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"e desire to feel wanted and appreciated is a strong and powerful desire shared by all human beings, regardless of age, place of origin or culture. When one feels as if the work that he or she is doing is going unrecognized, a mixture of confusion and frustration develops which causes this individual to do whatever is necessary to receive due recognition.

A#er three years of working at Davis

Diner and performing duties above his pay grade and beyond his job description, Alonzo Wilson in his position as cook II, realized that all of his complaining to managers about his hard work and desire to be promoted to supervisor was not being taken seriously, so he decided to take matters into his own hands and turn to the Creighton student body for help.

Last month, Wilson put together a petition, which he took to the students who have personally witnessed how much work he puts into making Davis Diner an enjoyable place to eat and socialize, despite the fact that the diner was o#en under sta!ed and under poor management and supervision.

“I wanted to get the support of the students because they have seen me over the last three years doing this by myself without help and acting as a manager and supervisor,” Wilson said. “"e students are my eyes.”

In completing this petition, Wilson was hoping that Sodexo managers would see how much the students appreciate all of the work that he does each day and begin acknowledging his accomplishments by promoting him to supervisor or simply just selecting him as Employee of the Month.

“I’ve never received one of these exceptional cards since I’ve been here and I’ve

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Presentation brings new view on Jesus to Creighton

Susannah Heschel presented her lecture, “"e Aryan Jesus in Nazi Germany: the Bible and the Holocaust,” to a room of over 150 people on Tuesday evening.

"e Harper Center room was full of students, faculty, and an interested public as Heschel gave her lecture as part of "e Kripke Center’s Holocaust Lecture Series. "e lecture series began in 2007 with the Frances and Sam Fried Holocaust and Genocide Education Fund supporting the annual o!ering of an academic course on genocide studies in the Creighton College of Arts & Sciences. "e annual lecture series presented for the bene$t of students and the general public features the professor who is teaching the genocide studies course for that year.

Heschel is the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her area of scholarship focuses on Jewish-Christian relations in Germany during the 19th and 20th century. Her presentation focused on how theologians reacted to, and sometimes embraced, Nazi sentiment. Heschel stressed how close this topic is to her heart as her own father lost his entire family during the Holocaust.

In her presentation Heschel gave an overview of Christianity in the Nazi Germany prior to and during Would War II. According to Heschel, German theologians would manipulate parts of Scriptures and church doctrine to deny that Jesus was a Jew and to state that Jesus came to destroy the Jews as a way of furthering Nazi sentiment. Heschel also said that Hitler’s book, “Mein Kampf,” was standard reading to become a theologian and that there were o#en swastikas found on the altar of Christian Protestant churches. Heschel went on to say that theologians were in awe of Hitler and wanted to extend their support to him.

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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, Creighton’s Barbara Reardon Heaney Chair, "e Center for Catholic "ought and the Department of "eology are sponsoring a four-year lecture and event series.

"is series of lectures, $lms and events is focusing on the meaning and impact of the Second Vatican Council. "e most recent lecture took place on Monday. According to theology professor Wendy Wright, this particular lecture will focus on Mary and the Second Vatican Council.

“Mary is present in the church as well as

being a model of faith and charity,” Wright said.Wright said the question of Mary in

relation to the church was brought up in the discussion at the Second Vatican Council. It was originally intended to have a separate document on Mary, but there was a movement to include her in the document on the church.

“Mary was a primary $gure of what it

meant to be Catholic,” Wright said."e lecture about Mary was the fourth

lecture in the series, completing one year of lectures. According to the inaugural holder of the Barbara Reardon Heaney Chair in Pastoral Liturgical "eology, Eileen Burke-Sullivan,

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never missed a day,” Wilson said.

Wilson began his work with Sodexo in 2008 at Billy Blues Alumni Grill working as a cook. A#er being informed by his then supervisor, Myron Bridges, that if he took the necessary steps to progress within the company he would

be well on his way to becoming a supervisor and eventually a manager of a Sodexo unit. Wilson attended various classes and became safe certi$ed, which is a requirement for upper level Sodexo employees.

Following a disagreement with Bridges, Wilson requested to be transferred to Davis Diner in 2010 where he has remained ever since. During his time at Davis Diner, Wilson performed various cook and supervisor duties such as processing truck orders and inventory. Despite the fact that several of Wilson’s supervisors have told him previously that he would be a good candidate for a supervisor position, he has been overlooked each and every time a supervisor’s position has became available.

“All of my $ve supervisors have told me that I would be a great supervisor and manager someday, so I don’t understand why I didn’t get the position,” Wilson said. “I feel discriminated against because they have put less quali$ed females over me.”

One example of this took place in 2011 when Wilson was asked to train an individual who was going to assume the supervisor position above him, despite the fact that she had less experience with performing the speci$c supervisor duties that Wilson had been performing alone for years. Following this supervisor’s resignation earlier this year, Wilson has continued to run the diner with little to no managerial presence.

“I’ve gone through $ve managers in four years since I’ve been with Sodexo,” Wilson said. “"is made it di&cult to move forward and be promoted. "ey [Sodexo] have put me in this sort of supervisor’s position, but they refuse to recognize me.”

When a supervisor position at Davis Diner opened up in early March, Wilson felt that this was his chance to $nally step into the position that he has desired and deserved for so long. A#er applying for this position, Wilson was noti$ed by a Sodexo hiring director that a total of three employees had applied for this position

and these candidates were being interviewed."is hiring director also told Wilson

he did not have to be formally interviewed because he had been with the company for so long and his reputation was known. However, much to Wilson’s surprise, the position was eliminated only two weeks a#er being being posted, leaving Wilson feeling confused and once again cheated out of his rightful position.

Former Sodexo employee and night supervisor of Wareham Kitchen, Dave Durbin, con$rmed that such activity happens very o#en within the company.

“Sodexo does a lot of back stabbing and cutting when they post positions,” Durbin said. “People apply for them, but they never hire anyone to those positions and months down the road they will repost it again.”

Durbin worked for Sodexo for about two years, and during that time he assisted Wilson at Davis Diner when Wilson was working alone on very busy days.

“Every day they [Sodexo] was sending him somebody di!erent to work with and you can’t run a business when you don’t have enough quali$ed individuals,” Durbin said.

Durbin said he feels strongly that Wilson has been treated unfairly by Sodexo in this capacity and that steps are still being made to force Wilson out of the company altogether.

“Alonzo [Wilson] le# Billy Blues and went to Davis to get away from Myron Bridges and now he’s [Bridges] right back,” Durbin said. “It’s almost like they want to push him out of Creighton for some reason.”

Sodexo retail manager of east campus and Wilson’s current manager as of March, Bridges explained that a lot more steps to recognize Wilson’s hard work have been taken than are being addressed. Bridges also elaborated on the fact that Wilson would have been a worthy candidate for the supervisor position, but since he never o&cially applied he was not considered when it became available.

“Alonzo has a lot of qualities to be supervisor, but he just decided not to post for the position and that’s not the way the company will allow us to do the hiring process,” Bridges said.

We contacted Sodexo’s for their comment on Wilson’s application for the open supervisor position. Executive and main o&ce manager Shanea Aguirre further supported Bridges’ claims that Wilson never applied for the supervisor position.

“I’m not sure why he didn’t apply, but he had the same opportunity as any other employee to post for a supervisor position,” Aguirre said.

Wilson denied these statements.“"at’s a lie because people can verify that

I posted for the position, I submitted the form to HR,” Wilson said.

Over the last three years that he has worked at Davis Diner, Wilson has also $led a series of harassment complaints as he felt that he was being harassed by a former supervisor. When asked to address this particular issue Aguirre expressed the fact that no such claims had ever been brought to her attention.

“"ere is no documentation or any records of that [harassment] allegation at all,” Aguirre said.

In fact, as far as Aguirre knows, Wilson was actually the one being accused of harassment.

“I know that there were some employee allegations that he [Wilson] was harassing them. Every employee that works there [at Davis] has somehow had a con'ict of interest working with him and they all would say that he was di&cult to work with,” Aguirre said. “One employee has been transferred out of that unit because of the same situation.”

Wilson denied this statement as well.“If Sodexo writes you up its a permanent

mark on your $le,” Wilson said. “If they $led a complaint show me that in my $le. It’s not there.”

At this point in time and a#er all that struggle he has undergone to get what he feels he has worked so diligently to earn, Wilson said he feels that it is far too late for this situation to be fully recti$ed.

“"e damage is done,” Wilson said. “You can’t go back and $x it. Now they’re going to have to pay for damages. "is is bigger than me so I’ve gone outside for help, as in legal counsel.”

Wilson’s attorney has already sent Sodexo a rebuttal and damages and Wilson expressed that his attorney believes that this case is “huge.”

“I want to hold them [Sodexo] accountable. "ere is a lot of pain and su!ering I’ve been through struggling with this. So somehow I’m going to make them pay for it. I don’t know how but I’m going to keep pushing until I do.”

Aside from all of the hurt, pain and confusion that Wilson has experienced in dealing with everything at hand, he constantly $nds himself wondering how a dedicated employee like himself could become involved in a situation like this.

“How is it possible that someone could do so right by the company as far as performance, dedication and loyalty and be mistreated by this group of managers at Creighton?” Wilson said. “It’s been a problem ever since I got here.”

As the saying goes, there is always three sides to every story. In this case, it is Wilson’s, Sodexo’s and the truth.

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“What they [theologians] could o!er Hitler was anti-Semitic propaganda,” Heschel said. “"ey said it very clearly, they know

something about the Jews and Judaism; they’ve studied it as theologians, especially scholars of the New and Old Testament. So they decided to establish an institute that would provide anti-Semitic propaganda and would demonstrate to

Hitler their loyalty. It also said ‘Yes, Germany is #ghting against the Jews militarily as well as #ghting spiritually.’”

"e Rev. William Harmless S.J., professor of historical theology, said that he had only

recently referenced the work of Heschel and her father in a recent scripture class. He said that he was happy to see many of his students at her lecture because he feels she o!ers an interesting, and sometimes unheard, perspective on a well-known tragedy.

Arts & Sciences freshman Lizzy Bersch attended the lecture and said she greatly enjoyed it.

“I have learned about the Holocaust in school since grade school but I never knew that some of the propaganda started in Christian churches,” Bersch said. “It’s sad to think that churches were furthering anti-Semitic ideas instead of stopping them.”

Heschel ended her lecture by stating that anti-Semitism and racism are still modern day issues and that she hopes that feelings of tolerance continue to grow. Her tone was hopeful but she reminded the audience to be self-aware because, “sometimes we only see what we want to see.”

HOLOCAUST: Susannah Heschel was invited to campus to speak about the institutions that provided anti-Semitic propaganda in Nazi Germany.

Susannah Heschel, the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, spoke about Nazi sentiment on Monday.

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LECTURE: Series will explore changes to liturgy

just as the Council itself had taken four years to accomplish, Creighton is taking four years to study, discuss and teach the Second Vatican Council as an exceptionally important event in the history of the church.

"e series will continue to explore the documents that came out of the discussions at the Council, such as Lumen Gentium, and continue to invite experts and scholars from around the world to share with us their insights into the Council and its outcomes in

multiple cultures.In the upcoming years, the various

lectures, convocations, seminars, courses, #lms and other events would include how the Second Vatican Council changed liturgy and worship. "ere will also be scholars from di!erent areas of the world to discuss how the Council a!ected religion in their culture. "ere will be scholars from di!erent areas of the world to discuss how the council a!ected religion in their culture. Burke-Sullivan encourages all students to attend and participate in these events over the next couple years.

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It is April, it is cold and the end of winter does not seem to be in sight. In the past several years, this has become the norm and climate change has become a more and more pressing issue. To address this issue and to make the Creighton community and the broader Omaha community aware of the urgency of the problem, GreenJays is sponsoring the We Matter Walk: Our Climate, Our Future with help from the Creighton Center for Service and Justice which will take place on Friday.

"e goal of this walk is to raise awareness for climate change and to provide a space for participants, whether they are students, faculty or sta!, to publicly show their concern and to discuss this issue together.

“[We hope they] start to realize the gravity climate change and to start making  positive changes to say, ‘Hey, We Matter, here is what we need to do, and here is what I can do,’” said GreenJays president and Arts & Sciences junior Alexandria Clark.

Climate change is an issue that a!ects every single human being and is not an issue that can be reversed overnight.

“Climate change, I think, is without question the most important issue the human community faces, perhaps has ever faced,” said GreenJays moderator and associate professor of systematic theology Richard Miller. “Global warming is not merely a dangerous possibility; it is a presently unfolding reality.”

“What is important is what climate change means; it can have  devastating  e!ects on agriculture, water and even the tourism industry. All of these things will a!ect us, our economy and possibly upset the way we as a society have become accustomed to,” Clark said.

Although many people recognize that climate change is an issue, according to Miller, they are unaware of how urgent this is. For the past three decades, scientists have predicted the e!ects of climate change and those e!ects have now become a reality in the form of rising sea levels, melting glaciers and increasingly severe storms.

Arts & Sciences freshman Jessica Sheldon, a Creighton Climate Action Plan intern, explained that Creighton’s Climate Action Plan policy’s purpose is “to a%rm its moral obligation to practice ecological responsibility and social justice to work towards creating a better, more sustainable world for us and for those that come a&er us.”

With this walk, GreenJays hopes to uphold this policy of creating a better world by bringing to light the importance of addressing climate change. Pre-walk activities will begin at 3:30 p.m. on the Kiewit Fitness Center Lawn. "ese will include live music from Tom Breiding and several Creighton students. "e walk will start at 5 p.m., and all interested students and sta! are encouraged to participate. "ere are no fees associated with the walk, so participants simply need to be on time. As winter slowly draws to a close, the We Matter Walk reminds Creighton to look at the bigger picture.

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“What’s on your finals study playlist?”

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?Question of the Week...?

Lamar HendersonArts & Sciences senior

Andrew BlairNursing senior

Victoria Lourdes ÁvilaBusiness junior

Shelby LimpachNursing sophomore

“Acoustic: La Mar, Gregory Allan Isakov, !e Ashtray Hearts, and Mumford & Sons.”

“I listen to K.Dot because he is motivational and keeps me awake.”

“I listen to bachata by Prince Royce and Reggeaton by Don Omar.”

“I listen to hip hop and R&B for the most part. My favorite is ‘Stay’ by Rhianna.”

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Outsiders o"en have the idea of a stereotype that Nebraska is just a state for farming and corn. But, thanks to a Creighton professor’s insight, it can be known that Nebraska has much more to o#er, especially when it comes to history of women in journalism.

According to a university press release, Eileen Wirth, Ph.D., chair and professor of the Department of Journalism, Media and Computing at Creighton recently published her new book, “From Society Page to Front Page: Nebraska Women in Journalism.” !is is only one of her many publications.

Wirth holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, as well as a doctorate in political science from UNL. She $rst joined the Creighton family in 1991, and in 1997 became the chair of the Department of Journalism, Media and Computing. Wirth’s credibility is attributed to reporting for the Omaha World Herald for 11 years, as well as working in public relations for Union Paci$c Railroad for eight years, the university release said.

!e author was one of three of the four $rst women reporters at the Omaha World Herald. Wirth said that a"er going on sabbatical and teaching History of American Mass Media for many years, she decided she wanted to write something on the history of women in journalism.

Wirth’s most recent book focuses on journalists from every venue, from rural weeklies to television. !e book also o#ers insight into some of the most remarkable stories in the history of journalism and discusses the barriers females faced throughout the course of history.

“!is book sheds new light on how women

have learned juggling personal and professional lives,” Wirth said. “!ese women were as capable as any other Nebraska native, were married, raising families and chose to live here. “

Wirth is a Nebraska native herself. Furthermore, Wirth explained that although these women may not have thought their jobs and careers were important, they were. !ese women encouraged others and have made a di#erence for women today because of their hard work.

“!is was the most satisfying project I’ve ever done because it helped me learn an incredible amount about a group of women from my state who have been part of Nebraska journalism,” Wirth said. “!ese women were su#rage journalists, white house correspondents, even teenage girls who ran their own weekly newspapers in small towns. !ey were remarkable people.”

According to the press release, the book covers stories from the days of Willa Cather to modern journalists from all across the state. Wirth documents many women who she was unfamiliar with who had high achieving careers, but also faced many obstacles along the way.

Wirth explained the 2008 presidential elections and discussed how TV commentators were extremely sexist toward candidate Hilary Clinton. Commentators trashed Clinton’s women supporters. Wirth said a"er hearing this female $gure be disrespected, she was interested in further looking into the issue of why these disrespectful terms had not subsided.

“!e epilogue I hope does a few things,: one, help women of a certain age celebrate their own careers because it shows a story of all of the huge doors that were opened for young women, and it is a story that has not been told,” Wirth said. “Young women can learn what their mothers and professors have done and be encouraged to tell their own stories.”

Journalism is a $eld with a wide variety of bright people who get to meet interesting people and do interesting things while getting paid, Wirth explained. She said she began reading books by journalists in high school and journalism seemed like an interesting and fun occupation.

“In college I worked on the student paper, and for the $rst time in life I felt like I belonged, and was with the people I had the most things in common with,” Wirth said. “My joy in teaching journalism is helping students $nd a $eld they love and $nd out who they are, like I did.”

!e Department of Journalism, Media

and Computing at Creighton has a close-knit sta# and special relationship with students. It is the department’s hope that students will $nd their way, and know that they have a group of individuals directly out of the $eld to contact even a"er their undergraduate days are over.

Wirth will be having a book signing and panel discussion featuring women from her book at the Omaha Press Club on May 9 and welcomes all faculty and students. !e signing and discussion will begin at 5 p.m. and all of the proceeds from the book sales will go directly to the Press Club Foundation scholarship fund.

MIKAYLA FLOTTScene Reporter

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Holy Name elementary debaters say the darndest thingsCreighton University has been home

to many an academic discussion and guest speaker over the years. !e most recent brilliant minds to grace the hallowed halls of the Jesuit institution took the form of the third and fourth graders of Omaha’s own Holy Name Elementary School.

Last Wednesday, the Creighton University chapter Phi Sigma Tau honor society in philosophy took on the feisty brood in debates for which they have been preparing all semester. !e tournament consisted of three debates in which the teams were judged based on their teamwork, logic, delivery, brevity and, last but not least, cuteness.

Each !ursday and Friday morning, Creighton students dedicate their time to teaching the students of Holy Name the basics of philosophy and debate. !is is a part of the Philosophy for Children program that was started in 2006 by Creighton professor Jinmei Yuan. !e program is a “mix of philosophy and education” which “fosters and facilitates children’s critical thinking abilities,” according the pamphlet presented at the debate.

“We do riddles and puzzles to promote critical thinking,” Arts & Sciences senior Alex Verhoye said. “[Over the semester] we’ve seen a lot of growth.”

!e aim of the puzzles is to teach the children to expand critical thinking and help them to develop ideas and solve problems. !e curriculum for the sessions themselves teach the young debaters the basics of philosophy.

“We teach formal logic like Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens, things you learn in introductory philosophy and then we translate that to English,” Verhoy said.

!e audience got a taste of the brainteaser that the children solve weekly. A combination of riddles and word problems were %ashed across the projector screen that stood at the front of the Skutt ballroom.

Arts & Sciences sophomore Mara McGuire also works with the students of Holy Name.

“!ey’re really smart,” McGuire said. “We’re always surprised by what they come up with.”

“!ey come up with their debate topics and we make di#erent ideas,” Verhoye said about their weekly debate meetings.

One week, Verhoye recalled, the third grade class debated monsters and whether they were real or unreal. A"er exploring both sides of the issue Verhoye introduced the idea of zombies to the mix, helping the Holy Name students expand their argument.

!e $rst debate pitted the fourth grade class against Phi Sigma Tau in a heated debate over the topic “Should we de-extinct animals?’ Holy Name argued the a&rmative. In their opening statement, one of the boys argued that “large animals can carry many things” that would bene$t society while “small animals can carry small things, like groceries.” !e closing argument brought up another claim that “scientists should revive animals so we don’t make the same mistake again” of wiping out a species.

!e second debate had the two Holy Name teams go face to face to argue the validity of school uniforms. !e third grade team argued that uniforms bene$ted students because, without them “you may be tired and go to school in your pajamas and look embarrassed.” !e fourth grade team responded with an equally persuasive argument that “if college students don’t have to wear uniforms why should other students?”

Perhaps the argument that clutched the narrow 79.5 to 77 point victory in favor of the third graders was their claim that “uniforms represent your school and if people like the way you dress they may come there and you’d get better stu#.”

In the $nal debate, Phi Sigma Tau debated the third graders about the e#ectiveness of learning from books over learning from movies. !e third graders argued the e&ciency of movies over books, saying that “it could take days to read a book but only hours to watch a movie.” Phi Sigma Tau argued back that that while movies are more enjoyable, books are ultimately better in the long run, comparing the two to chocolate and broccoli. !e third graders responded with the sharp point that they “understand that broccoli is better for children than chocolate but that doesn’t mean they have to eat broccoli. !ey can watch movies and eat chocolate.”

!ough they were defeated by $erce competition, Phi Sigma Tau members Arts & Sciences juniors Adam Lomas, Brandon Leppke and Megan Saladee and seniors Megan Turco and Libby MacCarthaigh put up a valiant e#ort.

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On the way home yesterday as I was scanning my way through the radio stations and !guring out what to write about for this week, a familiar country song by Miranda Lambert came on that gave me the inspiration I was searching for.

"e song playing was “Baggage Claim.” "e lyrics may not be that meaningful (I mean, a#er the !rst chorus the point has been made), but I found myself thinking, “preach girl.”

Essentially, Miranda is fed up with her boy’s baggage and isn’t dealing with it anymore because she has enough of her own. So she le# it at the baggage claim for him to pick up. Nice

pun Miranda.Whether we like it or

not, baggage comes along with every relationship. Before entering the world of adult dating I never really understood the importance of factors such as shared pets, ex-!ances, and even children that play into relationships. I can remember when my aunt would $ip out whenever her boyfriend’s ex’s name was mentioned. I always !gured she was ancient history and that there was nothing to worry about, so why all the fuss?

"e truth is, everyone has an ex story, but whether that story has a happy or not so happy

ending will determine how the relationship plays out. Say he or she has been cheated

on. Because of that experience your signi!cant other could have a tough time believing you and might accuse you of all the things his or her ex did to him or her. What do you do to solve this problem? Deal with it right away and be

upfront about how this excess baggage makes you feel. If you

think that by keeping quiet things will eventually go away, think again.

If a#er having that chat and nothing has changed, take Miranda’s advice and

leave him or her and the baggage behind and move on to someone who won’t drag you

through the dirty ex laundry.If you are dealing with his or her “I’ve been

single for a long time” or the “I’m not looking

for commitment” baggage, solving it involves a di%erent route. In the case of the “single for a long time” try and work as much face time in as possible. If he or she is always blowing you o% and all about “me, me, me,” ask yourself if he or she is really in this for the relationship or is in it merely for the convenience.

Tackling the “commitment-phobe” is another story. Keep in mind that there could be multiple reasons as to why he or she won’t commit. It could be anything from witnessing his or her parents’ unhappy marriage to just simply wanting to play the !eld more before he or she gets serious with anyone. Just take a step back and ask yourself if you can handle dealing with a “repeated head banging against the wall” situation and if he or she is really worth it.

Lastly, make sure you have your own baggage in check. "e past is something you learn from, not something that should hold you back.

The

SceneDating

KASSAUNDRA

HARTLEY

Scene Columnist

Don’t be afraid to bail on baggage

B u n n i e s and llamas and chickens, oh my! not quite the scary c o n n o t a t i o n of the famous line from “"e Wizard of Oz,” but an accurate d e s c r i p t i o n of Creighton’s c a m p u s recently.

L a s t F r i d a y , Gallagher Hall

held an event for students called the G-Town GetDown. "ere was a petting zoo, bouncy houses and mazes, a DJ, popcorn, freshly spun cotton candy and make-your-own walking tacos.

Students were excited and had a great time as they explored all the activities.

“Llamas, cotton candy and bouncy houses; what more can a stressed college student ask for?” Business freshman Tara Morgan said.

What more indeed? "ere doesn’t seem to be a much better way to get rid of some that pre-!nal stress than to race one of your friends through a bouncy house maze, running around blocks and going down slides.

“I haven’t been in a bouncy house in years,” Morgan said. “"at was de!nitely my favorite part of the a#ernoon.”

Other students said they enjoyed the walking tacos, especially those who had never had them before. Business freshman Jonathan Kreifels said he had no idea what a walking taco (taco ingredients in a crunched up bag of Doritos) was before he came to this event, but a#erwards decided it was a great invention.

Another great attraction was the mini petting zoo. A family brought a variety of di%erent animals they keep on their farm to campus. "e list included baby bunnies, llamas, goats, donkeys, sheep and ducks. Students were allowed to hold and pet these animals. Arts & Sciences freshman Harry Biggs said he and his friend’s favorite part was the animals.

Gallagher’s annual “GetDown” is a last push for students and faculty to relax before facing the crunchtime stress of !nals weeks that looms over campus.

CAMERON TRACEScene Reporter

Gallagher Hall hosts annual G-Town GetDown

TOP: One of the llamas who attended the G-Town GetDown snacks on some hay.

RIGHT: A small donkey at the new petting zoo poses at this year’s Gallagher party which celebrates another year coming to a close at Creighton.

FAR RIGHT: Arts & Sciences freshman Hailey Austin takes advantage of visiting the petting zoo located just outside of Gallagher Hall at this year’s celebration of the end of the school year. HEIDI HOFFMAN/THE CREIGHTONIAN

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26 April 2013

OPINIONTHE CREIGHTONIAN

Evan Holland, Opinion Editor [email protected]

Follow us: @cu_opinion

Quote of the Week“!e greater sadness for me is that America feels increasingly like a nation united by spectacles of atrocity.”

- Steve Almond wrote in his article “Boston Under Siege, My Kids in the Driveway” appearing in !e New Republic on April 22, 2013.

“You can plan on girls being girls” struck me as one of the most compelling

analyses of girls and their anti-complexity, which I have ever read. !e author scienti"cally observes that anyone who doesn’t live under a rock knows of girls’ crazy tendencies regarding relationships. !e article’s only #aw is that it does not go far enough (probably hindered by the lame-stream media). I for one do live under a rock, and even I know how crazy all girls are when it comes

to relationships.Despite it being unnecessary, the

author humbly concedes that girls actually are logical; however, they simply go “overboard” with it and stretch propositions to illogical ends. Such compelling syllogism by the author may remind the reader of Dostoyevsky’s protagonist Raskolnikov and that may force the reader to question whether “he” was really a “she” given his tendency to go overboard with logic.

But the author’s most compelling social commentary comes when she boldly identi"es the real crux of the problem; that is: that our expectation of girls and their behavior is simply too high. Again the author scienti"cally proclaims that when girls think ahead they just get too worked up. Obviously an awesome axiom of existence. A$er all the author duly points out how the exclusive considerations of girls, “gym, tanning and laundry” can easily over-work the beta-brain burdening all girls.

Even a quick gaze into the author’s abyss was awesome. Literally. As a society we cannot expect to live in a girls’ utopia such as is illustrated in Mathew Weiner’s show “Mad Men.” We can’t expect girls to be logical any more than we can expect sincere un-satirical writing from what we read. We should then, as the article suggests, shield ourselves from such expectations and leave the abyss of women stereotypes unperturbed. !at is my proposal.

GRANT ENGRAV3rd Year Law Student

We are writing in regards to Kass Hartley’s Dating Column published on April 12, “You can plan on girls being girls.” While we are encouraged that !e Creightonian includes a dating column that generally looks beyond the hook-up culture toward ideally stable and healthy romantic relationships, Ms. Hartley’s column unfortunately missed the mark in regard to conveying this message.

We take no issue with individuals, regardless of their gender identity, taking care of their appearance. Moreover, it’s normal for people to plan and even dream about major life events such as marriage, long-term partnerships, careers, hobbies or being a parent. Some people plan more than others. Some people dream more than others. It’s normal to think about the future. It’s also normal not to think much about it.

When people meet another person who they are romantically interested in, it’s normal to become excited about what the future might hold. Some people are more nervous than others. Some relationships have more unknowns. Either way, in a healthy relationship built on mutual respect and trust, there is nothing “creepy” or “irrational”

in being excited about the relationship or wondering about the future.

What concerns us are the stereotypes Ms. Hartley used to describe women. !ey were overwhelmingly broad, and overall, quite negative. She referred to women as “crazy,” “dramatic,” “irrational,” “creepy,” “trouble,” and their hearts as “fragile.” !e writer and editor fail to recognize the power of language, and that these characterizations promote unfair and inappropriate stereotyping of women and their role as an equal partner in a romantic relationship.

We believe that people are God’s children, made in his image and that alone gives them inherent worth and dignity. We all experience a broad variety of emotions and each respond di%erently to signi"cant events in our lives. To imply that women are “crazy,” “dramatic,” “irrational,” “creepy” [and] “trouble,” and their hearts “fragile,” undermines their inherent worth and discounts the intellect, strength, love and thousands of other wonderful attributes that women bring to relationships and to this world.

MICHAELA TALLMAN Director of the Lieben Center

MARSHA PIERCEDoctoral Graduate Student

Letter Editor

tothe

Disappointed by stereotypes ‘An honest proposal’

In the April 12 issue of !e Creightonian, the Scene section’s popular “!e Dating Scene” included a column by Kassaundra Hartley titled “You can plan on girls being girls.” !e Editoral sta% received numerous letters about this column. Two of those letters are included below.

Visit www.creightonian.com to read more columns by our sta% columnists.

I’m going to go ahead and make a broad judgment here. I think that everyone has been in a position where they have to say more but have completely run out of things to say or even topics to talk about. Your speech has to "ll up ten minutes, your paper has to be 12 pages, your website has to have eight pages or your PowerPoint needs to have 25 slides, and you are sitting there completely out of ideas.

We’ve all been there. Nobody more so, it seems, than big corporate news giants. !e 24-hour news cycle is a phenomenon in which a pair of talking heads in uncomfortable-looking suits is suddenly told that they have to give a 24-hour-long speech. Eventually, you run out of

new things to talk about.You can #ip on a news channel, let’s say

CNN, and you can watch live, as whoever is on the screen o&cially runs out of things to say. !ey go through all of the classic steps of a student done with their speech a few minutes early: they stutter a little, shi$ around a lot, repeat themselves a few times, say the same thing but in four di%erent ways, and then they just start making up vague statements that they hope no one will call them on.

Like a student saddled with a speech time they have no business trying to "ll, a news giant seems to be unable to just go to commercial and call it a night. No, because the student a$er them is going to do the same thing, but better, and they can’t let that happen.

I extended the metaphor too far, didn’t

I? I extended the metaphor too far. Let’s get literal again.

Sometimes it’s okay to not have anything to say.

Personally, I would rather watch the same broadcast over than watch interviews with little kindergarteners who just lost classmates in a violent and senseless shooting. I would rather watch an infomercial for the ShamWow than watch an hour-long pointless speculation on the perpetrator of a devastating tragedy.

Heck, I would rather go outside.News is important. I’m sure this is shocking

information to be reading in a newspaper, but I understand the crave for information that, hypothetically, drives a media outlet to do the things that, two hours later, are clearly over-the-line. When you’re in the moment, when

you have information that needs to be shared, it’s hard to resist the urge to send it o% without double-checking it. Add in the pressure of being expected to "ll-up dead air with something that people will watch for ratings, and it’s easy to see how things like CNN having an hour of build up for exclusive information that didn’t exist on the Boston Marathon bombings can happen, but it shouldn’t. News should be for the sake of news, not for the sake of ratings.

If news organizations are going to say something, I for one hope that it’s something worth being said. On our end, it’s important to give news organizations feedback. Write a letter, write an e-mail, call in if something is happening that you don’t approve of; make them listen because they are supposed to be reporting to you.

CARRIE HAUSMANOpinion Columnist

Talking talking heads and the dead air in 24-hour news

Stone Age Cartoons Cartoon by Ed Chapman

26 April 2013

SPORTSTHE CREIGHTONIAN

Matt Bourgault, Sports [email protected]

Softball stays on top of MVC standings

!e Creighton so"ball team held onto the top spot in the Missouri Valley standings with its #"h straight conference win over the Southern Illinois University Salukis at the CU Sports Complex last weekend.

Creighton, now 12-3 in the conference, won two of the three games in the series. !e match-up began Saturday a"ernoon with the Jays winning a 6-5 come-from-behind thriller, followed by a 1-6 nightcap defeat. !e Jays went on to clinch the series with a 5-0 win on Sunday.

!e series opener kept fans on the edge of their seats with a 0-0 score at the end of the seventh inning. SIU lit a spark in the top of the eighth to bring home #ve Salukis before the Jays rallied for a six-run comeback.

“!at was the biggest and best comeback I’ve ever been apart of,” head coach Brent Vigness said. “So many people had to stay focused. It wasn’t just one or two that had a big at-bat.”

Freshman out#elder Kelsey Allender started the Bluejay o$ense with an in#eld single followed by a walk drawn by senior in#elder Ashley Frutos. Freshman utility player Blake Ringle delivered with a three-run pinch-hit home run to cut the Saluki lead to just two at 5-3. Singles by junior utility player Blair Lowe and senior in#elder Amy Baker and a walk drawn by junior Alexis Cantu put three Jays on base. With loaded bases, a two-RBI-single from junior out#elder Ellen Homan clinched the victory.

SIU was able to post another #ve-run inning in game two, this time taking home the win. A"er connecting on three quick singles in the #"h, SIU loaded the bases with no outs. A walk and two more singles pushed the visitor’s lead to 5-0 before the end of the inning.

A"er a scoreless #rst #ve innings, the Jays went run-for-run with the Salukis in the sixth, ending the game with a 6-1 defeat.

Creighton took home the series win on Sunday a"ernoon with a 5-0 shutout. !e Jays forced three pitcher changes, with eight of the nine starters producing a hit.

“!at was a real complete game on our part,” Vigness said. “We made tremendous adjustments to what we saw on Saturday.”

A Ringle double got the Jays o$ to an early 1-0 lead and back-to-back solo home runs by Baker and Cantu put the score at 3-0 in the bottom of the third. A single RBI by Allender and another Cantu home run brought home the win.

Junior pitcher Becca Changstrom kept SIU o$ the scoreboard, allowing only three hits on the day. !e complete-game win marked her 11th double-digit strikeout performance of the season.

!e Jays traveled to the No. 20 University of Nebraska on Wednesday looking to avenge a 4-3 loss at the CU Sports Complex from earlier this month, but lost again 6-0. !e Huskers hit solo home runs in the second and fourth innings, then blew the game open in the bottom of the sixth with a grand slam.

Junior out#elder Ellen Homan hit an in#eld single in the second inning, while freshman in#elder Erin McGonigal recorded a single in the third for her #rst career hit in her #rst start. However, no other Bluejay managed to get a hit and Creighton le" #ve runners stranded on base in the shutout.

!e Jays now sit at 26-13 on the season and return to conference play this weekend as the team travels to Spring#eld, Mo. to take on the Missouri State University Bears. First pitch of the Saturday double-header is set for noon.

NATALIE HACKBARTHSports Reporter

Baseball stops Salukis

Creighton rides its pitching to three victoriesJORDAN ALLEN/THE CREIGHTONIAN

Redshirt freshman pitcher Tommy Strunc made it into the ninth inning before giving up a hit last Friday night against Southern Illinois University.

Quality pitching performances throughout the weekend three-game series led to a Creighton sweep of the Southern Illinois University Salukis. !e Jays defeated the Salukis, 4-3, 5-3 and 9-1.

!e weekend was highlighted by a one-hit performance on Friday night by freshman starting pitcher Tommy Strunc.

!e Jays improved to 22-9 overall and 8-4 in Missouri Valley Conference play (third in the conference standings).

!e Jays found themselves in many jams in Sunday’s game, but the Salukis le" 14 men on base and managed to plate only one run.

Freshman pitcher Nick Highberger tossed three-and-a-third innings of scoreless relief to record the victory. !e Rye, Colo. product struck out two and gave up #ve hits in his #rst career win as a Jay.

Freshman right-hander Austin Groth started the game for the Jays, allowing one run o$ of #ve hits while striking out two and walking a pair in three-and-a-third frames.

O$ensively, the Jays had #ve extra base hits. Sophomore second baseman Jake Peter went 3-for-4 at the plate, including two triples. Peter also scored three runs.

!e Jays opened up the game scoring four runs o$ of four hits and two walks in the #rst inning.

Junior center#elder Mike Gerber, junior third baseman Federico Castagnini and senior out#elder Jordan Makovicka each recorded two RBIs in the Jays’ 9-1 victory on Sunday.

Castagnini was named the MVC Player of the Week a"er recording eight hits in 16 at-bats, driving in seven runs and scoring four times in a four-game e$ort including the series against SIU and a mid-week game against the Kansas University Jayhawks.

On Saturday, senior starting pitcher Nick Musec allowed a run in the opening half-inning, but the Jays answered with three runs in their half of the #rst.

“Give Nick a lot of credit because he got o$ to kind of a slow start. !ey got three hits o$ of him and probably should have had more than one run,” head coach Ed Servais said, “But he struck out a couple guys in some key situations, and the o$ense came back and scored three.”

Sophomore catcher Kevin Lamb’s two-RBI single plated senior shortstop Alex Staehely and Gerber, giving the Jays an early 3-1 lead in the

home half of the opening inning.“!ere’s one thing getting hits, and another

getting hits to drive in runs and (Lamb) seems to have a knack for that,” Servais said. “For him to have 22 RBIs at this time of year and really not playing every game; it really speaks volumes.”

Lamb #nished the weekend with #ve hits in 13 plate appearances with three RBIs.

Castagnini’s RBI sacri#ce %y in the second and Gerber’s RBI single in the #"h plated the other two runs of the game.

!e Jays had an opportunity to strike gold with the based loaded and only one out in the bottom of the #"h inning, but Lamb bunted into an inning ending double play.

!e Jays allowed one run in the #"h and one in the seventh to give the Salukis hope, but that was all the Salukis could muster.

In the ninth inning, with the Jays leading 5-3, the Salukis loaded up the bases with two outs. However, junior relief pitcher Bryan Sova forced SIU’s #rst baseman Ryan Casillas to %y out to right #eld to end the game.

“Give Bryan Sova a lot of credit for coming in in a tough situation and getting three outs,” Servais said.

Strunc’s near no-hit bid on Friday night kept the fans at TD Ameritrade on the edge of their seats on the brisk night.

Strunc opened the game striking out the #rst #ve batters he faced.

“When he throws strikes he can be a dominant Friday night guy,” Servais said.

!e freshman from Highlands Ranch, Colo. was perfect through three innings. Strunc recorded seven strikeouts while keeping the Saluki hitters o$ balance.

To back the right-hander’s strong performance, the Jays o$ense produced early runs in the second and third innings.

Lamb singled home sophomore #rst baseman Landon Lucansky to put the Jays on top 1-0 in the second.

A"er a lead-o$ walk, a single and a sacri#ce bunt, Staehely took Cody Forsythe’s 0-2 delivery over the le" #eld wall for a three-run home run, during the third inning.

!e Jays led 4-0 a"er three frames.“When you can put up four runs in the #rst

three innings and have that cushion as a pitcher, that is phenomenal,” Strunc said. “You can go out there and pitch nice and relaxed.”

Strunc remained perfect through the #rst two batters in the fourth, but four straight balls gave Southern Illinois their #rst runner of

the game.“His #rst three or four innings was as good

as we’ve seen a Creighton pitcher in the last several years,” Servais said.

!e Salukis managed to get three more on base through the next three-and-two-thirds innings, but none of them reached via a batted ball.

In the eighth, with two outs and a man on #rst, Strunc preserved his outing with a defensive play of his own.

On the #rst pitch, SIU lead-o$ hitter Jake Welch hit a comebacker up the middle. !e ball dislodged Strunc’s glove from his le" hand, but the freshman had enough time to get down the back of the mound, pick up the ball and #re a strike to #rst to keep his no-hitter intact.

“You could ask me to make that play 10 more times and I’m not going to make it,” Strunc said.

A"er a quiet bottom of the eight, Strunc returned to the mound in the #nal frame with his pitch count at 121.

On his #rst delivery, Southern Illinois’ Rennie Troggio hit a slow-roller that found its way through the middle of the in#eld, breaking up Strunc’s attempt at the no-no.

“I threw a strike and he hit it,” Strunc said. “!at’s what happened, that’s how baseball goes.”

!e six-foot-one red-shirt freshman #nished the game allowing only one hit, walking #ve and striking out a career-high eight men in eight-plus innings of work.

Servais pulled his starter a"er the base hit and gave the ball to Peter to take the Jays to the #nish.

Peter allowed back-to-back extra base hits, including Austin Montgomery’s #"h home run of the season. Montgomery’s three-run blast pulled the Salukis within one.

!e #nal three batters could not get the ball out of the in#eld, as Peter preserved the 4-3 win for his starter.

“Every pitcher strives to go nine innings and throw no-hitters and throw a perfect game, but any time you can go out and actually do it and perform it’s very satisfying,” Strunc said a"er Friday night’s game.

“!is is de#nitely one of the best starts of my career. I’m gonna remember it forever.”

!e Jays host the TD Ameritrade Classic this weekend. !e Jays play in-state rival the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Friday night, Rutgers University on Saturday and Oklahoma State University on Sunday.

ANTHONY ROBINSONSports Reporter

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MATT BOURGAULTSports Editor

OUT OF BOUNDS

Mass exodusIf you are

reading this a!er the Nevin J o h n s o n interview I guess you might know what this is about.

W h i l e there has been fuss all over Omaha about J o h n s o n ’ s

departure, there are even more moves that have somehow slipped under the radar. Just this weekend, I learned that Je" Gal already le! the Creighton men’s soccer team for a spot at the University of Virginia.

If you don’t recall or don’t care about soccer - either is inexcusable - Gal was instrumental in Creighton’s run to the Final Four last season. His loss is devastating, even if Alex Bolowich proves to be an above average replacement.

Beyond these two losses, even more rumors are swirling about departures.

#is is just a part of the new Creighton culture. We asked for it and we got it.

#is is no longer a university with scrappy sports teams trying to make a name for themselves. Creighton now has major programs, and there will be more transferring to come.

#ese kinds of things are just a side e"ect of major college sports. I think Johnson summed it up perfectly, “At the end of the day, it’s a business.”

#e illusion of looking out for for an athlete’s education is just another casualty of this. Kids, 19- and 20-year-old kids, have to pack up their studies and move because of what the NCAA wants to paint as an extra curricular activity.

It’s an extra curricular activity that makes boatloads of cash for the university and dictates which buildings get to be built unreasonably close to the soccer stadium, but that doesn’t matter. #ese are students, man. How dare you suggest otherwise.

I guess the point I’m laboriously trying to drag out is that Creighton is now part of the NCAA problem. We have to drop the student-athlete facade and accept that we are now dealing with the idea of cash cow-athlete-students.

Transfers, both in and out, will become commonplace as kids try to $nd a place to expand their brand. #is is especially true of this transition period. We have to weed out anyone (try to remember that these are people) not worthy of making the leap to the Big East.

#e kids we bring in aren’t looked at as students or people, either. #ey’re assets. Just this week, Justin Edwards was on campus a!er deciding that he wanted to transfer from the University of Maine. I asked my friends that go there what they thought about him.

As expected, every answer was basketball related. I can’t tell you anything about him as a person or student, but I can certify that he is “nasty” on the court. If you were wondering, that’s one step below “wicked nasty” and two below “wicked [#e FCC says it’s okay when David Ortiz says it,] nasty.”

Try to forgive me for hopping up on the soapbox for this last column of the year. I want to entertain, I really do. It’s just that I really hate the NCAA for what it does to these kids.

#at’s what I took away most from the Nevin Johnson interview. #e whole time I could see the uncertainty in his eyes. #is was a young man who wasn’t sure where his future was headed. It was terrifying to watch, in a way. I admire his strength to give that interview because I know I wouldn’t want to talk to a hack reporter about uprooting my life.

But that’s just what happens when you move on to the big time. Students come and students go. All of them try to promote themselves while making money for the NCAA. I don’t think Ed O’Bannon has ever had a larger fan base.

Johnson’s parting words

ANNA BAXTER/THE CREIGHTONIANThere was plenty of hype surrounding redshirt freshman wing Nevin Johnson before this past season. An ankle injury sidelined Johnson for the beginning of the season, effectively taking him out of the rotation. He spent the rest of the year searching for a role.

Nevin Johnson sat down with us to discuss his decision to transfer away from Creighton

Nevin Johnson announced his intention to transfer from Creighton University on April 16 a!er completing his redshirt freshman season. Johnson appeared in 24 games this season, averaging 6.5 minutes in those contests.

Okay, I guess this is the most obvious question. Why did you decide to transfer from Creighton?

#e reason why I decided to transfer was because me and Coach Mac came to a mutual decision. It was an agreement that my role with the team was going to be similar to the one it was the previous season. Basically, I’m looking to $nd a bigger role on a team, you know, that I can showcase more of my talent and be more of use to the team.

Do you have any places you’re looking at speci!cally?

Right now, a lot of junior colleges have been calling me. Right now I’m just keeping all of my options open, seeing who’s interested in me.

When did you make the decision?I believe it was last week. Me and Coach

Mac were having the end of the season meeting like everyone else. #at’s when the decision was made.

How did your teammates react to the news?

#ey took it pretty much the same way I took it. It’s tough having to change things up, you know, a!er being in the same place for two years. You kind of get used to things, kind of get comfortable. Now I have to up and make a change, so it’s kind of tough, but you have to do what you have to do.

When coach McDermott told you that your role was going to stay the same, how much do you think that had to do with moving to the Big East?

He said that was a part of it. Also, the personnel on the team was also a part of it. Basically that’s just it.

"ere have been a recent stretch of transfers, including men’s soccer goalie Je# Gal. Is this a Creighton problem, or just a part of college athletics?

It’s just like a part of college sports, you

know. At the end of the day, it’s a business. Basically I have to go where I’m wanted at. #at’s just what it is. You go where your standing is the best.

Could you describe your time here at Creighton? Were you happy, generally?

Oh yeah, like I had a great time here. I met a lot of great people. I made a lot of great friends. Basketball-wise, it was always a lot of fun, you know. I always love playing basketball, you know. Playing in the CenturyLink in front of all those great fans, you know, Creighton fans are awesome. Omaha is a great city. #ere are a lot of friendly people. You know, the Midwest is known for its friendly people. I had a great time here, you know, looking back on it I had a lot of good times. Overall, I had a good time here.

Is there anything else you’d like to say to the Creighton community?

You know, I enjoyed my time here. #e fans showed me a lot of love in my time here. Every time I did get in the game, you know, I always got a great ovation from the fans. Overall, I had a great time. I just would like to thank the fans for supporting me in my time here. Moving on to the future, I’ll always remember this place.

MATT BOURGAULTSports Editor

Men’s tennis swept by Illinois State University

#e Creighton men’s tennis team fell to Illinois State University 7-0 in its $nal MVC regular-season match at the Koch Family Tennis Center.

#e Jays couldn’t get the ball to bounce their way on Sunday a!ernoon. #e Redbirds dominated the Jays in their doubles matches and swept them o" of their feet in the singles matches.

Together, senior Ryan Norman and freshman Nick #ompson had the best doubles match of the day, losing 8-3.

“Ryan Norman and Nick #ompson played well at No. 1 doubles and a few of the guys were

able to make their singles matches somewhat competitive, but they were just too good,” coach Tom Lilly said.

Senior Sean Mathison and freshman Brandon Lee fell 8-2 and sophomore Elliot Baker and freshman August Nysted lost 8-1 in No. 2 and No. 3 doubles respectively.

Norman put forth a strong e"ort in his $nal home game as a Bluejay, but fell a little short. He lost to ISU’s Jacob Wilson on court No. 2, 6-4 and 7-6, in the closest match of the day.

Mathison lost on court No. 1 to ISU’s Erik Brunskog, 6-3, 6-2.

“I play a very aggressive game, but I feel I am not attacking as well as I should be,” Mathison said.

Norman and Mathison put up valiant

e"orts in a losing cause, but the team’s third senior, Billy Paluch, was forced to watch from the sidelines on senior day. Paluch injured his foot in the second match of the year and missed the rest of the season.

Illinois State claimed the last few matches, overpowering Creighton to complete the sweep. Baker pushed Jakub Eisner in the $rst set, losing 7-5, but got swept in the second 6-0. #e freshman trio of Quinn Dippel, Lee and Nysted all lost in two sets. Freshman Anthony Rauschenbach sat out with an injury.

#e Jays $nished the regular season with a 0-5 MVC mark and a 7-10 record overall. Creighton will be the No. 6 seed in the MVC Tournament in Wichita, Kan. which begins on Friday.

SINEAD SIEMSSports Reporter