VOL. 160, ISSUE 30 FEBRUARY 17, 2012 Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper ONLINE NOW: VERNON JORDAN TO VISIT THIS WEEKEND Jordan, a DePauw alumnus, civil rights activist and former presidential advisor, will speak Sunday at 8 p.m. in Meharry Hall. New rules seek to preserve tradition of greek mixers Student government committee to perform ‘annual’ self-evaluation By BECCA STANEK [email protected]For the first known time in years, student government plans to adhere to their constitutional requirements by completing an internal self-evaluation to assess their performance. Student government is currently in the process of forming the Govern- ment Evaluation Committee (GEC) to perform the required annual self-audit. The group is to be comprised of five students, who will attend each student government meeting and examine and critique the efforts of each branch. “The committee will be looking at way student government operates and relationship between different branch- es,” student government president and senior Charles Pierre said. “We want them to look at how student govern- ment operates holistically along with how effective it is in implementing our agenda.” Senior parliamentarian Roy Leaf is set to chair the GEC. They are currently in the process of accepting applications from interested students, which they will review at their executive meeting on Sunday. The group will primarily consist of student government members, but one or two outside students may be se- lected to participate. “The group will likely be comprised of a variety of students that are active in student government, with people from different branches,” Leaf said. “There may be one outsider, but it is a huge learning curve to get up to speed with what the processes of student govern- ment.” Student government is still accepting applications for the GEC. Committee Henning, now a sopho- more and mem- ber in Sigma Chi fraternity, spent weeks in a cast and on crutches, but he says he still sup- ports Flower-Ins and even regrets some of the rule changes imple- mented this year. Those new rules emerged in response to a growing concern over similar incidents of tackling, hazing, disrespectful behavior and alcohol use. Last fall, senior and former Panhellenic Council Vice Presi- dent of Risk Management Erin O’Donnell established a com- mittee to address the current state of the fraternity and so- rority meet-and-greets. The group included members of the Panhellenic and Interfraternity Coun- cil executive boards, greek life coordinators and other greek students. The resulting rules went into effect this year, the first time such a comprehensive list of prescriptions on Flow- er-Ins has been used. “In the past, the quote, unquote ‘rules’ that were broken were never written down and were unclear,” O’Donnell said. “We couldn’t tell people not to do something, because we didn’t have a rule base to tell them not to do it in the first place.” Previously, Flower-Ins were treated as another registered so- rority event. Rules and restrictions existed, but O’Donnell said sorori- ties were mostly left to follow the limitations imposed by their vari- ous insurance policies. That meant no alcohol for all sororities and for some, restrictions on where guests were allowed and how long they could stay. O’Donnell said sororities still have the freedom to follow their own risk management policies, but the new guidelines provide a framework for equal enforcement. Kathryn Drew, a sophomore and Panhel’s new vice president of risk management, said the most important change in the new rules was increased accountability. Responsibility to remove any individual causing problems now rests on the sorority hosting the Flower-In as well as the visiting fra- ternity. Drew said a failure to com- ply could result in the cancellation of future Flower-Ins. SAFE OR FUN Addie McDonnell has attended as many as 16 Flower-Ins since pledging Alpha Phi sorority fresh- man year. Now a junior, McDonnell said she didn’t “really see a big differ- ence” from past Flower-Ins when her boyfriend, sophomore Bradley White, and other members of Sig- ma Chi visited Alpha Phi Wednes- day night for their first Flower-In of the year. “I feel like they’re really similar to how they’ve been in years past,” McDonnell said. Still, others feel the rules have brought misguided oversight to a longstanding tradition. In an article posted Wednesday on the HerCampus DePauw web- site, junior Natalie Swiler wrote that the university “blew it” with the new restrictions on timing. “The university thinks that this is the way to get us to not drink be- fore the event,” Swiler wrote. “In- stead of not drinking, people now just have to start the shots before 7 p.m.” The new rules require a 30-min- ute pre-Flower-In period Evaluation | cont’d. on page 2 Flower-In | cont’d. on page 3 BY MATTHEW CECIL | [email protected]PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY GREEN AND ASHLEY ISAAC PHOTO COURTESY WWW.BLACKENTERPRISE.COM
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Online nOw:VernOn JOrdan tOVisit this weekend
Jordan, a DePauw alumnus, civil rights activist and former presidential advisor, will speak
Sunday at 8 p.m. in Meharry Hall.
new rules seek to preserve tradition of greek mixers
student government committee to perform ‘annual’ self-evaluationBy BECCA [email protected]
For the first known time in years, student government plans to adhere to their constitutional requirements by completing an internal self-evaluation to assess their performance.
Student government is currently in the process of forming the Govern-ment evaluation Committee (GeC) to perform the required annual self-audit. The group is to be comprised of five students, who will attend each student government meeting and examine and critique the efforts of each branch.
“The committee will be looking at way student government operates and relationship between different branch-es,” student government president and senior Charles Pierre said. “We want them to look at how student govern-ment operates holistically along with how effective it is in implementing our agenda.”
Senior parliamentarian Roy Leaf is set to chair the GEC. They are currently in the process of accepting applications from interested students, which they will review at their executive meeting on Sunday. The group will primarily consist of student government members, but one or two outside students may be se-lected to participate.
“The group will likely be comprised of a variety of students that are active in student government, with people from different branches,” leaf said. “There may be one outsider, but it is a huge learning curve to get up to speed with what the processes of student govern-ment.”
student government is still accepting applications for the GeC. Committee
Henning , now a sopho-more and mem-
ber in sigma Chi fraternity, spent
weeks in a cast and on crutches, but he says he still sup-
ports Flower-Ins and even regrets some of the rule changes imple-mented this year.
Those new rules emerged in response to a growing concern over similar incidents of tackling, hazing, disrespectful behavior and alcohol use.
last fall, senior and former Panhellenic Council vice Presi-dent of Risk Management Erin o’Donnell established a com-mittee to address the current state of the fraternity and so-rority meet-and-greets.
The group included members of the Panhellenic and Interfraternity Coun-cil executive boards, greek life coordinators and other greek students.
The resulting rules went into effect this year, the first time such a comprehensive list of prescriptions on Flow-er-ins has been used.
“in the past, the quote, unquote ‘rules’ that were
broken were never written down and were unclear,” O’Donnell said. “We couldn’t tell people not to do something, because we didn’t have a rule base to tell them not to do it in the first place.”
Previously, Flower-Ins were treated as another registered so-rority event. Rules and restrictions existed, but o’Donnell said sorori-ties were mostly left to follow the limitations imposed by their vari-ous insurance policies.
That meant no alcohol for all sororities and for some, restrictions on where guests were allowed and how long they could stay.
o’Donnell said sororities still have the freedom to follow their own risk management policies, but the new guidelines provide a framework for equal enforcement.
Kathryn Drew, a sophomore and Panhel’s new vice president of risk management, said the most important change in the new rules was increased accountability.
Responsibility to remove any individual causing problems now rests on the sorority hosting the Flower-In as well as the visiting fra-ternity. Drew said a failure to com-ply could result in the cancellation of future Flower-Ins.
saFe Or FUnAddie McDonnell has attended
as many as 16 Flower-Ins since pledging Alpha Phi sorority fresh-man year.
Now a junior, McDonnell said she didn’t “really see a big differ-ence” from past Flower-Ins when her boyfriend, sophomore Bradley White, and other members of sig-ma Chi visited alpha Phi Wednes-day night for their first Flower-In of the year.
“I feel like they’re really similar to how they’ve been in years past,” McDonnell said.
still, others feel the rules have brought misguided oversight to a longstanding tradition.
In an article posted Wednesday on the HerCampus DePauw web-site, junior Natalie Swiler wrote that the university “blew it” with the new restrictions on timing.
“The university thinks that this is the way to get us to not drink be-fore the event,” Swiler wrote. “In-stead of not drinking, people now just have to start the shots before 7 p.m.”
The new rules require a 30-min-ute pre-Flower-In period
Evaluation | cont’d. on page 2Flower-In | cont’d. on page 3
members are to be selected and finalized sometime next week.
“it is not going to be executive members comprising the committee,” Pierre said. “it will likely be representatives or assembly members who can serve as an outside eye looking in.”
Despite the fact that this annual self-evaluation is a constitutional requirement, Pierre is unaware of whether it happened last year or how long it has been since it last occurred.
“It might have happened last year, but i’m assuming that since i didn’t hear about it, it didn’t happen,” Pierre said. “I think the issue is that student government didn’t do a good enough job of broadcasting the re-sults.”
student government hopes that the self-evaluation will help them to continue to im-prove and to make students better informed of what they are and what their objectives are.
“They haven’t necessarily followed through with it in years past,” Pierre said. “This year we have two objectives for the committee. This year we’re planning to, one, stick to the constitution and two, let students, administrators and the community know what findings of this committee were.”
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iNDiaNaPolis, ind. — indiana state senators officially celebrated the 175th birthday of DePauw University on Thursday despite the “Nay” votes of several senators who graduated from Wabash College.
Sen. Richard Bray, who represents the state senate district in which DePauw is located, and Sen. Connie Lawson sponsored the resolution. They were joined at the lectern by President Bri-an Casey and members of the university board of trustees.
“DePauw University is without a doubt, the heartbeat of our community,” Sen. Lawson said. “While I am in awe at how DePauw has had in-ternational influence with its scholars and pro-grams, I am also very grateful for what this school has meant to our little corner of the world.”
Sen. Jim Meritt, who’s son Will is a freshman at DePauw, stood up to congratulate the univer-sity, saying, “We have a lot to be proud of.”
Sen. Jean Breaux and Sen. Bray also recog-
nized the efforts of the DePauw Environmental Policy Project, a student-run environmental poli-cy research group based at DePauw.
DePauw students and university professor Kelsey Kauffman, who advises the group, travel to Indianapolis several times a week each spring semester to testify before legislative committees on energy and environmental affairs.
Sen. Breaux specifically mentioned the testi-mony by members of the group at Senate Health and Provider services Committee hearing on Wednesday.
State representative Jim Baird, whose district includes DePauw, will sponsor the resolution in the House of representatives.
The resolution also recognized the school of Music, which was established in 1884 and is one of the oldest in the nation.
The Indiana Methodist Episcopal Conference established DePauw University as Indiana Asbury University in 1837.
Celebrations for DePauw’s 175th anniversary will continue through 2012.
state legislature honors dePauw’s 175th
Senator Connie lawson (standing at lectern) introduced a resolution in the indiana State Senate honoring DePauw’s 175th anniversary on Thursday afternoon. She was joined by President Brian Casey (to the immediate right) and members of the university board of trustees.SCrEENSHoT CAPTurED FroM iN.Gov/lEGiSlATivE
The university board of trust-ees has agreed to a $2,250 tuition hike and also calls for draft plans on five campus projects to be com-pleted in the coming year.
This is the second announce-ment of approved resolutions from the trustees meeting in Na-ples, Fla. last weekend.
“It was perhaps the most im-portant board of trustees meet-ing that I’ve been to since my first year,” President Brian Casey said.
At the winter meeting — the first of the calendar year — the trustees voted to raise tuition, room and board by almost five percent for the 2012-2013 aca-demic year.
Casey said that increase will feed two important aspects of the budget: Faculty and staff, and fi-nancial aid.
Casey stated that staff and fac-ulty have essentially seen no raises since he arrived at DePauw. Casey even froze faculty salaries for 18 months.
“[Salary increases] will feed the pain of faculty that is not seen,” Casey said.
The university may soon see final plans for five campus master plan projects as well.
In an email to faculty and staff, Casey said the trustees green-lighted “detailed planning” of five separate projects: Athletic facilities and Lilly Center, the Center for student engagement in the union Building, Roy O. West library, the
dining hall and student housing.Dick Vance, associate vice pres-
ident for facilities, will head up the projects, which will ultimately be financed through fundraising.
“Every one of those projects is about enlivening the core and con-necting students with each other and connecting students with the faculty,” Casey said. “Every one of them is about the energy that con-nects all of us.”
for more information on the trustees’ winter meeting, see the front-page article from last Tues-day’s issue and look for an in-depth piece on the campus plan projects in next Tuesday’s issue.
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starting at 7:30 p.m. wherein all so-rority members attending the event must be in the chapter house. Two sober rep-resentatives from the visiting fraternity then meet with the sorority’s risk manag-ers at 7:40 p.m. The Flower-In begins at 8 p.m. and must be completed by 9 p.m.
Sorority women must also remain in the chapter house for at least 30 minutes after the end of the Flower-In.
“The new rules haven’t completely tainted the tradition,” Swiler wrote. “As if we’re going to let our party school name go to waste just because we have to start a little earlier.”
Yet even though some say the new Flower-In rules are less fun, Tom Hen-ning said the change is for the better.
“This is probably how it should be run,” he said. “you can have fun after-wards.”
Incidents like Henning’s have yet to occur under the new rules, although greek life coordinator PJ Mitchell said there have only been about four Flower-Ins so far this year.
“We’re hoping that everyone contin-ues to respect the guidelines,” he said. “Hopefully, it’ll take off in a positive di-rection.”
Still, Henning’s ankle wasn’t the only thing broken last year.
In one incident, fraternity men left alcohol containers on a sorority’s lawn af-ter a Flower-In, a violation of all chapters’ insurance policies.
The new rules seek to address these and other issues that have arisen over the last several years.
in a section labeled “strict and mandatory,” new regulations disallow tackling, “anything that would make a member uncomfortable,” and “forceful behavior or pressure.”
The list also prohibits “all unwelcome items,” specifically mentioning paddles, blow horns, flasks and alcohol.
“I think that (reports of hazing with paddles at Flower-Ins) sparked some dis-cussion of what have these become and
has this become a problem, and what can we do to make sure that we’re getting back to the initial roots of a Flower-In,” Mitchell said.
Mitchell and Erin O’Donnell both said those roots are planted in the oppor-tunity for new members to get to know each other in a social setting.
And while Kathryn Drew said some men have been “iffy” about the ban on paddles, sorority women especially ap-preciate that particular change.
“It’s really rude,” Drew said. “If your boyfriend is getting paddled because he has a girlfriend, it’s really disrespectful.”
In other cases, Drew said fraternities have had fun with the new restrictions.
Some men have taken to chanting sayings like, “Take her a on a date,” and “Meet her parents,” she said.
“I think students really like them (Flower-Ins),” she said. “It’s tradition and now that they’re safer, it’s just more play-ful, more thrilling.”
While not all students see the chang-es as an improvement, some like McDon-nell maintain that Flower-Ins are just as fun as they always were.
Without those new rules, however, O’Donnell said the future of Flower-Ins may have been short lived.
traditiOn in trOUbleAfter last year’s risk management
concerns, erin o’Donnell said the uni-versity began considering a ban on the fraternity-sorority mixers.
PJ Mitchell confirmed a ban had been considered but said he wouldn’t know what such a restriction would look like.
“it has been discussed as an op-tion and always has the potential to be revisited if it needs to be,” Mitchell said in an email to The DePauw. “That said, it is good to see our students stepping up and holding each other to a set of expec-tations. Ultimately, this is the best way to create some positive culture change at these events.”
o’Donnell said that past problems with Flower-Ins have largely stemmed from a small group of individuals.
“on a general basis, our students are
very responsible,” O’Donnell said. “We have a few bad decisions that happen and those wreak havoc on the whole system.”
Kathryn Drew says random oversight from Panhel executive board members will ensure fraternity men and women to follow the rules during every Flower-In.
“We’re not there to be mean,” Drew said. “We’re just making sure that there’s no hazing, no one out of control because of drinking and no one’s being pressured to do something they don’t want to do.”
And O’Donnell agrees with Drew.“I’m not a fun sucker,” O’Donnell
said. “I don’t want anyone to be in dan-ger and I still want everyone to have fun. These [rules] are hopefully going to make that happen at once.”
While o’Donnell spearheaded the rules revision, she said others played a crucial role as well.
She credited the Interfraternity Council executive board members for stepping in to help Panhel in their dis-cussions with representatives from the university, sparking notice with Mitchell.
“The students have worked hard on taking ownership of this,” Mitchell said. “From our side, that’s pretty cool to see.”
Ultimately, O’Donnell, Drew and Mitchell would like to see a return to more traditional Flower-Ins, when alco-hol and other concerns weren’t an issue.
FrOM kisses tO FlOwersCommunications professor Jeff Mc-
Call ’76 said Flower-Ins, or Kiss-Ins as they used to be known, have kept at least one constant over the years: Kissing.
According to McCall, a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity, the active members of both houses would line up on the sidewalk outside a soror-ity house and create a tunnel with their raised paddles. New members from each chapter would walk through the tunnel and kiss on the sorority house steps.
“They would have a short kiss,” he said. “These weren’t like deep romantic embraces or anything. They were just quick little pecks.”
Looking back, McCall said the events probably sound a little more “primitive”
than they actually were. “I don’t think it was as oppressive as
it maybe comes off sounding 30 years later,” he said. “i’m sure some people felt under the gun to participate at times, but people could opt out.”
Kissing remains an optional tradition today, and Drew said the new rules ask that students not be pressured to do anything.
Either way, McCall said the purpose of Kiss-Ins wasn’t the quick peck, but the opportunity to meet with new members of other greek houses.
At the time, there were 13 Interfrater-nity Council fraternities and 10 Panhel-lenic Council sororities.
Those numbers have since shrunk, but the number of Flower-Ins each fra-ternity and sorority conducts has more than doubled.
McCall said Kiss-Ins would only take place on weeknights and a fraternity usu-ally participated in no more than two or three of the mixers.
They were also done by the middle of September, with the whole Kiss-In season lasting a week or two. When Mc-Call attended DePauw, students went through formal greek recruitment before fall semester classes even started.
Fraternities now visit most of the six Panhel sororities on campus for Flower-ins over the course of spring semester.
The Flower-In season often lasts months and some events take place on weekend nights.
Like in the ‘70s, students today often remain at the sorority house after a Flow-er-In to mingle with each other.
McCall said that some men would even ask the sorority women if they wanted to come over to their house for a party.
But, according to McCall, at least one difference existed between now and then.
“I don’t remember anybody drinking at the Lambda Chi house before we went to these Kiss-ins,” he said.
Mitchell, who graduated in 2006 and was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, said alcohol wasn’t as much of focus in
Flower-Ins when he was a student, too.“I’m sure there were [issues with
alcohol],” Mitchell said. “[But] it wasn’t always an underlying culture of alcohol as a defining piece of the Flower-In.”
McCall said that he would advise the greek system to take out all the drink-ing from Flower-Ins and not forsake the meet-and-greet aspect.
Many of the changes, McCall added, stem from a change in culture.
He said the use of lewd language, for example, wasn’t as socially acceptable in public and particularly not in front of so-rority women you were trying to impress.
“The greek system has changed in some ways, and I think in some ways maybe not for the better,” McCall said. “But I think at its best, the greek system still does provide for what it was set out to do in the first place.”
FUtUre OF FlOwer-insTom Henning misses some of the
excitement from past Flower-Ins, but he says the trade-off is better for fraternities and sororities in the long run.
Erin O’Donnell and Kathryn Drew agree, saying the mixers’ future is more secure than it was a few months ago.
Still, McCall said university faculty and staff members have mixed feelings about the greek system.
Most professors believe the greek system shouldn’t exist at DePauw, Mc-Call said, adding that they also probably don’t know the all-greek GPA is higher than the all-student GPa.
McCall said greek students need to return to the original focus of fraternities and sororities: To provide opportunities for people to get to know each other and develop close friendships.
And some believe that purpose may reemerge from rules revisions like those made with Flower-Ins.
“I think if we can work and get back to the value of new member classes get-ting to know each other out of these things — with maybe taking some of the risk out of it — then I think it’s definitely a positive direction,” Mitchell said.
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The Putnam County Museum’s third annual winter fundraiser and contribution to DePauw’s 175th anniversary celebrations, “Evening at the Elms,” will be hosted by President Brian Casey on Saturday.
DePauw students are heavily involved in put-ting on the event, with members of Phi Delta Theta fraternity working as valets and greeting guests at the door. The event will also feature
DePauw’s School of Music with music perfor-mances by a string quartet, chamber choir and jazz trio. A silent auction of DePauw-related items and memorabilia will also take place at the fundraiser.
The event is sponsored by a multitude of groups from Greencastle and Putnam County. Sponsors include Asbury Towers, the Banner Graphic, Bittles and Hurt and Hopkins-Rector funeral Homes, Collins evans real estate, Cun-ningham Insurance, DePauw, DePauw’s art department, First Financial Bank, Greencastle Hometown Dental and HBG Insurance and
bonds.The fundraiser will coincide with this week’s
opening of the Putnam County Museum exhibi-tion celebrating DePauw’s 175th anniversary. The exhibit was developed by six DePauw stu-dents and is a timeline resembling how DePauw has changed over its time.
Executive Director of the Putnam County Museum Tanis Monday is enthusiastic about the museum’s work with DePauw and the upcoming event.
“It will be a great evening to visit friends and celebrate DePauw’s history,” she said.
DePauw, Putnam County Museum team up for anniversary fundraiser
Leymah Gbowee walked to the podium with strong steps, wearing a colorful, floral dress suit. Her patient presence radiated the confidence of a powerful leader and mother.
Gbowee, Nobel Peace Prize winner and re-nowned women’s activist, spoke on Wednesday evening to a crowd of more than 450 people at Meharry Hall in a Timothy and Sharon Ubben lecture.
Before the lecture, President Brian Casey de-scribed this visit as a “very, very special night for this institution.”
Gbowee spoke on her experiences promot-ing peace and women’s rights in her home country of Liberia. Gbowee has emerged as an international leader at the forefront of women seeking political power and won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for her work as an activist.
In her motivational and reflective talk, Gbow-ee offered advice to college students on how to dedicate themselves to a life promoting peace. She emphasized the duality of the lifestyle, can-didly offering the realities of challenging, but rewarding, work.
“Dedicating your life to peace is one of the most beautiful things, but it’s one of the most difficult things,” Gbowee said.
Similarly to other activists such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi, Gbowee began her journey towards becoming an activist out of anger. Quickly learning that peace cannot be created through anger, she began to under-stand the true purpose of her mission.
“If you want to get money go into banking. All you get is awards here,” Gbowee said. “I have not raised a million dollars, but if you look at all the people i’ve helped, it totals over ten million dollars. That’s satisfaction.”
Gbowee also emphasized compassion, gen-erosity, a sense of a higher power and patience as necessities for a life dedicated to peace.
“You have to reach a place where sometimes you say to yourself, ‘Slow down,’” Gbowee said. “Because you’re biting your nails as you’re fol-lowing some of the conflicts you worked on and you’re being called constantly by people in those conflict situations but you never, ever stop. It’s part of you. You can’t rest until you see good come out of something.”
Students and faculty were inspired by what Gbowee had to share.
“It’s beyond words,” freshman Clayton Knap-penberger said. “She managed to take some-thing so meaningful and emotionally touching and bring humor to it. Her humility was amazing, and it was an honor to hear her speak.”
freshman Korrine spears agreed.“I was amazed by Leymah Gbowee,” Spears
said. “She was very inspiring, and has more wis-dom than I could ever hope to have. The world needs more people like her, people who will stand up and make a change.”
2011 Nobel Peace Prize recipient leymah Gbowee speaks to over 450 audience members including students, faculty and staff on wednesday evening in Meharry Hall as part of the The Timothy and Sharon ubben lecture Series. HuoNG NGuyEN / THE DEPAuw
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Think of a typical fairytale. Pos-sibly one that you grew up with or something you read in books during grade school.
I’m sure plenty come to mind: A mystical, foreign land far from home, intricate architecture somehow made out of fruit, a new, intriguing craze that takes over the folk of the land and plenty of interesting characters, to say the least.
Sure, that was then. The youth induced dreams and fantasies that most people grew out of long before Disney ever became not so appealing anymore.
But this is now. It turns out that there is a fairytale-like land that draws the attention of all, especially the enthralling inhabitants of this very campus. It’s called Tomorrowland, and it is an electronic music festival in europe.
a simple recap video of the festi-val has drawn over 20 million views on youTube and can be seen blaring in a south quad dorm, being secretly watched on a laptop at work and even viewed at the third round of rush on a projector to pass time.
Tomorrowland basically has all of the criteria to be considered as a fairytale. To begin with, it is held in what midwesterners may consider a mystical, otherworldly land: Belgium. It features the new sensation of elec-
tronic music, that slowly but surely has taken young adults of America by storm after cultivating Europe in recent years.
The decorations and scenery jam-packed in the middle of rural Boom, Belgium look like the extracts of Won-derland and Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory: Full of giant suns with faces, vibrant colors and rainbows, and buildings shaped like pink and purple mushrooms. Neon fireworks fill the night as intricate, animal costumes take up the day. For festival lovers, Tomorrowland can be considered lollapalooza’s distant, foreign cousin on steroids.
indeed, the sights are to be seen and truly make the festival what it is. Without the stellar lineup that the fes-tival brings in every year however, it would simply seem like another pre-teen attraction at Disneyworld.
The festival has been up and run-ning for seven years and continues to draw together the biggest names in dubstep and electronic music. Last year’s lineup included Swedish House Mafia, Avicii, Afrojack, Chuckie and David Guetta. The 2012 lineup already features a return from Guetta and Avicii, Calvin Harris and Skrillex, with more to be named.
While the festival continues to gain popularity worldwide, it would not be surprising if even more nota-ble names decide to join for the three days of fun. Deadmau5, who was fea-tured at Lollapalooza last year, will be touring in europe through June and can reasonably be seen stopping by for the late July event.
Justice, Daft Punk and SebAstian,
are all rumored to be featured in ma-jor festivals this summer also. With the pull that Tomorrowland is bring-ing and the warm reception world-wide, no electro act can be counted out.
Making the experience even more unique, camping is offered through-out all three days. The designated sleeping sight is called Dreamville, simply enhancing the fairytale notion even more. Tents, rentable rooms and even a “DreamVille Mansion” are offered to improve the stay. This re-sembles a cool feel that fans at bonna-roo receive every year, while still of-fering its own distinct style.
Tomorrowland truly seems like the opportunity of a lifetime to be part of an experience unlike any oth-er. Being that many festivals stick to normal themes in regular locations, this is quite different from what most festivals bring to the table.
However, Belgium is a tad farther than most of us would prefer, and would cost a lot to due travel fees. It runs from July 27 to July 29, while al-lowing fans to stay a day prior to the beginning of the festival and a day af-ter its conclusion as well.
If one is ever looking for a semi-productive way to take a break from the books and let their imagination and electronic music take over, a view of the festival video online surely wouldn’t hurt.
— Easterhouse is a freshman from Evergreen Park, ill., majoring in communications. [email protected]
tomorrowland music festival lineup is like a fan’s fairytale
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life creates colorful canvas of positive, negative events
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We all make mistakes, some of us more than others. And I don’t know about you, but I tend to be on the side that makes quite a lot. However, I know that no matter what, I can always learn from anything and everything I do. Some mistakes create situations for the better, while others complicate life.
scott adams, the creator of the com-ic strip “Dilbert,” once said, “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” You’re allowed to keep some mistakes. Howev-er, it’s deciding which mistakes are the right ones to keep that proves difficult.
There are some that seem complete-ly disastrous in the beginning, but show themselves to be completely beneficial with time. Running from and ignoring our mistakes is not the way to go about learning from them. I know this is all easier said than done — obviously — but take some time this week to look back on a mistake that proved itself advanta-geous after some time passed.
You might find that many of your past mistakes have established them-selves as positive influences in your life now. While that should compel you to not simply create more mistakes in the future, it doesn’t mean that it is a bad or dangerous thing. instead of purposeful-ly living recklessly, keep hope from now on that the mistakes that seem devastat-ing today may show up as learning ex-periences and quite possibly beneficial circumstances for the future.
By separating the bad mistakes from the good ones in your past, you can better learn from both categories. Like Adams so eloquently put it, knowing that you’re allowed to make mistakes permits you to be open to trying new
things, to create new opportunities and to open your creative mind to new ex-periences.
In choosing positive mistakes that better yourself, you are not only being creative with your thoughts and actions, but you are furthering the artwork that makes up your life. Like an artist who uses paint as his medium and a canvas as his material, the mistakes you make form your medium that covers and de-fines your material we call life. The word ‘mistake’ does not have to always carry a negative connotation. Rather, think of this word as the material that strings together both the positive and negative events of your life. Make life your mas-terpiece and don’t hide from any of your mistakes.
— Chamberlain is a junior from Jasper, ind., majoring in English literature and art history. [email protected]
“Keep hope from now on that the mistakes that seem devastating today may show up as learning experiences and quite possibly
beneficial circumstances for the future.”
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Exams and final papers weren’t the only things that some Tigers turned in last semester. students enrolled in studio art courses had the opportunity to submit up to four pieces for potential display in the Juried Student Art Exhibition, which opened to the public on Feb. 9 in a Peeler Art Center gallery.
“[The pieces] had to be ready to be hung, and used in a gallery setting,” said junior Brittany Sievers, whose piece “Red Cliff” was one of the submissions selected to be in the exhibition.
Sievers, a studio art major, needed to stretch and frame her painting before she could enter it. she en-joyed the final result, though, since it looked more professional.
“It’s interesting to see how it transforms,” Sievers said. “It’s completely different,”
Sievers painted “Red Cliff” while in Intro to Paint-ing, the first painting class that she took at DePauw. “Red Cliff” consists of a granite background, one
bright red corner, a green stripe and several other col-orful geometric shapes. she considers the red to be the central focus of the painting, but the green keeps the corner from overpowering the whole piece.
“it’s about tension and contrast,” she said.“Red Cliff” is quite different from other artwork
Sievers has completed, especially considering her fo-cus is more on sculptures and ceramics. The painting itself was also larger in size than what she was used to — she used a five-by-five canvas to create the piece.
Nevertheless, she enjoyed the project. Siev-ers said she was happy to have the chance to work through a new medium, form a straightforward and linear piece and work on making the triangular and geometric shapes “pop,” even in 2-D.
“I think it reflects well with what I’ve done with three dimensions,” sievers said.
Along with enjoying the processes of painting and preparing her work for submission, Sievers is excited to have her work displayed in a show for the first time, especially since this is the first piece of artwork she has ever submitted for a gallery.
Since Sievers won first place in two dimensions, she also got the chance to submit “red Cliff” to a com-petition in Indianapolis that only accepts two pieces from each college taking part in the Juried Student art exhibition.
“It’s a really cool experience,” Sievers said.Junior Elizabeth Young, who also had a piece se-
lected for the exhibition, was enthusiastic about her work appearing on display as well.
young’s studio classes encouraged the students to submit their work to the shows. Young enjoyed the freedom of assignments she had in studio classes and entered two pieces for this particular exhibition.
“I was really excited to find out [one of my pieces] had been accepted,” said Young, an art history and studio art double major. “A few people have come up and complimented me, and i hadn’t seen it in the show yet, so that was exciting.”
Young’s piece, entitled “Michael,” is an oil on can-vas portrait of her friend, Michael. In comparison to her other artwork, this portrait is more formal than what she usually does. Her artwork is typically more
abstract, but in this case, she was simply trying to de-pict what she saw in front of her.
“I was trying to capture the essence of his person-ality,” Young said.
A drawing of Young’s appeared in the Juried Stu-dent Art Exhibition at DePauw last year, but her work has not been displayed in any other galleries.
Young doesn’t have any other specific galleries in mind that she would like to submit her artwork to, but she is certain that she will continue to enter her pieces for additional galleries to show.
“for me, it’s relaxing and expressive,” young said of art in general.
According to Peeler Art Center’s web page, Tyler lotz, an associate professor of ceramics at illinois State University, chose the pieces for the exhibition this year.
The Juried Student Art Exhibition will display artwork created by DePauw students in Peeler until March 17. All galleries at Peeler are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday through Friday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
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opposite: Sophomore Tyler Davies’s piece, “untitled,” is made with metal and won second place in the 3-D category. Top Left: Junior Sarah Granger (left) and sophomore laura Kooiman take in junior Adalky Capellan’s work, “organs for Sale.” The piece is ceramic. Bottom Left: A student looks at “Guts” (top) and “Glory,” two pieces created by senior Sara Sheehan. Top right: Senior Alexa Kovachevich (right) discusses her painting with fellow senior Adele Kane. Bottom right: Many students attend the Juried Student Art Exhibition last week to look at art created by fellow students. PHoToS EMily GrEEN / THE DEPAuw
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Flower-in rules reduce negative consequences
The freshman, who has recently pledged a fraternity, stands with heavy feet and foggy mind, holding a single flower. He stumbles forward, awkwardly drops to his knees and shoves out his hand. The girl takes the flower, then realizes there is chant-ing in the background.
“Make out...make out...make out...”So he goes for it, and the sorority girl hurries away red faced.Welcome to the ghost of Flower-Ins past. Mixed emotions of excitement and social pressure have always plagued this long-
time tradition at DePauw. But in the past an excessive consumption of alcohol and harassment of men and women alike have caused some tension and taken away from the real goal of a Flower-In: presenting pledge classes and getting to know the greek community.
But these new changes to the Flower-In’s are to be commended. Despite some student grumblings, the changes are slight and affect the actual event very little. The serenades, the presentation and the occasional kiss are still there.
Girlfriends still receive bouquets from their respective boyfriends and the after-party will most likely occur for those who wish to partake.
So what exactly is the problem with these new rules? Greek women should be pleased they no longer have to witness fraternity men being beaten with paddles. Or be dropped while being dipped. Or be embarrassed when they can’t complete a potentially harmful tackle.
But the worst outcomes are born from hazing. Fraternity pledges have arrived dangerously drunk because they feel they have to be. Boyfriends are unable to stand from alcohol overconsumption anticipating harsh paddling. Girls pre-game the event because they are nervous for the derogatory chanting and sexual pressure.
As they were in the past, Flower-Ins should be focused on getting to know new members of the greek community without negative pressures but most importantly without negative repercussions.
It is heartening to see the Panhellenic and Interfraternity councils take it upon themselves to recognize a problem and create a solution before the university takes away the privilege of holding these events.
In the end, the key word is ‘consequences.’ Bad behavior can lead to property damage, personal harm or negative perceptions.
It is our responsibility as members of the student body (and the greek commu-nity) to uphold standards we want to represent.
And for those who want to drink — you only have to wait until 9:30 p.m.
Teach for America is kind of like communism: It’s terrific in theory but problematic in practice.
The government-funded pro-gram employs elite college graduates to work in low-income community schools that are experiencing teacher shortages. fresh graduates have a character-building opportunity and students all over the country are of-fered an education.
Unfortunately, the idealism of the program crumbles under the iron fist of reality.
Graduates from all academic ma-jors are invited to apply to TFA. The grand idea is that these young adults will develop an understanding of America’s social injustices and apply their newly acquired knowledge to their intended career path.
When the teacher’s 2-year contract expires, he or she will be free to pur-sue a career with new street smarts. Ultimately, these street smarts should contribute to making America — in terms of law, economics, medicine, etc. — a nation of justice and equality If only the vision weren’t so idealistic.
When the program asks for appli-cants of all majors, education majors do not win out every time. Some of these future educators are learning about teaching for the first time in their lives.
In order to prepare the new em-ployees, TFA provides a 5-week sum-mer “crash course” on teaching.
I would argue that it takes much longer than five weeks to become well versed in the practice of education.
Kids can spot the inexperience on a first year teacher’s sleeve and can jump on this opportunity to mis-behave. Teachers are what control a school, and their level of knowledge, preparation and commitment can make or break an education initiative.
Not only are some teachers lack training, but some also lack the natural passion and drive required for a suc-cessful education. TFA is notoriously known as a “the back-up plan” or “re-sume builder” for college graduates.
It is a highly selective program (the acceptance rate has been compared to those of Ivy League grad schools) that claims to take the most elite leaders, but who says that leadership yields good teaching? Certainly it’s a piece of the puzzle, but effective teachers pos-sess much more.
Middle-class and affluent schools demand teachers who are sufficiently trained and display a sincere level of
interest in teaching — why should chil-dren living in poverty receive any less? This program aims to fix educational injustices when, in reality, it is only perpetuating them.
i’ve heard horror stories from former TFA employees. While I sym-pathize for the teachers who’ve had shoes thrown at their heads and death threats shot at them by nine year olds, I send my condolences to the students in these inner-city schools.
The children are part of an experi-ment, and when you treat students like guinea pigs, they’re going to act like animals.
i believe that good Tfa teachers exist. Unfortunately, 85 percent of the employees drop out of the program by their fourth year. Consequently, they abandon the children, the idea and the future.
applicants should reconsider whether or not they possess the quali-ties necessary for carrying out a suc-cessful program.
Teach for america positions should not be occupied by graduates merely looking for a cultural experi-ence, but rather by those who are in-fluential, dedicated and fervent.
— Strader is a sophomore from Danville, ill., majoring in art [email protected]
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Every once in a while a campus community decides there are just certain products they’d rather have over others.
DePauw recently switched from Coke to Pepsi in order to save a million-dollar pretty penny, but the motivations aren’t always financial. Indeed, DePauw has also started sourcing more local meats and pro-duce as well as selling cage-free eggs instead of eggs from chickens raised in battery cages.
These decisions are the result of social demands of the student body rather than financial demands of the university’s balance sheets and they serve to make a strong statement re-garding the campus’s culture.
I think that means we need to fig-ure out what to do about our hum-mus.
Sodexo currently provides two brands of hummus on DePauw’s campus. You can get individual snack packs of Sabra hummus with pretzel chips or more dedicated chickpea lovers can get larger tubs in the Den
if they’re willing to supply their own chips.
I would say that the unneces-sary packaging of Sabra’s individual snack solution is reason enough to drop it, but I’ve recently learned that students at Princeton University and DePaul University felt the inclusion
of the snack on cafeteria shelves gave cause for not only environmental concerns but also human rights con-cerns.
one of sabra’s parent companies of partial ownership, The Strauss Group, is an Israeli company which operates in 20 countries around the world and prides itself on its ability to tailor its product offerings to local tastes. Like many large corporations, The strauss Group dedicates a small portion of their profits and products to charitable efforts, but how does that translate into a human rights
controversy?The human rights concerns mix
with hummus because one such charitable effort of the Group is their support of the Golani and Givati bri-gades, two Israeli brigades charged with human rights violations in Pales-tine by such groups as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.
The Golani and Givati brigades have been charged and here i can only attest to the charges themselves and not their validity, with using chil-dren as human shields and authoriz-ing the use of white phosphorus as a chemical weapon on Palestinian citizens.
Princeton’s Committee on Pal-estine and DePaul’s students for Justice in Palestine saw the relation-ship between the Strauss Group and as a reason to boycott the product and asked their university’s to do the same.
However, Andrew Silow-Carroll of New Jersey Jewish News points out in his article “Boycotts, decep-tion, sanctions” that the relationship between the company and the bri-gades is no stronger than Kraft’s rela-tionship to american soldiers in iraq and sees equating the two as an un-fair representation of a the relation-ship and The strauss Group itself.
Whether or not you see the
provision of material support as an endorsement for alleged war crimes or the boycotting of Sabra as an ex-pression of advocating for a one-state Palestinian solution (a claim Silow-Caroll later makes, though it is one I personally view as a bit more tenu-ous), this might be a conversation worth having on our campus and at our dinner tables.
I’m not the type to call for bans of any product, but if the claims levied against the brigades by students at DePaul are true, then I would certain-ly be willing to personally switch my hummus brands, even if The strauss Goup doesn’t support the brigades as “strongly” as these students imply.
as more and more corporations become the political positions they support, the charitable efforts they support and the labor relations they represent, our role as consumers be-comes drastically different.
It requires not just an assessment of price and quality, but personal mo-res and integrity as well. We vote at the polls with relative frequency, but we vote with our dollars constantly.
— Cheeseman is a senior political science and biology double major from west lafayette, [email protected]
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PhoToPInIonWhich of student government’s newly-
approved clubs would you like to join?
MIChELInE FIgEL, sophomore
“Trap and Skeet, because i like shooting things and i think it is a valuable skill to have in life.”
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orLanDo raMIrEz, junior
“Bon Appetit, because that sounds delicious. i might as well learn how to cook, i’m 28.”
KELLy BLaIr, sophomore
“volleyball Club. i played volleyball in high school and i’d like to play again. it sounds fun.”
KEVIn CourTaDE, freshman
“The Gaming Club. i enjoy having fun with people and learning to play and the strategies they involve.”
I was intrigued by Joe Fanelli’s editorial piece in last week’s The DePauw. Mr. Fanelli cited the content of a recent golf team meeting to illustrate his perspective that there is conflict between being a college student and a college student athlete.
i believe the idea of balance applies to almost all college students and especially those who participate in co-curricular and extra-curricular activities. it’s not something that is exclusive to student athletes.
As an athletics department, we were disap-pointed that our perspective was not repre-sented in the article. Mr. Fanelli contacted me via email two days after his story was published, asking for a response, along with several specific questions. I have sent him a written response and offered to speak with him as well. The fol-
lowing is information we’d like to share with our campus community:
First, we care deeply about the health and well-being of our student athletes and as such, we have team rules in place to help support good decision making.
our coaches use our Code of Conduct (http://www.depauw.edu/athletics/inside-athletics/code-of-conduct/) as the basis for individual team rules to create an atmosphere that promotes safety and success.
second, participation in intercollegiate ath-letics at DePauw is a privilege. My assumption is that other co-curricular and extra-curricular activities at DePauw have a similar perspective. To be the best means that students are held to a standard that promotes personal and group success.
Third, I am unaware of any student athletes being forced to quit the men’s golf team due to
drug and alcohol problems. In talking with Coach Lazar, any student athlete no longer on the team made that decision for himself or herself.
When Mr. Fanelli interviewed me two weeks ago for another article, i stated that no one comes to DePauw to be mediocre. The prevail-ing thought is to be exceptional.
I don’t believe that you can’t be a student athlete/member of a performance ensemble/res-ident assistant/(insert any campus co-curricular or extra-curricular group member) and a college student since they are one in the same. Life is about making decisions between competing in-terests and college is simply the start of figuring out what matters most.
— stevie baker-watson, incoming director of athletics and recreational sports
sabra hummus comes with human rights concerns
“we vote at the polls with relative frequency, but
Spring starts early for the men’s and women’s tennis teams as they begin match play for the 2012 spring season. After a long break from the fall season and a few weeks of practice, both teams are eager to begin.
The women kick-off the season at 4:30 p.m. today vs. University of Chicago at the Indoor Tennis and Track Cen-ter. The men play Saturday morning against Taylor Uni-versity and follow that with a match against Case Western University that evening.
The Tigers are still playing in-house matches to deter-mine the assigned spots for each athlete. The men’s team, which features a large junior class spotted with sopho-mores and seniors, has less to learn about itself as it has established a solid rotation in the past.
The women’s team is much younger with a litany of freshman and sophomores. These players will be vying for spots over the next months to set a solid roster. although nothing guaranteed at this point during the season, seniors Kelly Gebert and Katie Regan are playing some of their best tennis of late to make sure they lead the team both as ath-letes and individuals.
“I think the experience we’ve had since we’re the old-
est on the team and seeing the girls that have gone before (Katie and me),” Gebert said. “They have generally played their best their last year. Also, I think it’s really important to mention the freshmen, and how strong that they all came in. They’ve really pushed us.”
Women’s and men’s head coach scott riggle has been impressed with his seniors’ play.
“It’s a culminating season and they’ve put everything they’ve learned, and they know how to put it together, and they know how to focus and they know how to bring their best tennis to practice every day,” Riggle said. “They want to go out on a good note.”
Riggle feels especially blessed to have what he consid-ers another great senior class.
“It’s kind of interesting,” Riggle said. “When I played college tennis, my coach told me that seniors can be your worst nightmare or your best dreams... We’ve been fortu-nate at DePauw. We’ve had the latter happen and certainly this year with the two seniors on the women’s team and three seniors on the men’s team.”
This spring season of course also marks the tennis team’s arrival into the NCaC — a conference riggle consid-ers “one of the top three in the nation.”
“It seems like there is no easy out. Everything is a tough out in this conference,” Riggle said. “So we’re going to have to make sure we play every match to the best of our ability and be really ready to go.”
Junior Noah Swiler also recognizes the pressure of the new conference, but is not shying away from the new com-petition.
“I’m anxious to play actual conference matches,” Swiler said. “I feel like Kenyon is always a top school, and I feel we have the talent to take them down and go to nationals.”
On the women’s side, Gebert returns after qualifying for nationals during the 2011 spring season in the doubles with Janelle Arita ‘11. The young team looks to build with their core of seniors and new talent.
“It’s awesome to have so much new energy,” Gebert said. “They all are willing to work hard.”
The men return much of their athletes from last sea-son and are confident in their ability to play competitively across the country.
“I feel like we have the some of the best doubles com-binations in the nation and that depth will be matched in singles if we all can stay healthy,” Swiler said.
Sophomores Ben Kopecky and Sam Miles may stand at the top of this list. The pair qualified for nationals this past fall season.
“We both knew were capable of (making) nationals,” Miles said. “We feel like we have good returns, and we break pretty much every team.” Miles elaborated, stating they received good experience against top teams at nation-als last year.
The Tiger’s matches begin this afternoon and continue through the weekend at the Indoor Tennis and Track Cen-ter.
Men’s, women’s tennis prepare for first ever NCAC spring season
Senior Kelly Gebert practices on Thursday evening in preparation for the team’s opening weekend. This women’s team will face the univeristy of Chicago on Friday and ohio wesleyan on Sunday as their first NCAC opponent. EMily GrEEN / THE DEPAuw
The Lady Tigers improve to 22-1 over-all and 15-0 in the NCAC after a 62-45 win against Wittenberg Wednesday evening. Wittenberg fell to 12-11 overall and 8-7 in conference play. The fourth-ranked Tigers also continued their high scoring rampage and an impressive win streak, which now sits at 21.
While the Tigers have spent most of the season fighting for leads in the first half, Wednesday’s game saw the Tigers led by 12 as the game headed into half-time.
Wittenberg entered the second half with some tough play that trimmed the lead to nine. sophomore ali ross, se-nior Katie aldrich and sophomore alex Gasaway then knocked the lead back to double digits. After that, DePauw con-trolled the pace and tempo of the game as Wittenberg struggled to find offensive opportunities.
A few DePauw runs led by senior Kathryn Denbow squashed any hope for a Wittenberg victory as DePauw continued their unbeaten streak.
Ross and Gasaway led the team in points with 13 each. Aldrich notched im-pressive double-digits with 12 points and a career high 13 rebounds.
Gasaway blocked three shots to lead the team while junior Ellie Pearson and Denbow dished out three assists each.
Pearson played a huge role in DePauw’s rebounding game, coming up with nine points.
As the regular season winds down and more attention diverts to the upcom-ing NCAC and NCAA tournaments, many teams lose focus and experience a few bad losses right at the end.
However, according to Denbow, rank-ings are not very important to the squad.
“[We] don’t really pay attention to rankings because unlike Div. I, your rank during season doesn’t really determine your standing in the national tourna-ment.” Denbow continued explaining that the true top team is decided in the national championship game.
“It is just a number and the last weekend in March will determine who is actually number one,” Denbow said. “I think we are always trying to get better. We know we have not reached our full potential and know that reaching our full potential is what it takes to be the best. We like where we are, and we’ve been playing well in our conference, but tour-nament time is when people play their hearts out, just play insanely, and we have to be ready for everyone’s best game. Ev-eryday we challenge each other to get us prepared for the more athletic, stronger teams we will see in the national tourna-ment.”
The Lady Tigers hope to continue their winning streak in their final regular season game this Saturday at College of Wooster.
Women’s squad continues winning streak
The women’s team huddles during a timeout in wednesday’s game against wittenberg. The women won the game 62-45, improving to 22-1 overall and 15-0 in the North Coast Athletic Conference. iSABEllE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAuw
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Katie Aldrich earned a double-double in points and rebounds during the Tigers 62-45 win over wittenberg on
wednesday night. The 12 points and career-high 13 boards came on Aldrich’s senior night.
The DePauw women’s basketball team has now won 21 straight games.
On her play against wittenberg:
“i knew it was my senior night and i was really motivated to play for that reason and just excited to be out there for
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Black, a leading rebounder in the NCAC, to vie for a win.
“We worked all week with the guards coming down to help us on [Black],” ju-nior Barry Flynn said.
The practice paid off as Black totaled just five rebounds on 14 points in the game, but Wittenberg still managed to outpace DePauw on the boards, 40-25, a statistic that has head coach Bill Fenlon wor-ried.
“I thought we did a good job on Black the first game, but where they hurt us was on the boards,” Fenlon said. “All of them — they had 16 offensive rebounds to our six in a one-point game. We didn’t rebound with them the first time and we didn’t rebound with them this time.”
In addition to DePauw’s struggles on the boards, the Tigers have strug-
gled of late on the offensive side. The team does have talented shooters and scorers, but have failed to find an offen-sive consistency.
“We have a lot of good shooters on this team,” Haseley said. “I think if we take good shots and have confidence, we have good enough shooters where I think things will go up.”
However, the Tigers are still lack-ing in experience. after losing six se-niors from last season, DePauw was
left with only two this year — a po-tential cause to the Tigers lack of rebounding and sporadic offen-sive identity.
“We seem to have some men-tal lapses that can be patched
up easily,” assistant coach Nick Caputo said. “Those mistakes occur early and hurt us later in the game.”
DePauw will focus their attention on their last regular season opponent, the College of Wooster. DePauw defeated Wooster on Jan. 14 by a tally of 75-66. The win was spurred by effective front-
court defense and a containment of Jus-tin Hallowell, one of the most effective scorers in Div. III basketball.
“Hallowell is a good perimeter shooter,” Fenlon said. “But where we are going to have to beat him is on the boards.”
In addition to Hallowell, Wooster features a quick freshman point guard Xavier Martin, a valuable shooter, espe-cially from the mid-range.
“We’re going to have our hands full,” Haseley said. “But we are going to compete. I think we’ve proven we can compete with any of the top teams.”
DePauw is currently locked with Hiram for a sixth place NCAC finish. In the NCaC tournament, if the standings will remain, DePauw would get the sev-enth seed and play on the road against Wooster again.
With a win, and a Hiram loss Satur-day, DePauw would gain the outright sixth seed and play either Wooster or Ohio Wesleyan University on the road in the first round in the NCAC Tourna-ment.
The Tigers work towards a confi-dence boosting win and a potential NCaC Tournament run.
“we seem to have some mental lapses... Those
mistakes occur early and hurt us later in the game.”
— Assitant Coach Nick Caputo
PHoTo By EMily GrEEN
the depauw february 17, 2012
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Sophomore Alex Payne goes up for a shot during the men’s game against wittenberg wednesday night. The team lost the game 62-66. iSABEllE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAuw
At least four members of the DePauw men’s golf team have quit since the beginning of the spring semester.
Men’s and women’s head coach Vince La-zar explained that in a feb. 1 team meeting, he reinforced team drug and alcohol policies and enacted a 72-hour alcohol abstention policy from team competition that had been discussed previously after a fall presentation sponsored by the university about the effects of alcohol on athletic performance.
“The bottom of line of the presentation is that a 72-hour abstention from alcohol is the ultimate amount of time to enhance athletic performance,” lazar said.
Lazar also reiterated that “no players have been forced to quit” since the meeting.
“I’m following standard research that was done by the university, by our students, by some of our student-athletes and sponsored by one of our head coaches and sponsored by the office of student life in the presentation,” Lazar said. “And if they say this is optimal, I’m fine. Let’s go with that.”
Part of lazar’s policies include, and have always included, random drug testing of indi-viduals if needed.
“As a coach, I am more and more aware of the likelihood of being tested at nationals and how that would reflect upon the univer-sity,” Lazar said. “But more importantly I’m concerned about the health of my student athletes.”
None of the males who left the team have cited the reinforcement of the team drug and alcohol policies as their reason for departure.
“(lazar) changed some things up,” said junior Lucas Crowley, who played on the team since freshman year but recently quit. “it became more of a Div. i time commitment. He put a little more hours into the practice schedule, and I just looked at my schedule and what I wanted here with my family and my friends and golf just didn’t fit anymore.”
Crowley elaborated, stating that Lazar may have seen student’s social lives conflicting with the team.
Junior Kyle Robbins also admitted that he was not ready for the larger time commit-ment.
“My heart just wasn’t really in it anymore with what coach asked of us,” Robbins said. “And I basically felt like if I’m not going to be one hundred percent on board with what he
wants to do, I’d step aside.” No athletes have quit the women’s golf
team this semester.“It is my responsibility to give them the
best chance to perform at the highest level and to reach their potential as student-ath-letes,” Lazar said. “There are no new rules per se, but it’s maybe giving more specific stan-dards, but again nothing that wasn’t in [the team’s code of conduct] already.”
At the beginning of each season, every member of the men’s and women’s golf team receives and signs a copy of the team’s code of conduct which explains the teams policies regarding conduct, drugs, alcohol and aca-demics.
“It’s nothing that they weren’t aware of,” lazar said in regards to the team meeting on Feb. 1. “My policies are no different than what the NCAA is, than what the code of conduct and what federal laws are.”
in the team meeting, lazar also noted players who are suspected of drinking during the 72-hour abstention period can be called to his office.
“I’ll ask you to come to my office and if at that point I have a strong suspicion that you have been drinking, then we can go down that road, but if you haven’t then we can go get a breathalyzer, and you can show me,” lazar said.
Incoming athletic director Stevie Baker-Watson expressed her support in lazar’s coaching decisions.
“The more that student’s desire to do things other than athletics increase, the harder it will be for them to make a solid commitment to the athletic participation,” Baker-Watson said. “Because it does take a lot of time, a lot of effort. it requires a lot of balance.”
Baker-Watson sees policies such as La-zar’s an important part of fostering a culture of student-athletes. She feels students who come to DePauw understand the challenges of being a Div. iii student-athlete and if com-mitted enough, will continue to compete in their sport.
“You sometimes have to pick between two things you really want to do... but I think in many ways those people are going to select themselves out of the athletic participation,” Baker-Watson said. “They will have this inter-nal struggle that they just don’t want to have anymore.”
Both the women’s and men’s team are currently practicing in preparation for the 2012 spring season.
Golf coach notes three-day alcohol policy is nothing new
