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VOL. 160, ISSUE 36FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2012 Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper

By ABBY [email protected]

For the 25th consecutive year, De-Pauw will host a statewide all-women’s basketball tournament on Saturday for the Special Olympics.

DePauw will welcome 31 teams to participate in this year’s competition in the Lilly Athletic Center’s main gym. The welcoming ceremony begins at 11 a.m. and the tournament games start at 12:30 p.m.

Mayor Sue Murray and junior Olivia Carmel, Panhellenic Council’s director of philanthropy and services and head organizer of the event, will give an open-ing welcome speech. DePauwCapella will sing the national anthem and two additional songs. There will also be a dance performance by X-Cell.

Students from all over campus plan to help out during the day. Many Panhel-lenic and Interfraternity Council greek chapters have committed to attending the event and cheering on the players. Student athletes will assist in facilitating the event.

As in years past, the Tiger football team will provide timers, scorekeepers and encouragement for the teams play-

ing. Following the day of tournaments, a

spa night and free pizza will be provided in the Auxiliary Gym. This is the first year that this evening event will take place.

“The pizza party Saturday night will give Special Olympics athletes and De-Pauw athletes a chance to interact out-side of the time during the games,” said senior Jonathon Cripe, president of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee and co-organizer of the event.

There will be women from each so-rority house giving free manicures and pedicures to athletes.

Jack Daddy Sunrise, a band com-prised of DePauw students, is also scheduled to perform Saturday night.

The weekend tournament will con-clude on Sunday with a brunch hosted by the sororities, followed by the last games of the tournament.

“It’s exciting for me to see how the DePauw community as well as Greencas-tle comes together to make it special for the athletes participating,” Carmel said. “It’s a lot of fun, everyone comes out

Special Olympics basketball tournament encourages community, students to unify

Richard Olunya spoke Wednesday in Watson Forum as a representative of the KONY 2012

Invisible Children campaign. Olunya, a native of Uganda, spoke of his childhood experiences

in the war-torn area. Olunya spoke of friends abducted by the Joseph Kony group who were forced into becoming child soldiers or killed.

As a part of the KONY 2012 campaign, Olunya will remain in the United States for ten weeks,

traveling and discussing this issue to raise awareness and call for support. Flip to page 8

for Emily Brelage’s column on the campaign. HOANG NGUYEN / THE DEPAUWDePauw students and Special Olympic participants enjoy pizza after the

basketball games in Lilly in March 2011. ARCHIVES OF THE DEPAUW

‘Invisible Children’ sparks conversationWHO IS JOSEPH KONY?

According to the non-profit filmmakers of Invisible Children, Joseph Kony is the world’s worst war criminal. In 1987, he took over leadership

of an existing rebel group and renamed it the Lord’s Resistance Army.

WHAT IS THE GOAL OF KONY 2012?Invisible Children has been working for nine years to end Africa’s

longest-running armed conflict U.S. military advisers are currently deployed in central Africa of a “Time-Limited”

mission to stop Kony and disarm the LRA. If Kony isn’t captured ths year, the window will be gone.

KONY 2012 IS TAKING ACTION TO ENSURE THESE TWO THINGS:

1) That Joseph Kony is known as the world’s worst war criminal.

2) That the U.S. military advisers support the Ugandan army until Kony has been captured and the LRA has been completely disarmed. They need to follow through all the way and

finish what they have started.

WHY IS THE CAMPAIGN MAKINGJOSEPH KONY “FAMOUS”?

The campaign aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to

raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice. If

people know about the crimes that Kony has been committing for 26

years, they will unit to stop him. At press time, the YouTube video boasted

over 43 million views.INFORMATION FROM KONY2012.COM

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By CRYSTAL [email protected]

Keith Woods, National Public Radio’s vice presi-dent for diversity in news and operations, addressed students and faculty Tuesday at Prindle Institute for Ethics during a talk entitled “The Power of the Per-sonal Essay.”

Woods, a former reporter, editor and editorial writer for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, essayist and frequent writer on race and race relations, dis-cussed issues of ethics and life writing.

Woods opened the conversation by sharing a portion of a memoir he is currently writing. The se-lection captured four weekends in the summer and fall of 2005, when his father was facing death and his family in New Orleans was recovering from Hurricane Katrina.

Woods’s reflections stirred many audience mem-bers to reflect personally. His words caused them to think of similar stories, though they weren’t directly impacted by the same events as Woods.

Woods’ primary goal was to discuss the ways in which he believes that personal essays can be power-ful. He identified three sources of power within per-sonal essays.

“I want to talk about power, not as a single thing, but as three things,” Woods said. “It’s the power the story exerts over the storyteller, the power in the tale itself and the power the story has to influence the reader. Power meets responsibility whenever ethics meets craft.”

Woods continued by describing the power of a story as one that insists on being told. If a story insists on being told, the story uses its power on the writer, according to Woods.

Another issue common to writers that Woods ad-dressed was the challenge writers face when bringing other characters into their stories, such as people who they interact with on a regular basis.

“Sometimes you just have to tell what happened, because that is more than enough and in the telling, in the depth of detail, the resonance of the voice, people are going to get hurt,” he said. “The more powerful

the piece, sometimes the greater the possibility of harm. That’s the ethical dimension.”

Woods’ ethical response to this challenge is to provide truth and only tell readers what they absolute-ly need to know to understand his side of the story.

Another challenge for writers that Woods raised, is the question of whether or not a writer can deliver a story accurately if it based solely on memory. He faces this challenge, as the first piece he read was written entirely from memory. He again returned to truth as a response to this challenge.

“To have the power of this form, you have to get to truth, you have to get as close as you possibly can as often as you possibly can,” he said.

The second piece Woods shared, entitled “The Dress” brought up another challenge for writers. In the story, Woods used a device that wasn’t true to the

story to help tell it.“The device itself is just the way I remember it,”

he said.Some students left the talk with a different outlook

for personal essays and the challenges writers face when composing them.

“It’s not something I thought about at first, like when you’re writing a story, the other people implied in it,” Prindle intern and senior Liz Anichini said. “You have to consider, especially if you’re going to go pub-lic, how people who are in the story, are also going to be considered.”

Of Woods’s entire presentation, though, Anichini thought the most powerful aspect was hearing the es-says read out loud by Woods.

“When he’s there reading it to you, it adds another dimension to it.”

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PNC Bank recently placed a new ATM Machine in the Union Building, located in the northeast staircase in the Hub. PNC Bank will be hosting a celebration at the UB March 23. The celebration will offer free refreshments and the chance to win valuable prizes. PNC Bank held two celebrations in the Hub on Wednesday to mark the opening of their new on-site ATM machine. PNC representatives provided information, gifts and snacks for interested students and faculty. EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW

NPR vice pres. shares the power of a personal essay

Many students ventured to Prindle Tuesday evening to hear essayist Keith Woods speak on “The Power of the Personal Essay.” Woods connected with many audience members that evening by sharing a personal essay about his father’s death. TAYLOR ZARTMAN / THE DEPAUW

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By BECCA [email protected]

Facilities Management recently announced plans to change their custodial service schedules, reducing office cleanings from five times a week to two times a week.

According to Tony Robertson, assistant director of facilities, the schedule adjustments were made to better utilize the staff and to re-prioritize work to get tasks done more efficiently and effectively.

Robertson said that the department is not understaffed, but has just been trying to better organize to maximize their time and effort. Recently Facilities Management reduced their staff by one team. They have also put buildings into groups so staff teams are working in the same general area to save time.

“This is not a negative change,” Robertson said. “We want to work smarter, not harder. It makes more sense for public areas to be cleaned more thoroughly every day and for offices to be cleaned more thor-oughly, but less frequently.”

Affected buildings’ offices include Asbury, Emison, East College, Roy O. West Library, Harrison, Julian, Olin, Peeler, the Ad Building, Admis-sions offices, the Charter House, the Union Building, the Green Center for the Performing Arts and Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media.

The changes in cleaning schedules will only affect offices. Schedules for public areas, classrooms and restrooms are to remain the same — they’re cleaned five times a week.

“I really think this is a win-win-win situation. Visitors can enjoy cleaner areas, the faculty’s offices will be cleaned more thoroughly and our staff can feel better about their work. They will have the opportu-nity to exhale and not have to hurry as much,” Robertson said.

Since the changes have been made Jan. 3, Facilities Management has received 2 phone calls asking about the changes and why offices were not cleaned, which Robertson accredits to a lack of communication.

The department has also received several emails praising the de-partment’s decision to re-prioritize.

The department does not currently have any set plans for future changes.

“We are always looking to be better,” Robertson said. “This change was a big first step for us, I really think it is best for all. If changes will make things better, then we will make them.”

Custodians reduce office service to twice a weekGetting into Greencastle: Mayor

talks volunteer opportunities

Mayor Sue Murray speaks with Civic Fellows and Bonner Scholars on Tuesday afternoon. Civic Fellows member senior Luke Rockefeller invited the mayor to speak with the group and discuss various ways in which student volunteers can become more invovled and beneficial to the Greencastle and Putnam County communities. “She’s obviously very knowl-edgable about the entire area, and I wanted to get a feel for what places in the community she thought were most in need,” Rockefeller said. Murray discussed many opportunities with the students including the upcoming Clean City Month and the resurrection of the homeless shelter and humane society. EMILY GREEN | THE DEPAUW

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and cheers. It’s an exciting event for students and athletes.”

Carmel began organizing the event at the be-ginning of January. She is spearheading the event with Cripe and junior Andrew Kahn, vice presi-dent of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee.

Cripe is looking forward to seeing how this year’s Olympics shape up.

“This Special Olympics basketball tournament has been going on for years with great success,” Cripe said. “We all look forward to helping at the games and working with the Special Olympics athletes.”

Carmel also worked with Rachel Robertson, intern for the director of Special Olympics based in Indianapolis. This is Robertson’s first time as-sisting.

Robertson has been impressed with how much of DePauw will be involved in Special Olym-pics and is looking forward to it finally being here.

“It shows a lot about the campus that a variety of people want to help with such an event and make the tournament that much better for all of the athletes,” Robertson said. “It has been a few busy months with the planning and I’m ready for it to finally be here.”

The committee hopes the DePauw commu-nity will respond to the event with the same en-thusiasm that they have in years past.

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CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

The article “Graduation rates for black males at DePauw in past ten years” in the Friday March 2 issue of The DePauw incorrectly presented the six-year graduation rate for black male stu-dents as freshman to sophomore year retention rate. The X axis was incorrectly labeled “Gradu-ation year,” when it should have been labeled, “Incoming year” and the Y axis should have been labelled “six-year graduation rate.” In ad-dition, the 2006 and 2007 years should not have been included in the graph, as they represented only a five-year and four-year graduation rate. The story also should have made more clear that percentages can be significantly changed with low actual change because of the very small cohort being measured (often just above 10 students).

Visiting philosopher: polygamy don’t exclude from same-sex marriage debate

By MATTHEW CECIL [email protected]

Cheshire Calhoun doesn’t believe polygamy should be illegal.

She isn’t a polygamist, and she isn’t a member of the Church of Latter-day Saints, which historically permitted men to take multiple wives.

But the philosophy professor from Colby College in Waterville, Maine says legalizing polygamy would secure rights for women informally practicing polygamy in fundamentalist religious communities.

“It makes it economically disadvan-tageous to take lots of wives, because what it means is that those wives have entitlement to divorce and they have an entitlement to sue under divorce law for share of the assets,” Calhoun said. “So if you have 20 wives, you have 20 potential individuals suing for a share of their assets.”

A longtime advocate for gay rights, Calhoun said attention to polygamy might also build a stronger case for

same-sex marriage.Calhoun said opponents of same-

sex marriage have invoked polygamy in slippery-slope arguments, suggest-ing the legalization of marriage be-tween same-sex couples could lead to state-approved unions of incestuous or bestial relationships — between a human and an animal.

She says the best response to the slippery slope argument is, “Why not polygamy?”

Nic Flores, a senior and member of United DePauw, said he isn’t con-vinced either way after listening to Cal-houn’s presentation.

He said that polygamy often comes up in discussions about same-sex mar-riage but wanted to keep an open mind on the matter.

Betty Cao, also a senior and mem-ber of United DePauw, said that she thought Calhoun’s arguments weren’t sufficient enough to make a case for using polygamy in same-sex marriage advocacy.

Calhoun admits that including polygamy in arguments for same-sex

marriage presents many problems, but she believes that negative perception can change.

“These kinds of worries about, if you allow same-sex marriage, then what about polygamy, I think can be sort of reversed,” Calhoun said. “Those very same arguments are going to be a reason for allowing polygamy.”

Eight states currently allow same-sex marriage. None permit polygamy.

Calhoun visited DePauw Thursday afternoon to present her research on the intersections of polygamy and the same-sex marriage debate in a lecture entitled, “Who’s Afraid of Polygamous Marriage?”

According to Calhoun, that’s a groundbreaking combination.

“With few exceptions, advocates of same-sex marriage rights have exer-cised vigorous silence about the other marriage bar [against polygamy] cur-rently in effect.”

Calhoun said that academics, too, are silent on polygamy. And she be-lieves that’s a mistake.

Opponents to same-sex marriage

often cite a traditionalist interpretation of marriage as solely between one man and one woman.

But evaluating the historical tradi-tion of polygamy, Calhoun said, would strengthen the case for same-sex mar-riage.

“Polygamous marriage can’t be dismissed as a kind of negligible blip on an otherwise consistent tradition of heterosexual, monogamous mar-riage,” Calhoun said. “On the contrary, polygamy is very much a part of a millennia-old pluralist Judeo-Christian tradition of marriage.”

She said The Bible makes no de-nunciation of polygamy and it would behoove same-sex marriage advocates to point this out.

Calhoun said a democratic state should be neutral about moral issues.

She said that monogamous, het-erosexual relationships have a dem-onstrated past of reinforcing gendered roles.

If anything, Calhoun said, same-sex marriages provide the best means to avoid gender inequality.

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JIMEASTERHOUSE

Music is an extremely powerful device. Its wonders of changing mood, generating thought and

fostering physical state make it a tool unlike any other.

Since it is so powerful, it can be used in nearly any situation. From so-cial gatherings to relaxing in solitude, enjoying the highest of highs or fight-ing the lowest of lows, music always find its way into our lives.

An area in which music plays an interesting role is the wide world of sports. Sometimes a tasty tune is all it takes to capitalize on a workout, mo-tivate one to reach goals and concen-trate on achieving that desirable piece of the prize.

Due to the diverse nature of ath-letes and sports altogether, music can be drastically different and used in po-lar opposite situations. One sport that

is notable for being enhanced by music is running.

London’s Brunel University found in a 2008 study that “carefully selected music can significantly increase a per-son’s physical endurance and make exercise a more positive experience.”

This came after participants lis-tened to Madonna, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Queen during a 30-min-ute run on a treadmill.

This is no different for many run-ners at DePauw. Freshman Will Bond, who runs both cross country and track, notes music as a soothing helper used to loosen up for an event.

“As a distance runner, I like to stay relatively relaxed,” said Bond, who listed Coldplay and Bon Iver as particu-lar artists he listens to before racing. “When I prepare for a race I listen to music that won’t over-excite me into running too quickly at the beginning of the race.”

This trend remains the same for freshman golfer Stephanie Aanenson. For her, being calm is crucial to her success on the green.

“I listen to mainly chill rap like Atmosphere or something that re-laxes me, but also gets my mind in the game,” Aanenson said.

Getting to the rate of performance an athlete strives to achieve sometimes takes a little more than physical effort. An emotionally strong and high-energy song can get an athlete in gear to per-form at an elevated level. To be frank, athletes need to get pumped up.

Freshman baseball player Matt Dorsett achieves at his highest level by listening to “For You” by Keith Urban. A country song symbolizing patriotism that is featured in the movie “Act of Valor” about U.S. Navy SEALS, Dorsett claims it helps him feel a sense of pride and service.

“I feel like I owe it to myself and other people to do my best because other people are out there risking their lives for me,” Dorsett said. “It pumps me up for games and makes me proud to be an American.”

Particular songs or artists aren’t always a go-to. A random assortment of songs or artists can do the trick

without routine. No matter who it is or what is playing, a euphoric combi-nation of both excitement and happi-ness help some prepare themselves to achieve greatness.

“I usually listen to music before races, but nothing in particular, just something that cheers me up and ex-cites me,” said sophomore swimmer Matt Gleason, a national qualifier in five events. “For me, artists range from Skrillex to Edward Sharpe & The Mag-netic Zeros, and Kanye West to Rebelu-tion.”

Regardless of who it is or what is be-ing played, music can affect an athlete in an infinite number of ways. While either being a crucial catalyst to get to a high level of intensity, or a relaxing tune to wind down into the zone, mu-sic can be a huge help in an athlete’s pursuit of perfection.

— Easterhouse is a freshman from Evergreen Park, Ill., majoring in communications. [email protected]

The power of listening to music while playing sports: Suggestions from TigersDPU ATHLETES EXERCISE

TO THESE MUSICIANS:

Coldplay and Bon Iver-Will Bond, freshman runner

Atmosphere-Stephanie Aanenson,freshman golfer

Keith Urban-Matt Dorsett, freshman baseball player

Skrillex, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Kanye West and Rebelution-Matt Gleason, sophomore swimmer

ADRIENNEWESTENFELD

It’s the best of times and it’s the worst of times to be a woman — while leg-islation such as the Lilly Ledbetter

Fair Pay Act of 2009 is allowing women to edge closer to shattering a restricting glass ceiling, the Catholic Church is at-tempting to strike down a provision of healthcare in which all employers, re-gardless of religious orientation, are re-quired to insure birth control for female employees.

Such events are only evidence of the dismal fact that America is mired in a theocratic cycle, one in which the reli-gious claim that they’re being oppressed by not being permitted to utilize religion as an oppressor. Unfortunately enough, women are caught in the crossfire.

If Catholic leaders are so vehemently opposed to contraceptives, why have

they failed to excommunicate the over 70 percent of Catholic women who reg-ularly use birth control? Why are mem-bers of the flock permitted to shirk the rules when employees of organizations affiliated with the Catholic Church are denied fundamental reproductive care? Why are Catholic leaders suspended in a cult of ignorance in which the cheek is turned and the door is shut on women’s health? Perhaps most disturbingly, why are Catholic women who utilize contra-ceptives remaining so eerily silent?

FOX pundit Sean Hannity hosted a forum to discuss women’s contraceptive care. In an effort to represent all sides of the contentious issue, he invited what he claimed was “absolutely everyone who might have something relevant to say about women’s health.” This includ-ed clergymen, Jewish men, white men, black men — but no women. Conserva-tive men seem to be more interested in promoting the subjugation of women than they are in having an adult, egali-tarian discussion about reproductive

health. When JFK ran for office, conserva-

tives spread fear that the president would take orders from the Vatican. Now conservatives seem to be demand-ing that the government bow down to Church doctrine. Radical conservatism is allowing the country to careen terrify-ingly backwards.

Additionally, Catholic leaders claim that abstinence is the best contracep-tive. It seems as though the Church operates under a feudal perspective in which sex is purely reproductive and women are merely receptacles intended for childbearing. Contrary to their belief,

sex isn’t merely a means of procreating — it’s a means of human connection.

Where exists the logic in denying women contraceptives and then re-ligiously castigating them for getting pregnant? Catholic leaders have no right to command women to keep their legs closed, and they’re irrational if they be-lieve that abstinence is the clear solu-tion.

Perhaps most interestingly, churches are permitted numerous tax exemptions excusing them from over a collective $100 billion in taxes. If the Catholic Church chooses to benefit from this hush-hush agreement with the govern-ment and to work in the public realm, then it needs to comply with public rules.

This isn’t an issue of religious free-dom — this is an issue of the conserva-tive war on women, of the disintegrating boundary between church and state, of zealots playing the victim and, in doing so, disenfranchising the genuinely vic-timized.

No woman’s health should be con-tingent upon where she works, what her boss believes, or how much money she makes. It’s time for the Catholic Church to progress into the twenty-first cen-tury and understand that women aren’t broodmares — they have the right to control their own bodies, and they have the right to reproductive healthcare.

Reproduction is not a political battle-ground — it’s at once a hefty decision, an enormous responsibility and a human experience, one in which women have the right both to participate and not to participate.

Before the war against the imbecil-ity of the alleged “War Against Religion” begins, conservatives need to keep the government out of the bedroom and re-member that some things, reproduction included, aren’t political statements.

— Westenfeld is a freshman from Fort Wayne, Ind., majoring in creative writing and English literature. [email protected]

Conservative cap on women must come to an end

Why are Catholic women who utilize contraceptives remaining

so eerily silent?

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By JACLYN [email protected]

A self-proclaimed “theater kid” and student playwright Joan “J.C.” Pankratz feels like a winner.

Pankratz, a senior English writing major and women’s studies minor, has been named one of the four national finalists for the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play — one of the highest prasies for an aspiring playwright.

Her play, “Honest to God,” is a one-woman show, in which one actress performs the roles of several different people — both women and men. The main character is a woman in her 30s who returns to her mother’s home in Iowa since her mother died and left her the house.

“She’s kind of an outcast and people are sort of like, ‘Why is she moving back here?’” Pankratz said of the main character.

The woman later notices a burning bush in her backyard and attempts to put it out, to no avail. Since she doesn’t know what to do about the phenomenon, she covers it. When she forgets to cover it at a later time, someone else discovers it by accident, prompting the whole town to camp out by the house and await the next sign.

“Watching the audience get introduced to the character at the beginning of the play is my favorite part,” Pankratz said.

Pankratz likes to watch how other people watch the play and see the audience’s

bewilderment at the situations happening onstage. She also has the opportunity to see how they respond to the voice of the main character.

“It’s really her story,” Pankratz said. “There’s a sense of total isolation that I think we can sort of all relate to. She’s really completely alone, and I think sometimes we all feel that way.”

“Honest to God” was written when Pankratz took Professor Chris White’s Writing for Performance class the first semester of her junior year. The class members were to write on the same topic for an assignment — obsession and ritual. The class divided into two smaller groups, and Pankratz’s group decided on the theme “green.” Her task was to merge the two themes for the scene.

“I was getting to bed one night, and I had this thought,” Pankratz said. “I had this really clear image of a woman going out and tending a burning bush in her backyard and that’s sort of where it started.”

“Honest to God” has certainly evolved considerably since then, especially since she only wrote the first scene of the final product for that class. During the second semester of Pankratz’s junior year, she studied in New York and decided to add three scenes to the play, lengthening its runtime from five minutes to 35 minutes.

Last November, she e-mailed the play in for consideration for the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play, and she heard back in December. Pankratz

was excited to go to the regional conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and she’s thrilled to see her work performed at the Kennedy Center for the American College Theater National Festival on April 21.

“I’ve never actually been there, so getting to go there and see a professional team direct and

produce this reading of my work is pretty incredible,” Pankratz said.

Although Pankratz doesn’t know if she’s won the award yet, the chance to

see her play performed at the Kennedy Center Family Theater in Washington, D.C. makes her feel as though she has won, regardless of whether she

receives the award or not, which will be decided in April.

“I feel like just that opportunity is beyond anything that I had ever imagined for this play

when I was up at 4 a.m. writing it frantically,” she said.

Pankrantz is now open to submitting other plays for

awards in the future. “Honest to God” is the first one-act play that Pankratz has written, but she has written several ten-minute plays and has co-written a full-length play.

“I was always a theater kid,” Pankratz said.She dabbled in technical theater work and loved

being in that ‘community’ while growing up. She tried writing ten-minute plays and received positive feedback, so she continued along that route.

“My favorite thing about playwriting is that it is a collaborative effort,” Pankratz said. “I write the play by myself, but a play is not just meant to be read on a page. A play is meant to be performed and to do that you have to work in close collaboration with other people.”

She considers it a tremendous privilege to give her work to other people and see what type of art they make with it. She also believes that DePauw’s professors have been immensely helpful with her playwriting skills, as they have given up time and spirit to help her invest in her writing work.

Although playwriting comes with challenges, Pankratz definitely plans on continuing to write and work with other artists in the future.

“This play has been really successful, and I’ve really enjoyed where it has taken me. I’m really excited to move on to the next thing.”

The award recognizes one or more exceptional scripts annually to be

presented at the national festival at the Kennedy Center.

•The recipient of the award will receive $1,000 provided by the

Kennedy Center, an all-expenses paid professional development opportunity,

and an active membership in the Dramatists Guild.

•The Michael Kanin Awards Program as

a whole seeks to recognize student-written short plays and encourage

these writers to develop the form to prepare for a playwriting profession.

(All information retrieved from http://www.kenne-dycenter.org/education/actf/actfspa.html)

John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play

Student makes finals for playwright awardJoan “J.C.” Pankratz

A day in the life of Kyle

“I woke up at six and ran 11 miles. I had

a staff conference call while scarfing a

spinach smoothie and an entire pot of

coffee. I triaged the 1,500 emails I had

received since 10 p.m. the night before. I

spoke with our graphic designer about an

infographic on deworming. I spoke with

the Expeditionary Learning Team, which

is the focus on charter schools. I read a

report on a 30,000 square foot building in

Detroit. I approved the Barley and Birch

Summer 2012 collection color palette. I

returned a call from Save the Children.

I considered having lunch. I researched

flower and olive oil suppliers in Napa,

California. I made some more calls and

sent some more emails. I reviewed the

Detroit Public School recent press release.

I cleaned my chicken coop. I took a break

before dinner to roller-skate with my

two sweet 100-pound rescue pit bulls.

I had dinner with a foundation board

member to discuss our bylaws. I watched

The Bachelor and texted my best friend.

And then, while the rest of the world

was sleeping, from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., I

returned emails and I reworked my to-do

list for the next day. I spent my Saturday

morning catching up on all the emails

from staffers, board members, donors,

customers, family and friends, press,

and entrepreneurs looking for advice.

Then I ended my 39-hour workday at 9

p.m. Saturday night at a biker bar in

East Oakland, watching a friend’s band

perform, surrounded by a lot of people

with neck and facial tattoos.”

Left: Senior Joan “J.C.” Pankratz, Resident Intern at the Women’s Center, was one of four finalists for the John Cauble Award for an Outstanding Short Play. The Cauble award is a national honor presented by Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards Program. PHOTO BY EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW

By ALICIA [email protected]

Sashaying confidently onto the stage, draped in a flowing skirt and accompanying heels, Kyle Smitley approached the podium emanating grace.

On her first visit to DePauw at a mere 16-years-old, Smitley said that her first impression of the campus was that it made her think of Hogwarts, the fictional castle-like school in the Harry Potter novel series.

She went on to graduate from DePauw in 2007 but returned on Wednesday night as a part of the 175th Anniversary Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series. She is the founder and owner of barley and birch, an organic children’s clothing line that she launched in 2009.

Smitley says that she normally laughs when asked what a typical day looks like in the life of an entrepreneur. “There really isn’t one,” Smitley said. “But I figured since you guys are DePauw kids and understand what it’s like to have a hectic day, I would just pick a day and write down everything I did.”

The day she chose was Friday, Feb. 17 — a day in which she spent 39 hours in produtivity mode, answering e-mail, running and staying up into the wee hours of the morning.

But constantly being busy is nothing new to her. When celebrities and millionaires ask her how she manages to accomplish everything, she knows it came from her time at DePauw. As a student, she was heavily involved in a large assortment of groups and activities.

“My one mission when I was here was to try all the things that I hadn’t had a chance to do in my tiny little high school in Ohio,” Smitley said.

And try things she did. Smitley was involved with WGRE every semester she was on campus

— the time when the station went from number six to number one in the nation. She also took cello lessons, wrote for The DePauw, rode in Little 5, was volunteer coordinator at the Humane Society and was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. In addition, Smitley was a swim coach at North Putnam High School, a Posse Plus Retreat member, went on Winter Term In Service trips and studied abroad in New Zealand.

But her years at DePauw were not without setbacks. During her sophomore year, her application to study geology in New Zealand was denied due to a lack of connection between the location and the subject matter. Then, during her senior year, she was turned down by Teach For America. She said that after these two major blows, she was devastated.

“It felt sometimes that I was in a horrible bubble, and it was difficult and frustrating and a lot of hard work on a lot of different levels,” Smitley said. But she pressed on, learning lessons and gaining wisdom along the way.

After graduating with a double major in philosophy and environmental science and a double minor in Spanish and chemistry, she made a short

stop in Washington D.C. before heading off to San Diego to do, as Smitley said, absolutely nothing. But some research on the children’s product industry she completed during a summer internship changed all that.

“I looked into everything from mattresses to pacifiers to clothing,” Smitley said. “It was all relatively horrifying, but the apparel industry was the worst. People would say ‘Hey, this is organic‘ — and what that means is that it’s good for your kids, and it’s also saving the world. But I would look into it and they were lying.”

In response to her findings, Smitley decided to take action. “The solution was pretty clear: I would kill two birds with one stone,”

she said. “I would start a company to give parents a very high-quality, safe option for their kids and I would use the small amount of money I made to donate to organizations all over the world to make a huge difference.”

With absolutely no knowledge about how to run a business, she drew up the business plan for Barley and Birch.

“I stood firmly on the principle that kindness, humility and hard work would create the best possible brand,” Smitley said.

Her message struck a chord with students, who said it was very inspiring.

“She does more in a week than I have probably done in my whole entire life,” freshman Libby Warren said. “She is a fantastic role model. She really inspired me to go the extra mile, think creatively and to never give up.”

Students around her vigorously nodded their heads in agreement.“I was in complete awe,” junior Bethy Velcich said. “She made me

want to make a difference in the world.”After just its first year in business, Barley and Birch was carried in

over 100 stores worldwide and won a slew of parents’ awards for best children’s clothing. After its second year, the company was featured in magazines ranging from People to Forbes. Smitley was chosen for Inc’s “30 Under 30: America’s Coolest Young Entrepreneurs.”

After its third year, Barley and Birch created its own foundation and built and opened a children’s home and school in Haiti. Last week, money earned by the

company was sent and was used to de-worm all 3.2 million children in Haiti.

Next week, Smitley plans to launch her new company. Next month, she will run in the Boston Marathon. Next year, she will open a charter school in Detroit and the first-ever children’s and prenatal clinic in all of Haiti.

“It’s a lot, but nothing more intense then the list I read about what I did at DePauw,” she said. “I’m living a very fun and very ridiculous life, because I believe life is meant to be lived and maxed out at every moment.”

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Above: Kyle Smitley ‘07 laughs while speaking with Jeffrey McCall, professor of communication, in Meharry Hall on Wednesday evening. Students, faculty and staff joined in the conversation as Smitley discussed her experience with entrepreneurship and the founding of her company barley & birch, which sells a line of organic children’s clothing. PHOTO BY EMILY GREEN / THE DEPAUW

Making a DifferenceKyle Smitley

BOB ALLEN / THE DEPAUW

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EMILYBRELAGE

I find Twitter an indispensable tool in gleaning the impor-tant headlines of the day with

a quick glance. Staying up to date is only made easier by the trending feature, where the network’s most tweeted topics are categorized for searching. This week, I was shocked to see #StopKony explode virally. #StopKony refers to Joseph Kony, the Ugandan leader of the Lord’s Re-sistance Army — a violent campaign to overthrow the Ugandan government and establish a theocracy. Kony is, in every sense, a war criminal — the LRA has abducted and forced an estimated 66,000 children to fight for them since the Ugandan rebellion began in 1986.

Hashtags like #StopKony should be beneficial to a global conversation on human rights…right?

My issue with the rise of #StopK-ony’s popularity was not because it raised awareness of child soldiers and slaves in Uganda, but rather the online community’s blind approval of the organization behind it — the controversial non-profit organization Invisible Children and its new video “Kony2012.”

I first encountered Invisible Chil-dren when a chapter was established

in high school. I was moved by the or-ganization’s heart-wrenching videos of African children toting enormous guns and their staggering (I later learned, exaggerated) statistics.

By the numbers, Invisible Children spent nearly nine million dollars last year. Only 32 percent of that figure, however, went toward direct aid in Uganda. As a nonprofit, IC’s earnings must be made public, though it has failed to be externally audited it is not accredited by the Better Business Bu-reau. Basically, Invisible Children is a financially questionable organization, yet it continues to receive donations.

Besides supporting an organiza-tion that’s lacking in financial trans-parency, those users who retweeted #StopKony were largely unaware of the solutions Invisible Children pro-poses to end child soldiering. Military intervention and economic develop-ment initiatives with distinctly colo-nialist undertones are considered the ultimate answer for ending the influ-ence of the LRA, which left Uganda in 2006.

The organization also does not publicize the fact that the U.S. Africa Command has already sent troops to seek Kony on multiple occasions. These failed missions only exacer-bated the killing of children — Kony’s bodyguards — in retaliation. Instead of first looking toward indigenous solutions to approach this complex historical and political conflict, Invis-

ible Children simplifies the issue to good versus evil. Thus IC’s humanitar-ian agenda shields it from any kind of criticism — after all, who doesn’t want to end child warfare in Africa?

I’m not discrediting the terrible reality of the situation. Joseph Kony’s evil is undeniable, I’m just not sure exactly how we #StopKony. But there is something to be said about the way people so fervently took up this cause without fully knowing the orga-nization promoting the hashtag. It’s ironic that the “Invisible” Children are just now gaining momentum online, because for many local and regional communities, these children have been visible for over 25 years. It’s only now — when an expensive, artsy new video takes over Twitter — that child soldiers receive widespread attention.

Social media has revolutionized the way we share and consume me-dia, but that doesn’t free us from our responsibility to research and form individual opinions.

Instead of re-posting something our friends “like,” we must be dili-gent about looking into the causes we champion. I just ask that you find out who you support when you hit that “send” button.

— Brelage is a junior from Indianapolis majoring in English writing and anthropology. She is currently interning at C-SPAN in Washington, D.C. [email protected]

#StopKony: Lessons in slacktivism

Social media’s power to create conversationThe recent outburst of the video title Kony2012 created by the nonprofit organi-

zatoin Invisible Children has spurred continuous discussion in social media across the nation and across our campus.

While the issue itself is terrible and the controversy of the non-profit organization In-visible Children is debatable, there are many aspects of the viral discussions that DePauw students can be proud of.

The use of social media for world issues has been enormous, and DePauw students are a part of it. The fact that we can discuss the issues so openly is a testament to the stimulating environment we have at DePauw.

We should capitalize on opportunites like Kony2012 to explore issues as students: thoroughly, weighing all dimensions. The key is to stay as educated as possible, and the best way to achieve that is through informative and respectful discussion.

Thumbs up: Special Olympics weekend

DePauw’s weekend of Special Olympics is a big deal. We’re proud that our university has created a 25-year strong tradi-tion of service that truly engages a whole community.

This event has the ability to unite through service. With the multitude of DePauw and Greencastle community vol-unteers and attendees, we believe that goal will continue

to be achieved.But even more than simply attending the games, the

new evening event for the athletes participating in the tourna-ment is exciting. By holding the pizza party and spa night that univer-

sity women will attend as well, DePauw and the community are truly allowing for athletes and students to interact and get to know one another on a deeper level.

Unlike other philanthropy events at DePauw and in the greek system, students are actually immersed in the heart of this cause. They are present, cheering, timing and volunteering for a weekend. They get to see first-hand the difference they can make in just a few short hours.

And that makes a greater difference in students’ lives as well, much more than simply cutting a fat check.

It is those moments that truly build unity and bridge gaps, and we commend the Panhellenic Council and others responsible for adding to an already great weekend.

The DePauw | oPinion PAGE 9FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2012

PHOTOPINIONHow do you get through

midterms?

COLLEEN KELLEY, senior

“Daydreaming. Whenever things stop making sense, I let myself daydream.”

ELI CANGANY / THE DEPAUW

TOMMY HILLER, sophomore

“I stay at the library, don’t sleep and work out.”

SARAH MacPHAIL, junior

“I make a schedule, work out and make sure to have some fun in my day.”

BROOKE ADDISON, freshman

“I just switch between studying and play-ing piano...something that’s relaxed and a different frame of mind.”

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

Openness is Key to Pursue Positive Change

As a member of the Student Government Evaluation Committee (GEC), I would like to make some clarifications from Tuesday’s article.

President Pierre stated, “if the GEC had done a little bit more home-work, they would have realized that fact,” in reference to our comments on the need for increased commu-nication and collaboration and said that these things had improved dur-ing his time in office.

First, I would like to empha-size that in our statements about communication and collaboration, we were not saying that DePauw Student Government (DSG) com-pletely lacked these traits, we were simply stating that many others and ourselves thought that they could be improved.

I think that every organization on campus should continue to work towards improvement and refine-ment.

Also, the GEC observed every body of student government and in-terviewed many of the members of these bodies. A reoccurring theme in all of our observations and in the interviews with members was that communication and collaboration were two of the primary issues in DSG.

A majority of senators and repre-sentatives that we personally spoke to said these issues were prominent. Although, I cannot speak for where President Pierre collected the infor-mation to back up his statements. I would think that had he pulled aside many members of DSG and interviewed them subjectively he would have found the same issues that we did.

The GEC is a part of the consti-tution in order to provide checks and balances on these institutions. This system will fail if the informa-tion provided by the committee is disregarded.

It is necessary for student gov-ernment, particularly the leadership, to strive to continue to advance no matter what improvements have come in the last year, especially when many members still see these issues as critical problems.

The GEC was only given a week to publish their report and, we

decided that it was necessary to continue our review of DSG more thoroughly. The GEC will continue their work alongside all members of DSG to pursue positive change on this campus.

— Ellen Clayton, senior and Alex Lemna, freshman (Not represen-tative of the opinions of the GEC

as a whole)

Critique of coverage of Tatge class misses the point

Like many other alumni, I make a point to read The DePauw each week so that I can know what is go-ing on at my alma mater. Most of the time, I’m heartened to read about lively debate and a vibrant social and academic community. In the past week, though, I’ve been somewhat shocked over the predominant sen-timent regarding the recent story about Professor Tatge’s class and The DePauw’s subsequent report-ing.

Lost in the emotion, innuendo of legal threats and lack of thought-ful analysis by many members of the DePauw community, are a few basic facts.

What happened to the student, who is an adult, is a matter of public record — even though it is incred-ibly unfortunate.

The primary purpose of a uni-versity like DePauw is to provide its students with a liberal arts educa-tion, to generate debate and critical thought and to permit both faculty and students to challenge the world around them.

The primary purpose of a news-paper like The DePauw is to report on news. It is pretty clear now that the subject of the class at issue is and was news.

Also lost in all of this, rather ironically so, is a coherent debate over our right to privacy. There are certain zones of our lives where we should expect privacy. But when we act in public, whether in an ex-emplary or in a less-than-exemplary way, we cannot claim an expectation of privacy.

Regardless of whether or not a newspaper publishes a narrative of what you do, certain records will al-ways exist to create that narrative in the future.

It could be an arrest record or other disciplinary action. Or it could be what you and those who know you send via email or through so-cial media. Every tweet ever sent is going to be housed in the Library of Congress. Forever. The DePauw bubble is real in many ways, but it does not exempt us from the scru-tiny that every adult faces.

Neither the faculty nor student media should shy away from ad-dressing real and relevant issues affecting the world at large and within the immediate DePauw com-munity. While such pursuits should always be done with empathy and with dignity, I hope this eruption will not stifle the vibrant place we all love.

Mike Stanek ‘06

African American retention rates reported inaccurately

An article published in the March 2 issue of The DePauw (“Of-fice of Institutional Research reveals retention rates for black males down not up”) is both misleading and flat wrong.

The figures which are referenced in the headline, article and the verti-cal axis of the accompanying chart, apparently came from somewhere, but are not reflective of any conclu-sions reached by this office.

After comparing the published report to the data I’ve compiled (and which is quite different from the paper’s), I’m left to assume that The DePauw took a report it received from an unrelated source and misinterpreted it in a number of ways, leading to entirely errone-ous conclusions. Given how poorly the figures were represented, any conclusions drawn from them are not reliable.

The story asserts that the num-bers contradict statements on reten-tion made by Hermen Diaz. That, too, is incorrect. His statement that retention (customarily defined as the percent of entering students returning for the second year) for black males has increased since the implementation of the Black Male Initiative is factually on-the-mark, though fluctuations in the propor-tions are magnified due to the small number of students.

In general, however, there has been an increase. The article clearly conflates two different, though re-lated, outcomes and does not draw the necessary distinction between the two.

Please know that I stand ready to help and that this error could have been averted had the reporter and graphic designer contacted me for confirmation of the data and the conclusions they were trying to draw and convey.

— Bill Tobin, director of institu-tional research

Support needed for national swimmers

In less than two weeks, 10 of the DePauw male and female athletes will compete at the NCAA swim-ming championships. The nine men attending represent the larg-est DePauw men’s team in over 25 years. And Catie Baker, the women’s representative, has had an excellent career that deserves attention.

Yet the DePauw [University] official web site and official twitter account have made no mention of their accomplishment. In addition The DePauw newspaper has not even covered their selection.

Recently many students on campus have commented on a lack of support for DePauw athletics. I believe some of the responsibility needs to fall on The DePauw to raise awareness.

As a main media source, The DePauw needs to let students know and get excited over their peers competing in such honorable events.

The lack of awareness is a shame. Our community has a rare chance to see these athletes in action as the meet will be held for the first time in Indianapolis at the IUPUI Natato-rium March 21-24. I would encour-age you to check out the schedule of events at http://www.ncaa.com/championships/swimming-men/d3 and cheer on our fellow Tigers!

— Brendan Flores, senior

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

By GRANT BARNOW [email protected]

It is that time of the year again, The 2012 DePauw softball season is set to begin this the weekend with at the Rhodes Softball Showcase of Hope in Memphis, Tenn.

The tournament — which is being held to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital — will host the Tigers and Westminster College (New Wilmington, Penn.) as well as former SCAC rivals Rhodes College and Hendrix Col-lege.

DePauw Softball, which will be playing its inaugural season in the NCAC, has already shaken up the conference preseason headlines after being picked to finish first in preseason polls.

The Tigers received six of the nine first place ballots — beating out last year’s NCAC tournament victor, Hiram, and regular season conference champions, Denison. Senior Ra-chel Macbeth says the ranking has not gone to the team’s head.

“We just try to continually be the best team we can be,” MacBeth said. “We don’t pay atten-tion to other people’s expectations...We just want to have fun and perform our best.”

Senior outfielder Cymone Allen echoes her teammate’s sentiment.

“Our attitude at practice has not changed since we found out about the ranking,” Allen said. “We focus on making ourselves and the team better.”

The Tigers finished 2011 with a 32-11-1 re-cord and tied for fifth in Div. III for the second straight season. DePauw will look to solidify its preseason ranking when it begins NCAC play at home against Hiram on March 31.

Tigers Softball returns five seniors this sea-sons led by MacBeth. MacBeth led the team in batting in 11’ with a .443 average and set the DePauw single-season records for at-bats (167) and hits (74). MacBeth also was selected to the 11’ Capital One Academic All-American First Team by the College Sports Information Direc-tors of America.

The team also returns junior pitcher Em-ily Bichler. Last season, Bichler posted a 3.60 ERA while netting 125 strikeouts over 41 starts. With a combination of both excellent batting and pitching, the Tigers seem to be very well equipped to have another winning season and possibly make a deep run into the NCAA Div. III finals. The teams travels to Rhodes College on Saturday to begin the season.

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Softball to start spring season down south

Senior Rachel MacBeth bunts during practice Wednesday. The team is preparing for its season opener tomorrow against Hendrix at Rhodes. KELSEY FLOYD / THE DEPAUW

By MATT [email protected]

The Tiger’s loss to Carthage College in the second round of the NCAA tournament wrapped up a season in which success overwhelmed failure.

“We had bigger dreams,” head coach Kris Huffman said.

In their inaugural year in the NCAC, the Tigers established a formidable presence, winning both the regular season and the conference championship. The Tigers earned a top ten national rank for 11 straight weeks.

The team also earned the privilege to host the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament. This phenomenal season did not always look so promising. Early struggles could have jeopardized the entire op-eration. However, as evidenced in this season’s review, the Tigers pulled together to create a passion-filled, fun year of basketball.

DePauw Drops Early Decision to FranklinThe Tigers lost its first and only game of the regular

season in the second game of the season at the Frank-lin College Tipoff Tournament to Host Franklin 52-47.

As Huffman reflected on the beginning of the sea-son, she recalled that first weekend as incredibly im-portant.

“We started the season 1-1. I don’t know if we should have been as good as we were this year… be-cause after that first weekend, I didn’t know if we could win a game,” Huffman said.

The Tigers needed to step up and the opportunity presented itself the very next weekend.

DePauw Wins Thanksgiving InviteIn a perfect response to the questions raised by

the previous weeks loss, the Tigers showed the na-tion their grit, beat two top 25 ranked teams in Illinois Wesleyan and Washington University (St. Louis) and won the Washington University-St. Louis Thanksgiving Invitational.

The Tigers earned their first trophy of the season with the 69-57 win over Washington.

DPU Defeats Denison, Wins First NCAC GameThe no. 11 nationally ranked DePauw women’s

Basketball team picked up its first North Coast Ath-letic Conference victory in against a Denison University squad who went 28–1 in 2010-11 with 58-45 win.

DePauw Wins First NCAC Regular SeasonThe women claimed the NCAC regular season

title with its 85-43 win against Hiram College. The win notched DePauw’s 70th home conference win, includ-ing the 63 from games in the Southern Collegiate Con-ference. The victory marked Huffman’s 13th confer-

ence title in her 19 seasons at DePauw.Tigers Win Conference Tourney

The Tigers breezed through the NCAC tournament with 76-38, 69-52, and 61-41 wins against Oberlin Col-lege, Wittenberg University and Denison University. The championship gave the team an automatic birth into the Div. III national tournament.

DePauw Hosts NCAA, Drops Second RoundDePauw’s title dream died in a closely contested

battle against Carthage in the second round of the NCAA Tournament in a 48-53 loss.

The Tigers, who finished with a final record of 27-2, dispatched newcomers Westminster College (MO.) 66-46 in the opening round before falling to the Lady Red in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

Individual AwardsSeveral members of the team were recognized for

outstanding season performances. Senior Katie Aldrich earned the Nan Nichols NCAC women’s basketball player of the year award. A team player, Aldrich was quick to point out her teammates.

“Our team is deep and everyone is able to contrib-ute something offensively,” Aldrich said.

Sophomore Ali Ross also made the first-team All-NCAC women’s basketball team.

Huffman was recognized as the NCAC women’s basketball coach of the year for her team’s undefeated performance in just their first year in the new league.

This DePauw team’s success was dependent upon many more members than just these three and while they may not have received any awards from the con-ference, it is important to award other Tiger players of some much-deserved recognition.

Junior Ellie Pearson’s rebounding prowess pumped DePauw to one of the best board-grabbing teams in the country. Huffman reiterated Pearson’s influence on each game.

“Our best offensive and defensive rebounder, that’s what is so great about Ellie,” Aldrich said.

Junior Kathleen Malloy and senior Kathryn Denbow provided the Tiger snipers with clean looks all season. Both players regularly led the team in assists due to their ability to push the fast break and bag buckets in the pivotal Tiger transition. Malloy also contributed multiple, high-scoring games while Denbow constantly kept her teammates focused and confident.

Kate Walker, the team’s all-important ball-handler, was disappointed with the loss at the end of the sea-son, but could not help looking towards next season.

“Already I’m thinking about the future, about next year,” Walker said. “Honestly, we are going to have good leadership from the juniors and we will do what-ever it takes.”

Reflecting on success: Women’s basketball inaugural NCAC season

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: SEASON RECAP

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By PARKER SCHWARTZ [email protected]

After trailing by four runs late in Tues-day’s game, the DePauw Men’s baseball team stormed back to defeat the Mount St. Joseph Lions 11-8.

“Our offense has the potential to score runs in bunches,” head coach Jake Martin said. “We are never out of a game because of that.”

Although the offense propelled a vic-tory, the most telling aspect of this game might have been the Tigers ability to use a variety of pitchers, some with inexpe-rience, and still come out with a victory against a Mount St. Joseph team (1-9) that defeated DePauw last season 7-3.

DePauw started freshman Derek Asuras and gave relief innings to sopho-more Casey Devlin. Asuras, who ap-peared in his first collegiate game on the mound, threw for three innings with two earned runs.

“This game is a testament to the hard work the young guys put in during the fall,” said sophomore pitcher Alex Sroka, who pitched in the game. “Competition breeds that hard work.”

After struggling to earn runs and an impressive offensive performance by the Lions of Mount St. Joseph, DePauw was looking at a difficult 8-3 deficit in the bot-

tom of the sixth inning.The Tigers quickly erased the deficit,

en route to eight unanswered runs, in-cluding four home runs on the day, two of them by Tiger shortstop sophomore Zach Starr.

The Tiger offense was bolstered by home runs from junior Zach Galyean and sophomore Brendon Pashia. Senior Alex Wright continued his power surge, strok-ing a single, double and triple, one hit short of the cycle, going 3-for-4.

The Tigers shut the door in the pitch-ing column as well, bringing in sopho-more J. T. Timmer, Sroka and junior Joe Wojda to effectively trump the bullpen of the Lions that faded after their number one starter, Aaron Sparks exited the game in the sixth inning.

Sophomores Timmer and Sroka com-bined for 2.2 innings pitched of no run baseball on just three hits and two walks. Junior Joe Wojda picked up his second save of the season with Sroka getting the win.

“Last year we didn’t have as many key guys that could come out of the bullpen late in games and shut the door,” Sroka said. “This year we wanted to establish that as a bullpen early on. More than just Joe [Wojda], Timmer and myself we will need more guys to get some innings as well.”

The Tigers, now 7-1, have seen im-provements both offensively and defen-sively after a subpar 2011 season. Sroka gives much of the credit to the great lead-ership on the team.

“We didn’t feel like we met expecta-tions last year,” Sroka said. “The seniors this year pushed on the young guys and everyone wanted to be better last year because we knew we didn’t reach our potential. We are only eight games in on the year, but to have a start like this is a tribute to the focus we had early in the offseason.”

Senior captain Sam Swafford is im-pressed with the team’s start, but empha-sizes they still have a long season ahead of them.

“It’s exciting to have great come-from-behind wins like this,” Swafford said, “but part of this is not digging ourselves in a hole early. We’ve had success this season, now we just need to continue to play the way we know we’re capable.”

The Tigers look to improve upon their start as they look forward to Man-chester this upcoming weekend before a series with Ohio Northern.

DePauw starts conference play for the first time as members of the NCAC against Wittenberg on Saturday, Mar. 24.

Tigers find victory with four home runsBASEBALL

Sophomore pitcher Casey Devlin pitches against Mount St. Joseph on Tuesday. DePauw won 11-8. ASHLEY BAUER/THE DEPAUW

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Starr’s two homeruns helped the DePauw baseball team win in dramatic fashion against Mount Saint Joseph in

their 11-8 victory. Starr went 2-4 with two homeruns, two runs scored and 3 RBIs. His homerun in the eigth inning

sealed the comeback win for the Tigers.

On his play against Mount Saint Joseph:

“...The first homerun really helped get me going at the plate...The second homerun was the first pitch in the eigth

inning and put us up one. I went up to the plate focused and ready to swing and made good contact. I heard it went pretty far dead center, but you’ll have to ask someone else

where it went because I didn’t see it.”

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By ALEX [email protected]

It takes skill and natural talent to participate in college sports, but it takes determination and organization to participate in two college sports.

Balancing academics, practice and finding some time to hang out with friends is a chal-lenge for student-athletes involved with multi-ple teams on campus, but that does not mean it stops them from enjoying their time at DePauw.

Although it is difficult, students participating in more than one sport still maintain lives out-side of the gym.

Lewis Brown, a senior from Poway, Calif., plays offensive line for the football team, de-fenseman for lacrosse and serves as the current sports director for WGRE. He is also a former sports editor for The DePauw.

“I’m not missing out on experiences at De-Pauw,” Brown said. “The more I’m involved, the better I am.”

But they may have to sacrifice a night or two out on campus to keep up with their studies. Practice every day, tournaments on the week-end and games on Saturday mornings or Friday evenings make socializing with the non-athletes of DePauw challenging.

Junior Myron Burr, a defensive back on the football team and sprinter for the track team, understands sometimes he has to make some sacrifices.

“The hardest thing to do is have a social life,” Burr said. “Not being able to go out because you have to crush work or you have a game or meet the next day.”

Relationships between teammates are an in-tegral part of any team, but for student-athletes who are constantly involved with some sort of sport on campus, these relationships go farther than adding towards success on the court.

Chelsea Courtney, junior, dives and competes in mul-tiple events on the track team, thinks of her team-mates as friends and is not hesitant to admit she has fun with the team.

“A lot of social activ-ity comes from being with the team,” Court-ney said. “I still get to be social with the team. I got to know them well.” Court-ney explained that these

strong bonds on the team help students push through what can turn into long seasons.

Even with the added friendship and support, it can be difficult to understand why students devote so much time to a sport, considering that DePauw student-athletes are not on scholarship.

“I am a competitor,” Burr said. “I like to com-pete. The adrenaline from competing outweighs any partying.”

The tight schedules and heavy training call for student-athletes to stay in shape for both sports. Being in season though makes it difficult to condition for the other sport simultaneously. Burr and Brown have the luxury of competing in two sports that require similar assets. Both focus on becoming faster, more agile, increasing strength and gaining explosiveness.

Skills for diving, however, do not necessar-ily transfer over to track. Courtney combats this with “a lot of cross training.” She said the coach-es are accommodating to keep her legs fresh, especially during the period of time when diving and track directly overlap. There are times when Courtney does a different work out than the other girls because she has a meet that weekend for diving.

Brown and Burr do have breaks between their two sports from the fall to the spring, but for each, spring football does interfere with track and lacrosse. If there are morning workouts for football and afternoon workouts for track, Burr said he feels like he’s just running from one to the other.

But for these athletes, college may be their swan song in the sports they love.

“College is the last chance to do athletics,” Courtney said. “I’m not going to graduate and be training for track meets.”

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Multi-sport students find purpose, passion on field

By JOSEPH [email protected]

It’s widely known that drinking encompasses a large part of DePauw’s culture. But bearing another responsibility, student-athletes must constantly toe the line between the commitment to their team and DePauw’s “other” endeavors. When athletes break established rules at DePauw, they must answer to both the administration and their coaches.

DePauw’s coaches have autonomy when it comes to the drug and alcohol policies applied to their respective teams. DePauw states in the athletic code of conduct that “DePauw student-athletes and coaches do not condone the illegal or irrespon-sible use of alcohol or drugs.” Coaches are given the responsibility to apply rules that adhere to this standard and, if needed, administer punishment for student-athletes that behave in opposition.

“I think [coaches] have a lot of leeway,” Athletic Director Stevie Baker-Watson said.

Baker-Watson stresses that coaches have much of the responsibility to determine the course of the action to take against a player.

“Each coach does have autonomy to say ‘these are my standards’ and the base line is we want every-one to be successful. We want everyone to follow the law.”

Failure to uphold team standards and respond to vio-lations of policies can result in larger problems for pro-grams as a whole.

Recently, the Syracuse men’s basketball team has come under fire for infor-mation leaked that at least ten players since 2001 have tested positive for banned substances and still been al-lowed to practice and play at times they should have been ineligible. If accurate, these charges could activate the NCAA’s Willful Violator’s clause, which accord-ing to a Yahoo! News report, “Allows the (NCAA) to bypass its four-year statute of limitations in favor of levying sanctions as far back as the first in a series of continued infractions.” This means the possible sanctions upon the Syracuse basketball program could extend back to the team’s 2002-03 national championship.

DePauw does not have the national athletic reputation as a Div. I program like Syracuse, but appliance to the university’s own rules is important if only for the safety and success of the student-athletes.

The freedom for coaches to create their own policies is reflected by the athletic teams. Some teams require a “dry period” before athletic com-petition. In the case of men’s and women’s golf, head coach Vince Lazar requires his players to sus-tain from alcohol consumption for at least 72-hours prior to competition. Players also agree to random

drug screenings, though these are uncommon.Men and women’s track and field head coach

Kori Stoffregen does not have an official policy in place, but emphasizes that responsibility is required of his athletes.

“We do lay down rules in terms of appropriate behavior,” Stoffregen said. “But there is not set alco-hol policy that is set by me other than the fact that we want (the athletes) to act like professionals and do what is appropriate.”

And still, for some teams, the policies are very straight forward. Men’s soccer head coach Brad Hauter expects players of legal age to remain dry for the entire season; although he understands his team does not always fully heed to his expectations. Hauter feels that it is not specific rules, but rather players that will make the difference.

“Ultimately, it will lie at the feet of our recruit-ing,” Hauter said. “Do we bring in players who want the ‘college experience’ or do we bring in players who want to win conference titles and challenge for national championships?”

Baker-Watson stressed that there is no uniform response to drug and alcohol violations. Each stu-dent-athlete is handled case by case from a sport to sport basis.

“Saying you get one game in football and get one game in softball, isn’t fair,” Baker-Watson said.

Baker-Watson under-stands that mistakes will be made from a campus com-posed of 18 to 22-year olds. The key then is to make sure lessons are learned from these experiences.

“I think it’s always good when an individual feels re-pentance for actions,” Baker-Watson said. “I don’t believe

anybody does this on purpose, though. I don’t be-lieve they go out and try to embarrass themselves or their teammates or DePauw.”

One of Baker-Watson’s initiatives as she begins her new role as athletic director is to foster more communication between coaches and herself about philosophy and how to respond to specific situa-tions.

“One of the things we’re doing as a staff is start-ing to meet with just the head coaches and myself on a weekly basis,” Baker-Watson said. “Folks haven’t necessarily known the rules on other squads.”

These meetings will serve as a way for coaches to communicate issues they might usually internalize instead of using the experience of others to help the work through a situation.

“I think that they might find some commonali-ties amongst themselves to say, this type of behav-ior is okay; this type of behavior isn’t okay,” Baker-Watson said. “And then what that does is really set a true community standard as what’s acceptable at DPU athletics and what’s not.”

Alcohol policies for ultimate success of athletes

“Each coach does have autonomy to say ‘these are my standards’ and the base

line is we want everyone to be successful. We want everyone to

follow the law.” — Stevie Baker-Watson, Athletic Director

“The hardest thing to do is have a social life. Not being able to go out because you have to crush work or have a game or meet

the next day.”

>> Myron Burr,Football & Track Sprinter

“College is the last chance to

do athletics. I’m not going to

graduate and be training for track

meets.”

<< Chelsea Courtney,Football & Track

Sprinter