observer, Phantogram’s Josh Carter tells fans Phantogram is their new band name; they used to be called Charlie Everywhere. They changed the name when they decided to become serious about music. A good choice, I would agree. So how did he get Phantogram? Carter told The Dallas Observer he was fooling with words like phantom and ghost, and somehow Phantogram was born. Phantogram’s sophomore album, “Voices,” was released Feb. 18 by Republic Records. Like their debut, “Voices” was recorded in Albany, N.Y. in a remote barn named Harmony Lodge. Phantogram
records all of their music in this barn, sounding a bit more like Justin Vernon’s months of solitude in upstate Wisconsin than indie-pop. Regardless of where they go to record, Phantogram emerges successful with another great album. The album begins with the single, “Nothing But Trouble.” Right away, we hear punchy upbeat drums, soon followed by scratched out notes on the guitar. Then lead vocalist Sarah Barthel slips into existence in Chrvches fashion. By the end of the song, ear crushing guitar solos blare to a simultaneous stop. By the second track, the band takes an unexpected turn and begins sounding like Santigold. The second single, “Fall In Love,” has the third slot and changes direction again, adding more synthesizers and a distorted bass line. Each of the first three songs is very different, yet they are a great indication that “Voices” is a strong album from start to finish. Phantogram has a style entirely their own, combining aspects of electronic, hip-hop, rock and 80s synth pop. One genre cannot define Phantogram. Barthel’s voice is projected past the speakers every time she makes a sound. Her childlike vocals are contrasted so well by the sophistication and intricacy of the instrumentals. While Barthel sings and plays the keyboards, Carter wails on guitars and drums, creating a powerful duo. Barthel and Carter have been friends since
junior high. “Voices” shows how Carter and Barthel are insync after fifteen years of friendship. After touring with The xx, Beach House and The Glitch Mob and finding time to perform on “Late Show” with David Letterman, “Late Night” with Jimmy Fallon and “Jimmy Kimmel Live”, Phantogram has a jam packed résumé. Phantogram has spent the last two years playing countless shows, performing on television, and having songs showcased in the Catching Fire Soundtrack and Showtime’s Shameless. Occasionally, they get a break from it all to relax. It seems as though Carter and Barthel spend every waking moment together, but they find time to get away from one another when they are not on tour. “Voices” is an upbeat and exciting album, although rooted in depression and despair. Barthel sings of the understanding of love and longing to be happy. Thankfully, they finish the album with a more uplifting image. In the final track, “My Only Friend,” Barthel cries out to her one love, confessing all that she is for love. You can’t help but expect everything to work out for her, after an entire album of lost love and pain. The album concludes as “You’re all I have/ My only friend/All the stars with you” fades into the silence. Every album that comes into WGRE is taken in for consideration, whether it was recorded in a basement or produced by Capitol Records. After sifting
through all the new music we had, Phantogram’s “Voices” caught our eyes, ears and emotions. It is a packed in power album for anyone, unless you don’t like loud music. Enough said. Tune in to the New Music Preview with your WGRE music directors Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. New music comes out every day; we can help you find it.
-Austin is a junior English Writing major from Terrance Park, Ohio features@thedepauw.com
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Get up, get out, get active: spring break’s coming By TYLER MURPHY features@thedepauw.com
In two weeks it’ll be time to pack away the textbooks and pull out the bikinis. Spring break is coming! Students all over campus are starting to make that last minute dash to the gym to get their bodies in perfect condition for the rays and the waves. “I’ve been doing a lot of abs training lately,” said first-year Vyvian Borse. “I haven’t attended any classes recently, but I try to go to the gym at least twice a week.” Luckily for the student body, the opportunities to make that happen are endless. Just this week alone there have been 27 student or faculty led exercise classes. “I think as long as you try, it’s easy to come to a class and make that a regular part of your routine,” said senior turbo kick instructor Kelly Killpack. “It’s only one hour. You just have to do it.” Killpack’s classes are on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Lilly Center Dance Room. “It’s basically a cardio kickboxing class with dance,” Killpack said. Her classes are high impact and consist of anywhere between 15 and 20 students. Killpack said she has not seen too much of an increased turnout yet, but she attributes this to midterms. “I’m expecting to see more of a turnout next week after midterms are over,” Killpack said. Senior Kari Polydoris teaches spinning on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Her classes also run for an hour and there are 13 bikes available. “Toward the beginning of the year, bike spots were almost always full,” Polydoris said. “I’m hoping that as the weather warms up, people will want to start making the trek to the gym again.” Bikes can be reserved on DePauw’s website under the Fitness Classes section to ensure that there are bikes available.
Polydoris has been spinning since her sophomore year. Spinning classes can be extremely intensive, but build core, buttocks and thigh muscles. Zumba utilizes the body’s natural motion to work out as opposed to weight training machines. Senior Janelle Lyons has been instructing Zumba both at home and here on campus for the past two years. She has had classes ranging from 10 to 30 people. She has seen an increase in numbers now that spring break is almost here. Zumba is a Latin dance-based fitness program, but Lyons likes to mix it up a bit. “Because of the fact that I studied abroad in Cuba, a lot of my songs have a reggae sound,” Lyons said. “I do like to include bachata, salsa, tango, samba and even some India-based songs.” She will also play modern pop artists like Beyonce, Adele and Katy Perry. “I tell [students] if they hear something on the radio, in a bar or in the fraternities to send it to me and I’ll try to come up with something,” Lyons said. Lyons has been doing Zumba for five years now and can choreograph moves to fit generally any song. Zumba classes are held on Wednesdays in the Lilly Center dance room. Other fitness classes offered on campus include Pilates, ropes, yoga and hip-hop fitness. Their specific times can be found on DePauw’s website. Many of these classes encourage both genders to come out, but the majority of attendees are women. “I see a few guys, but most are girls or girls who have drug their boyfriend to the class,” Lyons said. “A lot of people think they need to know how to do the dances, but they really don’t have to.” The Lilly Center gym offers students another free alternative for working out and is open to students, faculty and members of the community from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. on weekends.
The gym features treadmills, elliptical machines, weight-training machines and free weights, among other workout accessories. Senior Cameron Weithoff has been buckling down and going at it over these last few weeks. “I would say I have tried to keep a schedule of working out throughout the entire year, but leading up to spring break there is always that much more encouragement,” Wiethoff said. “You find yourself working out more as the weather gets better, and you start getting more excited about the beach.” Lyons believes that it shouldn’t just be spring break time when people are worried about getting healthy, however. “Crash diets and diet pills don’t get you healthy,” Lyons said. “If it sounds weird, chances are it is.” Polydoris expressed the same sentiment. “I think it’s about getting your body moving and sweating each day and that’s best for you,” Polydoris said. “I try to move around the best I can each day to stay in shape.” Lyons believes actions outside the gym can have an influence on health. “Eat healthy, drink with moderation and try to work out when you can, two to three times a week,” Lyons said. “Try to get out there more than you do now. Do something different. Try to make small efforts turn into new habits and ultimately a new lifestyle.” Exercising also releases endorphins that make a person happier and more energetic. “It definitely relieves the stress,” Lyons said. “Even when I’m tired, exercising is really fundamental for living happy and healthy. Exercising wakes me up immediately. It does, for me, what an energy drink can’t.” Whether it is for that spring break body, to live a healthier life or simply to relieve the stresses DePauw can put on students, exercising can help tremendously. DePauw offers plenty of opportunities to make a workout happen. It just takes the power to get off of that couch or out of bed and get moving.
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Growing up in Indiana, I have never been exposed to overly progressive alcohol laws. The “Big Brother” we know as the Indiana state government does not allow fun-loving, of-age Hoosiers to buy adult libations on Sundays or to buy cold beer anywhere other than in Indiana liquor stores in an effort to keep Hoosier citizens pure from temptations. I could rant about how backwards these laws are, but that is not the issue I want to address in this column. Instead, I would like to attack a national drinking law that is so naïve. Why do we, as a country, still think it is appropriate to restrict the purchasing and drinking of alcohol to people only 21 years old and older? I will avoid using the over-done argument that if an American can serve their country and die fighting for our freedom, then they should be able to buy a drink at their local bar. I am pretty confident that everyone agrees with that line of reasoning. Instead, I want to highlight how broken
the 21 and older law is for a regular run of the mill American citizen. To start with, most Americans who graduate from high school try to further their education at one of America’s many great public and private universities. American colleges across the country are great places for young Americans to grow up and mature into the leaders of tomorrow. I hate to break it to anyone that has been living under a rock for his or her entire life, but alcohol is a part of most adults’ everyday life. As a 22 year old, I love going out to meet a friend for a drink at The Fluttering Duck or Moore’s (Moore’s is cooler though). That is a constant social opportunity, and it is a mature way to approach the consumption of alcohol. Around the world, this is the way that young-people learn about alcohol; in a responsible way. In most European nations, drinking laws are so trivial that most children begin drinking at dinner at a young age with their parents. When parents teach their children to respect and consume alcohol like an adult, kids tend to understand alcohol more than their American peers. This prevents the ‘rebel’ mindset associated with drinking that tends to be a dangerous introduction to drinking for American kids.
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Over their last two seasons, the DePauw University women’s basketball team repeatedly gave our community reasons to cheer. The women won their conference this season and last season with records of 15-1 and 16-0, respectively. In the 2012-2013 season, they went undefeated and brought home an NCAA national championship (Whoo!). This season, they continued their winning streak, bringing home 58 regular season victories between the two seasons before finally being taken down by Ohio Wesleyan University on Feb. 22, 65-64. Clearly Ohio Wesleyan just got lucky. They score, on average, 75.5 points per game, giving them a scoring margin of +24.8. They grab, on average, about 10 more rebounds than their opponents and give up about 6 fewer turn over, according to the NCAC website. As of Feb. 26, the NCAA had them ranked number one in Division III for the Great Lakes region. But the team impressed their fans years before the 2012 season began. The Tigers have taken their conference each year since the 2006-2007 season, five seasons before DePauw left the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference for the NCAC. In 2007, they brought home an NCAA championship. Tonight, the women’s basketball team will defend an NCAA top spot for the second time in just over five years, but whether they win or lose does not matter. They will still be a team for us to cheer.
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All this logic, that the Federal government seems to ignore entirely, has led American universities to petition for the lowering of the legal drinking age. The petition, known as the Amethyst Initiative, is an effort by university presidents to acknowledge that underage drinking happens on college campuses. What they hope the initiative will curb is the presence of binge drinking among college students because underage students would not be forced to hide their drinking or overly drunk friends out of fear of legal prosecution. DePauw University’s President Brian Casey signed the Amethyst Initiative. Cheers to you President Casey. Being realistic about college drinking is the best way to ensure a safe drinking culture on DePauw’s campus.
-Small is a senior history and political science major from Zionsville, Ind.
President Casey intertwined the future of DePauw University with the progress of sustainability when he signed The American College and University President’s Climate Commitment, which promises to reduce our carbon footprint to zero by 2040. DePauw is working to honor this commitment by generating and funding a number of projects to increase sustainability and reduce carbon emissions. These programs are invaluable to the university not only because they work to create a healthier environment, but also because they demonstrate the university’s commitment to progress and modernity. Programs and structures are tangible evidence that the university is investing time and money, and that it therefore believes in the principles of the environmental movement. The success of these programs is contingent on a variety of factors: alumni support, funding, aesthetics and, most importantly, the students of DePauw. These programs function through student use and involvement. Without us to implement them,
they are only plans. Endeavors like the community bike program can only cut down on carbon emissions if students decide to use the bikes instead of driving. Right now student involvement is limited to an active effort by only a small portion of our community. Our environmentally focused clubs and programs put up signs and have events that remind people to practice simple environmental behaviors, such as recycling and turning off lights. While these efforts are a step in the right direction, the active efforts of this small fraction of the campus are not enough to create a foundation on which our sustainability programs can be built. Our active effort must transition into an environmental consciousness shared by the entire campus in order for DePauw to move forward. An environmental consciousness stems from the awareness that everything we consume or do comes at a cost. Energy, food, water and resources all are manufactured or processed somewhere. Everything we discard ends up somewhere. There is no “away” when you “throw away” something. Someone, somewhere has to deal with it. The work of a small number of university clubs and programs to create an environmental consciousness through the imposition of environmental concerns into the everyday lives of the student body is essential. However, the environmental consciousness is most dependent on the individual.
The individual’s default is to take advantage of the comforts afforded to them by their surroundings. The individual gets more benefit the more they are able to exploit their resources. An environmental consciousness rests on the individual’s ability to maintain awareness of the meaning behind their actions and disrupt the default behavior. The changes that will create an environmental consciousness on campus are small. Instead of throwing your plastic cup in the trashcan, throw it in the recycling bin. Double check you turn the desk lamp off before you leave Roy O. West. Use a reusable water bottle. These small changes create awareness and an environmental purpose behind everyday actions. This purposeful living will pave the way for the university to implement programs of a larger scope that rely more heavily on the individual. The projects and programs funded by the university are invaluable steps toward creating an environmentally friendly, sustainable and carbon neutral DePauw. These programs are meaningless and ineffective, however, if an environmental consciousness is not first created.
JOHN FORDE
DePauw University is well on its way to completing its “2020 Plan” with the new renovations of the Lilly Center expected to be finished up this coming fall semester. Due to the continued work on the athletic fields and the expected addition of the new dining hall, DePauw is going to look drastically different in the next five to ten years. This is an exciting time for all who are involved with the university, especially those who are part of the leadership team driving these renovations and those who have donated to the cause. I understand that DePauw is trying to advance in the rankings of top liberal arts schools; however, it is important that these changes are made within the framework that has made DePauw University great for the past 175 years. Too many changes to the things that make DePauw unique will be detrimental to the well-rounded education that a stu-
PHOTOPINION How do you think the women’s basketball team will do in the NCAA tournament? “I expect them to go all the way and bring the trophy back.”
GRANT PLUMER, FRESHMAN “I think that they will do well because they play as a team which is important.”
- Junger is a sophomore English literature and biology major from St. Louis, Mo.
JORDAN LYENHOOP, SOPHOMORE
Be careful with changes: DePauw’s experiential programs dent receives. Instead of just focusing on the physical appearance of the university, DePauw should concentrate on investing in the experiences that the students are able to have on campus, as well as abroad or through internships. DePauw prides itself on experiential learning, and changes to unique curriculums such as Winter Term and the honors and fellows programs aim to advance the mission of the university. Yet it worries many students, faculty and alumni that these programs may soon be gone. While other schools such as Miami University of Ohio are using the structure of DePauw’s now former version of Winter Term, DePauw University administration has decided to shorten the January session and decrease the number of faculty-led off-campus trips, a popular choice for DePauw students. This shortened session makes it a lot harder for students to travel abroad, and January internships will be hard to come by as employers are not easily able to give valuable work to inexperienced students that will be around for less than a month. Classes that only last a few weeks will not be able to cover valuable material, and grading students on their Winter Term classes would limit their ability to focus on learning and force them to focus on gaining credit for their majors.
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The honors and fellows programs are also being expanded. While very few details about the changes to the programs have emerged from the new leadership, many students also wonder if the effects of these changes will result in “watereddown” programs focusing more on grades rather than experience. I believe that this is counter to what the administration wants to accomplish in the DePauw experience. Instead of focusing on fighting our “party school” reputation and fighting our notorious greek life prestige, the campus should work to continue to focus on what makes our university great. DePauw was recently ranked as one of the top 100 American universities by Forbes and has also taken top spots in college radio stations, studyabroad schools and amount of Fulbright scholars. Instead of trying to “fix” the problems that our university may have, the administration needs to focus on advancing the unique experiences that have been drawing people to campus for a long time and focus on supporting the student experience with “the combination of intellectual engagement, cocurricular activity and experiential education.”
-Forde is a sophomore economics major from Chicago, Ill.
“I expect them to do greatly. They did win last year’s championship!”
RICHARD BROWN, SOPHOMORE “They are going to have a tough road with some close games but at the end of the day, they will be champions.”
TAYLOR PATTERSON, SOPHOMORE JACKSON MOTE / THE DEPAUW
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FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2014
All-NCAC first and second teams announced By ERIC N ST. BERNARD sports@thedepauw.com
After an eventful 2013-2014 North Coast Athletic Conference season, the conference released its All-NCAC First and Second teams earlier this week. For the women, Kenyon senior Maureen Hirt won player of the year. DePauw junior guard Savannah Trees joined senior forward Alex Gasaway on the first team. Gasaway, who averaged 13 points and six rebounds, has made the first team for two years
in a row. Senior Ali Ross made the All-NCAC second team, while senior Alison Stephens and juniors Emma Ondik and Hannah Douglas gained honorable mentions from the NCAC. On the men’s side, junior center Tommy Fernitz was the lone Tiger on the NCAC First Team, averaging 14.8 points and 10.8 rebounds on the season. Senior standout Mike Wilkison was awarded second team All-NCAC honors, averaging 10.6 points per game. The men’s NCAC player of the year was Wooster senior guard Doug Thorpe, who averaged 15.4 points per game on the season. Take a look at the full list below:
2014 All- NCAC Women’s Team
FIRST TEAM Alex Gasaway Maureen Hirt Christina Marquette Jordan Holmes Emma Pellicano Amber Rice Savannah Trees
School Yr. Pos. Ht. Hometown DePauw Sr. F 5’10” Crawfordsville, Ind. Kenyon Sr. G 5’9” Bloomington, Ind. Oberlin Jr. F 5’9’’ Hunting Beach, Calif. Denison Fr. P 6’1” Pittsburgh Allegheny So. F 5’10” Pittsburgh Wittenberg Sr. W 5’7” South Charleston, Ohio DePauw Jr. G 5’8” Libertyville, Ill.
SECOND TEAM School Yr. Pos. Ht. Hometown Maggie Boelter Kenyon Sr. G 5’6” Vienna, W.Va. Lauren Hancher Wooster So. F 5’7” Cincinnati Candise Love Denison Jr. G 5’3” San Diego Sarah McQuade Ohio Wesleyan Jr. G 5’6” Dublin, Ohio LaNiece McRae Ohio Wesleyan Jr. P 5’11” Youngstown, Ohio Ali Ross DePauw Sr. G 5’7” Lexington, Ky. Gretchen Staubach Denison Sr. P 6’0” Medeira, Ohio HONORABLE MENTION School Hannah Douglas DePauw Emma Ondik DePauw Alison Stephens DePauw
Yr. Pos. Jr, G Jr. G Sr. F
Ht. Hometown 5’9” Pendleton, Ind. 5’5” Naperville, Ill. 5’10” Prairie Village, Kan.
Player of the Year: Maureen Hirt, Kenyon Newcomer of the Year: Jordan Holmes, Denison Coach of the Year: Stacey Ungashick Lobdell , Ohio Wesleyan
2014 All- NCAC Men’s Team FIRST TEAM School Yr. Pos. Xavier Brown Wooster Jr. G Tommy Fernitz DePauw Jr. C Alex Longi Denison Sr. G Scott Masin Wittenberg Sr. P Reuel Rogers Ohio Wesleyan Sr. P Aaron Stefanov Hiram Sr. G Doug Thorpe Wooster Sr. G
Ht. Hometown 5’11” Bowling Green, Ohio 6’9” Northbrook, Ill. 6’1” Cincinnati 6’5” New Carlisle, Ohio 6’7” Columbus, Ohio 6’3” Stow, Ohio 5’9” Columbus, Ohio
SECOND TEAM School Yr. Pos. Ht. Hometown Kenny DeBoer Wooster Jr. F 6’5” Westerville, Ohio Zack Leahy Wittenberg Sr. G 6’0” Rossford, Ohio Brian Lebowitz Kenyon Sr. F/C 6’6” New York Ikenna Nwadibia Kenyon Sr. G/F 6’2” San Francisco Taylor Rieger Ohio Wesleyan Sr. G 6‘ Lewis Center, Ohio Geoff Simpson Oberlin Sr. G/F 6’5” Simsbury, Conn. Michael Wilkison DePauw Sr. G 5’10” Cincinnati Player of the Year: Doug Thorpe, Wooster Newcomer of the Year: Kyle Aiton, Wabash Coach of the Year: Steve Moore, Wooster
Newcomers lead way to conference for men’s track sports@thedepauw.com
DePauw men’s track begins their indoor season conference meet tonight at Denison University, with first-year participants leading the way in many events. The men’s track team is entering the meet projected to finish in seventh place out of nine participating teams. Despite this rank, many individuals on the team are looking to make a statement and provide a basis for future improvement. Sophomore Jon Good is one of many newcomer qualifiers for the men’s team in both the 200-meter dash and the 4x200 meter relay. “This is my first season ever in track,” Good said, “and I have been adapting perfectly from playing soccer my whole life. I'm putting out some very good 200 times that ended up qualifying for conference.” Good hopes to make an immediate impact, as the team looks to improve on their eighth place finish last year at the indoor conference cham-
-Cameron Stewart, first year
George Macy in the men’s 400m during the DePauw Classic on Sat, Feb. 22. The men’s team placed sixth out of 15 schools, and the women took fifth out of 17. SARAH BURTENSHAW / THE DEPAUW
pionship. “For DePauw we are going in strong,” Good said. “We’re hoping to put up some great times and score some points.” Good is not the only upperclassman making a splash in his first year participating on the track team. Sophomore transfer Paul Watts runs the 5-kilometer and 3-kilometer events and is looking to achieve a top three finish in the 5-kilometer run. “My expectations, as are most of my teammates, is to go out there, be competitive and score the points necessary to move us ahead,” Watts said. “I fully expect to surprise our competitors and turn some heads.” Adding to the lineup of successful new members, first-year Cameron Stewart looks to improve on a disappointing personal season on the big stage. Stewart qualified for both the 4x400 meter relay and the 60-meter hurdles. “I have had some pretty bad races in terms of hurdles, minus the one race I ran where I qualified for conference,” Stewart said. “I think that I'm just over thinking and psyching myself out just because I have a high expectations for myself, but I feel that it will all come together at conference. And I'll run the way I should be.” Despite the season he has had, Stewart appreciates the opportunity in front of him to establish himself in the conference. “It's an amazing feeling knowing that I'm doing this as a freshman so it makes me even more excited for the future,” Stewart said. With the amount of promise the men’s track team shows with these
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tigers week of the
ROBERT LAPP & ADAM BRIDGES
By MICHAEL JENNINGS
“I think that I'm just over thinking and psyching myself out just because I have a high expectations for myself, but I feel that it will all come together at conference. And I'll run the way I should be.”
WILDART
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FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2014
Saturday, the DePauw University Tigers men’s lacrosse team defeated the Elmhurst College Blue Jays 14-6, recording the Tigers’ first victory in program history. All but two of the 14 goals came from their two attack men, Robert Lapp and Adam Bridges. The two players, both freshmen, split the scoring load, each scoring six goals in the contest. Bridges has a 67 percent shots on goal percentage in his first two games, and added two assists to his stat line against the Blue Jays. For Lapp, who graduated Magna Cum Laude from Loyola Academy (Chicago), the six goal performance came in the first collegiate game of his career. Thanks in large part to Bridges and Lapp, the Tigers’ nine goal per game average over their first two games almost triples the Tigers’ 3.43 goals per game last season. For their performance, Lapp and Bridges were both named this week’s Tiger of the Week. We caught up with the two before their home game against Hope College Saturday. Here’s what they had to say: TDP Sports: Last year, the team went 0-14 in its first official season. What convinced the both of you to give the program a chance? Adam Bridges (AB): I think it’s the academics that drew me to come here. The opportunity to take part in the begging of [the lacrosse program] also intrigued me. Robert Lapp (RL): I committed here because I fell in love with this school. Playing lacrosse was just a bonus, but I realized our talent from day one. TDP Sports: In only the second game of the season, you both scored six goals. Did that change your expectations at all moving forward this season? What are your expectations? AB: I think it changed our expectations.
hometowns: CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS
sport: LACROSSE
Getting our first win in school history was a big deal, and it proves we can compete. We want to have a winning record this season, and we’re getting ready for the better teams down the line. RL: It didn’t change my expectations much. Adam and I know people look for us to create offense, and hopefully we’ll continue to have games like last Saturday. TDP Sports: What can you say about the fan support you all have been getting thus far this season? AB: I think it’s been pretty good. We’ve had relatively early games, but the school’s been supportive. But considering last season, it means a lot to have people come out. RL: Our first two games, we were lucky
because we had nice weather. It makes you play harder when you know people are there rooting for you. TDP Sports: On a team made of mostly freshmen, has it been easy to step into a leadership position on the team? How has the experience been playing with student athletes in the same class as you? AB: There are definitely gaps for us to step up in, but it’s a team effort. Obviously not having expectations set, it was easy for us to dictate where our season goes. RL: I wouldn’t say it was easy, but guys look at certain people to step up. Adam and I stepped up on Saturday, and it’s been nice playing with people in the same class because we’re all young, and it makes a closer team bond.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2014
Title defense begins Friday for women’s basketball By JACOB LYNN sports@thedepauw.com
With the regular season and the NCAC tournament out of the way, DePauw University’s women’s basketball team prepares for the NCAA tournament beginning tonight. The defending national champs will open up the tournament against the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps College Athenas at 7:30 p.m. at Neal Fieldhouse. The home-court advantage should give the Tigers an edge even before the game tips off. DePauw’s dominance at home has been well chronicled. The Tigers have not lost at home since Mar. 3 of 2012. “Playing at home is icing on the cake for us,” said senior Ali Ross. “Last year, we had a lot of students and fans come out to the games during the NCAA tournament and it really brings a lot of energy for us. To see how many people support us and come to every game is incredible.”
For the visiting Athenas, this adds to the difficulThe Athenas’ lineup features two veteran ty of traveling across the country. The Athenas will guards that can wreak havoc on the offensive end. come into Friday night’s tilt after earning the South- Senior Madeline Barnes and junior Kimberly Scamern California Intercollegiman lead the Claremontate Athletic Conference title Mudd-Scripps backcourt. and the league’s automatic Barnes averages 12.8 “There is a target on our backs bid to the national tournapoints per game with because we are the defending ment. roughly 30 minutes a Claremont-Muddnight. Scamman leads the champs, but for us this is a new Scripps enters the tournaAthenas with an average season. We prepare the same way of 15.7 points per game ment riding a season-long nine game winning streak. just over an average of for each team, and we are excited in Their stingy defense has 25 minutes on the game been what has carried the floor. for the game tomorrow.” Athenas over this recent run “We’ll have to have a of success. Since their streak great team defensive efbegan on Feb. 1, the Athe-Ali Ross, senior fort,” said DePauw head nas have given up less than coach Kris Huffman. 50 points per game. “They drive the ball well, The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps performed well they share the ball well, and then they shoot it well. at away games this season with an impressive road We just want to limit their good looks.” record of 9-2. The Tigers are the defending national champi-
Junior Savannah Trees prepares to pass the ball in the game on Saturday against Denison. The Tigers won with a score of 69-41. SARAH BURTENSHAW / THE DEPAUW
ons and played an impressive season of their own. “I do not think we feel any pressure,” said Ross. “There is a target on our backs because we are the defending champs, but for us this is a new season. We prepare the same way for each team, and we are excited for the game tomorrow.” Despite having their 58 game winning streak snapped in the late portion of the season, DePauw went on to finish the 2014 regular season with a record of 27-1. The Tigers capped their season with a third straight North Coast Athletic Conference Championship after a 69-41 win over Denison University last Saturday night. Friday night’s first matchup features the 23-5 Ohio Northern University Polar Bears against the 25-2 Transylvania University Pioneers. Tipoff is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. The action at Neal Fieldhouse will continue on Saturday, as the winner of each first-round game will meet for their round of 32 contest beginning at 7 p.m.
Allison Stephens, senior, runs to the basket in the game on Saturday against Denison. SARAH BURTENSHAW / THE DEPAUW