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January 29, 2010
volume 102 • issue 15
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DREW CASEY | WABASH ‘12
The 92nd Session of the Student Senate met Tuesday to swear-in President Cody Stipes ‘11, Vice President Michael Nossett ‘11, and class and living unit representatives.
With the beginning of the 92nd Session of the Student Senate ,
some students are still apathetic toward student government.
RILEY FLOYD ‘13
MANAGING EDITOR
With the pounding of a gavel
and the usual formalities, the
92nd Student Senate had its first
convocation on Tuesday. Dean
Raters swore-in newly-elected
President Cody Stipes and Vice
President Michael Nossett before
the pair gave opening remarks to
the newly installed Senate. With
students detached, disinterested,
and sometimes genuinely apathetic, Nossett has attempted to
bridge the gap. But will it work?
Nossett created a new Facebook
page to instantly stream updates
to Students who join the Senate
group. But it’s getting them to
join that’s the problem.
For freshmen, there’s no stan-
dard of comparison to prior
terms. And some remain generally apathetic to the entire enterprise.
“At the beginning of the year,
I actually tried having an opinion, but it didn’t matter,” said
freshman Thomas Schmidt.
And it’s those who felt marginalized that Stipes and Nossett
encouraged to make their voices
heard during the campaign and
during Tuesday’s meeting. In his
remarks, Stipes urged new members to not be afraid to voice their
ideas and concerns.
Unity, despite difficult budgetary allocations and a divide
between the students and administration, is what Mark Thomas is
most proud of from his term as
President.
“There was a lot of hostility
between students and the administration, but we all came together,” Thomas said.
It remains to be seen whether
the new administration faces different expectations from the prior
session.
For most, Senate isn’t something often thought about. “I’ve
never paid any attention,” senior
Chris Vawter said.
Either students genuinely
don’t care or they claim that
there isn’t enough information. If
he knew more, freshman Ian
Grant said he might be willing to
participate in the process.
And that same lack of connection characterizes junior Jarod
Brock’s view of the Senate.
“I’m not really connected to
Student Senate. I feel separated
from it…I’ve never really been
to a meeting,” Brock said.
“I have full confidence in anyone who can run the campus,”
Brock said. And that includes
Stipes and Nossett.
Stipes and Nossett began by
making the necessary appointments to the general offices of
the Senate. Junior Micah LemSee, SENATE, Page 2
IMA Ratifies
New
Constitution,
Page 2
DREW CASEY | WABASH ‘12
Pictured Above (L to R): Current Vice President Michael Nossett ‘11,
outgoing Vice President Craig Cochran ‘10, Outgoing President Mark
Thomas ‘10, and current President Cody Stipes ‘11.
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January 29, 2010
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IMA Averts Constitutional Crisis
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The constitution was
lost, and now it’s found.
The governing document of the Independent
Men’s Association (IMA)
was misplaced over the
course of recent administrations. Current members
searched high and low for
it but to no avail. So
instead, they created a new
charter of their very own –
a charter that was ratified
unanimously
Monday
night with the signatures of
more than 30 independent
men.
Chief among them was
junior class representative
and new IMA President
Christopher Charles Raymond Sidebottom.
With the precision of
constitutional scholars and
the zeal of ‘60s student
radicals, Sidebottom ‘11
and a diverse gang of independent men have taken a
giant leap towards a destination that has eluded their
predecessors: an active
Independent Men’s Association (IMA) that draws
on the disparate nature of
its constituents.
“Frankly we were
working from something
that had been patchworked together,” Sidebottom said of the constitution, an elusive fabric that
tethered together the
organization he now leads.
“And no one who came
to the IMA meetings really
thought it was doing anyone any good. This is a
way for us to show that
we’re starting to do things
by changing the fabric of
the constitution so we can
change the way we do
things so we can change
the things that we do.”
To put it simply, the ratification of the new IMA
constitution is a tangible
and conceptual symbol for
the larger changes in IMA
dynamics Sidebottom and
Joining IMA
The IMA constitution defines an
“Independent…as a Wabash College student who
remains independent from association with any
exclusive social fraternal organization recognized
by Wabash College.”
Any Independent who chooses to be a member
of the IMA and attends any session of the IMA is
considered a member.
Voting members must be Independents in
attendance for at least 66-percent of a
semester’s meetings or have attended the prior
two consecutive meetings.
others want to actualize.
The new constitution
calls for the IMA President
and Vice-President to
“relay the interests of the
Independent
[student]
body to the Deans, faculty,
staff, student leaders, and
all other relevant parties,”
to promote and to advocate
on improvement for all
aspects of Independent
life, including dining
options, living quarters onand off -campus, intramural sports, and student life
generally.
The misplacing of the
previous constitution gave
IMA activists like Sidebottom, current Vice President
Mike Schenkel, freshmen
members like Rudy Altergott and Michael Keve,
and senior members like
Martindale Resident Assistant (RA) Yousuf Bahrami
and outgoing student body
President Mark Thomas an
opportunity not only to
draft a governing structure
for the IMA but to alter the
function of the organization itself.
“We wanted to make
sure we were representing
and advocating for every
independent on campus in
every way that we can,”
Sidebottom said, “when
they’re in the dorms, and
when they’re at Sparks,
and doing anything that
pertains to the independent
experience at Wabash.
“What we as an IMA
perceive the IMA to be is a
group which facilitates
communication and forward movement to bring
the disparate aspects of
student life together, that is
COURTESY OF BACHELOR ARCHIVES
IMA President Chris Sidebottom led the effort to write a new
constititution for the organizatio he leads and averted a
constituttional crisis, after the previous document was lost.
the say the RAs, the
administrators, the student
senators, and the independents who maybe
aren’t involved to make
the body more cohesive
and ultimately more active
with alumni and with
events on campus,” Sidebottom said.
This coming together is
seen as an essential function in bolstering the independent voice on campus,
especially given the fact
that the Inter-Fraternity
Counsel (IFC) has been so
active.
“Rather than being
reactive and ultimately
antagonistic [to IFC] and
saying we’re just not
Greek,” Sidebottom said,
“we decided a more positive definition, which is
slippery footwork. An
independent makes the
TOP LEFT: Dean of Students Mike Raters ‘85
swears in newly-installed President Cody Stipes ‘11
as former President Mark Thomas ‘10 looks on.
BOTTOM LEFT: Vice President Michael Nossett ‘11
takes his oaths.
Photos by Drew Casey ‘12
Senate
From Page 1
Friday, 1/29
Interviewing for
Internships, 12:15
p.m.
Celebration of
Student Research,
1 p.m.
Sunday, 1/31
Facutly recital, Alfred
and Colette Abel,
4 p.m.
Thursday, 2/4
Information session:
Purdue University
Graduate Programs,
12 p.m.
Career Movie Night,
9:30 p.m.
decision to be independent. With that we hope we
can compliment and not
compete with IFC to more
accurately and fully promote the needs and wants
of independents on campus.”
Outgoing
President
Mark Thomas was gratifies by seeing young
Wabash men put so much
time and effort into building the foundation for a
new activism among independent men.
“It was great to see so
many interested and active
independent men working
together toward ratifying
the new IMA Consitution,” said the senior. “We
have needed to rewrite it
for some time, and Chris
and the rest of the IMA has
done a fantastic job with
the document.”
bke will serve as the new
Sergeant-at-Arms, filling a position
the duo originally slated for sophomore Josh Linthicum who passed
away earlier this month.
Stipes appointed junior Ricky
Ritter as representative of off-campus men.
In the midst of budget cuts and
complex allocations, the chairmanship of the Audit and Finance Committee remains a veritable hot seat.
Members voted between juniors
Billy Evans and Andrew Forrester
with Forrester garnering the most
votes. Ritter, along with juniors
Evans and Justin Allen, sophomores Steve Henke, Steven
Stankovich, and Trevor Counceller
will serve under Forrester on the
AFC. Forrester plans to meet with
his new committee members sometime next week.
Junior Nolan Eller will chair the
Constitution, Bylaw, and Policy
Review Committee (CBPR).
Freshmen Rudy Altergott and
Michael Carper along with sophomore Matt Meyer will round out
the committee.
Sophomore Joe Reese will chair
the Community Service Committee
(CSC).
Stipes opted to keep senior
Patrick Griffith as representative to
the Board of Publications (BOP)
until a subsequent meeting. And
Nossett continues to chair the Academic Policy Committee.
After making appointments and
filling necessary positions, the Senate moved on to its new business.
In the first resolution of the term,
the W.A.R. Council was added to
the Senior Council, and the AFC
was expanded to six members.
But despite the new faces in
familiar places, the new Senate
term comes with one lingering
question. Will this term be any different than prior ones?
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January 29, 2010
Pandora’s Box of Student Work
JOHN DYKSTRA ‘13
STAFF WRITER
At this afternoon’s eighth
annual Celebration of Student
Research, students in the audience have the chance to take in
the wide variety of knowledge
presented. By doing so, underclassmen who have not
declared their major can view a
broad horizon of studies—
something that freshman orientation does not touch base
with—thus giving students an
opportunity to find a subject of
interest.
“In freshmen orientation,
students, whether they are guys
from your fraternity or your
group leaders, along with faculty tell you the student to
teacher ratio is phenomenal—
there is more time for one-onone learning,” said Assistant
Professor of Mathematics, Dr.
Chad Westphal. “Thing is, all
“I find the Celebration
of Student Research
interesting for a few
reasons, one being
that I get to see what
my friends did over the
summer.”
David Seibel
Wabash ‘11
of that goes over students’
heads until they see for themselves. The Celebration of Student Research is an opportunity
for students to both experience
and see that—students participating in the event select a
teacher to sponsor them and
work with whoever the teacher
is to produce their project;
whether it is during an independent study class, regular
class, or outside of class.”
The Celebration enables students to gather as if it were
Homecoming all over again. It
is also an event similar to
Senior Comps in the sense that
students are able to discuss
what they have learned to not
only faculty members, but students at the College. All in all,
it is highly recommended that
students attend, not just for the
“ballin’” food, but for the sake
of the social gathering and
knowledge being passed from
student to student.
This day is dedicated to students who have dedicated their
time and intellect both outside
and inside the classroom to
research a topic of their interest. In order to be able to present their research project, students had to have a sponsor
sign-off on their project. For
many, research was done over a
wide range of time—for three
years, the summer, and/or a
semester.
“I proposed my project to
Professor Royalty back in late
March-early April of last year
and I applied for the undergraduate research grant last
April and it was approved,”
said Adam Brasich ‘11. “I did
my first round of research over
the summer, started the academic aspects, and went back
to Nauvoo over fall break, so
it’s been a long process. My
research also relates to my
background, so I’ve been
working months, years for this
presentation.”
The Celebration of Student
Research will be beneficial
both to the students presenting
and those standing in the audience. Students participating
will have a chance to show
their peers what they have been
working on for an extensive
period of time—this is not like
the typical paper for any typical class, where every student
realizes that it is something
that needs to be done—it is
voluntary and is praised upon a
college transcript.
David Seibel ’11 has attended the event the past two years
and will be doing a presentation on a project from his class,
titled: “Don Quijote: Sad or
Crazy? Maybe Both.”
“I find the Celebration of
Student Research interesting
for a few reasons, one being
that I get to see what my
friends did over the summer—
it is a significant amount of
time and a lot of it goes unnoticed if they don’t have an
opportunity to show us what
they’ve been doing,” Seibel
Celebrations
of
Yesteryear
Top Right: Vic Powell makes a point to fellow alum Robert Wedgeworth.
Middle Left: TKE Scott Pond projects a professionarial demeanor at last year’s
Celebration.
Middle Right: Senior Dan Brown explain
physics poster to fellow Delt Sean Huston.
Lower Right: Nathan Rutz explains his project.
Photos Courtesy of Public Affairs
COURTESY OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Josh Lopez ‘10 presents in the 2009 Celebration Festival.
said. “That and I feel that they
deserve a little recognition for
what they discover.”
The Celebration of Student
Research Day at Wabash is
unique compared to similar
events held on other campuses.
“The unique thing about
Wabash is its size,” Westphal
said. “We are able to cancel
classes in the afternoon, allowing students to gather around
their peers and hear what they
have to say; whereas, at a
school such as Purdue, they
would have to cancel classes
for people majoring in that area
of research.”
For a fair amount of students, this is not the first time
that they will present their
research in the Celebration of
Student Research. Nathan Line
‘11 has participated in the
event the past two years, making this year his third year of
presenting in the event.
“I’ve presented for several
sessions. This will be my third
Celebration to present at and
probably my ninth poster session to present at. At this time,
it has become quite simple for
me to demonstrate,” Line said
when discussing the possible
difficulties in presenting to an
audience.
The event will take place
this afternoon from 1 p.m. to 4
p.m. in various locations
throughout campus. Again, all
students are recommended to
attend as are members from the
Wabash community.
January 29, 2010
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This Is Your Country on Drugs
Moral Absolutism and the Hypocrisy of U. S. Drug Laws
SEAN HUSTON
COLUMNIST
My recent experience with Wabash’s
comprehensive exams has led me to
reflect on my time spent here and what I
have come to learn about myself. This
being my first column, I figured that I
could share an opinion which I have
developed during the course of my scholarship.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t think of any. I
have come to find that I do not hold many
radical political ideals or poignant opinions on current events. I don’t necessarily
believe anything. I just think…critically,
when I can.
It’s not that I don’t pay attention or
don’t care. I just feel as though my liberal
arts education didn’t prepare me for pouring concrete ideas into my head, to be
unmoved by reason.
On the contrary, my education informs
my desire to deconstruct and challenge
these absolutist arguments: to turn a critical eye towards their nuances, shed light
on their fault lines and inquire into the
depths of their exigencies. The phrase,
‘thinking critically,’ euphemizes this
method rather concisely.
Honest discourse comes from a place of
mutual vulnerability, awareness that no
position is 100% correct and remaining
conscious of our biases. However, almost
any outward criticism of human behavior
on moral grounds (a.k.a. the ‘holier than
thou’ complex) is based on an absolutist
assessment.
In claiming, “Drugs are bad” and
“Medicine is good,” we are making an
important statement about how we, as a
society, perceive the ingestion of chemical
compounds, morality and the law. How we
make this distinction speaks volumes
about the moral underpinnings of our culture.
The issue of drugs is a complicated
one. Heroin was first introduced as a
“Is it wise to extend willingly
the federal government’s
reach further into our bodies?...minds?”
cough medicine and was thought to cure
opium addiction.
Today, methadone is used to treat heroin addiction. The relationship between science and society informs the tenuous
moral question of whether one may legitimately use a substance to treat an illness,
or illegally to alter one’s mood.
Many would like to believe that there is
nothing “moral” or “social” about the role
that narcotics play in American culture,
having faith that “Science” objectively
distinguishes between drugs and medicine. But if I took anything away from the
science module of C&T, it is that society
often tells the scientists whether their discoveries are good or bad, and how they
will be used (i.e. Nuclear Bombs,
Frankenstein, etc.).
Drug enforcement laws originated as
complements to the exclusionary laws
aimed at alien and racial communities.
They reflected the perceptions of class
division in our society, implying that there
are groups who can control themselves
and those that cannot. It was feared that
Chinese opium dens were places where
white women were seduced. Cocaine was
once thought to be good for the pep and
vigor of white baseball players, but for
blacks during reconstruction, it was considered to be the cause of spontaneous
insanity and impulsive violence. As the
abuse of these drugs permeated through
society, the drugs themselves came to represent the death of American morality,
dragging respectable white families into
ruin.
The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of
1914 marks a turning point in American
law: for the first time, the federal government asserted the authority to regulate
what its citizens ingest.
Spurred by Christian missionaries and
complying with an international conference for the abolition of the opium trade,
Congress utilized its power under the
commerce (elastic) clause to regulate the
production, sale and distribution of Opium
and Coca leaves, their salts, derivatives,
etc.
The political system of the United
States made qualitative judgments on
these substances that reflected contemporary fears and the moral framework of
American culture.
The effects of this morally charged leg-
islation were felt deeply within American
society, resonating in its institutions and
influencing its culture. When the Supreme
Court ruled on this law, they held that drug
addiction was not a disease.
This decision resulted in the jailing of
addicts and the doctors not in compliance
with regulations. It drove drug trafficking
underground and may have set events into
motion that shaped the social ills which
manifest themselves today as overcrowded prisons, a $400 billion black market,
and the immeasurable violence and corruption that come with drug enforcement.
American society evolves in tandem
with its culture. Political institutions like
the law adapt to the moral upheavals that
reflect biases and preferences embedded
in the culture. As narcotics came to public
light, the fears of society were reflected in
the law. Scientific findings reinforced the
negative cultural perception of drugs
which signified popular notions of class,
gender and race. The effects of federal
drug enforcement were heavy; decisions
of such social magnitude are complicated
and should not be taken lightly.
There is currently a political debate
over healthcare that represents similar
social evolution, with similar questions.
Does the commerce clause authorize Congress to institute reform? From a moral
standpoint, is healthcare a universal
human right or essentially an industry?
How far will federal oversight intervene
into the doctor-patient relationship? Is it
wise to extend willingly the federal government’s reach further into our bodies?
...minds?
Outgoing President
Pens Final Farewell
“I am quite sure that this place has grown from the multiple
challenges that we all faced in 2009.”
DREW CASEY | WABASH ‘12
Former President Mark Thomas looks on as new President Cody Stipes is sworn in.
MARK THOMAS
GUEST COLUMNIST
As of this past Tuesday, a new student
government has sworn to work toward the
betterment of Wabash and its students.
Being now a former Student Body President,
I would like to take this time to first, thank
everyone on campus for making this past
year so successful, and second, challenge
everyone here to make sure our next year is
better. I am quite sure that this place has
grown from the multiple challenges that we
all faced in 2009. This is not because of anything that I or other individuals have done,
but instead an accumulation of all our
accomplishments. Thus, if you work diligently toward your goals for this institution,
then we all will benefit from each other.
This past year, our college was met with
multiple tests from both inside and out. No
one could have known that our economy and
the endowment would fall, and, worse, no
one could have predicted the hardships felt
with the passing of both a student and a professor. Yet, instead of using these as excuses or justification for taking sides, we decided to work together toward healing these
wounds in order to build upon them. This
has led to tighter and deeper connections
within the members of the Wabash community and an improved outlook toward the
future.
In addition, the student government tackled numerous challenges from financial policy to student rights. This past session, the
Senate passed more reform legislation than
any other Senate that I remember. Moreover,
almost all of this legislation was constructively debated by the body’s active members, all of whom fought for their respective
constituents. The Senior Council made it
our mission to first bring the campus closer
together and second, provide more entertainment and fellowship for the students. With
more clubs working together as well as more
campus-wide events, we all worked to
accomplish this mission.
As I close, I would like to challenge all
students, freshmen to seniors, to continue
working toward the betterment of the college in general. I believe that we are successful because of a strong connection with our
alma mater. Wabash is extremely impressive; we have a rich opportunity to make a
difference while here. We all have the capacity to do great things and, as a result of the
smaller student body, must step up and lead.
Therefore, I ask all of you to continue striving for excellence and always keep Wabash
on your mind.
Opinion
The Bachelor
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January 29, 2010
Enjoy the Don’t Tell Me
Little Things You’re Busy
As winter begins to hit full force with
continued short days, endless cloudy skies,
and a hazardous mixture of snow and rain,
it is easy to become depressed. In fact,
medically there are many reasons why the
winter depresses us. The lack of sun
deprives our body of much needed vitamins, while the lengthened darkness and
cold keep us cloistered inside away from
our family and friends. Similarly the college lifestyle with very little sleep and use
of depressants like alcohol can also have a
detrimental effect on our health and mental
well being.
It can be easy in such times to lose track
of all the other great things that we have
going on. In the worst of times we all still
have a variety of little things that can perk
up the spirit. Too often we take these small
things for granted and become overly
focused on the stresses of jobs, internships,
grades, and the future. Such fears and
stresses are understandable, particularly so
in our trying economic times, but take some
time out each day for yourself to appreciate
the good things in life.
Walking around campus everyday
deprives us of some perspective on how
beautiful our College really is. On a snowy
winter night working in the library or
armory, take a break and walk around campus for a moment. Enjoy the view of the
Chapel, the Grant Street side of Center Hall,
or the evergreen trees in the Arboretum.
The brisk night air will surely give your
senses a jolt, and appreciating our campus’
beauty in the snow will enliven your spirit.
Celebrating food can be another way to
enjoy the small things in life. Simply brewing a hot cup of quality tea, coffee, or hot
chocolate and sharing an intimate conversation with a friend can be just the pick me up
you might need. A hot cup of chai is a personal favorite to bring great winter spices, a
mild sweetness, and warmth on a cold winter night.
In need of more substantial sustenance?
Have dinner with a friend or professor. One
of Crawfordsville’s best-kept secrets is the
sushi at China Inn on Green Street north
east of campus. Some other great places to
try are the small, authentic Mexican restau-
JOHN HENRY
OPINION
EDITOR
rants that blanket Crawfordsville and offer
unique fresh food that you cannot find at
Taco Bell or another chain restaurant.
Whatever your culinary preferences, if
they are not offered in town, just a short half
hour drive to Greencastle or Lafayette can
open a whole new world of options. Both
towns offer a different variety of options.
Greencastle has unique small town restaurants like Almost Home’s higher end home
cooking, Chief’s savory barbeque, or Marvin’s garlic cheeseburgers. Just north,
Lafayette offers a bit of everything. Thai,
Greek, Japanese, Irish, or even Southern Pit
Barbeque, you name it and you can almost
assuredly find a great place to try. Opening
up your culinary world from the confines of
campus life can be just the thing to give
your own life a bit of spice in the cold of
winter.
If nothing else, find something particularly seasonal and have fun with it. Ice
skating, sledding, skiing, and snowboarding
are just a few of the fun things to do that can
rarely be done during spring, summer, or
fall. Our lives are all busy but it is in making time for the little things in life that we
can truly find warmth and light in the darkness of winter. Finding the bright side in
winter’s wrath can be a fulfilling way to
have a little fun and get out of the ruts of
daily college life.
“...take some time out each
day for yourself to appreciate
the good things in life.”
Letter to the Editor
Why We Shouldn’t Be Friends
Sir –
I write in response to Gary James’ editorial, “Why Can’t We Be Friends?”, which
weighed the rationale professors give for not accepting Facebook friend requests from students. Mr. James argued that since many students and professors “already have a close relationship,” ignoring a student’s friend request is “rude,” a “rejection of goodwill.” Further,
professors should not appeal to worry of ‘playing favorites’ when faced with a Facebook
request, because, as Mr. James pointed out, professors seemingly play favorites everyday,
and this causes no harm.
All very well. I am not interested in Mr. James’ conclusions, but rather the very fundamental assumption on which his editorial rests; namely, that professors and students should
want to be Facebook friends – or, for that matter, friends at all.
Put simply, they shouldn’t. It is against both of their interests. Professors are interested
in educating students, and students in becoming educated by professors. A friend, at least
in the everyday [read: Facebook] sense of the word, does neither, rather seeing his role as
one of support and validation, someone who might make you feel good about yourself
when you don’t. Such was not once the case – one thinks of Aristotle’s sense of “virtuous
friendship,” or that between David and Jonathan, Achilles and Patroclus, or even our own
Emerson and Thoreau – but it is now, when “friend” has become the lowest common
denominator of any relationship, the very norm.
All relationships dissolve into friendship. It is the great egalitator. Bosses want to
befriend their employees, fathers ask their sons to think of them as friends, and spouses call
each other “best friends.” A title is lost, one that means something, and replaced with
“friend,” a term of no obligation. Friends leave each other at will. They make new friends.
They might not speak to each other for months. Friends are not expected to lead, nor are
they responsible for the education of their friends, nor are they tied “till death do us part.”
The loss of title affects a loss of obligation, a loss of responsibility – it removes the sacredness that exists between two people bonded by a formal relationship, be that father and son,
husband and wife, or professor and student.
But it also brings about a loss of enchantment. Titles add magic to the world. They make
daily life into a theatre, giving people different parts to play. No country has better understood this in recent history than England, which based its society on pomp and ceremony,
and thereby gave a spark to otherwise very dull and mundane tasks – a spark, and a sense
of gravity, because titles make things matter by lending them a certain seriousness. A
squabble between friends is of no importance, but one between a professor and a student
is. Likewise with compliments paid. And likewise with criticism.
This loss of seriousness, brought about when titles are cast off, is, incidentally, why
Dean Phillips should not be signing his all-campus e-mails with “Gary”, as he did recently concerning The Celebration of Student Research. Dean Phillips is not “Gary” to the corporate body of Wabash, even if he may be to certain members of it: He is, rather, the Dean
of the College, a title of far greater obligation and gravity than “Gary”. And so is “professor” more meaningful than “friend”: It carries with it both responsibility and authority, two
things I want my professors – be they true, virtuous friends or not – to always keep, lest
they become just another friend on Facebook.
Jacob Stump ‘11
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard
it dozens of times. “I’m busy,” he said.
“This week was crazy.” “Do you know
all the things I have to do?” I would
venture to say most of us, if not all of
us, have used this excuse at one time or
another. Some use more than others.
Please stop.
Most Wabash men, as well as most
people with jobs, school, and families,
are busy people. There is always a deadline not to miss, a paper to write, reading and research to do, bills to pay, diapers to be changed, food to be cooked
(or ordered), conversations to be had.
The list goes on.
I do not challenge the fact that most
people lead lives occupied with whatever it is with which they have chosen to
occupy themselves. It is precisely this
fact that leads me to ask my Wabash
brethren to stop verbalizing their busy
schedules. There are a number of reasons why verbalizing one’s business is a
bad idea.
First, one shouldn’t have to verbalize
his business. People should see it in the
work that you do. By repeatedly telling
everyone how busy you are, you may
actually raise other people’s expectations of you unknowingly and unintentionally. One might reason, “if he is able
to handle this, that, and the other thing,
then surely he must have his life together. He must have great time management skills.” So if you intend for “I’m
busy” to justify your not doing something, it may actually backfire.
Second, one shouldn’t verbalize his
business because it assumes others
aren’t busy. Granted, some people are
busier than others. However, I would
argue that many Wabash students meet
this “busy” threshold. By verbalizing
one’s business, he is essentially saying,
“my busy beats your busy.” The truth is
simple – we’re all busy. We all have
various commitments. We all juggle
school, jobs, personal lives, gaming,
facebooking, and other priorities. By
using “I’m busy” as an excuse, one is
not only stating what should be the
obvious but devaluing the lives and priorities of others.
Finally, one shouldn’t verbalize his
business because it erodes credibility.
Imagine you are a professor. You have
meeting upon meeting upon meeting.
Add about three classes, with an average of 20 students each. You have to
create syllabi, work with the administration, division and department heads,
and other colleagues. Not only do you
have to read the materials you have
assigned to your students, but you must
have some semblance about which
points your students will leave with
after each class. Then you have to make
sure your “grand plan” can fit into both
the individual class timing restrictions,
the ethos of a Wabash classroom, and
the semester calendar.
Oh, wait. We’re not done. You also
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have to create assignments, examinations, and lead discussions. You have to
grade all those essays and exams. And
you have to do this every semester for
multiple classes. Now let’s add a life
outside of Wabash. It could be a single
life. It could be a married life. It could
include children, pets, an aging parent
or parents. It could include all of the
above. It could even include more.
Lately, I marvel at the “I’m really
busy” excuse, especially when it’s used
by a student to a professor but also
when it’s used by peers to peers. It’s
insulting. It’s weak. And it’s self-defeating.
In Professor Agata Szczeszak-Brewer’s World Literature class, we are reading The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story About
the Hard Life by Flann O’Brien. The
book is a parody of some people’s
obsession with their poor plight. The
title of the book is a play on the Gaelic
expression “putting on the pour mouth,”
which translates to exaggerating one’s
bad circumstances to gain favor or
relief, often from those to whom one
owed money.
In our context, we may call it “putting on the busy façade” because I often
see the “I’m busy” excuse used to
explain why something wasn’t done or
wasn’t done well. While one’s busy
schedule may actually be the reason
why whatever was supposed to be done
was not done and while prejudice
against the Irish and a series of misfortunes may explain the plight of the Irish,
particularly in the 19th and early 20th
century, O’Brien’s message is still as
true and helpful as ever. Often times,
our obsession with our plight – be it our
business, misfortunes, or other things –
can actually function to diminish our
own agency. They can disempower us.
They can prevent us from actually
improving our plights and doing that
which we have committed because we
have convinced ourselves that things
are static; that there is no hope.
Instead of calling attention to our
perpetually full schedules, we should
figure out ways to reorient our priorities
to either accomplish all we have committed to or be honest with ourselves
and others about what we can actually
can do and what we are able to do well.
We learn many things at Wabash, but
one of the most important lessons a
Wally can ever learn here is the importance of time management.
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Green
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an ongoing project and encourage
students to think about recycling and
what can be done in terms of saving volumes of trash. Our goal is to get the
recycling program underway in a fun,
exciting, publicity-oriented kind of
way.”
As the “media blitz” unfolds, students can expect to get e-mails from the
various organizations about updates on
the current standings in the competition.
Logan summarized the SFS’s new
movement toward a more eco-friendly
environment,
“This semester, especially with the
green report card, we’ve been more
proactive. Rather than just telling people
what they should do, we’re trying to go
out and create changes.”
The newly-elected President of SFS,
Michael Mondovics ’13, has already
begun brainstorming and creating plans
for the next phase in restoring Wabash to
a cleaner state, including implementing
a system to dispose of ink cartridges and
possibly creating a community garden.
The EEC will also be contributing to the
agenda by pushing for more recycling
bins in the academic buildings as well as
working with Bon Appétit to keep the
campus commitment to sustainable
food.
“We’ve been much more
proactive, rather than just
telling people what they
should do, we’re trying to
go out and create
changes.”
Will Logan, Wabash ‘11
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Music through a
“Filter”
One band’s journey from fame to success
Following the success of
their most recent album
Anthems for the Damned,
Cleveland-based rock band
Filter has entered the studios
to record their fifth album.
The band was formed
shortly after founding member Richard Patrick left Nine
Inch Nails and met Brian
Liesegang in 1993. Patrick
and Liesegang entered the
studios and released the
band’s first album Short Bus,
which featured their mostplayed song, “Hey Man, Nice
Shot,” in 1995. “The phrase
'hey man, nice shot' is a reference to the final act itself, an
expression of guts and determination of a person standing
up for what they believe is
right,” Patrick said. Patrick
and Liesegang recruited more
members into the band to tour
After touring in support of
their first album, the band
started soundtrack projects for
the movies/TV shows: The
Crow: City of Angels, Spawn
and The X Files. “Thanks
Bro” was the first single
recorded by the band. It was
used on the soundtrack for
The X Files as was the band’s
cover of Harry Nilsson’s
“One.” Patrick’s brother,
Robert Patrick, starred in the
TV show. "Jurassitol" was
contributed to The Crow: City
of Angels. The concept of
“Jurassitol” was based around
the idea that younger generations have to “pick-up the
slack” of older generations
and “step back as the old man
walks by.” The band’s contribution to Spawn was the song
“Trip Like I Do.” Patrick collaborated with The Crystal
Method to produce the song,
contributing his voice and
guitar work. “Trip Like I Do”
marked the true beginning of
Filter as an industrial/electronica band.
Once the band was fin-
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MUSIC
COLUMNIST
ished producing songs for
soundtracks, Brian Liesegang
left the band in 1997 due to
“creative differences.” Patrick
kept the touring members he
hired for the Short Bus tour
and recorded the band’s second album Title of the Record,
which was the band’s break
into mainstream success. The
album presented a wide variety of music genres, ranging
from the ambient ballad
“Take a Picture” to the intense
guitar riffs of “Welcome to
the Fold,” even to the electronica dexterity of “Captain
Bligh” and “The Best
Things.”
“Take a Picture” was one
of the band’s top-played
songs, alongside “Hey Man,
Nice Shot.” In the song,
Patrick gives the listener an
insight to an incident he faced
on an airplane while being
drunk, which was the inspiration for the opening lines of
“Awake on my airplane.” The
true meaning of the song has
been an ongoing controversy
as to whether it is about the
negative alterations of being
drunk (“Could you take my
picture/ Cause I won’t
remember”) or Patrick making a statement to his father
(“Hey, Dad, what do you
think about your son now?”).
Nonetheless, “Take a Picture” led to the making of
Patrick’s most personal album
The Amalgamut, which was
released in 2002. Following
the attacks on 9/11, Patrick
wrote several songs in support
of the troops sent overseas
and works who died in the
World Trade Center. These
songs include: “Columind”,
“The Missing”, “World
Today” and “The 4th.”
Patrick also took this opportunity to express his beliefs
on both American society and
government in “American
Cliché.”
Patrick, having expressed
his beliefs on what was going
on in the world, also gave an
insight to his life—he was an
alcoholic, lost in the ways of
people. “The Amalgamut is an
album of which I remember,
but do not remember at the
same time,” Patrick said. “It
was written at a time when I
woke-up and realized what
was really going on in the
world and that I needed to
change my ways of living.
“Where Do We Go From
Here” explores the lost mind
of Patrick, running parallel to
the idea of “waking-up.” The
music video for the song takes
place at a party, based around
alcohol and teens committing
hazardous acts due to being
drunk. “God Damn Me” also
reveals that Patrick came to
terms with all the “wrong he
has done,” laminating a tone
similar to “Take a Picture.”
Patrick decided to put the
band into hiatus following the
completion of The Amalgamut tour due to rehab. He had
the date September 28, 2002,
tattooed on his forearm, since
it was the day he became
sober. During the hiatus, he
joined the supergroup Army
of Anyone along with the
Deleo brothers from Stone
Temple Pilots, serving as the
band’s lead singer. He also
joined The Damning Well to
produce the soundtrack for
Underworld.
With the passing of five
years, Patrick brought his
band out of hiatus, recruiting
new members to record the
band’s fourth studio album
Anthems for the Damned. The
album took strides in the “betterment” of America, by
“fighting” a non-violent front
about the war in Iraq. “Soldiers of Misfortune,” the
album’s hit single, was written in honor of a Filter fan
who died in a rocket attack in
Iraq. The album as a whole
took a break from industrial
music, promoting the use of
slightly distorted guitars and
slower melodies, though there
are also songs that carry the
torch from “Welcome to the
Fold” including “What’s
Next” and “The Take.” Having instilled Patrick’s opinion
on the war in Kuwait, Filter
decided to take part in ‘Operation Myspace’, a set of concerts held in Iraq for soldiers.
Since the success of
Anthems for the Damned,
Patrick has released a greatest
hits album for the band titled
The Best Things (1995-2008)
and recorded songs for more
movie soundtracks. He covered the song “Happy Together” by The Turtles for The
Stepfather and recorded
“Fades Like a Photograph”
for 2012. Patrick stated that
the album will be a lot more
“meaner and industrial” than
previous albums and will also
include a song that was written for The Amalgamut.
Overall, Filter is a band
that has proven its versatility
both instrumentally and lyrically, hitting controversial
topics and exploring the
nature of human emotions and
struggles. With the looks of
the upcoming album, it seems
as though Patrick will explore
his punk roots, carrying with
him the aggressiveness of The
Amalgamut and using it to
invoke the concepts from
Anthems for the Damned, as
well as Title of the Record.
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Texting
Simply Stunning
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haven’t quite figured out how to use their
thumbs that way. Perhaps more commonly,
several of us probably have to delete our text
message inboxes in our phones daily because
they fill to capacity. Most mornings, the
majority of Wallies are probably not surprised
to wake up to two, three, four or five texts that
were sent in the middle of the night.
Speaking of texts sent in the middle of the
night, any college student who hasn’t heard of
textsfromlastnight.com has been in a hole for
the past year, and Wabash even has its own
textsfromlastnight Facebook group, as do most
colleges.
So why is texting so perfect and popular for
high-school and college-aged people? For one
thing, we have irregular sleeping patterns, so
your friend won’t be surprised when you
answer his 4 a.m. drunk text within a few minutes. But just in case you have an early class
the next morning, he can efficiently relay his
ever-important “dude”-laced message to you
before he forgets it and moves on to his next
game of beer pong. You can miss a call, but
you can’t miss a text.
Another reason is that we, the youth, could
figure out how to send a text message in any
situation short of immigration line at the airport. This includes: in class, while driving, at
a chapter meeting, at church, at the dinner
table, etc. The appropriateness of this is highly debatable, but in case you have something
really urgent to tell someone, no matter where
you are, you can and probably will.
Some may call us Wabash men backwards
because we wear pajamas to class and attend
an all-male school. But thankfully, no one can
say that we are behind when it comes to the
technological trends of our era: cavemen can
text with the best of them, in and out of class.
The Best in Black & White
Manhattan
Woody Allen’s perenniJOEL
al tragicomedy colorizes
BUSTAMANTE ‘11
its story through intensely
witty dialogue and trademark neuroticisms. This
love story focuses on what
truly matters in relationships: the love. Deftly
demonstrating the beautiful Manhattan skyline,
Allen presents a group of friends finding their way through
city life, their romances, their faults, and their temptations.
Manhattan elaborately illustrates the quaint confusions of
love, while maintaining clever witticisms and charm. The
city itself is a wonder to behold, keeping the classic New
York as a backdrop against tangled lives.
CAVELIFE
EDITOR
Citizen Kane
Arguably the greatest film
of all time, Citizen Kane simply outdoes anything to come
since. Orson Welle’s tale follows the rise and fall of a man
of questionable character dying
to be loved, yet hated for that
same quality. Perhaps even better than the main plot is the
back-story behind the making
of it; William Randolph
Hearst’s life is directly parodied, motivating him to destroy any chances it had of success. Luckily for the world, Citizen Kane proved to be even
stronger than the yellow-journalist’s empire. Encompassing
every type of now clichéd
motif, Citizen Kane set the
standard for how films should
be made.
Stalag 17
DREW CASEY | WABASH ‘12
Taking a study break for texting is quite a common occurance.
Before near-realistic supergore war films existed, there
was Stalag 17. Set in a German
prisoner of war camp during
World War II, a group of young
Americans find a hidden SS
officer amongst their ranks.
Mirroring screenwriters Donald Bevan and Edmund Trzcinski’s actual experiences during the war, the film maintains a
stark balance between dark
comedy and bleak tragedy.
These men are the original
Inglorious Basterds, dodging
certain death while keeping a
clever hatred for the Nazis.
Furthermore, the fantastically
misleading mystery ends with
such a spectacular bang, it’s a
wonder why war movies sidestep story for brutality.
Sin City
DREW CASEY | WABASH ‘12
Perfecting the modern film
noir, Sin City derives its harsh
realities from Frank Miller’s
graphic novel. While technically not entirely in black and
white, the light colorizations
add heavy emphasis upon an
already beautifully written
story. Weaving multiple plots
of violence and intrigue, the
film truly earns its rank
through its visual appeal. Literally pulling each scene directly
from the graphic novel, the
film perfectly mashes twodimensional pictures into a
three-dimensional
masterpiece. Featuring cameos and
guest-directors galore (Quentin
Tarantino takes on a particularly unsettling car chase), Sin
City stands as a testament of
the old and new coming
together, with spectacular
results.
The sad thing is, they’re all texting each other.
Modern Times
The classic comedy and
C&T favorite, Modern Times
highlights the growing confusions and fears of the future
found at the turn of the century.
Charlie Chaplain turns in his
best performance as the everpopular slapstick loveable
tramp, while the still stunning
Paulette Goddard provides a
feverishly innocent counterpart. It is obviously hilarious,
yet the film gains double points
for its historical significance.
Poking fun at the Great
Depression runs eerily parallel
to today’s economic distress,
providing hapless irony to
modernity itself. Even in today’s world, rarely does a film
accurately predict the future, albeit unintentionally.
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Texting Takes Over
Students reveal their texting habits
PETER ROBBINS ‘12
NEWS EDITOR
Kevin Billups ‘10 has a problem. With
a brand new phone comes an onslaught of
new features, but more importantly,
Billups finds it hard to stay away from the
world of texting. “At this rate, I will definitely be in need of a support group for
text-a-holics,” he said. Sending anywhere
from 1000-1500 texts a month, he is
trapped by texting addiction. From Facebook updates, Twitter micro-blogs, and
even full conversations, he is constantly
on his phone. But he’s not the only one.
The Bachelor recently conducted a survey, which included some questions about
texting usage by Wabash students. When
asked if they text in class, 47-percent of
the survey participants answered “yes”.
Of those who do text in class, 36-percent
said they did it at least once a day, 43-percent said they did it at least once a week,
and 21-percent said they did it rarely or
never. More generally, nearly 70-percent
of all who took the survey said they texted
multiple times every day. Some students
have simply assimilated into texting culture because it’s become the default way
to communicate.
“Texting has changed our social lives
and has become more of a necessity,”
answered one survey participant. “I text
all the time, though I prefer talking on the
phone,” answered another.
As we enter the second decade of the
DREW CASEY | WABASH ‘12
Texting takes place everywhere: the cold dorm, the dinner table, and even class.
2000’s, the most obvious and talked-about
advancements in communication technology involve the Internet, particularly with
social networking sites like Facebook,
Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. What is clear is
that our Internet is not the same as the
Internet of 2001. The same is also true of
cell phones, which at the start of the
decade were simply that: cellular telephones.
Nowadays, most cell phones are computers in your pocket, and these handheld
do-everything machines are getting more
and more mainstream. For instance,
AT&T has recently stopped selling new
plans that don’t include Internet coverage.
But even more mainstream than being
able to check your e-mail from virtually
anywhere has been the growth of texting
as a primary means of communication. In
February 2009, Verizon reported that the
average text messages sent by its subscriber base had passed one text sent per
phone subscriber per day. And according
to a story on articlesbase.com, almost
70% of Americans with cell phones sent at
least one text per day in February 2009.
Most of us have, by now, taught our
parents how to text, and most of them still
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The Bash Goes Green
Students leap into action for a cleaner campus
WYATT LEWIS ‘13
STAFF WRITER
When The College Sustainability
Report Card unveiled the scores for the
2010 school year, Wabash was put to
shame with a startlingly dismal “D-,” even
earning a spot on some online lists as one
of America’s “Dirtiest Colleges.” The
shame, however, did not last long before
the students’ indomitable spirits embraced
the challenge of remedying the college’s
environmental awareness.
“Obviously, that green report card
came out, and a lot of people were wondering why we got that D-, and our campus recycling has really never been where
it should be,” Will Logan ’11, former president of Students for Sustainability (SFS),
said, “We’re going to try to streamline the
process.”
How does one institute a campus-wide
recycling regimen at Wabash College?
Easy, just make it a competition. Professor
Olofson, a member of the Environmental
Concerns Committee (ECC), described
the brainstorming process,
“All of the ECC members came in this
year really excited to get working on the
issue of recycling. We looked at the campus culture and the amount of recycling
going on and thought a lot more could be
done, so we thought we could start with
the living units. They each generate a lot
of waste, and it’s unlikely that more than a
small fraction of that ever gets recycled.
We decided one way to fix this would
be to bring recycling bins to the living
units. Then we thought, ‘How do we get
GRANT MCCLOSKEY | WABASH ‘12
Combating the abysmal report card of last year, students prepare for a cleaner campus.
people to use the recycling bins, and what
would be a distinctly Wabash way of
doing that? Well, the Wabash way would
be to create a competition, so that’s what
we did.’”
The competition is set to begin in February, explained Professor Calisch, another prominent ECC member,
“This is a collaborative effort between
the ECC, SFS, Campus Services, the
Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC), Intramural
N e w Mor illo
Car t oon
Council (IM), and the ESH Program. The
SFS are doing a fair amount of legwork by
visiting the different houses and getting
this competition in place.
The idea is to have ESH workers circle
the campus twice a week, picking up the
amount of recyclables that have been
saved and keeping a running total of each
housing unit’s contribution. At the end of
February, results will be published, and
the IM council has agreed to make this an
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officially sanctioned intramural event.”
And according to Coach Cory Stevens,
the competition will be worth winning,
“The competition is worth 24 IM points,
which is in the middle of the IM point
scale. The lower end sports are about 13,
while the major IM sports, like flag football and basketball, are worth 48 IM
points. So we figured we’d give it a try
and see how it goes. We could bump it up
the following year.”
Head of Campus Services Dave Morgan elaborated on the importance of the
two ESH positions, “How do we get the
recycling from the fraternities to the right
place? That problem is the genesis of the
ESH positions. Campus services will be
supplying recycling containers.
I believe the IFC purchased recycling
containers for each house either last year
or the year before, and as of right now, I
believe about half the houses still have
those. We’re buying a significant amount
to put out for the independents, and I will
have some on hand if the fraternities want
to come and purchase them,” Morgan said.
More importantly, each housing unit
will be supplied with an abundance of
recycling bags, which will be the primary
method of making tallies.
“We had to figure out a way to tally
results and the way we’re going to do that
is just by counting the number of bags per
person per living unit,” said Professor
Olofson, who along with Professor Hudson is in charge of managing the ESH
positions.
Professor Hudson remarked on the
competition, “We want the recycling to be
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CHUCK SUMMERS
SPORTS EDITOR
Leading the Pack,
On & Off the Track
BRANDAN ALFORD ‘11
STAFF WRITER
Wabash’s track and field
team goes by a powerful
mantra: “Men of Wabash,
Nothing Breaks Us.” Most people may overlook and take for
granted the first of those six
words: Men. Coach Clyde Morgan certainly has not. When
describing the progression senior Emmanuel Aouad has
undergone during his time at
Wabash, Morgan is quick to
note the most important fact is
how Aouad has grown off the
track as much as he has on it.
“He’s developing into a
man,” Morgan said. “Most
importantly he has been a good
leader on and off the track.
He’s a great student and just a
great person to be around.”
Aouad has experienced a
great deal of success during his
track career thus far at Wabash;
however, the talented senior
has his sights set on reaching
bigger and better achievements
in his final spring on the track.
“There is definitely more of
a drive to get back to nationals
with this being my last year. I
won’t be able to compete in
track after this year,” Aouad
said. Just going to back to
nationals won’t be enough for
the Terre Haute native, though.
“I want to not only make it
back to nationals this year, but
also make All-American in both
of my events.”
Morgan noted that Aouad’s
talent and potential was obvious from the first time the two
spoke. “He’s been all-conference even before I got here,”
Morgan said. “So when I met
with him, I told him, ‘You’re
better than all-conference. Let’s
try and be a national qualifier
and make it to that meet. And
then our next goal was for him
to become an All-American.’
He bought into it. I told him
that it would be discouraging
for him to just be a conference
champ three times in a row and
that he should work towards
being an All-American.”
Both coach and runner look
“He’s developing into
a man...He’s a great
student and just a
great person to
be around.”
Clyde Morgan, Head
Track & Field Coach
to be on an identical page in
terms of expectations and goals
for this spring’s campaign. That
bond has led to a growing leadership role for Aouad on a
See, AOUAD, Page 11
A remarkable Little Giant
comeback fell short Wednesday night as Ohio Wesleyan
handed Wabash their first loss
in 2010, 73-67.
The loss snaps a sevengame winning streak as well as
an eight-game home winning
streak that dated back to last
season. Wabash (11-6, 6-3)
now sits in a second-place tie
in the North Coast Athletic
Conference with Ohio Wesleyan, Allegheny and Wittenberg.
“I’m disappointed,” said
Head Coach Mac Petty. “We
didn’t follow the game plan.
We weren’t blocking out. We
out-rebounded them 13-6 on
the offensive boards in the second half, but you can’t do it in
one half. I wrote on the board,
‘We’ve got to contest all
shots,’ and we didn’t contest
all shots.”
The
Battling
Bishops
exploded for 44 points in the
first half on 42 percent shooting. Ohio Wesleyan fed forward Marshall Morris early, as
he scored eleven in the first
half. He ended with 15 points
and five rebounds. Guard Tim
Brady also scored 11 in the
first half and tacked on another 11 in the second half, giving
him a team-high 22 points.
Wabash adjusted in the second half, clogging up the lane
defensively and limiting shots
from Ohio Wesleyan’s post
players. With 4:30 left in the
game, the Little Giants’
offense came alive, scoring ten
unanswered points to take the
Bishop’s lead down to five
with just over a minute
remaining. After an Ohio Wesleyan free throw, Haltom
responded with two of his
own, making it a 69-65 contest.
After senior forward Aaron
Brock pulled down an offensive rebound from an errant
free-throw, he could not get
the contested put-back to fall.
Ohio Wesleyan regained posSee, OWU, Page 10
Swimming & Diving Poised for Strong Finish
Little Giants enjoy more consistency
in second half of season, begin
preparing for NCAC’s
DREW PARRISH ‘10
STAFF WRITER
Wabash’s swimming team is
looking to finish the season
strong after qualifying the 400
medley relay team and one
individual for Nationals. They
have been performing well
over the past three meets.
Junior Evan Rhinesmith broke
his own school record for the
100-meter breast stroke. However, it was finishing second at
the DePauw Invitational that
acted as a catalyst for achieving in the second half of the
season.
“The team is doing well,”
said Head Coach Steve Barnes.
“The team was focused and
committed during the winter
workouts, now we are tapering
for NCAC Championships. We
would like to qualify as many
for Nationals as possible. The
DePauw Invitational gave the
team a big confidence boost.
They performed well on little
rest.”
With the 400-meter medley
composed of juniors Rhinesmith, Dave Birrer, and Eric
Vaughn and senior Craig Vetor
qualifying for nationals, and
Rhinesmith qualifying individually, the team hopes to qualify
a few more swimmers at the
conference meet.
“One of the key components
of this team is that it is always
someone different doing something great in every meet,”
Barnes said. “It spreads the
wealth around. We’re doing
well as a team, not as individuals, which is why I would like
to see six or seven qualifiers
for the National meet.”
That being said, the team
also hopes to accomplish individually, as well. The results
for Nationals may come from
PHOTO COURTESY OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Senior Craig Vetor jumps off the board to begin the 200 freestyle against the University of Indianapolis.
the standings, but each individual must swim well in order to
meet the goal of six or seven
qualifiers.
“The results will come from
standings, but I’m not worried
about that. As long as we
accomplish individually, everything will fall into place,” said
Barnes.
Birrer, who has already
made the automatic provisional
B-cut, echoes his coach’s sentiment.
See, POISED, Page 10
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The Sports Desk
Scores, Stats, Previews & More
Track Looks Strong in Little Giant Invitational
KYLE BENDER ‘12
STAFF WRITER
Team scores were not kept
during Saturday’s Little Giant
Indoor Track Invitational.
Nonetheless,
the Wabash
indoor track and field team
gave all indications that a competitive season awaits as they
earned an NCAA provisional
qualifying time in the 55-meter
hurdles, broke two meet
records, and posted many
impressive early-season performances.
“I was impressed with the
team on Saturday,” Head
Coach Clyde Morgan said.
“They really took my challenge
to enjoy the sport to heart. Just
to have fun because it’s so
early in the season. I was
proud of them.”
Senior Emmanuel Aouad,
junior Wes Chamblee, sophomore Jake Zielinski, and freshman John Haley teamed up to
finish first and set a new meet
record in the 1600-meter relay
with a time of 3:26.66, almost
three seconds better than the
previous mark. The group also
eclipsed the previous 4x200
meter relay record with a time
of 1:32.14, finishing second
behind University of Indianapolis.
Wabash posted two first
place finishes in the middle
distance events.
Kevin
McCarthy carried momentum
over from a sophomore cross
country season that saw him
qualify for nationals with a win
in the mile (4:21.03). Newcomer Jake Waterman won the
800 meter run in a time of
2:01.22.
One of the biggest concerns
early for the Little Giants was
the health and depth of the
throwers. With three returning
lettermen out with injuries,
ALEX MOSEMAN | WABASH ‘11
Sophomore Kevin McCarthy starts to break away during the mile run in the Little Giant Invitational in the Knowling Fieldhouse Saturday afternoon.
including defending NCAC
hammer throw champion Alex
Moseman, Saturday was a
chance to see who would produce points in this year’s field
events.
“The two freshmen shot putters, Zach Helman and Joe
Granger, really stepped up,”
Morgan said.
“They both
threw personal bests on Saturday.”
Freshman Matt Know and
sophomore Sam Glowinski
placed second and fourth
respectively in the pole vault,
an event that holds considerable point value during the season.
However, it was Aouad who
was the talk of the day.
Already widely respected for
his excellence in hurdles, the
senior earned a provisional trip
to the NCAA Indoor Championships in March with his first
place finish in the 55-meter
hurdles. Aouad broke his own
school record, while setting a
new meet record, with a time of
7.61 seconds.
“It’s a fast time early in the
season,” said Morgan. “He
was on the indoor nationals list
last year, but bumped out late.
We’ll see what happens.”
The performance of Aouad
also garnered him the honor of
NCAC Men’s Sprinter/Hurdler
of the Week.
The indoor track and field
team returns to action this Saturday at Denison University
for the NCAC Relays, beginning at 1 p.m.
“It’s a fun meet,” Morgan
said. “There are only two individual events, hurdles and 5K,
and the rest are all relays. It is
always a fun event for the conference, but we just want to get
in and get out healthy.”
OWU
From Page 9
sessions and iced the
game from the foul line,
draining three of four in the
last 19 seconds.
Free throw shooting was
a major pitfall for the Little
Giants on Wednesday
night, as they were a mere
12-22 from the charity
stripe. “They just weren’t
falling,” said junior swingman Wes Smith. “I wasn’t
feeling it from the start. It
came back to whip us in the
butt.”
Senior point guard
Chase Haltom said the
early deficit was difficult to
overcome mentally as well
as physically. “Trying to
play from behind, and not
just a few points behind but
16-18 points, it messes up
your game plan,” Haltom
said. “When your playing
from behind, your shots are
rushed and the other team
knows you’ve got to shoot
quick.”
Haltom’s 12 points were
enough to make him the
third member of the
Wabash basketball team to
reach 1,000 points, joining
Smith and Brock. Brock
added 23 points to his
career total against Ohio
Wesleyan and also pulled
DREW CASEY | WABASH ‘12
Left: Senior point guard Chase Haltom fights for a loose ball
against Ohio Wesleyan Wednesday night. Haltom became
the 25th Little Giant to score 1,000 points in his career.
Right: Junior swingman Wed Smith elevates for the tip-off
against Ohio Wesleyan. Smith scored 11 points in the game.
down 15 rebounds, both
game highs. Smith was
held to 11 points on 4-11
shooting, including a 2-6
day from the free throw
line.
This weekend, the Little
Giants will look to bounce
back with a road game
against Kenyon, who is
currently 5-12. “It’ll be a
sign if we have any toughness,” Petty said. “Kenyon
will be waiting for us and
we’ve got to see if we can
rebound.”
Smith said that he welcomes the challenge,
although it won’t be easy.
“Kenyon will be pretty
tough,” Smith said. “They
always play us well at
home. We’ve got to stay on
top of it. It’s a good thing
we’ve got a game in two
more days so we can move
on from this one.”
Despite the loss, the Little Giants are still basically
in-line with the goals they
set out at the beginning of
the season. “Our goal was
to be 13-5 by the end of
January and we’re 11-6,”
Petty said. “If we win this
weekend we can be pretty
close.”
The battle for win number 12 starts at 1 p.m. in
Gambier, OH.
Poised
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“We struggled with consistency some this year,” Birrer
said. “We had meets where we
swam amazingly, and others
where we were below average.”
The winter training trip to
Fort Lauderdale, Florida may
have helped with consistency
for the second half of the sea-
son. The team had two-a-days
throughout the three week trip.
The first practice was held in a
50-meter Olympic sized pool,
while the second practice was
held in a short course pool like
the ones the swimmers are used
to at Wabash.
“The training trip was a lot
of work, but it is great preparation for Conference,” Birrer
said. “Our team bonded by
spending a lot of time together,
whether it was hanging out on
the beach or just hanging out in
the room. We didn’t really have
time to recover, but it was great
for team building and race
preparation.”
Birrer hopes to secure his
spot at Nationals by lowering
his time a little bit. He would
also like to score at the National meet. Scoring would mean
he would have to finish in the
top sixteen. The top eight will
be All-American, with those
finishing nine through sixteen
getting honorable mention.
Wabash will get its next
chance at qualifying more
swimmers for nationals at the
Conference meet at Canton,
Ohio on February 11-13.
Wabash would like to continue
its success and qualify a few
more individuals for the
National meet.
“As long as
we accomplish
individually,
everything will fall
into place.”
Steve Barnes, Head
Swimming & Diving Coach
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January 29, 2010
‘No Leftovers’ Comes Back for More
After a broken leg ended his senior
wrestling season, Rob Arnett
quickly decided he had some
unfinished business
CHUCK SUMMERS
SPORTS EDITOR
Rob Arnett lives for wrestling.
It’s why he wakes up for 6:00
a.m. practice two times a week.
It’s why he spends about 15-20
hours a week in the Allen Center,
in the weight room or working on
his technique.
And when the 245-lb heavyweight broke his leg early last
year, Arnett’s senior season, it’s
why his decision to return to
Wabash for a fifth year was a nobrainer. “I decided to redshirt as
soon as I broke my leg,” Arnett
said. “I was on the side of the mat
right after it happened, and right
there I told the coaches, ‘I need
to get a medical redshirt.’”
For Arnett, who has amassed
over 80 wins over the course of
his Wabash career, sitting out for
the majority of last season was
almost unbearable. “Overall, I’d
say last year was terrible,” Arnett
said. “I hated having to watch
competitions and see guys I
know I would beat if I could
wrestle.”
That’s why he decided to
come back for more.
Arnett entered the season with
the highest of expectations: an
individual national championship. But his 22-9 record so far
in 2009-2010, although one of
the best on the team, is not quite
what Arnett hoped to have at this
point. “I wouldn’t say I’ve met
expectations so far, but I’ve had
good parts of the season,” Arnett
“[Wrestling] allows
you to go one-on-one
with another guy.
It’s basically
a war with rules.”
Rob Arnett, Wabash ‘10
said. “I’ve been inconsistent. I
just need to keep plugging
away.”
Although this season has not
been exactly what Arnett hoped
for, he is still focused on his goal
of ending his Wabash wrestling
career with a national championship berth. However, it’s going
to take lots of work. “[‘The
coaches and I] went back to the
drawing board on my offensive
series, basically broke it down,”
Arnett said. “I need to have a
more focused attack, rather than
being scattered or unfocused out
there, like I have been at times.
We’re working on getting my
conditioning to the breaking
point and trying to get as much
out of the workouts as possible. I
think I have a chance to finish
strong. Things are shaping up for
a very good end of the year.”
When Arnett first fell in love
with wrestling years ago, he
never could have imagined being
in this spot. Unlike many of his
competitors at the collegiate
level, Arnett didn’t begin
wrestling until high school. During his freshman year at Greenwood Community High School,
he went 1-18. But he was instantly hooked on the competition and
the physical battles he found in
wrestling. He worked incessantly
to improve and put on more and
more weight as his high school
career went on. His senior year,
Arnett went 36-6 at 215 lbs. “I
thought, ‘I might get decent at
this if I get bigger.’”
And bigger he got. Much bigger. Arnett, unlike the majority of
his teammates, has actually
worked to put on and keep on
weight during his career. As a
heavyweight, Arnett is often
undersized, especially against
top-level competition. He has
weighed as much as 282 lbs but
has wrestled this year at 245.
Gaining weight is no problem
for Arnett. In fact, his ability to
throw down massive amounts of
ALEX MOSEMAN | WABASH ‘11
Senior Rob Arnett throws a headlock on an opponent during Saturday’s Monon Bell Duals.
food earned him the nickname
“no leftovers,” which he also
uses in cage fights, which Arnett
competes in during the offseason.
“In high school, I competed in
local eating contests. One of my
friends gave me the nickname. I
thought it embodied my entire
lifestyle.”
Arnett has also got better than
just “decent.” He has been an
anchor for the Little Giants’
squad for five years. This season,
his 22 wins is good enough for
second on the team, only behind
freshman Jake Strausbaugh, who
is having an amazing year so far
at 28-8.
With an influx of young talent
this season Arnett has the added
responsibility of being a leader
on and off the mat. His ability to
shoulder that responsibility was
no more apparent than in Saturday’s Monon Bell Duals at Chadwick Court.
After fellow senior Michael
Burke won the 197-lb contest in
the meet’s penultimate match,
the Little Giants were two points
away from securing a team victory. It was on Arnett’s shoulders to
take it home. Arnett delivered,
winning 9-4. “Obviously, there
was some added pressure,”
Arnett said. “But you just have to
deal with that.
Next year, Arnett might continue his cage fighting career on
the professional level. If not, he
hopes to earn his M.A. in Education and teach high school,
coaching wrestling of course.
After all, Arnett needs wrestling
like he needs air. Friends of
Arnett know this too well. Spend
more than ten minutes with him,
and there’s a good chance he will
try to get you in some sort of
grapple, calmly explaining what
he’s trying to do as he twists your
limbs into pretzels. He can’t help
it. It’s an obsession.
“Wrestling is a huge part of
my life,” Arnett said. “I’d say I
think about it at least half of the
time I’m conscious. Wrestling is
just cooler than other sports
because it allows you to go oneon-one with another guy. It’s
basically a war with rules. It’s a
more intense proving ground for
an athlete.”
On the Wabash mats, Arnett
has proven himself time and time
again. If things go the way he
plans, he just might prove himself on the biggest stage before
it’s all said and done.
Aouad
PHOTO COURTESY OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Senior Emmanuel Aouad runs during the Outdoor NCAC Championships last season.
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squad the coach and
senior both look to send
multiple athletes to the
national meet at season’s
end.
“It humbles and motivates our younger guys,
especially when you have
someone like Emmanuel,”
Morgan said. “He is teaching and helping them along
the way. I can send those
younger guys to work with
him, and I have already
done that a few times this
year. When you have a
great leader like that who
just likes people, it’s pretty
easy to send freshmen to
him to help develop them.”
Acknowledging the difficulty that Wabash academics pose alone, Aouad
couldn’t imagine not competing athletically on top of
his classroom responsibilities.
“I’ve always said that if
you are Wabash and not
doing something on the
side, I don’t know what
you are doing here,” Aouad
said. “The activities here
are a huge part of the experience; interacting with
people and the bonds you
build are a huge part.
Everybody here has a hard
time with school. It is rigorous academically, and
that brings everyone closer.
It’s like you are all going
through
the
gauntlet
together.”
Aouad’s ability to navigate both responsibilities is
what Morgan contributes
to the senior’s successes in
both arenas.
“He’s man enough to
talk to me when he is worn
down, or he’s beat up physically,” Morgan said. “I
always tell these guys, if
you are going to be a college athlete, you have to be
able to communicate with
your coaches. He does a
great job of that, especially
being at Wabash where the
demand is so high, you
have to be able to do that.
You have to open up and
talk to people and let them
know when you are struggling physically, emotionally, or academically.
“I’d rather develop a
young man who has a great
attitude who is just good
athletically than to deal
with a great athlete who is
a headache to deal with.” It
looks like with Aouad, he’s
getting the best of both scenarios, headaches aside.
After posting impressive finishes in both of
Wabash’s first two competitions of the winter/indoor
portion of the track season,
Aouad looks poised to
once again improve upon
his successes of a year ago.
A strong end to his senior
season could very well garner the all-American status
he so desires, and hopefully he’ll be able to bring a
few teammates along for
the ride.
Meet...
Emmanuel Aouad
Class: Senior (2010)
Hometown: Terre Haute, IN
Major: Economics
Minor: Music
Favorite Professor: Vanessa Rodgers
Postgraduate Plans: Possibly financial advising
and graduate school
Favorite Meal: Humus
Sport: Track and Field
Let’s all celebrate our
students’ research,
scholarship, and
creative work!
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Campus
The Bachelor
January 29, 2010
A
Wally’s World
Top Left: Newly-installed President Cody Stipes ‘11
addresses newly sworn-in senators and represenative during the first meeting of the 92nd Session of
the Student Senate.
Top Right: Austin Sanders ‘12 practices his air raid
form during his first week of rhyneship. Clearly, he
needs more work.
Bottom Left: With outgoing President Mark Thomas
‘10 and incoming Vice President Michael Nossett ‘11
looking on, Dean of Studets Michael Raters swears
in President-elect Cody Stipes.