VOL. 161, ISSUE 8 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2012 Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper By NICOLE DeCRISCIO [email protected]Facebook in recent years has been seen as a method of communication between friends and family. However, Facebook is taking on a new role as professors use it to take learning to a new level. “Facebook has developed into something far more than pictures, friends and a means to communicate,” said sophomore Kristen Dickman. “It’s starting to become a network- ing thing.” Professor Mark Tatge, Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor, is one of sev- eral professors using Facebook as an educa- tional tool here at DePauw for his Multimedia Storytelling class. He created a closed group and added the students to the group, where they exchange tips, techniques and ideas. “I think that in today’s classroom, you need to engage students,” Tatge said. “You need to basically approach them on a lot of different levels. You have to communicate with them in more than one venue. I wanted to offer a venue where they would partici- pate.” 21 Number of hospital runs during the 2011-2012 school year Facebook | continued on page 4 The annual average number of hospital runs for DePauw is 24. 115 Number of incidents where Public Safety dealt with intoxicated students in the 2011-2012 school year The highest number of incidents occured in the 2007-2008 school year with 410 incidents. By ABBY MARGULIS [email protected]Last year, many students at De- Pauw lived up to the university’s “Top Party School Ranking.” The result was at least 21 stu- dents transported to Putnam County Hospital for high BACs and over 100 incidents of intoxicated students with Public Safety officers. DePauw’s social life has turned into a high-risk alcohol scene. Last spring, the university took action by creating a new alcohol policy banning hard liquor from reg- istered fraternity events. But after much disapproval from students, the university lifted the ban and is now discussing new measures to slow down high-risk drinking at DePauw. The alcohol collaborative group, chaired by Vice-President of Stu- dent Life Cindy Babington, features students and faculty working to de- velop initiatives to address high-risk drinking. The group will introduce initiatives to combat high-level in- toxication and study those issues through data feedback to critically evaluate whether they are making an impact. The policy stated that if hard alcohol was served at a registered event and policy violations came to the university’s attention then the sanction would be more stringent than if other types of violations oc- curred. Additionally, individuals would be sanctioned more harshly for using hard alcohol as opposed to beer or wine. After the alcohol collaborative group received negative feedback from fraternity and sorority presi- dents and DePauw Student Govern- ment, the group reconvened. Students in these organizations felt like there could be a better way to create a safer alcohol scene on campus. In recent years, the univer- sity has continued to become more concerned with students drinking hard alcohol, leading to more black outs. More alcohol comsumption has put students into increasingly dangerous situations. BACk Down, a group of seven students, was formed over the sum- mer to meet weekly to discuss crea- tive solutions to DePauw’s high BAC levels. DSG President Sara Scully de- fined the group’s mission. “It’s us collaborating to form ini- tiatives and create creative solutions to protect students’ safety while still continuing our engaging social at- mosphere,” Scully said. The group was formed for many reasons, one of which being the high number of BAC levels being over .3 percent. Greek Life Coordinator P.J. Mitchell, who helped spearhead the group, sees BACk Down as a neces- sary group to have on campus. “Our campus was heading to- wards a ledge [with the high BAC levels and hospital runs], and we want to push back against it before it goes too far,” Mitchell said. The group protects student safety by keep students from cross- ing the dangerous line of alcohol comsumption at DePauw’s social scene. Some mem- bers of the group include seniors Sara Scully, Mark Fadel, Emily Vi- erk, Jonathan Rosario, Tyler Witherspoon, junior Paul Mp- istolarides and sophomore Eric St. Bernard. In the past three meetings, two ideas have been discussed and plan to be im- plemented. The first is a talk with freshmen that will happen next week. The group discussed having up- perclassmen come talk with freshman about proper greek etiquette at fraternities when at- tending registered events. It is planned to be a ques- tion and answer session for freshmen to gather more understanding for what it means to go out onto greek property and what it means to be safe. The second idea generat- ed is to provide more food for students when they go out. The Hub closes at midnight, only leaving Marvin’s in direct walking distance for DePauw wants to reduce binge drinking by 25% DePauw want to reduce pregaming by 20% DePauw wants to reduce alcohol consumed by student athletes by 25% 55% 6.5 drinks 34.2% of students according to a 2011 survey 37% of students according to a 2012 survey 5 drinks 40% University abandons hard-liquor ban; begins search for new alternatives Alcohol | continued on page 3 Professors connecting on social media Data collected by S.O.A.R. and Dr. Propsom and taken from DePauw University’s 2011- 2012 Alcohol and Other Drugs Programs Annual Report Graphic by Lizzie Hineamn WHERE DOES DEPAUW’S TRASH GO? Turn to pages 6 & 7 to find out Greencastle man stabbed blocks from campus page 3
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a method of communication between friends and family. However, Facebook is taking on a new role as professors use it to take learning to a new level.
“Facebook has developed into something far more than pictures, friends and a means to communicate,” said sophomore Kristen Dickman. “It’s starting to become a network-ing thing.”
Professor Mark Tatge, Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor, is one of sev-eral professors using Facebook as an educa-tional tool here at DePauw for his Multimedia Storytelling class. He created a closed group and added the students to the group, where they exchange tips, techniques and ideas.
“I think that in today’s classroom, you need to engage students,” Tatge said. “You need to basically approach them on a lot of different levels. You have to communicate with them in more than one venue. I wanted to offer a venue where they would partici-pate.”
21Number of hospital runs during the 2011-2012 school year
Facebook | continued on page 4
The annual average number of hospital runs for DePauw is 24.
Last year, many students at De-Pauw lived up to the university’s “Top Party School Ranking.”
The result was at least 21 stu-dents transported to Putnam County Hospital for high BACs and over 100 incidents of intoxicated students with Public Safety officers.
DePauw’s social life has turned into a high-risk alcohol scene.
Last spring, the university took action by creating a new alcohol policy banning hard liquor from reg-istered fraternity events. But after much disapproval from students, the university lifted the ban and is now discussing new measures to slow down high-risk drinking at DePauw.
The alcohol collaborative group, chaired by Vice-President of Stu-dent Life Cindy Babington, features students and faculty working to de-velop initiatives to address high-risk drinking. The group will introduce initiatives to combat high-level in-toxication and study those issues through data feedback to critically evaluate whether they are making an impact.
The policy stated that if hard alcohol was served at a registered event and policy violations came to the university’s attention then the sanction would be more stringent than if other types of violations oc-curred. Additionally, individuals would be sanctioned more harshly for using hard alcohol as opposed to beer or wine.
After the alcohol collaborative
group received negative feedback from fraternity and sorority presi-dents and DePauw Student Govern-ment, the group reconvened.
Students in these organizations felt like there could be a better way to create a safer alcohol scene on campus.
In recent years, the univer-sity has continued to become more concerned with students drinking hard alcohol, leading to more black outs. More alcohol comsumption has put students into increasingly dangerous situations.
BACk Down, a group of seven students, was formed over the sum-mer to meet weekly to discuss crea-tive solutions to DePauw’s high BAC levels.
DSG President Sara Scully de-fined the group’s mission.
“It’s us collaborating to form ini-tiatives and create creative solutions to protect students’ safety while still continuing our engaging social at-mosphere,” Scully said.
The group was formed for many reasons, one of which being the high number of BAC levels being over .3 percent.
Greek Life Coordinator P.J. Mitchell, who helped spearhead the group, sees BACk Down as a neces-sary group to have on campus.
“Our campus was heading to-wards a ledge [with the high BAC levels and hospital runs], and we want to push back against it before it goes too far,” Mitchell said.
The group protects student safety by keep students from cross-ing the dangerous line of alcohol comsumption at DePauw’s social scene.
Some mem-bers of the group include seniors Sara Scully, Mark Fadel, Emily Vi-erk, Jonathan Rosario, Tyler Wi ther spoon , junior Paul Mp-istolarides and sophomore Eric St. Bernard.
In the past three meetings, two ideas have been discussed and plan to be im-plemented.
The first is a talk with freshmen that will happen next week. The group discussed having up-perclassmen come talk with freshman about proper greek etiquette at fraternities when at-tending registered events. It is planned to be a ques-tion and answer session for freshmen to gather more understanding for what it means to go out onto greek property and what it means to be safe.
The second idea generat-ed is to provide more food for students when they go out. The Hub closes at midnight, only leaving Marvin’s in direct walking distance for
DePauw wants to reduce binge drinking by 25%
DePauw want to reduce pregaming by 20%
DePauw wants to reduce alcohol consumed by student athletes
by 25%
55%
6.5 drinks
34.2% of students according to a 2011
survey
37% of students according to a 2012
survey
5 drinks
40%
University abandons hard-liquor ban; begins search for new alternatives
Alcohol | continued on page 3
Professors connecting on social media
Data collected by S.O.A.R. and Dr. Propsom and taken from DePauw University’s 2011-2012 Alcohol and Other Drugs Programs Annual Report
Graphic by Lizzie Hineamn
WHERE DOES DEPAUW’S TRASH GO?
Turn to pages 6 & 7 to find out
Greencastle man stabbed blocks from campus
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Health concerns in the African-American commu-nity have become a national problem, according to the campus Association of African American Students (AAAS). Students at DePauw are raising awareness in order to promote healthy lifestyles.
“Healthy is Sexy” is a month-long series of events organized by AAAS to provide insights and skills to be-coming a healthier person.
While “Healthy is Sexy” targets DePauw’s African-American community, any student on campus can at-tend. Previous events have included Zumba, dodgeball and various health presentations.
According to the Food Research and Action Center, 82.1 percent of African-American women and 69.9 per-cent of African-American men are overweight or obese. Such health problems can lead to a myriad of issues in-cluding type two diabetes, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
Half an hour of cardio and strength/weight training several times a week can curb these numbers, accord-ing to AAAS event organizer Khadijah Crosby, a junior.
“We’d like to raise awareness of different health problems we’re facing and try to change them because they can be prevented with proper diet exercise and physical activity,” Crosby said.
“Healthy is Sexy” is a new take on the familiar idea of getting in shape.
“It’s something different from what we’ve done before — that’s the most striking thing about it,” said AAAS President Jorden Giger.
Because the series is only a month long, Crosby has smaller but more significant and realistic goals in mind than rippling biceps.
“Students don’t need to work out every day and become athletic,” Crosby said. “We just want them to start to become more physically active.”
Planning for this series entailed gaining insight into the health problems and routine procedural solutions. Scheduling for a month-long event posed more than a few obstacles though, even when planning far in ad-vance.
“Booking rooms was hard, especially with finding the right room at the perfect time,” Crosby said.
After first visiting Lilly for a workout, Crosby saw the dilemma firsthand.
“When I went to the gym, I didn’t see too many minorities, and I felt like that’s the problem,” Crosby said. “I wanted to change that, the sedentary lifestyle.”
Crosby recognized the implications of these health statistics after that experience.
“We have to do better,” Crosby said. “If not, we’re facing an early death.”
After some summer work, “Healthy is Sexy” is now
in effect, and students are excited to participate.“This program sounds like it’ll make a connection
between activity and fun,” said freshman Benjamin Da-vis. “That connection is what will keep people active and continuing such healthy lifestyles.”
Upcoming events for “Healthy is Sexy” include a lecture from Dr. NiCole R. Keith of IUPUI about physi-cal activity and health in the black community, a pres-entation about proper diet and meals at locations on campus, tied together by a course at the end of the month.
“We would really like people to come out to the events,” Crosby said. “It’s targeted to audiences of the black community, but obviously the events are open to the entire campus.”
However, obstacles to maintaining a healthier lifestyle arise no matter the advantages. Time manage-ment is essential to any student, especially one who is trying to fit in an exercise routine.
“People have to make the time, but if you make the exercise enjoyable, and people are having fun, they’ll find the time,” Davis said. “As long as that activity func-tions as exercise.”
Students can find the schedule for all “Healthy is Sexy” events online at DePauw e-services.
“We all have a lot to do, but we can’t make excuses about not going to the gym,” Crosby said. “These sta-tistics are scary. That’s our future.”
AAAS hosts “Healthy is Sexy” initiative
Students gathered at Lilly Auxiliary Gym on Wednesday night to play dodgeball, a “Healthy is Sexy” event. ASHLEY ISAAC / THE DEPAUW
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What makes a good teacher? Ap-parently, DePauw does.
This year, DePauw tied for second nationally with Amherst College as a small school—2,999 or fewer under-graduates—contributing the most students to the Teach for America program, with 19 students joining the corps (compared to top-ranked 21 from Wellesley College in Wellesly, Mass.). Teach for America is a nation-al corps committed to solving educa-tional inequality.
The program recruits young, often fresh-out-of-college men and women to teach in disadvantaged urban and rural schools. These are not easy jobs—yet many DePauw graduates are drawn to this program.
Matt Jennings ‘09 started out in the Teach For America program as a 9th grade English and English as a Second Language teacher at a school in Houston, Texas. After finishing his two-year commitment to teach-ing, Jennings decided he wanted to continue to be involved in Teach for America.
He is now a recruitment manager for several private schools in Ohio
and Indiana, including DePauw. Matt isn’t the only TFA alumnus who chose to continue a career in education—in fact, 63% of TFA’s 23,000 alumni con-tinue to work full time in education-related fields.
Jennings had not always planned to end up with Teach for America, though. As political science and French double major, he didn’t de-cide to join Teach for America until his senior year.
“When I was in my senior year and saw all the opportunities that a DeP-auw education had given me, I also realized that so many students are systematically denied these same op-portunities,” Jennings said. “Teach for America had tangible ways to provide these kids with the means to achieve those opportunities.”
Siobhan Lau ’09 also currently works for Teach For America, but not in the classroom. She is part of the Chicago region development team and didn’t join the organization until after attending graduate school at the University of Cincinnati.
“I worked in an arts integration program at six different elementary schools,” Lau said. “It was there that I realized the education inequity in America for the first time. It is unjust that I had a better chance to go to a
school like DePauw than a student from Over the Rhine in Cincinnati or from the South Side of Chicago because of the zip code I grew up in and thus the access I had to great schools.”
Teach for America was always a presence at DePauw, Lau said. In her opinion, one reason that DePauw stu-dents find themselves exceptionally prepared for the hardships of teach-ing in disadvantaged and rural areas is the amount of leadership opportuni-ties available to the DePauw student.
“Being an effective leader is es-sential when trying to manage a class-room in the conditions that these teachers have to teach in and even when interacting with other teach-ers,” Lau said.
Kelsey Moore ‘12 agreed with Lau’s assertion that leadership skills are important in the classroom. Moore is in her sixth week of teaching at an Indianapolis charter school.
“It’s the most challenging experi-ence of my life,” she said. “It’s not a job—it’s my whole life.”
Moore, who often works 16-hours days, added: “It’s really, really hard—they don’t tell you how hard it is be-fore you get there. But it will probably be the most rewarding experience of my life.”
Jennings agreed that the hard-ships of teaching were worth the good moments.
“It’s not just about the quantita-tive stuff—the test scores,” he said. “It’s about really seeing a change in your student as the year goes by.”
According to Jennings, a crucial el-ement of DePauw that contributed to his decision to join Teach for America was the sense of social responsibil-ity that was instilled in him by many professors. He mentioned his first year seminar, in which the professor exposed the class to global social in-justices and “not only taught, but in-spired us to go out and do something, even if just on campus or studying abroad,” Jennings said.
However, the path to educa-tion equity in the United States is not as simple as a two-year teaching stint. Emily Smedra ‘11 knew since high school that she wanted to be a teacher, and after having experienced the Teach for America program, now aspires to be in education administra-tion.
“This experience has shown me that a certain amount of change has to come from higher up,” Smedra said.
DePauw graduates and Teach for Amercica strive to make the dream of equal education across the na-
Tommie Badgley, 53, was pro-nounced dead at Putnam County Hos-pital Wednesday evening after he was al-legedly stabbed in the upper chest by his son, according to the Greencastle Police Department.
At approximately 5:48 p.m., Green-castle officers responded to a residence on the 900 block of Crown Street after a reported stabbing.
Upon arrival, officers found Badgley inside the residence suffering from a stab wound to the upper chest. His son, Thomas Badgley, 21, was taken into cus-tody without incident, police said.
Witnesses at the scene told offic-ers said that Thomas Badgley’s parents, Tommie and Debbie Badgley, were visit-ing their son at the house when an alter-cation took place between the father and son, police said.
Thomas Badgley is currently in cus-tody at the Putnam County Jail pending charges by the Putnam County Prosecu-tor.
He will be arraigned in court Friday at the Putnam County Courthouse.
Greencastle man stabbed, killed by son blocks away from Hogate Hall
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students. There has also been talk amongst a
variety of students about the university allowing kegs if they are to ban hard alcohol.
Scully and Fadel are skeptical about allowing kegs for fear of how students would use them. The group is open to gathering feedback from students
about ideas to help regulate the grow-ing trend of binge drinking, and BACk Down will continue to meet weekly throughout the rest of the school year to discuss ways to deter drinking in ex-cess.
They will be tracking progress through data showing the number of hospital runs, extreme BAC levels over .3 percent, average BAC levels, number of drinks students have in a night and what type of drinks those are.
The group provides students to
have important conversations for what their expectations for each other are socially, and it is ultimately working to-wards creating an environment without putting students at risk, Mitchell said.
BACk Down is only one project on DePauw’s campus to take initiatives towards creating a safer student com-munity socially. DePauw is part of the National Alcohol Collaborative, giving them the opportunity to share ideas with 32 other universities working to-wards a similar goal.
Through this collaborative, other programs have been developed such as the CATS program, a paid sober monitor and peer education program. Another program is BASICS, a more ef-fective individual alcohol-screening tool and an extension of the program for student-athletes alcohol presentations.
BACk Down and these other pro-jects let the university find different approaches to help the community be-come safer.
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September 11th
• Suspicious vehicle/after hours violation • Subjects located/verbal warning issued | Time: 11:18 p.m. | Place: Nature Park lot
September 12th
• Medical • Transported to Putnam County Hospital | Time: 11:06 a.m. | Place: Emison
September 13th
• Noise – loud music • Forwarded to Campus Living | Time: 12:06 a.m. | Place: Chabraja Hall
• Possession of false ID • Released to custody of friend/forwarded to Prosecu-tor’s office and Commu-nity Standards Committee | Time: 1:18 a.m. | Place: Jackson Street
• Alcohol violation • Released to custody of friend/Forwarded to Commu-nity Standards Committee | Time: 1:20 a.m. | Place: Bowman Park
On page three of the Sept. 11, 2012, issue of The DePauw, the university’s net tuition and educational expenses were in-correctly stated. The average net tuition per student is actually $16,188, whereas the average net educational expense per stu-dent is $36,530.
Despite Tatge’s assertion that “eve-ryone’s on it all the time, I’m not a heavy Facebook user,” junior Christine Webster said.
Dickman also points to the fact that Facebook is a distraction from school work a lot of the time. She uses the Macbook application Self Control to temporarily block social media sites, so she can be more productive.
“I don’t see how it’s much different than a Moodle forum,” Webster said. “I feel that Facebook and school are two
different things...I find it more produc-tive if a professor emails from Moodle or their personal email. It’s a definite thing. If it’s Facebook it’s more option-al because it’s a fun thing.”
Facebook still has other drawbacks when it comes to educational purpos-es, according to Dickman.
“I ignore my newsfeed because it’s a newsfeed of everybody,” said Dickman. In addition, one of the many drawbacks is the excessive notifications, which Dickman related to annoying ‘reply all’ emails.
Even Tatge acknowledged the shortcomings of Facebook. He points to the excessive ads, invasiveness and difficulty in finding someone with a
common name. He even admits that there are other networks that would work better than Facebook.
“Google+ is easier to use than Face-book,” Tatge said. “It’s not as cumber-some.”
Facebook has not yet crossed com-pletely into the education threshold, though. It still lacks the general accept-ance of it as an educational tool.
“If teachers move to Facebook for classes, I think Facebook will be less and less used,” Dickman said.
While Dickman and Webster did not personally have any issues with being Facebook friends with their professor, they did both recognize that some stu-dents could be worried about it being
an invasion of privacy. Webster offers the following advice
to those with this concern and as a gen-eral rule for all.
“If there’s something on your Face-book that you don’t want a professor to see, then you probably shouldn’t have it there for everyone to see,” Webster said.
Finally, Webster addressed the is-sue of some students not having a Fa-cebook.
“There needs to be another means of being able to communicate [the] in-formation [from the class], and I think my professor realizes that,” she said.
Delbert Tibbs stood on a stage and spoke slowly and deliberately about the time he spent five years as a death row inmate.
“God sent me to death row so I could be a witness,” he said in front of an audi-ence at Peeler Auditorium Tuesday night.
Tibbs, now in his 70s, was featured in events on DePauw’s campus this week to tell the story of his 1974 arrest that even-tually put him on death row for five years after he was wrongfully accused of rape and murder in Fort Meyers, Fla.
In 1974, Tibbs was enjoying his youth traveling across the U.S.—by foot. He had held several jobs before attending the Chicago Theological Seminary from 1970 from 1972, but after two years, he decided the seminary was not the right place for him.
Tibbs was walking along a highway in Mississippi when was he stopped by a police officer who informed him he was wanted for arrest in Ft. Meyers, Fla. He was moved to the city and watched the news coverage of himself arriving in handcuffs a few days later from a Fort Meyers jail.
He said it was only after he was picked out of a lineup that morning that he realized the amount of trouble he was in.
“I was living in some sort of night-mare,” he said.
Tibbs was found guilty for the rape of a 17-year-old woman and a 27-year-old man in front of an all-white jury, despite the fact he did not meet the witness’s
description. The woman said it was a 5’4” black man, and Tibbs is well over 6’2”. And he had never even been to Fort Meyers, Fla.
What followed was an eight-year bat-tle that reached as high as the Florida Su-preme Court before the case was eventu-ally dropped by the prosecutor who said his witness may not be reliable.
But Tibbs still spent five of those eight years in a maximum security Flor-ida state prison.
Tibbs spoke to the crowd Tuesday night about his experience in a casual, informative voice—sometimes even with humor—but stressed the power of “agita-tion” to create change.
A friend of his from Chicago started the Gilbert Tibbs Defense Committee to raise awareness and money for Tibbs’ case and created a small national move-ment for his release.
“Agitation makes a difference,” Tibbs said. “It lets the powers that be know that people are not satisfied with the way things are.”
Tibbs’ continues to fight today through the Witness to Innocence advo-cacy group. An organization dedicated to abolishing the death penalty in America.
Nicki Hewell ’11, Graduate Fellow at the Prindle Institute, worked with the Indiana Abolition Coalition and the Men of Justice, a DePauw organization, in bringing Tibbs and was happy with the turnout.
She said about 20 students also met with Tibbs for a more intimate conversa-tion Wednesday afternoon at the Doro-thy Brown Cultural Resource Center.
Senior Jorden Giger, President of Men for Justice, was impressed with
Tibbs “willingness to share his personal stories” and emphasized the importance of his message.
“I think his story is incredibly impor-tant in an age in which men and women of color are being incarcerated at enor-mously high rates,” Giger said. “We are
the future of the United States and if we are unaware of the ways in which the least empowered or least represented groups among us are being dispropor-tionately imprisoned, we run the risk of allowing injustice to continue on for an-other generation.”
The Delbert Tibbs’ story: Life after death row
Dilbert Tibbs speaks about his time as a death row inmate in Florida dur-ing a lecture at Peeler auditorium on Tuesday. PHOTO COURTESY OF HENRY DAMBANEMUYA
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It’s been about a year and half since Mark McCoy was hired as Dean of the School of Music, and many of his ideas are now tangible plans as the School of Music undergoes various changes this fall.
Some of the differences include added visibility of the Student Advisory Board and a weekly recital hour in which every music student has the opportunity to perform to a packed house. But the new school year has brought even more attention to the music school with the goal of continuing to improve.
One important addition is large en-sembles return to touring. Groups such as the Chamber Singers, Jazz Ensemble and many others will be touring across the U.S. The orchestra will also travel to England during Winter Term.
“The first step in spreading the word about the great things we are doing here is getting our groups out on the road,” McCoy said. “There are no serious schools of music who aren’t on the road all the time.”
This high level of performance is brought about by many changes in struc-ture within the music school, including a shift in end-of-the-semester juries.
All students within the School of Mu-sic must complete an end of the semes-ter jury on their instrument, showcasing progress to the faculty, much like a ‘final exam.’ This year, the School of Music is trying an 8-level process.
Each performance student must reach an 8 – meaning they are ready for graduate school – before commence-ment. If they do not, the degree will not be earned, and they must return each semester for juries until that level is reached.
“I think that leveled juries are more or less ‘good’ in theory,” said junior Tom Piotrowski, a double major in euphoni-um and biochemistry. “The whole mind-set behind them is appropriate. It forces students to want to achieve a certain level of competency on their respected instrument.”
However, Piotrowski fears that although this will force students to achieve great success, the pressure may be inappropriate for the undergraduate
education. He also hopes it doesn’t de-ter College of Liberal Arts students from getting involved with the programs.
This year, the levels are on a trial basis and will not affect any current stu-dent. Once the levels are refined, the next incoming class will begin the new process. Bachelor of Music Education and Bachelor of Musical Arts degrees will have to reach a slightly lower level in order to reach graduation.
“I think these changes are truly go-ing to alter the way the DePauw School of Music is seen to the rest of campus, the community and all of the prospec-tive music students,” said junior voice performance major Elleka Okerstrom. “We are a serious school, and these new policies reflect that. It's all about recruit-ing the best incoming students that we can and pushing our current students to their maximum potential.”
In addition, DePauw University has adopted Greencastle Middle School’s music program. Beginning September 19, students will volunteer their time to guide students in music. DePauw is also creating a preparatory music school in which current university students will actually teach private lessons to mem-bers of the community.
“We are looking at a ‘CommUniver-sity’ which is a coming together of uni-versity and community to provide not just college-aged music instruction, but all ages with instruction,” McCoy said. “It’s an opportunity for us to make a big impact in our community because were reaching out to help with music pro-grams in public schools.”
To round out the new school year, well-known guest artists from Indianap-olis Symphony Orchestra to Project Trio will be performing at DePauw this year.
“These are fantastic musicians, and it’s aimed for the CLA so we hope that the College of Liberal Arts will join us and come celebrate these great musi-cians,” McCoy said.
Piotrowski and Okerstrom both agreed, stating that the guest artist se-ries were what both looked forward to the most this year.
“DePauw was one of the first schools of music in America,” McCoy said. “We are a leader in music in America and we need to take that role seriously. So how can we move ourselves forward?”
School of Music increases jury difficulty, embraces changes By LEEANN SAUSSER
Most people do not think of chil-dren’s books posing ethical ques-tions, but a symposium at Prindle this weekend wants to change that.
Claudia Mills, the Robert and Car-olyn Distinguished Visiting Professor of Ethics, has always loved both eth-ics and children’s books, since she is a professor of philosophy and a chil-dren’s book writer. When she came to DePauw, she knew that it would be the perfect venue to hold “Ethics and Children’s Literature: A Symposium.”
“DePauw has such a focus on making connections across disci-plines that it seemed like a wonderful place to host a conference that would actually bring ethics and children’s lit-erature together,” Mills said.
The symposium is meant as a place for children’s authors, chil-dren’s literature scholars and phi-losophers to all come together and combine their separate fields. The attendees will discuss the importance of the ethics instilled in children from literature.
“We just tend to be in our lit-tle narrow disciplinary tracks,” Mills said. “It’s the thought of jumping those tracks and going off into the big flower-filled meadow together and having those conversations that you wouldn’t get to have.”
The conference will consist of three keynote speakers, then a se-ries of sessions with presentations by scholars and students on a vari-ety of topics concerning ethics and children’s literature. Two of the pre-senters are DePauw students, senior Alex Chamberlain and junior Rita Nikonova. They were chosen from several submitted abstracts to present papers at the symposium, and are the only undergraduates who will be pre-senting.
Chamberlain took the opportu-nity to get her opinion out there and write about something important to her — racism. Her paper focuses on the reaction of audiences to “The Hunger Games” movie, and the race chose for some characters.
“People still nowadays don’t get equality and they don’t care to get it—And that’s something that’s really frustrating for me,” Chamberlain said. “It comes from the way they were
taught and the way they grew up, and the only way to change it is to change the way a child is brought up.”
Nikonova is also looking at “The Hunger Games,” comparing the mor-al code of Katniss to the one of Jerry in “The Chocolate War.”
The scholars attending the confer-ence find the combination of ethics and children’s literature an important connection to consider. For Cham-berlain, books are an important part of childhood, and the impact they have can make a huge difference in the development of a person.
Mills hopes that children are in the audience so that they can gain this awareness of ethics, especially during the talk with children’s au-thor Susan Campbell Bartoletti. She is looking forward to having a very diverse audience, including her chil-dren’s literature class, the scholars presenting and hopefully members of the community and students at DePauw.
Both Nikonova and Chamber-lain are excited for the experience to meet these scholars and learn from the presentations. As for their own talks, having her peers in the audience gives Nikonova more confi-dence, while Chamberlain finds her-self more nervous than usual.
“I’m presenting to people who are older than me, more schooled than me, [and] I want to be able to prove myself to them,” she said.
After the conference, Chamber-lain hopes her paper goes further, and it is possible with an interested publisher looking to collect the pa-pers into a book.
Mills sees the end results as mean-ing something even more.
“[It should] keep ethical ques-tions on the radar of authors and scholars as they go about their writing and scholarship,” Mills said. “These [are] fruitful intersections that I’d like to foster.”
Prindle hosts children’s lit conference
Award-winning young fiction writer Susan Campbell Bartoletti signs a audience member’s book after her keynote speech at Prindle Thursday. ASHLEY ISAAC / THE DEPAUW
What’s in your trashcan? For most people, trash talk is a rather unusual conversation starter. We dispose of our trash and continue on with the day. But for the university facilities staff, waste management is a constant discus-sion topic. The staff, which works at all hours of the night, works to clean the campus before most students even eat breakfast.
On average, DePauw produces approximately 100,000 pounds of paper and 50,000 pounds of compost each year. These estimates are compiled from the staff’s monthly reports, according to Facilities Director Tony Rob-ertson.
Randy Young, a facilities staff member, begins his shift in the GCPA at 6 a.m., collecting trash and recyclables from various offices in the Music Li-brary. He then moves to the lower level of the music wing closest to College Street, commonly referred to as “Bum Alley” by students. Since the area is a common evening study space for students, coffee cups and sandwich wrap-pers are often left behind.
The morning shift is also responsible for collecting the waste from Café Allegro in the Great Hall, the Music Library and the copiers. They often end their shift by gathering the trash and recycling from the trash bins located around the perimeter of the GCPA.
All residence halls have trash col-
lection between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. with one housekeeper being in charge of two floors. Their shift begins by cleaning the common area, lobby, stairways, television room and laundry room. After a 30-minute break, the housekeep-ers then clean their assisgned floors and head to the recycling rooms.
As part of the university’s efforts to be greener, the trash and recycling bins have been placed in separate locations on every floor in hopes to elimi-nate the confusion over the recyclable nature of certain products. The trash cans are located in the bathrooms and kitchen while the recycling bins are located in the middle closet on the floor. Despite this effort, facilities staff member Candy Price said that some floors are better at recycling than oth-ers.
More popular buildings, such as the GCPA, Julian and all of Academic Quad, have trash collected multiple times a day. Workers from all three shifts are in charge of maintaining their cleanliness around the clock.
Ron Howard, head of the Greencastle division of Republic Services, provided insight on the detailed process on waste management in a phone interview.
“The trash is picked up from the campus every day depending on the volume,” Howard said. “Once it is collected, the waste and recyclable mate-rial are shipped to various locations across Indiana.”
The waste is dropped off at the Greencastle Transfer Station, located near the city limits. It is then placed inside an industrial-sized trailer. Once the trailer is filled completely, it is
then transported to the Sycamore Ridge
Americans throw away enough paper and plastic cups, forks and spoons a year to circle the equator 300 times.
Office workers in the U.S. generate approximately two pounds of paper and paperboard products every day.
In just one year, Americans use approximately 1 billion shopping bags, creating 300,000 tons of landfill waste.
The estimated 2.6 billion holiday cards sold each year in the U.S. could fill a football field 10 stories high.
Recycling 1 ton of aluminum cans conserves more than 207 million British thermal units, which is equal to 36 barrels of oil, or 1,665 gallons of gasoline.
Waste incinerators create more CO2 emissions than coal, oil or natural gas-fueled power plants.
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Taking Out the Trash: lection between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. with one housekeeper being in charge of two floors. Their shift begins by cleaning the common area, lobby, stairways, television room and laundry room. After a 30-minute break, the housekeep-ers then clean their assisgned floors and head to the recycling rooms.
As part of the university’s efforts to be greener, the trash and recycling bins have been placed in separate locations on every floor in hopes to elimi-nate the confusion over the recyclable nature of certain products. The trash cans are located in the bathrooms and kitchen while the recycling bins are located in the middle closet on the floor. Despite this effort, facilities staff member Candy Price said that some floors are better at recycling than oth-ers.
More popular buildings, such as the GCPA, Julian and all of Academic Quad, have trash collected multiple times a day. Workers from all three shifts are in charge of maintaining their cleanliness around the clock.
Ron Howard, head of the Greencastle division of Republic Services, provided insight on the detailed process on waste management in a phone interview.
“The trash is picked up from the campus every day depending on the volume,” Howard said. “Once it is collected, the waste and recyclable mate-rial are shipped to various locations across Indiana.”
The waste is dropped off at the Greencastle Transfer Station, located near the city limits. It is then placed inside an industrial-sized trailer. Once the trailer is filled completely, it is
then transported to the Sycamore Ridge
Landfill in Terre Haute.The recyclable material is transported to sorting facility in Indianapolis
on 96th street and segregated into different bins. This location accepts all recyclable material, including all plastics 1-7 and aluminum 1-10. Once the sorting is completed, the material is sold to vendors all over the country. Paper is distributed to mills across the state. Aluminum is sold to big brand vendors, such as Pepsi and Bush, to remake aluminum cans that can be used to distribute their products back into the market.
Students have commented on the overall cleanliness of the academic buildings on campus, especially during the week. Those taking morning classes rarely complain about a disorderly classroom. Junior Courtney Bow-ers has classes throughout the day in several academic buildings and rarely notices a change in cleanliness.
DePauw still has room to improve. High traffic areas, such as Roy, the GCPA and the dining halls have proven to be the most difficult areas on campus to keep clean. With people always on the go, spills and crumbs are inevitable, making the space appear unkept.
“If people throw away recycla-ble material in the trash, it is considered contaminated and cannot be removed and recycled,” said Sheri Comer, a facilities staff member.
Littering has also been a common complaint among students. Freshman Norah Gorman recounts that some mornings, entire meals and other ran-dom trash are tossed carelessly on the sidewalks.
“It makes me mad because I hate littering,” Gorman said.The absence of the facilities staff on the weekend has also affected the
campus’ overall appearance.“After a weekend, there is trash everywhere. I can find red solo cups and
beer cans all over the place on a Sunday morning,” Bowers said.DePauw has already begun a movement towards more effective sustain-
ability, such as the ban on plastic bottles sold in the dining halls and the monitoring of sprinklers on campus. With a campus wide effort, the univer-sity can transform itself into a greener environment.
A closer look at DePauw’s waste m a n a g e m e n t
The bubble just popped, my friends. We get too comfortable here. We walk down the same streets each day, on the way to the same classes. On the
weekends we hang out at the same places. It’s easy to get lulled into a routine here, and there’s not necessarily anything wrong with that.
But I find that my DePauw experience has definitely been enhanced by just a handful of chances I took to get off campus and explore Greencastle.
It’s easy to believe the notion that DePauw is our home, but Greencastle is a small town, and we are an essential part of it. DePauw is just a part of our larger Greencastle home, and it troubles me how few of my friends have ex-plored its many nuances.
Our Nature Park is a great place to start. I often take it for granted, I’ve spent so much time out there I could run its trails backwards and blindfolded. But sometimes I go out there alone, stop at the overlook and just enjoy the serene silence. It’s good for the soul.
But if you’ve been there and done that, there’s more to the story.
I love to drive around “rural Greencastle” in the fall. The roads are winding, the terrain is a little hilly, and there are a lot of great views out there. Head out towards the Dunbar covered bridge; on your way back to campus you’ll be treated to an aerial view of our campus.
It’s amazing to look at our world in a new way, and I promise you’ll carry a more grateful perspective with you
when you return.Cataract Falls is about a 20-minute drive from campus.
That’s right, you are only 20 minutes away from Indiana’s largest waterfall (by volume). It’s a great place to relax, do a little reading and lose yourself in the sound of the moving water. Climb on the rocks and rediscover some of your childlike energy.
Just because it doesn’t have a screen and buttons doesn’t mean it isn’t worth your while. Sometimes we have to disconnect to reconnect.
If you want to get a little grimy, and more than a little creeped, head out for the Four Arches; a bridge over a mostly forgotten Greencastle road. You can crawl from one end to the other through the arches in the middle. Once you’re down, head up top and throw some rocks off the train tracks. If being scared is your thing, look up the Edna Collins covered bridg. I won’t get into the story of it here, but it has creeped me out more than a couple times.
That of course is a short list — a very short list — of some off-beat things to do in this home we all share. Get your friends together, do it alone even, there’s no shame. Head out on an adventure, we’ll be here when you get back. Trust me this place has a unique charm, a lure all its own. If you fail to explore it, you haven’t taken all you can from this amazing place.
Check out for a while, it’s ok I promise, the roads are always open.
— Droddy is a senior from Indianapolis, Ind. majoring in communication.
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Venture off the beaten path in Greencastle
Drinking policies wishy-washyIs drinking a problem at DePauw?Our administration says yes and no. In President Casey’s email to students, he said our
No. 12 party school rating was inaccurate, yet our participation in the Learning Collabora-tive on High-Risk Drinking implies that we are increasingly toeing the line of dangerous levels of partying.
DePauw Student Government has convened several times this semester to discuss ways to slow us down, and the administration is backing them.
In college, the line between drinking and getting drunk becomes blurred and there is a tendency to turn a blind eye at underage drinking. Unfortunately, the truth is that excessive alcohol consumption is a problem for nearly every campus. Drinking is not the concern — they can’t stop the students from comsuming alcohol; it’s the rising BACs and number of hospital runs that has caused the administration and student government to deem DePauw’s social nightlife as dangerous.
In an effort to monitor the drinking culture of DePauw and encourage safer social habits, DePauw administration and student government has collaborated to create pro-grams like S.O.A.R., C.A.T.S. and now the newest program BACk Down (which we think is a clever name).
However, after all this talking, we haven’t seen a decline in the drinking-related inci-dents. DePauw’s drinking culture is heading down a slippery slope, and there needs to be action before we get to the bottom and a line is crossed.
As far as addressing the situation, all we’ve really noticed are water bottles being sup-plied and Beta Theta Pi getting pizza delivered late night in effort to sober people up. Thumbs up to the student monitors keeping an eye out for the safety of other students, but providing sobering-up tools isn’t going to help reverse the raising drinking trends.
Last semester, the university was pushing towards a policy change: no hard liquor al-lowed at registered events. When this news hit the campus, there was a negative response from the students. They weren’t too keen on the idea. The administration withdrew the “no hard liquor” idea. Back to the drawing board.
Why didn’t the policy stand? It didn’t even last a full semester. Without going into what it takes to define our drinking habits as a “problem,” there seems to be a hiatus of coming up with a solution that people are willing to stand by. The phrase echoed around campus is that our lifestyle here is “not real life,” and in many ways, this is true. There are no real punishments that stick, and fraternities do not fear breaking IFC and administrative rules.
While we praise student government’s aim to make students happy, they seem to have a fear of upsetting the student body. That might not be keeping students’ best interests at heart. Let’s face it: many students are going to disagree with any rule that limits their alcohol comsumption. But if the administration or student government doesn’t taking any punitive measures, what is going to encourage students to be more responsible?
All we ask is that the administration and student government follow through on their goals. If they decide nothing really is wrong, then focus on other issues. However, what-ever policies are going to be implemented, they need to be backed with confidence if we are ever going to expect them to work.Note: Brianna Scharfenberg did not contribute to this editorial because she is out of town.
NOAHDRODDY
AUSTIN FRY / THE DEPAUW
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PHOTOPINIONWould you connect with
professors on social media?
KARL SULLIVAN, senior
“Yes, being in a class Facebook group with my professor has made communication much easier.”
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EDSON RAMIREZ, senior
“Maybe some professors feel like they can con-nect with their students through social media, but I don’t think it is a good idea because content can vary and not always be educational.”
“I do have a class where we use Facebook to ask questions and share opinions with our professor. I think it’s effective in our learning.”
ZERAN LEI, freshman
“It depends on the pro-fessor’s personality and habits as well as what classes I am in.”
EMMA SPRINGMEIER, sophomoreI love to discuss any grievances I have with this campus by pointing them out as issues that I most certainly do not pay nearly $50,000 a
year for. They are all mild, seeing as how I cur-rently do not have any real or serious problems with this campus (but if I ever do, I hope they will be settled with a bare knuckle backwoods brawl).
But something that I did get several respons-es about (and thanks for that) is the spotty Wi-Fi connection in university housing. Although I rarely experience these issues living in my Ritz Carlton of a dorm room in Senior Hall, the Wi-Fi problem appears to be an exceptionally aggravat-ing and pressing one for many students.
So to speak, it busts your hump to the point where a few of you actually tweeted President Ca-sey himself the other day to complain.
My first thought when I heard about this was, “quit whining. It’s just the Internet, ya pansies.”
But then my roommate reminded me of my own blatant Internet addiction that’s had me by the throat for years. It made me rethink everything.
Now, let’s examine this cruel and unusual tragedy. How could this happen? How does it work out that a university whose endowment of $513 million, cannot extend Wi-Fi just a few more blocks? Although it appears that I know the answer judging by the way I posed the question, I do not.
I’m just a simple-minded ginger with a special knack for calling people out on things. But I do know what the repercussions are.
I’m going to skip over the whole part about how the Internet is the glue of our society; how it connects us all and keeps us well informed citi-zens of the world. But I am not going to skip over the part about how this campus relies so heavily on the Internet.
Picture the desperate conditions some stu-dents endure: you’re in your house on Anderson street. You have just buried yourself in blankets and snuggled up to your laptop to watch a movie on Netflix. What’s playing? Nothing. The only thing being played for you is the world’s small-est violin while you impatiently fiddle with the
Internet diagnostics.Since you’re out of options, you decide you
might as well do some work you’ve put off till the last moment. Well friend, may the force be with you because the only way you’re logging onto Moodle or E-Services is with a tribal chant and an outdated technology sacrifice to Bill Gates.
Sure, you can do some work. But realistically, you can only do so much without your Wi-Fi.
So people in university houses, my heart goes out to you. As you struggle bus through yet another week of slipping into Julian at 3 a.m. to check your Facebook and promise yourself that after one more photo album you’ll start to study, I hope this Wi-Fi issue is one that is resolved for you as swift as Taylor. You are most certainly not paying nearly $50,000 a year to be disconnected from the world.
Got something that busts your hump? Email me at [email protected] or tweet me @MaeveMcDonough and let me know.
— McDonough is a sophomore from Glenn Ellyn, Ill., majoring in communication.
Busts my hump: Wifi on campus should be top priority
We arrived at this institution with an abstract idea of what a liberal arts educa-
tion should afford us. Many of us may have believed that we could deeply explore our greatest pas-sions while finding a career path to lead us onward.
That a classics major can be properly prepared to excel in medical school or that a budding geoscientist will be ready dive into law is an idea that should be fully embraced and thoroughly encour-aged. An individual’s passion for ancient Greece or rocks should not be the sole determinant of their fu-ture. The mechanisms are in place for each unique student to make that happen. But they can often be overlooked.
In our own ways, we have each sought guidance and mentoring from those at our school. It is not a bad thing for us to give a bit of guidance along the way either.
Through this process, if inad-equacies appear, let your griev-ances be heard. As well as DePauw can prepare us, we must also pre-pare ourselves. Don’t wait to start exploring the possibilities of what you can do until after your four years have expired. Enjoy the luxu-ry of exploration as early as you can because it will end far too soon for most of us.
Two-hundred and forty-seven days from now, one of the largest classes in DePauw’s history will cel-ebrate their graduation.
For many, that may be a worry-
ing thought. Various seniors have expressed worry over how best to close the gap between their phi-losophy, or biology major, and the day after graduation. That worry may result, in part, from wondering what has been done over the last few years to help us better under-stand where it is we want to go.
Where have we as an institution come up short? What it is we want after these four years expire? How can this university, in all its capaci-ties, best help us to answer these questions?
These questions are necessary for current and future students to ask early, and often. Not asked with worry and anxiety, but with enthu-siasm and curiosity. Students must demand from DePauw a dedicated effort that is of the same magnitude that this institution demands of us.
Although in most regards we are an exceptional institution, we think it not improper when we say that DePauw is imperfect. Nor should we be disillusioned to think otherwise.
Moreover, look not at these four years as if they will be the best of our lives, but instead, as a foundation, from which our best years will come. To make this true, students must utilize the resources they are privileged to have and de-mand those that they lack. If we do this, we will be best suited to make the rest of our lives even better than these four years.
Students, parents, faculty, staff and alumni, should know a DeP-auw diploma proves we are fully capable and well on our way to greater achievements. When we return to our campus as physicists, novelists, choralists or philanthro-pists, we will hopefully do so be-cause of an unshakable liberal arts foundation granted to us by DeP-auw University.
— Kirkpatrick is a senior from Overland Park, Kan., majoring in political science. Burns is a senior from West Lafayette, Ind., majoring in political science.
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Two opening game losses are distant memo-ries for the DePauw volleyball team.
Wednesday night, the Tigers (7-2) brought their win streak to seven games, beating Ander-son University 3-0, (25-13, 25-10, 25-23.)
It was the Tiger’s first mid-week game as well as their first single match.
“It’s a little nerve-wrecking going into your first midweek match because things are starting to pile up academically, and it’s just different,” said head coach Deb Zellers. “We did a good job being proactive and talking about how we need-ed to be mentally tough in this match even with the differences.”
They definitely performed the way they need-ed to.
“We had a sense that Anderson (2-7) was going to be athletic and have some talent, but
might not be able to put it together, so we thought maybe they would at times give us some points but at other times they would make some great plays,” Zeller said.
She noted that the first two games of the match were the best the team had played all sea-son. Anderson put up a good fight in the third and final set, but it was not enough.
The Tiger’s motto for the season is “How bad do you want it?” and they are continuously dem-onstrating it game after game.
Both the offense and defense performed well after spending time in previous practices on middle-of-the-floor coverage.
“The first two games [of the match] just helped to build our confidence,” Zellers said. “We were just on fire for a while.”
The team looks to keep that fire burning this coming weekend when DePauw hosts the Tiger Invitational in the Neal Fieldhouse. The invita-tional will take place Friday night and Saturday during the day.
Seven straight wins after 3-0
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Droddy named NCAC runner of the weekThe ceiling is high for freshman
When Justin Murray was five or six years old, his dad rolled up a
couple of socks, and the young Murray would throw them as hard as he could against the couch.
He did this for hours. But he never really knew if the activity made his arm better or not.
He still doesn’t know.“I’ve never heard of it before,” Murray said. “But it worked out
in my case. It probably built up really strong tendons in my arm.”It might be because of his size – 6-foot-2, 215 pounds – or his
general athleticism. In any case, the freshman from Fayetteville, Ga., is generating excitement from the DePauw football coaching staff, players and fans. Last Saturday against St. Olaf College, Murray became the first freshman to start an opening game since 1978. In a 31-10 loss, Murray threw for 170-yards, one touchdown and was 18-35 for the game.
He is quick to critique his pass completion percentage, saying he has to work on consistency and anticipation.
But he has plenty of time for that, even after about 10 years of playing quarterback.
When he was five years, old he started out as a defensive line-man with his father as his coach. He was on the defensive line be-cause he was “bigger than the other kids.”
In a few years, however, he found what he loves best.“When I was seven or eight, the prototypical quarterback be-
gan to mold in the NFL,” Murray, 18, said. “So my dad decided to mold me into that particular quarterback. Running wasn’t my big-gest thing, even though I was pretty athletic. I was known as that quarterback who can throw pretty well and run some.”
He started at quarterback for his middle school team and earned the starting quarterback nod for his freshman year at Fayette Coun-ty High School. He replaced Brandon Boykin, who graduated the year before Murray entered high school and was picked in fourth round of the 2012 NFL draft by the Philadelphia Eagles.
“With Boykin, they ran the triple option,” Murray said. “It was really fast. I came in with the spread and that was a really big change for the whole program.”
But before he could even get on the field, Murray broke his collar bone in the spring.
“After that I changed mentally, maybe I should start sliding more or running out of bounds,” he said. “After the injury, I started set-
tling down and learning how to play the position of quarterback.”He started his entire freshman year, but said he only won a few
games. In his sophomore year, he tore his MCL in the fourth or fifth game, just when he and his teammates had hopes of a playoff run.
“I cried a little bit,” Murray said. “I tried to be as supportive as I could. After that I had to re-learn how to throw because I was off my feet for two months.”
He came back his junior year with a vengeance, throwing for more than 500-yards in the first three games. By the end of the sea-son, he amassed more than 1,000-yards through the air – all while splitting time with another, faster quarterback.
In his senior year, Fayette County got a new head coach, and he implemented a new system. Instead of running a spread offense, the team ran a veer offense – one that relied more on the run-game than passing.
The head coach asked Murray to move to linebacker as his throwing acumen didn’t mesh with the new system.
“I didn’t want to change schools and project the image of a quit-ter,” he said. “I did the switch for the first six games, and the last four games I played some quarterback and won two of them.”
During his stint as a middle linebacker, he got more serious Div. I looks than he did when he was playing quarterback. Murray said while he wasn’t getting scholarship offers, he could have gone to the University of Georgia, Florida State or the University of Louis-ville.
But he wanted to play quarterback.DePauw junior running back Armani Cato, also from Fayette
County High School, told Murray about DePauw and convinced him to take a look at it. Murray visited the university in February, and was hooked quickly.
“When I came it was snowing, it was all white and beautiful,” he said. “The coaches really seemed like they wanted me to be here. They had a spread offense – that was the key. And they were going to allow me to play quarterback.”
To play quarterback, Murray dropped 10 pounds and worked on his accuracy all summer. When he arrived at DePauw in the fall, he was excited to be back at the position he loves.
Murray’s father, mother, uncle and two cousins drove 10 hours from Fayetteville to see him play Saturday at Blackstock Stadium. In his lone touchdown pass of the game – and first touchdown of his collegiate career – he remembers every detail.
“We were actually supposed to roll left,” Murray said. “But I rolled right and hoped someone would get open. I see two guys coming after me and then Jackson (Kirtley) is open in the end zone. I put some air on it and let him make a play. I get creamed, and I look up and see him catch it. I hear the crowd yelling, it was a very exciting moment for me.”
Brett Dietz, quarterbacks and receiving coach, said Murray is very coachable and is a dual-threat quarterback who has some rare knowledge as a defensive player in high school.
“There were times when he executed the offense like an up-perclassman would,” Dietz said. “It wasn’t there all the time, but in spurts, you saw flashes of greatness that we know he can do...The sky is the limit. If he can keep improving, he can become a very polished quarterback. He’s at a higher starting point than a lot of people because of his talents.”
“So my dad decided to mold me into that particular quarterback. Running wasn’t my biggest thing, even
though I was pretty athletic.”-Justin Murray, freshman
On Monday, the NCAC announced senior Noah Droddy as the cross country runner of the week for his performance last weekend.
Droddy, from Indianapolis, Ind., led the Tigers to a 10th place fin-ish at the Calvin Night Invitational after finishing fourth overall in the individual standings with a time of 24 minutes 55.6 seconds on an 8K course. He finished ninth at the Div. III national championships last year and is already the most decorated runner in DePauw history.
Paige Gooch thinks it is difficult to practice on her own. Her dad was always her coach. Now she doesn’t have one.
Gooch, a junior, and two other juniors on the women’s golf team are living off campus for semester-long internships. They practice on their own during the week — without a coach — and meet the team for tournaments on the weekends. The absence of a coach is something almost unheard of for the team.
“Now I leave for the golf course (for practice), and I don’t have to be there,” Gooch, a Management Fellow, said. “So the first challenge is being dedicated enough to want to practice after I’ve been working all day. The second challenge is that I have an hour or two hours to improve the weak-nesses in my game.”
Gooch added: “It is more difficult than I thought it would be. The big-gest challenge is finding time for everything you want to get in. It takes a lot more planning.”
Even though the girls play with the team during weekend tournaments, according to head coach Vince Lazar, there is a different sense of unity on this year’s team than in past years.
“I have never had a situation like this during my 15 years of coaching,” Lazar said. “There is no other support system. They have to represent their team. All of our players are being taken up to St. Mary’s this upcoming week-end just so they can be put in a hotel room and can get to know each other.”
Gooch said being apart means having to work harder on team unity.“We are making more of an effort than any year before because we know
how crucial it will be to have these relationships in the spring,” Gooch add-ed.
Although the team chemistry may be different, girls are stepping up to fill leadership positions that would have been filled by the three juniors. The on-campus players are supportive of the situation. They understand the juniors performed well last year and deserve to represent their team in tour-naments, regardless of them not practicing with the team during the week.
“Our two seniors, Sam (Stahler) and Camila (Romero), have really stepped up this year,” Lazar said. “Sam has tried to guide the freshman and has gone above and beyond. As a captain, Camila has done a really great job.”
Gooch said the balancing act between adult life and student athlete-life is proving to be difficult. She and her fellow juniors are not always able to practice or prepare enough for upcoming tournaments. In this case, the off-campus players can decide if they are ready to play for their team or not.
“They have to be honest with themselves and their teammates,” Lazar said. “We need them to come ready to play. The players from home can help us out if they were unable to prepare during the week.”
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Sophomore Andy Morrison takes control of the ball against a Hanover College defender Wednesday evening at Boswell Field. MEG CROWLEY/THE DEPAUW
By CONNOR HOLLENSTEINER
[email protected] If the goal was two inches wider, the result would have been
different.Two inches was the difference between almost scoring twice
and not scoring at all.The DePauw men’s soccer team remains undefeated, but
Wednesday night the team was unable to find the edge over Hanover College. In a dominating performance, the Tigers (4-0-2) tied Hanover (1-2-2) 0-0. DePauw had a strong offensive performance with many scoring chances, but was unable to put one away. Head coach Brad Hauter was frustrated about the tie, but was able to recognize what the team did well.
“It was rough. There were a lot positive things to take from it, we controlled play, we created opportunities, and we had 26 shots with about half of those coming from dangerous places on the field,” Hauter said. “There were a lot of positives that when you sit back and look at it from a wide range, you can say ‘good job.’”
Despite the 26 shots and many scoring opportunities, in-
cluding a pair of shots from sophomore Andy Morrison hitting the goalpost, the Tigers were unable to find the back of the net.
“It just wasn’t our night,” Hauter said. “There wasn’t one ele-ment that went wrong. It just didn’t go our way.”
The defense remained strong just as they have throughout this season. The team has now logged 598:57 minutes of not allowing a goal, with five straight shut outs. Senior goalkeeper Tony Halterman was credited with his fourth shutout of the sea-son.
The Tigers open conference play in the North Coast Athletic Conference on Saturday against Denison University. The team is going into conference play unbeaten, but coming off of two ties. Hauter said he is looking forward to this weekend.
“Denison will play a very different style than we have seen in the last four games,” Hauter said. “They are going to come at us, open the field up and play. I am excited to kick off this second part of the season in conference play. I am very excited to see how these guys measure up against the rest of the NCAC.”
The Tigers, now in their second year in the NCAC, are look-ing to defend last year’s conference championship. Kickoff against Denison is 2:30 p.m. from Boswell Field on Saturday and will be broadcasted live on 91.5 WGRE.
Scoring drought brings second straight tie
Three golfers balance competition andsemester internships
“I have never had a situation like this during my 15 years of coaching. There is no other support system. They have
