The DePauw, Tuesday, October 8, 2013 by The DePauw

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2013

CAMPUSCRIME

October 1

Bloomington Street Hall

12:59 a.m. | Place: Union Building / Hub

• Public indecency • Made contact with house representation / verbal warning issued | Time: 1:46 a.m. | Place: Delta Tau Delta fraternity

• Assist event coordinator - shutting down event • Event ended / subjects left event location | Time: 11:06 p.m. | Place: Union Building ballroom

• Welfare check • Officer checked area / unable to locate subject | Time: 1:53 a.m. | Place: Locust St.

• Hazard - broken bottles / Noise loud music • Made contact with house representation/ verbal warning issued | Time: 12:42 a.m. | Place: Delta Tau Delta fraternity

• Hazard - failure to comply • Forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 2:41 a.m. | Place: Alpha Tau Omega fraternity

• Suspicious activity • Officer checked area / unable to locate subject | Time: 11:36 p.m. | Place: Lucy Rowland Hall

• Medical • Transported to Putnam County Hospital | Time: 12:53 p.m. | Place: Hogate Hall

• Alcohol violation • Released / Forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 12:50 a.m. | Place: Longden Hall

• Assist Greencastle Police Department - locate subject • Greencastle Police Department took call | Time: 3:15 p.m. | Place: West Walnut St.

October 5

• Theft of volleyball net • Pending | Time: unknown | Place: Beta Theta Pi fraternity lawn

• Alcohol violation • Released to custody of friend / forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 1:19 a.m. | Place: Humbert Hall

• Public indecency • Officer checked area / unable to locate subjects | Time: 7:07 p.m. | Place: Anderson St.

SOURCE: PUBLIC SAFETY WWW.DEPAUW.EDU/STUDENTLIFE/CAMPUS-SAFETY/ PUBLICSAFETY/ACTIVITY-REPORT/YEAR/2013/

• Suspicious activity • Officer checked area / checked okay | Time: 12:11 a.m. | Place: Anderson St. • Alcohol violation • Transported to Putnam County Hospital / Forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 12:23 a.m. | Place: 800 block College St. • Roommate conflict • Under investigation | Time: 12:54 a.m. | Place: Strasma Hall • Suspicious person • Officer checked building / unable to locate subject | Time:

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• Suspicious activity • Forwarded to Campus Living | Time: 11:19 a.m. | Place: Hogate Hall

October 6 • Welfare check • Subject located / checked okay | Time: 12:20 a.m. | Place: Rector Village

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Faculty Meeting | continued from page 1 Winter Term altogether has not been a serious proposal, making it a full course has been. He referred back to his previous experience with Colorado College, in which all courses are taught in three and a half week modules, each for one credit. “You’d be surprised what you can teach in a three and a half week course that’s intensively taught,” Stimpert said. “When I came, that’s actually what I thought Winter Term looked like.” Faculty members did not seem satisfied with the closing discussions though. After the meeting concluded, faculty members stayed for an informal discussion of the Winter Term proposal. Political science professor Brett O’Bannon, had difficulty seeing how shortening Winter Term would addressed the problems. “The reason I’m concerned is that international travel takes time and particularly international travel off the standard path,” O’Bannon said. “I don’t quite see what problem gets addressed by shortening it.” Stimpert recognized the frustration and said, “The sense is take everything that’s good and squish it.” It was suggested, both in the proposal and the

forum, that the weekends before and after Winter Term be used for travel. Kevin Kinney, professor of biology, noted that the Winter Term he leads has airfare that is several hundred dollars cheaper if they go after Jan. 6. On the other hand, Susan Hahn, professor of English, was in support of the new proposal because of the flexibility of it for both faculty and students. “I know schools that have gone to this model after having very successful required Winter Terms, but then over time it sort of degenerated and lost some of its pizazz and intensity,” Hahn said. Hahn, however, did not specify which schools have successfully implemented an optional Winter Term. The faulty also attempted to address the distinction between students who can or cannot afford to go on a Winter Term trip. “It seems unfortunate that only some can afford to participate and others not,” Clarissa Peterson, professor of political science said. Anne Harris, professor of art and art history, said Winter Term becoming more flexible and optional may be good, but she also noted the inability for some students to participate. “I don’t know how we can make students not pay tuition but be responsible for the cost of travel

and fees be anything but turning this into tour guides for the wealthiest students,” Harris said. She suggested approaching a donor and writing a narrative of DePauw in which each student gets to go on one of these off campus trips. Her comments received a “here here” from fellow faculty members. “I would like to see a more conscious linking of fall courses to Winter Term experiences,” said Debbie Geis, professor of English. The idea of encouraging students to take a semester abroad instead of a short three week trip repeatedly came up too. Joe Heithaus, professor of English, noted that having more students involved with off campus study would help another goal of the university. “If we get a bunch of students away from here, then the 3-2 load becomes a hell of a lot more doable,” Heithaus said. The 3-2 system, which has only been talked about as a goal of Stimpert’s, would have professors teaching three classes one semester and two the next. Stimpert said that he thought that the meeting was civil and raised some good points to consider. Throughout October, there will be additional meetings for faculty as well as an open forum for students to raise their concerns about potential changes to Winter Term.

FACULTY MEETING MINUTES Faculty carried a motion to approve new courses for Religious Studies: Jewish Writers, Wisdom & the Parables of Jesus, Religion & the Meaning of Life, Modern Islam, Women & Gender in Islam, and Bob Marley, Caribbean Religion and Culture Faculty carried a motion to change the requirements to the Computer Science Major by: Requiring the new 0.5 credit writing class, dropping one of the required courses at the 300/400 level, and adding an allied course requirement

The Faculty Development Committee announce professor Rebecca Upton as the Fisher Fellowship recipient.