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By ELI CANGANY

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DePauw donated $5,000 to help fund the Howey Politics Indiana polls for the senate, governor and presidential elections, tacking the university’s name onto the end of the poll. The results of the latest Howey/DePauw Poll were released Thursday morning.

“I think Brian Howey wanted to have affiliation with a university, and he approached us because it would provide some academic credence to the poll itself,” David

Bohmer, director of the Media Fel-lows program said.

Bohmer has known Howey, a leading Indiana political columnist, for many years and played a roll in bringing the poll to DePauw.

“I have been involved as the local chair for the democrat party here,” Bohmner said. “I have gone to [Indiana Democrat Editorial As-sociation] convention for a number of years. I met [Howey] there many years ago, and we sort of hit it off as two political junkies. Essentially like the others who have sponsored [the poll], I get to listen in on the

discussion with the two pollsters.”The polls provide insight into

the minds of Hoosiers. The results show Republican presidential can-didate Mitt Romney and Republi-can gubernatorial candidate Pence leading in Indiana by roughly 12 percent. Senatorial candidate Joe Donnelly leads Republican Richard Murdock by 2 percent, with 15 per-cent undecided. The senate race’s numbers are too close to predict who will win the race. Polls were conducted this past spring and an-other poll will take place in October as the election comes closer.

Senior Jacob Bonifield, a politi-cal science major, notes that with Indiana’s past, it is not a surprise the state is turning red in the presi-dential race.

“For the presidential race, Indi-ana is a conservative state,” Boni-field said. “The 2008 election was once in a generation.”

Bohmer suggests the Howey/DePauw Poll to be one of the most reliable polls in the state and to

Howey/DePauw Poll creates buzz on, about campus

By JOSEPH FANELLI

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Email conversations Wednesday between Ath-letic Director Stevie Baker-Watson and DePauw Interfraternity council chapter presidents led to confusion about tailgating policies on campus, causing some negative feelings toward rules that some thought were “unfair.”

The chapter presidents and IFC president Tyler Witherspoon will meet with Baker-Watson today to discuss an email that laid out several policies for tailgating at Saturday’s home football game against Washington University – St. Louis.

Issues regarding cars at the tailgate, music and alcohol consumption seemed to be the most con-troversial of the policies, Baker-Watson explained.

Baker-Watson said that she did think the first home football tailgate on September 8 against St. Olaf College “went well,” but that the point of the email was to address some “safety issues.” She planned to speak with the presidents at the IFC Wednesday night, but decided to send the email after the meeting was cancelled.

Baker-Watson said there were three areas she wanted to address after regarding the first Septem-ber 8 tailgate.

The first was the use cars in the “fan friendly” area. She said there was a concern for pedestrians as cars being used to tailgate began to leave the crowded areas early.

The second was music playing. Baker-Watson said she had several complaints about the amount of areas playing loud, and often conflicting, music during the day. She was also concerned with some of the profanity in the songs selected. As a solution to the problem, a student suggested using one common source of music in the middle of the tail-gate that would eliminate the “competing music.” Baker-Watson said in an interview with The

IFC chapter presi-dents to meet after confusion about tailgating rules

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Ethnic background of voters(4% Other)

7% African American

88% Caucasian

1% Hispanic or Latino

Affordable Healthcare (Obamacare)55% believe it should be replaced37% approves of it

8% are undecided of their opinion

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[email protected] The last time a woman moderated a presidential de-

bate, most DePauw students weren’t born yet. Candy Crowley, CNN”s chief political correspondent spoke at Kresge Auditorium Wednesday as part of the biannual Ubben lecture series and will be the first female in 20 years to take on the position.

In her talk, titled “Campaign 2012: A View from the Front Lines,” Crowley told those in attendance that she had good news and bad news.

“The good news is that there are 41 days, 1 hour and 30 minutes until the election is over,” Crowley said. “The bad news is that there are 41 days, 1 hour, and 30 minutes until the election is over.”

Crowley informed the audience about the state of the current presidential election and said, “There is plenty of reason for Mitt Romney to be worried at this

point,” but also spoke about the issues of the Obama campaign.

“The campaign of hope and change has run into the reality of what this economy has been,” she added.

Ken Owen, DePauw’s director of media relations, said the intent of bringing Crowley to DePauw was to introduce students and faculty to someone who is edu-cated on the election at hand, but also someone who is relatively unbiased.

“I think we were able to have a very important dis-cussion,” Owen said. “It’s a 30,000 foot view, someone who deals with it everyday, who is right in the thick of it, and who is being paid to be in the thick of it.”

Owen addressed how important it was that Crowley was able to shed light on a situation without swaying the audience to vote one way or the other.

“I think people left there with a better feeling for what’s at stake in this election, and nobody is really say-ing specifically what to do,” Owen said.

Junior Marcelle Forsyth attended the lecture and

was pleased with the way Crowley addressed the crowd. “She didn’t seem like she was talking down to us,”

Forsyth said. “She seemed like she was trying to talk on our level. And she was trying to speak about issues of the economy and politics in the way they affect college students.”

Crowley covered issues from both sides of the fence for not only this election, but the 2016 election as well. After explaining ways that it would be possi-ble for Obama to win or for Romney to win, Crowley threw her hands up in the air and said, “the great thing about politics is there’s always something that’s going to surprise us.”

Crowley will be moderating the town-hall-style presidential debate on Oct. 16 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.

“This debate is about you guys,” Crowley said at the end of her speech Tuesday evening. “My dream for this debate is that nobody at home throws a shoe at the TV and shouts, ‘why didn’t she ask him that?’”

CNN’s Candy Crowley projects election in first Ubben lectureCNN chief political correspondent spoke about the upcoming presidential election at Kresge Auditorium Tuesday evening. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW

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Anyone who spends time walking around campus can notice the abundance of stray cats on campus. Without spaying or neutering the stray and feral cats, each animal has the potential to produce 15 offspring each year. The potential for the cat population to grow sig-nificantly in the spring — when there’s already too many on campus — makes the issue of what to do with the cats an even bigger one than it has been in the past.

To address the issue, DePauw students and professors are work-ing towards a solution by starting a trap, neuter and release — or TNR — program for the stray and feral cats around campus and the city of Greencastle.

Dr. Lee Roberts ’00, a veterinarian who came to speak to a group of students about the cats, said that the cats have been a problem since she was a student here.

Other universities across the nation have also had this issue, accord-ing to Alley Cat Allies, a national organization dedicated to the treat-ment of feral cats. These universities include the University of Texas at Austin, University of California at Davis, Texas A&M University and Stanford University.

“The university can only do so much,” senior Olivia Carmel said, who is using the efforts to help the stray cats to create an official De-Pauw Alley Cat Allies club. “I think it’s the duty of both students and Greencastle residents to take this on.”

“In order to have an effective approach to the campus cat problem, we need the entire community to be on board with getting the cats spayed and neutered,” Roberts said.

English literature professor Ellen Bayer has helped oversee this en-deavor.

“This is a way to stabilize the [cat] population,” Bayer said. The benefits of TNR programs do not stop with the decrease in the

number of stray and feral cats that will be on campus and throughout the community.

“Their lives will be better,” Roberts said.She pointed to the serious health effects that constant pregnancy

has on the cats and as a result, the kittens that they produce. Maternal cats can lose their front teeth from calcium deficiency and other health effects occur from stress.

In addition, both males and female cats have higher odds for cancer when unneutered or unspayed.

“I think it’s important to get involved in this, especially with the absence of the Putnam County Humane Society,” Carmel said.

Roberts stressed the importance of knowing that all of the results will not be immediate.

“It’s going to be an ongoing thing,” she said.Bayer recognizes that this is an issue students on campus are aware

of, but have not been able to address.

“The students on campus care about the cats,” Bayer said. “They just don’t know how to help them.”

The first round of TNR occurred Thursday morning as three young cats were trapped and taken to be neutered, vaccinated and ear tipped for future identification. If students are interested in helping out with this cause, they can join the Facebook group ‘DePauw Alley Cat Allies.’

New program aims to curb stray cats

By JOSEPH FANELLI

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On Wednesday night, Public Safety released its annual security and fire safety report in an email to the DePauw community.

The annual report, which is released as part of compli-ance to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act from the Depart-ment of Education, provided Public Safety policies and a number of statistics involving crime at the university, as well as fire numbers.

The report listed reported crimes and fires from 2009 through 2011 and showed that most criminal activity has been consistent over the past three years.

The one drop — arrests and citations from liquor law violations.

According to the report, in 2011, 13 arrests for viola-tion of liquor laws occured on DePauw’s campus. That number is exactly half of the 26 from 2010 and a fraction of the 40 arrests in 2009. For citations, there were 12 cas-es of citations for liquor law violations in 2011 compared to 28 and 40 from 2010 and 2009, respectively.

And while those numbers have fallen, judicial refer-rals, or incidents that Public Safety or other organizations alert to DePauw community standards, have remained relatively consistent, hanging around the 190 range.

Bill Tobin, director of institutional research, said that numbers like that can be misleading, especially when the changes are occurring in numbers that are relatively small to begin with.

Still, Angie Nally, director of Public Safety, said that the drop in arrests may be due to some strategy changes that occurred over the past few years. She said pub-lic safety officers now will give intoxicated persons the chance to call and be picked up by a sober friend.

Nally said that the crimes reported are not limited to DePauw students, as the report covers all crimes that occur on DePauw campus. This means that any arrest, citation or incident reported on campus – regardless of whether the perpetrator is a student or if Greencastle Po-lice react to the incident – is compiled within the study.

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A new TNR (trapping, neutering and releasing) programming aims to care for the abundance of stray cats on campus. STEPH-ANIE AANENSON / THE DEPAUW

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By ALEX PAUL

[email protected] Outside Starbucks Thursday at 1 p.m.

President Brian Casey and Mayor Sue Murray held normal-sized scissors to cut a green rib-bon, making the opening of the coffee shop official.

After guests moved inside, Casey stood behind a podium with the DePauw crest.

“We set out to build the next great col-lege town in this country,” Casey said.

Murray spoke after Casey, then Newt Crenshaw, an executive at Eli Lilly and Com-pany — the bookstore’s namesake — and fi-nally David Terrell, the Lt. Governor’s execu-tive chief of staff spoke. The whole ceremony presented to approximately 60 people took about 20 minutes.

“It’s an amazing anchor to our down-town,” Murray said.

Harriet Watson and Victoria Evens, Greencastle High School seniors, said they saw people walking into the store and de-cided to walk in themselves.

“People realize that DePauw does a lot of cool stuff for Greencastle,” Watson said, holding a half-full bottle of orange Izzy. “I

hope it’s not just for show; that [DePauw] isn’t just trying to make money. It’s weirding me out, but I like it.”

Starbucks is independently owned, and the building is leased by DePauw for the next 15 years with an option to keep the lease for 45 years total.

Bob Evans grew up in Greencastle, and his father was a professor at DePauw Uni-versity. While Evans grew up in Greencastle he said the relationship was much better between the university and the town. He left to work in Indianapolis for 15 years, but re-turned to the city and has lived here since.

“My father knew the garbage man. Peo-ple were in Kiwanis together,” Evans said. “But in the 60s the relationship started to drift apart.”

Evans is excited for the common space.“The more the students mingle, the

more the faculty mingles, that’s what builds a strong community,” Evans said.

Instrumental music descends from over-head speakers. Baristas rush to fill coffee or-ders. Black and white photos hang on the wall.

“There’s something about conversation in a coffee shop,” Brad Kelsheimer, vice president of finance at DePauw said. “It’s a

welcoming space.”Seniors Paul Dugdale and Kendall

Cochran walked into Starbucks. They got into the six-person line and waited to place their order. Dugdale said he plans on going to Starbucks once a day.

“Actually, I probably will since it’s not too far,” Dougdale said. “The coffee is reasonably priced.”

Cochran wasn’t as enthusiastic.“I have a coffee maker at my house, so I

probably won’t come as much,” she said.Kelsheimer said that Starbucks plans to

host many events in the shop: book clubs, children’s events centered around books and acoustic guitar performances from stu-dents in DePauw’s School of Music.

“It really is an asset economically — not just confined to campus, [Starbucks] has some real potential in the community,” Kelsheimer said.

An estimated 40 or 50 thousand people pass through DePauw’s campus each year. Evans hopes Starbucks draws people down-town and in turn help out other local busi-nesses on the square.

“We wouldn’t have gotten Starbucks if we didn’t have DePauw,” Evans said.

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keep a look out for the senate race.“The senate race could be important. It

is less than 50 percent likely Indiana could determine the balance in the senate.

“They’ve got a real senate election here. If people vote in Indiana, there are certainly opportunities to vote for candidates on both sides. What [Howey] did was raise enough money to do two serious polls. You’re really getting two top rate pollsters to do these two polls of Hoosiers,” Bohmer said.

Bonifield appreciates the professionalism of the poll.

“They’ve made a conscious effort to go about it in a professional ways and it’s a bi-partisan effort,” Bonifield said. “It’s a genuine way to gauge what people are thinking going into the election.”

The two pollsters on the Howey/DePauw poll, Republican Christine Matthews of Bell-wether Research and Democrat Fred Yang of Garin-Hart-Yang, came to DePauw last spring for an information session with students and plan to come back after the election for an-other.

“Last spring, before the primaries they did a poll of the senate,” said Jonathan Coffin, as-sistant to the president and director of strate-gic communications.

“They came here to talk a little about how they developed their methodology. A big thing they talk about was how to poll in an era

of cell phones. How to poll in an era of social media. It was fascinating. There were a couple dozen students there, and they are planning on coming back. [When they come back they will look at] what they found in their polls this time, looking back on their methodology. We will have the results then, and they can talk about: here’s where we got it right, here is where we missed it a little bit.”

Having the university’s name on the poll offers an outlet for publicity.

“I don’t think the [Howey/DePauw Poll] hurts us,” Bohmer said. “There is definitely some benefit to being associated with some-thing that is following the election this close-ly.”

As a student, Bonifield thinks this poll shows the intellectual interests of the stu-dents.

“Its nice to think we go to a school that is taking an active roll in the election,” Bonifield said. “The [Howey/DePauw Poll] is showing the mood in a pivotal election season.”

Coffin thinks being a part of this poll will create positive buzz on campus.

“Anytime the university’s name is attached to something like this creates an interest on campus,” Coffin said. “The opportunity to en-gage with pollsters in the major election is an interesting thing. Polls have become a major part of how we track progress. Being able to understand the methodology, to read them and react is an important skill to have.”

— Ellen Kobe contributed to this article.

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DePauw that individuals will be allowed to play their music Saturday as long as those two guidelines are followed.

The third area of concern was the lack of discretion with alcohol.“I had said our statement (in regards to alcohol) has always been

to be ‘discreet’ and no hard liquor and no glass bottles,” Baker-Watson said. “Dropping 20 cases of beer in the parking doesn’t look great, but it doesn’t mean we’re going to come down on you.”

She said the solution is to cover the alcohol from plain view. She said if alums or visiting students see large amounts of alcohol just lying around “suddenly we have the perception of a hardcore party school when I don’t think our students deserve that.”

Many fraternity presidents declined to comment on the issues addressed in Baker-Watson’s email until after the meeting today. Senior Robby Spichiger, President of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, said he thought the changes addressed in the email seemed “really unfair” and hoped Baker-Watson would address and reverse the changes at the meeting. He said that he felt the interfraternity chapter presi-dents were not involved in the decisions regarding the tailgate.

Baker-Watson said that while some the “changes addressed” in the email might be interpreted as new, “many of them are just re-minders.”

Angie Nally, director of Public Safety, reiterated that the tailgat-ing policies have been in place and was not a reaction to the Sept. 8 tailgate, which she noted was “really good.”

Baker-Watson did add that some of the confusion might have come from her email, which she admitted was “not well-written.”

She remained positive about the tailgating experience at DeP-auw and wants “to work with folks because I want them to have a good time.”

“I think it was a great start,” she said. “But I’m also experienced enough to know a great tailgate culture doesn’t happen in one game. It’s going to take a season to figure this out.”

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By ELIZABETH WARREN

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It has been a solemn 10 days for practicing Jews and an important time for DePauw’s chapter of Hil-lel, a national Jewish student organization.

The Days of Awe, or the High Holy Days, began with Rosh Hashanah, which fell on Sunday, Sept. 16, and finished with the end of Yom Kippur at nightfall Wednesday.

Rosh Hashanah, commonly known as the Jewish New Year, is a time for Jewish people to start think-ing about the mistakes the made in the past year and resolutions for the next year. Yom Kippur is when the repentance begins.

Hillel enables local college and university com-munities with smaller Jewish populations to cel-ebrate Jewish life on campus, and the many facets of Yom Kippur.

“You are not supposed to work at all, not even homework,” Adam Cohen said, DePauw’s Hillel fac-ulty advisor.

Cohen said this prohibition of work is based on religious obligations and that Jews are also expected to fast for 25 hours.

“It is a difficult time, but we do the best we can,” Cohen said.

Even for non-practicing Jews, this is considered to be an incredibly important holiday. Similar to Christians who say they only go to church on Christ-mas and Easter, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are comparable to those two days for Jews.

The central themes for Yom Kippur are atone-ment, repentance and confession of sins. Intensive prayer, fasting and time spent in the synagogue is typical for Jewish people observing this holiday. The purpose of Yom Kippur is to bring about reconcilia-tion between individuals and God.

During the time of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kip-pur, a common practice is to seek out people that one has wronged during the past year. A person asks for forgiveness and, if possible, corrects the wrong that has been done. Yom Kippur is viewed as a spir-itual and moving day, because if one has observed the holiday properly by the end of Yom Kippur, Jews

believe that they will have made peace with others and with God.

The number of Jewish students enrolled at DeP-auw is less than 30, a small number even at a school of 2,390 students. Though undersized, sophomore Alex Alfonso, the Hillel chapter president, said the Jewish community on campus is still diverse.

“All of us come from various religious and faith backgrounds within Judaism,” Alfonso said. “This makes for a very unique blending of traditions in our services, as well as unique interpretations about this important holiday and its traditions.”

Sophomore Melanie Studnicka, last year’s Inter-faith Jewish Intern at the Center for Spiritual Life, also offered details of her experience with the com-munity.

“The diversity within the Jewish community al-lows me to further explore my own faith and what it means to me,” Studnicka said. “I have developed friendships within the Jewish community that have challenged my own Jewish identity.”

The ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur constitute a great bonding experience for the Jewish community.

The Center for Spiritual Life hosted Yom Kip-pur Morning service and Torah service Wednesday morning and a “Break the Fast” closing service Wednesday night. However, experiencing the holi-day on campus is different for students than it would be at home.

In addition to the religious emphasis surround-ing Yom Kippur, it is also considered to be a time to celebrate with family and friends, which can be difficult for students who are away from their homes and religious communities.

“It’s hard,” Cohen said. “You’re away from home, not around the services you are used to.”

Yet, no matter where the students are, celebrat-ing Yom Kippur while in college is a challenge. Though this is a holy day, it is not meant to be fes-tive. It is very solemn and personal, which can make a student’s routine activities hard to complete.

But for DePauw students, the services and events hosted by Hillel provide a sense of familiarity and tradition, as well as a chance to participate in the traditional services and practices.

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By NETTIE FINN

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For the next three days, the Moore Theatre stage will become a forest. As audiences fill the seats to watch “Into the Woods,” DePauw Theatre’s first production of the school year, they may be reminded of the magical wooded areas and dynamic characters from their favorite childhood fairytales.

With soaring vocal performances, laughter, tears and no lack of gore, this collaboration between the College of Liberal Arts and the School of Music manages to turn classic fairytales on their heads and prove that happily ever after isn’t the end of the tale. The story, “Into the Woods,” is based on “Chil-dren’s and Household Tales,” a German book of fairytales collected by brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm who became widely known for their compilation of the stories.

The musical initially follows the original plot lines of a handful of well-known fairy tales, including Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella, before veering off into other adaptations and taking viewers along for the ride.

Senior Will Freske, the musical’s production and stage manager, said people often associate fairy tales with being happy and upbeat. However, the Brothers Grimm versions, and thus the adaptations portrayed in this production, are far from happy. While the Disney renditions may be more widely rec-ognized, Into the Woods stays true to the not-so-nice aspect of these fairytales, making it a somewhat gruesome comedy.

“The first act is like a typical fairy-tale, everybody gets what they want, good prevails,” Freske said. “The second act is taking on what the consequences are for getting those wishes.”

Communication and theatre professor Tim Good, the director of “Into the Woods,” agreed with Freske’s synopsis.

“All of act one ends up with everybody getting what they think they want, which of course goes to crap like it does in real life,” Good said.

Perhaps because of its darker tendencies, Into the Woods offers audience members more insight into real life struggles than its “happily ever after” counter-parts do.

Senior Claire Wilkinson, who plays the baker’s wife in the musical, reflected on the many lessons that can be learned.

“It’s coming of age, it’s dealing with death, it’s realizing that your life isn’t what you thought it was going to be [and] that sometimes the things you want aren’t always going to make you happy,” Wilkinson said.

Good hopes the musical gets a certain message across to audience members. “At the very end, it all comes down to what we’ve got is each other,” Good said.Finding a way to bring both realism and thematic content to a staged performance has proved to be

challenging. The actors carry the responsibility of making tragic scenes interspersed with laughter ring true. According to Good, the cast did a lot of character relationship building to learn how it is reflected through physicality.

The show, which lasts over two hours, requires the audience to have faith in the story unfolding before them. As a result, the actors must fully embody the characters they are portraying.

Junior Elleka Okerstrom, who plays Little Red Ridinghood, has been challenged by her role.“The hard part for me was making it funny but realistic,” Okerstrom said. “I’m 20 years old, and I’m

playing a 12 year-old. I just wanted to make her seem like somebody’s kid.”Getting into character beforehand is key to making a hard to believe scenes seem real.While senior Erik Erlandson said he usually jumps right into his role as the baker, Wilkinson admitted there’s more to it for her. “Sometimes if I’m a little stressed before I go on [stage],” Wilkinson said. “I take

a moment, take a deep breath and relax.”For Okerstrom, getting the characterization just right for Little Red Riding Hood

has been a process. “Every time [we rehearse] I get more comfortable

with it, it’s not something that clicks over night,” Ok-erstrom said.

As a joint venture between the School of Music and the College of Liberal Arts, Into the Woods is one of a relatively small number of musicals per-formed by DePauw Theatre. There have only been eight musical productions on campus prior to this one, including last year’s Urinetown: The Musical.

A possible explanation for the small number is that musicals require a different set of actors than a

regular theatrical production does. Good explained that some cast members have taken voice lessons for multiple years but may have only taken one acting class.

“I’m much more of a singer actress,” Okerstrom said. “I mean most of us who are in the show are vocal majors so that’s our primary discipline, and then by default we obviously know how to act because that’s the nature of our degree.”

She added that it’s a big change moving from vocal to theatrical performance.“It’s definitely been a struggle,” she said. “It’s a different kind of acting.”Senior Elisabeth Sutherland, the assistant student director, also felt the musical

nature of the production has been challenging for the student actors. “It’s a different kind of singing for them,” Sutherland said. “They have to think

of the songs as monologues instead of, ‘I’m standing here singing.’”Before casting the show, Good said he was aware that the different type of

acting would be a challenge for the singers.Regardless of the actors’ performance backgrounds, “Into the Woods”

aims to make the audience members question their pre-conceived notions of morality.

“You’ve got the lines at the end ‘Witches can be right. Giants can be good,’” Good said. “We all want to do what’s right, but what’s right isn’t really clear.”

While getting this message across has been tough, some cast members have loved being tested — and have found their involvement with the musical to be worth the hours of rehearsal.

“It’s been great,” Okerstrom said. “It’s been really eye-opening. You just realize how hard you need to push yourself to get a really strong end product.”

For those who missed last night’s performance, there are more to come this weekend. Opportunities to see Into the Woods include tonight and Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. and a matinee performance Sunday at 3 p.m. All performances will take place at Moore Theatre inside the Green Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are $3 for students and $6 for the general public, and are available online and at the GCPA Box Office.

Fairytales “go to crap” in DePauw Theatre’s first production

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By STEPHANIE SHARLOW

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Through extensive costuming, hair design and make-up, characters come to life. One alternative to makeup,

though, is the creation of masks. In Into the Woods, The Witch and two wolves

– played by junior Emily Barnash and seniors Mikey Padilla and Alex Muetzel, respectively – are

in masks instead of heavy stage makeup, cre-ating a strong and unique look for the char-

acters. The masks were created by senior Claire Wilkinson and the costume shop.

“Masks are commonly used in this mu-sical, but it was my idea that we try making

them,” Wilkinson said. The Witch’s mask is made to look like an elderly, decaying women and the wolves’ masks bring out intricate animalistic qualities.

Each mask took six to eight hours to make from start to finish. To do so, plaster bandages are placed over the actors’ faces, making a mold similar to a “homemade piñata.” When the layers dry, they are taken off the actors and plaster is poured into the custom mold and left to dry and harden. The strips are

peeled off once again and the masks are sanded smooth.

“Once this process is complete, I mold what the mask will look like with clay on their

face and then go through various processes to cover the mask mold with liquid latex,” Wilkinson said. “Then the masks are painted or makeup is applied, and the person can wear their custom mask.”

Masks aren’t created often at DePauw due to manpow-er and lack of expertise, however, Wilkinson was able to spend her summer studying costume design and perfect the skill.

“Because of my research grant to design and work on costumes this summer, I was able to travel to Wabash College and meet with their costume designer who has a good amount of experience in this,” Wilkinson said. She has spent her time in Into the Woods creating the masks and working on more intricate costumes as well as assisting the other people who work in the costume shop.

Wilkinson hopes the masks assist in bring the charac-ters and the musical to life, even with the added difficul-ties they bring.

“Of course it will feel a little strange for [the actors], but the masks will not interfere with their sight, breath-ing or singing,” she said. “However, because The Witch’s mask covers a great deal of her face, she has to compen-sate and use her body to help her communicate with the audience.”

Fairytales “go to crap” in DePauw Theatre’s first production The Baker and his wife, played by seniors Erik Erlandson and Claire Wilkinson, listen to the Witch, played by junior Emily Bar-nash, explain how to undo a spell during the dress rehearsal of Into the Woods on Wednesday in Moore Theatre. MARGARET DISTLER / THE DEPAUW

The Stepmother, played by junior Laura Neel, makes a statement as sophomore Pat Brems listens during the dress rehearsal of Into the Woods on Wednesday in Moore Theatre. MARGARET DISTLER / THE DEPAUW

Cinderella, played by senior Emily Smith, listens as the Baker’s wife, played by senior Claire Wilkinson, tries to ask for her golden shoe during the dress re-hearsal of Into the Woods on Wednesday in Moore Theatre. MARGARET DISTLER

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Little Red Ridinghood, played by Elleka Okerstrom, performs a solo during the dress rehearsal of Into the Woods on Wednesday in Moore Theatre. MARGARET DISTLER / THE DEPAUW

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Into the Woods costumes include custom masks

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The spontaneous life worth living

High school, college, the rest of your life. I’ve been lucky to skate through the last three years without giving my future much thought. My luck ran out. As

soon as the clock struck 2012 the questions started pouring in. It seems like I can’t check my email anymore without the ‘what are your plans for next year?’ question popping up.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with that question, I bet some of my fellow seniors even have some really inter-esting responses. But we haven’t all figured it out yet. In fact, if an expensive college education has taught me any-thing it’s this: life is a continual process of self-discovery.

You can’t divide your life easily into segments prema-turely; you’ll probably end up pretty unhappy chasing a plan to the death you created when you were 18. Seasons change, we change, and it can’t be stopped. It’s a simple fact of life.

My general philosophy in life has been that I don’t nec-essarily need to know what’s coming. The thought of hav-ing even a general outline of my life planned out when I’m 22 is alarming. My future is more of a bucket list. Things I want to do, places I need to go, goals I’d like to achieve. DePauw and my experiences here have helped me im-mensely.

Because of DePauw’s Winter Term, I have had a chance

to travel. I encourage you to do the same (but apply for the weird, far away, once in a lifetime trips — a child could explore Europe with a group). Because of DePauw, I have been lucky enough to participate in NCAA athletics and chase my dreams on fields and tracks all over the United States. Because of DePauw and the great professors I’ve been lucky enough to have, I know what subjects I have a passion for, and the avenues to pursue them.

This is a great atmosphere to begin to discover your passions.

But the thing I’ve had to learn on my own, with a little help from my friends, is that it’s o.k. not to know. It’s o.k. to stumble and fall, get back up and head down an unmarked path. Getting to know mountains of textbooks and getting great grades is awesome, but set aside some time to get lost in your own head.

Explore your own archives, unlock some emotions and figure out what makes you tick. Try and leave some empty blocks in your daily planners and just see what kind of spontaneous decisions you can make to fill them, maybe even checking out my last column for some ideas.

Plans are fine. But don’t be afraid to live more free formed. What needs to be done will get done, and every-thing will fall in to place. If you don’t know your major, that’s fine. If you’re not on a career path, that’s fine. If you don’t even know where your next meal is coming from, you’re definitely in for an exciting adventure. It’s ok not to know. In fact, it might even make living a little more fun.

— Droddy is a senior from Indianapolis, Ind., majoring in communication.

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NOAHDRODDY

Since the current seniors have been at DePauw, the Ubben Lecture Series has brought three Nobel Peace Prize winners, three international Presidents (one of them 42nd United States President Bill Clinton), the founder of Wikipedia, congressmen, award-winning authors, directors and screenwriters. On Tuesday, Sept. 25, CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley spoke in Kresge Auditorium, and compared to our previous Ubben lecturers, it was poorly attended.

It’s easy to lose ourselves in the rigorous syllabi, the overbooked campus and phi-lanthropy activities and the active social life, but, come on. The Ubben’s are generous enough to bring world leaders to DePauw’s campus, and we’re not showing up? The Ubben lecturers, like Crowley, can teach us more about the world than staring at that textbook for an extra hour can. So next time, go. When college ends, you will never have this frequent of access to so many incredibly interesting and successful people again.

We ask you to refer to The DePauw’s cartoon in the past issue, illustrating the infa-mous “bubble” stigma that we’ve labeled DePauw. Let’s not allow this to be true. Yes, DePauw, we’re in Greencastle, Ind., but do not cut yourselves off from what’s happen-ing in the world. Attend the next Ubben lecturer and any other speaker that comes to DePauw, you’ll be glad you did.

Start ramping up Ubben Lecture attendance

Howey/DePauw Poll should encourage votersThe Howey/DePauw Poll hasn’t nearly been publicized on campus as much as it

shoud. But yesterday, the third in a series of four Howey/DePauw polls was released. The poll helps determine Indiana’s favor for the upcoming gubernatorial, congressional and presidential elections.

Thursday’s results showed that the Republican parties are leading in the governor and presidential races and that Republican Mourdock and Democrat Donnelly are close in numbers for Senate.

We have noticed a fair amount of buzz on upcoming elections. The College Repub-licans and Democrats have been working hard this semester to encourage students to register to vote and to be informed about candidates’ platforms. This past week, Rock the Vote has been tabling at the Hub, stressing the importance of participating in the upcoming elections. As we mentioned earlier, Candy Crowley, who will be moderating the second president debate between President Barak Obama and Senator Mitt Romney on Oct. 16, was on campus this past Tuesday.

There are plenty tools and opportunities to help us keep up with what’s going on with the 2012 Elections. Prior to DePauw, many of us would rub off the election year, thinking it didn’t affect us, but this is certainly not the case. Turn on the news, read the New York Times, download apps on your phones (Talking Points Election 2012, The Guardian, Huffpost Election, etc.), and you can stay in tuned with the presidential elections.

Last, but not least, exercise your democratic right to choose this nation’s leaders.

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PHOTOPINIONWhat do you hope to gain

from DePauw’s career fairs?

SAVON JACKSON, sophomore

“It would be great to find more opportuni-ties to learn about law schools and law firms.”

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JARON McKINNON, freshman

“I am hoping to gain job experience through internships and career opportunities.”

“I’m hoping to get more information on applica-tion processes and start making more connec-tions, as well as getting to know more about dif-ferent organizations.”

MARYCRUZ BAYLON, senior

“I am hoping to network and find career opportunities of my interests.”

Have a question you want answered?email [email protected]

VANESSA BERNAL, senior

What busts my hump: students clowning around in class

MAEVEMCDONOUGH

No free lunch: end compulsory diningJ IMMY

KIRKPATRICKSTEWART

BURNS

It originally struck us as odd how people on meal plans think of them as stipends — even refer-

ring to it as “Monopoly Money,” but as we’ve progressed through school it has made more and more sense. After the funds are deposited into the “Tiger Account” by students or their parents at the beginning of the school year, that money in many ways trans-forms into unlimited spending.

Dining at campus restaurants be-comes “free” while the decision to eat elsewhere is still subject to the laws of economics. Of course, the school and its food provider retain every penny of the student’s initial deposit so if people stop eating there because of high price or poor quality, it is no skin off their backs. Students do not just have the incentives of quality

and price driving them to the Hub, but also the disincentive of spending dollars with “real” value elsewhere. When the problem is viewed in the framework of “free money” vs. “real money,” it becomes clear why stu-dents buy meals for all of their friends or buying cases of Gatorade at the end of the year when no rational con-sumer would do so otherwise.

That is, students weigh the cost of the product against the opportunity costs of the rest of their “Monopoly Money” rather than against the op-portunity costs of spending a real, green American dollar.

We’re not suggesting that De-Pauw doesn’t provide good, nutri-tious food at fair prices, but it does raise a question of simple economics. Wouldn’t it make sense, as a means

of ensuring the optimal variety, qual-ity and prices, to open the student dining market to outside foodservice providers?

If our current campus dining sys-tem is considered ideal for the stu-dent population, then it should have no problem fending off competitors willing to pay more for kiosks in the Hub. On the other hand, perhaps if students were forced to view a dol-lar as a dollar, a greater variety would find its way to Greencastle. Maybe the market demands a Panera, a Chipotle or a Chop’t.

Rather than allowing the school to do the bidding for each of us, why not open the choice to students, who can attract and drive out restaurant con-cepts as they wish by nature of their lunch choice?

At the very least, perhaps the dol-lar amount of the original deposit could be rolled back to give it mean-ing similar to the “laundry money” now, rather than a magic wand.

Examples abound at airports, malls and other public venues where choice has dramatically improved the

dining options available to the con-sumer. Those institutional food pro-viders that can adapt and compete have survived, but those who can not or will not have been replaced with quality market-driven restaurant concepts.

We learn throughout our lives — and in our economics classes — that allowing individual choice provides the highest possible satisfaction for the greatest number of people. This simple idea boils down to producers responding to consumers.

If student demand cries out for quality, nutrition or change, and food providers are incentivized to respond to that demand, students won’t need to complain about the food because their dollars will have voiced their opinion.

— Kirkpatrick is a senior from Overland Park, Kan., majoring in political science. Burns is a senior from West Lafayette, Ind., majoring in political science.

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I’m not super into saying things or spit-balling ideas or talking to people about topics. I’m a quiet person, especially in class. The thing

about quiet students in class, though, is that they are often walked all over by those few overpow-ering, overbearing, energy-draining loudmouths. You know who I’m talking about: class clowns.When the professor asks how the moon was formed, they’re the kid who shouts out “aliens.” Or another student’s comment reminds them of a “super dope” story that happened to them once, but you really just “had to be there” to get it. This is something I feel so strongly about, it both busts my hump and grinds my gears when class time is wasted by mind-numbing commentary from the peanut gallery. And it seems everyone’s a come-dian these days.

I see how this looks. I, an aspiring comedian, am coming across like some comedy elitist, hypo-

critical hoodrat with some serious nerve right now. But I’m not shoving my comedic ideology down your throat while you’re trying to learn. As we sit in a class that we pay an exorbitant amount of money to attend, the minute your mediocre joke touches my auditory cortex, you can count on me to be all of America to your Lebron James circa July 2010.

Imagine: you’re in your final class on Friday. The only thing separating you from a sweaty, hazy night in a fraternity basement is a discussion ques-tion posed by your professor regarding ethical practices in media. And he is not letting anyone leave till it’s answered. That classroom is more silent than Reliant Stadium after Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction at Super Bowl XXXVIII. Al-ways one to strike, Mr. Funny-Pants swoops in like a hawk to a carcass and says, “Well, I volunteer as tribute. As far as ethical practices go, the only thing more unethical than Victoria’s Secret models hav-ing to wear clothes all the time is you keeping us from party-rocking.” Woah, everybody step back. The grandmaster of comedy is in the building.

Class clowns are horribly disruptive to the learning process, and they don’t just affect the class’ top students. Allow me to break it down: I would consider myself to be an intellectual type

to the extent that I wear glasses. I’m a professor’s academic worst nightmare. Homework and grades just aren’t my scene. I read the Dean’s List solely so I know who to beat up at the bike racks after school. And although I am most certainly not my class’ valedictorian, I am offended by that wise-cracking goon who thinks I want to hear their sub-par joke over the professor’s lecture of what is on next week’s test. They feel their thoughts and words are worth more than anyone else’s in the room. Frankly, I find class clowns to be disrespect-ful to both their professor and fellow students.

Being funny is great. I’m all for jokes. Jokes are super. I’ve dedicated my life to jokes. Like every-thing else, though, there is a time and a place. I am no virtuoso in timing dictation, but I’m pretty sure the time to hear some jokester going on about the Furby Apocalypse is not while our class is trying to learn.

Got something that busts your hump? Email me at [email protected] or tweet me @MaeveMcDonough and let me know.

— McDonough is a sophomore from Glenn Ellyn, Ill., majoring in communication. [email protected]

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the depauw | sports PAGE 13FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

By GRANT WALTERS

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Growing up with more than 70 first cousins, many of whom played college athletics, could attribute to freshman Heather O’Brien’s love for sports.

“Our family is pretty competitive,” O’Brien said. “We have a very active nature.”

Or maybe her passion stemmed from her high school, Bishop Chatard High School, which has won more football state championships than any other in Indiana. More than 90 percent of students at Bishop Chatard also participate in varsity, club or in-tramurals sports.

During her four years at the In-dianapolis Catholic school, O’Brien lettered in basketball, volleyball and tennis. However, the absence of cross-country is glaring on her resume.

That’s because O’Brien, DeP-auw’s top finisher at every meet for the women’s cross-country team this year, did not start running until her last semester of high school.

“I was originally coming here to play tennis, this was always my first school in general regardless of sports,” O’Brien said.

She decided to run track in the spring to stay in shape, while balanc-ing tennis.

“I was encouraged to look into running in college by my coach,” O’Brien said. “He could tell I was more of a distance person. When I decided to run [for DePauw], I recon-sidered a few things, but I knew I had made the right school decision.”

It was a unique situation to be communicating with the cross-coun-try head coach Kori Stroffregen and tennis head coach Scott Riggle simul-taneously. O’Brien swayed back and forth between a new interests and old passions for about two weeks.

“I never ever in my whole life thought that I was going to end up completely changing this whole deci-sion,” she said. “[Riggle] was so nice, he was really understanding.”

The freshman standout hasn’t given her teammates or competitors any reason to believe she is a novice

runner, winning the Wabash Hokum Karem meet with sophomore Hope Jordan and placing 16th and 2nd in the team’s last two races.

Her talents at both tennis and cross-country may have stemmed from her parents: her mom played tennis and her dad ran track.

Men’s cross country teammate Noah Droddy, a senior, went as far as predicting O’Brien will be an All-American at DePauw.

“She’s going to get better and better every week, and I’m excited to hear about how she does in the next three years,” Droddy said.

Despite O’Brien’s early success, she hasn’t let it overly boost her con-fidence. O’Brien gives credit to her teammates for being supportive, but she has plenty of nerves before every race.

“I freak myself out, I get so nerv-ous,” she said. “I’m really about con-sistency. I wear the same socks. I also chew gum with every race, not only to keep my focus during the race but also to help with my breathing. I don’t like a full piece, but half isn’t enough. So I put a full stick in my mouth but keep ripping shreds off until it feels right.”

O’Brien and the team will be re-turning Oct. 6 to run in the Gibson Family Invitational, the site of the Div. III national meet. Not having a race in three weeks provided the team with time for intense workouts and increased mileage.

“We’re going to run a lot, it’s really not a break,” Stroffregen said. “It’s a break from racing but not from run-ning. This is a hard three weeks of workout before the second half of our season.”

The heightened workouts are a great time to refocus and prepare for the regional meet, O’Brien said. As much of a rollercoaster experience her past year was, she remains grate-ful for the opportunity to run and compete every day.

“If you set your mind to some-thing, as cheesy as it may sound, you really can do a lot with putting forth all your effort,” O’Brien said. “As long as I keep working hard at it, I can make a lot out of the experience.”

Sophomore Ryan Konicek snatches the ball from Illinois Wes-leyan’s Emily Hinchman during a game Thursday night. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW

By HAMM HOOPER

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“[Close losses have] just been our season,” head women’s soccer coach John Carter said following DePauw’s 1-0 loss to Il-linois Wesleyan University on Thursday night.

“We gave away the ball and didn’t defend the counter again,” he said. “We have opportunities, we play hard, but we have to stop giving away cheap goals.”

The Tigers got off to another slow start against the Titans, as senior forward Emily Hinchman was able to capitalize on a turno-ver from DePauw goalkeeper Caroline Kerr in the 11th minute of the first half. After Hinchman secured the ball from Kerr, she beat her defender and ripped a shot into the goal from 10 feet outside the box to give the Titans a lead they would not relinquish.

“Emily’s goal was very well done,” Illinois Wesleyan head coach David Barret said. “She beat her defender, and she has the ability to do that. It definitely got some pressure off our midfield-

ers and backs.”The Tigers played an overall sloppy half and were only able

to generate four shots. Early goals by opponents have plagued DePauw throughout the year.

“Part of it is when you give up some early goals, you have doubt,” Carter said. “We have to find a way to get rid of that doubt. Scoring a goal or two will help relieve that doubt for us.”

Kerr and the Tigers defense were able to keep the game close while the offense struggled. Kerr came up big in the 39th minute of the first half as she deflected a shot on a break-away from Ti-tans forward Arin Calamari.

“Honestly, I thought we could have put the game to bed in the first ten minutes of the second half,” Barret said. “We had great chances and just missed them.”

The lone bright spot for DePauw’s offense, however, was the play of Chloe Jacob. Jacob was creative throughout the second half and nearly capitalized on some of her chances.

“I think she was our best player on the pitch today,” Carter said. “I wish she could have found a goal or assisted on a goal.”

DePauw falls 1-0 to Illinois Wesleyan Driven from withinFreshman Heather O’Brien shows promise in her first ever year of distance running

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By MICHAEL APPELGATE

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The ping of the ball hitting the goal post is what the DePauw men’s soccer team remembers after the game.

It wasn’t the goal by freshman Adrian Ables, but the two times the ball hit the post and an-other was one off the crossbar.

Despite a 1-0 victory over Anderson Univer-sity (4-7), players and head coach Brad Hauter called the match “frustrating.” The Tigers (6-1-2) outshot the visiting Ravens 28-9 and dominated possession throughout the game.

But it was the balls that didn’t score which soured the win.

“I’d rather score more goals,” Ables said. “I should have had more than one goal. We just have to calm it down. We’re all really fast – we need to slow it down and roll it in the net.

“The thing is, we all know it’s not good enough, and we’re going to do better because we should be smashing teams.”

In the two tie games, DePauw held the ad-vantage in shots by a large margin (26-4 against Hanover College, 8-1 against the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology). The Tigers weren’t able to score in either of those games, and Wednesday nights’ match had a chance of being the same.

However, Ables’ goal came in the 27th minute starting at midfield by sophomore Andy Morri-son. Morrison slipped a ball through two defend-ers to a sprinting sophomore Nate Snyder down the right sideline. Snyder elevated the ball to the left side of the field which fell at the feet of Ables. Anderson goalkeeper sophomore Chris Maloney came out in desperation, but Ables laced a shot to the far post for his second goal of the season.

But the second half provided constant frus-tration and consternation.

In the 63rd minute, junior George Elliott

beat three defenders into the 18-yard box. He chipped a pass into the middle to find Snyder, who was one-on-one with the goalkeeper. His shot glanced off the right post.

With nine minutes remaining, sophomore Patrick Reineke unleashed a shot from the right side which glanced off the far left post. To top it off, in the 85th minute, Alieu Musa’s 18-yard shot was denied by the crossbar.

“We’re creating the chances for the right guys in dangerous spots,” Hauter said. “The execu-tion is where we’re breaking down. It may just be a mental lapse in some of these opponents. It may be something in the way we’re doing in the preparation that’s causing it. But it’s certainly unacceptable. There’s not a guy that walked off the field pleased with the result.”

Nine games into the 17-game regular season, Hauter said all his team needs is more training in practice.

What is the cure for the scoring struggle? Answer: repetition.“It’s like shooting free throws,” Hauter said.

“We need to do more finishing, and we need to put those guys in these positions more often in training.”

Ables added: “We have the speed up front where we can run, and we have one of the best keepers in the conference. We definitely have the stars to be No. 1, we just have to bring it to-gether.”

The win was DePauw’s sixth shutout of the season, but also one that exposes DePauw’s con-tinuous weakness of converting scoring chances.

“This is a team that should be 9-0,” Hauter said. “They understand they should be 9-0, 6-1-2 is an absolutely disgusting record for this team, there’s not a guy who looks at it and is proud of that record.”

The Tigers return to conference play when they face Kenyon College (4-4-1, 0-0-1 NCAC) at Boswell Field at 2 p.m. Saturday.

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He said during talks with co-owner, Dave Morky, the opportunity to play and the contract kept get-ting better. At first, they wanted to offer him a one-year deal. In subsequent talks, the contract became a two-year commitment.

Sprenkel will play for Manny Rojas, who was announced Tuesday as the club’s head coach. Rojas was a Chilean National Soccer team player for more than 20 years starting in 1971.

Sprenkel will join the team Monday, and the Soul’s first game is Nov. 2 on the road against the Syracuse Silver Knights.

“I wish I could stay to be honest, but this is something I’ve always wanted to do and some-thing I need to do,” Sprenkel said. “I’m hoping I’ll have another opportunity to get back here sometime in the future.”

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program. With a group of freshmen in the mix, Hass got to work on teaching the players what it meant to be a collegiate lacrosse team.

“One of the challenges was changing the men-tality and the culture that really wasn’t here yet,” Haas said. “There’s a higher expectation for being in a varsity program. A lot of the guys on the team come from very successful high school programs, and for whatever reason didn’t want to play in college. Trying to make that shift to a varsity pro-gram, that has been a challenge, and it has been a fun challenge.”

One of those players who excelled in high school is senior Jack Glerum. Glerum played la-crosse since 2003, and played for DePauw’s club team in each of his three years. He’s finding Haas to be a catalyst for finding his skills he built in high school.

“I went from four years in Chicago at that in-tense level to totally relaxed stuff,” Glerum said. “Now I’m back at it, and I’m picking up where I left off.”

Along with Sherrill on the women’s side, freshman Elizabeth McCracken brings her nine years of lacrosse experience to a team mixed with completely new players and some veterans.

“I’ve noticed there are a lot of new girls to the game, and they’ve picked it up so fast you can barely tell,” McCracken said.

“All of these girls are so athletic. I was sur-prised with the upperclassmen and how talented they are,” added Wilcox, “We have a very broad spectrum of experience. We have girls who were high school All-Americans, and players who liter-ally haven’t played until two and half weeks ago.”

Despite the mix of players, Wilcox, Sherrill and McCracken all agree their team has athletes — and they are fast.

Speed is critical in lacrosse for beating oppo-nents down field and creating good scoring op-portunities with a numbers advantage. Wilcox is hesitant to make predictions on how her offense will look like, but thinks the speed may result in some surprise success for her team.

“We have a couple of freshmen in particular who can [assist] really well,” Wilcox said. “I’m re-ally pleased with that because that’s one of those things that’s somewhat intangible. If you don’t get the timing of it, it’s pretty hard to teach some-one how to do it well.

“A few of the girls who have never played before are just relentless athletes. If you have people who are willing to go through any sort of scrum to come away with the ball, that’s really big as well.”

While the women’s team might have a num-ber of good athletes who are learning the game of lacrosse well, Haas said his 21-man team may have an issue with depth come next spring.

Haas added they will look to use their speed and sprint the ball down into an opponent’s half on each offensive possession. This “run-and-gun” style of offense will wear-down his starters, forc-ing the need for substitutes.

“We have to be able to put other players in the game,” Haas said. “Down the road, we want to get the roster size to 45 so we can have an increased competition, and we have a deeper bench.

“There’s going to be at some positions an ex-

tremely steep drop-off. That’s where we have to coach the guys up and the players have to push each other. There’s no one else walking through the door to help us out.”

They do have a few walk-on players who are impressing Haas. Clayton Miller, a senior who was convinced by some friends to join the team, brings with him two years of DePauw football ex-perience – but no lacrosse skills at all.

Despite his inexperience, Haas calls Miller one of the more complete athletes on the team.

“One of my childhood friends played, and we threw the ball around twice,” Miller said. “I knew of the game, but I didn’t know who played of-fense, defense, how to score, I didn’t know there was offside, I didn’t know rules, nothing.”

Neither team will say whether they foresee a successful first season next spring.

But there isn’t a player thinking their team will lose every game.

Freshman Cameron Combs, from Grand Rap-ids Mich., thinks his team has a positive future because of the talent already acquired in its first year.

“With the guys who will be on the team next year, we’re still going to know how each other plays, that’s the base for next year,” Combs said. “We just have to keep building. In the next five years, DePauw will be a very good lacrosse team.”

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I had no idea what I was getting and no idea what to expect. But I’ve been

pleasantly surprised by the level of stick skills and athleticism.”

– Susana Wilcox, head women’s lacrosse coach

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By MICHAEL APPELGATE

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Nathan Sprenkel ’12 signed a profes-sional two-year contract Tuesday with the Major Indoor Soccer League franchise, Chi-cago Soul FC.

This is the second pro contract of Spren-kel’s soccer career. The first was in July when he signed with Antigua Barracuda FC – a team in the third tier of the United States Soccer Federation below Major League Soc-cer and the North American Soccer League.

Sprenkel will leave his current posi-tion as an assistant coach with the DePauw men’s soccer team Sunday.

The Soul is in its fourth month of exist-ence as an expansion MISL team. The MISL was established in May 2011 and is now a seven-team league.

Sprenkel has the opportunity to be the team’s first starting goalkeeper.

“I’ve never played competitive indoor soccer before – it’s a completely different game,” Sprenkel said. “They’re excited for my future and development and wanted to get me locked up as soon as they could.”

It started on Aug. 26 when he traveled up to Chicago for a tryout with the Soul. A couple days later, he called the Soul to tell them that he needs to keep his options

open. He was applying to attend a players’ combine, which takes place this weekend.

Sprenkel was invited to the combine, and then was offered a contract by the Soul on Sept. 13. On Tuesday, Sprenkel signed the contract and mailed it to Chicago.

“When I got it, I had coach [Brad Haut-er] and my dad read through it, and we had a couple of questions,” Sprenkel said. “I over-nighted it Tuesday. They’re probably receiving it today.”

In three years at DePauw, Sprenkel al-ways had his eyes set on a pro career. In his sophomore year, he was named the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year and earned All-Great Lakes Region first team honors. In Sprenkel’s senior year, he led the Tigers to a North Coast Athletic Conference title and was named the NCAC Defensive Player of the Year.

At the conclusion of the season, Hauter and Sprenkel laid out a plan to get the Zi-onsville, Ind., native on the national radar. He attended the Info Sport Pro Soccer Com-bine in Florida in January, then tried out for Antigua and was signed during the summer following graduation.

“With Antigua, it was late in the season, and it was for the last few weeks,” Spren-kel said. “This one feels a little more real because I’ll start when everyone is coming in. I can be a part of the growth and devel-opment of the franchise. It’s nice to have something to do over the winter. I don’t have my mom nagging me.”

Nathan Sprenkel ’12 signs second pro contract

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Nathan Sprenkel ‘12, assistant men’s soccer coach. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW

By MICHAEL APPELGATE

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Carl Haas paced on the sideline Thursday afternoon at the intramural fields observing his team practice transitions from defense through the midfield.

During one sequence, the ball sailed over a player’s head, and dur-ing another, the ball was passed far out of reach.

Instead of berating the mistakes, the first ever DePauw men’s lacrosse head coach said, “Let’s do it again.”

This is to be expected in the team’s first year in existence at De-Pauw. In the fourth week of practice, Haas said Tuesday’s scrimmage at the end of practice was as close to a finished product he has seen thus far.

On Thursday however, it was no-tably bumpier. Learning what sort of players they have is the case for both the men’s and women’s lacrosse teams as they embark on their inau-gural seasons.

Haas was hired in February and

was able to see some of his players then, unlike head women’s lacrosse coach, Susana Wilcox, who was hired in March.

Wilcox, in her team’s third week of practice, is still, like Haas, assess-ing what her team’s strengths are. To find that out, both coaches are iden-tifying players’ skills and attributes, but are pleasantly surprised at the amount of talent already at DePauw.

Haas and Wilcox both accepted their positions last spring fully know-ing that filling a team roster would be the first struggle. Their jobs were made easier as there were already well-established club teams at DeP-auw eager to take their skills to the next level.

“We have about 16 or 17 girls who were on the club team,” Wilcox said. “They’re used to really having much more freedom and flexibility with their schedule. I had no idea what I was getting and no idea what to expect. But I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the level of stick skills and athleticism.”

Wilcox was helped by previous club president, Katie Sherrill, to

make necessary contacts during the summer and build a roster. Sherrill, now a junior, will be a key compo-nent on Wilcox’s team.

“The coaches brought so many new aspects to the team we never would have thought of last year,” Sherrill said. “A lot of us were won-dering what to expect, and it’s defi-nitely kicked our butts in the best way possible.”

In contrast to the women, the men were able to get to know Haas on a basic level in the spring, and were ready for his well-organized practices and structured program.

But for Haas, his main concern was fielding a full team. During the spring and summer, Haas recruited in places as far as Florida, trying to build the program for the future. But the core of what he has now is com-ing from what was already here.

Much of the club team from pre-vious years has stuck on in the varsity

Searching for who they areOpening weeks of lacrosse practice revealed many strengths, weaknesses

“This one feels a little more real because I’ll start when everyone is coming in. I can be a part of the growth and development of the

franchise.”

– Nathan Sprenkel ‘12,

assistant men’s soccer coach

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