Volume 163 Issue 42, Tuesday, April 14, 2015

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‘Hiccups’ delay Blend opening

DePauw University develops inclusion plan, works toward more comprehensive draft

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As spring stumbles its way onto campus and temperatures rise, students begin to crave cold drinks. Those drinks won’t be coming from natural smoothie bar Blend, at least not for a few more weeks. Due to red tape tying up construction, Blend’s opening day has been pushed back from April 1 to April 22.

“We had a few hiccups with the city requesting and requiring a few different thing that weren’t in the original drawing they approved,” said Jason Rose, General Manager of Bon Appetit. Bon Appetit will manage the new beverage station located in the Lilly Center lobby.

After Blend’s plans were originally approved, the Greencastle Building and Permitting department altered their original approval, requiring the smoothie bar to install a grease trap and indirect draining for its sink. This

Only one student attended the feedback sessions held by the Diversity and Equity Committee last week to talk about “Building an Inclusive Community: DePauw University Campus Plan.”

In all, only about 13 people attended the two sessions, leaving members of the committee wondering.

“I don’t know if it’s just because it’s the end of the year and people are getting busy or what,” said Renee Madison, senior advisor to the president for diversity and compliance.

“Building an Inclusive Community” outlines a formal plan to make the DePauw University community more aware of and sensitive to issues of diversity on campus. The Diversity and Equity Committee (DEC) developed the plan based on campus climate reports from the last several years and feedback from DePauw Dialogue, which was held at the beginning of the semester.

“The day of inclusion [DePauw Dialogue] was really a jolt,” said Amy Haug, director of human resources and a member of the DEC. “The momentum had really kept going since then.”

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A rendering of Blend once construction is complete. PHOTO COURTESY OF JASON ROSE

The four-page document was supposed to be emailed out to the campus community before the first feedback session on April 9; however, several students don’t remember getting the email.

“I read pretty much every email DePauw sends me, especially if the subject is ‘Developing a Campus Inclusion Plan,’” said junior Sara Blanton. “I don’t remember seeing that one at all.”

Two more feedback sessions will be held this week, one on Wednesday, April 15 at 4 p.m. and another on Thursday, April 16 at 11:30 a.m. Both will be in Thompson Recital Hall in the Green Center for the Performing Arts. The DEC would like to collect all feedback by Friday, April 17. Madison will submit the final plan to the Board of Trustees at the May meeting.

The 2015-2016 plan will serve as an intermediary step while the DEC develops a more in-depth five-year plan. Haug has served two years on the DEC. She said before the administration created Madison’s position, senior advisor to the president for diversity and compliance, and requested a comprehensive plan, the committee’s work was more frag-

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Sustainability Leadership Program that merges Hubbard Center, Office of Sustainability, will launch in the fall directors for Eco-Reps along with fellow junior Thomas Miller, believes that the added structure will be an enticement for students to the new program.

“Right now, all those different projects, it’s EcoReps doing them, and then me and Thomas [Miller] overseeing them. It’s hectic, and it’s tough, and there’s no discernable ladder to climb,” he said. “Now there’s a trajectory. There’s a path.”

Each of these three interns will have certain projects that they will oversee and work with Eco-Reps to complete. While the Sustainable Agriculture Intern will work with the campus farm and the farmer’s market, the Entrepreneurship Intern will be in charge of the Thrifty Tiger—a campus thrift shop opening in the Mason Jar next fall—and the Student Sustainability consultant will work with campus offices, like Facilities Management, to create campus conservation goals Junior Melissa Guerrero, a current Eco-Rep, believes that the SLP and the addition of these internships will make what Eco-Reps does now “bigger”.

“Now there’s a little niche in there for everyone the more it grows,” she said.

Within this plan, Baratta stressed the addition of the partnership with the Hubbard Center.

“We haven’t found another college that’s doing anything like this,” he said. “Nothing that packages it together like this.”

Metzger agreed that the added requirements with the Hubbard Center are key.

“With the Hubbard Center, you’ll be gaining the skills to be a leader and really orienting your life towards where you want to go,” he said.

As well as the addition of Hubbard Center involvement, students who complete the SLP will need to attend a Sustainability Leadership Institute, which is billed on the program’s flier as “a rugged, three day wilderness adventure for SLP students to build friendship, learn teamwork and prepare for an exciting year.”

Along with the college aspect of the institute, Baratta hopes to soon expand into a high school institute.

“In 2016, we’ll take what we learn this summer, and translate it for high school students.”

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Junior Thomas Miller, current student director, pushes a wheelbarrow at the Campus Farm as part of an Eco-Reps initiative. PHOTO COURTESY OF ANTHONY BARATTA With this new program, current Eco-Reps will have the opportunity to either complete the Hubbard Center programming and a Leadership Institute so that they can say they have completed the SLP, or they can choose to work solely within Eco-Reps.

“Students can start off as an Eco-Rep, and they’re not committing to completing the SLP,” he said.

However, students do have to start off as Eco-Reps before being able to move to the higher tiers and paid internships within the programming.

With today as the deadline, Baratta has received about 15 applications, but continues to encourage those interested to reach out to him at his depauw. edu email address.

“When students are empowered to say ‘go make this change and I’ll be there to support you,’—that’s when really amazing things can happen.”

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The three Rs of conservation might soon be changing to an “S,” “L” and “P” when the Sustainability Leadership Program launches next fall.

While student Eco-Reps, who are responsible for taking initiative and participating in conservation efforts around campus, have been around since 2012, their numbers have stayed steadily around ten until recent semesters. This semester, their numbers hit thirty, and Sustainability Director Anthony Baratta ’10 felt the time was ripe to launch the Sustainability Leadership Program (SLP).

“Amidst all of this growth, I was thinking, ‘how do we expand this and make this even more meaningful for students?’” Baratta said.

The solution hit him at a sustainability conference in November, where he listened in on sessions about the role of sustainability officers in career development.

“On the way back from this conference I stayed up all night on the plane ride writing a draft for this program that would add in the leadership institute, would add in the partnership with the Hubbard Center and would have students be able to say they’d completed the SLP.” Under this new, much more structured program, students involved will be expected to complete the 3:6:1 plan. This will include three semesters in an Office of Sustainability student position, take at least six Hubbard Center Learning Through Experiential Applications Programs and attend one Sustainability Leadership Institute retreat.

Unlike the Environmental Fellows, there is no academic aspect to this programming, and Baratta calls is a “complement” to the classroom experience.

There are also now three levels within the program, starting with Eco-Reps and finishing with the two students directors. In the mid-tier section are three new Office of Sustainability interns: the Sustainable Agriculture Intern, the Entrepreneurship Intern and the Student Sustainability Consultant.

Junior Mitch Metzger, one of the current student

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DePauw’s library hours fall short of peer institutions

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It’s nearly 2 a.m., and very few people are in Roy O. West Library. But the few students who are still up until the early hours of the morning will have to relocate once 2 a.m. rolls around.

DePauw University’s main library is open from 7:30 a.m. to 2 a.m., Monday through Thursday; 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday; and 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. on Sunday.

“By large we have pretty close to the same hours we’ve had for the 15 years that I’ve been here,” Rick Provine, director of libraries, said. “We actually open earlier now than we used to because they make changes to time banks.”

Provine cited a time in which there was a 7:50 a.m. time bank for classes.

“We found that students and faculty both appreciate the opportunity to get into the library before going to their first class,” Provine said.

Provine said that among the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA), a group of liberal arts colleges in the Great Lakes that includes several peer institutions such as Kenyon College, The College of Wooster, Denison University and Oberlin College, and the Oberlin group of libraries that includes the top 75 liberal arts colleges in the nation, DePauw’s library hours are comparable.

“We’re always towards the top of that

group in terms of number of hours offered,” Provine said.

However, of the 13 GLCA schools, DePauw ranks seventh in total number of hours open per week at 111.5 hours. By comparison, Kenyon College, which ranks No. 1, is open for 115 hours per week.

Then comes Allegheny College at 114.5 hours per week, a tie between The College of Wooster and Oberlin College at 114 hours per week and a tie between Kalamazoo College and Wabash College at 112 hours per week.

Prior to this year, DePauw’s library was open until 10 p.m. on Saturdays. These added four hours would have placed DePauw as the GLCA school with the most library hours per week. Provine claimed that no one was there during that time.

Despite this middle of the pack ranking, Provine doesn’t believe that more hours are necessarily the answer.

“We’re open until 2 a.m. and we open at 7:30 [a.m.]. There’s such a small window of time that we’re not open,” Provine said. “Gate count show us people like the convenience of 24 hours service, yet it tends to not get used that heavily.”

He noted that there are other ways to measure and compare libraries.

“I feel like one of our priorities is the collection and making sure that we have good reference service so we’re able to help students and faculty use the resources that we have,” Provine said.

In addition, he noted that there are some

spaces that are open 24 hours, such as the Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media and the Student Union Building.

“The idea that there’s nowhere to study between 2 a.m. and 7:30 a.m.,” Provine said.

“I don’t think is really a problem on this campus. Some of the places that offer services [24 hours] tend to be urban campuses where safety really is an issue.”

Caroline Gilson, associate dean of libraries and coordinator of the Prevo Science Library, questions whether being open 24 hours is doing students a service.

“We want to be mindful of the health benefits of rest and relaxation and getting enough sleep,” Gilson said. “We hope to play a part in that by encouraging people to go home and go to bed and not pull three allnighters in a row.”

Junior Casey Walker said that she doesn’t use the library to study often.

“I normally study in my room,” she said.

However, she does remember a time in which she was going to pull an all-nighter in the library with a friend.

“We were going to study together all night, but they came to kick us out,” Walker said. “By that point, the other academic buildings, which would have allowed us to study all night, were closed. We just went to bed.”

Provine said he wants to know if library hours are or are not meeting student needs and encourages students who feel strongly about it to reach out to him.

Students walk into Roy O. West Library after 9:30 p.m. on Sunday night. Roy is open from 7:30 a.m. to 2 a.m. on weekdays. SAM CARAVANA / THE DEPAUW

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PAGE 4 Inclusion | cont’d from page 1 the five-year plan will unify the pieces and address the campus climate holistically.

“It’s organizing the little pieces and saying, ‘This is what we’re all doing,’” said Haug.

Madison said efforts to improve campus climate in the past have been “siloed,” with each department or group addressing problems but not communicating with each other as well as they could. Forming a holistic campus plan is a way to solve that issue.

“I want students to be involved and I want faculty to be involved,” Madison said.

The plan for next academic year includes goals for creating a more diverse student body, offering training workshops for faculty and staff and changing the curriculum. It does not define what ‘diversity’ will mean to the DePauw community. Bruce Burking, senior human resources generalist, and an unofficial member of the DEC,

Blend | cont’d from page 1 requirement could have set the project back even farther delaying Blend’s opening to the fall.

“I was nervous when the city came back and said we needed a grease trap because we wouldn’t have been able to open this semester if that had been the case,” said Rose.

After proving that a grease trap was unnecessary, construction on the bar began on April 7 and is set to conclude by April 17.

“Starting the 20th, you’ll start to see some motion over there and it’ll start to come alive,” said Rose. Blend’s grand opening is planned for April 22.

Independent of construction, Blend has begun the hiring process.

“We currently have 15 student employees and plan to hire about five more,” said

said the committee purposely left out a definition.

“At this point, it’s the DEC not wanting to put words in the mouths of the DePauw community,” Burking said.

Burking said although larger state schools often develop plans similar to DePauw’s, it’s uncommon for a school of DePauw’s size to have one. University President Brian Casey ordered the DEC to develop such a plan anyway.

“From a DEC perspective, it’s about getting a clear path to work toward,” said Burking.

The five-year plan will include a definition of diversity that is based off more feedback from the community. It will also include more specific goals based on feedback from individual departments and organizations. The DEC will then monitor progress through reports. A link to the full 2015-2016 plan can be found in the online version of this article at thedepauw.com.

“This isn’t just a student issue,” Madison

said. “It’s faculty and staff as well.”

Neither the DEC nor the issues it addresses are new to DePauw’s campus. Burking began working with the DEC when he joined the staff 10 years ago. Last year, students organized The Movement to address campus climate issues on campus. The idea of including an M, or multicultural, distribution requirement has been discussed on and off for at least four years and is addressed in the first section of the 2015-2016 plan.

Although members of the DEC developed the 2015-2016 plan in a couple months, they take an entire year to develop the five-year plan, beginning in the fall 2015 semester.

“It’s really going to take a lot of input from everyone,” Madison said. “This is part of the ongoing campus dialogue we want to be having.”

senior Maggie Anderson who is working as an intern for Bon Appetit.

“Some students are only available from 9-11, some are only available from 1- 3 whatever it may be,” said Rose. Working around a student’s busy schedule has not been easy Rose admits. “That makes it really tough for us, but that’s something we’ve committed to, is making sure students have the opportunity to work in the space and make a little extra money.”

Future Blend employee junior Emma Peacha appreciates this commitment. “I have a lot of friends that don’t have work study so being able to have a student led place to work is really nice and I don’t have a lot of work study so it’s just another thing I can add on to it,” said Peacha.

To fill the holes when no student workers are available, Blend will utilize Bon Appetit employees. All employees will get ac-

quainted with their new place employment in the next few days.

“Training begins this week where we will educate the blend team how to operate the [Point of Service] system, familiarize them with the recipes and begin to develop Blend's brand,” said Anderson. Blend plans on using this training period as a soft opening offering free samples to those passing by.

In the meantime, members of the DePauw community seem anxious to get their first drink. “I’ve had multiple people already ask me when it’s opening because they want a smoothie or they want a juice,” said Peacha. “I think the campus will really like it.”

CAMPUSCRIME April 10 • Criminal Mischief to Windows/Fleeing Law Enforcement • Subjects Located/Forwarded to Community Standards Committee | Time: 12:10 a.m. | Place: East College • Alcohol Violation/Welfare Check • Transported to Hospital/Forwarded to Community Standards Committee | Time: 7:36 p.m. | Place: Union Building • Minor In Consumption • Visitor Released to Custody of Parent/Forwarded to Prosecutor’s Office and Community Standards Committee | Time: 11:45 p.m. | Place: Indiana/Jackson Duplex Lot April 11

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• Suspicious Activity • Officer Checked Building/ Checked Okay | Time: 2:07 a.m. | Place: 305 Walnut • Medical • Transported to Hospital/Forwarded to Student Life | Time: 10:48 p.m. | Place: College/ Vine Sts. • Pro-Active Contact/Noise-Loud Music • Made Contact with House Representation Verbal Warning Issued/Forwarded To Campus Living | Time: 11:41 p.m. | Place: Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity April 12 • Domestic Disturbance/Alcohol Violation/ Medical • Transported to Hospital/Forwarded to Community Standards Committee | Time: 12:04 a.m. | Place: Longden Hall • Welfare Check • Officer Checked Area/Unable to Locate Subject | Time: 4:30 a.m. | Place: South Quad • Criminal Mischeif to Sign/Suspicious Persons • Forwarded to Prosecutor’s Office/Forwarded to Community Standards Committee | Time: 4:51 a.m. | Place: College/Olive Sts. • Theft of Banner/Sign • Closed Pending Additional Information| Time: unknown | Place: East College Lawn SOURCE: PUBLIC SAFETY WWW.DEPAUW.EDU/STUDENTLIFE/CAMPUS-SAFETY/PUBLICSAFETY/ ACTIVITY-REPORT/YEAR/2015

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PAGE 5 Members of Alpha Phi squeeze themselves into a minivan during Car Stuff for Little 5 on Monday afternoon. Alpha Phi's

contortionists

were not enough for the win, however, as they only fit 40 members compared to winning Kappa Alpha Theta's 46.

Delta Upsilon took home the gold in the men's division: cramming 31 members into the vehicle. Teams won points toward Little 5 for participating in the activity.

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Members of the class of 2017 sit and enjoy free Chik-Fil-A in the Ubben Quad on Saturday. The event was funded by DePauw Student Government and was meant to bring students of the same class together. SAM CARAVANA / THE DEPAUW

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The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra visits DePauw

BY MADISON DUDLEY features@thedepauw.com

It was the perfect background music to a beautiful day: cheery, exciting and so precisely performed that it sounded like a perfect recording instead of a mastered live performance. The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra performed at DePauw on Sunday evening to a group of classical music fans and students alike in Kresge Auditorium.

The concert was a part of the 2014-2015 Green Guest Artist Concert series. It was an all Beethoven program; Beethoven’s Symphony No.8 in F Minor, Concerto No. 3 in C Minor and Leonore Overture No. 3.

The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is one of the most highly regarded and acclaimed orchestras in the country. They did not play as individual musicians but rather a combined force of sound, creating one musical identity. Comparable to a well oiled machine, all performing perfectly off of the signals coming from the conductor’s wand.

During Concerto No. 3, recording artist, Alice Sara Ott, accompanied the orchestra on the piano.

She is an internationally known award-winning pianist and received a standing ovation from the audi-

ence in Kresge on Sunday night. Even though her performance only lasted one song, in the middle of the concert, she stayed afterwards to sign autographs and meet fans in the Kresge lobby.

“I thought it was an amazing work of art; the pianist and all the other instrumentalists were just fabulous. They were all really into the music,” said first-year Natalia Fumero D’fana. “It was definitely something great to watch.”

This is not the first time that the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra has come to campus. In February of 2014, the orchestra preformed in Kresge, a part of the Green Guest Artist Concert Series.

The orchestra performed Strauss, Mozart and Beethoven and featured international violinist, Stefan Jackiw.

“I thought it was lovely, it was one of my first times hearing the ISO,” said sophomore Evie Brosious.

“It’s awesome!” said first year and music major, Christina Goetz.

It seems that no one left that auditorium in a bad mood. The lighthearted music and calm atmosphere made it, quite possibly, the best way to end a Sunday afternoon.

The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra performed at DePauw Sunday evening. MADISON DUDLEY / THE DEPAUW

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Professor Profile: Brett O’Bannon

PHOTO COURTESY OF BRETT O'BANNON

BY MADISON DUDLEY features@thedepauw.com

Bret O’Bannon is a Leonard E. and Mary B. Howell professor of political science, associate professor of political science and coordinator of the conflict studies program at DePauw University. Professor O’Bannon focuses on areas related to political, gender and economic development in the Third World, specifically West Africa. His current research is on mass atrocity and humanitarian intervention. He was born in Florida, but spent much of his life in Louisville, Kentucky before coming to Indiana. He received his Bachelors degree from the University of Louisville and went to graduate school at the University of Indiana.

This week, The DePauw had the pleasure of sitting down with Professor O’Bannon and learning more about him.

The DePauw (TDP): What is your favorite class that you have ever taught here?

Bret O’Bannon (OB): I would say this course on humanitarian intervention. It engages with some of the things that matter most to me. It engages with ethics. Questions like “Is it appropriate to use military force for humanitarian purposes?”… There are all kinds of ethical issues. Is it okay to violate state sovereignty?

There are ethical and legal and all kinds of political dilemmas. They rise real troubling, difficult vexing questions that students are really prepared to engage with at an interesting level.

I think that course is probably consistently my favorite course to teach.

TDP: What is your favorite moment from your years at DePauw OB: I have like a genre of moments. I think my favorite moments are encounters with former students living their dreams. I can’t tell you how delightful it is to see students doing what they have envisioned. It’s cool to watch these life trajectories, there is no way of predicting where they will go. I was in Washington a few months ago and had ice cream with two of my former students, and its nice to see them doing what they dreamed of doing…These moments are I think are my most rewarding. That’s not to say that times here on campus aren’t really rewarding. Watching people in class make connections, seeing the lights go on. Seeing them realize how things are much more complicated than we tend to imagine and seeing that as a healthy thing. Those are some of my favorites.

TDP: Did you think that when you were younger, this was the kind of place [profession] you would end up in?

OB: No, not for a long time. I wanted to be a lawyer. And then I made the mistake of studying abroad for a year and that was one of the most transformative years of my life. That’s why I so sternly encourage my students to study abroad. My year in France was 1990-1991. The Gulf War was taking place. I was in southern France and there were lots of North Africans there so it was a really fraught space. But I realized that year, that what I liked most in life was conversation, was a committed serious inquiry into the world’s problems. So we stayed up very late most nights over a bottle of wine and solve the world’s problems. And it dawned on me, and my plan was to return but I actually finished my undergraduate degree over their, but my plan was to return and go to law school.

I realized that year that if I did that,that I would eventually have to leave college and those conversations would cease or greatly diminish.

And it was that year that I realized that the way I could stay connected to that kind of life was to stay in the academy and so that’s what I did.

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Tad Robinson promotes ne with other guest musicians

BY AUSTIN CANDOR

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Singer Tad Robinson prefers to play where blues is known and appreciated, pure and simple.

On Friday night, that place wasn’t Chicago, Detroit or Memphis. Instead, it was The Inn at DePauw in Greencastle, Indiana.

Robinson and other acclaimed blues musicians combined their different styles to put on a performance that confirmed blues was alive and well amidst the growing genres of rap, pop and country music of today.

"The whole time I was grooving with the music and everyone seemed really into it," said first-year Alex Bushkin. "And Tad's singing is so soulful, it reminded me of Otis Redding."

“I was very pleased with the show,” said English professor Ron Dye, who helped plan the event with Robinson. “Sometimes even well planned events don’t come off the way you hope they will, but to me this concert was all I envisioned it to

be.... It was a great, enthusiastic audien Guest musicians included guita Specter and 86 year-old Jimmy Johnso been previously nominated for a Gram “The music that we play is… is m than technique,” said Johnson, who played lead guitar for the first half Frid mance. “If you have technique and no it, it’s not that great.”

Robinsons’ set included songs suc Go To Vegas” and “Lonely Talking” fr coming album, “Day into Night,” which an official release on April 21.

Although Robinson was only onst of the performance, he made his prese not only sung, he dazzled the audien harmonica playing and strong leaders end of each song, Robinson became a holding his fist in the air to make sur cians around him, who would occasion into worlds of their own, ended as a ba But despite the success of Friday’s

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Look for upcoming music events at The Inn on DePauw’s website.

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Q & A with Tad Robinson The DePauw had the opportunity to personally sit down with soul blues singer Tad Robinson and learn more about his profession and take on the music business.

The DePauw (TDP: Where are you from?

Tad Robinson (TR): [I was] born in Manhattan. Loved New York city…That was a great childhood…To a person from New York, [it] felt like small town because you lived in your neighborhood, you knew everybody…It felt to a child growing up there that was your playground. tle?

TDP: What brought you to Greencas-

TR: My in-laws…A long time ago, when I decided to go to music school, I left New York and went to the Indiana School of Music…So I went to Bloomington and stayed in the Midwest. Met my wife and her family was from here. So that’s the connection we had to Greencastle.

TDP: How much time does your profession take out of your life?

TR: Well, I do…probably about 100 dates a year right now. Some local, some far away. We’ve played about 15 countries in the last 10 years. All over Western Europe, Eastern Europe…Ultimately, it’s just good to play to play in front of people who have an appreciation for American traditional music, like blues and soul.

TDP: What do you like most about traditional music, or more specifically, the blues?

TR: I like the fact that there is a tradition behind the music. So, there’s a structure and a folklore behind it…I was lucky coming up playing blues because I lived in Chicago for about a decade…There were so many great artists there, and that you could have ready access to them, like you could meet your heroes. So being a blues musician is a little like being a historian.

By virtue of wanting to understand the idiom that you play in, you have to study it, you have to research it.

TDP: Can you give me some background of your new CD? TR: There’re a lot of different types of blues. There’s Delta blues, rock blues… and there’s jazz blues…My brand of blues is…what we call soul blues and the music on my album is 11 original songs that I’ve written with other song writers and [they] are songs about relationships, songs about loss, songs about some gritty blues.

But…it’s more of a singer’s record…

TDP: Where do you get these stories when writing the songs? Are they personal?

TR: Not really. I think a singer is an actor. So people say, “Oh, are these all your personal reflections?” and I don’t think they are…I write with a team…Most of these songs are collaborations with at least one other songwriter…They’re all in my studio band…

TDP: As a vocalist, have you taken lessons?

TR: I’ve taken lessons along the years, but there’s no lesson better than the trenches. You know, being on a tour where you have to sing 11 nights in a row, and sing hard. There’s no school that prepares you for the different environments that you find yourself singing in…You learn tricks.

TDP: What advice would you give an aspiring vocalist?

TR: Meet the sidemen. You’re only going to be as good as your reputation and that’s among the people who are actually active playing gigs. If you’re a singer, your livelihood relies on your relationships with the people who accompany you. You need to impress upon them your professionalism, your preparedness…you need to know you material because you are working with really good side men and side women. They will know the material.

TDP: What would you be if you weren’t a singer?

TR: I always wanted to be a singer from the time I was a little kid, so what I would have done if I hadn’t, I don’t know, because I was so hooked at such a young age, that I never turned back. I really don’t know the answer to that question, because it’s been so long.

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Clinton announces candidacy: facing Paul, Cruz, Rubio on the right Sunday afternoon brought news that was likely expected by most of the nation: Hillary Clinton is running for president, again. At this point in time, she is most likely the Democratic nominee.

Her announcement came in the form of a video depicting Americans getting ready to plant a garden for spring, a heterosexual couple preparing to have a child, a homosexual couple announcing their marriage, the list goes on. The video concludes with this line from Clinton herself: “I’m getting ready to do something too: I’m running for president.”

For 2016, her campaign is centered on making her seem more approachable as she claims, “everyday Americans need a champion and I want to be that champion.” It is time for the structure of things to be in favor of those who work hard everyday, not just those on top.

This announcement of candidacy places her as the only contender on the left while her opponents on the right currently include Texas senator Ted Cruz, Kentucky senator Rand Paul and as of late Monday night, Florida senator Marco Rubio.

Both Rubio and Cruz intend to bring their experience as children of immigrant parents to the forefront of their campaigns.

As Rubio stated in his Monday night bid announcement, “I live in an exceptional country, where even the son of a bartender and a maid can have the same dreams and the same future as those who come from power and privilege."

Cruz’s campaign website echoes similar sentiments, “Ted has been a tireless fighter for liberty his entire life because his family knows what it is like to lose it.

While Paul, the son of two-time Republican presidential candidate and Libertarian presidential nominee Ron Paul, has not faced the experience of growing up the child of a working class family, he still proclaims a fight for liberty.

As Paul’s campaign website indicates, “I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.”

There is much overlap in the GOP candidates, which is not surprising as they are all campaigning for the votes of similar individuals. This just makes it all the more important to pay attention to the news.

Nearly all students at DePauw University will have a vote in the 2016 election. We at The DePauw encourage you to pay attention as candidates both red and blue begin to push out their platforms, inform citizens of their view on hot button issues and vie for your support.

Your vote is an important one, so make it educated. email us at edboard@thedepauw.com

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We’re all just campus cats, and other junior thoughts LEEANN SAUSSER

M

y sister has to pick a college. As in, right now. It’s DePauw or Miami, a classic Midwestern college debate.

Both quality schools, both beautiful. We’ve all been there.

And most of us know: she really can’t go wrong.

Yet she’s convinced that only one is “right.” Leading me to think, as I sit at the third wooden desk of my college career—Did I pick right?

I picked DePauw because of the size. I didn’t get a “feeling.” I wasn’t enamored with East College and tulips lining every walkway. I had no direction for my life and just hoped DePauw could get it for me.

When I stepped onto campus that first August day with my mini-fridge and unnecessary body pillow I wondered, “what have I gotten myself into?”

And that thought never went away.

Junior year sucks. We’re faced with the prospect of losing our senior best friends. “The last summer.” A copious amount of work that awaits us every morning when we roll out of twin beds into the dim light of today.

I feel like I’ve exhausted DePauw. The walk to academic quad is long and gray, the same buildings and trees every day. I see the same people. We talk about the same things.

Weekends bring frats and free movies, dulled by repetition.

I think about my internships, my home, Indianapolis, and can’t help but wish for college to end faster. Not because I’m ready for 9-5 and business casual; because I’m tired.

Freshman year is the year of possibility. Senior year, reminiscing. But juniors? We’re stuck with the same old things. What we love about DePauw is clouded by one too many sightings of East College on a nice day.

Did I pick right?

DePauw took my 18-year-old brain and poked and pushed until I found myself enriched with critical thinking and words. My writing can be molded into something

instead of just letters tossed onto a page. I utilize criticism to make my pieces richer and smoother.

I’ve learned about Java coding, bonobos, Athena, the apostle Paul, Muslim dating sites, “Common Sense,” abolitionist Quakers, 18th century midwives, incarceration of black youth, Andrew Jackson, modern-day racism and fishing.

I’ve learned how to lead, and how to follow; how to speak, and how to listen. How to find friendship and how to accept it. How to make connections. How to break them.

Junior year is tough. We have all the possibilities of adulthood glistening in front of us but just out of reach. At 21, none of us have it together. We’re a bunch of campus cats, huddling against each other for support, watching the more experienced cats move on and the kittens turn to us to see how it’s done.

And gosh, I certainly don’t know how it’s done. I’m comparing students to cats.

I want to think that’s okay. I want to read this in a year, as I think about my last weeks of college, and laugh at my panic. I want to have no idea what’s next, but be okay with that. I want to be proud of my liberal arts education, and not exhausted by it. Will that happen?

It’s my attitude that decides. I can either finish out strong, falling in love with DePauw for the first time my last year. Or I can drag myself through, pulling graduation closer to me until it finally arrives.

It’s always the attitude. Deciding we like our college is what makes it right, not the college itself. That’s the beauty of my sister’s choice; no matter where she goes, she can love it, as long as she makes it her own.

The same goes for me. For all of us. As long as we decide we’re going to love it, and paint the campus over with a fresh coat every time it dulls, we can remember how much we’ve changed. How much we will change. And suddenly, everything’s new.

Did I pick right?

I think I did.

Sausser is a junior English writing and history major from Indianapolis, IN. opinions@thedepauw.com

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Humanity’s lonely search for intelligent life SCOTT LOCKWOOD

Currently, the search for intelligent alien life is underway and NASA predicts to find indications of intelligent life by the year 2025. Humanity will make giant step forward the moment scientists discover signs of another intelligent life form. The concrete knowledge that mankind is not alone could change humans’ perspective on their place in the universe; perhaps odd extraterrestrial-worshiping cults would spring up or political leaders would begin to promote the global unification of mankind. However, even when humans discover signs of intelligent, alien life, there is no way to tell how far along that species is in the evolutionary journey. That being said, where exactly do humans fit on the evolutionary spectrum?

In 1964, Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev proposed the Kardashev scale, a method of measuring a civilizations level of technological advancement. While the scale is completely theoretical, it provides scope to a civilization’s energy usage from the cosmic vantage point. The scale has three main categories: Type I, Type II and Type III. Type I civilizations have mastery of their home

planet, able to use all available energy. Type II are able to utilize all of their host star’s energy, and Type III can completely harness the energy of the entire galaxy. Mankind is far from taking advantage of the Sun or Milky Way’s energy, as humans place at an estimated 0.72.

In the large scheme of the universe, human civilization still has a ways to go before competing with any other potential intelligent species.

Certainly if they are a Type I or above, they would have at least 200 years of technology on mankind.

But in a galaxy so insanely vast, where are those other civilizations?

Physicists Enrico Fermi and Michael Hart answer with Fermi’s paradox, an argued contradiction between the high estimated probabilities that intelligent alien life exists and mankind’s lack of contact or evidence with such a civilization. Fermi and Hart argue that because the Sun is a typical star, fairly young in age, in the billions of stars that make up the galaxy there will be other Sun-like stars. And there is high probability that some of these stars will have Earth-like planets capable of supporting possible intelligent life. Some of those civilizations may advance to the point of developing interstellar travel, and even at the predicted slow pace of interstellar travel, the galaxy can be colonized in a few ten million years.

Following this line of thinking, the Earth should have already been colonized, visited, or at least found by some advanced, intelligent civilization. An explanation to this phenomenon is the

concept of the Great Filter. In the context of an evolutionary timeline, the Great Filter would be an event that is incredibly improbable, barring most species’ advancement to a higher civilization. Humanity’s relative position to the Great Filter has three options. We could have already passed the Great Filter, perhaps it was achieving eukaryotic cells from prokaryotes, or the construction of a multicellular organism. The second option is that mankind is one of the first intelligent species, meaning humans are on their way to becoming a super-intelligent civilizations. Last option is that the Great Filter is still ahead of human evolution.

Humanity has yet to hit the barrier and will most likely fail like many others.

Personally, I believe we are in the third option and the Great Filter is becoming a Type I civilization. Even though mankind is on its way, there is much work to be done to create a planetsustaining infrastructure to last millions of years.

But humanity has the resilience to create a stable Earth and perpetuate onward in time.

Even if life exists elsewhere in the universe, there’s no way that it resembles anything on Earth. Humans and all life we share this planet with is unique on the cosmic scale which makes us, as the only humans in the galaxy, special.

JACKSON MOTE It is no secret by now that DePauw University is changing the structure of the meal plans next semester. The university will begin to use a swipe system rather than the previously used declining balance format to favor the “all-you-care-to-eat” dining halls such as The Hub and the currently being constructed Hoover Dining Hall.

Unfortunately, students will lose some of the options that the declining balance format offered so that the university can forcibly funnel students to the aforementioned “AYCTE” halls.

In a campus-wide email on March 20th 2015, Associate Vice President for Finance Kevin Kessinger stated, “Beginning next fall, the university is changing the meal plan structure to better ac-

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“My favorite part is the campus unity. Everyone comes together to enjoy each other’s company.”

MARCUS DOZIER, JUNIOR

“I’m a fan of the dodgeball tournament because it brings me back to my gym class days.”

Lockwood is a junior math and biology major from Indianapolis, IN. opinions@thedepauw.com

New meal plans: changes made for the wrong reasons commodate the needs of our students”.

With Kessinger’s statement in mind, it is important to understand that this new meal structure is made to benefit the students, but I feel as though it falls short of that goal by removing the declining balance format.

It is clear that the new plan will provide an easy way for students to track their swipe spending rather than having to track their actual dollars spent amount. However, using a declining balance format is part of learning to create good spending and saving habits.

One solution that I would like to propose is to make the swipe system meal plan optional. This would give students a choice in their meal plan rather than forcing them into the new meal plans that DePauw will offer next semester.

Essentially, students that currently attend DePauw could opt-out of the swipe system meal plans in favor of the current declining balance meal plans. Although I do not agree with the idea, DePauw could set the expecation for swipe style meal plans to incoming students and force these incoming students to adopt the swipe system

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meal plans going forward.

I believe that rather than better accommodating the needs of students, the new meal plan structure will force many students into an unrealistic system of using swipes for meals that does not prepare them for real life spending after college.

I doubt that it was coincidental that the email regarding these changes was sent the Friday before spring break. It’s not fair to set the expectation for meal plans as one thing and change it to another while never consulting the people that the change affects.

Do you want to stop DePauw University from forcing us to adopt the swipe meal plans?

Then Google search “DePauw Meal Plan Petition”, sign it and together we can stop Bon Appetit Management Company from creating even more of a monopoly on our campus’ dining than they already have.

Mote is a junior French major from Indianapolis, IN. opinions@thedepauw.com

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“Watching the street sprints because they are really exciting. It’s good to see students support the riders.”

DYAMOND ALI, SOPHOMORE

“I like the street sprints because everyone gathers on Anderson street.”

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Softball splits out-of-conference double header on Sunday

BY MEG MORROW sports@thedepauw.com

A high-scoring DePauw University offense helped the softball team blow out John Carroll University this Sunday in the first game, scoring six runs in the second inning, and seven in the third. Only five innings were played in the first game, while in the second game, the Tigers lost 3-7.

With the doubleheader split, DePauw is now 17-10 overall, while John Carroll sits at 16-10.

“Against John Carroll we went in with intensity and never lost it through out the whole game,” first-year Morgan McCord said of the first game.

The Tigers didn’t let up at all against the Blue Streaks. “We made sure that even though we were winning, we kept getting runs,” McCord said.

Blowout victories are usually perceived as not very good learning experiences, however McCord feels differently.

“This game allowed for the coaches to move people around to see what we need to do for conference games,” McCord said.

“It kept John Carroll from coming back like we did in the Hiram game. It shows that we learned something.”

Even though DePauw lost in the second game and only scored three runs, the team isn’t worried about their offense.

“We hit the ball hard all day,” junior Sammi Bell said, “even though the score in the second game doesn't reflect that our

bats are hot right now.”

Hitting has continually been one of the Tiger’s biggest strengths this season but their success doesn’t just happen.

“Our explosive offense I would say comes from the amount of live hitting we get to do in practice,” Bell said. “A lot of coaches will throw slow front toss to their players before games and in practice and we get to face fast pitching in practice and before games so theirs no adjustment period.”

McCord focuses more on the mental aspect that she thinks benefits her team.

“Our offense strength came from all of us having a plan going up to the plate,” McCord said. “We all waited to get our pitch instead of chasing pitches that we didn't like or couldn't hit well. We also kept the ball on the ground and made them make the plays, which resulted in errors allowing us to have long offensive innings.”

Pitch selection has been enforced for the Tigers all season. One of the top hitters of the game senior Jennifer Ridge believes that this success can and will be continued through the end of the season.

“I think to continue to have great offensive games, we will need to continue to have good pitch selection,” Ridge said.

“When we stick to our strike zone and our personal plan at the plate, we have an unbelievable offense.”

She had three hits, equaling the output of first-year Elizabeth Getz. Classmate Linsey Godden, who was the NCAC player of the week last week, had two.

Having an out-of-conference game for a break from the NCAC has been good for the Tigers—they have another doubleheader against Illinois Wesleyan University today before they return to conference play against Ohio Wesleyan University on Wednesday.

“Playing an out of conference game was really fun because John Carroll is a fantastic opponent that is in our region,” Ridge said.

Not only are out-of-conference games enjoyable for the team, they are also beneficial.

“We treated these non-conference games just like we would a conference games with the same amount of focus just to keep ourselves prepared,” McCord said.

“I think these two games will help us play better agains OWU.” When it comes to the out-of-conference schedule, the team feels appropriately challenged.

“Our coaches do an amazing job scheduling our out-of-conference schedule to be tough and competitive,” Bell said. “John Carroll is a great program, Illinois Wesleyan is also a great program and a ranked team.”

“I feel that facing these two exceptionally talented teams will only push our skills to be better and to sharper going into the conference games Wednesday against OWU,” Bell would go on to say.

The Tiger’s play at Illinois Wesleyan today and will face the conference rival Battling Bishops on Wednesday, also away from Greencastle.

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Freshman Kathleen Byers swings at a pitch during the Tigers double header against Oberlin College. DePauw trumped Oberlin 11-0 and 9-1. SAM CARAVANA / THE DEPAUW

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Men's lax breaks offensive records in blowout of Terriers

BY JACOB LYNN sports@thedepauw.com

In their last two games before Saturday’s matchup with Hiram College, DePauw University lacrosse had scored nine goals while losing both games.

That lack of offensive output quickly disappeared against the lowly Terriers, as DePauw scored a recordbreaking 28 goals and earned a 26 point victory on the road.

The win moves the Tigers to 6-7 overall and a 2-4 record in conference play while the Terriers drop to 3-8 and 1-5 in North Coast Athletic Conference portion of their schedule.

An outburst against Hiram was nothing new to the Tigers, however.

When the two teams got together last season, DePauw picked up its first ever NCAC victory, pummeling the Terriers by a final score of 19-5.

This season’s meeting came at just the right time for the Tigers after a pair of difficult losses at the hands of conference rivals, The College of Wooster and Wittenberg University.

Taking on the 3-8 Terriers allowed the Tigers to take out some frustration, so the thought of a letdown was the last thing on the minds of the players.

“We were pretty confident,” sophomore Benton Givens said. “We've played them and beat them before and didn't expect any surprises.”

That confidence showed early on, as the Tigers jumped out to a lead right out of the gates. First-years Kyle Roberts and Andrew Wright along with sophomore Nick Woerner all scored goals in the span of a minute early on in the first quarter.

After the Terriers got on the board at the 8:46 mark, DePauw quickly replied and rebuilt their lead. The Tigers scored the final four goals of the first quarter, bolstered by the first career goal from sophomore Dan Kantor.

Already up by six goals after 15 minutes of play, the Tigers erased any doubt of a Hiram comeback with their play in the second quarter.

The Tigers struck 11 times in the 15 minute quarter to put the game

out of reach with tallies from eight different players. The period saw the Tigers get a pair of goals from both sophomore Eric Speer and Roberts in addition to individual goals from Woerner, Givens, Wright, sophomores Grant Skipper and Sam Alkema and first-years Ben Sherman and Jack Roberts.

Already up big and having scored twice in the first half, Wright decided it was time to take things over when the Terriers and Tigers reconvened for the second half.

“My teammates knew their role on the team which was to feed the beast,” Wright said.

And feed him they did. Wright scored four of DePauw’s five goals in the third quarter and added one more at the 12:34 mark of the fourth quarter rounded out his scoring day at seven, a total that broke the DePauw single-game record.

Wright wasn’t the only underclassman to step up and perform on Saturday, however. In addition to Wright’s seven goals, DePauw got an additional nine from other first year players, a fact that isn’t lost on some of the team’s sophomore leadership.

“We've had numerous freshman step up to the plate this year and really be driving factors in the offense,” Alkema said. “They all bring something different to the team and are dangerous with the ball.”

The Tigers will likely need the help from some of those first-years as they wrap up their season with two final games this week against conference rivals Ohio Wesleyan University and Oberlin College.

“Ohio Wesleyan will be a tough game but we're hoping the energy from this past weekend will carry over for these last two games,” Alkema said.

The Tigers will host the Battling Bishops in their home finale on Wednesday with the action set to get underway at 5 p.m.

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Wittenberg outshines DePauw women’s lacrosse for third consecutive year

BY ABBY MARGULIS sports@thedepauw.com

Wittenberg University’s lacrosse team was not leaving DePauw University’s turf without a victory on Saturday.

The 16-9 defeat marked the visiting Tigers’ 27th-straight regular season conference win. Even with the loss DePauw improved from last season when Wittenberg proceeded to score 17 times in the first half of the game and eight in the second to a final defeat, 25-12.

DePauw knew the game would be tough and this rung true after the first three minutes when the women fell behind Wittenberg by five goals.

“Wittenberg traditionally has been one of the best teams in the NCAC, and this year is no different,” sophomore goalie Liz Hawkins said. “Their offense is dynamic, their transition is quick, and they are quick off the draw.”

Wittenberg also had a very aggressive team, but DePauw didn’t let that pressure affect them first-year Marisa Ellison

said. “[We moved] the ball quickly, whether in transition or settled offense, feeding into the 8 and receiving a feed to quickly get a shot off,” Ellison said.

The women also played a strong defense to keep the score closer than it has been in past years.

“We worked hard to mark the cutters tight and applied pressure on the ball carrier which helped in the second half tremendously,” Hawkins said. “The defense did a great job at forcing them to take bad angle shots and then getting open in the clear.”

Wittenberg dominated in draw control winning 20 out of 27, which is where the DePauw Tigers found their weakness.

“To increase the amount of opportunities we had to score, we had to win the draw,” Hawkins said. “Winning the draw equals possession and another opportunity to score, and we only won a few throughout the entire game.”

DePauw senior Carey Kunz led the Tigers with four goals and Ellison added

a pair. Hawkins totaled 17 saves. On Wittenberg’s team Becca Joseph scored seven, Logan Warye scored six and Megan Loofbourrow finished with three.

DePauw’s team has shown growth from the past seasons, but losing is never easy.

“We were all hungry for a win but unfortunately dug ourselves into too big of a hole to get ourselves out of,” sophomore Emily Scinta said. “We didn’t win but we realize that we made mistakes and struggled on the draw controls. We are going to work on mixing up the draw and getting all of the ground balls.”

Tuesday the Tigers will face Ohio Wesleyan University and are looking to come out victorious after falling to the Battling Bishops a year ago.

“We want to set the pace of the game, get an early lead, and keep up the momentum,” Ellison said. “We want to be a strong competitor in conference, so this is an important game to win.”

Head women's lacrosse coach Julie Sargent throws up her hands in frustration after a penalty is called against the Tigers. DePauw fell to Wittenberg University on Saturday 9-16, upping their losing streak to three.

SAM CARAVANA / THE DEPAUW

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DePauw track and field records fall at Indiana Division III Championships

BY JACOB LYNN sports@thedepauw.com

Sophomores CJ Copeland (left) and Brad Wise (right) leap into water in the men’s 3000m steeplechase. DePauw hosted the Indiana Division III Championships on Saturday. ALI BAKER / THE DEPAUW

DePauw University’s women’s track and field teams rebounded with a strong finish at the Indiana Division III Championships held at Blackstock Stadium on Saturday afternoon while the men finished in the middle of the pack at the same event.

The DePauw women finished second out of seven competing schools, while the men’s team came in fourth place out of eight teams.

While the Tigers placed first in only one event, the women were paced by six second place finishes on the day.

The lone win for the Tigers came in record breaking fashion from first-year Rachel Gutish in the pole vault. Gutish’s jump of 3.41 meters in the finals was enough to take home a first place finish and in the process, break a DePauw school record.

“It felt pretty incredible,” Gutish said. “I’ve been chasing the record all year and I’m glad that place I finally got it was at our last home meet of the season.”

In addition to Gutish, the Ti-

gers had a pair of second place finishes in the field events. Senior Celia Kauth was second in the high jump while junior Katie Manalo took home silver in the discus throw.

On the track, the DePauw women were led by junior Maggie Royalty who came in second in the 100 meter dash and sophomores Amanda Weber and Odessa Fernandes who both finished second in the 200 meter and 400 meter races respectively.

“We all worked together and had some of our best performances of the season yesterday,” Weber said. “It was great to see people supporting one another and doing their best for both themselves and the team.”

All in all, the Tigers totalled 140 points and finished 12.5 points back of winner Franklin College.

On the men’s side, three first place finishes helped the Tigers earn a fourth place mark.

While the women were paced by the sprinters, it was the long distance runners who carried the day for the men’s team.

Junior Paul Watts took home a first place finish in the 10,000

meter race, crossing the line in just over 32 minutes. Senior Noah Gatwood was also first to cross the finish line in the 5,000 meter race with a time of 15:26.04.

“It was a great day, sunny and barely any wind,” Watts said. “I got to go out and beat some Wabash kids, couldn’t ask for anything more.”

In the field events, junior Marcus Dozier continued his remarkable season. The junior’s throw of 16.03 meters in the shot put final was enough to win the event for the seventh time this season.

“I would have to say a lot of my success this year comes from my dedication to my events by practicing over the summer and during both preseason and offseason,” Dozier said about his run of success this season.

The Tigers finished with 72 points on the afternoon, a mark good enough for a fourth place finish, however they fell 182 points behind eventual winner Wabash College.

Next up for both of DePauw’s teams is the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Twilight event that will take place at 5 p.m. on Friday evening.

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DePauw University athletics faces a challenge, a big challenge. By next year, they will have to fill not one, but two vacant coaching positions.

Women’s field hockey head coach Gina Willis and men’s basketball assistant coach Brian Oilar have announced they will be stepping down from their coaching positions after this year.

“It’s hard to be upset about it,” athletic director Stevie Baker-Watson said.

“It’s bittersweet movements for us because we do consider ourselves family, but at the same time, we’re really happy for them.”

So where does DePauw go from here? As of now, the two sports pro-

grams, along with Baker-Watson, find themselves in the information-gathering process, as the two transitions were made official last Tuesday with the job openings currently posted.

Men’s basketball already has close to 100 applicants for the job.

“It’s our job to…determine what our criteria are…what’s important to us with this position,” men’s basketball head coach Bill Fenlon said. “We’ll put our heads together and try to come up with a short list of folks we want to talk to and get to know a little bit better.”

Along with notifying other DIII programs and alumni of the positions, DePauw has also reached out to certain people who they feel would make strong applicants.

But regardless of who the applicants are, DePauw tries to make its overall re-

cruitment processes different from any other athletic program.

“When I was hired here, I was very impressed with the process,” said head football coach Bill Lynch, who has been recruited twice having left DePauw in 2004 and returned in 2013. “The campus visits were very good…I think [with] their approach, they wanted every candidate to leave having not only the university getting a good feel for the candidate, but making sure the candidate had a real good feel for the university.”

But it’s not only the coaching staff and Baker-Watson who will have an influence on the two candidates who will fill these positions. Baker-Watson plans to meet with the players of both teams to gather input. “[Field hockey players] will literally tell me, ‘these are the traits that

we want to have of this person coming in,'” Baker-Watson said. "‘They need to understand that academics come first, they’ve got experience coaching college aged women,’ you know…whatever it is, they’re going to tell me that.”

For men’s basketball, Baker-Watson will get an idea from Fenlon of what he wants her to ask his players when it comes to picking the ideal traits of an assistant basketball coach.

“The hope would be that by the time we whittle the list down that there’s not going to be anybody coming in here who’s going to be popping up any red flags for our guys,” Fenlon said.

But as much as the process is focused on finding another coach, Fenlon also looks at it as a way to “reevaluate.”

“It...reenergizes you a little bit in bringing in someone new…It makes

you rethink what you’re doing. Like every time you have to teach something, you have to think about it first,” Fenlon said. “It’s an opportunity to maybe tweak things a little bit here or there, make some changes that maybe you haven’t made because you’ve been… rolling along in the same way.”

In terms of his assistant coach, Fenlon has worked with Oilar for more than just the six years Oilar has served on the coaching staff, as Fenlon coached him as a player during his time here as a student.

Both programs hope to make significant progress in their search before the school year ends, as they look to build on the success of their winning seasons from a year ago.

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TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015

Tigers win two, lose two against OWU QUICK RUNDOWN

DePauw: 6-4 in the NCAC Ohio Wesleyan: 6-2 in the NCAC

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Sophomore designated hitter Mike Hammel swings at a pitch during DePauw's first loss to Ohio Wesleyan on Saturday.

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“The biggest reason for our success was our defense playing outstanding and only having one error in both games on Sunday. We’ve struggled a lot defensively this year but they did a great job yesterday. On Saturday we had some costly errors which could’ve limited runs in a couple of their big scoring innings.”

- Pitcher Jack Peck “Both wins on Sunday was exactly what we needed heading into a tough week and weekend of baseball that is coming up.”

-Fielder Johnny Gbur

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Winning pitchers: Jack Peck Mike Hammel

Losing pitchers: Wyatt Spector Eric Steele

Home runs hit: Tate Stewart Lucas Italiano

Freshman Johnny Gbur gets tagged out at first base during the DePauw's first game against Ohio Wesleyan. The Tigers won both games in the second doubleheader, 2-1 then 13-1.

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DePauw Record:

6-4 in NCAC, 9-15 overall