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DePauw’s Title IX remains the same despite national changes in the policy

BY EMILY SCHABES Co-News Editor news@thedepauw.com

A new guideline from the U.S. Department of Education will hold universities accountable to obtain the same evidence standards for all student misconduct and sexual misconduct cases.

This new guideline comes from the concern that some universities held sexual misconduct cases to a lower standard of evidence than other student misconduct cases.

“There were some universities that had the preponderance of the evidence standard only for their sexual misconduct cases,” Madison said, “and then they had a different standard - the clear and convincing standard for all of their other student misconduct cases.”

To clarify, Madison gave the hypothetical example of a student who was accused of theft would be held to a clear and convincing standard of proof - a higher standard - while a student accused of sexual battery would be held to a preponderance of evidence standard - a lower standard.

In an email sent to the DePauw community, Renee Madison, Title IX coordinator, wrote that DePauw’s current policies regarding sexual misconduct

remain in compliance with the new changes that the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has implemented.

Only “minor changes” will be necessary for changing DePauw’s sexual misconduct policies, according to Madison.

“There is nothing at this point that will result in a change in DePauw’s Title IX process,” President Mark McCoy said. “I am very confident in the work of Renee Madison in our Title IX office and know that we are all joining together to eradicate sexual assault on our campus.”

The email, sent on Sept. 22, was in response to the U.S. Department of Education’s decision to rescind two Obama-era policies released in 2011 and 2014 regarding the Title IX process that dictates how a university should address reported sexual misconduct.

According to a U.S. Department of Education press release, Betsy DeVos, secretary of education, found the current Title IX guidelines applying to sexual assault accusations to be unfair.

According to DeVos, the system favored the accusing student over the accused.

Title IX is “a federal law, enacted in 1972, which protects students who participate in education programs or activities

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. PHOTO COURTESY OF GREG SKIDMORE

from discrimination based on sex,” according to the DePauw Title IX: Equity and Access page. Title IX only addresses public and private schools with federal funding, although some states have enacted similar laws.

The 2011 and 2014 Title IX guideline updates provided colleges and universities with guidelines for how sexual misconduct should be handled when it is reported on campuses. Universities may use slightly different measures when applying this process; however, in all

hearings, it must be proven that the accused student most likely committed the crime with a “preponderance of evidence” standard of proof.

DePauw holds a preponderance of evidence standard of proof for all kinds of student misconduct, including sexual misconduct.

“This is interim guidance, so we don’t have guidance that has been issued that has said we’re going one particular direction. We have an opportunity to provide public comments to the DePartment of Education to

let them know this is what we think it ought to be but we don’t have that guidance yet,” Madison said.

The policy change will hold universities accountable to keep their standard of proof consistent when dealing with both student misconduct and sexual misconduct.

Rescinding these guidelines may make it much more difficult for survivors of sexual misconduct to seek justice at universities where the standard of proof is CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

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higher. Despite these changes, DePauw students should keep WEDNESDAY in mind that, “DePauw remains SEPTEMBER 27, 2017 committed to preventing and Editor-in-chief Madison Dudley addressing sexual misconduct and interpersonal violence Emma Mazurek on our campus, as well as Managing Editor supporting any student who has been impacted by the trauma T. Beckmann & Copy Editors of sexual violence.” Renee Marissa Brown Madison, Title IX Coordinator, wrote in her email.

News Editors Bryttni CarDePauw’s preponderance penter & Emily of evidence standard of proof Schabes will remain unchanged, as it Features is consistent with OCR’s new Emma Houston guidelines.

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Sexual Assault Survivor Advocates (SASA), the Title IX and Public Safety offices, Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE), the Women’s Center, Campus Living and Community Development (CLCD), as well as counseling services, all serve as resources for survivors and students.

“My understandings of the changes are it can have an impact on the national level redescribing what is sexual assault and how you can go through the process of reporting that” Abby Lacy, junior, said, “but on a local level here at DePauw my understanding is not much is changing.”

Despite any current or future changes to the Title IX process, Madison reminded students in her email to always “commit to consent.”

CORRECTION: in the sixth issue of The DePauw which was published on Sept. 20, sophomore Sheraya Smith did not write the opinion piece, “Drinking alcohol is stupid.”

The article was written by first-year Carson Mara.

2017 marks 150th year of female enrollment at DePauw

BY PETER NICIEJA Staff Writer news@thedepauw.com

Rachel Clephane Business Manager In the fall of 1867, five Advertisement Lily Burba women enrolled at Indiana Salesperson THE DEPAUW: (USPS 150-120) is a tabloid published most Wednesdays of the school year by the DePauw University Board of Control of Student Publications. The DePauw is delivered free of charge around campus. Paid circulation is limited to mailed copies of the newspaper.

“Community Standards or Sexual Misconduct and Interpersonal Violence processes,” will still be impermissible, according to Madison’s email.

According to a blog post by the National Women’s Law Center, DeVos has failed to meet with sexual misconduct survivors in the past.

Candice Jackson, acting assistant secretary for civil rights, said, “the accusations — 90 percent of them — fall into the category of ‘we were both drunk,’ ‘we broke up, and six months later I found myself under a Title IX investigation because she just decided that our last sleeping together was not quite right’,” according to an article published by The New York Times.

Regardless of Title IX changes, DePauw will continue to offer resources on campus

Asbury University for the first time. Four years later, four of these women would become the first female graduates of Indiana Asbury, now known as DePauw University.

Throughout their time at DePauw, these women faced hostility from male students. However, with the help of faculty, the board of trustees, and their own will power, they eventually were accepted by their male peers.

Since then, women have and continue to influence DePauw.

According to Wesley Wilson, coordinator of archives and special collections, “Right away, [the first female students] started to look for ways to fit in. That was how Kappa Alpha Theta started - for necessity.” This began a trend of establishing Greek

organizations for women, including the founding chapter of Alpha Chi Omega just 15 years later.

Wilson also stated that athletically inclined women held field days to compete with each other. Although just intramural, it was a big event attended by most of the University. “Some of these students were record setters of their time, including one who won a silver medal in the 1928 Olympics,” Wilson said.

Following the acceptance of female enrollment, more milestones were set on campus: the establishment of the Women’s Athletic Association in 1915, the first female editor-in-chief of The DePauw in 1939, and the first female senior class president in 1943.

Despite these successes, Sarah Ryan, director of the Women’s Center, said, “A study on the status of women that happened around 15 years ago concluded that a women’s center on campus was needed.”

Ryan said women are still

victimized at a much higher rate than men in terms of interpersonal and dating violence, and still feel marginalized in and out of the classroom. “The issues that women were facing 150 years ago when they were first admitted are quite similar to the issues women on campus experience today,” Ryan said.

Thus, the Women’s Center was formed in 2004 and since then it has hosted films, discussions, speakers, conducted outreach to clubs and sports organizations, and acted as a temporary residence for students who have experienced trauma in their living space. The Women’s Center also hosts the Sexual Assault Survivor Advocates (SASA) program, which acts as a 24/7 hotline that can be called to reach health and counseling services, Title IX, Public Safety, and other resources survivors of sexual violence or interpersonal violence can connect to.

Last week, the Women’s Center celebrated its annual

“Women’s Week” that highlighted 150 years of women on campus. It included post card campaigns about Title IX and a “Start

By Believing” campaign about sexual assault and harassment. Other events included yoga and talks about the metabolic effects of alcohol on men and women.

According to senior Emily Fox, Women’s Center student intern, “It’s mostly people coming to hangout.

There are couches, a TV, snacks and tea. I think it’s a great place to do homework and relax.” Although it focuses mostly on women, the Women’s Center is open to all genders who wish to use its services.

Currently, DePauw enrolls more women (53 percent) than men (47 percent), which would not have been possible without the foundation laid by the brave women who enrolled in this University 150 years ago.

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Yo-Yo Ma to perform at DePauw on Saturday, meet with students and work with Greencastle community those cultural connections between musicians of different cultures,” Lupardus said.

Green said Ma fell in love with DePauw and the Not only is Yo-Yo Ma community. “He liked what we performing for a sold out were doing. He liked that we crowd, meeting with students weren’t a big school in a big and chairing the 21-Century urban area,” said Green. “He Musician Advisory Board, loved the idea of DePauw and but Ma will also perform he loved the idea that is was popups around the Greencastle very special.” community.

President Mark McCoy said According to Judson Green, Judson and Joyce Green (‘74 & 1974 DePauw graduate and ‘75) are responsible for bring namesake of the Green Cen- Ma to DePauw. President Mcter for Performing Arts, the Coy was the Dean of the SoM tickets sold out for five years in under four and was able a man of to meet Ma. minutes. This “For compares to his stature to be “Yo-Yo Ma the last time beyond being Ma performed able to connect the greatest when the tick- with people cellist in the ets sold out in and beconsistently on world six minutes. ing the single Accord- a very personal most famous ing to the Declassical mupauw Univer- level, that’s just sician in the sity School of remarkable skill.” world is also Music (SoM) - President Mark McCoy the nicest guy website, Ma is in the world.” performing on Both Green Saturday as a part of the Green and President McCoy said Ma Guest Artist Series. This is is a personable and kind perMa’s third time performing son. “For a man of his statat Depauw. In honor of Ma’s ure to be able to connect with upcoming concert, a show- people consistently on a very ing of his Silk Road project personal level, that’s just redocumentary “The Music of markable skill,” said President Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the McCoy. “Yo-Yo is not just one Silk Road Ensemble” played of the most talented one of the on Tuesday evening. most brilliant but he’s one of Senior Erin Lupardus plays the most kindest people I’ve the cello in the SoM. Lupardus ever known and he believes in attended the film screening DePauw and he believes in the and said it was inspirational. 21-Century initiative.”

“It was really cool seeing Ma has been an active interviews from him talking member of the Depauw about his experiences and why community for several years. he’s compelled to make the The SoM website announced Silk Road Ensemble and spread Ma as honorary chairman

BY MARY-KATHRYN LEONARD Staff Writer features@thedepauw.com

for the 21-Century Musician Advisory Board. He was the ribbon cutter for the grand opening of Music on the Square in June 2013. He also visited the SoM for two days and performed in September 2011.

According to the SoM website, Ma was born in Paris in 1955. He began practicing cello at the age of four. Bach’s first Cello Suite was the first piece of music Ma learned. By the age of five, Ma memorized three of Bach’s solo suites, according to Biography.com.

By the age of seven, Ma was considered a prodigy and already a famous classical musician.

Ma is an alumnus of the Juilliard School of Music and Harvard University. He is a solo cellist, who plays with many orchestras all over the world. According to Biography.com, Ma has produced 75 albums and won over 15 Grammy Awards.

He has made appearances on different television shows, including “The Simpsons” and “West Wing.” In 2011, Ma won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for the film “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.”

Ma will perform in the Green Center for Performing Arts in Kresge Auditorium on Saturday at 8 p.m.

“Getting his [Ma] time is very precious,” said Green.

“He’s a one-of-a-kind person and I’ve never met a musician of any kind that touches people.”

PG. 3 | September 27, 2017

LATINX HERITAGE MONTH EVENTS SEPTEMBER 15 – OCTOBER 15 Sept. 15- Oct. 15 is known as Latinx Heritage month. The Multicultural Student Services (MSS) put together various programs throughout the month to educate students and celebrate the Latinx community. Alesha Bowman, director of multicultural student services, said MSS uses Latinx instead of Latino/a to be more inclusive for students who do not identify with a traditional gender on campus.

SEPTEMBER 26 Starting Sept. 26 students can look at a display set up in the library with various pullings from academic books and movies.

Bowman said the idea behind the display is to be passive advertising. She also said the display is meant for self-learning.

OCTOBER 4 MSS will host a program called Not My Paradise in Reese Hall at 5 p.m. This event is a combination of Peace Camp, LGBTQ history month and Latinx Heritage Month. Queer Students of Color (QSOC), the Caribbean Student Association and Committee for Latino Concerns will host the event and discuss the intersectionality between race and sexual orientation. They will also touch on religion.

OCTOBER 5

MSS will host “Un Amor: Latinx vs. Hispanic vs. Spanish” at 11:30 a.m in the peace circle in conjunction with Peace Camp.

This is a discussion about the differences between the identities of being Latinx, Hispanic or Spanish.

Film Festival MSS is showing two more movies as part of their film festival.

They will be showing Don’t Tell Anyone, which is about a girl named Angy Rivera and her journey as an undocumented citizen and victim of sexual assault.

OCTOBER 10

MSS will be hosting a dinner and discussion over a documentary about having Cuban roots while living in the Bronx. Bowman said it will be about the intersectionality of being Afro-Latina and how people struggle with that identity.

DATE TBD The final event will be a cultural heritage night. The date is to be determined. Bowman said it is a night to celebrate different aspects of student’s culture. Bowman said this is an opportunity for students to shine a spotlight on whatever latinx culture they come from.

MSS posts all of their events on their social media. They can be found on Instagram and Facebook at mssdepauw on both platforms.

PG. 4 | September 27, 2017

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Green Dot week raises bystander intervention awareness on campus

BY KIRA SINGER Staff Writer news@thedepauw.com

Lime green chalk-dots pepper the sidewalks in the academic quad and throughout DePauw’s campus; signalling the start of Green Dot Week.

Green Dot is a prevention based program working toward reducing power based violence. Green Dot week is being celebrated with events to encourage awareness of interpersonal violence before the next training session on Nov. 5.

Junior Liam Byrnes is one of two Green Dot Student Interns.

Byrnes said the fall Green Dot week is an opportunity to raise awareness at the beginning of the school year. “People are just starting to arrive back on campus and freshmen are getting their first taste of

the DePauw social scene,” Wendy Wippich, director Byrnes said. The Green Dot of special projects and program trains students how assessment, said all clubs on to notice potentially harmful campus should work together. situations of violence where “As a community, we can do one person, referred to as a red a better job of looking out for dot, has power each other, and over another, “The the clubs goal is all and how to should work obviously to have together to intervene.

Green Dot a campus where fill in the gaps has similarities reach as there is no power to with other many students personal as possible,” organizations based on campus. violence...”

Wippich said.

Code TEAL Green - Director of Special Projects and TIPS are Dot training and Assessment Wendy focuses programs that on Wippuch p r e v e n t i o n encourage s t u d e n t techniques to intervention to supplement help keep DePauw students the intervention by other safe. Code Teal emphasizes organizations. “What I think is supporting survivors of really exciting about the work sexual assault, while TIPS that Green Dot does is that it is a responsible alcohol use focuses on not even having initiative. those tragic instances come up

in the first place,” Byrnes said.

Since implementing the program on campus in 2011, students like sophomore Rabia Daud have noticed a change in campus climate. Daud benefitted from being Green Dot trained. “I am better at active listening, not only at parties but also just around campus,” Daud said.

She also noticed how her friends have implemented Green Dot strategies at parties.

“Most of my friends use the Green Dot language and talk to someone saying ‘you’re being a red dot’ kind of as a joke, but it is a good way to bring light to what is happening so that people notice,” Daud said.

The strategies used by the Green Dot program throughout the training are the Three D’s: Direct, Distract and Delegate. The goal is to emphasize that there is an intervention

Green Dot Week Schedule of Events Wednesday, September 27 Day of Dialogue Thursday, September 28 11:30 - 12:30 Green Dot Talk 2.0 with Snacks (Student Org Space) Find the Dots (Instagram and Facebook) Friday, September 29 11:30 - 12:30 Green Dot @ Hoover Find the Dots (Instagram and Facebook) @depauwgreendot #dpugreendot

plan for any type of personality, help change the campus climate as a whole, and reduce and eliminate “red dot” situations by overflowing campus with “green dots.”

“The goal is obviously to have a campus where there is no power based personal violence and all students can attend without worry for their safety,” Wippich said. “While we obviously all have to do more, not everyone has to do everything, everyone just has to do something.”

To get Green Dot trained for the upcoming session, email greendot@depauw.edu for more information. There will be a mini Green Dot training session with free food Sept.

27 at lunch in the Student Organization space in the Union Building Basement for interested students.

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PG. 5 | September 27, 2017

Interview with the new Dean of Faculty

BY ALAINA STELLWAGEN Staff Writer news@thedepauw.com

Tamara Beauboeuf was recently appointed as the new dean of faculty for DePauw University.

Along with her position, she is also a faculty career mentor and a professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality studies. The DePauw sat down with her to learn more about the position, who Beauboeuf is, and what she is currently working on.

The DePauw: What do you do as the Dean of Faculty? What do your duties entail?

Tamara Beauboeuf: As Dean of Faculty, I am a resource for faculty as they develop throughout their careers as teacher-scholars.

I oversee outreach to new, midcareer, and senior faculty, and design programs to support their thriving. A key aspect of my duties is finding ways to recognize and publicize our faculty’s contributions to their fields. We’ve

launched a new Faculty Achievements page that showcase recent books, invited talks, awards, grants, presentations, exhibits, and journal articles. I hope this page will also help the broader community -- including students!

-- see and appreciate the work we do.

TDP: What do you do/have you done in relation to the upcoming Day of Dialogue?

TB: I’ve been involved in the planning for DePauw Dialogue 4.0 and the efforts to make it more focused on building our skills to engage in productive dialogue with each other.

TDP: You also are a professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; how will/do you balance the positions of both professor and Dean of Faculty?

How long have you been here at DePauw University?

TB: This is the start of my 17th year at DePauw, and yes, I’m a professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. My new

role as dean is largely administrative, but I do still teach. This semester it’s a section of our Introduction to Women’s Studies course. The opportunity to be part of the development of undergraduates is what drew me into liberal arts teaching, so maintaining a connection to the classroom is very important to me.

TDP: Who was the previousDean of Faculty and why did the position open up? How were you placed in this new office position?

TB: Carrie Klaus, Professor of Modern Languages (French) was the previous Dean of Faculty.

This is an administrative role that has a three-year term. Selection of the dean of faculty is made by the Vice President for Academic Affairs in consultation with the Faculty Priorities and Governance committee.

TDP: When did you become the Dean?

TB: I’ve been dean since July 1, 2017. I’m in the first months of a three-year term.

Dean of Faculty Tamara Beauboeuf. PHOTO COURTESY DEPAUW UNIVERSITY

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PG. 7 | September 27, 2017 FEATURES The Female “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” and the campy commentary on the legalization of drugs

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Lindsey Jones Lindsey Jones is a student film critic, analyzing popular film from a female perspective.

Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation sequel “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” (2017) won last weekend at the box-office, surpassing its original’s opening weekend performance with $39 million domestically.

While I hadn’t seen the original “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” the sequel’s trailer caught my attention this past summer.

Like the trailer’s fight scenes depict, “The Golden Circle” upheld the spy, action and comedy genres.

But despite its campy nature and problematic scenes, the film had some interesting implications on the war on drugs and the debate on legalization of recreational drugs.

Set a year after the original story, “The Golden Circle” opens in Britain with Eggsy Unwin (Taron Egerton) rising the ranks within the ‘gentlemen’ spy organization.

The Kingsman organization is nearly obliterated by a mysterious threat.

Eggsy and Merlin (Mark Strong) travel to America and join forces with the Statesman, the Kingsman’s American counterpart.

Statesman leader Champ (Jeff Bridges), and agents Tequila (Channing Tatum), Whiskey (Pedro Pascal), and Ginger (Halle Berry), leverage their resources to help Eggsy and Merlin find

the group who destroyed Kingsman. They find the villains to be the Golden Circle, a drug cartel fronting as a pharmaceutical company.

The Golden Circle’s leader, 50s-themed housewife Poppy (Julianne Moore), wishes for her drugs to be sold alongside legal alcohol and tobacco in the U.S., and goes to extreme, murderous lengths of poisoning drug users with a deadly toxin to achieve her goal.

Harry, Eggsy, Merlin and the Statesman have to team up together to find Poppy’s drug cartel hideout, find the cure for her poison, and save millions of people and the world.

While “The Golden Circle” is a spy action film structured as a Hollywood classical narrative, filled with misogynistic scenes, incessant vulgar dialogue, and silly western standoffs, it also functions as a commentary on the highlydebated disputes and policies on the war on drugs and drug usage in the U.S. Although the film is only one interpretation of this debate, it depicts the complexity of the discourse through a satirical framework, critiquing everything from incarceration because of illegal drug use to the economic consequences of denying or allowing the legalization of drugs.

Generalizing all drug users as criminals, the U.S. president in “The Golden Circle” wants to get rid of the problem by getting rid of all the drug users, choosing to let them die from Poppy’s poisonous toxin.

Contrastingly, his chief of staff argues that some people are experimenting or using the drugs for medicinal purposes, so it is wrong to make assumptions about the millions of people consuming these drugs.

While Poppy’s “Save Lives, Legalize” campaign is murderous and her psychotic nature takes her opinion to the extreme, the idea of legalizing some

drugs is still in debate.

This representation of the debate on legalizing drugs isn’t perfect, but “The Golden Circle” is telling of how popular films are not only entertainment. Rather, films like “The Golden Circle” can embed political implications in even the most covert methods, posing questions to audiences in between the violent fights or “entertaining” storylines.

“Kingsman: The Golden Circle” is playing at Ashley Square Cinema until Thursday.

DEPAUW FILM STUDIES

FILM SERIES

THE GOOD CATHOLIC Friday, September 29, 2017 5 p.m.

Ashley Square Cinemas

$10 general admission • DePauw students free with valid school ID Daniel is an idealistic and dedicated priest who loves his work more than anything else, until a chance meeting with a woman at confession stirs up emotions that make him question his true calling. Starring former Greencastle resident Zachary Spicer and shot in Bloomington, Ind. Free and open to the public talks from 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. and 7-8 p.m. in The Inn at DePauw, Emerson Room, featuring co-star/ co-producer Zachard Spicer, writer/director Paul Shoulberg, co-producer John Amstrong and coproducer Kaitlyn Smith.

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Art Union reclaims DePauw’s walls

BY NATALIE BRUNINI Photo Editor features@thedepauw.com

A painting of DePauw’s previous President, Brian Casey, motivational quotes and hundreds of signatures are just a few of the images you will find walking between the tunnel that connects first-year residence halls Longden and Bishop Roberts.

Now, the images and phrases express creativity and show students’ artistic ability. However, the tunnel had collected a slew of inappropriate words and pictures from previous years that were only recently covered up. The hallway, which once contained sexist language, drawings of genitalia, and lewd, suggestive sexual content, has been transformed to be a space of positive creativity.

On Saturday, the Art Union, a collective of student artists, along with QSOC (Queer Students of Color) organized a community event to repaint the tunnel with positive images. Afterwards, students were invited to gather in Bowman Park to “Reclaim the Corner.” Activities included face paint, food, music and chalk art in order to reclaim the stretch of property Brother Jed staged his protest at in previous years.

The idea to cover up the tunnel images first started when senior Student Body President Erika Killion spoke with JC Lopez, director of campus living and community development. She was concerned about the many graphic images, words and phrases drawn on the walls of the tunnel. While it has become a tradition for many individuals to freely cover the

Students painted over inappropriate content on the walls of DePauw’s tunnel, which connects Longden and Bishop Roberts. NATALIE BRUNINI / THE DEPAUW

Sophomore Natalia Costard spray paints a wall in DePauw’s tunnel along with other members of Art Union.

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wall, several students have abused the space by writing mean comments about others or drawing and writing inappropriate pictures and sayings.

Killion and Lopez discussed how much they should change the tunnel. “There was sort of a back and forth where we were talking about whether facilities should paint over the whole tunnel and start fresh,” said Killion.

But after talking with Sophomore Natalia Costard, a member of Art Union, they decided there were a lot of artistic pieces that should be preserved. Rather than to go down to the tunnel and fix it herself, Killion decided that Art Union would be able to cover up the offensive pieces in an artistic fashion.

Costard explained that Art Union chose to get involved because covering the racist,

sexist and impolite content was something that needed to be done. “I think it’s just something that was necessary, not something that I wanted to do for myself,” Costard said. “It wasn’t so much of a personal thing, rather than something I thought should be done.”

While the event was hosted by Art Union, anyone who wanted to paint was allowed to come. Sophomore Emma Wittkowski, though not a member of Art Union, said she still wanted to get involved with the event because she believes it is a good step forward for DePauw. “By covering up these images, we are shutting down the people that write these aggressive and offensive things on the walls,” said Wittkowski, “and showing them that there are always going to be people against them.”

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The DePauw |Day of Dialogue

DePauw Dialogue 4.0 Schedule

9:00 a.m.: Opening Session – Neal Fieldhouse 10:00 a.m.: Common Dialogue Activity – Assigned Rooms 12:15 p.m.: Lunch – Hoover and Union Building 1:45 p.m.: Afternoon Sessions – see details below or check the Guidebook app 3:15 p.m.: Self-Care – Hold the Space, Be Good to Others, Be Good to Each Other

Afternoon Sessions

From Invisible Knapsacks to Informed Action: Recognizing Power, Weakening Unjust Structures

Exploring the Scope of Our Power: A Discussion on Personal Responsiblity and Justice The Spectrum of Revolution in Grassroots Activism Tackling Elitism and Social Class at DePauw

Building First Generation Student COmmunity at DePauw

Immigration Today: Panel Discussion on Issues, Experiences and Working to Create Change

Kresge Hall

Learning from Intergroup Dialogue

Union Building Living Rooms

Model United Nations Caucus

Wallace-Stewart Commons, Hoover Hall Julian Auditorium, Room 147

Workshop with Safiya Noble

GCPA 1115 Asbury 111

Harrison Hall 301 Daseke Dining Room, Hoover Hall Peeler Auditorium

The Deep Dive: Do I Know Who I Am? Expressing Leadership Challenges in a Socio-Political Climate What is Diversity, Really? Does it Hurt or Heal? Examining Perspectives of Monuments & Memorials

Watson Auditorium, PCCM Olin Auditorium, Room 123

Interview with Anne Harris on DePauw Dialogue THE DEPAUW STAFF

The DePauw met with Vice President of Academic Affairs Anne Harris to talk about the DePauw Dialogue 4.O. Answers have been edited for length and clarity.

The DePauw: What should students expect from this Day of Dialogue; how is it different than the last few years?

Anne Harris: So this year is much more about the practice of dialogue and the actions that result from practicing dialogue. I would contrast it with previous years having more of an emphasis on education, more of an emphasis on a conference style DePauw Dialogue where we had 21 different sessions

and people chose them. And I think that is engaging, but what we heard over and over again was “okay we’re hearing a lot about the ‘what,’ but how about the ‘how’,” and we’d like to be active, we’d like to do dialogue.

Practice dialogue, and just hear about dialogue and that’s really been the shift.

Just from talking with different student groups, talking to different faculty and staff. Really making a shift from kind of conference style to workshop style. Really listening and learning to practicing and doing and building.

TDP: Have you seen meaningful change within the DePauw community when it comes to accepting difference and discussing di-

versity and inclusion?

AH: I have to think that there is a spectrum of responses. For some, it has not moved nearly enough, and for others, they hardly recognize the school. So I think your question begs a spectrum of responses. I can tell you my own. From where I sit thinking a lot about the campus community and how it fosters learning and engagement, at this point, I have a host of stories that let me know that people are engaged in this work. What I can’t necessarily point to is a host of systems that have changed… in terms of what needles have shifted since 2014, I think we’re really looking at our systems now in a way that we haven’t before. Where I think before we were trying to be

kind and nice and welcoming, we’re now starting to look at ‘how can all of our students see themselves in our curriculum, how can our pedagogy help every student persist and be resilient and achieve?’ And these are just kind of the academic questions there. When I think of campus climate, I do see us communicating more, I do. I see us communicating more before a crisis. I see us reaching out to each other. I see a lot of faculty and staff partnerships that were just not active before.

TDP: Have you started thinking about DePauw Dialogue 5.0?

AH: Not yet, and that’s quite purposeful because I think we want to see the

response to dialogue 4.0.

We’re doing this dialogue workshop approach. What’s the next step? Where do those students faculty and staff want to go next?...

We’re the same community but were not the same community. Every year 600 students come here and 600 students enter the world and so we’re never the same thing twice, but we are also constantly developing as a community… We’re going to be keen to register and understand the response to dialogue 4.0 as we plan dialogue 5.0, but there will be a push to do so in the spring so that we get more on-campus contributions. I’m so thankful for everyone who was here on campus over the summer working on it.

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How it came to be: Four years of discussion about difference and community NOVEMBER 2011

MARCH 2014

More than 500 students, staff and faculty members wore white shirts to signal openness as part of a daylong event dubbed Campus Conversation. The event was meant to encourage conversations about diversity and inclusion on campus.

Campus-wide forum organized by “Love is the Movement” and the DePauw Student Government. Students, faculty, and staff gather to discuss diversity on campus.

OCTOBER 2015

JANUARY 2015 DePauw holds its first Day of Dialogue with two keynote speakers in the morning and discussion groups in the afternoon.

Jed Smock and his followers return to campus. Students, faculty, and staff protest with laughter, dancing, and pride.

A[PRIL 2016 DePauw holds Day of Dialogue 2.0, this time the event included one keynote speaker followed by different breakout sessions. Attendees were invited to participate in small discussion groups during the second half of the event.

Jeb Smock and his assoicates returned to campus in 2016. The group was heckled by some students while many ignored the protest. THE DEPAUW

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2014

2015

Student demonstrators march and chant as they leave the Greene Center for Performing Arts. The group chanted as they walked through the buildings serving lunch to DePauw Dialogue attendees in 2016. THE DEPAUW

MAY 2016 Faculty and staff vote to make DePauw Dialogue an annual event until 2020.

Some breakout sessions were packed, forcing students to sit on the floor and line the walls. THE DEPAUW

2016

President Mark McCoy announces the University’s intentions to build a new Center for Diversity and Inclusion. Construction should be completed by October 2017.

2017

SEPTEMBER 2016

FEBRUARY 2014 “Excuse Me, But Your Privilege is in Our Way,” published in The DePauw and subsequently on huffingtonpost.com.

FEBRUARY 2017

On Sept. 4, the nametags of students of color living on the second floor of Humbert Hall were ripped off of their doors. One student was targeted specifically, with the words “H8” and the n-word written on her door’s whiteboard.

SEPTEMBER 2015 Jed Smock, a radical evangelical Christian, visited DePauw’s campus to preach messages of religion in addition to homophobia, sexism and racism. His visit resulted in a student protest and eventually an African American male student being wrestled to the ground by Greencastle police.

The DePauw community gathers for the third Day of Dialogue. During the event’s opening speech, student activists, holding signs and dressed in black, walked in and stood in silence in the fieldhouse.

Student protestors file into the aisles of Neal Fieldhouse in 2016 while DePauw Dialogue keynote speaker, Vernon A. Wall, lectures. The protestors held signs calling for DePauw’s adminsitration to better support students of color.

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SEPTEMBER 2017 Day of Dialogue 4.0 will occur on Sept. 27 with a new dialogue centered format. There will be a keynote speaker followed by a panel in the morning with a common activity taking place across campus. Students can then choose to attend a session with various formats: caucus, workshop, lecture and roundtable, in the afternoon.

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Student demonstrators march and chant as they walk through the Percy L. Julian Science and Mathematics Center. The group chanted as they walked through the buildings serving lunch to DePauw Dialogue attendees during the 2016 Day of Dialogue. THE DEPAUW

Student facilitators for DePauw Dialogue feel excluded from planning process

BY MADDY MCTIGUE Staff Writer

Students will lead some sessions at today’s Day of Dialogue, in response to feedback from last year’s event, in which some students felt there was too much instruction and not enough discussion, according to Myrna Hernandez, dean of students.

However, some of today’s student facilitators have complained they had little input in the day’s discussion topics.

Student facilitators juniors Ashley Beeson and Kiara Goodwine are concerned because students were not involved in deciding the issues being addressed today, saying

there has not been enough student consultation about how the day is structured.

“If [Day of Dialogue] is really for students and for building community amongst students, then why is there not a more transparent process where students can vote [for what happens during the day]?”

Goodwine asked.

According to Beeson, only 19 students will help lead sessions today, compared to 56 faculty and staff members. However, according to Hernandez, more faculty responded this year than students.

During the summer, coordinators of Day of Dialogue reached out to DePauw students, faculty and staff who were trained or involved in diversity

and inclusion initiatives, student involvement, Beeinviting them to help lead son thinks students should today’s events. Accord- be on every committee ining to Hernandez, student volved in the planning of facilitators received more Day of Dialogue because training than in previous “the administrators and years, which the faculty included sim- “...why is there and staff ulating all of aren’t the a more ones who the day’s ac- not tivities step t r a n s p a r e n t are in the by step. Her- process who where dorms, nandez also are walking can down the described stu- students dent facilita- vote [for what s t r e e t s . . . tors’ roles, happens during where all such as leadthe students ing discus- the day]?” are and sions with the where the help of a fac- Junior Kiara Goodwine m a j o r i t y ulty member, of all these participating issues are in smaller group discus- happening.” Both Goodsions and answering one- wine and Beeson agree on-one questions. that greater student parTo combat lack of ticipation will improve the

quality of the event One of the biggest points of discrepancy concerning student facilitation tomorrow is the scripts facilitators are required to follow. Senior student facilitator Peter Gorman says it will be nice to have talking points, but he wants to try and have more “organic conversations.” As a firstgeneration college student, Gorman will be a facilitator for this year’s SEED workshop. However, he is optimistic overall about today’s events and said he feels well-trained for his role. In addition, he hopes the DePauw administration will follow up on the day’s events “so that it’s not just a one day thing.”

F E AT U R E S

PG. 9 | September 27, 2017

I tried Pound Fit and here’s what happened

BY COLLEEN KELLY Staff Writer features@thedepauw.com

The first time I heard about Pound Fit was during a meeting at The DePauw about two weeks ago. I was sitting in the meeting, not paying too much attention if I’m being honest.

But when I heard mention of “a new workout class,” I immediately snapped to attention. This new class was called Pound Fit, but no one in the room seemed to know much about it other than it involved drumsticks. Immediately, my interest was sparked, and I

knew I had to try it out.

After the quick walk from my dorm, I arrived at Lilly and easily found the classroom where the class was being held.

I was immediately greeted by the perky, blonde instructor, who I noticed appeared to be in extremely good shape, indicating that (fingerscrossed) this class gets good results. When I told her that I had never taken Pound Fit before and was absolutely clueless to what it entailed, she seemed surprised, but excited to have a newcomer in class.

She helped me to get set up for the class and gave me a mat and a set of fluorescent green plastic drumsticks. Looking at those drumsticks, I knew I was in trouble.

At 12:30 p.m. on the dot, the instructor shut the door and cranked up the music, indicating that class was about to start. As I looked around the room at the six other people taking the class, I noticed two things: one, they were all women, and two, none

Instructor Vicky Howard includes Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” in her workout plan for the Halloween season.

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(except myself) were DePauw students. Much to my chagrin, I quickly realized that they all had clearly taken the class before and knew exactly what they were doing.

The exact structure of the

First-year, Elizabeth Beggs concentrates as she does PoundFit. EMMA MAZUREK/ THE DEPAUW

class is still a bit unclear to me, but what I can tell you is that you dance the entire time. It came off as a hybrid between Zumba and Pilates, with the surprising addition of the drumsticks. Each song had a different routine that corresponded to the music. A few of the major aspects of the workout were squats, pulses, and lunges. The trickiest part was being able to do these things while simultaneously smacking your sticks together and on the floor. The best advice the instructor gave me was to focus less on the sticks for my first class and more on the body movements.

Unexpectedly, I did have to set my sticks down several times throughout the class.

Now back to these sticks.

According to the Pound Fit website, these drumsticks, known as Ripstix, are specially designed to add ¼ lb to every movement in order to throw off your body’s equilibrium, forcing you to tighten up and engage muscles more to restore balance. You use the Ripstix in every song, but in different ways each time: sometimes pounding the floor with them mid-squat, sometimes playing air drum or smacking the

sticks together to the rhythm of the music.

You may be thinking: why drumming? Well, according to the Pound Fit website, the rhythmic drumming engages your brain to focus, boosts the immune system, lowers blood pressure, and helps to decrease chronic pain, anxiety and fatigue. So Pound Fit is not only a great way to get out some pent-up aggression, but it also has documented benefits to your physical and mental wellbeing.

All in all, I would try Pound Fit again. I really enjoyed leaving the class feeling sweaty and out of breath, yet still like I just did something fun. My advice to you would be to go try a Pound Fit class, if not because you love exercise classes, than because it is a great chance to get out of your comfort zone while doing something good for yourself.

Pound Fit classes are held on Tuesdays from 5:45- 6:30 p.m. and Thursdays from 12-12:30 p.m. in Lilly 1025. Pound Fit classes, as well as all other exercise classes, are free to students with their student ID.

PG. 10 | September 27, 2017

Ask Room 15 Room 15 is your bi-weekly advice column, answering anonymous students problems since 2017. Type out your dilemma to features@thedepauw.com, hit send, and we’ll take it from there and keep it hush, hush.

Dear Room 15, I’m so stressed. School has my head spinning right round, right round.

I have a 3 page, double spaced, 12 point font essay due in two weeks and I don’t think I’ll be able to finish on time. Do you have any life hacks that can get me through this dark time in my life?

Sincerely, Don’t know if I’m ever going to graduate Dear It’s Not As Bad As It Seems, Take a deep breath. It’s only 3 pages, double spaced, and you have two weeks to do it! The introduction and conclusion alone is almost a page long. This is an assignment that you could start now and be done with in three days at the most, or you could wait until the morning of and still bang it out. I do recommend the earlier start for better quality. :) My life hacks for papers are pretty simple, but you really should do it early and send a draft to your professor. The professor will almost always look at it and give you feedback that will be extremely helpful.

It’s always a great idea to take your paper to the W Center. They’re paid by DePauw to read your papers so they have to provide some suggested changes. I’ve never taken a paper to the W Center and had them say, “Oh this is perfect.” You will be fine. You will graduate. And you will have assignments far worse than this one.

Sincerely, Room 15 Dear Room 15, I’ve started to realize that one of my friends is fake. I don’t know whether to drop them or not because of our history, but is it even worth it anymore?

Sincerely, One of the reals out there Dear Herpetologist, Snakes have no room in the garden, so weed that friend out before things get ugly. It is extremely hard to leave a fake friend that you have so much history with, but things change and people change. College is a weird time where most people are trying to figure themselves out while still trying to climb the social ladder. People come and go, and if you’re ever wondering whether someone deserves to be in your life, the answer is almost always no. Leaving this friend in the past does not mean you do not love said person. It just means you love yourself more. If you both are truly meant to be friends, you will find each other again. Give each other some space to breathe and find each other naturally in the future.

Sincerely, Room 15

FEATURES

Hoosier independent filmmaking comes to Greencastle: Pigasus Pictures’ “The Good Catholic” to screen at Ashley Square

BY LINDSEY JONES Movie Columnist features@thedepauw.com

If asked “What is your passion?” what would you say? For Daniel in “The Good Catholic,” defining his passion is much harder, especially when a single decision makes him question his calling to serve after dedicating his entire life to Catholicism.

Director of the Film Studies program, Seth Friedman worked with production company Pigasus Pictures to bring the independent film “The Good Catholic” to Greencastle this Friday.

Friedman is excited to have the producers and filmmakers in Greencastle promote the film’s theatrical release.

“Here we had a unique opportunity to screen an American Independent film that is seeking broader distribution, that might not get out to theaters unless it does really well,” said Friedman.

“It is a rare opportunity to see a non-blockbuster, nonfranchise film in the theatrical setting.”

“The Good Catholic” stars Greencastle native and Indiana University alumnus Zachary Spicer alongside legends Danny Glover (“Lethal Weapon”) and John McGinley (“Scrubs”).

Writer and director Paul Shoulberg loosely based the screenplay off of his parents’ relationship when they both stepped down from their roles as priest and nun in the Catholic church to get married.

After connecting during their time at Indiana University, Spicer, Shoulberg, John Armstrong, Kaitlyn Smith, and Bryan Guadagno came together to create the production company Pigasus Pictures, LLC.

“Paul wrote the script, but he’d written the script and we had wanted to produce it,” said Spicer. “But, we all realized that there aren’t movies that are coming out of Indiana anymore.”

After Shoulberg wrote “The Good Catholic,” major stars Danny Glover and John McGinley joined the project.

Six months later, the film began taking shape.

During the winter of 2016, Shoulberg and Pigasus Pictures shot the film in Bloomington, Indiana thanks to the financial backing from much of the community.

“We’re a very low budget film, even for independent film standards,” said Spicer. “We were going to have to get as many favors as we could, and the [Bloomington] community rolled out the red carpet for us.”

Broad Green Pictures, an American independent film distributor, picked up “The Good Catholic” after the film won Best Independent Feature Film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and Best Screenwriting at the Milan International Film Festival.

The film has had a theatrical release throughout Indiana and a limited national release, but “The Good Catholic” is gaining a larger awareness through online streaming services.

Pigasus Pictures’ COO John Armstrong believes that streaming services have created a space for more independent films alongside big-budget blockbusters.

“The online platforms have opened up this middle market where independent films can reach a wide audience,” said Armstrong. “It was so cool to me that, on the Friday we opened, on the top banner on iTunes it was ‘Wonder Woman’

and ‘The Good Catholic’.”

Despite the benefits that streaming services give to independent films, Pigasus Pictures and Friedman believe the theater experience is the best way to watch films. For that reason, Friedman helped bring “The Good Catholic” to Greencastle. He said having the producers of a film in front of students brings an incredible opportunity.

“A lot of [students] tell me they want to get into the film business...” Friedman said.

“And to see people who have made it independently, [who] have been able to entice stars to perform in their movies and get them actually made and distributed theatrically, [and] to be able to hear [those] people talk about those things live and in-person, I think is a tremendous opportunity.”

“The Good Catholic” has already toured around central Indiana after premiering in Bloomington last week. As a Greencastle native, Spicer is excited to screen his first feature length film in the very place his love of movies began.

“Coming back, it’s going to be awesome having a screening at Ashley Square because that was the first movie theater I ever went to,” said Spicer. “That’s where I saw every major film of my childhood. It’s where I saw ‘Jurassic Park,’ ‘Titanic,’ and ‘Saving Private Ryan’.”

The film studies department will be hosting a talk with Spicer, Shoulberg and Pigasus Pictures at 3:30 p.m. in the Emerson Room at the Inn at DePauw. The 5 p.m. screening of “The Good Catholic” will follow at Ashley Square Cinema.

Immediately after the film, there will be a Q&A with the producers. All events are open to the public.

ADVERTISEMENTS Promotion and Spring Faculty Reviews 2017 – 2018 Promotion Reviews – Deadline for Letters: Monday, December 11, 2017 Promotion to Professor Angela Castañeda – Sociology and Anthropology Robert Dewey – History Ron Dye – Communication and Theatre and English Jinyu Liu – Classical Studies Spring Faculty Reviews - Deadline for Letters: Monday, January 29, 2018 Interim Rebecca Achtman - Psychology Tenure and Promotion Rebecca Alexander – Education Studies Promotion to Professor Hilary Eppley – Chemistry and Biochemistry If you have information you would like to share about your experience with any of these faculty members, please write to the Faculty Personnel Policy and Review Committee, c/o Carol Cox, Academic Affairs, 377 Julian Science & Mathematics Center, or E-mail: ReviewComm@depauw.edu.

Because of the University open file policy, all such submissions will be available to the individual faculty member. Thus, you are asked either to indicate your awareness of this policy in your letter, or to complete an open file policy form which can be obtained in the Office of Academic Affairs, 377 Julian Science and Mathematics Center or on the Faculty Personnel Policy and Review website.

The most helpful letters are those confined to personal experience of the letter writer. Since the criteria for review cover a broad set of categories spread over teaching, scholarly and artistic work, and service, your letter should only speak to your first-hand experience with the faculty member under review. It is neither helpful nor appropriate for a letter writer to make a recommendation for the outcome (e.g., granting tenure or promotion) since that implies a judgment based on incomplete information. A formal recommendation will be made by the review committees upon examination of all lines of evidence contained in the decision file.

Clarissa Peterson, Chair Faculty Personnel Policy and Review Committee

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PG. 12 | September 27, 2017

the depauw| editorial board Madison Dudley | Editor-in-Chief Emma Mazurek | Managing Editor Christine Beckmann & Marissa Brown | Chief Copy Editor email us at editor@thedepauw.com

Why go to the Day of Dialogue As an ed board made of juniors and seniors, we saw the rise and fall of at least three day of dialogues. Some of us will have gone to all four after today, which is pretty cool. The day of dialogue has come very far since its inception and it has seen student protests, radical visitors (Brother Jed), and some breakout sessions that received mixed reviews. There’s been a lot of change to the programming, and, through it all, we can say that it’s not a waste of time.

But why do we go? It’s exhausting, emotionally and physically. It’s also a large span of time that our college minds are trained to think could otherwise be full of classes, or studying. However, the long term effects far outweigh those short-term sufferings. College is a privilege. A safe space to talk about troubling topics like this is, unfortunately, still considered a privilege. This day is an unprecedented experience for many of us, and we may never have another day to spend conversing with people like this ever again. The diversity and immersion of opinions that are different than ours is something that can only be found in this educational setting.

People don’t want to talk about these things. It hurts. It hurts to not be understood, to be marginalized, to be oppressed, but that’s the exact same reason why we need to talk about these things. It needs to stop. We need to have these conversations so that we can finally live in a society that is understanding and accepting of differences, that we all dream of. It’s not a pipe dream; we need to work to make it a reality. The more people who attend, the better and more productive the event will be. You’ll be going to the day of dialogue. You might be tired and frazzled afterwards, you still might have to write ten more pages for your seminar, but just participating is you showing your support for a more equal tomorrow.

EDITORIAL POLICY T h e D e Pa u w i s a n i n d e p e n d e n t l y m a n a g e d a n d f i n a n c e d s t u d e n t n e w s p a p e r. T h e o p i n i o n s e xp r e s s e d h e r e i n d o n o t n e c e s s a r i l y r e f l e c t t h o s e o f D e Pa u w U n i v e r s i t y o r t h e S t u d e n t Pu b l i c a t i o n s B o a r d . E d i t o r i a l s a r e t h e r e s p o n s i b i l i t y o f T h e D e Pa u w e d i t o r i a l b o a r d ( n a m e s a b o v e ) .

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OPINIONS

Climate change is real

BY REID COOPER Staff Writer opinions@thedepauw.com

On Aug. 17, Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas. Over the next five weeks, four more hurricanes battered the Caribbean and the Gulf Coast, resulting in arguably one of the most destructive hurricane seasons for the United States in 12 years. Three category 4 or 5 hurricanes have made landfall in U.S. territory in the same season, something we haven’t seen in modern history. This hurricane season has caused death and destruction, and the Caribbean islands may never recover. So why do people keep denying the root of the problem?

It is indisputable that climate change has an effect on our weather.

In every sunny day and raindrop, its fingerprint remains visible on every storm. According to NASA, hurricanes generate their energy from warm, tropical air, only forming over warm ocean waters near the equator. Tropical cyclones (an umbrella term for hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones) are the atmosphere’s attempt to move heat from these warm equatorial regions toward colder, polar regions. Ocean

warming has doubled in recent decades according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and sea surface temperature has been on a steady increase since the 1970s, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. J. Marshall Shepherd, head of atmospheric sciences at the University of Georgia, and his team have dedicated their lives to issuing warnings and research about the dangers of climate change, a message the public continues to ignore.

Currently, heat waves are rolling through Southern Europe. In Pakistan, temperatures reached almost 130 degrees Fahrenheit. Do you miss fall weather in September? Well, these early-fall heat waves are likely to become more and more common (according to an article published in the Environmental Research Letters) in a matter of decades. Coastal flooding is getting worse and worse, displacing millions of people. Scientists have been urging us to change our lifestyle for decades, but we have chosen to ignore them. Now we’re paying the consequences. Progress on climate change has basically halted in Washington, and the administration has announced its intent to withdraw

from the global Paris climate accord.

Multiple high-ranking officials within the Trump administration are climate change deniers, and they believe the scientific basis for climate change is too unreliable to call for action. That may have been a somewhat plausible answer 20 years ago, but to deny the facts with evidence right in front of your face is a dangerous path to go down. It’s indicative of the times we live in, ones where people put blind trust into those who have no idea what they’re talking about.

The biggest uncertainty in climate science is not anything about the numbers themselves, but how much longer are people going to refuse to change their ways? Despite the arguments of climate change deniers, we can say this for sure: we are running enormous risks. The stability of human civilization rests in the balance of the next 20 years. Whether or not we do something will decide the fate of our world. That may sound like an exaggeration, but look at the numbers.

It’s exhausting to keep demanding change, but it must be done, or else we end up like those in Texas who ignored the flood warnings. Is our failure to act really what we want to leave behind?

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PG. 13 | September 27, 2017

A Response to “Drinking Alcohol Is Stupid”

BY SHERAYA SMITH Staff Writer opnions@thedepauw.com

Before I begin my response, I’d like to clarify that I did not write the article, “Drinking Alcohol is Stupid.” There was a misprint in the print edition of The DePauw last week attributing the article to me, but it is actually the work of Carson Mara.

Now that that’s been cleared up, I believe Mara has some good points that I agree with, though I can’t wholeheartedly endorse the article’s titular statement. In my opinion, the negatives of heavy drinking outweigh the positives. Mara mentions the increased number of hospitalizations this year due to alcohol, and that really worries me. Vividly seared in my mind from

last year is the memory of an intoxicated floormate being carried down the stairs on a stretcher to the ambulance. Maybe I’ve just been sheltered, but that experience really scared me. To know that’s already occurred over thirteen times so far this year only worries me even more.

At the same time, I know there’s got to be many responsible drinkers at DePauw, people who enjoy a beer or a glass of wine but don’t go wild with it. Personally, I don’t see anything wrong with this. I would rather stay sober and go to a movie with friends, but that’s my opinion, and I see no need to condemn or frown upon people who responsibly enjoy this.

I can’t speak much to the merits of consuming alcohol, considering I’ve

never experienced it (save for one tiny glass of wine last Christmas.)

Some people say it helps them be more sociable, outgoing, or fun. Again, I can’t speak to this. I have seen the damage it can wreak, however, and this makes me quite leery of it. Several generations of my dad’s family has been afflicted by alcoholism, whether that’s led to dropping out of school or dying; thus I plan to avoid it, especially until I’m 21.

I have some close friends who plan on never touching a bottle in their life, and I have some friends who (responsibly) touch a bottle every weekend, and I guess I don’t have a huge problem with either.

If you’re drinking just to fit in or to fill a void in your life, though, I would say that’s a problem. There’s so

OPINION

Hoover should continue to provide local food

BY BROOKS HEPP Opinions Editor opnions@thedepauw.com

I am a firm believer that as students of DePauw, we are members of the Greencastle community.

This may seem like a wild conclusion, but for nine months of the year, we live in Greencastle. We eat at Greencastle restaurants. We shop at Greencastle stores. We fill up our gas at Greencastle gas stations.

We need to support this community. DePauw has the

most resources to support this community, and they took a great step by providing all locally grown food at Hoover Hall for lunch yesterday.

Putnam County is largely a rural community, meaning that a large percentage of the county is farmland. Outside of downtown Greencastle, DePauw’s campus, downtown Cloverdale and the business district of Greencastle, the rest is pretty much farmland.

Just like we support the local restaurant and shop owners, we need to support these farmers.

DePauw can have the biggest impact on supporting these farmers, and it took a step in the right direction by offering all locally grown food today. They should continue to do this. With the amount of students that eat at Hoover Hall on a regular basis, there isn’t another restaurant or dining facility that can have as big of an impact on the Putnam County farmers as Hoover.

Supporting Greencastle should not just end there.

Students and faculty members should continue to support

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much more to life than what a bottle can ever provide, and if drinking is becoming your sole source of fun, community, or happiness, I What are you hoping encourage you to reach out to get out of the and get some help. Talk to a professor or someone else DePauw Dialogue this you trust. You can call 800year?

331-2900, a hotline for those struggling with alcohol.

Shoot, you can even send me an email, and I’d be “The next level of happy to invite you over to understandwatch a movie or something ing that they over the weekend. hope to bring.”

Whatever you decide Patrick O’Malley, in terms of alcohol, please Senior just be careful. Watch our for your friends, too. I may not know you, but I care “Sharing my about you, and I don’t want experience with people anyone winding up severely and seeing hurt or dead from a date people from with the ol’ bottle. different

the local businesses like this is their home because we are members of this community.

But one of the biggest aspects of Putnam County, its farmland, can be so easily supported and enhanced by DePauw.

Bravo, DePauw. And I hope this was not a one-day occasion. As huge contributors to Greencastle, we can do a better job of supporting the community, and that starts with continuing what was put into effect today at Hoover Hall.

backgrounds come together, as well as Keisuke Ohtani, understanding where others’ Junior racism comes from.”

Erika Killion, Senior

Diane Um, Sophomore

“New strategies for creating change on campus.”

“After this dialogue, DePauw students will hopefully have more understanding of diversity and embrace others.”

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5… straight possessions scored

by DePauw football in the Tigers’ home-opener win over Wooster.

The Tigers remain undefeated in the season at 3-0.

4… times that Tiger sports teams faced Wooster College this past weekend; that included men’s and women’s soccer, football and field hockey.

2nd… place-tie with in the Dan

Quayle Classic for men’s golf over the weekend.

three-game win streak against Ohio Wesleyan, Oberlin and Wooster.

18… shots on goal from DePauw field hockey in the team’s 2-1 win over Oberlin College.

1st… collegiate goal scored by first-year midfielder Mary Goodale in women’s soccer loss to Wooster on Saturday.

3rd… place finish for women’s golf in the Dan Quayle Classic in Danville last weekend.

13-3… run in goals scored from DePauw field hockey during their

5… saves from junior goalie Austin Bodner in men’s soccer’s 1-0 loss to Manchester University on Sunday. It was Bodner’s first collegiate starting goal.

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The DePauw men’s and women’s track teams did not disappoint this past Saturday as they competed in the DePauw Indoor Classic at the Hollensteiner fieldhouse. Sport: Football Both the men and women took another step in preparingPosition: for the Wide Receiver BY KEENAN outdoor season bySafffinishing inKADAM Writer Year: Junior second place out sports@thedepauw.com of nine teams respectively.

The DePauw menMajor: totaledCommunication 89 points, which landed them right behindThis WabashWeek’s Tiger of the Week honor goes to College’s 115 points at the Indoor Classic. Sophomore Zach junior Batt ledwide receiver Andy Hunt. the Tigers by collecting a first placeLast year’s leading out was a big piece finish in the mile in 4:19.59.wide Another of DePauw’s win in their strong performance brought by over the the Tigers was the men’shome-opener 4x400 College relay. The Tigers won with a time of Wooster on Hunt had four of 3:31.75. SophomoreSaturday.

Johnny receptions for a total Miller was second in the 400 meter in 51.56 seconds, rackingof up133 10 yards and three touchdowns to contribute points after also placing seventh in to 23.69. the 51 points that the the 200 meter with a time of Tigers Junior Nate Baker also totaled 10scored. points with third in the shot put of 13.47m/44-2.5 and a fifth in the weight throw, with a distance of The DePauw: How did game and not look past 14.51m/47-7.25. it feel to Another get your anyone. thirdfirst place finish was home win this weekend?

TDP: Your team has Andy Hunt: It felt definitely had strong great to go out there at showings in the first home and get a big win, three weeks of the The men’s team took season, a clean especially on tennis family scoring an 9-0 sweep over Centre College on weekend. average of 49 points per Friday and did not lose a single set in To what do you game. a 9-0 win over College of Wooster on TDP: Saturday.

You had multiple attribute this seemingly touchdown receptions in unstoppable offense? which you broke tackles Seniors Pat Farrell and Dan Rodefeld on routegottothethe endoffzone, Tigers to a quick AH: start on We have been how were able able to spread the ball Fridayyou with 8-1 wins attoNo. 1 doubles.

Seniors Nate Wallace and around Harold elude the defenders? and a lot of Martin also captured a win different for the people are Tigers at No. able 3 doubles, seniors AH: We were to and making plays. I think John Daseke followed spread Matt theSanten ballandaround that has made us so with an the No. 2 flight. and get me8-5 win in at open hard to stop. space, which allowed me The Tigers win against Centre was the the opportunity to make TDP: first win of their spring season.

“We What is the best plays. started the season with possibly parttheof playing college three toughest matches of ourfootball? year,” said. “That was difficult but TDP: Stanton Your team is 3-0 it definitely goingThe best part about right now and made 2-0 usin betterAH: forward.” a 6-0, 6-0playing win at conference, doSanten you took guys college is just No.can 3 singles against on Friday.being able to compete think you make a run at the Sophomore conference title at a high level. I’ve Greg Frauenheim fought this season? back from a 0-6 first set defeatbeen to win playing football since first grade, so it’s 0-6, 6-1, 10-7. His fight demonstrated AH: I thedefinitely think to win always Tigers motivation this been a part of winningseason. conference is my life and something I “I think our biggest strength is our experience, a possibility, and it team is chemistry really enjoy doing. a goal of ours. We just need to take it game by

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More than just a game?

Tigers’ Weekly Using sports as a political tool Home Schedule

Wednesday, Sept. 27:

Women’s Soccer vs. Illinois Wesleyan at Reavis Stadium, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 30: Field Hockey vs. Centre at Reavis Stadium, 12 p.m.

Volleyball vs. Wooster at Neal Fieldhouse, 1 p.m.

Men’s Soccer vs. Hiram at Reavis Stadium, 2:30 p.m.

Women’s Soccer vs. Hiram at Reavis Stadium, 5 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 1: Field Hockey vs. Earlham at Reavis Stadium, 12 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 2: Women’s Soccer vs. Centre at Reavis Stadium, 6 p.m.

BY ALEX LAYTON Staff Writer sports@thedepauw.com

*This article was originally published on The Prindle Post* As the NFL heads into its second week of the regular season, former San Francisco 49ers quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, remains a free agent. With six years of professional experience and a Super Bowl ring, it is unusual that Kaepernick has yet to be signed by a team.

Many suspect that teams are hesitant to sign Kaepernick because he is perceived as a potential PR concern. During the 2016 NFL preseason, Kaepernick opted to sit or kneel rather than stand during the national anthem at games as protest against racial injustice and police violence.

He was quoted saying, “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”

Kaepernick’s anthem protests received support from other NFL players, including Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman, Oakland Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch, and Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. He also served as inspiration for other mass rallies protesting racial inequality under his name. However, along with support, Kaepernick has also been subjected to widespread criticism.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called the quarterback’s protests “dumb

and disrespectful,” and he has even received death threats on social media. It is believed that critical voices such as these are the main factor causing Kaepernick’s free agency.

As stated earlier, Kaepernick has been playing in the NFL of six years, and he led the 49ers to a Super Bowl victory in 2013 after only three years of playing as their quarterback. Last season, he threw a total of 2,241 passing yards with only four intercepted passes.

Meanwhile, about 20 other quarterbacks have been signed this most recent offseason, including Mike Glennon, who only threw 11 passes the past two years, and Josh McCown, who only won a single game with the Cleveland Browns last season. Kaepernick’s skill is not what is making team owners and coaches hesitant.

Many suggest that the NFL has a fan base that is largely opposed to Kaepernick’s protest. Recent polls show that a majority of NFL fans did not support Kaepernick’s actions, and some even watched less football because of it. Dave Ippolito, a longtime New York Giants fan, is quoted speaking about protests during football games: “It’s time to play football. It’s not time for politics.” Fan attitudes such as these worry team owners who are concerned about the continued success of their franchises if they sign Kaepernick.

However, many NFL players are of the mindset that expressing political views during games is their only means of gathering attention towards a cause.

Wide receiver for the New York Jets and a protester of the national anthem, Brandon Marshall stated in an interview, “[Football] is our only platform to be

heard. I feel like a lot of times people want us to just shut up and entertain them, shut up and play football. But we have voices as well.” With approximately 111.3 million viewers having watched last season’s Super Bowl, those voices have no trouble reaching a large audience.

Under free agency, Kaepernick has dedicated himself to activism. He began The Colin Kaepernick Foundation, which has pledged to donate $100,000 once a month for ten months to “organizations working in oppressed communities,” which has so far included Meals on Wheels, Mothers Against Police Brutality, and Somalia Famine Relief. He was even awarded the Week 1 “Community MVP” award by the NFL players’ union after the first week of regular season play. Despite the good coming from this controversial situation, however, the NFL remains in a precarious position. Should players who continue to protest during games be praised, ignored, or condemned?

Sports stand as one of the strongest unifying factors in the modern United States, and creating political divisions within the NFL could be dangerous for the social health of an already deeply divided nation. However, Kaepernick and other NFL players who choose to protest cannot do so in a more polite, yet effective, manner.

Kaepernick and others have made it clear that their protests are not intended to disrespect the police or U.S. military, and the protests succeed in reaching a wide audience without being disruptive. Pressure continues to mount around Kaepernick’s situation, as recent events in Charlottesville make the conversation around protesting increasingly vital.

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Photos of the week

Junior quarterback Matt Labus locks onto a receiver during Saturday’s home game against Wooster. THE DEPAUW / BYRON MASON II

Junior midfielder Luke Bestard getting above his opponent on a header during Wednesday’s 1-0 win over Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

THE DEPAUW / MADELINE GREEN

Junior wide receiver Andy Hunt celebrates after scoring one of his three touchdowns Saturday against Wooster. THE DEPAUW / BYRON MASON II

Students, parents, and alumni packed the stands for DePauw football’s home opener Saturday against Wooster. THE DEPAUW / BYRON MASON II