THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER FOR DRAKE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1884
THE TIMES-DELPHIC DES MOINES, IOWA | THURSDAY, MAY 5, 2011 | VOL. 130, NO. 43 | WWW.TIMESDELPHIC.COM
T-minus nine days Undergraduate commencement ceremony is May 14
Last two weeks for Student Senate busy ones
WHEN: May 14, at 10 a.m. Doors will open at 8:30 a.m. Graduates must check in at the Bell Center gym by 9:15 a.m., and instructions and announcements for the processional and recessional will be at 9:30 a.m. WHERE: The Knapp Center LUNCH: All graduates and families are invited to the Commencement Lunch at Quad Creek Café. Tickets are $6.25 in advance and $7.25 at the door.
illustration by Drew Albinson Staff Illustrator
BSC funds debated, organizations approved, $4,248.80 allocated
The Royal Intern
by Sean Walsh
Junior’s study abroad internship gets him up close and personal with William and Kate by Matt Nelson
Relays Editor matthew.nelson@drake.edu
Drake junior Oliver Housman found out he would be covering the Royal Wedding for Fox News less than a day before the event. “My boss calls me Thursday night, and says, ‘Hey, I got you a pass,’” Housman said. “I got there at 6:30 a.m. (the next day).” Housman, who is currently studying abroad in London, ended up spending 15 hours on location. He recently completed an internship for Prime Television, an equipment rental company that rents out cameras and microphones to interested studios. At the wedding, Prime Television was contracted out with Fox News. Housman assisted in helping set up equipment, including cameras and tripods, and brought sandwiches and drinks to hungry crew members. Housman said he didn’t want to pass up the opportunity, however last-minute it may have
been. “It looks great on the resume,” he said. “You get in-the-field experience that not too many people are going to be able to have.” Housman said there were some technical difficulties with the shoot. Technicians organized a “pool feed,” which is a collection of wedding footage. At times, the pool feed didn’t always flow correctly, which Housman said was “stressful.” Housman said he was about 100 yards away from the balcony when Prince William and Kate Middleton emerged, and he saw them when they kissed. “(People were) pretty happy,” Housman said. “Some guy had a vuvuzela — yeah, it was really weird. But there was a lot of cheering… The crowd was calling for a second kiss, which the royal couple obliged.” Although American media reports have criticized the duration of the kiss, Housman said the British people seemed
Candidates for sexual violence response visit campus by Lizzie Pine
overlooking Buckingham Palace before the Royal Wedding.
satisfied with it. “It was more than a peck, but less than a kiss,” Housman said. “When you have a royal couple and everyone is calling for a kiss, you’re not going to complain.” Housman said that Prime Television had 16 cameras covering the event, and he wasn’t sure how many people from Fox were working. “It’s a huge logistical
We hope this person will make a new culture of education about the topic and hopefully make Drake a better place. -Sentwali Bakari
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A year ago the Task Force met to recommend the position, President Maxwell provided the funding and the search committee was formed. They didn’t want to jump into anything, Dean of Students Sentwali Bakari said. “We wanted to be clear about what they would be doing and how they would deal with these cases,” Bakari said.
operation,” he said. Housman said his experience at Drake and interactions with Todd Evans and John Lytle, both professors of journalism, had prepared him well for the event. “Obviously there’s some stuff that you can’t prepare for,” Housman said. “But when a situation did arise, stuff was really familiar because of the work I’ve done at Drake.”
Current Deputy Provost to assume interim position
On April 26, Drake announced the appointment of Susan Wright as the interim provost. Wright was selected to move from her current position as deputy provost to the new post after Provost Michael Renner announced his resignation effective May 31. Beginning June 1, Wright will assume all responsibilities of the provost, said President David Maxwell. Other faculty members will be assuming different or new roles as well. Dean of the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Raylene Rospond will serve parttime as deputy provost. Keith Summerville, associate dean of Arts & Sciences and associate professor of environmental science, will be co-chair, along with Rospond and former Provost and Senior Counselor for International Initiatives Ron Troyer, of the Strategic Planning Initiative being formed to guide the university through its next planning cycle. Maxwell sent an email to all university students and staff last week saying he was “confident that we have an academic administration leadership team — including Vice Provost Wanda Everage, Associate Provost Art Sanders and the Deans’ Council — that offers both considerable experience and expertise and new perspectives as we move forward.” As a part of her new post, Wright said she would continue to manage many of the responsibilities she’s already held as deputy provost. “Some areas won’t be a lot different; I’ll continue to do quite a bit of what I have
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During the past two weeks, Student Senate has been hard at work closing out the 24th session of the governing student body. On April 21, Sen. Michael Riebel proposed a separation of the Student Activity Fee to take out the 27 percent Board of Student Communications budget. Journalism Sen. Rachel Kauffold read a letter from Kathleen Richardson, the director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, encouraging senators not to separate the BSC budget from the Student Activity Fee because it would require student publications to request for a raise in funding from Senate in the future. Most senators were in consensus, arguing that the BSC budget is still student funds, and therefore should be regulated by Student Senate. “Fundamentally it does not make sense to give up power we already have,” Vice President of Student Activities Greg Larson said. The resolution passed with all senators voting in favor except Sen. Kauffold. Senate also voted to pass a resolution presented at last week’s meeting to raise the Student Activity Fee $7. The raise, if approved by the Board of Trustees, would not go into effect until the 2012-2013 academic year. In terms of allocations, Senate gave $3,225 during the meeting to send three delegates to the LeaderShape Institute Conference during the summer. During the April 28, meeting Senate allocated $1,023.80 to the Drake Ultimate Frisbee Club to cover registration and transportation costs for the USA Ultimate Regional Tournament in Appleton, Wis., on April 30. On April 21,w Tom’s Campus club was recognized as a student organization. The organization aims to educate and do outreach
SEE SENATE, PAGE 2
Sue Wright will take on role beginning June 1 until Renner’s successor is found News Editor ann.schnoebelen@drake.edu
What takes longer than creating a new position in the administration and finding a qualified candidate for it? Saying the position’s title. The new staff member, the coordinator for sexual violence response and healthy relationship promotion, will assume his or her role in the fall. The creation of the position stems from a recommendation from Drake’s Alcohol Task Force. The Task Force is interviewing two candidates this week: Carrie Giese and Indira Blasevic.
SEE TASK FORCE, PAGE 2
photo courtesy of OLIVER HOUSMAN
OLIVER HOUSMAN sat in the Fox New Studio on the edge of Green Park
by Ann Schnoebelen
Editor-in-Chief elizabeth.pine@drake.edu
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Staff Writer sean.walsh@drake.edu
been doing,” she said. “There will be a lot of different meetings and I’ll be working more with the president to ensure there’s support for him and backup in terms of taking care of the entire academic division.” She is beginning to meet with various administrators and divisions to decide which duties she’ll have to reassign. She said she was not hesitant to accept the position. “I think there’s a need to have someone there who has some experience and knowledge of a lot of the areas of the academic division,” she said. “I was glad to be able to do what I can to help things move forward during the next year.” After Renner’s successor assumes the provost’s responsibilities, Wright said she will try to balance playing a role in his or her transition process with her retirement plans. “I’m going to be flexible and see what the new provost would want, or what the president would suggest is an appropriate role at the time and how it affects my desire to retire in the not-so-distant future,” she said. Maxwell said Drake will use a search consultant firm to seek applicants for the position. This strategy helps the university find people who may not be looking for a new job but who would be strong candidates, and allows the firm to handle a bulk of the search’s preliminary workload. “A search consultant will manage all of that because it’s an awful lot of work,” Maxwell said. “You don’t want to say to a search committee that consists of faculty, students and staff, ‘On top of everything else you do, you’ve got to manage correspondence with 140 people.’” The new provost is expected to begin work in June 2012.
>>MEETINGS IN BRIEF APPROVED: Community Outreach Committee to help outside of the Drake Community $3,225 allocated to send three delegates to the LeaderShape Institute Conference over the summer $1023.80 allocated to the Drake Ultimate Frisbee Club to cover costs for its Regional Tournament RECOGNIZED: Tom’s Campus Club to help reach out to poverty stricken children in Africa PASSED: Resolution to raise the Student Activity Fee by $7
>>WHAT’S NEXT SENATORS for the 25th session of the Drake Student Senate will gather around the table for their first meeting tonight at 9 p.m. in Drake Room in Upper Olmsted.
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