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Cari Emerson’s ears are her most powerful tools.She will be using those tools to help all who need

them from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesdays in the College to Career Center.

Emerson has been with Hope Crisis Center (HCC) for eight years and is currently a sexual assault and domestic violence victim advocate.

According to the Joyful Heart Foundation, sexual assault refers to any unwanted sexual act. Sexual as-sault can range from inappropriate touching without consent, to rape. An estimated one in ive women, and one in 71 men, are reportedly sexually assaulted in their lifetime.

Student Leadership Vice President Kim Jacobs said previously HCC had only come to Doane month-ly or every other month to extend their services and resources to Doane.

Jacobs said she worked with the Business Oice to come to an agreement with HCC to have an advocate at Doane weekly.

“We believe there is a need on this campus,” Ja-cobs said. “The fact that we can ofer this resource right here is something we’re excited about doing. To my knowledge, we are the irst college to have one of their staf members on the campus.”

Emerson is here as a resource for any victim who needs to talk. As part of HCC, her services are free and conidential.

“If someone were to come in here and tell me they were sexually assaulted, but they don’t want to report it, I’m not mandated to report it to a higher up,” Em-erson said. “It’s a diferent role than from faculty and staf. If a student were to tell one of them, that person would have to report that.”

Emerson said she hoped that conidentiality would bring more students forward.

If a student were to walk into her oice at Doane, Emerson said her biggest job was to listen.

“I sit here, and I listen. Then I give them their op-tions,” she said. “There are so many options a sexual assault victim has that they are not aware of, regard-ing law enforcement and diferent options of report-ing—they have so many options, and I lay these out for them to see.”

see HCC, p. 3

Speaker to share ‘lollipop moment’ mentalityCASSIDY STEFKA

Photo Editor

Creating for a causeArt students are using their talents to raise money for a non-proit

Courtesy Photo/Eric Stearns

Art Professor Eric Stearns and students made cups for children in schools to decorate with donated paint. About 600 more will be

made, sold at $20, to donate money to Voices for Children in Nebraska, a non-proit that advocates for children.

Courtesy Photo/Eric Stearns

Junior Erin Heuermann paints a cup to be sold.

GABRIELLA MONTEMARANOStaf Writer

see POTTERY, p. 3

One professor is making a diference through teaching art classes at Doane College.

Assistant Professor of Art Eric Stearns and Doane stu-dents are raising funds for Voices for Children in Nebras-ka, a non-proit organization that advocates for children.

“I started a project where every year we would pick a charity and create for it,” Stearns said. “My goal was to get students involved and use their talents for a cause. Too many students feel like their artwork isn’t up to par or they always need money for it, and that’s not how it should be.”

Stearns’ main goal is to show students that if they use their talents, it is not always about money. It is about giv-ing back, he said.

“Our ultimate goal is to raise $10,000,” Stearns said. “And for just doing two showings, I would say we’re close to halfway there.”

You may have noticed paper lollipops on the walls all over campus. It’s because Drew Dudley, a professional speaker, believes that lollipop moments happen to everyone.

A lollipop moment is when we don’t notice that we are having a profound impact on someone else’s life, Dudley said. The term originated from a seemingly uninteresting situation in Dudley’s life, when he approached a nervous college fresh-man on her irst day of orientation.

He smiled and told the male college student next to her that he should give her a lollipop. Dudley hardly remem-bered the moment when that same college student told Dud-

ley the two were still dating years later. “Those moments are often not seen as leadership,” Dudley

said. “But we should be more deliberate about creating those (lollipop moments).”

Dudley, a former coordinator for a university leadership development program in Canada, has made a living traveling the world sharing his inspirational views on leadership.

The Hansen Leadership Speakers’ Assembly chose to bring Dudley to Doane after senior Taylor Anderson advocated for Dudley. Anderson brought his name to the rest of the student Hansen Leadership Advisory Board.

“I thought his (Dudley’s) work was incredibly interesting,” Anderson said.

“The idea of lollipop moments is great. He encourages leadership in everyday random acts of kindness. ”

Abby Vollmer, Hansen Leadership Program assistant di-rector, spoke to Dudley for a pre-conference visit. She said Dudley normally worked with corporations to help improve employee leadership.

“As part of his contract (to speak at Doane), he (Dudley) doesn’t have to speak to classes,” Vollmer said. “But he want-ed to do more than a question and answer. He wanted to speak to the students (in the leadership classes).”

After he speaks, Dudley said he wants students to walk out with the tools to become someone that matters.

“Too often kids go to school to get good grades,” Dudley said. “But I think students should work twice as hard to make that (grades) the least impressive thing about them.”

Dudley will speak at Doane at 7 p.m. Feb. 10 in Art and Education room 236/238.

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The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) is about more than competition; it’s about passion for the art.

Twenty students represented Doane at the annual event with more than 1,500 other students from the region, and Doane took home eight meritorious achievement awards—more than all of the other schools.

Doane is part of the ifth region, which includes every col-legiate theater program from Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Mis-souri, North and South Dakota and Minnesota.

Many Doane students competed in the Irene Ryan acting competition. The competition includes three rounds; how-ever, only one group, juniors Paul Shaw and Lizzy Pegler, advanced past the irst.

Theater Director Rob McKercher said the irst round was always the most diicult to get past.

“The preliminary round is adjudicated by other profes-sors,” McKercher said. “These are a lot of people who are ‘ac-ademic theater people’. The theater professors at Doane have worked in theater professionally, so what they view as good acting is contrary to what I think is good acting.”

McKercher said acting was not supposed to be a competi-tion.

“Acting is an art form,” he said. “It’s not meant to be ad-judicated. The heart of KCACTF is the response to the shows we put on. When the responders go to your shows and com-pare them to what other colleges are doing in the region. In that regard, we took home more awards than anyone else.”

Senior Patrick Conley was involved in the Irene Ryan com-petition and said Doane was one of the strongest schools at the festival.

“The competitor in me likes the competition, but the actor in me doesn’t,” he said. “It should be more like a showcase where everyone can come together and spend the week mak-ing art and just making good theater. I don’t see how there can be a best actor because there is no best actor.”

Conley said being involved in the Irene Ryan competition for the past four years has helped him prepare for after grad-uation.

“I love the festival,” he said. “It’s all been really enlighten-ing for me, especially going into the professional world after this. I’m very proud and honored to be a part of this theater department.”

Pegler said she was proud of her performance with Shaw. She and Shaw performed a scene from “Angels in America: Millennium Approaches” by Tony Kushner.

“We took a risk because it was a really well-known piece, but I was really proud of our performances,” she said. “I was so surprised Paul and I were the only ones that made it on—there were so many other talented actors.”

Despite the other groups not advancing beyond the irst round, Pegler said she thought Doane stood out among the other schools.

“I think Doane did incredibly well,” she said. “Doane re-ceived eight awards for our four main stage productions and Courtney Wood’s senior piece, which is more than any other school in the region. It is true testament to the quality of the-atre we do here at Doane.”

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McKercher said Doane has rarely been able to do an invit-ed show, one where the department takes the show with them to the festival. In an invited show, the theater would have to rebuild the set the day of the performance.

“Those shows are speciically designed to tour,” he said. “What we have here, our spaces, precludes us from doing that. We spend more than half our time building a stage or building the audience space before putting the set up. We build our stuf right into the space, which means those things that we put up in our space that look great can’t travel. If we had a new space with a stage, we could be able to travel and

devote our energy into getting us out into the region.”Senior Dayna Svoboda said the most important aspect of

theater is the art in it.“I think the thing to take away is that you need to feel that

your art is meaningful,” she said. “Sometimes we get awards, and sometimes we don’t, but the main thing is that we are all coming to this festival as a family and getting to bond with each other every night, and then we come back and have conversations about what we saw and what we learned and how we can make better art. I think that’s the main point of KCACTF.”

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Emerson said she would never tell a victim what de-cision to make, and that her job is to back the victim’s de-cision without judgment.

“In a sense, for the victim, that has already been taken away,” she said. “A piece of that control, that power, has already been taken away.”

Victims experience the ef-

fects of sexual assault difer-ently.

However, according to the Joyful Heart Founda-tion, common signs are post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and dis-sociation—the chronic feel-ing of not being present.

Psychology professor Heather Lambert has stud-ied sexual assault throughout

her career.Lambert said that other

common correlations of vic-tims are grades slipping and substance abuse increasing to “numb the pain.” Students may also drop out of school, particularly on college cam-puses, if the ofender is still in the community.

“One thing we do know with any kind of trauma is

getting services or seeking help really does make a dif-ference—and the earlier the better,” Lambert said. “A lot of times what happens with diferent forms of trauma is those things that we think we need to keep hidden, the ‘I’ll be ine’, and for a lot of reasons, victims don’t come forward.”

Lambert said that by hav-

ing an advocate on campus, Doane is sending a message to students that this is a good environment to talk about is-sues such as sexual assault.

“One of the great things about having a victim advo-cate on campus is that some-body is right here,” Lambert said. “It’s not saying that by going and seeing an advocate that you’re going to report

to the police. It’s just simply going in and touching base with someone who under-stands and knows the topic and can give you options. It’s giving the choice back to the victim.”

If anyone needs to con-tact a Hope Crisis Center sexual assault advocate, the 24-hour conidential line is 1-877-388-4673.

see HCC, p. 1

Doane students make cups out of clay. Then, the cups are sent to schools where children get to decorate them with donated paints and glazes. There are no guide-lines or rules – just art.

“Everything is donated,” Stearns said. “The clay is do-nated. The glazes are all do-

nated from AMACO (Ameri-can Art Clay Company). So it’s also able to get these companies out to schools that might not have the fund-ing for them.”

For sophomore art major Kourtney Erickson, this is a great opportunity, she said.

“Art gives children a chance to express them-selves,” Erickson said. “Any-thing can be art.”

Stearns chose to create

cups because they are inti-mate, personal and some-thing people hold, he said.

Senior Lauren Soto is in Stearns’ Problems class, learning how to cast or make molds.

“We take regular cups, and we’re making molds of them, and we’ll eventually ill them in with slip (watered-down clay), and that’ll es-sentially make a perfect cup,” Soto said.

“You don’t have to have artistic skill to do this,” Stea-rns said. “I can show you how to make a cup just with a slab of clay. Are they going to be the beautiful, clean cups at Walmart and at Target? No. But it’s more personal, be-cause you have the touch of an artist. You have the touch of the actual human being.”

Since the beginning of the school year, Stearns and Doane students have made

about 350 cups. About 600 more need to be made in the next couple of weeks, Stearns said.

Each cup is $20, regard-less of shape, size or who cre-ates it.

“In the end, all of the funds will come back to Do-ane,” Stearns said. “Then Do-ane will, as a college, not as a ceramics department but as a college, we will donate all of the money to this cause.”

The cups will be exhibited again at Doane the week be-fore spring break, Stearns said.

“I hope others will help by donating or buying a cup,” Erickson said. “Even the lit-tlest can go a long way.”

Stearns has already been contacted by Lutheran Fam-ily Services. He and Doane students will be making bowls for them next school year.

see POTTERY, p. 1

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Senior Ryan Harris makes a cup to send to schools for children to decorate. The cups are

meant to raise money for a local non-proit organization.

Trafic concerns signal discussion

CASSANDRA KENNEDYStaf Writer

Junior Blake Bunner had $6,000 worth of damage to his car after an accident on campus last February.

Sophomore Richard Cart-er was in a hit and run on campus last semester.

Sophomore Shannon Stuhlmiller is concerned about speeding on campus roads.

These are some of the rel-evant traic incidents that are occurring around Do-ane. Speeding is the most frequent traic infringement made by students, said Lt. Gary Young of the Crete Po-lice Department.

However, there are many dangers to be aware of around Doane campus.

Bunner was on his way to Lincoln for a Valentine’s Day gift when he was hit on 13th street last February.

The other car involved was coming from a track meet and was pulling onto 13th Street from the Fuhrer Fieldhouse turn. Bunner said

he did not blame the girl be-cause she could not see be-cause of the parked cars on the street.

“She said ‘I’m sorry’ and I said I totally understand because she just couldn’t see anything,” Bunner said.

No one was seriously in-jured, but both cars were in bad shape after the accident, Bunner said. Bunner had just bought his car two months previous to the accident.

The turn onto 13th from both the Fuhrer Fieldhouse turn and the Doane Drive show concern to many stu-dents. Senior Alex Leyva said he almost got hit coming from track practice one day this semester.

Sophomore Sloan Raskie was with him and said that it was not Leyva’s fault because it was hard to see the oncom-ing traic.

“Turning onto 13th from the ieldhouse is always hit or miss,” Raskie said, “A lot of the times there are cars parked on the side so you can’t see if cars are coming or not.”

Lt. Young said that the

most common spot for ac-cidents near Doane is the intersection of 13th Street and Boswell. He said he also found the spot coming from Doane Drive (near the quads) onto 13th Street to be diicult because of how it was angled to the northeast.

Lt. Young’s main advice to students is to slow down, he said. He also advises to make sure the car is in good repair before driving it and that students always carry their license.

“At full capacity your car is going to travel at least tens or dozens of feet before things come to a stop,” Lt. Young said. “So we can increase our reaction time by driving a lit-tle slower, and that may help avoid accidents and tickets.”

Lt. Young said he was not aware of the vision im-pairments coming from the Fuhrer Fieldhouse, but he said he would look into it. He said that the community can show concern about road is-sues to the Public Works De-partment, and that they can contact the police to have of-icers check out the area.

Burger King bought Ca-nadian cofee shop Tim Hor-ton’s last August, and then moved its headquarters to Canada. This move allowed Burger King to avoid the U.S. 35 percent corporate tax rate on proits, and instead pay only a 15 percent tax on prof-its via Canada’s corporate tax rate.

That backdoor deal to make top companies even richer is called corporate in-version, and it has been get-ting out of hand since Con-

gress enacted the loopholes in the 1980s.

President Obama proposed earlier this week to tax over $2 trillion worth of proits that major companies have stored ofshore at a 14 percent tax rate according to the Washington Post. This tax would be a one-time deal, and would generate enough money to rebuild the most rundown of America’s infra-structure.

While this bill is likely to fail in the Republi-

can-led Congress (the party has historically been in favor of cutting corporate tax rates to bring corporations back to the U.S.), it is a promising start to inding a solution for the decades-old problem of corporate inversion and our failing infrastructure. Part of the tax money would go towards funding a new edu-cational bill that allows for two free years of community college to every American citizen.

Obama also proposed to

reduce the corporate tax rate to 19 percent instead of the standard 35 percent, accord-ing to the Wall Street Jour-nal. And this compromise may be the way to gain Re-publican support for corpo-rate tax reform.

The proposals come after Obama promised a simpli-ied tax system in the United States during his Jan. 20 State of the Union Address.

While Obama’s propos-als will likely see overhaul in the Congressional vote, the proposal is promising in that it has aspects that ap-peal to both sides of the aisle. If passed, Obama’s proposals are a middle class taxpayer’s dream. Tax rates would rise for the wealthy, and corpo-rations would have an in-centive to bring home the trillions of dollars sitting of shores-- and untaxed.

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Last semester I wrote about Argentine politics, speciically how U.S. hedge funds were driving the Ar-gentine government into bankruptcy. While that is still an issue, Argentina broke world headlines again this week, and this time it was harder to muster sym-pathy for the economically-burdened country.

Alberto Nisman, an Ar-gentine prosecutor was found dead in his home on Jan. 18. Cause of death was a single gunshot wound to the head. There are no public leads thus far.

The New York Times re-ported that in Nisman’s trash can was a 26-page

document requesting the ar-rest of Argentine President Cristina Kirchner and Argen-tina’s foreign minister, Hec-

tor Timerman. Nisman was scheduled to speak in front of Congress on Jan. 19 to ex-plain his accusations against the president.

The accusations stem back to 1994; when a suspect-ed terrorist cell from Iran bombed the Argentina Israel-ite Mutual Association. Nis-man was investigating pos-sible Iranian oicials directly involved in the bombing that killed 85 people. Nisman al-leges that President Kirchner and Timerman tried to derail his investigation into the at-tack by negotiating secret deals with Iranian oicials to lift international arrest war-rants.

President Kirchner blames

Argentina’s Intelligence Ser-vices for helping Nisman write the controversial accu-sations, and has promised to purge leadership and over-haul the intelligence agency.

Following Nisman’s buri-al, protesters have rallied in Buenos Aires, the Argentine capital, shouting anti-Semit-ic comments according to the Buenos Aires Herald.

Nisman’s accusations are likely to be dropped, as he didn’t sign the document be-fore his death, but the Argen-tine government is the center of a seemingly far-reaching scandal. Nisman may have exposed two decades worth of governmental lies, and it cost him his life.

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Hope Crisis Center is a great tool for students.The center, which provides services in seven counties

in southeast Nebraska, works to empower victims of do-mestic violence and sexual assault.

That’s why it’s awesome that they are sending a repre-sentative to campus weekly.

Considering an estimated one in ive women, and one in 71 men, are reportedly sexually assaulted in their life-time, this is an important resource to have available for students.

But the most important thing is that students utilize this service.

A 2007 study funded by the U.S. Department of Jus-tice surveyed 5,446 undergraduate women and 1,375 un-dergraduate men at two large public universities in the south and the midwest, and found that just 2 percent of sexual assault victims incapacitated by drugs or alcohol and just 13 percent of “physically forced” victims report-ed the crimes to law enforcement.

Why don’t victims of sexual assault go to the police? An article by the Time Magazine listed four reasons why students are hesitant to report: they don’t want anyone to know, they don’t understand what constitutes rape, they are afraid the police won’t believe them and they are afraid of going through a rape trial.

Victims of domestic violence may also be afraid to re-port abuse or are unsure how to get help.

Regardless, students won’t be pressured into going to the police if they don’t want to. And the victim won’t be judged. The advocate from Hope Crisis Center is there to listen and put the power back into the hands of the victim.

Victims of sexual assault experience the efects difer-ently, but common reactions to sexual assault include depression, dissociation, increased substance abuse and dropping out of school or daily activities.

It’s best to attempt to seek help as soon as possible. Now, Doane has a resource for students who may be struggling to cope.

Having a conidential outlet on campus where stu-dents feel comfortable sharing what they have been through is essential.

It also creates an open environment for students to talk about subjects like sexual assault and rape. Research shows that having resources like an advocate on campus and an open environment can lead to more people com-ing forward and seeking help. It also may help reduce the amount of sexual assaults.

The advocate is there each week to help victims, ei-ther by talking or iguring out an action plan, and it’s important that the Doane community knows about this resource.

So if you’ve ever experienced domestic violence or sexual assault, this is a great service that could help you.

Utilize the Hope Crisis Center.

Hope Crisis Center a resource for entire Doane community

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The American military constantly prides itself on leaving no man behind, how-ever this is no longer the case in Afghanistan and Iraq.

When the American and coalition forces entered into the Iraq and Afghanistan conlicts, they relied heavily on local people to act as in-terpreters and intermediar-ies between the soldiers and local people. These inter-preters not only ensured the safety of our forces by relay-ing important information such as where IED’s (Im-provised Explosive Devices) were located, but provided important cultural informa-tion such as who the tribal leaders where, and how to address diferent people in order to ensure successful interactions.

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States. But hundreds of in-terpreters are still waiting, many becoming so desperate to lee the Taliban that they will illegally immigrate to other countries, risking their lives and paying thousands of dollars out of pocket for a little bit of hope.

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After Doane canceled morning classes Monday, the hype among Doane students about the “half snow day” was evident with snowball ights outside the residence halls and posts on social media.

“I ran from my quad to my friends’ quad as soon as I saw the email from Doane,” junior Nick Stoks said. “We had been doing homework

all night because we didn’t think they would actually cancel classes.”

Stoks said he was glad he didn’t have to try to walk through snow drifts to class.

“It was terrible outside,” he said. “Roads, everything. I went to Walmart with my friends that day and wished I would’ve had a car with four-wheel drive.”

This latest storm joined forces with another low pressure system that developed in southern Colorado, Environmental

Sciences Professor Brad Jakubowski said. This combination of forces resulted in a lot of snow.

Eight grounds staf members were joined by several workers from other departments ,as well as workstudy students to try to clear things up for students.

“(We) plow roads and parking lots, clear pedestrian walkways and treat slick surfaces for safety,” Grounds and Fleet Services Manager Mike Hatield said. “There are a lot of variables that go

into those duties, but it can be summed up with those three.”

Hatield said the main safety concerns with weather like this are slips and falls, frostbite or hypothermia, muscle strains due to lifting and vehicle accidents.

“There unfortunately have been accidents/incidents I’ve had to deal with during my three winters at Doane,” he said. “Most have been vehicle and equipment accidents and a few minor injuries. Thankfully, nothing

Walking (to class) in a winter wonderland

KNOW YOUR SNOW

Nebraska receives 28.12 inches of snow per year, according to USA.com.

Vermont, by comparison, receives

89.25 and Hawaii receives 0.

The most snow ever recorded in a 24 hour period in the U.S. occurred at

Silver Lake, Colo. in 1921 and was 76 inches of snow.

Eighty percent of all the freshwater on

earth is frozen as ice or snow. This

accounts for 12 percent of the earth’s surface

The average snowlake falls with a speed of three miles per hour.

According to the Farmer’s Almanac, we can expect our next snow on the

week of Feb. 18-23. It also predicts snow the irst few weeks of March.

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Students trucked through snow-covered paths throughout the week.

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Juniors Nick Stoks and Derek Sabatka bury junior Jenni Davis and sophomore Maddie Noonan during a snowball ight outside of the quads Sunday night.

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The Doane wrestling team has had a successful season so far leading to a 5-3 record and is currently standing in fourth place in the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC).

Maybe it has something to do with singing along to “All of Me” in the locker room. Maybe it is the days dedi-cated to team bonding. Or, maybe it is the hours spent together reading to Crete El-ementary School students.

There’s still some wres-tling left to do, but Head Coach Tyson Springer and the team said their second year has been an improve-ment both on and of the mats compared to last year’s winless season.

“Those of us who weren’t at Doane last year watched the wrestling team pretty closely,” freshman Lance Lu-cas said. “This wasn’t what we were expecting. It’s been a 180 degree turn-around.”

The Tigers have made some steps individually to becoming a better team as a

whole.“Getting our irst All-

American and getting our irst kids into nationals are some highlights from the season,” Springer said.

The coaches had their irst full recruiting season in 2014.

Springer said the wins this season are helping draw more Nebraska wrestlers to Doane and will hopefully help build depth over the next few years.

“We’re a small team, about twenty of us, but all twenty of us could meet up any night and hangout, no problem,” freshman Martin Phillips said. “Everyone is here for the same goal now. We have the kids who want to wrestle and better themselves.”

Springer said the leader-ship on the team has contrib-

uted to the team’s success as well as the rallied support from students and the com-munity.

“We tell the guys that

they’re not just a wres-tler when they come here,” Springer said. “They’re stu-dent-athletes irst and com-munity service goes hand-in-

hand. They’re going to be a big part of our community.”

Springer said the fan fol-lowing has improved since last year as a result.

“The track team has been a huge supporter for us,” Springer said. “It’s a row-dy crowd and a fun atmo-sphere.”

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Athletes develop relationships, strengthen team

Wrestlers conclude turnaround season

Doane athletes build ca-maraderie to help build rela-tionships not only within the lines of the playing area, but out of the lines, as well.

Camaraderie is deined as “mutual trust and friend-ships among people who spend a lot of time together,” according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary

Athletes often develop trust on the ield and friend-ships of the ield through team bonding events held by coaches and fellow athletes.

However, all sports build camaraderie diferently.

Head Women’s Basket-ball Coach Tracee Fairbanks named several ways their team has done team bonding over the years.

“We try to do something as a team such as go to a Husker women’s basketball game, and just recently we went to the movie, American Snip-er,” Fairbanks said. “(We go on) trips somewhere warmer in December every other year

as good camaraderie boosts. This year we went to Dayto-na Beach; two years ago we went to Hawaii.”

Junior Savannah Mitchell said the tennis team came to-gether in the summer to help build of court relationships.

“In the summer, we all traveled to Doane for an in-ter-squad tournament with food and swimming after,” Mitchell said. “During the fall, we raked a yard together and had an inter-team dou-bles scrimmage.”

Mitchell and Fairbanks said a lot of the time these events were done by the coaches, but sometimes the players took charge and or-ganized their own events.

Fairbanks said having the team spend quality time with each other outside of practic-es and games was efective.

“It (camaraderie) allows the individuals to be silly, to have conversations about family, memories and future plans,” Fairbanks said. “It just allows people to get to know each other which helps them to know each other when they play together,

too.”Freshman Ben Berreck-

man said that coming into his freshman year he didn’t know anybody really well, but developed it (friend-ships) through team bonding over the football and track seasons.

“When I irst came here as a freshman I didn’t have any camaraderie at all with anybody,” Berreckman said. “Then it (camaraderie) gives you a sense of security once you have friends around you. If you have someone there looking out for you, and not just because you did a work-out together, but because you have something in common, and you’re all trying to reach a most likely common goal.”

Mitchell said having a relationship with everyone on her team built a support team for her, which came in handy for a mental sport like tennis.

“Camaraderie is your sup-port system within a team,” Mitchell said. “Without it, success, on and of the court, would be hard to come by.”

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(RV) Doane faced of against No. 8 Midland University on Jan. 27. Doane won 29-22. It was the Tigers inal home dual of the season.

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The volleyball team celebrates as a team after a match point in their irst game. The Tigers have developed a relationship on and of the court as a result of team bonding activities.

“his wasn’t what we were expecting. It’s been a 180 degree turn-around.”

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Making the transition to college

Game, set, matchThe women’s tennis team is undefeated af-

ter its irst two matches of the season, beating Barton County Community College 5-4 and Seward County Community College 6-3. The Tigers placed second out of eight teams in the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) last season.

The men’s team is 1-1 after beating Barton County 6-3 and losing to Seward County 3-6. The Tigers placed fourth out of six teams in the GPAC last season.

For the women, the early victories came in some of the toughest matches they will face all season, freshman Tia Norris said. The matches provided an opportunity to assess both the strengths and weaknesses of the team, Norris, a recruit from Hononegah High School, IL, said.

“Our number one strength will be our dou-

bles teams,” she said of a team that welcomed six freshman in the fall that represented a wide range of talent. “I think we have a little bit of a surprise factor, I don’t think the other teams know what to expect from us.”

Head Coach Pete Fiumefreddo was pleased with the recruiting class for this season, he said, noting that both Norris and freshman Ellie Bender, of Steamboat Springs High School, CO, would play in the top three spots on the team.

The team peaked at the right time during the record setting season last year, Fiume-freddo said, and hopefully would pick up from where it ended.

“I look for us to be in contention for the (GPAC) championship,” he said.

The victories against Barton and Seward came down to the depth of the Tiger roster, he said, particularly against Seward, a team composed of the nationally ranked (Intercol-legiate Tennis Association) Paula Lopez (3)

and Paula Coyos (10), who combined for a national ranking of second in doubles.

“As a team you want good team depth,” Fiumefreddo said, “every match is worth one point… everybody’s match matters.”

The men’s team has a similarly deep ros-ter, Head Coach Fiumefreddo said. The team was fortunate to sign freshman Joe Lloyd of Ontario High School, Ontario, he said, who battled consistently with returning sopho-more and fellow Canadian Kristian Kiland, who played in the second spot for Doane. Matches between the two almost always came down to a tiebreaker, he said.

“I can’t think of many guys with a better work ethic,” Kiland said of Lloyd.

Last season’s number one, returning ju-nior Sebastian Gardefjord, had a chance at being named GPAC player of the year if he continued his strong level of play, Fiume-freddo said. The contention for the six, seven and eight spots in the team was very close, he

said, rounding out a strong Tiger squad that looked to place in at least the top three by the end of the season. “The top six guys, I have complete conidence in all of them,” Kiland said.

Fiumefreddo thought the team played fantastic in both the victory against Barton and the loss to Seward, he said, noting the strength of the Seward team composed of nationally ranked Ronzai Saurombe (10) and Vitor Galvao (14).

As always, the goal for the men’s team was to win the GPAC title, Fiumefreddo said.

“Not winning GPAC is not acceptable by our team’s standards,” Kiland said, “with the group of guys we have here, the only thing that’s acceptable to us is making it to nation-als.”

Both the women and men play Feb. 6 against Graceland University at Woods Ten-nis Center in Lincoln, with matches begin-ning at 1:30 p.m.

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Freshman Joe Lloyd practicing his forehand swing during practice this fall. The men’s team is of to a 1-1 start and the women’s team is 2-0.

Making the transition from a prep athlete to a col-legiate athlete can be a tough change.

It often involves more dedication to the sport and better time management among other subtle difer-ences between high school and college athletics.

Head Wrestling Coach Ty-son Springer said that any athlete could be as good as they want to be if their com-mitment level to the sport remains high and can control all the distractions that col-lege comes with.

“The biggest diference is how you balance your college life since your parents are no

longer here to take care of you,” Springer said. “What do you do in your free time? Do you go partying late or go to sleep early to get up for practice in the morning?”

Freshman Martin Phillips said one diference between high school and college wres-tling is the fact that everyone in the room is at an equal level.

However, Springer said that even though everyone was successful in high school, that doesn’t always ensure success at the collegiate level.

“I’ve seen kids who were a couple time state placers go on to become national cham-pions and kids who were state champions quit be-cause they realize, ‘Oh, man this is tough’,”Springer said.

“This isn’t high school where I was the all star of my team, where nobody in the practice room could hang with me. In college everyone’s a state placer, everyone’s wrestled in a national tournament, so it just doesn’t come as easily

as it did in high school.”Freshman Quin Conner

said he thought the time put into the sport was the big-gest diference between play-ing collegiate basketball and playing high school basket-ball.

“In high school it was kind of two hours a day,” Conner said. “Here it’s three hours here, three hours there. Something everyday.”

Springer said as a coach he will help as needed, but athletes must do their part to

adjust to the collegiate ath-lete life.

“You got to meet us in the middle. That’s our biggest thing,” Springer said. “We’ll do whatever we have to help you out, but you have to take the irst step.”

Phillips described his irst year of college athletics as a learning experience of how to balance his priorities and learning what to do with more independence than in high school.

“You’re kind of on your own since you don’t have your parents to help you with everything,” Phillips said. “I guess it’s kind of the in-dependence you always ask for, but a little more than you think about when it actually comes to it.”

“I’ve seen kids who were a couple time state placers go on to become national chapions and kids who were state champions because they realize, ‘oh man this is tough’. his isn’t high school where I was the all star of my team, where nobody in the practice room could hang with me. In college everyone’s a state placer, everyone’s wrestled in a national tournament, so it just doesn’t come as easily as it did in high school.”

Tyson Springer- head wrestling coach

Tiger Tennis teams open season with victories at irst tournament

Tigers work through diicult transition from high school to college sports