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VOL. 161, ISSUE 2FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012 Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper
Mormon missionaries said driver crashed while giving them middle finger, looking back
Driver who flipped car on S. Locust Street pleads guilty; sentenced to day in prison
By CHASE HALL and JOSEPH FANELLI
A Bainbridge man who flipped his car on S. Locust Street Saturday was sentenced to one day in prison and ordered to pay $820 in fines and court fees Tuesday in front of a Putnam County judge.
Greencastle police arrested Benjamin Brew-er, 24, Saturday after he flipped his silver Honda Civic in front of Sigma Chi fraternity and Gobin Memorial Church while driving intoxicated over the legal limit.
The car was driving northbound when it re-portedly crashed around 8:40 p.m. Scott Brezen-ski and Myles Anderton, two missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said that the driver crashed while he raised his mid-
dle finger towards them while they walked past.The right side of the car hit the curb then
ramped up the support of a telephone pole in front of the Studebaker Memorial Administra-tion Building, launching the car into the air, they said.
The car spun and landed on its top about 20 feet away from the pole in front of Sigma Chi,
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A silver Honda Civic sedan hit a curb on its right side then ramped up a support cable of a telephone pole, spun in the air and landed on its top about 20 feet away from the pole in front of Sigma Chi. In this cell phone picture minutes after the accident, witnesses describe the accident to Greencastle Police. PAUL FESENMEIR / THE DEPAUW
"We were just walking, and he looked back and flipped us off...Then the car flipped 10 to 12
feet in the air."
- Scott Brezenski, passing missionary, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Casey addresses student body after DePauw ranks in nation’s top party schools again By JOSEPH [email protected]
For the fourth straight year, the Princeton Re-view’s annual rankings listed DePauw University in the top 15 party schools in the nation.
President Brian Casey wasted little time sharing his thoughts about the rankings when he sent an email to DePauw students, faculty, staff and parents who opted to receive university emails. Casey called the rankings, among other things, “extremely disap-pointing.”
The Princeton Review’s Party Schools list, which placed DePauw at No. 12 this year, uses a combina-tion of surveys from students — asking questions about drug and alcohol use and the popularity of the greek system to determine which schools in the nation party the hardest.
DePauw has become something of a fixture on the list the last four years – peaking in 2010 at No. 10. In 2012, DePauw was the only private university besides Syracuse University in New York state to make the top 20.
In the email, Casey said the ranking is “not an accurate reflection of the DePauw experience” and questioned the validity of The Princeton Review’s surveys.
“The Princeton Review states that their lists are based on timely student surveys, but the quotations they offer from DePauw students have not changed in the last four years,” Casey said. “We have no rea-son to believe that the views of today’s DePauw students actually play any part in placing DePauw on this list.”
In an interview with The DePauw, Casey went deeper, saying the rankings are “measurably dam-aging” to the university and its students. He said the placement of DePauw on the party school rankings
Party school | continued on page 4
See our multimedia page atthedepauw.com to hear about the experiences of two DePauw students who participated in an
archeological dig in Turkey.
DIGGING TURKEY: A SUMMER STUDY
ABROAD
By ELI [email protected]
Sophomore year is the lost year, but DePauw is working to make it a year of planning instead of one in which stu-dents waste, with the new Sophomore Institute.
The Sophomore Institute was a daylong seminar on Monday at Prindle. Alumni and professionals came to speak to the students about ways to begin planning for their lives after DePauw. To stir interest, letters and emails were sent out to the sophomore class invit-ing them to attend. Just over 100 spots were available. The event drew a wait-ing list 20 names long and 90 sopho-mores attended the event.
The purpose of the event was to get sophomores into the mindset that plan-ning for the future should begin now, not just senior year.
“The sophomore year is the lost year, it has been called the ‘sophomore slump,’” Raj Bellani, Dean of Experien-tial Learning and Career Planning said. “The reality is that it’s not a slump. It’s a newer transition. You ask big, deep questions. It’s about the heart and the mind. It’s about the future. Its about ‘I’m growing up.’”
For sophomore Julie Wittwer, the institute triggered thoughts that might not have emerged this year otherwise.
“[The institute] made me think about my future more than I had been,” Wittwer said. “The Sophomore Institute did it in a way that didn’t make the fu-ture sound scary, but it made me more excited than scared.”
That was the goal of the event: to get students to realize that planning for the future should start now.
“It’s an evolutionary process,” Bel-lani said. “It’s about starting in the sec-ond year and seeing what works and what doesn’t.”
For President Brian Casey, the event was about helping students find their strengths with the Strengths Finder Test.
“The idea is that you come in, you do a lot of testing on who you are as a person. And we say okay this is who you are, this is what you’re interested in and you have five semesters left,” Casey said. “You know what you’re doing academi-cally because you have the curriculum, but how do you think about all these other things?”
For Wittwer, the most valuable por-tion of the day was what the alumni had to say.
“It was really cool to see successful people coming back and telling us about how they picked their majors when they were in the same spot as us,” Wittwer said. “[The Sophomre Institute] helped us build a resume, make a LinkedIn pro-file, and think about our lives and point us in the right direction.”
This year’s Sophomore Institute is a test-run of sorts, and the university is looking for ways to make it better.
“It was a high-scale event, that was uniquely DePauw,” Bellani said. “My hope is that 20 years from now [stu-dents] will realize how important it was to have this at DePauw.”
The institute did not end after Mon-day’s event. It continues with a class offered for a quarter of a credit, which Wittwer is enrolled in.
“[The class] will be an hour a week where I can focus on my future,” Wittwer said.
The institute is just a trigger, the idea is that it will launch conversations and actions that help students define a path.
“If it does nothing else than make people think, then we’re okay,” Casey said.
— Ellen Kobe contributed to this article.
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Brezenski and Anderton said.“We were just walking, and he
looked back and flipped us off,” Brezenski said, adding the driver was carrying a cigarette in the hand he used to make the gesture. “Then the car flipped 10 to 12 feet in the air.”
The driver was uninjured. De-Pauw Public Safety and the Green-castle Police Department were on the
scene about five minutes later.Brewer registered a .17 blood al-
cohol content at the scene, Officer Matt Demmings of DePauw Public Safety said.
Brewer pleaded guilty to oper-ating a vehicle with a BAC of .15 or more and will have his driver’s license suspended for 30 days. He must then use a probationary license for 180 days.
Angie Nally, director of Public Safety, said drunk drivers are “surpris-ingly common” on campus, although they tend to be local residents and
not DePauw students.“Intoxicated drivers and pedestri-
ans don’t mix well,” Nally said.In 2011, 19 people – three stu-
dents, 15 non-students and one un-known suspect – were arrested for drunk driving.
Brewer’s arrest marks the third person arrested for drunk driving on campus so far in 2012. The other two people were DePauw students.
— Ellen Kobe contributed to this article.
By JOSEPH [email protected]
It isn’t President Brian Casey, nor even a DePauw administrator, who will conduct the search for the university’s next Vice-President for Academic Af-fairs.
Rather, Professor Wayne Glausser – an English professor – will head the committee to replace David Harvey who has served as the VPAA since the 2009-2010 school year.
Glausser, who wasn’t available at press time, has been with DePauw since 1980. He received his bachelor’s degree in literature from the Univer-sity of California at Santa Cruz before earning a master’s in philosophy and a doctorate from Yale University.
Glausser and the search committee will work closely with Alan Wichlei of Isaacson, Miller – a prominent execu-tive search firm for not-for-profit orga-nizations. The firm’s job will be to ac-tively recruit candidates based on the characteristics defined by Glausser and the rest of the search committee.
As the committee is still being fully formed, no definite characteristics have been named for the future VPAA, but DePauw spokesman Christopher Wells did emphasize that the position is an “extraordinarily important job” and that the vice-president will “serve as a rally point for putting ideas to-gether.”
The vice-president is essentially the dean of all things academic at DePauw. The leader works with faculty and stu-dents in decisions revolving around curriculum and academic programs.
“This new VP would lead the on-
going discussions on the curriculum, on how to free up more faculty time to work directly with students, and on how to best develop and support our faculty members to ensure they continue to be eminent scholars and impressive teachers,” Wells said in an email. “The VPAA will also play a role in helping to steer fundraising efforts connected to DePauw’s academics.”
Casey told The DePauw last May that he thought the search for the new VPAA would run through the entire 2012 academic year. He said he hopes the new vice-president could start by the summer of 2013.
Casey also said the ideal candidate will have high academic credibility, served as a department chair or dean, been involved in academic planning at an institution and participated in the national discussion on pedagogy, cur-riculum and faculty development.
In the past, high-level administra-tions have come from universities across the U.S.
For instance, recently-hired Raj Bel-lani, dean for experiential learning and career planning, came from the Rhode Island School of Design while Brad Kelsheimer, Vice-president for Finance and Administration, was previously at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Harvey will serve as the VPAA until a new candidate is selected. Then he will return to teaching chemistry and biochemistry.
— Ellen Kobe contributed to this article.
Wayne Glausser to head search committee for Vice-President of Academic Affairs
Matthew Brewer (right), who crashed Saturday after gesturing towards two Mormon Missionaries with his middle finger, talks to a policeman after performing poorly in a field sobriety test. The 24-year-old from Bain-bridge, Ind., was arrested shortly thereafter. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
Flipped car | continued from page 1
the depauw | campus news FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012PAGE 4
CAMPUS WELCOMES THE CLASS OF 2016
has a “direct and negative impact on admissions.”According to Dan Meyer, vice president of ad-
missions and financial aid, Neustadt Creative Mar-keting performed a series of focus groups in the fall of 2010 involving prospective students who had or had not applied. In conversations with the students, which Meyer said he was able to overhear, students brought up concerns about the university’s place-ment on the party school list a “number of times.”
He said students would note DePauw’s academ-ic reputation, but said they were hesitant to commit to the school because of the party rankings.
Meyer said in an email that he cannot deter-mine the exact number of students that have been deterred from DePauw because of the high party ranking, but that the focus group research did indi-cate that the school’s ranking was a “major concern
among both high school students and their parents.”However, Meyer did recognize that the major
reasons many students do not come to DePauw concern other issues they have with the university, such as its location, size or majors offered.
Freshman Dan Burmeister said that the he did
not get the impression of DePauw as a top party school and did not consider it a factor when com-mitting to the school.
“I didn’t know it was a party school until literally
20 minutes before I left from my first visit,” Burmeis-ter said.
“What sold me was how genuinely [my tour guide] expressed his affection for this school,” he added. “Most of the people who have heard of [De-Pauw] know that it is good for something other than partying.”
Casey also expressed his concerns that the rank-ings would have a negative impact on graduates looking for jobs. However, senior Taylor Horowitz doesn’t see this as a problem; the ranking might even help her.
“I don’t think being on the top party school list will correspond with getting a job,” she said. “[De-Pauw] is not that well-known on the East Coast where I’m from. If anything it will help get the name out there.”
Both Casey and Meyer pointed to DePauw’s high fraternity and sorority involvement as the primary reason the school remained high on the list. Just less than 70 percent of students are greek-affiliated, according to the Office of Campus Living and Com-
munity Development.Meyer admitted that although the university has
taken a definite stand against the rankings, there are those on campus who take on pride in the rankings. He cited students who feel that the schools high ranking on the party school list is the reflection of the student body’s “work hard, play hard” mentality. While Meyer said he can understand the sentiment, ultimately a classification as a party school “dimin-ishes the perceived value of DePauw.”
Meyer is aware students drink at DePauw, but still believes the rankings are inaccurate.
“I’ve been to nine schools in 30 years and our students are no more prone to participate in alcohol use than any other campus.”
Still, the best understanding of the university’s lifestyle probably comes from experience, as sopho-more Claudia Gutierrez says.
“It might have some influence on prospective students,” she said. “Overall, everybody knows what type of environment it is once they get here and see the whole picture.”
Party school | continued from page 1
Continuing on an old tradition, bagpip-
ers lead professors, administration and
the 617 incoming freshman class from
the North side of campus into Kresge Hall where a formal
convocation was held. Pictured from left behind bagpip-ers is Student Body
President Sara Scully, senior, and
President Brian Casey, both of whom
addressed the freshmen and their
parents. Upper-classmen, athletic
teams including the football and vol-
leyball teams, and mentors lined the
sidewalks, watching and cheering as the
group walked across campus.
ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
A classification as a party school “diminishes the perceived value of
DePauw.”
–Dan Meyer, VP of admission & financial aid
the depauw | campus news PAGE 5FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012
TEMPORARY RELOCATION OF OFFICES DUE TO CONSTRUCTION
By STEPHANIE [email protected]
Due to a growing demand, DePauw University School
of Music added a new course – composition — which hasn’t been offered for many years.
New Assistant Professor of Music Scott Perkins, who came to DePauw from Central Connecticut State Univer-sity in New Britain, Conn., was hired to fill the opening and is eager to guide students of all interest levels into the art of composing.
The DePauw: How did you come to teach at DePauw?Scott Perkins: I actually know someone on faculty – Greg Ristow, the director of choral activities. I found out about the position through him. I got a really positive im-pression of the place when I came out to interview. TDP: What education do you have?SP: I completed my undergrad at Boston University in theory and composition. Then I have a MA in music theo-ry pedagogy at The Eastman School of Music, another MA in music theory from Eastman and then a Ph.D in compo-sition from Eastman.
TDP: How did you become interested in composing?SP: Well, I’ve been composing for a long time. I started composing when I was five, and I think I knew I wanted to be a composer when I was 14. There was a composition competition in which the Hartford Symphony Orchestra would perform the winner’s piece twice and the compos-er got to go out on stage.
I won the competition with a piece I wrote when I was 12. I eventually applied to college for composition. That was kind of a gamble because I didn’t know any oth-er composers so I didn’t know how I stacked up against anybody else. I kind of defected when I went to graduate school and went the theory route, but then came back
to it. TDP: What other musical experience do you have?SP: I am a tenor and a pretty active performer. I tend to specialize in early and contemporary vocal music. I guess because I was both a tenor and composer I was kind of the go-to guy for vocal music. TDP: What courses are you teaching at DePauw?SP: I am teaching Theory I, Musicianship I and Composi-tion. TDP: What is the relationship between music theory and composition?SP: I am not sure there is always a one-to-one mapping between the two of them, but studying music theory opens up new possibilities about the way music works — the structure and materials. Knowing how other compos-ers have done things before can help you solve composi-tion problems. All of that is in the subconscious when one is composing.
It’s not to say that theory never plays an active role in composition – that’s not true – but it doesn’t always. I do think that there is a difference between being a theorist and a composer. Just because you can put something to-gether doesn’t mean you can put it together in a personal way. TDP: What do you hope to achieve at DePauw?SP: I’ve gotten a strong vibe from the faculty that there is a very positive climate here. It seems that there is a posi-tive environment in encouraging new music. My main in-terests from the composer’s side is to generate interest here from the students, to draw attention to it.
For more information on Perkins and his work, visit
scottperkins.org.
New composition professor brings passion, experience to School of Music
Over the course of the summer, some administrative buildings moved. Consult this list to find the transferred offices.
OFFICE OF ADMISSIONSfrom 101 E. Seminary Street
to 1st floor of Emison
OFFICE OF FINANCIAL AIDfrom 101 E. Seminary Street
to 2nd floor of Emison
RELIGIOUS STUDIES FACULTYfrom Emison
to 3rd floor of Harrison Hall
ASIAN STUDIES FACULTYfrom Emsion
to 3rd floor of Harrison Hall
OFFICE OF ACADEMIC LIFEto 101 E. Seminary Street
OFFICE OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRSfrom 7 E. Larabee street
to Julian 377
Scott Perkins. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
A Q&A with Scott Perkins
the depauw | campus news FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012PAGE 6
A WeCar vehicle sits in the Women's Center parking lot. DePauw recently implemented the vehicle-sharing program for DePauw students in need of a temporary car. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
By KAYLA [email protected]
DePauw has partnered with a car-rental service to allow students to gain easy access to cars on campus.
WeCar, a by-the-hour rent-a-car service, was brought to DePauw this semester in or-der to provide students and staff members a new way to gain access to a car on campus.
WeCar is owned by Enterprise Rent-A-Car and is a sharing program based on rent-ing environmentally-friendly cars to those who are eighteen years or older and main-tain a valid driver’s license. International driver’s licenses are also accepted.
Rather than shouldering the expense of owning and taking care of a personal car, WeCar rents out vehicles at a standard rate that includes the cost of fuel for 200 miles per day, additional miles at $0.35 per mile, as well as damage and liability coverage. DePauw has begun a partnership with this company and is introducing the program
this fall to make transportation for the com-munity easier.
“The WeCar program was introduced to campus in response to numerous requests from students for transportation options,” said Brad Kelsheimer, vice president for finance and administration. “We have ex-plored a number of options, including Zip-Car, but found the WeCar program to be the most practical.”
Now students are able to rent out and re-serve a high-mpg flex-fuel car hourly ($9.00 weekdays/$9.50 weekends), daily ($55.00), and overnight (6 p.m. to 8 a.m. for $45.00). In order to begin using WeCar, students and faculty must become a member at www.we-car.com/depauw. For students, a one-time application fee is free and an annual mem-bership fee is only $35 a year, thus allowing rentals and reservations as many times as needed (with the payment of the rental fee).
The WeCar service is also available for those who drive their own cars, and Kelsheimer feels the service will allow stu-
dents to leave their own cars at home.“Its presence on campus should de-
crease the need for students to bring their own cars from home to DePauw,” he said.
The DePauw WeCar can be found by the Women’s Center at the corner of Central and Hanna streets. If demand increases, a second car likely will be brought to the uni-versity and be located in the parking lot at the Inn at DePauw.
August 18th
• Recovered property • Owner notified | Time: 12:01 a.m. | Place: Pulliam Center for Contempory Media
• Investigate for possible hit and run property damage ac-cident • No report at this time | Time: 9:14 a.m. | Place: Olive Street Lot
• Medical • Transport to Putnam County Hospital | Time: 7:39 p.m. | Place: College Street Hall
• Assist GPD-property damage accident • GPD took call | Time: 8:36 p.m. | Place: Locust / Simpson streets
•Alcohol violation • Released to custody of friend/forwarded to Community Standards Committee | Time: 11:15 p.m. | Place: Humbert Hall
August 19th
• Fire alarm/Dealing in marijuana over 30 grams/posses-sion of schedule of one controlled substance/possession of paraphernalia • Forwarded to prosecutor’s office/forwarded to Community Standards Committee | Time: 11:25 a.m. | Place: 109 W. Hanna
• Hit and run property damage • GPD took call | Time: 12:35 p.m. | Place: Lucy
• Medical • Ambulance refused/checked okay | Time: 10:48 p.m. | Place: Alpha Chi Sorority
• Medical • Transported to hospital | Time: 6:01 p.m. | Place: Hogate Hall
August 20th
• Medical • Ambulance refused/checked okay | Time: 12:42 a.m. | Place: Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
• Medical • Transported to Putnam County Hospital | Time: 5:15 p.m. | Place: Humbert
August 22nd
• Harassment via text • Under investigation | Time: unknown | Place: Campus
•Alcohol violation • Forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 11:42 | Place: Lucy
August 23rd
• Mischief subjects turning over tables • Officer checked area/unable to locate subjects | Time: 1:50 a.m. | Place: East College Lawn
CAMPUSCRIME WeCar offers students access to rental car
the depauw | campus news PAGE 7FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012
By KENDALL [email protected]
Walking through the doors of Peeler after a long summer without students, one may expect a somewhat empty atmo-sphere. However, turning the corner into the first gallery on the right will reveal hard work from the summer.
The Richard E. Peeler Art Center has had a long-standing tradition of displaying the best artwork from students, faculty and nationally- and internationally-recognized artists. This year will be no different.
For the first show, the most well-known DePauw artists, more commonly known as professors, have collaborated to cre-ate a collection of their artwork for the Faculty Art Exhibition, which opened on Aug. 22 and will stay open until Oct. 12. An opening ceremony to celebrate the hard work of part-time and full-time faculty will be held on next Wednesday, Aug. 29.
“It’s been the tradition that full-time and part-time faculty are invited,” said Lori Miles, a sculpture professor. “This year, everyone entered something.”
The 2012 faculty exhibition will feature the work of John Berry, Meredith Brickell, Chaz Evans, Lori Miles and Kevin Mooney and will highlight recent explorations in painting, ce-ramics, new media, sculpture and photography.
“I particularly like getting to see the work of the part-time faculty. In general, they come in and out without recognition, and this exhibition gives them the perfect time and place to show their students and us … their work,” Miles said.
Miles has been a sculpture professor at DePauw for the past eight years and is looking forward to her fourth showcase. The Faculty Art Exhibition is held every two years and Miles ex-plained that there has been more interest from the faculty than in the past. This year, Miles entered a sculpture piece entitled “A Machine that Bottles Imagery,” inspired by the book “Birds.”
“I spent a lot of time on planned work during my sabbatical [last year], but I have to show that work in the fall of 2013, so I wanted to do something that is sort of a composition of my work,” Miles said. “The focus was on houses, and it is an instil-lation with birds and a ladder. For this show, I got to try some new things out, so I am excited about it.”
Miles describes her niche in the arts with an emphasis on contemporary colors, lowbrow imagery and pedestrian skills. Additionally, she’s quite interested in crafts and the way an av-erage person might see themselves as creative, “a sort of Martha Stewart aesthetic.”
While Miles has been around DePauw long enough for the
faculty to recognize her work as unique, a new face will be en-tering the exhibition this semester. Chaz Evans entered three pieces focused on software and electronics into the exhibition before he had even taught a class at DePauw. This will be Evans’ first year at DePauw after spending time in the theatre world and at UIC getting his master’s.
Because of his background in theatre and performance, Evans enjoys working with multimedia. Although his artwork appears to be focused on software and multimedia, Evans con-siders media to be the “glue that holds it all together.” Evans has three projects on display in the Exhibition. All three are interactive projects, focused on multimedia and utilizing it in a unique fashion.
“I am obsessed with history, particularly the history of tech-nology and software. And John Baldessari is my inspiration. I wanted to do something as a tribute to a project of his I saw in Chicago,” Evans said. “It’s supposed to be a funny piece with a serious background.”
Baldessari is an American conceptual artist that focuses on photography with a unique spin. His most recent works have incorporated text and photography on a painting canvas. Evans is inspired by the combination of artistic forms that Baldessari is known for.
Evans, Miles and Professor John Berry see the exhibition as a way to allow students to see their work and get inspired for the new year. All three professors agree that the show allows them an opportunity to get to know their students outside of the classroom on a different artistic level.
“A good professor does not taint their students with their own preferences, so I tend to not show students my work,” Miles said. “I don’t want them to think that’s the only vehicle for them to get a good grade. It’s nice to have an opportunity for them to see my work outside of the classroom.”
Berry takes a different approach on the show. “I have seen students change what classes they want to take
because of the show,” Berry said, “not necessarily which classes to take, but I have seen students sign up for art classes because of the show – most of them sooner rather than later.”
Since students have to declare their majors sophomore year, Berry believes that it is important for the faculty to show what they can do at the beginning of the year.
“I went to the Faculty Art Exhibition when I was a sopho-more and loved it,” said Elizabeth Young, a senior studio art major. “It was the perfect opportunity for me to see my teachers in a different light. Instead of them focusing on me, I was able to see them as artists rather than teachers.”
Faculty Art Exhibition on display in Peeler Gallery
Ceramics professor Meredith Brickell's piece "12201 Howard Lodge Drive," hangs in Peeler Art gallery. The faculty show opened this past Wednesday. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
EXPLORE ADRIENNE WESTENFELD’S ANALYSIS OF WES ANDERSON ‘S FILM
“Moonrise Kingdom, Anderson’s latest venture, is painted in familiar whimsical brushstrokes. But I’m not ready to ask Anderson to grow up just yet.”
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For students seeking outdoor fun with a bit of problem solving, Geocaching may be something to pursue.
Geocaching, as defined on geocaching.com, is a “free real-world outdoor treasure hunt” involving GPS-enabled devices. By using the GPS coordinates, players try to locate small containers, known as geo-caches, which have been carefully hidden by others. Since geocaching.com introduced the outdoor sport to the public in 2000, over 1.8 million caches have been hidden all over the world.
Caches themselves can be just about any object or container that can be hidden or disguised and they range in size from, “a pencil casing to a five-gallon bucket,” according to junior Mackenzie Cremeans.
Cremeans started geocaching in high school with her friends and picked the hobby back up this past summer when she was doing research in DeKalb, Ill.
“That was how I got to know the area,” she said. Most traditional caches are relatively small contain-
ers that hold a token or object of some sort. Along with signing and dating a small log book of finders, the expectation is that when someone finds a cache, he or she is supposed to take the object inside and replace it with another.
“I usually replace the items with these wooden coins that my hometown makes,” said Cremeans. “Some [caches] even have tracker bugs inside them so
that people can see where their items end up.”Along with the traditional caches, there are also
many themed ones. Mystery caches, like the one at Greencastle’s Heritage Wall on the west side of Vine St., have clues hidden on the wall that provide geo-cachers with the coordinates of the cache’s location. Cremeans said that this particular cache is a great way for students to learn more about Greencastle since its clues lie in answers to questions about the town.
Another example of a themed cache in Green-
castle is the Fern Cliff Nature Preserve, an Earth cache located just a few miles outside of town.
“There are a bunch of big sandstone cliffs there that they used to mine the sand from to make Coca-Cola bottles,” Cremeans said.
Cremean’s favorite journey in search of a cache
took her, “on a hike through nature, past a waterfall and finally led to an overlook at the edge of the cliff.” The cache was an arm’s reach down the side of the cliff.
Since she has found a number of caches, Cre-means said she considers two different caches to be her favorites.
“One was a magnetic water spigot stuck to the side of a building. I had walked around the building several times before I accidently bumped into it, saw that it slid, and realized that it was the cache,” Cremeans said. “My other favorite cache was a plastic Easter egg in an actual bird’s nest.”
Brian Stahly, who attended DePauw from 1987-1988, also has a few favorite geocaching memories. Stahly said his favorite place geocaching has taken him is to the Cave Hill National Cemetery in Louisville, Ky.
“It is one of the most beautiful cemeteries that I’ve ever been in,” he said.
Stahly, a current resident of Carmel, Ind., has been geocaching in just about every state in the midwest and southeast United States. He said one of his other favorite geocaches led him to a cache hidden on July 1, 2001.
“It was on the banks of the Ohio River in southern Indiana. There were 70-80 foot tall limestone cliffs, and I had to climb to the top of one of the cliffs to find it.”
Stahly believes that geocaching is a great activity for DePauw students to get involved in.
“They can register for a free membership; it doesn’t cost anything.”
For senior Kyle Uhlmann, his interest in geocach-ing resulted from a practical archeological survey proj-ect in one of his classes in fall 2010.
“I had enough fun to keep going after the project ended and have been doing it ever since,” he said in an email interview. Since Uhlmann’s first caching experi-ence in the fall of 2010, he has cached in eight different states, as well as Spain and Portugal.
Despite his variety of caching travels and experi-ences, Uhlmann’s favorite cache is one just right out-side of Madison, Ind.
“It’s a play on Freddy Krueger,” he said. “The cache can only be found at night because you have to use a flashlight to follow little reflective dots posted on trees throughout the woods to find the cache.”
Some caches are more challenging to locate than others, and there are over 130 geocaches within a ten-mile radius of DePauw’s campus waiting to be found.
“Greencastle has a pretty active caching communi-ty, and new caches are always popping up,” Uhlmann said.
— Margaret Distler contributed to this story.
Exploring GreencastleONE CACHE AT A TIME
Right: Mackenzie Cremeans, a junior, off a cache found on campus us-ing a Global Positioning System this past Monday. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
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“One was a magnetic water spigot stuck to the side of a building. I had walked
around the building several times before I accidently bumped into it, saw that it slid and realized that it was the cache.”
– Mackenzie Cremeans, senior
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For senior Kyle Uhlmann, his interest in geocach-ing resulted from a practical archeological survey proj-ect in one of his classes in fall 2010.
“I had enough fun to keep going after the project ended and have been doing it ever since,” he said in an email interview. Since Uhlmann’s first caching experi-ence in the fall of 2010, he has cached in eight different states, as well as Spain and Portugal.
Despite his variety of caching travels and experi-ences, Uhlmann’s favorite cache is one just right out-side of Madison, Ind.
“It’s a play on Freddy Krueger,” he said. “The cache can only be found at night because you have to use a flashlight to follow little reflective dots posted on trees throughout the woods to find the cache.”
Some caches are more challenging to locate than others, and there are over 130 geocaches within a ten-mile radius of DePauw’s campus waiting to be found.
“Greencastle has a pretty active caching communi-ty, and new caches are always popping up,” Uhlmann said.
— Margaret Distler contributed to this story.
Exploring GreencastleONE CACHE AT A TIME
To get started, simply log on to geocaching.com and search for caches that are near your current location.
Each listing for a cache includes the coordinates for its location, called a “waypoint,” and usually a clue of some sort.
Once you have the coordinates, you can enter them into any kind of small hand-held GPS; even smart phones and car GPS’s will work.
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WhereLieber State Recreation Area- Hilltop Shelter in Cloverdale, Ind.
DetailsFriday night’s “meet and greet” includes a chili dump and an organized night cache.
Saturday’s Fall Picnic event includes a pitch-in lunch, door prizes, Geo-Survivor and Cachers Got Talent.
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JIM EASTERHOUSE / THE DEPAUW
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to
another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
—C.S. Lewis
Probably one of the best pieces of advice that I got last year as a freshmen was to try to introduce
yourself to as many people as you can during the first two weeks of school. This is when people make first im-pressions, make new decisions and are usually their most vulnerable.
The first few weeks of being a freshmen on campus, you don’t feel comfortable, you know no upper-classmen around you and everything is new. But, the bottom line is that when you are surrounded by people that make you feel good about your-self, you enjoy being with and whom you share common interests, every-
thing else seems just a little bit less intimidating.
At the beginning of the fresh-man school year, everyone is going through the same thing, having the same struggles and is just as desper-ate to make friends and call this crazy, new, exciting place home.
The way to get to that point though, is to allow yourself to be vul-nerable, to put yourself out there and to take the first step and introduce yourself. It could be other students in one of your classes, it could be some-one down the hall or it could be the person in front of you in line at the Hub. Anywhere and everywhere there are people that you don’t know. And you may never know them unless you make it happen. And it could turn out that those are the people that make you feel at home.
I remember last year feeling so scared and so lost. The classes were more than I thought I would be able to handle. The environment at De-Pauw was nothing that I was used to in high school, and naturally, I missed my family. I allowed myself to feel lonely and talked myself into thinking that I was the only one that felt that
way. But surprise, surprise, I was never
really alone. It took bonding at one of the freshmen events to show me that there were other people who shared those same feelings and who were just as desperate to make friends. And that was one of the biggest comforts, ever. Through realizing and acting on my desperate need for friendship, I was able to open myself up to new people and make some really amaz-ing friends.
Everyday we have choices to make. These choices can be the dif-ference between making a life-long friendship or choosing to keep to our-selves because we are scared. Well, we are all scared in our own ways, but we will never know who is out there, feel-ing the same way we do, unless we put make the effort.
So freshmen, welcome to De-Pauw. Go outside, and say hello.
Also, I recommend that you check out the song, “Say Hello” by Rosie Thomas.
— Brinker is a sophomore from Stevensville, Mich., with an undecided [email protected]
The first two weeks: Just say hello
MADISONBRINKER
We didn’t plan to write an article about DePauw’s promoted spot on the Princeton Review’s 2013 Top Party School Rankings.
To us — and to most DePauw students — the list wasn’t news. We were there two years ago. We were there last year. If anything, it meant a few shared high-fives and a short flurry of light-hearted online bragging. Students are take pride in DePauw’s ‘Work-hard, Play-hard’ community and few see harm in the continued affirmation that they supposedly have more fun than many large state schools.
But President Brian Casey and university administration attacked the ranking, de-spite dismissing others in the past.
In our Aug. 18 edition, he says that although he keeps an eye on lists like Forbes Best Colleges or the Princeton Review, he puts little stock in their worth.
Another high spot for DePauw as a party school changed that mentality quickly.Casey has said that the ranking causes “deep and measurable harm” to two entities:
the institution and its students.We agree that the rating could pose negative effects on the university. Potential stu-
dents may balk, and alumni may scoff at our loosened morals. We certainly don’t want people outside the bubble to think poorly of DePauw. We could lose fundraising and high-achieving students that would enrich this campus.
But Casey also says that these ratings harm current students. While we’re grateful that he jumps at the chance to stick up for us, we just don’t see that as an issue. DePauw students are confident in the abilities they’ve gained at school.
More often than not, if an employer is unimpressed by a graduate, it’s not because “DePauw University” is slapped across their resume. If students take advantage of the academic opportunities DePauw has to offer, there is no way they can be seen as just a party animal.
Besides that, note that the Princeton Review’s party-school ranking is listed under “School Type,” and infers that drinking and revelry dominate DePauw’s culture, with study sessions or extracurriculars few and far between.
Now, students and faculty know that this is not the case. Especially during these small hours of the morning as we finish the paper, we take offense to it.
Casey wants what he sees as a false stereotype gone altogether. And call us party-poopers, but we agree that losing our spot on one of the most-searched college lists could only help DePauw move forward as an institution.
We would rather see DePauw known as academically rigorous than party-crazed any day — and there is little to gain from party-school rankings.
Ok, the bragging rights are fun. But past that — what value does it hold?
Ranking harms institution, not students
the depauw | opinion PAGE 11FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012
As the haze of the first few days of classes wears off and the thrill of arriving back on
campus fades away, look to the next two weeks for much greater excitement. Every four years our country is blessed (or cursed) with a presidential election.
Next week, the Republican Na-tional Convention will take place in Tampa, with the Democratic National Convention the following week, in Charlotte. What will take place over the next two weeks is of weighty importance.
According to The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, who conducts research on civic engage-
ment, 51.1 percent of eligible 18 to 29 year olds voted in 2008. This is the second highest voter turnout for that age bracket; second to 1974 or the year that 18-year-olds first gained the right to vote. A June 2012 poll conducted by Weber Shandwick, Powell Tate and KRC research reports incivility is caus-ing 58 percent of Americans to tune out politics in general.
Furthermore, 82 percent be-lieve “the media is more interested in controversy than facts.” A poll released this month by NBC News/Wall Street Journal reports that 61 percent of the country believes this nation is on the wrong track.
With these polling numbers and
surveys results voters will only be-come further disenchanted.
Our country needs the oppo-site. We need more people to be-come involved and to speak their minds, to not become discouraged.
The two national political con-ventions present an opportunity for all who are dissatisfied, or who distrust the media. Messages will be disseminated directly from the Democrats and the Republicans.
Although the conventions bring together a few days of what seems at time akin to a music festival, you will find valuable information while sifting through the pageantry. The two national parties will set forth their frameworks for how they en-vision our country should be.
There will be stark differences in each respective platform on the role of the government and of the individual. The parties’ national pri-orities will be set in stone.
Beyond red or blue, the parties’
true colors will show. None of this will matter if nobody listens.
Note the tone of speakers, can-didates, ideas and messages.
Challenge statements, seek the truth, work to understand foreign concepts and check the facts. Be-come educated and engaged.
Seventy-four days from now, we will find ourselves with the right and the opportunity to vote. Do not let that pass.
The most important vote of our lives was not in 2008 nor was it in 2000. The past votes have been cast. History cannot be rewritten. The most important vote of our lives is the one that comes next.
— Burns is a senior from West Lafayette, Ind., majoring in political science. Kirkpatrick is a senior from Overland Park, Kan., majoring in political science.
Upcoming election significant to everyone
PHOTOPINIONHow does the top party school
list affect you as a student?
DANIEL CHEN, freshman
“I don’t think it really matters because we’re really rigorous academically. We have a good balance here between partying and academics.”
ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
SHERIDAN GIBSON, junior
“I honestly don’t think it changes anything.”
KELLY REEVES, senior
“It kind of devalues my education. Yeah we go out, but we’re equally academic.”
CALEB LEHMAN, sophomore
“It hasn’t affected me much. It isn’t as important as our aca-demic ranking.”
Have a question you want answered?email [email protected]
Last year, I wrote this journal on what was going on in my head after about a week of college.
Freshmen, I am sure you will be able to relate to some of this soon.
I am 18 years old. I just ‘sur-vived’ week one of college, and I am beginning to realize certain things about what I expected out of college. In high school, we are told how important writing is and taught to use MLA format whenever we cite sources. We were babied through research papers so it was just a series of small assignments, and it wasn’t much of a challenge to finish by the due date received two months prior.
High school gave us the ability to sit in class, memorize some facts about certain subjects. Some were able to coast by with above average
grades that would earn admission to a good school. Some of us were accepted into schools based on our extra curriculars and decent GPA’s. But now, we are asked to think, and for some of us, it’s the first time our intelligence has been pushed past its comfort zone.
I came to school with the hope of post-graduate job security and a new bunch of friends. Everyone wants friends, so when we endure our ‘Camp College’ for the first few days, we are all excited to get out and meet new people. Some of us remain shy while others are con-stantly trying to remember every single name and face they come across.
All of our brain activity is wasted trying to meet new people and be-come accepted in our new environ-ment, socially, for we have already been accepted academically. So once we meet people, then what? We decide our friends and assem-ble our own little cliques. Take the safe road and refuse to take any form of a risk, scared of the possi-bility of messing up and becoming
ostracized from our new fragile ecosystem. But why be afraid? Be yourself.
What is job security anyway? Just a word made up by the adults of the world, right? If we leave this institution with a little more wis-dom and critical thinking abilities, that’s all the job security we need. We all know that life is about who you know. I could have several jobs back home working for my friends’ parents or even hanging on the coattails of older siblings, or in cer-tain cases, parents.
But most of us are here to learn. Regardless if we retain anything, we all wish to learn something. Asher Roth would have us learn all about beer pong and sex, which we will of course pick up along the way, but we also want to get something more out of this great institution. But we don’t know how to really learn. High school crippled us.
I, like most high school stu-dents, did not study. I tried, but I never really could. Now, I try, but end up browsing Facebook, watch-ing viral videos and just chatting
away with my new friends. Why can’t we focus? This is our lives we are dealing with. Real Life.
Since when do we make our own decisions? Between ages one and 18, our decisions were made for us. So how come the day we leave for college, we must flip a switch and just immediately become super stu-dents and adults and miraculously make our own decisions about classes, schedules, careers, majors, minors, drugs, alcohol, fraternities, friends, living units and food...Since when are we capable of all of this?
I love college. I hope we all do. But why did no one tell us about all this? All the stress, all the tests, all the reading, all the people, all the time to ourselves. I’m scared for the future but also excited. Best years of our lives right? Lets make them last, lets make them worth it.
— Brian Austin is a sophomore from Cincinnati, OH, currently undecided on his major.
Digging up journal from the past: the first week BRIANAUSTIN
STEWARTBURNS
JIMMYKIRKPATRICK
the depauw | advertisement AUGUST 24, 2012PAGE 12
Faculty Tenure, Interim, and Term Reviews 2012 – 2013
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Because of the University open file policy, all such submissions will be available to the individual faculty member. Thus, you are asked either to indicate your awareness of this fact in your letter, or to complete an open file form which can be obtained in the Office of Academic Affairs, 377 Julian Science and Mathematics Center, or on the COF website:
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the depauw | sports PAGE 13FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012
Freshmen progress into starting roles for inexperienced teamBy NICOLE [email protected]
The DePauw women’s volleyball team is switching into high gear, preparing for the team’s first regular season match on Sept. 1.
Currently, the squad includes nine first-year students, which is causing quite a bit of excitement from the coaching staff. Head coach Deb Zellers, who is entering into her 19th season, knew she had to recruit a large class with five players graduating last spring.
She got what she needed. “Some might see this as a struggle or challenge, we see it as
a fresh start with the freshmen,” Zellers said. “But we’re proud of our returning players as well.”
Helping to lead the Tigers’ freshmen class are the two first-year setters, Maggie Cochrane and Faith Rolwes. Because De-Pauw has no returning setters, one of the two freshmen will be filling the spot.
“It’s a bit of pressure, but we need a setter,” Rolwes said. “It’s scary, but we have to do it. But it will be fun to lead the team and see where we can take it.”
With the season opener only a week and a half away and scrimmages starting this weekend, there is a lot of pressure to bring the team together and build chemistry.
“We put in a lot of work in the off-season and the team got very involved,” Zellers said. “But [bonding] is not a struggle, it’s an opportunity.”
The newness of the team does not stop with the players,
however. Lauren Torvi was also hired since last season to be the new assistant coach. She was previously an All-American player at Springfield College.
Altogether, the team is meshing to become what will hope-fully be another Tiger powerhouse on campus.
“[The team] is all striving for a common goal, together we’re really motivated,” Cochrane said.Maggie Cochrane, a freshman setter, sets a ball during practice
Thursday afternoon. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
WHEN: SUNDAY, AUGUST 26 at 4 P.M.
WHERE: THE NEWSROOM, PCCM
“Some might see this as a struggle or challenge, we see it as a fresh start with the freshmen.”
- Deb Zeller, head coach for women’s volleyball
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Sophomore Drew Seaman drops back for a pass at practice last week. ISABELLE CHAPMAN/THE DEPAUW
Football | continued from page 16
work and get better.”With a cast of young talent at quarterback, it
appears Seaman is a predictable choice for the
Tigers who open up play against St. Olaf College on Aug. 8 at Blackstock Stadium.
“Definitely those two games last year helped me grow not just as a player, but a leader,” Sea-man said on WGRE’s Tiger Talk. “I’m trying to help out the young guys and teach them things I needed to know last year.”
Leadership and experience are the creden-tials for Seaman who claimed the most success-
ful stretch as the starter for a DePauw offense that normally struggled.
“It was hard to get a rhythm down with every respective quarterback and we got into a rhythm with Drew,” said Taylor Wagner, senior wide re-ceiver. “He threw my only receiving touchdown of the season.”
Seaman has fully recovered from a concus-sion he suffered midway through the 2011 cam-
paign. He is excited about the opportunities of working with a more mature offense, while respecting the challenge of the upcoming fresh-men quarterbacks.
“We have a bunch of young guys coming in,” Seaman said. “They are talented in their own ways, and they have kept me motivated to get better.”
bit more than our initial idea. But it’s still a close version. We wanted to have that Tiger head you could do a lot of different things with. That face can become who you are.”
The initial images and subsequent edits cost about $5,000, and sports-specific, print-ready logos cost another $4,000. The money came from Baker-Watson’s athletic director budget, and the DePauw communications initiatives budget. No money was taken from sports programs. Baker-Watson said another $10,000 will be spent to put up more logos around Lilly and the athletic fields precinct.
Kate Jovanovic, a sophomore field hockey player, said she didn’t like the new logo at first, but said she has grown to embrace it.
“I thought it was really generic [at first],” Jovanovic said. “But it looks really clean on all of the stuff. It’s an intimidation factor — it has that going for it. I like how we’re all being universal now. There’s one tiger, better than the ‘70’s tiger we had before. That was old school, and you can tell this one’s modern.”
It’s modern for sure, but it’s not old gold.The school’s colors are traditionally gold and black. The yellow
tiger face drew some questions from students for not being an old gold color. However, the yellow is consistent with the University’s East College logo which was created last year.
“It’s not unusual to find graphic insignias of teams match up to the school’s colors,” Wells said. “We’re not changing the school col-ors from old gold to yellow.”
Added Baker-Watson, “The coaches came to a conclusion that if we were a part of the institution, we need to fit in with what the institution is doing. We moved back to this yellow-gold color. Once
people saw it in print, we all thought it was really good.”The teams each have their own specific logo now available to buy
in the bookstore. Those logos will be unique to each team.In less than a month of being released, the new tiger is growing
on people. “I don’t think it really mattered what it was, it mattered that it
was,” Fenlon said. “We settled on something, and we’re going to go forward with it. Everybody has an opinion, eventually you have to make a choice and more forward. I think it looks great on people.”
By CONNOR HOLLENSTEINER
Tony Halterman never saw much playing time behind Div. III All-American goalkeeper, Nathan Sprenkel ‘12. This season, the senior is excited to return to his natural position.
Halterman was given the opportunity to play in the field last year in hopes of benefiting the team in any way he could. He played on the back line in front of Sprenkel.
Now his comrades will all be in front of him. “It’s been a seamless transition back. If anything, it has made me
better,” Halterman said Wednesday on WGRE’s Tiger Talk. “I got to work with my feet a lot more, and I got a whole different read for the game knowing what the attackers will do.”
Coming off an impressive season – winning the North Coast Ath-letic Conference title, the DePauw Men’s soccer team is training hard in camp in hopes of having just as successful of a season as last.
Halterman will be critical in the Tigers’ hopes of repeating. “While [Sprenkel] was a very special goalkeeper, Tony is different.
But I don’t think we’ll drop off at all,” head coach Brad Hauter said. “Tony is definitely capable of helping us win the conference again and even a national title.”
Hauter said his experience in the field gives him one of the most unique perspectives of the game in the entire country.
“There is no other keeper out there that played at a high level, was an all conference field player, and has this wealth of data and info now in his head that can help him as a keeper,” he said.
Halterman started 14 games as a defender last season alongside his fellow backs.
Louie Souza, a junior defender, thought Tony played well as a field
player last season. “Tony was really great back there,” Souza said. “He solidified our
defense during that strong push at the end of the season. Things could have been much shakier without Tony there.”
DePauw finished 16-3-1 (8-1, NCAC), and made it to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2000. With just one week before their first regular season game, the team has been training hard in camp in hopes of having just as successful of a season as last. Hauter
has high expectations for his team this year. “It is exciting to be back, the energy level coming off of such a spe-
cial season last year. We’re still carrying some of that emotion with us,” he said. “Looking into their eyes and seeing the hope and excitement from last year is great.”
The Tigers will take the pitch for the first time against Hope Col-lege on August 31, starting at 6:30 from Boswell Field. That game can also be heard live on WGRE 91.5.
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Tony Halterman, senior goalkeeper, yells instructions to his team during Thursday's scrimmage against Illinois Wesleyan University. ISABELLE CHAPMAN / THE DEPAUW
Halterman back in goalAfter playing as a defender last year, Tony Halterman returns to his home in the goal for his senior year season.
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By MICHAEL [email protected]
It’s hard to miss when one walks into the Lilly Physical Fit-ness Center. The image is imprinted on the doors entering the building, and then you see the looming, mural-like Tiger in the Neal Fieldhouse.
That is the new DePauw Athletics logo, one which the Uni-versity administration along with the athletic department was trying to find since fall 2011. The effort started because DePauw lacked a consistent image for each team. After contracting in May with Sports Graphics, an Indianapolis-based branding, marketing and production company, a new logo was found just one month later.
The process, according to Stevie Baker-Watson, DePauw athletic director, could not have gone smoother.
“I look at this, and think ‘I don’t see this Tiger anywhere else,’” Baker-Watson said. “This is our Tiger. No one has the brightness and pop that this one has. We won’t mistake it for anyone else’s.”
This past March, a committee of six head coaches and Bill Wagner, sports information director, assembled to decide what their vision of a new logo should be.
After just one extensive meeting, head volleyball coach and chair of the committee, Deb Zellers, compiled the committee’s
information into one message. Head men’s basketball coach, Bill Fenlon, said the ideas
which came from the meeting weren’t difficult to come up with. “What we were charged with was in-line with a lot of things
Dr. Casey is trying to do, which is present a more unified front on who we are,” Fenlon said. “There are no new ideas. We ba-sically fished around, and looked at what other people were doing.”
In a PowerPoint presentation, the committee said the new logo should convey tradition and excellence, and be classic, simple and streamlined.
They found samples they liked, such as Butler University’s Bulldog and University of Missouri’s Tiger.
However, they wanted a forward facing, serious-looking, closed-mouth Tiger head that was “clean.”
When the committee presented their ideas to Baker-Watson and Christopher Wells, vice president for communications and strategic initiatives, a decision was made to look for an outside company for the design.
“We have some talented in-house staff that has significant design experience, but we don’t have a branding machine,” Wells said. “If given time, we could have designed something to be successful.”
Sports Graphics was responsible for much of the Super Bowl advertising in Indianapolis earlier this year. It’s most noted image was the Roman numerals “XVI” with an image of the Vince Lombardi Trophy on the JW Marriott in downtown Indianapolis.
Baker-Watson knew of the company from that, and con-tracted with them for some initial designs.
She and Wells were more than pleased. “They showed up the first day with the drawing book, and
Christopher liked it on sight,” Baker-Watson said. “We told them to run with it.”
Fenlon added, “This isn’t the exact version we had in mind.
New athletics logo turning heads, and winning praise
A new Tiger on campus
By PARKER [email protected]
Amid a 2011 DePauw football season with four different players were at least once named the start-ing quarterback, the room for improvement at the position is inevitable. The theme for this season’s quarterback battle is youth.
“Guys are showing up every day, and they are getting great coaching,” said head football coach Robby Long on Wednesday’s WGRE Tiger Talk. “Whether you are talking about Seaman, who is a sophomore, or the young pups who are here as freshmen. Everyday they are showing up to get bet-ter.”
With junior Jackson Kirtley sliding over to wide receiver, Seaman is the only returning quarterback
on the team. Seaman started two games and appeared in an-
other last season, notching two victories for the Ti-gers on the road against Ohio Wesleyan University and Austin College. A sophomore from Scottsdale, Ariz., he threw for 280 yards with five touchdowns, two interceptions and a completion percentage of nearly 60 percent.
DePauw brings five new freshmen QBs to the
fold. All worked hard in the summer to familiarize early with the DePauw offensive scheme.
“We are extremely happy with this freshmen class,” Long said. “You don’t want to rely on that
Young players — Seaman, freshmen — drive preseason quarterback battleFOOTBALL
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“This is our Tiger. No one has the brightness and pop that this one has. We won’t mistake it for
anyone else’s.”
– Stevie Baker-Watson, DePauw Athletic Director
In the past years, each athletic team has had their individual symbols, fonts and images. There has never truly been a consistent image for DePauw athletics as a whole until now. The above images are now the three official logos of DePauw athletic teams. The administration and athletic department hope that new athletic brand will present a more unified and recognizeable athletic program. IMAGES COURTESY OF THE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT