| Summary: | TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013 VOL. 161, ISSUE 40 Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper INTERSEXtion| continued on page 3 The DePauw chapter of Students for Life of America placed the "Cemetery of the Innocent" display on East College lawn Monday morning. Students for Life is an active pro-life organization that seeks to end abortion. The display commemorates the "3,700 lives lost to abortion every day in America." The display will remain on campus until Friday. SUNNY STRADER / THE DEPAUW WILD ART By ALEX PAUL news@thedepauw.com A group of 25 individuals gathered in Peeler Auditorium Wednesday to listen to INTERSEXtion of Queer Bodies and Biomedical Practice. Hilary Malatino, a postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University in Bloomington Ind., gave the lecture. She began by giving the best definition she could find of what an intersex individual is: “’Intersex’ is a general term used for a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male.” Malatino took the definition from what is formerly known as the Intersex Society of North America. Malatino said one in 2,000 babies are born intersex, although she also has heard of odds as high as one in 1,000. “We all have a gender identity,” Malatino said. “The concept was used to make sense of intersex issues.” John Money, a twentieth century psychologist, coined the term gender identity. He used it differently than Malatino though. “Money used the term when the gender couldn’t be determined using biology,” Malatino said. Malatino told the crowd that in the early to middle twentieth century if an infant’s sex wasn’t apparent using what she called a “Phall-O-Meter,” doctor’s performed surgery, which would determine the sex of the child, and the parents would raise their child accordingly. Any genitalia measuring between .9 centimeters and 1 centimeter meant the child would get assigned as a female; below .9 centimeters a girl, and above one centimeter a male. “If someone was born with ambiguous genitalia they had to be altered with the gender they parents are raising them,” Malatino said. Let’s talk about gender PROFESSORS IN THE MEDIA PAGE 2 BEYOND THE BUBBLE PAGE 7 Campus bands pages 8 & 9the depauw | news TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013 PAGE 2 TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013 VOL. 161, ISSUE 40 THE DEPAUW: (USPS 150-120) is a tabloid published most Tuesdays and Fridays of the school year by the DePauw University Board of Control of Student Publications. The DePauw is delivered free of charge around campus. 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DSG Applications for the 2013-2014 year are now available!.They’re due April 10th!” DePauw Student Government @DPU_StudentGov 3:01 PM - 8 Apr. 2013 Tweets compiled by Kelly Killpack “Is anyone else having trouble registering for class or does DePauw just not want me here??” Shavon Mathus,‘14 @AllegianZe 6:42 PM - 7 Apr. 2013 “So today was THAT day at DePauw. Every one out: lawns filled, music playing, studying by East College, baseball games, campus golf. #college” Just get her a pacifier By ALEX BUTLER news@thedepauw.com DePauw Student Government is wrapping up the year with requests to change the dynamics of the executive board. The plan comes in hope to increase efficiency for the next school year. Assembly members representing each organization on campus attended student government’s monthly assembly meeting Sunday night. During the meeting, assembly members were asked to vote on two separate constitutional amendments, which were both passed. The first constitutional amendment will instate a Vice President of Community Relations. One of the officer’s duties will be to regularly attend Greencastle City Council meetings in effort to learn ways for DePauw students to get more involved in the community. With the new position, DSG hopes to facilitate communication between the Greencastle community and students on campus. Junior senate member Alison Caplinger said she thinks that this amendment is a great step in moving forward with the university’s goal of forming a more positive relationship with the Greencastle community. “It’s really important that we continue to build the relations that we have with local businesses,” Caplinger said. The second amendment involves eliminating two existing government positions, Treasurer and Sergeant-arms. The amendment will consolidate both the Treasurer and Sergeant-arms duties’ into various other executive positions such as president and vice president in order to run the student government executive more efficiently. Student Body President, senior Sara Scully discussed another possible new amendment to be proposed during the next assembly meeting in May. Though still in its planning stages, if this amendment passes, some members of student government will be paid for their work. Unlike DePauw, many other schools financially compensation student government officials. With the amount of time and responsibility that comes with an executive position, both Scully and Student Body Vice President senior Mark Fadel agree that compensation would make students less hesitant in applying for a position. “We’ll be talking about [the possible amendment] in the next month with both students on and off campus,” Scully said. “We definitely want this to be a conversation between all members of the student body.” Head of Allocations board, senior Stewart Burns, reminded the assembly that budgets are due to be heard by the allocations board on Thurs., April 25. “How you allocate funds toward various requests is taken into consideration,” Burns said. “It’s important to be smart in the budget you’re proposing.” As a final statement, assembly members were reminded that any student who wants to serve on the DePauw Student Government Executive Board for the 2013-2014 school year needs to submit an election packet by 4 p.m. tomorrow, April 10 to U.B. 210 and by email to marjoriedaily_2015@depauw.edu. DePauw Student Government proposes two constitutional amendments By PANYIN CONDUAH news@thedepauw.com The April issue of O, Oprah Winfrey’s magazine, features associate professor of psychology, Matthew Hertenstein’s study on touch, which highlights the presence some DePauw professors can have in the nation’s media. In the article, Journalist Diana Spechler challenges others to embrace the art of touching. Spechler opens the piece by describing a personal encounter of brushing her leg against a man on a bus. The accidental encounter surprised her, and she experienced a sense of comfort. The encounter sparked Spechler’s interest in whether touch deprivation exists, which is how she came across Hertenstein’s study on the importance of touch amongst humans as relating to a person’s mood and health. "Most of us.need more human contact than we're getting,” Hertenstein said in the article. “Compared with other cultures, we live in a touch-phobic society that's made affection with anyone but loved ones taboo." Hertenstein conducts his studies on touch in the Touch and Emotion Lab (TEL) with DePauw students in the basement of Harrison Hall. Hertenstein said he believes the topic of touch deprivation in itself is interesting to connect to everyday life. “I think it’s always nice when people bring scientific findings into the public realm in a thoughtful and sophisticated manner,” Hertenstein said. Numerous studies support the positive relationship of touch in our lives and the positive health outcomes. “Stimulating touch receptors under the skin can lower blood pressure and cortisol levels, effectively reducing stress,” Hertenstein said in the publication. In addition to doing studies with touch, Hertenstein and his students study topics such as emotional development in early life as well as the connection between facial expressions and life outcomes. Hertenstein is not the first professor to be featured in the media. Robert Steele and Tom Chiarella are examples of professors that have had their work showcased. Steele ’69, director of the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics, has past experience working in television news as reporter and producer. Steele also worked as an ethics instructor for The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla. for 20 years. Although Steele is now a professor at DePauw, he still advises journalists who have trouble with ethical issues in their news publications, and does interviews with journalists who are writing about ethical issues. One reason Steele choice to focus on teaching was to give him a chance to expose himself to different views. “It seemed like a neat opportunity to put my skills to work in a different way and a chance to give something back to DePauw, and.to keep learning as I rub shoulders with professors and other students here,” Steele said. Associate professor in creative writing, Tom Chiarella is a writer for Esquire magazine. While Chiarella said that he tries to focus most of his time on teaching, he also writes monthly short essays for a men’s advice column, and occasionally works with editors he wants to connect with. Chiarella said he tries not to do too much freelancing for other magazines. Instead, he tries to keep a balance. “I don’t want to work at DePauw unless I’m committed to the students,” Chiarella said. “And I don’t want to work for Esquire unless I’m committed to the copy.” Hertenstein also said that he believes balancing outside projects and teaching can be difficult, although it’s different depending on the type of work one does. “I’m just thankful that students are collaborators in most of the research I do,” Hertenstein said. Professor’s work on human contact featured in O magazinethe depauw | news PAGE 3 TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013 HIGH: 78° F LOW: 57° FWEDNESDAYTUESDAY HIGH: 78° F LOW: 62° FFRIDAY HIGH: 47° F LOW: 33° FTHURSDAY HIGH: 58° F LOW: 37° F The sunny skies we experienced will be but a memory this week. Pull out your rain boots and umbrellas and prepare for some hot stormy weather this week. greencastle WEATHER REPORT Weather courtesy of www.weatherchannel.com By KATIE GREEN news@thedepauw.com A screening of “Chasing Ice,” a 2012 documentary about a man’s mission to prove the effects of climate change, was held on Sunday night in Peeler Auditorium. The film follows photographer James Balog as he executes his Extreme Ice Survey project on glaciers in Greenland, Iceland, Alaska and Montana. Over the course of three years, Balog and his team use time-lapse cameras in order to show how climate change has resulted in major glacier calving over time. Even after complications with both technology and his personal health throughout the multi-year process, Balog manages to capture incredible videos of how these mountains of ice have disappeared at an alarming rate and provides further evidence of the effects of global warming. Sophomore Carlie Vaughn — currently in the climate change course and involved in sustainability groups on campus — called the film “devastating.” “It fills my heart with pain that the world is changing and is changing so fast, and it can’t be related to anything but human behavior and greenhouse gases,” Vaughn said. Anthony Baratta, assistant director for sustainability, further notes how daily human habits even at DePauw can affect the world on such a large scale. “The fact that the things that we do, such as leaving these lights on, could affect rain patterns in Africa thirty years from now [is] just bizarre,” Baratta said. Vaughn vocalizes that even if glacier calving is not visible in places such as Greencastle, it is still extremely important for DePauw to continue showing these types of films. She says there can often be a “lack of energy and effort from the student body” about climate change because they don’t fully understand what is going on in the environment. However, she praises the recent development of sustainability clubs and events on campus for attempting to further spread environmental awareness. Allison Orjala, a junior ITAP Intern for the Office of Sustainability, agrees that the student morale on such issues can be low. “A lot of students will say ‘I don’t know what we’re doing [for sustainability] at DePauw,’ or ‘I don’t know how to be eco-friendly at DePauw,’” Orjala said. “You just have to look for it. Keep your eyes open for the small things.” And while DePauw has struggled with addressing these issues in the past, Orjala recognizes recent efforts from the students and the administration are changing how the community views sustainability. “As students become more and more involved on campus, the university recognizes that and then steps up to make changes on the facilities level that are needed and that the students are asking for,” Orjala said. Baratta notes that after President Brian Casey signed off on the national President’s Climate Commitment, agreeing that DePauw “will commit to becoming carbon neutral and change the way we do our education to prepare students for a world change by climate change,” DePauw has taken the initiative to become a more environmentally friendly school. These efforts can be seen through the growth of the sustainability office, the success of Energy Wars, and the implementation of environmentally design in both Prindle and the Bartlett Reflection Center which became the first two LEED Gold (Leadership and Energy in Environmental Design) buildings in Indiana. And this seems to be just the beginning: the campus farm burn, an effort to clear the area of brush, was completed on April 6 with hopes that harvesting will start this summer. Baratta hopes that renovations to the Lilly Recreational Center will be LEED Silver, as well. In the fall, there will also be a Green Greek Certification Program for fraternities and sororities to take a closer look at their houses’ daily routines and see how they can work towards implementing a more sustainable lifestyle. Baratta is thrilled that the DePauw community is working together towards creating a more environmentally friendly campus. “It’s an exciting time to be at DePauw,” Baratta said. “The administration is behind this, the faculty is behind this, and a lot of students are behind this.” Orjala is excited to see how DePauw will continue to go green, particularly through the new Student Sustainability Fund, which student government allows students to submit ideas for sustainability changes. She believes it will directly change how the community views sustainability. Baratta is hopeful that with all of these new projects, the environmental awareness and interest on campus will continue to grow. “It’s there, it’s building,” Baratta said. “But it can be better.” From glaciers to Greencastle: talk on climate Malatino did not agree with all of Money’s work, but acknowledged that the phrase “gender identity” transformed into a helpful term in contemporary times. “The gendering process is never fully up to us,” Malatino said. “[We] just have to navigate it the best we can.” Malatino said she believes there are other ways to identify an individuals’ gender other than genitalia, or the gonads, like was practiced in the past. “Gonads are no longer seen as the be all and end all truth,” Malatino said. Junior Annelise Delcambre, a LGBT services intern, believes having speakers like Malatino come to campus will help raise awareness of transgender and intersex issues on campus. “In the [acronym] LGBT in some circles now there is the Q [for queer],” Delcambre said. “And in some circles they include the I [for intersex].” Last year DePauw Student Government passed a white paper calling for gender neutral bathrooms in all new facilities. For Vivie Nguyen, the coordinator of LGBT services, bringing in speakers educating students about gender issues remains a small step in the process. Nguyen hopes having speakers come to campus will spur conversation in classes and the community. “We will start small with talks, and over time [the community] will be more accepting,” Nguyen said. Malatino believes the way sexual identity gets treated needs to become the same for gender identity. ‘We need to grant fluidity to gender,” Malatino said, “but also to sex.” INTERSEXtion| continued from page 1 Come write for The DePauw email editor@thedepauw.com ADVERTISEMENTthe depauw | advertisement TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013 PAGE 4the depauw | news TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013 PAGE 5 CAMPUSCRIME April 5 • Suspicious vehicle• Subject located verbal warning issued / left premises | Time: 12:31 a.m. | Place: Nature Park entrance • Noise — loud music • Forwarded to Interfraternity Council | Time: 12:57 a.m. | Place: Sigma Chi fraternity • Reckless driving• Officer checked area / unable to locate subject | Time: 1:13 a.m. | Place: Campus • Suspicious person • Subject located / verbal warning issued | Time: 1:45 a.m. | Place: The Inn at DePauw • Noise — Loud music• Officer checked area / checked okay | Time: 2:18 p.m. | Place: Beta Theta Pi fraternity • Medical •Transported to Putnam County hospital | Time: 5:51 a.m. | Place: Anderson Street / Locust Street • Hazard — subjects on roof • Made contact with residents / verbal warning issued | Time: 11:08 p.m. | Place: 431 Anderson Street • Noise — loud music • Forwarded to Interfraternity Council | Time: 11:38 p.m. | Place: Delta Tau Delta fraternity April 6 • Noise — music• Forwarded to Interfraternity Council | Time: 12:33 a.m. | Place: Sigma Chi fraternity • Noise — music• Forwarded to Interfraternity Council | Time: 12:34 a.m. | Place: Alpha Tau Omega fraternity • Assist Putnam County Police Department — traffic stop• Putnam County Police Department took call | Time: 1:48 a.m. | Place: Walnut Street / Jackson Street • Assist Putnam County Police Department — traffic stop • Putnam County Police Department took call | Time: 1:58 a.m. | Place: Seminary Street • Driving while intoxicated • Arrested: Lisa R. Robertson (non-student) | Time: 2:22 a.m. | Place: Jackson Street / Sunset Drive • Disorderly conduct • Subject located verbal warning issued / left premises | Time: 2:44 a.m. | Place: Putnam County hospital • Criminal mischief to sculpture • Pending | Time: Unknown | Place: East College lawn • Criminal mischief to vehicle• Pending | Time: Unknown | Place: Delta Tau Delta fraternity • Hazard — subjects on roof • Forwarded to campus living | Time: 3:18 p.m. | Place: 109 Hanna Street • Noise — loud music• Forwarded to Interfraternity Council | Time: 4:28 p.m. | Place: Delta Tau Delta fraternity • Criminal mischief to vehicle • Pending | Time: 4:29 p.m. | Place: Administration parking lot • Welfare Check • Subject located | Time: 10:35 p.m. | Place: Sigma Chi fraternity • Noise — loud music / people • Forwarded to Interfraternity Council | Time: 11:23 p.m. | Place: Delta Tau Delta fraternity April 7 • Noise — loud music• Forwarded to Interfraternity Council | Time: 12:21 a.m. | Place: Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity • Suspicious activity • Subjected located / verbal warning issued | Time: 12:41 a.m. | Place: Delta Gamma sorority • Suspicious persons • Subjected located / checked okay | Time: 2:50 a.m. | Place: College Avenue • Fire alarm • Cooking / alarm reset | Time: 8:15 a.m. | Place: Seminary Street Apartments • Property damage accident • Report filed | Time: 11:41 a.m. | Place: West Walnut Street • Animal control • Forwarded to Facilities Management | Time: 1:06 p.m. | Place: 301 E. Walnut Street • Criminal mischief to a vehicle • Pending | Time: Unknown | Place: Administration parking lot • Welfare check / attempt to locate subject• Subject located / checked okay / returned to guardian | Time: 5:37 p.m. | Place: Nature Park April 8 • Medical • Transported to Putnam County hospital | Time: 5:59 a.m. | Place: Hogate Hall • Fire alarm• Maintenance issue / forwarded to Facilities Management | Time: 8:52 a.m. | Place: 410 S. Indiana Street SOURCE: PUBLIC SAFETY WWW.DEPAUW.EDU/STUDENTLIFE/CAMPUS-SAFETY/PUBLICSAFETY/ACTIVITY-REPORT/YEAR/2013/ By NICKY CHOKRAN news@thedepauw.com Several motions were passed at the Monday faculty meeting including the addition of an actuarial science major, approval for two economics courses and revisions to the communication department’s senior capstone experience. The Committee on Academic Policy and Planning (CAPP) presented the motion for the new actuarial science major, which will be offered by the mathematics department. “We’ve been producing actuaries for longer than I’ve been here,” Mark Kannowski, chair of the mathematics department said. “We have the staffing, we have the courses, we think we have the opportunity.” The actuarial science major will be made up of a selection of courses already offered at DePauw. The purpose of the major is to clarify a student’s area of study if he or she is planning to pursue a career in actuarial sciences. “Transcripts now say major in math or economics,” CAPP representative Fred Soster said. “[With the change] student transcripts will more accurately reflect that their major is in actuarial sciences.” Kannowski said he was unsure of whether current seniors could take advantage of the new major if they had completed the required classes. However, in the case that it was allowed, he said that students will not be allowed to major and/or minor in both math and actuarial sciences due to “significant overlap” in course requirements. “They’d have to give up one of those majors,” Kannowski said. “[Otherwise] that’s resume padding.” According to Kannowski, other similar schools that offer an actuarial science major are Butler University, Drake University and St. Thomas University. The faculty voted to approve two new economics courses, Econ 415: Labor Economics and Econ 465: Health Economics, which will be offered by the economics department next year. “They have been taught previously as topics courses,” computer science professor Brian Howard said. “Now they will get proper course titles.” The faculty passed another academic motion that will affect students within the communications department. The department will require students to take a “pre-seminar” course before they are placed in a senior seminar. And while enrolled in a senior seminar, students will be required to earn a final grade of C- or better in order to pass. According to the faculty meeting agenda, these changes come from a departmental desire to “raise the bar for performance in the capstone experience.” Academic motions passed at the April faculty meeting STILL BUMMED ABOUT THAT NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP? HUG IT OUT. WITH THE DEPAUW editor@thedepauw.comthe depauw | advertisement PAGE 6 TUESDAY, APRIL 9 , 2013 ADVERTISEMENTthe depauw | features PAGE 7 TUESDAY, APRIL 9 , 2013 This one time, I almost woke up on fire in Sarajevo. Well, maybe that’s not completely accurate. I was in a hostel in Sarajevo where I was just about to fall asleep, and I noticed that my blanket, which had been resting on the space heater sitting against the edge of my bed, appeared to be smoking a little bit. With a minor shriek and a quick jerk of the blanket, the potential crisis was averted. But since I’m a fan of brevity and drama, I think I’ll stick with the first version. I am studying abroad in Vienna, Austria this semester, and as the time came to plan my Spring Break, my fellow classmates were discussing places like London, Paris, Barcelona and Berlin for vacation. Eat your heart out, Panama City. All of these cities are perfectly fine locations, and I’d be lucky to go to any of them, but as I sat there one night, literally staring at a map of Europe, I mumbled, “What if we go… east instead?” Needless to say, my friends’ lack of reaction let me know that they weren’t feeling quite as adventurous. I ended up going with my best friend in my program and one of our classmates who was just as interested in doing something different. Our “rough” itinerary included Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Žabljak, Montenegro; and Dubrovnik, Croatia. We had hostels booked with no idea of how we were getting there. We started with an overnight bus trip to Sarajevo, which was about as interesting and slightly terrifying as it sounds. I had purchased a license plate-like souvenir that simply said “SARAJEVO” and had a “Bi-H” (Bosnia Herzegovina) emblem on one end. It was too long to fit in my tiny suitcase, so I simply left it hanging out of my tote for the bus ride to Montenegro. To my surprise, I had apparently bought one that highly resembled a real Bosnian license plate, and the border patrolman who had entered the bus with a his gun, seemed to think that I had stolen it. Luckily, there was a man near me who also spoke English and explained to the patrolman that it was simply a souvenir. Eventually, he just threw it back in my bag. The next 10 hours were spent either on a bus or in a bus station in Montenegro. We hadn’t found any direct routes and ended up seeing nearly the entire nation of Montenegro. We even spent 40 cents in the Podgorica bus station to use what we expected to be a toilet, but it turned out to literally be a hole in the ground. Needless to say, I held it. Granted that doesn’t sound like a superb day, but somehow it turned out to be one of my favorite days of the entire trip. The views from those bus-seat windows were the most beautiful things I have ever seen in my life. Each turn of the road was a new canyon, a new turquoise, sparkling lake or even a 6-year-old girl herding her 10 cows along the side of the road. In Žabljak , we were essentially renting out two rooms in the upstairs portion of a family’s home. After we finally settled in, we decided to go downstairs and ask Nicola, the only member of the family who spoke English, for advice on what we could do the next day. We sat down next to granny, whose soap operas we were obviously interrupting as she proceeded to glare at us, and we uncomfortably waited for the mother to return. A few minutes later, she came back inside with Nicola and we asked him some questions, most of which he just replied to with “Umm, it is… um, winter.” We figured we shouldn’t bother them anymore, said thank you, and headed back upstairs. As we reached the door, however, Nicola said, “Wait, my mother says you must eat.” Since we had been surviving on chips from various bus stations all day, we quickly accepted the offer. She served us each a small plate of two long thin slices of cake that resembled lady-fingers and were filled with nuts. Nicola said that this was a very traditional Montenegrin food, and then proceeded to ask, “Do you like alcohol?” He giggled with us and then pulled out a large, clear, label-less jug with a cork in the top. As Nicola translated to the mother and grandmother that we kept saying how good it was and thank you, he tried to get granny to say “thank you” in English. She chose to growl at us instead. Dubrovnik, our final stop, was the most touristy of our three locations, and was a close second to the beauty we had seen in Montenegro. We stayed in a hostel in the Old Town portion of the city, where we immediately felt at home with our sarcastic and awkwardly wonderful hostel-owner from New York. There was endless history, ice cream and even a restaurant that sold “nuggets,” so naturally, it was wonderful. The typical study abroad “big cities” of western Europe are always enjoyable to visit, but my unusual Spring Break truly made me realize what a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that I have over here. I got to stand on the bridge that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot on in 1914, provoking the first world war. I overlooked the second longest canyon on the planet. I ate cake with granny, snuck food to six stray cats in an alley in Sarajevo and learned Serbish from a Bosnian girl on an overnight bus. During our trip, we would always jokingly say, “do it for the story,” but truthfully, I am certain that I now have countless stories of my adventures that I will enjoy sharing for years. - Freestone is a junior biology/history double major from Brownsville, Ind. studying in Vienna, Austria. features@thedepauw.com BEYOND THE BUBBLE Getting weird on Spring Break: do it for the story Junior Leah Freestone enjoys her Spring Break during her semester abroad in Durmitor National Park in Montenegro. Freestone is currently studying abroad in Vienna, Austria. COURTESY OF LEAH FREESTONEoo PAGES 8 & 9 the depauw | features TUESDAY APRIL 9, 2013 By MADISON HARTMAN features@thedepauw.com One walk through the Green Center for the Performing Arts, and it’s easy to see DePauw has a strong connection to music. However, without the advantage of class time and professors, independently led student music groups must take the extra step in order to bring their music into the cam-pus spotlight. DePauw is home to numerous artists that spend their free time rocking out to the music that inspires them. The Dells, The Lonely Women, DePau-wcapella and Kid Quill are just a few groups that both practice and perform around campus. Oftentimes, these independent groups start out of inspiration or bursts of creativity. Freshman Mitch Brown, also known by his rapper name, Kid Quill, began doing his music after a friend posted a video on YouTube of him rapping. “It was well liked, and my music has spread from there,” Brown said. Sophomores Stephen Dobbs and Kwame Newton started their band The Lonely Women in high school and continued the band at DePauw when they found like-minded men that were willing to play with them. “There isn’t much music played outside of the School of Music, but we were able to find guys who had a passion for this creative outlet,” Dobbs said. Dobbs and Newton also recruited sophomore Brian Austin, a friend and fraternity brother to Dobbs to play the drums. Freshman Mickey Terlep, was also recruited to play bass guitar and junior Collin Neill now plays electric guitar for The Lonely Women. Sophomore Connor Allen, a member of another DePauw band called The Dells and a student in the School of Music, also credits the initiation of his band with the discovery of other musically minded students on campus, namely fellow sophomore Doug Tipsword. “Doug and I formed the band after we met and found out we both like the same kind of music,” Allen said. Tipsword and Allen recruited a drummer and a singer to complete their band and have been playing together since last year when they formed the group. As DePauw students, there is also a problem of logistics, of finding the time and place for band practice in their busy schedules. Both The Dells and The Lonely Women practice at the fraternities of which the band members are a part. The Lonely Women practice in a closet at Beta Theta Pi. Brian Austin said of The Lonely Women, “We just like getting the guys together to jam out, we’re always really loud, but it’s a great time to let loose and take a break.” DePauwcapella, possibly the most well known of the independent mu-sic groups, practices twice a week for two hours and more when they have rehearsals. “It’s not too much of a time commitment, and if you really love singing it’s a fun way to get music into your life and do this thing that you love,” freshman Kevin Bulgeski said. Bulgeski, a passionate singer himself, also said he wanted to be a part of the group the moment he met the members at the activities fair. “I saw that it was an opportunity to do what I love and feel that the group helps to break the mold of music being solely a part of the School of Music.” Dobbs had a similar opinion on the subject. “There is an obvious social divide between CLA students and School of Music students, and they rarely co-mingle, which creates a creative gap be-tween the two,” Dobbs said. Dobbs takes School of Music classes, such as music improvisation with Dr. Edberg, but never plays band-type instruments in class, so being part of The Lonely Women gives him a different musical outlet. There is also a difference in the type of venues where these independent groups play. For DePauwcapella, the audience and feel of the venue is very similar to choral and orchestral groups, but for these other performers the atmosphere is much different. The Lonely Women, for example, played at the Duck last year and Beta Theta Pi’s informal event, and the Dells typically play at Sigma Chi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternities. The environment in which they play is more casual and less structured, versus the very formal Kresge Hall or Meharry Hall where music groups typically perform. Since the atmosphere of the venues is so casual, it is more difficult to ad-vertise and make their bands known around campus. DePauwcapella is most well known because it has been on campus for around ten years. However, The Dells, The Lonely Women and Kid Quill are new additions to the music scene. Allen and Dobbs both said that is difficult for the word to spread about their bands in an effective way. On the other hand, Kid Quill has had been fairly successful with getting the word out about his music, most through social media and the Internet. “Opening for Jake Miller in Indy was a huge break for me, and the guys from wafflepwn YouTube channel heard my music and like it, and they have over 900,000+ subscribers. I’ve also had people from as far as England mes-sage me to say they like my music,” Brown said. Each of the artists from these bands has been inspired by different music. For The Lonely Women, it’s more grunge with a little funk, while for The Dells it’s music with high technicality and musicianship, and pop music for DePauwcapella and rap for Kid Quill. DePauw’s campus itself is also diverse when it comes to musical taste. Independently led student bands and artists on campus help provide live music for those who want something different than what the School of Music provides. The School of Music could expand its outreach and provide benefits to these artists as well through use of its credibility to present DePauw’s cam-pus with a fresh perspective on independent music groups. When asked if a showcase of their music by the School of Music would be a good idea, all of those interviewed had a positive response. Allen noted that the school still has its shortcomings. “The School of Music is trying to raise its standards, which limits creativ-ity and makes it less and less likely to be able to do these types of showcases, but it would definitely be a positive for our band’s progress,” Allen said. Non!School of Music groups attempt to Freshman Mitch Brown, also known as Kid Quill, performs at Strand Theatre last November. PHOTO COURTESY OF MITCH BROWN Sophomore Steve Dobbs, lead singer of the local band The Lonely Women, performs at fraternity function in the basement of Beta Theta Pi earlier this semester. PHOTO COURTESY OF ERICH HAFLING Sophomore Connor Allen and senior Lukas Meyer practice with their band, The Dells, in the basement of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. The band is comprised of two other members, senior Colin Oakley and sophomore Doug Tipsword. PHOTO COUR-TESY OF ERIN HORNE Sophomore Steve Dobbs, lead singer of the local band The Lonely Women, performs at fraternity function in the base-ment of Beta Theta Pi earlier this semester. PHOTO COUR-TESY OF ERICH HAFLING ( bridge the gap ) the depauw | opinion PAGE 10 TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013 THE DEPAUW | Editorial Board Dana Ferguson | Editor-in-ChiefIsabelle Chapman | Managing Editor Joseph Fanelli | Managing EditorBecca Stanek | Chief Copy Editor Anastasia Way | Chief Copy Editor The DePauw is an independently managed and financed student newspaper. The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of DePauw University or the Student Publications Board. 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EDITORIAL POLICY email us at edboard@thedepauw.com DAVE JORGENSON / THE DEPAUW MAGGIE REPKO Student activists call to Divest DePauw It’s time for DePauw’s campus to have a serious conversation about sustainability — the long-term, unselfish environmental efforts to support the earth’s well being. Our university has supported this movement so far, ending the sale of water bottles, increasing recycling, participating in Energy Wars and even pressuring President Casey to sign the President’s Climate Commitment in 2008. These have all been genuine steps down the road to sustainability. But there are still opportunities to increase our sustainability commitments. A new campus movement, Divest DePauw, is illuminating one of the most obvious and crucial ways that our University can commit to sustainability: divestment from fossil fuels. Divestment is a complex issue. It is the process to end investments in certain fields and redirect those funds, sometimes to another movement, sometimes in general. Divest DePauw focuses on the $500 million endowment controlled by DePauw’s Board of Trustees. The Divest DePauw movement hopes that by 2020, the University endowment funds should be absent of “any direct ownership and any commingled funds that include fossil-fuel public equities and corporate bonds.” Scientific data is overwhelmingly clear: sustainability movements will play a crucial role in preventing the permanent environmental damage caused by the burning of fossil fuels. If humans fail in this effort, the global ecosystem will face disastrous consequences. Excessive use of fossil fuels contributes to the national droughts, heat waves and devastating hurricanes that we have recently witnessed. Student and administrative initiatives to educate and reduce fossil fuel abuse have paved the way for divestment. It’s time for us to join together in the next step. Thus far, 315 colleges and universities have started divestment campaigns, and four have successfully contracted a university-approved divestment plan. A similar national divestment movement occurred in the 1980’s, attempting to dismantle the apartheid system in South Africa. Today, our administration needs to step up and put its money where its mouth is. If we want to have a sustainable campus, we can’t continue to use our endowment to invest in the fossil fuel industry. On April 13, DePauw’s student body will be taking part in a rally to demonstrate to President Casey that we are committed to stopping the use of carbon emitting fossil fuels that are destroying our environment — and demand that the university stop supporting the companies behind the destruction. Thirty years from now, it is our hope that we will be able to look back on this divestment movement and be able to show that we were on the right side of history. — Repko is a junior from Canton, Ohio majoring in conflict studies and women’s studies. opinion@thedepauw.com On April 1, The Daily Tar Heel printed a front page editorial with a scarlet headline spanning half the page that read, “Rape is a Violent Crime.” This was not an April Fool’s Day joke. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill newspaper dared to start a conversation about rape on its campus and on campuses across the country on A1. In more scarlet lettering the staff ignited the contradiction that on many college campuses rape is “treated as an infraction” rather than as a violent crime. DePauw is one of many campuses where this scarlet contradiction rings true. Though our campus has begun having conversations about sexual assault and rape, boasts a strong culture of reporting cases to Public Safety and provides support to survivors in many ways shapes and forms this, according to The Daily Tar Heel, may not be enough. Campaigns like Code Teal have brought sexual assault to the forefront, to the discontent of some. A crime like rape that is so clearly wrong outside a college campus seems to become murkier when alcohol gets involved. In many cases rape truly is a violent crime. But what are we to make of the cases where drunken actions are misunderstood? Clearly a wrong may have occurred, but who is at fault, if anyone? We support The Daily Tar Heel, but to a greater degree we support conversation about these issues on our campus. On East College lawn rows of crosses deemed the “Cemetery of the Innocent” mark one group’s opinion on abortion. Whether or not one agrees with this, it is commendable that DePauw’s community creates a space where we can openly communicate about what abortion means to each of us. The same is true about openly talking about sexual assault. So we pose a question to this open campus that The Daily Tar Heel put forth: is the way our community deals with sexual assault the right one? Is it enough to report a sexual assault and allow the university to carry out its own process rather than consistently taking these cases to the police and before a judge? Part of DePauw’s high figures in reporting sexual assault are more than likely due to the victim’s ability to remain anonymous and to proceed with a case however he or she may choose. But is this always right? April is sexual assault awareness month. Our editorial board supports The Daily Tar Heel and we hope our campus can have educated discussions about the scarlet contradictions on our campus. Calling for a scarlet discussion at DePauwTUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013 PAGE 11 the depauw | opinion PHOTOPINION Do you think student government representatives should be compensated? MAEVE MCDONOUGH, sophomore “They’re working hard, so sure, why not?” EMILY BRELAGE / THE DEPAUW PAUL FESENMEIER, senior “Why not receive course credit instead? It should be an honor enough to serve the student body.” “I think certain members of the executive board carry most of the burden by themselves. They should be compensated, but I’m not sure if money’s the answer.” BURKE MILLER, freshman “Yes, it’s a good idea. If the work put forth is good enough, a decent payment is a good reward.” Have a question you want answered? email opinion@thedepauw.com KRISTEN FAIRCHILD, junior There is no shortage of parking at DePauw, however deciphering when and where students are allowed to park can be somewhat of a challenge. I have a car on campus, and although I’ve tried to avoid getting these tickets, I still keep finding those little white ticket slips under my windshield wipers. It seems like if you have a car at DePauw, you are inevitably going to get a ticket. The parking violation tickets are expensive, ranging from $25 to $50. My friend got one for simply blocking the sidewalk when she had been parked in her driveway over Spring Break, when there were very few people even on campus. Another person I know received a ticket for having the parking sticker in the wrong place. These ridiculous citations are absolutely unfair. While I realize that students are able to appeal these tickets, how often are people’s appeals accepted? Wouldn’t the more logical solution be to not issue these tickets in the first place? I think that the campus should first begin with giving students and others warnings instead of going straight to the $25 ticket. Warnings would still let the person know that they have parked their car somewhere it should not have been. It will deter them just as much as a ticket. Oftentimes, a student receives a ticket when they’re unaware of the certain restrictions of a parking lot or street space. A warning would let them know, and hopefully the same mistake would not be repeated. If it is, DePauw’s public safety should issue a “three strikes and you’re out” policy. If a student violates parking or some other ordinance that has to do with their car three times, they are clearly knowledgeable of campus parking restrictions and have deliberately chosen to ignore them. Their defiance isn’t as innocent as accidentally blocking the sidewalk. As the system is now, students are learning relatively nothing from the fines imposed for parking violations. Twenty-five or $50 is a hefty price for a college student, and I venture to guess that most students don’t pay promptly with cash. Instead, they wait until it shows up on their student university account and have their parents pay for it. The money is not coming from their pocket, so there’s no real accountability taken. Students at least deserve a fair warning to learn where they can and cannot park. Being a student at DePauw, as we all know, isn’t cheap — and when parking tickets are distributed so liberally, it makes students wary of our own university. Being able to have a car on campus is a privilege, and the privilege comes with rules. But slamming students with hefty fines for a first-time offense doesn’t teach them anything. DePauw is our home, and we shouldn’t feel like it’s a hostile environment. So let’s at least try to help students correct their mistakes. It’s a simple courtesy. — Konicek is a sophomore from Geneva, Ill. majoring in sociology and education. opinion@thedepauw.com Lessons aren’t learned with excessive parking fines RYAN KONICEK LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Over the weekend, several members of DePauw’s alumni community were deeply disappointed in The DePauw editorial board’s take on the announcement of Teach For America co-CEO Elisa Villanueva Beard as this year’s commencement speaker. “For an individual’s impact to be relatable for many, it must surpass the confines of his or her respective organization” the authors wrote, reflecting on her credentials. Their words portray a profound misunderstanding of the dire situation in American education and an underestimation of the positive impact TFA is making on students, schools and communities across the country. We would encourage the authors to pick up any issue of The New York Times and flip to the U.S. section for a peek at the alarming data coming out of America’s schools on a daily basis. Of the 16 million American children growing up in poverty, only 8 percent are expected to graduate from a four-year college; compared to nearly 80 percent of students in more affluent areas. Furthermore, a 2009 McKinsey and Company study found that this level of educational inequity has the same economic impact as a permanent national recession. Thus, we are writing to remind the editorial board that the far-reaching effects of a failing public education system will impact all of us—regardless of our chosen career path—and fixing it will require action from teachers, administrators, parents, and legislators who believe our children deserve better. Considering that TFA is one of the organizations leading the fight against educational inequity—with 10,000 corps members reaching 750,000 students in low-income communities this year alone — it’s hard to think of another DePauw alumnus (of any age) making a more obvious impact outside the “confines of her organization” than Elisa Villanueva Beard. The authors have much to learn from Ms. Villanueva Beard, who epitomizes the strength of character, focus and social consciousness that it takes to build a meaningful career. Weeks from now, the Class of 2013 will cross the graduation stage ready to begin their post-DePauw lives. As they do, we urge each graduating senior to take a moment to reflect on their scholastic experience and remember that literally millions of their peers will be absent. David Dietz ’11 Matt Jennings ’09, Recruitment Manager at Teach for America Around this time last year, I was perusing the Class of 2012 Facebook page soon after the announcement of our commencement speaker. The news was met with excitement by some, anger by many and calls for change by a few. Was this guy going to be relatable? Was he an accurate reflection of our student body? For many, the resounding answer was no. I wasn’t expecting much. Yet, as I sat in front of Roy O. on commencement day, his speech was not one of nostalgia, but rather an insight into what the world ahead of me would look like. It is something that I think of frequently as I wade my way through my first year outside of DePauw. Whether you are unsettled, unphased or overjoyed with the commencement speaker, with Teach for America, or with anything else in the world, do not just sit on it. Do not let your discontent stop at an angry Facebook post or a whine session with your peers. Make meaning of it. Ask difficult questions of your speaker. If you are concerned with the organization attached to her name, challenge it. But make sure you really listen to her response. As you graduate and move on to your next endeavors, you will find that true and critical discourse outside of the safety of academic quad is messy, uncomfortable and often incredibly inconvenient. Yet, it is entirely necessary. Like myself, many of you will soon find yourself entrenched in the realities of seemingly “noble and good” organizations and jobs. You will be incredibly challenged by this. Some of you will be angered at what you find. Use what you have learned at DePauw to make it better. Perhaps, as you get ready to celebrate the end of your career at DePauw, this commencement speaker is exactly what you need. Make your thoughts known, listen to the thoughts of your speaker and make meaning — in whatever way you see fit — of one of your final experiences as a DePauw student. Kelsey Moore ’12PAGE 12 the depauw | sports TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013 By ABBY MARGULIS sports@thedepauw.com DePauw gave Oberlin College no chance in their second NCAC conference game of the season winning 10-0 and 9-3 in the double header Saturday afternoon. The Tigers are now 8-12 overall and 4-0 in the NCAC play. Sophomore Jen Ridge, hitting first for the Tigers, took a quick lead with a single, moved to second on senior Amy Hallet’s bunt and made it home on freshman Haleigh Chasteen’s single to left. The Tigers concluded the first inning 1-0. By the end of the second the Tigers made it 3-0 as freshman Sammi Bell and senior Saman-tha Szyska scored. Ridge said the team was in their element in Saturday’s game play. “We stuck to our game and played like we do in practice,” Ridge said. “Our hitting came through and we got a lot of people on base. We played aggressively and well-executed plays to pull out the win. We played DePauw softball.” The Tigers shined in the fourth inning where they were unstoppable rounding out seven runs. Senior Jamie Story, up first to bat in the fourth, got a run to first base and switched out with junior Lauren Krumwiede. Krumwiede stole second and continued to third on Szyska’s bunt. Krumwiede stole home on one of Ridge’s foul balls upping the score to 4-0. Freshman Catherine Conte hit next al-lowing for Hallet and Ridge to make it home by a deep hit to right field. Bell and sophomore Kay Wood scored finishing the inning. The Ti-gers finished the fourth up by 10. The team came together and picked each other up throughout the game helping to lead them to success Wood said. “Coach is always telling us to bend and not break, which helped motivate our team,” Wood said. “It helped us get through tough sports in the game to play as DePauw softball.” Ridge led the Tigers with three of the 15 to-tal hits, while Chasteen, Catherine Conte, Bell and Szyska each had two hits. Junior pitcher Emily Bichler led the Tigers striking out the Yeowomen four out of five innings, her only hit given up in the third to sophomore Kelsey Stein. The Tigers ended the first game on the eight-run rule in the top of the fifth leaving Oberlin without any points scored. Head coach Hanrahan said the team fo-cused on moving off the pitch. “We got very strong pitching in both games that allowed for a good game and great de-fense behind the pitching,” Hanrahan said. “Because we had great offense our team was able to play very free.” In game two the Tigers got off to another quick start leading the third 3-0, Krumwiede scoring two runs and Hallet scoring one. Freshman Kahla Nolan pitched holding the Yeowomen till the fifth inning where they scored two runs, but the Tigers came back scoring three runs. Three more runs were scored in the sixth totaling nine runs for the Tigers. Oberlin scored one more in the seventh, the final score 9-3. To conclude the weekend’s play, DePauw faced Hiram College on Sunday in a double-header in Hiram, Ohio. The Tigers continued their winning streak beating Hiram, 6-4, 7-1. The team will play Denison University, who defeated them in the conference champion-ship last year, in their next conference game Tuesday afternoon on their home field. To take on the Big Reds the Tigers plan to stick to their game and execute. “This squad, after seeing so many top ten teams already, it won’t be a surprise.” Han-rahan said. “Drawing on that experience that we’ve already had, to be in the right mindset and to play good defense in pitching will be key for us facing Denison. The girls will be ready.” Tigers strikes out competition “We stuck to our game and played like we do in practice,” Ridge said. “Our hit-ting came through and we got a lot of people on base. We played aggressively and well-executed plays to pull out the win. We played DePauw softball.” - Jen Ridge, sophomore softball player SOFTBALL Faculty Reviews Fall 2013 ???????? 2014 Tenure & Promotion Meredith Brickell ???????? Art and Art History Manu Raghav ???????? Economics and Management Michael Roberts ???????? Psychology Alicia Suarez ???????? Sociology and Anthropology Term Seth Friedman ???????? Communication and Theatre Kerry Jennings ???????? School of Music Ghassan Nasr ???????? Modern Languages James Wells ???????? Classical Studies Wesley Wilson - Library Interim Rachel Goldberg ???????? Conflict Studies Jacob Hale ???????? Physics and Astronomy Christina Holmes ???????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Deepa Prakash ???????? Political Science Gregory Ristow ???????? School of Music If you have information you would like to share about your experience with any of these faculty members, please write to the Committee On Faculty, c/o Carol Cox, Academic Affairs, 377 Julian Science & Mathematics Center, or E-mail: COFcoord@depauw.edu by the following deadlines: ???????? Tenure review candidates by September 2, 2013 ???????? Term review candidates by September 16, 2013 ???????? Interim review candidates by October 7, 2013 This committee makes recommendations to the President. Because of the University open file policy, all such submissions will be available to the individual faculty member. Thus, you are asked either to indicate your awareness of this policy in your letter, or to complete an open file policy form which can be obtained in the Office of Academic Affairs, 377 Julian Science and Mathematics Center or on the COF website: http://www.depauw.edu/files/resources/open-file-policy-form.pdf. The most helpful letters are those confined to personal experience of the letter writer. Since the criteria for review cover a broad set of categories spread over teaching, scholarly and artistic work, and service, your letter should only speak to your first-hand experience with the faculty member under review. It is neither helpful nor appropriate for a letter writer to make a recommendation for the outcome (e.g., granting tenure or promotion) since that implies a judgment based on incomplete information. A formal recommendation will be made by the review committees upon examination of all lines of evidence contained in the decision file. Nachimuthu Manickam, Chair, Committee on Faculty ADVERTISEMENT the depauw | sports TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013 PAGE 13 By JOSEPH FANELLI sports@thedepauw.com The men and women of the DePauw Track and Field team are entering the meat of their spring season schedule and are doing so without a crucial part of the sport – an actual track. The team, which has had to make due as the outdoor track facility in Blackstock Stadium has been under renovation, has stayed flexible using indoor facilities, DePauw’s nature park trails, Greencastle High School’s track and any means necessary to continue to train and prepare for the NCAC Outdoor championship May 3 and 4 at Kenyon College. Despite the irritating conditions, both Tiger squads had solid performances at last weekend’s Marv Frye Invitational at Ohio Wesleyan University. The men finished 12th out of 14 teams while the women placed seventh out of the 14. The highlight on the men’s side was senior captain Noah Droddy, who broke the track record in the 5,000 meter on his way to the team’s lone first place finish. The time of 14:37 was a personal best for Droddy and ranks him in the top ten nationally, positioning him in contention to compete at the 2013 Division III national meet in LaCrosse, Wis. The race was Droddy’s first outdoor 5k in two seasons. Much of his athletic success has been during the cross country during the fall. Last November, he placed 8th at the Div. III cross country nationals. But Droddy, who has had injury problems during the track and field season in the past, was excited to finally run his race during the spring season. “It’s really exciting to go out and run like that already,” Droddy said. “Track is really uncharged for me. I’ve only had one season so I’m really not sure what I’m capable of doing just yet, but it’s nice to see a really good result this early.” Head coach Kori Stoffregen noted all the more impressive about Droddy’s performance was the track’s history which has been used to host national meets. On the women’s side, senior Brittany Sievers was the only first-place finisher for the Tigers in the disc with a throw of 38.35 meters. Freshman Heather O’Brien continued her stellar season with a second place finish the 5,000 at 18:06.1. Stoffregen noted that the women in the middle distance events all had impressive days. Senior Kathleen Molloy, of recent fame as a starting player for the DePauw Division III national champion basketball team, placed fifth in the 800 meter run (2:20.42) while junior Nicole Inman finished eighth (2:23.72) and the 4X400 meter relay team was fourth with 4:11.33 “We’ve got a nice little middle distance group going right now,” Stoffregen said. “They all had good performances. The middle distance and long sprinting group for women is doing really well and we need them to do well.” An added bonus for both teams on Saturday and the rest of the weekend was a drop in temperature that has reduced a little stress for the Tigers. “It’s probably even more important this year [to have good weather] when we don’t have a track to practice on,” Stoffregen said. “We need good weather to keep going strong.” The teams will continue their season next Saturday at Franklin College at the Indiana Division III meet. Droddy sets track record in 5K at Ohio Wesleyan meet By ABBY MARGULIS sports@thedepauw.com In the women’s tennis Midwest Invitational over the weekend the team placed third, playing against some of the toughest teams in the conference. The team won 6-3 over Case Western Reserve University and beat Carleton College 8-1. The team dropped to Washington University - St. Louis 6-3. The team’s first time back on the courts after Spring Break, this tournament was a test for the team. “It took a lot of mental toughness coming back from Spring Break,” junior Claire Marshall said. “This was a test for us to see how mentally and physically prepared we were.” The team swept Carleton in doubles while five of the six single players won their matches. Sophomore Maggie MacPhail, seated number one, defeated Bridget Doyle, 6-1, 6-4 and Marshall, seated second, defeated Anne Lombardi, 6-4, 6-4. Against Washington University Marshall and Elizabeth Young pulled out wins in singles, and doubles partners Meg Crowley and Marshall won 8-2. Head coach Scott Riggle said Young is not a regular singles player for the team but stepped up to the court over the weekend. “The girls do a really good job of competing and playing for each other,” Riggle said. “They have great team unity. You can see it on their faces when they’re down and need to get a point. They pick right back up despite their fatigue.” In the team’s last match they beat Case-Western, winning all six single matches and winning one doubles match. Riggle was proud of the women for powering through the long hours of play. “Every single match had a nationally ranked team and our team played all three matches at that level,” Riggle said. “They played 15 hours against tough competition, fighting for points and running wide to the alley. It was a grueling tournament.” Midwest Invitational inspires team unity WOMEN’S TENNIS By MATT DAVIS sports@thedepauw.com Searching for their first win of the season, the DePauw men’s lacrosse team hosted the Fighting Scots of Wooster College on Lower Boswell West Field Saturday. In an inter-conference matchup, the Tigers suffered a tough loss, dropping the game 24-0. The loss moves the team to 0-9 on their inaugural season, including 0-3 in the NCAC. It has been a challenging first season for the Tigers. “Most games, we roll out a squad of 18 unrecruited athletes playing against a team of 30-plus recruits,” senior Jack Glerum said. “We recognize that it can sometimes seem like a Sisyphean task, but that doesn’t keep us from playing hard for 60 minutes. I see improvement every game and still have a blast.” A bright spot for the team has been freshman John Zupancic, who led all players with 11 face-off wins on Saturday. Zupancic has emerged as one of the best face-off midfielders in the conference. “Being a freshman starter on the team is a great experience for me,” Zupancic said. “I am very excited to see what we will do in the coming years.” Zupancic echoed Glerum’s comments about giving 100 percent no matter the outcome, and offered high praise for a senior class that is setting a great example. “A big part of the success of our team is the bond that we already have, and that is a direct result of the passion from our
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