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Makinga betterhomecoming

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Jessica Geyer

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Many voters in Al-len County turned out for presidential

candidate Mitt Romney, Nov. 6. 148,545 people took part in the election, which accounted for 58 percent of all registered voters. Though that might seem high, it is about the national average, according to the Center for Study of the American Electorate.

Ultimately, what Indiana had to say in the race did not give Romney enough electoral votes to oust President Barack Obama, who won in a close tally of the popular vote but with quite a disparity in the electoral points.

It was, according to the Center for In-formation and Research on Civic Learn-ing and Engagement (CIRCLE), the youth vote that made one of the biggest differences in the election, as at least 80 electoral votes were dependent on what voters under the age of 30. If their votes weren’t taken into account, Ohio, Flor-

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Youth Vote Decided Presidential Election

ida, Virginia and Pennsylvania would have gone red for Romney.

CIRCLE’s analysis of exit polls in those states showed around 60 percent

favorability for Obama and around 30 percent for Romney.

With those 80 points, Romney would have become president elect.

In 2008, CIRCLE said, Indiana was given to Obama because of the youth vote.

Turnout for third party candidates was also higher in Allen County than in 2008. Only 1.76 percent of voters sup-ported third party candidates for presi-dent, with 1.46 percent going to Liber-tarian candidate Gary Johnson. Almost 5 percent of the vote for Senator went to Libertarian candidate Andy Horning.

In 2008, less than 1 percent of voters in Allen County chose a third party can-didate for president and only 1.66 per-cent chose Andy Horning when he was candidate for governor.

The nation as a whole cast 1.61 percent of ballots in favor of a third party candi-date, compared to 2008’s 1.4 percent.

Third Party Support Up Slightly

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Tom Vilsack once said in a speech that, “Strong com-

munities … embrace change. New dis-coveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.”

This academic school year, the IPFW community has certainly seen some change, from the arrival of a new chan-cellor to the decrease of student atten-dance.

And another thing that has changed is the annual Diversity Showcase, an exhibition and celebration of collegiate diversity.

“You will see a record number of de-partments sharing their work and cel-ebrating diversity,” said Kenneth Christ-mon, associate vice chancellor for the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs. “You’re going to see ... the fusion of events that take us from celebrating our work over the course of a year, to our giving back celebration, which will be this spring ... the Big Event.”

For those attending this event on Thursday, Nov. 15, one obvious change—apart from the showcase being moved from the spring semester to the fall—will be the singing of the national anthem by Miss IPFW Okara Imani,

according to Krissy Creager, showcase coordinator and Student Life associate director.

The showcase will present over 40 ex-hibits from the different campus offices and departments, schools and colleges, as well as student clubs, according to the press release.

“We probably will have the largest amount of student led organizations sharing their work,” Christmon said.

Ashley Simmons, assistant director for international programs, said that this year’s showcase will not feature the handful of sessions last year’s showcase had, which dealt with presenting infor-

mation on studying abroad and the im-migrant population in Fort Wayne.

“We will feature a diversity mono-logue presentation put on by students,” Creager said, addressing the topic of ste-rotypes.

Some of the other performances will include a cultural dance by the African Student Organization as well as a Chi-nese musical by Yilin Li.

“It will be much deeper and much more prevalent ... [than] our diversity showcase ... has been in the past,” Crea-ger said.

Changes in Store for Diversity Showcase at IPFW

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Omnibus Lecturer to Obama: ‘Dare to Take Risks’It was rather timely for Pulitzer Prize-winning author and

journalist Jon Meacham to be at IPFW. It was the day after the presidential elec-tion, and he would be talking about presidents—more specifically, Thomas Jefferson.

Like Jeffrey Toobin, the Omnibus Speaker who presented in October, Meacham included a lot of humor in his speech. His, however, was not as contro-versial. Meacham refrained from mak-ing any overtly political or opinionated statements. That was perhaps in respect to the fact that the election had just taken place, though Meacham’s stints in Newsweek, PBS and his many political articles mostly refrained from any obvi-ous bias, as well.

Meacham pre-sented on his new-est book, “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power,” a biog-raphy of the presi-dent. Rather than simply summariz-ing his book, he ap-plied what he knows about Jefferson to the current political situation.

We can do this, he said, “If only be-cause human nature itself, as the Found-ers recognized so brilliantly, pretty much doesn’t change.”

There are only rare moments when

the population ma-jorly agrees on an issue.

“Those years are the anoma-lies,” said Meacham about election years when one candidate sweeps the other.

Jefferson’s era was not unlike ours, he said, in that it was full of partisanship and political argu-ments.

“If you are at all inclined to feel gloomy, even if your

candidate won yesterday … here’s what George Washington said to Thomas Jef-

ferson about strife within Washington’s government: ‘How unfortunate ... that whilst we are encompassed on all sides with avowed enemies and insidious friends, that internal dissensions should be harrowing and tearing our vitals.’”

At one point, an anonymous writer to a newspaper said to Jefferson, “I think you ought to get a damn kicking you red-headed son of a bitch,” said Meacham. Proof, he said, that the political world of Jefferson and of Obama are not too dif-ferent.

“Jefferson understood that partisan-ship was part of the intrinsic nature of human life, of public life, political life,” said Meacham. In other words, name calling and mud-slinging are inevitable

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Jessica Geyer Nearly 400 people protested the presi-dent’s reelection on

Nov. 6 at the University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss.

During that protest, racial slurs were used.

Some have defined the protest as a riot, but others, including the univer-sity’s leadership, are edging away from that word.

In an interview with the Daily Mississippian, the university’s student

newspaper, Chancellor Dan Jones of Ole Miss said, “We had a gathering of students with some inappropriate be-havior—particularly the hate language was very, very disappointing—but we didn’t have anything that approached a riot on our campus.”

When Ole Miss enrolled its first black student 50 years ago in 1962, there were riots during which two people were killed. Since then, the uni-versity has continued to struggle with issues in diversity.

Obama’s Reelection Protested at Mississippi College

Race an Issue

In 2009, “From Dixie with Love” was banned from being played by the school band because students would cheer “the South will rise again” at the end. That controversy ended with a Ku Klux Klan rally being held at the college. However, only around 12 members of the KKK showed up and there were over 200 people present to counter-protest.

In counter-protest, around 600 people showed up for a candlelight vigil called “We Are One Mississippi” on Nov. 7.

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and will continue because that is human nature.

Meacham drew from Jefferson’s actions and words as president to offer advice to Obama.

“Dare to take risks, to spend as

Continued from pg. 3 limited political capital … depart from dogma when you can, do what you have to do as long as you’re committed to one central principle, cultivate the science of human relationships … and then lead us with as broad a vision,” said Meacham.

“If [Obama] does well, the country

does well, and I think Governor Rom-ney struck lovely notes last night about that,” Meacham said. “What I hope Pres-ident Obama does is recognizes that … he’s been given a great opportunity to learn from his own mistakes … and to try to do an even better job.”

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Open Doors Data: International Student Exchange Increased Last Year

Luncheon Brings Local Politicians to

IPFW

Jessica Geyer Students are wel-come to attend a lunch with local

government leaders on Nov. 29.The luncheon will host commu-

nity leaders and Indiana legislators, and IPFW students, faculty, staff and alumni can talk with them about pol-itics that affect the university and city.

This is the 11th annual Legisla-tive Luncheon at IPFW.

Last year, legislators like Phil GiaQuinta, who was reelected to the Indiana House of Representatives, had time to speak to the entire crowd about issues important to them. Af-terward, they had lunch with stu-dents, staff and faculty.

The lunch is catered and is free, but the university asks that guests RSVP to Kelly Shanks at 481-6105.

Domestic Violence Awareness Chair Shares Story of Abuse

sidered abusive behaviors. Any time a relationship is feeling unbalanced, as if one person has more power over the other, there is a possibility that the relationship could be or could become abusive.

Garret gave tips on how to counsel and aid to someone that is in an abu-sive relationship. Her tips were to: al-low the victim to talk and be there to listen, never blame the victim, never assume that because it is not a full-blown abusive situation that it is not abusive, form a spiritual group around the victim and help the victim seek ref-uge in a safe zone.

According to DomesticViolenceS-tatistics.org, one in every five teenage girls who have tried to break up with their boyfriend has been threatened with violence or self-harm. Also, men who have witnessed violence as a child

When it feels like there is no way out and it feels like no

one will listen, there is still hope. Chris Garret, Ivy Tech Community College–Northeast Domestic Violence Aware-ness chair, shared her grim story at the 6th annual Breaking through the Si-lence: The Noise of Overcoming an Abu-sive Situation. Garret spoke of her heart-breaking more than decade-long abusive marriage.

From her ex-husband’s anger over small things to explosive fights, Garret attempted to stick it out for the sake of being a family. Eventually, after a fight in 2002 that left Garrett unable to walk, she decided that enough was enough and gathered the courage to leave. That is a decision that victims often do not make.

Garret made it clear to the audience that even the small things can be con-

are more likely to become violent in adulthood.

Garrett cried that it is time to end the cycle of domestic violence. She said that one of the most vital things that anyone can do is listen to the victim and to never downplay the abuse just because there are not black eyes or bro-ken bones.

Garrett stated that she has not yet found love again because she is very cautious and aware of the possibili-ties.  Yet, she left the audience with a reminder that there is always hope to find love in the aftermath of an abusive relationship. The Health and Wellness Center and The Center for Women and Returning Adults, both located in Walb, offer resources and help to es-cape from abusive relationships.

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The Open Doors report was re-leased on Nov. 12, the kickoff day of In-ternational Education Week.

Purdue University and Indiana University made the top 25 of univer-sities accepting international students. Purdue placed fourth in the list with 8,563 international students. Indiana, in 11th place, had 6,123.

Only Indiana University at Bloom-ington placed in the top 25 when it came to sending their own students overseas.

International student exchanged in-creased in the United States by 6.5 per-cent last year, according to new “Open Doors” data from the Institute of In-ternational Education (IIE). A total of 764,495 international students attended American universities in the 2011-12 academic year. That is a record high.

According to IIE, 273,996 American students went on study abroad programs during that year. That is up from 270,604 from the 2010-11 year.

They placed 7th with 2,203 students par-ticipating in international programs.

Of all universities in Indiana, 37 per-cent of their international students came from China.

According to IIE, a growth in stu-dents coming to the United States is help-ful to the economy. The U.S. Department of Commerce estimates that $22.7 billion is spent by international students in the United States.

“Today’s youth are tomorrow’s lead-

ers,” said Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Ann Stock, according to an IIE press re-lease. “International education creates strong, lasting relationships between the U.S. and emerging leaders world-wide. Students return home with new perspectives and a global skill set that will allow them to build more prosper-ous, stable societies.”

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Staying Safe While Driving in the Winter

it snows, it’s best to brush up on safe winter driving techniques.

The Weather Sets the Speed Limit

Difficulty slowing or stopping is a given with snow or ice on the road, and though one may arrive to class a couple minutes late, it’s best to slow down. Es-pecially when turning—approaching turns slowly can prevent sliding and give the person driving behind you time to avoid hitting the bumper as well.

Last year, Betti Bradtmiller, owner of Safeway Driving School, told The Communicator that “drivers need to anticipate that other drivers will have

Fort Wayne saw the first snow flurry of the year Nov. 12. While it didn’t last long, it was beautiful—and it was a clear reminder that winter is on its way and IPFW rarely closes for cold and snowy weather. Typically, a cancellation of classes will only occur if streets can’t be cleared or the city makes it illegal to be on the roads.

In that case, one would be smart to not put themselves in danger—or worse, become the focus of an angry, snowy day Facebook status—and drive according to the weather.

Fort Wayne has been forecasted for lows slightly below freezing tempera-ture for the most part of the next couple weeks, but regardless of whether or not

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the same difficulty stopping in icy con-ditions.”

Update Brakes and Tires

Bald tires and bad brakes don’t help when driving on a slick surface.

“Always cover the brake in case you need to stop suddenly due to cross traf-fic,” Bradtmiller said. “This is especially a concern in intersections because even though you have a green light, the cross traffic could possibly slide into your path of travel.”

Keep the Essentials

Though it may be a nice excuse for missing class, getting stuck in the snow

definitely isn’t ideal. Keeping a trunk filled with essentials in case of emergen-cy is not only good for keeping weight on the back of your car, but it could help you out should you get stuck. A blanket, water, kitty litter, a shovel and any other combination of things could end up sav-ing the day.

Stay Home

If the weather is particularly nasty and you’re not comfortable driving in it—don’t. If it’s not completely neces-sary to go out, getting homework done in a warm bed or catching up on favorite television shows will be a lot more enjoy-able than scraping off the car and start-ing out on a high-anxiety journey.

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“The frosting’s blue on the cupcakesand people will like smoosh them on each other’s faces.”

Making a better homecoming

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Homecoming is typical for high school and college alike, but many often don’t know what they’re celebrating.

“Unless they were home-schooled or from another country, I’d say that most every student regardless of race, color, creed, ethnicity has experienced a homecoming of some kind,” said As-sociate Vice Chancellor of the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs Ken Christmon.

Christmon went on to say that, without knowledge of the exact history, homecoming is “a time or period where those who have previously partaken in a given institution and have been sepa-rated through graduation or travel or whatever have come back to experience or be reinvigorated and to reconnect with that experience.”

Kind of.Traditionally, homecoming is when

the football team comes back from their farthest away game of the season, and it becomes, as the online Merriam-Web-ster’s dictionary defines, “an annual cel-ebration for alumni.”

Unconventional Celebration

At IPFW, however, homecoming is a little non-traditional.

According to Kimberly Wagner, director of alumni relations, alumni attendance for homecoming has been between 75 and 125 people from 2008-2011. While those numbers include guests, she estimated about 75 percent of attendees graduated from IPFW.

“The unique thing about IPFW is that we’re less than 50 years old, which means we’re not like, say IU or Purdue in the respect that they have been alive all these years, and they have all this alumni,” said Christmon. “We probably still have people who were part of the first class who are generally still alive. Most institutions can’t say that.”

Unlike many universities, IPFW also doesn’t have a football team to celebrate with, and it’s only hosted a Homecoming Week for about 11 years, according to Vice President of Student Programming Audrey Donat.

“It is relatively new considering how long the campus has been around,” she said.

“It does kind of suck that we can’t do it with the football team like other cam-puses do,” but it helps to feel more like a school and a community than if you don’t have one at all, she added.

IPFW uses the basketball team in-stead.

In the Works

Donat has been planning Home-coming Week since the beginning of August, and hopes to build more of a campus community through interactive events this year.

Last year, the homecoming budget was $80,000, which comes from student activity fees. With enrollment down this year, there was less to work with.

“We try to cut back so we can spend more in other places,” Donat said.

This time around, the budget is $65,000—a whole $15,000 less.

“I think we’re cutting it close this year,” she said. “I definitely spent the

whole 65.”Though Donat said she’s about

$1,000 over budget, she also purchased 100 hats, 400 fleeces and a couple hun-dred t-shirts to sell to faculty and staff in order to regain some of the funds.

“We try to at least make some sort of income on what we do,” she said. “It looks like I’m over budget, but we’ve al-ready sold 22 fleeces and we just started selling them yesterday—I should be able to balance it back out.”

Donat estimated a couple thousand dollars were regained after hoodies were sold last year.

Building Traditions

“It’s not like ‘hey, here’s your t-shirt, here’s your food, now leave,” Donat said. “This year, we’re having the second an-nual cupcake eating contest, and so we’re trying to kinda kick-start a tradi-tion with that.

“The frosting’s blue on the cupcakes and people will like smoosh them on each other’s faces—a lot of the staff and faculty members will sign up as well and

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that’s always fun.”Essentially, Donat said, she’s trying

to plan events that get students to stick around and socialize rather than grab-bing freebies and leaving, as is the case with many events.

“I realize we’ll probably always be a pretty decent commuter campus,” she said. Though, “I want to see people that don’t just drive here, go to class and go home.”

After about three months of plan-ning, Donat’s finally at a place where she’s watching it all come together.

“You have to figure out what times, what spaces you want to use,” she said. Student demographics also come into question: “Do you want to do some-thing in the evening to hit those evening students, do you want to try to do some-thing on Saturday to hit those Saturday students?”

Weekend students are a smaller demographic and turnouts for events on the weekend are typically reflective of that, she said, but there are usually events on the weekend and evenings as well to make sure everyone can get some enjoyment out of the event.

“One thing we are trying to build, deepen, strengthen, expand, to be more inclusive with, is our tradition of home-coming here,” Christmon reiterated. “It is critically important that the institu-tion puts forth programs and home-coming celebrations that are culturally aware, culturally sensitive and inviting that makes people from all walks of life want to come back to IPFW.”

Homecoming Schedule

Nov. 26-Dec. 1

Monday

tuesday

wednesday

thursday

friday

saturday

Wings Etc., Baseball Caps

Walb Ballroom 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Casa ItalianoCupcake Eating Contest

GlovesWalb Ballroom 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Big Apple BagelsSecond Floor of Kettler

9 a.m.- 11 a.m.

Firehouse SubsTumbler

The Stomping Grounds 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Midnight Run/Polar Bear PlungeStudent Housing

Pep RallyGates Sports Center

NoonChuck-a-Don Contest

Panda ExpressStudent Org Fair

Fieldhouse1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Homecoming GameMemorial Coliseum

7 p.m.

thursday cont’d

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New Club Strives to Address Environmental CrisisDennis Barbosa In September, IPFW

saw the emergence of a new student led

organization called the Green Action Club (GAC).

Grayson Ostermeyer, sophomore bi-ology premed major, initiated the club, starting out with about 23 people.

GAC has held two events every week since their inceptive event, presenting documentaries every Tuesday.

Ostermeyer said a large part of his goals for the organization was to inform the public about ecological sustain-ability, referring to the practice of con-suming renewable natural resources as opposed to the traditional exhaustible resources.

“There didn’t seem to be any club on campus that served these purposes,” he said, although there is the Urban and Community Gardening Organization, a club which aims to “educate local citi-zens and students about the benefits of … gardening,” according to IPFW’s spe-cial interest organization webpage.

“They’ve helped us tremendously,” Ostermeyer said. “They’ve gone to a couple of our meetings, but [they] don’t pursue some of the goals we want to, such as energy conservation and life-

style changes.”There are a lot of students who want

to take action against the environmental crisis he said, and GAC is a club which facilitates that drive.

For the short-term time frame, Oster-meyer wants to see more people from the local community get involved. For his long-term vision, he’d like cross-institutional involvement, where other campuses would create clubs similar to his.

“If we reduce our carbon output here individually, that really doesn’t do a whole lot, because there’s not a whole lot of us. But if we reach out and talk to other universities for them to estab-lish the same thing … then that’s a big change,” he said.

A huge obstacle Ostermeyer’s club faces in spreading their message is “a lack of education,” he said, even admit-ting that he himself was ignorant of the issue before taking biology classes at IPFW.

“A lot of the norm, especially about our Western culture, is that consumer-ism has no draw backs,” he said. “If ev-erybody in the world were to live with the standard of Canadians, we would need three more worlds to provide the

resources for that to happen. So cuts in our lifestyle are necessary for sustain-ability.”

In October, GAC saw their first field event, “Plant A Tree By Maumee,” a col-laboration with Abigail King, director and founder of Save Maumee – a chap-ter of the multinational organization Waterkeeper Alliance. Trees donated by Neuhouser—a 35-year-old local nursery and landscaping company that recently went out of business—were planted on

Illustration by Dennis Barbosa

Maumee’s riverbanks.With plans on being a year-round

club, GAC will meet for the last time this semester on Nov. 20 to discuss ideas and goals for the spring.

“We’ve noticed a poor showing for the documentaries,” Ostermeyer said. “So if there’s any way we can find something that’s funny and educational that has to do with environmentalism, we’d be good to go.”

Nov. 15 Nov. 16 Nov. 18 Nov. 25Arts WEEkly With GuEsts

AN AfricAN cElEbrAtioN

trumpEt studio shoWcAsE

holidAy sWiNG coNcErt

Brian Wagner from Arena Dinner Theatre and Rich

Najuch and Joel Froomkin from the New Hunting-ton Supper Club will go through what’s planned throughout the year and

more. 7:30-8 p.m. at WFWA PBS39.

A concert by the IPFW choirs and Griot Drum

Ensemble for International Programs Week. 7:30 p.m. in Auer Performance Hall. Admission is free for IPFW students, $7 for adults and $4 for non-IPFW students.

Held by the Department of Music at 5 p.m. in Rhinehart

Recital Hall. Admission is free for IPFW students, $7 for adults and $4 for non-

IPFW students.

Music from the big band era, featuring old and new holi-

day jazz numbers. 7:30 p.m. in Auer Performance Hall. Admission is free for IPFW students, $7 for adults and $4 for non-IPFW students.

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“Good presentation is half of everything,” said guest juror Andre

Murnieks of Notre Dame, which seemed to be the mantra for the Senior BFA Ex-hibition. The 16 artists revealed their projects on animation, photography and graphic design to the public last Friday.

“Every semester … the seniors have a public exhibition, so they show the world their thesis statements,” said Haig David-West, chairman of the Depart-ment of Visual Communication. “I ex-pect some very explicit work.”

The seniors, students of the Thesis Seminar and Exhibition II class, built their theses in the previous semester and then learned to execute them. They also were responsible for planning and mar-keting their projects, and were taught “public gallery talk presentations,” ac-cording to the bulletin website. The pro-fessor,, John Motz, was present at the exhibition to close the awards ceremony.

Murnieks made his own criteria, which included the idea, how they re-searched it, how well they communi-cated their idea, and the final craft, by which he judged the seniors’ theses.

“It is also gratifying to see the work convey traditional values like identity, differentiation and utility, but also in-clude personal, social and environmen-tal concerns,” said Murnieks.

What’s next for the students? They have one of two choices: get hired or go into graduate school.

“Well … after graduation within three months most of them get hired. The discipline is very oriented to work the professional practice of design, pho-tography, and animation. So they’re in good demand,” said David-West about employment.

The Senior BFA Exhibition is show-ing at the Spectator Lounge at the Fort Wayne Cinema Center until Nov. 24.

Senior BFA Exhibitors Attempt to ‘Show the World Their Thesis

Statements’

Zach Crook

The average per-son goes about watching movies

laughing at cheesy dialogue and kitschy scenes and plot twists. But when you’re Glenn Berggoetz, you compile all of these elements into one film and call it the worst movie ever.

A filmmaker raised in Fort Wayne and proponent of low-budget filmmak-ing, Berggoetz has been making films on his own since 2006. Not put off by the lack of a studio to pick up his scripts, he has written, directed, produced and acted in several films, including “Evil In-tent,” “To Die is Hard,” and “The Worst Movie EVER!”

According to the movie’s tagline, “It might be the worst movie ever, but it’s the best sci-fi/action/drama/horror/com-edy/musical you’ve ever see.”

Berggoetz’s film will be playing at the Cinema Center later this month as part

of the theater’s Midnight Movie Series. The first film in the series, David Cronen-berg’s “THE FLY,” showed last month.

According to Cinema Center direc-tor Jonah Crismore, the series caters to fans of cult, genre and local films, allow-ing them to show films that may not have done the best at the box office despite having a dedicated and discerning fan base.

Of “The Worst Movie EVER!” he says, “[It] is such a low budget achieve-ment in how it lampoons staples of inde-pendent [film]. The humor in the film is so unconventional and irreverent. I don’t know if anyone in the local filmmaking community is attacking comedy with such reckless abandon as [Berggoetz], and we need more filmmakers like him who are brave enough to not worry so much what everyone is going to think and just make their movie.”

Berggoetz admits that with this film

he didn’t have much intent toward sub-stance, but rather just to see how much he could make himself and others laugh.

“While some people have certainly walked out of theaters scratching their heads and saying to themselves, ‘What the heck was that crap,’ many more have spent their time watching the film laugh-ing. It’s one of those films where, if you go in realizing that we’re not trying to make the next ‘Godfather’ or ‘Apocalypse Now’ and just let yourself … go along for the ridiculous ride, you’ll have a lot of fun,” said Berggoetz.

The Midnight Movie Series allows audiences, who may agree with Berg-goetz’s sentiments on fun, to view one time showings of films on the last Satur-day of each month at 11:59 p.m. Beer will be available to patrons and the theater’s quiet rules will be relaxed to allow for a different experience than seeing one of the regularly programmed films.

Laura Rosenbaum

Illustration by Dennis Barbosa

Cinema Center Hosts Homegrown Comedy

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Fort Wayne has seen some erratic weather changes

lately, with temperatures jumping to the 60s then dropping to the low 30s. But this need not be a discouragement for those wanting to escape home on a lim-ited budget.

Imagine getting away from the painfully familiar scenery of everyday Fort Wayne and cruising through the Rivergreenway trails, past hickory and dogwood trees, for a chance to spot a bald eagle.

For those adventurous enough, a relaxing break from the norm is within arm’s reach.

At first glance, a bike trip to a wet-land preserve might not seem like the best way to spend a day of hard earned free time, but for those wanting to travel for little to no cost, a scenic bike trip might be the answer.

The Rivergreenway trail system is based on the paths the river tributar-ies take, traveling alongside each river with the exception of the Towpath trail — which travels southwest from down-town to the Eagle Marsh Nature Pre-serve (EMNP).

During November, one will not have to worry too much about obstructions on the trails. All the trails undergo on-going maintenance unless flooding oc-curs, according to Al Moll, Fort Wayne director of parks and recreation.

And as far as the weather goes, the next week appears favorable with tem-peratures hanging in the mid to upper 40s, according to weather.com.

However, Moll said, he encourages people making this trip to the wetland reserve to use the buddy system in case something goes wrong.

With fall fading into winter, the EMNP normally sees a decrease in visi-tors, said Betsy Yankowiak, director of preserves and programs for Little Rivers Wetland Project. This, fortunately, is an advantage for those visiting the preserve with hopes of catching sight of a bald ea-gle in its natural habitat – which means less people to startle the wildlife.

The bald eagles “feed at our ponds,” Yankowiak said. She likened the EMNP to a grocery store for animals. It’s a good place to come to see bald eagles, she said, with over seven hundred acres of wetland, it’s a good source for fish — a main source of food for the bald eagle.

EMNP boasts being the largest na-ture preserve in Allen County. In the state, it surpasses even Pokagon State Park, with accessibility from any trail system, according to Yankowiak.

“This year I would steer you towards the Boy Scout Office,” Yankowiak said, recommending accessing the preserve through trails one and two.

And if recent rainfall should dis-courage one from making such a trip, think twice. One acre of wetland can hold one and half million gallons of flood water. So four inches of rainfall, for example, would soak right into the ground, Yankowiak said.

If one should be so unfortunate as to miss their opportunity to spot a bald eagle in person, there are over 2,000 bird species that have been recorded since 2006 to compensate, among other vari-ous mammals such as minks, beavers and coyotes.

Micheal Blair, IPFW senior and bi-cyclist, said the Towpath trail was one of his favorites. It’s more scenic than the

Bike Season Not Quite Over Despite Winter Weather

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other trails he said.Over the summer he had a lot of fun

riding the Towpath trail. So much so it was a regular activity of summer break which consisted of grilling with friends, then hitting the trails.

One sign that a biker has neared the EMNP is the boardwalk, a feature of Tow-path that Blair said he liked.

It’s fairly new, Moll said, built within the last five years. The boardwalks feature bike friendly traction to prevent slipping and sliding.

Blair said it wouldn’t be too hard for him to find a couple people to join him for such a trip, seven miles southwest of Headwaters Park and 11 from IPFW cam-pus, but also said, “most people would be like ‘bike season is over.’”

Well, not necessarily.

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DON’T TAKE THESE STORIES AS FACT.WE’LL MAKE FUN OF YOU IF YOU DO.WARNING WARNING

Man Trapped in Bathroom Stall for 3 Hours Without

Toilet Paper

Jessica Geyer It had all started out as a normal Sunday for Victor

Furhurst. He said goodbye to his room-mates and headed out to school to get some work done in the computer lab. What he didn’t know was that at the end of his day, he would be trapped in a bathroom stall, unable to wipe because there was no toilet paper.

“It was probably all the Taco Bell I ate for lunch that made me have to go,” said Furhurst. “I usually don’t use the bathroom at school.”

“My first mistake,” he said, “was choosing the emptiest re-stroom on campus to use. I don’t like to be interrupted while I’m pooping.”

That bathroom was located on the top floor of Helmke Library, which was all but desolate on a Sunday evening.

His second mistake was not check-ing to see if there was toilet paper in his stall.

“At first, I thought it was pretty fun-ny that there wasn’t any there, and that I’d probably just be able to shout out for help,” he said. “But after a few minutes of shouting, I realized I was completely alone.”

Furhurst was trapped in the bath-room stall for three whole hours. In some fluke of bad luck, no one came upstairs to check if the restrooms were clear after the library closed.”

“I almost gave up,” said Furhurst. “I almost gave up and then I had a vision

of the toilet f l u s h i n g , so I knew I wasn’t go-ing to die there.”

E v e n -tually, a janitor came upstairs. Furhurst, exhausted from his ordeal and dehy-drated, weakly called for help. Luckily, the janitor heard his pleas for help and tossed a roll of paper over to him.

“I owe that man my life,” said Furhurst. “Without him, I’d still have a stinky butt up there in the library.”

Meme of the Week: Grumpy Cat

“I owe that man my life. Without him, I’d still have a stinky butt up

there in the library.”-Victor Furhurst

“I almost gave up and then I had a vision ... I knew I wasn’t going to die there.”

Study: Nothing Ever Learned When Professor Goes a Minute Over

A study conduct-ed by the Society of L ast Minute

Learners said all recent research has pointed to a lack of comprehended in-formation when a professor has exceed-ed class time by at least one minute.

“It would seem that their brains just shut down and we’ve observed the students in a trance-like state, staring at the clock,” said lead researcher Gary Falcts.

There has yet to be an official term

for describing such an action by stu-dents waiting to leave a classroom, however it would appear that most un-derstand that there is something hap-pening to their bodies.

“I get really excited because I count down the minutes on the computer’s clock the whole class, and then when I finally get to the end, it keeps going and I’m just destroyed,” said student Halle Perdon. “My heart breaks, and the pro-fessor doesn’t seem to even care. It’s al-ways a dark time in my life.”

Kristan Mensch

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Jessica GeyerGraduate stu-

dent Emma Sprout began researching

her term paper on Google Scholar over the weekend, typing in key-words relating to the anatomy of a shrimp. Though she ended up with some peer-reviewed, logical sourc-es, she regrets one simple click: “I didn’t hit the ‘I’m feeling lucky’ but-ton.”

“I just feel like I’m missing out, and can’t help but think that if I was to go back and hit the button with the same terms, I probably won’t get the exact same search results as I would have,” Sprout said. “That’s just something that I’ll never get back. I’m such a failure.”

According to a source found on Google Scholar via the “I’m feeling

Kristan Mensch S o p h o m o r e John Cleary lived a relatively

conservative life. He opted to play in his yard in the early years, went on to win science fairs and eventually graduated in the top 5 percent of his high school class because ‘life isn’t something to play around with.’

So when he began majoring in

lucky” button, those who opt out of the random search ability often feel as though they aren’t as adventurous as other, more carefree searchers.

“There’s something going on in the mentality of those who habitu-ally click ‘search,’” it said. “They’re certainly no Robinson Crusoe.”

“It’s not just this. My mom used to beg me to try and run across the street without adult supervision when I was little, but I couldn’t. It wasn’t sensible. There are so many things I’ve done so safely ... there must be something terribly wrong with the way I live my life,” Sprout said.

“She wasn’t little, she was 16 years old,” said Sprouts mother, Jackie.

Despite her regret, Sprout still won’t hit the button.

Friends Laugh at Student’s Life Decisions

mechanical engineering, it only seemed appropriate.

Eventually, though, Cleary said he no longer got satisfaction out of the major, and wanted to pursue the arts instead, citing genuine hap-piness.

“HAHAHA! Hahahahhahah....hahahahahh,” said longtime friend Jack Hook. “....heh. ...heheh..eh.”

Researcher Doesn’t Click ‘Feeling Lucky’ Button, Feels Unadventurous

Missed Connection: I saw you in a crowd at a location this weekend. You were with friends. I forget what you were wearing, but I had a mustache and thick-framed glasses if that helps.I hope you see this!

Looking For:Someone to come over and cook bacon in the mornings before I wake up. You can eat all the bacon, I’ll supply it. I just miss waking up to that smell in the morning. I miss my parents so much.

Lost:My dog and my dog’s seven brothers and sisters. If you see a dog, let me know because it’s probably mine. The name’s Deeville.

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Volleyball Season Ends in a Loss at IUPUI,Second-Seeded for

Summit League Games

Kristan Mensch T h e Wo m e n’s Basketball team played their season

opener at home Nov. 11 against SIU Ed-wardsville. Though they led 39-29 at the half, the Mastodons were taken down by seven to start out their season record with 0-1.

Despite the loss, three Dons had double figures in the game. Sophomore No. 10 Haley Seibert led with 15 points, all from the three-point line. Juniors No. 11 Amanda Hyde and No. 2 Rachel Mauk scored 14 and 12 points, respec-tively. Mauk’s points came almost exclu-sively from the three-point line as well.

Fairly level SIU Edwardsville had three players to record double figures as well. Raven Berry took 23 points with 10-for-21 from the field. Courtney Ken-ner scored 11 points and Valerie Finnin

This Week's sporTs

men's basketballAt Ypsilanti, Mich. to play UTPA Nov. 16.

Playing against Eastern Michigan Nov. 17 and 18, also in Ypsilanti, Mich.

Also playing against Judson at home Nov. 20. Tip-off at 7 p.m.

women's volleyballIn the Summit League Semifinals in Fargo, N.D. Nov. 16 and 17.

women's basketballTaking on Ball State in Muncie, Ind. Nov. 19 at 7 p.m.

Women’s Basketball Team Loses by 7 in Season Opener

Against SIU Edwardsville

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Kristan Mensch T h e Wo m e n’s Volleyball team fell to IUPUI over

the weekend, allowing the Jaguars to take the first seed in the Summit League Tournament, while IPFW took the sec-ond seed.

Sophomore No. 7 Emily Spencer led the team in their loss, taking a match-high of 26 kills and hitting a .308 clip. With 14 digs as well, Spencer got her 18th double-double this season.

Freshman No. 3 Hailie Ripley and Senior No. 9 Jessie Manwaring both re-orded double-digit kills in the match. Ripley reached 16 with eight blocks, and Manwaring reached 10 with four blocks.

Senior No. 4 Tessa McGill got to second all-time at the university for the most digs in one season. In the match against IUPUI, she added 28 to her total, making her season total 671. The record is currently held by Peachy Jankowski, who recorded 742 in 2006.

If McGill is able to achieve another 13 digs in the Summit League Tourna-

ment, she will be able to match Jankows-ki’s school record of career digs as well, which currently stands at 2, 253.

The Mastodons will play in the Summit League Semifinals Nov. 16 in Fargo, N.D.

took 10.Most of IPFW’s trouble came in

the second half, when fouling began to show a major problem.

Hyde had a third foul called on her about 13 minutes to the end of the game, and a fourth with 11:26 on the clock, leaving the Dons without one of their leading scorers in the game.

Prior to Hyde’s fouling, the Dons led 50-48, but the Cougars were able to take a nine point lead afterward.

The cougars shot 51 percent to IP-FW’s 33 percent in the second half.

This season, IPFW had no returning seniors. Rather, the Dons have a strong group of juniors with prior experience on the team. According to the Dons’ website, they are looking to be competi-tors in the Summit League standings this season.

Photo by Sarah Pringle Leading Scorers No Strangers to the 3-Point Line

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The Men’s Basket-ball team’s senior

No. 4 Frank Gaines, who was a stand-out player last season, was announced as College Sports Madness Summit Leage Player of the Week Nov. 12 for his perfor-mance in the season opener.

Gaines, a Fort Lauderdale, Fla. native, scored his career- and league-best 32 points in the opener, moving him up to sixth place in the university’s career record book.

Overall, Gaines sank 10-of-18 from the field, 3-of-8 long-range shots and 9-of-11 from the free throw line.

Three rebounds, two steels and an assist were also recorded for him in the game.

Though Gaines gave a record perfor-mance, the Mastodons fell to the Auburn Tigers by nine points, ending the season opener 61-50.

Kristan Mensch

How to Develop an exercise routine

anD stick witH itBeing a college student means being constantly

on the go; especially when work and family are added to the equation. Hav-ing time for anything else seems im-possible. However, it is essential to our health to have activity and exercise.

Exercising provides benefits in ev-eryday life and health. Some of these, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), include con-trolling weight, reducing risk of disease and improving mental health.

Ivy Tech student and exercise en-thusiast, David Pratt, noted that, “The most enjoyable part of it [exercise] is being productive. I feel that I get some-thing accomplished. I feel that my body is healthier. I feel like I have more en-ergy. And I’m happier.”

Start living happier and healthier by starting an exercise routine. Below are some tips to help incorporate activity and exercise into everyday life.

Make the CommitmentMake the commitment to start exer-

cising. One of the best ways is to find something motivating, whether it’s a person, song, movie or something else.

Exercise class instructor Beth Ta-larico finds motivation in her two sons. She is determined to set a good exam-ple for them.

“They [her sons] know when I go to the gym, they know when their dad goes to the gym, and they know that that’s just part of our lives,” she said.

Danielle Quinn Pratt said “Your mind has to be in this set to say ‘Hey, I want to work out. I need to work out. This will help me in the fu-ture.”

Set Up TimeMake exercise a priority, whether it’s

for health or losing weight or for other reasons. Set an appointment to exercise, whether it’s once a day or once a week, and don’t let anything break that ap-pointment. Or replace a time-consum-ing habit with a small exercise routine.

Start SlowlyIt is best to start slowly and work up

to being active because, for an inactive person, suddenly becoming extremely active can cause health risks, such as a heart attack. Know the body and what it is and isn’t capable of.

Find an Enjoyable Activity

“Whatever it [the kind of exercise] is, find something that suits your like and that way you will always want to go do it. Versus ‘Oh I’ve got to go to the gym to run’ ... Spice it up, find what you like and then go for it,” said Talarico.

Doing something enjoyable makes ex-ercise easier to do.

Make Exercise Social Get a friend or a group of friends to

exercise with; pick friends that are mo-tivating.

“The nice thing about having a buddy

is that it’s nice to have that person there to push you. If you feel like you can’t do that last rep, they’re there to say ‘Yes you can’,” said Pratt.

Add Exercise to Daily Life

Little things like parking further away to walk more, flexing the ab-dominal muscles while sitting, us-ing the stairs instead of the escalator and doing an exercise routine during commercial or homework breaks.

“Little things like that all add up by the end of the day,” said Talarico.

Stick with itIt’s easy to lose steam after a few

weeks or months of exercise, but it is important to keep active. One way, both Pratt and Talarico suggested, to keep motivated is to take a picture to achieve the opposite of, and put it somewhere that you will see every day, like the refrigerator or cell phone screen saver, and seeing that picture will be motivation.

Working out provides lots of ben-efits both mentally and physically. Motivation is what will make exer-cise a routine. Have a workout buddy and a picture that shows the opposite of what to achieve. Start slowly to reduce the risk of injury. Wear lose fitting clothes and supportive shoes. Stretch before and after your work out and drink lots of water. Eat a nu-tritious diet to help the benefits of ex-ercise.

Despite Loss, Gaines Gets Career-

High Points and Player of the Week

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