By MATTHEW CECIL [email protected]Public Safety officers will soon have jurisdictional authority beyond cam- pus property and throughout Putnam County if the university says it can afford a potential increase in its insurance pre- miums. Members of the university’s board of trustees approved this and other mea- sures over the weekend in their first meeting of the calendar year at LaPlaya Beach & Golf Resort in Naples, Fla. Cindy Babington, vice president for student life, said the proposal would al- low campus police to pursue drunk driv- ers and other offenders off campus. That authority currently ends at the streets surrounding university property. The new policy stems from an Indi- ana state statute approved by the legis- lature last spring that allows for universi- ties and colleges in the state to expand the jurisdictional authority of their cam- pus police. Under the legislation, universities can extend statewide police powers to their campus police force. The DePauw trustees, however, only widened Public Safety’s scope to Putnam County. While Public Safety officers receive the same training as officers of the state, they report directly to the university, a private institution. Still, Babington said she is “not wor- ried at all” about a potential conflict of interest between the university’s wishes and enforcing state law. Kelsey Kauffman, a university profes- sor and director of the DePauw Environ- mental Policy Project, followed the legis- lation closely when it was debated in the Statehouse last spring. She said extending statewide police powers to Public Safety could have in- vited potential lawsuits but the positives of the trustees’ more limited resolution would outweigh the negatives. Among other things, the increased authority would allow public safety of- ficers to obtain search warrants for off- campus property and provide additional help to local authorities if, for example, the county experienced a major emer- gency. Public Safety could also provide se- curity details from the Greencastle air- port to campus for prominent officials and dignitaries. Babington, who oversees Public Safety, said the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office and Greencastle Police Depart- ment both supported the increased au- thority. The proposal also received support from student government and the Stu- dent Life and Academic Atmosphere Committee in discussions last fall. Senior Charles Pierre, student body president, said the measure would allow the Greencastle police and Public Safety officers to better protect the Greencas- tle community. Pierre said he was initially worried the expansion would pull officers away from enforcing student security on cam- pus but changed his mind after learning VOL. 160, ISSUE 29 FEBRUARY 14, 2012 Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper Trustees | contd. on page 2 Trustees expand campus police authority, hire new auditing firm ONLINE NOW: ON ONE KNEE See the Valentine’s feature video, where three engaged students share their proposal stories and advice. DePauw on display By ALICIA TUTINI [email protected]The “Toast to Old DePauw” 175th Anniversary Exhibit at the Putnam County Museum is an appropriate representation of the DePauw community: Quaint, yet filled with fascinating information. The exhibit, which opens to the public this Thursday, Feb. 16, is comprised of historic items ranging from a replica of the beloved boulder (with an accompanying sign requesting no boulder runs) to old senior cords, from stories of student protests to a short history about dancing on campus. Senior Sam Spahn, who helps gather information for the 175th Anniversary Exhibit, explained his personal experience with the exhibition as well as some interesting stories about DePauw’s history. Alicia Tutini: How did you become involved with the 175th Anniversary Exhibit? Sam Spahn: A professor who asked if I would be interested in curating the museum for DePauw’s 175th birthday approached me. After gathering some research, I had a grasp of what I needed to do. There was so much in there, I had to delve into so many things, and so I needed a few other students to help me out. They called me the head curator, but I was more of just trying to manage everything that was going on. AT: What were the roles of each of the students involved? SS: We broke up the exhibit into six different sections. [Junior] Annie Wake had between 1837 and the Civil War, [sophomore] Will Calderwood had between the Civil War up until about 1910, I had from 1910 through 1939, [senior] Luke Bretscher had World War II up until the Civil Rights Movement, [senior] Carolyn Latta had the Civil Rights Movement up until the 1980s and then [sophomore] Leah Freestone had the ‘80s to present day. AT: How did you sort out what to include in the exhibit? SS: That was the tough part. The theme of the museum was DePauw Exhibit | contd. on page 2 175th anniversary exhibit showcases student involvement CURRENTLY: Public Safety is able to enforce the law on the 695 acres of DePauw’s campus. POTENTIALLY: Public Safety could enforce the law anywhere in the 307,200 acres of Putnam County.
Public Safety officers will soon have jurisdictional authority beyond cam-pus property and throughout Putnam County if the university says it can afford a potential increase in its insurance pre-miums.
Members of the university’s board of trustees approved this and other mea-sures over the weekend in their first meeting of the calendar year at LaPlaya Beach & Golf Resort in Naples, Fla.
Cindy Babington, vice president for student life, said the proposal would al-low campus police to pursue drunk driv-ers and other offenders off campus.
That authority currently ends at the streets surrounding university property.
The new policy stems from an Indi-ana state statute approved by the legis-lature last spring that allows for universi-ties and colleges in the state to expand the jurisdictional authority of their cam-pus police.
Under the legislation, universities can extend statewide police powers to their campus police force. The DePauw trustees, however, only widened Public Safety’s scope to Putnam County.
While Public Safety officers receive the same training as officers of the state, they report directly to the university, a private institution.
Still, Babington said she is “not wor-ried at all” about a potential conflict of interest between the university’s wishes and enforcing state law.
Kelsey Kauffman, a university profes-
sor and director of the DePauw Environ-mental Policy Project, followed the legis-lation closely when it was debated in the Statehouse last spring.
She said extending statewide police powers to Public Safety could have in-vited potential lawsuits but the positives of the trustees’ more limited resolution would outweigh the negatives.
Among other things, the increased authority would allow public safety of-ficers to obtain search warrants for off-campus property and provide additional help to local authorities if, for example, the county experienced a major emer-gency.
Public Safety could also provide se-curity details from the Greencastle air-port to campus for prominent officials and dignitaries.
Babington, who oversees Public Safety, said the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office and Greencastle Police Depart-ment both supported the increased au-thority.
The proposal also received support from student government and the Stu-dent Life and Academic Atmosphere Committee in discussions last fall.
Senior Charles Pierre, student body president, said the measure would allow the Greencastle police and Public Safety officers to better protect the Greencas-tle community.
Pierre said he was initially worried the expansion would pull officers away from enforcing student security on cam-pus but changed his mind after learning
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Trustees expand campus policeauthority, hire new auditing firm
The “Toast to Old DePauw” 175th Anniversary Exhibit at the Putnam County Museum is an appropriate representation of the DePauw community: Quaint, yet filled with fascinating information.
The exhibit, which opens to the public this Thursday, Feb. 16, is comprised of historic items ranging from a replica of the beloved boulder (with an accompanying sign requesting no boulder runs) to old senior cords, from stories of student protests to a short history about dancing on campus.
Senior Sam Spahn, who helps gather information for the 175th Anniversary Exhibit, explained his personal experience with the exhibition as well as some interesting stories about DePauw’s history.
Alicia Tutini: How did you become involved with the 175th Anniversary Exhibit?Sam Spahn: A professor who asked if I would be interested in curating the museum for DePauw’s 175th birthday
approached me. After gathering some research, I had a grasp of what I needed to do. There was so much in there, I had to delve into so many things, and so I needed a few other students to help me out. They called me the head curator, but I was more of just trying to manage everything that was going on.
AT: What were the roles of each of the students involved?SS: We broke up the exhibit into six different sections. [Junior] Annie Wake had between 1837 and the Civil War, [sophomore] Will Calderwood had between the Civil War up until about 1910, I had from 1910 through 1939, [senior] Luke Bretscher had World War II up until the Civil Rights Movement, [senior] Carolyn Latta had the Civil Rights Movement up until the 1980s and then [sophomore] Leah Freestone had the ‘80s to present day.
AT: How did you sort out what to include in the exhibit?SS: That was the tough part. The theme of the museum was
POTENTIALLY:Public Safety could enforce the law anywhere in the 307,200
acres of Putnam County.
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Student government kicked off the semester with their first meeting on Sunday evening, discussing their goals for the semester and voting on club recognition.
“We’re going to be in for an eventful meeting,” said se-nior Charles Pierre, student government president, as the meeting commenced.
Pierre began the meeting with a discussion of what stu-dent government hopes to accomplish in the upcoming se-mester. One main goal is to work on strengthening relations between students and alumni, while another is to push for School of Music Dean Mark Dean McCoy to participate in co-hosting another event with the College of Liberal Arts.
Senior Nick Flores, vice president of student govern-ment, took the floor next addressing student government plans to increase their popularity on social media sites.
The organization plans to hold a raffle to win free mer-chandise from the bookstore. Students can be put into the raffle by liking the student government’s Facebook page, following student government’s twitter account or retweet-ing their tweets. Bookstore merchandise, such sweatshirts valued around $40, will be given to the winners.
Members of the executive board continued the remain-ing points of the agenda. Some issues addressed included upcoming 175th anniversary events and sending out a sur-vey to students to see what student government can do bet-ter.
Senior Margarita Villa, director of allocations, then ad-dressed the allocations board noting that grants will have to be frugal.
The floor was then opened to student leaders.Relay for Life coordinator Danielle Boyd, senior, an-
nounced that the event will take place on April 21-22. The top five students that raise the most money this year will receive a prize for them and a friend: A free limo ride and dinner in Indianapolis with President Brian Casey.
The bulk of the meeting centered around 12 new clubs that sought recognition on DePauw’s campus. Clubs were introduced, discussed and then voted on.
Eleven of the 12 clubs gained recognition. The only club that did not gain recognition is 212, a club to help students to learn better time management. The voting concluded the meeting’s events.
Student Government begins semester, discusses long-term goalsSTUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSEMBLY MEETING | FEB. 12
GOALS FOR THIS SEMESTER:
• Contstruct a plan to strengthen relationships between students and alumni. One idea is to host an informal event sometime this spring to come together and mingle.
• There will be a meeting between members of student government and Greencastle Mayor Sue Murray to strengthen ties between DePauw University and the community. One event could be for Greencastle to host a cultural festival on the square to unite DePauw and the community in song and dance.
• An alcohol consumption panel will be hosted as an educational tool to inform students on the dangers of alcohol and what the school can do better to instill this information.
• The Tiger Ambassador program could have a more selective process in order for DePauw to have a stronger appeal towards prospective students.
• There could be another event to bring the School of Music and liberal arts colleges together.
NEW CLUBS RECOGNIZED:
- Alpha Tau Omega fraternity - Bon Appetit
- Robotics Club- Gaming Club
- National Society of Collegiate Scholars- Pre-Dentistry Club
- Student Athletic Advisory Committee- Trap & Skeet Team
- Underrepresented in Science- UDI’s Gluten Free at DePauw
-Volleyball Club
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that Public Safety patrols would not be affected.
“DePauw students are their main concern,” Pierre said. “This will just make their [Public Safety’s] force a little more prevalent in town.”
Angela Nally, director of Public Safe-ty, was unavailable for contact in time for publication.
At the trustees weekend meeting, the board also approved resolutions to change university tuition and hire a new auditing firm.
Christopher Wells, vice president for communication and strategic ini-tiatives, confirmed there would be a change in tuition but was not willing to comment on a specific number.
The university is expected to release details of the new tuition numbers later today.
After over 50 years of business with a previous auditing firm, the university has hired Crowe Horwath LLP.
Kevin Kessinger, associate vice president for finance, said the univer-sity stands to save around $100,000 over the next three years because of the change.
The trustees further discussed fun-draising priorities for the university, Wells said, outlining support of faculty, student experience and need-based fi-
nancial aid as target areas.According to Wells, the trustees also
openly endorsed Mark McCoy, dean of the School of Music, and his vision for the college’s future after a presentation to the board.
The board of trustees meets three times each year in the fall, winter and spring. The fall and spring meetings usually take place on campus while the winter meeting moves to a different off-campus location each year.
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Ian Frazier, author and columnist for “The New Yorker,” has been in the business for 39 years, do-ing everything from creating captions for nude photos at Playboy to writing a national best-seller. Both funny and thoughtful, Frazier speaks on com-ical career moments, personal achievements and advice for aspiring writers.
The DePauw: Where do you get your inspira-tion for your work?Ian Frazier: I really like to write about my experi-ences. I think people write the best when they write about what they like.
TDP: Which one of your books is your favor-ite?IF: I do have a favorite, but I feel bad about saying it. It’s like the favorite child, its one of those things you can’t say. My favorite book that I have written is “Great Plains,” which came out in 1989, the year my daughter was born. It was my most successful book. It was an investment. It was a risk.
TDP: What’s the most interesting piece you’ve ever written?IF: One of my favorite articles I have written for “The New Yorker” recently was the piece I wrote for the tenth anniversary of Sept. 11. I wrote about a bus driver who had taken passengers into the city the day of Sept. 11 but then had to turn around once he got there because of what happened. One of the regular passengers died. Sal, the bus driver, was a very spiritual type of person, the type of per-son who can see that in other people. He saw that in that regular passenger that died. Sal was just one of those people who had a holiness about him. It was such a satisfying piece to write because it pointed out the good in the world. Most good in the world goes unnoticed.
TDP: Who is the coolest person you have ever gotten to interview?IF: Randy Newman was an interesting person to interview. He wrote the songs for the “Toy Story” movies. He was a cool guy, really funny. One of my
most memorable interviews was with Bear Bryant, a longtime University of Alabama football coach. He had written a book and I noticed that in his book, each time he got a new air conditioner he specifically mentioned it. When I sat down at the interview, I didn’t have much time to talk to him. Imagine 50 people were lined up for interviews af-ter you and someone was timing the interview with a stopwatch. I sat down and mentioned air condi-tioners to him. Turns out, he had grown up in the south and didn’t have air conditioner as a kid, so getting air conditioning was a big deal to him. He hadn’t even realized that it was in the book so of-ten. Bear got on a roll talking about air condition-ers and kept talking and talking. It was funny be-cause everyone was looking at us, waiting for me to finish the interview, but Bear was still talking away.
TDP: You worked at Playboy for a bit before getting your start at “The New Yorker.” What was your time there like?IF: While I was working for “Playboy,” I lived in Chi-cago and thought the city was a great place. I had a very small apartment with no furniture in it. The only thing I had was a mattress in the middle of the room. I always sat and read and wrote and piles of papers and books collected around the mattress. The landlord actually said it was a huge fire hazard. I was grateful to have had all of that time in the city to read. Reading is such an integral part of writing. While I was there, I also took the time to read “The New Yorker” forward and backward, which definite-ly helped when I applied.
TDP: Why did you quit “Play-boy?”IF: Well, I did learn one thing while I was at “Playboy.” You might think that writing cap-tions for pictures of naked people is really easy. But everyone has a special talent and some people there were very good at writing cap-tions for those photos. I was definitely not one of them. I
would say the last straw was when I got my photo ID to enter the building. The ID was your head with a bunny head stamped over top of it. I got that, and I decided I just couldn’t do it anymore. I was only there for six weeks.
TDP: Who is your favorite author?IF: After reading and writing a lot, you really start to develop a sense for literature. It’s so hard to pick just one, but I guess I would have to go with Mark Twain. He’s the classic American writer. I would also recommend Joseph Brodsky, a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Flannery O’Connor is hilarious and grim. I have also been reading a lot of Robert Frost lately. Oh and Joseph Mitchell – he’s a great reporter.
TDP: Where do you see yourself in 10 years?IF: I will still be writing. I want to write more books. I actually have a novel coming out in the fall. It’s called “Cursing Mommy.” It’s basically about vari-ous situations happening and a household and then the mom just flipping out. Cursing is much more accepted in households nowadays. When I was a kid, I never heard my mom curse. Maybe she said “damn,” but that’s it.
TDP: If you could give one piece of advice to aspiring writers, what would it be?IF: I would tell them that persistence and a small amount of talent gets you further than big talent. You just have to stick with it. Writ-
ing takes faith, it’s almost religious. You need to cultivate, think
and pay attention. Reading is also essential to becoming a writer. Writing without read-ing is like talking without listening. It’s just chaos. It’s destructive. DePauw, it’s such a great place to learn. I hope folks here understand how many resources are available and take advantage of
the time they have to read.
Best-selling author and columnist opens up on success
The new dumbbells and barbells in the Lilly Athletic and Recreation Center bought this past fall are the only changes planned to be made to the athletic facility according to current plans, said Assistant Athletic Trainer Roger Dortch.
The weights were purchased in October 2011 thanks to a monetary gift, and put in place over fall break.
Dortch has heard that students are pleased with the new equipment even though the change is not dramatic. The old weights were rusty and roughed up — and the new weights are softer and provide students with a cleaner grip.
Students expressed satisfaction with the new weights.
“Lilly needed new weights,” freshman Emma Haynes said. “The old ones were rusty and some-times uneven. The new weights are easier to grip and much more balanced.”
Freshman Chad Hale agreed.“The new weights are in better shape, and I
enjoy using them.”Even though new free weights have been add-
ed to the fitness center, some students remain disappointed with Lilly’s fitness equipment.
“It still needs improvements drastically,” soph-omore Michael McManis said. “Lilly could expand to include athletes and students allowing them more space.”
Despite some students’ opinions, Dortch be-lieves there isn’t an issue of needing new equip-ment. He says the problem is not properly main-taining the equipment.
“We need to do the simple things of cleaning equipment surfaces of sweat and dirt after they are used, picking up weights, dumbbells, used towels and putting them back in their appropriate places,” Dortch said. “We do have quality equip-ment. It is not taken care of the way it needs to be.”
New weights only upgrade in Lilly
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CAMPUSCRIMEFeb. 9
• Suspicious persons — delayed report • Officer checked area / unable to locate subjects | Time: 10:10 p.m. | Place: The Inn at DePauw/ The Duck
• Suspicious person — delayed report • Pending | Time: 10:30 p.m. | Place: Off campus
Feb. 12
• Disturbance / possession of marijuana / possession of paraphernalia • Citations issued / forwarded to Prosecutor’s Office and Community Standards Committee | Time: 12:24 a.m. | Place: Londgen Hall
• Disturbance / welfare check • Subjected located / checked okay | Time: 3:00 a.m. | Place: 500 Hanna Street
As the Chinese New Year came to a close, stu-dents from around the world came together to cel-ebrate their culture and welcome the year of the dragon.
At a party organized by the ASIA Club on Satur-day night, students welcomed the final day of the Chinese New Year, the Lantern Festival. The stu-dents celebrated the new year of the dragon with Chinese and Filipino foods, games, student perfor-mances and authentic dragon and lion dances per-formed by the Indianapolis Chinese Community Center.
The Chinese New Year, also called the Lunar New Year or Spring Festival, is the most important celebration of the Chinese culture. The festival is referred to as the Spring Festival because it marks the end of the winter season on the lunar calendar. The 15-day-long celebration begins on the eve of the New Year.
The celebration is drenched in tradition from red decorations to gifts of money given in red enve-lopes. Red — the symbol of good luck — is the color of the festival. Another tradition involves writing wishes for the coming year on red slips of paper,
which are then hung on the walls. “My favorite part is getting money from my par-
ents in the red envelopes,” said Jing Jing, an inter-national student from Beijing.
While a feast is one of the main traditions of the festival, the foods eaten at the feast vary according to region. In northern China, dumplings are the main food while in southern China, niangao, or a cake made from sticky rice, is the main dish.
“My favorite part of the New Year celebration is definitely eating dinner and watching TV with my family,” said Zhyian Jian, another Chinese interna-tional student.
Another integral part of the traditional celebra-tion is the dragon and lion dances, though they are rarely performed in person.
“[The dances] require too many people for everyone to perform them, but we all know the tradition,” Jing said. “Today, the dances are a part of the television special shown on the eve of the New Year.”
On the 15th day, the celebration concludes with the Lantern Festival. Traditionally many red lan-terns are lit and set free to float in the night sky. The children carry the lanterns to temples and solve the riddles written on the lights. In ancient times the lanterns were very simple — only nobility flew or-nate lanterns. In modern times, the designs have
grown to be much more complex and are often in the shape of an animal. In some areas, the Lantern Festival is called the Chinese version of Valentine’s Day because it celebrates love and affection.
In Chinese culture, a particular animal denotes each year. The animal of 2012 is the dragon. In Ori-ental culture, dragons are a sign of good fortune and great power, therefore people born in dragon years are honored and respected. The Chinese zodiac considers people born in the year of the dragon to be free-spirited, innovative, enterprising, brave, passionate, tactless, conceited and quick-tempered.
The dragon’s characteristics are affected by one of the five Chinese elements: Earth, fire, wa-ter, wood and metal. The five elements rotate in a way similar to the zodiac, and occur once every 60 years. This year is a water dragon year, which last occurred in 1952. Water years are said to have a calming effect on the personalities of those who are born in the year.
Many international students could not travel thousands of miles home for the festival, which tra-ditionally revolves around family.
“In the days before the New Year, it is almost impossible to get train tickets because everyone is trying to get home to their families,” Jiang said.
Students said they were happy to gather with a
Students celebrate the year of the dragon
The Asian Club helped students celebrate the Year of the Dragon with performances and dances. This costume is for the dragon dance, traditionally performed during the Lunar New Year celebration. HOANG NGUYEN/THE DEPAUW
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Across:1 California’s _____ valley5 Eastern nanny9 Stock unit14 Leprechaun’s land15 Detective’s assignment16 Patronize, as a restaurant17 Chicago shopping center20 Airport screening org.21 Southernmost of the Great Lakes22 Makes up (for)23 “_____Gotta Have It” (Spike Lee Film)24 Uno y dos25 Where the Chicago Theatre is located29 Bay Area airport letters32 Colorful fish33 Musician’s asset34 Subject with graphs: Abbr.35 Overturn36 EMT’s skill37 Aromatic hydrocarbon38 Profound39 Start to fix?40 “She’s the Man” actress Bynes41 Vote in favor42 Where Sue the T. Rex is
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19 Less common23 Throat ailment24 Eye drop25 Room in the game Clue26 Conical dwelling27 Adrift, say28 Turn off29 Public commotion30 Melted cheese dish31 Late late hour34 Rub out36 Native Canadian37 Lucky charm39 Rice _____40 Comes (to)42 Extreme shortage43 Least interesting44 Involving a nasal cavity46 WWII Gen. Bradley47 _____-mutuel48 End-of-week cry49 March Madness org.50 Tall tale teller51 Kind of sax52 “It’s _____ real”54 Global finance org.55 Hospital scan
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Left: Old photos showcased in the Putnam County Museum give current students an idea of what DePauw looked like years before their arrival on campus. Mounted among many others, this photo shows Roy O. West library as it was circa. 1965. Top right: The 24th issue of DePauw's first student newspaper, the Asbury Notes, is on display at the museum alongside older copies of The DePauw, the DePauw magazine, and other student publications. Bottom right: An old letter jacket, cheerleading uniform and other sports memorabilia is on display at the museum with a brief summary of DePauw's athletic history. Previously, when DePauw was Indiana Asbury, baseball was the first sport to be played on an intercollegiate level. In April of 1936, the St. Louis Cardinals played at DePauw against the men's team. PHOTOS EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW
the tough part. The theme of the museum was to be Student Life and Construction on Campus. We wanted to show how the campus had evolved over time and also how the students had evolved over time. We had to break down the informa-tion, so I told them that we needed to find something that was three-dimensional and that had a big impact on DePauw’s his-tory. On certain events we did just have to use photographs, but they were such important parts of DePauw’s history that we had to include it. We included things that really revolution-ized or impacted our campus.
AT: What was your favorite aspect of the time period you were responsible for? SS: President Merlin, because as of Feb. 13, it is the 86th an-niversary of lifting the social ban on dancing at DePauw, which he was responsible for doing. That is why I chose that time period. When DePauw was first founded as Indiana Asbury, we held the most Methodist members in the entire country. So for quite a long time, those Methodist roots had been manifested in DePauw’s culture, but in the 1920’s there was a shift in the types of students. From 1920 to 1928, DePauw increased its size by 1,000 students. There were a lot of stu-dents coming from the suburban area of Chicago, which is a trend we still see today. But there were students coming back from war who were questioning why they weren’t able to dance. Back in those days, any wiggle of the body to any music was grounds for expulsion. The students put a lot of pressure on President Merlin to lift the ban. They thought dancing was natural and wanted to see a more progressive DePauw. This was the first real breakthrough as far as student life goes.
AT: What exactly were the senior cords all about?SS: This was not exclusively at DePauw, but it was kind of compilation of what you had done for the four years. It was something different and unique — it was like a yearbook on your pants. They were very popular in the 1950s and ‘60s. It basically just denotes your four years at DePauw.
AT: Student protests have played a big role in DePauw’s history. What is an example of the influence these protests have played?SS: There was a lot to do with the sorority and fraternity life in the late 1800’s that protested the administration. I’ll go into the Black Friars incidence because I find it very fascinating. The Black Friars was a social drinking club on campus comprised of men from several fraternities. There was an initiation which ended at Moore’s, a drink-ing song — or fight song…definitely a big social drinking club. There was a guy hired by the administration who dealt with investigations.
He wanted to meet with the members of the Black Friars. Five of the 12 showed up and discussed what was going on in Asbury Hall. The next day, those five men were suspended immediately. This reached the student body very quickly. This was in 1959 — Cold War Era — and so the students figured out that this guy was hired in to oust this group. So, students protested — skipped class, burned books right in front of the library, chanted around the administration building, ignored all social protocols. Because of this, DePauw created a strong student senate that actually rivaled the administration. That was actu-ally one of the breakthroughs of that ordeal. The student body has always played a role in making sure that the administration did not get too big. Those students were very active in making sure that DePauw made the right decisions for the students. That seems to be the blood-line of DePauw students — what they see as just is followed through.
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The much-anticipated movie “The Vow” came out on Friday, Feb. 10, just in time for Valentine’s Day. The movie stars Channing Tatum (“Step Up”) and Rachel Mc-Adams of “The Notebook.”
“The Vow” is the story of a newly married couple that struggles to find love again after an accident that causes McAdams’s character, Paige, to lose her recent memory. She can no longer remember her husband, Leo, or any of their past together.
After months of dramatic previews and hype, the movie built itself up to be a serious, heartbreaking, ro-mantic drama — possibly even to be the next “The Note-book.”
Although I wouldn’t go that far, the movie was certainly entertaining, containing moments of heart wrenching intensity and beautiful scenery (both geo-graphically and Channing Tatum, who takes his shirt off at least three times throughout the film).
On the downside, Tatum displayed subpar acting skills. While he’s eye candy at its finest, he appears on screen as slightly awkward at times.Tatum was previ-ously the star dancer in his debut film “Step Up” and that might have contributed to his awkward movement across the screen and the way he handles some of the more serious moments of the film.
Despite his toned body, it appeared as if his hair dresser decided to comb his hair in every direction just
for the fun of it, which became a huge distraction.On the other hand, McAdams’s performance was no
less than her usual: Well-characterized and believable. The beautiful star scores again alongside a less-than-Oscar-winning Tatum.
The film fulfilled its expectation of being a mixture of “Dear John” and “The Notebook,” both movies the stars filmed earlier. However, “The Vow” wasn’t previously a Nicholas Sparks book, but instead a combination of true events which compliments the movie’s attempts to play out the struggling romance between the couple.
I was hoping for a tearjerker, but the movie didn’t move me to the edge of my seat (though my compan-ions might argue otherwise).
It was more straightforward than “The Notebook” and focused on a journey of love rather than suspense, which allowed viewers to lie back and enjoy watching the story of difficult love unfold.
“The Vow” is clearly geared toward a female audi-ence, and in a packed theater on opening night at Plain-field’s Rave Theater, there were definitely a minority of men in the audience.
Just the few that looked as through they had been dragged a long by unmerciful girlfriends.
All in all, the movie fulfilled my expectations and I left the theater confident my money had been well spent. So for those of you who are fans of “The Notebook” or Channing Tatum’s body, this movie is definitely for you.
— Brinker is a freshman from Stevensville, MI. with an undecided major. [email protected]
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EDITORIAL POLICY
EDITORIAL
Expanded Public Safety jurisdiction could up security but also price tag
‘The Vow:’ Valentine’s candy for the heart
MADISONBRINKER
It’s hard to argue with any policy with DePauw students’ safety in mind.So, we’re glad that the board of trustees is following up the Indiana legisla-
tion that gives Public Safety the legal right to venture off campus and into Putnam County with legal authority.
The benefits of an increase in jurisdiction are obvious; DePauw officers could continue pursuit of a suspect outside of campus boundaries. Currently, they don’t have that power and instead have to rely on the Greencastle Police department to track down someone who may have caused harm to a DePauw student. This is obvi-ously an inefficient system (with no implication that the GCPD is not trustworthy).
Alternately, Public Safety also could be called upon to assist other Putnam County Law enforcement in an emergency. The administration maintains that off-campus work would only occur in a time of specific need. For example, a drunk driver who continues off campus can now be pursued by Public Safety.
More comprehensive investigations can take place in Putnam County and Public Safety will be able to assist Greencastle Police in case of emergency situations.
It’s important to note though, as Professor Kelsey Kauffman, who followed the state legislation closely does, that allowing our Public Safety off campus could invite unwanted lawsuits.
And, the new policy could worry DePauw’s insurance holder, increasing premi-ums to protect against the possibility of an unexpected cost of Public Safety exercis-ing power off-campus. Do cases that require this power happen often enough that a bigger bill is worth it?
The concerns the possible new policy addresses — the handicap for Public Safety faces off campus — are legitimate. But so are the concerns the new policy creates, especially when the Greencastle Police are by no means unwilling or unfit to serve DePauw students. That resource is already available.
If the insurance policy stays put, we’ll be excited for Public Safety’s extended reach. If DePauw starts to look at shelling out a ton of money, though, let’s reassess.
Spending the Lunar New Year half a world from home
While many people in Asia were celebrating Lunar New Year, I was here in the frigid weather of Greencastle.
It was not a fun experience, but I’ve gotten used to it because this year was not my first time missing New Year’s dinner with family. When you have to endure something unpleasant more than once, I guess it will be less unpleasant and more bearable over time.
Some of you may ask, what exactly is Lunar New Year? Maybe you have heard about it before, but just aren’t clear of its meaning. Lunar New Year is a festival celebrating the beginning of the year in lunar calendar.
As the solar calendar (which is used worldwide today) uses the position of the earth relative to the sun to tell dates, the lunar calendar is based on cycles of the lunar phase. Therefore, dates and months in the two calendars are very different.
The Lunar New Year celebrations are often on different dates of our “normal” calendar each year. Lunar New Year is celebrated in most coun-tries in East and South East Asia. Even though the solar calendar is officially used in those countries, people from these countries still consider the lu-nar calendar traditionally and ritually important. These cultures continue this valuable tradition be-cause they believe using the lunar calendar is the best way to pay respects to their ancestors.
So, you ask, what do people do during Lunar New Year? It varies depending on where you cel-ebrate it. But in Vietnam, where I am from, people will prepare dishes and fruits and use them to wor-ship the Gods and ancestors in a ceremony known as “Cung Giao Thua” or “New Year’s Worship.”
After that, the whole family has the last dinner
of the old year and spends the rest of the night together. However, some may not stay at home but go out to the main streets in the city to see fireworks.
On the first several days of the New Year, fami-ly members wish each other health and happiness, children receive “lucky” money from adults, and people go to temples to pray for success and luck.
The first person to go to a house (or “xong dat”) in the New Year is believed to bring fortune or misfortune to the family living there. Therefore, each family often chooses a person beforehand to “xong dat” to make sure they will have great luck next year.
This is the second time I am not home dur-ing the New Year festival. It is supposed to be this time of the year when family members gather to-gether regardless of how busy they are.
However, my studies and the long distance be-tween the United States and Vietnam would not allow me to do that. And of course, I feel homesick not being able to see my family during one of the most important festivals of the year.
— Nguyen is a sophomore from Hanoi, Vietnam majoring in economics. [email protected]
HAINGUYEN
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Underrepresented in Science on study-session misunderstanding in student gov.
During the student government session on Sunday Feb. 12, several DePauw Student Assem-bly members were concerned about the academic integrity of Underrepresented in Science (UiS) re-garding student access to past test exams during their study sessions. We would like to address this general misunderstanding and clarify both this ac-tivity and what UiS as an organization represents.
As mentioned in the presentation given in stu-dent assembly, UiS hosts study sessions allowing students to interact and help expand their under-standing of the course work.
We do provide past tests though these tests are the ones that professors have already placed online and any student taking the course has access to them. All we do is print out these tests so that it can be a resource for students to use as a study guide at
our sessions if they desire. We are thankful to the student assembly for
recognizing us as an organization and we are sorry about the miscommunication that has occurred.
UiS strives to uphold academic integrity and does not support students violating the rules set forth the university. We are excited about the op-portunity to support students through our organi-zation and will work to make a positive impact on campus.
— Anderson Antoine, juniorPresident of Underrepresented in Science
Correction from Eye On The World
The editorial board of Eye On The World would like to call to your attention a correction in the Fall 2011 issue. The article “Jangele Ma — Teach Me” by Sajel Tremblay was based on her individual expe-
rience in Pikine, Senegal and was incorrectly pre-sented as an experience of Africa.
We also regret labeling articles by country, as we don’t wish to present students travels as represen-tative of an entire nation but rather highlight their unique off-campus experience.
Unfortunately our error is not the first on De-Pauw’s campus. Africa is incorrectly portrayed as a single country, despite the reality that it is com-posed of 52 countries and 1 billion people.
This is perpetuated by national media and other social institutions, but moving forward as an edito-rial board and members of the student body we will be changing the editorial process to present our-selves our writers in a more accurate manner.
If you have any further feedback or comments please do not hesitate to email [email protected]
— Emily Miller, juniorand Sommer Braun, senior
“It is supposed to be this time of year when family members gather together
regardless of how busy they are.”
Need a companion this Valentine’s Day? Look no further than the depauw.
The DePauw women’s basketball team took the to the road for the first time in February for a matinee showing this past Saturday at Oberlin College.
The Lady Tigers enjoyed a comfortable 70-39 victory over the hosts in their third-to-last conference game of the regular season. Fol-lowing the Saturday triumph, DePauw climbed the D3Hoops.com national ranking to sit at the fourth spot at the weeks end.
DePauw (21-1) roared out of the gates, took the lead and never gave it back against the Yeo-women. Oberlin was within three points with around nine minutes to play in the first half. It was the closest they would come to tying the Tiger women.
With six minutes left in the half, sophomore Ali Ross converted a three-pointer that opened the floodgates for an unprecedented 20-0 run by the Tigers to close out the half.
Oberlin failed to make the game competi-tive in the second half and a couple of DePauw runs closed out the game quickly and efficiently. The Tigers benefitted immensely from some big time offensive performances from sophomore Alex Gasaway, senior Katie Aldrich and junior Kathleen Molloy. The trio scored 18, 14 and 10 points, respectively.
Senior Kathryn Denbow and junior Katie
Walker assisted three times each while junior Ellie Pearson grabbed eight rebounds and four steals.
Having clinched the No. 1 seed in the confer-ence tournament last week, the Lady Tigers could relax these next two games in preparation for the upcoming NCAC tournament.
“While we know we’ve done well in this new conference and are happy for our success, coach doesn’t want us to relax, and I certainly don’t want to become complacent in what we’ve accomplished,” Gasaway said. “What’s important is what comes next, and we know the competi-tion is going to become more and more difficult the further we get into March and we need to do whatever we can in practice to ready ourselves for that.”
Pearson stressed that the team never looks past a game.
“It is rewarding to see our hard work pay off as we have secured the No. 1 seed for confer-ence,” Pearson said. “It can definitely be easy to get into the lull of winning but focusing on one thing at a time helps overcome that. We can’t take winning for granted. Instead we must take it one day at a time, one practice at a time, one play at a time, one game at a time. Thinking about the past and the future are only distrac-tions. Our day-to-day focus as a team is powerful enough to prevent us from relaxing against opponents.”
The Lady Tigers play their last final home game of the regular season this Wednesday at 6
The DePauw men’s basketball team has now dropped five of their last six games after an un-derwhelming loss to Oberlin 49-48 on Saturday.
The Tigers had two chances to score in the final five seconds of the game, but failed to con-vert on either attempt.
“We came out flat coming off a tough loss to Denison,” sophomore guard Alex Payne said. “I think partially, we just overlooked (Oberlin). That just can’t happen especially in a new con-ference.”
The Tigers shot just 37.5 percent from the field in a loss that marked a steep turnaround from DePauw’s last game against Oberlin on Jan. 21, in which the Tigers dismantled the Yeomen 69-37. That win was only their second in confer-ence play.
DePauw will finish its regular season this week, with games against the Wittenberg Tigers Wednesday night and Wooster on Saturday.
Those opponents are tall orders for these Ti-gers who stand at 13-10 overall, 7-7 in the NCAC.
Though the Tigers have struggled defensive-ly at times, it is a more methodical and effective look on offense that has sparked former Tiger victories.
“Our recognition on the offense end needs to improve,” assistant coach Brian Oilar said. “We didn’t know what we were looking for and when to look for it. We have lost some offense chemistry a little bit and need to get the ball to multiple sides of floor.”
Regardless of recent struggles, DePauw still has an outside chance to gain home court ad-vantage in the conference tournament begin-ning Feb. 21.
“If we can have two great performances in these next two games, I don’t think it’s going to matter who we play,” Oilar said. “We can beat anyone in the league. We’ve proven that at points in the season.”
The top eight teams out of 10 are invited to the NCAC Tournament. DePauw is currently sitting at sixth in the standings. To gain home court advantage, DePauw will need to be at least a No. 4 seed — they are currently two games back from Wabash, who hold that spot.
DePauw will look to surpass Denison for the No. 5 seed. Denison sits one game ahead of DePauw and finishes the year at home against
Kenyon and away at Ohio Wesleyan. “We are definitely thinking about [the NCAC
Tournament],” junior Kevin Sullivan said. “As it stands, we will either be at Ohio Wesleyan or at Wabash. Those are two places we will have to stick it out and get a win.”
In the short term, Wittenberg is an immense challenge. The other Tigers from Springfield, Ohio, clinched at least a share of the NCAC regular season title with a 68-62 overtime victory over second place Wooster on Saturday.
“They offer a lot of big guys down low that can bang around,” Sullivan said. “I’m confident in [senior] Sean Haesley, [sophomore] Cam-ron Burns, [junior] Barry Flynn and [freshman] Tommy Fernitz posting up down low. I’m confi-dent in our matchups. We only lost at their place by four, I think it will be a different story once we have some fans in our seats.”
With a two-game lead and a confident vic-tory, Wittenberg will be a challenge for a young Tiger team who have struggled shooting the ball all season.
The most prevalent challenge will be con-taining senior Clayton Black, who leads Witten-berg with 14.6 ppg and 7.2 rpg.
Black, who surpassed the 1,000-point marker for his career, is a physical, athletic and tenured force down on the blocks, making him a chal-lenge for the Tigers both on offense and de-fense.
“We need to have better preventative de-fense on [Black],” Oilar said. “That means not letting him catch the ball on the first play. Once he’s got it, he’s really tough to handle. We want to push him off the blocks and off the lane.”
DePauw will need to rebound more effec-tively against Wittenberg as they were out-re-bounded 35-to-25 in their last game against the Tigers and shot just 9-for-30 from three-point territory.
“We need to come out and follow the same game plan with fewer defensive lapses,” Payne said. “Wittenberg is a first place team and maybe this is exactly what we need to come out with more energy.”
Having endured a full schedule in a battle-tested NCAC, DePauw knows that losing at this stage is not an option.
The clock has struck, and it’s time to see if DePauw can culminate their season into one of progress and success.
Another loss after poor shooting, though conference still in sight
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Junior Kathleen Molloy dribbles around a Kenyon player during DePauw’s 68-47 win on Jan. 31. ARCHIVE PHOTO / THE DEPAUW
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“We’re behind other teams because we’ve only had like two weeks of practice, but everyone is definitely improving,” Wong said.
On the men’s side, freshman Steven Rutherford continued his success in the long jump with a third place finish and senior captains Tyler Giesting and Jon Cripe finished third and fourth in the 800 and 1,000 meter runs respectively. The 4x400 meter relay team rounded off the day with a fifth place finish.
Giesting was not pleased with his performance.“I’m not thrilled with how I ran,” Giesting said, “the
times were okay, but I made a couple of very basic mis-takes in both races I can correct.”
“With every week of practice the men are getting better. A lot of our contributors are freshmen and these are some of their first college track meets. Eventually they can be the core of this team which is exciting,” continued Giesting.
The young rosters on both the men’s and women’s
teams have proven that inexperience does not neces-sarily mean negative results. Both sides saw a multitude of freshman compete and finish in top spots in their events. Four freshmen from both squads ended the day with top ten finishes in individual events.
The Tigers now have just three weeks before their first-ever indoor conference championship meet at Crawfordsville.
“We just hope to keep getting better, the younger athletes to keep setting new (personal records),” Wong said. “We’re staying healthy and we hope everyone can stay healthy.”
Giesting also looks for his team to improve in the upcoming weeks.
“Coach is still figuring out what events everyone will compete in at the conference meet,” Giesting said. “So over the next weeks I’m sure he’ll be tweaking a few things and setting a strategy to maximize everyone’s tal-ent and abilities.”
The Tigers will host their last home meet of the indoor season Saturday, Feb. 8 at the DePauw Classic. The meet is set to start at 11 a.m.
The DePauw men’s swimming and diving team, now ranked 10th in the nation, will face off against the top two teams in Div. III this Thursday in hopes of qualifying for the national competition at Indiana Uni-versity-Purdue University Indianapolis’s natatorium.
“Everyone is really looking forward to [the meet],” sophomore Cameron Wiethoff said. “I mean, we’re a little nervous going into the NCAC, but we’re confident and had a great season last year and unde-feated in dual meets this year so we’re excited and think we’re going to do very well.”
The Tigers sit at a perfect 7-0 in dual meets on the season and coming off a dominant victory over Rose-Hulman 202-57. The Tigers have won the De-Pauw invitational as well as the Patrick Woehnker In-vitational at Wabash College, while placing second at the Washington-St. Louis Invitational.
The Tigers claimed conference championships in the last six years in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, but will face off in their first year in a new and much deeper conference. The team placed an impressive 13th overall at last year’s NCAA Cham-pionships.
In their inaugural year in the North Coast Athletic Conference, the team is looking to make a statement going up against the top two ranked swim teams in the nation — Kenyon College and Denison University.
“We definitely want to start out on the right foot
heading into the NCAC championships and really set a high marker for us going into the new conference,” senior captain John Montgomery said.
Sophomore Jack Burgeson, who qualified for na-tionals last season, sees this as a great opportunity to put DePauw swimming on the map.
“We’re kind of in the transition of becoming one of the top teams in the nation, so we’re definitely ex-cited to have the opportunity to swim against these teams at the conference meet before we swim against them at nationals,” Burgeson said. “In our first year we want everyone to know DePauw’s here and we’ll put up a fight.”
The team is looking to improve its times in hopes of making qualifying national cuts for the national championships. With various swimmers qualifying earlier in the year for nationals, the team thinks they will have to improve their times if they want to keep those national cuts. Montgomery understands how important one race can be in a competition as big as the conference championship.
“We all feed off each other,” Montgomery said. “A lot of the national level guys look at the people who might not be the fastest, but they see someone who really steps up in their swim and has waited for this one moment to go fast at conference and a lot of times those swims will motivate us for the bigger swims.”
The team travels to Canton, Ohio to compete in the NCAC Conference Championships on Thursday in hopes of extending its season into the national championships.
NCAC title in reach after 7-0 seasonMENS SWIMMING
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Mens, womens track teams place fourth at DePauw InviteBy JOSEPH [email protected]
The pole vault pit was the place to be Saturday at the In-door Track center as two separate track and field Tiger ath-letes obtained great results during the DePauw Invitational. Sophomore Kyle Mackey was the event winner on the men’s side with a jump of 4.2 meters (13’9.25”) and fresh-man Pascale Hansen set a new team record with a height of 2.95 meters (9’8”) on her way to a second place finish.
Both women’s and men’s squads finished fourth during the meet. Bethel was the overall winner on the women’s side with 140 points compared to the Tigers 79.5 points. The distance medley relay of – was the lone first place fin-ish for the women’s team.
The men saw a talented and deep Wabash team win the meet with 192 points. The men’s 55 points earned them a fourth place finish. Mackey’s win was the only top finish for the team.
“You know, you can’t greedy about winning,” Mackey said. “I always set high goals for myself and hope to obtain them. What I jumped was what I wanted and it got me the win.”
Men’s and women’s Head Coach Kori Stoffregen was pleased with the results from both teams.
“I really thought both teams made a lot of progress this
week,” said Stoffregen. “Fourth place for both squads was good. I’m looking forward to our last home indoor meet. It was great to see Pascale Hansen set the new school record in the pole vault.”
Hansen was surprised, but excited about setting the record this past Saturday. She expresses high team and individual hopes for the rest of the season. “It’s going to be a great year, people are breaking records all over the place.” said Hansen. “I’d like to beat the indoor and out-door record.”
A litany of athletes from the women’s team had top five finishes including a third place finish from freshman Hope Jordan in the mile run, a fifth place finish in the same event from senior Claire Hollis, two third place results from sophomore Katie Doran and freshman Elizabeth Dilbone in the 600 meter and 1,000 meter races respectively, a second place finish from the 4x200 meter relay team and a third and fifth place finish from junior captain Chenae White in the 60 and 200 meter dashes. In the 60, White broke the previous team record she last weekend with a time of 8.26 seconds.
Senior captain Sam Wong finished seventh in the long jump and was proud of the team’s performance.
Sophomore Ashley Guevara participates in the high jump at the DePauw Indoor Track & Field Invitational on Saturday afternoon. The women’s team placed fourth with 79.5 points. EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW
After taking some time to rest up and recover, the 2012 North Coast Ath-letic Conference Swimming & Diving Championships are here at last.
“We’ve been training really hard all season,” senior Catie Baker said. “We want to have a good showing our first year [in the NCAC] and show them what DePauw’s made of.”
With the second and third highest nationally ranked teams, with second-ranked Kenyon and third-ranked Deni-son sitting atop the conference, the Tigers have set their goal on third place.
“We’re going to be in a tight battle for third against Wittenberg and a num-ber of other schools,” assistant coach Erin Mullins said. “It’ll be a great at-mosphere. I think it’ll help them swim faster.”
The Tigers are eager to be facing tougher competitors than they have in previous years in the Southern Colle-giate Athletic Conference.
“Unless you go to nationals you aren’t usually facing that kind of talent, so we’re lucky,” junior Kelly Harms said.
Baker said that this will be a much deeper meet than those in the past and that while the SCAC had some talented swimmers, the NCAC is a much greater level of competition.
“Honestly, we are competing for third realistically,” Baker said. “It would take some phenomenal life-out swims to beat Kenyon and Denison.”
Besides the conference title, many of the athletes are competing for a chance to swim or dive at the Div. III women’s swimming and diving national championships at Indiana Univeristy-Purdue University Indianapolis’s Nata-torium.
There are three different ways to make the national competition so the Tigers will not necessarily need to win the championships overall to have some swimmers go on to nationals. In the NCAC, two levels of time and scor-ing standards are created in events to gauge athletes who do not win their
event. An A-cut time means a swimmer automatically has a spot at the nationals. A B-cut time gives an athlete a reserve-type status at the national competition. These standards are created at the beginning of the season and can be reached at any time during the season.
“If you get a B-cut time, you pretty much sit around and wait,” Mullins said.
Baker has already received B-cut times in the 100 breast and 200 breast. Mullins said that there is still a possibil-ity to achieve an A-cut time at champi-onships.
“It’s all based on the individual,” Harms said. “[The team] could win con-ference and not have anyone qualify. It’s the luck of the draw.”
Overall, the team is excited to face faster swimmers and compete in the NCAC for the first time.
“I believe everyone’s going to do re-ally well,” Harms said. “We mixed up a lot of things compared to last year. I’m looking forward to seeing how every-one swims. It’ll be rewarding.”
Swimmers look to conference championships, hope for nationals
