Feb. 26, 2020

THE TIMES-DELPHIC The weekly student newspaper of Drake University Vol. 139 | No. 18 | Feb. 26, 2020

FEATURES

SPORTS

COMMENTARY

Drake Broadcasting System will be hosting its annual 48 hour film festival this weekend.

Read up on the members of the Drake Dance Team and what the future holds for the troupe.

Meredith Hall recently implemented gender neutral bathrooms on its ground floor.

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PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS who attended Road Trip to Drake visited the campus and had an opportunity to explore Drake culture firsthand. PHOTO COURTESY OF LISA FLYNN

Drake welcomes prospective students Sydney Hamilton Contributing Writer sydney.hamilton@drake.edu

Drake University hosted 156 students from six states the weekend of Feb. 14 for the annual Road Trip to Drake.

Prospective students toured campus, explored the city and enjoyed other student life activities.

Prospective students boarded buses in their home state and drove to campus for two days of events. Drake students who live on campus volunteered to host the students overnight in their dorms and met the students after their campus tour.

The main goal of Road Trip to Drake, which is organized by the Office of Admissions, is to allow prospective students “to get a feel for what it would be like as a Drake student,” Assistant Director Lisa Flynn said.

Prospective students have the chance to interact with each other as well as engage in one-on-one and small group interactions with current Bulldogs.

“They are all going through a similar experience of trying to make a college decision,” Flynn said.

The event started 15 years ago, initially just as a road trip from Chicago, but has

expanded to include students from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

Flynn said the program grows and changes every year.

Flynn said she loves the program because it is so unique and it can lead to some very impactful moments. Not only does she get to see prospective students connect, but she also gets to see the excitement of the current student hosts.

“Many of our hosts attended Road Trip in the past, so it’s fun to hear their stories about how they want to pay it forward and create a meaningful experience,” Flynn said.

The “pay it forward” attitude

is exactly why first-year Abby White got involved.

“I thought it would be a really good way to serve my school and give back for the things they do for me,” White said.

White enjoyed being a part of the program because she “got to talk to a lot of students and it was just kind of a fun time.”

White hosted Katie Das, a high school senior from St. Charles, IL. White also wanted to host because she thought it was a great opportunity to show other prospective students what makes Drake such a good school.

Das said coming on this trip has definitely affected her decision on what school she will

be attending next year because before she was between two schools, but is now leaning more towards Drake.

“I don’t think any college has given me that kind of attention that Drake does which definitely is a factor,” Das said.

Das has really enjoyed her time on the Road Trip to Drake, during both the actual road trip and her stay on campus.

“I had a lot of fun on the bus ride here actually because I got to meet a lot of people that are going to be in the same classes I am,” Das said. “It was really nice to spend time on campus for more than just an hour-long tour.”

SJMC holds NewsCraft workshop for students Grace Altenhofen Staff Writer grace.altenhofen@drake.edu

As part of the centennial celebration for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the Drake SJMC held a ‘NewsCraft: Reimagining the future of local news’ workshop on Feb. 22.

The workshop was facilitated by the co-founders of the local startup Bonfire Strategy.

“Bonfire is a company that helps other organizations come up with breakthrough ideas,” co-founder Lisa Rossi said. “We work with higher education, nonprofits, community leadership, and we use a process of design thinking, google methodology, as well as expertise from play to help people reach breakthrough ideas, as opposed to what’s already been done.”

The idea for the company came when Rossi and cofounder Nathan Groepper were both journalists working for the Des Moines Register.

“I think Nathan and I have been collaborating for a long time, we used to work in the media industry together, and this company is a result of an ongoing conversation we’ve had about how to make ideas better and how to bring more creativity to the workplace,” Rossi said. “It directly relates to experiences we’ve had where we’ve thought, ‘Why is it this hard and it could be better?’ So

this company is our story living out in real life.”

Rossi and Groepper were contacted by SJMC Dean Kathleen Richardson, who wanted to hold an event commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the school.

“She knew the anniversary was coming up and she knew she wanted to do something different. So she came to us,” Groepper said. “We threw a whole bunch of stuff at her and some of it was better than others, and it took a little while for us to say, ‘Okay, this is the right thing.’”

Ultimately, they decided to hold a workshop focusing not on the past, but on the future– and what strategies can help launch students into the future of journalism.

Though the pair have conducted similar workshops before, they customized their approach for Drake students.

“Nathan and I plan these down to the minute, we have a document called a ‘run of show’ that makes sure every moment flows to every moment, to both create good ideas but also to leave people with a meaningful experience,” Rossi said. “We’re pulling from experience at Stanford, experience Nathan has working at a marketing agency in Pennsylvania, and we’re all doing it with deep knowledge we’ve gained through observations and interviews with students from Drake.”

CJ Younger was one of the

students who attended, and said the workshop reminded her that design is ultimately a human process.

“It completely changed how I think about design, I always thought of it as a very technological, analytical process, but this workshop showed me that good design is, at its essence, human,” Younger said. “It was so refreshing to just go crazy and be creative for once instead of feeling the intense pressure of deadlines or expectations, and I would love to do it again.”

Groepper said he hopes

students took away a new perspective on the world around them.

“I think it’s really about, I hope they take away thinking about themselves a little bit,” Groepper said. “That’s one of the things we notice, that people walk out and they’re thinking about their own worlds a little differently.”

Groepper said his and Rossi’s start in journalism helped them in their current career.

“One of the reasons I loved journalism, is it allowed us to be endlessly curious,” Groepper said. “So we started with that in

journalism and definitely took that over into the other stuff we do now.”

Whatever field students go into, Rossi said her ultimate advice is to pursue a passion and turn it into change.

“My advice for students is to capture what brings you passion, what you think is fun and what you have questions about and chase after that, as opposed to what you’re supposed to do,” Rossi said. “I want to see students from Drake building change that deeply relates to their own beliefs and own values.”

A NEWSCRAFT ATTENDEE works on a project at the workshop held on Feb. 22. PHOTO COURTESY OF LISA ROSSI

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FEATURES

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Drake Broadcasting System to host annual film festival

THE ANNUAL 48-HOUR FILM FEST will take place from Feb. 28 until March 1. The sign-up deadline is Feb. 27. PHOTO BY TINA INTARAPANONT | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Kendall Hunt Sports Editor kendall.hunt@drake.edu

Drake University will be hosting its annual 48-hour film festival across campus from Feb. 28 until March 1.

Led by the Drake Broadcasting System, the competition involves writing, shooting and editing a 3 to 10 minute short film in a 48-hour window.

The sign-up deadline for the event is Feb. 27, but students are encouraged to register earlier with DBS. There is no cost for students to sign up and no limit to the amount of people in a video group. Students are required, however, to bring their own camera, which can be a phone or any filming device.

The Drake Broadcasting System, a student-led media organization that helps to promote student involvement in broadcasting, video production, radio streaming and journalism, will be running and organizing the event.

A much anticipated event, the festival has been a success

for DBS in the past, solidifying the organization’s presence on campus and emphasizing the group’s convivial atmosphere.

This year, in particular, DBS hopes to recruit more theater students to fill acting positions in video groups and draw in new freshman and sophomores interested in film.

“I think the festival is just a fun opportunity, and it only happens once a year,” said DBS Livestream Coordinator Rachel Hartley. “It teaches professionalism, keeping up with deadlines and also prioritizing what needs to be done in order to create your final product.”

President of DBS, Lucius Pham, has helped organize the film festival for the past two years.

He believes the contest helps encourage students to practice and experiment with filmmaking, as well as take advantage of all the broadcasting equipment and production tools at Drake.

Pham, who competed in last year’s festival, encourages everyone to participate and learn, even those without

prior experience.

“I competed in the 48-hour film festival last year and had a really good time,” Pham said.

“Having the time crunch really forces you to get creative and moving. Eventually, you get a product that you’re proud of and worked hard on. Overall, I think it’s really valuable for people to get experience and just make a movie.”

At the end of the festival, all of the finished videos will be posted to the DBS Facebook page, Pham said. The video with the most reactions after one week will be crowned the winner and receive a prize, which will be revealed after the competition.

Carson Reichardt, a junior double majoring in news and sociology, was one of the past winners, taking second place in last year’s film festival and receiving a $25 gift card to 8 Degrees Ice Cream and Boba. Although Reichardt had experience in the past with video production as a news major, he enjoyed the challenge the film festival presented and the overall process.

“We moved all over campus,” Reichardt said. “It took about 12 hours of just shooting. It was a challenge to figure out how we’d shoot and how we could edit as fast as possible.”

For Reichardt and other students, including Pham, the hardest and most rewarding aspect of the contest was incorporating a random prop, chosen from a hat, as a feature in the film.

Chris Snider, a professor at Drake who leads several multimedia classes in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has worked with students in DBS and witnessed a number of film festival productions.

Snider suggests everyone go out and try the event, and he plans to send out emails to encourage students from all disciplines to sign up.

“I think [the contest] is great because digital media skills are in demand,” Snider said. “DBS is allowing students to have another outlet to shoot more video and create more stories with audio.

The festival gives students

a chance to immediately be involved with having a camera in their hands their first year and learn, without having to wait to get into a class later to experiment with film.”

Additionally, Snider advocates for the importance of film and media in modern society. He hopes that the film festival will remind students of their power and influence in media and their abilities to just go out and create.

“Things are much more visual now, so we’re used to getting information in a more visual way,” Snider said. “Even 5 years ago, most people were not comfortable shooting video and putting it on Instagram. But now, everyone is comfortable shooting video, and the videos are better than they were five years ago for sure. And so we need people within the JMC and within Drake who can do it better. There are plenty of videos out there, but we want ours to be good.”

For more information or help finding a team, contact lucius.pham@drake.edu.

Meredith adds gender-inclusive bathrooms to first floor Emma Brustkern Features Editor emma.brustkern@drake.edu

Everyone knows what it feels like to be stuck in a meeting or class and be unable to use the bathroom.

Now, imagine if that was your experience in every public space.

In an effort to increase comfort and accessibility for all individuals, the first-floor bathrooms in Meredith will now be gender-inclusive.

Bathrooms on the upper and lower floors of Meredith will remain gendered.

The first gender-inclusive bathroom on campus was created in Olmsted in 2016.

Since then, Drake has been in the process of adding and converting bathrooms all over campus.

“Meredith quickly came to mind for several reasons: one, it is used by lots of people across different majors,” Assistant Dean of Students Tony Tyler said. “Also, a lot of visitors from outside of campus use Meredith. And so that’s totally important since it’s one of our more publicfacing buildings on campus.”

Dean of the School of Journalism and Mass

Communication, Kathleen Richardson, was contacted

by Tony Tyler and student Autumn Ellisor about the project last fall.

Richardson said she consulted with numerous students and faculty and received only positive responses.

“In the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, we aspire to create an environment that is welcoming and inclusive of everybody,” Richardson said.

“For individuals who don’t feel comfortable using a gendered restroom, we want to be able to make sure that they feel welcome in our building” For Tyler, the issue boils down to giving everyone access to public space.

“What people sometimes forget about discussions around restrooms is that the discussion about restrooms is actually a discussion about who gets to be in public,” Tyler said. “By having access to convenient restrooms that you would feel safe and comfortable using, you have access to public space. If you don’t have access to those restrooms, your day becomes about planning,” For Ellisor, who has

GENDER-INCLUSIVE RESTROOMS in Meredith are completed with signage designating their all-gender status, as well as an explanation on why gender-inclusive bathrooms are necessary to promote equity and inclusion across campus. PHOTO BY AUTUMN OSIA | PHOTO EDITOR

served as a leader on this project, gender-inclusive bathrooms are important for transgender individuals and those who don’t fit inside the gender binary to feel safe and comfortable.

“As a gender-fluid person, it’s not that we can’t use either bathroom, it’s that we get stared at,” Ellisor said.

“We get asked to leave, we get like treated like we’re not supposed to be in there.”

Inclusive bathrooms also benefit other members of the campus community.

According to Tyler, the

bathrooms in Meredith will also benefit families with children of a different gender, as well as individuals with disabilities who may have a caretaker.

Ellisor also sees the new project as an opportunity to reclaim bathrooms as a nongendered space.

“Using a gendered bathroom is a constant reminder that just because my body appears feminine, I will always be a woman to everybody but me,” Ellisor said.”That’s really painful for mental health reasons.”

Although Ellisor sees the new bathrooms as progress, they understand there is still a lot of work to be done in terms of promoting inclusivity on campus.

“I want to emphasize that this is one small step until we get gender-inclusive restrooms on every floor of every building and genderinclusive bathrooms on every floor of every residence hall.

We aren’t done,” Ellisor said.

“We’re just gonna kind of keep on pushing until that is achieved.”

SPORTS

SPORTS

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The future of the Drake Dance team

THE DRAKE DANCE TEAM LOOKS TO MOVE INTO COMPETITION. The current dance team performs at basketball and football games and is not competitive, but the program is looking to increase funding and eventually become a competition team. PHOTO COURTESY OF DRAKE DANCE TEAM FACEBOOK. Abby Schindel Contributing Writer abby.schindel@drake.edu

When the women of the Drake Dance Team perform on the basketball court, people in the audience watch in awe as they kick their feet above their heads and move in sync with one another.

What many of the audience members don’t know is this dance team only performs during basketball and football games. Many don’t realize the Drake Dance team is not competitive even though many came from a competitive high school dance team.

“I was on my high school’s varsity dance team and then I competed with my studio,” first-year Amanda Shiffrin , said. ”I was dancing 20 plus hours a week.”

Grace Lybeck, another first-year, would practice three hours a day after school, four to five days a week depending on the season.

She also had some once in a lifetime opportunities because of her high school dance team.

“I had the opportunity to

dance in the Superbowl with Justin Timberlake at our US Bank Stadium with other dance teams in the area,” Lybeck said.

Lauren Kennon, one of the team captains, started dancing in a studio. In high school, she was on the cheer team before she switched back to dance once she got to Drake.

Even though she was not part of a high school dance team, her competitive background is still the same.

“My high school [cheer team] was state champions 10 years running so we were entirely focused on competing,” Kennon said. “[I would practice] every night for at least three hours, every week.”

One of the main reasons The Drake Dance Team isn’t competitive is because of the lack of resources.

They are not run under the Athletics Department so they don’t receive any funding from the school. Competitions have fees and require uniforms, a coach and choreographer along with transportation and music. Uniforms alone could

cost up to $3,000.

The team is reusing uniforms from about five or six years ago when the Dance Team was competitive.

The team used to be split into two teams, one competitive and one for sidelines, Kennon said.

The competition team was eventually eliminated because it was difficult to manage and the team wasn’t doing well against other schools.

Because of this, the team also lost its resources from the Athletics Department.

“The biggest push for me is to be officially recognized as an athletics team because then come the resources and the support from the school and that’s what we need,” Kennon said.

Simply getting recognized as an official team could provide numerous opportunities for the dance team. They would be able to hire a coach, someone to dedicate multiple hours to the team and also be able to recruit more dancers.

Competitions would also be a chance to meet other teams and challenge the team

as a whole; however, dancers on the team appreciate the lower commitment level at Drake.

“In college, you have so much going on so it’s a way to keep me in shape and keep me dancing,” Lybeck said. “[Competing] put a lot of pressure on me and made me nervous. This is less stressful so I enjoy that.”

Many of the women of the team are part of other organizations, clubs and Greek life. Some also have jobs around Des Moines.

With the time commitment being about three hours a week, it allows the dancers to get involved around campus and meet a variety of people through different activities.

It is especially helpful for the first years as they adjust to college life and their school work. “[As a freshman], I needed to figure out how to manage my time well,” Kennon said.

“It’s lessened but for a good reason.”

While competitions can be stressful for dancers and require much more time, they

can also be rewarding.

Even making it to nationals and not winning can give the team a sense of accomplishment. “[My high school team] won state with our kick routine and got 11th out of 25 for our game day routine so that was awesome,” Shiffrin said.

As the team starts to become more competitive, they will start slow.

For the first few years, they will be part of one competition in Des Moines. This will help the team avoid transportation costs and gradually increase commitment throughout the years.

Even though she is graduating this spring, Kennon hopes that, as the team grows, they will be able to go to state and possibly even nationals in Florida with the other college dance teams.

For now, the team will work toward becoming recognized as an official team.

Women’s Tennis wins 2 out of 3 duals over the weekend Erin O’Boyle Staff Writer erin.oboylel@drake.edu

The Drake women’s tennis team hosted two of their three matches this past weekend at the Roger Knapp Tennis Center.

The team went into a busy weekend of play with a 2-3 record for the season.

After falling to BIG-10 schools, Wisconsin and Minnesota, the past two weekends the Bulldogs faced off against another BIG-10 school and neighbor, Iowa State.

The cyclones and Bulldogs met in neutral territory on Feb. 21 at the Urbandale Lifetime Fitness location.

The Bulldogs lost the doubles point despite an intense tiebreaker set that Liza Petushkova and Joely Lomas, at No. 1 doubles, were able to win.

The singles competition was just as disappointing for the Bulldogs.

At No. 1 singles, Lisa Petushkova won by opponent retirement, meaning that her opponent was unable to complete the match, thus giving Petushkova the win for No. 1 singles.

Megan Webb, at No. 6 singles, was the only other

member of the Drake women’s tennis team to claim victory over Iowa State in the singles competition.

The Bulldogs left their match against the Cyclones with a disappointing final score of 2-5 The next day, the Bulldogs were up early to face the University of WisconsinMilwaukee Panthers.

The Panthers pounced quickly by securing the doubles point. Drake’s No. 2 and No. 3 doubles teams were Panther prey, whereas No. 1 doubles put up a fight, but had to leave the match unfinished thus giving Milwaukee the doubles point to start the match.

However, it was not long before the Bulldogs showed the Panthers a bite of their own.

Petushkova, at No.1 singles, won in set scores of 6-4, 7-5. No. 2 singles player Maria Tatarnikova won in set scores of 6-3,7-6.

Lomas was at No. 3 singles, and was the first to finish her match with an impressive set score of 6-0, 6-2.

Finally, Carmen Palumbo won at No. 4 singles in a well fought match in which she fell in the first set 5-7, came back to clench the second set 6-1, and sealed the deal in the

WOMEN’S TENNIS FINISHES 2-1 OVER THE WEEKEND. Drake had a successful weekend overall with two big wins over Milwaukee and Gustavus Adolphus. PHOTO COURTESY OF DRAKE ATHLETICS.

third set with a 6-3 set score.

No. 5 and 6 singles for Drake, Kelsey Neville and Megan Webb, both left their matches unfinished. Drake’s singles sweep sent the Panthers packing in a final score of 4-1 Bulldogs.

“I think the home court advantage was huge for us on Saturday and helped us battle through against Milwaukee,” senior Joely Lomas said.

After their win against Milwaukee the previous day, the Bulldogs capped off their busy weekend at home against Gustavus Adolphus College on Sunday.

The Drake women’s tennis

team showed no mercy in the doubles competition. All Drake doubles teams were victorious against Gustavus Adolphus College.

The singles competition was equally as exciting for the Bulldogs as one by one, they finished victorious in every match.

Even more impressive is that both Tatarnikova, at No. 2 singles, and Daria Walczak, at No. 4 singles, only gave up one game in their two sets.

A full sweep in both doubles and singles left Drake winning 7-0 overall on Sunday afternoon.

A busy weekend for the

women’s tennis team ended with a 4-4 record and two match winning streak.

“I think the team did a great job staying composed throughout the tight moments which is something we have been working on in practice,” Lomas said. “Trying to replicate pressure is always difficult but being able to come through those close points is what can make the difference.

I think we competed extremely well, and I’m excited to get another opportunity this next weekend to play 2 more home matches before being on the road for most of March and April.”

COMMENTARY

COMMENTARY

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Meredith Hall makes bathrooms gender-neutral Why changing the ground floor bathrooms is a good step forward

GENDER-NEUTRAL BATHROOMS are the first step towards making transgender and gender non-conforming students more comfortable and safe. PHOTO BY MCCADE

GOWDY | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Patricia Richards Contributing Writer patricia.richards@drake.edu

On Monday Feb. 24 the bathrooms on the main floor of Meredith Hall ceased to be segregated by gender, making them more accessible for several demographics.

Bathrooms are a sacred space. Sure, their primary function may be to assist us in answering nature’s call, but these porcelain sanctuaries are so much more than that.

The bathroom is where we go to find relief, both physically and spiritually.

Whether you need a quiet place to cry after bombing a midterm or somewhere to freshen up before a job interview, there are

numerous reasons to seek its sweet refuge. When you need a second to breathe, the bathroom is there. For most, anyway.

For some, bathrooms are a space fraught with anxiety.

This is particularly true for people who identify as transgender or non-binary.

According to the 2015 US Transgender Survey, 56 percent of trans and nonbinary individuals report avoiding public bathrooms out of a concern for their own safety.

Society traditionally expects men to look one way and women to look another. The appearance of someone who is transgender or non-binary may not fit into one, or either, of these socially dictated categories, increasing their

risk of being confronted by other bathroom occupants.

The fear of bathroom invasion is largely based in the myth of the cross-dressing predator - a man who has dressed himself as a woman to gain access to the women’s restroom for the purpose of assault.

The suggestion that allowing trans and gender non-conforming individuals use whichever bathroom they feel most comfortable in would result in such scenarios is extraordinary misguided.

According to a study published in Sexuality Research and Social Policy, instances of assault in public restrooms are rare and have no correlation to transgender bathroom protections.

In fact, people who are

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transgender or non-binary are far more likely to face the threat of violence in a public restroom than cisgender people.

The 2015 US Transgender Survey reports that 26% of individuals surveyed were verbally harassed, denied access, physically attacked or sexually assaulted in a public restroom.

Providing gender neutral bathrooms is a great way to validate and improve conditions for many people who do not identify with a strict male or female binary.

However, they are not the only demographic who stands to benefit from the switch.

The main floor of Meredith Hall has a unique layout that places the bathrooms in opposing locations. The

bathroom that formerly served only men is located along the eastern hallway, while the women’s room was in the western hall.

This made for quite a long trek to the facilities for any students in a classroom on the side opposing their gendersanctioned facilities.

The amount of time spent out of class for a bathroom break would be greatly compounded for any student living with mobility challenges simply due to the lengthy walk there and back.

By making both of these bathrooms gender neutral, Meredith Hall has taken several steps forward in fostering an accessible learning environment for all students.

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