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Hot water to fully return next week after repair work to steam pipe By KEVIN KILLEEN news@thedepauw.com
Facilities management has had to sporadically shut off hot water to Mason and Lucy as it began repair work on a leaky steam main near East College on Thursday. Work is expected to be finished early next week. CHRISTA SCHROEDEL / THE DEPAUW
Residents of Lucy Rowland Hall and Mason Hall should be expecting another day or two of intermittent hot water as Facilities Management wraps up repair work on a leaky steam pipe on the south side of East College. The repair has left the academic buildings of Harrison Hall, Asbury Hall and Roy O. West Library in the Holton Memorial Quadrangle and East College without steam based services, which include heat not only for the water but also the building as a whole. “Our goal is to be finished early next week,” said Jim Ruark, assistant director of Facilities Management. The steam pipe used to create hot water for students began leaking more steam than usual Tuesday of this week. Facilities Management briefed students on the situation with an email Wednesday afternoon, explaining that repairs would begin Thursday morning and leave residents with “intermittent” hot water until they fix it in “three working days.” As a result of the weekend, the work will spill into next week. According to Ruark, the hot water will only be turned off when the repair team is working on finding the leak, which shouldn’t exceed
their typical 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. work schedule. “When we do locate it and isolate it, we’ll just have to fit a new piece underground and weld it together,” Ruark said. As of yesterday, Ruark said the repair team has not found the leak, but is optimistic they will locate it today. Regardless of whether they locate it today, Ruark said there will be hot water all weekend. However, first-year Stephen Johnson said he was frustrated with the situation because he wasn’t prepared for the icy water. “I went back to Lucy expecting a nice hot shower, but instead was greeted with a wall of stinging cold water all over my face,” Johnson said. “It made me feel very upset and very cold.” Sophomore John Lucciola recalls another time that hot water has not been available in the residence halls. “Last year in South Quad, they shut off our hot water because of construction,” Luccioia said. “It’s very frustrating.” Ruark admitted that leaks are not unusual in a steam-oriented hot water system, but insists that it is the most economical way to make hot water. Although the repair is inconvenient, it is the only way for the hot water to be permanently fixed for Ubben Quad residents.
Former university professor Akshat Vyas arrested By DANA FERGUSON news@thedepauw.com
Greencastle police arrested Akshat Vyas, a former DePauw psychology professor, Thursday afternoon on a warrant for charges of harassment. A sheriff at the Putnam County Jail said in a phone interview Thursday night that Vyas was booked at 1:30 p.m. Thursday and has not caused
any trouble since his arrival. The sheriff also said Vyas may face his trial at the Putnam County Courthouse as soon as today, should the judge choose to hear his case. The arrest occurred less than a week after University President Brian Casey terminated Vyas for breaking the terms of his suspension from the faculty by communicating with students and entering on university property. University officials are watching the new devel-
opments in Vyas' story. "We are aware of the situation and are monitoring it closely," said Jonathan Coffin, assistant to the president and director of strategic communications. Vyas’ wife, Soma Dixit, filed a protection order against her husband Thursday, April 10 after experiencing verbal harassment from him. Dixit documented 19 separate incidents of verbal abuse in her request for the protection order. After being contacted by a reporter Dixit said
"We are aware of the situation and are monitoring it closely," -Jonathan Coffin, assistant to the president and director of strategic communications.
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Throwing expired medications straight into your bathroom’s mini trash can does more harm than good. Flushing them down the toilet isn’t a good idea either. “Pharmaceuticals can enter the water supply when we dispose of them by flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the trash,” said organizer Quamina Carter, a licensed clinical addictions counselor in the state of Indiana. Surprisingly, many people are unaware how improper disposal of drugs harms the environment. According to Carter, pharmaceutical-related chemicals can end up in our lakes, rivers, streams and underground water, damaging the local aquatic ecosystem. For years, these chemicals have been found even in our own drinking water. Fortunately, these chemicals are not harmful to human life. To combat the issue, DePauw Counseling Services teamed up with DePauw Environmental Club and Putnam County P.I.E Coalition to host Drug Take Back Day. On Saturday, April 26, 2014 there will be a distribution of hazard bags throughout DePauw University’s campus. Students and Putnam
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County citizens can use these bags to safely dispose of unused, expired or unwanted prescription medications, as well as any illicit substances. The hazard bags can then be placed into a drop box that will be located in the main entrance of the Union Building from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. First-year Jamie Fritsch sees the importance of proper disposal for prescription drugs. She also thinks events like Drug Take Back Day are important because they educate people and provide a safe way to dispose of prescriptions. “I understand how people would just throw away their drugs if they are not aware of the option or unaware of the consequences,” said firstyear Jamie Fritsch. “But if people are aware of it then I don’t see why people would choose to not dispose of their drugs in this way.” Sophomore Matthew Bigger also thinks Drug Take Back Day is a good idea. “If I had drugs sitting around and I was conscious of it then it would definitely be an event that I would take into consideration,” said Bigger. In the end, Drug Take Back Day is not only an event to motivate individuals to dispose of their drugs in a manner that will not provide harm to our environment, but also to keep prescription drugs out of the hands of individuals for whom they are not endorsed.
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landlord or set up your cable,” Seitz said. “Having these discussions, talking to people who have [done these things]…can be really beneficial.” Coffin, assistant to the president and director of strategic communications at DePauw, advised the students not to have their life planned out completely before graduation, because odds are the plan will not stay that way. “I was hell-bent on going to D.C. I wanted to work in politics. I wanted to work in Republican politics. I’m not a Republican anymore,” Coffin said. “Where you think you’ll be isn’t necessarily where you’ll end up, nor is it where you might want to end up.” In addition, he stated what many may find obvious but that he still believed to be vitally important knowledge to the post-graduate adult: work as hard as you possibly can. “Work your ass off. Whatever your job is, do it really well,” Coffin said. “Whatever it is you’re doing, be great at it. Be prepared to keep learning.” Kopecky gave advice as to what the students could take advantage of while they are still students here. “We did not have the alumni gateway, and I wish I would have known back then how great of a tool that would be,” she said. “That tool is so valuable. So, so valuable. And we want to help. I mean, we’re sitting up here as alums. I would love if someone would connect with me and I could help somehow.” Senior Christine Webster said she has no idea what to expect post-graduation. She explained that, while this panel certainly helped her prepare herself for what is to come, it is impossible to know what to expect until you are in the moment. “I don’t know I think its one of those things that none of us will really understand until we jump in with both feet and kind of start our full time jobs,” Webster said. “You can do a million internships, but until you’re on for forever…I think it’s really hard to fully understand what the real world is really like.” While it may be a scary experience, Coffin assured the students that they will endure and they will survive. “We all left DePauw, and you will too,” Coffin said. “Life will continue.” And even if there are struggles along the way, Kopeky said, students will pick themselves back up and continue on. “Don’t be afraid to fail,” she said. “You pick yourself back up, and you go in and your try something new…you’re always learning and becoming a better version of yourself.”
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Course registration is “normal” Warmer weather brings for Registrar and students spring, buds and holidays By EMILY MCCARTER news@thedepauw.com
Every semester, students complain that they didn’t get into the classes they requested. The Office of the Registrar, however, asserts that this is normal. “It happens every year,” said Registrar and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Ken Kirkpatrick. “The numbers weren’t really out of the normal [range]. Usually the people who didn’t get any classes who were eligible to register is less than two percent.” Some students are ineligible to register for classes because they have holds on their accounts for not paying their tuition or other fines on their accounts. For many students, however, it is just the luck of when their requests are processed in the system. This semester, the last group of students who had their course request sheet processed included students with last names S-Z. First-year Jack Sampson fell in this group. “I requested seven classes and didn’t get into any of them,” Sampson said. “At first I thought [the system] was broken. And then I called [the Registrar’s office] and they told me to click the link at the top right and it showed that I hadn’t been enrolled in any of them. Basically [the office] then said ‘Well, you’re on your own.’” After hearing the Registrar’s office response to his dilemma, Sampson emailed several professors to try to get on the wait list for their classes. “From there, I emailed my advisor who was teaching one of the computer science classes I wanted and he got me on the wait list,”Sampson said. “I sent out like four or five emails about class-
es to see if I could get on their wait lists.” He got on three wait lists and was able to pick up two history classes he wanted because they were open. Sampson thinks the main problem is that DePauw doesn’t offer enough classes that are in high demand for students. Kirkpatrick agrees with this, but says it is hard for DePauw to hire part-time professors to teach just one or two classes that are in high demand. “If there’s huge demand [for a course] then sometimes we’ve been about to add one,” Kirkpatrick said. “Though unlike a lot of schools we don’t really have a real ready pool of part time instructors.” Some courses that have a high demand with students are Introduction to Spanish and economics courses. “Largely it’s with Spanish 140, that course that if you don’t test out of Spanish, but you’ve studied it that you have to take in order to complete the language requirement,” Kirkpatrick said. “There just seems like a lot more students who are in that situation than we have courses for. In those cases, it’s usually best to talk to the instructor or the department chair.” First-year Danielle Dattilio experienced problems getting into Spanish 140 first hand. “It’s frustrating that I was in the first priority for class requests and had the 140 Spanish class as my very first choice and still couldn’t get in,” Dattilio said. Although there can be many problems that arise with selecting courses, the Registrar’s office sends out emails to all students about how to choose classes wisely. The Registrar’s office advises students to make sure that they are eligible for the courses that they are requesting and that there
First-year Jack Sampson attempted to enroll in seven classes, but the system enrolled him in zero. PHOTO COURTESY OF JACK SAMPSON
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This time of year, nature begins anew. At DePauw, yellow tulips pop up in the gardens around campus, the scent of lilac fills the air and trees spring to life. For centuries, people have woven nature’s rebirth into their religious observances. “Human beings tend to weave the seasons into their religious holidays for a variety of reasons,” said Director of the Center for Spiritual Life Kate Smanik. “A lot of spring holidays celebrate the spring because we’ve been in a dark time for quite a while, and it comes out in a variety of ways.” Recently, Jews and Christians celebrated Passover and Easter, respectively. Passover celebrates the Israelite escape from slavery in Egypt, commonly known as the story of Moses in the second book of the Hebrew Bible. The celebration lasts eight days in the month of Nissan in the Jewish lunar calendar, which generally falls in the spring.
“A lot of spring holidays celebrate the spring because we’ve been in a dark time for quite a while, and it comes out in a variety of ways.” - Kate Smanik, director of the Center for Spiritual Life
During Passover, Jews retell the story of the Israelites’ escape from slavery in Egypt. According to the exodus story, found in the second book of the Hebrew Bible, Exodus, Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt and across the Red Sea to a country of their own that God promised them. A few common themes in the story are renewal and rejuvenation. “In Passover, the “telling” of the narrative of Exodus is consciously connected to a narrative of spring, renewal, and rejuvenation,” religious studies professor Beth Benedix wrote in an email. The dates of the eight days of Passover depend on the Jewish lunar calendar. According to the Jewish calendar, Passover spans eight days in the spring month of Nissan. These dates, however, do not necessarily match the dates of the Israelites’ journey from Egypt. “It doesn’t have to play into ‘this is the day that it happened, this is why we commemorate it,’” said
junior Alex Alfonso, a Jewish Interfaith Intern at the Center for Spiritual Life. “It’s more of, ‘this is the time that we celebrate it in the year.’” For Christians, Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. According to the resurrection story in the Gospels, Jesus rose from the dead three days after the Passover feast. Since Friday is the Jewish holy day, Jesus would have risen the Sunday after Passover. Like the Passover story, the story of Easter carries tones of renewal and rejuvenation. “Resurrection becomes a kind of literal representation of winter waking up into spring,” Benedix wrote. In Christianity’s early days, Easter’s date was directly connected to Passover. In the following centuries, however, church officials debated when Easter should be celebrated. Eventually, the eastern and western churches chose separate methods for determining the holiday’s date. In America, the national date for Easter is scheduled according to the western calendar, which declares Easter to be the first Sunday after the first full moon following March 21, which is the spring equinox. Some popular Easter traditions in America, such as egg hunts and chocolate bunnies, have pagan roots. Some historians believe these traditions are remnants from the conversion of European pagans to Christianity in Middle Ages. “[Missionaries] were trying to get the followers of those [pagan] traditions into Christianity and trying to convert them, and overlapping those holidays was a way to do that,” Smanik said. “I don’t know that that makes them less authentic or adds more validity to them. I think that they are our authentic, religious experience.” Another holiday that celebrates the coming of spring is the Hindu holiday Holi. “Holi is a spring festival that celebrates colors,” Smanik said. “The celebration that ties in color is about spring, rebirth, renewal.” There are several other holidays that occur in the spring as well. Theravadin Buddhists celebrate the Buddhist New Year in April. Theravadin Buddhists live predominantly in Thailand, Burma, Sri Lanka and Laos. Sikhs celebrate Vaisakhi in the spring, which has different meanings in different regions. In India, it is a harvest festival, in others a new year celebration. No matter what spring holiday is celebrated, one idea is bound to be present: a new beginning.
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Earth Week speaker concerned about the future of the environment By LEAH WILLIAMS features@thedepauw.com
Sandra Steingraber was a normal biology major at Illinois Wesleyan University on the track to become a doctor when she was diagnosed with bladder cancer. “It convinced her that medical school was not for her, because she had spent enough time in hospitals,” said J.H. “Jim” Benedix in his introduction. Benedix is the Winona H. Welch Professor of Biology and Co-Director of the Environmental Fellows Program. As Steingraber discovered, bladder cancer is what she called the “quintessential environmental cancer.” One of the first things her doctor asked her after her diagnosis was if she had “vulcanized tires” or “smelted aluminum.” As it turned out, she had grown up downwind of an aluminum smelter in a town whose drinking water had been polluted by dry cleaning solvent. Steingraber was only one of a cluster of affected citizens. Instead of becoming a doctor, Steingraber became a poet, author, scientist and activist. On Wednesday, she visited DePauw University to speak as part of Earth Week. “I read Sandra Steingraber’s book as a first year and that had a big impact on me as an environmentalist,” said sophomore Tyler Donaldson. On April 23, Steingraber came to DePauw to give a talk entitled “The Whole Fracking Enchilada: Toward Meaningful Chemical Reform and a Rational Energy Policy” in honor of Earth Day. Her visit was part of Earth Week, a collaboration between the Environmental Fellows and DePauw Environmental Club. She started her talk with an analogy. “The environmental crises is like a tree with two trunks…one trunk represents what’s happening to our planet and climate…the other trunk is what’s happening to us, to our bodies.” Her field of study, and the focus of much of her speech, is the second trunk. To fix the problems of the second trunk, she said, people have to understand the first. “If the public doesn’t understand climate change, then somebody isn’t explaining it very well,” Steingraber said. She spent much of the first half of her presentation explaining the greenhouse gases methane and carbon dioxide: where they come from and how they affect the environment. Both come from living things, and carbon dioxide is what we exhale. “Your breath is going to outlive you,” she told the audience. One of Steinberger’s main concerns is the affect our lives will have on future generations. Her cancer was caused by a chemical that had been improperly disposed of 80 years before she was even born. Her son has asthma, allergies and a mild learning disability. Steingraber demonstrated her care for younger generations during her speech when a baby started crying. She stopped talking to tell the parents, “Please don’t leave.” Steingraber described some of the environmental problems occurring today, many of which she feels are widely overlooked by the general population. After detailing a particular issue with plankton, she asked, “If this is news to you, why is that?” She compared ecological and economic news and pointed out how the public pays attention to one and not to the other. To Steingraber, they are equally important. Eventually, Steingraber started talking about her passion:
fracking. Fracking is a process by which bubbles of ancient methane gas trapped within a layer of slate underground can be extracted. First, a drill moves sideways through the stone. Then, it’s blown up. A sand, water and chemical mixture is blasted through the cracks to release the pressure and expose the methane. “The sand grains are like tiny door stops that hold open the stony door,” Steingraber said. Poisons are also added to the mixture, and that concerns environmentalists like Steingraber, who helped found New Yorkers Against Fracking. The slate contains living things that could clog the pipelines, so they are eradicated. “Is that smart? Is that okay? That’s the question of our age,” she said. After her explanation of fracking, Steingraber had everyone take out their phones and visit www.thesolutionsproject.org. The site details ways that each state can switch entirely to alternative energy. It is possible by 2050, according to the site and Steingraber, but only if we cut our energy use in half. “Not only do I think this is realistic, I think it’s the path to salvation,” she said. She believes in the power and adaptability of the youth. “You’re used to unfamiliarity and adjusting to new technology in ways that maybe we who are older are baffled by,” Steingraber said. Steingraber can’t understand why some things have changed, but energy sources have stayed the same. People no longer tolerate smoking in public places, phones have evolved and communication has changed drastically. Cars still run on gasoline. “If we brought my great-grandfather back to life, he wouldn’t know how to pick up the phone and call someone,” Steingraber said. “But he would know how to put gas in my car.” Steingraber ended her talk with a reading from an essay she wrote last year, when she spent Earth Day in jail. The essay, called “Coffee in Jail,” described her experience the first night, particularly the lack of coffee. Steingraber was arrested for refusing to allow a gas distribution company to bypass her access to a lakeshore they had purchased. They planned to use the salt caverns to store harmful chemicals. Steingraber decided to practice civil disobedience. “Turns out I’m a really good prisoner,” she said. “It’s not as ‘other’ as you might think.” She occupied herself with a Bible, pencil and paper during her fifteen-day sentence. Steingraber enthralled many of the students in attendance, most of whom were already passionate about the environment. “I thought the talk was excellent,” said sophomore Thomas Miller, president of the DePauw Environmental Club. “If the scientists don’t speak up, how will people learn?” “[Steinberger] concisely described why she, and the rest of us, need to educate ourselves and take action to improve our environment,” sophomore Jessica Keister said. Keister is an Environmental Fellow and on the Environmental Club’s executive board. Above all else, Steingraber worries for her children. She’d rather them have a mother in jail than live in a polluted world. “My kids have no future if we continue with fossil fuels.”
Envirotmental activist Sandra Steingraber spoke enthusiatically about ethilogical issues like fracking in a talk given Wednesday evening. LEAH WILLIAMS / THE DEPAUW
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“Bluebird” took flight last night and will continue to soar tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. in the Green Center for the Performing Arts’ Moore Theatre. The idea for “Bluebird,” a student-led dance production premiering this weekend, began several years ago when current junior Andre Williams, “Bluebird” artistic director and head choreographer, was a senior in high school. It was inspired by the poem of the same name by Charles Bukowski. “‘Bluebird’ is about a young man, his name is Theodore, who looses his grandmother,” Williams said of his character. “He’s taking care of his grandmother for the first act, and he’s fallen in love with a girl that he grew up with. After his grandmother dies he pursues her.” However, being in a show that you choreograph has some downfalls. “I haven’t been able to see it because I’ve been running around like a crazy man all the time,” Williams said. To over come this challenge, Williams filmed practices and put the videos in a private Facebook group. The dancers could watch the videos and practice as needed. “I think if there’s anything that I’ve learned, and this goes for ‘Elements’ as well, it’s that it’s hard,” Williams said. “It’s really hard to put together a show, an hour and a half dance show, with one or two choreographers.” Last spring, Williams choreographed and stared in another dance production, titled “Elements.” Williams was a one-man production team for “Elements,” but this year, he had an entire production team. “My production team is absolutely amazing,” Williams said. “I’ve been able to rely on other people and let them do their
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thing.” Junior Kay Wood was the producer, and senior Shannon Crosby was the assistant director. The complete production team was comprised of 12 students, including Williams, Wood and Crosby. Veronica Pejril, instructional technologist and coordinator of the Music Instructional Technology Center, composed the music for the production. “[Isabella Capasso] was the main costume designer, but I was there to help out,” said sophomore Tori Lividini. “I did a lot of additional roles like putting on little pieces and helping with certain designs and fabrics.” Lividini was the assistant costume designer for “Bluebird.” Prior to the show, she only had experience in costuming theatre productions. “Dance is a lot different because you have to keep in mind how they’re moving and how it’s going to look through the movements,” Lividini said. “For theatre, it’s just how it’s viewed and how it’s going to put them into a role, but with dancing, the costume itself has to move and has to have a way of flowing. It has to have it’s own kind of dance to it.” In addition to considering how the fabric would need to move to accommodate dancers, Lividini said they were working with a style that they initially knew little about: steam punk. “Steam punk is 1800s Victorian fashion mixed with exposed metal, cogs, keys, inter-workings,” said sophomore Olivia Cloer, who works in the costume shop and was part of the design team. It was a happy accident that Williams stubbled across and chose the steam punk style for the costumes. “ T h e idea of steam punk
came along when I was doing some research last year, I believe, on just different types of styles of clothing,” Williams said. “It’s like this whole alternate world where if the world would have, instead of going to electric things, it would have went completely steam.” Williams chose steam punk because he had a very specific message he wanted to make sure came across in the costuming. “I wanted to do something that was relatable but at the same time kind of out of this world,” Williams said. “I wanted people to have a sense of being able to relate to it, but also being able to take a step away from it and see it as a production rather than something that is just trying to make you think.” To convey the steam punk style, the costumes include deconstructed jewelry, keys, lace and feathers. “It was a lot of things that I wasn’t used to working with,” Lividini said. One of the costumes featured a black tulle-based skirt with keys and metal pieces sewn into it. “It wasn’t so much making things but adding to things that was a lot of work,” Lividini said. The design team had to be creative in the techniques used to attach the unconventional but required parts. “The keys and little metal parts was sewing,” Lividini said. “However, we used a lot of hot glue to get feathers and stuff.” Lividini said that hot glue was the best method to attach the feathers to skirts and leggings. “You can’t sew a feather,” Cloer said. They also used hot glue to keep the feathers in reign. “We had to use the hot glue to keep the feathers from being too fluffy because sometimes the over fluff didn’t really match the theme,” Lividini said. Lividini said that “Bluebird” has been one of her favorite shows to work on. “Some of the other ones it was just making clothing,” Lividini said. “Yeah, there was a great result, but this one you look at it, and you’re like, ‘Wow, I thought of that,’ because there was a lot more creativity in it. There was a lot more freedom in this show.” Williams said seeing it all come together has been “a dream come true.” “It’s a really great process to see it come to life,” Williams said, “and it’s really magical for me.” While he enjoys seeing the final product, for Williams, the best aspect is working with the other dancers. “What makes it so rewarding in the end is seeing the dancers perform their best,” Williams said. “It doesn’t even matter about the show as an artistic director. As a choreographer, it really, to me, matters about the dancers and seeing them grow over the process.” Williams hopes that the audience will form their own opinion of the production. “There’s a lot of different concepts and metaphors that happen in this show,” Williams said. “I just want them to take something and hold on to it.”
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THE DEPAUW | Editorial Board
FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2014
FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2014
An interdisciplinary Earth Week: A step in the right direction
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Campus Crime section: where it comes from, why it matters In each issue of The DePauw, we publish a section titled “Campus Crime.” We fill this section each Tuesday and Friday with the misdemeanors, thefts, alcohol violations and vandalism that—however unfortunate they may be—take place on campus each day. For the sake of transparency, this Editorial Board would like to ensure that our readers fully understand where we get this information. Almost every day, Public Safety updates its “Activity Report,” which here in the newsroom we call the “crime blotter.” The Activity Report can be found by going to the Office of Public Safety’s page on the DePauw University website. This report includes the time and date each incident was reported, the time and date each incident occurred, the location of the incident, the incident itself and how the incident was handled. In The DePauw’s Campus Crime section, we include four of these five categories, only excluding when the incident was reported. For the most part, we include every item listed in the Activity Report in our Campus Crime section, exactly as it is written. However, for some of our issues, due to spacing, we will not print all incidents. This will often mean the omission to print the fact that five different fire alarms were falsely pulled over a given weekend or that some fraternity or another had another noise complaint. We are not alone in our printing of a crime section. The Banner Graphic includes its own, which can be found by visiting their website, scrolling over their “records” tab, and clicking on “Police/Fire.” For even more information about crime in any given area, it is always possible to contact local authorities and ask for recent incidents of note. All reported crimes are public information, so police and fire departments should be willing to share what they know with any community member looking to be more informed. Our goal, as it always is, it to ensure that the news reaches the student body. This includes updating students as to what crime is occurring on the campus we all share. With the recent influx in reported incidents, including attempted break-ins to residence halls and greek buildings, theft of game consoles, bicycles, etc. and general vandalism, it is more important than ever to stay informed about what crimes are taking place. So read the emails from Angie Nally, director of public safety, read The DePauw’s Campus Crime Section and—perhaps best of all—read the Activity Log in its entirety. Crime is public information for a reason. As the public, the information is ours for the taking, so take it.
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Summer away from DePauw: A dose of reality GRAYSON PITTS
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s another semester comes to a close and the cold weather leaves us, no one does any work, seniors graduate and summer arrives on our doorstep. A lot of students are ready to skip the last month of the school year and get out of town. At the same time, everyone talks about how crazy it is to be done with another year. It seems like Camp College was last weekend, right? You just moved into your dorm room for the first time, just got back from Winter Term, just joined (or didn’t join) a house. And now you’re calling yourself a sophomore, junior, senior, alumni. College is what a lot of people would call the best four years of their lives. Not only is it better than summer, but it is a very simple existence. We’re all poor. Individually, that is. During the school year, most students don’t have jobs. And if they do, the income is little to nothing in comparison to what they make in the summer and what they will make after graduation. We also have Mom and Dad to float us cash when necessary. Anyway, we make almost nothing ourselves. We’re penniless. We have tiny living quarters and share nearly everything. Most of us don’t even have a room to call our own. We don’t have studio apartments, homes or mansions. Whether living in a greek house or student housing, we share our living space. We share a toilet, couch, food, clothes, everything.
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Not to mention, we live together in huge numbers. Dorms and greek houses range from forty or fifty to hundreds of individuals in the same building. Nothing is private, people are loud, and there are rules. We give up a lot of liberties for the community. And that’s the reason we can live with nothing and love it: community. As college students, we spend every moment with our peers. At DePauw especially, the community is so small that everyone knows each other. As a result, we become addicted to interaction and only realize how much we miss it when it’s not there—the summertime. And for seniors, graduation. Then it’s time to move away from Greencastle for good. No more frat parties. No more chill sessions on the futon. No more drunk Marvin’s. No more DePauw. After DePauw, we’re all going to go out into the world and change it. We’re all going to make money and live well and be able to afford nice things. We’ll have our own homes, jobs and lives. We’ll achieve everything that we’re at DePauw to achieve. But we’ll never again have the same community experience as we do now. Summer is approaching fast. When it comes, let us consider it a snapshot of life after DePauw, a preview. It should remind us of just how valuable each day at this school is. As we come upon the home stretch and stress over finals, lets take the semester’s end a day at a time. There won’t always be days left.
-Pitts is a sophomore English writing major from Indianapolis. opinion@thedepauw.com
he DePauw Environmental Club broke the biological mold for Earth Week 2014. To move people away from thinking of environmental issues as purely biological, the club also hosted several lunch talks lead by a different department. Other activities ranged from watching documentaries to a solar panel workshop to a plant giveaway. While each activity has a specific, specialized topic, the overarching goal was to raise awareness about Earth and its environment, specifically issues that impact every living being. Each lunch talk focused on an important environmental issue but framed the issue in the light of that discipline. Often when people think of climate change and environmentalism, they imagine scientific jargon that is far removed from the language of their everyday lives. This picture of the environmental
discussion is false. Environmentalism is a topic, and an issue, that ranges across disciplines and interests. The problem many people face is the inability to find these commonalities because they lack the scientific knowledge or interest that would give them access to information about these issues. The lunch discussions revealed facets of environmentalism that is normally hidden by the scientific, tree-hugging, hippy stereotype most people associate it with. When the DePauw Environmental Club decided to incorporate various disciplines into their Earth Week celebration, they committed to making environmental issues more accessible. The implications of the science behind environmentalism have far ranging effects and consequences that require the attention and action of people from all walks of life. Environmentalism is concerned with the world we live in. Everyone lives in the world, so everyone in some way can relate to the problems and issues that surface when topics such as pollution, deforestation, extinction, overfishing and many more are considered. Incorporating the English, physics, philosophy, and geology departments helped create a more comprehensive environmental movement at DePauw.
The fight that needs to be fought in the name of the environment cannot be lead only by biologists. We need writers, poets, physicists, geologists and economists. We need lawyers, bankers, and graphic designers. To make an environmental movement successful, people from all interests groups need to be involved. Creating an interdisciplinary Earth Week is an essential step in shifting the environmental movement from a stereotypically specialized faction into a largely acknowledged and recognized reality. It is only through a multifaceted, interdisciplinary approach that environmentalism can be successful as a movement not only at DePauw, but also across the world.
-Junger is a sophomore English literature and biology major from St. Louis.
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urn on CNN. The anchor is most likely dissecting what may have happened to missing Malaysian flight 370 or the ferry that sunk off the coast of South Korea. The two disastrous events have prompted extended coverage on many television networks. The question becomes: does the information deserve such extended coverage, or is it merely an attempt at scoring higher ratings? Malaysian Airlines flight 370 went missing with 239 people aboard. The plane lost all contact with air traffic towers and GPS navigation. Search costs have exceeded $40 million dollars but are expected to reach hundreds of millions of dollars. The U.S. sent a Navy submarine that has covered over 50 square miles of the ocean floor, but the search efforts are expected to cease next weekend.
PHOTOPINION How have the University’s resources such as the Hubbard Center helped you secure a summer internship or job? “I didn’t use the University’s resources. Instead, I used a website called coolworks.com.”
ABBY KOSLING, SOPHOMORE
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Television Coverage of Flight 370 and Sinking Sewol Ferry The Sewol ferry sank off the coast of South Korea last week; over 200 people remain missing while only about 175 have been rescued. Crews and divers have scoured the Yellow Sea searching for passengers that could be trapped. The two stories are heartbreaking yet fascinating from a news perspective – reporters and anchors could entertain “what ifs” for hours. CNN’s ratings have soared since they began covering flight 370 extensively. CNN issued text alerts for many nights in a row: “Watch CNN” concerning the latest updates regarding flight 370. It has been more than four weeks and it is still a top story in newscasts across the country. Critics have said CNN has broken the threshold for too much coverage. In an article for The New York Times, Bill Carter says CNN’s coverage “has been fueled by a lot of expert analysis based on the little verifiable information that has been available, speculation about what might have happened to the plane and where it might be now, accompanied by all the visual pizzazz the network can bring to bear.” Has coverage become more about a battle of creativity or about reporting on an issue that is pertinent to society?
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The coverage of the two events calls into question the journalists’ role to report truthfully on matters of public concern. While the two stories are of compelling interest, it’s important for news consumers to be aware of the news stories we are absorbing. Does extended coverage mean the stories are more important? Take for instance the recent coverage of the pope’s latest selfie or the addition of “selfie” to the dictionary. Are those stories a matter of public concern? Do they affect the average person? Probably not, but both received national television coverage for a few days. Because of the time and space devoted to coverage of flight 370 and the South Korean ferry, viewers could be misled. With the addition of social media, television news can add urgency to any story that may not be so urgent or relevant to the average viewer. It is important to pay attention to the reporting methods so that our perception of a story isn’t blown out of proportion.
– Spencer is a senior Prindle intern from Lafayette, Ind. opinion@thedepauw.com
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DARA HOU, FIRST-YEAR “I haven’t taken advantage of those opportunities but I’ve heard that they’ve worked out for other students.” GRACE GOODBARN, SOPHOMORE “The Science Research Fellows helped me secure an internship at the University of Cincinnati.”
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FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2014
They have the Monon Bell, we have everything else By ERIC ST. BERNARD sports@thedepauw.com
DePauw University Tigers men’s athletic teams have one thing in common – the desire to beat Wabash. Men’s tennis takes on the Wabash College Little Giants in the quarterfinal of the NCAC Tournament this Friday, reminding fans of our bitter rivalry with the Wabash Little Giants. Though the nationally covered annual Monon Bell football game between the Tigers and Little Giants often highlights the decades-old rivalry, the Tigers have generally performed well against the Little Giants during the 2013-14 athletic season as a whole. The football team, who went 4-5 in the North Athletic Conference this season, put up a fight against the Little Giants, losing the season finale 2138 last November. Even in the loss, the Tigers had a lot to be proud of: their offense scored the most points against the Little Giants since their 2008 season. They came back from a 35-7 deficit at halftime to score 14 points and limit the Little Giants to 3 in the second half of the game, and the list goes on. “I knew coming in it was a huge rivalry, but you never know how it is until you’re in it,” said first-year quarter back Matt Hunt. “We’re so close in proximity that the rivalry gets personal. I really noticed it at the basketball games at home.”
Perhaps, however, the emphasis on the Monon nament Quarterfinal at Neal Fieldhouse. The Tigers Bell Classic has overshadowed every other team’s handled the Little Giants, defeating them 73-59 to success against the Little Giants this year. move on to the NCAC Tournament Semifinals. The men’s soccer team, 14-2-3, defeated Wa“The rivalry is intense,” said Wilkison. “No matbash, 4-2. The Little Giants’ Zach Woloshin tied the ter how talented each team is or is thought to be, game at 2-2 in minute 81. Thirty seconds later, De- the game always turns into a more physical, and Pauw junior striker Andy hostile atmosphere. It Morrison put the Tigers was great to beat them back on top. Sophomore all three times my senior “The rivalry is intense. No matter Alieu Musa provided an year as well.” insurance goal, providing The Tiger’s men’s how talented each team is or is the senior Tigers’ school swimming team had their thought to be, the game always record wins during their own success against Wacareer. bash, handing them a 181turns into a more physical, and Men’s winter sports 89 loss during the week of also saw success against the Monon Classic. Casey hostile atmosphere.” the Little Giants. Hooker, Blake Lehman, The men’s basketball Alex Grissom, George -Michael Wilkison, senior team didn’t see a loss Morrison, Matt Gleason, to the Little Giants. The C.J Copeland and Alex team beat Wabash in their Alfonso all picked up first away game in Crawfordsplace finishes for the Tiville, Ind. on January 22, by a score of 70-60. In the gers. midst of his mid-season outbreak, All-NCAC SecThe trend of Tigers’ success against the Little Giond Team select senior Michael Wilkison knocked ants carried over to spring athletics as well. Earlier down five three-pointers in the game, finishing this month, the Tigers’ golf squad finished the Big with a season-high 26 points, and shooting 72.7 Four Classic in first place, with a par +13. Sitting in percent from the field. Almost a month later, the Ti- last place were the Little Giants, who had a par +36. gers defeated the Little Giants at home, this time by The Tiger’s baseball team split their series only one point, 75-74. Six days later, the Tigers saw against the 16-14 Little Giants. The highlight of the the Little Giants again, this time in the NCAC Tour- series was sophomore Connor Einertson’s three-
Splits | cont’d from page 12 However, the Tigers still sit at 21-15 overall and 11-3 in the NCAC. DePauw can earn the NCAC regular season title when they travel to The College of Wooster on Saturday for a doubleheader. “We just need to continue to play our game and not try to play outside of ourselves,” Button said. “Be confident in our abilities and strive to be the best collective team we can be. If we can accomplish this, I know we can be successful.” Baseball falls short to Denison While softball’s series split helped them inch closer to the NCAC title, the baseball team’s one win at Denison leaves them in a much more uncertain place. The Tigers gained no ground on the Big Red who lead the NCAC’s western Division. The Tigers fell behind in the bottom of the second, but replied with a run in their half of the third inning to knot the game at one. Denison would score the winning run on a base hit by Georgie Montes in the bottom of the fifth. The Tigers would surrender another run in the sixth giving the Big Red a key insurance run. Denison would go on to take game one by a final score of 3-1. Connor Murphy went the distance for Denison. Murphy gave up six hits and one run while striking out three Tigers.
“The games we are losing are one hit or one pitch away from being wins,” first-year Zach Wade said. “We are working hard to make sure those games start going our way.” With the fate falling even farther behind the Big Red in game two
“The games we are losing are one hit or one pitch away from being wins. We are working hard to make sure those games start going our way.” -Zach Wade, first-year
of the series, the Tigers responded well and earned a 3-1 win of their own to keep pace with Denison in the NCAC race. DePauw fell behind early, giving up a run in the first. From then on, the Tiger pitching staff would be lights out. Starting pitcher, sophomore Wyatt Spector went six innings giving up the one run. First-year Nick Horvath would earn the win for DePauw by pitching a scoreless
run walk-off home run in the third game of the series. The series split gave the Tigers a 6-4 record in the NCAC Conference. The men’s tennis team rounds out the Tigers’ dominance in the rivalry. The team beat the Little Giants 8-1 at home last Wednesday, April 16. The Tigers’ duos of Sam Miles and Ben Kopecky, Eric Vannatta and Alec Kaczkowski, and Patrick Farnell and Harold Martin completed a doubles sweep of Wabash’s team. The Tigers also won five of their six singles match-ups. Tigers’ tennis is preparing to wrap up this athletic year’s match-up against Wabash in a winning fashion, as they take them on this Friday in the NCAC Tournament Quarterfinal at Denison University. “I have close friends on the Wabash team, so it hasn’t been as key as a rivalry as other sports,” said senior Sam Miles. “Also, they haven’t been as competitive as Kenyon or Denison. I don’t think we’ve lost any more than two matches to them in a dual match. But its always good to get a win against a big school rival.” In terms of bragging rights, whenever a Little Giants fan mentions their possession of the Monon Bell, Tigers fans can look at the rest of their men’s teams as a persuasive rebuttal.
sixth inning. The Tigers tied the game in the top of the sixth inning on an RBI double from senior Zach Starr. DePauw would take the lead for good in the eighth on a bases loaded walk from sophomore Lucas Italiano. A sacrifice fly from Wade would give the Tigers an insurance run later on in the inning and help secure the win. In their most recent matchup on Thursday night, the Tigers suffered a major setback against Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. An eight run fifth inning followed by a five run sixth provided all of the offense required for the Fightin’ Engineers as they cruised to a relatively easy 16-9 win over the hosts. The eight errors committed by the Tigers highlighted the game. These mistakes led to five unearned runs for Rose-Hulman. While they didn’t lose any ground on the Big Red in the past week, the Tigers didn’t make any up, and they’re running out of time. With six games left to play in the regular season, the Tigers hold a 12-16 overall record and a 7-5 NCAC mark. Denison is sitting pretty in the conference with a record of 12-4. On the plus side for the Tigers, they will play all of their six remaining games at home. The home stand continues when they host Wittenberg for a four game series beginning Saturday. “This is a really good spot as we have six big conference games before the regular season ends,” Horvath said. “As long as we keep improving like we are, I think we have a really good opportunity here at the end of our season.”
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FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2014
Men’s tennis enters NCAC tournament firing on all cylinders By CHRIS DICKOW sports@thedepauw.com
DePauw University men’s tennis heads into the North Coast Athletic Conference tournament at Denison University this weekend with a flawless 4-0 record in the NCAC West Division. The Tigers defeated the Denison University Big Red 7-2 on Saturday afternoon. First-year Harold Martin credits the team’s success to strong efforts right from the start of their matches. “We’ve done a good job of setting the tone early in the match with our doubles play and then carrying the
“We’ve done a good job of setting the tone early in the match with our doubles play and then carrying the momentum into singles.” - Harold Martin, first-year
momentum into singles,” Martin said. The Tigers swept the doubles matches against the Big Red, led by seniors Ben Kopecky and Sam Miles who defeated Juan Guerra and Grant Veltman 8-3 in the number one match. Sophomore Alec Kaczkowski and junior Eric Vannatta followed with an 8-2 Tiger victory over Casey Cempre and Andrew Marczak in the second match. First-years Pat Farrell and Martin completed the sweep in the number three match against Jackson O’Gorman-Bean and Jeffrey LoDuca, winning by an 8-4 score. Victories in four of the six singles matches cemented the Tigers’ triumph over the Big Red. The victory placed the Tigers as the second overall seed in the conference tournament. They are slated to
take on the Wabash College Little Giants on Friday, Apr. 25 in the tournament. Last week, the Tigers defeated the Little Giants by a convincing 8-1 margin. Kaczkowski is pleased with how the team has progressed so far this season, with contributions from players of all ages. “I’m excited for the weekend and being able to show how far we have come this season,” Kaczkowski said. “Winning this would be a great way for our seniors to go out and this is the best chance we’ve had in a while.” Senior Sam Miles, who earned the honor of NCAC Player of the Week after his stellar performances against Wabash and Dension, is confident that the team is ready to make some noise at the tournament. “Having just beaten Wabash and Denison last weekend, we feel very confident that we’ll have a chance to play Kenyon in the final on Sunday,” Miles said. “And for the first time since DePauw joined the NCAC, we really feel like we should beat Kenyon and advance to nationals. I think we have done all the right things to be ready for this weekend and it’s nice to be peaking at the right time as a team.” Kenyon enters the tournament as the top-ranked seed with a 15-7 overall record. The Kenyon Lords defeated the Tigers earlier in the season by a score of 5-3. A lot has changed since that meeting. The Lords will play without Michael Razumovsky, who accounted for two victories over the Tigers earlier in the year at number one singles and number two doubles. Miles is convinced that his absence could have serious implications for the tournament. “Without him, they will have to move everyone up a spot which could make the difference for us,” Miles said. “They’re still a dangerous team, so everyone will have to bring their A-game if we want to keep our season going.” The Tigers enter the tournament in a great position and look to capitalize against teams they have already beaten. If the Tigers can get past their first two opponents in the NCAC tournament, look for an exciting championship match with a trip to nationals at stake on Sunday
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LINSEY BUTTON
hometown: SAINT LOUIS, MISS. sport: SOFTBALL Only a sophomore, Missouri native Linsey Button already has a few accomplishments under her belt. In 2013, she was named to the All-NCAC First Team, after putting up a .364 batting average, 36 total hits and three home runs. After a dominant week against Allegheny College, she has an NCAC Player of the Week award to add to her early collection. Button went 3-for-5 for the week, scoring six of the Tigers’ 13 runs over their two-game stretch. Her six runs included a grand slam, a rare occurrence that brings four-scorers home in one bat. For her performance, here’s what she had to say:
TDP Sports: Was last week’s grand slam the first of your career? What does hitting a grand slam feel like? Linsey Button (LB): It was the first grand slam of my career. It’s something that I always thought would be awesome to do, but nothing I had really ever pushed for. I just figure that if you swing hard, good things will happen. A grand slam feels just like any other home run off the bat, but it feels even better knowing that our pitcher and defense get some breathing room. TDP Sports: Your team is now first in the NCAC Conference. How confident are you going into the last conference game at Wooster College? LB: I am always confident with our abilities going into these last conference games. If we continue to play how we have been, being aggressive and resilient, I know we can be successful. As a team, we have worked so hard all season to prepare for conference play, and it’s great to see that work paying off.
TDP Sports: As a freshman, you were named to the NCAC-First Team. Do you ever feel pressure to perform when you’re on the field? How do you deal with it? LB: I don’t feel a lot of pressure while I’m on the field. I know I have a great team supporting me, both offensively and defensively. We are each other’s biggest support system. If someone isn’t able to produce at the time, we all know someone is going to pick them up. It’s good to remember that you’re one of 17. You don’t have to do everything. TDP Sports: Take us to thirty minutes prior to a game - What are you doing? What are you listening to? Who’s around? LB: Thirty minutes prior to game time, we all are probably just finishing our hitting circuit and staring to throw. We always have our warm-up CD playing and are just joking around to stay loose before the game.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2014
Pair of splits for softball and baseball in Wednesday doubleheaders By JACOB LYNN sports@thedepauw.com
DePauw’s softball and baseball teams each earned one win in their doubleheaders on Wednesday evening. The men took one of two from Denison University while the women picked up a win over Wittenberg University.Each series was key for the Tigers. With a sweep, the softball team had a chance to clinch their second straight NCAC regular season title, while the men needed the wins to inch closer to the western Division leading Big Red. Softball gets shut down in game two
Kahla Nolan pitching in the second inning of game one of the double header. She pitched a complete game and shut out Wittenberg University 5-0. CLARE HASKEN / THE DEPAUW
The solid pitching of ace junior Kahla Nolan highlighted the opening game for the Lady Tigers. Nolan earned her 18th win of the season by pitching all seven innings while giving up only three hits and striking out seven. The DePauw offense got going in the bottom of the fifth on a home run by sophomore Linsey Button. The Tigers would then get all of the in-
surance runs they needed in the sixth when they crossed the plate four times. Nolan would shut down the Tigers of Wittenberg in the top of the seventh and help earn DePauw their 21st win of the season by a score of 5-0. Despite the solid pitching of Nolan in the second game, the DePauw offense was shut down. Each team would push across a run in the third inning to make the score 1-1. Wittenberg would then score the game-winning run in the top of the fifth on an RBI double from Abby Baker. From there, both pitching staffs buckled down and held each other scoreless. Nolan was on top of her game once again. The junior pitched the entire game giving up six hits and only one earned run. However, it was the unearned runs that ended up plaguing DePauw and allowed Wittenberg to score in the third. The Tigers committed four errors in the game. Poor defense has been a recurring theme for the Tigers this season. In their last four games, the team has been responsible for nine errors.
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