Josey JamesOrbit Media Reporter

Imagine being from Africa or anoth-er warm climate and having to experi-ence a cold Ohio snow storm without a proper coat. Many species of animals at The Wilds are not prepared for win-ter with a thick coat of hair or a layer of fat to keep their bodies warm. In or-der to keep the animals warm and safe from these harsh conditions, The Wilds has many facilities used for winter

housing. “About half of our species are

housed inside in the winter,” said Mi-chele Clawson who is a part of the an-imal management team at The Wilds.

The Wilds is a non-profit conserva-tion center in Cumberland, Ohio. What is now known as one of North Amer-ica’s largest conservation centers was once just 10,000 acres of reclaimed mine land. The Wilds are approximate-ly 27 miles away from Muskingum University.

The Wilds is home to many endan-gered species from around the world. Some of these species come from parts of the world with warm climates.

These animals cannot tolerate Ohio’s chilly winters and must be kept inside heated barns. Other animals thrive in cold conditions and will remain out-side in pasture for all four seasons.

THE WILDS,continued on Page 3

The Black & Magenta Vol. 119, Issue 14 Jan. 26, 2015

T H E B L A C K & M A G E N T A

Spring Greek recruitment Martin KurtzOrbit Media Reporter

Last year, there was a change in Greek recruitment at Muskingum University.

In 2013, “formal” recruit-ment was changed to fall semester rather than waiting for the spring semester.

Formal recruitment is the Bid Week process that stu-dents go through to join a Greek organization. Spring

recruitment, which is done solely through bidding starts on Jan. 26 and ends on Feb. 3.

This week includes par-ties, invites to membership, as well as other events.

Two Greek events this se-mester are The Greek Mixer and Greek Week. The Greek Mixer was held on Jan. 22.

This event served as a last chance opportunity to give or receive interest from

an organization. The other event is Greek Week, which is an annual competition be-tween all of Greek Life. This event will happen later in the semester. With the formal process being moved to fall, there is a new informal pro-cess that is only in its second year. The added process was included to allow students that couldn’t participate in the fall to join in the spring.

“We realized that there

are certain populations that wouldn’t be able to join in the fall,” said Stacey Al-lan, Director of Greek Af-fairs. “For example, football [players] is a very large por-tion of students. They could join if they wanted to, but realistically, they’re not go-ing to.”

GREEK LIFE,continued on Page 3

Animals keep warm at The Wilds

Village Council Update Page 4Jim Burson Author Talk Page 2

Senior Year as Told by Kandee Page 6

Kathryn Kellar, Editor-in-Chief

Police to use body camerasChristine HolmesNews & Managing Editor

The New Concord Police Depart-ment is expecting to have all officers armed with HD body cameras by March 1.

The equipment will be purchased in part with a $2,991 awarded to New Concord Police from the Edward Bryne Memorial Justice Assistant Grant. A citizen’s anonymous donation will help pay for costs not covered by the grant.

“The growing trend in law enforce-ment now is going to be body camer-as,” said New Concord Chief of Police, Trevor Hayes. “There [is] some legis-lation in with the state to try to get ev-ery officer to have a body camera, and we just want to kind of stay ahead of that.”

Body cameras are not a new concept to New Concord Police. They experi-mented with the devices three years ago, but didn’t find much success.

Hayes attributes some of the cam-eras’ failure to their small size, which made finding the power switch difficult for officers.

“Now that the technology has ad-vanced, we’re going to try it again,” said Hayes.

According to Hayes, the new body cameras are expected to have easier ac-cess for officers. They will be placed on the chest, projecting outward, with a power switch on the side. Once the camera is on, the officer only needs to tap the camera to begin recording.

An outside company will manage all video recordings for court proceedings.

According to Hayes, the purpose of the body cameras is to protect both of-ficers and citizens.

He said he doesn’t want to think it is related to issues in places like Fer-guson, Missouri, but it is in the back of his mind.

“No officer wants to be in that situa-tion [Ferguson], so if it does help hav-ing cameras, then we’ll take that step,” said Hayes.

Hayes said the cameras will be use-ful in day-to-day situations such as noise complaints.

Josey James/Black&MagentaNatalie Wittkopf pets a Rhino inside of The Wilds.

Bid week has begun on Muskingum’s campus

Muskie coach, author speaksLindsey Kreamer/Black&Magenta

Jim Burson speaks about his book to a room full of students during the author talk.

Lindsey KreamerOrbit Media Reporter

On Jan. 15, retired Muskingum Uni-versity coach and professor, Jim Bur-son gave an Author Talk in Boyd Sci-ence Center about his new book, “The Golden Whistle: Going Beyond: The Journey to Coaching Success.”

As well as working at Muskingum for 42 years, Burson is a Muskingum alumnus having graduating at the uni-versity in 1963.

While at Muskingum, Burson coached many different sports includ-ing, basketball, football, tennis, and cross-country.

He also taught different Physical Education courses working whatever way he could to help better his students and athletes as well as himself.

“What it’s really about is teaching young people to become all they’re ca-pable of becoming on the field or off the field, in the games and in the class-rooms and so that was a challenge,” said Burson.

As he worked as an educator, Bur-son’s main goal was to help the stu-

dents to become better overall people.“If a student was having some trou-

bles like falling asleep or not coming I would always ask them ‘what can I do to help you,’” said Burson.

In Burson’s book, “The Golden Whistle,” he uses his experience both on and off the court to create a fable of a young coach’s world.

“[I was] trying to teach values that I thought, and sometimes my values conflicted with others values but I think we both tried to learn, the students, the players, myself and all of us tried to get better,” explained Burson when talking about his own experience coaching and how it relates to the coaching experi-ence within “The Golden Whistle.”

The book provides many differ-ent life advice tidbits or “golden nug-gets” that Burson has learned himself over the years advising, coaching, and teaching.

“The Golden Whistle” has lessons that could be learned by many includ-ing students and coaches, as the book brings up the idea that anyone can be a “golden whistle” in their field.

“Being a golden whistle means just

being the best you can and really tak-ing on tough situations,” said Burson.

“It’s about handling pressure, han-dling yourself. In coaching it’s about handling yourself with officials and parents, it’s about losing, it’s about all the things you know are going to hap-pen so you better prepare [yourself] for it.”

Burson also mentioned that “The Golden Whistle” shows how individ-uals grow as they mature.

He said that this related to how in-dividuals can handle life situations as they are thrown at them.

Burson said that he could personal-ly see examples of this maturity within himself and how he taught.

“The sooner you can become wise, and have that wisdom the better off life is,” said Burson.

“And will you still make mistakes,” said Burson. “Yeah, but minimize them, just cut them back. Will you handle all students and all of them love you? No, but maybe a few more of them will.”

Jim Burson is currently working as a basketball coaching consultant and motivational speaker.

NewsPage 2 Christine Holmes, News & Managing Editor

Campus EventsMonday Jan. 26Student-Teaching Cultural Mapping Project4 p.m. in Caldwell Hall

Tuesday Jan. 27Wrestling vs. Baldwin-Wallace7:30 p.m. in the Rec. Center

Wednesday Jan. 28Women’s Basketball vs. Marietta College7:30 p.m. in the Rec. Center

Thursday Jan. 29Dinner at Easton’s Café Istanbul 4:30 p.m.**tickets must be ordered in ad-

vance by Jan. 27 via email to rarnold@muskingum.edu

Saturday Jan. 31Scholarship Day (All Day)

Men’s Basketball vs. OtterbeinUniversity 3 p.m. in the Rec.Center

Tuesday Feb. 3Wrestling vs. HeidelbergUniversity 7:30 p.m. in the Rec.Center

Wednesday Feb. 4Women’s Basketball vs. Universityof Mount Union 7:30 p.m. in the Rec. Center

Saturday Feb. 7Scholarship Day (All Day)

Men’s Basketball vs. HeidelbergUniversity 3 p.m. in the Rec. Center

News Page 3

Editor-in-Chief: Kathryn Kellar

News & Managing Editor: Christine Holmes

Special SectionsEditor: Kandee Ferrell

Sports Editor: Chris Morgan

Opinion Editor: Kandee Ferrell

Web Editor: Josey James

Copy Editors: Josey Jamesand Lindsey Kreamer

Faculty Advisor: Lisa Marshall

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Join Orbit Media Are you interested in getting involved in campus media? What mediums does Muskingum offer?- Newspaper, The Black & Magenta- Radio, WMCO- Orbit TVOrbit Media New Member Meeting is Jan. 26 at 5 p.m. in Caldwell Hall room 370.

GREEK LIFE,from Page 1

Organizations that want to invite certain students to their fraternity or sorority will send or give the student an open bid.

At the point, the student can accept or deny it.

“Informal [recruiting] is very, very low key,” said Allan. “Most likely you won’t know it’s going on unless you’re a part of that process.”

If the student accepts the open bid, all they have to do is go to Allan and fill out paperwork. After that they can become part of the organization’s new member class.

“It [the informal process] gives stu-dents the chance to join a Greek orga-nization more than once a year,” said Allan.

The Greek organization Phi Tau are allowed to offer open bids after not be-ing able to recruit last semester.

Chi Alpha Nu are not sending out any open bids and are looking to take this semester to revise their member-ship process.

“It’s just an incentive or a bonus to being Greek,” said Allan. “To be able to go show pride in your organization and get out there and compete against the other fraternities and sororities.”

The main difference between re-cruitment during the two semesters is there is a substantially smaller class size for most of the Greek organiza-tions.

The fall semester gets around 150 students that go through recruitment, while the spring semester only gets around 50–70 students.

THE WILDS,from Page 1

“The species that live in areas that are very cold in the winter like our Si-chuan Takin for example, they’re from the mountains in China and are very cold tolerant, so they will stay out in the winter,” said Clawson.

Other animals that are not adapted to such harsh conditions require spe-cial temperature controlled facilities.

“The most significant facilities are our rhino barns and giraffe barn,” said Clawson. “They need complete enclo-sure if it’s very cold so we can shut it and it also has radiant floor heat.” When the temperatures warm up the animals are able to go outside.

“Giraffes are very susceptible to

cold and it’s very dangerous for them,” said Clawson. “That’s why if it’s be-low 45 [degrees] they need to be in the barn.”

Other more cold tolerant species have enclosed barns with over head heaters and are able to go in and out-side as they please. No matter where the animals are housed for the winter, they are cared for by the animal man-agement team on a regular basis.

“Everything is monitored, fed, and taken care of at least once a day,” said Clawson. “People go through pastures at least once a day, probably twice a day, checking on all the animals mak-ing sure they have plenty of feed and water.”

Hard work is required to keep the fa-cilities clean and cared for, especially

for the animals that spend the majority of the winter months inside.

“It is a whole lot of extra work,” said Clawson. “They come in, they deposit their manure and we have to scoop and sweep that out every day so it’s much more labor intensive.”

Clawson typically works in the rhi-no barns in the winter months and has formed relationships with the giant an-imals. The Wilds has a very successful rhino breeding program for both South-ern White and Greater One-Horned Asian rhinos. On Nov. 12, 2014 a new Rhino calf was born.

“He is the first fifth generation cap-tive born rhino, we believe, in North America,” said Clawson.

The Wilds officially opened in 1989 and was dedicated by John Glenn.

Josey James/Black&MagentaRhino from The Wilds stays inside.

Josey James/Black&MagentaGroup of Rhinos eating hay inside during cold weather.

Council re-elects president,announces financial lossChristine HolmesNews & Managing Editor

New Concord Village Council re-elected a president, announced a significant police grant, and reported a financial loss in funds at the Jan. 19 meeting.

Brett Essex was re-elected unan-imously by members present at the meeting.

New Concord Chief of Police, Trevor Hayes announced the approv-al of the Edward Bryne Memorial Justice Assistant Grant in the amount of $2,991 that would allow the police department to purchase body cameras.

Mayor Greg Adams added that a citizen anonymously donated money toward the purchasing of body camer-as with the remainder designated for police armor.

Also, several ongoing items were discussed. Council addressed the

need to amend the first ordinance of the South Friendship Drive corridor project.

The changes are slated to be voted on and made available online to the public at a later date.

Steve Kokovich, chair of the finance committee, said finances were down two percent following the fourth quarter review.

Charlotte Colley, New Concord Vil-lage Administrator, noted that gradual progress is being made in the annex-ation of property located at the Route 83/ Interstate 70 intersection.

According to Colley, Union Town-ship is “fairly happy” with the agree-ment.

She said the owner of the property, Gary Rubel, is working on utility and transportation relocation of Liberty Street.

An engineering program remains to be chosen.

Upcoming Events

JGHS Athletics Around Town

Christine Holmes/Black&MagentaMuskingum University Students spent their day off classes for Martin Luther King Jr. Day volunteering throughout the community for the Day of Service. Sophomore Anna Mayo was placed at Lore City United Methodist Church where she participated in a food drive that served a total of 210 people in need.

MondayGirls Basketball 6 p.m. at CambridgeTuesdayBoys Basketball 6 p.m. vs. New Lexington WednesdayGirls Basketball6 p.m. vs. New LexingtonThursdayWrestling5 p.m. at Coshocton FridayBoys Basketball6 p.m. at Tri-Valley

MondayYoga Class 7 p.m. at Larry Miller IntermediateBall Room Dance Beginner’sWorkshop 6:30 p.m.at New Concord ElementaryTuesdaySweet Singing withSweet Adelines 6:30 p.m.at College Drive Presbyterian ChurchThursdayAdult Guitar Class 7 p.m.at New Concord Elementary

Muskies give back on Day of Service

Christine Holmes/Black&MagentaA group of over 150 students gathered in the Chess Center to find their assign-ments for the day. Some students worked on projects on campus such as a cam-pus clean, and others went to food pantries and soup kitchens. At the end of the day, the volunteers were served lunch in the Chess Center and viewed the movie “Selma” in theaters.

Community CornerPage 4 Christine Holmes, News & Managing Editor

Kayla RauschColumnist

Before May 2014 I had never been farther west than Columbus, Ohio.

I had never flown anywhere. I had never even imagined that there were other places to even live.

The moment that I got off the plane in Colorado, the moment that I met the

Letters from China Traveling through the United States

Small town girl, big world travels:Building a future with my bare hands

Jie YuColumnist

The 22 day journey my friends and I went through brought both joy and pain. But in general, it was a worthy journey saturated with surprises.

During the travel we saw different charms from both western and eastern cities, from California to New York.

The first place that greatly impressed me was Las Vegas. It’s an amazing city. Luxury and magnificence are its char-acters, which you can feel everywhere. The whole city is composed of hotels with unique styles of construction.

For instance, can you imagine you could see the Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, and Roman buildings in one city?

Furthermore, it’s the paradise of the people who dream of making a large fortune since it’s famous for casinos. When I first got there, I was entirely shocked by all the fancy things.

However, after two days I found the city unreal. Entertainment means ev-erything, or the only thing to this city. If you stay here for a long while, you can’t feel anything except for tangible wealth.

I learned from our tour guide that Las Vegas still thrived when other parts of the country suffered from the eco-nomic recession.

I believe that because this city has a magic power that can isolate itself from the outside world.

So people who live here can keep enjoying the sense of satisfaction from the material.

However, doesn’t it mean people can easily get lost as well? Luxury can bring joy to people, but confuse peo-ple, too. Keeping a moderate attitude towards life is significant, but it seems that you can’t find that in Las Vegas.

Another thing that I found is the great tolerance of culture in this coun-try. There are many independent re-gions which maintain their own culture and customs, such as Solvang, a Dan-ish Town in California.

I felt like I was walking on the street of Denmark in Solvang. All the houses were very delicate. The Cuban Village in Miami, which has a Domino Park where local people gather together to play Domino cards.

The game is quite similar to a Chi-

layout of NYC. Why doesn’t it spare a little space for the green-ery? I can’t find a sin-gle tree in the Man-hattan district. All the buildings are very close to each other so that I can hardly see the sky. No other space except for the skyscrapers.

No other color except for the gray buildings.

But perhaps this is the real NYC. After

all, it’s a place offering many opportu-nities to the people who strive for their livelihoods. Our terminal stop was Mi-ami. It has the most beautiful scenery I’ve ever seen.

When we set out for Miami, we were so excited because we could get rid of the freezing weather in NYC and embraced the warmth.

We went to three famous beaches, including South Beach, West Palm Beach, and Fort Lauderdale. We also reached the southernmost point of American continent in Key West.

I have to say, all the islands in Flor-

ida have the beautiful scenery beyond description.

When I was lying on the beach, feel-ing the wind from the ocean I thought I could spend a whole day there without any consideration. It’s a luxury to have an intimate exposure to the nature in the modern society, so I cherished ev-ery second.

I remember the picture in which I stood by the sea with my friends, let-ting the waves kiss our feet constantly. That feeling was deeply rooted in my mind. People in Florida live a luxuri-ous life as well. However, compared to Las Vegas, I prefer this sort of luxury. I view it as a spiritual luxury from na-ture.

In Miami, people can temporarily forget what bothers them and feel real joy and happiness. It refreshes people’s hearts and souls, rather than exert bur-den and stress.

Besides, the luxury in Las Vegas is man-made, but the luxury in Miami is absolutely pure without pollution. Any place which has the fortune of nature should have been proud of itself.

Fortunately I ended my travel in Mi-ami. In reality, it’s not as good as what I imagined originally, but I would rath-er keep the best memory in my mind!

people that I would spend my whole summer with, that was the moment that I knew that suddenly my small town girl life was going to change.

My first couples of days in Colorado were spent in the mountains outside a small town called Idaho Springs.

The cabin we stayed in was nestled deep in the woods where there was no cell service, no Wi-Fi, just completely

unplugged from all of society. It was covered with snow and wild animals, like something out of a movie. (As a side note remember this was May.)

As someone who is attached to technology at all times it was a culture shock, but of course in the best way possible.

I got to participate in group bonding, talk about life and God.

I explored all over Idaho Springs, tried new foods like pizza with crust you dip into honey, and just be without any “real world issues”.

Colorado also had other adventures over the course of the two weeks that I was there.

I saw the sun set over the Rocky Mountains, which is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen.

I played broomball, a combination of hockey and floor hockey.

I even helped build a stage that was almost 30 feet tall filled with plywood and scaffolding!

Suddenly my boring life was gone and within two weeks my whole mun-dane existence had been completely destroyed.

It had been rebuilt into something that I didn’t even recognize.

As my time in Colorado came to an end and we packed up to head off across the country, I started to no lon-ger fear the world.

I embraced the idea that there was more than the small town life and a big world to embrace.

Jie Yu/Black&MagentaJie makes a stop at Universal Studios.

Kayla Rausch/ Black&Magenta Reach Workcamps summer staffers gather for a photo.

nese game called Mohjong. These tiny cultures have been ex-

isting for a long time and still keeping their own features, which suggests they are well protected and provided enough space to develop.

Compared to the west, the eastern cities are more crowded. Although the public transportation is more ad-vanced, all the compact buildings gave me a sense of oppression.

One of the typical examples is New York City. My hometown is Shanghai, which has the similar layout.

But I still feel confused about the

Lifestyle & CulturePage 5Kandee Ferrell, Special Sections and Opinion Editor

I bought my Jeep three years ago, it was beautiful. Navy blue, with seats that fold down.

My mom even put cute air fresheners on the mirror.

The body was untouched, short of one

spot of rust above my back tire. In my young, eager to drive eyes, it

was perfect. About three months after paying the

final payment on my favorite purchase, I wrecked it.

I put an ugly hole in the once, un-touched bumper.

That was the first of many problems that I’ve had with my now, not so fa-

vorite purchase. Soon the brakes needed replaced

every six months for some mysterious reason.

Then the steering went south and my driving skills were really tested. Next, the windows fell down.

They needed held up by small piec-es of wood.

But the final straw came when she wouldn’t start.

It clicked, and clicked, and…noth-ing.

I had it looked at and I was told my battery was the issue.

So, I replaced it. Then the failure to start began to happen again.

I was told it must be a starter fuse, so I replaced it.

If you’ve been following the story thus far, you can guess that didn’t solve the problem.

Now the only thing left to do was to get a new starter.

The root of the problem needed to be taken care of.

I had only been treating the issues on the surface.

My life has been a lot like my car lately. It looked pristine but little prob-lems kept coming up.

I treated them with little attention to detail. I never thought that my life would ever need a new starter.

I assumed some boards, another car wash, a few good days in a row might make everything better.

But just a few months ago, someone ripped themselves from my life, es-sentially gifting me with a brand new starter.

Suddenly, things are better. My car is still in distress, she needs

her starter now, but ever since I got mine, I feel like a brand new car.

I’m shiny, and I’ve even got a new air freshener hanging from my neck.

No, that’s not true, but I am happier.

I was terrified to rip the faulty parts out of my life but that’s just what I needed.

So, it’s vitally important to take a gander under the hood before you buy the car, because what looks great on the surface may only have a few miles left before it totally breaks down.

Your life works the same way. Self-reflection is key to staying

happy, especially in college when you barely have time to finish the pa-per that’s due in two hours, let alone re-evaluate your journey through life.

Although, that’s what conversations after midnight are for, right?

Just don’t be afraid to ditch the faulty parts, you may just find that there are shiny new ones being shipped out right now.

If you’re wondering about my poor Jeep, she’s rotting in a parking lot right now waiting for her parts. I on the oth-er hand am very happy with my starter.

An article that I read re-cently, head-lined that Rik-ers Island, a NYC jail com-plex, agreed to end solitary confinement for inmates who were 21 years-old and younger.

It further explained that the facility is used pri-marily for inmates who are pre-trial detainees.

The Department of Correction com-missioner agreed with the abolishment while the Rikers correction officers’ union president disagreed stating that it would be harmful for officers and the security of inmates.

Both viewpoints have validity in certain instances. On the one hand sol-itary confinement can be considered a harsh punishment for inmates, espe-cially those who are pre-trial inmates.

There are instances where even pre-trial detainees could be potentially dangerous individuals.

I, personally side with the view

OpinionPage 6

Kandee FerrellSpecial Sections/ Opinion Editor

Kathryn Kellar Editor-in-Chief

Kandee Ferrell, Special Sections & Opinion Editor

Senior year as told by Kandee: My car and I have been racing to a break down and we have tied for first place

against the new abolishment. This is mainly because I don’t think that it is fair to base solitary confinement off of age or pre-trial vs. post-trial detainees.

According to records the inmates that were between 19 and 21 were 497 and 103 as of Jan. 9 were in solitary confinement. Those numbers are pretty significant.

Although, those individuals can be considered juvenile because of their age can they be considered any less dangerous?

I believe that the answer is no. A dangerous criminal that is 30 can be just as threatening as a dangerous criminal who is 20. The same is true of pre-trial vs. post-trial detainees.

If it is considered acceptable to con-fine an inmate who is 30 how can it be different for someone who is 20?

Personally I don’t see the logic or reasoning.

In the process of putting the abol-ishment into action the Justice Depart-ment in December of 2014 decided to sue NYC to speed up the progression.

This particular institution has had several instances of abuses.

Rikers Island had a total of 73 rec-ommendations from an August 2014 report.

The report listed several different instances that could point to abuse and corruption within the facilities.

Therefore, this particular instance is a tough case.

Due to the evidence of corruption is it still viable to rule that solitary con-finement for certain detainees is right?

I believe so in the case that the in-

dividual in question is rightfully con-sidered a danger to other detainees and correction officers.

The investigation and light shed upon the corruption is great because it shows that we are keeping checks on correctional facilities in order to ensure that prisoners are being treated fairly and still given their rights.

Solitary confinement abolished in NYC jail complexIs there just cause to confine juvenille inmates?

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Sports Page 7

Angela Darnley breaks assists record

Chris MorganSports Editor

Captain’s Quarters

What a day for football! Conference Championship Weekend may have been half disappointing for some, but it was pretty good for this writer.

Let’s start with the obviously good game with the NFC Championship Game. Seahawks vs. Packers. Let me say this game did not disappoint.

The Packers held a 16 point lead at halftime, and all of sudden social media went nuts saying the defending champs were done.

Then the second half came. Seattle used an amazing second half to come back to take the lead with under two minutes remaining, highlighted by the improbable onside kick recovery that gave them the ball back shortly before the two minute warning.

The game naturally wasn’t done there though as the Packers forced overtime with the game tied at 22. Se-attle took the ball and didn’t look back scoring on the opening possession to end the game.

Now to the AFC. New England came in to the game looking to send Tom Brady to his sixth Super Bowl in his career. They took command early and never let the Indianapolis Colts breathe, winning the game 45-7. I hon-estly thought this would be a better game, but it was just the same beat-down the Pats gave the Colts back in week 11.

So now the matchup is set. Seattle vs. New England in Super Bowl XLIX. A dynasty vs. the defending champs. Feb. 1 can’t come soon enough.

Darnley records 13 assists vs. DenisonChris MorganSports Editor

The Muskingum University Wom-en’s Basketball team may be in the middle of a losing streak, but that didn’t stop Angela Darnley from breaking a record over winter break.

In the game against Denison on Dec. 28, a game that the Muskies lost 71-63, Darnley broke the record for most assists in a single game with 13 in the contest.

Darnley had her mind solely on the game and had no idea she had broken the record until afterwards.

“I actually didn’t know,” said Darn-ley. “I had an idea that I had set a career high, but didn’t know that was close to the record.”

Despite breaking the record, Darn-ley didn’t celebrate long.

“I was excited for a little while, but we still lost the game so overall I wasn’t too thrilled,” added Darnley.

The 5-foot-7-inch point guard has put in a lot of work in practice and in games, but getting assists also requires a little help from the rest of the team.

The five players on the court need to be on the same page in order to cre-ate different opportunities in the game, starting with the point guard.

“Assists to me are really important,” said Darnley, “that means I’m getting my teammates in good position and they’re knocking down shots.”

Darnley has averaged close to five assists per game this season and has continued to improve her numbers over the past year.

“I put that on myself at the end of last season,” said Darnley, “I actually made it one of my goals to break the assists record.”

The team is in the middle of an eight game losing streak, but is hard at work trying to get back on track.

“In practice we’ve been focusing a lot on our energy levels,” said Darnley.

As the team continues to improve, Darnley has seen good things from the

team.“We all believe that we’re playing

at our highest level right now and even though that’s not showing up in games and in the result, we are expecting big things to happen in the next few games,” said Darnley.

The Muskies believe they can get things rolling in the second half of the season, and have given themselves a specific mantra to live by the rest of the way.

“A big message this year has been play as five,” said Darnley, “we’re not going to win one on one or one on five, but we’re going to win as five.”

The Muskies will try to get back on track, and will look to that message to do so.

Christine Holmes/Black&MagentaAngela Darnley (center) sets up a play against John Carroll as Head Coach Beth Fox looks on. Darnley is averaging 10.5 points and 4.9 assists per game.

For an extended look at ex-actly what happened during the Conference Championship Games, including further stats from the games, go to www.blackandmagentaonline.com.

NFL Championship Weekend Delivered

Chris Morgan, Sports Editor

Spring Intramurals ramping up campus lifePayton PattersonOrbit Media Reporter

With spring sports approaching, students and faculty are preparing for the beginning of spring intramurals on campus. Intramurals are for students who love sports and that just want to have fun and meet new people. There are many different events and tourna-ments including dodgeball, five on five basketball, and flag football.

According to Muskingum Senior Cooper Conrad, the first sport expected to kick off is dodgeball, and basketball is being postponed until February due to gym space.

Conrad is a Lacrosse player here at Muskingum and he is in charge of running intramurals on the weekends. Deven Siesel is in charge of the profes-sional staff, Robert Bartosiewicz is in charge during the week, and Josh Sny-der, Ronte Hill, and Adam Socket work

on the staff.For students who played and those

who wanted to, but were unable to play in the Turkey Bowl flag football tour-nament, you have a chance this spring.

“We have a new program, it is like the Turkey Bowl, but for the spring semester it is called the Bunny Bowl,” said Conrad. “We are actually going to do a two day combine in February.”

The first day of the competition will be in the Chess Center and it will be lifting, push ups, sit ups, pull ups, benching, and squats. The following day will be running. This is open to both male and female participants.

There will also be a draft party to-wards the end of the semester for the team captains to pick who they would like to have fighting alongside them. The game will be played with a few weeks remaining in the semester.

If you have been involved in in-tramurals, you will receive an e-mail

about these events. Those interested in joining should keep a look out for sign up information posted on fliers.

Upcoming Spring 2015 Intramurals

Dodgeball- Coming soon

Basketball- Coming soon

Flag Football- Coming soon

If interested, look for fliers with sign-up information.

OAC Standings as of Jan. 21Men’s Basketball Women’s BasketballMarietta 15-0 (8-0)Mount Union 11-4 (7-1)Baldwin Wallace 12-3 (6-2)John Carroll 10-4 (6-2)Heidelberg 7-8 (3-5)Wilmington 6-8 (3-5)Ohio Northern 7-8 (2-6)Capital 4-11 (2-6)Otterbein 3-12 (2-6)Muskingum 4-11 (1-7)

John Carroll 14-1 (7-1)Baldwin Wallace 12-3 (7-1)Ohio Northern 11-4 (7-1)Heidelberg 7-8 (5-3)Wilmington 9-6 (4-4)Capital 7-8 (3-5)Marietta 6-9 (2-6)Mount Union 6-9 (2-6)Otterbein 5-10 (2-6)Muskingum 3-12 (1-7)

Payton Patterson/Black&MagentaCoach Gene Ford throws his arms up in exasperation during the game.

Upcoming WMCO Sports BroadcastsTue. Jan. 27. Wrestling vs. Baldwin Wallace @ 7 p.m.

Wed. Jan. 28. Women’s Basketball vs. Marietta @ 7 p.m.

Sat. Jan. 31. Men’s Basketball vs. Otterbein @ 2:30 p.m.

Tue. Feb. 3. Wrestling vs. Heidelberg @ 7 p.m.

Wed. Feb. 4. Women’s Basketball vs. Mount Union @ 7 p.m.

Catch all the home varsity games live on 90.7 and streaming on the TuneIn app and on the web at orbitmediaonline.com.

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The Muskingum University Men’s Basketball team fell to Mount Union 86-66 on Jan. 14 at the Recreation Cen-ter.

The Muskies were led on the night by Logan Kimble.

In the game, Kimble scored 13 points and also grabbed five rebounds.

Christian Keller wasn’t far behind Kimble with 12 points of his own in the contest.

The team played off and on through-out the game, which caught the eye of Head Coach Gene Ford.

“I was disappointed in our turnovers and being in foul trouble also hurt,” said Ford.

The Muskies finished the game with 17 turnovers as a team, compared to 13 coming from Mount Union.

Even though the team had trouble with fouls throughout the game, Ford also noticed the team played better at times.

“I think we played well in stretch-

es,” added Ford “but it’s a 40 minute game so you have to be ready for that.”

One Muskie who had foul trouble in the game was Kimble.

Kimble fouled out of the game about half-way through the second half, which put the Muskies in a bit of bind as Kimble is the lone senior on the team.

“That hurts us leadership wise,” said Ford “it makes a difference but I was proud of the guys when they fought back and didn’t give up.”

Overall Ford liked the effort his team gave in the game, but still thought something was missing.

“We played hard, we just need to play smart,” said Ford.

Mount Union had five players finish in double figures in the game, led by DeAllen Jackson who scored 18 points. Jarrett Ruffin added 14 points and three players added 12.

With the meat of the OAC schedule coming up, the 4-11 Muskies will look to make improvements to many areas to try to get back on track in the 2014-2015 season.

Lady Muskies caught in quake

Payton PattersonOrbit Media Reporter

Despite a great start to the game, the Lady Muskies fell short to the Quakers of Wilmington on Jan. 17. The Lady Muskies jumped out to a quick 15-4 lead with Freshman Olivia Besancon scoring the first five points in the first minute of the game. Besancon also led the team in scoring on the day netting 18 points.

“It was just a matter of time. I think she (Olivia) did it earlier in the year, but she’s a natural born shooter and she has a great act of the ball. She under-stands the game of basketball which is why she is starting as a freshman. We’re not surprised by it, we are antic-ipating it,” said Head Coach Beth Fox.

Once the score got to 15-4, Wilm-ington called a timeout to regroup and make changes to the lineup.

Coming out of the timeout the Quak-ers went on an 11-4 run to reduce the deficit to four. Along with the lineup change, Wilmington’s Brittaney Jeffer-son came off the bench. Jefferson led all scorers on the night with 26 points in 28 minutes of play.

The Muskies went into halftime

leading by one point, 27-26.Wilmington then used a long run to

take and open up a lead in the second half, outscoring the Muskies 48-33 in the latter half of the game.

“We let Wilmington get on too big of a run. We let a few of their substi-tutes get a hold of us. I think we can do a better job playing consistent for 40 (minutes) and adapting as the game goes on,” said Fox.

Falling into foul trouble, the absenc-es of Jasmine Goings and Shelbi Van-Meter hurt the Lady Muskies down low with rebounds and guarding the rim.

“It just hurts our rotation. We have a certain rotation we kind of like to stick to that we have found to be beneficial,” said Fox.

The down-low group of Goings, VanMeter, and Mallory Taylor com-bined for 13 personal fouls in the con-test, with VanMeter fouling out of the game in the second half.

VanMeter was able to put up seven points and grabbed five rebounds in eighteen minutes off the bench before exiting the game.

The Lady Muskies will continue to look to snap the eight game skid as they come into the meat of the season.

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Box ScoreLeading PerformersMuskingum: Olivia Besancon – 18 pts. 2 rebounds 54% FGWilmington: Brittaney Jefferson – 26 pts. 7 rebounds 58% FG

Final 1 2 TotalWilmington 26 48 74Muskingum 27 33 60

Team ShootingWilmington - 42.6% FG, 28.6% 3pt, 72.7% FTMuskingum - 35% FG, 20% 3pt, 68.4% FT

Extended StatsWilmington - 42 rebounds 24 TO. 31 bench pointsMuskingum - 33 rebounds 23 TO. 9 bench points