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Employee Brittany Steele, 22, delievers a hamburger to a customer at Charlie’s Chill & Grill on Thursday afternoon at a pre-opening taste test. | SUNNY STRADER/ THE DEPAUW

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Charlie’s Chill & Grill hopes to revitalize the 231 area code and help employ handicapped citizens.

The Chill & Grill will employ mentally and physically disabled individuals. Chuck Schroeder, the CEO of the national chain, said of the ap-proximately 50 Greencastle employees, between 25 and 40 percent are disabled.

“We want to train and employ individuals with disabilities,” Schroeder said. “That’s first and foremost.”

Joyce Ramsey works for Child-Adult

Resources Services. Ramsey is an employment consultant and job coach. She creates resumes, gathers references for challenged individu-als, and puts them in contact with employers. Three individuals from the CARS program are employed by Charlie’s.

“I help the employer and the individual out,” Ramsey said.

Ramsey said she tries to place the disabled with businesses that interest them, and cites recently pairing a man with culinary training in a restaurant where he could use his skills.

Length of employment depends on the severity of the disability. Ramsey said individu-als with a lower level of disability work for the employer and get checked in on once a week.

Higher level disabled individuals are employed for three months at a time.

The Putnam County Comprehensive Services is a program similar to CARS. Charlie’s employ-ees 14 workers from PCCS.

Charlie’s smells like barbeque and french fries. All of the fifteen tables full of customers, with more streaming in the glass doors held open by Schroeder. People crowd around the two registers to order a grilled chicken wrap, or a pork tenderloin sandwich.

“It’s pretty hard to compete with McDon-ald’s,” said Scott Nauman, who just finished

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After 27 years as Emergency Management Coordinator Doug Cox experienced the mildest ‘Black Monday’ he can recall.

“I wouldn’t say black Monday was very black,” Cox said.Only two incidents were called into Public Safety Mon-

day, the notorious celebration night of new Greek mem-bers, according to Cox.

“It was very surprising,” Cox said. “Monday was a pleas-ant surprise.”

Campus Living and Community Development and the greek life coordinators focused on making sure bid night would not be out of control this year.

Cox said the greek leadership at each chapter on cam-pus were more engaged about preventing an out of control night. There was also a conversation had between Director of Public Safety Angela Nally and greek life coordinators on ideas to help with Black Monday.

PJ Mitchell, greek life Coordinator and Coordinator of Alcohol Initiatives, came up with one idea: students going out found a pretzel truck at the corner of Anderson Street and Locust Street.

As for the rest of the week, on Thursday morning many sororities and fraternities woke up to their front lawns cov-ered by toilet paper.

Sophomore Olivia Traynor looked out her window at Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority’s lawn to see trees full of toilet paper.

“I don’t think it was mean to be malicious, but it is a pain to clean up,” Traynor said.

Public Safety was unable to comment at the time con-cerning the vandalism.

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Visiting professor Dr. Sundiata Cha-Jua delivered the lecture "Resurrecting Ghosts of the Past: Building Black Studies in its Radical Intellectual Tradition" on Wednesday afternoon in Watson Forum.

The lecture concentrated on the lessons that soci-ety can learn from historical black activists about the importance of present day Black Studies and black social activism.

Religious Studies Professor Leslie James intro-duced Cha-Jua to the nearly full auditorium by prais-ing Cha-Jua for his expertise in both historical and present day Black Studies not only in America, but around the world.

DePauw welcomed Cha-Jua to campus this week

as a Nancy Schaenen Endowed Visiting Scholar at the Prindle Institute for Ethics. He is an associate profes-sor of history and associate professor of African Amer-ican studies at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

Cha-Jua set the historical tone of his nearly 90-minute-long lecture and discussion with a quote from Martin Luther King, Jr. about the necessity of radicalization and “social fundamental change” dur-ing the Civil Rights Movement. He emphasized the relevance of past racial issues in today’s society.

“The transformation of financial, global, and racial capitalism has plunged African Americans into a state akin to their situation more than a century ago,” Cha-Jua said.

Cha-Jua continued his lecture by giving examples of how African American unemployment has re-

mained undeniably low throughout the past century and how some members of the society still express strong racial discrimination. He referenced the efforts of past black activists such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Langs-ton Hughes, C.L.R. James and Claudia Jones through-out the rest of the lecture and connected their work to the value of addressing Black Studies and racial is-sues in today’s school curriculums.

James appreciates that Cha-Jua’s message links the past to the present and “bridges the divide between what’s going on in the economy and in the schools.”

Senior Vanessa Bernal recognized Cha-Jua’s ability to incorporate different cultures in his lecture, as well, and how those of various races can learn how the cur-rent outlook on black social activism affects everyone.

“I like how it [the lecture] didn’t just focus on Black Studies, but also weaves in…different cultural perspectives,” Bernal said.

In referencing present day issues, a concept that many students responded to was Cha-Jua’s point about today’s rap music. He pointed out that popu-lar rap music may be full of explicit content, but “you need listen to it so you can reject it.”

Senior Luis Paez attended the lecture for his course Caribbean Religion and Culture class and found the lecture to coincide with his interest in Bob Marley’s music. When Cha-Jua referenced that such explicit music is unfavorable for black social activism, Paez began to consider how today’s rap’s content compares to what Marley advocated.

“I was beginning to question…how did Bob Mar-ley transform this idea of a black radical outside of a classroom aspect and more in his music?” Paez said. “And more specifically the idea of violence [during this time] and how he tried to channel his music for unity and tranquility.”

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The Center for Student Engagement is in the planning stages of a move from offices in various locations within the Union Building to a unified location in the old bookstore. However, the move has been delayed due to other ongoing campus projects.

The Center for Student Engagement is charged with helping students manage career ex-ploration, international studies and civic engage-ment. Kate Knaul, director of global opportuni-

ties, said that she wants to see these three aspects better utilized by the students to help develop within themselves a diverse set of skills that will tell their story.

“[The move] will better support students and collaborative endeavors between students and staff,” Knaul said.

Plans for the new offices began with Allan and Kathryn Hubbard’s $5 million donation in No-vember to fund a new center for student engage-ment, experiential learning and career planning.

Knaul said that the project is still in its plan-ning stages because the university needs to learn

how to manage this change in the context of other ongoing renovation projects on campus.

Plans for the construction of a new dinning hall, in particular, complicate long-term decisions for the new center for student engagement of-fice.

“At the moment we have to get through the hurdles of how [the new offices] fit into other construction projects in a way that limits the dis-ruption to staff and students,” Knaul said.

After three years of being scattered through-out the Union Building, the old bookstore space will allow the Center for Student Engagement to have one unified location. The new location will provide the staff with a more effective environ-ment to work in while catering to students.

“We’re still in the Union Building and still in the center of campus, but in the (old) bookstore the staff will work better together,” Knaul said.

Dean of Experiential Learning and Career Planning Raj Bellani sees the new move to the bookstore as a place that will be a central destina-tion to provide students with life coaching.

“[The new space] will allow us to provide the best advice so students can make best decisions for their future,” Bellani said.

Senior Maggie Cohen has made many visits to the Center for Student Engagement’s Civic Glob-al and Professional Oppertunities kiosk through-out the past year and thinks the move will be a positive change.

“Everyone who works in the career services offices is always willing to help students out no matter what their question is,” Cohen said. “Their move to the bookstore will make it more acces-sible for students to get the most out of the staff.”

Staff and administration are still deliberating when they will be moving into the space.

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freshness of the food I could tell it wasn’t sitting back there forever.”

The inside of Charlie’s has tan tile floors, employ-ees dressed in khaki pants, tan hats and purple shirts underneath white aprons. The ice cream dispenser is tucked away in the kitchen.

A Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza King, College Inn, Carpenter Realtors and Quick Pay Day Loans line 231 South heading toward Bloomington. The storefronts

lining the street look tired.“We want to help revitalize this side of town,”

Schroeder said. “It’s one of our goals.” Benassi, the former general manager of Toppers

Restaurant and Schroeder worked together since 1994. He hates the cold, opting to keep his jacket on buttoned to the top while inside. Benassi said he plans to accept Tiger Cards when Charlie’s opens officially.

“We can’t compete with fast food prices,” said Be-nassi. “But we can with quality. I’m banking on that.”

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CAMPUSCRIMEFeb. 4

• Public indecency • Officer checked area /unable to locate subjects | Time: 7:14 p.m. | Place: Alpha Chi Omega sorority parking lot

• Welfare check• Subject located / checked okay | Time: 10:19 p.m. | Place: Senior Hall

Feb. 5

• Alcohol Violation • Relesed to custody of friend / forwarded to Community Standards | Time: 12:28 a.m. | Place: Bishop Roberts Hall

• Domestic disturbance • Subjects separated prior to officer arrival / no report at this time | Time: 12:56 a.m. | Place: Campus

• Welfare check• Subjects located / checked okay | Time: 9:58 a.m. | Place: Campus

• Welfare check • Officer checked area /unable to locate subject | Time: 4:06 p.m. | Place: Campus

Feb. 6

• Suspiscious vehicle • Officer observed vehicle / vehicle left premises | Time:12:08 a.m. | Place: Campus

• Theft of books – delayed report • Under investigation | Time: Unknown | Place: Asbury Hall

• Welfare check • Subject located / checked okay | Time: 5:23 p.m. | Place: Campus

• Suspiscious vehicle • Subject located / checked okay | Time: 11:53 p.m. | Place: Hogate Hall parking lot

Feb. 7

• Alcohol Violation • Transported to Putnam County Hospital / forwarded to Community Standards Committee | Time: 1:23 a.m. | Place: Phi Kappa Psi fraternity

• Welfare check • Subject located / checked okay | Time:1:34 a.m. | Place: Locust Street

• Mischief • Subjects located / forwarded to Community Standards Committee | Time: 3 a.m. | Place: Kappa Alpha Theta sorority

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

By NICKY CHOKRANnews@thedepauw.com

Like many other local Greencastle business-es, Mama Nunz Italian Steakhouse is having a difficult time staying afloat this semester. Mama Nunz’ situation, however is complicated by a slow financial recovery from an employee scam that wasn’t resolved by Indiana courts until early November.

Mama Nunz and owner Nunzio Cancilla expe-rienced a big financial hit earlier this school year when it was discovered that an employee of over two years had been scamming the restaurant. Cancilla said that it took him over three months to realize that Bambi Bicknell was stealing from the business between May and June of last year.

“I’m just holding on by a hair,” said Cancilla. “If it wasn’t for rush last week, I would have gone under even more.”

Mama Nunz, located just off the South end of campus, donates to various campus organiza-tions like D3TV and often caters events for greek chapters.

“We normally buy a large amount of food from [Mama Nunz] for bid night,” said senior Stephen Shapiro, Phi Gamma Delta fraternity’s vice recruitment chair. “Nunzio is always really

happy to cater to us. He normally stays for a bit to talk to us and see how we’re doing.”

But according to Cancilla, regular student business has been down.

“I do get a few students, but not like I used to,” he said.

Lately, Cancilla said there’s not enough revenue coming in to take care of everything.

“Taxes are first,” Cancilla said, “then employ-ees get paid, then I take care of supplies, and then there’s utilities. But it’s getting really hard to do.”

Senior Lauren McCormick eats at Mama Nunz with her boyfriend two to three times a week.

“Overall DePauw supports local business,” McCormick said. “[But] I don’t think they sup-port enough to keep them going.”

This year however, Mama Nunz is suffering from two fronts.

Two court documents stamped by the Putnam County Circuit Court cite Bicknell’s offenses as theft in the amount of $5,815.55 and forgery of at least 20 checks.

According to Cancilla however, that number is not as high as it should be.

“I know [Bicknell] took me for about 20 grand,” he said.

Cancillo said Bicknell got a hold of per-sonal checks and wrote them out to herself by forging the signature of his mother, Jo Ruth Cancilla, who also has signing rights with the business. Additionally, he said Bicknell stole money from the cash drawer during shifts and used Cancilla’s e-signature to get loans on cash advance websites.

“She had it down pretty well,” said Can-cilla. “She knew I wasn’t good at office work so she offered to help do it and I paid her a little more.”

A letter dated Nov. 8th from Greencastle’s Office of the Prosecuting Attorney addressed to Cancilla states that the Indiana Department of Corrections has since sentenced Bicknell to three years in prison, five years of probation, and to pay a restitution fine to Mama Nunz.

However, in addition to stealing from the business, Cancilla said that Bicknell stole from customers.

“She was double swiping credit cards,” Cancilla said. “But I’ve since paid most of them back.”

Waitress Brittany Schmitz said she was suspicious of Bicknell during their time work-ing at Mama Nunz together.

“I kind of thought she was [stealing] all along but nobody believed me,” Schmitz said.

When Cancilla started realizing that money was going missing, he said he was hesitant to

suspect Bicknell. “I didn’t believe she was doing it because I

was trying to help her get her kid back,” Cancilla said. “I give too many second chances.”

Now, Mama Nunz is only able to staff one or two employees per shift.

“Because of this, I’m down to four people,” said Cancilla. “There used to be 14 people work-ing here.”

During most shifts, one employee cooks and the other serves. This situation leaves no one available to make deliveries. Cancilla said deliveries will start again when the restaurant “gets back on its feet.”

In response to Bicknell’s crimes, Cancilla has been taking steps to make customers feel more comfortable at Mama Nunz.

“I moved the credit card machine out here,” he said pointing to the public dining area. “In case [customers] want to swipe it themselves.” The new location ultimately increases customer surveillance, allowing customers watch servers process credit cards.

Cancilla said, “It’s probably going to take a year or more to recover though.”

Mama Nunz struggles to keep doors open after employee steals over $5 thousand

Mama Nunz is another independent business that has taken a financial hit this academic year. The local Italian steakhouse is struggling to remain open after an ex-employee commited fraud against the restaurant. The Putnam County court Circuit has cited that Bambi Bicknell stole over $5,000 from Mama Nunz owner Nunzio Cancilla, but he says it was more. | VICKY LU BAI / THE DEPAUW

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By JACLYN ANGLISnews@thedepauw.com

Adalky Capellán speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese on DePauw’s campus, but she speaks only Spanish at her home in Washington Heights, New York.

Capellán, a senior studio art major, is one of several students at DePauw that can speak and write in a language other than English. Though the exact number of bilingual or multilingual students cannot be calculated since prospective students have the option to self-report the languages they speak on their applications, these students have various ways of putting their skills to use at DePauw.

“It’s a rule my dad created,” Capel-lán said of only speaking Spanish, her first language, at home. “He doesn’t want us to forget Spanish.”

Though Capellán’s kindergarten class was taught in English, she began an Amistad program in middle school where both Spanish and English were taught, on separate days.

“I always liked to be the trickster, and speak Spanish on the English days and speak English on the Spanish days,” Capellán said.

Shortly after Capellán explains this, her mom calls her cell phone and she answers it, instantly switching over to speaking in Spanish.

Other than communicating with her family members back home, Capellán also uses Spanish on campus to social-ize with other Spanish-speaking stu-dents and faculty.

“It’s crazy how just speaking a lan-guage can help someone feel more at home, or speaking in the same dialect of your language,” Capellán said.

In New York, Capellán had many friends who spoke Spanish, but spoke in different dialects, such as Peruvian or Castilian.

“Growing up, people would be like, ‘You’re Spanish,’” Capellán said. “Span-ish is a language, not a heritage.”

Capellán, who is Dominican Repub-lican and Puerto Rican, said that sev-eral things differ between demographic groups, such as Puerto Ricans putting beans on top of their rice, and Domini-

cans putting beans on the side of their rice.

Capellán said she loves to cook, so when she speaks in Spanish on cam-pus, the conversation mainly focuses on food.

“Once you talk about food, you’ll talk about culture,” Capellán said.

Her Spanish conversations also re-volve around novelas, or Spanish soap operas, movies, music and other enter-tainment. She has also used it to offer advice to Spanish-speaking underclass-men encountering issues, such as room-mate problems.

Capellán also uses language in the academic sphere. In high school, her friends spoke Portuguese a lot, so she learned from them and later took an introductory course in Portuguese at DePauw her freshman year. She has also taken a grammatical course in Spanish and an Italian course.

Much like her middle school days, she still mixes between English and other languages.

“I’m used to it,” Capellán said, men-tioning her community in New York. “They share ideas through different languages.”

Aliza Frame, the assistant director of International Student Services said she thinks being bilingual or multilingual gives students a different perspective when it comes to academic work, as they have experience knowing what it means to understand concepts from a different paradigm.

“I see sometimes that some students underappreciate what it means to be bi-lingual,” Frame said. “They don’t always really take as much pride as they should in the fact that they’ve grown up bicul-tural or multicultural.”

Like the number of multilingual students at DePauw, the number of languages represented is hard to say because of the self-reportage part of the application.

Some languages represented in-clude Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Hindi, Spanish, French, Ger-man, Ukrainian, Russian, Portuguese, Farsi and Arabic. DePauw has had Bulgarian-speaking students in the past and there are also African students who speak various languages from different

African nations. Frame said that these students could

use their language to connect to other students on campus and she thinks they will find their skills advantageous once they leave DePauw, whether they have a summer internship working with immi-grant or refugee populations or work-ing in an urban setting that requires language or cultural skills.

“Once they’ve graduated and they’re really out working and living, it will open doors for them,” Frame said.

Frame said that while most of the domestic multilingual students are probably native English speakers, the majority of the 250 international stu-dents are not. She has heard students talk about the difficulties of growing up in another language and having to perform on par with students from an English-speaking household that may have a wider vocabulary.

“Growing up bilingual, you have to split your time,” Frame said.

Along with growing up with a differ-ent language, whether in a domestic or international household, cultural norms can vary as well, such as interacting with professors and public speaking. Stu-dents and faculty must deal with this in the classroom and figure out how that will factor into grading and student sup-port.

“[International students] are all high achievers in English when they get here,” Frame said. “But that doesn’t mean they still don’t struggle…it’s an ongoing learning process.”

When Chie Itzu, a junior communi-cations major, can’t think of a word in English, she’ll suddenly switch to Japa-nese, her first language, to make herself clear to another Japanese-speaking stu-dent in conversation.

“Maybe I feel at home when I speak Japanese,” Itzu said.

In her hometown of Osaka, Japan, Itzu said that she doesn’t use English at all. She was eight when she was in-troduced to English for the first time in English conversation classes after school. She’d go once a week for about an hour, and continued learning, as she got older.

If she and other Japanese-speaking students gather together on campus,

they speak in Japanese about “every-thing.” If there is another student there that doesn’t speak Japanese, they will talk in English. She doesn’t use Japa-nese nearly as much here as she does back home.

“I definitely use Japanese when I talk to my parents on Skype or my friends on Skype,” Itzu said. “But here at DePauw, there are scarce Japanese people.”

Itzu does however put her language skills to use for those learning Japanese here at DePauw. She volunteers to help teach English-speaking students about Japanese vocabulary in conversation.

She also had the opportunity to put her skills to use this past Winter Term when she interned for the Chiyoda Company. She was a translator between an English-speaking manager and a Jap-anese-speaking manager.

Carrie Klaus, associate professor of French and chair of the modern lan-guages department said that another language gives access to whole other set of countries, culture, literature and intellectual studies to individuals in an academic setting.

“It opens up a whole other segment of the world to you,” Klaus said.

If a student speaks a language that the modern languages department teaches at DePauw, they have the op-portunity to tutor students like Itzu does or they can help out at the language conversation tables at lunch.

“We do teach on a fairly regular ba-sis nine modern languages at DePauw,” Klaus said.

Languages offered include Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, Portu-guese occasionally, Japanese, Chinese and Arabic.

Klaus said it is rare for heritage speakers who grew up learning another language to major in that language at DePauw, with the exception of Span-ish. Occasionally, a heritage speaker will take French or another language.

Klaus said that she is always thrilled when she has heritage speakers in a classroom.

“I think that bilingual and multilin-gual students bring a lot to DePauw, and bring a lot to the classroom,” Klaus said.

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Fledermaus meets DePauw

By NETTIE FINNfeatures@thedepauw.com

Any opera that opens on a young man, dressed in nothing more

than his underwear and a bat mask and skulking away from DePauw’s

infamous boulder is clearly unusual, to say the least.While a soaring overture by Johann Strauss II emanates from the or-

chestra pit, the young man sidles away, eyes beneath the mask darting back and forth with embarrassment as the onlooking students point and laugh.

This is the scene that signals the start of DePauw’s newest opera: “DeBat.”

Originally written and produced in German under the title, “Die Flederamaus,” this operetta has been translated into English many dif-ferent times, but none have been quite like this one.

“It came to me one night when I was over for a project in China. I couldn’t sleep because of the Jet Lag, and I remember thinking about “Die Fledermaus,” Joachim Schamberger, director and adaptor of De-Pauw’s newest opera said.

“I had most of the ideas for this new version that night,” he said.Though Schamberger had already written a few updated versions

of this opera, based on the English adaptations by Ruth and Thomas Martin, he was more than eager to see where this new twist—changing the setting for the opera from Vienna to Greencastle and DePauw’s campus—would take the storyline.

“I always thought the plot would work very well in modern day times with the appropriate changes,”

Schamberger said.However, while the score

could remain the same, making sure that all the dialogue

and lyrics fit the new setting was not

easy. Though in the end Schamberger only changed around 20 per-cent of the lyrics, “I kept every word that worked with my version,” there were entire arias that had to be rewritten.

For example, in both “DeBat” and “Die Fle-dermaus”, a young girl named Adele has gotten off work for the night to attend a party for the fashionable and elite. In the original production, Adele worked as a cham-bermaid pretending to be nobility in order to gain access to this grand event. For Schamberger’s version set in Greencas-tle, he had to completely transform Adele’s charac-

ter. So, Adele became an au pair for a family in Greencastle, sneaking off to DePauw’s campus where she pretends to be a student for the night.

Aside from all these characterization changes, updates to Adele’s aria in Act II, where she sings of her newly adopted status, were also necessary.

“For that aria, I had to completely rewrite every word of it,” Scham-berger said.

Adele became a student, singing of sororities and classes instead of dukes and earls as she did in the original.

In order to ensure that the newly reworked dialogue and lyrics took shape on a stage where the familiar settings could be correctly por-trayed, Schamberger used “virtual theater design,” or large projection scale sets, to take his productions to the next level.

“It helps so much when it comes to setting up these locations that people know. How do you build a set for East College? Well you can’t, so you project it instead and then combine it with a set,” Schamberger said.

The soaring planes, skyline views and photographs of the Green Center for the Performing Arts’ Great Hall and the Green-castle courthouse, all depicted with the use of a projector, completely transform the Moore Theater stage.

“Joachim is amazing with the technol-ogy,” junior Elleka Okerstrom said.

“The projections make you feel so much more inside the story, and I think it just looks so much more professional. You get a lot more bang for your buck,” Okerstrom said.

Work on this production started before fall break, when the students auditioned. They were then given the dialogue and score to read through and work on over win-ter break, and returned in January to begin what junior Stephanie Sharlow referred to as “a Winter Term project.”

“It’s been a lot of fun,” freshman Yazid Gray said. “A lot of hard work, but lots of fun. A great experience too.”

Both the actors and actresses in “DeBat” and Schamberger have high hopes that this adaptation of classical opera will have a pull even for students from the College of Liberal Arts.

“I think this is a really good show to get the College of Liberal Arts students and other people who aren’t part of the music school into the performances,” Sharlow said.

“A lot of these stories are really timeless. They can be really funny. There’s a prejudice in opera and people who say, ‘the music is beautiful but the story is confusing, or weak, or weird,” Schamberger said.

“I hope people will see this and see that it is not something old, antique and boring—this is really something that can be cool” he added.

Okerstrom agreed.“I think a lot of the students will like this

updated version, just because opera is something that a lot of people find very inaccessible, and this is us saying, ‘hey look, you’ll think this is funny; there are jokes in here that you’ll get,” she said.

“When you see this story taking place in your own backyard, not in Vienna a hundred years ago, you think, ‘oh, this is actually quite spicy,’” Schamberger said.

Though Schamberger’s updated storyline and technology will defi-nitely draw crowds, his focus is on the music and the students perform-ing it.

“This is really, really tricky music, and it sounds easy because it has this lightness to it. But to get it to sound that way is actually really hard work,” he said. “I think they’re all doing a very nice job.”

Also, Schamberger added, the students are not just singing.“It’s not one of those operas where they just come out and stand

there and sing; they jump, they dance, they fight, they I don’t know what,” he said. “I would like for the audience to acknowledge how

Adapted production modernizes famous operetta

Sophomore Joseph Leppek and senior

Erik Erlandson per-form at DeBat on Thursday evening in Moore Theatre.

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Sophomore Joseph Leppek, junior Emily Barnash, and senior Lucas Wassmer perform at DeBat Thursday evening in Moore Theatre. CARLY PIETRZAK/THE DEPAUW

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GRACE QUINN

The “Doublethink” of U.S. drone, gun policies

The afternoon of Dec. 14, 2012, I submitted my last final project of the year and dropped by

Moore’s Bar for a beer or two with friends. What should have been a well-deserved celebration was sobered by the news scrolling across the flat screen TV: Adam Lanza had fatally shot six adults, 20 chil-dren and finally himself at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newton, Conn.

Since that day, the day I sat stunned silent beneath the neon bar lights, gun control has now become the focal point of political contestation. And with the Obama administration proposing 23 executive orders to curb gun violence last month, it’s not an easy issue to ignore, regardless of your stance.

While Sandy Hook has the nation re-evaluating the safety of our children, I can’t help but think about other families out there, mourning the loss of a child, a husband, a niece. Except instead of ru-ral Conn., these families live in Pakistan. Or Yemen,

or Somalia. And their loved ones haven’t been killed by the actions of an insane gunman, but in a drone strike green lighted by the United States.

I don’t mean to minimize the magnitude of the tragedy at Sandy Hook that day — to do so would be grossly insensitive to an immense tragedy. But so would ignoring the deaths of 176 Pakistani chil-dren at the hands of U.S. drones — deaths you won’t hear about through the garble of domestic political rhetoric. Part of the horror of the Sandy Hook massacre lies in the fact that these were beautiful, innocent children — full of promise and completely undeserving of their fate. Are the chil-dren who die at the strike of U.S. drones any less innocent? Are they any more deserving?

The Obama administration has authorized 193 drone strikes in Pakistan — four times the amount authorized by George W. Bush during the begin-nings of the “War on Terror.” More than 800 civil-ians and a mere 22 Al-Qaeda officers have died from our counterterrorism efforts. A recent study from Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Insti-tute finds that civilian death tolls in Pakistan are “significantly and consistently underestimated,” amounting to nearly 98% of the total killed by Predator and Reaper drones.

George Orwell coined the word “doublethink”

in his novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four”. Doublethink is the act of holding two contradictory beliefs si-multaneously and accepting both of them as true. It means “to know and not know...to repudiate morality while laying claim to it.” If we believe in preventing the killing of our own children, we must believe in the prevention of the killing of chil-dren who are not our own — who live hundreds or thousands of miles away. This isn’t an attempt to politicize a tragedy, rather to illustrate the kind of backwardness our current political discourse fosters. We can’t fall victim to this kind of double-think.

Two months later, the wound from Sandy Hook is less raw, if ever so slightly. But there is no better time to understand that a government’s policy that murders children with drones is no less evil than a man who murders children with guns. Adam Lanza is dead, but drone strikes continue to be authorized by the United States.

Tomorrow is a new day in Pakistan.

— Brelage is a senior from Indianapolis, Ind. majoring in English writing.opinion@thedepauw.com

DePauw Winter Term: A unique experience that sets our university apart from so many

others. My Winter Term class, Writing Children’s Books, was actually pretty grueling. Who knew “Goodnight Moon” could be such a hard read? My annotations of the text went off the page. And don’t even get me started on “If You Give a Moose a Muffin.”

Despite the fact that Winter Term was easier for some individuals than others, the transition back was a difficult one for all of us. Most first-years stayed on campus and as soon as Winter Term ended, we were thrown back into the rigorous De-Pauw University schedule.

I spent my few days back chained to a wooden study carrel in Roy O. West Library, as I’m sure most of you did as well. Forget this so-called “sylla-bus week” — it’s do or die around here and there’s just no room to skip a beat, even after seven weeks

away from the hectic and chaotic lives we all lead during the semester. Any hiccups this early on could not only set us back academically, but could also potentially leave bad impressions on our pro-fessors — and you don’t want to be on their hit list the very first week.

In addition to being thrown back into classes, mountains of reading and infinite piles of home-work, freshmen were shoved into this strange phe-nomenon formally recognized as “recruitment.” Luckily for the men on campus, it seems to be a fairly easy-going process, but it’s one of the most stressful times in a collegiate woman’s life. With all of the concern over how to do our hair, which shoes match our dresses or if the houses will ac-tually like us, it became nearly impossible to fully commit to and focus on our studies. And I know the upperclassman were just as concerned about picking the perfect pledge class. No one was fully concentrating on his or her studies.

And what about the students coming back from trips abroad? They were thrown into the middle of it all. Some students arrived back on campus just a day or two before classes actually began. Good thing Jet Lag is just a myth because otherwise it would have greatly interfered with their class atten-dance, eating habits, sleeping schedule and ability

to complete their work. After all, what’s a 10-hour time difference here or there?

So what do we do about all of these worn-out, run-down and overwrought tigers roaming around campus? Why not conclude Winter Term with a long weekend of recruitment and begin classes on a Wednesday?

It would give students a few days to recuperate and readjust and it would provide the greek men and women on this campus a greater opportunity to compartmentalize their social lives from their ac-ademic ones, so they can put the maximum effort possible into both. It would significantly decrease stress levels of students across the board, hopefully pushing them to perform better early on in the se-mester. And lastly, it would allow for students to truly process and reflect upon our amazing three and a half week experiences before diving back into the chaotic reality that is second semester.

— Quinn is a freshman from Kenilworth, Ill. majoring in English writing.opinion@thedepauw.com

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Local businesses need to rethink their niche

It is time for restaurants in Greencastle to leave the island of Neverland and start to work, instead of wish, for suc-

cess. While I love our local eateries, the attitude of some of

these restaurants is becoming a problem and they have made it more and more complicated to patronize them.

This time last month, I was under the impression that I was never going to get a pretzel burger from Downtown Deli ever again. But when my friends and I passed by, it didn’t seem closed. Later last month when a group of people I know went to have brunch at the Blue Door, they were saddened to see it was closed.

I am ready for these places to settle down and decide what they are going to do with their business. As of right now, it seems that Downtown Deli is going to stay open, with yet another name. But will this one stick? Blue Door says it is going to open any day now. But how many days until they decide to throw another fit about Starbucks and close again?

Last semester I wrote about how Starbucks is not the place to be blamed here and I still stick to that point. Star-bucks sells beverages — the very things Blue Door says they have not had a problem selling. The drink menu is staying the same; it is the food that is going to change.

Perhaps this shows that Blue Door is on the right track. If they want to boost their sales, they should improve the

food menu since that is not something Starbucks offers and therefore does not offer competition. If Blue Door can decide they are the brunch place, they might finally have a chance.

But for now, students are just confused. Once these restaurants decide on their official hours, customers will come to them. But with this ambiguity, it is becoming harder to know what to think. Blue Door needs to follow the lead of places like Dairy Castle. I am counting down until they open (ten days!) because they have issued a hard date that students can eagerly anticipate.

And it is not like DePauw is trying to oust the local eateries. These places were considered for the spot on the corner next to Eli’s Books, according to an article in The DePauw last April. But in the same article President Casey pointed out that Blue Door is not the same kind of des-tination as Starbucks. It is a place that offers full meals. I find it hard to believe that people who previously thought, “Let’s go to the Blue Door!” have found Starbucks to be a suitable replacement.

DePauw students look kindly on local eateries. Just look at the success of Marvin’s—I knew just as much about it as I knew about DePauw when I was considering com-ing here last spring. Marvin’s has established a firm place in the hearts of students and will for years to come. If Blue Door and Downtown Deli can do that in the coming months, then they too will find success.

In this case, it will take a little more than faith, trust and pixie dust for these restaurants to succeed.

— Sausser is a freshman from Indianapolis, Ind. with an undecided major.opinion@thedepauw.com

LEEANN SAUSSER

Many of us have focused our attention on the start of the spring semester, frater-nity and sorority recruitment and the millions of dollars given to us by donors. Many of us have overlooked the incredible performance by our DePauw women’s basket-ball team — a team now ranked number one in the nation by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for the region, D3hoops.com and the USA Today coaches’ poll. For the second year in a row, the team has clinched an North Coast Athletic Confer-ence season title and a number one seed in the post-season conference tournament. And for the second straight year in a row, the team has amassed a 20 plus game win-ning streak. The team is currently undefeated with a 22-0 (13-0) record. The last time the Tigers lost a regular season game was November of 2011. That is greatness and something the community can and should rally around.

Let’s all go out and support our team for their hard work and dedication to the athletic program. Go Tigers!

Team deserves school support

Early Wednesday morning, DePauw Public Safety apprehended a group of stu-dents on what was most likely the tail end of a night of pranks.

Later that morning, the rest of the campus saw the results as toilet paper strewn across lawns and hanging from the trees of multiple sorority and fraternity houses. While we feel sorry for the people who have to clean it up, we believe that there is no real damage besides the short lived embarrassment.

We understand the culture that surrounds this university. We understand that practical jokes should be tolerated in the name of good college fun. Last semester, we saluted the small group of men that attempted to steal the Monon Bell from the clutches of Wabash (even if they only made it about thirty feet) because it is a con-tinuation of a great tradition and a great rivalry.

This editorial board is a part of DePauw culture and we do appreciate a little mischief.

But what we don’t appreciate, tolerate or sponsor is vandalism and the threshold the group of students crossed when they actually vandalized private property.

Deliberately destroying patio furniture and breaking into houses are not things we endorse, even if the original intentions were harmless.

DePauw is a distinctive community with its own set of unique traditions: boulder runs, annual senior dinner celebrations, and greek god and goddess to name a few.

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Sullivan reached a career high 15 points and seven rebounds in only 18 minutes of play Wednesday in the

DePauw men’s basketball team’s game against Denison. Sullivan also had three assists during the game, which

he played against his brother, Denison’s assistant coach Chris Sullivan.

On his career high in a sibling rivalry game:

“It was a lot of fun. I have a younger brother too and we all like to showboat around. I got more playing time because there have been some injuries on the team. But I was just

glad I got a chance to hit my high in this game.”

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As a sophomore on the women’s

basketball team, Savannah Trees has stepped up to become one of the top scoring threats for the Tigers.

She has learned from her weak-nesses last season and is now focusing on skills that will assist the whole team this year. The North Coast Athletic Conference tournament is just three games away.

“In the off-season, I worked on my shot and pull-up jumper a lot because I needed to be more aggressive,” Trees said. “My coaches and teammates have been on me to be more assertive and contribute more offensively and defen-sively.”

Trees has become a prime scor-ing threat from the outside, and has earned more playing time as a result. More importantly, she has earned

more trust from her coach.“I like it when the ball is in her

hands,” Head Coach Kris Huffman said. “She's a great decision maker and she sees the game really well. She's had more of a veteran-like sophomore year, and she's a little bit ahead of the game."

Trees’ hard work in the off-season has shown in multiple contests this year. Her points total against Ohio Wesleyan University on Jan. 26 nearly doubled from last year’s contest with the battling Bishops, 21-12.

Her scoring improvement was also essential when she scored 12 points against Kenyon College on Jan. 29 and 14 points against Allegheny College on Feb. 1.

"She's one of many of our 3-point snipers,” Huffman said. “She's well-rounded. She has the long range but she can also put the ball on the floor, and a pull-up jumper is nearly impossi-

ble to defend. She's a tough defensive assignment for an opponent."

On a team ripe with veterans, Trees is the second leading scorer with 10.8 points per game behind junior Alex Gasaway’s 14.1. The sophomore from Libertyille, Ill., also leads the team in 3-pointers with 37 this season.

After tasting the National College Athletic Association Division III tour-nament last season, Trees is hungry for more.

“I learned how much effort it takes to be successful, especially when we reach tournament time,” Trees said. “You need to give it everything you have if you want to go far during the tournament.”

The Tigers host Oberlin College Saturday at 1 p.m. at Neal Fieldhouse.

— Michael Appelgate contributed to this article.

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“I just changed practice into a game situation and I knew that it was there where I had to get bet-ter every day playing against these great people.”

Their first year produced a 26-4 overall record and a second round loss in the NCAA championships to Hope College.

During their sophomore year, Pearson moved into a starting role, and Molloy still came off the bench and played limited minutes.

It didn’t put a damper on her commitment to the team, and Mol-loy actually embraced her role.

“I’ve had a lot of different roles on this team,” Molloy said. “I’ve had all the roles you can have. Each year I did whatever coach needed me to do and what the team needed me to do.”

Their second season resulted in another Southern Collegiate Athletics Conference title, and a second berth to the NCAA tourna-ment.

It also produced their second loss to Hope.

“Losing to Hope our freshman and sophomore years was almost a blessing at this point,” Pearson said. “We’re all such veterans that I feel so much more confident this year than I ever have because we all have each other’s back, and we’ve been around the block.”

Junior year: power of threeFrom seven players to three.For many reasons, it’s not

uncommon for DePauw teams to drastically reduce in the number of players in a class.

In many cases, those who re-main are those who put the sport above other things.

“To have that consistency and drive when you can get distracted by so many things as a young col-lege student, they have stayed the course,” Huffman said. “They have a level of commitment to this pro-gram that I have not seen before.”

With so much time on the court, Walker and Pearson devel-oped what they called a “Peyton Manning / Reggie Wayne” relation-ship.

“Ellie is so quick, so one of my favorite things to do is get a quick outlet pass from the post, look up

the floor, and Ellie is down there waiting for me to throw her the ball,” Walker said. “I know she’s going to get the pass or die trying.”

Molloy was finally inserted into the starting lineup her junior year, started every game and averaged 5.6 points per game. Similarly, Walker and Pearson averaged just more than six points.

Last season as juniors, along with forward Katie Aldrich ‘12, the Tigers went undefeated in their first season in the North Coast Ath-letic Conference, and again went to the NCAA tournament.

“Every year our record has got-ten better,” Pearson said. “We’re progressing. I get goose-bumps just talking about it.”

But every year, there are times when the going is tough.

During the month of January, Walker said that the season hits a bit of a rough patch where play-ers get frustrated, and need to be pulled up.

“There are games that coach Huffman is livid with us,” Walker said. “We may do really well and beat the other team by 20 points, and no one knows. But we know, and that’s the problem. But that’s what we play through.”

That’s also where a “family” comes in.

A different sort of closeThis senior class has never lost

two regular season games in a row.With just 10 losses in their ca-

reers, none of those came on back-to-back occasions.

“We try and play a tough schedule so we never know what the record we’ll end up with,” Huffman said. “These three se-niors are so competitive and they hate to lose anything they do. They bring that competitive spirit and a will to win.”

In practice, Molloy and Pear-son are regular competitors in running drills. They line up next to each other, and separate them-selves from the rest of the team.

For Walker, she admittedly gets frustrated during practice with the athleticism of Molloy and oth-ers. But it’s a part of a process of becoming better, and part of what makes the senior class stand out compared to others.

“We come to practice every day and work hard, and it’s excit-ing to know we can be so much

better and we know we have to be better,” Molloy said. “Once regular season ends and we want to continue we have to keep work-ing hard, and that’s the good thing about our team.”

After their 100th win Saturday — a 91-46 win where seniors com-bined for 17 points — they had no idea that they had reached the cen-tennial until they were getting on the bus back to DePauw.

Pearson said it was a high point, but just a stepping-stone to where they want to be.

“In a few weeks, no one cares if we are 22-0,” she added. “This is all great, this is fun and we’re mak-ing history, but I don’t care. I want to be No. 1 in March. I don’t want to be No. 1 in January or February, we have our eye on the prize and we’ve seen how easy it is to lose.”

Don’t tell these three players they can be considered favorites to win the team’s second NCAA championship. They’d tell you they have to get better, and the team is a work in progress.

In fact, the attitude has rubbed off from coach, to seniors, to younger players.

“They each bring something different, whether it’s talking or working hard,” sophomore guard Savannah Trees said. “It’s easy to work hard when you watch them.”

Added Huffman, “They have definitely left a legacy in my eyes. I love these three and I will miss them tremendously. I don’t know if I’ve ever been as close to players as these three.

“They have a level of commit-ment to this program that I have not seen before. Regardless of what happens this will be one of my favorite teams of all time.”

If there’s a lasting legacy for these seniors, it might not be con-ference titles, NCAA appearances, overall record or work ethic.

To them, it’s a bit simpler.“We’re all best friends,” Walk-

er said. “I wouldn’t want to go through this with anyone else. There’s no doubt in my mind that with these two girls with me, we’re going to do great things.

And they’ll do it together, dedi-cated and determined, just like every year.

— Clare Polega contributed to this article.

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By HAMM HOOPERsports@thedepauw.com

The men’s basketball team earned a key con-ference road win Wednesday night as it defeated the Denison Big Red 77-56. The win kept DePauw (14-8, 7-6) tied with Kenyon for fourth place in the North Coast Athletic Conference while Denison (8-14, 6-7) fell to fifth.

Fourth place in the NCAC is a big benefit for a team because it allows the team to host its first conference tournament game.

“I think given what was on the game last night, for us to really win as convincingly as we did was a pretty good sign for us,” head coach Bill Fenlon said.

Junior Alex Payne also saw the value in the win in light of the previous losses.

“Obviously Denison on the road was a nice win,” Payne said. “One reason is because we were tied with Denison. Secondly because we bounced back from two straight losses. It’s a nice step in trying to string together a couple of wins before the conference tournament starts.”

The team played one of its better offensive games of the year as the Tigers shot 51.6% from the field and 41.2% from the three-point line. An-other key for the team was their lack of turnovers.

DePauw had only four turnovers the entire game.The Tigers were dominant in the first half as

they went on a 32-7 run to push their lead to 39-11. DePauw ended up leading the first half 42-15 thanks to solid shooting and out re-bounding the Big Red by 12.

“We had really good ball movement and we were also getting stops so it was a combination of lots of things,” Fenlon said. “We had a good start to the game, we got up to a 7-0 start and we kept the pressure on.”

The second half was a different story defen-sively for the Tigers. The team allowed 41 points and had trouble stopping Denison’s Dimonde Hale who finished with 17 points and 11 rebounds.

“I think our defense was not quite as good in the second half as the first,” Fenlon said. “They re-ally went to Hale a lot in the second half and we had a hard time defending him.”

While Wednesday’s game might not have been the best overall game the Tigers have played on the year, they certainly played one of their better halves against Denison.

“I think this is a team that has been really good in stretches,” Fenlon said. “We’ve been in this league not quite two years and we’ve got a win over every team in the league. We know we can play against everybody in the league.”

Men’s basketball still fourth in conference after win

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By MICHAEL APPELGATEsports@thedepauw.com

On a whim, it can be easy to describe a group of people as a family.

But for the women’s basket-ball team seniors, they are about as close to a family as you can get.

Spend any amount of time with seniors Kate Walker, Ellie Pearson and Kathleen Molloy, and you could tell there’s more than basketball that unites them. They finish each other’s sen-tences and seem to smile, laugh

and recall their careers so far in the same fashion.

For all the similarities — and obvious differences — they sim-ply stand apart.

Their current record over four years is evidence enough of what will be a lasting legacy: The trio earned its 100th win last Saturday and is now look-ing forward to a possible fourth conference championship later this month and eyeing another NCAA Division III championship run in March.

In the midst of an unprec-edented, 22-0 season, the lead-ership of the senior class is mul-tifaceted. They produce on the court, and lead more by example than with words.

They have a 100-10 record to go along their leadership, per-sonality and determination. And it’s how their friendship inspired dedication to the program that might make them the greatest basketball class ever in DePauw women’s basketball history.

Early signs of unmatched effort

It took just one meeting with head coach Kris Huffman for the

then-freshman class to send out a call to be on the court.

With as many as 13 newcom-ers who had hopes of being on the team, a few players — includ-ing Walker, Pearson and Molloy — organized open gym practices to improve their game before the start of the season.

While the open gyms served to improve ability on the court, there also started a commitment to physical conditioning.

“I just remember thinking the speed of the game between high school and college was so much different,” Pearson said. “I just remember going to open gym wondering if I would ever see the floor at all.”

According Roger Dortch-Doan, DePauw’s strength and conditioning coordinator, they did more than just hold their own open gyms.

He can’t name a group that has had more consistent off-season attendance record at his performance enhancement se-ries workouts during the week.

“Those three have been to so many of them I don’t recall a time they’re not there,” Dortch-Doan said. “They see it as part

of what they need to do. They get past the talk and just get out there and do it. They show up and work because they want to win.”

The drive propelled Walker into the starting point guard roll for her first ever collegiate game, and has held the position ever since.

Pearson, playing behind two standout post players — Emily Marshall ‘10 and Jenna Fernan-dez ‘10 — came off the bench and played in every game like Walker.

For Molloy, however, she played in the shadow of even more players than Pearson. With the likes of Katie Mathews ‘11, Lauren Goff ‘11 and Brooke Osborn ’11 ahead of Molloy, the guard appeared in just 18 games her freshman year and saw 78 minutes.

“It’s tough not to play,” she said. “But you’re coming in to a great program so you can’t be too discouraged by not play-ing because you have so many people lined up in front of you.

It’s a “family” affair Amidst a record-breaking season, seniors are driven by more than a desire to win

Seniors Kathleen Molloy (left), Ellie Pearson and Kate Walker have found some of the most success as a class for the De-Pauw women’s basketball team. | MARGARET DISTLER/THE DEPAUW

“They have a level of commitment to this

program that I have not seen before. Regardless

of what happens this will be one of my favorite

teams of all time.”

- head coach Kris HuffmanFamily | cont’d on page 10