The Exponent Print Edition: March 22, 2023

Department of Theatre and Dance announces 2023-24 season

By URSULA SAADEH Staff Writer

The BW Department of Theatre and Dance announced its upcoming season on March 2 in Kleist’s Mainstage Theatre with a twist of creative flair.

Students embarked on a scavenger hunt in the theater’s last five rows to find envelopes containing the names of all the upcoming season’s shows. Once found, the students revealed each of the seasons’ plays and dance concerts.

The 2023-24 theater season comprises eight projects: two Spotlight Series plays, two Sketchbook Series plays, two

Lab Series productions and two staged readings to be performed in the Kleist lobby.

These projects include the plays “The Dining Room,” “Sweat,” “The Secret in the Wings,” “Measure for Measure,” “Lobby Hero” and “In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play.” The student directed lab series productions will be “The Laramie Project” and “Bagel High.”

The upcoming dance season includes the fall edition of testing grounds, “Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions,” and two spring testing ground programs.

The first is the annual “Danceworks-in-Progress,”

in which students, faculty and guests present work; the second is “Propulsion,” which is about Gino Severini’s paintings and their connection to genres in street dance.

2024 marks the tenth-year anniversary of “fyoo zh en,” and next year’s concert is entitled “Spatial Proximity.” This production will be in collaboration with assistant professor of zoology Andrew Merwin.

René Copeland, professor of directing and coordinator of the directing program, said that all the plays were decided on by a committee who took a long list of suggestions and cut it down to six shows.

Students unable to vote in the 2022 midterm elections call for more University-backed resources

By ALEX MINYARD Staff Writer

As the May 2 primary and special election is fast approaching, some Baldwin Wallace students who did not vote in the 2022 midterm election said that they may have done so had more Universitybacked support been offered to make transportation, voter education and assistance more accessible.

Junior theatre major Jayden

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Madge said there is a social stigma given to those who did not vote.

Madge, however did not choose to abstain, but found themselves unable to vote in the last midterm election after their transportation on Election Day fell through.

“I have a lot of politically active friends who would say that they could’ve made it work,” Madge said.

Another student who did not vote in the last elections and wished to remain

anonymous told The Exponent that the student’s mail-in absentee ballot didn’t arrive at their dorm in time, even though their county told them multiple times that it would.

While they said that they had every intention of voting, the student said that they felt like their peers would still judge them if it were known that they didn’t vote this year.

In a survey conducted by The Exponent, students

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Copeland said that the committee collected data from fellow colleagues to see what shows they would be interested in directing or what shows they believed students needed to learn. The committee also collected student input through the Theatre Arts and Performance student organization.

“We're looking for the kinds of plays students of theatre should have an opportunity to do,” Copeland said. “We don’t want to do all the same kinds of plays year after year, so we’re trying to… do quite a deep dive into the past history

As Berea judge enters retirement, Democratic nominee seeks to modernize court, address budget

By CHRIS MORAN Staff Writer

Judge Mark A. Comstock, the Berea Municipal Court judge since January 2, 2000, is retiring after his fourth six-year term has concluded, leaving the court which presides over Berea, Brook Park, Middleburg Heights, Olmsted Township, Olmsted Falls, the Metroparks and the Ohio State Highway Patrol. The election to replace

Comstock will be held on Nov.

7. Sean Kilbane, a candidate in the race against Republican contender Michele Lynch, received the Democratic nomination for the seat on March 5.

Kilbane is currently an assistant prosecuting attorney at the Cuyahoga County Prosecutors office. He has spent his legal career in criminal litigation. Kilbane said that he had extensive experience in the court system, including when the process

was backed up during and after the Covid-19 pandemic. “I’ve interacted with 50 to 60 judges countywide. I’ve interacted with multiple defense attorneys, bailiffs, police officers, other prosecutors, and I know the challenges that the criminal justice system faces on a daily basis,” Kilbane said. Kilbane said prior experience is important for someone looking to be a judge.

Beach (volleyball), please!

A new beach volleyball club plans to field both competative and recreational teams, allowing students of all abilities to get in on the action.

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Faculty-led research project explores potential cognitive effects from ACL injuries

By RILEY WEST Contributing Writer

BW professors are collaborating with undergraduate students by researching how people who have had anterior cruciate ligament tears are affected cognitively.

The ACL is a ligament in the knee that is commonly injured especially by athletes. The students will research how people with ACL tears think through things and perform athletic movements.

Psychology and neuroscience professor

Patrick Ledwidge, engineering professor

Jennifer Kadlowec and Allied Health sport and wellness professor Alexander Morgan have a few students from their respective departments that they will mentor throughout the project. Students ranging from first-year students to seniors majoring in engineering, exercise science, pre-athletic training and neuroscience are helping collect and analyze data.

“I think it’s a great opportunity for students to get a chance to see first-hand research,” Morgan said.

Morgan said the project will allow students to "see how the body moves in a new way," and take what is learned into a graduate program.

Reporter's Notebook: Student Government

By KAYLA MURO Staff Writer

On Feb. 28, Student Body President

Matt Perry and Vice President Maree Horne announced at the weekly Student Senate meeting that students can now park in the first row in the Union parking lot after 5 p.m. Students can appeal parking tickets they receive from parking in these spaces going forward. These

The research began during the summer of 2022 and the team is still in the early stages of collecting data. One of the many goals is to identify risk factors and then discover how to prevent an ACL injury.

“For me, it's been great to sort of learn a little bit more of what it's like to be a part of a research group because that is something that in grad school students are going to be doing a lot of, said Justin Blankenburg, a senior majoring in pre-athletic training. Blankenburg will apply his experience in data collecting, biometrics, technology and collaboration when he attends graduate school at Kent State University

parking rules will also apply during the weekends.

The Senate, in collaboration with Perry and Horne, also discussed Baldwin Wallace’s three-year living requirement that was established last semester. The three-year living requirement will not affect current students but will start for the class of 2027 in order to urge students to stay on campus for an extended period of time.

this fall.

For about five to six hours a week, a couple of student researchers help bring in participants and walk them through the tests. Ledwich's lab puts on an electroencephalogram, or EEG, to measure brain wave activity while sitting and doing simple tasks on the computer, in a similar protocol as a concussion test. They repeat this step by making the participant stand on one leg while making the questions more challenging.

Student researchers then go to the engineering lab with Morgan to detect how the participant’s skeleton moves. To do this, they

attach reflective patches onto the participants, use an infrared camera and analyze the results using the software programs OptiTrack and Excel.

“This provides an opportunity for students to access a type of tech that they don't normally get to see,” Morgan said.

The team’s abstract has been accepted into the International Society for Biomechanics and Sport Conference. This summer, the research team will travel to Tennessee to present the feasibility study.

Residence

Life implements

Roomie

allowing students to view 3D scans of rooms

Residence Life partners with software, giving students living on campus in fall of 2023 access to room scans, allowing for a preview of layout plans before August move-in day.

By KATHRYN RAUBOLT Staff Writer

In the upcoming academic year, residential students will be able to view a 3D scan of their room with the ability to move furniture and view the layout before moving in for the fall 2023 semester.

Bob Beyer, senior director of residence life and housing, learned of the software, Roomie, at a conference in the summer of 2022.

“Our department, particularly the website, is lacking in pictures and things to help describe our amenities for students. We have a decent amount, but it could be better,” Beyer said. “Then, I met a company when I was at a conference last summer, Roomie, that said they could offer students a 3D rendering of their room for free.”

Based on Roomie’s estimate, there are about 180 to 190 unique room types across campus. To gather scans of the rooms, blueprints were given to the company allowing Roomie to figure out which rooms needed to be scanned.

“They came into each room, brought a 3D camera and set it on a tripod. It

scans the room, but it’s not really taking a picture of the room; it’s just scanning it and measuring so that they then take that map of the room and create their own model of the room,” Beyer said.

The scans were taken over spring break in order to have it operational by the time incoming first-year students select their rooms in June.

Beyer mentioned that while the software will not be available before returning students select their rooms in the next few weeks, Residence Life is hoping to still be able to give students access when the software is ready over the summer.

“I wanted to get it started in December so that fewer students would be on campus, but we weren’t done yet because I had to send them all of our floor plans,” Beyer said. “There were many steps in the verification process that took longer than expected.”

The software only allows students to view the scans after they are assigned to a room and will not allow students to preview a scan of the room during the selection process itself. However, Res Life hopes to keep planning and working on different ways to allow students more

resources to better select and understand the different rooms and halls on campus as they select their housing for upcoming years.

As of now, once a student is able to view their scan of the room, they will have the option to move the provided furniture around to have a better idea of what they can bring and how they want to set their room’s up.

A marketplace is also available for students to buy additional furniture for their room. However, it is not a requirement to use the service for the University nor the students.

“It’ll be the exact dimensions of the room including closets, windows, etc. And you can move the beds [and furniture] all the way around,” Beyer said.

Current resources are available on eRezLife under resources for students to view a select number of blueprints and videos for this year’s housing selection.

ERezLife is a platform which allows students to fill out forms and select housing and roommates.

With Roomie, students will have greater access to their room before fall, hopefully allowing for a smoother transition.

“It's a really neat product. I’m glad that it's a free service because it is really needed for our students, for parents

of families because they constantly ask us questions about room dimensions and furniture, so this allows you to just look at it yourself,” Beyer said. “We’re very excited to see what this will bring for everyone.”

55 former Yellow Jackets attend alumni luncheon in Arizona mountains Event aimed at establishing connection with some 515 alumni in state

By ELLA YORK Staff Writer

Former BW Yellow Jackets were reunited at an alumni lunch reception held in the mountains of Scottsdale, Ariz. on Feb. 25 to connect and be updated on campus news.

Around 55 alumni attended the luncheon event, where President Bob Helmer updated the former students about recent changes or major additions to campus to help keep them engaged with the university.

“It was mostly an

opportunity for alumni that didn’t know they all lived in Arizona to connect but also to learn more about what’s happening on campus, the new additions, new majors, new buildings, everything like that,” said Joy Wesoloski, BW’s senior philanthropy advisor.

According to Wesoloski, there are about 515 alumni currently residing in Arizona. The local connection doesn’t end there: a BW alum working in the athletic department at Arizona State University recently gave BW students a tour of the university facilities while they were visiting for

the sports management Super Bowl trip, Wesoloski said.

“I met a number of alums who live not too far from me who I had no idea were really in this area,” said Agnes P. Dover, BW’s Board of Trustees Chair who helped organize the event. “So establishing that common connection with them and Arizona, our new state, is also very nice to me. It’s very rewarding and fun.”

According to Dover, maintaining good relations between alumni can help current and former students network for career opportunities. Informing the

alumni on the happenings of the new generation of students also gives insight to what the future will look like.

“We really try to cultivate relationships with all alums so that they feel close to their alma mater,” Dover said.

Holding these events also helps BW financially, as it encourages the former students to give back to their school, said Board of Trustees Vice Chair Lee Thomas who helped host the event.

“We rely tremendously on funding from scholarships, with the annual budget, et cetera,” Thomas said. “So, you

know, as a trustee and even as an alumnus, we want people to share their time, talents and resources, and some of those resources could be money.”

Thomas, an alumnus who will become the Board of Trustees Chair in July, said his own interest in helping his alma mater is what led him to joining the board.

“I graduated from BW, my wife did and [so did] my

VOTING: Students decry lack of accessible information

Continued from page 1 explained why they were unable to vote in the midterm elections.

More than half of the students who filled out the survey claimed that they could not vote because they were not able to get to their polling place in one way or another. A najority of these students said they needed more education on voting as someone not registered in the county they live in for school and called on their universities to supply

them with this information.

Marsita Ferguson, interim director for the Brain Center for Community Engagement, said that the resources that BW offers to students to encourage voting include campaigns that are targeting towards nonvoting students, alternative break trips, tabling to get students registered to vote and events put on by the student organization Jackets Engaged.

“For the students that don’t vote it’s more about barriers and lack of information,”

THEATRE: Students express excitement for production of Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer-winning play 'Sweat'

Continued from page 1 of the last 10 seasons and just kind of see where we need to go from there.”

In their decision-making process, Copeland said the committee considered the diversity within the cast of characters to make sure there will be enough principal roles for women and BIPOC actors. They also took into account diversity among the playwrights.

“We’re trying to engender commitment to diversity in those choices, as well, which is a challenge for all of us because so much of theatre is written by white guys,” Copeland said.

“We’re mindful of that when we’re making those choices.”

One of the shows in the upcoming season is “Sweat,” which is written by two-time Pulitzer winner Lynn Nottage, a Black woman. The director Nathan Henry, who recently directed “Detroit ’67” in the fall, will return BW to guest direct “Sweat,” and shouts of delight reverberated through Mainstage Theatre when this

Ferguson said.

Jackets Engaged is a nonpartisan political engagement team affiliated with the Brain Center. Hannah Dodson, sophomore neuroscience major and the co-student director of Jackets Engaged, said that while it has been difficult to find ways for students to listen to them, information should be more readily available.

“How do we get students to listen to us?” Dodson said “[Voter education] shouldn’t

just be coming from Jackets Engaged.”

One suggestion that Madge made was that colleges should look at what Ohio State University does, which provides discounts on Lyft rides to get to polling places for student voters.

“I wish the university could help supply transportation,” Madge said.

Madge said that this could include a discount on rides or even shuttles to and from polling places on election day.

An alumni reception was held at Brother’s Lounge recently, and the former Yellow Jackets were able to see current BW students in the musical “Ghost” at the Beck Center, Wesoloski said.

“There’s always something going on for alumni to connect with students, to connect with each other and to connect with campus,” Wesoloski said.

JUDGE: workflow top list of priorities for Berea judgeship candidate

Continued from page 1 “I understand these challenges. It's so important to have a judge that understands what the role of a judge is. That’s to be fair and impartial to all sides, be professional to the parties that appear before the court, [and] be efficient with their time,” Kilbane said.

was announced. First-year BFA Acting major Geneva Millikan said “Sweat” was the play she is most looking forward to next season.

“I saw Lynn Nottage speak in my home state a few months ago, and I just love her work, and I can’t wait to see what Nathan Henry does with it,” Millikan said.

Copeland said she is happy that there will be shows in the upcoming season that students are excited for, as well as ones they explicitly asked to perform through their submissions to TAP.

Senior BFA Acting student Emily Polcyn headed the student play selection committee for TAP, and she said that the members on this committee read all the plays that were sent to them, and they picked about three to four plays to send to Copeland for consideration. Of those submissions, the faculty committee chose “In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play” and “The Dining Room.”

Polcyn said that she is looking forward to ‘The Dining Room’ because of its vignette style which will give the students the opportunity to develop different characters.

“I love ‘The Vibrator Play.’ I think it’s such a great fit for the staged reading series because it does have sexual content in it, which can get a little dicey,” Polcyn said. “But it’s such a beautiful story about female empowerment and sexuality and queer relationships.”

Copeland said she encourages everyone to come see the shows they have lined up for this season because the shows do not only provide an educational experience for the students, but they also seek to entertain an audience.

“I think if someone is looking for some really interesting insight [in]to what young theatre artists are interested in and good at, coming to see our season is a good way to do that,” Copeland said. “Just come see what the young actors are up to.”

The judgeship Kilbane is seeking serves a dual purpose. Not only does the Berea Municipal Court judge preside over cases, they also delegate tasks and serve as the court’s chief operator.

“The judge there doesn’t only hear the legal issues, they are also the administrative judge. So, they handle the dayto-day business of the court,” Kibane said.

One significant task at hand for the next judge will be navigating the court’s significant budget deficit over the last few years.

“I believe this year they’re on track to be in the red about $235,000,” Kilbane said.

Kilbane said that if he wins the race, he will update the court’s systems to be more efficient, a major motivation of his campaign.

“I want to bring the Berea court into the 21st century,”

Kilbane said. “A lot of courts around here are still paper and pen courts. I want to integrate new case management systems to make cases move more efficiently through the system.”

Comstock said that at 68 years old, he is the longest serving judge of the court. Echoing Kilbane's sentiment, he said that any court needs to

change and improve over time. “You can’t keep anything forever,” Comstock said. “You’ve got to let the next generation come in and put in what they perceive as advancements and improvements… It's an evolutionary process, and I think it's time to get out of the way.”

Austin Patterson, The Exponent Jeff Hermann, head of the Theatre and Dance department, addresses students at Kleist during the season reveal event.

Courtesy of Berea Municipal Court Retiring Berea Municipal Court Judge Mark A. Comstock.

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AT THE MOVIES

Review: “Scream VI” explodes onto the big screen with a flick ruthless enough to rival the original

By ELLA YORK

Staff Writer/Film Critic

Editor's note: This review is spoiler-free.

Ghostface is back and more brutal than ever in the latest addition to the “Scream” saga. A whirlwind of murder and mystery, “Scream VI” makes old tropes new again in a film that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the credits roll. The sixth installment gives the 1996 “Scream” a run for its money with its absolutely electric thrills and kills.

“Scream VI” leaves the comfort of Woodsboro behind and takes a risk in New York City. The hustle and bustle of the city that never sleeps provides a much more

suspenseful and thrilling atmosphere to watch our characters — and killer — navigate. The Empire State Building setting is a breath of fresh air for the franchise, as even after six movies this film still feels original and new.

The scenery wasn’t the only switch up the film pulled off. “Scream VI” boasts a significantly darker tone than any other “Scream” movie before it. While it certainly keeps the franchise’s signature meta humor, it’s more subtle this time around, letting the slow burn suspense shine.

This darker tone allows for the audience to gain a greater emotional attachment to the characters in this film, as the graveness of the situation becomes palpable. “Scream VI” has its fair share of character deaths, no doubt,

and the film isn’t afraid to pack on the pain and heartache along with them. While the newer characters may have been introduced in the last film, “Scream VI” serves as their real introduction. The last installment showed the audience how each new face related back to the original characters, but this film lets the new crew sink into their own personalities and archetypes, giving them the necessary space from the 96’ characters to become their own unique persons.

In a stunning move, Jenna Ortega’s character, Tara, the opening kill turned final girl, seems to take up the mantle once filled by Sidney Prescott. Tara proves herself to be a formidable contender against the menacing Ghostface, and

her character arc has already begun paralleling that of Sidney’s. Tara’s fiery but good nature is a dead ringer for the original scream queen.

On the other hand, Sam’s character, who was once predicted to be the next Sidney, seems to take a much different, darker path.

Not shying away from her family’s bloody history, Sam displays the same fiery spirit as her sister, Tara, but in a much less merciful way. Having a lead that’s more of an anti-hero is definitely a new concept for the “Scream” franchise, but one that lends itself to much exhilaration, anticipation and allure.

In addition to the integration of the new characters into the series, “Scream VI” also significantly ties all of the previous

installments together. The film has a decent amount of familiar faces and callbacks, as the plot centers around a killer who has an obsession with the Ghostfaces of “Scream” past, present and future.

Back for another round, Courtney Cox’s Gale Weathers is certainly a highlight of the film, giving some throwback flavor to an otherwise completely new cast. While it’s nice to see the “Scream” franchise experiment with the newbies, watching the return of a beloved '90s character never gets old. With the absence of Neve Campbell’s Sidney in this film, Gale keeps the franchise tied to its roots.

“Scream VI” is not afraid to bring on the blood, as the sixth installment flaunts the highest kill count of any “Scream” movie so far. Stripping away

“Cocaine Bear” disappoints with confusing tonal shifts

By GRIFFIN ARNOLD Staff Writer/Film

Editor's note: This review is spoiler-free.

Elizabeth Banks’ new film, “Cocaine Bear” is a glorified Reddit post that has finally seen its big day on theater screens. This film follows the real life events of Andrew Thornton, a drug dealer who dumped bags of cocaine out of a plane into the Chattahoochee National Forest back in 1985. Detectives found some of the

cocaine next to a bear that had eaten it and died. The plot of this movie revolves around a simple question: What would happen if a bear ingested cocaine and ... survived, at least for long enough to start mauling people? This film has a few positive things going for it, one of which is the titular, computergenerated bear. Created by WetaFX, a digital effect company known for projects like “Avatar” and some of the “Avengers” movies, the bear in this movie looks surprisingly good – especially when you

consider that the film only had $30 million to work with. Unfortunately, this cost cap seems to have hurt the chances of the bear being in more scenes. It’s a shame, because scenes involving the bear are far more compelling than the human characters. Indeed, the human characters is where the film fails. Each and every scene with the characters felt boring and unmotivated. There seemed to be no real reason to root or care about their relationships. In the film’s funny moments, momentum

would be abruptly halted by flat and unseuccessful attempts to prolong the humor. Eventually, everyone resorted to screaming either “Run!” or “Bear!” which got tiring after repeatedly hearing it with the same inflection and response. It’s hard to tell whether the film’s monotony is a product of the dull script or the underserved actrors. Thankfully though, the cast didn’t take themselves too seriously, because if they did, the film would have been a total mess.

After watching the first

trailer and seeing the poster, I had high hopes that this would be another mid-tier movie that didn’t take itself seriously and was just made for fun, similar to something like “Sharknado.” Unfortunately, the writers seemed be at odds tonally — the movie swings back and forth from a cheesy, gory romp to an emotionallydriven character study. I wish they would have sat down and focused on one or the other –preferably the former.

I had fun with this movie, but there is no reason to see it more than once. This

a lot of the humor associated with Ghostface, “Scream VI” leaves a true cold-blooded psychopath in its wake. Despite this, the film has Ghostface remain just human enough for the audience to believe that a lunatic like that could chillingly exist in real life.

Long story short, “Scream VI” blows the sequel game out of the water with a fresh, inspired take on the franchise many know and love. The film easily leaves the door open for many more installments with the new killer cast, promising to take “Scream” fanatics down an exciting, uncharted path. Who knows, down the line we may even see the return of the iconic Stu Macher. For now, “Scream VI” is a master class in horror, sure to wow anyone who sees it.

could turn into a cult classic for some like “Halloween” or the previously mentioned “Sharknado,” but there isn’t much more that this film adds to the genre that previous movies haven’t already done with higher success. If you do see “Cocaine Bear,” I would recommend doing so with a group friends or family. The bigger the crowd to react to, the more fun it seems to be.

Beck Center youth theater students unleash zombie apocalypse in ‘William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead’

“It has stage fighting, and it has zombies and blood. … And all of those things are perfect for teens,” said Sarah Clare, the associate director of theater education at the Beck Center for the Arts.

Critic

Photo Courtesy of the Beck Center for the Arts

Students from Beck Center for the Arts' youth program rehearse scenes from "William Shakespeare's Land of the Dead." To learn more about the performance and the creative process, read Staff Writer Ursula Saadeh's article at bwexponent.com/shakespeare.

Student composers showcase work before live audience in Conservatory’s New Music Series concert

By URSULA SAADEH Staff Writer

The BW Conservatory of Music’s New Music Series concert on March 19 at 7 p.m. in Fynes Hall of the Kulas Musical Arts Building gave student composers the opportunity to have their own music performed for a live audience.

The New Music Series is a concert series dedicated to performing new works by Conservatory students. Students work with faculty to polish their pieces and work alongside their performers in preparation for the concert.

Clint Needham, professor of music composition and composer in residence, works alongside the students participating in each concert. Needham said that the New Music Series is a way to give all composers — not just composition majors or seniors — a chance to share polished work.

Senior studio art majors reflect personal experiences through their work in new Fawick exhibition

By CAITLIN BOWSHIER Staff Writer

The 2023 Studio Art Senior Exhibition, which debuted on Feb. 27 and is running through March 24 in Fawick Art Gallery at the Kleist Center for Arts and Drama, will showcase the work of senior studio art majors.

The art exhibition will serve as a capstone for the artists, Nicole Ballachino, Aliyah Beechuk, Carissa Ferguson, Adrienne Jurick and Julie Wetzel, who have been working rigorously to compile their showcase over the last semester.

Each artist chose pieces they are proud to display, featuring several mediums such as ceramics, oil painting and woodblock print. Collectively, the artists share a concept of “internal portraits,” in which they showcased their

individuality and personal growth.

“The most rewarding part of [the experience] was realizing that we all had a very similar theme within our work even though we’re all focusing on different aspects,” Jurick said.

Ferguson said that their ceramic sculpture titled “Shrill Pain,” inspired by her experience going through difficult times last year, is a good demonstration of the artist’s displaying their personal growth.

“My work deals a lot with shame and our defense systems—and I kind of derive that from the natural world,” Ferguson said. “[Shrill Pain] is what feels like an internal portrait of me going through that time. It’s really special to me to be able to look back on it.”

Jurick’s work utilizes natural elements, focusing specifically on caterpillars and their

significance in the artist’s life. Jurick said her favorite piece is the large caterpillar sculpture she titled “My Buddy, Fear” due to a childhood experience.

“One of the first memories I have is looking at this giant green caterpillar in a tree and not knowing what to do with myself,” Jurick said. “So, I kind of turned caterpillars into a way of characterizing my emotions and showing how my anxiety affects me.”

Ballachino, whose display is largely composed of oil paintings, emphasized aspects of mundane life and personal objects.

“My whole show is basically a self-portrait, but through my items instead of paintings of myself,” Ballachino said. “I feel like you can learn a lot about someone by the items they have.”

Wetzel took yet another unique route in choosing to focus on radioactivity within

“The ‘New’ Music Series was the branding … [in] an effort to raise the profile of the student composer recitals,” Needham said. “I wanted it to be taken rather seriously because these composers put in a lot of effort when they hand their music over to performers to rehearse.”

Each concert showcases a variety of musical styles. Students are encouraged to explore when working with the faculty to polish their compositions.

“I love that the students come in, already engaged and yet open minded enough to grow and change directions,” Needham said. “We want them to choose their creative path, and we want to supply them with the techniques and tools to let them travel those paths independently and freely.”

On Saturday, sophomore composition student Brock Rudolph presented one of his pieces, entitled “Oh, Dear.”

“It's a music interpretation of a story that I wrote, based

off the works of Reverend W. Audrey's ‘Thomas the Tank Engine,’” Rudolph said. “As a kid, I watched it religiously, and I thought, ‘I need to write a piece that incorporates it.’”

Rudolph’s piece expresses an important part of his childhood, and he said that a key part of “Thomas the Tank Engine” was that the narration in the show was underscored by music to bring attention to the story. For this piece, the music, rather than narration, is what tells the story.

“Writing music in a story sense was a bit hard for me, but it actually worked out in the long run because my feelings as to what was going on actually work in a story setting,” Rudolph said.

Sophomore composition and viola performance student Julia Grady was another composer in the concert, performing her work “Of Lovers Lost,” based on a poem written by her mother’s friend Emily Lane.

“She wrote me a poem

specifically to set to music, and then I worked with her to figure out … what she wanted to convey with [the music], so that I could accurately do that,” Grady said.

Grady said that being able to work with a living poet was a valuable opportunity because she could communicate with the poet directly to clearly understand what themes needed to be portrayed.

As both a performer and composer, Grady said she enjoyed the experience of working with other performers in figuring out how to improve the piece.

“As a performer, we have such limited opportunities to actually work with composers and work with living composers,” Grady said. “Having the composer working with you, telling me what their intentions are of the piece, is such a great opportunity.”

her work by mixing fantasy with reality. Her favorite piece, “Thyroid Butterflies on Radioactive Flower,” was inspired by a radioactive iodine treatment she recently underwent for thyroid cancer.

“My thinking with this piece was to do these thyroid butterflies, which are attracted to that huge radioactive

flower,” Wetzel said. “Kind of like how, when I took that pill, it needed to grasp onto [the cancerous tissue].”

Wetzel said she’s proud of both her ambition in making this large complex sculpture and her ability to stay positive throughout her struggles.

“Honestly, even though what I went through wasn’t

cool… going through personal experiences has led me to where I’m at right now,” Wetzel said. “I’m just proud of myself for being able to come up with something creative and make something good of the situation.”

The exhibit’s closing reception will be held Friday, March 24 at 5 p.m.

Theatre and Dance department to add new directing classes

By ELLA YORK Staff Writer

The BW Department of Theatre and Dance is expanding its program next semester by adding two new student directing classes to further develop the directing side of the B.A. Acting and Directing track.

The program will be adding a Fundamentals of Directing and Intermediate Directing course, while also making their advanced directing course permanent.

“Basically what we’re

doing is we’re adding another level to directing,” said René Copeland, the professor leading the new classes. “So before, there was one directing class. Now there’s going to be a Fundamentals of Directing class and an Intermediate Directing class, so it’ll be a sequence.”

At the fundamental level, students will learn the “building blocks” of directing, such as analyzing a script, making a rehearsal schedule, running a rehearsal and directing a scene, Copeland said. The intermediate level will be akin to a scene study

for directors, with students directing three or four scenes by semester’s end.

At the advanced level, students will direct a play in the 10-Minute Play Festival held during the spring, where they will use the skills they’ve learned in all three classes to successfully run a performance, Copeland said.

“My job is to just sort of guide them and help them,” Copeland said, “but they have to pick the plays, they have to schedule everything, they have to make all their own rehearsal schedules, they have to rehearse the plays, they have

to figure out what marking ideas will be and they have to figure out what the sequence of the plays needs to be on the night of performance.”

Rachel Gold, a senior B.F.A. Acting major who recently directed a Lab Series production of “Stop Kiss” at BW, said taking directing classes and participating in the 10-Minute Play Festival made her realize all the hard work that goes into directing, and it encouraged her to take her passion for directing further.

“And from that point on, I knew I wanted to direct a full length play, so I submitted for

the Lab Series spot which is filled by students,” Gold said.

According to Copeland, these new classes will be open to non-theatre majors, given the necessary prerequisites are completed.

For theatre students, taking a directing class can provide understanding and respect for what goes into directing, Gold said, and for those outside of theatre, a directing class can provide a means for creative expression while also helping to utilize certain critical skills.

“It's a really fun artistic outlet that is still educational and academic in the way that

you have to … figure out where to input certain variables,” Gold said. “It’s applying the skills that you learn in a more academic course like science or math, but by utilizing your left brain, so it’s in a creative outlet.”

These new directing classes will be available next semester. The work by current Advanced Directing students can be viewed in this year’s 10-Minute Play Festival on May 2.

Ursula Saadeh, The Exponent The Studio Art Senior Exhibition runs Feb. 27 – March 24 in Fawick Art Gallery in Kleist Center for Art & Drama.

Austin Patterson, The Exponent Hank Temple performs at the New Music Series concert.

Life & Styles

A Day in the Life: Marketing professor cultivates students’ ideas to improve digital marketing for clients

By SUNAINA KABADKAR Senior Editor

Timothy Marshall, director of the Digital Marketing Center and assistant professor of marketing, welcomes students from all majors to the DMC, a full-service digital marketing agency located on the BW campus and staffed by students.

Marshall graduated with an undergraduate degree in public relations, communications and journalism before pursuing a master’s degree in integrated marketing. After completing his master’s degree, Marshall managed and supervised marketing teams, including interns and graduate students.

“When brands started to lean more toward digital or integrated digital more into their marketing plans, I became involved in that and, at some point maybe about 10 years after graduating from undergrad, … [I] took on leadership roles,” Marshall said.

Before coming to teach at BW, Marshall worked in marketing as a consultant and trainer.

“I would talk to the C-suite (the executive level managers in a company) and explain why digital would be important to connect with different audiences, how it works and what we would need in order to really get to a place where the brand can communicate effectively,” Marshall said.

Marshall said he had the chance to be brought onto staff after he could guest lecture in some courses, which led to working with Julie Miller, an associate professor of public relations in the Department of Communication Arts & Sciences.

After three years of mostly consulting and teaching one class on campus, Marshall said he took the opportunity to “flip my life around” and became an educator full time while “consulting on the side.”

The DMC has changed since 2016 to provide a wider access of

student opportunities. Marshall said the DMC currently caters to many businesses in the Berea area. Since the content the DMC deals with is mostly digital, it also takes on clients that could be from anywhere across the country.

In some cases, the students at the DMC will handle everything for a client, but other times they might work with other marketing firms and specialize in a specific task, Marshall said. He added that the DMC deals with single and repeat clients, and even competes against other marketing agencies.

The main service the DMC offers is consulting on a client’s project. When a client hires the DMC for this service, a team of three to five students is formed from the 20 to 25 students that the DMC usually employs.

Read a longer version of this feature story online at bwexponent.com/marshall.

By SIMON SKOUTAS & KELLY COYNE

On St. Patrick's Day, Front Porch, a folk music string band including various BW professors, provided entertainment at the local bar Front St Social.

The professors usually involved in Front Porch are political science professor Mark Mattern, philosophy professor Kelly Coble, a former professor of German Steve Hollender and the Interim Associate Dean of the Conservatory of Music Beth Hiser. For St. Patrick’s Day, Hiser could not attend, and instead, Leon Kratz, a Celtic fiddle player, joined them.

While Front Porch has played at Front St Social in the past, Mattern said they were specifically asked to play for St. Patrick’s Day. They invited Leon Kratz, a renowned Celtic fiddle player and Mattern’s son to join them.

“The owner of Front Street Social may have thought that because we do some Irish adjacent music that we can easily come in and do a whole bunch of Irish music, which we don’t,” Mattern said. “But

we resolved that problem since Beth, our bass player, is unable to make the gig, so what we’ve done is invited an Irish fiddler who’s quite good to sit in with us.”

Mattern said that Front Porch, who usually rehearses together weekly, learned around 45 minutes of new material just for St. Patrick’s Day.

In an interview with The Exponent before their performance, Coble said that for Irish music, the members were mostly playing accompaniment with the fiddle.

“The Irish stuff is a pretty straightforward style of music, but there’s a real art to it if you really want to dive into it,” Coble said. “We’re pretty much just doing straightforward accompaniment, so the real highlight is going to be the fiddle,”

The four professors in Front Porch have been playing music together for about 15 years. However, Coble said that the group originally started with just Mattern and

Hollender. Then, despite having a different musical background, Coble joined them a few months later after hearing some of their music.

“I had experience playing electric lead guitar in metal bands,” Coble said. “At first I wasn’t sure what to make of the folk music, but Steve and Mark sounded amazing together, and that inspired me to learn the songs they were playing and listen to music in that genre. Now I love the stuff!”

Coble said that when he joined, Hiser was not yet working at BW, but as she has a high degree of music knowledge and skill, she added in her voice, bass

guitar and her fiddle playing.

Mattern said that Front Porch did not advertise the event much themselves other than through their email list. Still, there was a large local showing which included some BW students.

Coble said that they enjoy when students and alumni come out to their gigs.

“We always like it when students come in and have a good time,” Coble said. “And some students are also musicians.”

By CHASE J. GILROY Staff Writer

Seasonal Affective Disorder is a mental disorder that causes many individuals' mood and overall mental health to be negatively impacted over the fall and winter months.

Compounded in part by Northeast Ohio’s infamous weather, Baldwin Wallace students are not immune to the effects of SAD.

Kayela Swansiger, a junior psychology major, shared her experiences with SAD and how it affects her bipolar disorder.

“The weather outside can potentially trigger manic episodes in me as result of the comorbidity of seasonal affective disorder and bipolar disorder. Even just going outside and seeing that it is not so [nice] out, does not make one feel so pretty on the inside,” Swansiger said.

Timothy Hall, a therapist that works with Timely Care at Baldwin Wallace University, said it can be difficult to tell who all is suffering from stress and changes to their affect due to SAD because of all the other stressors happening to students in their daily lives.

“Here in Cleveland, you're going to see a good bit of mood disturbance on account of the weather and the seasonal patterns just because the weather can get so glum during the winter months,” Hall said. “It certainly doesn't help anything.”

However, Hall said it is difficult to determine how common SAD is among BW students.

“You know, I don't know that we can discern that really because of the context of the academic year in which we work,” Hall said. “There's this ebb and flow of the stress of the academic year. With new semesters, new classes, midterms, finals, adjustment to campus, adjustment back home, there are so many variables that impact mental health for students on campus, but the seasonal pattern is certainly one of them.”

According to Evelyn Campbell, a licensed clinical social worker and therapist from Pennsylvania, SAD is widely attributed to a lack of sunlight. Specifically, it is the reduced level of sunlight that disrupts the body’s circadian rhythm.

Campbell compared SAD to a depression, in which people become sad for periods of time, often lose interest in various activities, develop a tendency to eat more, have difficulty concentrating and have lower energies causing them to sometimes sleep too much.

Nevertheless, Swansiger said she has found a way to cope with SAD in those days.

“Light therapy has probably been the most beneficial for me, especially since Cleveland is very gray,” Swansiger said.

Folk music band formed by faculty celebrates St. Patrick's Day with Celtic inspired performance at local bar

Sunaina Kabadkar, The Exponent

Timothy Marshall (pictured in the middle), director of the Digital Marketing Center in a meeting with one of his DMC student groups.

Kelly Coyne, The Exponent

Front Porch plays folk music at Front Street Social on St. Patrick’s Day.

Experts discuss how seasonal affective disorder affects students

110 YEARS OF THE EXPONENT

2023 marks the 110th year that The Exponent has informed the Baldwin Wallace University and Berea communities. In our recurring series, we highlight the rich history of the Berea Community's Paper of Record. To commemorate Women's History Month, we are spotlighting the contributions of notable women who have served as The Exponent's editor-in-chief.

By AUSTIN PATTERSON, SIMON SKOUTAS & HANNAH WETMORE

In 1951, Nancy McArthur took up the mantle of editor-in-chief. A native of Olmsted Falls, McArthur went on to author 14 children’s books, nine of which were part of a series called “The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks.” In addition, McArthur adapted the first book of the series into a play due to its popularity. After graduating from Baldwin Wallace, McArthur worked as a part-time journalism professor teaching the students who would go on to continue her work legacy The Exponent. McArthur died on July 15, 2020.

In the spring semester of 1935, The Exponent welcomed its first female editor-in-chief, Dorothy Seith (née Hummel), 19 years after the paper was founded. In an article written in 1936, The Exponent reflected on Seith’s contributions, which reads, “The Exponents for the year are mute evidence that the appointment of Dorothy Hummel was indeed justified.” Seith graduated from Baldwin Wallace College in 1936 before going on to Case Western Reserve University, where she received a master’s degree in social work. In 1976, Seith retired from Summit County Children’s Services. During her lifetime, she participated in the Women’s League of Voters. Seith passed away in 2008 at the age of 95.

Humans of BW: The many faces of feminism

Our photo series gives a glimpse into BW community members' lives in their own words. Know someone who should be featured? Email exponent@bw.edu.

As told to and photographed by OLIVIA GARRETT

STEVIE KONTNIER

Class of 2023

Majors: English and Philosophy

“It’s about equality, you know? Not making women better than men but bringing them to the same level to offer the same opportunities. … There’s a lot of misconceptions about [feminism], but if you look at different angles of it, I think it’s a lot more practical than people make it out to be.”

MOLLY

Class 2024

Majors: English and Psychology

“[Feminism is] promoting an understanding of the struggles that women face simply because of the fact that they’re women. … [It] is about education and making people aware of women’s oppression and combating the stereotypes and misinformation about women’s experiences.”

KEVIN BUBNICK

Class of 2024

Major: Arts Management & Entreprenuership

“Feminism is about striving to make all genders as equal as possible. … It’s our job as humans to view how other people live their lives, so we have to be empathetic.”

CANCIAN

Photo courtesy of University Archives

Photo courtesy of University Archives

Unselfish culture has fueled women's basketball's successful run

By ROBERT WATSON III Contributing Writer

The BW women’s basketball team has maintained consistent performance over the years as one of the nation’s Div. III best programs. On March 3, the Yellow Jackets made their fourth consecutive and 17th overall NCAA tournament appearance in a first-round loss to Iowa’s Wartburg College. Players and staff have attributed the program’s continued success to its distinct culture, but what makes that culture so magical?

The Lady Jackets entered this season as the defending OAC champions. However, they lost two key contributors: All-American forward Lilly Edwards and All-Conference forward Megan Scheibelhut. The staff’s ability to recruit and groom talent in the wings while the veterans shine was critical to their 22-6 record this season.

“We would make sure to get Kira [Philpot] and Bella [Vaillant] reps in meaningful games as freshman and sophomores so they got that experience,” associate head coach Cody Hartzler said.

This philosophy paid dividends in 2023, as Vaillant and Philpot filled those roles left behind in the frontcourt for the Yellow Jackets.

Beyond just in-game reps, coaches build players through calculated training to improve their skills when called upon. Building up young talent through practice and trial by fire is the recipe for BW.

“They take all our strengths and let us focus on those things while building our other tendencies and skills around that,” said junior Guard Carolyn Wochele. “They help us master what we do best and become more well-rounded.”

Beach volleyball club serves up new athletic opportunities

By MOLLY CANCIAN Contributing Writer

An official beach volleyball club has formed on campus that will be open to all students, offering varying levels of competition and new ways to get involved in a sport on campus.

Beach volleyball is a variation on volleyball which is played on a sand court with two players on each team.

advise the players on how best to handle situations, he said his goal is to help the athletes lead themselves.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for all of these student-athletes, and all these students, to practice leadership and making good decisions when they’re running an organization, which is what you all are doing when you get out of college,” Mars said.

“Coach has got a motto, ‘You get what you emphasize,’ so what that means is we talk about our culture, our core values, daily,” Hartzler said. “And we lift: instead of recognizing or praising someone who gets buckets all the time, we try and lift and find teammates who are doing intangible things. Who is setting the screen, who is encouraging when they are not [on the court].”

Culture is a highly emphasized item for the team. The coaches emphasize a style of committee instead of overrelying on superstar players. They overwhelm teams with their depth and ball movement so they can send waves of wellrounded players at opponents to tire them out.

This style of play is not easy to accomplish. It requires a particular type of person to come onto a team and be willing to do non-glamorous things to win, something the coaches monitor carefully during the recruiting process.

“We really try and figure out how a person is wired,” Hartzler said regarding the

staff’s recuriting strategy. “We’re going through the recruiting process telling players [that] pathways to playing time is easier at places other than Baldwin Wallace.”

Through this up-front process, the coaches round out the roster with individuals ready to take on whatever role necessary and put the team first, leading to the close-knit and positive culture the team is known for.

Wochele said: “Our coaches and teammates before us have created an incredibly special culture amongst our program. The players before us, lay the foundation of what they wanted the program to look like. We have the slogan ‘One Love’, which ultimately means we all have the same love and goal for one another.

“We are all here for one thing, to win and be the best we can be. But we must love one another, no matter role, background, or any statistics. Everyone puts their pride and personal goals aside to put the team first,” Wochele said.

The BW Beach Volleyball Club will fall under the Department of Campus Recreation. The club will be split into a recreational team and a competitive team, with room for those who have no prior volleyball experience and those who have played before, said sophomore public health major Allison Weiner, a member of the BW women’s volleyball team and the Beach Volleyball Club student involvement/recruitment chair.

BW men’s volleyball head coach and Beach Volleyball Club coach and advisor Kyle Mars said that one of the reasons this club was started was so that the varsity volleyball athletes could continue playing during the off-season.

“We want our players to be able to find ways to get reps when they’re in the offseason so they can continue to get better,” Mars said.

Weiner said that getting the club started has been a learning experience. She said that she has gained a lot of knowledge about the process of beginning a new club sport, from writing a club charter to taking on a leadership position within the club.

Student leadership is a major focus of the club, according to Mars. While Mars is there to

Wrestling team finishes season with team-best third place finish at national championships

By KELLY COYNE Staff Writer

The Baldwin Wallace wrestling team capped off a record-breaking season with a third-place finish at the NCAA Div. III championships in Roanoke, Virginia.

Out of eight wrestlers that qualified, four were named All-Americans. Senior Jacob Decatur placed second in the nation at 125 pounds. Decatur, a defending national champion, finished the season with a 27-2 record and became a back-to-back All-American.

Junior Michael Petrella was named the national champion at 149 pounds. This was the ultimate redemption for Petrella after being named runner-up last season. Petrella’s father, Paul Petrella, won the first national championship in Baldwin Wallace’s wrestling

history in 1978 at 177 pounds. This marked a full circle dream turned to reality for the younger Petrella.

At 133 pounds junior Jaden Hinton placed fourth and earned All-American status.

This was Hinton’s first AllAmerican honor, finishing the season with a 36-4 record.

The final All-American was senior Doug Byrne, who wrestled at 197 pounds. Byrne placed fifth, finishing his season with a 32-3 record. He currently ranks 24th on BW's all time wins list.

The Yellow Jackets finished the season with a 17-2-1 team record and raked in a seventh straight OAC championship while also winning the Central Regional Championship for the second time in the last three years.

During a long and grueling wrestling season the team spends long periods of time together. Byrne said the

demanding season engenders a sense of family among the team.

“It’s not just like a friend group,” Byrne said. “They’re there when you’re working hard, they’re there when you’re succeeding, when you're losing. It’s definitely a brotherhood.”

Members of this year’s team stressed how much the wrestlers and coaching staff, led by head coach Jamie Gibbs, prided themselves on the team’s culture.

“What Coach Gibbs and all other coaches are trying to instill is you’re not just working hard in the room or working hard in the weight room; you’re doing everything right,” Byrne said. “You’re trying to get good grades, show up on time, just be a good person. If you can work hard on the mat, you can work hard in every other aspect of your life.”

The wrestling team has a

One challenge the club is facing is the renovation process for the beach volleyball court located on North Quad, said Brandon Long, a junior sport management major and member of the men’s volleyball team and the Beach Volleyball Club. The court is currently being renovated to meet standard beach volleyball size regulations, and the team is waiting for those renovations to be completed before beginning practices, Long said.

Long said that the problematic Ohio weather can make it challenging to have a beach volleyball team, especially in the unpredictable early spring. Luckily, the club has access to local indoor facilities that will allow yearround play.

The club plans to host an intersquad scrimmage for the rec team, while the competitive team will compete in Association of Volleyball Professionals tournaments against teams outside of BW, Weiner said.

The club is currently looking for members for both the recreation team as well as the competitive team, and all students are welcome to try out for either team, Long said.

“We want to just have an opportunity to be open to all students, whether you’re good

it, [whether], you’re an athlete or not, just something to do besides class all the time,” Long said.

Weiner said she is looking forward to the opportunity to play beach volleyball, which is a more physical version of volleyball, given the difficulty of moving around in the sand.

“It’s a fun way to play volleyball, and you don’t have to know how all the positions work … It’s just a really fun thing,” Weiner said.

Weiner noted that students looking to join the club should be on the lookout for flyers advertising the interest meeting that the club’s executive board is planning for prospective members.

“You get to meet new people and connect with people that have a shared interest,” Weiner said.

Weiner said that the club will be tabling in Strosacker Hall and has an Instagram page with a link to an interest form that prospective players can fill out.

You can follow the Beach Volleyball Club on Instagram at @bw_beachvb. Students interested in joining the club can contact Allison Weiner at aweiner21@bw.edu.

motto: do the next right thing. The idea is that everybody makes mistakes in life or might outright lose, but as this motto suggests, people can’t focus too closely on the past.

“You’ve got to be able to move on,” Byrne said.

The coaching staff has created a culture of hard work in part through stressing the mantra Jacket Tough Mentality. JTM is all about going the extra mile and being the best person possible in all areas, Byrne said.

“It’s all about competing in everything you do. It’s about doing those extra little things, being 15 minutes early to meetings, keeping good grades,” he said.

The team looks to reach new heights next season. The team will return much of their team with Hinton, Decatur, Byrne, and Petrella all returning

in addition to newcomers.

Robert Watson III, The Exponent Michael Petrella, left, and Jacob Decatur, right, of the men's wrestling team pose for a picture at their last practice before Nationals.

Photo Courtesy of Kevin Wilker

The BW women's basketball team had their season conclude with a loss to Iowa's Wartburg College in the team's fourth consecutive NCAA tournament appearance.