VOL. 161, ISSUE 44 TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013 Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper THE DEPAUW STAFF REPORTS [email protected]DePauw announced today that the North Quadrangle will be renamed as the Ubben Quadrangle in honor of Timothy and Susan Ubben. According to a press release from DePauw University, a ceremony will be held on the lawn between Mason Hall and Lucy Rowland Hall on Thursday, May 2 at 4:30 p.m. The Ubbens, along with President Casey and the Board of Trustees, will attend the event. North Quadrangle is a central location on campus. “[North Quadrangle] seemed to be the right space,” Jonathan Coffin, director of strategic communication said. “It allows us to show respect.” Coffin said the warm weather and presence of the Board of Trustees makes May 2 the best time to dedicate North Quadrangle. “It allows folks to be together,” Coffin said. The Ubbens have donated $75 million to DePauw in various different ways: the Ubben Lecture series, 15 endowed faculty chairs and, most recently, financial aid money for DePauw students. University President Brian Casey said the celebratory event will be open to campus and may feature catering from Marvin’s, one of the Ubbens’ favorite restaurants in Greencastle. North Quadrangle to be renamed Sophomore Forrest Kunkel celebrates winning the Little 5 criterium race with members of Delta Tau Delta fraternity outside of Julian on Saturday afternoon. HOANG NGUYEN / THE DEPAUW Emerging victorious from Little 5 University to honor Timothy and Susan Ubben with renaming celebration The buzz on Hunter’s Honey Farm Pages 6 & 7 COMMUNITY STANDARDS PROCESS TO CHANGE PAGE 2 TIGERS OF THE WEEK PAGE 11 CAMPUS CRIME PAGE 4 CANDIDATES FOR GRADUATE MEMBER TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES PAGE 3 Check out all the race the results on page 12
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VOL. 161, ISSUE 44TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013 Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper
DePauw announced today that the North Quadrangle will be renamed as the Ubben Quadrangle in honor of Timothy and Susan Ubben.
According to a press release from DePauw University, a ceremony will be held on the lawn between Mason Hall and Lucy Rowland Hall on Thursday, May 2 at 4:30 p.m. The Ubbens, along with President Casey and the Board of Trustees, will attend the event.
North Quadrangle is a central location on campus.“[North Quadrangle] seemed to be the right space,”
Jonathan Coffin, director of strategic communication said. “It allows us to show respect.”
Coffin said the warm weather and presence of the Board of Trustees makes May 2 the best time to dedicate North Quadrangle.
“It allows folks to be together,” Coffin said. The Ubbens have donated $75 million to DePauw
in various different ways: the Ubben Lecture series, 15 endowed faculty chairs and, most recently, financial aid money for DePauw students.
University President Brian Casey said the celebratory event will be open to campus and may feature catering from Marvin’s, one of the Ubbens’ favorite restaurants in Greencastle.
North Quadrangle to be renamed
Sophomore Forrest Kunkel celebrates winning the Little 5 criterium race with members of Delta Tau Delta fraternity outside of Julian on Saturday afternoon. HOANG NGUYEN / THE DEPAUW
Emerging victorious from Little 5University to honor Timothy and Susan Ubben with renaming celebration
The buzz on Hunter’s Honey Farm
Pages 6 & 7
COMMUNITY
STANDARDS PROCESS
TO CHANGE
PAGE 2
TIGERS OF THE WEEK
PAGE 11
CAMPUS CRIME
PAGE 4
CANDIDATES FOR
GRADUATE MEMBER TO
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
PAGE 3
Check out all the race the results on page 12
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As the end of the 2012-13 academic year approach-es, DePauw Student Government is focusing on the changes that will come with the new academic year.
Student Body Executive Vice President Mark Fadel stated in an email that the majority of Sunday’s stu-dent government meeting was spent discussing a change of the community standards process.
So far in this past academic year, there have been 29 infractions handled by DePauw Community Stan-dards—averaging almost one per week.
This number may surprise students, as the Com-munity Standards process is currently handled “purely through an administrative process,” according to Di-rector of Community Standards Meggan Johnston.
However, starting next year, the community stan-dards process is about to change.
“We are moving the process to be much more community-based, drawing in students, faculty and staff,” Johnston said. “[In the new process] we will have a private hearing every week, and all cases will be adjudicated by one faculty member, one staff mem-
ber, and three students.”Currently, Community Standards evaluates both
individuals’ and organizations’ cases through one-on-one interviews and two review boards that consist purely of administrators.
In drawing from staff, faculty and the student population in the future, they hope to change the fact that a small group of administrators are the only ones involved in imposing sanctions that can affect a large part of the DePauw campus.
“The ultimate goal is to reduce the number of cas-es,” Johnston said. “Peer-to-peer accountability is one of the most effective forms...You can’t change a drink-ing culture by punitive measures alone. The campus climate and education also play a role.”
Students have mixed opinions on whether or not these changes will better the system compared to the current process.
“I think it’s good because [Community Standards will] get the opinions of staff that actually deal directly with the students,” freshman Emily Behrens said.
Carefully selecting those who are on the commit-tee is a concern for the program.
“[Community standards] has to make sure they have the right students on the board that will take the problems seriously even though they’re judging other students,” Behrens said.
According to Johnston, the concerns of confiden-tiality and conflict of interest arise often when describ-ing the new system to students.
“All board members will be expected to maintain confidentiality. One of the first things we will have board members do is fill out conflict of interest form,” Johnston said. “All board members will disclose all campus affiliations.”
The future board will mainly review cases from student organizations. The exception to this, how-ever, is if an individual denies guilt of an infraction, but there is cause to for suspicion that they are, in fact, guilty. Then, the student will be referred to the com-munity board for a hearing.
“These cases [of students denying guilt] are rare,” said Johnston.
However, freshman Julia Roell said she sees draw-
backs to this proposed policy.“It’s pressuring them to plead guilty,” Roell said.
“ If you are in the community standards process, it’s more like you’re guilty until proven innocent than in-
nocent until proven guilty.”However, Roell believes that the new process will
be effective in eliminating potential bias towards spe-cific student organizations.
According to Johnston, the community standards office has collected about 80 diverse student nomina-tions from faculty, staff and student organization lead-ers to become potential student board members.
They will be notified by e-mail this week, and will be given the opportunity to submit a short applica-tion, if they are interested in participating in the new community standards process. Students who are in-terested in self-nominating themselves for the posi-tion are encouraged to contact Community Standards this week.
The new process potentially could cause conflicts between the board of students and those who are be-ing accused.
In regards to this potential problem Behrens said, “People going through the process can’t expect the students on the board to side with them just because they’re the same age group,”
Community standards process to undergo changes
“We are moving the process to be much more community-based, drawing in
students, faculty and staff ... We will have a private hearing every week and all cases will be adjudicated by one faculty member,
one staff member, and three students.”
- Meggan Johnston, director of Community Standards
Process to include faculty, students and staff, not just administrators in hopes of reducing cases
“[Community Standards] has to make sure they have the right students on the board that will take the problems seriously even though they’re judging other students.”
- Emily Behrens, freshman
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Every semester a member of the graduating class is selected by the student body to serve as a Graduate Member to the DePauw Board of Trustees for a three-year term. Candidates submit applications to the university and will serve on the student-life and enrollment and admissions subcommittees and are voting members of the board. This year’s voting can be done on e-services from Thursday, April 25 to Saturday, April 27.
Meet the 2013 Graduate Board of Trustees candidates
JACK GLERUMKENILWORTH, ILL
Major & Activities: economics and ancient Greek double major; captain of lacrosse team, member of Phi Kappa Psi, DePauw college mentor
Motivation for running: “[The position] has an important role on campus you don’t often see. It’s the best fit for me to give back to the school. I talked to Kreigh Kamman [elected last year] and he thought I would be good. I thought I would be good.”
Goals: “It has less to do with I have vision x, y and z. The board is made up of 30-40 DePauw grads who are all successful. It’s a more read and react type role. The board wants a 23-year-old perspective who knows the current campus climate.”
As a candidate: “I have an intimate understanding of what it means to be a college of liberal arts student. The diversity of experience makes me a good candidate.”
JONATHAN ROSARIOBROOKLYN, N.Y.
Major & Activities: political science major; community resource assistant, Allocations Board, Union Board member, DSG chamber representative for Union Board
Motivation for running: “I’m going into higher education and student affairs next year. Bring in another perspective from another school. I have been a part of conversations of student life nature and I want to be a part of a board that makes those decisions.”
Goals: “I would be more connected to current students. I feel like I’ve made connections with various students now I will be able to carry that one—if elected.”
As a candidate: “We have an impressive group of people running. I’ve had a diverse experience with the organizations. I have been a part of conversations that are important for the change in DePauw for years to come.”
NAEEM MUHAMMEDNEW YORK CITY, N.Y.
SARA SCULLYDALLAS, TEXAS
Major & Activities: philosophy major; honor scholar, student body president, Ethics Bowl, peer mentor, Mortar Board, Order of Omega, Phi Sigma Tau member, Student Life Academic Atmosphere Committee member, Pi Beta Phi member
Motivation for running: “I want to take the next step in serving the school, student body and community I love so much. I am confident in my abilities and I will make sure the job is well done.”
Goals: “I spent the last four years building relationships with students and I will stay in contact with them over the next three years. I spent all year building relationships with the Board of Trustees and the student life subcommittee of the board. I will go in with a good understanding of what the role is.”
As a candidate: “I spent the last four years...thinking about the student experience, and those who contribute to the experience. When I wasn’t talking to students I was in the archives figuring out where we came from. I had the tough conversations before: talking about alcohol, greek life and sexual assault. I constantly struggle with these issues. If elected I also would be the first woman in a long time, and would bring a unique perspective.”
Major & Activities: economics major; varsity basketball and football, bonner scholar, Allocations Board member, Alpha Phi Alpha president, presidential ambassador
Motivation for running: “I had the opportunity as a presidential ambassador to interact with the [Board of Trustees] learned what they do and why they are important. I have an idea of what I would like to see here over the next four years, and this position is the best avenue to pursue that.”
Goals: “I have a clear cut three stage proposal to put forth if elected. The proposal is directly related to the professional opportunities. [The proposal] would be to expand the professional opportunities. It’s nice to see use of the role to enhance the university quickly.”
As a candidate: “I’m really passionate about the university. Coming to DePauw from New York City, I didn’t really want to be here. But I’ve grown so much. My passion for the work I would be doing on the board makes me different. I actually want to make DePauw better than what it already is.”
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CAMPUSCRIME
April 18
• Property damage to window • Forwarded to Facilities Management | Time: 2:02 a.m. | Place: Humbert Hall
• Noise - loud people • Forwarded to Interfraternity Council / Forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 12:42 a.m. | Place: Phi Kappa Psi fraternity
• Noise - Loud people • Forwarded to Interfraternity Council / Forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 1:16 a.m. | Place: Phi Kappa Psi fraternity
• Theft of sign • Recovered / Forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 1:37 p.m. | Place: South Quadrangle
• Medical • Transported to Putnam County hospital | Time: 4:09 p.m. | Place: Lucy Rowland Hall
• Property damage to vehicle • Report filed | Time: 10:23 a.m. | Place: Julian Science and Mathematics Center parking lot
The destruction of property on De-Pauw’s campus has been frequent these past few weeks. But the vandalism issue extends past the destruction of physical property.
On Sunday, April 21, the DePauw Student Government student senate and representatives met to discuss the recent outbreak of vandalism on campus -- the destruction of student artwork as well as the damage done to the pro-choice “Cemetery of the Innocent,” as well as disrespectful internet posts.
These posts, which are on websites that contain DePauw’s name, have made outlandish and sometimes sexually explicit claims, and publicized unresearched opin-ions behind the shield of anonymity.
A good portion of DSG’s meeting was devoted to talking about these sites.
“It’s sort of a double-edged sword,” junior Alli Caplinger, one of the leaders of the discussion and junior class senator said. “They can say something really powerful or they could really hurt somebody.”
Anonymity also has the ability to protect the writer from repercussions of their written opinions, which can lead bloggers to type whatever they please, with no discre-tion.
“It allows people to hide behind an anonymous mask,” junior Walker Chance, a student government senator, said. “Anony-mously we can pretty much do whatever we want.”
Foul language, as well as graphically sexual comments targeting specific groups of people or even individuals, have been posted for the entire student body to read.
“The Facebook groups are really notice-able and that’s what really got us talking about this,” senior Sara Scully, student body president said.
Whether it is vandalism in the form of destruction of property or in the form of lewd comments on Facebook or blogs, there seems to be a general consensus among the members of student government that vandalism and a disregard for others is an issue at DePauw.
Many members of student government agreed that a difference in opinion is not a good enough reason to vandalize someone else’s display and it is important to be able to express opinions openly at a liberal arts school.
However, other forms of vandalism are less political, and more a result of drunken, irresponsible students.
“The party culture definitely plays a huge role,” Chance said.
However, Chance does not think this should absolve students from taking responsibility.
“You can’t blame the alcohol for your ac-tions. They’re still your actions. Just because you’re drunk that doesn’t give you the right to knock something over or destroy artwork,” Chance said.
Others at the meeting agreed with Chance’s views and think that more needs to be done in order to hold students ac-countable for their poor behavior.
“No one really has to grow up here,” junior Michael Paniccia said.
Paniccia went on to talk about issues of entitlement on campus and how DePauw students tend not to face normal conse-quences that non-DePauw students face when laws are broken. He described Public Safety as giving students, at most, “a slap on the wrist” for offenses like underage drinking.
But it’s not all up to the administration and Public Safety.
“They shouldn’t have to babysit an entire campus,” Caplinger said.
Caplinger thinks that the most effective way to get through to the student body is to lead by example.
“We’re student leaders for a reason,” Caplinger said.
The vandalism discussion is not an issue solely for student government to partake in, but the rest of the student body as well.
“It’s more or less students talking to students,” Chance said. “All it takes is a couple people to start saying no.”
Scully and her associates are also talk-ing to the communications staff to make sure websites that have hurtful comments on them are not directly associated with DePauw.
Scully adjourned the meeting with one final statement: “Stand up on Facebook.”
--Isabelle Chapman and Alex Paul contributed to this article.
Vandalism transcends destruction of property
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Steve Langerud, director of professional opportu-nities, thinks students too easily judge majors by their stereotypical connotation to career choices.
Langerud discussed how all DePauw majors can be useful for the job market and how new majors like computer science factor into the equation, and that there is no set career path regarding what a student studies.
He said he looks at majors in terms of their strengths, and also what they share in common. He’s also had the chance to listen to many employers about their thoughts.
“In most cases, with a couple small exceptions, they don’t see a connection between a major and their work,” Langerud said.
Critical thinking, problem solving, communica-tion, and being an effective team leader are examples of skills that employers look for.
“They’re looking at a very specific set of skills that
I think really all DePauw students share,” Langerud said.
Another important skill that employers look for is the overriding ability to learn new things.
“With every employer, no matter what you know, they’re going to have to teach you the content of their business, industry, organization, or field,” Langerud said.
Langerud said that one of the launching points is that with a DePauw degree, students have dem-onstrated that they have the ability to learn. There is also content-specific knowledge that students can develop through research, internships, being in lead-ership positions and working summer jobs.
“Ideally, as students get older and have more ex-perience, they have a deeper knowledge of the con-tent but they also then develop job specific skills,” he said.
For instance, it’s different to say one is familiar with Excel than to explain how one used Excel for a specific task. The same is true for showing a written piece of work, or some sort of demonstrable prod-
uct. Majors also appear over time as needed in the market, especially computer science, one that didn’t exist 100 years ago. Now, there’s no way it can’t exist.
Senior computer science major Sarah Granger said that she thinks her major is beneficial for job searches since it is so in demand.
“Almost every occupation has gone digital,” Granger said.
Granger, who has a job set up as a business and technology consultant in Chicago, applied to a wide range of jobs including other business and technol-ogy jobs as well as nonprofit organizations and gov-ernment jobs.
“I definitely think [a liberal arts degree] helps,” she said.
Allana Johnson, a senior computer science major, agrees. She thinks the job market is a big advantage for a major like computer science, but another is that it is interdisciplinary and can be used alongside other subjects like marketing and economics.
“Computer science isn’t just a one-track thing,” Johnson said. “It works with almost any other career
as well.”Johnson originally planned on attending gradu-
ate school after DePauw, but then she got a software development job offer with State Farm Insurance.
Langerud said that it might seem initially more challenging to get a career right out of school, but skill sets they learn here, especially reading, writing, speaking and quantitative skills can be applied in many places.
However, Langerud doesn’t think there are any majors at DePauw that are not ultimately useful in today’s job market.
Langerud himself was an anthropology major, and although he’s not an anthropologist today, he uses core skills like focal analysis and thinks about them all the time.
“You are not your major,” Langerud said.Although a major is something a student might
love and be passionate about, as well as a platform on which to learn skills, it does not define a student as a person or as a professional.
What are you going to do with that major?
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The lonely Indiana back roads leading to Hunter’s Honey Farm give no sign of the buzz of activity that awaits visitors.
For over 100 years, Hunter’s Honey Farm has been raising bees, harvesting their honey and serving it up to customers. Now owned by third generation beekeepers, Tracy Hunter and his wife Chris-tina, Hunter’s Honey Farm is dedicated to keeping the people of Indiana well stocked in sticky, golden goodness.
According to Kara Miner, office manager for Hunter’s Honey Farm, keeping the bees healthy and productive isn’t an easy feat.
“We are a working farm, so we’re here all the time,” Miner said.For Miner, this means five days a week, but for the Hunters it
can include weekends, late nights and some very early mornings.With all the work there is to do, it’s easy to see why keep-
ing a bee farm is a full-time job. One of Hunter’s Honey Farm’s six full-time employees, Lanny Dameron, has been a beekeeper at the farm for almost 16 years. Dameron says his job never lets up.
“It involves a little bit of everything,” Dam-eron said. “We try to keep them alive, we make sure they’re pollinating, we’ve got to get honey crops. There’s more than I could tell you in just a couple of minutes.”
Dameron stressed that before farm em-ployees can begin to think about harvest-ing honey, they’ve got to focus on the bees
themselves. To get a hive started, the farm will order a three-pound package containing
around 20,000 bees. Most bees on the farm have been shipped from California.
“We’ve got to order bees, you can whistle at them, but they’re not going to pay any attention to you,” Dameron said.
Since a good-sized hive contains around 40,000 to 80,000 bees, the queen has a lot of work to do to get her starter hive up to
regulation.Gary Bramer has been a beekeeper at Hunter’s
Honey Farm for five years now, and in that time has learned plenty about how a new hive of 20,000 can balloon up to 50,000 or 60,000 bees in just a few years.
“[The queen’s] only job is to lay eggs,” Bramer said.
According to Dameron, a healthy queen can lay up to 2,000 eggs in the summer months, the peak time for bees.
However, the queen is far from being the only bee in the hive with an important job to do. Each female bee is given an occupa-tion: there are nurse bees, house cleaning bees, bees who care for the queen and the bees who take care of the drones.
“Then, of course, there’s the collectors,” Miner said.Miner added that pollen collection is the prime occupation for
any worker bee. While the female bees, or workers, have their work cut out for
them, the male bees, or drones, take life easy.“The girls do all the work, the guys just loaf,” Dameron said.And there can be no doubt that the girls aren’t just working—
they’re working hard. One hive can contain anywhere from 40 to 200 pounds of honey, depending on a number of factors.
The beehives themselves are man made, and the particular men who create the hives for Hunter’s Honey Farm are none other than Dameron and Bramer. There are two parts to these beehives: the frame and the super. The frame is just that, a frame for holding the honeycomb. The super is basically a large drawer that holds multiple frames. The frames containing the honeycombs slide into a super, and the supers are then stacked on top of one another to form a hive.
For the most part, the beekeepers leave the bees to do their work. Once a super has filled up, however, the honey harvesting begins.
“We run all the bees out, and then we hurry up and get [the super] on the truck and get a lid on it,” Dameron said.
This process has got to be done quickly, since once the bees that made this particular honey have been run off, the other bees begin to consider the honey in the open supers free food.
“Once its off the hives its fair game. The other bees will come to it and start robbing all the honey,” he said.
Back at the barn, the honey has a long road to travel before it is ready to be bottled and sold. Firstly, the honey must be removed from the honeycombs. To do this, the frames are first put into a machine called an “uncapper,” which cuts off the excess honey-comb and then into the “extractor.”
“[The extractor] basically slings the honey off against the walls,” Dameron said.
The honey then travels to a settling tank, where it sits for about 24-48 hours.
According to Miner, the honey is more than ready for human consumption at this point in the process. This “raw” honey is full of extra nutrition and parts of the honeycomb. However, it also contains gnats, dirt and even dead bees.
Still though, Miner stressed that even raw honey is “cleaner than most restaurant kitchens.”
However, she does admit that some might find honey in its raw form unappealing, so most honey at the Hunter’s farm undergoes
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However, the queen is far from being the only bee in the hive with an important job to do. Each female bee is given an occupa-tion: there are nurse bees, house cleaning bees, bees who care for the queen and the bees who take care of the drones.
“Then, of course, there’s the collectors,” Miner said.Miner added that pollen collection is the prime occupation for
any worker bee. While the female bees, or workers, have their work cut out for
them, the male bees, or drones, take life easy.“The girls do all the work, the guys just loaf,” Dameron said.And there can be no doubt that the girls aren’t just working—
they’re working hard. One hive can contain anywhere from 40 to 200 pounds of honey, depending on a number of factors.
The beehives themselves are man made, and the particular men who create the hives for Hunter’s Honey Farm are none other than Dameron and Bramer. There are two parts to these beehives: the frame and the super. The frame is just that, a frame for holding the honeycomb. The super is basically a large drawer that holds multiple frames. The frames containing the honeycombs slide into a super, and the supers are then stacked on top of one another to form a hive.
For the most part, the beekeepers leave the bees to do their work. Once a super has filled up, however, the honey harvesting begins.
“We run all the bees out, and then we hurry up and get [the super] on the truck and get a lid on it,” Dameron said.
This process has got to be done quickly, since once the bees that made this particular honey have been run off, the other bees begin to consider the honey in the open supers free food.
“Once its off the hives its fair game. The other bees will come to it and start robbing all the honey,” he said.
Back at the barn, the honey has a long road to travel before it is ready to be bottled and sold. Firstly, the honey must be removed from the honeycombs. To do this, the frames are first put into a machine called an “uncapper,” which cuts off the excess honey-comb and then into the “extractor.”
“[The extractor] basically slings the honey off against the walls,” Dameron said.
The honey then travels to a settling tank, where it sits for about 24-48 hours.
According to Miner, the honey is more than ready for human consumption at this point in the process. This “raw” honey is full of extra nutrition and parts of the honeycomb. However, it also contains gnats, dirt and even dead bees.
Still though, Miner stressed that even raw honey is “cleaner than most restaurant kitchens.”
However, she does admit that some might find honey in its raw form unappealing, so most honey at the Hunter’s farm undergoes
a final step before bottling: straining.
“We just take this buck-etful of honey and we strain it right into this cheese cloth,” Miner said.
In keeping with the farm’s tradition of natu-ral honey production, no chemicals are used in this entire process, and every-thing that can be reused, is.
“Even if there’s a spill we don’t waste the honey, we feed it back to the bees,” Miner said.
In order to ensure that absolutely nothing is wasted, the farm uses their excess beeswax for can-dles making. The candles burn cleanly, and beeswax actually gets so hot that they end up consuming themselves. Even the two pil-lowcases used to strain the wax are recycled.
“We don’t even waste the pillow cases,” said Miner, “we cut them up and use it as a fire starter.”
On the surface, it seems that the mission of Hunter’s Honey Farm is simply to make honey. However, to the employees of the farm, the job is much more.
“We have to take care of nature: we’ve only got one earth,” Miner said.
She added that in the six years since she began working for the Hunter’s, she has been given even greater cause to believe in some-thing bigger than herself.
“It’s the little things that really make you won-der,” Miner said.
On the other hand, Dameron’s sixteen years on the farm have left him with something a little more down to earth: numerous bee stings. When asked exactly how many that might be, he laughed.
“More than I can count.”
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When freshman Stephanie Martin recently met with her academic advisor, she was delivered “absolutely ridiculous” news: her completion of Intro to Wom-
en’s Studies, a certified W-course, would not be counted to-ward her competency fulfillment.
Beginning with the Class of 2016, students will obtain their W competency by completing a First Year Seminar with a heavy emphasis on writing, followed by a W-certified course in their sophomore year. But because of these changes, pro-active first year students like Martin will have to repeat their W course as sophomores. Their completion of a W course this year, however successful, is void. And the writing pro-gram seems to refuse to make exceptions for this small, albeit significant, group of freshmen.
Why? As a student body, we don’t seem to have received an adequate response. It appears that the unfair application of these new policies have been made to ensure an across-the-board uniformity, from the Class of 2016 and on. It appears that this group of students is being inconvenienced — even penalized — for trying to get a head start on requirements that could impede their future academic plans at DePauw.
When I was a rising sophomore, DePauw had just restruc-tured its group requirements. In our advising appointments, my classmates and I were given the option to continue the old track or switch to the three-prong system it has today. Though most of us opted to begin the new system, we still had a choice. Why aren’t these W-earning freshmen afforded the same leniency?
We all know how crucial one course can be in making or breaking our academic path at DePauw — it’s why you see your Facebook and Twitter feeds erupt with anger every se-mester as course assignments are released. That one course
can determine if you double major, study abroad or graduate early. For this group of students, that one W course that isn’t counted can be the deciding factor of their DePauw experi-ence. So why won’t our administration budge?
If DePauw students were to pay tuition based on credit hours — as is the policy with larger universities — this unrec-ognized W course could be considered a “waste” of money. As a writing major, I fully recognize the importance of long-term immersion in the medium. But I also recognize the problem that arises when you tell a student on the pre-med track that they have to take another writing-intensive class outside of their major.
Additionally, these modifications to our competency re-quirements are putting a strain on our curriculum in a way that they have never done before. There’s something to be said about how the rigidity of the new system can infringe upon the liberal arts experience. Competency used to oper-ate like a checklist: have a W by the end of sophomore year, a Q by the end of junior year, etc. Limiting the window for students to obtain their competency requirements takes away a certain degree of our academic freedom.
And how do we differentiate the development of writing from a student’s second semester? Their fourth? Their sixth? The system that is being enforced with the Class of 2016 pre-sumes that all students learn and progress at the same rate. It also implies that students will not write in other classes — just like the S requirement assumes that students do not regularly engage in class discussion, debates or presentations.
By this logic, the competency guidelines provide just an-other advising hoop for students to jump through. I realize that we can’t just do away with them altogether — at least not now. But we can encourage our administration to take the first step in fairly granting this group of students their W’s. Once credit is given where credit is due, it might be time to revisit the drawing board.
— Brelage is a senior from Indianapolis, Ind. majoring in English writing.
There has been a notable increase in Community Standard violations, but it seems as if DePauw Student Government and the administration are brainstorming solu-tions that may help resolve the growing issue. We think that having the review board include students, as well as faculty and staff, will help eliminate whatever prejudice or unfair hearings students so often claim, justified or not.
More importantly though, it is a step in the right direction in terms of handling a problem that is the result of a culture and not the individual. Of the 29 infractions this year, we can pretty much count on having some friends on that list, or at least people we think fondly of. It doesn’t mean that they are bad people or of poor character, but rather they made a mistake that is against what university policy considers appropriate behavior for a DePauw student.
The current process’s philosophy is that after a student goes through Community Standards and is appropriately reprimanded for his or her actions, he or she won’t do it again. Most of the time, this is either true, or the student becomes better at not get-ting caught. The problem is that individuals need to go through the process first-hand to receive this message.
By having a board of DePauw community members review you and talk through the violation and punishment, there is progress and real accountability. Often times, Community Standards punishments are a slap on the wrist. We are not advocating harsher punishment by any means, but if you want to change a culture and change an escalating mentality, there are few things more effective than having a bigger commit-tee made up of students, faculty and staff. This will remind students that their actions affect more than just them. They are part of a broader community with diverse stake-holders where what they do is the collective. Having a board of different backgrounds will allow numerous voices to be heard by the sanctions which will give a perspective from the both the student side and the administration.
Having a confidentiality agreement is key to the success of this new implemen-tation. We are a small school, and if people aren't confidential, sometimes that punishment can be even worse. Maintaining the trust and respect of the committee is essential to effectively change our escalating culture of delinquency.
Community Standards changes, a step in right direction
the depauw | opinion PAGE 9TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013
PHOTOPINIONWhat would you like out of the
new dining service?
ELEANOR AXT, junior
“Lots of options, but mostly good breakfast choices. Because I LOVE breakfast.”
EMILY BRELAGE / THE DEPAUW
DEANNA REDER, freshman
“Healthier food with more selection.”
CORBY BURGER, freshman
“I’d like to see a daily special at every station, not just the [Blackstock] Grill. And more salad dressing choices.”
Code T.E.A.L. is a grassroots movement that began at DePauw in the Spring Semester 2012. We are dedicated to talking about sexual assault, edu-cating on sexual violence, advocating for survivors and listening to the concerns of students in order to eliminate the presence of sexual assault on our campus. In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Code T.E.A.L. will be hosting its annual Code T.E.A.L. Week to regenerate discussion and provide students, staff and faculty with safe spaces and events in which they can truly contribute to or listen to a safe discussion while sharing opinions with others. This week will consist of the following events:
Wednesday, April 24: “Let’s Talk about Sex” in Watson Forum, 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 25: “Sexual Assault Against Queer and Trans-Identified Womyn” in the Wom-en’s Center, 5:00 p.m.
Friday, April 26: “Code T.E.A.L. Walk,” a campus-wide rally in Academic Quad, 11:35 a.m. (during lunch)
Monday, April 29: Screening “The Line” and subsequent discussion in Peeler Auditorium, 8:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 30: Campus-wide Forum: “We ALL Contribute to Rape Culture” in UB Ballroom at 11:35 a.m., including free Papa John’s pizza
Further details of these events can be found on-line at the Code T.E.A.L. Facebook page, or around campus throughout the week.
As your fellow peers, the members of Code T.E.A.L. would like to challenge you to attend events and begin discussing these issues with peo-ple you know. Do you know what victim blaming is? What is the best way to act as a bystander? Do you view DePauw as a rape culture? These are all loaded and uncomfortable questions, but each is absolutely vital to the elimination of sexual assault on DePauw’s campus. We challenge you to stand up and voice your opinions.
Sincerely,
The women and men of Code T.E.A.L.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
On a wet and chilly night in San Diego late last January, I heard an array of colorful com-ments: “Fuck off.” “Why don’t you get a job?
You’re just fucking lazy.” “God bless you and stay warm, sweetie.” “Hope this dollar helps.”
This was to be expected. I was sitting on a cor-ner spanging (pronounced spange-ing). Spanging is what they call panhandling in California, the capital of homelessness in the United States. I was lucky enough to spend the month of January participat-ing in the Winter Term In-Service through DePauw. During this WTIS, one of our undertakings was go-ing out with some of the kids to see if we could make some money.
The comments didn’t bother me; I was pre-pared for them. After about an hour, I realized they didn’t bother me the most. It was the number of people who would stare intently at the pavement — the ones who would see us and stick their hands into their pockets as to not let us hear their spare change as they walk by. The ones that didn’t see us. Who treated us as ghosts. As subhuman. Not even a blip on their radar.
As the night was winding down and we were get-ting ready to pack up, a group of girls around my age went walking by and I asked a final time, “Spare some change?” Most of the girls pulled their shopping bags tightly against them and looked away but the one closest to me reared her head back and spit on me. My gut reaction was to get up and grab her, but one of the homeless girls in my group grabbed me and held me back. The group of girls began laughing and remarked, “They’re basically trash anyway.”
I was enraged. I wanted to scream. I wanted to get up and run after them and tell them they were the trash, not us. I was humiliated. Not because they thought I was homeless, but because they weren’t. I was embarrassed to be part of the same statistical grouping as them. At that moment I didn’t want to have a house. I didn’t want to be white, middle class and in college. I was ashamed.
When we got back to the Stand Up For Kids center, the not-for-profit center we were staying at, we sat in a circle outside and discussed our experi-ences. Then it was the homeless kids turns to talk. They all agreed that it’s not the nasty comments that upset them, but it’s the lack of acknowledgement as a human being. One of the boys speaking to us said more or less, “There are some days I was lucky to have someone say terrible things because at least I knew they could see me. At least they had the balls to treat me like a person.”
I admitted to my group that night that I was so upset because I saw many aspects of myself in the
girl that spit on me. A girl in her early 20s enjoying a night out with friends, obviously opinionated, wear-ing a sweatshirt with the UC San Diego Triton mas-cot on it. She reminded me that I hadn’t always been so open-minded about the homeless population.
The homeless population in our country is a very diverse and complicated one. They are homeless for millions of different reasons, and they come from all walks of life. However, they comprise a population that people don’t want to look at or be reminded of — not necessarily because they are mean or violent, but because most often they make people scared or uncomfortable. Because they are the “other.”
My point is that it is not up to us to judge these people. To assume that we know the circumstances that brought them to homelessness. What I am say-ing is that we have a duty, as human beings, to not forget that they are the same.
You don’t have to give spare change or money to make a difference. You don’t have to commit hours volunteering at food pantries or shelters. I am chal-lenging you to respond to their questions, even if you don’t think it’s the answer they are seeking. To look them in the eye. To be mindful that they are not the “other,” that they are one of us. To make a difference, you merely have to treat the homeless as they are: humans.
— Cohen is a senior from St. Louis, Mo. majoring in political science.
The men’s track team com-peted in the Rose-Hulman Twilight meet Friday, April 19 to total 67 points putting them in fifth place overall. The women finished in the top three in seven events putting them in third place totaling 111.5 points. Rose-Hulman finished first with 169 points for the men, while Hanover took the lead for the wom-en with 165 points. Washington University — St. Louis took second in both the men’s and women’s.
Senior Noah Droddy was the only first place finisher for the DePauw Tigers. Droddy won the 5,000- meter run in 14:56:67.
The team took away many fourth place finishes throughout most of its events. David Garrett placed fourth in the pole vault along
with Myron Burr in the 110 hurdles, Noah Gatwood in the 5,000-meters, Brian Myers in the 1,500 run and the team’s 4x100 relay.
The women had second place finishes by senior Ellie Pearson in the 400 meters, freshman Heather O’Brien in the 1,500 meter run and senior Kathleen Molloy in the 800 meters.
The team also had three third place finishes in the pole vault with Jillian Balser, in the high jump with Angela Hacker, Emma Clor in the 500 meters. The 4x100 relay fin-ished first in 4:03:15.
DePauw will travel to Louisville, Ky. April 27 in their next competi-tion in the Bellarmine Invitational. The women will compete in the NCAC Heptathlon in Delaware, Ohio in addition to the Bellarmine Invitational.
DePauw softball glided across home plate with the winning run over Allegheny College in its doubleheader Saturday after-noon to clinch the title share for the North Coast Athletic Conference tournament.
Allegheny lost 3-2, 6-5 to the DePauw Tigers who improved their overall record to 12-2 in the conference.
DePauw is ranked first in the NCAC standings with Kenyon College ranked sec-ond, 8-4. The Tigers will face Kenyon this coming Saturday, but with the Allegheny defeat DePauw can now relax.
“The win takes the pressure off us,” freshman Linsey Button said. “We know we’ve made the tournament.”
Game one started off slow for the Ti-ger’s offense, as they were unable to get a hitter on base until the fourth inning. Senior Amy Hallet struck a one-out homer to left and Haleigh Chasteen, freshman, fol-
lowed hitting a single getting on base. Ju-nior pinch runner Lauren Krumwiede went in to score on Button’s steal to second tying the score 1-1.
The third inning brought exciting news for the Tigers. Hallet broke the doubles record held by Jen Kosinksi with her 49th career double.
The Allegheny Gators scored two more runs in the top of the fifth after Sadie Stu-art, hit by a pitch, scored on Stephanie Fort’s double. The Tigers were not worried, though they were down, 3-1, and came back after their small mistakes to snatch the win in the bottom of the fifth.
“When something went wrong we were able to pick each other up and make sure the next play picked up the part of the field that didn’t work,” Button said.
DePauw did just this as senior Samantha Szyska singled with two outs and moved to second on an error. Hallet brought Szyska in with a base hit to left to win the game.
Allegheny took the lead in the nightcap
1-0 in the first inning, but the team worked together to get each other on base to even the score.
“We were able to get people on base, move them around and bring out the big hits,” Button said.
DePauw trailed Allegheny up until the fourth and fifth innings where they were able to even the score once more, 3-3, be-fore the eighth when both teams knocked in two more runs.
The Gators were unable to score off the Tigers in the top of the ninth and Szyska singled up the middle, advanced on Chas-teen’s pitch and then advanced to third on Chasteen’s drive down left. The Gator’s outfielder threw past third to bring Szyska in for the win, 6-5.
The Tigers will travel to Manches-ter University in a non-conference game Wednesday, April 24.
Case Western Reserve University swept the DePauw men’s baseball team this past weekend as they dropped all four games to the Spartans.
The first doubleheader on Saturday after-noon the Tigers played a close game one los-ing 2-1, but fell three runs short in the night-cap, 8-5. On day two of game play, DePauw could not pull out enough runs for the win in the first game, 9-2, but held strong in the second keeping the score down only losing by one run, 4-3.
The Tigers fell to 17-14 while the Spartans improved their season mark to 22-9.
The pitchers dueled throughout the first game with DePauw’s junior Michael Chiaro and Case Western Reserve’s senior Jarret Gish each going six innings scoreless. The Tigers were able to generate one run in the seventh by playing small ball.
After junior Rob Stein doubled, fellow junior Paul Mpistolarides advanced Stein to third with a sacrifice bunt. Stein later scored on sophomore Matt Dorsett’s sacrifice bunt. The Spartans scored on a walk in the eighth inning to tie the game at one.
Case Western Reserve brought its top game, playing off the pitcher’s game.
“They had some great starting pitchers who all threw most of their games,” freshman Connor Einertson said.
The ninth inning proved to be a challenge for the Tigers as Spartan senior Brett Ossola reached base courtesy of a walk by DePauw junior pitcher Pete Stuart. Freshman Marques Winick pinch runner for Ossola advanced to second on an error. Winick reached third off another walk scoring the game-winning run to give the Spartans the first game of the series.
The Tigers were outscored 23-11 in the four games against the Spartans. DePauw could not get the hits they needed to score throughout the weekend.
“Pretty much all weekend our batting struggled,” Einertson said. “We just couldn’t match up to the other team’s batting average this weekend.”
The team will face Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology on Wednesday and look to end their losing streak. DePauw will focus on hit-ting and relief pitching throughout the week.
“The team just needs to be able to find ways to score runs whether that be situational hitting or being aggressive on the bases,” Ein-ertson said. “It is also key for relief pitchers to be able to find the zone fast because they usu-ally are coming in during situations where we are in some trouble.”
Tigers fall to Case Western Reserve four times over the weekend
Sophomores JB McCallum and Pat Lyons make an out against freshman Taylor Hutchinson of Ohio Wesleyan earlier this month. The Tigers record fell 14-17 after four losses against Case Western Satur-day and Sunday. ASHLEY BAUER / THE DEPAUW
the depauw | sports PAGE 11TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013
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For Rosillo: Overall individual winner for Little 5, placed first in the time trials on Wednesday and placed first in the criterion. For Morrison: Overall individual winner for Little 5. Placed first in the street sprint finals on Friday and placed third in the criterion.
What does it feel like to win?Rosillo: “It felt good this year to get after it and win big.”
Morrison: “It feels great to know that all the hard work and preparation paid off.”
The DePauw women’s lacrosse team traveled to Meadville, Penn. last Sat-urday for the first time in program history.
The team faced off against the Allegheny College Gators and lost the match 26-4. This puts the tigers at 6-4 on the season, playing 6-1 in the con-ference.
“We haven’t shown up to play a lot of our games,” women’s lacrosse team head coach Susanna Wilcox said. “If you look at the stats for a lot of our games, including conference games, it’s pretty even. It just comes down to a difference in shots. The pieces are there in practice but there’s something that’s not translating onto the field.”
Throughout the entire game, Allegheny led DePauw with shots on goal; the Gators with 36 attempts and the tigers trailing with only 15.
This was DePauw’s sixth loss in a row and the team still has yet to win a game since entering conference play. The team won its first four non-conference games of the season.
The team has a grueling schedule, making it difficult to translate drills in practice to games against much tougher teams in the conference.
“The way our conference schedule is structured makes it tough because you can’t play many non-conference games, get more confident with a win, then hopefully translate that the confidence into our conference games,” Wilcox said. “Because we have had a mid-week and a weekend game since conference play began, we don’t have the opportunity for that to translate.”
Senior attack Natalie Swiler led DePauw tallying two goals, bringing her season total up to 32 goals. Behind her was freshman attack Elizabeth Mc-Cracken with a single goal and sophomore midfielder Jamie Powell with one goal and an assist on McCracken’s point.
“I thought that our three midfielders [Jamie Powell, Carey Kunz and Knubbe Kunz] hustled all over the field but you can’t just have three players sprint up the field the whole time and rely on that,” Wilcox said.
On the opposition, the Gators were led by sophomore midfielder Kelsey Rodger’s six goals, followed by the four goals and three assists tallied by ju-nior attack Kelly Dickson.
The team put in hard preparation to face Allegheny but fell short while the clock ran, but DePauw has a chance to win against Mount St. Joseph College in their final non-conference game. Wilcox looks to tune the little mistakes to pull out a win on Wednesday.
“Our biggest struggle was just the little things, like not letting a one or two goal deficit become an 8 goal deficit,” Wilcox said. “We didn’t do a good job capitalizing on the possession that we did have. We won a fairly equal amount of draw controls, but we weren’t converting that into shots. And if
Women’s lacrosse faces tough loss
“We haven’t shown up to play a lot of our games ... The pieces are there in practice but there’s something that’s not
translating onto the field.”
- Susanna Wilcox, head coach of the women’s lacrosse team
the depauw | sports TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013PAGE 12
This weekend’s Little 5 resultsWomen’s overall individual winner: Nicole Rossillo (Alpha Chi Omega)
Men’s overall: George Morrison (Sigma Chi)
Women’s top 5 overall team rankings:
1. Alpha Chi Omega2. Alpha Phi3. Kappa Alpha Theta4. Kappa Kappa Gamma5. Independent A
Men’s top 5 overall team rankings:
1. Alpha Tau Omega2. Delta Upsilon3. Phi Delta Theta4. Delta Tau Delta5. Sigma Chi
1. Forrest Kunkel (Delta Tau Delta)2. Max Blankenhorn (Alpha Tau Omega)3. George Morrison (Sigma Chi)4. Connor Miller (Alpha Tau Omega)5. Luke Miller (Beta Theta Pi)6. Andrew Ledbetter (Phi Delta Theta)7. Troy Stratford (Delta Tau Delta)8. Quinn Carrico (Delta Upsilon)9. Mateusz Kosciuk (Delta Upsilon)10. Will Freske (Delta Upsilon)
