FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2013 VOL. 161, ISSUE 37 Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper VPAA | continued on page 3 By KATIE GREEN [email protected]“Riot Girls in Prison: Pussy Riot and Mu- sic of Protest,” a symposium inspired by the currently incarcerated Russian female punk rock band was held on Wednesday afternoon in Peeler Auditorium. The symposium, which was sponsored by the Russian Studies and Conflict Stud- ies departments, aims to cover the culture and the motives behind music of protest and how such music challenges the meaning of freedom of expression. The band, Pussy Riot, is known for their controversial performances slamming Russian politics. Four presentations by DePauw students and alumnae covered various aspects of Russian cul- ture and how it is linked to the Russian punk rock group, Pussy Riot, as well as other issues concern- ing music of protest. In 2012, four members of Pussy Riot made their resistance towards the political views of Vladimir Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church publicly known during a performance at the Moscow’s Ca- thedral of Christ the Savior. Three of the members were arrested and con- victed of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and sentenced to two years in prison camps. According to Director of Russian Studies, Masha Belyavski-Frank, the performers were protesting Putin’s politics in the presidential election and his connections to the Church, which “[the Pussy Riot girls] personally felt were not for the good of all Russians.” The actions of the band sparked a conversa- tion about what qualifies as freedom of expression. Their motives and their sentence inspired the sym- posium. Sophomore Clay Knappenberger began the event with his presentation “Pussy Riot: Could it Happen Here?” in which he compared what quali- fies as “hooliganism” in Rus- sia and what qualifies as “hate crimes” in the United States. A second presentation was led by junior Elleka Okerstrom and sophomore Kate Grimm who presented “Feminism: The Driving Force Behind Pussy Riot.” They discussed the feminist issues that the group brings to light. Okerstrom and Grimm referenced a quote by a member of Pussy Riot that described Russia as a country “still dominated by the centuries-old im- age of the woman as keeper of the hearth, and of women raising children alone and without help from men.” “[Russian women] can’t live the lives they may want to live,” Okerstrom said. A female rights issue that the symposium raised is the debate about abortion in Russia, and how it is actually parallel to American debates between the pro-life and pro-choice movements. Freshman audience member Ashley Steinkamp appreciated that the Pussy Riot girls do not just de- fend Russian women, but the rights of women all over the world. “I think learning about Pussy Riot girls is good for DePauw students because it brings to light femi- nism and what is going on globally about women’s issues,” Steinkamp said. But Belyavski-Frank emphasizes that the Pussy Riot girls’ message is not solely for women, but con- cerns a global issue that is relevant to all. “We wanted something our students could relate to,” Belyavski-Frank said on selecting this topic for an event. “And this is something that is going on right now and has very much [to do with both] Russian culture and world culture.” The symposium continued with a pres- entation by DePauw alumna and second-year graduate student at Indiana University, Kate Pickering. Her presentation titled, “The Velvet (Revolution) Underground: Rock Music’s Revo- lutionary Role in Czechoslovakia,” focused on The Plastic People of the Universe, a rock band from Prague whose arrest led to protests on the freedom of speech. Pickering used The Plastic People of the Universe as another example of the politics of music. “It’s interesting because even if you don’t approve of what [the Pussy Riot Girls] did, they sort of stretch the bounds of free speech and make us really question what we think is appro- priate,” Pickering said. Amanda Fischer, DePauw alumna and first- year graduate student at Indiana University, finished the symposium with her presentation entitled “Work! Drink! Resist!: Fighting Hate and the System through Russian Punk Rock.” Fischer’s speech discussed trends in con- temporary Russian punk music and how Rus- sian bands approach a fight toward a corrupt system. “A lot of people are beginning to speak up Pussy Riot Girls Protest through music By LEANN BURKE [email protected]Roughly 60 members of DePauw faculty and staff attended a Q&A session with vice president of Academic Affairs candidate George Bent in Meharry Hall on Wednesday. The session was meant to give faculty and staff a first-glimpse of their potential new boss. “Both faculty and staff have a vested inter- ested,” Betsy Demmings, executive assistant to the president said. “This is a huge position on campus. Huge.” The vice president of Academic Affairs will work alongside President Casey and play a key role in making DePauw a top liberal arts school. During Bent’s 20 years at Washington and Lee University, another private liberal arts col- lege, he taught in the Art History department, helped found an interdisciplinary program, worked on several committees and served three years as the associate dean of the college. Bent was there when Washington and Lee began admitting women in 1985 and when the university started to offer academic minors. He also worked with students who were struggling with thoughts of suicide, and emphasized that he became close with many of his coworkers. “I’ve held the hands of two of my colleagues as they’ve died,” Bent said of his friendships with other faculty at Washington and Lee. Bent attended Oberlin College where he majored in history. He received his master’s and Ph.D. in art history from Stanford Univer- sity before beginning his career at Washington and Lee. After spending many years at liberal arts in- stitutions, Bent emphasized the value of a lib- eral arts education. 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FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2013 VOL. 161, ISSUE 37Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper
“Riot Girls in Prison: Pussy Riot and Mu-sic of Protest,” a symposium inspired by the currently incarcerated Russian female punk rock band was held on Wednesday afternoon in Peeler Auditorium.
The symposium, which was sponsored by the Russian Studies and Conflict Stud-ies departments, aims to cover the culture and the motives behind music of protest and how such music challenges the meaning of freedom of expression. The band, Pussy Riot, is known for their controversial performances slamming Russian politics.
Four presentations by DePauw students and alumnae covered various aspects of Russian cul-ture and how it is linked to the Russian punk rock group, Pussy Riot, as well as other issues concern-ing music of protest.
In 2012, four members of Pussy Riot made their resistance towards the political views of Vladimir Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church publicly known during a performance at the Moscow’s Ca-thedral of Christ the Savior.
Three of the members were arrested and con-victed of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and sentenced to two years in prison camps.
According to Director of Russian Studies, Masha Belyavski-Frank, the performers were protesting Putin’s politics in the presidential election and his connections to the Church, which “[the Pussy Riot girls] personally felt were not for the good of all Russians.”
The actions of the band sparked a conversa-tion about what qualifies as freedom of expression. Their motives and their sentence inspired the sym-posium.
Sophomore Clay Knappenberger began the event with his presentation “Pussy Riot: Could it Happen Here?” in which he compared what quali-
fies as “hooliganism” in Rus-sia and what qualifies as “hate crimes” in the United States.
A second presentation was led by junior Elleka Okerstrom
and sophomore Kate Grimm who presented “Feminism: The Driving Force Behind Pussy Riot.” They discussed the feminist issues that the group brings to light.
Okerstrom and Grimm referenced a quote by a member of Pussy Riot that described Russia as a country “still dominated by the centuries-old im-age of the woman as keeper of the hearth, and of women raising children alone and without help from men.”
“[Russian women] can’t live the lives they may want to live,” Okerstrom said.
A female rights issue that the symposium raised is the debate about abortion in Russia, and how it is actually parallel to American debates between the pro-life and pro-choice movements.
Freshman audience member Ashley Steinkamp appreciated that the Pussy Riot girls do not just de-fend Russian women, but the rights of women all over the world.
“I think learning about Pussy Riot girls is good for DePauw students because it brings to light femi-nism and what is going on globally about women’s issues,” Steinkamp said.
But Belyavski-Frank emphasizes that the Pussy Riot girls’ message is not solely for women, but con-cerns a global issue that is relevant to all.
“We wanted something our students could relate to,” Belyavski-Frank said on selecting this topic for an event. “And this is something that is going on right now and has very much [to do with both] Russian culture and world culture.”
The symposium continued with a pres-entation by DePauw alumna and second-year graduate student at Indiana University, Kate Pickering. Her presentation titled, “The Velvet (Revolution) Underground: Rock Music’s Revo-lutionary Role in Czechoslovakia,” focused on The Plastic People of the Universe, a rock band from Prague whose arrest led to protests on the freedom of speech.
Pickering used The Plastic People of the Universe as another example of the politics of music.
“It’s interesting because even if you don’t approve of what [the Pussy Riot Girls] did, they sort of stretch the bounds of free speech and make us really question what we think is appro-priate,” Pickering said.
Amanda Fischer, DePauw alumna and first-year graduate student at Indiana University, finished the symposium with her presentation entitled “Work! Drink! Resist!: Fighting Hate and the System through Russian Punk Rock.”
Fischer’s speech discussed trends in con-temporary Russian punk music and how Rus-sian bands approach a fight toward a corrupt system.
Roughly 60 members of DePauw faculty and staff attended a Q&A session with vice president of Academic Affairs candidate George Bent in Meharry Hall on Wednesday.
The session was meant to give faculty and staff a first-glimpse of their potential new boss.
“Both faculty and staff have a vested inter-ested,” Betsy Demmings, executive assistant to the president said. “This is a huge position on campus. Huge.”
The vice president of Academic Affairs will work alongside President Casey and play a key role in making DePauw a top liberal arts school.
During Bent’s 20 years at Washington and Lee University, another private liberal arts col-lege, he taught in the Art History department, helped found an interdisciplinary program, worked on several committees and served three years as the associate dean of the college.
Bent was there when Washington and Lee began admitting women in 1985 and when the university started to offer academic minors. He also worked with students who were struggling with thoughts of suicide, and emphasized that he became close with many of his coworkers.
“I’ve held the hands of two of my colleagues as they’ve died,” Bent said of his friendships with other faculty at Washington and Lee.
Bent attended Oberlin College where he majored in history. He received his master’s and Ph.D. in art history from Stanford Univer-sity before beginning his career at Washington and Lee.
After spending many years at liberal arts in-stitutions, Bent emphasized the value of a lib-eral arts education.
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FEMINISM HAS AN ASTIGMATISM.
The photo exhibition "I Need Feminism Because..." hangs in the UB Lobby from Thursday to Saturday. The campaign allows both DePauw student and faculty to voice why gender equality is important. THUY NGUYEN / THE DEPAUW
To support women’s history month, the photo campaign “I need feminism because…” will be exhibit-ed in the Women’s Center for the first time ever starting Tuesday.
Brought to campus by sophomore Maya Arcilla, the campaign is com-posed of a collection of photographs of females on campus, both students and faculty, that are symbolic of why each of these photographed women need feminism and womanism.
“Overall, both feminism and wom-anism have been given a negative stig-ma,” Arcilla said. “I wanted to bring this campaign to DePauw to shed a more positive light.”
A distinction Arcilla feels that is important to note is the difference between feminism and womanism. While feminism started as a suffragist movement, it was centered around white middle class women.
“Even though women of color were involved in the movement, they were put down,” Arcilla said. “Woman-ism started up in retaliation of that.”
Senior Liz Weingartner took a picture because she wanted to spark healthy conversation about the topic.
“A lot of times the discussion ends up being a gender war,” Weingartner said. “If we just play the blame game we won’t get anywhere. That’s why it’s important.”
Freshman Sarah Dela Cruz, a participant in the photo campaign, knows Arcilla through the Asian American Pacific Islander Initiative.
“She mentioned she was starting a project for the Women’s Center, and I was immediately interested,” Dela Cruz said.
Arcilla talked to both Sarah Ryan, the director of the Women’s Center, as well as her supervisor at the confer-ence center, Valerie Rudolph, about different ways to promote women’s history month. Rudolph suggested that Arcilla take on this specific photo
campaign as a personal project that gives positive attention to women.
According to Arcilla, “I need feminism because…” started as a global-wide Internet-based photo campaign. Sites like Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and personal blogs displayed pictures of women hold-ing signs stating why they need believe that they need feminism or womanism.
With the motivation from Ru-dolph and Ryan, Arcilla took the idea and ran with it. By enlisting information about the campaign through DePauw sites like e-servic-es, moodle, the Code Teal Facebook page and the DePauw homepage as well as posting ads in the Feminista Conference Center, women on cam-pus started responding immediately to participate. All together, Arcilla recruited 24 women on campus to have their picture taken holding a
poster stating why they needed femi-nism.
From the time Arcilla started promoting the event to the time her photographs were completed, the process took about two weeks. Ar-cilla asked the women participating to choose their favorite spot on campus
to be the setting of their image. ”I wanted each of them to choose
a unique place special to them,” Ar-cilla said. “I thought that this would help show the diversity of the student body, and therefore give our campus community more of an overview of how DePauw views feminism.”
For Dela Cruz, participating in the campaign was something personal.
“A lot of people don’t see me as a feminist,” Dela Cruz said. “Being a part of this photo campaign allows me to show my interests and what I believe in.”
Each woman photographed has a reason for participating in the cam-paign. That reason is communicated through the location of the picture and the message written on her board. Dela Cruz’s message focused on around the unfair treatment of women, more specifically, the stigmas or implications that too often attach themselves to female victims of a crime.
“People always ask what the fe-male was wearing if she was a victim of a crime,” Dela Cruz said. “Honestly, that shouldn’t matter if she was at-tacked. The truth of the matter is that all women are at risk to get raped or kidnapped no matter how they dress.”
Arcilla hopes that this photo cam-paign spreads knowledge about the truth behind the feminist movement to the campus community.
“I hope that it brings more un-derstanding of different oppressions in society,” Arcilla said. “I want the campus to understand that feminism isn’t just about gender inequality, it’s about intersecting identities and empowering people of any dividing group.”
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why it’s important.”
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schools] as punching bags,” Bent said. “But liberal arts students are the ones who know how to problem solve because they’ve taken all kinds of classes.”
While on campus, Bent saw a lot of similari-ties between DePauw and Washington and Lee. Both are small, private, four-year institutions.
Washington and Lee has a spring term, a pro-gram that closely resembles our winter term. And greek life is prevalent on both campuses. Eighty percent of the student body at Washing-ton and Lee is Greek, while 70 percent of the student body at DePauw is Greek.
Despite all the similarities, Bent said that he realizes DePauw and Washington and Lee are not the same. If hired, Bent said he will keep those differences in mind by listening to faculty and students, and being patient as he works to improve DePauw.
“I recognize that I am coming in from the outside,” Bent said. “I want to know what’s hap-pening on the ground first. I don’t want to move too fast.”
Bent is the second of the four remaining VPAA candidates to visit campus. Last week, Joan Neff from the University of Richmond vis-ited, and the remaining two candidates, whose names have not been announced, will visit next week. Similar Q&A sessions will be held during each of their visits. Q&A sessions have been scheduled for Monday and Wednesday at 4 p.m. in Meharry Hall.
“We intended [the sessions] to be faculty and staff,” said Wayne Glausser, head of the search committee. “But we are open to students attending.”
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“I recognize that I am coming in from the outside. I want to know what’s
happening on the ground first. I don’t want to move too fast.”
- George Bent
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• Alcohol violation • Released to custody of friends / forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 12:13 a.m. | Place: Longden Hall
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Saturday night the blackboard on East College lawn was vandalized by an unknown individual.
The blackboard now only occupies half the original space. The other half of the blackboard, looks through to the other side, now more like a window than a board. The time of the incident is unknown.
Angela Nally, director of Public Safety, said there are cameras placed around campus to help with investiga-tions. A camera in Harrison Hall scans Burkhart Walk and Emison Galleries, one points toward the Hub from East College and one monitors the Anderson St. en-trance. Public Safety officers patrol campus on foot and in cars.
The breaking of the blackboard is one in a string of vandalism acts recently on campus. Another recent in-cident involved the scattering of empty cans of Rolling Rock beer on the front of the Pulliam Center for Contem-porary Media and Natural Light cans thrown in bushes by Gobin United Methodist Church.
“Looking at all this trash and destruction — it sure doesn’t put our best face forward, ” Nally said.
Public Safety’s investigation is ongoing.
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A report was filed for the vandalization of the East College lawn blackboard on March 10. Half of the board was stolen. SUNNY STRADER / THE DEPAUW
Although some DePauw students did not enter Blue Door Café on March 4, their credit cards were still charged.
A statement posted to the Blue Door Facebook page explained the problem and apologized to customers.
“Our credit card sales weren't getting [processed] since some-time in October,” read the Blue Door Facebook page. “When the glitch was found and corrected, ALL of the credit cards that had been used since that time all processed at once. We realize this is an in-convenience for all affected, and we are sorry that it happened, but unfortunately it was out of our hands.”
According to Blue Door owner Sue Furr, the late processing of charges was due to the business changing banks and closing tem-porarily. The café was closed for 12 weeks and recently re-opened during the last week of February.
“We had to put [some credit card charges] through again, they were in la la land when we switched banks,” Furr said. “No one was charged twice.”
Furr emphasized that the Blue Door system’s delayed processing has since been resolved.
“[The problem] is mostly wrapped up,” Furr said. “Anyone now going through is fine.”
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Nadiyah Ford said that it’s really hard for Muslim students at DePauw to practice their faith here on campus the same way they do at home.
DePauw students of various faiths have noted important differences from practicing religion on a college campus to practicing it at home, such as religious rituals, ways of celebrat-ing holidays and being in a different social atmosphere.
One of the differences Ford mentioned about practicing Islam was praying five times a day. She said that not every Mus-lim student does that, even when they’re at home. For those that do, the prayers happen at sunrise, at midday, in the after-noon, when the sun sets and in the evening.
“Those are the times when you’re either in class, or in a meeting, or catching up on homework, or you’re trying to sleep,” Ford, a senior, said.
Class time also affects Muslim students’ ability to attend the mosque on Fridays, as it’s held is between noon and 2 p.m., which is class time for many students. Distance is also a factor.
“The nearest mosque is in Plainfield, so it’s 45 minutes away,” Ford said. “Not everybody makes it out. I know a few students who find ways to get there, but it’s not a weekly thing, like they’re probably used to.”
Ford said she appreciates the services that DePauw has and how willing the Center for Spiritual Life is to help the Muslim students practice, but she doesn’t think it’s easy for anyone to stick to any faith on any college campus.
Ford is involved with Muslim Student Association (MSA) at DePauw, and she said that MSA helps other Muslim students celebrate their faith and teach other students about their faith.
For example, they can celebrate major holidays like Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha and include a lot of their friends on cam-pus in the celebration.
“It helps people learn and be interested and eat good food together,” Ford said.
Ford said that the organization gives the students a chance
to teach, which is not something they normally do in their communities at home. She’s also been involved with helping plan events discussing the Arab Spring conflict and inviting speakers to talk about the Islamic environment in the United States.
“I’ve taken a much more political interest in my religion and how it affects others, instead of just talking about it at home,” Ford said of her time at DePauw. “I’ve taken the initia-tive to learn about it in terms of history and in terms of politics, and share what I know.”
Senior Gregory Screws, who is involved with DePauw Christian Fellowship, also said that he has been involved with events discussing politics.
For instance, last semester the Christian Fellowship organ-ized a panel discussion on how modern political views line up with values that Jesus Christ taught through the Holy Bible.
“That’s something that I really don’t have back at home,” Screws said. “Being on campus, we have a little bit more free-dom to create certain creative events.”
Screws said that he feels Christian students practice their faith on campus practice slightly differently than they do at home.
“I believe … the reason [is] because there’s a lot more things to do with friends, and there’s a lot more activities to do on campus,” Screws said. “Sometimes we place those at a higher priority.”
At home, Screws goes to the same service each week, but here at DePauw he attends different services. He said that some other Christian students might not attend church as frequently.
“I feel like just the social life, being around people who are your same age, and people you have close relationships with … can really affect your spirituality [and] how much time you spend in your faith,” Screws said.
Screws said the Christian Fellowship promotes the consist-ency of being able to live out one’s faith and they also have service once a month, where they invite Christian students to come on campus to worship and strengthen their relationship with God.
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amidst pressure to not live accordingly with your faith, and looks forward to attending church each week in the local com-munity according to Screw.
“I think my favorite part is actually just the love that I re-ceive from fellow believers,” Screws said.
Rev. Katherine Smanik, the director of the Center for Spir-itual Life, said that she thinks that universally, students of faith do not practice the same way they do at home.
“Even if you’re from a Christian background, and we have lots of wonderful Christian churches here, the churches here aren’t going to practice in exactly the same way that your home community did,” Smanik said.
She thinks that for students from minority religions, their faith practice looks enormously different when they’re here. At home, they typically have many friends of the same faith as well as places of worship close by.
“If you’re a Jewish student who comes from Indianapolis, the closest synagogue might in fact be your home synagogue,” Smanik said.
Smanik also noted that the closest mosque was in Plain-field, and that some Hindu students here grew up in India, so their way of practice would likely feel a lot different.
Smanik said that the ways the Center for Spiritual Life fa-cilitates practices for different religion varies from tradition to tradition. For instance, they help Hindu students put together observations for the holidays Diwali and Holi. They also have a rabbi that comes once a month to lead services for Jewish community. Sometimes, they also help Muslim students get to the mosque for holidays.
She tries to be in contact with students and tries to have the students’ needs met to the best of her ability.
“I think that it’s important to remember that religious practice is actually very personal,” Smanik said. “It’s some-thing done in community, but our experience of it is always our own.”
Freshman Linsey Button hasn’t been involved with any or-ganized Jewish events here at DePauw, but she was here for Hanukkah this year.
“My mom sent me a light-up menorah, and one of the oth-er girls on the softball team is Jewish too so she came over, and we said the prayers and put the light bulb in it every night,” Button said.
She said that at home, she would usually go to services with her family for the holidays, but they don’t go every week.
Button said that she doesn’t know a lot of Jewish people on campus and those she does know don’t go to the services. At home for the holidays, it’s different.
“My family has certain traditions,” Button said, “and it’s re-ally nice that we can keep those traditions up.”
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It’s indisputable that global climate change is occurring, and there are many threads of evidence that support this. It’s also a fact that developed nations, especially the
United States, contribute astronomically to the C02 levels
in the atmosphere through the burning of coal and other fossil fuels. It’s the very nations who contribute the most who are having such trouble coming up with a solution to mitigate climate change and its effects.
Climate change is obviously a global and national con-cern, but it is also a local one that has made its way into the DePauw community. In 2008, President Casey signed the American College & University Presidents Climate Commit-ment, making a formal and public vow to reduce DePauw’s carbon emissions.
The question must be asked, in the five years since the university made that commitment, have our carbon emis-sions actually decreased? Are we really doing all that we can to combat climate change?
At DePauw, we’re surrounded by resources, knowledge and experts, and we have an obligation to seek out answers to important questions that have worldwide implications. Students have a responsibility to inform themselves about climate change, as one of (if not the most) pressing issue of our time.
DePauw certainly isn’t immune from the effects of cli-mate change, and it shouldn’t be absent from the solution either. Individual student action is imperative to instigating change and setting a positive example. Whatever course of
action you choose to follow — whether it’s to start thinking about your own carbon footprint and what you can do to reduce it, recognizing something on campus that could be more sustainable (and doing something about it), or con-tacting your state senator to tell him or her why climate change legislation is necessary, every action is worthwhile and impactful.
Many students on campus are involved in incredible en-vironmental initiatives to raise consciousness, promote sus-tainability and instigate positive environmental change. For example, students and faculty from DePauw attended the Forward on Climate Rally in Washington, D.C. in February, along with 50,000 other Americans against global climate change. Students have created a Divest DePauw group on campus, which is advocating that DePauw divests univer-sity endowment funds from fossil fuel companies. There is also the Student Sustainability Fund that will allocate up to $10,000 for the best sustainability ideas from students. Clearly, there are many different ways to get involved with sustainability and environmental issues on campus.
There are many conflicting ideas about the most ef-fective or ethical approaches to creating environmental awareness and bringing about more sustainable change. However, an important first step is caring about the envi-ronment and the potentially disastrous consequences that not taking action toward a more sustainable future could have. At this point, any action at all is better than ignoring the problem or thinking that it is someone else’s respon-sibility to work toward a solution. Pleading ignorance and being apathetic about climate change is no longer an ac-ceptable course of action.
— Stephens is a junior from Saint Charles, Ill. majoring in psychology.
As students at a liberal arts college, discussion, debates and challenges to our thoughts and beliefs are commonplace. We go to science labs and think of new ways to solve a problem. We go to English workshops and examine our writing through a critical lens. We read philosophy that challenges our moral outlooks. As we expand our minds and mold our identities, our religious beliefs aren’t exempt from this scru-tiny.
Scrutiny is not a bad thing. Close examination of our beliefs drives us to question and think. While often times this can result in a change of heart or an abandonment of religion, it can also strengthen beliefs and incite a greater rational understanding of our spiritual convictions.
In regards to current trends, this questioning isn’t unique to DePauw. Accord-ing to a recent study by sociologists from the University of California, Berkeley and Duke University published in The Huffington Post, the number of people who do not consider themselves as a part of an organized religion has dropped dramatically in recent years. One-third of American adults under the age of 30 do not identify with a religion.
However, the article notes that the drop does not reflect a plunge in spirituality, but rather a decline in affiliation with religious organizations. We question authority and we reflect before we believe.
DePauw cultivates students’ abilities be open-minded, and to think for ourselves. This however, means that often times a larger religious affiliation no longer suits the value system that is unique to an individual. The same way that we agree with certain political views of certain parties, but perhaps not the larger party ideology.
However as we tailor our outlooks to ourselves, a sense of community in shared values falls to the wayside. For previous generations, church was a place to congre-gate as a community, temple bolstered family bonds and synagogue was a time to devote to loved ones. As these organizations decline in popularity, will our sense of community and togetherness also fall?
As an editorial board we respect religion. Some of us are religious and others are not. We are not necessarily bemoaning the loss of the religious organization, but rath-er the larger loss of community cohesion this mirrors. How will this shape our society in the future? And focusing even closer, how will it shape the DePauw community?
Our hope is that being a part of DePauw’s campus – literally being on campus – is meaningful enough to incite a healthy sense of community. We will always respect the individual’s own search for definition in truth, value and belief, but we are weary of when that obsession with defining one’s own beliefs becomes a barrier toward the rest of society.
Scrutiny poses a challenge to religion on college campuses
the depauw | opinion PAGE 9FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2013
PHOTOPINIONHow will you be supporting
the women’s basketball team this weekend?
MAGGIE COHEN, senior
“I’ll be at DePauw watching and sending tweets for my Tiger ladies.”
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ROBERT WATSON, senior
“If they weren’t in Michigan, I would hope to be smashed and crammed into the cheer block.”
“I’m going up to Holland to watch them win on Saturday.”
DEREK DAVIS, senior
“I can’t be there, but I’ll be sending positive vibes their way.”
The DePauw administration is clearly and un-derstandably concerned about our campus’ drinking culture. While I tend to argue De-
Pauw’s drinking is nothing abnormal compared to other universities, sitting near the top of the “Par-ty School” list isn’t exactly a dream PR situation. Our university obviously has chosen to distance itself from the arbitrary Princeton Review list. But can our campus identity and our real drinking cul-ture coexist?
Enter the Fluttering Duck, a longstanding restaurant and bar located on our campus. When alumni return to DePauw, they go to the Duck. When parents visit, they go to the Duck. Want to hear some good jazz music on a Thursday? You
will probably end up at the Duck.This is what bothers me about our university
owned bar and restaurant. A stranger to DePauw could spend considerable amount of time at the Duck, and if you asked him whose campus he was on, he may not be able to tell you.
Look around the walls. You won’t see a De-Pauw football jersey. You won’t see any indica-
tion that our women’s basketball team has won a national championship, and are well on their way to winning another. You won’t see a front page of this newspaper, or find Monon Bell memorabilia anywhere. Tiger Pride is painfully absent from one of our most well known establishments.
Consider eateries and bars on other campus-es. Most are brimming with school colors and his-toric relics that allude to the rich tradition of the local university. What you do see at the Duck are beer advertisements, both neon and otherwise. Seems a tad ironic.
Why can we not create a shrine to, well, our-selves? The hall of fame, and various other nods
to our athletes are nice. But the average student never has a reason to walk through the second floor of the Lilly center or the upper balcony at the indoor track. I understand the university’s re-luctance to put its stamp on a bar, but I think they can relax a little.
If Tiger Pride is ever going to be anything more than a PR slogan, there needs to be a physi-cal representation. Our athletes work hard, and have achieved some incredible things. Perhaps instead of general mentions on social media, we give those accomplishments a physical space to be seen and appreciated by the entire student body. For the Duck, DePauw’s only on-campus bar, a Budweiser sign just isn’t cutting it.
— Droddy is a senior from Indianapolis majoring in communication.
I am writing this piece in response to the editorial on Feb. 22, 2013 called “DePauw’s Hook-up Culture.” The article tries to open up the floor for a discussion of reasons why the hook-up culture is a norm at DePauw. What struck me is that this norm is more of a myth than of a norm to me. The hook-up culture has always been something that I’ve heard about, but rarely something that my immediate friends or acquaintances tell me about as their own experiences. Other DePauw students and I have very different relationship experiences than the one de-scribed in the editorial.
I see DePauw students that date, get en-gaged and marry after graduating from De-Pauw. I see students who date all four years here — first year, sophomore, junior or senior. I see students who are dating some-one on campus and off-campus. I see greek and independent students that date. I see American and international students dating — within their nations or internationally.
I have been dating a man at DePauw for more than two years now. I want to point out what I see in my DePauw life because I don’t see the “hook-up norm” described in the article. I worry that students at DePauw will assume that the hook-up culture is the only dating culture that exists at DePauw and assume that they have to participate in it. I am suggesting that random hook-ups
are an experience that a DePauw student can have, but not a culture. Calling it a cul-ture tricks people into thinking that it’s a norm. But it is not a norm, nor is it a culture of all DePauw students.
Can you think of one friend in your De-Pauw circle who is dating someone right now? Can you think of two? Three? More? While I am writing this response, I can think of 40 friends and acquaintances of mine off the top of my head who study at DePauw and are dating now (for three or more months). There might be even more dating, I just may not be aware of it.
Excuse me for diverting from the main focus of the “DePauw’s Hook-up Culture” editorial’s question, but I feel obliged to talk about a variety of other dating experiences that I see as a part of the overall DePauw dating culture. And it’s far from being just a hook-up culture. I am hoping that when people at DePauw talk about hook-ups, they talk about hook-ups not as a culture, but as only one of the experiences that stu-dents can have at DePauw within a variety of other dating and relationship experiences.
ers exchanged grins as orange leather passed through white netting. A cacoph-ony of bouncing, shouts and squeaks echoed through the Neal Fieldhouse.
Then it was pierced by one whistle.That was the familiar signal of their lead-er, their general, their head coach. Kris Huffman, donned in grey shorts and a gold shirt, cued the start of the season’s first practice, and players hollered to the sideline and formed a circle beneath the basket.
They clapped. The excitement was palpable. But little did they know what
they were clapping for, and what they started on their first practice, Oct. 18.
They didn’t know a five game win-streak would extend to nine by Christ-mas. They couldn’t know that the streak would balloon to 20 by the end of Janu-ary.
But by that time, they must’ve at least felt it. Some had to have guessed by then the season was special. This is the first team to make it to the semifinal round of the NCAA Division III national tourna-ment undefeated. The Tigers have done so in dominating fashion — winning regular season games by as many as 40, and as little as one. In four NCAA tour-nament games, DePauw outscored its opponents by 23.75 points. That’s just below its season average of 26.8.
But how did this happen?
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“That effort, no one in the country can match that effort.”
— Alison Stephens, forward
But how did this happen?Players say they saw glimpses of greatness in pre-
season. There were moments in the regular season where it was evident. Now it’s obvious.
“I’m not surprised,” forward Alison Stephens said. “I never doubted our team, and I see how hard we work at practice and when you take a step back and look around, the focus is there during the games.
“That effort, no one in the country can match that effort.”
A DIFFERENT EARLY SEASON
Mention Carthage College to a player and it’s guar-anteed her face will cringe.
The Tigers lost in the second round of the NCAA tournament a year ago, 53-48, where the team shot just 30.6 percent. The loss left a bitter taste in their mouths, said Kathleen Molloy, and it sparked a greater effort in the offseason and preseason.
“That was something that made us realize that even though you’re going to have a great season, it can be taken away from you so quickly by one game,” the sen-ior guard said. “In the preseason it was hard to say that we were going to do great things. Achieving that goal is a completely different thing.”
DePauw lost just two players from a season ago in-cluding NCAC player of the year, Katie Aldrich. Howev-er, the core of the lineup, including Molloy, was in tact.
Alex Gasaway, a junior, would fill the shoes for Al-drich. But what the team lost in pure post scoring, it gained in outside shooting.
“Going in to it as a starter, it’s kind of nerve wrack-ing and you’re not sure how you would fit in to a roll and if you’re going to fill the shoes,” Gasaway said. “Af-ter the first two games it sort of built up my confidence and I felt like I could be here.”
Not only did an opening tournament build the for-ward’s aplomb, but the team as a whole felt assured as well.
DePauw downed University of Wisconsin-Stout, 88-48, and Wisconsin Lutheran College, 61-39. Gasa-way tallied 12 and 29 points in both efforts. The fourth game of the season pitted No. 3-ranked DePauw against No. 6 Washington University in St. Louis. With two key free throws by Kate Walker with seven seconds left in the game, The Tigers came away with a 60-59 win, its closest of the season.
ISLAND PARADISE TO COLD TUNDRA
Riding a seven game winning streak after the win over Washington and defending NCAA Division III champion, Illinois Wesleyan University, DePauw flew to Puerto Rico to face two top-ranked opponents in Messiah College (No. 8) and Babson College (No. 20).
Despite the clear distraction of beaches and warm weather, the focus when the team took to the court was most impressive for Huffman.
“It helped our team chemistry and it certainly helped our level of play,” she said.
The Tigers took both games, winning by 24 against Babson and 14 over Messiah in an open-air arena with birds flying in and out.
After the wins, the team had two days to relax.“Half of us got fried,” Walker, a senior, said. “It was
just really fun to hang out with them, and have time with a lot of the girls.”
The wins in the Caribbean capped a stretch of nine games where DePauw outscored opponents by 22 points and forced an average of 18.1 turnovers per game.
Then began the cold season, and Winter Term.January for the women’s basketball team is often
where frustrations come out, and bumps in the sched-ule occur. NCAC competition began, and after going undefeated in the first season in the conference, the Tigers were determined to do it again.
“There’s confidence, but there’s not overcon-fidence by any means,” Molloy said. “We came in to their conference and went undefeated. People can’t hate us more.”
Through another stretch of nine games begin-ning at the end of December, defensive intensity was stressed. DePauw forced 22.4 turnovers per game and held opponents to 43.1 points per game. Gasaway as-serted herself as the prime scoring threat, averaging
more than 14 points per contest.And the winning ways continued.“Certainly I’ve pushed them hard defensively being
undersized in the post,” Huffman said.Added Walker, “It’s just pounded in our heads
more this year than every other year maybe.”Twenty games into the season, the Tigers closest
margin of victory besides the one point win over Wash-ington was a 10 point difference against Kenyon Col-lege on Jan. 9. During that month, DePauw outscored opponents by an average of 30 or more points.
“I go out with 12 minutes left and Ellie[Pearson] is
sitting next to me. She asks if we’re going back in, and at nine we know we’re not going back in,” Gasaway said. “That’s a true testament to coach Huffman’s atti-tude and how she treats timeouts and halftimes. That’s how we win by 35 or 40 points. They are so focused by every possession and getting every single thing as perfect as we can get it.”
AH ‘UH OH’ MOMENT
She heard three pops, and then was on the ground.Gasaway crawled off the court as the team contin-
ued to practice, but it was hard to ignore what hap-pened.
During a full court press drill, the Crawfordsville na-tive caught the ball near the baseline, drove right and planted her right foot down to jump backward for a shot.
Gasaway knew that feeling, she tore her anterior cruciate ligament her junior year of high school. But this injury was a day before the NCAC semifinal game against Wittenberg University. It was also after 26 straight victories, and she was the leading scorer av
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Above: Alison Stephens replaced an injured Alex Gasaway in the NCAC semifinal game, and has held the starting role ever since. The junior aver-ages 6.8 rebounds per game and 6.2 points per game. EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW
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“I sat the rest of practice in the training room trying to figure stuff out.”
— Alex Gasaway, forward
NCAA Final Four: Lady Tigers pg 3eraging more than 14 points per game. She scored
in double figures in 11 straight games before the injury.“I sat the rest of practice in the training room try-
ing to figure stuff out,” Gasaway said. “It was a little bit of a selfish night. I was a little pissed off. But I had no question whether or not they were going to win that weekend.”
Alison Stephens stepped in for Gasaway to make her first collegiate start against Wittenberg. The junior from Prairie Village, Kan., said when Gasaway went down, she had only 20 minutes to practice before heading off to class.
Stephens, with Gasaway on her mind, pulled down 13 rebounds against Wittenberg and tallied seven points. She played 24 minutes after averaging about 18 minutes per game in the season. The Tigers defeated Wittenberg, 66-43.
“I just kept thinking about Alex and kept going,” Stephens said. “That win was for us the mental turning point to think that we could do it.”
A Gasaway-less DePauw went on to win its second NCAC title with a 63-49 win over Kenyon. Two days later, the Tigers were selected to play La Roche College in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Huffman and her training staff decided to have Gasaway dress for the game, but would only use her if they had to against an athletic Redhawks frontcourt.
They didn’t need her, Pearson’s 19 rebounds were enough, and the Tigers rolled to a 73-43 win.
Against Maryville College in the second round, Gas-away made her first appearance in three games, and posted seven points with a torn right ACL.
“I’ve had to completely change my game plan,” she said. “I can still post up, but I can’t back people down in the post.”
In the next two games, Gasaway scored 10 points against Montclair State University, and 12 against Chris-topher Newport University.
“When she came back and we knew we had her, we knew we were now unstoppable,” Stephens said.
‘IT’S SPECIAL’
With two more games the senior class will be the winningest class in program history. Two games would mean the second title in DePauw athletics history.
Two wins means a perfect season: literally and figu-ratively.
Are the players thinking in those terms?Not at all.“I wasn’t even sure who was in the Final Four till
just the other day,” Walker said. “I don’t think it’ll hit me personally till after we’re finished. But until that point we have two games till we win it, and it’s not enough.”
They’re also out to prove their record and No. 1 ranking throughout the season were not flukes.
“I’m glad we’re beating teams by 20 to let everyone know that our conference doesn’t suck,” Stephens said. “We’re just good. People say, ‘oh you’re good, but your conference isn’t good. I want to see you play someone.’ It’s just frustrating time after time.”
The ultimate proof might be winning a second na-tional title this weekend in Holland, Mich. The Tigers will have to get past Williams College (26-5) Friday evening to face the winner of Amherst College and Uni-versity of Wisconsin-Whitewater for the championship.
“I don’t know if it was the timing of it because it was right when playoffs started, but I think it was eve-rybody’s best games started to come out,” Molloy said. “You could feel the energy, and we are on a mission and we want to get something big accomplished.
“It’s really exciting and we’re exactly where we want to be to do this. I don’t think anyone on this team will be satisfied with anything less.”
Above: Ali Ross (center) celebrates with Ellie Pearson during last Friday's game against Wash-ington University in St. Louis. MARGARET DISTLER / THE DEPAUW
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[email protected] Alison Stephens called the DePauw women’s basketball
team a family.The junior said it was cliché, and she’s not the first to make
the claim.But what does that make head coach Kris Huffman?“Huffman is our mother, our caretaker, our motivator, our
someone you want to laugh with,” Stephens said. “[Kathleen] Molloy said this, but you’d never want to get caught rolling your eyes at her.”
There’s a certain amount of respect, admiration and amica-ble feelings between Huffman and her players. The result thus far is a 32-0 record, and a NCAA Division III semifinal appear-ance against Williams College on Friday evening. For Huffman, this is her third trip to the semifinals, the other two times were in 2002 and 2007. DePauw’s coach — in her 20th season — is vying for her second national title.
The list of accomplishments for the University of Northern Iowa graduate in staggering: a 462-102 overall record, a two-time National Coach of the Year, 11-time conference coach of the year and an Iowa and to-be-Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame inductee.
But the accomplishes aren’t what players see. They see pos-sibly the most dedicated and committed coach they’ve ever
had.“It’s not just a coach at this point, it’s someone I respect
more that anyone else,” Kate Walker, a senior, said. “Going in with her makes me more confident in this team. She’s some-one who deserves more national championships than she has earned thus far, and hopefully we can bring that home to her.”
Walker has started every game for Huffman at point guard, and last Saturday claimed the record for the most games started in DePauw history at 120.
“She talks about how hard we work but in reality the amount of work coach Huffman puts in to this is unreal,” Walker said. “I’ve never seen a coach more committed to her team than coach Huffman. I want to do it for the team and I want to do it for me, but I want to do it for her as well.”
That sense of playing for Huffman is evident during time-outs even with a lead of more than 20. During many contests with all starters out in the fourth quarter, the lead more often than not balloons to greater reaches.
“I like that, and they play possession-for-possession,” Huff-man said. “When we had a lead they made it look like we were down 10. They give that type of effort.This team is special.”
The perfect record is something that players and Huffman are both surprised by. Huffman said with the tough non-con-ference schedule that included four ranked teams in the first month, it was just a dream to be at this point in the NCAA tour-nament undefeated.
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Above: DePauw head coach Kris Huffman is vying for her second national title in the program's third appearance in the NCAA Division III semifinals. MARGARET DISTLER / THE DEPAUW
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DePauw’s softball doubleheader on Wednesday, March 13 was postponed due to the poor field conditions from the weather.
The game against Franklin College will be rescheduled for April 12, according to a press release from the DePauw Athletics website. The outfield has been too wet and muddy for the women to play on the field so far this season. The fence surrounding the field also has repairs that need to be made keeping the women off the field.
The women have yet to have an outdoor practice or game on the field. Practices have been held in the Indoor Track and Tennis Center.
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The DePauw baseball team looks to rebound from its two losses last weekend with a big weekend of scheduled games.
The Tigers will play at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Fri-day night, a double-header against Concordia University Chicago and Rose-Hulman at Terre Haute on Saturday. They will end the weekend with a game against Concordia.
“We just need to go out and focus on each pitch, our defensive chance and plate appearance,” junior outfielder Brendon Pashia said. “All around we need to play better baseball. It’s early in the season so we are not panicking. We are just excited to get back out there this weekend against Concordia and Rose Hulman and string together some better all around games”.
Head coach Jake Martin anticipates a good weekend for the Tigers. “I expect to come back from this weekend with wins against some
good teams,” Martin said. “I think we’ll come out a little more relaxed than we were last weekend.”
Senior Zach Galyean, who suffered an injury in last weekend’s
games, will be back in the lineup playing in the outfield. However, DePauw will most likely be without junior outfielder Rob Stein who suffered a knee injury, crashing into the outfield wall last weekend. Stein hits second in the batting order and went 3-6 in the team’s first round of games.
“We haven’t received the final word of whether Rob (Stein) can play or not, but he is probably going to be out,” Martin said.
With so many games this weekend, the Tigers will use a good ma-
jority of their pitching staff. Martin plans on using all six starters. “If we get cooperation from the weather, this will be a good week-
end to see where guys are at on the mound,” Martin said. “All the games are nine innings and I know lots of the guys are looking forward to play ball, so this will be a good time for them to feel some things out.”
The weather has caused the Tigers to postpone or cancel games this early in the season. The squad has already had six games cancelled due to rain or snow. These first few games are the most important for the team to prepare for the season.
“For one, we need to get outside to get guys comfortable,” Martin said. “You also can’t under value how important at bats are early at the season for the guys.”
Early non-conference games can also be resumé builders for the NCAA tournament at the end of the year. While DePauw did not win its conference last year, it was able to receive an at-large bid due to its strong non-conference wins.
“Our ultimate goal is to win the NCAC West and that is where our focus is,” Martin said. “But if we’re fortunate enough to win these good region games, it can help with an at-large bid.”
Baseball looks to bounce back with four game weekend
“For one, we need to get outside to get guys comfortable. You also can’t under value how important
The DePauw women’s lacrosse team defeated the Wilming-ton Quakers 26-6 in the Tiger’s first inaugural game on Wednes-day afternoon.
The game started off quickly, with DePauw’s first goal scored by sophomore midfielder Carey Kunz after only 55 seconds of play.
Of the Quaker’s six goals, four were scored by junior middle-defensemen Rachel Gutowski.
Multiple goals were not a rarity for the Tigers either, espe-cially for sophomore attacker Hailey Ware, who scored three points throughout the game.
After practicing since the beginning of the semester, the team was ready to play its first game.
“We were in preseason for about a month and a half, which felt like forever,” Ware said. “Once the game started, we were finally working for something.”
The team’s first game of the season was cancelled due to inclement weather this past Sunday. The team had been slated to travel to Chicago to face off against North Central College.
“We had a rough past few weeks in terms of weather es-pecially after our cancelled game on Sunday,” DePauw’s head coach Susanna Wilcox said. “So I think we were just ready. We were definitely excited and ready to begin.”
Wilcox was hired to help bring this program to a varsity level for the current 2013 season and her coaching seems to be work-ing.
“The girls are extremely dedicated, very supportive and love each other,” Wilcox said. “The work ethic they display has been huge. The switch from club to varsity has been a lot easier than I anticipated it to be.”
But looking forward in the season, there are more challeng-es to be faced than just the first game of the season.
“Yesterday was a great way to begin our program, but we play a hard schedule,” Wilcox said. “A lot of teams in our confer-ence are strong, nationally ranked programs. And it gets harder. We can’t continue to make some of the mistakes we made yes-terday and expect to be successful.”
During Wednesday’s game, the team went into halftime with a lead of 18-3. DePauw’s goalie, junior Amy Clark, had never played a game of lacrosse before the match-up against Wilming-ton on Wednesday.
The team is supporting each other and has grown closer as they have begun to work toward the rest of their season.
“Over time we’ve gotten closer [as a team], but now that we’ve had a game, we build off of each other with our energy,” Ware said. “We set each other up for our individual strengths on the field. We know what we’re all good at.”
The first game has set the team up with new goals to reach as the season continues.
“Now that we have played a game and know what we need to work on, we have something to base our season off of and something to work for,” sophomore defender Ella Smoot said. “We’re not just practicing to play against ourselves anymore.”
The girls will travel to Franklin, Ind. next Wednesday, March 20 to face the Franklin College Grizzlies in their second game of the season.
Women’s lacrosse wins first game in impressive fashion
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In last weekend’s tennis tournament against the University of Chicago and Earlham College, junior Ben Kopecky went 3-1 in his matches. Ko-pecky won both singles matches as well as one doubles match with with fellow junior Sam Miles. This was the first time Kopecky felt fully prepared after coming back from a sprained ankle in preseason.
On his successful weekend:
“This was the first time I felt ready physically coming off of an injury. It felt good to get a glimpse at my potential. I played well but know I can play better. That goes for the entire team. We know we’ve been playing well but we can play better. We had a pretty rowdy crowd and their energy fueled our play and our win.”
Sophomore Carey Kunz draws the ball from junior Alison Kern of Wilmington University on Boswell field Wednesday afternoon. DePauw defeated Wilmington 26-6. SUNNY STRADER / THE DEPAUW
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Kathleen Molloy, a senior guard, fights for possession with a Christopher Newport University player last Saturday in the NCAA Division III round of eight. Molloy and the guard court will be critical in aiding on defense Williams College’s most potent scorer, Claire Baecher.
HOLLAND, Mich. — Kris Huffman said she’s done a lot of praying.DePauw’s head coach jokingly remarked when asked about how
her women’s basketball team would contain Williams College forward, Claire Baecher. Baecher averages 14.1 points per game, pulls down 7.3 rebounds per game and blocks more than two shots per contest.
The senior leads an Ephs (26-5) team ranked No. 1 in blocked shots per game at 8.0. She also leads a defense No. 2 in Division III holding opponents to 29.5 percent shooting from the field.
The strategy to contain her?“We have plan A, B and C to try and slow her down,” Huffman said
in a press conference Thursday afternoon. “But a lot of it is with team defense with us. If we pay too much attention to her someone else will go off.”
The Tigers (32-0) will deploy a host of schemes tonight in the De-Vos Fieldhouse in Holland, Mich., in the NCAA Division III semifinal. But Williams isn’t the only team with defensive prowess. DePauw has held teams to 50 or less points on 25 occasions during the season, and is No. 3 in fewest turnovers committed per contest (12.3).
On the minds of Ephs players is how to stop a potent DePauw of-
fense that is ranked No. 2 in scoring margin at +26.8.“They are definitely a running team with a lot of great shooters,”
Baecher said. “They play a similar style to us. We like to run and we have great shooters, and we have a little bit more patience than they do which I think will come to our advantage. We really need to be prepared to be calm and composed on offense.”
This is Williams’ first appearance in the NCAA semifinal in its 39-year program history. The senior class has reached the NCAA tourna-ment in each of their four years.
The amount of time spent on the court has helped to improve communication defensively, said Ephs head coach Pat Manning.
“You can’t play good defense unless you talk,” Manning said. “It’s almost like they know what the other one will do before they do it.”
“This team is the best defensive team I’ve ever coached, and the most cohesive team I’ve ever coached and also the most laid back. It lends for a lot of fun moments,” she added.
The question for Williams is can its offense sink more buckets than the Tigers?
Four Ephs players average more than eight points per game.“I think we have a lot of strength on offense and a lot of different
weapons,” Manning said. “We really need to move the ball and find the open player.”
That’s what the Ephs did last weekend in the round of eight against Whitman College. Williams downed Whitman, 63-53.
“We played the best first half we’ve played all season,” Manning said. “The ball was just moving, and when we do that and go inside to outside, it’s up to us to make the smart decisions.”
The question for DePauw is once again a question of length. Bae-cher is listed at 6-foot-3, while the tallest Tigers player to receive con-siderable minutes is Ellie Pearson, listed at 5’11”.
Because of the length of Williams, Huffman invited to practice this week a men’s practice squad to simulate the extra length. DePauw faced a similar height mismatch against Washington University in St. Louis last week, and still came out ahead, 58-42.
“(Washington) was a similar type of team in the perimeter and in the post, and we had to adjust to play that game,” Huffman said. “So hopefully we can move the basketball, that’s the best solution we have right now, and not be afraid to get it inside.”
Tipoff from the DeVos Fieldhouse is slated for 7:30 p.m.
DePauw vs. Williams — a defensive showdown
“We have plan A, B and C to try and slow her down. But a lot of it is with team defense with us. If we pay too
much attention to her someone else will go off.”
- Kris Huffman, head coach
“They are definitely a running team with a lot of great shooters,” Baecher said. “They play a similar style to us. We like to run and we have great shooters, and we
have a little bit more patience than they do which I think will come to our advantage. We really need to be
