VOL. 160, ISSUE 45 TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012 Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper By BECCA STANEK [email protected]In the first two months of the Indiana State Excise Police’s In- tensified College Enforcement Program at DePauw University, 36 tickets have been issued in Green- castle, Ind. The Intensified College En- forcement Program (ICE), an ini- tiative created by the Indiana State Excise Police and the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute, began on Feb. 6. The program, which will last throughout the end of the semester, aims to reduce under- age drinking on college campuses. DePauw, along with Ball State Uni- versity in Muncie, Ind. and Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. are the three schools currently be- ing targeted by Excise. The program places Excise of- ficers in plainclothes and uniforms in locations where underage possession or consump- tion of alcohol is more likely to occur. Excise officers have been positioned near liquor stores, bars and taverns and other loca- tions where underage drinking is prevalent. “We are mostly around places with alcohol permits or places that have encourage underage drink- ing or where underage drinking has happened in the past,” said Corporal Travis Thickstun, head of media relations for the Indiana State Excise Police. “We are basi- cally targeting bars, liquor stores, any party locations.” According to Thickstun, de- pending on the circumstances, an Excise can officer can enter a party at a fraternity house or other liv- ing space if they feel such action is warranted and the party ap- pears to be open to the general public. “If excise sees a violation from off private property, then they can come on the property,” said Angie Nally, director of Public Safety. “They can enter if a fraternity is holding an event that appears to be open to the public. Other than that, they cannot.” The two main issues that Ex- cise officers have been giving tick- ets for are minor in consumption and minor in possession. Other frequent offenses have included furnishing to a minor and the use of fake identification. In February, three tickets were given in the Greencastle area, and in March, the number of tickets given rose to 33. The Indiana State Excise Police does not have any available information or statistics for the month of April. Tickets are not solely being is- sued to DePauw students. Ticket totals also in- clude residents of nearby areas. “When I last spoke with Ex- cise a month or so ago, they said that less than half of those ticketed were DePauw students,” Nally said. “Because Greencastle is such a small area, Excise has ex- panded their focus. They are also stationing themselves at alcohol stores in areas such as Filmore, Bainbridge and Crawfordsville.” A person may be stopped by Excise due to reasonable suspi- cion, but probable cause is nec- essary in order for a ticket to be given or an arrest to be made. “If a reasonable person to be- lieve that a criminal act could be afoot, then we will stop someone,” Thickstun said. “We try to look for people that look like they are not 21 that are attempting to purchase alcohol or are at a bar or a tavern. We are also looking for adults pro- viding for minors.” The amount of the fine issued by ticketing depends on both cir- cumstances of the incident and the judicial programs that the county has in place. According to Thickstun, the majority of tickets given thus far have been in Muncie and in Bloomington, not in Greencastle. The Indiana State Excise Po- lice’s goal for the program is to see a definitive change in the number of underage drinking issues cited both on and around targeted col- lege campuses. If the program is successful in undercutting under- age drinking, the Indiana State Excise Police plan to consider extending the program to other college campuses throughout the state. “It’s too early to give a Excise believes program is success, but lacks quantitative evidence I fought the law... Excise | cont’d on page 3 GENDER-NEUTRAL BATHROOMS WHITEPAPER : PASSED Single-stalled and family-friendly, See the story on pg. 3 By THE DEPAUW STAFF [email protected]Over 500 students marked “no vote” for vice president of student life in the student govern- ment elections last week, despite three candi- dates being listed for the office. Those candidates collectively received a little over 50 percent of all votes cast for the position. Student Government Parliamentarian and se- nior Roy Leaf, who oversaw the elections, said he is going to meet with the newly elected student body president Sara Scully in the next week to discuss options for holding a makeup election for the position next fall. He said the election will likely be held within the first few weeks of the start of the school year, much like the makeup elections held last fall for other unfilled student government positions. Leaf said he thought voter turnout this year was a little better than last year but added that he’d always like to see a higher turnout. “It’s not that hard for students to take three minutes and go online to e-Services and vote,” Leaf said. Regardless of the turnout, Leaf said the “no vote” option is still a good one. “If people don’t like the slate of candidates that are up there, they shouldn’t have to vote for them,” Leaf said. ‘No vote’ wins title of VP for Student Life No vote (526 votes) John Russell (233 votes) Isaiah Mills (213 votes) Rachel Yingling (166 votes) THE FINAL TALLY FOR VICE PRESIDENT OF STUDENT LIFE ELECTIONS For more in-depth coverage of election results, visit thedepauw.com
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VOL. 160, ISSUE 45TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012 Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper
In the first two months of the Indiana State Excise Police’s In-tensified College Enforcement Program at DePauw University, 36 tickets have been issued in Green-castle, Ind.
The Intensified College En-forcement Program (ICE), an ini-tiative created by the Indiana State Excise Police and the Indiana Criminal Justice Institute, began on Feb. 6. The program, which will last throughout the end of the semester, aims to reduce under-age drinking on college campuses. DePauw, along with Ball State Uni-versity in Muncie, Ind. and Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. are the three schools currently be-ing targeted by Excise.
The program places Excise of-ficers in plainclothes
and uniforms in locations where underage possession or consump-tion of alcohol is more likely to occur. Excise officers have been positioned near liquor stores, bars and taverns and other loca-tions where underage drinking is prevalent.
“We are mostly around places with alcohol permits or places that have encourage underage drink-ing or where underage drinking has happened in the past,” said Corporal Travis Thickstun, head of media relations for the Indiana State Excise Police. “We are basi-cally targeting bars, liquor stores, any party locations.”
According to Thickstun, de-pending on the circumstances, an Excise can officer can enter a party at a fraternity house or other liv-ing space if they feel such action is warranted and the party ap-
pears to be open to the general public.
“If excise sees a violation from off private property, then they can come on the property,” said Angie Nally, director of Public Safety. “They can enter if a fraternity is holding an event that appears to be open to the public. Other than that, they cannot.”
The two main issues that Ex-cise officers have been giving tick-ets for are minor in consumption and minor in possession. Other frequent offenses have included furnishing to a minor and the use of fake identification.
In February, three tickets were given in the Greencastle area, and in March, the number of tickets given rose to 33. The Indiana State Excise Police does not have any available information or statistics
for the month of April.
Tickets are not solely being is-sued to DePauw students. Ticket totals also in-clude residents of nearby areas.
“When I last spoke with Ex-cise a month or so ago, they said that less than half of those ticketed were DePauw s t u d e n t s , ” Nally said. “ B e c a u s e Greencastle
is such a small area, Excise has ex-panded their focus. They are also stationing themselves at alcohol stores in areas such as Filmore, Bainbridge and Crawfordsville.”
A person may be stopped by Excise due to reasonable suspi-cion, but probable cause is nec-essary in order for a ticket to be given or an arrest to be made.
“If a reasonable person to be-lieve that a criminal act could be afoot, then we will stop someone,” Thickstun said. “We try to look for people that look like they are not 21 that are attempting to purchase alcohol or are at a bar or a tavern. We are also looking for adults pro-viding for minors.”
The amount of the fine issued by ticketing depends on both cir-cumstances of the incident and the judicial programs that the county has in place.
According to Thickstun, the majority of tickets given thus far have been in Muncie and in Bloomington, not in Greencastle.
The Indiana State Excise Po-lice’s goal for the program is to see a definitive change in the number of underage drinking issues cited both on and around targeted col-lege campuses. If the program is successful in undercutting under-age drinking, the Indiana State Excise Police plan to consider extending the program to other college campuses throughout the state.
“It’s too early to give a
Excise believes program is success, but lacks quantitative evidence
Over 500 students marked “no vote” for vice president of student life in the student govern-ment elections last week, despite three candi-dates being listed for the office.
Those candidates collectively received a little over 50 percent of all votes cast for the position.
Student Government Parliamentarian and se-nior Roy Leaf, who oversaw the elections, said he is going to meet with the newly elected student body president Sara Scully in the next week to discuss options for holding a makeup election for the position next fall.
He said the election will likely be held within the first few weeks of the start of the school year, much like the makeup elections held last fall for other unfilled student government positions.
Leaf said he thought voter turnout this year was a little better than last year but added that he’d always like to see a higher turnout.
“It’s not that hard for students to take three minutes and go online to e-Services and vote,” Leaf said.
Regardless of the turnout, Leaf said the “no vote” option is still a good one.
“If people don’t like the slate of candidates that are up there, they shouldn’t have to vote for them,” Leaf said.
‘No vote’ wins title of VP for Student Life
No vote (526 votes)John Russell (233 votes)Isaiah Mills (213 votes)
Rachel Yingling (166 votes)
THE FINAL TALLY FORVICE PRESIDENT OF STUDENT LIFE
ELECTIONS
For more in-depth coverage of election results,
visit thedepauw.com
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The search for the new Dean of Civil, Global and Professional Opportunities has been narrowed down to three candidates.
The search committee selected Dr. Helen Da-mon-Moore, Dr. Rajesh Bellani and Dr. Andrew Stel-ljes as the final three candidates for the position.
The process started with employing a search firm to aid the university in securing leads. Of about 30 leads DePauw selected five to come interview in Indianapolis last week. Finally they narrowed the pool to the three current candidates.
“We are looking for someone who can be very articulate of the importance of experimental learn-ing and who will work well with the people here,” said David Harvey, vice president of academic af-fairs and professor of chemistry and biochemistry.
The position of Dean of Civil, Global and Pro-fessional Opportunities, or CGPOPS, was created to condense the three offices into one. The three separate departments used to report to the dean of academic affairs. Now there will be one dean for all three departments.
Combining the three fields is something that makes DePauw unique compared to other universi-
ties in the country.“What entices them is something new. Almost
no other university has combined these three po-sitions,” said Doug Harms, professor of computer science and a member of the selection committee.
Candidates were selected because of their expe-rience in the fields of civil, global and professional opportunities.
“All individuals have a variety of experience and functional experience in as many of these areas as possible,” Harvey said.
The three candidates all bring a unique combi-nation of civil, global, and professional experiences to DePauw, while also having managed a college of a similar or larger size.
“They have ideas of where this could go and that’s what I was impressed with,” Harms said. “They are someone who can provide vision for the whole department—to help locate funding.”
The three remaining candidates are all currently employed by other institutions. Damon-Moore is the Director of Service and Educational Programs at Dartmouth College, Bellani works as the Rhode Island School of Design Associate Prevost and Dean of Students and Special Assistant for International Activities and Stelljes is the Director of Community Engagement and Executive Assistant Professor of
Education at the College of William and Mary.“The problem with the pool is they are all three
very well employed. They are all very happy in their current positions,” said President Brian Casey.
Harvey said that there are a number of reasons why currently employed people want to look for new jobs: Current job coming close to ending, in-ternal instability in their current institution and wanting to have more upward mobility.
The search committee ultimately only makes a recommendation. Casey makes the final decision on whom to hire.
“They understand the complexity of DePauw and the world the students are going thorough — jumping around from jobs, not just working with one corporation,” Casey said.
Harms hopes the committee will reach a deci-sion within the next week. Doing so will provide the candidate to make the transition from their previ-ous position into DePauw, and allow for them to begin working over the summer.
“All three are remarkably experienced, and all three are remarkably excited. I mean that quite seriously. I’m very excited about the candidates,” Casey said.
CGPOPS dean committee to reach decision next week
DR. HELEN DAMON-MOORE
Director of Service and Educational Programs at Dartmouth College's Tucker
Foundation
Her EducationPh.D. in Educational Policy Studies,
University of Wisconsin, 1987
M.A. in Education Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin, 1985
B.A. in Sociology, Beloit College, 1980
DR. RAJESH BELLANI
Associate Provost and Dean of Students and Special Assistant for International
Initiatives at the Rhode Island School of Design
His EducationPh.D. in Higher Education Management,
University of Pennsylvania, PA, 2007
M.S., Western Illinois University, IL, 1998
B.A., State University of New York at Geneseo, NY, 1995
DR. ANDREW STELLJES
Director of Community Engagement and Executive Assistant Professor of Education
at The College of William and Mary
His EducationDoctor of Philosophy, The College of William
and Mary, 2007
Master of Education, James Madison University, 1999
Bachelor of Science, James Madison University, 1997
THE FINAL THREE CANDIDATES FOR THE CGPOPS POSITION
FIVE CANDIDATES INTERVIEWED LAST WEEK
APPROXIMATELY 30 LEADS SECURED FOR CGPOPS POSITION
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definitive answer as to whether or not the program is as successful as we’d like it to be. What we want is to see a change in the number of underage drinking issues,” Thickstun said. “It will take time to get hard evidence and the numbers, but so far I think it’s making an impact.”
Nally hopes that excise will con-duct a report at some point in the future to clearly see the application of the initiative and measure the pro-gram’s outcomes.
“I honestly don’t know exactly how successful the program has been so far, as far as numbers go,” Nally said. “I met with Excise about a month ago and asked for more information about what they are doing, but I still do not have that information.”
Despite the fact that the Indiana Excise Police does not yet have tangi-ble evidence that the program is mak-ing an impact on underage drinking, both Excise and DePauw Public Safety and administration believe that the program is effectively raising student awareness and influencing drinking
behaviors. “Students have talked about no-
ticing changes in other students’ be-havior,” said Cindy Babington, dean of student life. “Students have said that they have noticed people being
more cautious.”DePauw has been working to raise
awareness and to educate students about Excises’ initiatives and inten-tions on campus and how to properly conduct themselves so as to avoid en-counters with excise.
“We have been trying to make suggestions to students about how to
avoid run-ins with Excise,” Babington said. “Don’t be in public spaces with open containers. Don’t use fake IDs. Students need to be cautious about how they are presenting themselves. Be prudent.”
Thickstun heavily emphasized Excise’s zero tolerance policy and ad-herence to strictly enforcing the law.
“What I tell people as far as “safe partying” goes, is don’t break the law,” Thickstun said. “We won’t an-swer how to break the law and not get caught. Students shouldn’t be worried about the presence of Excise because if they are not trying to hide something or do something illegal then they will have no risk of getting into trouble.”
Nally hopes that despite the pres-ence of Excise, students will still feel comfortable approaching law en-forcement and maintaining an open, conversational campus atmosphere.
“We don’t want to encourage students to be afraid of law enforce-ment, but an effort to reduce high risk drinking would cut a lot of other problems,” Nally said. “Even if a small percentage of high risk drinking is re-duced, I’d say it’s effective.”
FEBRUARY3 total tickets2 – possession of marijuana1 – inducing a minor to possess alcohol
MARCH33 total tickets16 – illegal possession or consumption of alcohol7- inducing a minor to possess alcohol3 – juvenile possession of tobacco2- public intoxication
(These were arrests, not tickets)1 – warrant issued for an arrest1- contributing to delinquency of a minor (This offense is defined as giving alcohol to someone under the age of 18, a more serious offense than inducing a minor to possess alcohol)1 – resisting arrest1 – disorderly conduct
SOURCE: INDIANA STATE EXCISE POLICE
INDIANA EXCISE POLICE CHARGES FROM FEBRUARY AND MARCH
possible, DePauw student government proposed a new plan: Build gender-neutral bathrooms.
In reaction to student concern about the need to bring awareness to making DePauw’s campus as inclusive as possible, student government has passed a white paper to construct gen-der-neutral bathrooms.
Student Body Vice President Nic Flores authored a white paper and resolution that aims to institute family -friendly, single-stalled, gender-neutral bathrooms throughout highly traf-ficked areas across campus.
Flores says gender-neutral rest-rooms do exist, but a wide variety of people are unaware that this is a need for DePauw’s campus.
“They exist and are not as well pub-licized as they should be,” Flores. “I believe for DePauw University to fulfill its ability to be as inclusive as possible in all facets should include that senti-ment.”
Right now there are few bathrooms scattered across campus welcoming families or gender neutrals into a safe, comforting single-stalled bathroom.
It should be emphasized that these bathrooms are to be both family friend-ly and gender-neutral, so as to be more welcoming and accommodating to the various needs of people in the DePauw community.
By asking DePauw to be conscious
of various needs in their future con-struction projects, student govern-ment hopes to foster a safe and in-clusive atmosphere for all students, faculty and staff.
Within the DePauw University’s anti-harassment and non-discrimina-tion policies, issues gendering identity and gender expression are explicitly addressed. The Diversity and Equity Committee has also supported the in-crease of gender-neutral bathrooms since 2005.
These bathrooms will benefit fami-lies with small children along with peo-ple with physical disabilities who can better access a single stalled restroom.
The white paper’s resolution is for DePauw University to design standards in all newly constructed and renovated buildings in which there will be a fam-ily friendly, single stalled, gender neu-tral bathroom including a baby chang-ing facility and are accessible to people with disabilities.
Locations suggested to construct these bathrooms are the Lilly Recre-ation Center, Roy O. West Library and the Student Union Building. The white paper also calls for publicizing where all current single-stall bathrooms are throughout campus on the university website.
The resolution went through stu-dent government passing with an 80 percent vote to institute this change.
During the student government as-sembly meeting, Flores says he has re-ceived positive feedback from students thus far.
Single-stalled, gender-neutral bathrooms a potential on campus
Excise | continued from page 1
“Students shouldn’t be worried about the presence of Excise because if they are not trying to hide something or do
something illegal then they will have no risk of getting
into trouble.”— Corporal Travis Thickstun
“They exist and are not as well publicized as they should be.”— Nic Flores, Vice President of
student government
The DePauw | camPus news TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012PAGE 4
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CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS
The article “Debate provides presidential candidates with last word” published in the Friday, April 20 issue of The DePauw incorrectly notes that junior Austin Bonta, a candidate for student body president, served on the on the student board of trustees. Such a board does not ex-ist. But as a freshman senator, Bonta served as the chair of a committee that produced the Student Report to the Board of Trustees.
The same article incorrectly inferred that the Direc-tor of Allocations position is not a student government position, by noting juniors Arezoo Nazari and Jimmy Kirkpatrick — candidates for student body president and vice president — wanted to bring the position “back onto DSG.” The allocations board is part of student govern-ment, but the Director of Allocations is currently not an executive board position.
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Paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos — the Senior Student Art Ex-hibit has it all.
The exhibit, which opened on Fri-day night and will continue until May 20, is the last show the students will have at DePauw. The six students be-hind the pieces have worked on their projects since the beginning of the year, critiquing and altering the pieces as time went on.
The exhibit’s opening provided an opportunity for the students, all se-nior studio art majors, to explain the inspiration and thoughts behind their pieces.
Senior Kristopher Schmelzer was the first to give an artist talk, open-ing with gracious thank you’s to those who helped along the way. He then di-rected his attention to his photographs hanging on the walls.
He explained that throughout his time at DePauw, he has centered his focus on gender and sexuality, specifi-cally within the male community. The photographs displayed in the exhibit reflected this, as they were based upon the intimacy shared between hetero-sexual men in a fraternity environment.
“I was examining my struggles with my own personal identity as well as masculine stereotypes that are perceived and socially constructed,” Schmelzer said.
The photographic series centers on moments of intimacy between men that Schmelzer has either experienced or witnessed within a fraternity setting.
Senior Lily Bonwich used personal experiences as the inspiration behind her still life paintings. In particular, she said, those experiences were related to growing up, coming of age, dating struggles and becoming an adult.
“I like to use still life because it allows me to utilize objects to cre-
ate symbols and metaphors that can explain some of the experiences and memories that I have about growing up,” she said.
Bonwich said that containers are among her most frequently used ob-jects that she uses for her still life paintings. She explained that she uses them to symbolize containment, as all her paintings contain memories.
As she explained the motivation behind her paintings, she told the au-dience that she did not want to hinder their interpretation of her works.
“My overall intention is that you get this emotive quality out of the piece that relates to that memory that I’m trying to contain,” Bonwich said. “Be-cause it’s more important to me that you have that feeling, and then you yourself look into your memories, your interests, your upbringing, and bring to my paintings yourself.”
Senior Kelsey Floyd’s pieces were displayed as media. The photographs
and videos centralize on the manipula-tion of light and ensuing effects on the sculptures.
Her pieces for the exhibit were originally large-scale window instal-lations that have been captured in a video projection. She explained that this is done to take away any intimi-dation that the pure size of her sculp-tures might inflict upon the viewer, while still allowing the viewer to be im-mersed in the light manipulation.
“I’ve created an immersive environ-ment where you aren’t being distracted by other elements and can really just stand there and focus on the shifting changes of light and what’s happening, and hopefully being to really appreci-ate that,” Floyd said.
The light manipulation in her art incorporates differing times of day as well as varying degrees of weather.
Floyd said that psychology, her other major, weaved itself into her project. Through different theories of perception, she has planted roots from which her art can stem.
“It gave me a solid foothold to go on,” she said.
Senior Emelie Johansson, originally from Sweden, used her photographs to investigate the interconnectedness of place and sense of self. She strived to examine the relationship between mind and land, as well as the struggle of connecting to place.
“For the past four years, I’ve con-tinuously explored ideas of identity and place, space, memory and family,” Johansson said.
She explained that throughout her project, she created a sense of home in an unfamiliar place. She said that as she finalized her thesis, she wanted to journey back to Sweden and examine how her ideas would apply there.
“I realized that this experience was about continuously connecting and disconnecting with place,” she said. “I realized that it was about mourning of place that I had left behind and try-ing to connect with this unfamiliarity. I sort of disconnected myself from the old to fully be apart of the new place.”
She said that her photographic series documents the struggles of her journey and the realizations that she encountered upon the way.
Adele Kane used sculptures to question the control, altering and man-ufacturing of food in the 21st century.
She critiques the ethical standards of food production with her art.
On two of her sculptures were bar-codes that audience members could scan with their phones to learn more about the processes that Kane was ad-dressing.
Kane explained that the motiva-tion behind her sculptures is politi-cally based, as she disagrees with the practices, a stance that she conveys through her works.
“I hope that with these pieces, you can see my interest in this topic and that you can have your own interest in it,” Kane said. “Food is an intimate relationship, and we all deal with it on a daily basis, and I hope that when you come up to these pieces that you can reflect on your own relationship with it and think of how this process has been made very sterile, and possibility the re-humanization of it in your own part as a consumer.”
Sommer Braun used her pho-tographic series to depict the influ-ence that religion has had upon her throughout her life. She said that fam-ily, history, memory and nostalgia in-spire her photographs.
“It’s these different relationships and traits and personalities about fam-ily and throughout history that I have established this deep interest,” Braun said.
She explained that a major influ-ence on her work was a great-grand-mother who passed away when she was six.
“It wasn’t just her love and her compassion that every other grand-mother would have,” she said. “But her personality and her morals and values that really stuck out to me.”
Braun said that through her great-grandmother, she was able to see the same values and traditional morals in other family members. Braun uses her photography to examine the impact that religion has created throughout her upbringing, particularly its aid with self-identity and expression.
“It’s understanding and interpret-ing what those traditions meant to me and how it has molded me as a person, how I can now implement those tradi-tions, not only in my personality and my traits, but also in a day to day ba-sis,” Braun said.
Studio art exhibit explores intimate, worldly topics in students’ final show
Students view Kristopher Schemelzer's work in the Senior showcase at Peeler this past Friday. ISABELLE
CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
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Volunteers rolled out of bed in the wee hours of the morn-ing, greeted by cold and cloudy weather, to begin setting up for Relay for Life.
Despite the spotty weather, Relay was full of activity during the day’s festivities, bringing 926 indi-vidual participants and 79 teams to Putnam County to support the American Cancer Society.
Participants took advantage of many events that spanned over a 24-hour period and provided a friendly atmosphere to get to know others. Various activities in-cluding Turbo Kick, Bid-a-Dates, a
cake eating contest, board games, tug-of-war and various musical performances.
The university joined forces with the community to show its support this year for Relay, bring-ing another successful year and a fun and supportive environment.
Freshman Jack Leibovitz ar-rived at Relay early in the morning and participated in various events throughout the day, including the DePauw University Bid-a-Date.
Leibovitz enjoyed supporting the overall event.
“I’ve been out here since 7 a.m. and it’s great to see so many people come out to support the cause,” Leibovitz said. “I’ve had a lot of fun taking part in different
activities to help raise money.” Organizer and senior Kather-
ine Butler was very proud of the event this year.
“This year’s Relay for Life was a huge success. We had a wonder-ful turnout, with a great mix of excited community members and students together at the track,” Butler said. “That’s one of the best parts of Relay — it brings the cam-pus and community together for one reason: To support the fight against cancer.”
Freshman Libby Warren was excited to participate in Relay for her first time at DePauw.
“It was a great event and I’m so happy I was able to take part in it,” Warren said. “I’m excited that
I have three more years on this campus to continue to help sup-port Relay for Life.”
For many, the event hits home as they remember people who have been affected by cancer. Several participants showed their support in memory of loved ones.
Junior Lian Weinstein was one of those participants. Weinstein walked in memory of a friend.
“This year hit me harder than past years because a guy who I’ve had classes with since sixth grade recently passed away from can-cer,” Weinstein said. “I wasn’t su-per close with him, but I was defi-nitely thinking about his friends and family a lot this past weekend. I love that the entire campus and
community comes together for relay to help make a difference.”
Sophomore Jack Burgeson said nearly everyone knows some-one who has been affected by can-cer and he was excited to see so many people come out to support those battling cancer and those who have lost loved-ones to the disease.
“It’s fun to see all the DePauw students and community mem-bers coming together for one cause,” Burgeson said. “It’s great to walk around the track and have a conversation with someone you’ve never met before. It’s great to know that every dollar we raise can go to cancer because we all know someone who has been af-
fected.” Freshman Celia Klug, one of
the many volunteers, couldn’t imagine spending her day doing anything else on Saturday.
“In Putnam County, Relay brings together members of Greencastle, Putnam County and DePauw communities, and re-minds us that we’re all in this fight together,” Klug said. “What could get better than that?”
Overall, $129,328 has been col-lected so far and Relay will contin-ue to raise and collect money until August for the final total, conclud-ing another successful Relay for Life event.
Relay for Life
Pie a Pi PhiPi Beta Phi President Lauren McCormick '13 gets pied in the face for Pi Beta Phi's Relay For Life Charity this past Saturday ISABELLE CHAPMAN /THE DEPAUW
Luminarias lined the track at Blackstock Stadium for Relay For Life this past weekend. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
Scully gets piedChristopher Lee ‘13 pied Sara
Scully ‘13 in the face for Pi Beta Phi’s Relay For Life Charity this past Saturday.
ISABELLE CHAPMAN/THE DEPAUW
Wheelchair RidesPutnam County Hospital offered wheelchair Rides in order to raise money for cancer research during Relay For Life this past weekend. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
SupportParticipants in this past weekend’s Relay for Life hold a sign for a lost loved one. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
Riding a wooden horseParticipants in this past weekend's Relay For Life rode around the track at Blackstock Stadium on a wooden horse. Proceeds for the ride will go to cancer research. ISABELLE CHAP-MAN / THE DEPAUW
“I have done relay for 4 years and the luminaria ceremony is always the most
moving part. It is really amazing to see the amount of people who have been affected by cancer. Every year it makes me realize why what we are doing is so important and how much
we can help people by raising so much money for cancer research.”
Relay for Life Entertainment and Food Committee
member, Marissa Jansen
Sees another successful year, raises nearly $130,000
the depauw | features TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012PAGES 6 & 7
Volunteers rolled out of bed in the wee hours of the morn-ing, greeted by cold and cloudy weather, to begin setting up for Relay for Life.
Despite the spotty weather, Relay was full of activity during the day’s festivities, bringing 926 indi-vidual participants and 79 teams to Putnam County to support the American Cancer Society.
Participants took advantage of many events that spanned over a 24-hour period and provided a friendly atmosphere to get to know others. Various activities in-cluding Turbo Kick, Bid-a-Dates, a
cake eating contest, board games, tug-of-war and various musical performances.
The university joined forces with the community to show its support this year for Relay, bring-ing another successful year and a fun and supportive environment.
Freshman Jack Leibovitz ar-rived at Relay early in the morning and participated in various events throughout the day, including the DePauw University Bid-a-Date.
Leibovitz enjoyed supporting the overall event.
“I’ve been out here since 7 a.m. and it’s great to see so many people come out to support the cause,” Leibovitz said. “I’ve had a lot of fun taking part in different
activities to help raise money.” Organizer and senior Kather-
ine Butler was very proud of the event this year.
“This year’s Relay for Life was a huge success. We had a wonder-ful turnout, with a great mix of excited community members and students together at the track,” Butler said. “That’s one of the best parts of Relay — it brings the cam-pus and community together for one reason: To support the fight against cancer.”
Freshman Libby Warren was excited to participate in Relay for her first time at DePauw.
“It was a great event and I’m so happy I was able to take part in it,” Warren said. “I’m excited that
I have three more years on this campus to continue to help sup-port Relay for Life.”
For many, the event hits home as they remember people who have been affected by cancer. Several participants showed their support in memory of loved ones.
Junior Lian Weinstein was one of those participants. Weinstein walked in memory of a friend.
“This year hit me harder than past years because a guy who I’ve had classes with since sixth grade recently passed away from can-cer,” Weinstein said. “I wasn’t su-per close with him, but I was defi-nitely thinking about his friends and family a lot this past weekend. I love that the entire campus and
community comes together for relay to help make a difference.”
Sophomore Jack Burgeson said nearly everyone knows some-one who has been affected by can-cer and he was excited to see so many people come out to support those battling cancer and those who have lost loved-ones to the disease.
“It’s fun to see all the DePauw students and community mem-bers coming together for one cause,” Burgeson said. “It’s great to walk around the track and have a conversation with someone you’ve never met before. It’s great to know that every dollar we raise can go to cancer because we all know someone who has been af-
fected.” Freshman Celia Klug, one of
the many volunteers, couldn’t imagine spending her day doing anything else on Saturday.
“In Putnam County, Relay brings together members of Greencastle, Putnam County and DePauw communities, and re-minds us that we’re all in this fight together,” Klug said. “What could get better than that?”
Overall, $129,328 has been col-lected so far and Relay will contin-ue to raise and collect money until August for the final total, conclud-ing another successful Relay for Life event.
Relay for Life
Pie a Pi PhiPi Beta Phi President Lauren McCormick '13 gets pied in the face for Pi Beta Phi's Relay For Life Charity this past Saturday ISABELLE CHAPMAN /THE DEPAUW
Luminarias lined the track at Blackstock Stadium for Relay For Life this past weekend. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
Scully gets piedChristopher Lee ‘13 pied Sara
Scully ‘13 in the face for Pi Beta Phi’s Relay For Life Charity this past Saturday.
ISABELLE CHAPMAN/THE DEPAUW
Wheelchair RidesPutnam County Hospital offered wheelchair Rides in order to raise money for cancer research during Relay For Life this past weekend. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
SupportParticipants in this past weekend’s Relay for Life hold a sign for a lost loved one. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
Riding a wooden horseParticipants in this past weekend's Relay For Life rode around the track at Blackstock Stadium on a wooden horse. Proceeds for the ride will go to cancer research. ISABELLE CHAP-MAN / THE DEPAUW
“I have done relay for 4 years and the luminaria ceremony is always the most
moving part. It is really amazing to see the amount of people who have been affected by cancer. Every year it makes me realize why what we are doing is so important and how much
we can help people by raising so much money for cancer research.”
Relay for Life Entertainment and Food Committee
member, Marissa Jansen
Sees another successful year, raises nearly $130,000
BOB ALLEN / THE DEPAUW
The DePauw | oPinion TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012PAGE 8
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Scheduling is the worst part of my semester, every semester. More than finals, more than the Monday after Little 5, more than that week where I have papers due in all my classes and rehearsal every night. Scheduling wants to make me cry.
There is no feeling more helpless or infuriating than opening up my brand-new schedule for the first time, the schedule I spent forever agonizing over and see-ing a tiny block of letters — the only class I got into. Every semester since I’ve been here, the most credits I’ve ever gotten into right away is 1.5. As my friend from IU told me, “Dude, you’re gonna be a junior. That crap shouldn’t be happening anymore.”
Why is it so hard for us to get the liberal arts part of our liberal arts education? I am ending my sophomore year. As a sophomore, I’m almost done with my major and a minor. I only have two more classes I need. But I cannot get into general education classes to save my life.
It makes sense. The professor sees two students on their waitlist, because it always comes down to the wait-list. Let’s just immediately dismiss the fact that I could get into non-major classes through normal scheduling. One is a freshman – they’re thinking about being a ma-jor. The other is me. An almost-junior begging to be put in a social sciences class, any class, because I need it to graduate. Who would you pick?
I love that our classes are small, but there are too few classes offered, especially at the lower levels. If you’re going to require that every student at this university takes two humanities, two science and math classes and two social sciences (all from different departments — and don’t forget that sociology and anthropology are the same department), then the courses offered need to reflect that.
Currently, I don’t believe they do. It is a systemic failure.
I don’t know what to do, except email professors un-
til they’re probably as frustrated as I am.There has to be a better way to do this.
— Elise Lockwoodsophomore
Every Time Is YOLO Time
Life doesn’t always happen the way we want it to. We all start off with high hopes, big dreams and ambitious goals, and then life comes in the way. However, there is a lot that we can learn from the Desiderata and You Only Live Once cliché: doing what we love to do, embracing life with all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, be-ing cheerful and striving to be happy because we only live once.
We can all whine about our first world problems of flipping burgers over the summer, or rant about our third world problems of not knowing where our next meal will come from, but we can also stop grumbling and start enjoying our achievements, remain interested in our plans and do what we love to do.
For some people it’s composing music, chasing tor-nadoes or taking care of animals and wildlife, while for others it’s making the world a more welcoming, com-forting and friendly place for others.
YOLO: so find your passion. Do what you love to do and do it often. Be grateful, because by the time you finish reading this, x number of people will have died of malaria worldwide, y number of people will have died of HIV/AIDS in Africa and z number of people will have died of cancer in America. After all, not everyone had the chance to live.
— Henry Dambanemuya junior
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
This semester, the Indiana State Excise Police has become a common presence on campus, issuing tickets for underage con-sumption, along with other charges.
In Ferbruary and March, 36 tickets were issued in Greencastle, although not strictly to DePauw students.
Excise has stated that it finds its methods successful in stopping underage drinking, although they have no concrete evidence that underage drinking has in fact decreased. And, will use these numbers to reapply for the state grant that provides their funding at the end of this school year.
We should also point out that it took our news editor over two weeks and several voicemails to receive a report on Excise’s activity. The numbers — how many students had been cited at DePauw — were not readily available. The April numbers aren’t in yet.
Angela Nally, director of Public Safety, stated that if any excessive drinking is de-creased excise and its initiative is, indeed, successful. And we agree with that, as that is the ultimate safety concern and end goal.
However, perhaps excise’s tactic isn’t quite on point with ceasing underage con-sumption of alcohol.
Lurking on street corners and issuing tickets almost at random may not stop under-age drinking — it may only make students more wise in ways to avoid excise and, thus, an arrest or a ticket.
Although we hope heavy underage drinking — and excessive drinking in general — is decreased for the safety of our peers, the state of Indiana may find it more fruitful to use hard, concrete evidence, research and facts to determine the reasons and the ways of such hard drinking and attacking the problem from another angle instead of just writing a ticket.
The recent student government elections saw an increase in voting numbers, which would normally be commended. However, that number only increased to about 50 percent of the student body.
In national elections, this percentage is considered a norm. But on a small liberal arts campus that prides itself on close community and heavy student involvement, that number is more than disheartening.
Voting on e-services takes minutes, if that. Those not voting, in effect, made a state-ment.
But the 50 percent that didn’t vote creates an opportunity for Sara Suclly and Mark Fadel, newly voted student body president and vice president, who promised during their campaign to reach out to students. An increase in voting next time around would be an easily measurable success and a testament to their work.
We’ll hope to see better numbers next time.
Low turnout at polls provides opportunity
Excise more negative than positive
The DePauw | oPinion PAGE 9TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012
PHOTOPINIONDo you think excise has helped
curtail drinking on campus?
HUNTER LEAMAN, sophomore
“No, there are a lot more basic problems before punishment.”
ELI CANGANY / THE DEPAUW
LAURA GUILD, freshman
“No, I have not seen a strong presence on campus. I think people are more cautious of how they look when they leave the party scene.”
CAITLIN LUDLOW, sophomore
“No, it created a paranoid environment. People take alternative measures to still go about underage drink-ing.”
BRIAN ALKIRE, sophomore
“No, I think it caused people to be negative and hostile towards law enforcement and Public Safety.”
Prozac, Xanax and Zoloft are household names that rival Downy, Kellogg and Kraft. Due to our culture’s inclination to treat everything as a
“medical issue,” people diagnosed with mental ill-nesses are often advised to enlist the help of psychi-atric drugs like these.
With rigorous classes and serious social com-mitments, top-notch universities are witnessing a dramatic increase in number of students who suffer from mental disorders.
The American College Counseling Association released a study in 2010 claiming that 44 percent of students who seek campus counseling have been diagnosed with severe psychological disorders. This percentage has increased by 28 percent over the past ten years.
With the American tendency to live a fast-paced life, simply swallowing a pill is an alluring promise to alleviate anxiety, manic episodes and depression. It is a solution that does not force us to dramatically alter our lifestyles. Patients attest to the effective-ness of their antidepressants, benzos and uppers, but some psychiatrists find the long-term effects of psychiatric drugs to be counterintuitive.
According to psychiatrist Douglas C. Smith,
M.D., these drugs do not necessarily correct im-balances. They only “work” by numbing troubled feelings. When a person ingests a pill, he or she no longer has to face their problems. This idea paral-lels that of escapism — and the pleasure of escapism cannot be experienced forever.
The “relapse” rates are also much higher than they would be if a person had never taken the pill in the first place. If one can no longer access his or her psychoactive substance, then he or she would suffer serious withdrawal symptoms.
Deciding to alter one’s brain with psychiatric drugs is not only a risky financial investment, but an emotional one as well.
Many distinguished individuals who suffered from “mental illness,” so it’s fair to make the claim that mental illness and genius often overlap. Win-ston Churchill, Friedrich Nietzsche and Edvard Munch suffered from bipolar disorder. Abraham Lincoln and William Faulkner were afflicted with major depression. Emily Dickinson and Charles Schultz were faced with anxiety disorders. These individuals were fueled by the creativity and unique perspective their so-called disorders gave them.
Imagine if these people had been medicated. Our culture medicates the angry, the sad and the “clinically insane,” but maybe we’re just silencing the passionate, the introspective and the master-minds.
These quick-fix pills are intense elements of social control endorsed and promoted by social in-stitutions. By physically altering a deviant person’s
brain chemistry, he or she is no longer a threat to America’s desired social stability.
Psychiatric medication dispels the potential menacing elements of a person by convincing them to comply with what is considered “normal.” Normal is synonymous with ordinary, and ordinary people aren’t the kind of people making progres-sive and radical changes in our world.
Some medicated Americans blame psychiatric drugs for robbing them of their creativity capabili-ties, their desire to socialize and their passion to change the world.
Pills aren’t the ideal solution to the mental and emotional distress one in every four Americans ex-perience. But perhaps there’s a pill-free solution to this issue: Rousseau held a belief that “humans in their natural state are selfless, peaceable and un-troubled and that blights such as greed, anxiety and violence are the products of civilization.”
The Noble Savage theory contends that when one is closer to nature, he or she will be less likely to develop and suffer from a mental disorder. By substituting medication with a conscious effort to embrace nature, problematic medicines will no lon-ger impair humans’ potentiality.
Unfortunately, the advancement of American culture leaves its people with serious social and mental consequences. The price of a “developed” nation — is your sanity.
— Strader is a sophomore from Danville, Ill., majoring in art [email protected]
America culture seems to prescribe pill-popping to escape from reality
HAINGUYEN
Right now, there is a mess on Anderson Street. But it stays there for a reason. As soon as Octo-ber 2012, that messy scene will be transferred
into a new entrance to DePauw University, helping to create the first memorable impression of De-Pauw’s beautiful campus for visitors and prospec-tive students.
Just in case you don’t know, Anderson Street project was made possible by Stellar Communities Grants from the state of Indiana to the city of Gre-encastle, and funds from DePauw. Construction is estimated to end in early October this year, which means we will probably be having back our street before next school year’s fall break.
From my experience, the before-construction Anderson Street was not considered to be nice compared to other streets that run through cam-pus. The sidewalk is often dirty and rocky, even
un-walkable on rainy days. At the beginning of the street lies the parking area for DePauw, which to-tally blocks and worsens its view from East College.
Most importantly, it is very dark at night, a rea-son why students feel unsafe and avoid walking on the street as much as possible. As a result, to many people, Anderson Street is merely a way to connect campus with the far away residence halls and frater-nities — definitely not a place to have fun.
However, everything is about to change. Being the route that leads drivers directly from US 231 to the front gate of East College, Anderson Street deserves to be the beautiful entrance of one of the nation’s finest college. The project will bring a new look to the street. The work includes replacing un-derground water and sewer pipelines, removing the old trees with more new and nice-looking trees.
The new street will also have two-way traffic to make drivers more comfortable driving into and out of the university. Furthermore, the utility lines including electricity, telephone and internet lines that look like a giant spider net now will be buried. The sidewalks will surely be remade and hopefully the new ones will be nice enough to make students fully enjoy the wonderful look of the new gateway
to DePauw. But before the project completes, there will be a
lot of inconvenience for students. Most of the street and sidewalk was being dug up, making it very dan-gerous to walk on the street. Even though using Hanna Street was recommended by Public Safety, it is unlikely that many students will use it because Anderson has always been the nearest way to walk to the east side of campus.
Parking areas will also be affected. Since the parking lots in front of Anderson Hall are used by many staffs and faculty members, its closure earlier last week will make it hard for them finding parking places. Fortunately, this difficult time is not going to last forever. Public Safety is working their best to arrange new parking areas, extend parking times, and send out timely updates of construction sites.
Thanks to these helpful efforts, we should not be worried about safety problems and should spend the mean time enjoying the incredible changes that are being made to DePauw.
— Nguyen is a sophomore from Hanoi, Vietnam majoring in computer [email protected]
Construction will provide aesthetic representation of university
The DePauw | sPorTs TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012PAGE 10
The 12th-ranked DePauw Tigers traveled to Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio) on April 22 to face the Yeomen in an Norh Coast Atlantic Conference doubleheader. The Tigers won the opening game, 11-1, and then took the nightcap, 6-4, to improve to 24-10 overall (8-6 in conference).
Highlighting the outing was senior Jen Kosinski, who broke the DePauw
career-RBI record — previously held by Rachel Gill (2006-09) of 158 with a three-run home run in the second of the two games.
In the opener, the Tigers batted 13 hits — led by senior Holly Paris and junior Jamie Story who both had three hits each. Junior Emily Bichler improved to 6-3 on the season after throwing five innings with only a single earned run.
In game two, DePauw opened with two runs in the second inning be-fore Kosinski knocked in her record-
breaking, three-run homer to make it 5-0. The Tigers’ final run came in the sixth when Kosinski closed her outing in style with a solo homer. DePauw totaled 10 hits led by Kosinski’s three. Freshman Emily Dieckmann improved to 10-5, while freshman Kahla Nolan notched her second save.
The Tigers return to DePauw on Saturday, April 28, to host Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio) at a 1 p.m. doubleheader.
Tigers win, Kosinski breaks school RBI record Moss and Rardon both fought out three set matches to gain the victory. Rardon defeated Matt McErlean 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, and Moss defeated Tyler Cem-pre 6-4, 3-6, 6-2.
With the win over Denison, De-Pauw held an undefeated NCAC regu-lar season record at 3-0.
DePauw now looks to its first ever NCAC conference Championship at Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio) on April 28-29, hoping to win its first NCAC title. One boost for the team will be the return of sophomore Ben Kopecky, who has missed the last two weeks with a shoulder injury. Miles, who has always played doubles with
Kopecky, is excited for his return.“Obviously, it’s going to help us to
get Kopecky back,” Miles explained. “It just makes our team deeper. I’ve been playing with him throughout college and so I’m real comfortable with him. We feel if we play well, we’re capable of beating everybody. Our whole sea-son really revolves around this week-end because we really have to win conference to make the tournament.”
Rardon is confident in the team’s play heading into the tournament.
“The biggest thing for everyone is to play to win and be extremely focused,” Rardon said. “We are really peaking in our play and we’d love to win the championship and make it to the NCAA championships.”
The 12th-ranked DePauw women’s tennis team knew there was a lot on the line going into Saturday’s away match against 6th ranked Washington-St. Louis University (13-6). The Tigers played against Washington on April 7 and had a hard-fought home-loss to the Bears by a score of 5-4.
The team was out to redeem its self on the road and also knew that if it got the victory it would come out of the season series on top by two wins to one loss (DePauw won a match in March 7-2). The Tigers got their re-demption and also won the season series by winning the match with an-other close score of 5-4.
Freshman Maggie MacPhail, who was victorious from both her number one doubles spot and number two sin-gles spot, expressed confidence in the win and in the team moving forward.
“It was a good feeling to be able to turn around and beat them knowing that we’d just lost to them,” MacPhail said. “It showed us again that we can beat really good teams with high rankings so it was a good confidence booster for the team.”
Traveling back from St. Louis on Saturday the team found itself at home up against 26th ranked Denison University (7-11). Being the last league play of the season, the Tigers looked to finish the weekend strong against the Big Red as it would be the last
regular season match for the year.The Tigers ended up getting the
victory over Denison by score of 6-3. The Tigers won their last match
of the season, finishing with a record of 14-6, and also capped off an unde-feated record in North Coast Atlantic Conference play.
“We very much wanted to win our last match of the season,” MacPhail said. “Our coach always tells us to go into each match acting like it’s our most important one, no matter who we play. That’s what we did against Denison and we’re hoping to keep the momentum going into tournament play next weekend.”
Now with the regular season out of the way the Tigers are trying to prepare themselves for the upcom-ing NCAC tournament next weekend. The tournament will be held at Ken-yon College (Gambier, Ohio) with matches being played on Friday and Saturday.
The NCAC tournament is the team’s first step in making the na-tional championship. The Tigers will have to win conference in order to move on to regionals, then nationals. The Tigers are currently ranked 12th in the nation going into the tournament which gives them a high seed.
Senior Kelly Gebert is motivated for her final conference tournament.
“As a senior I’m definitely look-ing forward to the tournament,” Ge-bert said. “First because it’ll be my last time playing and second because
since we’re in a new conference and everything will be fresh with new op-ponents so it’ll be a good new chal-lenge. In saying that, every member of our team is going to have to play hard
and take care of their court in order to have a positive result in the tourna-ment.”
The Tigers continue their posi-tive attitudes as they prepare for their
first-ever NCAC tournament.
SOFTBALL
Tigers finish season with undefeated record in NCAC play
Sophomore Caroline Emhardt (left) and junior Elizabeth Young celebrate the winning shot against Denison. The number three doubles team won the match 8-6, helping the team to a 6-3 win and an undefeated conference record of 3-0. EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW
Men’s Tennis | cont’d from pg. 12
The DePauw | sPorTs PAGE 11TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2012
The men and women of the DePauw track and field teams spent Friday evening under the lights at William Welch Outdoor Track and Field complex at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Both teams competed in the Rose-Hulman Twilight meet. The women scored 117. 5 total points to take second out of the field of fourteen and the men earned 36 total points to finish seventh out of fifteen.
For the women, nationally-ranked thrower Brittany Siev-ers, junior, won disc with a throw of 37.79 meters. Senior captain Sam Wong was the other first-place finisher for the Tigers, with a long of 10.08 meters in the triple jump. Wong was also second in the long jump with 5.15 meters.
The men had no first place finishers, but were led by two second place scorers. Sopho-more Kyle Mackey finished second in the pole vault with a leap of 4.53 meters and fresh-man Jack Leibovitz was second in the 400 meter dash with a time of 49.71 seconds.
For the multi-sport ath-letes, the NCAC Combined Events portion of the NCAC championships in Delaware, Ohio begins this Saturday to start the conference tourna-ment. The rest of the mem-bers of both teams will travel to Louisville, Ken. for the Bel-larmine Invitational.
After losing its first doubleheader by a combined four runs on Saturday, the DePauw baseball team bounced back Sun-day, sweeping the Case Western Reserve Spartans for 5-1 and 4-2 victories.
“It was good that we got to face [Case Western] now,” said Rob Stein, sopho-more outfielder. “We saw how they swung the bats and their pitching. If we run into them again in the regional [playoffs], we will be able to handle them pretty well.”
The four-game weekend against the Spartans marked the last of its kind dur-ing the Tigers’ dominant regular season stretch. DePauw is aiming to break the school record of 35 wins in a season.
DePauw came into Saturday ranked No. 11 in the nation, but with the 2-2 se-ries finish, the Tigers now stand at 29-7, and are likely to move down in the re-gional and national rankings. The team is six wins away from breaking the school record for wins in a season with 35.
The first game on Saturday was a 3-4 loss in which DePauw’s bats could not catch fire. Senior Elliot Ross threw five in-nings of three-run baseball, but was bested by one of the Spartans’ premier starters, Jamie Hora, who threw a complete game to advance to 8-0 on the year.
As matched by the subsequent 8-5 loss in the latter contest of Saturday’s twin bill, DePauw pitchers struggled with closing on batters and collecting pivotal outs with two down and runners in scoring position.
“Case Western was a good hitting
team, and we knew that all along. We were not making good pitches,” said Hobs Donovan, senior pitcher. “I think that can be attributed to maybe a lack of focus, but there was just a weird vibe in the dugout.”
Donovan set the tone in Sunday’s noon matinee in which he threw his sec-ond straight complete game capping off a one-run gem with his seventh strikeout of the game. Donovan now has 41 strikeouts with only 34 and a third innings pitched.
“Yesterday, I got some velocity back,” Donovan said. “It was nice throwing the fastball by some guys. But the biggest thing was when I got behind in a count, I could spot up a pitcher’s pitch to where they were taking it, and I’m right back in the count.”
Donovan’s success was further predi-cated on persistence and pitch change.
Donovan’s senior leadership has been a constant for DePauw down the stretch along with fellow senior pitchers Andy Manson and Elliot Ross.
Offensively, senior Rob McPike strug-gled to drive in runs on Saturday, but the left-handed first baseman went four for seven Sunday with three RBIs. Junior Zach Galyean also added five total hits.
DePauw will finish the regular season with games against Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Washington University in St. Louis and a Saturday doubleheader against Wabash College.
Head coach Jake Martin is confident the Tigers will play the No. 2 seed in the North Coast Athletic Conference East Di-vision, against either Allegheny College or the College of Wooster (Chillicothe, Ohio) for the opening round of the NCAC Tour-
Senior Andy Manson pitches during Sunday afternoon’s second game against Case Western. The team won both games 5-1 and 4-2 improving their record to 29-7. EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW
Tigers earn split against battle-tested Spartans TRACK AND FIELD
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The Tigers went one and one against two difficult opponents as they finished the regular season this past weekend.
DePauw started out the weekend with a match against the 17th ranked Washington St. Louis University Bears (13-5), falling to them 8-1.
The lone win for the Tigers (15-7) was in doubles with the duo of senior Eric Hubbard and junior David Moss, who defeated Bears freshman Ross Put-terman and junior Adam Putterman 8-3 in the number one doubles slot.
At the second doubles slot, junior Reid Garlock and senior captain Michael Rardon lost a close match to Kareem Farah and Parker Chang 9-8 (7-5).
DePauw was swept in singles play, with all in straight sets except freshman Chris Bertolini who fell to Ross Putter-man at third singles 4-6, 6-2, 1-0 (12-10).
DePauw closed out Norh Coast Ath-letic Conference regular season play Sun-day, as it defeated Denison (13-4) 6-3. Senior Michael Rardon was very happy getting a win before the conference tour-ney.
“It’s a huge confidence booster for us,” Rardon said. “With the win we will
likely be a two seed and they will be the three seed.”
DePauw opened up a 2-1 lead head-ing into singles play from wins from the first and third doubles slots. Hubbard and Moss defeated Matt McEriean and Tyler Cempre 8-6 at first doubles, and sophomores of Sam Miles and Philip Jackley defeated Juan Guerra and Grant Veltman 8-4 at third doubles.
DePauw clinched the victory by win-ning 4 out of 6 singles matches, two of the wins in three set matches.
The men and women of the De-Pauw golf team traveled to Meadville, Penn. over the weekend for the open-ing of the North Coast Athletic Confer-ence tournament.
The men finished in second over-all, in spite of some difficult playing conditions.
Sophomore Graham Singer fin-ished the weekend in second place overall and credits his mental tough-ness for his success in overcoming the cold and windy conditions.
“The conditions were really tough, and it definitely affected my game,” Singer explained. “I had to make sure that I was keeping my glove and grips dry so that I would be able to hold on to the club.”
Singer said the inclement weather demanded patience and a strong posi-tive mentality, he reminded himself that all the other players were under the same pressure.
Singer said he feels the team is in a solid position heading into this week-end’s final round of the NCAC tourna-ment, which is being held at Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio).
“Being in second is great. I don’t feel any pressure because I know who I have to beat,” Singer said. “I’m also playing really well right now so my confidence is high and that is probably the most important aspect of playing good golf under pressure.”
The rest of the Tiger team shot a combined 614 on the weekend and trail just behind Wittenberg University (Springfield, Ohio) that is in first place with a score of 601.
Vince Lazar, head coach of both the men and the women, was proud of the way the men handled the adverse conditions.
“They accepted the fact that this is a 90 hole tournament and they were much more patient than I’ve ever seen them,” Lazar said. “They looked fantas-tic from that aspect and that translated into good scores.”
The nationally third-ranked wom-en’s team finished the first round of its conference tournament in first place after shooting a 644 on the weekend.
Lazar said the women were able to fin-ish first despite not playing their best golf.
“Relative to how the girls have played all year, yes they won, but I would tell you they did not play as well as they have played all year,” Lazar said.
Lazar said the nature of the course, which he called “extremely silly,” was a negative factor for the girls. He also mentioned that Allegheny College (Meadville Penn.), that is currently in second with a total score of 656, had an advantage playing on its home course.
Despite the course and the condi-tions, senior Kelly Gaughan was the field leader with a weekend score of 157. Gaughan also shot a tourna-ment-low 76 on Sunday. As a senior, Gaughan understands how to stay poised when the weather turns for the worst.
“It was like 30 something degrees, it was raining, so I had to stay pretty mentally strong in order to play well,” Gaughan said. “I putted really well this weekend and I feel like I stayed re-ally composed for the type of weather that there was and I think that’s why I played well.”
Gaughan and the Tigers hope to hold onto the lead going into the final round of the conference tournament.
“(We have to) just kind of do what we did last weekend,” Gaughan said. “Staying mentally tough and just shoot what we’ve been shooting. If we shoot what we’ve been shooting so far we’ll win.”
Lazar stressed the importance of a strong week of practice for both squads to keep the momentum going into this weekend.
“We need to have a good week of practice and really just play each shot and not get caught up in scores or what they’re shooting individually,” Lazar said.
Both teams will travel to Oberlin College this upcoming weekend to fin-ish the NCAC tournament. The wom-en hope a conference win will boost their national reputation and earn an automatic qualifier into the national championships in May. The men must win the tournament to make nationals.
One and one weekend ends regular season
Sophomore Philip Jackley serves during Sunday afternoon’s match against Denison. Jackley and his partner, sophomore Sam Miles, won the match 8-4, helping the team to a 6-3 victory. EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW
Men and women’s teams end weekend tournament in top spots
