VOL. 161, ISSUE 46 TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013 Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper President and Vice President Walker Chance & Olivia Flores Mike Curts & Stefani Cleaver Graduate Member to the Board of Trustees Sara Scully Jonathan Rosario Naeem Muhammad Jack Glerum Vice President of Student Life Allocations Board electees Mickey Terlep Stephanie Reid Tiara Heard Elizabeth Grady Armani Cato Vice President of Community Relations Adam May Alex Lemna Cody Watson Vice Presi- dent of Allo- cations Graduate Member to the Alumni Board Mark Weiss Tyler Perfitt By NICKY CHOKRAN [email protected]President Brian Casey announced Mark Fadel as the 90th Walker Cup recipient at the Academic Awards Convocation Monday night in Kresge Auditorium. The Walker Cup is the University’s most prestigious award and “goes to the graduat- ing senior who has done the most to advance the interests of DePauw,” Associate Dean of Students, Cara Satchell, said. This year’s finalists included Fadel, Sara Sully and Arezoo Nazari. The three finalists walked into the awards convocation together, and as President Casey mentioned in his commentary about the finalists, together as friends. “[Fadel] is a young person with a consider- able mind and an even more considerable heart,” Casey said. Casey highlighted Fadel’s accomplish- ments at DePauw as a presidential ambas- sador, first year mentor and Executive Vice President of DePauw Student government alongside Walker Cup co-finalist Sara Scully. Casey also discussed Fadel’s service-based accomplishments. “Mark is one of the most emotionally generous people I know,” Casey said. Fadel estab- lished the DePauw chapter of Up ‘til Dawn, an organiza- tion that raises money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital program. Up ‘til Dawn at DePauw has raised over $28,000 for children’s medical research to date. Additionally, Fadel works within the Greencastle as a kids as a swim instructor. “Mark is, in short, a very busy Senior Mark Fadel accepts the Walker Cup during the 2013 Academic Awards Convoca- tion in Kresge Auditorium Monday evening. SUNNY STRADER / THE DEPAUW Fadel wins Walker Cup Nick Hebebrand Isaiah Miles Cody Watson Relay for Life p. 6 & 7
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VOL. 161, ISSUE 46TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013 Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper
President Brian Casey announced Mark Fadel as the 90th Walker Cup recipient at the Academic Awards Convocation Monday night in Kresge Auditorium.
The Walker Cup is the University’s most prestigious award and “goes to the graduat-ing senior who has done the most to advance the interests of DePauw,” Associate Dean of Students, Cara Satchell, said.
This year’s finalists included Fadel, Sara Sully and Arezoo Nazari. The three finalists walked into the awards convocation together, and as President Casey mentioned in his commentary about the finalists, together as friends.
“[Fadel] is a young person with a consider-able mind and an even more considerable heart,” Casey said.
Casey highlighted Fadel’s accomplish-ments at DePauw as a presidential ambas-sador, first year mentor and Executive Vice
President of DePauw Student government alongside Walker Cup co-finalist Sara Scully.
Casey also discussed Fadel’s service-based accomplishments.
“Mark is one of the most emotionally generous people I know,” Casey said.
Fadel estab-lished the DePauw chapter of Up ‘til Dawn, an organiza-tion that raises money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital program. Up ‘til Dawn at DePauw has raised over $28,000 for children’s medical research to date. Additionally, Fadel works within the Greencastle as a kids as a swim instructor.
“Mark is, in short, a very busy
Senior Mark Fadel accepts the Walker Cup during the 2013 Academic Awards Convoca-tion in Kresge Auditorium Monday evening. SUNNY STRADER / THE DEPAUW
Fadel wins Walker Cup
Nick Hebebrand Isaiah Miles Cody Watson
Relay for Life p. 6 & 7
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Even Friday’s scattered thunderstorms aren’t enough to ruin the three beautiful days. Look-ing forward to 70s to 80s and sunny.
In 1935, Edith Anisfield Wolf, poet and activist, founded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Seventy-eight years after the founding, DePauw professor and poet Eugene Gloria won the prestigious award.
Wolf created the award to foster appreciation for cultural diversity and address racism, an issue her family fought against 20 years before Roe v Wade. Today the Anisfield Wolf Book Award is the only American award centered on works about cultural diversity.
“I am deeply honored by this recognition,” Gloria wrote in an email statement. “It came as a surprise. It is not often that the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award is given to a poet.”
Gloria won the award for his third and most recent book of poems, “My Favorite Warlord.” The Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper called the book, “a meditation on [Gloria’s] late father and a lyric memoir of 1967, when he was 10 years old and emigrated with his family from the Philippines to San Francisco.”
Previous winners of the Anisfield Wolf Book Award include former Nobel Prize winners Martin Luther King Jr., Derek Walcott and Toni Morrison.
“There are a lot of important writers who’ve won the same award,” Harry Brown, chair of the English department said. “[Gloria’s] in good company.”
This year, Laird Hunt and Kevin Powers join Gloria in winning the Anisfield Wolf Book Award for fiction, Andrew Solomon for nonfiction and former Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka for lifetime achievement.
“The 2013 Anisfield-Wolf winners are exemplars who broaden our vision of race and diversity,” Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chair of the selection jury, said in an April 22 press release. “This year, there is exceptional writing about the war in Iraq, slavery on a Kentucky pig farm, the Filipino experience in the U.S. and the complexity of families in which a child is radically different from parents.”
In addition to the Anisfield Wolf Book Award, Gloria has won several other awards, including an Asian American Literary Award, a Poetry Society of America award and a Pushcart Prize. His work has
been featured in several literary journals including “Ploughshares,” “Seneca Review” and “The North American Review.” Gloria is currently the Arts & Sciences Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bowling Green State University.
At DePauw, Gloria teaches poetry workshops, Asian American literature and introduction to creative writing. Sophomore Sarah Leander took one of his introduction classes and said he helped her understand the “emotional drive” it takes to write poetry.
“I’m not a poet,” Leander said. “Or at least I don’t call myself one. [Gloria] is a poet so he’s able to understand poetry much better than I am.”
Leander said Gloria taught her to trust her readers and keep them engaged. He also taught her that there are endless possibilities in the world of fiction.
“You can write about anything you want,” Leander said.
Gloria will return to campus for the fall 2013 semester.
Participants from Hack-a-thon presented their work during lunch Friday. Despite the name, no hacking the way it’s portrayed in Hollywood movies took place.
“Hacking is actually someone who’s good at coding,” sophomore Kevin Courtade, DePauw Open Source Club’s president said. “DePauw wouldn’t like it if we were hacking through their stuff.”
Instead of breaking into DePauw’s system, participants presented projects on what they “hacked.” Presentations ranged from an iPhone app that tracked where the most people on DePauw’s campus were at a particular time to an Android app
that searched local businesses for coupons to use. “[The Hack-a-thon] shows that you can do
things outside of the classroom,” Courtade said. “You don’t have to do in the structure given. You can generate your own idea.”
Presentations were supposed to take place at the end of the 24-hour coding marathon, but at around 8:30 a.m. students decided they were too tired to present that day.
DePauw isn’t known as an engineering school, but students here do possess the abilities needed to create software.
“Making a successful software product isn’t all about coding,” sophomore Rajat Kumar, a member of DePauw Open Source and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) said.
Kumar said the business and artistic side of
making apps and software factors into success. He believes that DePauw’s campus contains all the tools necessary to excel.
“DePauw can find such a group,” Kumar said. “There’s something for everyone.”
DePauw Open Source Club worked in a joint ef-fort with the local chapter of the ACM to put on the Hack-a-thon on April 13. It was a twenty-four hour opportunity for both computer science majors and those who have an interest in computer science to work on projects. Three rooms hosted the event: the Linux Lab in Julian, the computer science stu-dent lounge and Julian 273. Around thirty students floated in and out of the event, and 15 stayed the entire twenty-four hours, according to Courtade.
“Determination to finish what we started [helped keep us awake],” junior Tarun Verghis, a
member of Open Source, said. “Pizza and a Wal-Mart run—that helped.”
The event brought together students who both did and did not have computer science backgrounds. Seminars for basic HTML, or website, design drew a larger crowd of non-computer sci-ence majors.
“Making basic website was almost exclusively non-computer science majors,” Verghis said. “See-ing results immediately helps boost interest.”
Next academic year Open Source plans to have an event like Hack-a-thon in the fall semester rather than the spring to avoid as many schedule conflicts.
“Ideas get lost because people don’t come forward,” Kumar said. “With more and more recog-nition we can reach out to those people.”
Hack-a-thon computer coding marathon provides learning outside of classroom
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Code TEAL, an organization that aims to increase awareness about sexual assault, concludes it’s week of events Tuesday with a campus-wide forum at 11:30 a.m. in the Union Building ballroom.
Tuesday’s forum will be moderated by Director of Student life, Dorian Shager. According to senior Code TEAL member Brittany Slate, the forum will highlight the role of consent in eliminating sexual assault and the soci-etal constructs of rape culture.
Slate said she hopes that people who attend the event will gain a better understanding of cultural compo-nents that promote sexual assault. The goal is that this understanding will lead to future conversations about the link between culture and sexual assault.
“The organization is all about awareness,” junior Code
TEAL member Claire Zingraf said. “Before Code TEAL this was a conversation that happened behind closed doors or nowhere at all. Sexual assault does occur on this cam-pus and it is something people should be talking about.”
The organization began “tealing” campus on Mon-day, April 22, in an effort to increase awareness about the weeklong mission to start and keep a conversation about sexual awareness going.
“We ‘tealed’ the campus as a visual to get people to recognize that it was Code Teal week,” Zingraf said.
Zingraf said she thought the most powerful event so far this week was the Code TEAL rally walk around cam-pus on Friday.
Junior Code TEAL member Walker Chance agreed, calling the rally “moving and influential.”
At the end of a walk around campus during the rally, participants gathered around a sheet sign covered in four negative phrases associated with sexual assault: coercion, rape culture, silence and victim blaming. A tray of teal
paint sat in front of the sheet sign. Participants were asked to “teal out” the negative words by covering them with the paint and replacing them with positive comments.
“There were comments around the lines of: I'm cov-ering victim blaming because I blamed myself, I'm cover-ing silence because I wasn't silent and called public safety the other day and now I'm being victimized,” Zingraf said. “After this, the sheet sign is going to be covered in posi-tive words and hung in the hub as a way to promote the idea of sexual positivity.”
Walker said that the symbolism of participants using their hands to “teal out,” or paint over the negative words associated with rape was powerful for him.
“I think what really went well was the inter-workings of the members of code teal,” Chance said. “Just working together to get everything done was great.”
In the future, Zingraf hopes that Code TEAL can keep its momentum saying, “We just hope to keep the conver-sation going.”
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CAMPUSCRIME
April 25
• Suspicious person • Subject located / checked okay | Time: 3:28 p.m. | Place: Lucy Hall
• Suspicious activity • Officer checked area / unable to locate subject | Time: 10:44 p.m. | Place: Sigma Chi fraternity
• Noise — loud people • Made contact with staff | Time: 12:27 a.m. | Place: Inn at DePauw
• Noise — loud music / people • Made contact with house representation / verbal warning issuedl | Time: 2:40 a.m. | Place: Phi Kappa Psi fraternity
• Trespass • Subject located / trespass warning issued | Time: 10:07 a.m. | Place: Nature Park
•Fire alarm •Cooking / alarm reset | Time: 2:03 p.m. | Place: Little Rock Apartments
• Noise — loud music • Made contact with house representation / verbal warning issued | Time: 2:06 p.m. | Place: Phi Kappa Psi fraternity
• Noise — loud music •Made contact with house resentation / verbal warning issued | Time: 11:03 p.m. | Place: Sigma Chi fraternity
• Noise — loud music • Made contact with house representation / verbal warning issued | Time: 11:28 p.m. | Place: Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity
April 27
• Noise — loud music • Forwarded to Campus Living | Time: 12:04 a.m. | Place: Reese Hall
• Noise — loud music • Made contact with house representation / verbal warning issued | Time: 12:25 a.m. | Place: Beta Theta Pi fraternity
• Suspicious vehicle • Subjects located / verbal warning issued / subjects left premises | Time: 1:36 a.m. | Place: IM Fields
• Noise — loud music • Made contact with house representation / verbal warning issued | Time: 1:50 a.m. | Place: Alpha Tau Omega fraternity
• Suspicious activity • Made contact with house representation / verbal warning issued | Time: 2:06 a.m. | Place: Phi Kappa Psi fraternity
• Welfare check • Released to the custody of friend / forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 2:23 a.m. | Place: Locust Street
• Criminal mischief to trash can • Forwarded to Facilities Management | Time: 4:04 a.m. | Place: Burkhart Walk
• Hazard — subjects on roof • Subjects located / verbal warning issued | Time: 4:58 a.m. | Place: Sigma Nu fraternity
• Public indecency — public urination • Subject located / verbal warning issued | Time: 8:56 a.m. | Place: Nature Park
• Theft of community bike • Delayed report / pending | Time: 10:36 a.m. | Place: Inn at DePauw
• Alcohol violation • Transported to Putnam County hospital / forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 7:04 p.m. | Place: Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority
• Medical • Ambulance dispatched / patient chose to seek medical attention at later timel | Time: 9:11 p.m. | Place: Indoor Tennis and Track center
• Suspicious activity • Subjects left prior to officer arrival / officer checked area, unable to locate subjects | Time: 11:23 p.m. | Place: Green Center for the Performing Arts
April 28• Domestic disturbance •Subjects separated / verbal warning issued | Time: 1:05 a.m. | Place: Administration parking lot
• Mischief — subjects TP’ing yard •Subjects located, verbal warning issued to clean up / forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 3:21 a.m. | Place: Kappa Alpha Theta sorority
• Criminal mischief to men’s restroom • Delayed report / pending | Time: Unknown | Place: Inn at DePauw
• Theft of laptop • Unsecured / pending | Time: Unknown | Place: Hogate hall lobby
April 29
• Criminal mischief to window •Forwarded to Facilities Management | Time: 1:45 a.m.| Place: Charterhouse
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Representatives from PNC Bank ran an on-campus seminar on Mon-day afternoon informing audience members about ways to avoid and deal with identity theft.
Greencastle residents and faculty members discussed their security habits as Valerie Romberg, PNC bank’s workplace financial sales consul-tant, highlighted common scenarios that result in identity theft. Rom-berg explained that it is virtually impossible to ensure that one does not become a victim of identity theft, but she said there are steps that can be taken to minimize the likelihood.
According to Identity Hawk website, college students ages 18- 22 are the single largest demographic affected by identity theft, as 34 percent of students become victims of the crime. Elderly adults are also a prime target for identity theft. Romberg said that personal information can be obtained though stolen mail, stolen wallets or purses and even through improperly disposed mail that still possesses personal information.
Keeping social security numbers, account password information and birth certificates on your person while commuting also increases the risk of handing an identity over to a thief. Romberg said that simply placing wallets or purses that hold personal information out of sight still presents thieves with an easy way in.
“[Thieves are] not necessarily coming in to [steal] just to do it,” Romberg said. “It’s usually because you presented them an opportu-nity.”
Unfortunately, storing personal items is only the bare minimum way of preventing identity theft. Identity theft can occur without the victim even knowing.
Senior Jason Edelman described his experience as a victim of fraud-ulent credit card activity overseas. Edelman explained that at the time his card was charged, he hadn’t been out of the country in two years. Edelman now uses cash to pay for items and utilizes his credit card less in order to prevent himself from being a victim of identity theft again.
Romberg suggests regularly checking credit and debit card activity for any unusual charges. She also says that using a secure browser and a separate low balance checking account for online shopping could help decrease the exposure of personal information.
Card skimming is another way that identity theft is committed. Skim-ming is when a person’s card information is saved by an intruder and is used for other purchasing transactions. This information is extracted when a customer swipes their card in an establishment. After the card information is saved, the thief uses it to process and buy other things.
Junior Reed Jaeger said he believes that he experienced theft through card skimming at Kork & Keg liquor store in Greencastle. Cur-rently, there are investigations looking into identity theft at Kork & Keg, but Jaeger said he remembers how shocked and angry he initially was.
“It’s always a hassle to try to get your money back,” Jaeger said. “This is the first time it’s happening to me but I had to go through a lot of paper work a lot of steps to get it back.”
Romberg emphasized the importance of filing a report when one becomes a victim of identity theft, despite the long process often in-volved. Romberg said to close any accounts that you suspect to be af-fected by fraudulent activity and inform creditors about any identity theft issues.
Still, Edelman and Jaeger try to stay cautious while making credit or debit card purchases, and suggest others to do the same.
“Don’t take any chances,” Jaeger said. “Just use cash.”
PNC tells students how to avoid identity theft
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Amidst formals, mom’s weekends and standard weekend activities, approximately 50 students gath-ered in Meharry Hall Saturday night to await the ar-rival of Hill Harper.
Harper is an actor perhaps best known for his role as Doctor Sheldon Hawkes in CSI: NY. He is also a published author and founder of the Manifest Your Destiny Foundation, which helps underserved teen-agers find academic success.
After missing his connecting flight from Chicago to Indianapolis due to a delay in his earlier flight from Los Angeles to Chicago, Harper was about half an hour late. During Harper’s speech, a part of the Urban Lecture series, he marketed the idea of being an architect for one’s own life.
According to Harper, each individual’s goals should be similar to those of an architect: to make an impact and to leave a legacy. However, he noted that you cannot have one without the other.
“Unless you marry impact with legacy, it doesn’t really matter,” Harper said.
While, the first step is to create a blueprint, Harp-er said most people do not write their blueprints down, which would not be acceptable for actual architects. The reason for this, as Harper sees it, is that either most of people have never been taught to do so or they are afraid. Harper uses an acronym to define fear as “false evidence appearing real.”
“We’re afraid of how great we can be,” Harper said.
The next step is to provide structural support for the dreams contained within the blueprint. Ex-amples of foundations that each person can build are education, faith, relationships, family, aspirations and money.
“We’ve been taught that money is actually the re-sult and something that you chase rather than what it really is: a foundational tool,” Harper said. “Nei-ther one guarantees success, neither one guarantees happiness, but they both buy you something very valuable, and that is options.”
Harper then related this advice to his personal experience during his time at Harvard Law School, where Harper met, unbeknownst to him, future President Barack Obama playing basketball. Obama, according to Harper, went back to school in order to build a bigger foundation for himself educationally, because his previous foundation did not support his dreams.
The third step is to erect a frame flexible enough to withstand one’s environment. Harper pointed to the fact that environment influences choices. Rather than referring back to their blueprints, most people make choices based on the immediate situation, which Harper believes is where several people go astray.
The final necessity in Harper’s model is a door.“People have to be able to get in,” Harper said.These doors provide new people, ideas and per-
spectives an opportunity inside, which changes the blueprint. Harper advised those in the audience to value diversity and to interact with others outside of our daily lives whenever the opportunity presents
itself, which most people do not doHarper said you also have to be able to let peo-
ple out. He recommended that each person creates their own personal board of directors to make sure that the blueprints go in the right direction and to help the follow through.
“If people are telling you what they want you to do,” Harper said, “they should not be on your board of directors.”
Harper applies this model of being an architect to his own life. He emphasized the importance of making the model circular instead of linear because plans change and foundations can become larger.
He believes that the architect structure can be applied to the microcosm of individual classes, the macrocosm of personal dreams and the even bigger macrocosm of one’s community.
“If you take energy, you think about it critically, and then you only do things that are in your heart, then you will lead a life of impact and energy,” Harp-er said. “It’s impossible not to.”
In order to combat the fear and the negative energy that tends to stop people, Harper believes personal affirmation is necessary. Harper provided his own personal affirmation, which he had the audi-ence repeat after him.
“I will not allow fear to stop me from making the choices that I know I should make. Instead, I will act with courage from my heart, and, in doing so, give others permission to do the same,” Harper said in his affirmation.
Harper voiced his belief that there are other goals to be attained after successfully building the blueprint and that education can be a way to expand the foundation to include the new dreams.
“A lot of people have been taught that old school way of thinking, meaning you the reason to get an education is to do whatever you’re educated for,” Harper said. “The reason you get an education is to build a foundation to support a life that you can be proud of.”
Junior Joshua Jones, president of the Men of Excellence at DePauw, saw an overarching message, which he thinks all students at DePauw can benefit from.
“Don’t be afraid to step out of your comfort zone to achieve the successes that you want,” Jones said.
For freshman Maria Nguyen, the speech gave her some encouragement and determination, but she thinks that there was a bigger, perhaps more impor-tant reason for having a talk with the messages that Harper expressed.
“Here, on DePauw’s campus, the racial and eco-nomic lines are so clear,” Nguyen said.
To end with, Harper challenged his audience to make their dreams even bigger.
“If someone doesn’t laugh in your face when you tell them your goals,” Harper said, “your goals are too small.”
CSI: NY star Hill Harper addresses students
Hill Harper, actor and activist, visits campus as part of the Urban Lecture Series in Meharry Hall Saturday evening. The event was hosted by Men of Excellence. PHOTO COURTESY OF KEARA MCMILLAN
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Cancer survivors walk the survivor lap around the DePauw Indoor Tennis and Track Center on Saturday afternoon. COURTESY OF ASHLEY ISAAC / STEWART BURNS
Students participate in the turbo-kick and taekwondo “Fight Back Ceremony” for Relay for Life, a philanthropy event committed to raising funds for cancer re-search, at the DePauw indoor track and tennis center Saturday. PHOTO COURTESY OF ASHLEY ISAAC AND STEWART BURNS
Junior Clarke Brennan anticipates a pie in the face during Pi Beta Phi’s annual “Pie a Pi Phi” philanthropy event at Relay for Life Saturday afternoon at the indoor track and tennis center. Participants pay $1-5 in order to throw a pie in the face of a sorority member. All proceeds went to the Relay for Life foundation. PHOTO COURTESY OF ASHLEY ISAAC AND STEWART BURNS
Members of the Greencastle community celebrate the survivor’s lap around the indoor track and tennis center Saturday afternoon. PHOTO COURTESY OF ASHLEY ISAAC AND STEWART BURNS
DePauw students sophomores Bill Christian and Nick Hebebrand, and seniors Katie Green and Stewart Burns smile during the festivities at Relay for Life on Saturday afternoon in the Indoor Track and Tennis Center. PHOTO COURTESY OF ASHLEY ISAAC
The Luminaria ceremony is held to remember or honor a friend or loved one who has been affecte by cancer. The bags are personal-ize and illuminated during the evening at every Relay for Life event around the country. PHOTO COURTESY OF ASHLEY ISAAC AND STEWART BURNS
Relay for Life Event took place Saturday in the Indoor Tennis and Track center. Over 750 people attended the event, which brought in over $112,086.10 for cancer research. Relay event co-chair Betsy Corrigan said the group is expecting to raise around $125,000 in total from donations that have not yet been counted.
The event took place indoors this year due to construction on the outdoor track. Due to minimal parking behind the indoor tennis and track center shuttles traveled to parking lots acoss campus
picking up and dropping off visitors.“The shuttle went smoothly,” Corrigan said. “I
haven’t heard any complaints about arriving or de-parting.”
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With DePauw’s tuition recently surpassing the $50,000 benchmark, students here should have as many amenities available to them as possible. One
of these courtesies should be a place to study. Many projects, papers and assignments at DePauw re-
quire students to work in groups, yet tables in Julian are very hard to come by in the evenings. And Roy O. West Library’s cubbies are far from optimal for group work. Study rooms in both Roy O. and Prevo Science Library are hot commodi-ties, which have resulted in a four-hour time limit. As finals season rapidly approaches, students will need group these study spaces to prepare for their exams and final presenta-tions, so these rooms will undoubtedly be in short supply come May.
But there are other rooms available to accommodate group study — specifically, the rooms of DePauw’s academ-ic buildings. However, these academic buildings are locked in the evenings, leaving classrooms unutilized by students. Countless times I have been in a room in Julian during the evening with a group of students but have been kicked out at its closing. Many times I have walked around Julian and failed to find place to resume working. My group and I are then forced to walk to another building, only for the same situation to happen again. This time spent looking for a place to study could be time actually spent studying if more spaces on campus were open.
I am at a loss when I try to understand why we cannot use these rooms. We pay a high price to attend DePauw, and we should be provided with adequate study space. Shouldn’t we be using this space so as to utilize as much of our cam-
pus’s facilities as possible? Isn’t it a waste to power these buildings at night if we can’t use them? Students should be able to use the buildings because our tuitions contribute to keeping them functioning. It is not fair to close these spaces off to students when they could be used for positive study experiences.
As an economics major, I find it very beneficial to use dry-erase boards while studying for my exams. As a visual learner, it helps my memory to draw graphs and do prob-lems on the boards. The classrooms that are locked all have large boards. So why can’t I use these boards if I want to?
The big question here concerns trust. Does DePauw not trust us as students to take care of its classrooms? Do they think that if they leave these rooms unlocked that we will leave the classroom in a worse condition than when we ar-rived? Do they think a professor will show up to their class-room in the morning only to find a bunch of used Solo cups and beer cans scattered across the floor? At DePauw, we’re student first. Students use academic buildings for academic work. They use places such as fraternities and houses for other late night activities. There’s no reason that our stu-dents should not have the option to use these rooms for studying at night if they please. DePauw needs to trust its students, as investors in the university, to be adults and be respectful to the property around them.
— Stutzman is a junior economics and religious studies major from Brownsburg, Ind.
DREWSTUTZMAN
To avoid finals chaos, open classrooms
We support NBA’s Jason CollinsJason Collins is a NBA center. This season he played for the Boston Celtics and
more recently for the Washington Wizards. Also, he is gay. This is great, and a landmark moment in American sports.
Collins is the now the first openly gay athlete in any of America’s four major sports. Collins is a 12-year veteran with no All-Star appearances and probably only known to a handful of NBA enthusiasts. But the fact that he is not only coming out to the public, but coming out via the cover story of the May 6 edition of Sports Illustrated (SI released the story online Thursday) makes his announcement that much more special.
We applaud Collins for his bravery and hopefully starting what is a long conversa-tion about it means to be male in America.
But one of the best parts about the Collin’s announcement is how normal it feels.This feels like the result of an attitude shift that has been ongoing for the past few
years. The NBA was forced to first address gay slurs in April of 2011 when perennial All-Star Kobe Bryant called a referee a “faggot.” The Association fined him $100,000. Then it took a public stand in its “Not Cool” campaign starring 17 year vet Grant Hill urging audiences to stop using the word “gay” as an insult. Now Collins, who writes a beautifully thoughtful and articulate essay for SI, is taking one more step to stifle homophobia in the NBA, and maybe in America.
As award-winning journalist and news anchor Hank Plante wrote in a column for the San Francisco Chronicle this January, the war for gay rights is nearing an end. Yes, the legislation has yet to come, but the public support and sentiment is there. For the youth in both the left and right, the question surrounding homosexuals in America is not “should gay marriage be legalized?” But instead the question lies in why would we should need to have the discussion at all.
This is probably not the end for Collins. If he plays for another team in the NBA next season, he will most likely be cheered or harassed and everything in between. But the good news is that his announcement to America is being seen as a positive and something that is not only okay, but inevitable. It is the first step in rectifying a sports and masculine culture that has been in the dark for too long.
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PHOTOPINIONHow effective do you think
Code Teal is?
“I think it has started a necessary and important conversation. The leaders have been incredibly dedicated.”
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CARTER GORMAN, junior
“It’s as effective as the University wants it to be, and at the moment the campus does not seem open to it at all.”
CORA THAIR, junior
“I’ve only seen ban-ners up for Code Teal.”
JORDAN RAGASA, junior
“I think there is a lot of potential, but they run on a very het-eronormative under-standing of sexual assault.”
I’ve reflected on my time at DePauw and I’ve compiled a list of six important pieces of advice, listed in no particular order. As some of you will note, most of these are things that I don’t always do myself. What makes me qualified
to give anyone advice then? Absolutely nothing. Here we go.Leave this campus, or at least leave your building. DePauw encases us not
just in a bubble, but in a mental suck. Remember your first roommate or your friend in your mentor group? Catch up with them this weekend instead of see-ing which of your current roommates can eat the most pizza.
Hating people is ill-advised, but if you’re going to not like someone for whatever reason, at least do it openly. Don’t talk down to them or about them. Simply agree to not interact with each other.
Understand that you can’t make everyone care about the things you care about. There are people who will not change their minds and there will be people who will not care about whatever you hold dear. They are not being rude — they’re just different.
If you’re going to be in a greek organization, understand the power you wield. Most of us are remarkably privileged and can do a lot more good than running a relay race in high heels. Instead of just raising money, raise aware-ness. Instead of just writing checks, write pamphlets.
Recognize destructive behavior in yourself and others, whether it be sub-stance abuse or otherwise. A good friend of mine joked with me recently that
DePauw prepares us for functioning alcoholism above many other things. While hyperbole, there is a kernel of truth in it. If you see it happening to a friend, speak up. If you think it’s happening to you, sit down and think before you hurt yourself or others. It’s terrible dealing with the consequences of a chain of stupid mistakes.
Remember where you came from. In 1997, Fred Rogers (better known as Mr. Rogers) accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Emmys. He asked his audience — a packed theater full of extremely accomplished actors, ac-tresses and technical crew — to take ten seconds out of the night to remember “the people who have helped you become who you are.” He then paused for ten seconds, timing on his watch. At the end of ten completely silent seconds, he said, “Whomever you’ve been thinking about, how pleased they must be to know the difference you feel they’ve made.” We would do well to remember that we, for all our victories and accolades, are merely individuals.
Furthermore, we are shaped by those who come in contact with us. Every one of us made a choice to come to DePauw. For me, my favorite English teacher encouraged me to come here because he knew what this place had done for his sons. And now, four years later, I’m still talking to him, telling him of my new job and planning to meet up for beer and a burger before I head off to Adulthood. We are a remarkably gifted people, us DePauw students, trained every day how to think critically and be good skeptics. But you are a whole, slowly becoming greater than the sum of your parts, and the parts have been contributed by so many different people. Please make sure that those whom you think have done good for you know it.
Follow my advice or don’t — most days I can’t even listen to myself. But I hope, in some small way, I’ve made you think about what it means to be here at DePauw and how we need to use our time. Other than that, that’s all for me. I think I’ve said more than enough as it is.
Gooch led the DePauw Tigers to a first place finish in the first event of the North Coast Athletic Conference championship this past weekend. Gooch shot a two-round 149 to help bring the team to total 632 to win.
“I had a very offensive mindset going into the tournament, so I was able to stay confident throughout the whole weekend and not let small mistakes bring me down...We’re really
supporting each other. We have five players that each could easily count at any time.”
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It’s the bottom of the ninth, teams are tied 2-2 and Kenyon hits the run to win the game 3-2 and DePauw faces defeat, but the DePauw Tigers fight back letting the second game belong to them. Stringing together hit after hit, run after run, the Ti-gers won the nightcap 7-1 to mark their last confer-ence game of the season.
This final win in the regular season puts the Tigers to 19-15 overall and 13-3 in conference stand-ings.
The team took the two games against Kenyon to work on certain skills. They focused on the bunt and their short game to help prepare them for the NCAC tournament this coming weekend keeping it a low scoring game.
“We wanted to make sure we’re ready to go for the tournament,” head coach Hanrahan said. “We implemented a lot of bunts so we didn’t have as many runs [in the first game].”
The Tigers took a 1-0 lead against the Kenyon Ladies in the first as Samantha Szyka, senior, landed on base. Szyka made it home on freshman Linsey Button’s double to left. DePauw’s final run came in the sixth when Kate Hendrickson, senior, drove Button into home.
All three pitchers put in a great effort to keep Kenyon off the bases striking out nine in the game while defense played strong to keep the runs to a minimum despite the 11 Ladies on base during the game. However, Kenyon threw the Tigers off guard in the final inning.
“They came out much stronger, hit well and put it together for the win,” Hanrahan said.
The Tigers turned it around in the nightcap where they dominated the infield and outfield only letting Kenyon get one run in the seventh.
“We shaped up and started playing like the team we know we are,” Freres said.
DePauw ended the second inning with four runs up on the scoreboard and went in for three more, two in the fifth and the final run scored in the sixth.
Senior Amy Hallet added a homerun to her ca-reer record, now at 43, in the fifth. Senior Gwen An-derson hit a sacrifice-bunt allowing freshman Hailey Freres into position to score off of freshman Aman-da Chastang’s single bringing the final score to 7-1.
The Tigers totaled 10 hits throughout the sec-ond game and senior pitcher Emily Bichler im-proved to 7-5 with four innings of play.
“Everyone in the line up contributed,” Hanra-han. “They waited for the pitch that was there. It wasn’t one person. It was everyone.”
SOFTBALL
Teamwork yields final win
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The Tigers dropped three out of four games to Wittenberg University in the team’s last week-end of regular season play.
DePauw dropped to 16-20 overall and 8-8 in the North Coast Athletic Conference West divi-sion. The team earned the third seed in the divi-sion and will travel to Allegheny College Saturday to start the cross-divisional series.
In the first game on Sunday, senior pitcher Jordan Niespodziany pitched a six-hit shutout to lead the Tigers to a 2-0 win over Wittenberg. Junior Rob Stein and senior Jason Cohen hit the games only runs in the fourth.
Niespodziany hit his spots, but relied on his teammates to get the win.
“Individually, I couldn't throw a curveball for a strike so I really relied on spotting my fastball and mixing in my change-up,” Niespodziany said. “Throwing a seven inning shutout with just one strikeout is not common. Our defense came up with some big plays and really helped me get out of some tough spots. All the credit goes to them.”
The Tigers struggled to clutch hits in big spots. In game four, DePauw couldn’t take ad-
vantage of 13 walks issued by Wittenberg in the nightcap on Sunday.
“Whenever you get that many on base and don’t score it’s tough,” head coach Jake Martin said. “Going into the weekend, we had a chance to win the West and I think we pressed a little and the bats went cold.”
Despite the three losses, there was some fight shown by the Tigers. The Tigers battled in games two and four where they fell behind and nearly pulled off the comeback. DePauw would lose game two 7-6 in eleven innings and also dropped game four 5-4.
“I think the biggest positive from this week-end was that we know we have the ability to fight back when we are in a tight spot,” Niespodziany said. “In games two and four we had late inning comebacks, although we still ended up losing.”
DePauw will travel to Allegheny, Penn. to face the Gators in the three game cross divisional se-ries. Martin hopes the team can put it all together to win the series and advance to the conference tournament.
“It feels like when we pitch well, we don’t hit and when we hit we don’t pitch,” Martin said. “We’re a good team and we just need to put it all together.”
Baseball loses three of four games
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It came down to one final set between the last two left on the court, senior Elizabeth Young and Denison’s Emma Forman, for the DePauw Tigers to hold the North Coast Athletic Conference title for the second consecutive year.
The team won with a 5-4 victory over Denison in the play to decision.
Ranked 11th this year, the team has continued their record to improve to winning six conference championships both in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference and NCAC. This will be the team’s ninth appearance at the NCAA Division III Championship.
The Tigers swept the courts in doubles with ju-nior Meg Crowley, and sophomore Claire Marshall winning 9-7 in the number one seed and sopho-more Taylor Mahr, sophomore and junior Caroline Emhardt defeating their opponents 8-2 in the num-ber two seed. Sophomores Julie Wittwer and Kaitlin Pickrel also pulled out a win, 8-2, on the third court.
Singles became a mental challenge. After drop-ping the first four sets to the Denison’s Big Red it was left up to Mahr and Young the only two who had yet to step on the court.
The other 12 members of the tennis team stood on the sidelines biting their nails, cheering on their teammates with hearts racing.
“We were nervous as all get out,” Crowley said. Mahr fought to the very end to come out on
top, 7-6 (7-3), 6-3. Young won her first set 7-5, but in the second set trailed 3-0. Young came back to
win the next sixteen points and five matches, gave up one match and dug deep to pull out everything she had left to give to win the final match with a final victory, 6-4.
“By the time I was down three zero,” Young said. “I knew it was four all and up to me. I had more confidence from winning the first set than my opponent. I had to grind it out.”
Young did just that to lead the Tigers to travel to Kalamazoo College to compete in Nationals.
Young came through with the final victory, but every member of the tennis team contributed to the clutching the title.
“We always play for each other,” Crowley said. The team begins training for nationals this week
and looks forward to another chance to win.Young said the team looks forward to the
matches to come.
Women’s tennis take conference championship for sixth year in a row
DePauw Women’s Tennis claims the North Coast Athletic Confrence Championship title at Oberlin College on Saturday. The team defeated Ohio Wesleyan in the Quarterfinals, Oberlin College in the semifinals, and beat out Denison 5-4 for the championship. PHOTO COURTESY OF RICHARD MARSHALL
In the golf teams’ first weekend of con-ference championship tournaments, the women’s team placed first out of seven teams, while the men placed sixth out of ten teams.
“The team had a good attitude,” junior Abby Dickey said. “We knew that junior Paige Gooch was playing really well and we pushed aside our bad play and stayed positive for her to finish strong. We did well enough to place first and next weekend is even more important.”
Head coach Vince Lazar was not as posi-tive about the men’s performance.
“This first weekend of the tournament is disappointing because the men did not do as well as we would have hoped,” Lazar said. “We were not getting the ball in play off the tee and not putting well.”
Next weekend is important for both teams, as the women have to hold their first place finish, while the men have to compete better than they did in the first half of the tournament.
“The men are going to have to focus on getting the ball in play off the tee,” Lazar said. “The greens are extremely large and the rough on the course is very thick. The men and women are going to see a lot of long puts. So we have to work on putts from a distance.”
To prepare for next weekend’s tourna-ment, both teams are working to keep their focus and have a clear mind going into the tournament.
“I think the team is going to go out there and really push themselves and make up some ground on Wittenberg,” senior Pat Herrod said. “The course is set up for teams to come back, so we’re going to practice hard this week and give it our best shot next weekend.”
