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It’s not every day that someone gets chosen to be princess at the Annual Cherry Blossom Festival held in Washington D. C., so when C Thambundit was titled princess for Thailand she was happy to represent her country. The Cherry Blossom Princess Program is a weeklong opportunity for women chosen from all over the nation and international representatives to come together to celebrate the Cherry Blossom ceremony in Washington D.C. Throughout the week, women ages 19-24 will practice their leadership and networking skills as they participate in events celebrating a Japanese tradition . The women will also get the opportunity to meet with the Japanese ambassador, diplomats and the First Lady. C Thambundit shared her experience about what it will be like to be Thailand’s princess.
Sophomores Jordan Lienhoop and Lauren Owensby pain a silk banner while Kate Smanik, director of the Center for Spiritual Life chats with silk artist Nancy Katz. Katz dyes prayer shawls and Torah covers for synagogues. LEANN BURKE / THE DEPAUW By LEANN BURKE news@thedepauw.com
Anyone who talks to a DePauw University admissions counselor knows that the cultural diversity of the student body is a major selling point. But cultural diversity does not equate to religious diversity at DePauw. According to the Common Data Set for the spring 2014 semester, of the 2,252 students at DePauw, 30 percent, or 730 students, identify as a race other than Caucasian. But of the 2,252 students at DePauw, Kate Smanik, director of the Center for Spiritual Life, estimates that less than five percent, between 75 and 100 individuals, are nonChristians. That number is further divided between Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Unitarian Universalist traditions. “I think that we’re really lucky to have a religiously diverse campus,” Smanik said. “[But] I think that it’s not religiously diverse enough.” Data regarding students’ religious identities is collected when
students apply to DePauw; however, applicants are not required to provide that information, so an exact count for each religious tradition is not available. Current data does suggest that fewer than 25 students make up each non-Christian community at DePauw. Religious minority groups of such a small size are not uncommon, but they cannot provide all the answers about a religious tradition. “Our minority religious community’s tiny,” Smanik said. “They’re really small, and it’s a heavy weight to carry to be the representative of your entire tradition everywhere you go.” The Interfaith Intern program aims to offer each religious tradition on campus a representative. Junior and lead interfaith intern Alex Alfonso links DePauw’s small non-Christian populations to the lack of worship spaces and
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TDP: How did you first hear about this program? C Thambundit (C): I first heard about this program my junior year of high school. We actually know somebody who works at the embassy. TDP: When you heard about the news, how did you react? C: I received the call a week ago. At first I didn’t really process it because I was really excited because, you know, I get to go to D.C. for a week. I get to cross something off my bucket list at the same time that I’m doing something in such a cool enrichment program. The first thing I did was obviously called my parents and told them and my sisters and all my friends. TDP: Are there specific duties you have after this whole event? C: I get put into an alumni database for all the past princesses and it’s just a network for me to have in the future and something to put on my resume. TDP: What events do they have planned for you guys? C: Throughout the week I’ll be making different appearances either at certain monuments or at different embassies. I will be going to the embassy of Hungary for tea and the Embassy of France for breakfast. My embassy, the Embassy of Thailand, will be hosting a luncheon. We can all get a taste for everybody’s culture.
Editor’s note: C Thambundit is a The DePauw staff member. She was interviewed by an unbiased reporter.
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someone was very observant [of religious dietary restrictions,” Alfonso said. The Center for Spiritual Life works to solve these issues by giving students of any tradition a space to gather and worship. “It’s important because some people don’t have a space to worship,” said Noam Rose, the Jewish interfaith intern. “It offers a nice place to worship, and it’s quiet.” Events held at the Center for Spiritual Life are open to everyone and offer students of different backgrounds a chance to come together and learn from each other. Although the minority religious communities are small, Haroon sees DePauw as a religiously diverse place. “You have people from different pockets of religion,” Haroon said. “You can find people.” For Smanik, teaching students to have meaningful interfaith dialogue is a must because the world outside of DePauw is religiously diverse. “If you are adept at talking about religion and talking across religious lines, whatever those might be,” Smanik said, “and if you have had experience with people from other faith traditions, that’s going to give
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you an edge in your community.” Most recently, Smanik organized Faith Week to put a spotlight on the different faith-based events on campus. The interfaith interns lead a discussion on womens role in the different religious traditions, and the Compton Center interns spoke about how religious beliefs influence social justice. The Center for Spiritual Life also hosted a dinner and discussion with artist Nancy Katz, a Jewish artist who makes Jewish prayer shawls and Torah covers from painted silk. The biggest barrier Smanik sees to interfaith discussion is a lack of interest in dialogue. According to Smanik, American college campuses have fostered a secular atmosphere in the last 50 years that labels religion as something outside of academia and confined it to a “box we call the Center for Spiritual Life.” “The truth, I think, is that our religious values permeate everything we do,” Smanik said, “and our conversations around religion don’t have to be contentious…and when we bottle it up and box it up, we lose a really rich dynamic of who we are as people and what we want out of life.”
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Victor Rios, a former juvenile delinquent and high school dropout, will be giving a campus-wide talk tomorrow at 4:15 p.m. in the Watson Forum of the Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media. Rios, a professor at the University of California Santa-Barbara, now works with delinquent youths in urban areas. The main focus of discussion will center around Rios’ past and the work that he does. He will also be speaking at the Anthropology/Sociology Club from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday. The Anthropology/Sociology Club is a new organization as of this academic year. Founders and co-presidents fifth-year senior Gwen Eberts and senior Kristin Otto approached their faculty adviser, Matthew Oware, to find out if he had any suggestions for a speaker they could bring to campus. “Gwen and I talked about it, and we really wanted to bring someone from outside DePauw to come and talk to us,” Otto said. “[We wanted] someone from outside the liberal arts, small, Greencastle area.” Rios will be the first outside speaker that the club has hosted. During its meetings last semester, the club would bring in DePauw faculty members to talk about the research that they have worked on. According to Eberts, bringing in these faculty members served two primary purposes. First, it provided the opportunity to see what jobs and research opportunities students can have in the sociology and anthropology departments once their DePauw experience is over. Second, its purpose was to meet and talk with multiple professors
without actually having to take their classes. “We love learning about the topics [of anthropology and sociology],” Eberts said, “but it doesn’t directly translate into a lot of careers, so it’s good for people to see what their options are post-DePauw.” When Rios was a child, he was involved in a gang. He believes that there were two points in his life that made him decide to turn his life around and become the person he is today. One of these instances occurred when someone he was close with was shot and killed due to gang violence, explained Oware. At this time, one of Rios’ teachers reached out to him about his loss. “The teacher said, ‘I know you’re not okay, and I’m here whenever you need me,’” Oware said. “Someone had empathy for him and that sort of began a process of him wanting to make a change.” The other moment occurred when a police officer decided not to arrest Rios. Instead, the officer told him that, if he stopped the gang violence he was so accustomed to, he would let Rios go. “It was the one time a police officer or someone at that status had given him another chance,” Eberts said. While not every DePauw student can relate to Rios’ background, Oware said the general theme of the talk will be about overcoming adversity, which many students can find some relation to. “Issues of social injustice seem to be at the forefront of some students’ minds,” Oware said. “I think these are things that DePauw students, in general, they have their own forms of adversity.”
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CAMPUSCRIME March 5 • Fire - Blanket on lamp • Extinguished / alarm reset | Time: 2:51 p.m. | Place: Bishop Roberts Hall
March 7 • Personal injury accident • Transported to physician per patient’s request | Time: 3:53 p.m. | Place: Bloomington / Tennessee Sts. • Housing policy violation - subjects on roof • Subjects located / verbal warning issued | Time: 4:53 p.m. | Place: 109 Hanna #1
March 8 • Minors in consumption / possession of false ID • Arrested Scott A. Tucker (non student) Arrested: Matthew P. KnetchelBernath (non student) | Time: 12:34 p.m. | Place: Humbert Hall • Assist Greencastle Police Department - welfare check • Greencastle Police Department took call | Time: 4:59 a.m. | Place: Bloomington St. • Trespass - juveniles on skateboards / bikes • Subjects located / verbal warning issued | Time: 5:38 p.m. | Place: Tennis & Track Facility
• Property damage accident • Report filed | Time: 7:58 p.m. | Place: 101 E Seminary Lot
March 9 • Welfare check • Subject located / checked okay | Time: 3:26 a.m. | Place: Rector Village Lot • Medical • Ambulance dispatched / patient refused transport | Time: 1:11 p.m. | Place: Tennis &Track Facility
March 10 • Suspicious vehicle • Vehicle located / checked okay | Time: 12:50 a.m. | Place: Peeler Lot • Suspicious activity • Under investigation | Time: 4:00 p.m. | Place: Off campus
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small non-Christian populations to the lack of worship spaces and communities for non-Christians near campus. “It’s hard to attract students of different faiths to come to DePauw because we really don’t have a lot of religious infrastructure for anything outside of a lot of the Christian denominations,” Alfonso said. The closest synagogues to DePauw University are nearly an hour away in Terre Haute Ind., Bloomington, Ind. or Indianapolis. The closest mosque is in Plainfield, Ind., and Hindu students can find a temple in Indianapolis. Buddhist students would have to trek all the way to Fort Wayne, Ind. to find a temple. Alfonso thinks the university should do more to attract students of different religious traditions to campus. “I think having a plethora of religious traditions on campus adds to the spice of student life and ideas at school,” Alfonso said. “It just makes things a lot more interesting when you get a lot more perspectives on the world.” For Muhammad Sarib Harroon, a Muslim student at DePauw, not having a mosque close by is not as big a challenge as is worshipping in a culture almost completely devoid of Islam. Observant Muslims like Haroon pray five times daily at specific times throughout the day. A Muslim prayer involves laying out a prayer rug and movements between standing, kneeling and prostrating, as well as spoken Arabic. Such a scene is not common in American culture, and even less common at DePauw where Haroon estimates only about 10 Muslims live. “It doesn’t help me concentrate on my prayer if I’m thinking about how people are going to react,” Haroon said. “It’s just a little awkward.” From time to time, Haroon will pray in public, but he often returns to his dorm or goes to the Center for Spiritual Life to pray. Certain aspects of DePauw’s culture may also keep non-Christians away from DePauw. For example, most DePauw students take part in greek life, creating a social scene that includes copious amounts of alcohol. This atmosphere can be unappealing to students who are devout in a religion that bans alcohol consumption. “The social life revolves around fraternities, so I think that aspect keeps a lot of Muslim students from coming [to DePauw],” Haroon said. “They just don’t know how to adapt socially because it is a very different culture.” Dietary restrictions can also make DePauw a difficult place to live for devout students outside of mainstream Christianity. “There’s nothing really that our school could do if
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iTunes’ new up-and-coming artist of 2014: Jetta By KINSLEY BUSHONVILLE features@thedepauw.com
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The body of the songs is built like a roller coaster the ups, downs and everything in between. It really depends what mood I’m in. TDP: Can you explain the concept of the spiders and insects shown on your face in the images for your album? Do they have a deeper meaning? J: I did a whole series of shots for my EP, with bugs and a snake. I’m a snake in the Chinese zodiac, so I loved working with one. I wanted the images to reflect the emotions in my music. They’re symbolic of embracing your fears. TDP: You have worked with some impressive artists such as Cee Lo Green and Paloma Faith. How have their individual messages influenced your own music? J: Their messages come from a real place. Similarly, my songs are from the heart, both lyrically and musically. TDP: How have you seen yourself grow as a musician? J: Growing as a musician stems from growing as a person. I feel it happening all the time. I think the best way you can grow is stepping out into the world, meeting new people, making new experiences. TDP: What advice do you have for new musi-
cians breaking into the industry? J: It’s just as much about discipline as it is talent. Stay focused and try not to compare yourself to others. Most importantly, don’t forget to have fun with it. TDP: Congratulations on being one of iTunes’ New Artists of 2014 and having the single of the week. What exciting things can your fans expect from you this year? J: Thank you. I have a whole load of live gigs coming up. First, an arena show in my hometown, Liverpool, supporting Ellie Goulding in March. Then I’ll be in Austin, Texas for SXSW, before heading on a US tour with John Newman. I’m excited. Be sure to check out Jetta’s music and catch her US tour later this year.
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Jetta (J): I don’t feel like I’m on my own. I’ve worked closely with producer Jim Eliot on my EP. It’s something we’ve shaped together. I also have a great team of people around me. A lot goes on - it takes a lot of people. TDP: What is the primary message and goal of your new EP? J: Run with your fears, not from them. TDP: Who are some of your musical icons that helped inspire this album? J: Music has always been a very big part of my life. My dad was a sound engineer. He introduced me to 70’s and 80’s bands- T. Rex, The Police, David Bowie. My mum is a singer too, and she always loved narrative - female vocalists, such as Annie Lennox, Joni Mitchell and Tracy Chapman. As a teenager I discovered Destiny’s Child. They were strong and, at the same time, fun. I found that inspiring. The Streets’ ‘Original Pirate Material’ and Coldplay’s ‘A Rush Of Blood To The Head’ were also albums I found a real connection with. For me, they were all voices of a generation, both sides of the Atlantic. TDP: Are there any songs on this album that you are particularly excited about? J: I went through so many emotions whilst writing my EP, and I felt it was important to share that.
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If the opportunity to study abroad wasn’t on the table for you this year, you can get a look at Ireland right here on campus. Cynthia O’Dell, a professor of art and art history, spent nearly six months of this past year on the Green Isle for her photography exhibit, Messengers of Yesterday. “I knew I wanted to do a project there, but I didn’t know what shape it would take,” said O’Dell. “When I was a kid growing up, I heard about my mothers’ great great grandma Secmon, who wanted to go back to Ireland. Hearing stories of people who can’t go home stuck with me and made me realize I needed to go.” Secmon lived in a grass dugout on the Oklahoma prairie. “Ireland, to her, represented a better world, but it was all a myth,” said O’Dell. The project features photographs that highlight the potato famine that Ireland faced and the hardships of the people. The exhibit was shown in the 2013 commemoration of the Potato Famine in Kil-
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rush, Ireland. Some of the works include quotes taken from the Irish National Folklore Collection. Children were asked to go home and ask their grandparents to tell a story. These stories were then compiled into the collection. O’Dell sifted through the collection and chose quotes that illuminated her photographs and landscapes. For instance, one of her photographs features a ghostly image of an old family portrait and includes the quote, “The people were dying so fast he used to have a coffin with a false bottom.” Other photographs feature transparencies of old documents a n d
portraits that were passed down in O’Dell’s family. Her technique involved taking a photo of the transparencies in front of modern Ireland. “While it is an unrealistic scenario, by taking images of my ancestors back to their native country, I symbolically complete the circle of their migration pattern,” O’Dell said. Though the Irish Potato Famine happened in the nineteenth century, the economy of Ireland is still struggling. The famine, also often referred to in Ireland as An Gorta
Mór or The Great Hunger, was a time of much poverty for the country. The cause of the famine was a potato disease known as potato blight, which made all of the potato crops fail. It is estimated that over 775,000 people, about 20 percent of Ireland’s population at the time, lost their lives due to the famine and the diseases that came with it, such as cholera. O’Dell’s great-great-grandmother, who was forced to flee her homeland, always had a vision of Ireland that wasn’t necessarily accurate. “So many people have a vision of Ireland as a utopic homeland,” said O’dell. “I wanted to show that Ireland transcends the cliché of the American returning. Messengers of Yesterday is my exploration of the famine, but from my perspective and within a contemporary framework.” Approximately 250,000 people emigrated from Ire-
land to England, Scotland, the United States, Canada and Australia because of the famine. ‘”One cannot possibly know – but I am trying to understand - how the death and migration of millions from Ireland can be translated artistically,” said O’Dell. O’Dell spent her time in Ireland to explore her family history and get new information on the country her ancestors called home by talking to people and hearing their stories. “I had many conversations with lots of folk,” said O’Dell. “One woman I talked to gave an amazing quote that really stuck with me: ‘We are running as fast as we can from our poverty.’” O’Dell spent much of her trip traveling, driving almost the entire perimeter of the island in June. She discovered many of her rich stories on the road. “Whenever I would ride in a taxi or cab, I was always asking about the famine, about people visiting, the economy and North-South issues,” said O’Dell. “I had this one cabbie who was a grandfatherly type and we got to talking about my project and my roots. He ended up going to a family research center and found my family record. He sent me a certificate that said ‘Good news Cynthia, you’re Irish!’
and I have it hanging in my office now.” O’Dell worked with a historian that took her to several locations for shooting, including a mass burial cemetery “It turned out that a lot of new research on the famine helped break down stereotypes,” said O’Dell. “Contemporary research has shed light about conflict between England and Ireland.” The exhibit opened Monday night, but a select few of O’Dell’s students go to see the exhibit in the works. “Professor O’Dell’s exhibit shows a different side of photography that was inspiring to see,” said sophomore Cassidy Melendez. “The quotes that go along with many of the pictures really make every piece unique.” First-year Kainat Akmal, who also saw the exhibit first hand, was impressed by the amount of photographs hanging. “It was overwhelming,” said Akmal. “Though there were so many pieces, each of them seemed well thought out and evoked different emotions. The colors and images were so vivid and breathtaking. It made me want to visit for sure!” The exhibit, which is in the Richard E. Peeler Art Center, will be in place from now until April 6. On April 1, there
Students and faculty both enjoyed O’Dell’s artwork during the Messengers of Yesterday exhibit, a commemoration of the Potato Famine in Kilrush, Ireland Christa Schroedel / THE DEPAUW
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CHENEY HAGERUP
Technology after three decades,
not to be taken for granted
On January 24, 1984, just a little over 30 years ago, Steve Jobs revealed the first Mac computer to the world. When Jobs removed the computer from a bag, the machine began to speak: “Hello, I’m Macintosh. It sure is great to get out of that bag. Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking, I’d like to share with you a maxim I thought of the first time I met an IBM mainframe: Never trust a computer that you can’t lift!” The Macintosh computer of thirty years ago held one floppy drive and 128KB of RAM data and boated a nine-inch monitor. Today, the smallest Mac computer screen is found on the Macbook pro, which can be either 11 or 13 inches. The largest screen is part of the iMac and can have up to a 27-inch screen. The 11-inch Macbook pro also comes with a whopping 128GB of storage. We know what you’re probably thinking, and no, this is not an ad for Apple. But Apple’s 30 years of change and growth is one company’s representation of what has happened to the world of technology as an entirety. Gone are the days of clacking away on typewriters for hours, only to later discover mistakes and typos that can be corrected only through the use of whiteout. Now, mistakes are gone forever with the click of one button. We type papers while simultaneously doing research for said papers, listening to music and checking various social media pages. It’s so easy to take all this for granted: to get irrationally annoyed when the Internet goes a bit slower than usual or Word unexpectedly quits. But the technological strides we’ve made in the past 30 years alone are nothing to be annoyed with-irrationally or otherwise. Most of us can still remember the sound a dial-up modem made when connecting to the internet, a connection process of a length that would today send us screaming out of the room while pulling out our hair. This isn’t to say we shouldn’t expect less of our technology: after all, now that we have a way to connect to the Internet in less than a second, it’s understandable that we have gotten used to speed. However, looking back on the first personal Mac computer of 30 years ago and its one-line audio recording makes this Editorial Board think that maybe Siri isn’t as unresponsive as we all thought.
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Gender violence at DePauw: a taboo issue for some SKIP BREA Some of the feminist activism that happens on this campus ostracizes males who would gladly lend what help they can, by accusing them of being the problem. As a result, I have trouble supporting some of the tactics used at DePauw. Whether it’s conscious or not, the ostracizing makes some men hesitant to even go to an event that includes topics that men should be learning about just as much as women. Sometimes going to these events places men in a predicament that will make them feel like less of a man. It’s great that we are educating people on the statistics of sexual violence. But why not also speak on how men can become knowledgeable not only of how sexual assault occurs but also on how to avoid anything close to sexual assault as a friend, stranger or acquaintance? Furthermore, it is not wrong to preach self-defense; we should all know
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how to defend ourselves. We fail to properly advocate the parallel issue of instilling within our society a sufficient morality to prevent this harm in the first place. We must achieve both before the tragedy will begin to be resolved. Feminist classes that do not include men are not good techniques of isolation. How is this morbid issue supposed to be solved without what some feminist claim to be the root of the cause? As men, some of us are trying to educate ourselves and become knowledgeable of what is going wrong within our society and culture. Why are we shunned from where the knowledge is being taught? Why can’t two organizations of different genders that promote and speak the same thing come together? We should be able to speak on the issues that are at hand together. There are a lot of things that women can teach men, and some things that women can learn from men about the same conversation that is currently occurring in two different places. I want to make this clear; I acknowledge that women are sexually assaulted more frequently than men. It is extremely wrong and immoral to sexually assault or harass a person of either gender. The point I’m trying to make is that both
genders need to come together and combat rape as a unified cause. No one wants to hear it so I’ll just throw it out there: perpetuating the idea that males are always the rapists and that females are always the victims is sexist and detrimental to the issue at hand. Education about sexual assault is very important. If we make this education more readily accessible to members of both genders, we can combat this terrible problem together.
-Brea is a sophomore studio art major from the Bronx, NY.
With great anticipation for TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie’s visit radiating throughout DePauw’s campus, I had to do a double take every time I saw the words “conscious capitalism” broadcasted on posters. The term “conscious capitalism” has arisen out of the assumption that through making ‘helping’ fashionable, we are somehow working to end poverty. The reality, however, is that philanthropic enterprises such as TOMS allow us to feel that we are helping the world without relinquishing our role as consumers. According to DePauw University’s website, while traveling in Argentina in 2006, Mycoskie was struck by the daily struggles faced by shoeless children. He consequently decided to create a for-profit organization that would provide impoverished communities throughout Argentina, Ethiopia and South Africa with shoe donations. As a result, TOMS One for One campaign emerged, and for every pair of TOMS shoes pur-
chased in the U.S., one pair is donated to an impoverished community. I can’t help but question how Mycoskie came to the conclusion that dumping loads of shoes into these communities was the right answer. Was there ever any sort of collaboration in which Mycoskie was told by community leaders that, of all the uses for financial capital, the greatest need lay in shoes imported from the U.S.? The image of a brigade of privileged Americans participating in these ‘shoe drops’ seems only to perpetuate the white savior industrial complex. The reality is that the communities TOMS donates to have shoes. Shoe brigades are detrimental to existing shoe markets because no retailer can compete with ‘free.’ In response to TOMS’ “A Day Without Shoes Campaign,” which is a day for Americans to experience what it’s like to walk without shoes, the “Day Without Dignity” campaign was launched. This video portrays how campaigns such as TOMS dehumanize poor people by perpetuating the helper vs. helped dichotomy. The reality is that organizations such as TOMS oversimplify the situation of poverty. In their attempts to ‘help,’ local markets are flooded with free goods. While ‘shoe drops’ may provide the community with shoes for the time being, when the shoes wear out the community faces dependency. We see these dynamics play out with like-minded organizations such as Goodwill, who often do-
nate or sell clothing and textiles to foreign markets by the pound. According to Garth Frazer, associate professor of business economics at the University of Toronto, “Used-clothing imports are found to have a negative impact on apparel and textile production in Africa, explaining roughly 40 percent of the decline in African apparel production and roughly 50 percent of the decline in apparel employment.” Thus, the perceived shortage in apparel and shoes is not the problem but, rather, the conditions that sustain poverty. According to Slavoj Zizek, Slovenian Marxist philosopher, in buying into these green capitalism schemes, we are prolonging the disease rather than curing it. He describes campaigns such as TOMS as “a short circuit where the act of egotist consumption already includes the price for its opposite.” As follows, feel-good campaigns do not initiate substantial political change. They are temporary and often cause more harm than good in the communities they attempt to ‘help.’ It is our responsibility as global citizens to break from the consumerist act. It is time that we think critically about these issues and join the resistance against systems of exploitation that perpetuate poverty.
-Hagerup is a junior psychology major from Glen Ellyn, Ill.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I write to commend Ashley Junger for her March 7, 2014 invitation to the campus community to “disrupt the default” as a way for us to accomplish the zero carbon footprint goal by 2040. Her argument focuses squarely on one of the great issues, how does an environmental consciousness come into formation, especially when the default consciousness --what I would call our society’s epistemic, or way of being, seeing, thinking, and acting --constitutes the existential threat of species survival in the 21st century. I also write to invite everyone to attend a faculty panel this evening, March 11, at Watson Forum, starting at 7 p.m. Professors David Gellman, Leslie James, Lydia Marshall, and myself will have a conversation about the problem of consciousness formation and epistemic shift. We aim to historicize Ashley’s questions about how we make change by considering what the abolition movement of the 19th century tells
us about Climate Change. That question also raises the related questions about the meanings of emancipation – in Ashley’s terms, how can people liberate themselves and society from a destructive default. That question points us to fascinating post-colonial questions that are immensely useful theoretical frames for thinking about how we can escape from the destructive default. We might learn from the “other knowledges” generated by the struggle for emancipation, such as the history of maroon societies. We are confident that the conversation will significantly move our thinking about Ashley’s campus invitation into a substantive and meaningful intellectual framework. I hope to see everyone there, and thank you Ashley for raising the question. Glen David Kuecker Professor of History
This is my reaction to the opinion, “Excuse Me, But Your Privilege Is in Our Way” by Ashton Johnson.. I would encourage you to read her piece, and make your own judgments on the legitimacy of her claims. “This narrow view of DePauw students and professor’s attitudes towards privilege does not reflect the entire campus’ opinion. As a DePauw student I am offended that this article has received the Internet attention that it has because it paints my university in an incredibly racist and un-accepting light. I am appalled that you think a professor wouldn’t call on a student because they were black, a woman, a lesbian or for any reason other than coincidence. I’m appalled, as a member of a fraternity, that you think ANY house would kick someone out because of their sexual orientation. Community Standards discriminating against students of color over charges? What year are you living in, 1951?! These are disgustingly ignorant and narrow-minded claims, and the article when published in the paper was not
taken seriously by many on our campus. Do I think that students have more privilege and project higher status? Yes. Welcome to the real world. Students on any campus, as well as adults across the nation will express entitlement based on their upbringing, socio-economic background and what-not. To relate this to the so-called “DePauw Bubble” is SUCH a falsehood, and you are only preventing any further “desegregation” and “acknowledgement” to occur with this piece. Keep your opinions out of the local AND national media spotlight when it paints a skewed picture of the truth about our university. YOU, my friend, are the one in the bubble. The bubble of ignorance.” The conversation of privilege is one that needs to be had, not with a resentful piece of writing like this. If Ms. Johnson’s examples are true, action must be taken by the administration to handle these horrific acts of racism. Grant Walters, sophomore Communications major
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PHOTOPINION How could the Special Olympics at DePauw be improved? “The biggest thing would be to improve advertisement. Making sure that everyone knows it’s not just for Greek members to is extremely important.” SUSAN JOHN, SOPHOMORE “Give more incentives for students to participate.”
TRUNG NGUYEN, SOPHOMORE “It went well and it was very fun. The concessions were expensive but it was a good time.”
RICHARD MCGOWAN, FRESHMAN “The number of people that cheered on each court was uneven.”
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Saturday’s win gives men’s lacrosse first winning record in program history By PAUL WATTS sports@thedepauw.com
The future looks bright for DePauw’s men’s lacrosse team, with the team picking up its second win of the season with an 8-6 victory over the Flying Dutchmen of Hope College Saturday. “We were anxious but excited for this game,” said first-year Sam Caravana. “We knew that this would be the best team we had played so far, and we wanted to see how we matched up.” The first 15 minutes ended with a 2-1 DePauw lead following goals from first-year Ryan Mauro and Caravana. The Tigers continued their charge throughout the second quarter with goals from first-years Adam Bridges and Robert Lapp. The Tigers entered halftime with the momentum and a 4-2 lead over the Flying Dutchmen. Injured first-year Nick Woerner commented on the mood in the DePauw locker room following the first half. “We were pretty happy with how we had
played,” Woerner said. “We knew we were playing first-year Andrew Schlaff. “We have sing-a-longs to well but that we needed to keep going and produce our sacred song, and everyone just enjoys themoffensively.” selves.” Lapp, Mauro and Bridges all scored again in the DePauw outmanned Hope in most measurable third quarter to give DePauw a commanding 7-3 statistics, including ground balls fielded, face-offs lead with 15 minutes won and goalkeeper left to play. However, saves. Tiger goalkeeper Hope came charging first-year Tom Kryspin back, scoring two goals gave an outstanding “After a win it’s always fun with the in rapid succession to performance with 20 close DePauw’s lead saves. team. We have sing-a-longs to our down to 7-5 with only a “Kryspin really kept sacred song, and everyone just enjoys us in the game,” Carafew minutes left. The Tigers respondvana said. “He made all themselves.” ed to Hope’s quick the saves he needed to surge when Lapp scored and then some incredhis third goal of the con-Andrew Schlaff, first year ible ones as well. It test off an assist from would’ve been a differfirst-year Grant Skipper. ent game without him. The Flying Dutchmen There’s a reason he got scored again just before time ran out to leave the the game ball.” final score at 8-6. The win gives DePauw a record of 2-1 so far this “After a win it’s always fun with the team,” said season. While it may still be early, this team is prov-
ing to be a far cry from the winless team of last year. The Tigers are rapidly making their way towards being a team to be reckoned with in the NCAC. The Tigers have one more out-of-conference game before they begin their difficult conference schedule. “The NCAC is one of the toughest conferences in the nation,” Woerner said. “There’s always several top 25 teams along with some really dominant ones. But we know that we’ll be able to compete well and come out with some wins.” DePauw is back in action on Saturday when they travel to Carthage College for a 3 p.m. contest against the Torchies. “Carthage is an established program,” Schlaff said. “It will be a good indicator of what we can really do this year.” Caravana is looking forward to the game against Carthage as a challenge. “Carthage will be the best team we’ve seen so far, and it’s our first away game,” Caravana said. “Expectations are starting to escalate, but we’re confident.”
Seniors on first and second All-NCAC teams reflect on time spent as Tigers By HAMM HOOPER sports@thedepauw.com
Last week, the NCAC released their 2013-14 men’s and women’s first and second All-NCAC teams. The women’s first-team featured two Tigers, including senior center Alex Gassaway. Gassaway, who was on the first team last year as well, averaged 13 points and six rebounds per game. Senior Ali Ross, Gassaway’s teammate, made the All-Second team for her consistent play this season. The two seniors are set to compete this Friday, against Carthage College in the NCAA Round of 16. For the men’s team, senior Michael Wilkison was honored on the All-Second NCAC team. Wilkison has played for the Tigers all four years, and recently scored his 1,000th point as a Tiger. The DePauw Sports sat down with the three seniors: Ross, Gassaway and Wilkison to reflect on their successful DePauw careers. Alex Gasaway, Forward, 5’10” TDP Sports: What struggles have you endured as a Tiger? AG: There are struggles each new season in any sport, but the one that's most recent on my mind is tearing my ACL at the end of regular season last year. Any injury, major or minor, can be a struggle, but I think my previous experience playing with a torn ACL in high school enabled me to move past the injury in order to contribute whatever I could
in the post-season run. But I think how I overcame that struggle is less important than how my teammates were able to elevate their play and end the season on a win. TDP Sports: What impact has coach Huffman had on you both on and off the basketball court? AG: Coach Huffman has taught me so much throughout my career here. From little tweaks to improve any skill technique, to showing me what it really felt like to work hard. She always talks about that "next gear" and as a freshman it's hard to know what she's talking about. You think, "She's crazy. I'm working as hard as I can." But you find out hopefully midway through your sophomore year that you're the one who's crazy to not have trusted her the whole time. She has this incredible way of drawing out your potential, and motivating you to find that next gear without you even realizing it. It's tough to describe unless you've experienced it. She's an incredible coach. TDP Sports: How would you like your legacy to end as a Tiger? AG: Every player wants to end their career on a win. There's no better way to say goodbye to the sport you've spent your life playing. If it ends up that we are unable to do that this season, I just want to be able to walk away from the court with no regrets, knowing that I gave it all I had. Ali Ross, Guard, 5’7” TDP Sports: Did you expect that you would have this much success when you decided to play
at DePauw? AR: I did not expect to do any of this. Coming in, I knew this was a good team, but I think as a freshman it seems like a crazy goal. We always have it, but is it actually possible to get to? So when it happened, it was unreal in my mind and it has taken a while for it to hit me. It was like I was in a dream state. The experience has just been awesome mostly spending time with the team whether it’s bus rides or pre-game meals. Those have been the most fun times aside from playing in the games. We don’t talk about the streak much under coach Huffman’s watch. We play for each moment and each game, and all of the streak was awesome It was a great thing we achieved, and it’s a game by game thing. TDP Sports: What was your best moment as a DePauw Tiger? AR: The best moment was in the locker room after the national championship game when I finally saw coach Huffman let loose a little bit and relax for once. She’s just working so hard to prepare us for each day; just to see her goof around and dance. I don’t know what she was doing; she was doing a lot of things, it was just so much fun to see everyone excited as we were after the game. Michael Wilkison, Guard, 5’10” TDP Sports: What has your basketball experience here done for you as a person? Michael Wilkison (MW): I have become more of a leader, and I have learned a lot about life from the situations that I had the opportunity to be a
part of throughout my basketball career. In my four years of DePauw, I had some struggles balancing my social life with my basketball career. I learned that you have to give up certain things in order to succeed at others. I have become a lot more conscious of handling one task at a time instead of looking at the overall big picture on certain things. TDP Sports: How do you think you we're able to turn into a 1,000 point scorer, and what does the achievement mean to you? MW: I was able to become a 1,000 point scorer because I was given the opportunity to play as a freshman. I also learned from the upperclassmen who put in a lot of work in the gym, as well as learning from my coaches. The coaches invested their trust in my abilities as a basketball player, and I tried to take advantage of that from the start. It’s a nice accomplishment, but I would of rather have won a championship. TDP Sports: What has been your best experience as a Tiger? MW: My best experience during my time at DePauw is a hard one to pin-point. I think the experience as a whole, having the opportunity to play at the collegiate level, has taught me a lot about life as well as the game of basketball. If I had to narrow it down to one time, it would probably be beating Wabash College all three times, my senior year and getting to the 1,000 point mark during the last one at home with my parents there to watch.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2014 NCAA | cont’d from page 12 Saturday night, in the second round, Transylvania found themselves in a huge hole just a few minutes into the game. Five different Tigers scored in the first five minutes and helped DePauw jump out to a 16-1 lead. Ross led the way for the Tigers during the run with five points of her own. The Pioneers would recover, however, and score the next six points of the game to keep things close for a bit. ! The Tigers pulled away midway through the first half. An Abendroth three-pointer made the DePauw lead 3212 with nine minutes and 42 seconds to play in the first half. The Pioneers would not lie down and scored a three pointer with less than a minute to play in the first half, Transylvania cut the DePauw lead to nine. The two teams would go into the half with the Tigers on top 43-34. Transylvania would score the first points of the second half tightening the score within seven. The Tigers followed that up with a run to push their lead back up to as much as 15. Once again, the Pioneers rallied and didn’t let the Tigers run away. Playing a
full-court press for much of the second half, the Pioneers forced turnovers and dragged themselves back into the game. Transylvania narrowed the lead to 72-68 with less than a minute to play, but four made free throws from Ross sealed the deal for the Tigers as they went on to win by a score of 78-68. “The guards should have been a little more assertive when it came down to it,” Ross said. “I think especially on defense we really acted lockdown. They were really driving on us and getting to the free throw line, and I think once we kind of settled down and stopped it, at that point we were kind of able to run down the clock.” Gasaway recorded a double-double for the Tigers with 16 points and 10 rebounds. Senior forward Alison Stephens snatched a career high 16 rebounds and added eight points to the effort. Abendroth had another solid performance coming off the bench with 10 points for the second straight night. Next up for the Tigers will be Carthage College. The two teams will meet at Neal Fieldhouse in the sweet sixteen of the NCAA tournament Friday night at 7:30 p.m.
Track finishes indoor season, prepares for the great outdoors By ERIC ST. BERNARD sports@thedepauw.com
At the North Coast Athletic Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships at Denison University this past Saturday, both men’s and women’s track teams finished in sixth place. The women’s team recorded one individual championship, as junior Celia Kauth won the high jump with 1.58 meters. In late February, Kauth won the high jump at the DePauw Classic where the team finished fifth of seventeen teams. This time around, on a bigger stage, Kauth proved herself again. She was the only women’s Tiger to finish in first place. Men’s standout Amen Galley won the long jump event, recording 6.86 meters in his final jump. Galley, a sophomore, is one of few brave DePauw athletes to compete in two sports. Last Fall, Galley was featured as one of football coach Bill Lynch’s premiere running backs. Over nine games played for Tigers football, Galley averaged 20.8 yards per game, behind seniors Nikko Sansone and Armani Cato. Galley’s football experience helped spur a successful 2014 track & field season. “Being able to play football in the fall allows me to stay in shape throughout the year,” said Galley. “This becomes useful when our track team starts practicing during Winter Term. It helps me stay mentally focused and keep my competitive edge.”
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Galley was joined on the first-place podium by senior Kyle Mackey. Mackey cleared 14-11 in the pole vault, earning a first place tie. Since it was his last indoor meet as a college athlete, the victory tasted a little sweeter for Mackey. “It means a lot,” Mackey said. “It was a definite goal of mine to win, even though I was not seated number one winning for the last time indoors only boosts my drive for outdoors. I proved to myself it’s possible, now all that’s left is seven weeks of hard work to do it again.” Though Kauth, Mackey and Galley were the only Tigers to take home first-place individually, there were more strong performances. Senior women’s Tiger Jillian Balser, one of the team’s most dominant performers, broke her own pole vault record for the third time this season, recording 3.4 meters at the event. Balser, in 2010, finished second in this weekend’s women pole vault, missing first place to Ohio Wesleyan’s Sarah Bechtel by .16 of a meter. Freshman Meghan Burke showed her versatility, having top five finishes in the three meets she competed in. In the triple jump, Burke came in second-place, recording a 10.66-meter jump. “We have been working hard all year, and the focus we have had since the beginning has been a big factor as to why so many athletes have broken records,” said Burke. Burke and the rest of the Tigers squad are gearing up for the upcoming Rose-Hulman Early Bird meet in Terre Haute, Ind. Both the men and women are set to start the competition at noon on Saturday, March 22.
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DePauw women’s basketball team takes care of business in first two rounds of NCAA tournament By JACOB LYNN sports@thedepauw.com
With wins over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps College and Transylvania University over the weekend, DePauw University’s women’s basketball team will move on to the sweet sixteen of the Division III NCAA tournament. The national tournament is familiar territory for the women, as this is their 11th straight appearance in the competition. It is not uncommon for DePauw to go deep in the tournament as well. The Tigers brought home a championship in 2007 and will be defending their title from last season in the upcoming weeks. The title defense began on Friday night, as the Tigers took on the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps’ Athenas in the first round of the tournament.
Despite playing the defending national champions on their own floor, the Athenas came out strong and played the Tigers tough in the first half. “Games come down to matchups, not rankings, not records, ” said DePauw head coach, Kris Huffman. “Claremont-Mudd-Scripps was a tough matchup for us with their perimeter play and the way we want to play defense.” This was evident, as seven minutes into the game, the Tigers and Athenas were tied at 12 points each. It was then, that the DePauw women began to flex their muscles and pull away. Led by senior forward Alex Gasaway’s 14 first half points, the Tigers stretched their lead to 34-29 at halftime. The three-point shooting paced the Tigers through the first 20 minutes. DePauw nailed six shots from beyond the arc in the first half. Over a span of two minutes, DePauw scored 12 straight
points thanks to deep shooting threes from senior guard Ali Ross and junior guard Emma Ondik and two from Gasaway paved the way to DePauw’s halftime lead. The depth of the Tigers bench proved to be too much for the Athenas in the second half. DePauw quickly jumped out to a 12-point lead. The Tigers would stretch that margin up to as much as 19 with two minutes and 29 seconds remaining. Trailing by so much, the Athenas switched into a full-court press defense that allowed them to outscore the Tigers by eight in the final few moments. “I think it’s getting down; the game’s a little bit tight,” Huffman said. “We maybe didn’t handle some possessions as well as we would have liked to, but credit to Claremont, they kept coming at us. They made some plays, and we turned it over.” However, the late run would not be enough as the Tigers would go on to win by a final score of
79-68. Athena’s head coach, Kristen Dowling commented on the difficulty of traveling across the country. “We expected to travel, period,” said Dowling after the game. “In our conference, you expect to travel in the NCAA tournament.” Gasaway led the Tigers in scoring by dropping 20 points on the Athenas. Junior guard Lauren Abendroth chipped in with 10 points off of the bench. With the win, the Tigers earned the right to take on Transylvania in the second round of the tournament. In the opening game on Friday night, the Transylvania Pioneers defeated Ohio Northern University 79-71 in a back and forth battle.
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The Tigers shot 69 percent from the charity stripe on Saturday night against Transylvania. C. THAMBUNDIT / THE DEPAUW
Savannah Trees drives hard to the basket against Transylvania on Saturday night. C. THAMBUNDIT / THE DEPAUW