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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2013 VOL. 161, ISSUE 28Indiana’s Oldest College Newspaper
By ZOE [email protected]
He places both crutches a step or two above him and shifts his weight so that his body follows, one step at a time.
For two weeks, junior Max Guenther has been attending three classes in Asbury Hall, two on the third floor and one on the second floor. He hasn’t
reported his injury to Student Disability Services and maintains that he doesn’t plan to.
“It’s mostly the distance,” Guenther said. “Stairs aren’t that bad, you just have to go one by one. It’s inconvenient, but it’s not terrible.”
Asbury Hall is out of compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act. The absence of an elevator causes it to be less accessible to students who are physically impaired.
“I love Asbury, but it needs to be updated,” said junior Jennifer Dickman, who was on crutch-es last year. “There are a lot of health problems; besides the elevator issue... the building’s just out-dated and obviously not up to par with student
Junior Max Guenther climbs the stairs of Asbury Hall on crutches on Monday afternoon. The building is out of com-pliance with the Americans With Disabilities due to the lack of an elevator. SUNNY STRADER / THE DEPAUW
Asbury not up to disability standardsStudent on crutches declines accommodation for Asbury classes, takes steep climb
Asbury | continued on page 2
NEWS
Student government updatepage 2
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Greek InterVarsity conference
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Swimming preview
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SPORTS
Independent’s day bash
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Tiger of the Week
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Of the eight round tables in the Union Building Ballroom, six were full of people students gathered to celebrate the Independent’s Day Bash on Satur-day night.
Pop music blasted from two speakers at the front of the room. Henna tattoos, crafts, a buffet of tacos and cupcakes were scattered around the
room for participants to enjoy. People of both greek affiliation and no affiliation
gathered at the Independent’s Day Bash, allowing some to forge connections for next semester.
“I didn’t know many people going into sopho-more year,” senior Christine Bach said. “I had to go random for my roommate. It was nerve wracking. I didn’t have friends to live with.”
But Bach is a member of Delta Gamma sorority. Divisions between the greek community and inde-
pendents are evident throughout campus. Greeks tend to stick to their own community, leaving the independents to fend for themselves.
However, greek attendance at recent functions aimed toward independent students demonstrated effort to lessen the divide.
“When I first joined a greek house, they hated the Independent Council,” Casie Sambo, a senior Delta Gamma said. “[The current executive mem-bers of Independent Council] have done a good job
being more inviting.”Sambo has attended every Independent’s Day
Bash since her freshman year. “Sometimes recruitment doesn’t go well. [In-
dependent’s Day Bash] is there to show life will go on,” Sambo said. “It’s not the end all be all.”
Annie Bowers, a senior executive member of the Independent Council, said once she finished eating her meal at the event, she and the executive members mingled with the other students.
All of the members of the executive board are seniors, and are currently looking for new leader-ship to continue their positions following their graduation.
“We don’t have meetings for the sake of meet-ing,” Bowers said. “We have an e-mail list to send out events.”
The number of students on DePauw’s campus that decide to rush has decreased in recent years. According to DePauw’s website, “a little under 70% of students are greek.” That number has decreased five percent from 2005 for fraternity members, and about one percent for sorority members, according to DePauw’s website.
“The event is mostly to get to know each other,” Lana Dekevyashkina, a senior independent who organized the event through the Most Valuable Promoter (MVP)program in the Campus Life Of-fice, said. MVP’s are responsible for spreading the word about events through social media and word of mouth on campus.
Independent’s Day Bash is typically on the same weekend as the final round of recruitment, which took place over the last week of January.
Dekevyashkina said that not everything was pre-pared in time this year to have the event on that weekend, which is why the executive board opted to hold the event over the weekend.
With the declining numbers of people joining greek houses, committees to promote events for independents become obsolete in some ways.
“As the campus decreases its greek members the Independent Council becomes less important,” Bowers said. “We need less members [of the Inde-pendent Council], the independents just represent themselves.”
Opportunity for connection regardless of affiliation
Juniors Bre Moore and Nadiyah Ford decorate cupcakes at the Independent’s Day Bash Saturday night in the UB Ballroom. The event celebrates students without greek affiliation. VICKY LU BAI / THE DEPAUW
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concerns and needs.”There are architectural issues that make adding an
elevator difficult or impossible, but Academic Support Services does its best to work between the confines.
Pamela Roberts, academic success coordinator and coordinator of Student Disability Services, cited Asbury Hall’s age as the main reason installing an el-evator would be difficult.
Even though an elevator isn’t feasible, Student Disability Services compensates by helping students in other ways.
“We couldn’t require a disabled student to go to the third floor on Asbury,” Roberts said. “Our job is to make sure that classroom is accessible, so by moving to make it accessible, that is the legally required thing we do. We take care of that as quickly as we can.”
Although Dickman did not have classes in Asbury, she did live on the third floor of her sorority last year. Access to a car and a staff parking pass helped mini-mize travel time, but getting around still posed a chal-
lenge.“It’s really hard to be on crutches walking across
campus,” Dickman said. “It’s exhausting, so when you finally get to where you’re going, you’re distraught and not prepared for classes.”
Cases of temporary impairment, including those of Guenther and Dickman, were not covered under ADA law until Sept. 2008.
“George Bush signed an amendment that expand-ed the ADA law to include temporary impairments and episodic conditions and things such as broken legs, broken ankles, concussion, that are temporary in nature but impact students greatly when they hap-pen,” said Roberts. “We provide accommodation for those students, as well.”
Students can request or accept an offer to be moved, or they can decline and stay where they are.
“We can’t make someone take accommodations,” Roberts said. “We can only offer them…but we must make an effort to do that.”
Guenther has not taken accommodations.“I’m able to get to all my classes. It may take five
extra minutes, but that’s okay,” Guenther said. “I don’t want to be a burden to other students in the class.”
Students, professors and student life all refer cases of temporary impairment to Roberts. She said they are handled on a case-by-case basis.
“Case-by-case individual meeting is critical for every university in the country to meet the needs of students,” Roberts said. “I have to work very hard to make sure I know the changes in the law, that I know what the legal thing to do is, that we meet the needs of our individual students.”
In addition to university-owned property, Roberts also takes disability cases concerning privately-owned Greek houses even though ADA doesn’t require it.
Last year during graduation, a lift was installed at the side of the stage so that a student in a wheelchair could receive her diploma then sit with her peers. ADA law maintains that physically disabled students must have the same rights as their peers.
Temporary impairment cases are among four ac-commodation categories—the other three are hous-ing, dietary and academic.
“It’s critical, important and the right thing to do in addition to being the legal thing to do,” Roberts said. “I don’t want [students] out there struggling on their own.”
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Asbury | continued from page 1
Updates on construction projects:
• Raj Bellani, dean of Experiential Learning and Career Planning, described the new Center for Student Engagement. The launch of the Hubbard Center will occur in the fall of 2013. The office will take on students to work as peer mentors in the center. He also talked about the creation of the DePauw Signature Program. The internship program will place students with DePauw alumni and friends in various career fields during the summer months.
• Stevie Baker-Watson, director of athletics and recreational sports, gave an update on the construction on the Lilly Center and the outdoor recreation renovation. In the next couple weeks permits will be obtained to begin construction. Fencing will go up to begin construction on Lilly around Spring Break. The Lilly Center will be fully functional throughout the construction. The two fields south of Blackstock Stadium will not be finished until Feb. 2014.
White Papers in the works:
• Student Activities Funding Update - Up to $24,000 is available in coming years from the Board of Trustees to be used for student activities
• Tax-free textbook initiative (House Bill 1435 or 1570 for more information)- Submitted to State
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CAMPUSCRIMEFeb. 8
• Theft of backpack • Under Investigation | Time: 2:29 p.m. | Place: Julian Center
• Welfare check • | Subjects located / checked okay | Time: 11:49 p.m. | Place: Beta Theta Pi fraternity
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• Alcohol violation • Transported to Putnam County hospital / forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 12:16 a.m. | Place: Locust Street
• Suspicious person • Subject located/checked okay | Time: 7:28 p.m. | Place: Longden Hall
• Criminal mischief to art • Pending | Time: Unknown | Place: Peeler Center
• Housing policy violation • Forwarded to Campus Living | Time: 11:54 p.m. | Place: Reese Hall
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• Alcohol violation • Released to custody of friend / forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 1:33 a.m. | Place: Hogate Hall
• Disorderly conduct • Made contact with house representative / verbal warning issued | Time: 1:50 a.m. | Place: Alpha Tau Omega fraternity
• Operating a vehicle while intoxicated; resisting arrest • Arrested Christopher Lee Pate (non-student) | Time: 3:10 a.m. | Place: Intersection of Locust Street and Berry Street
• Property damage accident • Report filed | Time: 3:21 a.m. | Place: Administration parking lot
• Property damage to pole • Officer checked area / unable to locate damage | Time: Unknown | Place: Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority parking lot
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Greek students head to Indy for faith conferenceBy ABBY [email protected]
InterVarsity, a worldwide Christian organization on college campuses, held its largest annual g reek conference last weekend in Indianapolis.
For the past 19 years, students from across the country have attended the an-nual weekend conference for greek students to talk about their faith. This year, 65 schools and 735 students attended the convention in Indianapolis.
Greek Conference began in 1994 and has been hosted by Greek InterVaristy, an organization staffed by alumni of the national greek system. In years past, De-Pauw has taken around 20 students, but this year attendance doubled as 52 De-Pauw greeks traveled to the conference.
DePauw’s InterVarsity campus minister Mark Abdon ’08 attended the Greek Conference as a student and now as a staff member.
“We keep seeing students transformed year in and year out,” Abdon said. “It helps students in their faith and I know students that will go all four years and have a different experience each time.”
The conference was held at the Marriott East Hotel. Speakers, interactive semi-nars and a massive dance party filled the weekend.
“It is a high energy environment,” Abdon said. “It is a high-quality experience for anyone who chooses to go.”
There are four tracks student participants can sign up to join during the con-ference: encounter, connect, influence, or thrive and lead. In each of these tracks students meet to learn how they can take these topics and apply them to their lives on DePauw’s or any other university’s campuses.
Lauren Perkins, the social events chair for InterVarsity and a junior member of Delta Gamma, was on the influence track at the conference. This track looked at issues of justice, stewardship, outreach and influence to help college students be leaders. The focus in the influence track was on people’s intentions.
Perkins said she learned that she needs to be more active in both her faith and leadership around campus.
“I need to make the decision everyday to be intentional and not passive about how I live my life,” Perkins said.
This was Lauren’s third year going to Greek Conference, but for many other DePauw students it was their first time.
Senior Clayton Miller, member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, drove up early Saturday morning to attend the conference after his lacrosse game was cancelled.In years past, Miller said he has always been busy or has not wanted to attend the conference, but after taking a Hebrew Bible class last semester, he became more curious about his own religion.
“[The Hebrew class] made me question my faith and made me realize what I don’t know,” Miller said.
Miller said the conference helped him learn to trust God. “I’m finally done fighting,” he said. “It’s a sense of relief.” Senior Elyssa DiRaffaele of Alpha Chi Omega sorority also attended the confer-
ence for the first time this past weekend. “It’s taken me a little while to realize I wanted to get that relationship back with
God,” DiRaffaele said. “I thought this weekend would be a good way to reconnect and I was really encouraged by my sisters going.”
Miller says the conference is a place to escape the “DePauw bubble,” to get out there and see what other people are doing.
“It opens people’s eyes to something they haven’t heard of or it furthers what they already know,” Miller said. “It allows you to see through a different lens you didn’t know existed.”
“It allows you to see through a different lens you didn’t even know existed.”— Clayton Miller, senior
the depauw | features TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2012PAGES 6 & 7
By MADISON HARTMAN
[email protected] was one year ago
this Valentine’s Day when sophomore DePauw student,
Hope Jordan, decided it was time to start a project on her bucket list and sat
down to write a book.Seizing a few extra hours one day, Jordan
began her project: a compilation of stories told by women about their lives and loves. Two months later, “Love, or Lack Thereof,” was born.
From the beginning, Jordan was inspired by a quote from character Finn Earl in the movie “Fierce People,” when Earl said, “We are the sum of all the people we have ever met.”
Jordan had always been intrigued by the quote and how applicable it was to life, and to love espe-cially. She knew that the four hours she had been granted that Valentine’s Day weren’t enough to write an entire book, but it was surely a chance to begin collecting stories told by other women.
“The quote made me wonder about the con-nections that I have in my life and how my rela-tionships with others have influenced me, and I wanted to know how other women have been influenced,” Jordan said.
She was particularly interested in the connec-tions formed from love that other women had ex-perienced and how these relationships made the women grow stronger, withstand rejection or gain happiness.
So, she began writing and sending letters to women all over. Some letters were sent to women and some to women she had never met. The let-ters encouraged these women to share stories of “love, or lack thereof” and reminded women that the sharing of these stories can help a woman
grow in her own perspective of love. “I honestly wanted the stories to be as truthful
as possible and for the women to just pour their hearts out to me,” Jordan said.
The letter also asked the women to give advice about love, and what they have learned from their experiences with love.
“I want readers to learn from the stories, I want it to be like a guide about love that a big sister would give to her little sister.”
Within months, Jordan received wonderful feedback from all the women that she had writ-ten letters to. She was grateful for this amaz-ing response, and hap-py that these women were willing to trust her with stories that were so personal.
“When these women wrote stories for my book and sub-mitted them to me, they really trusted me to keep it anonymous and private, and I would never violate that trust,” Jordan said.
In a way, Jordan felt that making the stories anonymous transformed the novel from a book of gossip to a set of guidelines or truths.
Jordan concluded the book with her own thoughts on life and love. Throughout her life and especially through her experience reading and compiling the stories for “Love, or Lack Thereof,” she learned that there are different types of love.
“I believe that love can be confusing, captivat-ing and hurtful. At times you can feel lost,” said Jordan.
She was also impressed by compassion and strength of the writers.
“My favorite story was titled “Repeter” and I
loved it because the love expressed within the story was exotic and worldly—definitely the ideal Valentine’s Day love story.”
Within two months, the anthology was fin-ished—well within her self-imposed deadline of one year. However, during the summer Jordan hit a wall when it seemed her book might not be published.
“I was so upset when I thought that I wasn’t going to be able to accomplish this very important goal, but Sandy Smith was very supportive of me and encouraged me to keep trying.”
Smith, of the McDermond Center for the Management Fellows program, remembered, “Hope didn’t think that things were going to work out the way that she had expected and wanted them to.”
It was during this time of doubt that Smith heard from a speaker by the name of “Famous Dave” about websites that help writers publish
their books. She told Jordan about these sites, and Jordan’s goal of a published book seemed within reach once more.
The process wasn’t without financial costs however, so Jordan, with the help of Smith, sent out letters asking for donations to cover the cost of publishing.
“There were some contacts that were willing to donate to the cause, so we got a wonderful re-sponse,” Smith said.
Responses were so wonderful that Jordan raised more money than the actual cost of publish-ing. People had such faith in her book and in her that the largest donation was from an individual
who wasn’t even in-volved in contributing to the book.
Finally, the publish-ing process was complet-ed and Hope held the fin-ished product in her hands.
“It was so exciting watch-ing Hope from start to finish as she went from being excited to discouraged to encouraged—she never gave up in the process and I am so proud of her for that”
“Love, or Lack Thereof” has had an amazing response from women around the DePauw campus thus far. Junior Re-bekah Cole was especially impressed with the way that Jordan asked other women about their experiences.
“The book is very inspirational in the way that the women were able to learn from their experiences—it was an interesting point of view for relationships,” Cole said.
Another supportive reader, sophomore Rachel Hanebutt, loved the way Earl’s quote inspired Jor-dan.
“The quote that inspired Hope exemplifies life in general and the openness for writing options brought forth a variety of writing. On top of that, most of the stories have been true to me in every form,” said Hanebutt.
Both women were grateful and impressed with the fact that a woman their age wrote a book that is useful for other college women.
“It was amazing that Hope took the time to put something like this together,” Cole commented.
The book is not meant to be a theology les-son; it’s meant to be a set of encouragements from strong, real women who wanted to share their ex-perience with heartache, life, love, and happiness.
Jordan’s finished book, “Love, or Lack There-of” is available on Amazon for $9.95.
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“We are the sum of all the people we have ever
met.”
the depauw | opinion PAGE 9TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2013
PHOTOPINIONWhich DePauw athletic team do you follow the
most?
BEN ROESS, junior
“Baseball, because I used to play and a lot of my friends still do.”
EMILY BRELAGE / THE DEPAUW
ANNE RIVELLI, senior
“The women’s field hockey team. They had a great season this year.”
“Guys’ basketball. I feel like it’s the sport that gets the most hype.”
NICK STRAUTMAN, senior
“Men’s basketball, because I like fol-lowing [junior guard] Mike Wilkison and the environment.”
Have a question you want answered?email [email protected]
CHRISTA SCHROEDEL, freshman
On February 5, 2008, in a room full of support-ers, then-Senator Barack Obama famously as-
serted, “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time, we are the ones we’ve been waiting for, we are the change that we seek.”
Two years later, President Obama addressed LGBT youth telling them to do exactly what he told that room full of supporters not to do —to wait for some other time. In a video message for the It Gets Better Project, President Obama en-couraged queer youth facing violence and bully-ing to endure their unfortunate and unsafe en-vironments simply because these conditions are only temporary.
My intentions are not to demean the signifi-cance of a sitting president publicly addressing issues affecting queer youth, especially when so many of his predecessors have vehemently de-nied the LGBT community’s very existence. How-ever, the empty promise that is the It Gets Better Project oversimplifies the multilayered issues of
violence queer youth — our youth — face today. The It Gets Better Project was created in
2010 in response to several suicides of teens that experienced relentless bullying for their perceived sexual orientation. The campaign asks users to submit video messages detailing how life for LGBT people eventually “gets better” than the early days of childhood bullying. The
campaign quickly became popular with an excess of submissions from high-powered individuals, some LGBT, some not. But the current scope of the It Gets Better Project is arguably more about middle-class gays and lesbians congratulat-ing themselves for reaching positions of power, rather than directly combating issues of bullying.
Of course I believe the campaign’s overarch-ing message is important. Suicide is never the an-swer, and having public figures remind our youth how beautiful and normal they are can be very affirming. However, proclaiming queer youth should have to wait for a better life only rein-forces the very same messages LGBT kids receive from bullies. It fortifies hegemonic beliefs that queer people are inferior and therefore should just accept their mistreatment. Also, telling youth to wait it out fails to provide those perpetuating violence with any real incentive to stop.
Anti-bullying measures will not make our schools any safer for our youth until we rewire the
school system itself. It is illogical to think schools can be a safe environment for queer youth when heteronormativity is served to them everyday like a stale lunch.
Until we revise current school curriculum so that it includes LGBT history, provide sex education that no longer ignores queer experi-ences, move past zero-tolerance policies that only strengthen the school-to-prison pipeline and update current employment laws to include non-discrimination polices — so that our educators are free to be role models for their students and no longer enter the classroom in fear they may be fired for their gender and sexual identities — our youth will never truly be safe.
I understand the importance of symbols. Hav-ing someone that shares your experience reas-sure you that everything is going to be okay can be empowering for some. But it is by no means enough. Instead of waiting for some other time and some other people, instead of telling our youth it will get better (eventually), we need to instead ask ourselves how do we make life better for them now?
— Agrelo is a senior from Chicago, Ill. majoring in English writing.
For LGBT youth, it needs to get better before “It Gets Better”
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Music’s biggest night fails to live up to its name
This past Sunday for the first time ever, I watched the red carpet and Grammy Awards
and was reminded why it’s not something I will probably do again. My friends and I sat cross-legged around their Rector apartment and tried to look like we were doing homework while watching the ceremony.
I succumbed to the peer pressure to watch it live because everyone else was (good reason as al-ways) and I was tempted by the talk of outrageous outfits from years past. As someone who usually reads about awards ceremonies the next day and has a dedicated alternative rock music collection, here is my very disheartened recap of everything you didn’t miss:
We had turned it on just in time to see Taylor Swift on the red carpet somewhat foolishly show off her manicure when a host asked her to walk her fingers down a miniature red carpet box for
the show’s “Mani Cam.” It made me feel dumb to watch it. I guess the producers had to find something new to do.
Then out came J.Lo, whose propped leg was giving the middle finger to Angelina Jolie’s leg, and quite well I’ll admit.
And that’s where I blank. Nothing else really happened. My friends and I got really excited
when Ellen DeGeneres and Beyoncé had this su-per mysterious introduction about how great the next performer was going to be, and then Justin Timberlake came out. Lame sauce. In context though, this was a considerable let down after we were sure Prince was going to grace us with his beautiful weirdness. He did eventually, but by that point, we had lost interest. Nothing will beat Jay-Z and Kanye’s performance of “Otis” that they did last year, which my friend showed me on You-Tube so I could compare it to J.T.’s.
What followed was an assorted calamity of bad jokes, fake acceptance speeches and mediocre to downright terrible performances (I’m looking at you, Frank Ocean). It was bad enough that I accidentally missed Mumford and Sons perform, though I was happy to hear that they won album of the year and that The Black Keys received best
rock in that category. Cool. Too bad I was bored by everything else to realize that any of them were on stage. Rihanna nailed all three of her perfor-mances, but Fun. was anything but and rained on the Grammy parade early on.
And in case anyone was wondering, CBS is-sued an uber lame dress code in early February that prohibited too adventurous or revealing out-fits. Thus, Adele’s carpet bag dress that made her look like my dead grandma’s sofa was the most exciting costume. I tuned in because I wanted to see the weird and bizarre, not a televised Vogue magazine.
Overall, there was a heavy sense of regret at the opportunity cost we paid to watch the 2013 Grammys instead of doing pretty much anything besides that. If you’re into the people watching and the interaction of too many strong person-alities, you probably would have found it interest-ing. Looks like I’ll be reading the results online from now on. Also, who the hell is Miguel?
— Way is a senior from Long Grove, Ill. majoring in English writing and communication. *Way’s opinions do not reflect the views of The DePauw’s editorial board.
ANASTASIAWAY
Greek social life on campus is in full swing. For new members, last week was full of excitement with bid
night for fraternities, bid day for sororities and most of all, Black Monday. As many fraternities felt pressure from the University to decrease the amount of excessive drinking, last week’s Black Monday was one of the quietest in recent memory. But should the University have to intercede in the first place with steep punishments for drinking getting out of hand?
If you look to any greek society’s purpose or mission statement, you will find very similar values asserted. These statements all have to do with virtue, high morals, giving to society and creating well-rounded men or women. The men or women that founded each greek organization were creating what they thought to be an individual soci-ety that would better themselves through high standards of scholarship and community involvement.
When the founders created these oaths, codes or bonds, they did so for each new member to sign and pledge to uphold. The purposes of these organizations would seem to have little to do with a perpetuation of excessive drinking for which they’re often blamed. If every member of DePauw’s greek community is to be uphold-ing a higher moral or societal purpose, it seems as if a problem of drinking within one of these organizations would never have to be dealt with by a body outside of
the organization — like the university on Black Monday. Instead, the problem would be taken care of internally, and our organizations would be able to maintain their autonomy while working toward improvement.
Most of the fraternities on campus are social fraterni-ties, and that should not be undermined or discounted. However, when the university must become involved with our social practices, reevaluation is needed. Each member of our greek organizations must ask himself or herself and one another: is the social aspect of these organizations in tune with their purposes?
New members must also ask themselves a similar question as they go through pledgeship. Does this broth-erhood or sisterhood actually live up to its mission? If it doesn’t, then why spend the time learning its history and values when the history and values are not to be brought up again until next year’s pledgeship?
Furthermore, all greek members should critically think about this. Does greek life really serve a purpose if its values are ignored? If their values are ignored, then what is created is an organization that picks and chooses what values it wants to live up to apart from the values it is supposed to live up to — which is hypocrisy at both an organizational and an individual level.
DePauw has a rich history of greek life, and every member should be proud to wear his or her letters — hopefully for the right reasons.
— Stuart is a junior from Nashville, Ind. majoring in philosophy and political science.
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Greeks not necessarily at fault
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The Putnam County hospital is no stranger to DePauw students, nor the contents of many of their stomachs.
In the last week Public Safety transported three DePauw students to Putnam County hospital for alcohol violations. One of those violations occurred at a fraternity house.
Usually in these types of cases, a hospitalized individual consumes alcohol at more than one location. In the case last week, the student was transported from a fraternity house to Putnam County hospital and the fraternity in question will mostly likely face consequences for the individual’s actions.
This is not the first time this has happened. Often students drink too much, go out to the fraternities and find themselves in dangerous situations. In some instances these dangerous situations escalate, requiring medical attention and as a result fraternity members come into question.
Over Winter Term, Public Safety recorded seven alcohol violations that required hospitalization. Six of these calls came from first-year residence halls, which leads us to the conclusion that first-year students are struggling to drink in a safe way. Unsafe drinking is in itself a problem, but it is not our primary focus here.
What worries us more is the lack of accountability these students are displaying. Students who receive alcohol violations and require hospitalization face their own
set of struggles in dealing with legal consequences (granted that a student is under 21), or their own unhappy parents. But as far as Community Standards Committee repercussions there is little punishment beyond the slap on the wrist that is probation and required classes on safe drinking.
But when a student becomes overly intoxicated at a fraternity, another level of investigation comes into play. Whether or not a given organization contributed to an individual's blood alcohol level, the fraternity falls under investigation as soon as a member makes the call for help.
Requiring fraternities to essentially babysit guests in their homes is an unrealistic request. Visitors often consume alcohol prior to arriving at a fraternity. It is difficult for fraternity men to gauge how much a student has been drinking upon entering a fraternity chapter, and it can be challenging to determine how much guests are drink-ing once inside a house. When a fraternity member sees an individual who requires medical attention, unfortunately there is not a lot of motivation to call Public Safety if they know their house will face the consequences.
In Indiana, state law protects individuals under the age of 21 who call on behalf of a friend who has had too much to drink. Why does the same courtesy not extend to a fraternity that exhibits similar behavior? We understand there is a fundamental differ-ence between an individual and an entity like a fraternity, but if an individual comes into your home and passes out on your couch because they drank too much, wouldn’t you expect them to take the majority of the blame for their action?
We understand that all cases are different and that the university has a vested inter-est in asking tough questions in these cases. We just hope that students who engage in consuming alcohol consider the implications their actions may have on others as well as themselves.
the depauw | sports TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2013PAGE 10
By MICHAEL [email protected]
It was a goal for the men’s basketball team to host its first round North Coast Athletic Conference tournament game.
That’s still a possibility, but one that was made more difficult since Saturday afternoon.
After falling behind 12-0 to open the game against Oberlin College (6-17, 4-10), the Tigers led just once during the game, and fell to the Yeomen on a final second shot, 51-49. DePauw (14-9, 7-7) was out-rebounded 34-22 and shot just 37.5 percent from the field.
The loss was DePauw’s seventh by less than four points.A win against Oberlin would have moved the Tigers in sole pos-
session of fourth place in the NCAC conference standings. The defeat instead places DePauw in a three-way tie for fourth — the final spot in terms of hosting a first round NCAC tournament game. The final two games for the Tigers are against Wittenberg University on the road Wednesday and the College of Wooster at home Saturday.
Wittenberg (15-8, 8-6 NCAC) holds the No. 3 spot in the NCAC, and Wooster (20-3, 13-1 NCAC) is on top and ranked No. 14 in the country by D3Hoops.com.
“It’s as bad as it can be,” Fenlon said of Saturday’s loss to Ober-lin. “This was a game that to realistically have a shot at one of those (home) spots, we needed to have this game.”
From the outset, Fenlon said his team struggled to adjust to a mix of a Yeomen zone and man defenses. DePauw missed its first six shots until Kevin Sullivan put the first points on the board after more than seven minutes of play.
Despite the deficit, the Tigers rallied with eight points by Michael Wilkison and six from Tommy Fernitz. At half, DePauw trailed by just one point.
“It was a goal to take away (DePauw’s) continuity,” Oberlin head coach Isaiah Cavaco said. “If they get into a rhythm they can put up a lot of points.”
Neither team, however, had much going offensively as both shot below 35 percent in the first half.
In the second, the Tigers took the lead with a layup by Connor Rich in the opening minute, but the Yeomen responded with an 11-2 run that pushed their lead back to eight.
“We just weren’t making good adjustments as a team,” Fenlon said. “They were switching everything and we weren’t really going to the soft spots in the defense, and not finding each other.”
The game came down to the final minutes as DePauw’s leading points scorer, Barry Flynn, posted his first points of the contest with two minutes remaining. The senior’s layup brought the Tigers back within two, and with 18 seconds left, he found the net again to tie it.
After two timeouts, Oberlin inbounded the ball to the low post after their prime offensive threat, senior Andrew Fox, was covered at
the top of the 3 point line. Instead, the ball went to freshman Randy Ollie in the low post, and after three consecutive pump fakes, he lifted a high shot off the glass that fell in with one second left on the game clock.
A final shot from the Tigers was no good.“(Ollie) made a tough move as a freshman, so I’m pretty proud of
him,” Cavaco said.Flynn, who entering the Saturday’s game led DePauw with 15.3
points per game, was held to just four. No Tigers player scored in double figures while Sullivan and junior Pat Haggin paced the offence with nine apiece.
After the game, Fenlon bemoaned his team’s struggle with making in-game adjustments.
“When you hold them to 51 points you have to feel like that it’s an OK defensive effort,” he said. “We were not sure where the shots were going to come from. We haven’t really seen that brand of thing (Oberlin was) doing to us defensively, and we just really struggle when we see anything new making in-game adjustments.
“Oberlin really exposed us in a lot of different ways and I think we got outplayed and outcoached today. It happens and I’m not happy about it. I’m going to try and do a better job for our guys and I’m going to ask them to do a better job for these last couple of weeks.”
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Chance for hosting NCAC tournament game dwindles as Tigers fall into three-way tie for fourth place in conference
the depauw | sports PAGE 11TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2013
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— COMPILED BY CAITLYN HAMMACK / [email protected]
name:TAYLOR
BRANDSTATTER,FRESHMAN
of the
indoor events:400, 600 AND 800
METER RUNS
hometown:
WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD
sport:
Highlight:At Saturday’s DePauw Invitational Indoor meet,
Brandstatter had an impressive runner-up finish in the women’s 600-meter run. The invitational hosted 16 teams, including DePauw, and Brandstatter bested 10
other athletes. Finishing with a time of 1:45.88, the freshman had quite a promising first big meet of her
college career.
“It was kind of surreal. As a freshman I didn’t think I would do that well. When they told me I had gotten second I didn’t believe it. The girl who won the race (600-meter run) wasn’t in the same heat as me so I
didn’t know how it went. For the rest of the season I’m really looking forward to dropping times and having an
awesome 4x400 meter relay team.”
On her quick success as a freshman:
BY MICHAEL [email protected]
It was goal for the men’s basketball team to host its first round NCAC tourna-ment game.
That’s still a possibility, but one that was made more difficult Saturday after-noon.
After falling behind 12-0 to open the game against Oberlin College (6-17, 4-10 NCAC), the Tigers led just once during the game, and fell to the Yeomen on a fi-nal second shot, 51-49. DePauw (14-9, 7-7 NCAC) was outrebounded 34-22, and shot just 37.5 percent from the field.
The loss was DePauw’s seventh by less than four points.
A win against Oberlin would have moved the Tigers in sole possession of fourth place in the NCAC conference standings. The defeat instead put DePauw in a three-way tie for fourth — the final spot in terms of hosting a first round NCAC tournament game. The final two games for the Tigers are against Wittenberg Univer-sity on the road Wednesday and College of Wooster at home Saturday.
Wittenberg (15-8, 8-6 NCAC) holds the No. 3 spot in the NCAC, and Wooster (20-3, 13-1 NCAC) is on top and ranked No. 14 in the country by D3Hoops.com.
“It’s as bad as it can be,” Fenlon said of Saturday’s loss to Oberlin. “This was a game that to realistically have a shot at one of those (home) spots, we needed to have
this game.”From the outset, Fenlon said his team
struggled to adjust to a mix of a Yeomen zone and man defenses. DePauw missed its first six shots until Kevin Sullivan put the first points on the board after more than seven minutes of play.
Despite the deficit, the Tigers rallied with eight points by Michael Wilkison and six from Tommy Fernitz. At half, DePauw trailed by just one point.
“It was a goal to take away (DePauw’s) continuity,” Oberlin head coach Isaiah Cavaco said. “If they get into a rhythm they can put up a lot of points.”
Neither team, however, had much go-ing offensively as both shot below 35 per-cent in the first half.
In the second, the Tigers took the lead with a layup by Connor Rich in the open-ing minute, but the Yeomen responded with an 11-2 run that pushed their lead back to eight.
“We just weren’t making good adjust-ments as a team,” Fenlon said. “They were switching everything and we weren’t really going to the soft spots in the defense, and not finding each other.”
The game came down to the final min-utes as DePauw’s leading points scorer, Barry Flynn, posted his first points of the contest with two minutes remaining. The senior’s layup brought the Tigers back within two, and with 18 seconds left, he found the net again to tie it.
After two timeouts, Oberlin inbounded the ball to the low post after their prime of-
fensive threat, senior Andrew Fox, was cov-ered at the top of the 3 point line. Instead, the ball went to freshman Randy Ollie in the low post, and after three consecutive pump fakes, he lifted a high shot off the glass that fell in with one second left on the game clock.
A final shot from the Tigers was no good.
“(Ollie) made a tough move as a fresh-man, so I’m pretty proud of him,” Cavaco said.
Flynn, who entering the Saturday’s game led DePauw with 15.3 points per game, was held to just four. Not one Tigers player scored in double figures while Sul-livan and junior Pat Haggin paced the of-fence with nine apiece.
After the game, Fenlon bemoaned his team’s struggle with making in-game ad-justments.
“When you hold them to 51 points you have to feel like that it’s an OK defensive effort,” he said. “We were not sure where the shots were going to come from. We haven’t really seen that brand of thing (Oberlin was) doing to us defensively, and we just really struggle when we see any-thing new making in-game adjustments.
“Oberlin really exposed us in a lot of different ways and I think we got out-played and outcoached today. It happens and I’m not happy about it. I’m going to try and do a better job for our guys and I’m going to ask them to do a better job for these last couple of weeks.”
Oberlin downs DePauw on final second shot
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By CAITLYN [email protected]
Wednesday marks the beginning of the men’s and women’s swim teams’ par-ticipation in the North Coast Athletic Con-ference championships. The competition is hosted by Kenyon College this year and will take place in an off-campus venue to accommodate the large number of specta-tors expected to attend.
The women’s team is entering the championships on a 5-2 record, after locking down the last meet against Rose-
Hulman Institute of Technology to gain a winning momentum going into the con-ference meet. Many of the women to look out for have already made a splash in the NCAC with consistently strong season per-formances. The records note freshman Caroline Bridges who sits in the top-10 in the league the 100-yard freestyle, the 50 free and the 200 free. Junior Allison Kirby also ranks in the top ten for both the 100-yard breast stroke and the 200-yard breast stroke.
The men’s team is cruising in on an undefeated season. Sophomore Casey Hooker is heading into the conference
as top-10 in the league in three freestyle events, and two butterfly events, making him a tough one to beat. Senior Matt Ku-kurugya owns two top-10 times in breast-stroke events.
In addition, keep an eye out for junior Matt Gleason. He placed third at confer-ence in the 200 individual medley and the 200 butterfly this past year. He will be back this year to provide balance for the men’s team.
Bright road ahead for Kirby, Hooker, Gleason
MEN’S BASKETBALL
the depauw | sports TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2013PAGE 12
By RACHEL [email protected]
The men and women of the DePauw track and field team spent the weekend competing in their Indoor Invitational.
Scoring 71 points, the women placed fourth behind Bel-larmine University with 120, Campbellsville University with 99 and Rhodes College with 74.5.
The men tied for 12th place, scoring 16 points. The Wa-bash men’s team won the invitational with 133 and Rose-Hul-man Institute of Technology took second place with a score of 118.
DePauw had several standout performances. Senior Lee Harmon placed second in the high jump, clearing 1.55 meters. She attributes her success to her team and the effort everyone puts in.
“I put a lot of work into the off season, especially this year. Knowing it is your last year gives you an extra drive,” Harmon said. “However, our team is really dedicated this year, even more so than we have been in the past. When you see a drive in others, it pushes you too.”
Harmon also referenced the success of the new freshmen on the team, who did not disappoint this weekend. Freshman Taylor Brandstatter had a runner-up finish in the 600-meter run. Additionally freshman, Heather O’Brien placed third in the mile run.
On the men’s side, junior Kyle Mackey continued his suc-cess with a second-place showing in the pole vault event.
As a senior and captain, Harmon has high hopes for her final season. She says their hard work will serve them well.
“Our team is really dedicated this year, even more so than we have been in the past,” Harmon said. “When you see a drive in others, it pushes you too.”
Men’s and women’s head coach Kori Stoffregen says the team is in a good place at this time.
“We are getting better every week; this week was much better than the first week,” Stoffregen said.
Stoffregen says that both the men’s and women’s team are busy preparing for the upcoming conference meet.
“Conference is three weeks away and we are just trying to get in shape for that. We are trying to add a little bit of work each week,” Stoffregen said. “Hopefully the athletes can handle the extra work and stay healthy. We will just take it one week at a time.”
Overall, both Stoffregen and Harmon have high hopes for DePauw.
“We have a great team and the new members are extreme-ly talented. If we stay with the set up we have right now, we will do very well come conference time,” Harmon said.
“We are definitely in a good place,” Stoffregen said. “If we can keep everybody healthy and doing their events, we’ll have a good season.”
The conference meet will take place at Wooster College, beginning on Friday, Feb. 23.
Teams tested in second indoor meet of season
TRACK AND FIELD
By CAITLYN [email protected]
Oberlin College never stood a chance against the undefeated Tigers. The women’s basketball team dropped the Yeowomen 71-46 to
maintain their pristine 23-0, 14-0 record. The team donned their pink uniforms this week to raise money for breast cancer awareness in front of one of the largest crowds of the season. Oberlin fell to 8-16 (3-12) on the season,
“Even though the game was close at the beginning, Coach Huffman made the right adjustments so that we could take off and get a good lead,” junior Ali Ross said about the game’s tight beginning.
The team really turned it around though, only allowing Oberlin to lead once and closing out the first half with a 41-24 lead.
At the beginning of the second half the Yeowomen charged for the lead, coming within 15 points of the Tigers’ score. The team held it together though, scoring the next 13 points.
“I think we played with a lot of energy on Saturday,” Ross said. The team truly lived up to her description, with 11 players register-
ing a point and 13 players getting at least one rebound. Head Coach Kris Huffman has been quoted saying, “Our balance and depth is still
one of our strengths.” The performance against Oberlin definitely proves this fact.
Ellie Pearson led the team in rebounds, collecting 11 points, mark-ing her fifth double-digit performance this year. The team also showed an impressive defensive front. The team forced Oberlin into 19 turn-overs and snagged 15 steals. Though Oberlin’s Christina Marquette is the NCAC’s second-leading scorer, the Tigers held her at four points below her average.
This makes for an impressive fourth-straight season in a row that the team has claimed at least 23 victories. The team is also boasting its eleventh straight week at the top of the Women’s Div. III basketball rankings on d3hoops.com as well as remaining at the top according the USA Today’s coaches poll.
“It is very exciting to be ranked number one and I think that the our team has handled the pressure well. There is a huge target on our back, which doesn’t allow us to let up in any game,” Ross said. “We have done a great job of preparing for each team as if we were playing a top ranked team. It’s important we to make sure we don’t get into a lull and stay energized for every game so that we can be ready for the tournament.”
This week the team goes into the last of its regular season games and will play away at Wittenberg on Wednesday.
Women’s basketball still on top after easy win
Senior Ellie Pearson gets the breakaway and sinks the layup putting DePauw one point closer to their 71-46 win in Saturday’s home game against Oberlin. The Tigers wore pink jerseys to support breast cancer awareness. STEPHANIE AANENSON/THE DEPAUW