VOL. 161, ISSUE 30 FEBRUARY 19, 2013 Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper By ALEX BUTLER [email protected]College brings freedom from parents, but it also leaves stu- dents on their own to deal with health issues. During the fall of his freshman year, sophomore Troy Hol- leman found himself in a tough situation. He was experiencing rather intense symptoms resembling bronchitis in the middle of the night. “Of course though, the Wellness Center was closed,” Holleman said. “There was nowhere else within 25 miles of DePauw that acts as an immediate care center [aside from Putnam County hospi- tal].” Holleman called Public Safety and they informed him of his op- tions: he could either drive to a hospital in Indianapolis, or go to the Putnam County hospital. Since it was the middle of the night, Holleman chose to seek medical attention from Putnam County hospital. Holleman waited to get care. A nurse attended to him after what he said was quite awhile. He was asked a few general ques- tions, and then a man presented himself as the doctor. Upon assessing his symptoms, they diagnosed him with acute bronchitis and treated his immediate symptoms with a nebulizer. Holleman thought that the treatment was over, but then without any form of a warning, the doctor gave him a steroid shot in his arm. “I learned right away how ridiculously painful this stuff was. For about ten minutes, my heart was beating so fast that I couldn’t even close my eyes,” Holleman said. “I couldn’t even drive home.” Holleman called his family doctor and learned afterward that due to the strength of the steroids, the shots are meant to be given in the thigh. Holleman’s initial problem was fixed, but now he had a new ailment. The entire process took about four and a half hours. According to Holleman’s family doctor, it could have been done in under an hour. While Holleman feels that the Wellness Center’s hours are far from satisfactory, he does believe that they provide students with the immediate care they need. He cannot say the same for Putnam County hospital. “If I find myself in this situation again, there’s no way I would go back to Putnam County hospital,” Holleman said. When reached by phone for comment, a woman from Putnam County hospital’s marketing department said that she thought the Questions about care at local hospital Health | continued on page 2 By NICOLE DECRISCIO [email protected]The real world burst the DePauw bubble recently for several students who were victims of credit card theft. These few students are not the only ones facing this threat. According to the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice 2010 statistics, approximately 646,400 18 to 24-year-olds faced some sort of identity theft. Senior Brett Stamper became a similar statistic when his credit card information was stolen, leaving him with a frozen bank account. “I tried to buy a couple folders and supplies for school and my card got declined,” Stamper said. “I was really taken aback as to why they told me my card was declined. It could happen to anyone, anywhere, anytime.” Another DePauw student, senior Louie Wallis received a call from his bank saying that they were suspecting fraudulent activity. “I had 50 dollars worth of transactions that had gone through, but then the bank caught it quickly,” he said. “Four more transac- tions were attempted. They all were denied -- each was worth over $100.” Wallis was the first of several members of his fraternity to have to cope with credit card theft. Senior Garrett Kawa had a similar experience. “The common denomi- nator in everything was the Kork and Keg liquor store,” Kawa said. The manager of the Kork and Keg declined to comment on the record. “[The bank] suspected that the culprits had hacked into the Kork and Keg’s system,” Wallis said. “They didn’t believe that it was the people actually working at the Kork and Keg.” Director of Public Safety Angela Nally points to another unifying factor among the victims: each of the students still had his card. "They are getting the credit card number then making a fake credit card,” Nally said. “It's quite an extensive operation." Stamper, Wallis and Kawa have all been reimbursed by their banks and are in the process of receiving new cards. According to FTC.gov, if someone’s identity gets stolen they should place an initial claim of fraud, monitor the order credit reports and then create an identity theft report. Throughout the process one should monitor the progress. “It’s not something that you think is going to happen, especially in a town like this” Stamper said. “I didn’t think it was a concern.” Three accounts of identity theft, outside of Stamper, Wallis, and Kawa, have also been brought forward to Public Safety. “We forwarded it to the white collar division of the Indiana State Police,” Nally said. Stamper also said that businesses have an obligation to their customers to figure things out quickly. “It kind of opened my eyes to the world of identity theft. It’s definitely going to make me more cautious when using my debit card,” Stamper said. “I’m definitely going to try to use cash more often.” Stamper noted how fortunate he was to have another account that he had access to throughout the extensive process. “It took seven days for them to investigate and get money back into my account,” Stamper said. Wallis, who only has one bank account, has had a more difficult time. “I haven’t been able to spend any money because I didn’t have any cash on me when this happened,” Wallis said. Wallis offers a piece of advice to his peers, “If it comes between using cash and your card, you should try to use cash so you don’t end up in this situ- ation.” Credit card theft: a real threat to students North Coast Athletic Conference swim meet results pages 10 &11
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VOL. 161, ISSUE 30FEBRUARY 19, 2013 Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper
College brings freedom from parents, but it also leaves stu-dents on their own to deal with health issues.
During the fall of his freshman year, sophomore Troy Hol-leman found himself in a tough situation. He was experiencing rather intense symptoms resembling bronchitis in the middle of the night.
“Of course though, the Wellness Center was closed,” Holleman said. “There was nowhere else within 25 miles of DePauw that acts as an immediate care center [aside from Putnam County hospi-tal].”
Holleman called Public Safety and they informed him of his op-tions: he could either drive to a hospital in Indianapolis, or go to the Putnam County hospital. Since it was the middle of the night, Holleman chose to seek medical attention from Putnam County hospital.
Holleman waited to get care. A nurse attended to him after what he said was quite awhile. He was asked a few general ques-tions, and then a man presented himself as the doctor.
Upon assessing his symptoms, they diagnosed him with acute bronchitis and treated his immediate symptoms with a nebulizer. Holleman thought that the treatment was over, but then without any form of a warning, the doctor gave him a steroid shot in his arm.
“I learned right away how ridiculously painful this stuff was. For about ten minutes, my heart was beating so fast that I couldn’t even close my eyes,” Holleman said. “I couldn’t even drive home.”
Holleman called his family doctor and learned afterward that due to the strength of the steroids, the shots are meant to be given in the thigh. Holleman’s initial problem was fixed, but now he had a new ailment. The entire process took about four and a half hours. According to Holleman’s family doctor, it could have been done in under an hour.
While Holleman feels that the Wellness Center’s hours are far from satisfactory, he does believe that they provide students with the immediate care they need.
He cannot say the same for Putnam County hospital.“If I find myself in this situation again, there’s no way I would
go back to Putnam County hospital,” Holleman said.When reached by phone for comment, a woman from Putnam
County hospital’s marketing department said that she thought the
The real world burst the DePauw bubble recently for several students who were victims of credit card theft.
These few students are not the only ones facing this threat. According to the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice 2010 statistics, approximately 646,400 18 to 24-year-olds faced some sort of identity theft.
Senior Brett Stamper became a similar statistic when his credit card information was stolen, leaving him with a frozen bank account.
“I tried to buy a couple folders and supplies for school and my card got declined,” Stamper said. “I was really taken aback as to why they told me my card was declined. It could happen to anyone, anywhere, anytime.”
Another DePauw student, senior Louie Wallis received a call from his bank saying that they were suspecting fraudulent activity.
“I had 50 dollars worth of transactions that had gone through, but then the bank caught it quickly,” he said. “Four more transac-tions were attempted. They all were denied -- each was worth over $100.”
Wallis was the first of several members of his fraternity to have to cope with credit card theft. Senior Garrett Kawa had a similar experience.
“The common denomi-nator in everything was the Kork and Keg liquor store,” Kawa said.
The manager of the Kork and Keg declined to comment on the record.
“[The bank] suspected that the culprits had
hacked into the Kork and Keg’s system,” Wallis said.
“They didn’t believe that it was the people actually working at the Kork and Keg.”
Director of Public Safety Angela Nally points to another unifying factor among the victims: each of the students still had his card.
"They are getting the credit card number then making a fake credit card,” Nally said. “It's quite an extensive operation."
Stamper, Wallis and Kawa have all been reimbursed by their banks and are in the process of receiving new cards.
According to FTC.gov, if someone’s identity gets stolen they should place an initial claim of fraud, monitor the order credit reports and then create an identity theft report. Throughout the process one should monitor the progress.
“It’s not something that you think is going to happen, especially in a town like this” Stamper said. “I didn’t think it was a concern.”
Three accounts of identity theft, outside of Stamper, Wallis, and Kawa, have also been brought forward to Public Safety.
“We forwarded it to the white collar division of the Indiana State Police,” Nally said.
Stamper also said that businesses have an obligation to their customers to figure things out quickly.
“It kind of opened my eyes to the world of identity theft. It’s definitely going to make me more cautious when using my debit
card,” Stamper said. “I’m definitely going to try to use cash more often.”
Stamper noted how fortunate he was to have another account that he had access to throughout the extensive process.
“It took seven days for them to investigate and get money back into my account,” Stamper said.
Wallis, who only has one bank account, has had a more difficult time.
“I haven’t been able to spend any money because I didn’t have any cash on me when this happened,” Wallis said.
Wallis offers a piece of advice to his peers, “If it comes between
using cash and your card, you should try to use cash so you don’t
end up in this situ-ation.”
Credit card theft: a real threat to students
North Coast Athletic Conference swim meet results
pages 10 &11
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relationship between the hospital and DePauw students was okay.
““I believe that our relationship with students that come and seek our care is generally pretty good. Unfortunately, though, because we aren’t students’ family doctors, those one-on-one relationships that we have with students is somewhat absent. We do our best to treat them whatever resources we have,” the marketing employee said.
The employee would not give her name for the story.
Sophomore Stephanie Aanenson agrees with Hol-leman. Last week, the Wellness Center diagnosed
Aanenson with a urinary tract infection, but alerted her of her unusually high white blood cell count. The Wellness Center gave her the standard medication and sent her home. Pain killers that were given to Aa-nenson gave her immediate relief, but her condition later took a turn for the worse.
Within hours after her appointment, Aanenson’s roommate, junior Sally Leaf found her in their room, violently ill.
“Her symptoms were scary,” Leaf said. “She seemed to be exhibiting signs that signaled that the infection had spread to her kidneys.”
After calling Putnam County Hospital and receiv-ing no advice as to how to proceed, sophomore Adam Thacker took initiative and drove her to the emer-gency room, where their experience was less than satisfactory.
“It was awful. The nurse that worked with us was extremely rude,” Thacker said. “She was very uninfor-mative, impatient, and overall just had terrible bed-side manner.”
According to Aanenson, the doctor was uninfor-mative, and only ended up giving her anti-nausea pills. “I asked him so many questions, and he just gave me incredibly vague answers. I was left alone for an entire hour,” Aanenson said. “I just didn’t know what was happening and was clueless as to what was going on the entire time.”
Aanenson appreciated that the doctors took care of her immediate symptoms, she doesn’t feel that they were nearly as helpful as they should have been, and in the future, doesn’t plan to use Putnam County hospital as a health resource.
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First semester white papers passed:
• Sustainability and Energy Efficiency Efforts -- DePauw wants to become carbon neutral by 2040 and will continue toward this goal of carbon neutrality, solar power, wind power, geothermal pumps and all other viable renewable energy efficiency measures.
• The Union Building offers students a centralized location for many activities, but additional common areas throughout campus will benefit students. The flow of information for students will improve by creating more study spaces or adding TVs and whiteboards to spaces.
Second semester goals:
• Renewal of DePauw’s television contract -- the television contract is up at the end of this semester and student government wants to know how students feel about the current networks. Student government will collect data this semester to gather student opinion.
• Greek Touch Stones -- fraternities and sororities do not have a permanent spot on campus as some chapters have moved houses or are no longer active. The idea is to acknowledge all of the chapters that have been present on campus.
• ROTC recognition -- DePauw should formally give recognition to the students who are involved in ROTC.
• Issues around finals time -- Professors often give out paper prompts or last minute assignments in the last few weeks leading up to finals. Student government wants to change the language in the student handbook so students can be more prepared and less stressed by theses assignments.
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Quota violations were among the most severe formal recruit-ment infractions investigated and sanctioned by the Interfraternity Council this year, according to IFC president Tyler Notch.
Quota is defined as the number of freshman bids that fraternity chapters are allowed to give out, said Greek Life Coordinator Eric Wolfe.
Wolfe said that the campus-wide quota through recruitment was set as 24, with the exception of chapters that had their quota reduced due to past recruitment sanctions.
“[IFC] believes that Beta Theta Pi plans to initiate more men then what they set as the quota,” said Myrna Hernandez, director of Campus Living and Community Development.
And Beta may not be the only chapter to give out more fresh-men bids than the quota set by IFC.
According to Notch, up to three other houses may have broken the quota rule during recruitment this year.
“The investigations are still ongoing,” Notch said.Notch disclosed that Phi Kappa Psi and the two other chapters
that made quota are under investigation. As previously reported by The DePauw, Phi Delta Theta and Delta Tau Delta fraternities made quota.
Phi Psi self-reported and Notch says the chapter leadership is working with the ongoing IFC investigation.
“Quota is kind of a funny thing because I don’t think everyone knows what it is used for,” Notch said.
According to Notch, the quota system is set in place to help small chapters get enough new members and to ensure larger chapters do not overfill.
“Ultimately I feel that we don’t run into these issues with bigger numbers of guys going through rush,” Notch said. “Numbers were a little down from where we wanted them to be.”
During separate talks, both Notch and Wolfe explained that find-
ing freshman men that fit well with a chapter is more difficult when there is a lower number of freshman men going through recruit-ment. This is an issue that is being addressed.
“That’s something IFC is going to do a better job of going for-ward,” Notch said. “We’re going to re-evaluate that stuff so we can keep the campus as Greek as possible—that’s the goal.”
Notch said that he hopes that the Beta’s investigation, along with all of the other quota investigations, will be completed this week, although the conclusion may not happen until next week.
This isn’t the first time chapters have faced quota issues though. There is a history of chapters breaking quota on DePauw’s campus.
According to Hernandez, “[IFC] did sanction some groups last year for going over quota.”
“It’s not a just this year occurrence,” Notch said.IFC is handling Beta’s quota investigation with detail and care,
so that the quota rule can be enforced uniformly from here on out, Notch said.
“It’s a lot of information for IFC to sift through,” said Hernandez. Beta’s case of exceeding quota will operate as IFC’s “benchmark”
for handling future quota violations, said Notch. “We are meeting with [Beta’s] leadership to see how to figure it
out,” he added. Notch would not disclose the exact fine amount that IFC and
Beta have been discussing, but he said he does want to clear up existing rumors on campus.
“They were not fined $20 thousand. That’s, in essence, a death penalty to a house,” Notch said. “We’d never do that.”
According to Notch, the IFC fine imposed on Beta for exceed-ing quota will not be a set number according to the number of additional new members over quota.
“We took certain percentages off the [original fine] number to get down to their certain fines, and if [Beta leadership] continues working with us that number could go down even more,” Notch said.
Notch said that Beta leadership has been “more than willing to help us out in the [investigation] process and in turn we were will-ing to work with them.”
According to Notch, other issues that IFC faced were chapter members breaking silence week as well as some inappropriate speeches and videos during formal recruitment.
Looking to next year, Notch said that IFC, with the help of the fraternity chapter leaders, will be reevaluating the entire recruitment process. Events will be added in the fall to introduce and expose men to the fraternity chapters earlier.
These pre-recruitment events will bring more publicity to IFC and fraternity recruitment.
“[The changes] could be drastic,” Notch said. “They could be totally different.”
BETA THETA PI FRATERNITY, PICTURED ABOVE, IS ONE OF THREE FRATERNITIES UNDER INVESTIGATION BY INTERFRATERNITY COUNCIL FOR GIVING OUT MORE BIDS THAN THE QUOTA SET BY IFC. DAVID MORGAN / THE DEPAUW
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CAMPUSCRIMEFeb. 15
• Suspicious activity • Subject located / verbal warning issued | Time: 9:54 p.m. | Place: Outside of the Indoor Tennis and Track Center
• Suspicious activity • Subject located / checked okay | Time: 10:37 p.m. | Place: Peeler Art Center
Feb. 16
• Criminal mischief to trash cans • Forwarded to Facilities Management | Time: Unknown | Place: Larabee Circle
• Property damage accident • Report filed | Time: 11:33 a.m. | Place: 505 Jackson Street lot
Feb. 17
• Alcohol consumption by a minor • Transported to Putnam County hospital / forwarded to Prosecutor’s Office and Community Standards | Time: 12:11 a.m. | Place: Kappa Alpha Theta sorority
• Welfare check • Officer checked area / unable to locate subject | Time: 12:39 a.m. | Place: Unknown
• Medical • Transported to Putnam County hospital | Time: 12:50 a.m. | Place: Mason Hall
• Alcohol violation • Transported to Putnam County Hospital / forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 1:02 a.m. | Place: Alpha Tau Omega fraternity
• Alcohol violation • Released to custody of friend / forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 1:47 a.m. | Place: Kappa Alpha Theta sorority
• Hazard — subjects on roof • Made contact with house representative / verbal warning issued | Time: 12:55 p.m. | Place: Sigma Chi fraternity
• Criminal mischief to restroom • Forwarded to Facilities Management | Time: 3:42 p.m. | Place: Union Building
Feb. 18
• Welfare check • Forwarded to Campus Living | Time:12:53 a.m. | Place: Longden Hall
One hundred and seventy prospective stu-dents made their way to DePauw on Monday to see a campus buzzing with life.
Typically, an admitted student day falls on a Saturday, with an attendance of 110 to 120 stu-dents. This year the event moved to a weekday, which gave a more accurate picture of what life on DePauw’s campus looks like and gave pro-spective students a greater incentive to attend.
“On Saturday it’s more convenient for par-ents, they don’t have to miss work and students don’t have to miss class,” said Dan Meyer, vice president of admissions. “Since its now on Presi-dent’s Day, it’s just a little different.”
According to Meyer, about half of the pro-spective students attended a class, a benefit of having the admitted student day on a weekday.
Monday morning prospective students were addressed by President Brian Casey, student body president Sara Scully and vice-president Mark Fadel. A lunch was held as well as an activi-ties fair in the Lilly Center.
“We planned the move to [the Lilly Center]
before the number of students increased,” said Dani Weatherford, director of admissions.
Weatherford said in past years the academic tabling was done in the Julian Center, and the student activities tables were in the Union Build-ing.
Moving both the Lilly Center centralized stu-dents on campus. The lunch event, a new addi-tion this year, was also held in the Lilly Center.
“Having both together, parents and students can mill about and not have to shuffle people around,” Weatherford said.
Moving the event to the Lilly Center cre-ated a conflict between the event and basketball practice. A white tarp covered the gym floor to protect it from the scraping of chairs and spilled soda.
“Having to have lunch in Lilly isn’t all that great,” said Meyer. “It’s infringing on basketball practice, as soon as the event is done we have to take down the tarp.”
The large number of students meant in-creased staff and events put on by the university.
“We had more senior interns, extra tour guides, extra tours,” said Weatherford. “We had to make sure we had enough people to sit and chat at the lunch tables.”
Some prospective students arrived yesterday and did an overnight visit with a current student. A hot chocolate and cookies event was held in the Inn at DePauw on Sunday night. President Casey attended, as well as 30 families. The event was an opportunity for prospective students to meet one another.
“You get to see everyone walking around and the general environment — meet with a lot of people,” Carl Hanson, a prospective student from Carmel, Ind., said.
Having an admitted student day helps pro-spective students make their decisions about which college to attend next year.
“It makes up a part, in the scheme of things you look at a lot of different little bits, and then add it up in the end,” Hanson said. “This was one big piece.”
In two weeks, some of the students who were on campus Monday will return for inter-views for the programs of distinction.
According to Meyer, visits to campus are up 26 percent from last year, and he feels confident about the class of 2017.
“I am always cautious until the eleventh hour,” Meyer said. “But I am positive.”
Long weekend brings potential students
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We, music students, are not territorial loners. In fact, we love interacting with non-music majors, or as we say, CLA (College of
Liberal Arts) students. But the majority of our days are spent in the GCPA, so you may and probably do see little of us. We hope that CLA students do not think we are hiding from the rest of the campus.
A differentiating factor between music students and CLA students is the subject matter that we study. Music is not something that can be learned by reading a book or by completing worksheets.
Every day we must practice the skills and concepts that we learn in class. For example, all music majors are required to take musicianship classes, which teach us how to perform music just by looking at it as well as how to dictate music when it is played. In Musicianship 123, the first of the four required courses, we learn the foundations of sight-singing and musical dictation. Because perfect pitch is rare, musicianship classes require daily practice, especially as we move into upper-level courses. Armed with sight-singing books, we sit in practice rooms and practice the assigned passages that we will perform during the next class. We hope that when we
perform them they are nearly perfect; after all, if we fail any musicianship courses, we cannot pass an exam to officially become a performance major.
Our classes and music lessons are not always equivalent in credit to CLA classes. We are enrolled in the same number of credits per semester as CLA students, but we take more classes. Music theory and musicianship are half-credit courses, and music ensembles such as choir, band and orchestra are quarter-credit courses. Add music history and pedagogy courses, topics courses, student recital hour, lessons and chamber music ensembles (performance classes such as opera scenes and string chamber music) – worth one, one half and one quarter credit, respectively – and any CLA classes, and we will be enrolled in approximately ten courses. We love what we do but, at times, are too busy to keep all of our work in order.
When CLA students come into the GCPA, we do not stare at them and wonder why they dare to come into our home.
It is perfectly normal to see CLA students come into the GCPA to pick up their morning coffee in the café or to do their homework in the afternoon on the ridicu-lously comfortable armchairs. Watching CLA students talk to other music students is the beauty of DePauw. We could attend schools like the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University or the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, but we chose to come to DePauw for its blend of all of the arts and not just music.
We are normal college students who wear sweatshirts as often as we like, join the Greek system and tailgate at football games. Just like CLA students, we came to DePauw to study a particular subject, but we have lives outside of the music school. Come and talk to us sometime; we have a lot to say.
Professors here on DePauw’s campus have decided to take up arms against the old adage
stating, “those who can’t do, teach.” As part of an ongoing attempt to convince the
world that it is possible to both “do” and “teach,” uni-versity faculty are actively engaging in intellectual commu-
nities far outside the classroom.At the forefront of this battle are three DePauw profes-
sors who work as editors of peer-reviewed scholarly journals, two of which were founded here on campus.
Modern languages professor Arthur Evans is regarded by his colleagues as an inspiration and “parental figure” in paving the
path of such scholarly work on campus. In 1991, he brought “Science Fiction Studies” to DePauw.
While the publication originally began in 1972, Evans brought “SFS” to DePauw in an attempt keep it alive when its government grant was lost.
Evan worked with Fred Silander, the university’s vice presi-dent of finance at the time, to come up with a deal that would make DePauw the new home for “Science Fiction Studies.” The university offered Evans, the current editor and publisher, $6,000 per year.
“That pays for postage and office supplies,” Evans said, “but we can do it for that.”
Since then, the budget has remained the same, but the jour-nal itself has grown and evolved throughout the years. It is now regarded around the world as “the most respected journal for the critical study of science fiction” and “the most theoretical schol-arly publication in the field, as well as the most daring,” (Courtesy of online reviews of “Science Fiction Studies”).
With its reputation to uphold and a publishing rate of only three times a year, SFS has very low acceptance rates when it comes to submissions from would-be authors.
“Our acceptance rate each year averages between 35-40 per-cent,” Evan said. “We have a very stringent procedure authors must follow in order for their article to be accepted.”
Professor Istvan Csicsery-Ronay of the English department has worked as a co-editor with Evans for many years and is respon-sible for bringing “Science Fiction Studies” to the web.
Though he still works as an editor for “SFS,” Csicsery-Ronay has now branched off to create his own scholarly journal, “Hum-animalia.”
This journal contains works of scholarship on human-animal studies, and “Humanimalia” is is now considered one of the top
three journals in the world within this field. Unlike Evans and “SFS,” the only support Csicsery-Ronay re-
ceives from DePauw is the bandwidth. Despite the insistence of many publishers that publications should be bought and paid for, Csicery-Ronay has chosen to publish the journal as free and open-access. This means that anyone in the world who has an Internet connection and knows the English language can view the publica-tion.
These journals and the professors responsible for them have gone a long way toward putting DePauw University on the map.
“There are people who had never heard of DePauw before “SFS” and “Humanimalia” crossed their fields of consciousness,” Csicsery-Ronay said.
“There really are thousands of scholars and students whose first exposure to DePauw has been through these journals,” he continued.
Evans feels this connection between the university and the wider community as well. Little do the readers of his highly re-spected publication know that the nuts and bolts of the entire process take place in a dorm-sized office and that this university does not offer a science fiction program.
Though DePauw has not yet entered these fields, both science fiction and human-animal interaction are booming areas of study -something that Csicsery-Ronay and Evans never expected when they began their work.
“This is something that is entering into our social reality and the way that we live our daily lives,” Evans said. “It’s something that we are living on a day-to-day basis.”
Professor of Music Matthew Balensuela, the founder and edi-tor-in-chief of “The Journal of Music History Pedagogy,” feels he
~ Matthew Balensuela
MATTHEW BALENSUELA, FOUNDER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF “THE JOURNAL OF MUSIC HISTORY PEDAGOGY”. NETTIE FINN / THE DEPAUW
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three journals in the world within this field. Unlike Evans and “SFS,” the only support Csicsery-Ronay re-
ceives from DePauw is the bandwidth. Despite the insistence of many publishers that publications should be bought and paid for, Csicery-Ronay has chosen to publish the journal as free and open-access. This means that anyone in the world who has an Internet connection and knows the English language can view the publica-tion.
These journals and the professors responsible for them have gone a long way toward putting DePauw University on the map.
“There are people who had never heard of DePauw before “SFS” and “Humanimalia” crossed their fields of consciousness,” Csicsery-Ronay said.
“There really are thousands of scholars and students whose first exposure to DePauw has been through these journals,” he continued.
Evans feels this connection between the university and the wider community as well. Little do the readers of his highly re-spected publication know that the nuts and bolts of the entire process take place in a dorm-sized office and that this university does not offer a science fiction program.
Though DePauw has not yet entered these fields, both science fiction and human-animal interaction are booming areas of study -something that Csicsery-Ronay and Evans never expected when they began their work.
“This is something that is entering into our social reality and the way that we live our daily lives,” Evans said. “It’s something that we are living on a day-to-day basis.”
Professor of Music Matthew Balensuela, the founder and edi-tor-in-chief of “The Journal of Music History Pedagogy,” feels he
is in good company amongst his fellow professors and editors.He began “The Journal of Music History Pedagogy” in 2010. It
is the first journal devoted to pedagogy in the profession and, like its predecessors here at DePauw, it is open-access.
Balensuela, who receives submissions from scholars across the United States, likes that he is able to connect with and reach out to people outside of the DePauw community.
“I think faculty can be stuck in ‘the bubble’ just as much as students,” Balensuela said. “And this is a way for me to be in touch with people all over the country.”
Published by the American Musicological Society, “JMHP” comes out with a new issue two times each year. Articles on re-ports, practices and varying philosophies can be found in the jour-nal as well as book reviews and round tables, which are published in a PDF format.
Balensuela said that even though he doesn’t teach this topic in particular, “JHMP” helps keep him in touch. He believes that overall, his work with the journal helps make him a better teacher and that his students benefit from that.
Csicsery-Ronay agreed, stating,“the more a teacher is involved in the dynamic growth of his or her field the more that comes into the classroom. It means that it’s always fresh.”
He added, “It means students are no longer learning stuff that’s not taken seriously in the academic community. It means that the classroom itself is more up to date.”
All three professors stressed that it is completely unheard of for a small school like DePauw to be a home to three such highly regarded academic publications.
“It’s extremely rare,” Evans noted, “it’s almost always large re-search universities like IU that have a dozen scholarly journals. It’s a real credit to this university.”
Csicsery-Ronay is of the same opinion. He said that in this way, “the university becomes associated
with cutting edge scholarship, and it becomes widely known in the scholarly community.”
These professors believe that the journals help make this uni-versity both reputable and competitive.
“It’s really incredible that a school this size has something as quirky as “Humanimalia,” something as long-term and foresightful as “SFS” and something so teaching-based and reflective of peda-gogy as “JMHP,” said Balensuela.
Through their journals, these three have extended their influ-ence and scholarship far beyond this campus and have gone a long way toward proving that DePauw’s professors both teach and do.
~ Matthew Balensuela
ISTVAN CSICSERY-RONAY, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, EDITOR FOR “SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES” AND FOUNDER OF “HUMANIMALIA”. NETTIE FINN / THE DEPAUW
ARTHUR EVANS, MODERN LANGUAGES PROFESSOR AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF “SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES”. NETTIE FINN / THE DEPAUW
Now that Valentine’s Day is sufficiently behind us, those who despise the holiday can relax because there are
360 days (sorry to remind you) until Cupid’s return. For those who enjoy the holiday, you can continue indulging in half-price heart-shaped candy and boxes of chocolate from the clearance shelves.
Regardless of your feelings about Valentine’s Day, it’s important to stop for a moment and reflect upon the very thing that this holiday celebrates: love. I’m not talking about relationships or the mushy stuff. I’m referring to love in the general sense — love as the common denomi-nator of humanity.
I am reluctant to admit that this article is partially in-spired by Valentine’s Day. But the true motivation for this article comes from a documentary I watched a week ago in my banned books class. The documentary, “Precious Knowledge” (2011), chronicles the termination of the Mexican American Studies Program in the Tucson unified school district. Nearly two years ago, Arizona state law-makers effectively banned ethnic studies programs from Arizona public schools, as put into effect in May 2010 by Arizona HB 2281.
It wasn’t the fascinating, surprising and sickening se-ries of events leading to the banning of the Mexican Ameri-can Studies Program in Tucson and other ethnic studies programs in Arizona public schools that made a lasting impression.
What resonated the most with me was the discussion of love as a common goal in all Mexican American Stud-ies classrooms. The program’s teachers discussed that the
main thing they taught in their classrooms was love. They, too, were not talking about the mushy stuff or relation-ships, but instead about love in a general, holistic sense.
These teachers were talking about establishing a love and passion for one’s ethnic heritage, a passion for being active and dutiful citizens, a passion for learning and educa-tion and most importantly a passion for life. It seems like an overly simple foundation for a classroom, but it makes so much sense. Love, by this interpretation, is not divisive but is common to all humans in some way, shape or form. Love is so common, yet so misconstrued.
Love has the potential to transform the current face of American public education that has been fractured by increased rigidity of standards and high-stakes testing. If students are able to experience love and develop a passion in the classroom, perhaps they will feel more connected to learning and less like they are just memorizing facts for the sake of regurgitation on a test.
An ownership of learning will translate into a vested in-terest in education for the long-term, something that has seemingly dissipated alongside increased standardization. Love can mend this broken system.
In the week since seeing this film, I have spent many hours reflecting on this notion of love. This is where Val-entine’s Day comes in, a day I do enjoy celebrating by re-membering the important role love plays in my life. What has become clear to me is that love is universal. Love is the common denominator of humanity. Love translates into every language, religion and ethnicity. I challenge each and every person to reflect upon this dynamic, transformative, universal vision of love, in hopes that you realize love sur-rounds all of us and it can change our current system for the better.
— Burke is a senior from Nashville, Ind. majoring in education.
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It fits right in with the age-old advice “don’t swim after eating” and “don’t run with scissors.”
We’re so used to hearing that we shouldn’t post things on the Internet that we wouldn’t want our grandmother or our potential employer to see, we sometimes lose sight of this cardinal rule. While posting a hilarious photo of our friends finishing beer towers or on a boulder run may seem like harmless fun, there can be consequences.
Pictures and words that are posted and accessible to Facebook friends or Twitter followers can be easily accessed by the general public. Do not forget that the Internet is not a private place. Information is easily transported, manipulated, copied and pasted from one website to another. And the worst part is-- what we put on the Internet never really goes away.
With the flare-up of students reporting identity theft, we are again reminded that we can never be too careful about the information we share on the Internet. And not just on social media websites. One can never be too careful while providing one’s credit card number for online shopping purposes.
What happened over the past few weeks with the hacking of student’s debit cards (and by no means are we suggesting that what happened was the victims’ fault) should serve as a reminder that we should think before plugging in our information in a rapidly advancing digital age.
There are people who dedicate their time to hacking information systems, whether that’s at the local Kork and Keg liquor store or the transaction of information on your last J. Crew online purchase. Not to mention, the rising number of employers whose human resources team scour social media websites before hiring candidates.
An e-mail was sent out last week from the DePauw help desk regarding an influx of spam mail to university e-mail accounts. Attached was an article that essentially sug-gested to use common sense. Check the full domain address as well as suspicious claims or logo imitations before replying.
As a general rule, know that people should not be soliciting you for personal infor-mation, such as your credit card digits or your social security number. In that same vein, you shouldn’t be putting anything up on the web that you wouldn’t want to be asked about in a job interview.
Also, if you receive an email from a fellow student you saw earlier saying they have been kidnapped in Syria and need a couple grand sent a là Western Union, we wouldn’t recommend doing it.
Safe surfing, everyone!
The Internet has a long, accesible memory
the depauw | opinion PAGE 9TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2013
PHOTOPINIONHow have you felt about your
health care experience in Greencastle?
ELLEN SAUTER, freshman
“Coming from a big city, I feel like the health care in a small town like Greencastle isn’t as advanced.”
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COLE RODMAN, junior
“The Wellness Center has been great, but I feel a little animos-ity at the [Putnam County] hospital.”
MAGGIE CAMPBELL, sophomore
“The Wellness Center told me it was too early to test for mono, but when I visited a [care cen-ter] in Plainfield, they told me I had it.”
ALAYNE THOMAS, freshman
“When I was really sick, it seemed like the Wellness Center treated my symp-toms, but not my illness.”
It’s been raining green in Greencastle. Hardly a day goes by where a multi-million dollar dona-
tion doesn’t roll through our handsome new en-trance. All that cash is causing change.
Change that can be a little unnerving, like how your parents immediately repurposed your old bedroom when you moved out. It’s still home, just not the home you remembered.
That’s how I’m starting to feel. President Casey is remodeling my room. For a while I didn’t feel excited scrolling through the new plans, reading about proposed remodeling to Lilly and a new track I’ll never race on.
The changes didn’t seem to affect me at all — I’ll be gone in a matter of months, after all — and new kids will stream in from all over the country, unaware that I was ever here.
But then I started to realize something. My
affiliation with DePauw does not end on the third weekend in May. DePauw will be with me the rest of my life, always in the back of my memory and the top of my resumé. When people ask where I went to college, I will happily and confidently utter the name of what is already a nationally respected university.
Seeing where my home is headed really gets me excited. DePauw has shown its commitment to continued improvement.
No one is just settling around here. Progress is in the air and it brings a smile to my face every time alumni from forever ago volunteer to fund it. The enthusiasm these alumni show for their alma mater is contagious. They found something about this campus they loved so much that they want to leave a mark on its future. Find what you love here and hope that those who come after you do the same.
In the meantime, we should all try and show as much pride in our campus as our president has. Keep the grounds clean, and respect our shared property. As different as many of us may be, 2,500 or so of us live on the same few city blocks.
Our time here is short, way shorter than I realized until 2013 — the year I finally graduate — became a real year. We might as well take care of what we have so the class of 2130 can have it all and more.
I realized I have only been a guest here. I have been overwhelmingly fortunate to live, run, work and enjoy myself in this small Indiana town.
While I will truly and honestly miss this place, part of me is already excited to be back years from now with my own family, explaining to them where everything “used to be.” I’ll never eat in the new Hub as a student, I won’t race on the new track, but that’s okay. I know kids like me someday will and that’s enough.
This year has been an exciting taste of prog-ress, and I can’t wait to see where we end up.
— Droddy is a senior from Indianapolis, majoring in communication.
This past weekend, I had the privilege to attend the Posse Plus Retreat as a guest, an annual
gathering of DePauw’s Posse scholars, students, faculty and administrators to talk about a topic on a national, campus and personal level. This year’s retreat was titled “What’s Your Worth? Class, Pow-er and Privilege in America.”
As a senior, I know DePauw pretty well. I’ve had four Monon Bell games, an off-campus internship, membership in a greek organization, my fair share of late-night Marvin’s. For me, these experiences have come to shape who I am. In many ways, I thought of my DePauw experience almost as if it were torn from the pages of the university’s admissions brochure.
My experience at DePauw has been typical. But in exploring the complex issue of class, power and privilege this weekend, I’m starting to wonder to what extent and to whom this “DePauw experience” applies.
Whether apparent or not, our campus culture is deeply embedded with upper-middle class norms — norms that based on social class, some
can uphold, while others cannot. These expecta-tions are present on college campuses all over the country, but they are perhaps even more concentrated and powerful given our small, close-knit campus at DePauw. It’s often said that college is the easiest time to “hide” a person’s social class — education is the great equalizer, af-ter all — but these standards by which we come to define the DePauw experience cut deeply across the socioeconomic divide. However uncomfortable we might be with the reality of it, society at large is far from “classless.” DePauw is no different.
Take one of the most touted experiences DePauw offers its prospective students: its rich network of study abroad programs all over the world. No matter where you’d like to travel or where your academic interest may lie, DePauw undoubtedly has the resources to make it hap-pen — for a price. While scholarships and finan-cial aid are available, sometimes it’s not enough for some students. Yet DePauw’s high rates for off-campus study are a frequent selling point for the university. It’s become the track for a lot of students, but what about those who simply can’t? Does their DePauw experience have any less value, by these implications?
The same goes for greek life. On a campus steeped in a strong sense of greek community, it’s not uncommon to identify a person by what
house he or she belongs. These assumptions that nearly everyone is greek successfully alien-ate a growing portion of our student body that makes the choice to be independent for not just social, but financial reasoning.
The social activist bell hooks wrote, “No-where is there a more intense silence about the reality of class difference than in educational settings.” At DePauw, we tend to have a one-dimensional view of our educational experience — the “DePauw” experience — as attainable for everyone. This isn’t necessarily the fault of the administration, but it is a hard truth that deserves acknowledgement. From this kind of class-consciousness, we can begin a dialogue about how class affects not only our campus climate, but also the individual lives of our friends and classmates. By finally recognizing that class does exist at DePauw, and that our educational experi-ences are plural — and even unequal — we can create a productive conversation toward a more inclusive, diverse DePauw.
—Brelage is a senior from Indianapolis, majoring in English writing.
A week ago, players walked out of the locker room with emotion-less faces and head coach Bill Fenlon sat in the athletic training room with his hands buried in his face after a loss to Oberlin College.
After the men’s most recent game this past Saturday, the post-game scenario was notably opposite, as thunderous applause and a slight gait accompanied the DePauw men’s basketball team.
The Tigers led by as many as 26 points against the College of Wooster, and Fenlon reached deep into his bench in the waning min-utes to close out the game, 68-52. The Fighting Scots — ranked No. 9 in the country by D3Hoops.com — were outplayed on both ends of the floor as DePauw shot 53.8 percent from the field in the first half, and their top scorer, Doug Thorpe, did not score.
The victory locked up the No. 4 spot in the North Coast Athletic Conference standings for the Tigers and they will host their first round game Tuesday against Wittenberg University.
“You beat the No. 9 team in the country going into the conference tournament, I don’t think you can feel any better about things,” Fen-lon said. “There are a lot of things over the course of the season that we’d like to have as do-overs. … I like the direction that we’re going in and we’ll see if we can keep it going.”
DePauw started off in a flurry against Wooster (21-4, 14-2 NCAC), scoring on their first six of eight offensive possessions. After eight min-utes, the Tigers had a 10 point lead, prompting a timeout by Fighting Scots head coach, Steve Moore.
“It was real good defense,” Moore said about his team’s struggles
on offense. “[DePauw] played extremely well on both ends of the floor. They are a really good basketball team and they’re playing really well right now.”
By the end of the first half, the Tigers led by 12, 42-30 and Barry Flynn had 15 of his total 21 points. The senior said after the game he and his teammates learned much from their earlier season match-up with Wooster.
“Last time we played them they had a lot of trouble with our pick-and-rolls,” Flynn said. “Our guards did a good job of coming off the screen and attacking the middle. Our guards getting in the middle and creating for us really made a huge difference tonight.”
Despite the lead, DePauw was outrebounded 17-13 at the break and surrendered nine offensive boards as well. Fenlon urged his team to focus on boxing out to reduce the Fighting Scots’ second-chance opportunities and they responded.
Wooster gained just four offensive boards in the second half, and watched their deficit balloon with an 18-3 Tigers scoring run over 11 minutes.
“DePauw played a great game, not just the first half but overall,” Moore said. “They were driving around us. They were explosive and really fired up. I was extremely impressed by the way they played.”
Thorpe, who coming in to Saturday’s contest led Wooster with 13.6 points per game, played sparingly in the second half, and finished the game 0-6 from the field.
“We are playing a lot of guys and a lot of guys got an opportunity to guard Thorpe today,” Fenlon said. “[Assistant coach] Brian Oilar who had the scout on Wooster emphasized that all week — you don’t guard Thorpe with one guy.”
DePauw ended shooting 33.3 percent from the field in the second, but conversely held Wooster to 26.1 percent shooting to close out the game. The Tigers nailed seven three-pointers out of 17 attempts com-pared to a 3-15 performance from the Fighting Scots beyond the arc.
Backing Flynn’s 21 point effort, freshman Adam Botts had nine and Kevin Sullivan and Connor Rich both pitched in with eight apiece.
The win ended DePauw’s regular season with a final mark of 16-9 overall and 9-7 in the NCAC. Last season, the Tigers finished 7-9 in conference, and fell in the first round of the NCAC tournament to Wooster.
Fenlon hopes this final win gives his team confidence going for-ward, and can continue to play at a high level after winning two straight games in the shadow of a loss to Oberlin College last weekend.
“When you look at what’s coming up, this team has been very hard to predict,” Fenlon said. “This is not how you would predict it to hap-pen. But our response after a really bad loss last Saturday is exactly what you would like to see from your team.”
Added Flynn, “There’s no reason why we can’t view ourselves as an elite team that can make some noise in the NCAC tournament and possibly the NCAA tournament.
“Everyone on the team would agree that we’re hot right now and everyone is fired up and excited about being a member of this De-Pauw basketball team.”
DePauw shocks No. 9 Wooster, locks up No. 4 seed in NCAC tournamentSenior Barry Flynn leads the way with 21 points on senior night in key conference victory
-age from the field.“I thought Ali Ross was a big spark on defense
and she made a difference,” Huffman said. “It hurt them having their leading scorer on the bench with foul trouble.”
Ross finished the game with three steals as De-Pauw as a whole tallied 15 takeaways. The junior also posted a game-high 15 points.
Huffman reached deep into her bench for the second half, and still, the Tigers added to their lead. The Wooster deficit ballooned to 38 points.
“I think we had a decent offensive flow today es-pecially coming off a tough game Wednesday night,” Huffman said. “Our shots didn’t really fall from the 3 point line in the second half, and I though we needed to have a little bit more patience in each possession.”
DePauw shot 43.3 percent from the field com-pared to 32.6 percent from the Fighting Scots. The Tigers also outrebounded Wooster, 45-23.
For the first time in the 37-year history of the De-Pauw women’s basketball program, the Tigers com-pleted an undefeated season, and has yet to lose a game in the NCAC for two straight seasons.
“We didn’t set out to be undefeated, but it is pretty special and we haven’t talked much about it as a team,” Huffman said. “I did tell them today about how proud I am of them and how special this is.”
Added Pearson, “Coach was in the locker room with us and saying we were 25-0. It sounds nice off the tongue.”
The Tigers host the first round of the NCAC tour-nament Tuesday.
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- Ellie Pearson, senior
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Senior Taryn Owens was cheering before she even hit the mat Saturday after breaking an indoor record in the pole vault. Owens’ 10-foot-3-inches jump gave her the indoor DePauw record and first place in the women’s track and field team’s second place finish at the DePauw Classic. Bellarmine University took first with 166.5 points to DePauw’s 132.5.
The men’s team, with a record-breaking performer of its own, finished sixth out of 12 schools with 64 points. Taylor University won the meet with 166 points.
It was an exciting scene, as teammates gathered to watch Owens and junior Jil-lian Balser compete as the last two athletes left in the event. After both completing 10 feet, Owens and Balser asked the meet of-ficial to move the bar to 10-feet-3.25-inches instead of the usual six inch bump, to break the then-current record. Owens was able to clear the bar with ease on her first attempt. Balser failed on her three attempts, resulting in a second place finish. Owens said being a DePauw record holder has still not sunk-in, but she and Balser will only get better as they
continue to push each other.“I’m kind of speechless still about it,” Ow-
ens said. “I have a feeling Jillian and I will be battling back and forth all season.”
Other notable performances for the day came from freshman Heather O’Brien in the 5000 meter run (17:57.08) and Nicole Inman in the 600 meter run (1:43.60).
On the men’s side, sophomore Juan Rodriguez finished fourth in the 60-meter hurdles, breaking his own record in the event with a time of 8.88 seconds. Rodriguez admit-ted he was upset with the fourth place finish at first, but still took solace in re-breaking his own school record.
“I look at it as a proving point,” Rodriguez said. “You got to take the little victories, like ‘hey I broke the school record,’ but there are people at the meet that are better than me and I have to rise to the occasion.”
The men’s team had notable performanc-es despite the sixth place finish. Freshman Mitch Metzger was the high jump champion with a jump of 6’4”, as was junior Kyle Mackey in the pole vault (13’9.25”). Second place fin-ishes came from senior David Garrett in the pole vault and freshman Matt Tamarkin in the 600 meter run.
Men and women’s head coach Kori Stof-
fregen was pleased with the men’s team’s day despite the sixth place finish.
“I keep saying we’re getting better every week and that’s all we want out of our indoor season,” Stoffregen said.
Rodriguez echoed a similar point saying that the team really feeds off of the great indi-vidual performances.
“As a team, we’re kind of growing to a tight knit family so even individual accom-plishments are like team accomplishments,” Rodriguez said. “[Your teammates] are the people you compete with and see at practice, so you’re rooting for them.”
Both teams will travel to Anderson Uni-versity this weekend for the team’s first away meet of the indoor season and last tune-up before the North Coast Athletic Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships.
Seniors Lee Harmon and Owens will start the travel to Denison for the conference Pen-tathlon. Harmon and Owens finished third and fourth respectively in last season’s out-door conference heptathlon.
Sophomores Noah Gatwood and Will Bond prepare for their 3K in the Indoor Tennis and Track Center on Sunday afternoon. ALEX SPEARS / THE DEPAUW
Owens and Rodriguez break records at DePauw Classic
Typically, teams would scoff at celebrating a third place finish, but when the only teams ahead are the sole Div. III swimming and diving national champions of the past 30 years, there’s good reason for celebration.
That was the case for the men’s swimming and diving team, that took third at the North Coast Athletic Conference champi-onship behind swimming powerhouses Denison University and Kenyon College. The Tigers, ranked eleventh, scored 987 points, behind second place Kenyon (1515) and the conference champi-ons, Denison (1704).
The women also fell to third behind Denison and Kenyon, who, in addition to Emory University, have won the national championship for the past 20 years. The women totaled 904.5 points to earn their third place spot behind Kenyon in second (1604.5) and first-place Denison (1654).
For men’s head coach Adam Cohen, who was named this year’s men’s swimming and diving NCAC coach of the year, the strategy behind going head to head against the best programs in the country was simple.
“You have to come in with a little bit of swagger,” Cohen said. “You can’t be intimidated. We’re going to race the best in the country and see what happens.”
For the men, that meant one conference champion in sopho-more Casey Hooker in the 100-yard butterfly and at least nine swimmers with legitimate chances to swim in the Div. III national championship in Shenandoah, Texas March 20-23.
For the women, two third place finishes by freshman Caroline Bridges’ in the 100-yard freestyle and the team’s 400-freestyle re-lay were their highest placing events of the weekend. Bridges and junior Emily Weber, who placed sixth in the 1,650 freestyle, were the two individual Tiger female athletes to earn B-cut times and a shot at nationals. Weber said three other relays also have chances at making it to Texas.
Weber was excited about her team’s performance after finish-ing fourth overall in last year’s NCAC championship.
“We are very, very proud of getting third,” Weber said. “We had a lot of girls in the final heats, the top eight, so usually it’s just Kenyon and Denison so it’s great to see.”
Cohen was grateful for the coach of the year award, but quickly passed on credit to his team and staff of coaches.
“[The award] goes to your staff as much as anyone,” Cohen said. “[It] goes to your team and the whole athletic department. We have a lot of people, and at the end of the day it’s the great swimmers that get you there.”
Both teams will continue practicing into next week, when the national swimmers are announced.
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Teams place third in top-heavy NCACHooker lone conference champion
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During the national anthem, seniors Kate Walk-er, Ellie Pearson and Kathleen Molloy couldn’t stop smiling.
Standing just feet apart after being recognized for their four-year careers before their final regular season home game, they walked off the court wear-ing similar grins.
The DePauw women’s basketball Saturday af-ternoon dispatched the College of Wooster at Neal Fieldhouse handedly, winning 76-36. The seniors combined for 25 points and capped the program’s first-ever undefeated regular season.
“As awesome as it was I was trying not to get distracted,” Pearson said about being honored be-fore the game. “It’s easy to see the signs, the fans and the balloons, but I’m still trying to focus on one game at a time. I get pre-game nerves for every game, but it was still pretty bittersweet.”
The Tigers (25-0, 16-0 in the NCAC) quickly
gained control of the game in the opening minutes as two three pointers propelled DePauw to a 10-4 lead. Over the span of the final 13 and a half min-utes, the Tigers went on a 30-7 run to put the game well out of reach for the Fighting Scots (9-16, 4-12 NCAC). DePauw was led by three players each scor-ing six points during the stretch: Ali Ross, Savannah Trees and Pearson.
The Tigers also tallied eight of their ten steals of the half during that stretch for 18 total points off turnovers, and a 43-14 lead.
Despite the advantage, head coach Kris Huff-man during the half implored her defense to shut down Wooster, and her players responded by hold-ing the visitors to a 23.5 percent shooting percent
Undefeated season for first time in 37-year program history
Ellie Pearson, senior, takes a shot during the women's 76-41 win against Wooster in Neal Fieldhouse Saturday. The senior-day win landed the team a 16-0 record, their first-ever undefeated regular season. EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW
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Tigers enter NCAC postseason play as top team in conference, country and riding 47 game regular season win streak
