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Sexual assault training for faculty and staff By PANYIN CONDUAH news@thedepauw.com
In addition to the Red Flag and Elephant in the Room campaign, the interactive training program entitled “We’re Here for You” will be unveiled as part of Code Teal Week. The voluntary training program for faculty and staff is part of the Violence and Intervention/ Prevention Project. The project, created three years ago, is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Violence Against Justice. Dean of Student Life Dorian Shager and Jeanette Johnson-Licon, coordinator of the Violence and Intervention / Prevention Project (the Project), are responsible for bringing “We’re Here for You” to DePauw. “We’re Here for You” is one of the many angles the Project takes to raise awareness of sexual assault on campus. According to DePauw’s 2013 Public Safety Annual Security Report
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and Fire safety, only seven sexual assault cases were reported in 2012. The “We’re here for you” program consists of a two-hour training session to educate employees about how to handle immediate response to students who have been sexually assaulted or harassed. After the completion of the training session, members will receive posters to hang on their door assuring students that “We’re here for you”. “Students will know that these are folks that have received more training and are more knowledgeable and have an understanding of resources available to students,” Shager said. Martial arts coordinator Brandon Sieg is well accustomed to empowering others to prevent sexual assault. Sieg instructs the Hapkido and Tae Kwon Do clubs and teaches self defense on campus. “Understanding some of the dynamics that are at play strip away
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some naiveté in a lot of people as far as the nature of the violence and how it works,” Sieg said. Sieg is unfamiliar with the logistics that go into the faculty training but believes that familiarity with the crime is better than teaching technique. The “We’re here for you” program will continue past Code Teal’s Teal Ribbon Week in hopes of training over 100 faculty and staff members. Training sessions will be offered monthly for employees that choose to participate. Johnson-Licon and Shager are also working with Academic Resources to construct a sexual assault information portion of the University’s new employee training. The information will provide hands-on education covering sexual ass a u l t and misconduct. For students, Shager explained how he and Johnson-Licon advanced the free condom system on campus by adding notes about consent. “Some of them have stickers on them reminding about consent,” Shager said. “Other ones have envelopes they’re in with fun messages and reminders about the importance of healthy communication.”
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UPushStart Peaks Student Entrepreneurial Interest By JULIE BLOCK news@thedepauw.com
Approximately 90 DePauw students registered to hear successful entrepreneurs speak, present business pitches to professionals and learn how to start a successful business at DePauw’s first UPushStart program on Friday and Saturday. Student Government president Walker Chance and senior Frank Hu came up with the idea for UPushStart in September. They contacted DePauw alumni, business professionals and lawyers to come to campus and work with students on how to be successful entrepreneurs.
“You kind of have three solid actual [student] startups on campus. And there’s a lot more than that too, which says something about the energy that these students at DePauw have and the ideas that they have.” -Walker Chance, senior
“You kind of have three solid actual [student] startups on campus,” Chance said, citing Pizza Dude, DePauw Cookies and Simplicity Products. “And there’s a lot more than that too, which says something about the energy that these students at DePauw have and the ideas that they have.” Throughout the weekend, registrants had the opportunity to work with DePauw alumni who had started their own businesses and present business pitches to experienced professionals. The winner of this pitch competition, which drew 28 participants, was a team of four. It included seniors Stephanie Sharlow, Caitlyn Hammack and Madeline LeClair, and Indiana University senior Matt Hunt. Sharlow and Hammack initially came up with the idea of Simplicity, an organic cosmetics line, at the beginning of this semester. Sharlow is in
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Theoretical physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku will be filling the last spot in this year’s Ubben Lecture series. Kaku will replace original lecturer Blake Mycoskie of TOMs after what was at first a postponment due to weather. Mycoskie later cancelled completely. “I knew the risk with Blake was that running a company, that’s priority one,” said Ken Owen, director of media relations. “[Coming to speak] is always going to take the back seat.” Owen gave Mycoskie a series of eight to 10 dates to make a second attempt to speak at DePauw University, but Mycoskie’s schedule did not permit a visit to DePauw this spring. Although the university had already made a down payment to Mycoskie, they were able to get a full refund. The refund could go toward a different Ubben Lecture speaker. “It’s unfortunate because there was a lot of work that went into planning [Mycoskie’s visit],” Owen said. “We wanted it to coincide with the Honors Weekend, but Mother Nature and logistics made it impossible.” Although Owen was working with another unnamed individual after Mycoskie fell through, that individual could also not find a time to visit the University, which ended in Kaku being the last Ubben Lecture at the University this spring. “Dr. Kaku was our next option,” Owen said. “He is filling college auditoriums around the country. He has
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had book signings after the event that go on for a couple hours and people really like the guy. He is funny and able to communicate science to nonscientists.” First-year Andrew Quinn was disappointed that Mycoskie would not be coming to DePauw. “I’m not a big science person,” Quinn said, “but [Kaku] sounds like he will be interesting.” Owen sees Kaku’s visit as timely due to his new book ‘The Future of the Mind.” The book is number two on this week’s New York Times’ list of bestsellers. DePauw University President Brian Casey listed some of Kaku’s accomplishments Wednesday in an email that announced Kaku’s vist. The list includes graduating summa cum laude and first in his physics class from Harvard University, receiving his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley, holding the Henry Semat Chair in theoretical physics at the City University of New York and serving as the science correspondent for CBS This Morning. Although the majority of students at DePauw are not physics majors, many faculty, staff and students are excited for Kaku to speak at DePauw. “I have watched [Kaku’s] videos. The most fascinating one that I’ve found was ‘The Universe in a nutshell,’” said Rohit Singh, physics and astronomy faculty member and lab supervisor. “He explains about fundamental physics from A, B, C, D of physics to string theory so that a very lay man can understand it. Even someone like me who
charge of marketing and advertising the product and Hammack makes the lotions. Before UPushStart, the two lacked a partner who had knowledge of how to run a business and business financing. They asked Hunt, Hammack’s boyfriend, to aid them in the business aspect, but it was not until Friday night, when they met LeClair at UPushStart, that they had the fourth member of their team. “It’s good that none of our skill sets overlap, because that’s where problems arise,” Sharlow
“I just hope that it really continues to grow because it offers a lot of opportunities for anything you want to go into. I think it was one of the best events I’ve ever gone to at DePauw.” -Stephanie Sharlow, senior
Due to scheduling conflicts, TOMs’ Blake Mycoskie will no longer be one of this semester’s Ubben Lecturers. He is being replaced by theorietical physicist and bestselling author of “The Future of the Mind,” Michio Kaku. Kaku will be speaking in Kresge Auditorium, May 5 at 7:30 p.m. / PHOTO COURTESY OF DEPAUW.EDU
has a PhD in Physics, [Kaku makes it] easy to understand the String Theory.” Singh thinks it is important for everyone to attend to see how physics affects our daily lives. “[Kaku] explains physics math equations and all other physics equations and how they are applied in real
life, and how physics plays an important role in our daily life,” Singh said. Kaku’s Ubben Lecture will take place on May 5 in the Green Center for the Performing Arts’ Kresge Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
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said. “The four of us are going to keep going as a team in the real world.” Runner-up senior Isiah Miles, who lived on a Native American reservation for most of his childhood, had no idea that he was even going to be involved in the pitch session prior to Friday. After he met with DePauw entrepreneurial graduates, however, he began to generate an idea for creating a fellowship for educated Native Americans, which would allow them to return to the reservations and have a guaranteed job. This fellowship, Miles hopes, would lift many reservations out of poverty. “It was something that was really personal,”
Miles said. “The applicants would be targeting talented or educated Native Americans and accepting them into a program or fellowship that would help them become leaders.” As a political science major, Miles did not think that entrepreneurship was something that he could consider as a career until UPushStart. He has since become excited to begin creating this fellowship. “I didn’t know if it was actually going to be significant or a good pitch, so I didn’t actually decide to do a pitch until the day of when I actually had to present it, so it was a whirlwind of craziness,” Miles said. “It was great to see all those ideas and see how students were really thinking about this in terms of reality and trying to do something big.” In third place was first-year Justine Clarke. Her entrepreneurial pitch was a smartphone app that would notify the user of events taking place around them. She said that this was an issue that she has had to deal with, because so much happens on DePauw’s campus that it is hard to know when there is something that one could be missing. “It was just an issue that I found myself constantly having,” Clarke said. “I was thinking that ‘what if there were other students who didn’t get the chance to experience this [UPushStart] simply because they didn’t know?” She, like Miles, did not anticipate participating in UPushStart prior to the beginning of the event. “I was returning from dance practice basically dressed in dance clothes and I was encouraged to go upstairs,” she said. “I didn’t know I could work and deliver that kind of work.” While this is the first year for UPushStart, many hope it will continue. “I just hope that it really continues to grow because it offers a lot of opportunities for anything you want to go into,” Sharlow said. “I think it was one of the best events I’ve ever gone to at DePauw.” “We all die,” Miles said. “The goal is not to live forever, but to create something that will.”
CAMPUSCRIME April 4 • Assist Greencastle Police Department - locate subject • GPD took call / subject located by GPD | Time: 1:43 p.m. | Place: Vine St. • Welfare check • Forwarded to Campus Living | Time: 4:13 p.m. | Place: Mason Hall • Welfare check • Subject located off campus / checked okay | Time: 5:26 p.m. | Place: Campus
April 6 • Alcohol violation • Transported to hospital / forwarded to Community Standards Committee | Time: 1:31 a.m. | Place: Delta Upsilon Fraternity • Assist Putnam County Sheriff’s Office - Operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated / property damage accident • PCSO took call | Time: 3:42 a.m. | Place: Co Rd 225 S
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• Welfare check • Officer checked area / unable to locate subject | Time: 12:52 a.m. | Place: Seminary St.
• Suspicious person • Officer checked area / unable to locate subject | Time: 9:46 p.m. | Place: Anderson St.
• Welfare check • Forwaded to Campus Living | Time: 1:27 a.m. | Place: Longden Hall • Theft of laptop • Pending | Time: unknown | Place: Longden Hall
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• Assist Greencastle Police Department - medical • Transported to hospital / forwarded to Community Standards Committee | Time: 3:34 p.m. | Place: 703 S Locust St. • Investigate for odor of gas • Officer checked area / checked okay | Time: 9:52 p.m. | Place: College St.
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Students pull semi-trucks, raise funds for community By TYLER MURPHY features@thedepauw.com
Teams of students put all the muscle they had into heaving a U-Haul truck down Olive Street Saturday afternoon to raise money for businesses on the Greencastle square. Total Nonstop Wrestling, DePauw’s wrestling club, hosted the event and raised $150 to donate to Greencastle Middle School. “While we didn’t have sponsors, there was a $10 entry fee,” said first-year wrestler Evan Folger, “and we were given some money from the school to set things up.” Total Nonstop Wrestling hoped this event will draw the campus to the start-up of their club, which is new to campus this year. “The goal of this event was to put DePauw’s wrestling team on the map so that all could see that DePauw’s wrestling team does do work,” said David Johnson, president of Total Nonstop Wrestling. He believes that they accomplished their goal. “I feel that there was a great turnout for the overly busy weekend we chose with formals and in-formals,
track, other sports and the dance marathon,” Johnson said. “We had more than 70 people come out and support, eat, have fun and pull the truck.” The event included the truck pulling, an inflatable obstacle course and an abundance of grilled hamburgers and music. Teams included up to 13 people, and Phi Delta Theta Fraternity’s team came out on top. “We have been planning this event since last November,” said Folger. First-year Rudy Orozco, a member of Total Nonstop Wrestling, thought that the event went well. “It was a great experience having everyone get together for a good cause, but having some fun at the same time,” Orozco said. “I also liked the end when we had a full out pie fight.” At the end of the event, winners and spectators threw pies in celebration of the money raised. “This will be an annual thing,” said Folger. “Look for it next year and look for the wrestling club in general next year as it continues to grow.” The group has already set a date for the fall. “We will be having the event once again on a less busier weekend,” Johnson said, “September 27, 2014.”
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Grammy nominated Mary Lambert shares the love By JANE PERA features@thedepauw.com
Tonight, April 8, DePauw hosts the newly popular singer/songwriter and spoken-word artist Mary Lambert. At 7:00 p.m., Lambert will perform in the Thompson Recital Hall, located within the Green Center for the Performing Arts in an event that is free and open to the public. Lambert is best known for “Same Love,” a hit she sang with the hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. She wrote and sang the chorus of “Same Love,” which was nominated for two Grammy’s this year. “Same Love” is a same-sex marriage anthem, promoting equality and love for all people regardless of their sexuality. Lyrics include “It’s human rights for everybody, there is no difference,” and “A certificate on paper isn’t gonna solve it all, but it’s a damn good place to start.” Lambert’s voice is extremely powerful and heartening, as she represents emerging from a life of struggle and hardship. She grew up in a strict Pentecostal household, dealt with drug abuse and alcohol, was eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder, survived a gang rape at age 17 and was repeatedly molested by her father as a child. A woman with pride, strength and humor, Lambert is a beautiful example of staying positive and overcom-
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ing hardships. Much of her work is reflective of what she has been through personally. Lambert also writes about general societal issues such as gay marriage, empowerment of women and body image. First-year Allison Shultz is excited to see one of her role models. “I listen to her music all the time and I can’t believe she’ll be here at DePauw,” Shultz said. The story of Lambert’s career is unique. One year ago, the now 24-year-old Seattle native was sweaty from dragging beer kegs around the bar where she worked. One afternoon, she received an unexpected phone call from a friend who had connections to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. The friend sent her the track to “Same Love” and told Lambert she had two hours to write a chorus. From there her story tells itself. Recently, at the 2014 Grammy awards, Queen Latifah officiated a mass wedding for LGBTQ couples, while Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, Madonna and Mary Lambert performed. Students around campus are excited for Lambert’s performance. “I can’t wait to see Mary perform,” said junior Reggie Webb. First-year Kyle Winters is excited to hear her sing live. “I love her work with Macklemore,” said Winters. Lambert’s concert is a highly anticipated event, so be sure to get to Thompson Recital Hall before 7:00 p.m. Seating will be first come, first serve.
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Standing for six hours sounds easy, and people do it on accident when they’re not thinking about it. But imagine not having the option to sit down for six hours. Those participating in Dance Marathon Saturday afternoon spent six hours dancing, participating in other activities and standing to raise money for Riley’s Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis. “I didn’t think it was going to be [difficult to stand for the entire six hours] because you get busy and you realize you’re on your feet a lot throughout the day,” junior Jake Weeks said, adding that it was difficult. “You just remember what you’re there
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for.” Sophomore Nicole Darnall echoed Weeks’ sentiment. “It was definitely exhausting,” Darnall said. “You don’t really think about how much it wears you out because the point of it is to stand for all six hours to stand for those who can’t.” The idea to start a Dance Marathon at DePauw University began with three sophomores: Thomas Johnson, Abby Snively and Ellie Sheffield. “The names that might be up there might be Abby, Ellie and I,” Johnson said, “but we had an executive council of 30 people, who each put in countless hours of work.” Darnall was also one of the members of the executive council. “I helped organize the event and kind of get everything together,” Darnall said. “Because it was our first year having a dance marathon at DePauw, there was just a lot of preliminary steps that we needed to take.” The duration of Dance Marathons can vary: from the six hour Dance Marathon at DePauw to the 36 hour Dance Marathon at Indiana University, Bloomington. “We chose six hours because it was our first year,” Darnall said. ”A lot of times having the longer time period it’s going to be more difficult to perk someone’s interests. DePauw students are very active in a lot of organizations and things like that. This is just a way to make sure it fit
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into a lot of peoples schedules.” Johnson thinks that the six hour duration was the best option. “For a first year program, I think six hours was the ideal amount,” Johnson said. The team had to work around formals that occurred over the weekend. “By changing our time period from noon to six, we were able to accommodate more people who were going to formals,” Darnall said. Throughout the day, those participating learned a seven minute dance routine that included songs like the “Friend’s” theme song “I’ll Be There for You” amd Jason Derulo’s “Talk Dirty.” “At the very end, right before they revealed how much money we earned, we got to put the dance all together and we got to present it to the kids and the people who were there from Riley,” Weeks said. They also participated in various activities such as knock out and birdie on a perch and heard testimonies from five families with children who had been treated at Riley’s Children’s Hospital. For Weeks, the moving aspect of the day was hearing the testimonies. “It really put a face to what we were fighting for,” Weeks said. “There’s all these causes to be a part of, but you never really see a first-hand account of who it’s helping.” Johnson believes the testimonies helped people stand for the specified amount of time. “To hear what the money is going to really makes people want
to stay involved for the six hours and gives them the strength to keep on standing,” Johnson said. The group’s original goal was $10,000, but after hearing the average raised by first-year programs with similar demographics, they lowered the goal to $5,000. “We ended up raising $13,360.25,” Darnall said. “For a first year program at a school of our size, schools usually only raise around $5,000 so we almost tripled the average.” Indiana University’s Dance Marathon is now the second largest in the country. “For some perspective, IU in their first year raised $9,000,” Johnson said. The group hopes to make Dance Marathon an annual event. “I hope that people realize how much we can change something because just by having the speakers there it occurred to me just how much Riley impacts peoples lives,” Darnall said. “I hope that people can see that that was not in any way a waste of six hours.”
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Pistorius trial points to sensationalism of trials in and out of the US On Valentine’s Day 2013, double-amputee and paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius shot and killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in what he continues to maintain was a tragic accident. Yesterday, Pistorius took the stand in Pretoria, South Africa where he began his testimony with a shaky apology to Steenkamp’s friends and relatives in a video that is now available on almost every international news site. An entire South African television channel has been devoted to coverage of the trial. Pistorius is not the first celebrity to have made the transition from People Magazine’s ‘They’re just like you!’ section to front page of the The New York Times due to a high-profile trial. In 1994, NFL star OJ Simpson was accused of murdering ex-wife Nicole Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Though he was eventually acquitted, Simpson’s 1995 trial was followed every step of the way by the American public. More recently, even non-celebrities have been made infamous by their high-profile trials and their coverage via print and online media. Two well-known examples of this are Casey Anthony and George Zimmerman. When British courtrooms first opened their doors to TV coverage in 2012, a BBC article titled, “Televising trials: What can be learned from the US?” was written. In it, a Victim Support spokesman is quoted as saying, “The justice system does need to be more transparent and accessible. But this does not mean that court cases should become a new form of reality TV.” This editorial board agrees. While “Judge Judy” and “The People’s Court” are, in fact, reality TV shows taking place in courtrooms the real-life trials of Pistorius and the like should be treated very differently. Both the news media and the American public have a tendency to take high-profile trials and treat them as entertainment. As the editorial board of a college newspaper, we whole-heartedly believe in the necessity of freedom of the press. Reporters, as well as recording devices and cameras, should most definitely be allowed in courtrooms. However, the media must be especially cautious in its distribution of this kind of news, and readers must be aware of how they digest it. News media should not resort to shock mentality in order to sell newspapers or get website hits. Sensationalism drives readership, there’s no denying it. Even at The DePauw we have most probably been guilty of it. However, should Casey Anthony have been so nationally recognizable—and hated—that a “look-alike” in Oklahoma was attacked? Sensationalism is all well and good for former Judge Joe Brown, but hard-hitting journalists and their audiences could stand to do without it. Oscar Pistorius and the family of Reeva Steenkamp probably could, too. email us at edboard@thedepauw.com
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Yahoo enters into online world of video streaming: Big win or epic fail JACKSON MOTE
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t was recently reported by the Wall Street Journal that Yahoo Inc. has plans to enter the online video streaming market, much like the services Netflix, Amazon Instant Video and Hulu Plus. The expansion would send Yahoo into an unfamiliar technological state. They will have to compete with the already well-established instant streaming services in a highly populated and competitive market. While it is possible that Yahoo Inc. may gain some of their lost relevance by offering this new service, it will be difficult for them to offer new features to the pre-existing instant video streaming market. If Yahoo wishes their streaming service to be successful, the company will have to purchase original content that will attract viewers away from other streaming services. Yahoo will have to lock down their content and ensure that it is only accessible via their streaming service. If Yahoo purchases content that is already accessible via other service providers, the company may be able to draw some of the other video streaming subscribers away from competing services, but Yahoo will not be able to pull all of the other services’ subscrib-
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ers away without some beneficial incentive. Amazon and Netflix have already made their streaming products extremely mobile, so it is hard for me to see a way for Yahoo to expand on the mobile market. Hulu Plus has already made it so that their subscribers can access content that was premiered on TV 24 hours previously. Due to the dominance of these other original content streaming services, I am highly skeptical that Yahoo Inc. will be able to gain a large amount of revenue with this streaming service. Yahoo will have to incorporate some sort of new technology into their streaming service to set it apart from others. It is unclear what this technology will be and unclear whether Yahoo will incorporate new revolutionary features. My advice is to stick to your current video streaming service until the public has a clearer picture of what new feature Yahoo’s service will provide. You might even want to stay away from online video streaming services altogethe. It’s easy to forget about the world and watch all 26 episodes of “House of Cards” on Netflix in a row.
- Mote is a sophomore French major from Indianapolis, Ind.
s prospective students size up educational institutions, what is it that attracts them and their parents? Time and time again, we’ve seen DePauw University’s name on the top party school lists across the nation, but that does not have to invalidate the academic standard we hold ourselves to. Business Insider recently published a new list that appears to cast a redeeming light on “party schools.” Some believe this new list is enough to simply put aside all the images we have created in our minds about the type of environment DePauw cultivates. Based on the return on investment (ROI), DePauw is number ten for schools most worth your money. Generally speaking, a bachelor’s degree costs about $192,600. The return on investment
winds up at an estimated $312,800 – just over $100,000. Their methodology: “PayScale looked at salary data for employees with bachelor’s degrees, not including any jobs that would require a graduate degree…The net cost of each school was determined by looking at graduation rates, financial aid, and campus costs.” The ROI was calculated by finding the total earnings, subtracting the cost of the bachelor’s degree and average earnings over someone without a college degree. In my mind, this calculation provides a fair comparison of the economic gap in lifestyles between someone with a bachelor’s degree and someone without. For students paying their own way through college or for those with a stronger need for financial assistance, the ROI rankings seem to hold much more clout than the party school rankings. One might be willing to take out loans or work in order to attend a university with a higher ROI rate in hopes of securing a solid job for the future. In this sense, the party ranking might be overlooked. This begs the question of whether all that DePauw offers can be quantified. Some have explained that the DePauw experience is unique in its liberal
arts education, 10:1 student-faculty ratio and more. These unique qualities, plus DePauw’s high academic ranking, speak great volumes. While administration, faculty, and even students are getting hyped up about the “outrageous party ranking” DePauw has received, the party ranking is not a single, defining status. DePauw University has a facet of attributions that cannot all be confined to rankings. The success of DePauw students speaks on behalf of the university’s caliber. We should not look solely to the Princeton Review or other outside sources to define our institution or decide if it is a place we want to invest in. Some choose to interpret the prevalent party scene as a negative aspect on our campus that takes away from its prestige. I say the opposite. DePauw represents a group of intelligent individuals capable of balancing both the studious and social aspects that come with being a college student pursuing and landing prosperous careers.
-O’Brien is a sophomore Prindle Intern from Aviano, Italy.
Greencastle businesses: It’s time to step up to the plate SAM CARAVANA
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efore coming to DePauw University, I lived in Granville, Ohio, home to Denison University. Based on what I saw growing up, I had certain expectations of how DePauw students would connect with Greencastle. I assumed that students would go into town to eat lunch, fill a prescription or just hang out at the coffee shop, all common occurrences in Granville. After arriving at DePauw, I quickly realized that students rarely interact with local businesses. Instead, we either drive to the chain stores on the outskirts of town or stick with the Bon Appetite managed dining facilities. I believe this is the result of local restaurants and stores failing to appeal to the students of DePauw. After being here eight months, I have rarely seen advertisements for Greencastle restaurants on poster boards or heard of any offering student discounts. By failing to reach out to young people,
businesses are driving a huge customer base into the hands of more familiar big box stores. These observations are shared by my peers and have been highlighted by student surveys such as the one completed by The Princeton Review. The survey resulted in DePauw University’s number 13 ranking on the “College City Gets Low Marks” list in the 2014 edition. The Stellar Communities initiative targets Greencastle businesses’ lack of appeal to students. The multifaceted project hopes to turn Greencastle into “the next great college town” by restoring the downtown and encouraging economic development. A specific feature of the ongoing plan has included relocating DePauw’s bookstore to the center square to draw students into the heart of the town. One manner in which establishments can help themselves appeal to students is by offering discounts to anyone that can produce a DePauw University ID. Another useful tactic would be for restaurants to implore the University and Bon Appetite to allow them to accept DPU Plus points. This would enable students to pay for services with their prepaid meal plans instead of costing the student nothing out of pocket. These ideas are not unworkable. Similar ap-
proaches are used by successful Greencastle based establishments. PizzaDude, a student run pizzeria, plasters campus with posters publicizing upcoming deals. The company even got approval to accept DPU Plus points. Next semester, Haircut Depot, a locally owned hair salon located downtown, plans to do more marketing on campus through advertisements in The DePauw While the Stellar Communities initiative has the potential to greatly improve the symbiotic relationship between DePauw and Greencastle, it is unclear if the plan will have the intended effects. The reality is Greencastle’s downtown businesses need to step up to the plate and alter the way they operate, or they will continue to be foregone for big box stores.
- Caravana is a first-year undecided major from Granville, Ohio.
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PHOTOPINION What are your thoughts about the changes to the SPAC system? “It’s a good idea. The changes will solve some of the problems with the old SPAC system.”
DOUGLAS HARMS, PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE “I think it’s an increase in efficiency in terms of students being able to get into the classes that they want.”
JACK RUSSELL, SENIOR “The new changes make SPACs fair and effective.”
TIERNAN SHANK, FIRST-YEAR “I didn’t know that SPACs were that widespread of an issue.”
GRANT SKIPPER, FIRST-YEAR JACKSON MOTE / THE DEPAUW
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The Seventh Annual
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Softball still perfect in conference play despite weekend split By RYAN KONICK sports@thedepauw.com
DePauw softball had a full weekend with double-headers at home against Hiram College and Anderson University. A sweep of the Terriers and a pair of losses to the Ravens leave the Tigers at 6-0 in NCAC play and 15-11 overall. The two games with Hiram helped the Tigers extend their perfect conference record. Coach Hanrahan emphasized the team effort of Saturday’s games. She believes it wasn’t just the starters who were making the big plays, but that the players who split time were key to their success as well. “Beating Hiram for two was really awesome on Saturday, mainly because so many of our players were involved with the success,� said Hanrahan. “Morgan Pigusch made a diving play in left field in the first inning of the first game that generated energy, intensity and momentum for us that was key to scoring first and playing with confidence that day.� Junior Taylor Golden commented on the amazing plays of her teammates that contributed to the pair of 4-1 wins over Hiram. “Kahla Nolan pitching outstanding like always, Lauren Krumwiede making a game saving catch in left field, Linsey Button hitting a bases loaded double, clutch pinch hitters coming up in pressure filled situa-
tions and Sammi Bell picking off runners and hitting incredibly,� listed Golden about her teammates. Despite being quick to give credit to her teammates, Golden has been key to the team’s success herself. The junior was named the NCAC Player of the Week after leading the team to a 4-2 record in the last week. Unfortunately however, the Tigers didn’t fair as well on Sunday, losing both games to the Anderson Ravens. A five-run fifth inning powered the Ravens to an easy 11-1 win in the opening game on Sunday. The Ravens also defeated the Tigers 7-4 in the final game of the weekend. “Sunday stung,� sophomore Sammi Bell said bluntly. “We had a lot of great hits that they made unbelievable plays on. We weren’t making the routine plays and the non-routine plays.� Hanrahan stated much of the same problems. “We didn’t execute defensively behind both of our pitchers,� Hanrahan said. “We had some key base-running mistakes that can’t happen if we expect to beat competition as strong as Anderson. Though the losses are disappointing, we choose to look at it from a learning standpoint. We have to continue to get better.� After tough games like the ones against Anderson, it is important for teams to keep a positive mental attitude to help continue moving forward. The Tigers did a good job of this on Sunday, encouraging one
another consistently. “Staying in good spirits is simple around our team because we are a family,� said Golden. “I know that no matter what happens my teammates are there for me to either pick me up or cheer me on.� Although Bell is upset at Sunda’s outcome, she is not worried about the team’s future. “The thing about this sport is that it is a game of failures,� stated Bell. “Great hitters fail seven out of 10 times and only have three moments of success, and that’s on a good day. While a lot of us aren’t happy about the outcome of Sunday’s games, I am not worried because I know my team. I have confidence that we are going to rise to the occasion on Wednesday because that’s what DePauw softball is: resilient in adversity.� The Tigers will have to have a short memory as they face a doubleheader this Wednesday against Ohio Wesleyan. “We are going to relax, allow for some healing time for our bodies and get back to our game,� Bell said. “At this point we’ve worked on everything thousands of times. We need to do a better job of taking what we’ve been working on in practice and implementing it into our games.� First pitch against Ohio Wesleyan is scheduled for 4 p.m. Wednesday evening at the Softball Field on DePauw’s athletics campus.
DePauw baseball collects first NCAC wins of the season By JACOB LYNN sports@thedepauw.com
Big bats lifted DePauw’s baseball team to a four game sweep of Ohio Wesleyan University’s Battling Bishops this weekend. The Tigers received a much needed boost in their overall record and earned their first four victories of the NCAC campaign. “Our energy on and off the field was really great this weekend,� sophomore Wyatt Spector said. “We need to keep up the energy and focus in order to keep the momentum on our side for the next conference games in the future.� In the first game of the series, DePauw raced out to a 9-0 lead through the opening four and a half innings and coasted to a 9-2 win over the Battling Bishops. The major blow to the Battling Bishops came in a four-run fourth inning for the Tigers. A two-out double from sophomore Connor Einertson drove home two and stretched the DePauw lead to eight. DePauw starting pitcher, junior Jack Peck, picked up his first win of the season. Peck went five innings while allowing two runs on five hits and striking out three. The DePauw offense waited around until the third inning to get going in game two of the series. Two Tigers were onboard when first-year Michael Hartnagel hammered a J.J. Buckey pitch over the
wall in left field to start the scoring. DePauw added two more in the top half of the fifth inning to stretch the lead to 5-0. However, the Battling Bishops would chase DePauw starting pitcher, senior Michael Chiaro, out of the game in the bottom of the fifth. The Ohio Wesleyan fifth inning narrowed the DePauw lead to two as the game progressed into the latter stages. A two-run blast from senior Brendon Pashia in the top of the seventh inning gave the Tigers two crucial insurance runs and helped them coast to an 8-4 win to close out the first day of games. Senior Pete Stuart improved his record to 2-3 on the season as he pitched two and one-third innings of relief for DePauw. Hartnagel went one for five out of the leadoff spot but managed to drive in three runs. The Battling Bishops would score the first run of game three thanks to Tyler Flaherty’s single following a hit batsmen and a throwing error by the Tiger pitcher, Spector. From there the Tiger offense would take over. DePauw scored three runs in the fourth on a bases loaded walk and a Hartnagel single. The Tigers followed that up with a five-run explosion in the top of the fifth to put the game away. The Tigers added runs in the top of the sixth and seventh innings and secured a series win with a 10-1 blowout of Ohio Wesleyan. Spector had the best performance on the mound of the weekend. The starter went six in-
nings allowing only one hit and one earned run while striking out three. “My off-speed was working really well so I was successful at keeping the batters off balance,� Spector said. “I was trying to just put the ball in play because I knew everyone behind me was fielding really well.�
“Our energy on and off the field was really great this weekend. We need to keep up the energy and focus in order to keep the momentum on our side for the next conference games in the future.� - Wyatt Spector, sophomore
Game four of the series proved to be more of the same for the Tigers as a six run eighth inning propelled DePauw to a 12-2 victory over Ohio Wesleyan. The Tigers never trailed as they put up two runs in the first inning and then added two more in the
third and fifth innings. Poor fundamentals by the Battling Bishops led to the big eighth inning for the Tigers. Two errors and a bases loaded walk helped hand the Tigers some free insurance runs late in the game. DePauw utilized their pitching staff’s depth in the win, as they used six different hurlers. Starter junior Eric Steele, picked up the win for DePauw tossing three innings and giving up five hits and one run. The big weekend for the Tigers has them right back in the NCAC race. Their overall record now stands at 8-9 and the four game sweep gives DePauw a 4-2 conference record. “Conference is the most meaningful part of the season where we have to win as many games as possible,� Hartnagel said. “This four game sweep on the road was very important.� Hartnagel provided most of the spark for the Tigers over the weekend. The first-year drove in a team high of six runs against the Battling Bishops. Next up for the Tigers is a four game weekend series with the rival Wabash College Little Giants. “I am so excited for this upcoming weekend already and personally it will mean a lot to play in front of so many friends and family against Wabash one last time at home,� Pashia said. The first game of the double-header is scheduled to begin at noon on Saturday.
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Despite low standings, track satisfied with last weekend's DePauw Invitational
Sophomore Paige Powers (right) running at the DePauw Invitational this past weekend in the women's 1500 meter event. CHRISTA SCHROEDEL / THE DEPAUW By ERIC N. ST. BERNARD sports@thedepauw.com
With the action in their home court, the men’s and women’s track and field teams needed stellar individual performances to compensate for disappointing overall finishes at the DePauw Invitational at Blackstock Stadium this weekend. The women’s track and field team came in sixth
place out of the 10 teams that participated in the 19 events, with an overall score of 69.5. The men fared no better overall, coming in 10th out of 11 teams at the invitational with 25 points. Vincennes University came in first place at the Invitational, scoring 147.5 total points. Vincennes had several first-place individual performances this past weekend, including the men’s triple jump, men’s long jump and first and second place at the men’s high jump.
For DePauw, several promising individual performances were the highlight of their weekend. For one, senior Kyle Mackey cleared 15-7 (4.75 meters) in the men’s pole vault, finishing second in the contest. Mackey has had an impressive season thus far, including a pole vault win at the DePauw Classic in late February. Sophomore transfer Paul Watts came in fifth place at the 3,000 meter run, finishing in 8:56.65. Despite the team’s low final standing, Watts said that he was happy with the teams’ performance. “I wouldn't go as far as satisfied, but we certainly performed well,” Watts said. “This past weekend will possibly be the most competitive meet we'll compete in with D1 teams like Valpo and D2 teams like St. Joe racing. It's always hard to stack up against teams where they can give scholarships, but we were very competitive. Of course there's room to improve, but I don't think that tenth place is reflective of the work we've put in and the races that we've had.” Watts also contends that having people like senior Stu Newstat leading their pack turned positive effects overall for the team. Sophomore Quinton Miller contends that the Tiger’s low standing was simply a result of the good competition they went up against this past weekend. “As a team, a couple of events where we usually score and we didn't or didn't score as many due to the higher level of competition,” Miller said. “Individual performances were good time-wise.” The individual performances were equally as impressive on the women’s team. Sophomore Heather O’Brien stole the show with a first-place finish in the 5,000 meter competition, a highlight of the Tigers’ weekend overall. The race was also the highlight of O’Brien’s season thus far as well. “It was my first 5k of the season, and I was only
3 seconds away from my personal record,” O’Brien said. “It gives me confidence and goes to show there is plenty of room for improvement.” Along with O’Brien’s first-place finish, senior Siri Retrum came in third place with a score of 18:16.09. Junior Celia Kauth also had a strong individual performance, finishing second place in the high jump. Though they compete individually, O’Brien credits her teammates for all her successes. “My teammates help remind me that we are putting in all this hard work for a reason,” O’Brien said. “It's not always fun to suffer through hard work outs, but it sure is fun to see it all pay off.” The Tigers men’s and women’s teams are back in action Saturday, at the Indiana Division III Invita-
“As a team, a couple of events where we usually score and we didn't or didn't score as many due to the higher level of competition. Individual performances were good time-wise.” -Quinton Miller, sophomore
tional. Watts is optimistic about the Tiger’s chances at the invitational. “Every team will have some guys who win events, but whatever team can get the most guys scoring mid-level points will win,” Watts said. “We have a lot of guys with the talent and training to grab those points, and we could really sneak up on the other teams.”
Second half surge by men’s lacrosse falls short against Wooster on Saturday By CHRIS DICKOW sports@thedepauw.com
A late six goal charge by DePauw University’s men’s lacrosse team was not enough to overcome the early dominance of the College of Wooster Fighting Scots Saturday afternoon at John P. Papp Stadium in Wooster, Ohio. The Fighting Scots came ready to play right out of the gates, scoring within the first minute. Wooster followed that with 11 unanswered goals in the first half. Wooster’s lead extended to 16-0 before DePauw attack man, first-year Richard McGowan put the Tigers on the board with 7:59 left to play in the third. First-year Sam Caravana follwed McGowan’s
goal with a tally of his own just 22 seconds later. Robert Lapp, another first-year, contributed to the late rally, scoring on an assist from McGowan with 5:54 left in the fourth quarter. Caravana followed with his second unassisted goal with 1:21 remaining. The Tigers battled until the final two seconds, when first-year Adam Bridges scored on an assist from first-year Charlie Yorke that did little except pad some statistics. First-year midfielder Sam Alkema noted some half-time changes made to the offense that help explain the Tigers’ success in the second half. “We came out flat in the first half, so we adjusted our offensive systems and had some guys playing in different positions in the second half,” Alkema said. “There were definitely some good things to take
away from the game.” With the 16-6 defeat, the Tigers dropped to 3-8 on the season, while the Fighting Scots improved to 8-3 on the season. However, the teams are tied in North Coast Athletic Conference play at 1-2. Although the Tigers have lost their last four games, first-year defenseman A.J. Schlaff is confident that persistent hard work will be the key to ending the streak. “Going forward, the most important thing is for us to play our style of lacrosse and keep the pedal down for all four quarters,” Schlaff said. The Tigers hope to carry the momentum from their late rally on Saturday afternoon tomorrow when the Battling Bishops of Ohio Wesleyan University travel to Blackstock Stadium for a 4 p.m.
face-off. The Battling Bishops boast an impressive 8-2 overall record and sit on top of the NCAC standings at 3-0 in conference play. First-year, long-stick midfielder Eric Speer is excited about the challenge the Bishops present, despite the quick turnaround from Saturday. “We have a short time to prepare for one of the toughest teams in our conference,” Speer said. “We need to focus on getting better on offense and continue to work on our team defense. It should be a big test for our young team.” The youthful Tigers have their work cut out for them as they press on through their tough conference schedule.