The Butler Collegian, Feb. 12, 2014 by The Butler Collegian

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When a sex crime occurs on campus, Butler University police...

DECIDE HOW TO ACT

MARAIS JACON-DUFFY MJACONDU@BUTLER.EDU NEWS EDITOR

Viviane Linos was surprised to discover the rape of another student by a fellow Butler student had allegedly occurred before the beginning of winter break. What concerned Linos more was the fact she found out about the incident by way of Butler Confessions, an anonymous social media page. Linos, a junior, then discovered an online news article by RTV6 describing some details of the reported incident. A few days later, the story by RTV6 was removed from its website. On Dec. 20, Linos posted a status on her Facebook page that said, “Why the fu-- has BUPD and the Butler University administration not done S--T to bring awareness to this issue and send out a ‘timely warning’ email which could potentially prevent further harm done by this bastard? If a student forcefully fondled by an African American community member is worthy of a ‘timely warning’ email, then why the hell is a confirmed CRIME involving two Butler students insignificant?” A university press release confirmed the Butler University Police Department was alerted to an alleged sexual assault of a female student by a male student on Dec. 8, 2013. No other details could be provided at that time, because “federal law prohibited it,” according to the press release. A separate rape by force was reported off campus Jan. 19 and was documented in

BUPD’s Jan. 17-21 crime log. According to the crime log, the accused suspects in both have been identiﬁed. Chief of Staff Ben Hunter said BUPD’s timely warnings are issued in cases where a suspect poses an immediate threat or a situation is considered an emergency. Linos, who said she has worked with campus groups to help reevaluate sexual assault policy on Butler’s campus, said she perceives a lack of communication regarding sexual assault and violence as a decision to protect the reputation of the school. “I am disappointed with the disconnect that is sometimes present when the university has to choose between maintaining its image and doing what’s right for the students,” Linos said. “That created a portion of the emotion and frustration that came out in my (Facebook) status a while back.” Hunter said he understands the frustration that revolves around cases of rape and sexual assault. “There’s a lot of angst that people feel with these cases,” Hunter said. “But not as personally as the survivor, obviously.” Hunter said, in some cases, sexual assault or rape survivors request that a timely warning is not sent out to the community. Butler is required to report incidents which “pose a substantial threat of bodily harm or danger to members of the campus community,” as written in the university’s Civil Rights Equity see SEX CRIME page 4

Below are sex crimes that have been reported by BUPD since the 2011 calendar year.

News: Michael Kaltenmark was named Butler’s Director of External Relations Page 3

ACP Pacemaker Award Winner 2011 SPJ Mark of Excellence Award Winner 2012

Public masturbation

Holcomb Botanical Gardens June 28, 2011 Case closed

All information from BUPD crime logs Graphic by Colin Likas

Attempt to commit forcible rape Butler Bowl Apr. 14, 2013 Unfounded claim

“A public residence near Hinkle”

Dec. 8, 2013 Case open, under investigation

Criminal deviate conduct

Rape by force

Alleged sexual assault “Campus residence facility” Nov. 6, 2013 Case open, under investigation

“Any campus location” July 10, 2013 Case open, under investigation Indecent exposure

Ross Hall; Oct. 11, 2012

Indecent exposure

Referred to Student Affairs

Atherton Union, Aramark employee

Oct. 25, 2011 Case open, under investigation

R—Rape by force I—Indecent exposure V—Voyeurism S—Forcible sodomy F—Forcible fondling T—Touching rudely M—Public masturbation C—Criminal conduct

Rape by force Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house

Sept. 13, 2011

Case open, under investigation

Voyeurism

Forcible sodomy

Feb. 25, 2011 Case closed, no suspects

Apr. 25, 2013 Case open, under investigation

Residential College

Kappa Alpha Theta sorority house

Touching rudely

Rape by force

756 W. 44th Street July 13, 2013 Case open, under investigation

613 W. 44th Street

Oct. 25, 2012 Case open, under investigation

Rape by force

Forcible fondling

June 20, 2013 Case open, under investigation

Oct. 7, 2012 Case open, under investigation

613 W. 44th Street

Atherton Union Mall—Two South

Rape by force

Feb. 24, 2012 Case referred to Student Affairs

March 4, 2012 Case open, under investigation

Residential College

Sigma Chi fraternity house

Sex crimes with unclear locations May 17, 2011 Case open

Rape by force Off campus location Sept. 25, 2013 Case open

Rape by force Off campus location Apr. 25, 2013 Case open

Rape by force Off campus location Jan. 19, 2014 Case open

Forcible fondling Fraternity Row, Hampton Drive Apr. 25, 2013 Case open

Channel leaves fans in the dark Fox Sports 1, which shows many men’s basketball games, is not easily available

Rape by force

Rape by force Location unknown

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Rape by force

Sigma Chi fraternity house

Sept. 25, 2011 Case closed

EDITOR’S NOTE The dates listed in each box are the dates incidents were reported, and not always the day they took place. For more information on speciﬁc dates of each incident, visit www.butler.edu/bupd and click on “Daily Crime Log.”

RHYAN HENSON RHENSON@BUTLER.EDU

MULTIMEDIA EDITOR

The Fox Sports 1 television partnership with Big East Conference basketball has put Butler men’s and women’s basketball on more than 90 million television screens around the country. However, those who use Butler’s standard cable do not get the channel. Students who have not purchased Bright House’s premium package have not been able to watch road games by television on campus because Fox Sports 1 is a premium channel that is not available with Bright House’s standard channel package. Students have the option to purchase a cable box equipped with premium channels through Bright House television network, said Karla Cunningham, director of residence life. All season long, fans have been going the extra mile in order to watch games. “I know I can watch on my computer, but I have a 62-inch television where I cannot watch the games,” junior Jake Goodwin said. Goodwin said he has remedied the situation by going off-campus restaurants to watch games, but going out is not always cheap. “Going out to eat every time the game is on costs me $15 to $20,” Goodwin said Although Butler is a Big East school, Fox owns all exclusive rights to all basketball games. “We do not have inﬂuence over cable systems. It comes down between the cable system and FOX,” said Rick Gentile, senior associate commissioner for broadcasting for the Big East. Butler’s TV deal with Fox provides another example to show just how much Butler basketball has grown. Five years ago, Butler paid to get on television. Today, Butler basketball is in more homes than ever before by a factor of four, athletic director Barry Collier said. see CHANNEL page 5

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Former player Smith diagnosed with cancer MATTHEW VANTRYON MVANTRYO@BUTLER.EDU ASST. SPORTS EDITOR When those close to him describe the 6-11, 23-year-old Butler University graduate, one word comes to mind: ﬁghter. Former men’s basketball center Andrew Smith fought his way onto the court as a freshman during Butler’s ﬁrst NCAA National Championship tournament run. He fought in the paint for parts of four seasons. He fought in the classroom to be named second team All-American for the Senior CLASS award, which is reserved for student athletes of the highest caliber. He fought to earn a spot on a National Basketball Association Summer League roster after college. Eventually, he earned a spot on a professional basketball team in Lithuania.

Now, Smith faces the biggest ﬁght of his life in a battle against cancer. Two weeks after Butler University’s “Stay Positive Day,” an event designed to raise cancer awareness, the disease has affected another member of the Butler family. Smith, a 2012 graduate, announced Thursday that he has been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Smith was in the midst of his professional playing career in Lithuania for Neptunas, which competes in the Eurocup League. Smith averaged 6.4 points and 2.6 rebounds per game in ﬁve contests with Neptunas. Smith began to feel ill soon after arriving in Europe in September and noticed a growth on his neck around December, according to Samuel Porter, Smith’s agent from Exclusive Sports Group. However, a biopsy on the growth

came back non-cancerous. Smith’s health continued to regress after the scan, and he went to Lithuanian doctors for a second visit. It was during this visit that it was evident something was wrong. “It became clear that he wasn’t doing so good,” Porter said. “It looked like there was potentially something more serious.” Porter said the language barrier in Lithuania proved problematic, forcing Smith and his wife Samantha to take swift action and ﬂy back to Indianapolis immediately. Smith’s wife, Samantha, began a blog—http:// kickingcancerwiththesmiths. wordpress.com/—and described the impact of her husband’s diagnosis on their new marriage. “An adventure that was supposed to kick off our marriage into a whirlwind of experience and culture was cut short when we were

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Former Butler men’s basketball player Andrew Smith (left) was recently diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, forcing him to return to Indianapolis for treatment. sat down at our kitchen table in Lithuania and were told there was a sizable tumor taking shape inside of Andrew,” Samantha Smith said. Andrew Smith went directly from

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Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport to an Indianapolis hospital. He was not ofﬁcially diagnosed see SMITH page 5

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RecycleMania comes back to Butler

JULIANNE STRIBIAK JSTRIBIA@BUTLER.EDU

Photo by Erin Marsh

Washers in Schwitzer Hall have been dyeing items after a resident used the washers to tie-dye clothes.

Schwitzer laundry going in one color, coming out another NATALIE SMITH

NMSMITH1@BUTLER.EDU STAFF REPORTER

Freshman Amanda Rodriguez took her clothes out of a washing machine in Schwitzer Hall and was faced with an unexpected sight. All of her white clothing had pink and purple stains. More than $200 worth of her clothing was dyed, Rodriguez said, and she saw tie-dyed shirts was hanging in the laundry room. “Someone must have washed the just-tie-dyed shirts in the machines before they were done,” Rodriguez said. Other Schwitzer residents’ laundry was dyed

different colors as well. Schwitzer Hall Residence Life Coordinator Hope England said via email she could not release any names of students responsible. She was unavailable for comment about the situation. Director of Residence Life Karla Cunningham was unavailable for comment. Rodriguez is part of Butler’s dance program and washed her tights and leotards in the load. She now has to buy new gear or wait until spring break to get some from home. This not only affects Rodriguez’s ﬁnances, but also her classes.

“As a dancer, part of my grade is showing up looking professional,” Rodriguez said. “My professors were understanding, but it still looks bad.” Rodriguez said was told she will not be reimbursed by Butler University housing for the issue. “I went to the front desk to report it, and they just said they would look into it,” Rodriguez said. “Schwitzer doesn’t even keep money at the front desk.” Rodriguez said she has not done laundry since the dyeing took place. “I need to wash my sheets but they’re white so I don’t want to,” Rodriguez said.

Butler University students have a STAFF REPORTER chance to prove they are Earth conscious during RecycleMania, which began Feb. 2 and will continue through Mar. 29. RecycleMania is a friendly competition for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities, according to the RecycleMania Facebook page. During RecycleMania, colleges around the United States and Canada report amounts of recycling and trash collected each week. The schools are ranked in various categories based on who recycles the most per capita. Schools compete to determine who has the best recycling rate. Butler has been participating in the event since 2008 and ECO, the Environmental Concerns Organization which promotes environmentally friendly and earth conscious efforts, oversees the event on campus. With 479 schools competing in RecycleMania, which officially began in 2001, Butler started participating for a number of reasons. Katie Breden, president of ECO, said she does not think Butler students recycle enough. A group on campus probably noticed Butler could use the boost to start recycling and decided to bring RecycleMania to Butler, Breden said. Breden said she is concerned with the amount of people who carelessly throw things in the trash. “It’s a very understandable action; I’m not innocent of it either,” Breden said. “I think it’s just something in general, not just at Butler. But it’s just something that’s not on people’s priority lists.” Junior Victoria Wyss has a similar view. “It is difficult to recycle here when not all the people I live with care about recycling,” Wyss said. A major issue with recycling, even during RecycleMania, is confusion on what can be thrown in the recycling, said Mackenzie Beverage, Butler’s sustainability coordinator and ECO’s advisor. “Things with food on them, like pizza boxes, cannot go into the recycling,” Beverage said. “And when that happens we have to throw it in the trash, which sucks, because we don’t want to throw it in the trash.” Beverage said she believes a lack of recycling on campus is a self-perpetuating trend. “When people see that, they get really mad and say Butler doesn’t recycle anyway and that lowers recycling rates even more because people push back,” she said. Another difficult part of recycling on Butler’s campus is glass can only be recycled in the recycling container in the Schwitzer parking lot. Butler’s Building Services crew is reluctant to put another bin somewhere on campus, Beverage said. Glass currently is not accepted in recycling locations due to possible safety issues with housekeeping handling the glass materials, said Rich Michal, executive director of facilities. “I would like to put one by AV,” Beverage said. “That’s not been resolved, but we’ve talked about it and it’s on my mind.” The difficulty of coordination is worth it, Breden said. “The fact that a glass bottle takes a million years to disintegrate—it’s a very compelling reason,” Breden said. The lack of awareness about RecycleMania is also problem, Breden said.

“In 2012, Butler won state in RecycleMania but no one knew about it because it wasn’t advertised well,” she said. “We’re definitely doing our best getting the word out with as few people as we have in ECO. We’re a very small club.” Breden said she is attending resident assistant meetings to encourage RAs to talk to their residents as well as relying on their online presence. “It’s sort of hard with an event like RecycleMania that’s eight weeks long and there’s not a single thing that people do,” she said. “It’s just a general push for recycling.” Breden said ECO is going to have a table at Starbucks in upcoming weeks with information on the event as well as giveaways on Facebook and Twitter (@ECOatButler). Another concern for ECO is the awareness of recycling areas on campus. Butler has 20 exterior single stream recycling bins in various locations on campus. In addition, the campus has two cardboard compactors—one located at Atherton Union and one at the Service Center. One bin for metal recycling also located at the Service Center, as well as seven exterior containers for soda cans and bottles. Building Services in charge of collecting trash and recycling, weighing it and sending the results to RecycleMania. The amount of recycled material may be easy to measure, but an increase in student recycling is not, Breden said. “I think it’s one of those things where each year we can kind of build on last year’s efforts,” Breden said. “Hopefully, in coming years, we can maybe have pre-surveys and post-surveys to ask people about whether they think their recycling habits increased. That will definitely be helpful.” Beverage has talked to staff and students to hear what their biggest campus concerns. By far, most people were concerned with recycling and waste on campus, Beverage said. “People associate sustainability with recycling, where it’s really so much more,” Beverage said, “so part of me kind of resents the fact that people always want to talk to me about recycling because it’s like the baseline thing, it’s so much more than that.” Beverage has several goals in order to promote more recycling on Butler’s campus outside of RecycleMania. One idea is to do a public waste audit, where the contents of one Dumpster would be dumped on the mall for a day. Then, students would suit up and measure the amount of recyclable material they pulled from the trash. “We will see what percentage is food, what percentage is just regular trash, and we will be able to see what people’s behaviors are,” Beverage said. “So it’s dual purpose:. It raises awareness and collects data so we can figure out how to address the rest of the problem, because we don’t really know what the problem is.” Along with other recycling projects, Breden said she would recommend helping friends recycle as well. “Hearing from your friends can be very helpful as far as social proof goes,” she said. RecycleMania is ECO’s big push for preventing waste, but the organization is interested in finding other ways to promote recycling as well, Breden said. “I guess recycling is like one part of a rather broader attitude about caring for our earth and environment that kind of comes with a package,” Breden said. “You want to make sure you’re doing what you can and it’s one of those small behaviors that can make a large impact.”

Photo by Amy Street

Schwitzer Hall’s recycling bins accept paper and plastic. Butler’s campus has a total of 20 recycling bins.

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Butler grad Kaltenmark moves up the chain

SARAH STOESZ SSTOESZ@BUTLER.EDU

STAFF REPORTER

Michael Kaltenmark now has what he calls his dream job, after his recent promotion to director of external relations. Kaltenmark was promoted to this position at the beginning of the month. Kaltenmark said he thinks he ﬁts the bill for this position because of its public relations and community relations duties. “There are also social

media responsibilities and oversight and management of the live mascot program,” Kaltenmark said. “A lot of these things are not only things that I excel at and things that I enjoy, but they are activities that I was involved in already. It was a pretty natural ﬁt.” Kaltenmark graduated from Butler in 2002 as a journalism and public relations major. However, he was originally an education major. He was involved in Greek

life. He also participated in intramural sports and served as Student Government Association’s president. He began working for the university in the fundraising and development division in July 2002. “I enjoyed working for Butler and advancing the institution. But fundraising, while I could do it, it wasn’t my passion,” Kaltenmark said. “It wasn’t getting me out of bed in the morning.” In 2004, he became the

Photo courtesy of Michael Kaltenmark

Kaltenmark, the handler for Butler’s live mascot, Trip, is a Butler graduate and was recently promoted to Director of External Relations.

owner and handler of Butler Blue II. Being the owner of the mascots helped him utilize his PR skills, he said. “That really paved the way for me to make the transition from development to marketing and communications because I think people could see I was skilled at it, I enjoyed it, and it did help the university,” Kaltenmark said. Levester Johnson, vice president for student affairs, said Kaltenmark is a leader and has excelled in his professional career working for the university. “It has been great to see how his talents have been leveraged,” Johnson said. “For a person that literally serves as the voice of the mascot and the university, you would think that the voice and vibrato would be exhibited outwardly. But he is an extremely intentional and thoughtful leader of few words.” Kaltenmark is a hard worker, but also takes time to get to know students, said Jim Santos, a student handler for Butler Blue III. “He is actually really cool and fun to hang out with,” he said. “He takes his job really seriously and really has fun with it.” Kaltenmark is both passionate about Butler and his career in public relations. “As an alumnus, I deﬁnitely enjoy doing what I do and advancing the university,” Kaltenmark said. “I just take a lot of pride into coming to work everyday.

Photo by Jaclyn McConnell

Kaltenmark’s SGA presidential portrait hanging in Atherton Union. “It deﬁnitely gets me out of bed and I love it, I work tirelessly for it and it’s just a lot of fun.” While Kaltenmark has spent much time at hi alma mater since graduating, he still feels strongly about the institution. “I still feel a little bit of

nostalgia, so that’s cool,” Kaltenmark said. “I think it is a testament to how special Butler is and how much it means to me. “I consider it a dream job because I am at the place I love and I am doing exactly what I want to be doing.”

Pleased to ﬁnally announce that I am now the Director of External Relations at @butleru. Long time coming! So thrilled. #dreamjob #GoDawgs @MSKALTENMARK VIA TWITTER FEB. 3, 2014

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Butler emails still active shortly after graduation

MARAIS JACON-DUFFY

MJACONDU@BUTLER.EDU NEWS EDITOR

Students looking toward graduation should also look into finding a new email provider. University students who are on track to graduate in May will not be able to use their Butler email after Aug. 1, of this year, according to Scott Kincaid, chief information officer. Email termination is not dependent on a length of time, but on what the Registrar’s Office determines a student’s status to be. For instance, if a student is in Butler’s pharmacy program, his or her email will not expire after four years, but after six when schooling at Butler is over. Students who appear

to be graduating this year will receive an email from Information Technology soon explaining when their email accounts will be shut off and how to go about forwarding mail to a new address. Craig Stanley, senior systems analyst in Butler’s IT Department, said Aug. 1 seems to be a sensible cutoff date because students will likely know by this time if they will not be returning for another semester, and also because software licensing and other expenses are easily paid by this deadline. Mail sent to students’ Butler email accounts can be forwarded to another account for up to one year after they are shut off. “Years ago we didn’t do forwarding and emails were

just shut off completely,” Stanley said. “But email is critical for things like job searches. People had big concerns about losing their information on their Butler emails, so now we provide the forwarding option.” Stanley said students who wish to keep the “Butler name” in their email address can contact the alumni ofﬁce to set up an alumni.butler. edu email address. Students can also sign up with Bulldog Nation—a class directory for Butler alumni—should they wish to ﬁnd other options to stay in touch with classmates once emails expire. Items stored in BUFiles can also be forwarded to a new location before a student graduates, Stanley said. Instructions to do so

Faculty and staff bond with brown bags

COLIN LIKAS

CLIKAS@BUTLER.EDU EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Students at Butler University get the opportunity to meet and interact with new and varying individuals. while on campus. At the same time, those helping to provide a college experience to students can also interact and become companions. This is a key goal for Butler Staff Assembly’s “informal lunches.” The ﬁrst two of four scheduled hour-long lunches were held Jan. 7 and Feb. 4 in the Campus Club. The next two will take place March 4 in Atherton Union Room 326 and April 1 in C-Club. Assistant Director of Admission Pam Nixon is the convener of Staff Assembly’s activities and socials committee, which hosts the informal lunches. She said the idea for the lunches came from a discussion she had with JoAnn Weber, a Finance Ofﬁce administrative secretary. Nixon said the lunches allow faculty and staff to meet and connect with fellow employees they may not frequently see. “We decided we didn’t want it to have to be a lunch where people were required to go out somewhere, carpool and have to pay for it, if that was an issue,” Nixon said. “The whole goal is to really have people connect during work hours.” Nixon said holding the lunches in C-Club or the Marketplace allows employees the option to eat at either location, or to bring a brown bag lunch. The reaction to the informal lunch idea among Staff Assembly was “nothing but positive,” said Josh Downing, Staff Assembly executive committee chair.

SEX CRIME: BUTLER IS NOT IMMUNE

FROM PAGE ONE Grievance Resolution Process for Faculty, Students and Staff. The policy, developed in line the One Policy, One Process model, became effective at the start of 2014. The revised policy is the same policy that previously applied to students, but now also applies to faculty and staff. In addition to the Title IX policy, which governs university action, Butler students who are accused of sexual assault also have the potential to be prosecuted under Indiana state code. Every sexual assault case involves the Marion County prosecutor’s ofﬁce, Hunter said. Whether or not charges are

“Anytime you can get people together, especially when it’s informal, it’s a good thing,” Downing said. “The underlying thing is getting to know people on campus, so you don’t feel pressure in a laid-back environment.” Jessica Brolsma, activities and socials committee member and exploratory studies academic advisor, said she was excited to see the informal lunches, in part because they can allow faculty and staff to take a breather from the daily grind. “I think it’s really easy to get bogged down with the tasks you’re doing in your job,” Brolsma said. “So I think it’s important for people to take a break during the workday to de-stress a bit.” Brolsma, Downing and Nixon were not able to attend the ﬁrst two informal lunches, but Downing said attendance at the lunches will be a topic of discussion at the Staff Assembly executive committee meeting today. Nixon said students could potentially be involved in these lunches in the future, saying it would be “just another chance for people to ﬁnd common ground.” The informal lunch concept is just one of several programs executed by Staff Assembly’s activities and socials committee. Brolsma said allowing faculty and staff to know they are part of something bigger than themselves is a goal for activities the committee hosts. “I think, just having that opportunity for us to come together as a whole group is important,” Brolsma said. “Even on a campus where we’re all working together, it is important to make relationships.”

brought against the suspect is at the discretion of the county prosecutor’s ofﬁce. The burden of proof under Indiana code differs from that outlined in the Butler administrative policy, said Bill Weber, BUPD assistant police chief. “The difference of proving guilt is like a teeter totter,” Weber said. “With a criminal case in the county or state court, the teeter totter must tip all the way over and prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. On the student conduct side, the teeter totter only has to tip a little bit to one side and prove a preponderance of evidence of guilt, or a simple majority of 51 percent.” Therefore, a student’s status of guilt could differ in a criminal court and in the eyes of a university due to a lowered

threshold, Hunter said. Regarding locations on campus where sexual assaults have occurred, Hunter said BUPD will investigate any case that is brought to them. “It doesn’t matter if the incident takes place in southern Indiana, a criminal proceeding will happen no matter what,” Hunter said. Hunter and Weber said they were not at liberty to discuss either of the rape cases from December or January due to rules outlined in FERPA and out of respect for the investigation. “These are tough cases for all involved,” Hunter said. “For the survivor and for the accused. We know this is something that is underreported but when it is reported to (BUPD), we do our best to investigate the case thoroughly.”

are laid out on Butler IT’s website. Stanley said his top choice for a new email provider would be Microsoft Outlook or Gmail, because they are likely familiar to recent Butler grads. Butler graduate Ginny Swale said she felt she had ample time to forward her mail from her Butler account before graduating last year. Swale was also able to stay connected with Butler classmates and professors through social media. “I was already friends with some of my professors on Facebook,” Swale said. Students who may need a short extension or have a change of plans can contact the IT department to keep their email active past the Aug. 1 deadline.

Forwarding options for @butler.edu accounts are located under the email login boxes.

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Worst in show

Bulldogs routed by Xavier, fall to Big East cellar MATTHEW VANTRYON MVANTRYO@BUTLER.EDU

ASST SPORTS EDITOR

Photos by Michael Andrews

Senior forward Erik Fromm slams home a reverse dunk. Fromm played 17 minutes off the bench and scored two points.

Indiana Pacers stars Paul George, David West and George Hill visited Hinkle Fieldhouse on Tuesday night. Xavier men’s basketball coach Chris Mack jokingly mentioned in his press conference that he wished the trio could suit up for his team. Brandon Miller likely wishes the same. The Butler basketball season continued its free fall on Tuesday night, as the Bulldogs (12-12, 2-10) fell flat against Xavier (17-7, 7-4), losing 64-50 in front of a sparse Hinkle crowd. Butler struggled on the offensive end in the opening half, as the Musketeers gave the Bulldogs very few good looks at the basket. Junior guard Alex Barlow hit a pair of 3-pointers and led the team with eight points at the halfway point. Khyle Marshall had marginal success inside, scoring six points in the half. Meanwhile, freshman guard Dee Davis nailed three 3-pointers in the opening half for Xavier. Davis came into the game averaging about seven points per game this season. Butler found itself within four points as the clock ticked down, but Xavier finished the half on a 5-0 run to take a 31-22 lead into the locker room. Xavier lost the turnover battle eight to five, but Butler was only able to score four points off the mistakes.

SMITH: FORMER BULLDOG BATTLES CANCER FROM PAGE ONE

until he returned to the United States but began treatment immediately afterward. Smith has since undergone two rounds of chemotherapy. Smith is not the only member of the Butler athletic community to have been affected by cancer in recent years. Jim Peal, Butler’s head strength and conditioning coach, was diagnosed with colon cancer toward the end of January last year. Peal said good luck and good people have helped him fight the disease. “I was very fortunate to catch it early, and I was fortunate to have prayers and support from people,” Peal said. Peal has been cancer free for a year and went in for his annual exam yesterday. He described his cancer as “best case scenario,” with treatment going smoothly. As words of advice for the former Butler standout Smith, Peal said being proactive is essential. “You’ve got to get up in the morning, (and) you’ve got to get yourself moving,” Peal said. Peal said he has no doubt Smith has what it takes to overcome this challenge. “Andrew is a special person,” Peal said. “Andrew will do what he can do (to fight his cancer).” Women’s basketball coach Beth Couture was diagnosed with breast cancer in April 2009 and has been cancer-free for five years. She said her lifestyle helped her mentality when fighting her illness. “Being an athlete and competitor helped me,” Couture said. “You have to go into fight mode.”

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Smith went to three NCAA tournaments while playing for the Bulldogs. His first two trips were back-to-back NCAA National Championship games. Couture said she believes Smith will benefit from the same mentality. “I know that he’s a fighter,” Couture said. “He’s going to understand the journey he has ahead of him.” The diagnosis hit close to home for many current members of the Butler basketball team, including junior guard Alex Barlow. Barlow played with Smith for two years and lost a cousin to cancer. “I’m just kind of in shock,” Barlow said. “At the same time, you want to be there for Drew. I know Drew will fight it and beat it.” Barlow said Smith always

showed grit and determination on the court and is used to overcoming adversity. “He was always ﬁghting on the court,” Barlow said. “He’s dealt with adversity. Going through chemo, he’ll take it head on just like he (took on being) a captain his senior year.” Junior forward Kameron Woods also reached out to Smith via Twitter, posting, “Easy to get wrapped up in wins and losses when in the grand scheme of things it’s much deeper than that... praying for Big Drew and his fam [sic].” The announcement of Smith’s diagnosis elicited widespread

Xavier scorched the nets in the opening minutes. The Musketeers hit 52 percent of their shots heading into the locker room. Butler shot 35 percent from the field. Butler’s struggles continued as the second half began. Xavier started the half on an 8-0 run to extend its lead to 17. Butler scored two field goals in the first ten minutes of the half, and Xavier opened the half on a 17-4 run. The rest of the game followed the same script. Butler faced as great as a 24-point deficit with 12 minutes to go. Coach Brandon Miller said his team just didn’t have what it took to win. “Coming off a three-game road swing where we played good basketball in stretches, tonight we did not play very good basketball,” Miller said. “We had one of those

nights where everything we threw up didn’t seem to go in. We didn’t have it.” Miller labeled it a “perfect storm” that didn’t go his team’s way. Freshman guard Elijah Brown led Butler with 14 points. Barlow added 11, and freshman forward Andrew Chrabascz ﬁnished with seven. Butler shot 33 percent from the ﬂoor, while the Musketeers shot 54 percent. Butler will try to rebound on Thursday night, as the Bulldogs host No. 18 Creighton. The Bluejays are ranked second in the conference with a 19-4 record. The Bulldogs will have their hands full stopping All-American Doug McDermott. McDermott averages 25.3 points per game this season and scored 28 points in the January contest. Tip-off is at 7 p.m. at Hinkle.

Indiana Pacers players David West (right) and Paul George sat courtside for last night’s game. West graduated from Xavier in 2003. reaction, not only among the Butler community, but throughout Indianapolis as well. Indianapolis Colts head coach Chuck Pagano—who was diagnosed with cancer in September 2012—reached out to Smith to offer his well wishes, as did Indiana University men’s basketball head coach Tom Crean. “Andrew Smith is one of the toughest players we have ever competed against and has a Very Bright future in this World [sic]. Get healthy soon,” Crean said via Twitter. Xavier men’s basketball head coach Chris Mack also voiced his support via Twitter. “If former Butler great Andrew Smith attacks cancer like he attacked basketball games, cancer has no chance. Prayers from Xavier Basketball,” Mack tweeted. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma affected 69,740 people in 2013 and accounted for 4.2 percent of all cancer cases, according to the National Cancer Institute. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma generally affects those over the age of 65, with only 3.8 percent of cases affecting those between the ages of 20-34. As for Smith’s professional career, all plans are currently on hold. How the remainder of Smith’s contract with the Neptunas will be handled is currently unknown. “Right now, we and his family and friends are 100 percent focused on his health,” Porter said. Porter echoed the sentiment that, if anyone can beat cancer, Smith is that individual. “If there’s a guy who can bounce back, Andrew is that guy,” Porter said. “He’s a ﬁghter, a grinder, (and) he’s tough minded and tough spirited. If I had to pick a player to come out on top, Andrew would be that guy.”

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The on-campus blackout has Butler Student Affairs and Information Technology working toward a solution. “We want to explore options for getting it right,” said Levester Johnson, vice president for student affairs. In the long term, Student Affairs wants to get all students to buy into a package that has Fox Sports 1 built into the on-campus television package, Johnson said. Residential Life and Student Affairs are in the process of ﬁnding out how much more the channel upgrade would cost students. They can determine how much the cost would be per student once the cost is spread between all rooms on campus, Johnson and Cunningham said. For those students who have chosen to upgrade already, it costs them an additional $14 a month, according to www.butler.edu. Although no plans are set in stone, the plan will most likely cost some additional money, Johnson said. In the interim, Student Affairs is looking for a way to show games, now via one of the premium package boxes, somewhere on campus such as the Reilly Room, Johnson said. “If there is anything that we would want to shoot for it would be that by the time we have the Big East tournament, we will have some kind of access,” Johnson said. Goodwin has mixed feelings about the future plans. “I would deﬁnitely be interested in watching the game on campus (at) somewhere like Hinkle,” Goodwin said. “I do not want to buy a cable box for one channel. The university should pay for it with the revenue generated from Fox.”

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

Men’s basketball vs. Creighton 7 p.m.

Track and Field Iowa State Track Classic Women’s tennis vs. Cincinnati 3 p.m. Baseball vs. Saint Joseph’s 3 p.m.

Women’s basketball vs. Georgetown Men’s tennis vs. ASA 2 p.m. Baseball vs. Albany 4 p.m.

Baseball vs. Canisius 10 a.m.

No events scheduled

Men’s basketball at St. John’s 9 p.m.

Swimming Big East Championships

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Schippers leads on and off the court BRENDAN KING BAKING@BUTLER.EDU SPORTS REPORTER

Thirteen seconds remained in the Big East Conference women’s basketball contest between the Providence Friars and the Butler Bulldogs. The score was tied 69-69 at Hinkle Fieldhouse. Butler junior guard Taylor Schippers took a pass from teammate Lexus Murry and launched a deep 3-point attempt. The shot fell, and it would serve as the game-winning bucket. This is just one example of Schippers’ impact at Butler since transferring from Oklahoma State before the 2012-2013 season. In nearly two seasons at Butler, Schippers has scored 649 points, including 256 in 23 games this season. Among her career points are 85 3-point baskets. Growing up in Houston, Texas, Schippers played numerous sports. But she said she knew basketball would be the sport she would stick with. “I’ve played since I was ﬁve years old,” Schippers said. “I played soccer and volleyball, but once I got to high school I narrowed it down quite a bit. You need to really focus on one sport if you want to play in college.” Before she became a Bulldog, Schippers was a four-time All-State selection at Concordia Lutheran High School and ﬁnished her high school career with 2,935 points. Schippers started as a freshman, and by her senior season, she was averaging 26 points per game. “We made it to (the) state

(championship) all four years,” Schippers said. “We didn’t get the win, but it was a lot of fun.” Schippers then decided to attend Oklahoma State University. She played there for one season, participating in 33 games and averaging three points per contest. Ultimately, when Schippers decided to transfer from Oklahoma State, she said Butler’s coaching staff stood out from the rest. “I liked the atmosphere that we have as a school,” Schippers said. “Coach (Beth) Couture reminded me a lot of my coach from OSU. She has always had my back and she has been there for me through ups and downs.” After transferring from a Big 12 Conference school, then entering the Atlantic 10 Conference and now the Big East with Butler, Schippers said her time in the Big 12 gives her an advantage. “The Big 12 is by far the best conference in the country. The girls playing there are huge,” Schippers said. “I felt like I was ready for the Big East. I had an advantage in experience and just knowing what it was like to play in a bigger conference.” Schippers has stepped into a leadership role with the team, which has three juniors and two seniors. “I’ve played point guard all my life, so I have always taken the leadership role,” Schippers said. “Everyone has a different way to lead. I’d say I lead by example rather than vocally. I’m always in the gym going hard.” Freshman guard Ashton

Feldhaus said Schippers played a large role in her recruiting process and is now one of her best friends and inspirations on and off the court. “I got to know her before I even came to Butler,” Feldhaus said. “Taylor would text me often just to check in on me and see if I needed anything.” In addition to having a Southern accent, both Schippers and Feldhaus have a similar style of play. Both are threats to shoot from beyond the arc, as each averages about three 3-point attempts per game. “Taylor always has something positive to say to me,” Feldhaus said. “She can tell when I’m getting frustrated, and she’s so good at talking me through things. Taylor and I have gotten really close since I’ve been at Butler, so it’s so fun watching her play.” Schippers said she has always had her family’s support in her efforts. She calls her father her biggest inspiration, but she also looks up to a wellknown National Basketball Association athlete. “I look up to Kobe Bryant because his work ethic is crazy,” Schippers said. “You can say whatever you want about him, but he puts so much work into the game, and that’s why he’s so good.” Next year, Schippers will be entering her senior season. As that comes closer, so do opportunities to play basketball after college. She said she is looking to play after she gets her Butler diploma. “I have been thinking about it a lot lately as it is

Photo by Amy Street

Junior guard Taylor Schippers (left) during a game this season, as coach Beth Couture looks on. coming closer,” Schippers said. “I’m planning on going to play overseas somewhere like Australia, Spain or England.” Until that day comes, however, Schippers said she is aiming to put the Bulldogs in contention for a Big East championship. “The goal for the rest of the season is to win the Big East Tournament, (and) then it just keeps going from there,” Schippers said. Feldhaus said Schippers knows how to spark the team, whether with a gamewinning 3-point shot or her general attitude. “Taylor is the most competitive player when we step on the court,” Feldhaus said. “She has a want-towin attitude, so when we see Taylor get ﬁred up, it gets everybody going.”

Photo by Amy Street

Taylor Schippers looks for the open teammate. Schippers transferred to Butler from Oklahoma State University her sophomore year.

TRACK AND FIELD The Butler track and ﬁeld team had a record-breaking weekend at the Meyo Invitational at Notre Dame. The Bulldogs set new school records in four events, and several individuals set new personal bests in the 30team meet. Coach Matt Roe said he was very pleased with the team’s outing in South Bend. “We performed really, really well,” Roe said. “Across the board we had great performances, and I thought our sprint-jump group really stepped up and did a great job in particular. And that starts with Nicole Hudec,

Nigel Spears and Alex Berry.” Those three athletes all set personal bests at Notre Dame. Hudec, a junior, broke two of her own school records. Her triple jump record fell when she jumped 11.68 meters, and she beat her record in the 60-meter dash by recording a time of 7.88 seconds. Senior Alex Berry ran the 500-meter race in 1:03.62, which was good enough to break his school record. While not a new school record, senior Nigel Spears set a personal best in long jump with a 6.82-meter jump. Fellow seniors Andrew Wallace and Matt Schumacker

later joined Berry and Spears in the 1,600-meter relay. The team placed ﬁrst in its event and set a school record with a time of 3:16.69. Roe said other distance runners that competed this week, several of whom set personal records, also impressed him. Junior James Martin ran a lifetime-best 14:28.10 in the 5-kilometer race, freshman Maddie Westerhoff completed the 3,000-meter run in 10:15, and freshman Alex VanHoof ran the ﬁrst 5-kilometer race of her life in a time of 17:38. The coach also said he was glad to see senior Katie

Clark start her season at the invitational and that he was impressed by junior Tom Curr’s mile time of 4:03. Next weekend, the team has two meets—one at Iowa State and the other at Purdue. These are the ﬁnal events before the Bulldogs compete in the Big East Championships. As of right now, Roe said nine athletes will head to Iowa State and the other members of the team will either go to Purdue or have the weekend off. One of the runners going to Iowa State’s meet is sophomore Erik Peterson.

“I’m for sure competing in the 3k and possibly the DMR,” Peterson said. “We’re going to give it a go, so it should be exciting” DMR stands for distance medley relay, an event in which a team of four athletes team up to complete 1,200-meter, 400-meter, 800-meter and 1,600-meter runs, in that order. With about a week and a half until the conference meet, Roe said this weekend’s meets will be used as tune-up for the team to help prepare athletes for the conference meet. “We’ll deﬁnitely be trying to sharpen up, because most

of the work of the season has been done at this point,” he said. “So we’re just trying to get rested, make sure we stay healthy and try and sharpen up in the next couple of weeks.” Peterson said the goal for the Big East Championships is for each athlete to do his or her best and score as many points as possible for the team. “It’s really just a team effort, just trying to put it all out there and put it all together on the same day as a team,” Peterson said. -Joe Hasenstab

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BASEBALL

SOFTBALL

Bulldogs ready for new season JOE HASENSTAB

The Butler baseball team will have its first games this weekend in North Carolina, officially kicking off its first season in the Big East Conference. The Bulldogs will face off against Wright State, Saint Joseph’s, University of Albany and Canisius over the course of three days, starting Friday. Mother Nature has not made preparing for a second conference change in two seasons easy, however. Because of the weather, the team has been forced to change its practice schedule and only practice inside. Even with these setbacks, junior pitcher Eric Stout said the team is excited to get started. “(Practices) have been going great,” Stout said. “One of the biggest issues to deal with is obviously the snow. The first time we are going to put on our cleats is going to be in North Carolina. So that’s a little difficult. “But we’ve just been dealing with just odd practices times, and we’re just doing the best we can with the facilities that we have.” The Bulldogs will also have to adjust to new competition in the Big East, starting April 4, against Seton Hall.

The Big East features seven schools with baseball programs. Butler was picked to finish tied for sixth in the conference in a recent coaches’ poll, while fellow conference newcomer Creighton was tabbed to finish first. Despite this, coach Steve Farley, who is entering his 23rd season as the team’s head coach, said in an email that he still has high expectations for his squad. “Other than Xavier, Butler baseball has never played another game against a current Big East school,” Farley said. “We aren’t sure what to expect. Teams like Creighton, Seton Hall and St. John’s stand out as programs which have been consistent winners in past years.” Farley said the team’s goal is to finish in the top four in the league and qualify for the conference tournament. Farley said he hopes the weather does not stop any of the team’s games this season and added that he thinks the four games in North Carolina will be a good test to start the season. “We’ll compete against a good variety of teams,” Farley said. “The opener against Wright State will be an excellent challenge, as they have always been one of the top teams in the Horizon League.”

Butler women’s tennis is coming off a busy weekend, with the team playing as many matches as it has all season—four—in three days. The team matched its 1-3 record over the four-game span and is now 2-6 on the year. The Bulldogs kicked off the weekend with a double-header Friday against Southeastern Missouri State and the University of Indianapolis. The Bulldogs dropped their ﬁrst match of the day to Southeastern, losing 5-2, but came back with a 4-3 victory over UIndy. The win snapped a four-game losing streak for the Bulldogs. Leading the Bulldogs was senior

captain Stephanie McLoughlin, who was perfect on the day in the No. 1 singles spot. McLoughlin squeaked by SEMO freshman Valerie Kashina, 7-5, 4-6, 10-2 in her ﬁrst match, and then came up with a 6-3, 5-7, 10-8 win over UIndy sophomore Allie Smith. The Bulldogs’ momentum did not carry into Saturday, however, where they were trounced by the 39thranked Indiana University 7-0. The Bulldogs lost every singles match in straight sets, as the Hoosiers improved to 6-1 on the year. Sunday would not turn out to be much better for Butler, as the team ﬁnished the weekend by being swept 7-0 at home against Illinois State. All

JHASENST@BUTLER.EDU STAFF REPORTER

Photo by Amy Street

Butler pitchers practice inside the Butler Bubble. The Bulldgos will begin their season in North Carolina. Stout said he views the Big East as a better baseball conference than the Atlantic 10. The Bulldogs went 12-12 in conference play last season, ﬁnishing outside the A-10 tournament. “I think we’re ready,” Stout said. “We’ve got a great team, great guys, a lot of young guys. So we’re transitioning, and I think it’s going to go pretty well.” Stout, a 6-3 left-hander, was named to the preseason All-Big East team, something he called a great honor. However, he said, he realizes the team is more important than the individual.

TENNIS

three of Butler’s doubles teams were swept 6-0, and every singles match was once again decided in straight sets. The Bulldogs will have a break before taking on University of Cincinnati (1-5) at home Friday. The men’s team continued its four-game win streak and improved to 4-1 Saturday with a commanding 7-0 victory over Bradley University. The shutout was Butler’s ﬁrst since the 2010 season, when the team had three. The No. 3 doubles team of junior Pulok Bhattacharya and sophomore Brandon Woods helped save the shutout by securing the doubles

“If we, as a team, have success, then individuals will have success. So we’re looking to surprise some teams in the Big East and make a huge impact.” Stout added that the team uses the low preseason ranking as motivation. “The same thing happened last year with the A-10,” he said. “I think we were picked second to last in the A-10, and now we are tied for last (with Villanova). “Preseason rankings aren’t everything, but it’s deﬁnitely a lot of motivation to prove people wrong.”

point in a 6-4 victory, after the Woldmoe brothers were defeated 6-2 in the No. 2 spot. Woods also came in clutch in singles with a close 5-6, 6-3, 6-3 win in the No. 4 spot. Also winning in dramatic fashion was junior Sam O’Neil in a 4-6, 6-5, 6-2 in the No. 2 spot. The Bulldogs will be at home today against the UIndy team (30) in a crosstown showdown. The Greyhounds are coming off of a win against Indiana University-Purdue University Indianpolis and will look to end Butler’s ﬁve-game win streak. -Mitch Riportella

The Butler Bulldogs softball team split its season-opening series in the Music City classic in Nashville, and the bulldogs now look forward to a tournament in Arkansas. Butler opened its season with a 3-2 extra-inning win versus Belmont. Despite being held hitless through the first six innings, the Bulldogs pushed across a run in the top of the seventh inning to force the extra frame and scored two runs in the top of the eighth to secure the win. Sophomore Kristin Gutierrez picked up the win in relief for Butler. The team split a doubleheader the next day, dropping the opening game 7-2 before winning the nightcap. Butler picked up its second extra inning victory 3-2, despite watching a 2-0 lead slip away in the last of the seventh. The Bulldogs dropped the final game of the Classic 6-3. They surrendered three runs in the fifth inning and were unable to mount a comeback. Butler has improved early in the 2013-2014 season. Compared to last season, the Bulldogs did not pick up their first win until their seventh game, in the back half of a double header. They defeated Morgan State 8-3. Senior Leah Bry was active throughout the tournament, pitching in three of Butler ‘s four games and striking out 16 batters. In 12 innings of play, Bry picked up a win, a loss and two saves. A few young players on the Bulldog team are already making a name for themselves. Freshman catcher Brandyce Sallee left the Music City Classic with her first home run, five hits and four runs batted-in during her first four career starts. Sallee was one of the four Bulldogs were able to pitch in and hit a home run during the Music City Classic. Butler will look to keep rolling in the wins this season when the team travels to the Woo-Pig Classic. The Bulldogs will face Arkansas, Jackson State, North Carolina State and UKMC in the three-day tournament. The Bulldogs finished runner-up in their last appearance at the WooPig Classic during the 2012 season. -Marko Tomich

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as a

Dancer *

*sophomore Emily Barth, to be exact.

Story by Vanessa Staublin Illustrations by Kevin Vogel

7:30 a.m. Wake up. Shower/get ready. Eat breakfast (fruit).

10:00 a.m.

TO O LILLY HALL!

“I have never taken a dance class like this before, and it puts me a little out of my comfort zone.”

9:00 a.m.

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people places dates events people places dates events people

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for a world dance class.

...and GHS.

Time for accounting class

11:50 a.m.

A quick lunch

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12:20 p.m. An hour and a half of ballet and an hour of pas de deux (partner dancing), with a microeconomics class in between

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12:00 a.m., or just before 5:15 p.m. She usually stays behind a little longer and practices by herself when class ends.

“This is the only ‘me time’ I really get, so I usually watch The Mindy Project while I eat dinner.

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Homework in her room

8:00 p.m. Hanging out with Kappas

“It’s important that I get enough hours of sleep so I’m not exhausted for the next day ahead.”

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Putting the ‘Indiana’ in Indianapolis Museum of Art BREANNA MANLEY BMANLEY@BUTLER.EDU STAFF REPORTER

Photos courtesy of the IMA

Robert Indiana’s artwork is being put on display after waiting eight months for the largest gallery at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The print retrospective exhibition will be on display from Feb. 16, through May 4, showcasing Indiana’s artistry to his fellow Hoosiers in Indianapolis for the first time since his last exhibition in the city in 1978. Indiana, formerly Robert Clark until 1958, now resides in Maine. This is where the exhibition’s curator, Martin Krause, traveled and completed extensive interviews with Indiana to understand the motives behind his artwork. “We decided that it’s probably a good time to decode that information for people, and it’s not something that you could look in his work and could really understand what the personal angle is,” Krause said. Indiana became popular during the first generation of 1960s pop artists, including Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Krause said. Indiana’s claim to fame began when The Museum of Modern Art asked him to design its Christmas card in 1965, according to www. robertindiana.com. Indiana submitted his iconic LOVE work and success followed soon after. The IMA first purchased the local’s LOVE painting in 1967 and later bought the sculpture. “We’ve been collecting his work ever since, and he’s had a number of exhibitions here, so that makes sense since he sort of is from Indianapolis,” Krause said. Krause, with the help of John Wilmerding, a retired professor from Princeton University and former curator of The National Gallery of Art in Washington, suggested the project four years ago.

“We’ve never shown his fine art prints before—we’ve shown his sculpture and his paintings— but never his prints,” Krause said. “That seemed like a reasonable thing to exhibit.” Krause said the 53-print exhibit consists of about 20 pieces that belong to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the remainder are borrowed from Indiana. For each year of the 1960s, Indiana created an auto portrait, much like a self-portrait. However, instead of facial features, he used symbols, colors and words that were important to him at a specific time in his life. Audience members will be invited to create an auto portrait of their own during the exhibition. “Each visitor will be able to do the same thing using Robert Indiana’s basic template, and then they can add their own colors, words and numbers that are significant to them and electronically create their own auto portrait,” Krause said. The exhibit also features “Decode Yourself” where visitors can individualize numbers, colors and words to create their own symbolic vocabulary much like Indiana used in his work. Audio guides, iPads containing interviews with the artist and other technological supplementary information create an overall experience for guests. “That’s what the museum does— it’s part of our mission to bring artwork to the city of Indianapolis, new things to see and new things to understand, so that’s just the cost of doing business for us,” Krause said. Krause said he expects the exhibit to be popular, being it has been more than 40 years since their last retrospect exhibition of Indiana. “It’s visually very attractive and dynamic and bold,” Krause said. “I think that it will be quite a splendid show.”

Midwinter Dance Festival underway KEVIN VOGEL

KJVOGEL@BUTLER.EDU ARTS, ETC. EDITOR

The dance department’s annual Midwinter Dance Festival takes to a bigger stage tonight and this weekend. This year marks the ﬁrst time the festival will be held in the Schrott Center, which opened last spring. The venue is also not the only part of the festival that has changed from previous years. The format is different as well. This year, there will be two different programs, offering audience members the opportunity to see more works throughout the festival. Both programs feature dance legend George Balanchine’s “Valse-Fantaisie” and Gustavo Ramirez Sansaro’s “En Camino,” but the works performed in between run the gamut of styles. Many are world premieres choreographed by Butler University faculty. “Because our department has grown, we have the opportunity to feature more dancers,” said Kate Webb, a sophomore dance major. She said the dancers have been working on perfecting these works since the spring semester started. Webb is dancing in “The Other Self,” a new work with choreography by resident choreographer Marek Cholewa. She said being part of the creative process was very rewarding. “(The work) is a part of us,” she said. “And we are a part of it.” Another new work being premiered is Sansaro’s “En Camino,” created for the Butler Ballet on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Clowes Memorial Hall.

Before each performance, there will be a pre-show featuring costumes from the Ballet Russes, a hugely inﬂuential ballet company which premiered works like Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky’s “The Rite of Spring.” The Ballet Russes was conceived by Serge Diaghilev. Diaghilev eventually hired George Balanchine as ballet master of the Ballet Russe, and Balanchine was with the company for many years. Balanchine has become respected as an inﬂuential innovator in the world of contemporary ballet. Bringing this story back to Butler, assistant professor of dance Patrick Hinson worked with Balanchine as a member of the New York City Ballet. Hinson also has choreography featured in the Midwinter Dance Festival. “People (who attend) can see history walking all around them,” Webb said. She also said the mixed bill is nice for people who are not as familiar with dance, as it features short works of varied styles. Tickets to the performances cost $19 for adults, $8 for students and $13 for senior citizens. “We’d be really happy if people came out and shared the experience with us,” Webb said. Midwinter Dance Festival Program A Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Friday at 8 p.m. Saturday at 2 p.m. Program B Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at 8 p.m. Sunday at 2 p.m.

Students rehearse a scene from “Terminal” called The Interview. Terminal, with its 12-person cast, opens next Wednesday.

Photo by Jaclyn McConnell

Meet the cast of “Terminal,” before it’s too late MALLORY DUNCAN

MSDUNCAN@BUTLER.EDU ASST. ARTS, ETC. EDITOR

Some of the cast of “Terminal” has revealed secrets of the show before it opens for preview. The show runs from Feb. 19, through March 2, in Lilly Hall 168. “Terminal,” by Susan Yankowitz, is a story of death and how people cope with it. It was written in the 1960s and has strong ties to the Vietnam War and other U.S. issues of that time. Even some Holocaust references are thrown in. There are no real main characters. Instead, the actors play multiple characters throughout the play. For sophomore theatre major Rhett Dial, the play is difﬁcult because of the topic of death. “It is a challenging topic to sit there and think about how we, as the actors, have dealt with death in our lives, and also how it’s happened throughout history that death has become to be what it is,” Dial said. But he said because every person has a different expierence with death in their own lives, they will react to the play in different ways. “If someone has a husband who was in Vietnam, they might react a certain way to a certain part, or if someone in the audience is a mortician, then they might ﬁnd some of these parts funny,” Dial said. Humor is a part of the show, even though the overarching topic is death. One of Dial’s characters is the Embalmer. And from

this character comes Dial’s favorite line: “The body is walking thoroughly with special attention to the organs.” This line portrays the humor in the show, and shows variety, Dial said. Like Dial, freshman theatre major Alexander Borello plays no speciﬁc part in ‘Terminal,’ but said he enjoys being in a “different kind of show that not many people have seen before.” To him, “Terminal” is an exploration of death and dying. “It’s about what it means when people die, how they die and what it means for us—the fact that, one day, all of us will die,” Borello said. Borello said acting in the show is a very spirtual experience. “There’s a lot of grief and sorrow that goes with talking about death, but there’s a lot of hope too,” Borello said. “There’s an uplifting part as well.” Fitting with his spiritual experience, Borello said his favorite part to play is God’s servant. Audience members will really connect with the show in their own ways, Borello said. “A lot of people will be looking at life from a new perspective,” he said. “People will see the upliﬁting part, how cool (death) can be, and how pure it can be as well.” Borello’s favorite line comes not from himself, but from one of the main characters, Veronica. Spoken at the end of the production, he said the line is the essence of what the entire work is about. “The judgement of your life is your life.”

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OPINION

Allow juniors to live as adults and move off campus

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A LITTLE AUD by Audrey Meyer | Collegian cartoonist | ammeyer2@butler.edu

OUR POINT THIS WEEK: HOUSING OPTIONS ARE TOO LIMITED AND, IN SOME CASES, TOO EXPENSIVE TO FORCE JUNIORS TO LIVE ON CAMPUS | 20-0-2 We believe Butler University’s three-year on-campus residency rule needs to be repurposed to allow juniors to live off campus. Our primary reasons for this argument lie in the institution’s ongoing housing crunch and the cost to live in Apartment Village. There is no doubt Butler is going through a period of signiﬁcant growth and change. In three of the last four years, Butler has welcomed a class of more than 1,000 students, including an all-time high of 1,111 in 2012. One of the few changes the university has been able to make in housing is working out a deal with Christian Theological Seminary to allow some Butler students to live in CTS apartments. Administration has pointed out that the university’s master plan calls for at least one more residence hall in the near future. Still, upperclassmen should have the option to get off campus starting their junior year in order to allow more room for freshmen and sophomores in on-campus residences. While this would cost the university some money, we believe this is better than potentially being labeled a school that forces

students into undesirable housing situations. Two changes in athletic conference membership have accompanied Butler’s growth. The conference membership changes alter our school’s peer institutions—schools Butler is comparable to and, in some cases, aims to be like. Butler’s approximately 3,900 undergraduate students at the start of this school year count for the lowest number of undergrads among Big East Conference institutions. However, eight of the 10 Big East institutions have fewer than 8,500 undergraduate students. Still, these other schools have many more options for on-campus housing, not including Greek houses. And all of the other nine schools allow juniors to live off campus. Villanova University, with an undergraduate population of approximately 7,100, boasts 26 on-campus housing options and allows all students to live offcampus. Providence College, which has the closest undergraduate population to Butler’s at approximately 4,200, features 15

on-campus living options and allows juniors to live off-campus. Only DePaul University has fewer on-campus living options than Butler, but DePaul’s website explicitly states it cannot guarantee on-campus housing, and the school allows all students to live off campus. Butler has ﬁve on-campus living options and some apartment space at CTS, excluding Greek houses, and has always expressed a guarantee of on-campus housing for all. This would be a more reasonable situation if juniors could live off campus. Additionally, the cost of Apartment Village—which many juniors wind up living in—is too great to charge to students who are not left with many other housing options. AV costs approximately $4,400 to live in per semester, according to Butler’s website. Furnishing and food purchases are not reﬂected in this cost. Meanwhile, there were apartments off campus that could be rented for less than $400 per month for the 2014-2015 school year, before the cost of utilities is factored in.

If all Butler students that currently live on campus had no desire to move off it, keeping the current on-campus residency requirement in place would be fair. However, when sophomores are signing leases for off-campus housing, there is clearly a desire for it. We can respect the fact Butler ultimately has to make money to survive, and keeping all juniors on campus aids that goal. But when the institution is attempting to grow and be

comparable to other Big East schools, considerations need to be made. We do not expect new housing complexes to pop up overnight. Therefore, reworking the oncampus residency rule would line up with Butler’s goals for the future, improve the school’s image and beneﬁt its students ﬁnancially. Butler should not aim to be a mirror image of any other Big East school, but this is one area in which following suit would strengthen our school.

Female journalists should receive equal opportunities The media industry needs to stop discriminating against women in sports news I love sports, especially football. I love watching two brutish armies waging combat, vying for a chance to play in the ultimate game- the Super Bowl. While I enjoy soccer and basketball as well, there is no sport I would rather watch over football. However, I know of someone who loves football even more than I do. Someone who has proven that they are a football force to be reckoned with. That person is my wife, Megan. Does that surprise you? If it does, it shouldn’t. Sports are not just for men. Yet, even some of the most respected women in sports journalism are scoffed at when they are on television. They are often viewed as pretty faces to keep men tuned in rather than respected for their craft. Sports journalist Erin Andrews is no stranger to that double standard. She once told the Hollywood Reporter sports blogs had been referring to her as the “Sideline Barbie.” Following the infamous Richard Sherman rant, she was attacked by Jeff Pearlman as being the “Kardashian of televised sports” and he believes there are more qualiﬁed female reporters that are overlooked because they may not be as attractive as Andrews. While I believe Andrews is a great sports reporter, Pearlman’s

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main point is not far from reality. Female journalists are often passed over for their male counterparts or for women who may know less about sports but can draw male eyes to television. I had the chance to interview Erica Rath, an aspiring sports journalist with a master’s degree in sports journalism. Despite her background, she has had a very difﬁcult time breaking into the industry. Even during her time as an intern for a professional sports team, she said she faced blatant gender bias. “Two male students, who went for the internship as well, didn’t have to interview at all,” she said, “I had to interview, send in clips, and meet with two department personnel before being offered (the internship).” As her time there went on, she said more discrimination seemed to become evident. Interns were chosen to attend several major sporting events such as the Big Ten tournament, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, and the BCS championship, etc. As the events came and went, she noticed women were not being chosen to go. “I got tickets to cover the (Sweet) 16 and (Elite) 8, but men

were sent to the Final Four and the championship,” Erica said. Even kindness can be seen as discrimination. Once, she was the only female reporter covering a game. All the reporters were standing; however, people kept offering her their seats and asking if she was OK. She noticed none of the male reporters received the same treatment. “I just want to be treated like a professional, like everyone else,” she said. Butler University is getting ready to launch a new major this fall, sports media. This is an exciting new venture for Butler and a great opportunity for all students to pursue a career in sports. But I believe staff and students need to help foster a growing female presence in sports. It cannot be just the responsibility of women to bring about change. Male students and faculty must learn respect for their female counterparts and help bring an end to gender bias in sports. Shannon Lane wrote a piece for The Hufﬁngton Post stating her disappointment in how students of her school reacted to ESPN reporter Sam Ponder, who was there for College GameDay. They shouted things like, “Just give me your number.” “As a female college student who hopes to one day join the ranks of sports journalist,” Lane wrote, “I cannot accept this treatment of women in sports. I cannot accept this future for myself and for those women like me who love sports and want to report on them.”

Erin Andrews is a prominent female sports journalist.

So if you are a woman and interested in pursuing a career in sports reporting, I hope you go after it. Do not allow yourself to be limited to being a sideline reporter. Create an age where female analysts will join their male

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Ditch the dorm—get dinner for two

The “hook-up” culture creates a hurdle for those looking for a serious relationship MORGAN LEGEL

A candlelit dinner for two, a walk through a park at night, and a romantic movie. These dates may seem cliché, but they are classic. However, a lot of students do not experience dates like these, or dates in general, while attending college. Butler, along with other universities, has developed a “hook-up” culture that suppresses the old-fashioned ideas of courtship. Having fun and staying casual is not a bad idea by any means. In fact, the culture of universities points more toward casual relationships. The downfall is that, because of the exposure of this new culture, some students do not know how to date or what is appropriate. Dating does not have to mean going to a fancy restaurant or ﬁnding a park to take a midnight stroll in. There just needs to be some

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effort put in from both parties. Think of a creative and inexpensive idea, such as going to the food court at the mall. Grab some food and then people-watch. Or think of a fun idea such as going to a sporting event. Just make an effort. It seems that more and more, instead of making an effort,

students are just casually hooking up and not getting into serious relationships. “I feel like, maybe, some people just don’t want the time commitment right now,” sophomore Melanie Shrontz said. “Maybe also, they just want to go out and have some fun now while they’re younger.”

Support our arts Music majors’ performances need more student attendance

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Undergraduate Butler University students are not always fond of the demanding requirements of the university’s core curriculum. The Perspectives in Creative Arts course “Music in Action” ﬁts this description. For students who take the course, attending concerts and recitals can be a hassle, especially if one is not a fan of classical music. Lisa Brooks, the assistant department chair for Butler University’s music program, said most of the students who attend the shows are either music majors themselves or are required to go because of class. “We do get some Greek folks who come to support their sister or their brother, (and) music majors will go. Other than that, I don’t think we get many,” Brooks said. However, students should have a greater interest in the recitals and Butler art programs. I took an 8 a.m. Music in Action course last spring. To say the least, I was not very interested in waking up so early for a core class.

But I found that I enjoyed the concerts I attended even though I only had a small interest in the genre. Brooks said the declining interest in classical concerts is cultural. “Most students don’t have the background in classical music,” Brooks said. “Some people feel like it sounds the same.” But these barriers did not hinder my ability to enjoy the shows I attended. What began as a requirement for class became a genuine interest for the music because I went into the situation with an open mind. That same effort and interest that goes into Butler athletic events can be mirrored in other areas of campus. Clearly, the performers prepare a lot to put on a good show for the Butler community, which is no different than any other performance-based activity, including the sports teams. Butler has no issues supporting events in Hinkle

Fieldhouse. The same effort by students should be placed in other areas, including musical performance programs. The recitals in the EidsonDuckwall Recital Hall in Robertson Hall were typically free, and the cost of other musical ensembles in the newly built Schrott Center is relatively low. Money is not the issue in this circumstance. The interest and awareness factors are the main reasons why student attendance for recitals is so low. But I would support Brooks’ opinion that students need to be open minded and attend a concert. They would be pleasantly surprised in realizing that the music is enjoyable. If you are like me, you listen to a lot more modern music than classical Bach and Beethoven. But music has the same fundamental properties in every genre. “Rhythm is rhythm. It looks the same on a piece of paper,” said Brooks. Without question, the musical recitals are high quality and worthy of recognition and praise. However, in the end, the Butler community must do more to support the arts. Contact columnist Julian Wyllie at jwyllie@butler.edu.

This fun, casual hook-up culture takes away from the chance to genuinely get to know someone. Instead, the focus is on hooking up and not properly dating. Furthermore, I believe there is a relationship between this emerging culture and a decline in marriages. According to a study done by The Hufﬁngton Post, marriage

rates are at a historic low. Not only are fewer people getting married, but people are getting married at an older age. The age of marriage was once early-20s, but lately the average age has been increasing toward the upper-20s and 30s. I grew up picturing myself getting married to my college sweetheart. My bridesmaids would be a mix of childhood friends and college favorites. However, now this is a difﬁcult concept for me to grasp. How can I develop a meaningful relationship that will help me decide my marital fate if I am living in a constant hook-up culture that contradicts it? Personally, I have not found this to be possible as of yet. There are a few tips that I follow to help me get one step closer to that meaningful relationship. First, if you do, in fact, want to go on a date with someone, do not text the person. Call him or her instead. Second, hanging out in a dorm room is not a date—it is a friendly hangout. And ﬁnally, the magic rule: If a hookup is not what you actually want, do not put yourself in the position for the encounter to turn into one. Contact columnist Morgan Legel at mlegel@butler.edu.

Michael Sam deserves headlines

A college football player’s coming out story should be newsworthy

A college football player publicly announced that he is gay, sparking a nationwide conversation about gay athletes. Michael Sam, who was a defensive lineman at the University of Missouri, first told a small group of his teammates during a teambuilding exercise in August. He told The New York Times in a Feb. 9 article. Sam graduated in December after an extremely successful fall season with Missouri. He spoke to both The Times and ESPN about his sexuality and his desire to tell his story his way. Several National Football League draft forecasters have predicted he will be chosen in the third round of the April draft. I have seen multiple people question, on social media, why Sam’s sexuality is finding its way into most major news outlets. The most obvious reason is that he will be the first publicly gay player in the NFL if he is drafted. This fact is newsworthy in itself. The NFL employs roughly 1,600 players at any given moment during the season, according to the Times article. The NFL has never employed a player who is openly gay during his career.

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In fact, there are no publicly gay players on any rosters in the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League or Major League Baseball. The world of professional sports is all about masculinity. Sports teams celebrate physical strength and emotional toughness. Being gay does not ﬁt neatly into the masculine athlete stereotype. This is an important conversation to have on a national level. Sports culture has remained almost exactly the same since these leagues began, while society has become more accepting of gay people. We should be talking about the ﬁrst potentially openly gay man in the NFL. He will be an important person to remember in gay rights’ history. Football players receive attention in the media constantly for reasons that extend beyond the scope of their athletic ability. Gay men playing sports may make some people feel uncomfortable, but that is not a reason to keep the story out of the headlines. In fact, this is more of a reason to talk about the issue. Sam is an accomplished

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athlete who has overcome many challenges in his life. Hopefully the national discussion about his sexual orientation will cause some people to address why they feel uncomfortable. Finally, football players are heroes for many children. They idolize their favorite players, wearing their numbers and watching every game. A gay football star shows kids they can be successful and accepted no matter what kind of people they are. Promoting childrens’ self-esteem is a worthwhile goal, no matter how one individually feels about gay men. News outlets contain a variety of stories about how various social issues affect self-esteem. This story is no exception. Sam’s sexual orientation has nothing to do with his football playing abilities. However, his story has received so much attention because he is making history and changing a dominantly masculine sports culture. This makes Sam newsworthy. Justin Bieber was arrested, and every major news outlet covered the story. Michael Sam came out and potentially inspired young gay children to try out for sports when they were too afraid before. I would say Sam deserves the headlines.

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People have different opinions on the upcoming Valentine’s holiday. What’s yours? “I don’t think it’s all it’s cracked up to be. I’ve been single on Valentine’s Day and in a relationship, and I don’t think it’s special.”

“I feel like it’s nice to have and all, but it’s just an excuse for girlfriends to get presents. “

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Trip tours the nation KATIE GOODRICH KMGOODRI@BUTLER.EDU ASST. NEWS EDITOR Butler Blue III broke out of the Butler bubble to travel across the country on the Big Dawgs Tour. The Big Dawgs Tour takes advantage of Butler’s new afﬁliation with the Big East Conference. “The tour is engaging different audiences, both internal and external,” said Matthew Mindrum, vice president for marketing and communication. “The audiences are both those associated with Butler and those not yet associated. This year, we did more work with prospective students in partnership with alumni.” Michael Kaltenmark, director of external affairs and Trip’s owner, drives the Built Ford Tough Blue Mobile vehicle to different legs of the tour. Kaltenmark usually brings another person with him on the tour to help with Trip. Tom Otero, Butler’s new media specialist, helps with everything from navigating, to tweeting, to helping get Trip out for a bathroom break. Mindrum joined Kaltenmark and Trip on the St. Louis leg of the tour. “One of my favorite things is to watch folks who never heard of Butler suddenly engage with the university because Trip is such an engaging personality, as is Michael (Kaltenmark),” Mindrum said. While public relations and marketing are its main objectives, the tour is also used for recruitment and alumni engagement, Kaltenmark said. “The concept is simple: Take our live mascot on the road to various destinations to ‘see and be seen,’” Kaltenmark said via email while in Washington, D.C. “All the while, we do our best to broadcast our travels and experiences on social media.” Mindrum said the focus is broader media engagement. “Michael arranged some opportunities in front of traditional news media in Chicago,” Mindrum said. “Even bigger than that is social media, which is the biggest aspect of the tour. That’s where Trip’s 11,000 Twitter followers come in.” The most recent leg included Pittsburgh, Penn., and Washington, D.C. This is the second Big Dawgs Tour. The experience of last year’s tour led to better results

this year, Kaltenmark said. Planning started in the fall. Some activities and events are pre-planned, but some experiences are impromptu. “When we were in Washington, D.C., this year, Butler graduate Scott Nemeth, who works for Indiana Senator Dan Coats, saw that we were in town and invited us over for a visit to the senator’s office,” Kaltenmark said. “That visit then led to access and a tour of the U.S. Capitol building.” The spontaneous plan was one of this year’s highlights, Kaltenmark said. “That’s the beauty of social media and the real time conversations that occur while we are on the road,” Kaltenmark said. Trip’s large social media presence aids the planning process. “The entities we contact see the value in what we’re doing and understand that they have some PR to gain as a result of the affiliation,” Kaltenmark Photos courtesy of Michael Kaltenmark’sTwitter account said. Trip sits outside of the U.S. Capitol building on the most recent leg of the Big Dawgs Tour. Trip visited several states and large cities, including The costs come from travel Washington, D.C., to promote Butler University. expenses, marketing materials and vehicle costs. Last year’s tour cost less than $10,000, Mindrum said. The tour is paid for through the Butler Blue live mascot fund, Kaltenmark said. “We try to offset such expenses via sponsorships and outside funding, and our partnership with PetBox (an organization that provides gifts for pets) is an example of that,” Kaltenmark said. “The overall investment is very affordable, especially when compared to the amount of exposure and the media advertising equivalency Butler receives as a result of our travels.” Trip reuinted a fellow bulldog mascot, Georgetown University’s Jack the Bulldog. Trip enjoys meeting his counterparts, Kaltenmark said. Mindrum said he believes this year’s tour will be fully selfTrip met a furry financed. friend when “I am supremely confident he visited U.S. the value we derive from the tour Cellular Park through recruiting, engaging in Chicago. with alumni and exposing Southpaw, the people to the university will mascot for the outweigh the costs of the tour,” Chicago White Mindrum said. Sox, gave Trip Trip is a good traveler and a tour and read enjoys getting out of the house, him Good Boy, Kaltenmark said. Blue! Trip’s favorite experiences, according to Kaltenmark, include his first plane ride with the men’s basketball team, visiting Southpaw of the Chicago White Sox, and meeting his fellow bulldog mascots, Georgetown University‘s Jack the Bulldog and Bryant University’s Tupper.

Trip gets ready to board his ﬁrst ever plane ride. He joined the men’s baskeball team on its trip to Providence, R.I.

Trip stands on the Sky Deck of the Willis Tower in Chicago.