THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2015 VOL. 67, ISSUE 9

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Newman soccer player proposes on fieldBy ALYSSA TAYLORStaff Writer

Senior soccer player Kevin Crafton not only won his home soccer game on Oct. 17, but he also won the girl of his dreams for the rest of his life.

Crafton and senior Rachael Schoonover met five years ago when they were traveling to Colorado with their high school cross country team.

“We went to the same high school for two years without knowing each other,” Crafton said. “I knew that I wanted to marry her after about nine months of dating. We had already been through a lot together but we just needed to mature more as people and a couple before we went any further in our relationship.”

Crafton knew he was going to pro-pose at the game a month prior and ran the idea by his coach for approval

before he began planning the event.Crafton told Schoonover to dress

up for the soccer game, which she said kind-of hinted that he was up to some-thing. When she arrived at the game, just like everybody else who attended the game that day, she was given a raf-fle ticket to win a soccer ball.

Little did she know, Crafton had al-ready rigged the raffle in her favor.

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Senior women’s soccer player Bian-ca Torres was removed from the New-man team due to misconduct, Athletic Director and Vice President for Stu-dent Affairs Vic Trilli said.

Torres, who had played for New-man since her freshman season, was a starting defender.

“There was an incident and because of that, from an athletic point of view, she lost her privilege to be a member of an athletic team,” Trilli said.

Although Trilli said the details of the incident could not be discussed, he did say the decision to remove Torres from the team was final.

“We made our decision early on, as far as her participation on the team went,” Trilli said. “That’s how that was handled. Anything else that has gone down has gone to the conduct board we have here on campus.”

Trilli said there has been a hearing on the incident and that, though he is unsure what step in the process the sit-uation is currently at, he is fairly confi-dent Torres is appealing the results of the hearing.

Torres did not respond to requests for an interview.

Dean of Students Levi Esses is the conduct officer that oversees various final decisions of the conduct board.

Esses said he cannot comment on specific cases, but did say there has

Women’s soccer player removed from roster

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SENIOR SOCCER PLAYER Kevin Crafton gets down on one knee to pop the question to his then girlfriend Rachael Schoonover before the soccer game on Oct. 17. Newman University, Courtesy Photo

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Semesterly Town Hall meeting covers gamut of issues

By JOHN DENNYEditor-in-Chief

Students hoping to get a shortened class schedule for two Holy Days of Obligation learned at Tuesday’s bian-nual Town Hall Meeting that that was not going to happen.

President Noreen Carrocci gave her reasons for dismissing the proposed schedule change at the meeting, where students were given the opportunity to ask questions and discuss campus issues with Carrocci and her Cabinet: Provost Michael Austin, Vice President for Finance and Administration Jen-nifer Gantz, Vice President for Univer-sity Advancement J.V. Johnston, Vice President for Enrollment Management Norm Jones, and Vice President for Student Affairs Vic Trilli.

This is not the first time the ques-tion over shortened classes for Holy Days of Obligation has been brought up. The Student Government Asso-ciation adopted a resolution asking for shortened classes to accommodate Holy Days earlier in the year, said SGA President Brandon Gollhofer.

“This year, we did ask that they shorten the class schedule for Holy Days of Obligation, they said ‘no’ to that,” Gollhofer said.

Carrocci elaborated on their rea-

sons for denying the proposal at the Town Hall Meeting, saying that stu-dents have ample opportunity to at-tend mass at St. John’s Chapel on those days, or at the Chapel of the New Cov-enant at the ASC Center, and that pro-fessors would not like to have their class schedules shortened.

“We think there are enough options for students who wish to attend mass on Holy Days of Obligation,” Carrocci said. “Faculty regard their class time

PROPOSAAAAAAL!!!

Cabinet touches on Holy Days, student wage increases, NSP courses

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Annual Boo Bash wraps up Halloweek

The final event of CAB’s Halloweek, Boo Bash, is at 7 p.m. tonight in the base-ment of Sacred Heart.

Activities will include a zombie-hospital themed haunted house, a game show, various Halloween-themed games such as bob-bing for apples, a DJ booth and dance area, and free snacks.

Boo Bash is free to all Newman students.

Art Week balloon and dart painting

As a part of Art Club’s Art Week, there will be a balloon and dart paint-ing event held at 6:30 p.m. tonight in De Mattias room 170.

This free event allows students to come and throw darts at paint-filled bal-loons to make unique and fun paint creations.

only been one hearing of the board since he filled the position in January.

“Consequences from hearings can be anything from a written warning to reimbursement for damages to disci-plinary probation to suspension,” Es-ses said.

There are no distinctly defined situ-ations that result in suspension, Esses said.

“It’s not clear-cut in terms of ‘You do this, you get suspended’,” he said. “Because in an educational institution we have to look at everything.”

Esses said his main job is to educate students that their actions have conse-quences.

“We have to hold each other ac-countable based on our Newman code,” he said. “So, it’s not the most fun job in the world. It’s not. But that’s the way we learn in college.”

Esses said his approach has always been less about the sanctions and more about making sure the student learns from the experience.

If a student has a conduct board hearing, they have the right to appeal the board’s decision, Provost Michael Austin said.

“If it’s an academic sanction, if it is something to do with suspension or

expulsion, it comes through me,” Aus-tin said. “If it’s a fine or another disci-plinary sanction, it would go through Vic Trilli.”

If a student has a conduct violation that is of a certain level of severity, it is presented to the campus conduct board, which is made up of faculty, staff and students who have been spe-cially trained in student conduct, Aus-

tin said. The board then conducts an investigation and various interviews, then turns its findings over to the Dean of Students and the Dean ulti-mately determines the sanction.

Austin said he is unable to talk about any conduct hearing or results, stating that it is “privileged, confiden-tial information.”

Trilli said situations like this have occurred many times before in his 43 years of working in athletics.

“Every time you have 300 student athletes, you’re going to have issues that come up,” Trilli said.

Although these events aren’t rare, Trilli said they do still impact the team.

“There’s no doubt it affects the team,” he said. “I mean, if somebody gets sick or has a cold it affects the team. There are so many factors that lead into a team, let alone something as impactful as this situation.”

Trilli said he understands these in-cidents are tough, but that Torres had been handling it well.

“She’s been up front about every-thing. She’s been awesome for me to deal with,” he said. “Obviously, you know, mistakes were made. That hap-pens all the time. That’s what you want to limit. You want to work on cut-ting down your mistakes while you’re playing whatever sport it is you play. The same thing is true about your con-duct and about anything in life. The more you cut down your mistakes, the better the opportunities for success.”

“When people are good enough to step up and take ownership of that, I’m pretty proud of them. And [Tor-res] did that from the word ‘go’ and it hasn’t been easy.”

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‘Spooky’ Joe Improv show and costume contest

The Sloppy Joe Improv troupe will be hosting a Halloween-themed show at 7 p.m. Friday in Jabara Blackbox Theatre.

Various prizes will be awarded for the costume contest. The event is free for all students.

as precious. They do not want [the schedule] shortened very often.”

She went on to say that the Cabi-net’s decision does not diminish New-man’s Catholic identity in any way, and that most Catholic universities do not give these days off.

“It is not a common practice at any Catholic university to do that,” Car-rocci said.

Meeting attendee Tyler Winslow commented that both Catholic Univer-sity of America in Washington, D.C. and Benedictine College both give stu-dents Holy Days off.

Carrocci responded that there are over 200 Catholic colleges and she has served at four and it is a very rare oc-currence that students at these univer-sities receive Holy Days off.

Many students in attendance also raised objections to Carrocci’s deci-sion, though she did not budge in her stance.

“I’m not going to do that. I’m sorry. We would not be in the mainstream, I can assure you. There may be a few that do, but that’s not Newman,” she said.

Some other topics that were dis-cussed included problems with NSP courses, more transparency within the administration, campus security concerns, a proposed increase to stu-dent-worker minimum wage, and the never-ending problems with parking.

This semester’s complaint about the Newman Studies Program strayed from the usual groan that the program is useless and instead had to do with certain “philosophy-rich” NSP cours-es that are required to graduate along with the other NSP requirements.

According to the 2014-15 Newman Course Catalog, “Courses labeled NSP 4153, 4353, or 4553 are generally taught or co-taught by a Philosophy instructor. Each student must com-plete at least one of these courses.”

Many students at the Town Hall Meeting complained that their advi-sors did not tell them about these spe-cific philosophy NSP requirements, and that they may have to take an extra course to make up for it, or it could even keep them from graduat-ing when they planned.

Austin said they train advisors fair-ly regularly on requirements such as this, and that it is an on-going process.

“If you do have an issue with that, come and talk to me we’ll see if there’s any way we can avoid you having to take an extra class,” he said. “That is something advisors should be telling you and we’re training them to do that.”

Though students voiced many con-cerns at the meeting, not all was bad news. One administrative decision that may make students happy is the potential for an increase for student-

worker minimum wage that is cur-rently being researched by Gantz to determine if it is economically feasible for the university. Also, Gantz said they are working on creating an online payroll system for student-workers, so they no longer have to fill out paper forms and turn them into the business office.

Students say they left the meeting with mixed feelings: They were hap-py that they got to ask many of their questions, but not always happy with the answers they got.

Senior Jared Ojile said he heard some questions he had never heard at Town Hall Meetings before includ-ing a comment that simply read, “Stop making people take InfoLit,” and a question about the potential for New-man students to start a Gay-Straight Alliance club. Carrocci and Austin said there should not be a problem with students starting such a club, as long as it fit with “Catholic teachings.”

“We are willing to consider that, but it would have to be in a way that is consistent with Catholic theology, be-cause that is something that the Catho-lic church has a lot to say about,” Aus-tin said.

Look for a link to University Ad-vancement’s video of the entire Town Hall Meeting at newmanvantage.com and on the Vantage Facebook page.

“We have to hold each other accountable based on our Newman Code.”

LEVI ESSES

Becca Kopper is just a regular New-man sophomore, except in between balancing classes and a social life; she can break a board with her bare hands like it’s no big deal.

Kopper chose to come to Newman because of its small size and Chris-tian atmosphere. She is a psychology and criminal justice major, a member of the Psychology and Justice League clubs, a regular volunteer for the Hu-mane Society and taekwondo expert on the side. Taekwondo is a mash up of three Korean fighting styles: taek-kyeon, gwonbeop, and subak.

Kopper is a black belt, which is the highest-ranking level of expertise achievable in the martial art.

Kopper started taekwondo when she was five years old as a result of her older sister taking up the sport.

“My older sister was in it, and that’s what kept me with it for awhile. But as I got older, and she started doing other things, it just became a constant in my life, and I loved the people I met, and the family I created within it,” Kopper said.

One of the many reasons why Becca is passionate about taekwondo is the confidence she has gained within her-self as a result of her training in the martial art. Because the sport is so physically and mentally challenging she is always being pushed to her lim-its, Kopper said.

Becca also relates the five tenants of taekwondo to her everyday life: cour-tesy, self control, integrity, persever-ance and an indomitable spirit.

She believes taekwondo is a good sport for people to take up, depending on what they want to get out of it.

Kopper also recently put on an event on Newman’s campus that al-

lowed students to take a look into the work of taekwondo.

The Campus Activities Board teamed up with Kopper to hold an event on Monday called “Taekwondo Takedowns”.

Students were welcome to come to the gym and learn some basic taek-wondo-based self-defense moves from Kopper. They were taught a handful of moves, allowed to practice kicks and even given the opportunity to try and kick a board in half at the end of the event.

Kopper said she had a lot of fun during the event and loved having the opportunity to share her knowledge with her fellow students.

“There is so much you can learn from it that carries over to your daily life. For instance, it’s a great way to be active, or be with your family or friends. It also works on focus and dis-cipline,” said Kopper.

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By RACHEL ADDUCCIStaff Writer

BECCA KOPPER instructs students how to break a board during CAB’s Taekwondo Takedown event. Hank Griggs, Photo Editor

By LAUREN SPENCERStaff Writer

Ordinary student, extraordinary hobby

Dr. Susan Crane-Laracuente, as-sociate professor of English, was selected as one of the 2015 Kansas Independent College Association Faculty of Distinction. This award was given to sixteen professors who have demonstrat-ed excellence and achievement in their respective fields.

On Sept. 17th, Dr. Crane came across a strange email in her inbox notifying her that she had won an award. The reason this email struck her as a tad peculiar was because she had not applied for any awards. She said she read later in the email that provost Dr. Michael Austin nominated Dr. Crane for this award of distinction. In the email, she also read that the reason she was nomi-nated was because of her excellent achievements and contributions to Newman University.

“At first I didn’t know what was happening. I thought, ‘What award?’ I read the email several times because I was confused,” Crane said. She said she felt both shock and gratitude after reading the email. As one of the recipients of this award, Crane will be attending a workshop with other KICA Facul-ty of Distinction from eighteen other colleges and universities in Kansas.

Dr. Crane said she feels honored to be a recipient of such an award and stated, “I’m glad I can represent the NU faculty, because I think this award is one for the team. Many of my colleagues deserved this award, because all I did was get up every morning and go to work.”

Dr. Crane had some advice to share for anyone else pursuing an award of recognition of a similar kind, but feels like it is just out of reach. “Don’t find the idea of an award unreachable because some-times things emerge without you even knowing.

Crane receives recognition

Student relates taekwondo tenants to life

Susan Crane-Laracuente

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2015 A&E 4

Jones Street: A haunt with all the bells and whistles

I’ve been to a lot of haunted houses this year – obviously.

I’ve been to indoor haunts, outdoor haunts, and a haunt in a greenhouse.

The one thing I hadn’t been to and didn’t really expect to go to this year was a haunt in someone’s backyard.

When I was buying last-minute Halloween costume supplies at Party City earlier last week, I saw a flyer for “Nightmares on Jones Street” that looked super sketchy.

So, of course, I decided I had to to find it.

The haunt is located on the south side of town on the corner of Jones

street in a backyard. We walked from the front of the house to the back where there was plenty of atmosphere and scary music amidst simulated chainsaws and screams for help.

Oddly enough, this was incredibly intimidating. Logically, these peo-ple weren’t threatening. They were a group of friends and family who en-joyed scaring people. But at the same time, what if they were a crazy group of friends and family who enjoyed MURDERING people?

Obviously the latter wasn’t true be-cause I’m alive and typing.

But the atmosphere cinched it for me. I was freaked out from the mo-ment we pulled in. It was a quick haunt, but it pretty much covered eve-

rything stereotypically scary.There was a girl with a doll who

opened the haunt and motioned us forward through a maze lined mostly with black tarp. The whole haunt – al-though it took about six minutes or so to go through it – felt a lot longer than it was because it was structured like a maze. At one point it would wind left and at another it would wind right.

It played a lot on phobic and clas-sic scares. There were clowns, creepy dolls, mass murderers, a guy with a chainsaw, and claustrophobic and ex-treme dark experiences.

It was obviously very low budget, but for low budget, it was better than some others I’ve been to this year. And it was in someone’s backyard.

Nightmares is a good place to go if you want a quick, cheap source of entertainment. I don’t think by any means that it’s the best in town, (I’m still team Wicked Woods all the way) but I think that for a family who “just likes scaring people,” they did a pretty damn good job at doing just that.

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devilish detailswhat: Nightmares on Jones Street

when: 8 p.m. to midnight, Thurs. - Sat.

where: 5602 S Jones St.

how much: $12, or $10 if you like and share their Facebook page

Halloween is almost here. And for most that means scary movies and haunted houses. For others it means dressing up and eat-ing candy. However for me it means I can break out the best song of the year. Maybe even one of the best songs in existence. But before I share that here’s an entire Top 5 of Hal-loween Songs that should be on any Halloween Party Playlist. In descend-ing order.

No. 5: “Witch Doctor” by Alvin and the Chipmunks

This makes the list mostly because

no holiday is complete without a song pitched up to sound like the infamous trio of Alvin, Simon, and Theodore. This song in particularly gets stuck in your head, has a catchy dance beat, and is about spooky magic making you fall in love. It’s perfect for any Halloween playlist. Especially be-cause everyone can start trying out their chipmunk voices and falsetto is funny in most situations.

No. 4: “Ghostbusters” by Ray Parker Jr.

A classic and catchy scary tune, this drum filled song is undeniably one song everyone knows the words too. Using the concept and created for the cult-classic 1984 movie of the same name, this song is already on your Halloween playlist. And if it isn’t it should be. (Side-note: this song is in Rock Band 2 and I almost got 100 percent playing it on the drums.)

No. 3: “The Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers

I love this song. And you should too. A song from the 1960s, it’s catchy, creepy, and so delightfully retro that it’s an instant Halloween classic. It tells the tale of a mad scientist ac-cidentally starting a haunted house party in his mansion with every iconic movie monster present. Awwoooooo!

No. 2: “Thriller” by Michael Jack-son

With one of the most iconic music videos in music history and dance moves that you do in your sleep, “Thriller” is guaranteed to make all the ghosts and ghouls at your party get up and shake their pumpkins. Or just spin around and make Michael Jackson noises. Either way, when making a Halloween mix, this song is at the apex of the evening.

No. 1: “Spooky Scary Skeletons” by Andrew Gold.

Actually I’m convinced this song wasn’t created. It was born. Born out of your nightmares. Born out of your fears. Born into this plane of existence to be the most catchy, annoying, yet incredibly delightful Halloween Jam. It utilizes xylophones and alliteration to seep it’s way into your psyche to make you look forward to the month of October, when it’s acceptable to blast this song in your car. Or, if you’re feeling adventurous, there’s a great dubstep remix of this song as well. Look either of them up. And you’ll be ready for Halloween.

Honorable Mentions are: “One Eyed, One Horn, Flying Purple Peo-ple Eater,” the “Halloween (Michael Myers) Theme Song,” and anything by Meghan Trainor. Because I’m con-vinced she’s a banshee.

Top five spooky songs to help you get your spook onBy JUSTIN RALPHSenior Columnist

Justin Ralph

Spoopy!

sportsTHURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2015

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MEN’S SOCCER (9-6-1) WOMEN’S SOCCER (4-8-2)

PAST GAMESOct. 22at St. Mary’s, L 0-2

Oct. 25at Texas A&M International, W 2-1

UPCOMING GAMESTonight at 5 p.m.at Rogers State

Saturday at noonat Oklahoma Christian

PAST GAMESOct. 22at St. Mary’s, L 0-3 Oct. 25at Texas A&M International, W 3-2

UPCOMING GAMESTonight at 7:30 p.m.at Rogers State

Saturday at 2:30 p.m.at Oklahoma Christian

this week in sports...PAST GAMESOct. 24vs. Lubbock Christian, W 3-2

Oct. 24vs. Tarleton State, W 3-2 UPCOMING GAMESTonight at 7 p.m.at St. Edward’s

Saturday at noonat Dallas Baptist

PAST RACESOct. 24at Heartland Conference ChampionshipsMen: 3rdWomen: 7th

UPCOMING GAMESSaturday, Nov. 7at NCAA RegionalCanyon, Texas

VOLLEYBALL (17-6) CROSS COUNTRY

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Men’s, women’s bowling strike early successThree tournaments show signs of promise for bowling program

probably have ever been,” Murphy said.

The men’s program opened its 2015-2016 season with an 18th place finish at the Midwest Collegiate on Oct. 3 and 4 in Milwaukee. This tour-nament is one of the largest that the men will compete in, and the results are better than what the numbers show.

“I mean it was in a field of 42 teams,” Murphy said. “So the big picture it’s not that bad because there was probably 25 to 30 teams in the top 40 in the country, so 18th really isn’t awful but it’s not just what our expectation is.”

Additionally, the men finished 6th at the Midstates Championship here in Wichita on Oct. 10 and 11 and also 7th at the Sandhills Classic in Lincoln, Neb. on Oct. 17 and 18.

The women’s team opened the year finishing 8th at the Midwest Colle-giate, then followed with a 5th place finish at the Midstates Championship and a 2nd place finish at the Sandhills Classic.

Senior Trevor Baumgartner, who has a 15 game average of 204.33, leads the men’s team. He averaged 213.83 at the Midwest Collegiate and 198.0 at

the Midstates Championship.Leadership is one characteristic

Coach Murphy emphasized about Baumgartner.

“I think the ones that have been here awhile help the new ones make their adjustments and help them become the best player possible,” Murphy said.

On the women’s side, sophomore Kelly Machacek leads the team with a 15 game average of 189.4. She aver-aged a score of 192.0 at the Midwest Collegiate and 187.67 at the Midstates Championship.

“This year the girls’ team is strong-er than ever since we didn’t lose any seniors last year,” Machacek said. “Adding a talented group of freshmen to the mix gives us more of an edge this year to be highly competitive.”

Despite only three competitions into the season, Machacek is hopeful for the rest of the year.

“Being only part way into the season, we have multiple opportuni-ties coming up to surpass that success from last year,” Machacek said.

Both the men’s and women’s team travels to St. Louis to take place in the Lions Classic this weekend.

have made the postseason the previ-ous 12 years.

Some of the best challenges a coach could hope for have presented them-selves to Coach Murphy this year, one of which is a deep and talented roster.

“The funny thing is that I think we are deeper on both the men and the women’s teams this year than we

The Newman University bowling program has been widely regarded as one of the top in the nation. Through continuous success under the leader-ship of head coach, Billy Murphy, the men’s and women’s bowling teams

FRESHMAN NICOLE EDWARDS, practices with the women’s team. The women have had a strong start to the 2015-2016 season. Hank Griggs, Photo Editor

By KYLE MAZZA Staff Writer

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2015 SPORTS 6

Question of the WeekWho will win the World Series?

“Mets, because I’m bitter about the Royals beating the Jays.”

Junior Middleton

“The Royals. They never give up. They have more fight than any team out there and they play the game right all the time.”

Nick

“Royals. 1738.”

“Haha, I don’t know anything about base-ball.”

“Royals. I’ve cheered for them since I wasa a little girl and I think they’re legimately the better team. Offensive-ly and defensively.”

Junior DeDominicisStefan

Junior ThompsonPaige

Senior Vilas BoasBeni

Junior MannisTaylor

numbers for the winning raffle ticket and Crafton’s plan began to unfold.

However, little did he know that the entire event was almost spoiled.

“I almost lost the ticket,” Schoono-

ver said. “I didn’t know what the first four numbers were. I just heard the last three numbers and I was like, ‘I think that’s me.’ Then his brother was like, ‘Yes that’s you. Go!’”

When Schoonover made her way down to the field, Crafton was wait-

ing for her alongside several of his teammates holding the soccer ball she had just won in his hands. Written in red rhinestones on the ball were the words “Will You Marry Me?”

“I cried.” Schoonover said. “But I had kind of known something was up

that day.”The two are undecided on an exact

wedding date but say that it will take place sometime in 2017.

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Former N.Y. Jets intern turned NU Jets trainerFirst year graduate student serves in athletic training room

On the east end of De Mattias hall sits the Newman Athletic Training room, filled with it’s two full-time athletic trainers, undergrad athletic training students and any number of NU athletes.

However, this year, there’s one more person working in the train-ing room: first year graduate student Kelsey Riefenhauser.

Riefenhauser, who completed her undergrad at Courtland University in upstate New York, is Newman’s first-ever Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer.

Riefenhauser, 22, is originally from Hainesport, N.J. but ended up at Newman for her graduate studies because it was the best fit and the best offer, she said.

Riefenhauser is a certified athletic trainer and has had some unique ex-

periences in the athletic training field before coming to Newman.

“The summer before my senior year at Courtland I got an internship with the New York Jets,” Riefenhaus-er said. “I was one of the three people chosen from my class for the intern-ship.”

Riefenhauser said she put in around 15-hour days, seven days a week, for the span of the 8-week internship.

“I did a lot of the grunt work,” she said. “Cleaning, taping, rehab, driving players around. I’d do about three or four treatments a day, too.”

Riefenhauser said that she gained a lot from the experience, but learned that professional athletic training was not for her.

“You definitely learn that pro train-ing is hard,” she said. “Really hard. It was probably one of the toughest things I’ve done in my life, but it was a great experience. It was cool, I got to meet a lot of people, see a lot of differ-

ent things and see how much money goes into professional sports.”

Riefenhauser said she enjoyed get-ting to interact with NFL athletes and meet some of her favorite athletes.

“It was really cool to meet Eric Decker,” she said. “There were a few people I was a little star struck about, but you had to get over it quick because if they knew you were, you’d get fired in a heartbeat. You just kind of had to suck it up and pretend they weren’t famous.”

Cam Clark, Newman athletic trainer, said Riefenhauser’s internship experience has really made her stand out in the training room.

“Normally, grad assistants have some university experience,” Clark said. “With Kelsey, it’s nice to know she has a professional background and has worked with elite athletes. It makes it an easier transition for her to take care of the collegiate athletes here.”

Clark said that having a gradu-

ate assistant in the training room has helped the trainers and the athletes tremendously.

“It’s probably one of the best things we’ve done,” Clark said. “There’s two of us that cover over 300 athletes and throwing a third certified trainer into the mix has just been so helpful when it comes to the healthcare of our athletes in here.”

Clark said the Riefenhauser cov-ers both the men’s and women’s soccer teams as well as the wrestling team. Riefenhauser works seven days a week and puts in about 40 to 60 hours, he said.

“She’s been great. She came in here and hit the ground running,” Clark said. “We have 100 percent confidence in her and the athletes that she cov-ers.”

Riefenhauser plans to graduate from Newman in the spring of 2017 and wants to go on to work at Rutgers University in her home state of New Jersey.

By DELANEY HIEGARTManaging Editor

I’ve always been a procrastinator. Whether it be writing a paper, study-ing for a test or turning in an assign-ment on Black Board. I always save it until the last minute. So of course, I always wait to figure out a Halloween costume. As a matter of fact, I’ve been Zooey Deschanel for Halloween for the last two years so that I didn’t have to do anything but wear a polka-dot t-shirt and kind of curl my hair.

So for my fellow last-minute-Hallow-een-costume-wear-ers, here’s a quick list of last-minute costumes you can use this year. And if you’re looking for even MORE ideas, check out face-b o o k . c o m / N e w -man360Five today where Jalen Love and I show you the a few of the easiest last-last-minute costumes.

1. A Hot Mess: This one takes dedication. This one

would be for those of you who are re-ally in to method acting – really ‘feel-ing’ the part. Because all you have to do is not shower for a day or two and carry a fan. Look at you, now you’re a mess and also hot.

2. Your Evil Twin:This one is probably the easiest and

the dumbest. But all you need for this costume is a black eyeliner pen. All you have to do is dress as yourself and draw a mustache. Look at you, now you’re evil you.

3. Face Time:This one is one of my favorites and I

actually stole it from one of my favor-ite comedians Grace Helbig. But this one also only takes a black eyeliner pencil. All you have to do is write the word ‘time’ on your face. That’s it. Get it? You’re face time.

4. One Direction:This is another simple, stupid idea.

But all it takes is, you guessed it, a black eyeliner pencil. All you have to do is write one direction of your choice on your face. It could be north, west, east or south. You’ll be the talk of the town.

5. A Millennial: Millennials are the new hipsters.

Have you heard? I just found this out recently. But it makes for a great cos-tume. All you need is a plaid shirt, plastic glasses and a smart phone. And if you’re like me, you just found your new cop-out costume for the next couple years.

Alright. So I have three simple things we can all do as Newman stu-dents to be better students. And this comes from years of watching, partici-pating, and being a Newman Jet.

1. Take your posters down.

The posters at Newman are every-where. Even on Social Media. But the difference between putting a poster up online and slapping it everywhere on campus is, my timeline contin-ues. But the wall in Dugan does not change unless someone physically changes it. Using the walls around campus to promote your events is

great. However, taking up premium advertising space with an old poster or not taking the responsibility to take your poster down after the event is lazy. The job is not complete until everything is cleaned up and that in-cludes your posters. So keep promot-ing your events. But take your posters down.

2. Actually participate.No one is asking you to attend

every single CAB event (except CAB, because they’ll give you prizes if you go to enough events) but there are enough things happening on campus that merit some attention. Heck, there are even things happening online that can help you participate without leaving your dorm. Read the Vantage newsletter. Watch Newman360Five. Actually scroll through Newman

University’s Facebook page. You don’t have to do much to be involved or informed. Next time you’re stuck somewhere scrolling on your phone, instead of mindlessly scrolling Face-book, go learn about your university. Since you are a Newman Jet, you should take some pride.

3. Don’t drive to class if you live on campus.

Just don’t do it. Seriously. A major-ity of students live off-campus or are nontraditional students, and these commuters students should get prior-ity over the students who live on cam-pus. There is no reason that a com-muter student should park behind the Beata Residence Hall to walk to their class in Eck or DeMattias. And the only reason is they do that is students who do live on campus are being

lazy. So don’t be lazy - as a student in general - but specifically walk to class. You moved on campus to be closer to the university. If you wanted to drive and park, don’t waste your money on residence hall living. Plus if you really want a ride to class flag down that student-funded golf cart. Because we definitely needed a golf cart more then a lot of other things (a change machine in every residence hall) so that’s why we got it.

So, students, if you do those three things. Newman will be a better place for all. Because I know the hardwork-ing faculty and staff are reading the Vantage. But if you’re a student read-ing this right now, tweet an insult at me. (@JustNRalph)

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Is Newman still a liberal arts university?Newman University is a Catholic

university named for John Henry Cardinal Newman and founded by the Adorers of the Blood of Christ for the purpose of empowering gradu-ates to transform society.”

I first heard these words from New-man President Noreen Carrocci my first week as a freshman, while attending one of many mandatory orientation meet-ings. At the time, my only thought was, “Wow, I can’t believe she has that memorized.” But after three or so years at this Catholic university named for John Henry Cardinal New-man, I’m starting to think a little more critically about our mission statement (probably because of the NSPs) and whether the university is staying true to it.

I think not.Let me just say before I’m thrown

from the bell tower of Sacred Heart that I love this university and that I

wouldn’t be writing this article if I didn’t. I want to see Newman be all it can be, and that can’t happen unless it becomes all it says it is first.

I’m not saying that we don’t live up to parts of the mission statement. For instance, the name of our univer-sity hasn’t changed (recently), and we still have strong ties to ASCs. But that last part is where I think it gets a little iffy. I don’t believe our purpose is to empower graduates to “transform society.” Or at least it doesn’t feel that way.

Since 1968, the number of all bach-elor’s degrees awarded in the hu-manities disciplines across the United States (those most important to a liberal-arts education) has dropped to 6 percent from a peak at 17 percent. Colleges and universities are moving toward more professional programs -- programs that are “first-job-focused” and less heavy on critical thinking skills that are acquired in disciplines like philosophy, history, and lan-guages.

I don’t know for sure what the plans are for the university for the next couple years, and frankly it won’t really affect me anyway. But

if I were to use some of those critical thinking skills I’ve developed in my humanities-rich courses and I looked at the continuous championing of the nursing, allied health and pre-medical programs in most university advance-ment media, along with the plan to build a brand new science center (which is needed), I would maybe be inclined to think that our university is following the trend toward cutting liberal-arts courses for more vocation-al disciplines.

Some might say that I’m just a sen-sitive English major getting worked up over nothing, and to that I’d say, “Read my poem about how much I hate you.” But seriously, if we are to maintain our liberal-arts status, we cannot turn away from the humani-ties programs that make up the liberal arts. And, sure, sciences could be seen as part of a liberal-arts education, but doing labs, crunching data, and creat-ing reports does not foster the same sort of critical-thinking, empathy, or communication skills that writing in the humanities does. According to a survey of 318 corporate leaders by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, these are exactly the sort

of communication skills and applied knowledge that employers are look-ing for in new hires, in case you were of the opinion that humanities do not pay the bills.

Apparently they do pay the bills, just not in the immediately recog-nizable way that a pre-professional program might.

Degree marketability aside, the humanities and liberal arts are meant to make you a better human, not just a better employee. The problem-solv-ing skills and emotional intuition you develop in humanities courses are the exact traits that can make a person capable of not just getting a job right out of college, but make it possible for them to see and understand the world around them so that they can trans-form it for the better. That is what I think the last part of our mission statement means. Unfortunately, the way things are going we may need to change it to something like “for the purpose of empowering graduates to get a job.”

Not bad. But it doesn’t have the same ring to it.

John Denny

Might need to change the namesake, too.