VOL. 160, ISSUE 33 FEBRUARY 28, 2012 Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper TO DEPAUW, WITH LOVE The long-lost words of a 1930s DePauw student. See story on pages 8-9. EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW Senior guard Kathryn Denbow celebrates with her teammates after winning the NCAC Division III Championship. The women's team, now 26-1, defeated Denison 61-41 on Saturday night in Neal Fieldhouse. Watch the team as they prepare for the NCAA tournament online on The DePauw multimedia page at www.thedepauw.com/multimedia. EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW Women’s basketball advances to NCAA tournament, team members earn NCAC honors Basketball | continued on page 15 By MATT REDA [email protected]For its first full season in the North Coast Atheletic Conference, the women’s basketball team showed no shyness in proving its a force to be reckoned with. The squad won the NCAC, received an NCAA tournament automatic berth and three members of the team received post-season accolades. The 4th-ranked Tigers (26-1) sealed their first- ever NCAC conference tournament championship Saturday night against Denison (20-8) by a score of 61-41. On Monday, senior Katie Aldrich was named the NCAC women’s basketball player of the year. Aldrich, who was first on the team in points with 11.6 points per game and second in rebounds with 6.3 rebounds per game, adds this honor to her NCAC tournament Most Outstanding Player award earned after De- Pauw’s conference win on Saturday. Kris Huffman, who now has 16 conference titles in her 19-year career as DePauw women’s basketball head coach, was named the NCAC women’s bas- ketball Coach of the Year. In the team’s first year in the NCAC, the Tiger’s went 16-0 in conference play. Huffman now has an overall record of 403-101 in her coaching career. Sophomore guard Ali Ross also received first- team All-NCAC honors. The conference win guaranteed the 26-1 Tigers a spot in the NCAA Div. III national tournament, which was announced Monday. The team was happy to learn its conference championship and national reputation has earned the team a No. 1 seed in the tournament. The Tigers will host Westminster College (22-4) from Missouri in the first round. The No. 1 seed se- cures a home-court advantage for the Tigers for the first and second rounds of the tournament. The game on Friday will mark the DePauw wom- en’s basketball team’s ninth straight trip to the NCAA Div. III Championship and 13th in the last 17 years. The Tigers won the championship in 2007 over Wash- ington University in St. Louis. The Tigers began their successful weekend with a
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VOL. 160, ISSUE 33FEBRUARY 28, 2012 Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper
TO DEPAUW, WITH LOVE
The long-lost words of a 1930s DePauw
student. See story on pages 8-9.
EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW
Senior guard Kathryn Denbow celebrates with her teammates after winning the NCAC Division III Championship. The women's team, now 26-1, defeated Denison 61-41 on Saturday night in Neal Fieldhouse. Watch the team as they prepare for the NCAA tournament online on The DePauw multimedia page at www.thedepauw.com/multimedia. EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW
Women’s basketball advances to NCAA tournament, team members earn NCAC honors
For its first full season in the North Coast Atheletic Conference, the women’s basketball team showed no shyness in proving its a force to be reckoned with.
The squad won the NCAC, received an NCAA tournament automatic berth and three members of the team received post-season accolades.
The 4th-ranked Tigers (26-1) sealed their first-ever NCAC conference tournament championship Saturday night against Denison (20-8) by a score of 61-41.
On Monday, senior Katie Aldrich was named the NCAC women’s basketball player of the year. Aldrich, who was first on the team in points with 11.6 points per game and second in rebounds with 6.3 rebounds per game, adds this honor to her NCAC tournament Most Outstanding Player award earned after De-Pauw’s conference win on Saturday.
Kris Huffman, who now has 16 conference titles in her 19-year career as DePauw women’s basketball head coach, was named the NCAC women’s bas-ketball Coach of the Year. In the team’s first year in the NCAC, the Tiger’s went 16-0 in conference play. Huffman now has an overall record of 403-101 in her coaching career.
Sophomore guard Ali Ross also received first-team All-NCAC honors.
The conference win guaranteed the 26-1 Tigers a spot in the NCAA Div. III national tournament, which was announced Monday. The team was happy to learn its conference championship and national reputation has earned the team a No. 1 seed in the tournament.
The Tigers will host Westminster College (22-4) from Missouri in the first round. The No. 1 seed se-cures a home-court advantage for the Tigers for the first and second rounds of the tournament.
The game on Friday will mark the DePauw wom-en’s basketball team’s ninth straight trip to the NCAA Div. III Championship and 13th in the last 17 years. The Tigers won the championship in 2007 over Wash-ington University in St. Louis.
An inflatable obstacle course, bounce house, bas-ketball game, face-painting and craft table greeted students and their siblings as they walked through the doors of the Lilly Center’s Auxiliary Gym Saturday for the opening event of Little Sibs Weekend.
The first annual field day for Little Sibs Weekend was a big hit with both the Union Board and students.
The event was a childhood throwback for the students, friends and siblings who attended, with its laid-back environment and many activities.
While attendance declined after the day’s initial large turnout, the Union Board was still pleased with attendance levels.
“It has been awesome,” said sophomore Jordan Davis, Union Board entertainment chair. “There are so many things going on to choose from, so students and their siblings can have a lot of fun. We will defi-nitely be doing this next year.”
Participating fraternities and sororities echoed Union Board’s and attendee’s positive remarks on the event, as various fraternities and sororities con-tributed to field day.
Freshman Johnny Bartlett, a new member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, assisted with the basketball game. He said despite the lack of turnout, he was en-tertained.
“There were not a ton of kids there, but we played some knock out and a game of three on three. It was a good time,” Bartlett said.
Sophomore Caroline Hall, a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority, helped out with Pi Phi’s craft table to make book cards to use as bookmarks for the soror-ity’s philanthropy, First Book.
“We’re making book cards for our philanthropy,” Hall said. “It’s been going really well. We have had a lot of cards made.”
Many students, siblings and visiting friends en-joyed the activities that were offered.
“I had a lot of fun playing basketball,” said K.J. An-derson, a visiting younger sibling.
Other siblings’ interest in DePauw peaked after attending Little Sibs Weekend and getting a feel for what the university has to offer.
“I love DePauw and have had a great time this weekend,” said Aubrey Spears, a visiting younger sis-ter. “It was great to see my sister and experience the culture here on DePauw’s campus. I am excited to
keep coming back in the future.” Some students visited the event in order to par-
take in the activities provided even if they did not have younger siblings visiting.
Junior Lauren Gilliam, who did not have a sibling visiting, said Field Day exceeded her expectations.
“It’s nice to kick back and relax for a change of pace,” Gilliam said. “I love being able to play games that I haven’t played since I was a little kid.”
Gilliman had a friend, Jesse Crutcher, visiting from University of Louisville. Crutcher thought Field Day was a great way to spend his time at DePauw.
“It is something random, and we didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into, but there have been a lot of different activities to participate in that have been really fun,” Crutcher said.
Students thought that the Little Sibs Weekend Field Day was a great way to bring the DePauw com-munity together.
“I’ve really been enjoying myself,” junior Chelsey Hall said. “I’ve been able to meet new people who I would not have met otherwise. I have also learned how to play double-dutch.”
While the majority of students and siblings were satisfied with the events, some thought that the cal-endar of events should have been better communi-cated.
“Little Sibs Weekend needs to be promoted more so they can have a bigger turnout,” freshman Kandyce Anderson said. “I think they should have more events geared towards different ages, so that all siblings are can have fun in something they are interested in.”
Freshman Courtney Cosby, head of Field Day events, was disappointed at the turn out, but she be-lieves the idea of the event was great.
“We didn’t have as many families as I thought we would,” she said. “Everyone who helped out has had a lot of fun and all the kids that did come had a lot of fun.”
For next year’s Field Day, Cosby plans to begin promoting the event during first semester to get a large turnout and have an even more successful event in years to come.
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Little Sibs Weekend brings families together
Taylor Helms and her younger sister, Chandler, color book plates for First Book, Pi Beta Phi sorority’s philathropy, during the Union Board-sponsored Little Sib’s Field Day. Various activities including a moon bounce, basketball and other games were available for students and their sib-lings. “I came last year and it was really fun,” Chandler said of Little Sibs Weekend. “There are a wide range of activities on campus.” EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW
In last Thursday’s Investigative Reporting Techniques class, which teaches journalism students how to access public information, Tatge passed out a 17-page packet detailing the Jan. 27 arrest of sophomore Alison Stephens.
The front three pages were Ste-phens’ Facebook and Twitter profiles, available online. Other documents included her booking record, permis-sion to travel out of state, her father’s drivers license, police incident report and other court proceedings.
Tatge said that he chose the case to present because it was local, a breaking news story and involved a peer.
“I try to pick things that students will be interested in,” said Tatge, who has taught business journalism at Ohio University and Northwestern University, was a senior editor at Forbes magazine and wrote for The Wall Street Journal. “I guess I could pick something about patent law and have them go look up patent and trademarks, but I think they would be less interested in that than they would be about an arrest for drinking [and the other charges].”
According to the class description for the 300 level class on the univer-sity website, “Emphasis will be placed on how to background individuals and use public records to find informa-tion.”
But some students were uncom-fortable discussing a fellow DePauw
student, particularly one who had been arrested.
Four students in the seminar are in the same sorority as Stephens, Pi Beta Phi. A member of the men’s basketball team was also in the class, another connection to Stephens who plays on the women’s team.
News of the class traveled fast.President of Pi Beta Phi Lauren
McCormick, a junior, was handed the packet and in turn alerted Stephens.
“I feel embarrassed,” Stephens said. “I felt really uncomfortable walk-ing around … I don’t think it reflects the person I am, so I was hurt.”
Stephens called her parents, who were already driving to Greencastle from their hometown in Kansas to watch her daughter’s team compete in a NCAC tournament Friday.
Her parents contacted Cindy Babington, vice president for student life, to express concern. McCormick also sent an email to Babington.
Both Stephens’ mother and Mc-Cormick declined to comment for this story.
That afternoon, Babington alerted David Harvey, vice president for academic affairs as well as President Brian Casey.
Harvey then contacted Tatge to learn more about the lesson, Tatge said.
Friday, Babington personally called students enrolled in the class to invite them to a conversation the next morn-ing with her and Harvey.
Sunday afternoon, Casey altered flight plans to meet with the Stephens in an airport food court.
“You have a situation that really upset a particular person,” Babington said. “Anytime that happens you want to figure out the context of the situation in that class that was so concerning.”
Babington said resulting conversa-tions within the administration seek to balance Tatge’s academic freedom to teach his class as he sees best while ensuring the welfare of students.
“We are simply collecting informa-tion,” Harvey said. “There has been no determination of whether there is a need to think about policies or whether there is a need to be imple-menting policies.”
STEPHENS’ ARRESTAccording to the police report,
Stephens was arrested during Winter Term on four misdemeanors: public intoxication, minor in consumption (Stephens was 19; she turns 20 today), resisting law enforcement and crimi-nal mischief.
At 3 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 27, Public Safety received a call that a female was banging on the front window of Beta Theta Pi fraternity with a rock. Stephens then moved to the back of the house. As the police officer pulled up, Stephens ran towards her sorority house across the parking lot. While banging on the door to get in, Ste-phens was arrested. She apologized and was taken into custody.
At the Putnam County Jail, she submitted to a Portable Breath Test and registered a blood alcohol content of .210 percent. A majority of states in the U.S. use .08 percent as the legal level of intoxication for adults.
The arresting officer, Michael Bennett, wrote: “Alison stated that
she ran from me because she is on the basketball team and didn’t want to get into trouble.”
DePauw’s athletic code of conduct states that coaches don’t condone the illegal or irresponsible use of alcohol, but each coach can create his or her own guidelines.
“Alison did violate our alcohol policy and has served the consequenc-es,” said Kris Huffman, head coach of the women’s basketball team. “She is still on our team.”
Stephens has played in games since her arrest, according to De-Pauw’s athletic website. Included in the court documents was a motion for permission to travel out of state to at-tend away games, which was granted on Feb. 1.
Huffman deferred comments on details of the team’s alcohol policy to athletic director Stevie Baker-Watson, who was not reached before deadline.
ACADEMIC FREEDOMStephens is by no means the only
DePauw student to get in trouble for drinking.
According to the 2011 DePauw University annual security report, 24 students have been arrested on campus for charges related to alcohol in the past three years. Another 506 students were referred to the Commu-nity Standards Committee for alcohol violations.
A report on campus alcohol use was released this December. The university has since launched an initia-tive to combat binge drinking and other alcohol abuses. DePauw is also a member of a national collaborative to address high-risk drinking.
Tatge said that many students had previously expressed interest in pursuing stories about drinking on campus.
And not all students in the class
were troubled.Sophomore Abby Dickey said she
was surprised by the packet, but un-derstood the point Tatge was making.
“I personally don’t think he was
in the wrong for what he did,” Dickey said. “It was just for the purpose of telling how to get a good story… I just think that it’s hard coming from Ohio University, a big school where it would have been fine. But at DePauw I think it’s different.”
Ohio University currently has about 36,000 students enrolled, where DePauw has 2,302 according to the schools’ websites.
The DePauw contacted three other students in the class, all of whom declined to comment. Ellen Kobe and Dana Ferguson, who are also mem-bers of the class and Managing Editors for The DePauw, were excluded from all coverage of this story to avoid conflict of interest.
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Reporting class sparks controversy over academic freedom
The university is reviewing what happened during an inves-tigative reporting class taught by Mark Tatge, the Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism, after several students thought the lesson hit too close to home. “If professors are not offered
freedom to teach things, to bring in new ideas and different
ideas, I think it stunts the learning process. It creates
problems.”—Mark Tatge,
Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of
Journalism
Tatge’s lesson challenged the balance between a student’s right to privacy and Academic freedom, the idea that both students and faculty must be allowed freedom of inquiry to advance knowledge, even if a les-son concerns challenging topics.
The university academic hand-book “strongly affirms the principles of academic freedom” established in 1940 by the American Association of University Professors. That state-ment, which was updated in 1970, says that teachers are free to discuss their subject in the classroom, but should be careful to not include unrelated controversial matter.
But the statement wasn’t de-signed to discourage controversy.
“Controversy is at the heart of the free academic inquiry which the entire statement is designed to foster,” reads an AAUP interpretive comment from the 1970 updates. “The passage serves to underscore the need for teachers to avoid persistently intruding material which has no relation to their subject.”
Tatge sees little controversy in the material he presented.
“I consider this the same as using ‘Catcher in the Rye’ or ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ or ‘Ulysses,’” he said. “There’s obviously decorum, and good taste and respect for one another … but you’re going to have to push the envelope a little bit to get people to think outside the box.
I think DePauw has students that want to be pushed that way.”
He also said no students ap-proached or contacted him with concerns about the lesson.
Tatge said he has no regrets, except that he might have collected the packet of records instead of letting students take them home. Babington and Harvey are currently working to gather the packets.
Tatge also wishes students had not told Stephens about the exercise.
“It’s nothing to hide,” Tatge said. “But why upset someone?”
Meanwhile, Harvey and Babing-ton continue to gather information, but declined to characterize their actions as a formal investigation. Babington said she is working with students, while Harvey is con-cerned with what happened in the classroom.
They both mentioned that com-plaints about class conduct, grades or material surface weekly.
“This seemed different,” Babing-ton said. “And you know, there are those complaints that come up all the time. This felt like it was maybe in a different category.”
Casey, who was also brought into the conversation, says that although “emotions were running high,” it’s important to move forward judiciously.
“The welfare of your students… is always at the forefront and by virtue of my position I must defend academic freedom,” he said. “I have to defend the possibility of difficult discourse in the classroom.”
Despite the difficult discourse, Dickey thinks most students could find the lesson.
“I think what we all got out of it was be careful what you post online, and that you really can get records on anyone,” Dickey said.
But, she still isn’t sure if the shock value was worth the price.
After the administration com-pletes its fact-finding mission, Har-vey will make an ultimate decision on whether a line was crossed.
Omega Phi Beta, a sorority dedi-cated to multiculturalism, sisterhood and community service, will live up to its motto “Serving and Educating Through Our Diversity” through its In-corporated Week of Illumination this week.
The Week of Illumination is Omega Phi Beta’s second event of the school year.
The week will feature a daily activ-ity that will increase campus awareness of various issues, ranging from vio-lence against women to deforestation to human trafficking.
The event is based on a principal of Kwanzaa, Ujima, which calls for collec-tive work and responsibility.
The Facebook page for the week’s events says the purpose of the activ-ites and presentations is “to build and maintain our community together and make our brother’s and sister’s prob-lems our problems and to solve them together.”
The week’s events will consist of activities ranging from taking photo-graphs of Greencastle to a film show-ing to a poetry reading to a visiting graffiti artist to speakers from Green-castle. There will also be tabling at the Hub to raise awareness of the group’s efforts.
The series of week-long events will culminate in a Domestic Violence Awareness Banquet on Saturday.
“The theme of the event is ‘Mend-ing the Invisible Wounds,’ which are created by issues of race, ethnicity and gender,” Ferrara said. “There will be a big emphasis on art, because it can be instrumental in healing a community.”
The group hosts an event once each semester.
“Every semester, we try to delve into a new issue,” said senior Michelina Ferrara, a member of Omega Phi Beta. “I think we need to realize that if we all come together, we can ... really make an impact. This week is about starting a conversation and bringing different
people to it.”The group’s events always focus
on increasing awareness, though the issues addressed change according to what is currently relevant.
“We have put a lot of energy and
love into planning this event,” Ferrara said. “We hope people will pay atten-tion, try something new and challenge themselves. We have a lot of important issues to discuss.”
Omega Phi Beta sorority sheds light on diversity with week of educational events
Poster for Omega Phi Beta sorority, Inc.’s Week of Illumniation, which started Sunday. COURTESY OF THE GROUP’S FACEBOOK PAGE
“There’s definitely limits and perameters. This is not
something thatfalls into this in the slightest way ... There’s probably some
While DePauw students are re-puted to hold a strong sense of com-munity, student government hopes to continue strengthening and improving campus life.
At the student government meeting Sunday evening the student represen-tatives brainstormed ideas to encour-age greater school spirit at sporting events. The group also discussed strategies for improving integration between international and domestic students.
The representatives broke up into
three groups to discuss why students don’t attend sporting events and brain-stormed ways to promote the games to get a higher attendance rate.
One major cause of the lack of at-tendance at school events that the stu-dent representatives pinpointed was student’s limited amount of free time and lack of awareness of the events.
“I don’t want to accept that every-one is too busy to support our ath-letes,” junior representative Jonathan Rosario said. “I think we should target those people. We need to learn how to reach students who have the time to go to sporting events.”
Sophomore representative Kristen
Fairchild said she believes student schedules prevent fans from attending games.
“Students don’t have the time com-mitment to attend games, and they also don’t have the incentive to go,” Fairchild said.
Other student representatives do not believe that a lack of promotion for events is a cause of low student at-tendance.
“Campus is doing a good job of promoting games with posters and De-Pauw Fridays where students dress up and win a prize,” senior representative Katelyn Hayes said.
The student representatives came
up with various ways to promote school spirit at the conclusion of the meeting. Their ideas include increased advertising through social media, plan-ning entertainment during half time, providing giveawayws or free food and planning more carefully around poten-tial calendar conflicts in the future.
The other primary focus of the meeting was how to better integrate domestic and international students. The representatives discussed how to help with the transition to DePauw during the beginning of the year be-tween not only international students, but also all other students who are on campus early.
Many representatives talked about bringing the DePauw community to-gether during this week where inter-national students along with athletes, mentors, and various other students are on campus. The representatives want to host more social events during this week to bring the different com-munities together on campus.
Student government plans to pur-sue this issue in hopes of better bring-ing all students together during orien-tation as a single community.
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Nine years ago, Eric Wolfe ‘04, now a greek life coordinator, lavaliered his girl-friend, June ‘04, during their junior year at DePauw. Six years later, the couple married on East College Lawn and June became June Javens-Wolfe.
Wolfe, then president of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, said he lavaliered Javens-Wolfe, a member of Delta Zeta sorority, in order to express his commitment to her. For Wolfe and his wife, a lavaliere was a significant part of the commitment in their relationship, but Wolfe explained that showing commitment is different according to campuses and greek affili-ation.
The idea of lavalieres was foreign to his friends on other campuses, Wolfe said, who instead expressed their com-mitment to their significant other by liv-ing together — an arrangement that was not possible with Wolfe and Javens-Wolfe during their time as undergraduates.
“I think lavaliering and pinning are definitely a big deal especially when you look at what it stands for,” said sopho-more Taylor Richison, a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity who is dating Brianna Scharfenberg, a sophomore member of Alpha Phi sorority.
The decision to lavaliere a girlfriend signifies that a fraternity man places his girlfriend on the same level as the broth-erhood, Richison said. Whereas pinning a girlfriend indicates that the boyfriend is placing his significant other on a level above the brotherhood.
“I think that’s an awesome sign of your love for that person,” he said.
TOUGH LOVESometimes, Richison said, fraternity
members will “punish” a brother who chooses to lavaliere or pin his girlfriend, and that members of some fraternities might be more likely to make the deci-sion to lavaliere their significant other based on whether or not the conse-quences of lavaliering or pinning are less harsh in that member’s particular cam-pus chapter.
“I think it’s a problem with our fra-ternities now that those things occur,” Wolfe said of lavaliere-related punishing activities. “They’re absolutely hazing…I
think our chapters need to be very care-ful about how they treat people and in-stead should want to help their brother or sister celebrate that milestone in their relationship.”
According to Wolfe, a fraternity chap-ter was charged through community standards for hazing because of lavaliere related punishing during the fall semes-ter.
“I don’t think it’s necessarily that, ‘We’re mad at you,’” Richison said of the message sent by such punishing behav-iors. “It’s that you are saying that some-one’s more important than the brother-hood and because of that, you need to be punished because of the vow you made initially to the house.”
Richison said the punishment the man may have to go through shows how much he really cares about his significant other.
“If you’re willing to go through that for someone, through that punishment, it says a lot about how much they mean to you,” he said. “I think that’s a big reason. I mean the greek system is a lot about commitment, and lavaliering and pinning just further shows your willing-ness to be committed.”
Sara Drury, a junior member of Pi Beta Phi sorority who has been dat-ing her boyfriend since freshman year, doesn’t see lavaliering and pinning as something worthwhile in her own rela-tionship.
“It’s a great tradition, it’s a really cute tradition, but it’s very much for the girl,” Drury said. “The guy doesn’t really get a benefit out of it.”
Drury went on to explain how, while the woman may find the notion special, the man may suffer ridicule or harass-ment from his brothers.
“In my relationship, it’s not what I’m looking for,” Drury said. “It’s having to make a public statement of how your relationship is.”
When a women in a sorority is lava-liered the occasion is often followed by a candle pass ceremony, a tradition that reveals to the woman’s sister whatever milestone, be it a lavaliere, pin or en-gagement, she has experienced.
Drury said she sees candle pass cer-emonies happen more for engagements than for anything else, especially since she has observed couples in which the
woman was pinned break up, which less-ens the significance of the gesture.
HOOKING UP OR SETTLING DOWN When looking at DePauw dating cul-
ture as a whole, both Drury and Richison don’t see as many committed couples so often as hookups. Wolfe said that during his time at DePauw many people dated but that there were very few committed relationships.
“A lot of dating done at DePauw is more hooking up in the first couple of years of college,” Richison said. “So I don’t think they end up being relation-ships unless they’re serious ones.”
Those relationships that do form, Richison said, tend to last for a long time.
“You cannot deny that there is a hook-up culture on campus,” Drury said. “I personally have been in a long-term re-lationship for about 27 months now. So I think it is very plausible to do a long-term relationship.”
A lot of the success of relationships within the greek system has to do with whether or not those relationships be-gan prior to the couple joining the greek system, Drury said.
Drury and her boyfriend, junior Lu-kas Meyer, a member of Sigma Chi fra-ternity, began their relationship prior to joining the greek system freshman year.
After Drury and Meyer joined chap-ters, Drury said, it became difficult to see each other as much because of the added time commitment of their greek chapters combined with academics.
“You could tell right away that if we wanted to make it work we were going to have to work harder,” Drury said.
Once members move into their chapter houses sophomore year, Drury said it becomes harder to maintain rela-tionships.
She said she has seen friends’ rela-tionships fall apart after joining a house because of the difficulties associated with making the “trek across campus” to the house of their significant other — a task that may prove exhausting if the couple isn’t completely committed to making it work. Drury said the location of Pi Beta Phi next door to Sigma Chi has helped Meyer and her maintain their re-lationship.
A (GREEK) DATING CULTURESimilar to Drury and Meyer, senior
Mandy Russ began dating her boyfriend Karl Wert, also a senior, their freshman year before the responsibilities of joining a chapter really developed.
Russ, who is independent, said that her relationship with Wert, who is a member of Phi Gamma Delta, hasn’t re
Hookups, lavalieres and sweetheartsAn in-depth look at the short and long of greek dating culture
Eric Wolfe ‘04 and June Javens-Wolfe ‘04 pose for a photograph during a Delta Zeta sorority formal in 2003. The couple married in 2009 on East College Lawn. PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF ERIC WOLFE
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Pioneering Methodism in America, DePauw
On Feb. 28, 1784 John Wes-ley chartered the first Methodist Church in the United States. Wesley first arrived in colonial America in 1735 and he and his brother Charles brought their methodical Anglican-ism with them. There, they founded the “Holy Club” at Oxford Univer-sity. Upon his return to England a few years later, he found himself banned from most parish churches and turned to the Moravian reli-gious society.
Among the Moravians, he met George Whitfield, a fellow evange-list who was also banned from many churches upon his return from America. Whitfield encouraged Wes-ley to disregard his expulsion and preach in public. He did so hesi-tantly, but as his voice was heard by a wide variety of people, including those who would not typically enter a church, he gained a large number of supporters.
Following Britain’s defeat in the American War for Independence, the Church of England was dises-tablished in the United States. At this point in time, even though the separation between Wesley and the Church of England had grown rath-er wide, he refused to disrespect it entirely. Specifically, he refused to discount the idea that a bishop must ordain any ministers.
With a fair amount of bitterness following the war, the Bishop of London delayed Wesley’s requests to ordain Thomas Coke as a minis-ter to American Methodism. Finally, in 1784, Wesley took matters into his own hands (quite literally) and, through the traditional “laying of the hands,” ordained Thomas Coke and appointed him the superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States of America.
Originally, the only minor con-nection DePauw appeared to have
to this historic event was our uni-versity’s Methodist foundations and present-day loose ties to the denomination.
However, this tie is quite a bit closer. Immediately following Wes-ley’s ordaining of Coke, he com-missioned Coke to ordain Francis Asbury. If any of you have visited the newly opened exhibit display-ing DePauw’s history at The Putnam County Museum, this name would sound more than a bit familiar. In 1837, after many years of discuss-ing the need for a Methodist college in Indiana, DePauw was originally chartered as Indiana Asbury. Bishop Roberts (yes, he was once an actual person, not just a dorm with a con-venient tunnel) chose the name to honor Francis Asbury as one of the pioneers of Methodism in America.
In terms of our university’s con-nections to Methodism, it seems as if the only legitimate association we have is entirely in our school’s past. For heavens sake, commence-ment is even being held on a Sunday morning this year for the first time ever. You can’t exactly go to church if you’re busy graduating from col-lege. Regardless of however far we have drifted from our relationship with Methodism, it is still at the very base of our school’s origins. If our founders could see where we are today though, I do not believe they would be disappointed.
As stated in the charter, De-Pauw (Indiana Asbury) was to be, “an extensive University or College Institution…to be conducted on most liberal principles, accessible to all religious denominations and designed for the benefits of the citi-zens in general.” I think we can all agree that this mission still remains successful at DePauw University in 2012: A university founded on the religion that John Wesley pioneered in America on this very day, 228 years ago.
— Freestone is a sophomore from Brownsburg, Ind., majoring in biology and history. [email protected]
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY ally been affected by Wert’s greek af-filiation.
“It’s almost like I can see both sides,” Russ said. “I can join his greek system when I want to…but we can also do our own thing when we want to.”
Russ said she doesn’t think she would be able to spend as much time with Wert if she was in a sorority.
“I know that I wouldn’t have been able to go to the formal events if my boyfriend wasn’t in a fraternity,” Russ said. “At the same time, being independent you get to do your own things more.”
Drury said independent dating culture may offer more privacy and that living in a sorority poses limitations such as rules restricting visiting hours for men.
“When people start dating in the greek system everyone knows about it almost in-stantaneously,” Drury said. “I think there’s more social pressure when you start dat-ing in the greek system.”
These pressures include deciding where to spend weekends and whether the couple will primarily hang out in the man’s fraternity instead of other houses.
“It’s almost like the red carpet when you go to the greek system,” Drury said. “Not in the sense of it being better, but in the sense that everyone knows everything about you, and they’re almost like the pa-parazzi.”
At the same time, Drury appreciates the support she feels from her sisters and her friends in fraternities about her rela-tionship and said that she has never heard a negative comment from her peers about the relationship.
“It’s very helpful to me and very heart-warming to know that people support a long-term relationship in the greek sys-tem,” Drury said.
For Richison, joining a fraternity didn’t really challenge his idea of dating.
“Sometimes, you’ll even hear people in my house say, ‘We wish so many peo-ple didn’t have girlfriends’ because then it causes more isolated focus at parties,” Richison said.
While this is a topic and mentality Richison has discussed with many people, he disagrees and sees relationships as op-portunities to get to know the friends of significant others.
Richison has seen many relationships and hookups, many of which he says hap-pen before individuals join a greek chap-ter.
Still, Richison said the large commu-nity within a fraternity could encourage hookups, especially with men who typi-cally share stories about their weekend activities with one another.
“I think a lot of times there’s a little bit of pressure to hook up because you en-joy being in the spotlight,” Richison said. “You enjoy being able to tell stories, to share stories with other people.”
The attitude surrounding whether an individual prefers hookups or relation-ships, Richison said, depends more on age than on gender. He said he has no-ticed that as people get older they tend to want relationships more and hookups less.
Richison said his relationship with girl-friend Scharfenberg began when he asked her out on a date and, while he doesn’t see many couples go out on dates any-more, it still happens.
Whether or not an individual prefers hookups or relationships, Russ said, de-pends more on the individual than on whether the individual is affiliated. Russ said she has seen an equal number of friends in long-term relationships both in the greek system and among friends who are independent.
A GIRL’S PERSPECTIVESome fraternities even select a “Sweet-
heart” to serve as a representative for the chapter.
Drury was elected as DePauw’s Sigma Chi Sweetheart this past September.
As Sweetheart, Drury gets to work with the fraternity in philanthropy projects and attend events with multiple chapters of Sigma Chi men and Sweethearts, such as a statewide event this month where she met the International Sweetheart, a sister in Pi Phi.
But most importantly, Drury said, her role as Sweetheart is to provide support to the members of Sigma Chi and to accept their support in return.
“Really it’s about being a friend to the guys over there and someone to just be a listener and not judge and [provide] a girl’s perspective,” she said.
Of everything she has experienced in greek dating culture, the one side Drury wishes would change are the stereotypes that exist for chapters that might make couples hesitant to start relationships.
“Overall, I think people could be more respectful about what they say about stig-mas of people in certain fraternities and sororities,” Drury said. “And not tearing down a relationship and saying it won’t work based on the fraternity or soror-ity the couples are in…give everyone a chance.”
Above left: Juniors Sara Drury, a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority, and Lukas Meyer, a member of Sigma Chi fraternity, have been dating since freshman year. Drury was chosen as Sigma Chi’s “Sweatheart” this September, a female representative the chapter elects each year. Above right: Seniors Karl Wert, a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and Mandy Russ, an independent student, started dating freshman year. EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW
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Above: Helen Alberta Williams ‘32 recorded details of her activities at DePauw University on a day-to-day basis. Williams writes about the weather and what activities busied her that specific day. PHOTO EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW
Right: Dr. Warren Macy holds Alberta's College Milestones journal. PHOTO GREG RICE
Below: The first page of Williams’ diary titled “College Mile Stone.” PHOTO EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW
Wesley Wilson opened up a DePauw yearbook page from the 1930s on his office’s desktop then pointed to a black and white photo of a woman with short dark hair gazing upwards at the bottom of the computer screen.
“There she is,” he said, referring to Helen Alberta Williams.Helen Alberta Williams kept a diary from 1929 to 1932
— her four years at DePauw. Within the blank format book entitled “College Milestones,” she wrote about the weather, her classes, sporting events and other aspects of her college experience.
“She was busy,” Wilson said. “He was a music student, the vice president of Mu Phi Epsilon…”
Wilson pointed out William’s various activities recorded in the yearbook, which included Mu Phi Epsilon music fraternity, University Chorus, American Guild of Organists and church choir.
Wilson, coordinator of archives and special collections at Roy O. Library, discovered the diary because of Dr. Warren Macy.
Dr. Macy, a local Greencastle physician, discovered this piece of history years ago on eBay. After purchasing the book and perusing its material, he offered the work to the Putnam County Museum and President Brian Casey.
“It was a gift from the Putnam County Historical Society,” Casey said about the diary. He shared that the gift came as a surprise and that he was thrilled to receive it. He now plans to hand over the diary to Wilson for the archives.
Wilson hasn’t yet read the diary himself, but he has done quite a bit of research on Williams, and the time she was at DePauw.
“I think it’s an excellent source of information about DePauw at that time period,” Wilson said.
Casey said that he looks forward to discovering all that the diary has to share.
“The more you can capture of a written record of an institution — that is actually even beyond the institution…is always valuable,” Casey said.
It was a critical turning point, as DePauw had begun to loosen prior restrictions on students. For example, dancing became permitted right before Williams arrived. And, of course, the Great Depression took place.
“She came in ’29, so the stock market crash happened her freshman year,” Wilson said. “The Depression took hold a few years later.”
When this historic event happened, it began to affect families of many DePauw students, and some of the entries in Williams’ diary illustrate that. For example, one entry discussed receiving a dollar from her home in southern Indiana. Although one dollar was worth more in those days, Williams might have been able to buy only a few meals at a diner with that money.
Regarding Williams’ life after DePauw, what’s known is
that she moved to Robertson, Ill., just across the state line south of Terre Haute. She never married.
“She’d be 101 if she was still alive,” Wilson said. “We suspect that she died sometime between 2000 and 2007.”
It’s also possible that Williams moved to a retirement home, but those studying the diary lost track of her after that timeframe. There’s no information currently about her occupations, but there is speculation that she was a teacher. In any case, Williams’ personal entries stopped at the end of her senior year at DePauw.
“We have lots of other student items in archives throughout our history, from the 1840s on,” Wilson said. ”This is a nice new item to add to it.”
Wilson thinks that the most exciting part of this discovery is that something like a diary survived for so long and then appeared and became readily available to the contemporary DePauw community.
“It could have easily been thrown away,” he said. “Someone saw value in it.”
Tanis Monday, the executive director at the Putnam County Museum, also believes that the find is exciting.
“It really lets you travel back in time and have a more personal understanding of it,” she said of the diary.
Monday, who has read parts of the diary, said that one of her favorite entries she read was Williams’ recount of the first Monon Bell game before it was called the Monon Bell game. In the Nov. 1932 entry, she discussed the final football game of the season against Wabash and their zero-zero tie.
Aside from time at DePauw, Williams brought up her time she spent at her home in southern Indiana. For instance, when she went home for one Christmas vacation, she wrote, “We butchered today.”
“It really talks about a different way of life,” Monday said.Considering DePauw’s recent celebration of its 175th
anniversary, Monday was excited to have the opportunity to utilize the piece and put it on display. The diary was part of the Toast to Old DePauw exhibit that opened on Feb. 16. It is currently with Casey, who is looking through it.
“We had a reason to bring it out and showcase it,” Monday said. “We were very happy.”
DePauw diary of 1930s sheds light on a different way of life
DePauw, She Wrote
In text: Helen Alberta Williams, 1932, The Mirage
COURTESY OF DEPAUW UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL
COLLECTIONS Behind Text: Williams’ diary today.
The cover is torn and its edges are rugged, but as
Welsey Wilson, coordinator of archives and special
collections at Roy O. Library said, “Someone saw
value in it.” PHOTO EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW
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It’s been an interesting winter to say the least. According to the weathermen all over America,
it was supposed to be one of the harshest winters of the decade.
However, the temperatures tell a different story.
Here in the mid-west, it’s nor-mal to have a constant few inches of snow on the ground at all times during the months of Dec. through mid March. So, depending on how you look at it, we have been pretty lucky this year. We are approaching the month of March. and it is 52 de-grees, skies are blue, and the sun it out.
This hasn’t been a once in a blue moon occurrence this year either. We entered the month of Feb. in the mid 50s and the weather stayed beautiful, spring like, for nearly a week. Granted, there have been a couple of oddly freezing days, and icy roads, but overall, it is safe to say (for those of us from the Mid-West) that it feels as though we never ac-tually entered the “winter season.” We have seen the sun. Maybe the groundhog didn’t actually see his shadow after all, just maybe spring
has come. So what is better then the sun
shining in Feb.? The effects that it has on us. Most of us are accus-tomed to saying goodbye to the sun for months on end as we endure the hollow months of winter and try as best we can to avoid seasonal depression during the dark, gloomy months. But this year, that ball of fire far out in our atmosphere has continued to pop in for us lately.
And DePauw students know how to take advantage of this special treat. The nature park has been in commotion by students on these lovely days who take walks, hikes, runs, and trail rides as the sun shines through the leafless trees and glim-mers on the quarry. The campus has seen the continuous rounds of campus golf games, and the ten-nis courts have been occupied non stop.
There’s no doubt that this weath-er has been getting DePauw students outside and enjoying every last bit of it. But not only does the sun and the warm weather keep us active, it keeps us happy. Vitamin D is one of the most essential vitamins our bod-ies need to function properly, and that vitamin can come straight from the sun. When we are able to expose our bodies to days such as this that are anything but average here in the Midwest, something in us changes a little bit. Vitamin D keeps us healthy,
it keeps us smiling, optimistic, and overall happy.
There is something about a sun-ny day that puts a little more bounce in one’s step. A little bit more mo-tivation to help us get though this stressful life. So the next time the sun is out, make sure to take full ad-vantage of it.
Instead of running on a tread-mill, make your way to the nature park. Instead of studying in your room, study by a window and let the sun shine down on your books, or head over to the Prindle. Spring break is right around the corner, and before you know it, summer will be too. So while you can, take time to appreciate the beautiful sun that is shining down on you filling you with vitamin D.
And for those days when the sun isn’t shining so bright, create your own sun with these fun songs to keep you smiling:
- Blue Skies Again by Jessica Lea May-field
- Happy As the Sun by Tyrone Wells
- 5 Years Time by Noah and the Whale
- Float On by Modest Mouse
— Brinker is a freshman from Stevensville, Mich., with an undecided major. [email protected]
Take advantage of anti-winter weatherMADISONBRINKER
Thumbs up: The women’s basketball team’s NCAC Conference Championship win and successful season
We congratulate the team on the string of wins in their first season in the NCAC conference. Special congratulations to senior Kate Aldrich, sophomore Ali Ross and Coach Kris Huffman on their awards. We also wish the team luck as they
compete in the NCAA National Division III Tournament this weekend. Go Tigers!
Thumbs Up: Student government’s efforts to unite and en-courage the student body
We support student government’s efforts to further the goal of creating a greater sense of unity on campus by promoting connections early in the DePauw experience. As the groups moves forward with its plans we hope it will take into consid-
eration student opinion and consider realistic options.It’s always good to see student government moving forward
on initiatives to draw more student support to DePauw athletic events. Students should support fellow students in all of their affairs and revving up school spirit by encouraging students to attend athletic events is a good start.
Thumbs Up: Helen Alberta’s Diary, a key to DePauw’s past
We’d like to extend our most sincere gratitude to Helen Al-berta Williams for doing something many of us DePauw stu-dents have neglected to over the years — record a piece of DePauw’s history by keeping a journal. And special thanks to Dr. Warren Macy for finding the diary and donating it to the university for us to reflect upon our past.
With the help of President Brian Casey, Archivist Wes Wilson, Executive Director of Putnam County Museum Tanis Monday and
many others, the diary will be preserved and its contents will be shared with others. Seldom do we as students receive the opportunity to gaze into such a window of our university’s history and this opportunity should be appreciated accordingly.
Let’s take a look at her DePauw experience and compare it to our own. Let’s discover the ways in which our institution has changed and the ways in which it has remained the same, for better or for worse.
We also encourage students, faculty and staff to keep their own journals so that, one day, future generations will fondly look back on DePauw’s present day.
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I have never met someone who takes on the title of hipster with pride. I got a new pair of glasses, and I was surprised by how many
people asked me if they were real, then poked them, leaving a smudge and then called me a hipster.
Because of this new title that I’ve wrongly been given (my taste in music is not that good, and I only wear that Edgar Allen Poe sweatshirt because I’m lazy), I let my mind wander to who the first hipster might have actually been.
Who ever first thought of cursive? Did cur-sive come first or did print? Which ever one, it doesn’t matter. Who was like “I want to write like this, because the other way of writing is too mainstream.” That person was the original hipster. That guy and who ever first came up with the different ways to swim. I want to meet the person who first was like “Let’s swim breast
stroke, yeah it’s difficult but who doesn’t like a challenge.” Or the guy who was like, “Swim on your back. This way you can breathe but you have no idea where the wall is. You don’t need to know that.”
Then how did they get it to catch on? It had to start with one guy and his friends. Then those friends’ friends. For some reason I imagine the creating of these strokes happening in a lake, there may have been a rope swing present, be-cause the guy who came up with these probably likes to have a good time.
Once the different strokes caught on did these hipsters drop it? When the creator of but-terfly stroke went to the pool and saw everybody doing it was he like, “Oh bologna.” Did he throw up his hands and say, “What is this? Some kind of horse crap!” How many other strokes did they try? I hope it happened as a joke like, “Hey guys don’t I look stupid? Everybody swim like me!” Then they did, now we all do. Too bad you can’t get rich off of making up a new way to swim.
Another person who came to mind that could possibly fall under the original hipster title is the man who first tricked everyone into drinking bottled water. That man was a genius. How did he trick all of America into believing that paying
for what comes out of the sink for free is better? Well I want to shake his hand. I grew up in a
house where we got a cup and drank the water from the sink and I’m still alive — I’m just slightly odd. And I can refill that cup of water any time I want, easily. That bottled water everyone else is drinking did not really come from a French spring. A little leprechaun man doesn’t sit next to the stream filling empty bottles while the sun is shining down upon him as he sings show tunes. Even if a little man did — that’s gross. Think about it. Think of everything that could be in that French spring. Wow, you are so much better than the rest of us who drink fluorinated water from the sink. My mom (who knows every-thing) says that fluoride is good for your teeth. She never mentioned anything about why bot-tled water is good. Only that it kills the environ-ment. So in conclusion the original bottled water guy was not a hipster, just a condescending jerk.
— Cangany is a sophomore from Indianapolis majoring in communications and English writing. She is the opinion editor for The DePauw. [email protected]
On a mission: the search for original hipster
PHOTOPINIONDo you keep a journal? Why or
why not?
JONATHAN ROSARIO, junior
Not since I left high school, I just don’t find time to journal, but I might start blogging again.
ELI CANGANY / THE DEPAUW
CLARKE BRENNAN, sophomore
No, I don’t have the time, and I can barely remember what I had for breakfast.
ZAK PHILLIPS, senior
I’ve tried to to keep a journal, but somtimes life is just indescrib-able.
PANYIN CONDUAH, sophomore
I try to keep up with my journal. It’s fun to keep track of your college experience on paper.
Last Sept., I wrote a column for the DePauw about my ex-periences in Mexico and how
they didn’t match the media’s de-pictions of violence. I argued that, in failing to note the specific loca-tions of instances of drug-related violence, media outlets created an image of Mexico as a country of violence, rather than a country with violence in certain regions. The statistics don’t lie – around 47,000 people have been killed since 2006 – but the problem is also one of representation.
I still believe that. Unfortunate-ly, violence seems to be spreading. Areas around Mexico City, Vera-cruz, and Guadalajara — formerly free of most drug-related violence — have experienced it in the last few months. Twenty-six bodies were found in three abandoned ve-
hicles in Guadalajara in Nov., and the 800-strong police force of the city of Veracruz was disbanded in Dec. after 35 bodies were dumped in nearby Boca del Río. Just this Jan., two decapitated bodies were found near the entrance to a Mex-ico City mall. Clearly, representa-tion of the country isn’t the only problem here.
As a name like “Mexican Drug War” should indicate, drugs are a big part of the problem. But talking about “drugs” as a single category can be difficult; after all, aren’t her-oin and methamphetamine more dangerous than, say, marijuana? Physically, there are certainly dif-ferences. For example, according to the Canadian Medical Associa-tion, there are no reported cases of fatal marijuana overdose. An article published by the same organization notes that, by contrast, “heroin ad-diction is associated with a variety of harms, including death.”
However, just because heroin is more dangerous than marijuana doesn’t necessarily mean that the
former is more profitable for the cartels involved in Mexico’s drug war. In fact, some 60% of cartel drug profits come from marijuana. That statistic seems pretty consis-tent with the picture we get from different media outlets. For ex-ample, in Nov. of last year some 30 tons of marijuana, associated with a cross-border tunnel, were discov-ered near San Diego. The image of Mexican cartels getting rich off Co-lombian cocaine just isn’t true.
This means that discussions of the legalization or use of marijuana should have ethical dimensions. Marijuana may never kill its users by overdose, but could its pur-chase be responsible for someone else’s death or suffering across the border? To what extent does the demand for and purchase of mari-juana in America affect drug-related violence in Mexico? Are we respon-sible in any way?
With those kinds of questions, the legalization or decriminaliza-tion of marijuana takes a different kind of moral grounding. Rather
than subscribing to the Reefer Madness-style moral panic that sug-gests the consumption of marijua-na is destructive to individuals, we ought to consider how the illegal marijuana trade can impact whole societies.
Even if, as the New York Times suggests, as little as half of cartel profits come from drug traffick-ing, 60% of half is still 30% — the amount of relative profit at stake. With that in mind, the best choice of action seems to be the legaliza-tion of marijuana. As the same New York Times article notes, legaliza-tion would “drive down the price and undermine the cartels’ power and influence.” As a result, con-structive steps towards ending Mex-ico’s drug war may have more to do with American domestic policy than Mexican military policy. With the quantities of marijuana coming through to the United States, we can’t avoid complicity.
—Holley-Kline is a senior from Anchorage, Ala., majoring in Spanish and anthropology. [email protected]
Influence of Mexico’s drug trafficking on the U.S.
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The DePauw men’s tennis team had three matches at home this weekend, coming out with a 2-1 re-cord to put them at 4-2 on the sea-son.
The match on Saturday against visiting Luther College ended in a 6-3 win in DePauw’s favor. The top two doubles spots for DePauw ended in losses with scores of 5-8 and 8-9. Senior Michael Rardon and junior Noah Swiler turned things around at the third doubles match with an 8-0 victory.
DePauw entered the singles matches down 1-2, but finished strong with a record of 5-1 in singles. Rardon and freshman Chris Bertolini cruised their way to victory with Rar-don winning 6-0, 6-0 and Bertolini winning 6-0, 6-1. Sophomore Sam Miles won a grueling three set match against Luther’s Scott Sundstrom 3-6, 7-5, 1-0 (10-7).
“That match was a real battle,” Miles said. “I was not feeling very well
near the end, but had my coaches and teammates urging me on for the victory.”
The following match on Sunday morning saw two nationally ranked foes in 16th ranked DePauw and 17th ranked Carnegie Melon University.
DePauw had a rough time in doubles as Carnegie Melon swept each pairing 8-5, 8-5 and 8-6 to take a 3-0 lead.
“We definitely need to work on our doubles, which normally is our strength,” Rardon said, “We worked hard all week after Case Western and I think we just need to restore our match toughness and confidence.”
Carnegie Melon continued its dominance besting DePauw in sin-gles 4-2.
The only two DePauw players to win were Rardon and senior Eric Hubbard in three setters, with Rar-don winning over Harsha Rao 6-1, 4-6, 7-5 and Hubbard defeating Jer-emy King 6-4, 6-7, 1-0 (10-7).
Miles and junior David Moss both lost three setters. Duke Miller defeat-ed Miles 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 and Jooho Yu
defeated Moss 6-3, 2-6, 7-5,. DePauw responded in the af-
ternoon with a prevailing 7-2 win over Grand Valley State University. Rardon was glad to see the rebound after the tough loss that morning to Carnegie Melon.
“I was very happy to see us re-spond after the loss in the morning to Carnegie Melon,” Rardon said. “We lost our biggest match in the morning but we kept fighting hard and responded with a victory.”
DePauw swept the doubles going up 3-0 early on Grand Valley State with 8-6, 8-3, and 8-4 victories.
Grand Valley State University won only two singles matches lead-ing to a 7-2 DePauw victory to fin-ish the weekend. Rardon and Miles would fall in singles to Grand Valley State with Miles losing to Andrew Darrell 7-6, 7-5 and Rardon defeated by Marc Roesslein 7-6. 6-3.
The Tigers now have an extended break from play before they return to action March 9 to face Ferris State at home.
Sophomore Ben Kopecky returns an attack from his Grand Valley State opponent this Sunday afternoon in the Indoor Tennis and Field Center. Kopecky won the match 6-1, 7-5. “We had three long matches last weekend and so did Grand Valley State, so I knew it’d be a physical match,” Kopecky said. HOANG NGUYEN / THE DEPAUW
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“I am thrilled at how I’ve started my season out,” Mackey said. “Pole vaulting is simple — run fast, be strong and jump high. I can really attribute my success to the 6 a.m. workouts Monday, Wednesday and Friday. It’s the extra boost to take one more step towards my goals and it has paid off tremendously.”
On the women’s side, the Tigers managed to win the meet without any first-place finishers. Sophomore Siri Re-trum placed second in the 5,000 meter run, junior Chelsea Courtney and sopho-more Nigelie Assee tied for second in the 60-meter hurdles. Courtney also placed second in the high jump.
Courtney, who earned all-conference honors last weekend at the NCAC swim-ming and diving championships in the one-meter diving competition, was happy to make her transition into the track and field season with so much success.
“Part of me was tired and wanted a break from competition,” Courtney said. “But once I got out there I was fired up to go. Winning an event helps, too.”
For the men, the fifth-place finish was deceiving as the team was only six and a half points behind second place Manches-ter College.
For the individual races, third place was the popular spot as freshman Aaron Krabill placed third in the pole vault, se-nior Tyler Giesting in the 800 meter run, freshman Dustin Query in the 1,000 me-ter run, Noah Droddy in the mile run, and freshman Steven Rutherford in the long jump and 60-meter dash.
Both teams will now focus their atten-tion on the NCAC Indoor Championships next weekend. The teams have now had
four meets to prepare and test out their best lineups for the conference meet.
The women’s team has established it-self as a competitor for the NCAC indoor crown, especially with the overall win last weekend at Anderson.
Senior captain Sam Wong stresses that while the team may not be 100 percent, athletes are still ready to compete on Sat-urday.
“Usually, we’re all just playing catch-up for most of [the indoor season] until we get to outdoor,” Wong said. “But I feel like everyone is as prepared as they could be. We’ve all been going to practice and trying to do as much as we can.”
The second-place finish from Lei-bovitz is a boost for the men, but after running against Wabash for four straight weeks, the men are aware of the kind of competition they will face in the NCAC.
“Wabash can be intimidating just be-cause they have numbers,” Giesting said. “They’ve just got a lot of bodies.”
For a comparison, DePauw men’s team has 45 athletes to the 70-plus mem-bers of the Wabash team. Still, Giesting and the rest of the team are focusing on themselves and trying not to become in-timidated.
“We know we have a place in the conference,” Giesting said, “And we have some guys that can go out and score in events … Anything can happen in any race.”
Both teams will look to stay optimis-tic and build off the success from last weekend next Saturday at Wabash for the NCAC Indoor Championships.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL MEMBERS GAIN POST-SEASON HONORS
The Tigers began their successful weekend with a Friday night 69-52 win against Wittenberg (14-12) in what was the second of two semi-final games played at Neal Fieldhouse. DePauw grabbed the boards and momentum early, and fought off a feisty Wittenberg team after couple second half-runs put the visitors in a double-digit deficit that was never closed by less than 12 points.
Ross lead the team in points on the night scor-ing 16, including a perfect 100 percent on three-point attempts in the second half. Freshman Savannah Trees tallied 13 points while Aldrich completed another double-double with 10 points and a career-high-equaling 13 rebounds.
Ross and freshman Emma Ondik dished three assists each and the Tigers ended Wittenberg’s sea-son. The team enjoyed the win, but not too much as they prepared to take on 20-8 Denison in the NCAC championship the next day.
Saturday was another display of the Tiger’s consistent big-time play in big time games. The Big Red, who fell to DePauw 58-45 in December and 63-37 in January, looked to avenge the previous results. In the game that determined the NCAC au-tomatic seed to the NCAA Div. III national tourna-ment, DPU pulled through once again.
The Tigers sealed the conference champion-ship with a 61-41 victory. The Tigers dethroned Denison, who won the past two NCAC champion-ships.
In the game, Aldrich notched her second straight double-double with 12 points and 11 re-bounds. Ross also added 10 points.
Trees, whose offensive numbers boosted the Tigers all year, explained how exciting it is to play on this championship team.
“Playing on a team with so much talent has been such a great experience,” Trees said. “Every-
day in practice is so competitive and everyone is constantly making each other better.”
Trees explained that while the win is nice, the team expects to be successful and trains for it every day.
“I knew coming into DePauw that the women's basketball team had always been very successful so I expected the team to carry on that tradition,” Trees said. “We have had great season so far and our hope that it will continue throughout the NCAA tournament.”
NCAC player-of-the-year Aldrich hopes to con-tinue her team’s hot streak into the NCAA Tourna-ment.
“The momentum is definitely still there,” Al-drich said. “This is the most exciting time of the year, and it's easy to feel that excitement from every player on the team. There's only a week be-tween the conference tournament and the NCAA's, so there's actually not that much time to prepare for our next competition.”
Alrich was quick to credit her fellow teammates with the success of this season’s play.
“Our team is deep and everyone is able to con-tribute something offensively,” Aldrich said. “We had a lot of confidence going into the weekend, and our plan was to be even more aggressive on both sides of the floor. For me, I knew teams weren't going to allow many points in the paint, so I was more aggressive with the ball and got points off of put-backs.”
The Tigers have a small rest ahead before they begin an NCAA Tournament on Friday night at Neal Fieldhouse against Westminster. The other first round game of the evening features 23rd ranked Wisconsin-Whitewater (22-6) against Carthage Col-lege (20-7).
— Joseph Fanelli contributed to this story.
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Junior forward Ellie Pearson takes a shot during Saturday's NCAC Division III Champion-ship game against Denison. The women's team, now 26-1, defeated Denison 61-41 and will host the NCAA Division III Championship first and second round games this weekend, facing Westminster College on Friday. EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW
The team will begin their run at the NCAA title this Friday as a No. 1 seed in the Div. III National tournament. The team begins play against Westminster College from Missouri. The No. 1 seed
gives the Tigers home-court advantage through the first two rounds of the tournament.
— Information compiled by Joseph Fanelli
SENIOR KATIE ALDRICH
- Named the NCAC player of the year- Received the honor of NCAC tournament’s most outstanding player after Saturday’s conference championship win- Led the team in scoring with 11.6 points per game
SOPHOMORE ALI ROSS
- Earned first-team All-NCAC honors for her play this season- Has averaged 12 points over the tournament- Has averaged 1.7 assists during the conference tournament
COACH KRIS HUFFMAN
- Named NCAC coach of the year- Led the team to a perfect 16-0 record against conference opponents- Received the Coach of the Year award- Has a career record of 431-101.
The DePauw women’s tennis team won all three of its matches this past weekend to improve its record to 4-1.
Since its shutout loss in the first match of the season against No. 4 ranked University of Chicago, the 16th ranked Tigers have now won four straight matches, two while blanking their opponents.
The team started off strong on Saturday by sweeping its first op-ponent Luther College 9-0.
With that victory, the team was able to push its record above 500 and build up momentum go-ing into Sunday’s double-header against Oberlin College and Grand Valley State University.
The first of Sunday morning’s matches saw the Tigers up against Oberlin. With only one loss suf-fered in a singles match, the team went on to win the competition 8-1 and continued its streak of
dominant play. Despite fatigue from a long
weekend of matches, the team was able to pull out a win once again in its third match in two days against Grand Valley State. Even with two singles losses and one doubles loss, the team secured a 6-3 victory over the Lakers, making the team undefeated on the weekend.
Freshman Maggie MacPhail, who is playing No. 2 singles for the team, as well as doubles, mirrored her team’s performance, going 6-0 over the weekend.
“The speed of play is definitely higher, so I’ve been having to get used to that,” MacPhail said. “And another difference is that in high school you either play singles or doubles, but in college you have to play both. So I’ve been working re-ally hard to get myself into better shape for the season.”
MacPhail has won all her matches, except for the first, and is excited about her and the team’s play.
“The season’s been great so
far,” MacPhail said. “Yeah, we suffered a tough loss in our first match, but we’ve bounced back pretty well since. I’m happy with how the team’s been coming to-gether recently and our chemistry has been great. Now, I’m just ex-cited to keep playing and see how well our team continues to prog-ress.”
With some tough matches scheduled for the rest of the sea-son the team is looking to contin-ue its camaraderie and confident play.
“First off, we hope to make the NCAC tournament and along the way beat Denison [University] and a few other teams that we suffered tough losses to last season,” said freshman player Julie Wittwer. “We need to continue to work hard and stay in the groove that we’ve been in lately.”
The Tigers now receive a break before their next match on March 8 against Ferris State University at home.
Tigers, freshman undefeated in triple-header weekend
Tigers compete at Fred Wilt Invitational, begin NCAC with multi-event competition
Freshman Claire Marshall serves during a women’s doubles match against Luther College on Saturday afternoon at the Indoor Track and Tennis Center. Marshall and her partner, sophomore Meg Crowley, won the match 8-1. The women’s team defeated Luther 9-0. EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW
The DePauw women’s track and field team won the Fred Wilt Invitational at Anderson Univer-sity this past Saturday, totaling 108 points, 38 more than second-place Centre College. The men’s team finished fifth at the same meet, scoring 48 points. Wabash College won the meet with 130 points.
Three DePauw athletes — freshman Jack Leibo-vitz and juniors Lee Harmon and Taryn Owens — also competed and placed at the NCAC Conference
Championship combined events. That meet was for multi-event events such as the heptathlon and pen-tathlon before the main NCAC Indoor Conference Championships next weekend at Wabash. Leibovitz placed second in the heptathlon and Harmon and Owens placed fourth and eighth respectively in the pentathlon. These scores will go towards the men’s and women’s totals for next weekend’s meet.
Leibovitz, who has been held out of competi-tion for the past three weeks due to a nagging in-jury, was only 11 points behind first-place finisher Andrew Diehl of Ohio Wesleyan University. Still, he was excited to compete for the team.
“It feels great to know I was able to contribute to the team, especially because I really haven’t been able to do it yet,” Leibovitz said. “(The heptathlon) is pretty tough…you just have to minimize your losses in your worst event by doing whatever it takes and maximize your best events.”
Harmon also noted how important it was to get points from both herself and Owens on the women’s side.
“Getting points now is just great heading into the rest of the conference meet next weekend,” Harmon said. “It’s just such a confidence boost to know we’re already on the board.”
At Anderson, the pole vaulters for the men’s and women’s squads set the day off right as fresh-man Pascale Hansen broke her own pole vault school record with a mark of 10 feet, 2 inches and sophomore Kyle Mackey finished first with a jump of 4.45 meters (14’7.25”).
Mackey, who had a first place finish in DePauw’s first meet of the season, is excited about his perfor-mance over the past few weeks.
