T HE D E P AUW FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2011 | INDIANA’S OLDEST COLLEGE NEWSPAPER | VOL. 160, ISSUE 23 Neil Carnes gives a personal account of living with AIDS on Thursday night in the auditorium at the Peeler Art Center. Students in a first-year seminar on HIV/AIDS organized educational events to accompany the lecture on world AIDS day Thursday. CARLY PIETRZAK / THE DEPAUW Pageants, not just a crown pages 8-9 Reporting crime page 4 Campus farm page 5 Fro-Yo: coming soon page 3 Life, with AIDS
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THE DEPAUWFRIDAY, DECEMBER 2 , 2011 | INDIA N A’S OLDES T COL LEGE NE WSPA PER | VOL . 160 , IS SUE 23
Neil Carnes gives a personal account of living with AIDS on Thursday night in the auditorium at the Peeler Art Center. Students in a first-year seminar on HIV/AIDS organized educational events to accompany the lecture on world AIDS day Thursday. CARLY PIETRZAK / THE DEPAUW
Pageants, not just a crown
pages 8-9
Reporting crimepage 4
Campus farmpage 5
Fro-Yo:coming soon
page 3
Life, with AIDS
2 | Happenings
CAMPUSCRIME
The DePauw | Friday, Dec. 2, 2011
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2011VOL. 160 , ISSUE 23
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At the corner of Seminary and Arlington Streets, construction has been underway to add a new business next door to The Blue Door Café. An un-finished, gray concrete frame outlines a large win-dow looking into a vast open space. Here lies the groundwork for Greencastle’s new frozen yogurt shop.
The new shop, Green Apple Frogurt, was ex-pected to open this past week, but due to delays from the architect and the state it is now set to open at the end of February. Owner Shoaid Shah is very confident that the shop will open by then.
Shah said he hopes to fill the void of frozen yo-gurt in Greencastle by bringing his shop to campus.
“We don’t have anything like it in Greencastle and my partner and I really like the concept of Fro-Yo,” Shah said. “We want to open the shop for De-Pauw students.”
Partners Shah and Amy Heller have been work-ing since last winter to get the business up and running. Both have daughters at Indiana University who treat themselves to frozen yogurt chain Red Mango frequently, which gave them the idea to open a shop for DePauw.
Shah remembers his college years well and be-lieves DePauw students need a cool, hip place to hang out.
“I was a student myself and lived in the dorms,” Shah said. “There is not much here for DePauw, and if DePauw were not here we wouldn’t be open-ing this shop. I want to make it a hang out spot for students.”
Green Apple Frogurt will have free Wi-Fi and two large TVs with a modern style. Along with fro-zen yogurt, the shop will sell smoothies and other light snacks.
Shah plans to advertise Green Apple Frogurt in the newspaper, over the radio and will be develop-ing a website to be launched before the store opens next year.
Green Apple Frogurt construction delayed, open for students in 2012
The location for Green Apple Frogurt on the corner of Seminary and Arlington Streets, is currently being remodeled. With construction delayed, it is set to open in February. CARLY PIETRZAK / THE DEPAUW
A class of freshmen passed out hot choco-late, candy and condoms Wednesday and Thursday hoping to raise awareness and initiate conversations about HIV/AIDS.
Assistant professor of sociology Alicia Suarez led a first-year seminar dealing with the socio-logical implications of HIV/AIDS and helped stu-dents to organize a series of events over the two days as a final project for the class.
Suarez said the group’s overall goal of gen-erating awareness was achieved, even though some events had a low turnout.
“I think there is visibility on campus and there are people wearing red ribbons and there are people wearing stickers and eating candy that has little AIDS facts on it — and even that, even if they’re just eating a Kit-Kat and read that, that’s something,” Suarez said.
Freshman Jonathan Reyes is a student in the seminar who participated in coordinating the events. He said low participation may reflect the busy schedules of DePauw students as well as the controversial topic.
“HIV/AIDS has a stigma attached to it, so I think some people feel uncomfortable coming to the events,” Reyes said.
Another member of the class, freshman Richard Walsh, said that as long as the event brings attention to the issue they have achieved success.
“All we’re trying to do is create awareness and with every person we talk to, every person we interact with — everybody,” Walsh said. “And they’re starting to realize that this disease has an impact on everyone.”
The awareness campaign included events such as handing out hot chocolate, tabling at the Hub, an AIDS walk, a discussion with a speaker who has AIDS and a discussion about safe sex entitled “Sexy Time.”
Neil Carnes, the speaker with AIDS, dis-cussed his experience working in AIDS preven-tion campaigns and about his personal journey in accepting himself as a homosexual man. In discussing his experience working to spread awareness about HIV/AIDS to “sex workers,” Carnes said the concept of safe sex was very dif-ferent and the language used to address sex was very deep in meaning.
“F***ing without condoms is an occupa-tional hazard, now that’s if they’ve got the right pimp,” Carnes said. “If you switch that, f***ing without condoms is more money. See how that nuance just changes so quickly?”
Carnes openly described his sexual experi-ences that led to his contraction of HIV and accepted any questions audience members of-
fered. Carnes said being open about the topic of HIV/AIDS is important, because often, people choose not to talk about the virus.
“When it concerns HIV/AIDS, we are not talking about just any other disease. It’s not. In some respects, certainly it has become a chronic illness in many, many, many respects, but who is getting this disease?” Carnes said. “Globally, na-tionally and locally are not the most digestable people, let’s just put it that way.”
Suarez also said that the virus and the impli-cations of the virus often go unmentioned and that led her to focus her curriculum on the na-tional impact of the illness.
“I focus very much on the United States be-cause I think that we still have a million people with HIV, and there are new cases all the time. It’s not something we’re talking about especially their generation,” Suarez said.
In describing student reactions to the AIDS day events, Suarez said the reaction did not meet her students’ expectations.
“I think people were pretty receptive. Some students seemed a little freaked out by the stick-ers,” Suarez said. “I think my students are always surprised by how freaked out some of their peers are.”
The group distributed various stickers with messages including “Know Your Status” and the more controversial “Don’t get Sick, Wrap Your Dick.”
Freshman John Yates said the idea for the stickers emerged from efforts to create a slogan that would gain interest and spread their mes-sage.
“It’s a very popular slogan. Everyone’s loving it,” Yates said. “When we were contemplating ideas, we were trying to come up with an idea that would raise awareness, but I mean, we’re college kids.”
The freshmen in the first-year seminar made up a large part of the participants in each of the events. Many expressed excitement about the success of the events and said they were pleased they decided to enroll in the course.
“When I was scheduling classes I came across this seminar and recently, a couple months be-fore I had an uncle who had passed away from AIDS,” Walsh said. “As an individual that’s gay I am connected to a community that is very much affected by HIV/AIDS, and I have become scared for my life of possibly contracting HIV.”
Reyes said he wanted to take the course in order to learn about the disease and to share information with others.
Yates mirrored Reyes’ sentiments, stressing that the fight to raise awareness was not over.
“Until we find a cure, we are not done rais-ing awareness about this issue,” Yates said.
First-year seminar raises awareness on AIDS day with speaker, events
When it comes to organizations accomplishing their agenda, money is needed. When it comes to organizations obtaining money for their agenda, the Allocations Board is needed.
To quote DePauw Student Government’s con-stitution, “the purpose of the Allocations Board is to be responsible for the disbursal and oversight of the Student Activity Fee, while ensuring all funds are used to further a positive campus community.” The Alloca-tions Board is currently in the process of distributing funds to organizations on campus.
“My job is to be a neutral member on the board and give insight,” said Margarita Villa, head of the Al-locations Board. “I look to see what has been funded and what hasn’t ... I remind the Allocations Board what the priorities are.”
When it comes to deciding what the priorities are, the Allocations Board usually finds its answers in past records.
“We meet with every group that applies for fund-
ing for 10 minutes,” Villa said. “We discuss future plans and have organizations submit what they be-lieved would work best for them.”
Members of the Allocations Board listen to all or-ganizations requesting funds and decide what is best for each one. That is when meetings become more frequent and responsibilities increase, as the board members are also required to individually review each group’s budget.
After meeting with the organizations, emails are sent out to tell the groups who will receive funding.
Villa said those emails are tied to the most difficult aspect of the allocation process: saying “No.”
“It gets rough because there are so many things we don’t want to cut,” Villa said. “There is a limit.”
Even though there are select groups that do not receive funding, the majority of the organizations that apply do.
“Just thinking and knowing and seeing what the groups are bringing to the table,” Villa said. “You get to know everything going on around campus before it happens.
Numbers of the total funds allocated to which or-ganizations will be available Sunday.
DePauw students and alumni now have extra en-couragement to improve the education system.
Beginning in the fall of 2012, student and alumni in STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — have the opportunity to partici-pate in the Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fel-lowship.
According to the program’s website, teachingfel-lowship.org, the fellowship “seeks to recruit, prepare and retain effective teachers for the students and schools who need them most.” Those accepted into the fellowship will receive a stipend of $30,000 to complete a specially designed master’s program.
In return, the fellowship member must then com-mit to teaching for three years at a high-need, low-income secondary school. DePauw and the second-ary school where they will teach will mentor fellows during the three year period.
Currently, three DePauw alumni are involved with the program. Laura Cummings ‘89 is now teaching ninth grade chemistry at Charles A. Tindley Acceler-ated School. Andrew Bever ‘08 teaches Integrated Chemistry and Physics, Physics and AP Physics at Lo-gansport High School. And Kaley Robbins ‘10 is now teaching ninth grade Algebra I at Pike High School.
Cummings first read about the program in a newspaper article.
“I’ve always known I wanted to teach and this was the right time for it,” Cummings said.
Cummings calls the program an “extremely chal-
lenging, but phenomenal experience,” and said she “would do it again in a heartbeat.”
“You don’t know what goes into teaching until you have your own class,” Cummings said. “Teaching is not just giving a presentation. It’s creating a com-munity of learners.”
Cummings added that she is “always learning.”Despite the challenges of teaching, Cummings
calls the profession and the program “very reward-ing.” She credits this fulfillment to getting to see her students’ personal growth.
“I spend 50 percent of the time teaching chemis-try and 50 percent of the time helping kids mature,” Cummings said.
Before the program, Bever worked a summer camp for kids suffering from diabetes. There, he real-ized just how much he loved working with kids. And for the first time, he really began to consider teaching. Soon after, Bever discovered the fellowship.
Bever praises the program, calling it “very gra-cious.” With an undergraduate degree in physics, Bever went into the program with no teaching expe-rience. At Purdue University, where Bever received his masters, he gained all teaching knowledge he needed. He even credits the program for his current job. Bever states this is due to the program’s “well drawn curriculum plans” and the very helpful and ex-perienced individuals in charge of the program.
In addition to gaining knowledge and experience, Bever gained a community that prepared him for the classroom environment. Bever said that was impor-tant, because “in the end, the only thing that will mat-ter is people.”
The recent Penn State scandal, which in-cludes reports of alleged sexual assault in 2002 by former assistant football coach Jerry San-dusky, may violate the Jeanne Clery Act because there is evidence suggesting that administrators knew about the allegations but failed to report them.
The Clery Act is a federal law that requires all college campus police departments to re-cord and make public every crime reported on campus properties and non-campus properties associated with the university such as greek houses. Among crimes covered under the Clery Act are murder, sexual assault and robbery.
The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Se-curity Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, abbreviated to Jeanne Clery Act or the Clery act, is part of the Higher Education Act of 1965. The law applies to all colleges and universities that are part of federal student aid programs. If an institution fails to comply, it can be fined up to $27,500 by the U.S Department of Education, which enforces the rule.
The problem for Penn State is that under the Clery act, “reported” crimes are not limited to those in which police become involved. Accord-ing to Frank LoMonte’s article “Why Penn State’s Problems May Include a Clery Act Reporting Vio-lation” from the Student Press Law Center, any crime reported to a campus security authority — defined as “any person or institution mentioned in the ‘campus security statement’ that students can go to for help” — is covered under Clery.
In Penn State’s situation, coaches like Joe Paterno, and possibly the university’s Senior Vice President for Business and Finance Gary Schultz, as well as Tim Curley, the athletic direc-tor at the time, were aware of the alleged sexual assault, which means, according to the Clery Act, the incident had to be reported.
Like every other college or university cam-pus, DePauw is required to disclose information the Clery Act mandates.
In an email sent to the entire campus com-munity on Sept. 30, Angela Nally, director of Public Safety, said, “[information is] gathered from crimes reported to the Public Safety Of-fice, Student Life, other campus officials with significant student advising responsibility and local law enforcement agencies.”
The email also said, “DePauw University maintains a collaborative relationship with lo-cal law enforcement agencies to monitor and record criminal activity in which students may engage off campus and within the Greencastle community. Pastoral and professional mental health counselors are encouraged to refer per-
sons they are counseling to report crimes on a voluntary confidential basis for inclusion in the annual crime statistics.”
Incidents reported via the “Silent Witness” program found on Public Safety’s Web page are also reported.
Since public safety offices are responsible for reporting campus crimes, Clery statistics only include crimes that have been reported to public safety offices in one way or another. On DePauw’s campus, Nally is in charge of collect-ing the data. How she collects the data depends on the crime.
“For instances of sexual assault, those in primary first responder positions, such as SASA, Counselors, Wellness Center staff, Women’s Center staff and Dean of Students office staff, are instructed to complete a confidential report form if they work with someone that has experi-enced sexual assault but does not want to report it to the police,” Nally said. “For other crimes, I send out a request for information/statistics to all faculty and staff when I am working on the report.”
Everything that is reported is included in De-Pauw’s annual report.
The Office of Public Safety’s website in-cludes a page with the statistics for the past three years.
“Clery requires that we not only report the number of instances in a calendar year, but also by location, so there are four categories for each year,” Nally said, clarifying how the table works. “‘On Campus’ means in a building or on the grounds owned by the university. The second category is in a residential facility, which is a subset of the first category. ‘Non-campus’ means property that is not owned by the univer-sity, but is considered part of the campus. [An] example would be greek units. Finally, public property is streets, sidewalks along streets, parking lots, etc.”
DePauw’s annual report includes more than just the crimes statistics. Fire safety disclosures, crime prevention, safety tips and emergency procedures are also included. Emergency pro-cedures for harassment, threats and violence on campus, pandemic emergencies (H1N1), building evacuation, explosions, fire, hazardous material spill/release, first aid, shelter in place, bomb threats, medical emergency, tornado, earthquake and utility failure are all included.
The university publishes and distributes this report or the notice of the existence of this re-port on a yearly basis to faculty, staff and stu-dents, as well as to prospective students and employees.
DePauw’s Public Safety website also includes activity logs for both the previous and current years.
Clery Act requires public crime reportsDePauw, like Penn State, required to publish all reports
After many attempts and much dis-cussion, plans to begin a community farm in Greencastle are underway.
The idea for a student-run farm at DePauw had been discussed for a while, but it was not until sophomore Ashley Conard and junior Stephen Hesterberg picked up the project this summer that the idea became action.
The two-acre produce farm will be for the use of students, the Greencastle community and Sodexo, DePauw’s food provider. The mission for the campus farm is to enrich the educa-tion of students through experiential, hands-on learning and research, pro-vide an example of sustainability for the campus and provide sustainably grown produce to the university and community. It will be located on Sun-set Drive near the Prindle Institute for Ethics.
“There are so many possibilities for the farm,” Co-nard said. “Students from all different majors can use this tool. We can eat the organic food pro-duced at our university dining facilities. We can share the food with the Green-castle community.”
Campus farms have recently gained popularity at universities around the country. Conard and Hesterberg, along with faculty and staff members, believe that DePauw would benefit from the creation of a student-organized farm on campus.
“I attended a seminar at Dickinson College on running campus farms re-cently,” said Carol Steele, director of the Office for Sustainability and asso-ciate dean of Academic Affairs. “I was amazed by how much of an impact the farms had on the students. Universities’ farms were all different sizes but they all had one thing in common — the farms were changing students lives and col-lege experiences.”
Not only will the farm be a valuable learning tool, it will also be a social ex-perience. The farm provides people with a reason to get together, to discuss
and to work. The project has already united many different people on its governing board. The board consists of students, professors, general manager of dining services and Sodexo employee Steve Santo, and representatives from the Office of Sustainability, the Center for Spiritual Life and Facilities Manage-ment.
“I think the farm is going to be a great way for students and the commu-nity to connect culturally,” Conard said. “Everyone has food in common and food definitely isn’t going out of style anytime soon.”
Now that the ball is rolling on the planning and organization of the farm, the next step is to get the rest of the stu-
dent body involved. Both Conard and Hesterberg will not be on campus next semester, so both emphasized the dire need for new stu-dent involvement.
“We have both worked so hard on this project and we hope that we can keep it going, but it’s crucial that other students get involved. We need to find people who are interested in sup-porting the farm, but
also are interested in being involved in the further development of this farm,” Conard said.
The creation of the farm will require a significant amount of labor. Crops will need to be planted, cared for and harvested. The majority of the labor will take place in the summer, when the fewest number of students are on campus. The more students that get involved and know about the farm, the better the farm will be, said Conard.
“This is a great opportunity for ev-eryone to get involved in,” Steele said. “It’s the type of experience that can pro-vide growth for all — no pun intended.”
Hesterberg complemented Steele’s sentiments, stressing the importance of teaching sustainability.
“I fully believe a liberal arts univer-sity must prepare students to deal with the global problems that our nation fac-es today. One of those issues is the envi-ronment and our role in it,” Hesterberg said. “During their time here, if students do not learn about the environmental
issues we face, when will they?”
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Steve Santo, general manager of dining services at DePauw, walks through a campus farm at Bulter University in Indianapolis. DePauw is cultivating its own farm on Sunset Drive near the Prindle Institute for Ethics to provide locally grown food for the campus and community. PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF TAYLOR CANTRIL
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DePauw students need to be aware of the beginning of what may be a very long few weeks. Thanksgiving Break has ended, the first snowfall has already fallen (elimi-nating the excitement of many first official Boulder Runs) and a hectic and stressful stretch of preparation for various fright-ening final exams continues.
If that wasn’t depressing enough, the music world is also entering a very dry season. Most major festivals have concluded, top tier bands have left their North American tours for Europe and beyond and many new albums won’t be released until the first few months of 2012.
Until this stalemate of a season ends, some may find it entertaining to search and discover some new bands and artists to entertain them in the meantime. Here, I’ve listed a few bands that have some recognizable tunes, along with some impressive others to go along with them.
Grouplove: Another Indie Rock product of Los Angeles, the five-member group began its road to success by touring with Florence + The Machine and Young the Giant. The group released its first EP in 2010 and has since released an album titled “Never Trust A Happy Song,” which I highly suggest pur-chasing in its entirety.
This album features numerous songs that have already been exposed by video games and commercials. “Colours,” the band’s most popular song, has been featured on the 2012 versions of both Madden and FIFA video games.
Thanks to being featured on the Apple iPhone’s last “Share the Fun” text messag-ing commercial, “Tongue Tied” has become more of a sing-along hit every time it resur-faces.
As mentioned, the band’s latest album can easily be noted as one of my best iTunes purchases. “Never Trust A Happy Song” truly flows through all 12 songs, featuring many upbeat and happy-go-lucky impressions.
Two Door Cinema Club: Formed in Northern Ireland in 2007, this indie rock trio is beginning to showcase its skills on an in-ternational level. After winning the Choice Music Prize for album of the year in Ireland in 2010, the band has been featured in major festivals, including Lollapalooza this summer.
They have had four songs included on
the top-150 song charts in the UK, Canada, Ireland and the United States since 2009.
Its most impressive song, “What You Know,” hit the 22nd spot on the
U.S. alternative charts this year.With a very high-pitched
guitar to complement a rapid pace, Two Door Cinema Club sounds like the offspring of Vampire Weekend and The
Strokes with the instru-mentals played on fast-forward in some instances.
For such a com-plicated mix, the group comes off ex-tremely entertaining
and engaging.Its songs “What You Know,” “I Can Talk”
and “Something Good Can Work” will set you off to a productive start.
Freelance Whales: It is difficult to ac-curately associate this band with a certain genre. It needs to be classified as a cluster. It has been noted as a mixture of indie and pop rock, but with a combined instrument list of banjo, glockenspiel, electric guitar and drums, it’s a little bit of everything.
Before performing at the annual Bonna-roo music festival this summer and live on NPR, Freelance Whales was filmed perform-ing on New York subway platforms and in abandoned barns.
What makes this group truly captivating is the way unorthodox instruments such as glockenspiel and synthesizers lead in vari-ous songs. In the band’s most popular song “Generator First Floor,” after starting off with simple accordion, the glockenspiel chimes in and takes control for the rest of the tune, effectively creating an interesting and joyous mood, to say the least.
Other interesting songs by Freelance Whales include “Hannah,” led by a synthesiz-er, and “Broken Horses,” led by an acoustic guitar.
With the help of these three passionate bands, the stress of this exasperating end of the semester will hopefully be uplifted. In the meantime, relax, turn on some tunes and enjoy.
—Easterhouse is a freshman from Evergreen Park, Ill., majoring in [email protected]
It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and while I’m as much an avid connoisseur of Christmas festivities as anyone else, I’m not referring to the holiday season. I’m referring to the commencement of award show season.
I’m the worst kind of award show junkie: the kind who watches the red carpet coverage as attentively as the shows themselves and who considers herself a more accurate judge of the nominees and winners than the elected judges.
I speculate about nominations and nod in much the same way that sports fans discuss their teams. Fortunately, I’m not alone in this pastime, but the reasoning behind my passion for award shows is comprised of far more than a love of couture dresses.
I won’t lie and claim that the dresses aren’t at all a factor. As someone perpetually searching for an excuse to dress black tie in an increasingly casual environment, there exists some sort of escapist enjoyment in sizing up the red carpet hits and misses of celebrities who willingly put themselves under the microscope.
Similarly transient pleasure can be derived from the gaffes, the faux pas and the magnificently drunken acceptance speeches so characteristic of the Golden Globes. After all, who doesn’t love to watch an inebriated Christian Bale fumble for the memory of his wife’s name during his speech?
I’ve found myself equally amused by the uncomfortable red carpet interviews between celebrities and pseudo-journalists like Ryan Seacrest, the cringe-worthy scripted banter between presenters, the stinging potshots taken by perennial Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais and the holy grail of all award show blunders: the catastrophe of James Franco and Anne Hathaway’s hosting turn at the Oscars.
Such gaffes are, in part, the beauty of award shows. They serve as evidence that even celebrities stumble through life in much the same manner as we do.
That much being said, award shows are more than a golden opportunity to laugh at the woe-is-me misfortunes and missteps of celebrities. They accord truly deserving thespians and auteurs with the most prestigious honors in their field.
Though the award more often than not goes to the undeserving nominee — or the deserving nominee delivers a disappointingly drunken,
nerve-wracked speech — something in the stars aligns when the award is well-deserved and followed by a poignant speech.
As much as I love the water-cooler speeches such as Kanye West’sinterruption of Taylor Swift, it isn’t Kanye whose speeches keep me coming
back — it’s the likes of Colin Firth and Cate Blanchett.
Additionally, award shows draw audiences to art-house films that would otherwise be seen by an incredibly limited viewership. Would Black Swan have taken off so spectacularly if not for the award buzz?
There’s so much more to the movies than the chick flicks and the blockbusters, and award
shows remind us of that.At the end of the day, however, I think
the true beauty of award shows lies in their ability to turn our perception of celebrity on its head. We live in a culture where tabloids teach us that even such mundane
pastimes as dog-walking and grocery-shopping are glamorous for celebrities.
They are beautiful people who lead beautiful, almost charmed lives. What are award shows if not glorified industry parties not
unlike office parties?With the exception of
couture and photographers, they can’t be all that different.
The night is spent socializing with distant acquaintances, eating distasteful food and wondering who will be the one to drink so much as to cause a scene.
Award shows bring celebrities down to our earth, and they remind us that, for all the glitz and glamour, the life of a celebrity perhaps isn’t so charmed after all.
—Westenfeld is a freshman Media Fellow from Fort Wayne, Ind., planning to major in English literature and creative [email protected]
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For two seniors, competing in Indiana pageants has helped them become the women they are today. Hannah Clingan and Megan Myrehn have spent countless hours preparing for such competitions, time they both believe is very well spent.
Senior Hannah Clingan counts among her greatest pageant experiences those in which she has formed new friendships.
“There are many likeminded young women with leadership qualities and hearts for service. Their stories are inspiring and encouraging,” Clingan said. “I’ve made so many new friends that I never would have had.”
Clingan decided to enter pageants because of the great opportunity offered in her hometown, Covington, Ind., and the encouragement she received from the people there. Upon winning her first pageant title, “Miss Fountain County,” at age 16, Clingan decided to utilize her talents, particularly because she enjoyed public speaking.
“I kind of dabbled in it,” she said. “Now, I have this goal I’m working towards.”
Last year, Clingan competed in the Miss Indiana Pageant, part of the
Miss America Organization, a leading scholarship provider for women. She received the Newcomer Award, for the highest scoring newcomer, and the Preliminary Lifestyle and Fitness Award. Her platform is “Promoting Health and Wellness,” and her talent is Latin dance.
Next June, she is returning to the competition with high ambitions to obtain the title of Miss Indiana, a pageant that takes place in Zionsville, Ind. at the end of June. If she is successful, she will have the opportunity to compete on national television for the title “Miss America.“
According to Clingan, the best part about the Miss America Organization is its history and the core values it promotes for American women.
“It’s the epitome of the American Dream. You take these small town girls, and you give them this title. They attain semi-celebrity status and a microphone to speak out,” Clingan explained. “They can really make a positive impact, and that’s something really special.”
While Clingan is focused on her dream, she still puts her academics first, especially with the competition only seven months away. For Clingan, preparation for a pageant is a lifestyle, and entails organizing, labeling, shopping for wardrobe and makeup
and making healthy decisions every day.
“It’s not about just being a beauty queen,” Clingan said. “It’s a job. I’d have that title for a year, and I’d get to promote my platform and the Children’s Miracle Network.”
Competition, however, does not come free. Clingan will need to raise money to benefit Children’s Miracle Network, and some competitors invest in interview coaches and additional instructors for the talent portion of the competition. Buying a gown can be expensive, too. Overall, the competition can come with a hefty price tag, but many women manage the budget for far less. Senior Megan Myrehn, who also competes, agreed with Clingan that pageants can become pretty pricy, but only if you let them. Myrehn, for example, won Miss Virginia Teen USA wearing simply her prom dress.
Myrehn competes in pageants through the Miss Universe Organization rather than Miss America and won the title of Miss Indiana USA last weekend. Along with the title, Myrehn won various prizes including scholarships and appearance opportunities representing various organizations as Miss Indiana USA.
Like Clingan, Myrehn is no stranger to competing in pageants. She
competed for the title of Miss Virginia Teen USA three times before winning the crown in 2008, but Miss Indiana USA is the first Indiana competition Myrehn has won.
“I love being from Indiana,” Myrehn said. “I always tell people representing Indiana is an honor and something I’m excited about, even though I’ve lived in other places.”
According to Myrehn, the hardest thing about competing in pageants is that people are judging you personally. Unlike pressure placed on a member of an athletic team, a pageant is based on others’ opinions, and different people have different criteria. It was important to Myrehn to be in great shape for the competition, and she wanted to start early in the process of losing weight the healthy way.
“Some days, you don’t really feel like going to the gym, you feel like eating a brownie. It takes self-control,” Myrehn said. “At the end of the day, to me, it’s always been worth it.”
Myrehn, who has a job offer from Eli Lilly after her Management Fellows internship last spring, has not finalized post-graduation plans because of the possibility that she might win Miss USA. If crowned the winner, Myrehn would move to New York for the year. Through competition, Myrehn said she was able to improve her
interview skills, conversational tactics and self-reliance through her pageant experience.
For Myrehn, pageants are an excellent way to happen upon possibilities for the future, to explore who you are and to ultimately figure out what you want to do in life.
“Many people think of a pageant girl as just a beauty queen, but there are so many different roles,” Clingan explained. “You’re a public figure. You’re a role model. You perform.”
For Clingan, pageants are an opportunity to open up several career opportunities for college women, particularly in the fields of communication and media. Since a pageant titleholder meets several different people, it can give them the chance to polish their skillset. They can hone their abilities to do public interviews and become more knowledgeable about politics. Overall, she considers it a great way to better one’s self.
“I have learned how to persevere,” Clingan said. “I think that has been important. It’s not just about walking in and walking out with the crown. You have to work, and invest yourself to be successful.”
Established in 1921.
Requires contestants to win at local levels before competing to represent their state in the Miss America competition.
It is a not-for-profit organization that maintains a tradition of empowering women to achieve both personal and professional goals.
Has a platform concept that requires contestants to choose an issue relevant to our society about which they are passionate.
MISS AMERICA
Information compiled from Missamerica.org and Missuniverse.com. To see more about Clingan and Myrehn’s platforms and successes, visit http://www.hannahclingan.tumblr.com/ and http://missindianausa.com/titleholder.html.
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Far left: Senior Hannah Clingan and senior Megan Myrehn reenact the steps they take to prepare for pageants for The DePauw staff. Above: Although pageants take a lot of time, money and effort, Myrehn (pictured) and Clingan continue to stress the importance of academics. Immediate left: Clingan (right) receives the Preliminary Swimsuit Award for Lifestyle & Fitness at Miss Indiana this summer. CLARISSA ZINGRAF / THE DEPAUW
Established in 1921.
Requires contestants to win at local levels before competing to represent their state in the Miss America competition.
It is a not-for-profit organization that maintains a tradition of empowering women to achieve both personal and professional goals.
Has a platform concept that requires contestants to choose an issue relevant to our society about which they are passionate.
MISS AMERICA
Myrehn received over 100 Facebook friend requests after winning Miss Indiana USA.
MISS UNIVERSEFounded in 1952 by Catalina Swimsuits, a former Miss America sponsor.
Began as a concurrent event with Miss USA in Long Beach, Calif.
Allows women to enter a state competition without having won a city title. Miss Universe contestants must win their respective competitions to compete in the contest.
It is a year-round, international organization that advances and supports career, personal and humanitarian goals for young women.
Information compiled from Missamerica.org and Missuniverse.com. To see more about Clingan and Myrehn’s platforms and successes, visit http://www.hannahclingan.tumblr.com/ and http://missindianausa.com/titleholder.html.
10 | Opinion
THE DEPAUW | Editorial BoardMatthew Cecil | Editor-in-ChiefChase Hall | Managing Editor
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An atheist, Jew, Christian and a Muslim all walked into a room and sat down at a table. No, this is not the start to
a bad joke, but the beginning to one of my most memorable Thanksgiving dinners. It was not until the end of the meal, 5,500 miles away from my middle American home, that I realized the significance of this exceptional evening.
The night began on a winding bus ride down the seaside hills of an Istanbul suburb. What were once church steeples at home are now mosque minarets that define my new skyline. Two American girls had taken it upon themselves to cook dinner for 20 ex-change students, most of whom were experienc-ing Thanksgiving for the first time.
Politically, religiously and even academi-cally, my dinner companions fit no mold. Yet, our clear differences made no difference. Discordant debates with no possible solution were avoided. Lighthearted banter about the superiority of American football over soccer was the only reason voices were ever raised.
My brief, religiously ambiguous blessing was followed by the customary proclamation of the many things for which we were thankful. One by one we shared our thoughts. The broken English and assorted accents were secondary to the importance of what was being said. My foreign friends were thankful for this new opportunity and for the people that were sitting beside them. The Americans were thankful to be surrounded by people who helped them to forget that they were away from home over the holidays.
Many of the new Thanksgiving celebrants declared that they were very fond of this American holiday. Together, we enjoyed the friendly environment and home-cooked meal. Al-though there was a turkey shortage in Turkey this year (truly), the substituted chicken was just as satisfying.
For a few brief moments, we took a step back to our child-hoods and invited the newly converted Thanksgiving follow-
ers to make paper hand turkeys and share the pumpkin pie. Fellow DePauw student Katie Logan had recently received a shipment from home, which included the essential ingredi-ents for this necessary dessert. The white pumpkins found
over here would clearly not have had the same effect.A very welcomed absence from this Thanksgiving
was the materialist attitude that tends to accompany the holiday back home. It seems that Thanksgiving Thursday has evolved into an advertised pregame to the appalling displays of animalistic behavior that oc-
cur on Black Friday. This celebration focused on the essence of Thanksgiving and avoided the
idle distractions.Although brief, that evening was a re-
moval from the realities of our world. For a few hours we lived in an ideological vacuum that allowed people to simply be people. Personal differences that prevent necessary attempts at societal progress, or at least compromise, were absent. Unfor-
tunately, divisive mentalities and impediments to any attempt at civil debates are what grab the current headlines. Members of all political parties, faiths and nationalities are guilty of this plight.
As supposed leaders and holders of power throughout the world become more deeply entrenched in their ways of think-ing, the thought of progress becomes more unfeasible. In-stead of traditional attempts of extending olive branches to our adversaries, maybe all we need is a Thanksgiving dinner.
— Burns is a junior from West Lafayette, Ind., majoring in political science. He is studying abroad in Istanbul, Turkey. Senior Katie Logan, who is also studying abroad in Turkey, contributed to this [email protected]
An exceptional turkey day in Turkey
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PHOTOPINIONHow would you evaluate student government’s performance so far this year?
Charles Pierre, senior Student Body President
“Student government has done a great job of responding to issues on campus. They have kept a keen ear to the streets.”
Casseia Todd, freshman
“There hasn’t been much vocal activity in student govern-ment as evidence to the fact that I didn’t know we had one.”
Mark Ditkof, junior
“Student government has been responsive and effective this semester. One campus, one community.”
Julia Sobek, freshman
“I remember the elections at the beginning of the year, but since then I haven’t heard about much activity.”
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The DePauw | Friday, Dec. 2, 2011
Dear Santa,Please enjoy the glass of milk and Kroger
cookies. I know what you’re thinking: “Why would I drink out of this open container? I don’t want to end up on the roof!”
But listen, I’ve changed. I’m punishing myself severely when I spike drinks or slip drugs into open cups. You could even say I went a bit overboard with my risk management. At certain parties, I can only have three friends. (Yes, of course, you’re still one of my closest friends. We’re, like, totes tagged in a million pictures on Facebook.)
The cookies could possibly … sort of … prob-ably … might be … are leftover from one of the dozens of philanthropies I organized. But it’s just because I’m so darn generous. I have about 1,200 sheet signs to prove it.
Bill Clinton visited me this year! And Yo-Yo Ma (not to be confused with Yo Mama—come on, at least once you mispronounced it in your head) came too. Yo-Yo Ma was on an episode of Arthur, and Bill Clinton wasn’t, so I guess I liked Yo Mama better. I mean, Yo-Yo Ma. Though I’m sure your mother is a very nice person, and I like her too.
Maybe I should talk more about the good things I did. My field hockey team was pretty awesome. Most of my sports teams do exceptionally well. OK, yeah, Wabash beat us at the Monon game. Again. But, then I remembered my girl-to-guy ratio. The
rugby club even won its first game in five years. They also ate a rugby ball (seriously). Somehow those accomplishments are both impressive and upsetting.
But you know what’s really notable? I finally stopped quoting Anchorman every five seconds. That’s right, seven years later and its finally just kind of fun-ny. Heck, I’m not even mad. That’s amazing!
The Hangover Part II was less funny, but the monkey made me laugh. Additionally, Adam Sandler sold his soul to Hollywood to become a large female version of himself. And, of course, the final Harry Potter film came out and my childhood disappeared (during a scene in which all of the ac-tors wore some kind of makeup that was supposed to make them appear old, but actually made me laugh instead).
I have to admit that my neighbors on all sides still seem to dislike me. No, not the cats. They’re great. I like to let them into my dorms and give fleas to everyone. But the people, Santa—I just don’t know. Could it be me? Am I not pretty enough? Maybe I could put up a half-completed fake entrance to campus by Phi Delt? Wait, no, I
did that already. I made myself better in a lot of ways, though.
Really! I put up these giant metal doors at the new admissions building. In reality, they look really tacky, but that’s not the point. You see, the sun shines so bright on them that all you see is this beautiful glow coming from the admis-
sions building. Also, the prospective student folders are now black. I don’t know why I
changed those. So far, I haven’t made a very good
case for myself, but I want you to know this: I’m constantly working to make
myself a better place for students.I hold open discussions,
maintain small classrooms with thoughtful professors, provide coun-
seling and encourage independent study. There you have it. That’s my pitch. Now here’s my gift request:
Santa, please buy me a new gym.
Sincerely,DePauw University
— Jorgenson is a junior from Shawnee, Kan., majoring in English writing and film [email protected]
DePauw’s Christmas letter to Santa
Ever wonder why you gain those extra pounds notoriously known as the “freshman 15?” The change of environment or the additional stresses of a more challenging academic curriculum might be contributing factors. But at DePauw, the Hub is the main culprit to blame for the unwanted extra pounds.
There are three main reasons as to why the Hub contributes to the “freshman 15.” The food selection offered at the Hub is limited and the unhealthy to healthy food ratio is incredibly disproportionate toward junk food. In the Hub, unhealthy options such as pizza, burgers, fries, Chinese food, carbonated beverages and sweets are offered in a much greater quan-tity than healthy options such as sandwiches, wraps, milk and some of the to-go items. Other schools, such as Tufts University, offer a plethora of food options like top-cut meats and more locally grown produce.
DePauw, however, lacks those healthy options, and overall, it’s more difficult to maintain healthy eating habits in the Hub. A little research on calo-riecount.com proves it. If students order one of the Pizza Hut personal pan cheese pizzas, they con-
sume 650 calories that contain 26 grams of total fat, 11 of those saturated, 60 milligrams of cholesterol and 1,370 mg of sodium. However, if a student de-cides to consume a 6-inch turkey sub with lettuce, tomato, green peppers, cucumber and no cheese or dressing, then they digest 280 calories with three and a half grams of fat, of which one gram is satu-rated, 20 mg of cholesterol and 810 mg of sodium.
Unfortunately, this health gap is much too common in the Hub.
Second, the physical arrangement of food does not work in favor of the super-involved DePauw student. The Hub is set up
for “on-the-go” students. If a student wants to maximize his or her study time, he or she will likely be tempt-ed to grab the prepackaged per-sonal pizzas or order pre-made Asian food. By doing so, they do
not have to wait in the always endless lines at the Food Lab or invest the time in waiting to
make a sandwich, not to mention waiting in line to pay. After all, many of us complain about not having enough hours in the day, so why not save some much needed time?
Third, the Hub does not favor the student liv-ing on a budget. A regular burger, served with five
ounces of meat, lettuce, tomato, pickle and onion is $3.59, while a custom sandwich is $3.99. Students who have the traditional meal plan have $1,600 for 16 weeks, averaging about $14 a day. Assuming that a student buys three meals each day and stays on campus for the entire 16 weeks, a student will spend $1,206.24 when purchasing the cheaper meal and $1,340.64 on the healthy option. Thus, they will save $134.40, which they can spend on more food in addition to the $259.36 left in their ac-counts. This extra money can be spent on midnight snacking and overeating. Plus, the expenditures only increase if students decide to eat especially healthy but pricey organic food.
While DePauw offers healthy options in its main cafeteria, they are not balanced with the amount of unhealthy options available. As a result, students tend to make poor health choices that, over time, may lead to serious health problems. Plus, students who want to appropriately budget their money will be prone to cheaper fast food options. In order to provide students with the best preparation for their lives after college, DePauw needs to properly feed its students.
—Bruynseels is a freshman from River Forest, Ill., intending to major in [email protected]
Hub healthy to junk food ratio underlying cause of freshman 15
A DePauw Tiger fan can always count on 91.5 WGRE to broadcast every men’s and women’s basketball game. But this season, fans can watch home games, too.
For the second straight year, the DePauw athletic department is streaming all home bas-ketball games from Neal Fieldhouse with play-by-play provided by WGRE. The department has negotiated with Stretch Internet to stream on a game-by-game basis using its servers. Stretch Internet currently provides the live feeds for University of Cincinnati, Florida State, UCLA and Indiana University.
For Jane Ondik, mother of freshman guard Emma Ondik, the live feed has allowed her to watch her daughter play in her third collegiate
game from her home computer in Illinois.“Being able to watch the team and see the
team and feel part of the community while you can’t actually be there,” Ondik said. “You still feel a part of the program and you can still sup-port the team and your child. You can talk about the game, and it’s a huge time saver.”
Bill Wagner, sports information director for DePauw, hopes that someday the live feed will be available for all sports.
“Any time we can get the message of DeP-auw University out there it’s important,” Wagner said. “Several of the NCAC schools use Stretch Internet, and they provide a really good finished product for us. It’s going to be exciting, and it will provide fans with one more alternative.”
DePauw began streaming games last season in the SCAC. As more and more schools gained the ability to stream the games, the athletic di-
rectors of the SCAC came together and voted that each school must stream every home con-ference game
Last year, Wagner said they broadcasted 19 home conference games, including one test game against Wabash College, using the live steaming provider Team Line.
This year, after seeing other NCAC schools use Stretch Internet, DePauw chose it to pro-vide the online feed and have an archiving fea-ture for the viewing of games at a later time.
Instead of committing to a $4,000 package to broadcast any game DePauw wants, the athletic department chose to go by a game-by-game op-tion of $80-100 for each game streamed.
“They provide a high-quality product and customer support,” Wagner said. “I hope even-tually we can make this a collaborative effort with other groups on campus and we can really
make this a great production.” The games on Wednesday were not the first
to be streamed live online using WGRE’s com-mentators. During the football season, D3TV live-streamed the game against Albion College from Blackstock Stadium, creating excitement for the future if facilities and equipment can improve.
Until those facilities are improved, however, Wagner said they will stay in the Lilly Center.
“We really can’t stream a whole lot else,” Wagner said. “It’s a more controlled environ-ment here in Lilly from a film standpoint. Right now, we’re using the cameras that the coaches use to provide DVDs for scouting purposes. We do have internet access at the press box at Blackstock, but the cameras are farther away from the action.”
Because of the equipment at Blackstock, Wagner said the game would not be streamed at a high quality, something that DePauw should require.
“There’s probably a market out there for people who don’t care about the quality,” Wag-ner said. “But to keep peoples’ interest and keep watching, it’s part of our brand to provide something of quality.”
Aside from quality, DePauw is also restricted to broadcasting in Lilly because of the lack of ad-equate facilities at the soccer, baseball, softball and field hockey fields. For example, Boswell Field lacks an internet router, a genuine press box and a place for the camera to see the entire field.
“You can go with a wireless signal but it’s not recommended at all,” Wagner said. “It’s not just an internet issue, but it’s also a facility issue. There are a lot of limitations out there.”
When athletic director Page Cotton, along with the university, unveiled a potential plan to improve the athletic precinct earlier this fall, it included ideas for facilities at the fields.
But, according to Dick Vance, the associate vice president for facilities, improvements are at least two years away.
Besides improvements, another concern would be an increase in staff to operate the equipment.
“You can see as you start to expand this, you start to add people to it, and that’s where I hope we can utilize students who have an interest in this,” Wagner said. “I think it’s a tremendous experience, and you get to actually work on a product.”
Until facilities improve and better equipment can be purchased, Wagner hopes to continue streaming the basketball games and next season streaming the volleyball games, which take place in Lilly as well. Aside from the basketball teams and volleyball, fans can still listen to WGRE for broadcasts but will have to wait to watch.
Live video stream bring games to Tiger fans’ computers
Screenshot taken from archived video of the DePauw men’s basketball game against Earlham College Wednesday night. COURTESY DEPAUW WEBSITE
Sitting at 4-0 in dual meets and coming off a big win in the Wabash Invitational, the men’s swim team has a good mindset going into the DePauw Invita-tional this weekend.
The Tigers have had great success thus far and head coach Adam Cohen is very pleased with the team’s performances one month into the season. With only four dual meets behind them, the Tigers have been able to pull out four big wins.
“We are really pleased with where we are right now,” Cohen said. “We’re sitting in a good spot, but we can’t rest on what happened yesterday.”
For senior John Montgomery, the Invitational is going to be just another stepping stone on the team’s way to reaching its goals on the season.
“Doing a full taper and full rest, we also shave
and go our best times and national cuts and get our-selves in good gear for conference when it’s time to rest and go fast,” Montgomery said. “We have set really high standards and goals for ourselves, and we think we will be able to do some damage on a national level as well as a conference level this year being our first year in the NCAC.”
In their inaugural year in the NCAC, the Tigers are now in a conference with two of the best swim teams in the nation. The Tigers placed first out of seven in the Wabash Invitational before Thanksgiv-ing break. This meet was not only a big win for the team but also set up a confident mindset going into the DePauw Invitational.
“We won the Wabash Invitational this year, which we haven’t won in a long time, so that was a big deal for us,” Montgomery said. “We beat two Div. II teams that are pretty good, so that’s a confidence booster for the team right now.”
Coming off the Wabash Invitational win, Cohen thinks the team is prepared for the DePauw Invita-tional. With a lot of hard training in the early part of the season and the team tapering, they will be able to come out strong.
“We can’t worry about our opponents or the score, but we are going to focus on what we are capable of accomplishing,” Cohen said. “We need to show what we are capable of. This weekend will prepare us for the meets later in the season where a lot of things are on the line.”
With such a close-knit team, the camaraderie has aided success. Not only in practice can the team push each other harder, but also in meets, the sup-port of the rest of the team is crucial for the swim-mers.
“We are a really close team and swimming is viewed as an individual sport but we don’t see it that way,” Montgomery said. “With the support of oth-
ers we find ourselves going a lot faster. We can push each other harder, practice harder and perform bet-ter in meets.”
According to Montgomery, the team is hoping to not only make a statement in conference but also be nationally ranked in the top 10 this season. Cohen thinks the upcoming DePauw Invitational will be crucial for the team.
“A lot of our goals will be defined by the results of this weekend. This weekend is a very telling week-end in telling us who we are and where we are,” Co-hen said. “Once we get to that point, we can rede-fine our goals for the rest of the season. But our No. 1 goal is always to train hard and have fun doing it.”
The Tigers host the DePauw Invitational this weekend with seven other teams traveling to Green-castle. Preliminary races start Friday at 9:30 a.m. with finals set for 6:15 p.m. Saturday preliminaries begin at 9:30 a.m. with finals at 4:30 p.m.
MEN’S SWIMMING
Four-straight wins make for strong current heading into DePauw Invitational
In the Tigers’ first meet of the season, they lost to Wittenberg University by six points. They lost by six points again in the following meet.
After two close meets against two tough opponents in Wittenberg and Washington University in St. Louis, the Tigers beat Wheaton College and took first place out of seven at the Woehnker Invitational before Thanksgiving Break.
The 25th annual DePauw invitational kicks off today at 9:30 a.m. with finals slated for 4:30 p.m. on Saturday. DePauw will face opponents from Franklin College, Illinois Wesleyan University, Millikin University, Rhodes College, Rose-Hulman Institue of Technology, Transylvania University and Wittenberg.
“We really need to look out for Wittenberg,” said senior Gina Zerbini. “We’re pumped up to be facing them again. Of course we want to win the entire invitational, but I would like to see a big range between our scores and theirs.”
The invitational is something the
team looks forward to every year. Zerbini believes the support from the university really helps build up the team’s confidence, especially from President Brian Casey, who invites the team to his house each year before the invitational to acknowledge the swimmers’ hard work.
“This is something he started when he became president,” Zerbini said. “He wishes us good luck and tells us how proud he is. To have the president of your university, who used to be a swimmer, say that is really rewarding. We want to do well for him because he is so passionate.”
Sophomore Allison Kirby said the team has been even more positive due to the tapering they’ve been doing for the past week. During tapering, the team reduces their yardage at each practice and focuses on getting more sleep.
“It’s easier to keep positive that way since we aren’t as tired,” Kirby said.
So far this season, the team has been shining in distance events with senior captains Katie Morrison and Lindsey Bauman as well as freshman Emily Weber.
“[Weber] has really stepped it up and impressed us all,” Zerbini said. “We have a really strong distance team.”
Kirby said it’s hard to find people who want to do the butterfly because it’s so physically draining, making it the team’s weakest event.
“We just don’t have very many people,” Kirby said. “We don’t recruit flyers very much.”
Since swimming is such a long season, the swimmers know they have to keep positive and focused in order to be successful in their meets.
“We’ve been working on a lot of starts and turns lately,” Kirby said. “Our captains have been doing really well keeping us all positive and focused.”
Zerbini believes the team has great chemistry this year. The Tigers also work to support each other and make practice fun, such as with a swimming Ken doll that they pass along to a new member each week as a reward for working hard or having a positive attitude.
“It’s a small thing, but it’s honestly such a big deal,” Zerbini said. “The person who gets it feels so rewarded. With two and half hours of practice and weight room morning practices, it’s just really good to have some appreciate what you do.”
Squad’s spirits still high after win, close losses
A DePauw swimmer stands atop the blocks at the start of race. ARCHIVE PHOTO / THE DEPAUW
gers after Wednesday’s victory over the winless Earlham College Quak-ers (78-74). DePauw fought back from a first half deficit, carried by Ball State University transfer junior forward Barry Flynn’s career high 25-point outburst that gave the Ti-gers their fourth win of the season.
“It was the people who where making the shots for me,” Flynn said. “The guards off the pick and roll, they see my man collapsing on me and they give the ball to me in great position.”
The Tigers (4-1) and the Quak-ers (0-6) are both perimeter-orient-ed teams, each showcasing forceful presences on the low blocks.
The Quakers came out with a stifling zone defense, forcing the Tigers to take shots deep within the key. Earlham took an early 30-27 lead in the first half aided by Marcus Bledsoe’s tenacious re-bounding and perimeter shooting from guard Josh Green, who shot 3-4 from 3-point territory.
“Some of the things at halftime we were stressing in the locker room were getting back on de-fense, boxing out and rotation as the ball swings. We lost sight of that,” Flynn said. “They hit some threes. We gave them too much room beyond the arc.”
At halftime, the Tigers were winning 41-30, and it appeared that they had started to formulate a game plan against the guard-ori-ented Quakers’ attack. Earlham’s Colton Bragg began hitting open looks in the second half and Earl-ham held the edge in turnover scoring 13-6 to get back in the game. With 7 minutes, 20 seconds left, the Quakers trailed by only six.
Sophomore point guard Mi-chael Wilkison responded to the Quakers upbeat tempo with a key second half, converting six straight free throws to extend the Tigers’ lead to 69-58 with 4:20 remaining.
DePauw committed turnovers and forced bad shots at the end
of the game but held on against a scrappy Earlham squad 78-74.
“[Against Earlham] our energy level wasn’t where it needed to be defensively, and we had trouble re-bounding the ball,” said head coach Bill Fenlon. “We have a lot of young guys that have not played a lot. We need them to raise their activity lev-el. I want our look to be more posi-tive, supporting each other more.”
The Tigers also need to develop their post presences, an area that Fenlon and Flynn have confidence will develop during the season.
“Both [Tommy] Fernitz and [Camron] Burns have all the tools necessary to help our team,” Flynn said. “Just as I will progress, Cam-
ron and Tommy will get better and better which in the long run will make our team more versatile to have some bigger men down low to get the job done.”
The Tigers will compete in their first official NCAC road matchup against Kenyon College (2-3) in Gambier, Ohio on Saturday.
“[Kenyon head coach] Dan Priest does a great job,” Fenlon said. “They are pretty good defen-sively and offensively. On the road we have our work cut out for us.”
Saturday’s NCAC matchup against Kenyon will be broadcasted live on 91.5 WGRE with tipoff set for 3 p.m.
The DePauw women’s basketball team (4-1) avenged last season’s 65-59 loss to Millikin University (3-3) Wednesday night in the Neal Fieldhouse. In a tale of two halves, the Tigers relied on a fast tempo and deep bench to outrun the Big Blue by a final score of 64-41.
Sluggish out of the gate, DePauw struggled to control the game throughout the first half. While the team found no difficulties in creating opportunities, chance after chance was thrown by the wayside, free throws weren’t made, layups missed and passes thrown out of bounds.
Last week’s D3Hoops.com Team of the Week member, senior forward Katie Aldrich was resigned to an early seat after being in foul trouble. Losing its leader in points per game this season, the team did not falter. Sophomore guard Ali Ross became the much-needed spark plug for the Tigers, making shots, grabbing her own rebounds and drawing fouls. Ross finished with nine points and two rebounds.
Her teammates quickly followed her example with five minutes left in the first half as shots started to fall. Encouraged by the late surge, the team took a 23-19 lead into halftime.
“[The team] focused on having more energy in the second half,” Ross said. “It’s always nice to get
a team back.”Fans were treated to an entirely different
game in the second half as the Tigers shook off an uncharacteristic 20 minutes and put on a thoroughly dominating performance. Aldrich and junior forward Ellie Pearson established their presence in the paint immediately, pulling down rebounds and finishing layups.
“We really started moving the basketball, which resulted in some transitional looks,” said head coach Kris Huffman.
It was DePauw’s victory in the battle of the boards that allowed them to open up the game through quick transitions. Sophomore forward Alex Gasaway’s defensive pressure forced numerous turnovers and guards Kate Walker and Kathryn Denbow capitalized on the turnovers with quick fast breaks, leaving the Millikin players trailing behind.
Huffman believed the team improved in the second half because the players started to pass more effectively. Huffman added that this year’s team needs to rely on each other to win each game.
“It’s going to take eight people scoring and 10 people playing defense to win these games,” Huffman said.
The Tigers will look to continue their momentum in Saturday’s home game against Denison University (4-2) in their first North Coast Athletic Conference contest of the season.
Second wind lifts squad to 20-point spread
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Junior forward Ellie Pearson (22) along with the rest of the Tiger defense set up to defend against a Milikin University possession at Neal Fieldhouse Wednesday night. CAROLINE KERR / THE DEPAUW
Flynn leads Tigers to close victory
Junior Barry Flynn watches a free throw from Earlham College in the lane at the Neal Fieldhouse Wednesday night. STEPHANIE AANENSON / THE DEPAUW
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Junior runner Noah Droddy capped off a highly successful individual cross-country sea-son with a finish that proved hard work and dedication to a sport can pay off.
Droddy, after battling injury only a year ago, trained extensively during the summer and ran some of his best races in his career during the season, but none better than on Nov. 19 at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.
The junior finished in ninth place at the NCAA Div. III national meet, the best finish on
the national stage in DePauw men’s cross-coun-try history, earning all-American honors as he finished in the top 35.
“I put in probably 300 miles more over the course of the season than I did last sea-son,” Droddy said. “A top-10 finish wasn’t on my radar, the goal was to break a school record and to be an all-American. Then around the third mile, I thought, ‘What’s happening?’”
The race at Oshkosh was on a fairly flat golf course, which Droddy and head coach Kori Stof-fregen said fed into Droddy’s strengths as a run-ner.
“Being a really tall runner, I don’t run hills very well,” Droddy said. “It’s just easier for me to stride out over a flat course.”
The conditions were also ideal for a cross-country meet.
“The weather was cold, making the ground hard,” Stoffregen said. “It was absolutely per-fect conditions, runners like it cold. It was 40 degrees and calm winds, you couldn’t ask for more.”
The well-suited course and conditions played a large role in determining Droddy’s race strategy as well.
“It allowed him to be very aggressive at the start of the race,” Stoffregen said. “In a hot race, you can’t go out hard and survive it as well.”
Last year in the NCAA Div. III race, Droddy finished 68th with a slower start.
“Getting out in front at a national meet still means you’re running with 40 people,” Droddy
said. “I just went out and planned to stay close. I just kept moving forward, and I felt really good. I just happened to have a good day when it mat-tered.”
According to Stoffregen, the junior got off to a great start and just kept getting stronger. He kept passing runners in the top 20 throughout the race and worked himself up to a ninth place finish — by far the best in school history.
“More than anything it has given our men’s program a shot in the arm, which we’ve need-ed,” Stoffregen said. “He did qualify last year,
but we’ve been in a rough patch even though we were really capable of doing well this year. Hopefully, this brings some excitement to the program and it gives the guys the OK to dream.”
As for Droddy, he will have another oppor-tunity to train hard and compete to heighten DePauw’s cross-country program.
“I want to compete for a win,” Droddy said. “I never thought I could compete for a cham-pionship, but I can. If you look at in on paper, there’s no reason why I can’t fight it out with a few more guys for the win.”
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Droddy finishes ninth at Div. III nationals
Junior Noah Droddy finished in ninth place at the NCAA Div. III national meet, the best national fin-ish for an individual in DePauw men’s cross-country history. PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF KORI STOFFREGEN
“A top-10 finish wasn’t on my radar. The goal was to break a school record
and to be an all-American ... I just kept moving forward, and I felt really
