The DenisonianWWW. DENISONIAN.COMAugust 26, 2011 VOLUME 158, SPECIAL EDITION

“Five things I’ve learned after four years”By Melissa GrannetinoEditor-in-Chief

As I embark on my fourth year at Denison, I feel a warm sense of nostal-gia as I think about the past three years. I’ve learned so much in and out of the classroom. Steve Carell is a lot bigger in person than on The Office. Deer aren’t afraid of students and they aren’t nearly as cute after you’ve seen a thou-sand of them. And it might be a tad bit disturbing to see half of your Span-ish class in their birthday suits during Naked Week.

However, the list below highlights some of the more serious things I’ve learned along the way.

5. We all bond over bad food; it is part of the college experience. Ask your parents, it was probably a lot worse for them. Believe it or not, our dining halls have actually gotten better

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August-OEvents

Friday, August 26-August Orientation Sessions, 10:45 a.m.-4:30 p.m.-Computer Connections Help5:00-7:00 p.m.-Picnic at Monomoy Green, 5:30-7:00 p.m. -Trip to Meijers (meet vans in Parking Garage, P1)-”Candles and Cookies” Welcome Shabbat in the Open House, 7:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m.-”Slayter Sizzle”, The Roost, Slayter 3rd Floor, 10:00 p.m.-1:00 a.m.

Saturday, August 27-Photo IDs in Curtis & Huffman Ser-vice Centers, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.-”Sex Signals”, Slayer Auditorium, 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.-”In Our Own Words”,Swasey Chapel, 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.-”Residence Hall Safety”, Swasey Cha-pel, 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.-Auditions for Denison Choirs, Burton 103, 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.-Computer Connections Help, Fellows 100, 4:00 p.m.- 7:30 p.m.-Cookout on Reese-Shackelford Cam-pus Common, 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.-“Migrations” Exhibition, Bryant Arts Center, 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.-Bonfire at the Homestead, 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.-Olin Planetarium Show, Olin Hall, 7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.-Performance by Sean Bott, Comedy Mentalist, The Roost, Slayter 3rd Floor, 9:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. -Movie Night in Slayter Auditorium, 4th Floor, Movie: Thor, 10:30 p.m.-Live Music in Bandarsnatch Coffee House, beside Huffman Dining Hall, 10:30 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.

Sunday, August 28-Photo IDs in Curtis & Huffman Ser-vice Centers, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.-Math Placement Exam, Fellows Hall Rm 100, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.-Music Theory Placement Exam, Bur-ton 14, 12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.-DCA Service Projecton Reese-Shack-elford Common, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.-Computer Connections Help, Fellows Hall, Rm 100 Lab, 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Welcome Class of 2015!

over the past years. They now provide locally grown produce and milk and have added a lot more options at every meal. When you do get sick of din-ing hall grub, downtown Granville has a Chinese, Mexican, Italian and Pub Style restaurant all within a block of each other.

4. Call home. For many of you this is the first time you’ve been away from home. After 18 years of living with you parents, they are bound to miss you. Even if you don’t tell them about your expedition to the Sunsets last Friday night, your parents would love to hear that you are healthy and that you have enough clean underwear.

3. Who cares about what your major is. I wish I had come to school undecided and found my passion by taking a wide range of classes. It took a while, but I declared my major the

last day of sophomore year. As long as you find something you are passion-ate about, taking classes for your major won’t feel like work.

2. Don’t sweat the small stuff. Living on campus is a lot different than living at home. For one thing, I know I’ve never woken up to a fire alarm at 3 a.m. at home. Additionally, Room-mates are people who share a room, you don’t have to be “besties” with them, you just have to live with them. Just remember to be considerate of the people you live with and you’ll be fine.

1. Broaden your horizons! Take advantage of all college has to offer, both academically and socially. Strike up a conversation with someone on your floor you don’t know that well, take a class in something you don’t have any experience with and try the sushi in Slayter!

Dension Football and August-O staff help First Year students move in as parents and cars line up to say goodbyes. Photos by Alex Manges

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Starting college can be a fright-ening experience, leaving home for a whole new world, away from mom and dad for the first time for most students. It is one of the greatest migrations that the incoming students have made in their lives, so it is very fitting that this year’s campus theme is Migration.

Denison administration spent sev-eral years trying to come up with an effective way to begin each academic year. According to Laurel Kennedy, Vice President of Student Affairs, “at the time [that the decision was made] the event that kicked off the academic year wasn’t very coherent, it didn’t have any substance.” Different ideas floated around, such as a movie that all the first years would watch, or common summer reading, before the idea of creating a campus theme emerged.

In 2003, Denison had its first cam-pus theme for the class of 2007: Riv-ers. Between students and faculty, it proved to be a very successful idea, cul-minating when the university brought Bobby Kennedy, Jr. to campus for an opening convocation for the incoming class; students who submitted a piece were offered an opportunity to see the speaker.

Laurel Kennedy added that the following year, the school wrote a grant proposal, and received a Mc-Gregor Grant Connections Initiative, which allowed the school to bring in further speakers and events to expand the theme to the rest of the year; in 2003 it had been exclusively for the first year students.

There is an exhibit of the project submissions which is open in the Bry-ant Arts Center during Aug-O and into the school year, before moving to Higley Hall. According to Lau-rel Kennedy, the administration hoped that “having the projects would give people starting points for conversa-tions,” especially if they visited the ex-

hibit.Marlaine Browning, the Academic

Events Coordinator, is in charge of the campus theme. She explained that the theme is decided by a faculty vote af-ter the spectrum theme committee, made up of elected faculty members, an appointed member of the Denison lecture series, Associate Provost Susan Garcia and Browning, narrow faculty submissions down to three choices.

She added, “Faculty and students help to plan the theme; we are always seeking input from the student orga-nizations. RA’s are invited to do pro-grams in the dorms.”

According to Dean of First Year Students Matt Kretchmar, “While-the theme applies to the whole of the campus, it is the first-year class that takes on that theme as a special iden-

tity.” The theme for this year’s senior class was Urbanscapes, the junior class had Consumption and last year’s theme was Technology and Community.

Browning added that though Migration was selected as this years theme; “Creativity and courage was a close second for the 2011-12 theme, and is under consideration for next year.” Other considered themes were authority, chaos and order.

“The campus theme is just around for one year, but we try to build con-nections between themes so that you see a continuity between the themes of your senior year and first year” Brown-ing explained, and “hopefully you’ll get a full expansive learning experience.”

An important part of the campus theme, and the First Years’ transition to college is the creative project all first

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By Sarah WileyFeatures Editor

The great migration: highschool to college

Tyler Carroll

Elizabeth SchillingEmily Lipsitz

years are given an opportunity to par-ticipate in over the summer. After be-ing given the theme, students are asked to put together a project that they feel encompasses the theme, using the me-dia of their choice, whether it be paint, sculpture, writing, photography, etc.

There were 129 submissions to the migrations theme, from a couple fac-ulty and staff, as well as over 100 first years. Browning said that this was a re-cord breaking year, normally there are just under 100 submissions.

First year Emily Lipsitz from North Kingstown, RI is one of the stu-dents who submitted a project; a paint-ing of Ohio reading “all routes lead to Denison,” showing the migration that first years make to Denison. She ex-plained that when she attended June-O people spoke about how they had participated during their first year, and “they all had a story.”

Tyler Carroll of Bronxville NY also participated, submitting a photo from his summer trip to Alaska, explaining that it was “such a departure from ev-erything I was used to at home,” sym-bolizing his migration. According to Carroll, “I though it would be a good way to get involved early on.”

Elizabeth Schilling from North Manchester, Ind. also submitted a pho-tograph, symbolizing both immigra-tion and the transition to college, and tying them together. She said that “I was really intrigued by the theme be-cause a lot of my friends are spreading all around the country,” explaining that she comes from a small town and many of her friends are going to large cities like LA. “I think it describes how we all feel.”

This will be the ninth year that Denison has used the campus theme program, and it has proven to be suc-cessful in past years. It starts the year of well and brings the commuity together, while also giving the first years an op-portunity to get involved before even arriving on campus and making them feel connected to the school.Photos courtesy of “Migrations: The Creative Project of the Class of 2015

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We sent two staffers to pull four random First Year Stu-duents and ask them basic thoughts on at-tending Denison

What are you excited for here at Denison?

What is your biggest fear about being on your own?

What are you going to miss most about home?

What is one thing you had to leave behind?

How did you pick Denison?

Were you still in a relation-ship before coming here? If so, what happened?

“I am excited to meet new people and having no par-ents around”

“Doing laundry by myself ”

“the close knit feel of friends and family”

“my car”

“because it had what I wanted and it was interest-ing in how it presented itself ”

“I did not have a senior year boyfriend”

“High School was boring academically and hoping to get interesting classes

“my dog”

“nothing. looking for-ward to it”

“having a room to myself ”

“I liked it the best and it had the best reputation of the schools I looked at”

“No”

I’m looking forward to classes and going to The Bandersnatch

“paying for ev-erything”

“being in the city”

“my sisters”

n/a

“Through a program - Horizon Upper Bound. It pushed me to go”

“meeting new people”

“the workload - I don’t know what it’s going to be like”

“being around my friends all the time”

“my dog and my bed”

“I’m comfortable here and had the option to play baseball”

“Yes. We had a discussion and decided we should part ways and have an open relationship”

Jennifer Beck Ben Dorau Olivia Pearson Thomas Krieger

Olmstead Falls, OH Lake Forest, IL Detriot, MI New Canaan, CT

You’re in good companyBy Sarah WileyFeatures Editor

You probably know that Steve Carell graduated from Denison, but did you know that he was a former DJ for the Doobie and member of Bur-pee’s Seedy?

Jennifer Garner was part of the Pi Beta Phi Sorority while at Denison and lived in King, Crawford, Shepa-rdson and -okay I will give one room number- Smith 113.

If you enjoy cooking you might want to read the New York Times cooking column because Denison Alumna, Molly O’Neill is the colum-nist.

I know you have watched Disney movies or shows. The former Chair-

man and CEO of the Walt Disney Company, Michael Eisner graduated from Denison with an English degree in 1964.

The President of ESPN and ABC Sports, George Bodenheimer, gradu-ated from Denison in 1980 with an Economics degree.

First-Years’ First Time in the Spotlight

Two Alumni You Might Know:

Robert “Bobby” Woodward RahalClass of 1975Race driver; won the 1986 Indianapolis 500

Senator Richard LugarClass of 1954U.S. Senator since 1974Member of Beta Theta Pi

Photo courtesy of JaneJGA

Steve Carell visited Denison in the spring of 2009. Maybe he will come back.

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Get involved! Enrich your Denison experienceBy Jessie MackNews Editor

Want to get involved? Want to get active? Well this information is for you. Did you know that Denison has over 175 student organizations waiting for you to join. Come out on Thursday, Sept. 1st from 4:00-6:00 pm for the Involvement Fair on Academic Quad and get acquainted with the many or-ganizations and clubs offered here at Denison. Natalie Pariano, Director of Campus Leadership & Involvement, has advice on how to choose which or-ganization you want to participate in.

•When choosing an organization, go for quality not quantity.

•Think critically, when choosing how many email list you sign up for.

•You can’t do it all, so narrow down your choices.

•Follow what seems more interest-ing, and an area your passionate about.

“Do understand that you are not tied to an organization, find your best fit and test things out. Don’t become over committed, after the first meeting make a decision just like the college se-lection process,” said Pariano.

If you want to get a head start on researching the offered organizations at Denison, visit the new Denison University Campus Leadership & In-volvement Online Center at Denison.

If you want to get a head start on researching the offered organiza-

tions at Denison, visit the new Denison University Campus

Leadership & Involvement On-line Center.

Denison.orgsync.com (List of current activities avail-

able, keyword bar for easy interest search) Courtesy of Denison.orgsync.com

This is the home page for the Campus Leadership & Involvement Center online website.

Convocation, speakers and events, oh my!By Jessie MackNews Editor

Opening Convocation will be Thursday, Sept. 8th at 8:00 pm in Swasey Chapel. This year’s speaker is Dr. Spencer Wells, Population Ge-neticist. Opening Convocation is a time to inaugurate first years with the endeavors of demonstrating what can be expected from a liberal arts educa-tion. “When choosing who the speaker would be for Convocation, we seek to bring someone who works across the board and had contributed to the world through their work “, says Mar-laine Browning, Academics Events Coordinator. A few highlight of events that will continue the campus theme of “Migration”.

Highlight of EventsPersonal Migration Stories Panel

(Latino migration to and from the US)September 29th at 7:30 pm in Higley

Auditorium

Black History Scholar presented by Dr. Ira Berlin

(Discussion on the 4 great migrations within the US)

October 6th at 7:30 pm in Burton Morgan

Presentation of Denison Students Personal Migration Stories

October 10th – October 11th (Time & Location TBA)

Coordinated by Dr. Toni King, Associ-ate Provost

By Katherine PalmsNews Editor

Wanting to stay in shape and not gain the freshman 15? Mitchell Athletic Center, located behind East Quad offers a variety of fun oppor-tunities for students to get the needed exercise and mental breaks from their rigorous sched-ules at Denison. Listed below are the times the center is open for use during this fall semester, Aug. 29, 2011 to Dec. 13, 2011.

Building hours: Monday-Thursday 6 am- 8:30 pm Friday 6 am-8:50 pm Saturday 9 am-7:20 pm Sunday 10 am-8:50 pmSwimming Pool: Monday-Friday 7:30 am- 8:20 am, and 12:30 pm-1:20 pm Saturday closed Sunday 12:30 pm- 2:30 pm, 7 pm- 8:30 pmStrength Room: Monday-Friday 6 am- 8:00 am, and 11:30 am-9:50 pm Saturday 11:30 am-7:20 pm Sunday 11:30 am- 8:50 pm Department Offices closed Saturdays and Sundays.

Quick Mitchell facts for Newbies

Upcoming Home Games for Fall Varsity Sports:Come cheer on the teams!

Men’s Soccer –

Friday, September 2 vs Hope College4:00 pm

Football –

Saturday, September 17vs. Hiram College 7:00 pm

According to Craig Hicks Denison’s Sports Information Director the new swimming pool was filled last week, August, 15 for a water pressure test. He said it will be drained and then tested again in the near future. The pool is expected to be completed and ready for use around this time next fall.

Also come enjoy the use facilities Mitchell: -Zumba classes starting Wednesday, January 17th -Club and Intermural sport teams -Recreation Gym -Indoor Tennis Court and Track -Fitness/Cardio Rooms - Squash and Racquetball Courts

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*For more information see the Mitchell service desks or Denison’s Website.

Fact Box by Katherine Palms News Editor

Volleyball – Thursday, September 1 vs Otterbein7:00 pm

Women’s Soccer –

Saturday, September 3vs Capital University1:00 pm

Field Hockey –

Saturday, September 3 vs Wittenberg University11:00 am