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Delta Gamma suffers fire during break

BY JULIE BLOCK news@thedepauw.com

Thursday evening the DePauw Univeristy National Panhellenic and National Pan-Hellenic greek councils came together to put on Greek Street Trick-or-Treat. DePauw professors and members from the Greencastle community came to Bowman Park to play Halloween games such as witch’s ring toss and ghost bowling and to decorate cookies. ABBY MARGULIS / THE DEPAUW

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Sophomore Keri Peterson is still waiting on her clothes to be returned from the dry cleaner’s after they got ruined when her room caught fire at Delta Gamma Fraternity house over fall break.

On Thursday Oct. 23, Facilities Management was doing routine maintenance work when the air conditioning unit in Peterson’s room, which she shared with sophomore Laurel O’Rourke and senior Clare Hasken, caught fire. The cause for the fire has yet to be determined.

Facilities Management workers put out the fire almost immediately and the damages did not spread further than the one room.

Delta Gamma Fraternity Executive Director Tracey Doebling Williams released the following statement regarding the incident: “Delta Gamma Fraternity is working closely with regional volunteers and the local house corporation to ensure that repairs are made safely and in compliance with all regulations to the Gamma Iota house…. The damage to the home was caused mostly by the fire suppression system, which worked as it was designed. Delta Gamma regional and local volunteers ensured the house was functional and welcoming for our women returning to campus from fall break. Delta Gamma is hopeful that all repairs will be completed in a timely manner.”

O’Rourke and Peterson said none of their personal items suffered any fire damage, but the sprinkler system and the smoky smell ruined many of their belongings, including textbooks, clothing and pictures.

The three roommates were allowed to return to campus on Saturday to look through the room and see what they wanted to salvage. O’Rourke said Delta Gamma has been helpful in that they offered to replace her textbooks, dry clean her clothes and house her and her roommates

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The air was filled with the smell of raw pumpkins and the sound of laughter as the DePauw Relay For Life Kick Off event took place on Wednesday afternoon.

Students flocked to Bowman Park to take in the cool fall air and have fun, all while helping to raise money for cancer research.

Relay For Life is a 12-hour event which aims to raise money and increase awareness for cancer research. It seeks to honor people who have battled cancer, both those who have survived and those who have not.

Despite the chilly weather and the other events taking place on campus at the time, co-chair of Relay For Life of Putnam County senior Emily Haight said that there was a great turnout for the event and that it seemed like those who came were having a great time.

The organizers chose to have the campus kickoff on Wednesday to tie it into Halloween and help raise awareness of their cause. Attendees at the kickoff could carve a pumpkin for $2 or smash a pumpkin for $5. Participants were encouraged to carve their pumpkin in a way that related to Relay For Life or cancer in some way. The

Relay-related pumpkins were entered into a contest, and the winner received a gift card to Myers’ Market. In addition to the festivities, there was also pizza, cookies and pumpkin pie. A table was set up for students to donate to Relay For Life or sign up to participate in the event this spring.

Relay For Life is not a new organization on campus. This is at least the

auw’s campus for fundraising. Over the years, DePauw has raised over $2 million for cancer research through Relay.

Wednesday’s event was just the first of many campus events that will take place leading up to Relay For Life.

Co-chair Will Block said that there will definitely be more fundraising and awareness events, especially during the spring semester.

The DePauw / Putnam County Relay For Life will be held May 2, 2015 from noon to midnight at the outdoor track. Though it may seem a long way away, the co-chairs urge students to start planning their participation in Relay. To sign up or donate, visit relayforlife.org and search for DePauw, or email relayforlife@ depauw.edu. According to the Relay For Life website, members of the DePauw and Putnam County community have already raised almost $1,500 for this year’s event, and the total continues to grow Pumpkin pieces lie scattered on the tarp after being smashed to raise money for the every day.

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The United States is almost always involved in conflicts with other nations. For many people, the conflicts are easy to ignore, but Conflict Kitchen seeks to draw attention to them through food.

Conflict Kitchen is an art project in the form of a restaurant in Pittsburgh that serves cuisine only from countries with which the United states is in conflict. Thursday evening, the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics hosted Conflict Kitchen’s co-director Dawn Weleski and culinary director Robert Sayre. Students, faculty, staff and community members could buy tickets to attend the meal and talk given afterward at Prindle. The two also gave a public lecture on Monday and worked with several classes and studio art majors throughout the week.

Conflict Kitchen first came to Prindle Director Andrew Cullison’s attention before he even became director.

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During dessert, Weleski and Sayre talked about the origin of Conflict Kitchen and where it is now. Weleski started it with her co-director Jon Rubin. As they became more successful, they were able to hire Sayre. Now they visit the countries they feature in preparation. Weleski and Sayre were recently in Palestine, where they learned about the customs and recipes and bought ingredients. They shared a slideshow of their trip with guests, then took questions. Weleski and Sayre invited guests to Moore’s Bar after for drinks and discussion until 9:30 p.m.

“Having Conflict Kitchen come brought us a literal taste of a culture many of us will not get to experience and got us thinking of the ethics of conflict,” said sophomore Prindle Intern Amy Brown.

Senior Taryn Hampton, who got to work with Weleski and Sayre in her art class, also appreciated her week-long experience.

Hampton said, “It was really a nice way to round out the whole experience and getting the idea of what it means to be involved in social practice as an art form.”

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kept sending me wonderful ideas,” he said.

“One of those things was Conflict Kitchen.”

Conflict Kitchen frequently hosts functions to further the experience they provide, and sometimes does visits.

“We get asked pretty often to go places,” Sayre said. “We don’t as often say yes.”

Sayre explained that to go somewhere and run an event they need a large enough kitchen to produce their product.

“You have to find a good fit, and this felt like a really good fit,” he said. “Between the interest in food, the conflict studies department here, the ethics institute — it felt like a really good fit for us.”

About every four months, Conflict Kitchen switches the featured country. In the past, they have done North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Afghanistan and Venezuela. They are currently serving Palestinian food. Thursday’s guests received a traditional Palestinian meal that included mezza, or appetizers, and a chicken and couscous dish called maftoul.

Each guest also received a colorful piece of paper that explained Conflict Kitchen, the conflict in Palestine and some of the food and customs they were about to enjoy.

Guests enjoy a traditional Palenstinian meal at the Prindle Institute.

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17th year for the DePauw University / Putnam County Relay For Life. A typical Relay at DePauw raises about $130,000, and the organizers of this year’s event hope to match that amount. DePauw’s efforts in fundraising through Relay For Life consistently place it among the highest grossing college campuses per capita. Relay For Life is also one of the highest grossing organizations on DeP-

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ma house and other extra spaces until the room is redone.

“Facilities Management] didn’t really want to make the call on throwing away my personal things, which I really appreciate,” O’Rourke said. “They’ve emailed all my professors. They helped me because I lost all my textbooks, so they gave me some money for textbooks…. The CLCD [Campus Living and Community Development] office just had this open door policy that if I ever need anything that I can go talk to them, and that’s

been very useful.”

Despite the support, Peterson and O’Rourke both recognized that their situation is not exactly ideal.

“I mean it’s a situation that nobody wants to be in,” Peterson said. “I was obviously upset, but the Delta Gamma House Corps. did a god job communicating with me.”

“It wasn’t really real because when I got the call, I was kind of in shock and didn’t know what to do….” added O’Rourke. “It was just stressful and a pain to come back and

have to sort through everything while doing class work and stuff, but everyone’s been super helpful.”

Peterson also said she has felt supported during this incident.

“A lot of my sisters reached out to me when they first found out and they were just really supportive,” she said. “We’re just really glad that nobody got hurt, and that’s the most important thing, and DG is working hard to fix the situation and fix the room and the staff has been awesome.”

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DePauw Management and Media Fellows visit New York ing event where we had the opportunity to chat with several DePauw alums who live and work in New York," Weller said.

The students were asked to prepare for the While some people were home resting over trip by not only researching the companies but Fall Break, a group of 28 students and some faculty members traveled to New York City on a Ca- also by having questions to ask the alumni.

The group did a few other things together, reer Exploration Trip.

DePauw University’s Management Fellows such as going to see the off Broadway play titled and Media Fellows, commonly referred to as Mo- "This is Our Youth" starring Michael Cera and Fos and MeFes respectively, to discover potential Kieran Culkin and taking a tour of Wall Street.

As the trip came to a close, the students were alfuture jobs and career opportunities.

"We took [the students] to four companies," lowed more free time.

Uriah Brown, a first-year in the Media Fellows said Jonathan Nichols-Pethick, director of the Media Fellows program. "We took them to Gold- program, spent most of his free time seeing as man Sachs, then we went to Spotify, NBC and much of the city as he could.

"I did a little shopping in Time Square," he Time, Inc." said.

"Two of my friends were actually in New Each company provided the group with a presentation discussing their work, including as- York and showed me around Brooklyn. I got a pects of their jobs that would appeal to both the chance to hook up with them and hang out. They MoFos and the MeFes. They were also allowed to showed me the city."

Nichols-Pethick was pleasantly surprised with tour most parts of the buildings.

The group left DePauw in the early morning the outcome of the trip, saying that there were hours of Sunday Oct. 19 and returned the even- very few "hiccups" and that for the most part ing of Oct. 22. Every morning was packed with everything ran smoothly. He attributed the suctours and meetings at different companies, but cess of the trip to Michele T. Villinski, director of the Management Fellows program, and Rebecca nights were left open for free time.

For Morgan Weller, a Management Fellow, Johnson, assistant director of the Management this was her first time exploring New York City. Fellows program.

Nichols-Pethick hopes this short trip was useHer favorite part of the trip was visiting Time because she can see herself working there in the ful for the DePauw students who attended; he future. However, the most valuable part of the looks forward to doing it again in the future.

"When I came back, I was so tired that I trip for her was networking with DePauw alumni. couldn't imagine doing the trip again,” Nichols"The first day, we went to an alumni networkPethick said, “but with some distance and some

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DePauw Media and Management Fellows visit NBC. PHOTO COURTESY OF JONATHAN NICHOLS-PETHICK

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DePauw music professor speaks at Women's Center

BY AMANDA BROWN news@thedepauw.com

“Normally with an Ask Me Anything you can bare all without the social consequences, here I am baring all with the social consequences. You guys know me, you can come to my office,” said Veronica Pejril, Wednesday’s Monthly Visitor at DePauw Women’s Center.

Monthly Visitor is a program set up and run by the women’s center meant to give students and faculty a chance to interact outside of the classroom.

This month, the faculty speaker was School of Music instructor Veronica Pejril, a mother, transsexual woman, composer and instructor.

Pejril came to teach at DePauw in 2006. Things were a little different for her then than they are now.

When she arrived at DePauw, Pejril was presenting male, as she was pre-transition.

Pejril did her undergrad work at Indiana University within their experimental music program. In her work at IU she was able to win a fellowship at Princeton University, where she did her graduate work.

Pejril then met her future spouse, with whom she ran a business in downtown Chicago for seven years.

After the birth of her twin boys, Pejril elected to stay home with them until they were four years old.

After returning to work, she even worked for a time at her children’s school. However at this point, Pejril had already started estrogen therapy.

“Presenting male during estrogen therapy was an interesting experience, it certainly required a few ace wraps,” she said, referring to her body’s changes.

For the first year at DePauw, Pejril continued to present male, but as her second year neared, she knew she wanted to begin to transition. During

Winter Term of 2007, she boarded a plane headed to California to transition. This was the last time she would ever present male.

“My greatest fear was I would lose my gig here at DePauw,” Pejril said. “The HR [human resources] department here was amazing and helped me with how I was going to relay my transition to students and staff.”

From her research on faculty at DePauw, she soon learned that she was not the only one to transition while teaching. Pejril was, however, the first one to deal with the legal implications that transitioning requires. When someone transitions, they have to legally change their name and gender on their identification and on all government documents. After the process was over, Pejril learned that a friend who worked in the court house gave a talk to the judge before on how this should be handled.

“It’s really great, you find places in the most unlikely places,” Pejril said.

After her transition, Pejril found a new niche for herself within the Greencastle community.

“I think I evolved and came out of my second teenagehood,” Pejril said. “I found I became part of the community in ways I have never thought I would. I had fears that I would no longer be part of the community. I started to teach piano to kids and now I have eight students and teach them 30 minute lessons.”

Sitting and talking with Pejril proved to be an uplifting experience for some students.

“Learning what it was like to go through the transition process was interesting and not what I expected,” said first-year Emily Koch. “I thought it would change more than what it did. It was a very enlightening experience.”

Sarah Ryan (right), director of the Women’s Center, speaks to monthly visitor Veronica Pejril.

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Ubben Lectures through the years

Words to find: Piper Kerman David Brooks Michio Kaku Bret Baier Ron Paul Jane Goodall Carl Bernstein Candy Crowley Leyman Gbowee Bill Clinton F.W. de Klerk Jason Reitman Howard Dean Karl Rove Tony Blair Ralph Nader Jim Alling

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2014 Mikhail Gorbachev Liz Murray Peyton Manning Richard Lugar Oliver Sacks Benazir Bhutto Barbara Bush James Lovell Ken Burns Colin Powell Allen Neuharth Margaret Thatcher William J. Bennett

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Check out our online video on the Bishop Robert’s gravemarker in the Holton Academic Quadrangle.

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• Suspicious Vehicle • Officer Checked Area / Unable to Locate Vechicle | Time: 7:38 a.m. | Place: Intermural Fields

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• Fire in Wall Heater • Extinguished | Time: 10:46 a.m. | Place: Delta Gamma Sorority

October 28

• Alcohol Violation / Welfare Check • Transported to Hospital | Time: 1:50 a.m. | Place: Longden Hall •Investigate for Odor of Marijuana• Officer forwarded to Campus Living | Time:10:50 p.m. | Place: Lucy Rowland Hall • Noise-Loud Music • Verbal Warning Issued | Time: 11:16 p.m. | Place: Delta Upsilon

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• Traffic Stop • Citation Issued | Time: 12:30 a.m. | Place: Locust / Elm Streets • Medical-Delayed Report • Ambulence Refused / Transported to Hospital via Personal Vechicle | Time: 11:12 a.m. | Place: Union Building / Hub • Assist PCSO / GPD Locate Subject • Subject located by GPD | Time: 2 a.m. | Place: Campus • Investigate for Odor of Natural Gas • GFD Dispatched / Source Located and Repaired | Time: 7:36 p.m.| Place: Delta Tau Delta Fraternity • Medical • Transported to Hospital | Time: 10:17 p.m. | Place: Burkart Walk

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Netflix horror movie as bad as expected annoying than Ty Pennington.

My friend told me it was his favorite was because the story was so believable. While many of features@thedepauw.com the characters do things that stay true to ghostSince I knew Halloween was coming up, I asked hunting-type television shows, such as bribing a friend earlier this week to recommend a horror people to say they’ve seen a ghost or felt somefilm on Netflix. He quickly responded with “the thing move, the actual acting by the actors leaves best horror movie on Netflix:” “Grave Encounters.” things lacking.

The movie leaves out actual ghosts for a large The movie, supposedly based on true events, majority of the movie. Much like the “Paranormal follows a camera crew, similar to that in “Ghost Hunters,” who decide to do an episode on a sup- Activity” series, the ghosts remain invisible and simply leave a shadow or lift a girl’s hair, without posedly haunted, abandoned mental institution.

While the story sounds intriguing, it follows the ever being seen.

One thing the movie does well, however, is classic 21st century horror movie plot.

The camera, not surprisingly, is handheld and creating terrifying ghosts, once they show themshaky, nearly giving me a headache. Also in true selves. There’s not too much gore, but their eyes horror movie fashion, nothing happens within the and mouths are black voids that, in the scene of a run-down mental institution, make you jump and first 45 minutes of the movie.

As the film develops and the horror begins, creep you out.

The ending is very unexpected too, and I won’t the crewmembers decide, in classic “Scooby Doo”fashion, that it would be a great idea to split up. give it away, but it’s definitely one for all of you psychology majors out there. The movie explores One by one, they begin disappearing.

One thing interesting about the movie that I early practices in mental institutions and brain dehaven’t seen in another is that once it turns night, velopment.

The location of the missing characters is never somehow the characters become locked in time revealed, and by the end of the movie it is still the and after 36 hours, darkness hasn’t let up. However, this sense of time isn’t believable and the char- endless night. It leaves a lot of questions unanacters don’t seem to wear out or worry too much. swered.

Lucky for us, “Grave Encounters 2” is on NetfThe actors, all unknown, didn’t make me belix as well, though after the first movie, I probably lieve that any of the scary things was happening to them at all. Not to mention the “host” was more won’t be watching it.

WGRE column: Keep kind for Kindness

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Two years ago, I found myself in a London pation of Bainbridge’s sophomore album, “Otherrecord store called Rough Trade West. The walls ness.” A few weeks ago, it finally made its way into were decorated with album covers of various the WGRE offices. bands from around the world. Rough Trade West Although “Otherness” lacks the flashiness of his is respected across the globe as a good source for debut, it still holds merit in its smooth riffs, dance indie music, so I knew I would find some musical beats and the supporting artists on the record. The gems. record includes Robyn, Kelela, Ghanaian rapper On one wall, the record store had a “Best of the M.Anifest and longtime friend Devonté Hynes.

Month” section. There I found “World You Need Bainbridge uses keys, saxophones, drums, bass A Change Of Mind,” the debut album from an and guitar to soulfully enter the hearts of his fans. I emerging British solo believe his goal artist. Although his is for his fans birth name is Adam to dance. And if Bainbridge, he simply you put this regoes by Kindness. cord on, I think After listening that’s exactly to the album, I was what you might instantly hooked to do: dance the Kindness’ smooth night away. disco pop. With sinFortunately, gles like “Cyan” and Kindness is “Swingin’ Party,” young and viand dance tunes like brant. His funky “House” and “Gee grooves and Up,” “World You keen underNeed A Change Of standing of pop Mind” makes for fun music in the music to dance to all world give him under the name of the power to pop. In the eyes of create beautiful Bainbridge, pop mudance tunes. sic is not necessarily Kindness’ latest album, “Otherness.” PHOTO Tracks to liswhat is popular right COURTESY OF PITCHFORK.COM ten to: “World now, but more a style Restart (feat. of music, one that makes you feel good and makes Kelela & Ade),” “This Is Not About Us,” “Who Do you want to dance and sing along. In his debut, he You Love (feat. Robyn),” and “Why Don’t You Love calls us all to think differently about the musical Me (feat. Devonté Hynes & Tawiah).” conventions that plague other artists.

Keep tuning in to WGRE to hear Kindness’ Two years later, I found myself in intense antici- “Otherness.”

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Easy DIY Lego Costumes

What you’ll need:

Starbucks What you’ll need: *brown shirt/pants/dress *white boa *paper towel tube *headband *green spray paint *glue gun *printer

*large box *red solo cups *red spray paint *glue gun

How to complete the look: Cut the bottom out of the box then cut a hole in the top for your head and two in the sides for arms. Attach the solo cups to the front of the box with hot glue. Spray paint the entire outfit red and boom!

How to complete the look: Find the Starbucks logo online and print it off about the size of a paper plate. Attach it to the borwn clothing right at your belly botton. Wrap the boa around your neck. Spray paint the tube green and hot glue it to the headband, and you are now a delicious frappuccino.

Kristen Stewart What you’ll need: *a pot *“Hello My Name Is” sticker *picture frame *paint

How to complete the look: Paint a small picture and place it in the frame.

Write “Kristen” on the sticker and carry the painting in the pot all night. When asked what you are explain that you are Kristen Stew-Art.

DePauw-lloween Drink Ideas Caramel Apple Sucker:

Candy Corn Martini:

What you’ll need: *Caramel Smirnoff *Green Apple Smirnoff *Sprite

What you’ll need: *coffee liquer *white chocolate liquer *UV Orange *triple sec

The color of this one may seem a little iffy, but after the first sip you’ll feel like you’re the luckiest 10-year-old kid again, looking in your pumpkin and finding that green wrapper.

Mix all of these together and the layers will form in true candy corn fashion!

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Laundry What you’ll need: *cloths *laundry basket

How to complete the look: Cut the bottom out of the laundry basket and pull it up to your waist. Put t-shirts and other clothes in the basket and drape socks over the edge and on your shoulders.

Grapes What you’ll need: *black shirt/pants/dress *purple or green balloons *safety pins

How to complete the look: Blow up all of the balloons and attach them to the black clothing with the safety pins, and now you are a scrumptious bunch of grapes.

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The ethics of Halloween costumes and their representations

Leann Burke | Editor-in-Chief Nicole DeCriscio | Managing Editor Kevin Killeen | Chief Copy Editor

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FBI undermines free press with fake news story On Monday, Christopher Soghoian, the principal technologist for the American Civil Liberties Union, released in a tweet that the FBI created a fake news story to gain information on a suspect of several bomb threats to Timberline High School in Lacey, Washington. The fake news story donned an AP byline and was posted on a look-a-like site for The Seattle Times.

The FBI then sent the malware-infested link to the suspect through the suspect’s MySpace account. When opened, the link provided the bureau with the suspect’s location and Internet Protocol address. A 15-year-old was arrested for the threats.

We acknowledge that the FBI had good intentions — prevent a potential school bombing. Such threats should be taken seriously and should warrant the utmost enforcement efforts. However, the bureau’s actions were also an assault on journalism.

Traditionally, news outlets have been seen as the fourth and unofficial check on government, a role they still hold. Newspapers and other forms of media strive to hold those in power accountable for their actions.

There is also this inherent trust between a news organization and their readers or viewers — that what they report is not only accurate but as void of outside influence and bias as possible. When the FBI created the fake article and designed it to look like it was real, they betrayed some of that trust between journalism outlets and their readers.

When it intruded on an industry outside its own, the bureau stepped over the line for what is appropriate government interference.

Kathy Best, editor of The Seattle Times, released a statement of the incident Tuesday in an article titled, “FBI created fake Seattle Times Web page to name bomb-threat suspect.”

“We are outraged that the FBI, with the apparent assistance of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, misappropriated the name of The Seattle Times to secretly install spyware on the computer of a crime suspect,” she wrote. “Not only does that cross a line, it erases it. Our reputation and our ability to do our job as a government watchdog are based on trust. Nothing is more fundamental to that trust than our independence — from law enforcement, from government, from corporations and from all other special interests.

The FBI’s actions, taken without our knowledge, traded on our reputation and put it at peril.”

We agree with Best. They risked the reputation of a credible news organization to catch a criminal — a minor who received 90 days in juvenile detention. It was an unnecessary risk that conveyed a disrespect for a free press, a United States tradition set out by our forefathers that is at the heart of our country. There are other supposed links a teenage boy can be lured with. The FBI should have used one of those.

We hope that the government never disrespects our country’s free press under the guise of benevolence again.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Halloween should create a very fun atmosphere around campus this weekend. Many can agree one of the best parts of this holiday is the creative costumes that are adorned by students on Friday and Saturday night.

Over the past week, IFC chapters have discussed the significance of being creative and intelligent with costume attire.

We firmly believe everyone on campus has the right to dress up and enjoy the holiday while also having one’s cultural, racial and/or sexual affiliations respected by any costumes.

We ask anyone participating in Halloween events this weekend to please carefully think about costume ideas and the message a costume can directly or indirectly send to others. Please do not wear anything that may be offensive in any way to anybody. Our request specifically refers to any costumes directly reinforcing negative stereotypes of a person or group.

We ask everyone to please dress in a manner that is respectful to all in order to continually work towards improving campus unity.

Please have a safe weekend. We look forward to seeing the mindful, creative costumes worn by everyone.

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a Halloween costume choice is itself a reflection of an individual’s ethics and overall respect for other people and their cultures.

It is one thing to dress up as someone you admire or to create a costume resembling a famous figure on television. It is completely different, however, to dress up as someone from a different culture, race, ethnicity, etc., simultaneously portraying their people as exotic or humorous. In a society that equates Whiteness with being “normal,” everything else becomes “different,” constituting those differences as the “perfect” candidates for the “perfect” costumes. White or not, by wearing another person’s culture as a costume, we are subjecting them to the stereotype threats associated with their culture, as well as belittling their experiences. The Halloween holiday has been riding on the train of supposed cultural appropriation for way too long.

The next response might include, “If this costume is so wrong, then why do they sell it at the store?” The reality of this situation is that racism, sexism and all the other complicated “isms” that plague our society are deeply ingrained in the traditions we celebrate. Responsibility then falls on each and every one of us to critically think about the visible and invisible consequences of how we choose to present ourselves on Halloween (and on every other day for that matter).

Finally realizing the complexities of Halloween costume selection, our defense might become, “But I wasn’t trying to offend anyone,” or “I didn’t mean to be insensitive.” Regardless of whether a costume choice was done with innocent intentions or not, your appearance on Halloween can still perpetuate harmful stigmas and stereotypes, which then welcomes more aggressive racist, sexist, etc. attitudes. This is why it is so important to realize the ethics in choosing a costume pre-party and pre-hurt.

When the implications of culture-emulating Halloween costumes don’t affect us directly, it is difficult to understand why we should pay attention to them. My answer, and an answer that might come up in other ethics conversations surrounding Halloween, is that we must all make an individual commitment to learning more about other cultures so to understand and recognize what it looks like, sounds like and feels like to respect them. It is only through this type of education that we will be able to restore the ethics of this holiday tradition of dressing up and put the real fun back into Halloween.

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eeing that today is Halloween, I thought that I would write about something that is very near and dear to my heart: Trick-or-treating.

Halloween has always been one of the highlights of my year. Every October my family and I go out and pick the best pumpkins, turn our house into the spookiest thing you have ever seen and dress up in our best costumes. I have been everything from a pumpkin and all the Disney princesses to Flo from the Progressive Insurance commercials.

As you can see, I take Halloween very seriously.

Since coming to DePauw, though, I have noticed a lack of excitement and over all participation in DePauw students for Halloween, and this is something that I feel the need to address. I have not seen a single pumpkin, besides the ones on some greek property. I have only seen a few peo-

ple put up decorations in their dorm, let alone anywhere else on campus. I even heard someone say that they did not know Halloween was on Friday.

This is a travesty!

Now I have put in a lot of thought as to why Halloween is being met with such a lack luster response, and I have come up with only one solution: no trick-or-treating.

When I was little, trick-or-treating was the endall-be-all of my existence. I would hype myself up for it from Oct. 1 onward. I would watch all of the Disney Channel original movies about Halloween so I would be aware of the supernatural things that I was likely to come into contact with during my quest for free candy. My friends and I would write up a plan of attack, we would “pre-game” at my friends house (with fruit punch and chicken fingers), and then we would go out for hours on end, walking several miles of suburban neighborhood to get the most candy that we could. My all time record was over 800 pieces.

The last few years I have been trick-or-treating with my little sister, who is a much less dedicated candy snatcher than I was in my youth but still goes out every year and crisscrosses neighborhoods until she has been to every last house that has their

PHOTOPINION What is your favorite part of Halloween?

“I like looking for costumes with my friends.”

MEGAN ANGERS, SOPHOMORE “I like seeing other people dress up in funny costumes.”

-Rachel Hanebutt is a senior Prindle intern from Huntingburg, Indiana.

-This article also appears in the Prindle Post. opinions@thedepauw.com

Halloween is your chance to act like a kid again

Happy Halloween,

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rom trick-or-treating to carving silly faces into pumpkins, Halloween was always my favorite holiday as a child. But my joy in dressing up as my favorite superhero and going to haunted houses inevitably diminished once I started college. Halloween’s driving force suddenly transitioned from getting the most candy to getting the most intoxicated and from dressing up like a Power Ranger to dressing up as an Arab terrorist. It seems that while dressing up for Halloween we are dressing down our ethics.

Most people rarely think about the implications of dressing up like other people. “It’s just for fun,” or “Relax, it’s just a joke,” seems to accompany any discussion that might bring up the ethics of not only what we choose to wear, but also how we choose to wear it. Dressing up as a “sexy Native American girl” on the one day of the year our society has designated for dressing up as someone you are not does not initially seem bad. However,

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porch light on. Even when I would take her out I still felt the excitement that I got back in my Disney princess days, running around, with my mom not far behind, getting my weight in chocolate gold.

But college is different. There is no excitement.

There is no wonder. If Halloweentown relied on DePauw to keep its spirit alive then we have surely failed it.

I do see a way to bring back the spirit though: Return to trick-or-treating. I say that we decorate our houses and dorms to the max and let the students of DePauw dress up as their best ninjas, pirates and fairy princesses and go out on Halloween night with pillow cases and come back home with enough candy to give a dentist a heart attack. Not everyone is going to party on Halloween, and why should that be the only option for students?

Just because you’re in college doesn’t mean that you can’t act like a kid again, at least for one night.

May your candy be sweet, your jack-o-lanterns spooky and a have a very happy Halloween!

-Dudley is a first-year from Scottsdale, Arizona

AMA SEFA-DAPAAH, FIRST-YEAR “Halloween-weekend always has the best parties of the semester.”

TAYLOR BEEGLE, JUNIOR “I love the rare occasion of being able to wear the nerdiest, most fun costumes with my lovely girlfriend Rachel.”

JARED MCKINNEY, JUNIOR

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DePauw 'a-head' in concussion management

BY SAM CARAVANA sports@thedepauw.com

Concussions are no joking matter at DePauw University. Four years after the National Collegiate Athletic Association mandated that all member schools put a concussion-management plan in place, DePauw believes it’s ahead of the curve.

“I think that we’re out ahead on our concussion education, and I think we do a good job with our coaches,” said Rex Call, director of sports medicine and associate professor of kinesiology.

DePauw’s implementation of a concussionmanagement plan puts them in the 92.7 percent of universities and colleges that have such a plan, according to a study done by Harvard University.

DePauw’s concussion management plan consists of two major parts: education and management.

The education component starts before student-athletes arrive on campus. Before participating in a sport, all athletes are required to fill out a pre-participation form that requires them to read a fact-sheet on concussions in sports.

Athletes are also asked to disclose prior injuries, including concussions, and to sign an agreement stating they will “accept the responsibility for reporting my injuries and illnesses to the DePauw

sports medicine staff, including signs and symptoms of concussion.”

This agreement is “an important part of our concussion-management plan,” said Call.

Student-athletes are not the only ones educated on concussions before the season. Coaches also are taught about the injury on an annual basis.

“We have sports medicine education for coaches at our kickoff August athletic department meeting,” Call said.

It is at this meeting where coaches are taught the signs and symptoms of concussions so they can recognize a concussed player.

Players and coaches of “high-risk” sports also get additional education at pre-season meetings where an NCAA video on concussions is shown.

Teams who receive this extra information and are considered to be at high-risk include football, men’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s soccer, field hockey, baseball, volleyball and softball.

The goal of this education is to grant athletes and coaches the ability to recognize potential concussions.

“A team approach is important,” Call said. “We want teammates to be on the look out for signs and symptoms.”

This education paid off for sophomore swimmer Emily Ward, who sustained a concussion after falling. Her teammates recognized concussion-like

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symptoms and pushed her to receive medical care.

The management portion of DePauw’s concussion plan also starts early in the year. High-risk athletes are required to take the imPACT test (Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing) before participating. If an athlete might have sustained a concussion, he or she will take the test again so the results can be compared.

“The whole freshman class goes in at the same time to one of the computer labs to take the test,” said sophomore softball player Julia Waggoner.

“They’ll flash something like 20 words on the screen, then go test you on something else and then ask you to recall as many words as you can.”

Basic motor skills are also tested.

"You have to get your baseline measured when you're not concussed through things like a balance test,” sophomore soccer player Michael McGrath said.

If an athlete receives a hard hit or blow to the head and shows possible symptoms of a concussion, he or she is sent to be evaluated by a member of the sports medicine staff. If the staff member believes an athlete has sustained a concussion, the athlete is temporarily banned from all athletic activity. After this decision is made, the athlete is told to rest and is monitored on a daily basis.

“We use a form that lists all the symptoms of a concussion,” Call said. “It actually allows us to cre-

ate an athlete’s score off of the number of symptoms and severity of those symptoms.”

Once an athlete is symptom-free, he or she retakes both the imPACT and balance tests. The results of these tests are compared to the baseline data taken before the concussion by a member of the sports medicine team. If the results are similar, the athlete is still not cleared but begins a five-day physical progression.

“As you progress through the five days, the intensity of exercise increases and the amount of contact you’re allowed to do increases on the fourth day and fifth day,” Call said of the sequence.

If symptoms reoccur during the five-day period, athletes wait 24 hours before restarting on the previous step of the progression. The final stage involves school physician Dr. Scott Ripple who “has the final authority in making the decision on an athlete’s return to play,” Call said.

DePauw’s concussion management program is on par with similar schools such as North Coast Athletic Conference rival Denison University. Denison’s plan which is posted on their athletic website outlines five steps, all of which correlate to DePauw’s program.

DePauw athletes, and their heads, are in good hands with DePauw’s current concussion management program.

Football | cont’d from page running back and many other receivers and starters. When I say ‘lack experience’ it’s more about dealing with certain in-game situations.”

Wooster, like DePauw, has a relatively new coaching staff—their head coach Frank Colaprete is in his second season.

“They haven’t seen a lot of the field, and we haven’t really seen what they can do with a program,” Sherman said. “Wooster had a good last year in the head coach’s first season with the team, but they aren’t as sharp this year.”

Sherman has a couple keys to the game for DePauw. First, they need to run the ball early on and heavily.

“Matt Hunt, if everything goes according to plan, will throw the ball about 20 times on Saturday, which is when the DPU team is at its best because it means the running game is setting the tone,” Sherman said.

The Tigers learned a lot from the Ohio Wesleyan loss—they need

to focus on one game at a time.

With the Monon Bell game on Nov. 15 against Wabash College looming, this is more important than ever.

“Monon is always in the back of your mind,” Hunt said. “We learned from OWU that you can’t take any game for granted, and there are no teams in this conference that we can just show up and win against.”

The last time the Tigers won the Monon Bell was 2008.

“I think the biggest thing keeping everyone focused on the game ahead of us is that our goal is to go into Monon Week with a 7-2 record,” Gruber said.

Still, the Tigers aren’t focusing on Monon yet.

“You can’t look too far ahead,” Jeffers said. “You have to approach each week’s game as the biggest game of the year.”

The Tigers and the Fighting Scots kick off at 1 p.m. at Wooster’s John P. Papp Stadium.

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Men's soccer draws, sets up must-win against Big Red

BY JACOB LYNN sports@thedepauw.com

By the slimmest of margins the Tigers (8-7-1, 4-3-1) kept their postseason hopes alive on Wednesday night as they played to a 1-1 draw with the Wabash College Little Giants (12-2-3, 5-2-1).

Couple that result with a 4-1 loss by Denison University to Ohio Wesleyan University, and a playoff game is set up between the Big Red and the Tigers tomorrow afternoon.

With one regular season game remaining, the Tigers sit a tantalizing two points behind Oberlin for the fourth and final seed into the North Coast Athletic Conference tournament. To get to the postseason, the Tigers will have to defeat the Big Red, a draw does them no good.

“There is something really special about putting yourself in position where your last games have meaning and everything on the line,” DePauw Head Coach Brad Hauter said.

To get to that point, the Tigers still had to take care of business against their longtime rivals, who have already locked up their place in the conference tournament.

The Little Giants struck first on a goal from Riley Pelton in the 32nd minute of the match.

It wouldn’t take long for the Tigers to recover, and this time it was an unlikely hero that came to the rescue.

Senior Andy Morrison found first-year Taras Tataryn who put a shot past Wabash goalkeeper Dayton Jennings for his first collegiate goal with just over five minutes to play in the first half.

With the score tied at one, both defenses dug in and forced the score to remain even after the overtime period finished. Jennings recorded five saves while DePauw goalkeeper, senior Jake Pezzuto, tallied seven stops in the effort.

So now the stage is set for what will be an eventful day at Reavis Stadium. Not only is tomorrow’s game a must-win for the Tigers, it is also the final regular season game and Senior Day. Tiger players, however, aren’t worried about nerves playing a role.

“We control our own destiny,” Morrison said, “and with it being our last home game, I intend to enjoy the moment.”

The same goes for Pezzuto in net.

“For all the seniors, it’s going to be an emotional day, but at the same time, everyone recognizes that Denison is the only thing standing between us and getting back to the conference tournament,” Pezzuto said. “Even though it’s all of our seniors’ last chance to play at home, I think everyone recognizes the significance and importance of getting the result, and I’m excited to see us rise to the challenge.”

The pregame ceremony will feature the seniors being escorted onto the field by family members, and a banquet to honor the players will be held after the game.

To ensure that the post game meal is a happy one, Hauter and the rest of the coaching staff aren’t doing anything different with the preparation for the Big Red. “To prepare for Denison, it is business as usual,” Hauter said. “We will watch as many matches as we can and call some of the teams that have played them recently and get info.”

Recent history shows that tomorrow’s winner-take-all game could be fairly tight. The Tigers have won four out of the 10 meetings between the two schools, while playing to draws in three others.

However, the Tigers have found their new home at Reavis Stadium particularly comforting. In their six games played in Greencastle this year, DePauw has a record of 5-1, while sporting a 3-6-1 record in road contests.

Once again, Pezzuto emphasizes the fact that he and the rest of the Tigers won’t let their nerves get the best of them.

“There are always nerves and nervous energy before a game for any competitor, but it’s games like this where you literally feel like you have to leave everything out on the field because it might be your last chance,” Pezzuto said. “And it shows who has character to rise up and who doesn’t, and I believe our team has the character to rise to the challenge.”

The Tigers and Big Red are scheduled to get underway at 2:30 p.m. or immediately after both schools’ women’s teams finish playing each other.

Sophomore Grant Plumer works on his footwork as he weaves through cones. The DePauw men’s soccer team is 4-3-1 in the NCAC. SAM CARAVANA / THE DEPAUW

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Women’s soccer still competing in playoff hunt

BY AUSTIN CANDOR sports@thedepauw.com

On Tuesday, the Tigers’ women’s soccer team played in what could have been their most critical game of the season.

With a 1-0 win over Wittenberg University (8-6-1, 4-3-0), DePauw University (5-7-2, 3-2-2) moved within one point behind the Tigers for fourth place in the NCAC standings. The top four teams in the conference advance to the post-season tournament.

“It was a big game for us,” sophomore forward Elizabeth Seewer said. “The bus ride there was completely silent as everyone was focusing and preparing for the game.”

Junior Caroline Zadina’s goal in the first half proved to be all DePauw needed, even as Wittenberg proceeded to outshoot them 20-5.

“The game was quite a battle,” said junior goalkeeper Sarah Cho, who recorded seven saves for DePauw. “Wittenberg fought back, but we fought back even harder.”

Heading into the game, DePauw had multiple obstacles to overcome. The team knew that this was a must-win game,.

As if that wasn’t enough pressure, they had to win on the road against a team who had defeated them last season at home.

“I thought it was one of the tougher teams we played in conference,” Seewer said. “The turf was a lot different to play on than ours, which made us a little shaky at the beginning…. After the game was over, I was able to take a deep breath.”

It’s safe to say that, in regards to the rest of the team, Seewer’s feeling of relief was mutual.

“I think we were all pretty excited but still a little nerv-

ous,” junior forward/defender Stephanie Martin said. “Our season has been an up and down roller coaster ride, but all throughout we have proved and gotten better game by game.”

For the rest of the week, the Tigers are back to work, knowing what’s at stake come tomorrow.

In order to keep their chances of advancing to the tournament alive, DePauw will need to win again. This will prove to be another challenging game, asthe opponent, Dennison University, carries a 12-5 record.

“The next two days of practice will definitely be more intense in preparation for Saturday’s game,” Martin said. “[Wednesday] we had a light, fun practice, but now it’s time to buckle down and get ready.”

Cho agrees.

“Our eyes are on the prize,” she said. “We have to make sure we stay focused during practice this week and perform to our best abilities out on the field Saturday.”

Unfortunately, DePauw will only be able to control part of their fate, as the Tigers will also need Wittenberg to lose to Allegheny. However, this game could easily play to DePauw’s favor, as the Gators come into Saturday’s game against Wittenberg with a 13-5 record and a five-game winning streak.

No matter what happens tomorrow, it’ll be interesting to keep tabs on each game, as both determine how the Tigers’ season will develop.

“We’re all hopeful for this win,” Seewer said. “It won’t necessarily be easy, but I have faith and the confidence that we will win this game and that we will continue on to tournament play.”

DePauw and Dennison will square off tomorrow at noon at Reavis Stadium in what will be the Tigers’ final regular season game.

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Tiger OF THE Week:

Junior Stephanie Martin prepares to take down the ball in a past game against the College of Wooster. SAM CARAVANA / THE DEPAUW

BY ABBY MARGULIS sports@thedepauw.com

POSITION: FORWARD YEAR: SOPHOMORE

After scoring both goals in DePauw’s 2-0 win over the Oberlin College Yeowomen on Oct. 18, sophomore forward Elizabeth Seewer is our Tiger of the Week. Seewer has stood out this season, scoring five goals and leading a team that at times has struggled to find the back of the net. Not only did her two goals against the Yeowomen help lift DePauw to a victory, but it kept their season alive. With one game remaining in the regular season against Denison University, the Tigers sit just one point behind Wittenberg University for the final spot in the North Coast Athletic Conference tournament. Kickoff for the women’s crucial final match against the Big Red is scheduled for noon tomorrow. say about this group that you still have The Depauw (TDP): When you something left to play for at the end of were going through the recruiting pro- the season?

ES: It says that we have heart. Even cess, what about DePauw stood out to though we didn’t start off well, we didn’t you?

Elizabeth Seewer (ES): The size, keep our heads down. We put that in the greek life and soccer program here at past and told ourselves that all of this is DePauw really sparked my interest in the happening for a reason. We are going school. When I visited, I had the time of to be rewarded in the end, and I really my life, and I met so many friendly peo- hope that reward is going to the NCAC ple. Everyone at this school is so friendly and then the NCAAs. We have come out and will talk to you whether they know with more determination and more heart every single game. you or not.

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Strong fall break performance has field hockey seeded 2nd heading into conference tournament

ELIZABETH SEEWER SOCCER

TDP: On a team that has struggled to score goals so far this season, what have you and the rest of the forwards done to try and get the offense going a little bit?

ES: It takes time and patience to try and score goals. Towards the end of the season, we’re starting to figure it out. At the beginning of the season we were trying to force every pass we saw up to the forwards, but now we have become more patient and that has allowed us to score goals. Another thing that has changed is determination. I think it’s starting to hit everyone that we may not make it to the tournament; that makes people determined, and they will run the extra mile to make sure they get to a ball or that the other team doesn’t score.

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TDP: When the way into the playoffs lays in the hands of other games, what do you guys do to stay focused on the task at hand?

ES: Well it’s in our hands still too.

We have to win this Saturday against Denison and then Wittenburg also has to lose to Allegheny Saturday. We both play at the same time so basically we won’t know until after our game if we move on or not, which is kind of scary. I think it will be for the better, however, because it will make us have more will and desire to win this game. We want this so badly, and it’s not just one or two people, it’s the whole team that wants it no matter what role they have on the team. That’s what makes our team so special. That’s what makes it DePauw.

Four games and four dominating performances later, DePauw University’s field hockey team moved to 15-2 in the season with just one game left before the first round of the North Coast Athletic Conference tournament.

Preparing for a week of games, the Tigers knew each team would be tough and that they would be challenged. After playing each team earlier in the season the Tigers knew how they needed to play to defeat the others.

“We were able to keep the intensity up throughout the four games because of the work we put in at practice,” senior defender Kylie Maloney said.

“Leading up to the four games, we worked extensively to correct the mistakes we made when playing these teams the first time.”

In the Tigers first match against Oberlin Col-

lege, the team started hot scoring five goals within the first fifteen minutes and ended with a final score 9-1.

Traveling to Wooster, Ohio next to face The College of Wooster, the Tigers once again hit the field strong. Senior Maggie Campbell and juniors Grace Goodbarn and Natalie Abbot scored three goals.

Outshooting the Wooster Fighting Scots 16-1, firstyear Sarah Guendert picked up the win in goal for DePauw.

The Tigers strong passing and ball handling skills helped lead the team to each win last week.

Facing Earlham College, the passing sequences the women strung together helped them get the win.

Ending with a final score of 6-0, DePauw dominated offensively with 33 shots on goal, while Earlham never had the chance to get a shot on goalie Guendert. Senior Kate Jovanovic opened up the scoring on an assist from Goodbarn in the 15th minute. Three minutes later Henry fired a second

shot. The team kept working hard in the second half sending in four more goals to walk away with the win.

Guendert walked off the field grinning and recording her first collegiate shutout.

“It felt fantastic,” she said. “But it felt even better knowing that our defense denied Earlham of having even one shot or penalty corner.”

In the Tiger’s game last week, they defeated Ohio Wesleyan University, 3-1.

“We played a fast-pace game against Ohio Wesleyan that tested us in the middle of the field,” Maloney said.

The team will travel to Wittenberg University to play in its final regular season game tomorrow.

Head Coach Gina Preston said it has been nice to have a whole week of practice to prepare for Wittenberg’s game.

“We’ve been fine tuning this week,” she said.

“We’re making sure we’re sharp and everything is

ready to go. We’re working on the small pieces on offense and defense so that we hit that flow going into conference.”

In practice this past week, the team agreed that they have been pushing themselves so they can play their best tomorrow and in the upcoming week.

“We want to set the tone moving forward into the conference tournament,” Maloney said. “We are focusing on high-intensity play and precision. It’s correcting the little things that will allow us to be successful.”

Going into the game tomorrow, the team is specifically focusing on perfecting its play for the first round of the NCAC tournament, which will take place on Wednesday against Denison University.

The team is seeded second and will host Denison.

Preston said,“We want to be as close to ready on Saturday to move into post-season play.”

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The Tigers attempt to score against Denison in a conference matchup on Oct. 12. They won 4-0 and are now seeded second in the conference tournament. ABBY MARGULIS / THE DEPAUW

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Football team splits over fall break, goes into matchup against Wooster at 5-2

BY MEG MORROW sports@thedepauw.com

While the rest of DePauw students were on break, the athletes were on campus, hard at work.

The football team had two games: one against Ohio Wesleyan University at home and the other at Allegheny College.

First, they battled against the Battling Bishops at Blackstock Stadium on the first Saturday of break. Despite having a longer time of possession, Ohio Wesleyan scored on a last-minute touchdown, with the final score at 23-16.

“I think the biggest thing that our team learned from the loss against OWU was that we got outplayed,” first-year running back Jack Gruber said.

“We lost our focus that we had in the previous games, and that resulted in our loss.”

The Tigers’ only touchdown came from junior running back Amen Galley, while kicker Marko Adams had three field goals, two that were 29 yards and one that was 39 yards. Sophomore quarterback Matt Hunt had 225 yards passing and one interception.

“Against OWU, I thought I tried to force the ball a couple times and that hurt us,” Hunt said.

Against Allegheny, the Tigers were a different

team entirely.

DePauw had 565 total yards of offense against the Gators, 412 of those on the ground. They held the Gators to only seven points and forced a fumble, which was recovered by junior Ray Webb.

“We were excited to get back to the way we were playing before OWU, and that’s why the Allegheny game resulted in a victory,” said Gruber, who had 99 yards rushing and three of DePauw’s six rushing touchdowns.

“We ran the ball really well,” Hunt said. “As long as our running game is there, it will open up our passing game which is key. We have the capability to run the ball effectively on anyone in our conference.”

Junior wide receiver Connor Jeffers, who caught a 26-yard touchdown from Hunt in the third quarter, agreed with his quarterback. “[The run game] allowed us to make some key plays in the passing game as well,” Jeffers said.

“When we are able run the ball well, good things seem to happen.”

The Tigers dominated the Gators in every statistical category and won 59-7, the largest point margin win for DePauw since 1982. They are now 5-2 overall and 4-2 in the NCAC. “I think the key to our win against Allegheny was our approach and the run game,” Gruber said.

“We knew going into the game that we were big-

Junior Conner Jeffers (left) crouches down to tackle sophomore Jason Kirchhoff (right) during a drill. The DePauw Tigers will travel to take on the College of Wooster Saturday. ZACHARY TAYLOR / THE DEPAUW

ger, faster and stronger so we just needed to come out and play the way we do and control the line of scrimmage like we did.”

DePauw’s next matchup, The College of Wooster’s Fighting Scots, are currently 3-4 overall, and 3-3 in NCAC play.

“You need to bring the same intensity each week or you will get beat in this conference,” Jeffers said. “We’ve had a great week of practice and will be ready to go.”

When it comes to threats Wooster poses, Hunt said, “They have a different defensive scheme then we have seen the past couple of weeks, so we will have to adjust the game as the game goes on.”

Jeffers also discussed the offensive threats the Fighting Scots bring.

“Wooster’s a very good team. They have a very dynamic offense that can score a lot of points,” Jeffers said. “We’re preparing the same way this week as we have the entire season. Our coaches do a

great job of coming up with schemes that give us a great chance of winning each week.”

The Tigers expect their run game to play a huge role in this game as well.

“If we come out and control the line of scrimmage like we did against Allegheny, then we should be able to take care of Wooster as well,” Gruber said. “The attitude that we had after the OWU loss will transfer over to the Wooster game as well and hopefully lead to another W.” WGRE sports play-by-play broadcaster, firstyear Robert Sherman, who will be travelling to Wooster to broadcast the game, offered some inside information on the Fighting Scots.

“The main thing I see in my research with Wooster is their general lack of experience,” Sherman said, “which is weird for me to say when

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