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I took a couple of writers’ workshops about a year ago

and then three at Wright State University. I also just attended the Antioch Writer’s Workshop on Saturday, April 25. This opin-ion applies to many things, not just writing workshops, but re-specting other’s ideas is an un-derrated concept that no one seems to care about these days. I will focus mainly on writing workshops as that is what I have been dealing with this entire school year and I will deal with it for most of my life as an aspir-ing author.

Most of the workshops I have been in begin with what was working well with a story or whatever piece the student had to write. It usually is nice to hear people comment on how they enjoyed a character or a plot line, etc. Then, the work-

Constructive criticism shouldn’t be meant to tear downA look at a writers’ workshops and the realities writer’s faceChase CoeCoe. [email protected] Writer

shop takes a huge 360 and goes into “what the author could im-prove upon,” which is really just a euphemism for “go around the room and state what you did not like about something you did not write.”

I get it, an author’s best friend should be constructive criticism but most of these workshops do not consist of constructive criticism; they consist of people tearing each other down and “criticism” that begins with “I would have liked to see this…” or “I would have liked it better if…” This is literally not help-ful whatsoever. Getting your crusty mitts all over my work is not going to help me improve my piece. I wrote everything I did for a reason and you trying to convince me otherwise is ri-diculous. I do not need ideas about adding things to my story; I want to know what I did well and not so well concerning my craft. Telling me “I want to know x,y, and z about a, b, and c” has no point unless it would be rele-

vant in the story’s world. If your “criticism” is basically you being curious, there is absolutely no point in bringing it up because no one is here for that.

I was in a workshop this se-mester that was actually an extremely well done work-shop. While it might have been large (which is never good), we focused only on the things that were serving the piece. Many people asked, “How are we supposed to know what we did wrong, then?” And the professor answered, “If all of your classmates are telling you things they enjoyed, you will know what did not make an im-pact because no one will have talked about it.” That was a very true statement and I think that should be applied to many facets of people’s lives. Hating everything is not cool; talking about what you love is so much more interesting.

Dear Mandy,I’m a freshman and I’m in a super serious relationship. I’ve been with this guy for 3 years, and I can’t imagine dating for another four years until I’m out of college. I wanna marry him and he wants to marry me...but everyone says it’s a bad idea. Thoughts? -Julie

Disclaimer: Ask Mandy is satirical and intended for humorous purposes. The views and opinions reflected are

those of Mandy, not The Guardian as an organization.

Dear Julie,

We all know, age is just a number! But if you really want to marry this guy there are a few things you need to keep in mind:

1. Marrying someone means financial independence from your parents or guardians. Your parents can’t keep paying your phone bill and giving you gas mon-ey if you’re married. You should be able to function independently of your parents when it comes to cash. So start saving your money. That alone might take a couple of years. Nothing hurts a marriage more than stress about car payments, student loans, paying for Jimmy to go to daycare and having to ask Mom and Dad for a couple of bucks to get McDonald’s for lunch.

2. Marrying someone is great if you’re sure settling down is the next immediate thing you want. Put everything else aside--traveling, spending money, even jobs that take you away from home. If those things don’t matter to you (and never did) then you can continue moving forward with your idea guilt free. However, you need to communicate with your partner that he doesn’t have any goals that would be hindered by having a partner too.

3. Knowing that ‘he’s the one’ isn’t always that simple. Unless you’re 100 percent, positively sure that he is someone you want to grow old with, I recommend you take more time to think it out.

Dating for a couple extra years never hurt anyone. Hey, you might realize in two years that he’s not the one for you. Or, you might realize that you were right about each other all along...maybe he is the one. Good luck discovering more about each other. I hope you are led to a decision you’re happy with! Love,Mandy

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Students know David Hopkins, the WSU pres-

ident, but most probably don’t know about Hopkins the person. The Guardian’s friendly Q&A with Wright State’s president, now in his eighth year, tells us a bit about his family, his role models and his favorite kind of pizza.

What is your back-ground? Where are you from? What kind of educa-tion have you had?

I am a native Ohioan. I was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, down on the river. I attend-ed the college of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio, a small and private liberal arts college. I finished with a bachelor’s degree in physical educa-tion with a minor in math-ematics. I did my master’s degree in the art of teach-ing mathematics. I ended up doing my doctoral work at Indiana University in Kine-siology. Nobody in my fam-ily attended college before me. The reason I’ve stayed in college all my life – and I’ve never left college, being a professor, then a dean, then a provost and now – is because my life was changed by my college professors. College was a vital component to me growing up.

What brought you to Wright State?

I’ve been at Wright State for 12 of my 41 years in-volved in higher education. I’ve been involved with in-stitutions like Wright State, but I wanted to come back to Ohio and see the challenges we have for Ohio to grow and become this robust state. I came here because I really embraced the mission of this university. It was a young in-stitution that wasn’t afraid to be bold, or to try new things. It really grabbed my imagi-nation: I wanted to be part

Presidential Q&A: Sitting down with the man who runs a universityDylan DohnerNews [email protected]

of something that’s really dif-ferent in the 21st century. We are thinking so differently about how to serve the needs of the 21st century students.

Tell me about your fam-ily.

My wife Angela and I have six children. Our oldest will be 39 next month. We have a 36 year old, a 34 year old, a 30 year old, a 21 year old and a 20 year old. We were mainly in other states when the older ones were grow-ing up. Our youngest ones weren’t going to go where Dad was the president, I can tell you right now. One is at Wooster, kind of following in my footsteps. The other is at the University of Pittsburgh. She and our son are both soc-cer players. They both went to schools that would fit their academics and their ability to play soccer.

What did you want to be when you were younger?

I certainly never thought about being the president of a university. I wanted to be a professional baseball player. I wanted to be just like Wil-lie Mays. I played baseball in college. At one time I wanted to be an aeronautical engi-neer. So I’ve evolved. I love physical activity and being physically-active. I love num-bers too, so as I grew into my understanding of what I was best at, I wanted to be a teacher of mathematics and a coach of some sports teams. Then I focused in being a teacher of my discipline, and became a professor.

Who was an important role model for you as you were growing up?

I have great parents who still have an influence on me every single day. My dad was a postman who deliv-ered mail and served people every day on his route. He’d go back on his route and take food to people, fix their lawn-mowers, things like that. I

really learned from my dad and mom what it meant to try to serve other people. I really had two unbelievable professors at the College of Wooster. They were Dr. Maria Sexton and Mr. Al Van Wie, who was my college coach. I do what I do today because of them. I always tell my stu-dents: Don’t forget to thank the people who have touched your life.

What do you feel most proud of thus far in your life?

I’m really proud of my fam-ily. I’m so lucky to have some-one like my wife who’s been by my side as an inspiration to me as a great person, mom and wife. I think we’re both so proud of our kids, that they’re all unique and doing something different. They’re all out there making a dif-ference in the world, in their own fields of study, in their own communities. They will have a great impact on a lot of people in the future. I learn from them.

Do you listen to music? What kind?

I used to listen to Neil Dia-mond from my era. But now-adays I listen to Kelly Clark-son. I actually enjoy listening to her music. I like Celine Dion too. I wouldn’t say I’m a hip guy on music. I listen to all kinds.

Where have you trav-eled? Where do you still want to go?

I’ve had the great oppor-tunity to travel nearly every-where in the world already, and a lot of it on behalf of Wright State, since we’re connected to around 70 countries. I was fascinated going to Chile. We have a connection with a university down there in Santiago. I was just so intrigued by that part of the world. I’ve enjoyed my trips to China. Japan was fas-cinating. We have a wonder-ful long-term relationship

with our institutions there. I’ve never been to Australia or New Zealand, and it’s on my bucket list. I want to go there before I can’t.

What kinds of hobbies do you have? How do you spend your free time?

Now that we’re empty-nesters, my wife and I spend a lot of time just relaxing. We’re both involved in a number of different com-munity organizations. But when I love to get away from it, I golf. It’s probably my favorite thing to do. We’re members of Sycamore Creek Country Club. We golf there with lots of colleagues and people who are friends of the university. My wife and I love our personal travelling, see-ing other things that aren’t just part of my job. We do a lot of reading too.

If you were the president of WSU, what wish list item would you fulfill first?

One of the things I’m work-ing very hard on is to really grow the scholarship dollars we have available at Wright State. We’ve been working very hard to grow our own pool of scholarship money so we can help those in most need. My wish would be to really fill up that coffer. W e ’ v e been fo-c u s e d o n raising that $75 million in new schol-arship dollars. It’s a big chal-lenge, but it’s a big deal for us here because w e h a v e kept our t u i t i o n we l l - b e l o w the state aver-age. We’re on the

right path of growing our own scholarship dollars, where we won’t have to rely on the state or the federal government. If I can do that, we can help more people.

What do you like on your pizza?

My favorite kind of pizza is pepperoni, olives and green peppers. I’ll take some ham-burger on it too. I’m pretty simple in that.

Where do you see your-self in 5 to 10 years?

I’m hoping to be retired. I’m getting old and it’ll be time for someone to come in with new ideas. I will be playing more golf. I’ll still be involved in higher education, because it’s been my life for over 40 years. I hope to be of some assistance in some way to Wright State in some ca-pacity, maybe as some type of consultant or advisor. I want to work across the country in helping to create what I think is a new model for the public university for the 21st century. We’re doing that here, but I think that maybe I could help other institutions be that way too. But I’ll al-ways be a Wright State Raid-er. This is in my blood. My family and I just really love

this university and this region, so we’ll

always be here and try to be

helpful in any way we can.

Chatting with Hopkins about life, goals and Celine Dion


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B est Breakfast: Tanks’s Bar and Grill

Tank’s Bar and Grill on 2033 Wayne Avenue is well known for their burgers, but equally so for their breakfast. With their California style menu, you can get breakfast all day, but this doesn’t keep their tables from getting full in the mornings. The staff at Tank’s deal with a line at the door before opening on weekends. The menu offers pancakes, waffles, biscuits, fruit for the health conscious and more.

Best Lunch: Smokin’ Bar-B-Que

Smokin’ Bar-B-Que on 200 East Fifth Street smokes anything you could want smoked. From classics like tender brisket to creative options like smoked tilapia, owner Jim Teal smokes a zoo on a regular basis and does it well. Teal brings his com-petitive Texas barbeque ex-perience to Dayton. Students should try the smoked ham-burger and/or the brisket when they get a craving for quality barbeque.

Best Dinner: Olive, an Ur-ban Dive

Though the exterior screams “Wympee” at 416 East Third street, don’t be fooled. It’s truly Olive, an urban dive filled with sand-wiches, burgers and other entrées that make it a good place to grab dinner on the weekend. If you are looking for a restaurant with a pref-erence for local ingredients and healthy food, as well as friendly with all types of di-ets, like vegan and gluten-fee, give Olive a shot.

Best Coffee Shop: Ghost-light Coffee

1201 Wayne Avenue might look like a thrift shop when

Dayton’s Not Dead: The best of the bestAs voted on by The Guardian staffAdam RamseyFeatures [email protected] you first step inside, but

once your eyes adjust you’ll find something better. Ghost-light offers coffee in a variety of forms, from lattes to pour overs, any coffee taste can be satisfied. Ghostlight offers a selection of teas as well as pastries, including an organ-ic twinkie that isn’t just pre-tending to be food, it actually is. Ghostlight also offers a re-laxing atmosphere. Looking to blow through some read-ing without your roommate? Drink a mug at Ghostlight.

Best Brewery: Yellow Springs Brewery

Creativity thrives at 305 Walnut Street in Yellow Springs. Their taproom is open from Wednesday to Sunday and offer an atmo-sphere that’s more on par to a coffee shop rather than a bar. Small enough for that local feel, but big enough to collaborate with Great Lakes Brewing Co. Yellow Springs Brewery shows of some of the best that Dayton has to offer. Some of their more popular beers include Cap-tain Stardust, Handsome and the Night Saison.

Best Service: Hicks’ Bar-ber Shop

The Bearded Barber cuts a mean wig at 16 Brown Street. Hicks’ Barber Shop is a modern, edgy establish-ment that harkens back to the old days, when people would sit and talk to each other’s faces rather than ig-nore them with a television. James Hicks offers classic haircuts, shaves and an at-mosphere to get friendly and exchange ideas. Getting a haircut is more than just cutting hair at Hicks’ Barbers Shop. If students are look-ing to book an appointment, plan two weeks in advance.

WRIGHT LIFE

Wright State offers more than just class-

es. With over 11,000 under-graduates in the Spring of 2015, students will inevita-bly face challenges that range from financial to academic. Wright State is there to help.

Counseling and Wellness Services (CWS)

Registered WSU students have access to individual, group, couples and family therapy sessions. Licensed psychologists, psychiatrists and counselors are avail-able for students with issues ranging from depression to

e a t i n g d i s o r -d e r s , or from a n x i -ety to c a r e e r indeci-

sion. CWS is located at 053 Student Union and open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon-day through Friday.

Tutoring Services

Wright State has options for students who need addi-tional academic help. First

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year students are eligible to receive one free hour of tu-toring a week for each course, according to University Col-lege. Not only that, but ad-ditional services such as the University Writing Center, the Math Learning Center and additional supplemental instruction (S.I.) sessions are available.

Career ServicesFrom on-campus work to

finding a job after gradua-tion, Career Services has you

covered. With an updated list of job openings online, stu-dents should take advantage of the student-tailored work when in need of a job. Career Services also hosts job fairs, where students can meet face-to-face with potential

employers.Friendship

Food PantryL o c a t e d

in 134 Al-lyn Hall, the F r i e n d s h i p Food Pan-

try was made possible by volunteer students, faculty and staff, as well as mem-bers of the WSU community.

The Friendship Food Pantry serves anyone who needs a little help putting food on the table, no matter where you come from. To qualify, you must be actively enrolled at

WSU.Mini UniversityFor those of you pursuing a

degree but are also in search of childcare, Mini Univer-sity is situated right next to the classroom buildings and there might be a way for you to acquire assistance in pay-ing for Mini U childcare. Go to www.miniuniversity.net to see if you are eligible. The childcare development cen-ter is open Mondays through Fridays from 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.

For even more information on additional services WSU provides to its students, pop over to the website and find out where you’ll fit best.


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Expert Care.For all your health care needs.

Affiliated with the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State Physicians offers primary and specialty care for all your health care needs.

n Dermatology n Family Medicine n Geriatricsn Gynecologic Oncology n Internal Medicine n Neurology n Obstetrics & Gynecology n Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation

Our offices are located throughout the Dayton region, and on campus in the Wright State Physicians Health Center.

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To schedule an appointment, call 937.245.7000.

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Many students think choosing a major

means making a decision for life. However, making that declaration does not mean that you have glued yourself to it. Changing your major is a very feasible thing to do in college. In fact, it’s generally a common thing to do and is sometimes recommended, depending on the situa-tion.

According to an article in the New York Times, freshmen that were un-sure of their major are an overwhelming ma-jority, with 80 percent. With only 20 percent confident in their decision, then it’s natural to have some decide to pursue a dif-ferent path.

American College Testing, Inc. (ACT) surveyed gradu-ates that have taken the ACT for college to determine whether their first major proved to fit with their inter-ests.

“Although the majority of ACT-tested graduates select-ed a major that was at least a moderate fit with their in-terests,” said act.org, “only 36 percent selected one that was a good fit, while nearly as many—32 percent—se-lected a major that was a poor fit with their interests.”

Senior supply chain man-agement major Jonathan Kel-ley had a difficult time find-ing a major that suited him.

“I started as a nursing ma-jor and then I wasn’t sure so I started taking business class-es,” Kelley said. “There was job security there. I looked at all the majors the busi-ness program at WSU had, but I wasn’t really interested in any of them. Until I heard about supply chain manage-

Change is good, if you see an advisorAdam RamseyFeatures [email protected]

ment, but I didn’t know what it was. Then I looked into it, and thought that it sounded pretty interesting and had good job outlets.”

Collegeparent.org said that the number of students that do change their major at least once is around 80 per-cent. Those that feel like they made a mistake declaring a major on their application can rest assured that they

will be in good company.However, changing majors

is not something to be done lightly. According to the As-sistant Dean for Academic Advising, Martha Henderson, it’s important to meet with an academic advisor and to make a decision relatively soon to ensure that you are making good academic prog-ress.

“After the first semester many core class require-ments are determined by the intended major, so academic advisors urge students to make a major choice by the end of their first year at the latest,” Henderson said. “If a student is interested in changing their major, the advisor will meet with them to review the requirements for the new major, which in-cludes reviewing the DARS to determine how credits will apply to the new major and to see if there are additional requirements that a student will need to complete in or-der to enter their new in-tended major.”

80 percent of students change

their major at least once.

Changing majors isn’t the end of the world


10 WRIGHT LIFE

See your academic advisor for more information

A LeAdership minor for ALL mAjorsThe Organizational Leadership minor prepares emerging leaders to face challenges across all career fields.

Organizational Leadership, which has grown into one of Wright State’s largest degree programs, combines understanding oneself as a leader, learning to lead others, understanding leading within the organization, and understanding the external environment.

Add this minor to your existing major and prepare to be an effective leader in whatever career you choose!

Program Contact:Scott Graham or Julia Acosta(937) [email protected]@wright.edu

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1 WWSU 106.9Students can sign up

to host their own weekly radio show for WWSU.

2 The geocache on the top of the WSU en-

trance signGeocachers will be pleased to

hear about the hidden geocache atop the main entrance sign to WSU’s Dayton campus.

“It was fun to get the strange glances from students and driv-er passersby and campus secu-rity gave us only a funny smile and a wave. Armed only with ourselves and a small bucket of supplies, we snagged the cache quickly,” wrote webdogbert on geocaching.com.

3 Open swim hours in the Student Union

swimming poolStudents have access to a

competition size swimming pool during open hours which are posted online.

4 Young’s Dairy on cam-pus

The Dayton famous ice-cream from Young’s Jersey Dairy is sold in the Student Union Market-place. Have a craving but don’t

7 Best kept WSU secretsEditorial Staff

have the gas money to drive to Yellow Springs? You now know where to go.

5LEAP Culture Hour LEAP (Learning English

for Academic Purposes) stu-dents and faculty meet in the Millett Hall Atrium to talk cul-ture with interested WSU stu-dents. There’s never been a bet-ter way to learn about different cultures while at the same time making friends.

6 Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries

Located in the Creative Arts Center, the Stein Galleries fea-ture student artwork as well as visiting artists and exhibitions. Starting September 2, work from Andy Warhol will be fea-tured.

7 The Bridge Cafe in the Honors Building

Open Mic Night takes place on Wednesday nights for students. If you’re hungry, don’t forget about Free Weiner Wednes-day...but don’t be a weenie, Free Weiner Wednesday is actually on Tuesdays.


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12 WRIGHT LIFE

Assistant Professor of Poetry, Christopher

DeWeese, grew up in Port Townsend, Washington, a small town on the Olympic Peninsula.

“It’s actually the wooden boat capital of the west coast. There’s kind of a rough, sea-faring culture around there. I grew up walking on the beaches. They’re really rug-ged beaches with a lot of driftwood, rocks and crabs,” DeWeese said. “I think when people think of beaches, they think of southern California beaches, but there is kelp and sand fleas. These beaches are a little more uncomfortable, but they’re still great.”

After high school, DeWeese wanted to see more of the country than he had before and decided to go to Oberlin College, less than an hour’s drive from Cleveland, Ohio.

“It was a really good place if you want to study creative writing,” DeWeese said. “I heard about it because they have a really good music school there. Growing up, I was a really serious classical piano player and had consid-ered going to Oberlin for mu-sic. I indulged all of my inter-ests there.”

DeWeese left for Philadel-phia after graduation in 2001 , playing keyboard and bass in a band and working as a barista. Once a year passed with no success, he moved back to his home on the west coast, which led to him join-ing the Incognito Traveling Circus.

“A few of my friends from high school dropped out of college and started a circus,” DeWeese. “I thought in ab-sence of any compelling life choices to make, it would be fun to travel around with them for part of the year and be a part of their circus.

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I played the pump organ, which is like an accordion with bellows. It’s played like a piano, but you’re constantly pushing air through the bel-lows by tapping your feet on two pedals on the ground.”

According to DeWeese, the Incognito Traveling Cir-cus had a variety of acts, in-cluding a team of jugglers that could and would juggle “anything,” even while fire-breathing. There was also a puppeteer that would make paintings with movable parts. One painting of God with a moveable mouth, eyes and eyebrows would host a game show called, “You Bet your Afterlife,” in which members of the audience would answer trivia ques-tions to determine whether they would spend eternity in heaven or hell. There was also a man called “The Iron Stomach” that would eat glass and smash cinder-blocks on his abdomen.

When DeWeese wanted to focus more on writing he left to pursue a masters of fine arts in poetry at University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

“I was a TA so I had my own class of composition to teach. After bouncing around, not really having a serious job, the responsibility of teaching felt intimidating, but exciting as well.”

After obtaining his MFA,

DeWeese took his teaching skills to Agnes Scott College in Georgia until he published his first book of poetry, “The Black Forest,” in 2012. Seek-ing a tenure-track position, DeWeese left Agnes Scott for Wright State University.

DeWeese advises students to be open to new experienc-es and to try to understand things that don’t immedi-ately grab your attention or interest.

“We live in a very techno-logically driven society,” De-Weese said. “We sort of re-duce things to a binary of like and dislike. So one thing I do in increasing my understand-ing of the world, is to take times to grapple with things that I don’t immediately un-derstand. If I encounter a poet and don’t immediately get what they’re doing or it doesn’t immediately give me satisfaction like the poems I do, I don’t want to discount that. I want to understand them and meet them on their terms rather than on mine. I think that the more we do that the richer things will be.”

DeWeese’s new book, “The Father of the Arrow is the Thought,” comes out August 25. Next spring break, De-Weese plans to go on tour to promote his new book.

Pavan Kapanipathi and Wenbo Wang, gradu-

ate students in computer science, know Wright State well, with nearly seven years of experience in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.

Currently both Kapanipa-thi and Wang are pursuing PhDs in Computer Science.

“In a PhD, you are trying to reach to the edge of human knowledge in a particular area,” Wang said. “Once, you reach the edge, you look for problems that haven’t been solved yet. Then, you try to make some small, incremental additions to human knowledge. To us, these additions might look very large, but when look-ing at human knowledge as a whole, these additions are very small.”

Kapanipathi said that he is currently researching methods to lessen over-whelming floods of “social data” on social media sites, opting for data targeted for a specific user.

“If you are following a baseball player [on Twit-ter] just for his baseball tweets, why do you need tweets about his girlfriend or his vacation?” Kapanipa-thi said. “I try to filter that just based on his baseball tweets and provide it for you.”

Wang is also researching ways to provide users with targeted information, only focused on the user’s emo-

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tional status.“What I do is emotional

analysis. If you were to give me your Facebook posts, I would be able to tell what you are feeling,” Wang said. “If you’re upset, through so-cial media I can remind you of a wonderful vacation you had two years ago.”

Kapanipathi and Wang chose WSU after looking into the faculty and kind of research being conducted in the College of Engineer-ing.

“I looked up the pro-grams in computer science and was actually quite im-pressed with their faculty. Quite a few of them are re-ally well known,” Kapanipa-thi said. “I was interested in the high-impact research and the students. The Alum-ni had really good jobs and profiles. I’m more of a per-son who tends to look at a balance between research and the people that I’ll be working with. In those as-pects, the lab at WSU really impressed me.”

Wang and Kapanipathi are looking to go into in-dustry after achieving their PhD.

“I think we both want to be in a place where we can make everyone’s lives easier,” Kapanipathi said. “Whether it makes some-thing cheaper or makes the experience easier, these are the places where you can really make an impact on everyday activities. It’s hard to pinpoint an exact com-pany.”

Washington native with a past in the circus makes his way at WSU

Christopher DeWeese has a neW book Coming out in august titleD “the Father oF the arroW is the thought”

kapanipathi anD Wang Work to make liFe a little easier through their researCh in Computer sCienCe


13Performing under the name Kali Muse, Adams is cur-rently working on an acous-tic folk project incorporat-ing both original music and covers with 70s rock, blues, folk and country influences. For this project, she’s been sharing the stage with The Wretched Few and The Noo-dle Factory, two of Dayton’s lo-cal bands.

After she graduates in D e c e m b e r , Adams plans to take a six-month trip around the country to perform and promote her music. With the mission of making music and art easier to access for

WRIGHT LIFE

Maria Del Mar Aponte isn’t bi-ingual. She

isn’t even tri-lingual. Aponte is a polyglot, part of the one percent of the world that speaks five languages. Every-thing started in her home-town of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Growing up speaking Spanish at home but attend-ing an all-English school formed the foundation Aponte needed to continue adding languages to her rep-ertoire. Her parents sent her to a French institute on the weekends, where she stud-ied from age eight to when she left for the University of Dayton in 2007 to pursue a bachelor’s degree. She grad-uated with, not surprisingly, a minor in Italian.

“Italian was really easy for me, because a lot of the words crossed over,” Aponte said.

While at the Unviersity of Dayton, Aponte took advan-tage of a study abroad pro-

When senior vocal performance major

Tori Adams started school at Wright State in Fall 2010, she intended to study psychol-ogy and enter the Air Force. She quickly realized that her life’s path was taking her on a different journey filled with music.

“I came to college directly after high school with an idea of what I wanted to do,” Ad-ams said. “But I realized that this wasn’t quite the path for me and I didn’t really know where I was going. One day, I was singing in a lecture hall. The lights were off and I didn’t see that the professor there. He asked me about my major. I told him that I was studying psychology, and he said, ‘Well, maybe you should rethink that.’ I went to his of-

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gram that sent her to Cairo, Egypt for a full year, where she learned Arabic.

“The hardest to learn was Arabic,” Aponte said. “Arabic has some letter sounds that aren’t common in English, but they are somewhat com-mon in Spanish. That made it easier for me to learn, espe-cially after practicing.”

Aponte explained that the first hurdle she had to over-come was learning the Ara-bic alphabet, as well as learn-ing to write from right to left. Regardless of the difficulty, she claims Arabic was her fa-vorite to learn.

“I practice the languages in different ways,” Aponte said. “I try to find native speakers. I also listen to a lot of music in different languages, watch movies and TV shows and listen to the news.”

fice and sang for him and by the fall term of my sopho-more year, I was a part of the music department.”

Since that time, Adams has committed her life to the pursuit of music. Through the coursework and expe-riences that Wright State’s School of Music has provid-ed, she’s been challenged to grow, change and step out of her comfort zone.

“Wright State has exposed me to all of the ways that art can collaborate with other parts of the world; it’s broad-

Aponte is an instructor in the LEAP program and also pursuing a Masters degree in English and Political Science.

“Students in LEAP feel comfortable talking to me. I have students in the Leap Learning Center that will come and talk to me, asking what suggestions I have for them to improve their lan-guages because I know both sides. It makes me a more credible source for them.”

The language learning isn’t over for Aponte. Claiming to be a never-ending language machine, Aponte hopes to begin learning Russian in the Fall.

“My goal is to speak every language in the United Na-tions,” Aponte said hopefully. “I have four of them so far, all I need left is Mandarin and Russian. That’s just a few more years of my life, but I’m fine with that.”

From the looks of it, adding two more languages to her inventory won’t be a prob-lem.

ened my horizons. I came from country singing and choir, and now I’m loving op-era and theatre. I’m exposed to so many different kinds of people as well as unique mu-sic and things around me,” Adams said.

Through her years at Wright State, the university has given Adams many op-portunities and experiences that she’ll hold dear long af-ter she leaves school.

“Wright State’s annual Madrigal dinner is one of my favorite things. To be able to walk around the crowd and interact with people and combine music, theatre and dining is a phenomenal expe-rience for me and the cast. I really can’t wait to see it as an audience member.”

On top of the work Adams has done with Wright State, she’s also taken her act out-side of the university’s walls.

“My goal is to speak every language in the

United Nations.”

“Wright State has exposed me to all

of the ways that art can collaborate with

other parts of the world.”

individuals, Adams is also in the midst of planning for the creation of an artists organi-zation. “I’m going to attack the music. Whichever way it takes me is where I’m going to go,” Adams said.

maria Del mar aponte is a leap instruCtor Who speaks Five languages With Dreams oF Working For the un

tori amos


14 SPORTS

Male Athlete of the Year and MVP: Eric Lynch (Men’s soc-cer)

Female Athlete of the Year: Tay’ler Mingo (Women’s bas-ketball)

Newcomer of the Year: Mitch Roman (Baseball)

Coach of the Year: Bryan Da-vis (Men’s soccer)

Most Improved Athlete of the Year: Richelle van der Kei-jl (Women’s basketball)

Game of the Year: WSU men’s soccer versus Kentucky

Male Athlete of the Year and MVP: Eric Lynch (Men’s soc-cer)

Wright State men’s soccer midfielder Eric Lynch, a native of nearby Bellbrook, has been a huge part of WSU’s soccer renaissance. Lynch led the en-tire nation in assists, helping his teammates to the program’s best record in over a decade.

While Lynch liked to distrib-ute the ball, he also had the abil-ity to score in 2014. Lynch was

The best of Wright State athletics:The Guardian sports team Justin Boggs, Lee Barker III and Alan Hieber have awarded Wright State’s top athletes and coaches with its annual year end awards.

tied for the team lead in goals with seven. Lynch was second in the Horizon League in goals and first in points.

Lynch was also second in the Horizon League in shots with 58.

On Nov. 10, Lynch was named the conference’s Player of the Year. Later that evening, he scored a dramatic 74th minute goal leading WSU over UW-Mil-waukee to advance to the Hori-zon League semifinals.

“I couldn’t ask for anything better,” Lynch said. “To come in as Horizon League Player of the Year, I am humbled, but then to score the game-winning goal for our team to keep pushing us for-ward is great.”

Lynch was among three Raiders named to the Hori-zon League’s first team. Fellow teammates Peguy Ngatcha and Emeka Ononye were also hon-ored. Also, Austin Polster was named to the league’s all rookie team.

“The funny thing is, for these

guys, it is not about one guy,” WSU head coach Bryan Davis said. “Eric is a special talent but this team is specially talented with special people. Eric’s func-tion, he does extremely well with scoring goals and gets as-sists.”

One of Lynch’s best games came during the regular season on homecoming night against Milwaukee on Oct. 4 in front of a large crowd of 1,183. Lynch as-sisted Ononye and Jake Stovall before Lynch scored a goal in the 38th minute.

Honorable mention, Male Athlete of the Year: Lauri Maki-kalli (Men’s tennis) and Nick Scott (Golf)

Honorable mention, MVP: Tay’ler Mingo (Women’s basket-ball)

Female Athlete of the Year: Tay’ler Mingo (Women’s bas-

ketball)Senior guard Tay’ler Mingo

from Akron, Ohio won the Ho-rizon League Player of the year

last season and led the confer-ence in points, assists and steals per game.

She ranked sixth in the NCAA with an average of 22.8 points per game and ranked 12th in the NCAA with 3.15 steals per game. Her point per game aver-age ranked third in WSU history. Due to her high level of play, she set WSU single season records for assists (196), senior scoring (774), free throws made (240) and attempted in a season (320) and game (31).

“A lot of the credit goes to my teammates for getting me open and being in the right spot,” said Mingo. “I’m really grateful for the recognition but without my teammates I probably wouldn’t get that recognition. They make me better.”

With 774 points, she ranked second in the WSU record books for points in a single season; 10 behind the top rank. She scored over 20 points in 23 games on the season and scored over 30 points in six games. She had five

double-digit assist games and recorded five double-doubles. On Dec. 5 she recorded a career-high with 34 points at Butler.

In the first round of the Ho-rizon League Tournament, she recorded a career high and WSU single-game record in assists with 12 against Oakland. In the tournament, she averaged 25.7 points and 9.3 assists per game with two double-doubles. After two seasons at WSU she became the 20th member of the WSU 1,000 point club with 1,303 points in 69 career games.

“She put our program on the map,” said head coach of WSU’s women’s basketball team Mike Bradbury. “She kept us in it in tough times and she gave us a chance to win. We needed her to be the best player and that’s what she does.”

Honorable mention: Halle Pyle (women’s soccer) Linsey Verstrepen (women’s tennis)

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