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THE DOANE OWL{Volume 146, Issue 18}
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Tuition will increase to $24,460 a year next fall; $1,490 more than current tuition, the Board of Trustees decided Fri-day.
The decision came after the Ad Hoc Committee on Tuition and Discounting, a subcommit-tee of the Board of Trustees, compared Doane’s pricing to similar private liberal arts col-leges.
Julie Schmidt, treasurer and vice president of finance and ad-ministration, said the committee learned that Doane was cheaper than many of the colleges, in-cluding Hastings College and Nebraska Wesleyan University.
Schmidt said the increase in tuition was an attempt to be competitively priced with Do-ane’s peers.
“It was kind of a shock to them (Ad Hoc Committee), with the facilities that we have here and our excellent graduation rates, to think that we are actu-ally priced below those peers,” Schmidt said.
Doane felt the education it of-fered was better than competing colleges and tuition needed to show that, Schmidt said.
“If you think that it (Doane)
has a lower price, you think ‘well it must not be as good,’” she said. “We don’t want to convey that.”
Several students disagree with the decision to raise tuition, though.
Junior Elizabeth Montez said she thought the value of Doane was reflected in what the college had to offer as an institution, not in its price.
“I’m an education major, and I’ve gone to a couple of confer-ences, and Doane is always recognized for its education program,” she said. “They (the public) don’t look at the price.”
Another student felt in-creased tuition would hurt Do-ane’s enrollment numbers.
“I don’t think it (raising tu-ition) is fair because a lot of peo-ple now are having to drop out because it (Doane) is too expen-sive,” freshman Sydney Weyers said.
Weyers said she had three close friends drop out of Doane because of financial reasons.
Kim Jacobs, vice president for student leadership, said not increasing tuition could have negative effects on the college.
Jacobs said the institution she worked at before Doane de-cided to freeze tuition for three years.
A parking recommenda-tion created by Student Con-gress has been proposed to the Safety Office, recom-mending changes to parking lots around campus.
This recommendation is to
make the parking around cam-pus more commuter-friendly and to ease frustrations some campus residents have voiced
about the parking mainly on the south side of Doane.
Senior commuter Colton Co-chran feels the parking situation for all Doane students has be-come an issue.
“From a commuter’s per-spective I find it is frustrating because we have such little se-lection to choose from that is convenient for all majors,” said Cochran. “Any help we can get will go a long way.”
The Student Congress Park-ing Proposal states, “Keeping in mind that it is impossible to
create a parking setup where ev-eryone is going to be completely happy, we, the Student Con-gress, are proposing some possi-ble parking changes that we feel will ease some of the troubles.”
The proposed changed in-clude:
Hansen Hall- The first two aisles, or first four rows, be available to upperclassmen only, while the remaining stalls are available to under and up-perclassmen. Lot I will remain residential only.
Sheldon/Frees Hall- The Sheldon accessory lot, or Lot L, be changed back to the 2010-2011 parking which was avail-able to both under and upper-classmen. In addition, a possible pavement of the area just south of that lot could be opened up for more parking.
Butler Gym- Lot B, or the gravel lot south of Simon Field, be paved and allow all stalls south of Lot C to be available to under and upperclassmen as well as commuter parking.
This would include the di-agonal stalls north of Commu-nications and stalls along Butler Gym.
If prioritization became key for a proposal such as this, Student Congress sug-gested that paving Lot B, or the gravel lot south of Simon Field. This should be tackled first ensuring that park-ing near Butler could be ready to please both commuters and campus residents.
Doane raises tuition to compete
“At the end of three years, what we dis-covered was students who were looking at different colleges were questioning the value of our education because it was a lower cost than many of our peers,”
Kim Jacobs-Vice President for Student Leadership
Ryan Corrigan/The Owl
BY ERIN BELLStaff Writer
see TUITION p. 3
StuCo suggests changes in parking
Tyler Weihe/The Owl
BY CORYELLE THOMASStaff Writer
see PARKING p. 3
Doane will award approxi-mately $40,000 in grants to students for summer research projects.
The Undergraduate Research Committee will review applica-tions for research projects and will send its recommendations to Vice President for Academic Affairs John Burney, who will choose which projects are fund-ed.
Burney said the grant amount awarded would be determined by the length of the research project, number of stu-dents involved and materials needed.
Student sti-pends, which range from $300 to $1,800, will be budgeted for in the grant, he said.
Appl icat ions were due Monday, and awards will be announced March 19.
Research proj-ects will be supervised by a fac-ulty member willing to work with an individual student or small group of students for a three to six week period during the summer.
Burney said faculty members may also receive a small stipend.
Jennifer Bossard, assistant professor of economics and chairwoman of the Undergradu-ate Research Committee, said the committee looked at the pro-posal requirements as criteria
for its recommendations.Each proposal submit-
ted required a description of the project, goals and objectives, student involvement, project timetable, proposed budget, assessment plan and presentation of results.
Bossard said the committee relied on the supervising fac-ulty members to make sure the projects were feasible and the students were interested and ca-
pable of doing the projects.
“My area is economics, so if I’m looking at a proposal for chemistry, I don’t know exactly what that all looks like,” she said. “So we’re relying a lot on the faculty members to work with the students and submit a pro-posal that is rea-sonable and that would be a good use of the col-lege’s resources.”
Bossard said the proposal needed to con-vince the commit-tee that the stu-
dent was going to do most of the research, though.
“The faculty member is serv-ing more as a mentor of that pro-cess, but the student is the one doing the research, and we want to make sure that is what is go-ing to happen,” she said.
The Undergraduate Research Committee receives about 10 to 15 proposals every year.
Ryan Corrigan/The Owl
BY ERIN BELLStaff Writer
see RESEARCH p. 3
Students hopeful for summer research
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Crime reports must “be pro-vided to students and employ-ees in a manner that is timely and that will aid in the preven-tion of similar occurrences,” ac-cording to the Clery Act.
Doane’s Safety Office crime log was not updated for almost a month.
The Safety Office would like to print off daily crime logs, but had to prioritize with limited time and personnel, Student Leadership Associate Dean Russ Hewitt said.
“What’s more important?” Hewitt asked. “Do we put on that
full day of (employee) training (for safety procedures), or do we make sure that we get in and print a redundant sheet of paper that says nothing happened yes-terday?”
Hewitt said the crime log was always available upon request and did not take very long to
print off.No student has requested
to see an updated crime log, he said.
“If they (students) ask, we can always print one off re-ally quick and let them know,” Hewitt said. “Or, I can say there isn’t really anything reportable
that we’ve (Safety Office) re-ceived here recently.”
Campus communities should be quickly notified about crimes under the Clery Act, rather than requiring the information to be requested, according to the Student Press Law Center’s “Covering Cam-pus Crime” handbook.
Freshman Katrina Wulf said students should not have to re-quest an updated crime log.
“I don’t think that’s right because we should have the freedom to get that information as soon as it happens,” Wulf said. “It’s not that hard to print something out.”
BY ALISHA FORBESStaff Writer
“Do we put on that full day of (employee) training (for safety procedures), or do we make sure that we get in and print a redundant sheet of paper that says nothing happened yesterday?”
Russ Hewitt-Student Leadership Associate Dean
Crime blotter creates chore
see CRIMEBLOTTER p. 3
“The faculty mem-ber is serving more as a mentor of that process, but the student is the one doing the research, and we want to make sure that is what is going to happen.”
Professor Bossard-Assistant professor of economics
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Education Professor Julie Kozisek accepted her Distin-guished Educator of Reading award at the Nebraska State Reading conference in Kearney Saturday.
Kozisek, who has taught at Doane for over 30 years, said she was excited to receive the award, which is given to teach-ers who enhance literacy in the classroom, school and commu-nity. (http://www.nereads.org/
pdfs/deguidelines.pdf)When Kozisek left the public
school system to teach at Doane, she said she did not expect to stay for as long as she has. Then
she said she realized the ripple effect that came from educat-ing 30 odd students a year who would go on to teach at least 30 of their own students.
“I feel I can have a greater impact teaching at Doane,” Kozisek said.
Kozisek primarily works with upper level education majors and is also the director of career placement for teacher educa-tion.
Senior Dylan Kendall, an el-ementary and middle school ed-ucation major who is one of 40 Doane students that attended the conference, said Kozisek de-served the honor.
“She kind of makes edu-cation a blast,” Kendall said. “She’s very dedicated in what she does and very passionate
about education.”Lyn Forester, education pro-
fessor and dean of the master of education in curriculum and in-struction program, said Kozisek
was an important part of Do-ane’s faculty.
“She is an outstanding edu-cator and very, very knowledge-able about reading and literacy,” Forester said.
Kendall said Kozisek’s em-phasis on professionalism and preparation enabled education majors to succeed in their ca-reers.
“She pushes you to the limit,” Kendall said. “Her expectations are very high. She prepares us to be the best.”
Forester said Kozisek’s abil-ity to educate future teachers gave Doane students an edge in
the job market.“We have been told that our
students are very well-versed in that area (literacy) once they complete the program,” Forest-er said. “In fact, many principals have told me that they are more like seasoned teachers than first year teachers. And I attribute that to (Kozisek’s) ability to teach reading.”
Kozisek agreed that a Doane education was high quality for students seeking teaching jobs.
“I think we are putting out the best teachers,” Kozisek said. “Doane students are highly sought after.”
BY HANNAH BAUERStaff Writer
Man from Mars project awes crowd
Sophomore Kayla Kettelson let out a sigh when asked if she knew how much debt she would acquire before graduation.
“A lot,” she said. “My dad told me it’s better to go to what col-lege you want to go to. The money can be fixed later.”
Kettelson was one of many students who said they didn’t know how much debt they would accumulate dur-ing college.
The 2012 Journal-ism Capstone project decided to conduct a project on student debt. The project, titled “Past Due: Your Student Debt on Notice,” will attempt to better inform students of the debt they are accumulating, how that debt is affecting the lives of students now and how that debt will affect their lives when they graduate.
According to projectonstu-dentdebt.org, the average debt for Doane College graduates in 2010 was $20,748. The number was lower than the Nebraska
average for that year. The state a v e r a g e , i n c l u d i n g both public and private schools, was $21,227, ac-cording to the site.
F r e s h -man Mer-edith Mertz said she es-timated that she would have close to $60,000
worth of debt when she gradu-ated from Doane. Mertz said when she was applying, she felt Doane would give her the lowest debt based on her scholarships. She said she received academic
and cheerleading scholarships, as well as work study aid.
“Hopefully my job will make enough money (to pay off the debt),” Mertz said.
Freshman Nick Simmonds said he chose to come to Doane because the school offered him more scholarships than any other school. Simmonds said he received scholarships for aca-demics, track and cross coun-try. He said he also estimated up to $60,000 worth of debt by the time he finished college.
Although Simmonds is a political science major, he said he would switch to biology or pre-medicine, which he said he hoped would be able to pay off his debt.
Check out the Owl next week for a bi-weekly article spot-lighting a student struggling to make ends meet with his/her student debt.
This week, check the Do-aneline to quiz yourself on how much you know about your stu-dent debt.
BY LYNDSEY HRABIKNews Editor
Steven Squyres high-lighted what he called “an adventure of a lifetime” Tuesday for a full Heckman Audito-rium.
Despite unfavorable weather, the event drew in students, profes-sors and people from the Crete community to hear about Squyres’s Mars Exploration Rover Project.
“It was actually a re-ally cool experience,” freshman Taylor An-derson said. “I liked his enthusiasm, and the pic-tures were so cool.”
Anderson said she had no prior knowledge about Mars or the Ex-ploration Project, but Squyres made the pre-sentation easy to follow and relatable.
Squyres showed a slideshow which in-
cluded images of the robot he and his team made, how it worked and large pictures of Mars.“Honestly, I was ex-
pecting a lot, and he brought even more than what I was expecting,” sophomore Sam Rain-forth said. “The slide-show helped us see what he was talking about and how great Mars is.”
Squyres kept the au-dience entertained as he tied in humor throughout his presen-tation.
When he referred to part of the exploration he commented, “Tiger Woods on his best day couldn’t have done this landing.”
Freshman Benjamin Lawrence, who had high expectations of Squyres, said his expectations were met.
“It was exactly what I expected, yet I was still blown away,” Lawrence
said.Lawrence also appre-
ciated the images on the slideshow.
“You can look at it (Mars) through a tele-scope all you want and watch it across the sky, but to actually have the image of the sur-face from the surface is amazing,” Lawrence said.
In Squyres’ presen-tation, he stressed that Mars will not be colo-nized anytime soon and people would hate living there.
Squyres answered questions after the pre-sentation and a short re-ception followed.
Lawrence said he would only change one thing about the presen-tation.
“I would’ve loved if he would have spoken on everything more,” he said. “I would’ve sat front row for four hours.”
BY ALYSSA BOUC
Life + Leisure Editor
Education professor receives honor
JULIE KOZISEKEducation Professor
The Capital Alumni Chapter raised $6,676 for its scholarship during a silent auction Friday at the Country Club of Lincoln.
The Capital Alumni Chap-ter Scholarship is awarded to at least one incoming freshman from the greater Lincoln area and pays a total of $2,000 over the course of eight semesters.
Alumni Jon Zvolanek, who has been a member of the chap-ter since 2003, said the chapter has been fundraising in some way for nearly 20 years.
He said the fundraising be-came the endowed scholarship, established in 2008.
Alumni appreciated financial support when they attended Do-ane and had chosen to give back, Zvolanek said.
He said the appeal of the event came from helping stu-dents and a fun atmosphere..
“You feel like you’re serving the mission of Doane College by supporting the scholarship fund, but you end up taking home a prize too,” Zvolanek said.
Zvolanek said the auction, which was held every two years, had a variety of items to bid on.
“Some of our most popular items have been box tickets from alums (to games) such as the Chicago Cubs,” he said. “We’ve had people donate smaller things like gift certificates also.”
Director of Alumni Relations Anne Golden said there were some exciting items for alumni
to bid on this year.Two photographs were do-
nated from Doane graduate and famous nature photographer Thomas Mangelsen. One of the photographs donated was worth around $700.
Artwork from alumni Ashley Spitsnogle, the illustrator for Josh the Baby Otter water safety books, were also donated.
Professor of Economics Les Manns said he and his wife do-nated a meal for people to bid on.
Manns said he and his wife will host two couples in their formal dining room and prepare the last dinner served on the Ti-tanic.
The meal consisted of seven courses each paired with wine and will take about three and a half days to prepare.
Senior Joshua Novak and junior Lindsey Oelling also do-
nated artwork.Novak donated two ceramic
vases he recently finished. He was asked to donate after Gold-en bought some of his pieces to give to alumni at a pottery sale.
He said he was excited to do-nate because he knew the money would go to a good cause.
“Without them (alumni) do-nating to the college I probably wouldn’t be here or developed the interest in ceramics I have,” Novak said.
Oelling said she was donating a 9x11 custom portrait. She said she would draw whatever the winning bidder wanted.
She said she liked donating because it helped get her name out there as well as helped stu-dents who would attend Doane.
“I definitely like benefiting from scholarships,” Oelling said. “This way I can help someone else get an education.”
BY ERIN BELLStaff Writer
Julie Kozisek honored with Distinguished Educator of Reading award
Journalism capstone class starts project to raise debt awarenesson campus
Auction raised scholarship money
Erin Bell/The OwlSenior Josh Novak made two pots to put into the auction.
Student debt knowledge ‘in the red’
“My dad told me it’s better to go to what college you want to go to. The money can be fixed later.”
Kayla Kettelson- Sophomore
“She (Kozisek) kind of makes education a blast. She’s very dedicated in what she does and very passionate about education.”
Dylan Kendall-Senior
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Kurt Runestad, associate mu-sic professor and choral activi-ties director, submitted a project proposal where students would create editions of choral pieces by Felix Mendelssohn and Or-lando di Lasso.
The edition would then be used in the Doane choral area, he said.
Runestand said he has done similar projects in the past.
“It has been a valuable proj-ect for the students, I think, be-cause it gets them thinking about how the pieces of music are con-structed,” he said. “It also helps them get familiar with a music notation program.”
Assistant Biology Professor Kate Marley, who has supervised multiple research projects, sub-mitted two proposals with three students for this summer.
Marley said two students who worked with her were learning how to culture breast cancer cells from tumorspheres.
In their proposed research project, the students would test various drugs on the tumor-spheres.
Marley said the project would allow students to understand the basic biology of the subject.
It is a good chance for stu-dents to study intensively in one area, Marley said.
“They’re really getting to dig in deeply in their area of inter-est with a faculty member as a guide,” she said. “Since it’s not during the school year, they are able to put in a lot of hours really focused on that learning experi-ence.”
“People have to understand that the student’s are paying more to park on campus who live there,” said Safety Commit-tee Chair Dalton Ryba. “It defi-nitely shouldn’t be a 50/50 thing but these changes would not affect residential parking very much.”
Junior Rian Padilla, also a commuter thinks the Lot B changes would be the most ben-eficial.
“Those locations would make it easier to get to class because of its central location on campus,” Padilla said.
Student Congress recognizes the long term goal of paving an area, but feels that if these ideas were satisfied over the summer months, parking changes could be in effect for fall semester and reduce the headache.
The thought behind the tu-ition freeze was that it would retain students and help recruit new ones. The increase in stu-dents would then generate the money lost from not increasing tuition.
The opposite happened, Ja-cobs said.
Jacobs said the institution did not increase its number of students and failed to produce the revenue it had anticipated. The college made cuts as a re-sult.
“At the end of three years, what we discovered was stu-
dents who were looking at dif-ferent colleges were question-ing the value of our education because it was a lower cost than many of our peers,” she said.
Vice President for Ad-mission Joel Weyand said it would be foolish to think that price didn’t matter when considering value, but that Do-ane helped students ease the cost of their education with fi-nancial aid.
Weyand said last year Doane awarded $11.2 million in stu-dent financial aid.
Scholarships will not in-crease for current students, though, Financial Aid Director Peggy Tvrdy said.
She said scholarships for incoming students were typically set with the idea that tuition would increase by about five percent the next year. Tvrdy said some scholar-ship awards for new students increased as a result.
Even with their financial aid, students said they would have to take additional steps to pay tu-ition next year.
Freshman Grace Hartung said she was looking for a sec-ond job this summer.
Montez said she would prob-ably have to take out more loans and get more hours at work.
However, Weyand said stu-dents could see their money
reflected in facilities and op-portunities on campus, such as the recent renovations, travel scholarships and the four-year guarantee.
Students said they saw the value of Doane’s education, but were still skeptical about current increases in tuition.
“I feel like getting an edu-cation in this country is re-ally important if you want to succeed in the real world,” Hartung said. “It is already really hard for a lot of peo-ple to pay for a college edu-cation, so raising tuition doesn’t seem to be an effective way to help our generation suc-ceed.”
from p. 1 TUITION
from p. 1 CRIMEBLOTTER
from p. 1 PARKING
from p. 1 RESEARCH
- CORRECTION -In last week’s issue we ran a
story highlighting Bob Erickson’s impact on Doane College. We said he was athletic director from 1972 to 1988, which is incorrect. The correct date is 1972 t0 1998.
A biographer who recently visited Doane is piecing together the uncertain history of one of Doane's late benefactors.
Biographer Steve Myers was on Doane's campus Tuesday and Wednesday to understand the life of Zenon C.R. Hansen.
Myers was commissioned by the Hansen Foundation to re-search Hansen's life. Chief Ex-ecutive Officer of AMG National Trust Bank and Board of Trust-ees member, Earl Wright knew Hansen personally. Myers said Wright came to Doane to find out what students in the Han-sen Leadership Program knew about Hansen. Finding that the students knew very little about Hansen, Wright asked Myers to publish a bibliography about him.
Myers said that Doane pro-vided a wealth of information to help him write his bibliography.
“There's so much from 1990 backwards that you just can't get on the Internet,” Myers said.
One place where Myers said he looked for information on Hansen was in the Zenon C. R. Hansen Leadership room in Gaylord Hall room 500.
Doane Archivist Janet Jef-fries said that the Hansen room was established after Doane acquired donations of memo-rabilia from the Hansen family and from the Hansen Founda-tion in late 1990. Artifacts in the room include photos, books and a desk that belonged to Hansen.
“They donated lots of memo-rabilia with the understanding that it would be displayed in this special seminar room,” Jeffries said.
The room provided many an-swers and clues to help Myers develop the biography. Myers said that some information he found from other sources was erroneous after discovering the
corrective material in the Han-sen room.
“On the Boy Scout's website, it's listed that he got his Eagle Scout in 1921,” Myers said. “I saw the Eagle Scouts awards...he actually got it in 1926.”
Myers said that Hansen had gone above and beyond in Boy Scouts; receiving 83 badges when only 21 were required.
“Scouting was the credo of Hansen's whole life,” Myers said.
Scouts member and Zenon C. R. Hansen Leadership Scholar-ship recipient Senior Kevin An-derson said that Hansen's com-mitment to the Scouts program was apparent.
“Hansen built himself up
through Boy Scouts until he was the CEO of Mack Trucks,” An-derson said.
Anderson said that his schol-arship was awarded to him be-cause he met the qualities of a true scout, something that Han-sen would have looked for, being a devout scout himself.
Hansen Leadership Program Director Carrie Petr said that Hansen had no connection to Doane initially. Petr said that Hansen, while in conversation with Wright, discovered that Doane held many of the same values as he did.
“He essentially met people who were associated with Do-ane,” Petr said. “He wanted to find a way to support them.”
Petr said that after Hansen's death, the Hansen Leadership Program was established to pro-vide opportunities for growth for young people within Hansen's set of core values.
Myers said that the program was an example of Hansen's philanthropy. He said Hansen never went to college, yet he felt connected to Doane.
“He saw himself in the kids who went to school here,” Myers said. “Hard work – very serious – all those Midwestern values that he saw in himself.”
Myers said the uneducated Hansen had to teach himself fi-nance, accounting and three lan-guages. Myers said that he did all this to become the successful
CEO of Mack Truck Inc.At Mack Truck, Hansen
took the business from a fail-ing company to an international competitor. Myers said that after implementing financial efficiencies and technology ap-plications to help the business, Hansen also took steps to introduce a new type of engine design to rival inef-ficient engines at the time. He said that even though Hansen turned the company around, his best quality was his ability to size up a man.
With Myers new informa-tion, Doane, along with many others who are curious, may soon be able to size up Hansen himself.
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BY AILEEN GELBStaff Writer
Sophomore Courtney Bashore disagreed.
“If I’m getting weekly updates (from the newspaper), I guess it’s not as important to have a daily update,” Bashore said.
Bashore said she thought it was unnecessary to have the crime log if it wasn’t going to be updated.
“Thinking about it, there’s probably not enough crime to have to update it every day,” Bashore said.
Hewitt said he tried to update the crime log once a week, once every other week or if there was a significant problem on campus.
Wulf said e-mails from the Safety Office were helpful, but she sometimes felt that was the only time crime occurred.
“I think we (students) have this mentality that nothing hap-pens on campus,” Wulf said. “So, when bad things happen, it just opens our eyes.”
The Safety Office includes ad-ditional information in the crime log for students and faculty.
The Safety Office is only re-quired to report criminal inci-dents and alleged criminal in-cidents, not campus violations, Hewitt said.
“There are a plethora of ways that we’re communicating and working with the community to get them this (crime) informa-tion, and we have it available and ready at request,” Hewitt said.
Writers Note: Hewitt updated the crime log after the first inter-view was conducted, but it has not been updated again.
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Tuition high, value low for studentsTuition increase will cause more debt, less diversity
Most students won’t be surprised that Doane tuition has raised once again.
Just because we’re not surprised it happened, though, doesn’t mean we’re satisfied with the decision.
The college argues that it raised tuition to stay competitive with other colleges like Nebraska Wesleyan University and Hastings College.
Basically, the Board of Trustees thinks the higher it makes tuition, the more prestigious our school will be. When prospec-tive students are looking at schools, they think the less expensive schools translate to a lower quality education.
If prospective students really feel that way, they shouldn’t come here. Instead of looking at the tuition numbers, they should look at the results from our education. We preach a four-year gradua-tion guarantee and job placement percentages; those are statistics that really matter.
Financial Aid Director Peggy Tvrdy argued that financial aid for incoming students is higher because of the expected five percent increase in tuition for the next year.
When tuition is raised higher than five percent (which it is al-most every year), students are still forced to pay a greater amount for each year they remain at Doane.
When students look at Doane, the number they see for tuition will likely increase by at least 15 percent over their four-year edu-cation. Financial aid will increase zero percent, forcing some stu-dents to transfer schools or drop out of college completely.
Those who remain will be in one of two situations.First, only wealthy students will be able to afford an education
at Doane. We’re a school that usually embraces diversity of stu-dents. When only wealthy students can afford a Doane education, though, we greatly limit the number of diverse individuals around campus. Classes will fill with people from the same economic life-style. Discussions will lack depth and group think will take over in most classrooms. Part of the Doane mission statement is in-quiry; how are we supposed to inquire about other students’ back-grounds when we all grew up in the same way?
Second, students who choose to remain at Doane for all four years will face excessive amounts of debt for years after graduat-ing. Even if students can manage to afford the tuition for their first year, as the costs increase, student loans will increase and debt will skyrocket.
How does less diversity and higher debt make us more com-petitive with other colleges? The answer: it doesn’t. The quality of our education will not increase at all. If anything, the liberal arts education that we expect to receive will be worse with less diver-sity in our classrooms.
Student Leadership Vice President Kim Jacobs said one of her former schools froze tuition costs and ended up making budget cuts as a result. Even though this may occur, it’s only one example, and you can’t necessarily pinpoint the tuition freeze as the main cause of profit loss.
Increasing tuition just keeps the cycle going. Other schools are going to compare their costs to ours, and colleges nationwide will end up with higher prices. Even though costs will increase, qual-ity won’t; leaving students with average educations and excessive amounts of debt.
The Board of Trustees needs to wake up. Higher prices do not mean higher quality.
Doane should seriously investigate a new system. If the Board of Trustees decides it wants to raise prices every year to remain competitive, it needs to find ways to keep students from transfer-ring. Financial aid needs to increase at a comparable rate and the value of our education needs to improve.
Otherwise, Doane will see drastic changes; and they won’t be positive.
Thumbs up to summer research projects for giving students an opportunity to grow in their expe-riences and enrich their educa-tions. Hopefully a good number of proposals get approved so stu-dents can get the chance to expe-rience summer research.
Thumbs up to the musical “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” for providing four days of entertainment for Doane and the community.
Thumbs up to Education Professor Julie Kosizek for her Distinguished Educator of Reading award. We’re proud to have you as part of our Doane faculty.
Thumbs up to the silent alumni auction for raising $6,676 for the Capital Alumni Chapter’s scholarship.
Thumbs up to Ross Schulenburg for being ranked No. 1 in both singles and doubles. We wish you the best of luck in the tennis season and hope for good weather.
Thumbs down to student debt. Many of us will face troubles with student debt after graduation and we look forward to the information J-Crew gathers for us about the issue.
Thumbs down to the campus crime report not being posted on a daily basis. The effort and time it takes to update the report is definitely worth the benefits it pro-vides to students.
Thumbs down to the intense requirements for music education majors. We hope you all find time for sleep and socialization after your many hours of classes and studying. Nobody should go through college without sleep and friends.
Thumbs down to tor-nado watches in February. The weather this past month has been so odd; we’re definitely ready for March if it means days of sunshine.
Every day, students are in-undated with advertisements informing them about what they need to buy and where to get it before it’s gone.
These messages tout the amazing benefits of the product, but rarely do customers get to see the back-story. We need to challenge businesses to source their products responsibly.
According to Reuters, an explosion at an Apple plant in China last December left 23 peo-ple hospitalized and opened the curtain on working conditions at the plant.
Journalists exposed long hours in harsh conditions.
Many times, workers would be looking under microscopes for six hours straight with a half-
hour break followed by another six hours.
Outrage over conditions ex-posed Foxconn, the company that owns the plant, and led to increased wages and healthier conditions. But this kind of ex-posure will not always be visible and consumers need to be on
the look out.For years, consumers had no
resource to check on businesses, but today we have the Internet and it’s time to use it.
We can use search engines to find reported cases, and there are many sites that will check up on companies for you.
One of these is sourcewatch.org which alerts consumers by placing the connections be-tween abuse and brand names. Consumers need to boycott the companies that are doing harm, but it is crucial to support them when they change their ways.
This means purchasing items even when they become more ex-pensive because workers’ wages go up. It means not always going for the cheapest prices in stores as the cheapest will often be the least socially responsible. And it means checking up on compa-nies on a consistent basis.
For a list of over 250 compa-nies that have recognized social responsibility programs visit http://www.bsr.org/
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Getting dumped is usually one of the worst feelings in the world. A sense of hopelessness and insecurity overcomes the typical person. I fell victim to those emotions last week when my most recent relationship ended. After plenty of tears and a phone call to Mom, I turned my frown upside down and thought of the positive things that come from getting dumped.
1) Best excuse for ice cream and chocolate.
I don't eat much in general and when I'm sad, I eat even less. But the benefit of having a broken heart and a stomach that constantly feels upset is that only chocolate and ice cream can soothe the pain. They're not the healthiest options, so most of the time I get ridiculed from my health-nut friends when I stuff my face with sweets. When I'm going through a breakup, though, they don't say a word about my terrible habits.2)Chickflicks.Specifically the ones that
make me cry. Most chick flicks involve some sort of couple who
has issues and really shouldn't be together...but they make it work, and they're together in the end. When I'm in that zone of hopelessness, all I want to do is watch Rachel McAdams and Ryan Goseling fall in love over and over again. Watching Noah build Allie a house with his bare hands even though she doesn't talk to him anymore gives me hope that there are men out there who actually care and are willing to express their love for women.
3) A room to myself.Maybe more importantly; a
bed to myself. When you don't have a futon, room guests are forced to squeeze on the tiny twin bed unless they prefer to sit on the floor. Probably Doane's way of keeping people from sleeping
together. Well played, Doane College; well played. Now since I don't have a boyfriend, I don't have many visitors to my room and I get my bed all to myself. I almost need more pillows to fill all the extra space.
4) The people who RE-ALLY love you aren't afraid to show it.
Immediately after I got dumped, a couple friends took me to Tutti Frutti to replace my tears with delicious quesadil-las. They didn't force me to talk about anything, but they made sure I had company and a shoul-der to lean on. The people who matter most don't mind listen-ing to me bitch for hours about how stupid the whole situation is. They'll let me bawl my eyes out in the middle of Sheldon Hall's lobby because they know in the end I'll feel better for do-ing so.
5) There is nothing hold-ing me back from looking hot and flirting with thatcute guy I run into on the path.
Okay, so there isn't a spe-
cific cute guy who I consistent-ly run into on the path, but if there were, nothing's stopping me from flirting with him. And there's definitely nothing keep-ing me from getting ready in the morning. If anything, putting five extra minutes of effort into my day helps with the healing process; it's a lot easier to feel depressed in sweats and a hoody than it is in jeans and a dress shirt.
BONUS) Time to do things I love or need to do more of.
Friday morning, when I woke up a single woman, I finally had time and motivation to work out. That was the first time in a few weeks I actually had a half hour to take care of my body. It's not that a relationship didn't give me time, it's just that I pri-oritized my relationship over the gym. If I knew I only had an hour of free time in a night, I spent it with someone I cared about instead of in the gym with a treadmill.
Trust me, getting dumped is one of the worst feelings I've ever experienced, but I'm sick of sitting in a rut. Maybe these tips to get over a broken heart will help someone else heal, too.
BY MORGAN HOLDER
Editor in Chief- OPINION -
Getting dumped isn’t worst thing in world
Ryan Corrigan/The Owl
Apple ran into an incident in December at one of its plants. Sites like Reuters can help consumers become aware of similar issues.
Do you know the details of your favorite companies?
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Many students aren’t aware that Doane has its very own caboose like many small towns and parks across America.
While the Memorial Caboose, as it is referred to on its plaque, serves as a remembrance of his-tory, some Doane students don't even know it exists.
The caboose is located on the South end of campus, near 4th street.
“You've got this little sec-tion of track, there's a caboose there,” sophomore Nathan Little said. “It's neat, but I'm not sure why it's there.”
Doane Archivist Janet Jef-fries said the Memorial Caboose was donated to Doane in 1996 from BNSF Railway Company.
“The railroad was going to quit using cabooses in general,” Jeffries said. “They were offer-ing some to various places such as museums.”
Jeffries said that a local train enthusiast approached then
Vice President David Osterhout and asked if Doane would want a caboose to complement Do-ane's history with the railroad.
Crete resident Harold Jones was the man by whom Doane received its caboose. Jones re-sides outside of town on a plot of land that holds railroad memo-rabilia from years ago. A pair of railroad cross bucks and arms stand affirmatively at the end of the road leading to his home.
“The caboose,” Jones said. “Was the conductor’s living quarters.”
Jones said the conductor in a sense owned the caboose be-cause he had his own pantry, cabinets and bed. Rather than move out, the railroad simply attached the caboose to a new train when needed. The purpose of the raised section of each ca-boose is to allow the conductor to see all the way up the train. If the conductor saw any reason to stop the train from the crows nest, such as a vagabond or a fire from the engine, a simple pull of a nearby lever in the caboose would enact the train's brakes to
bring it to a halt.Jones said that in the case
of Doane's caboose it was used for much the same thing. Jones opened a tall photo book filled with pictures of cabooses, all shown in order according to the car's identification number. Jones pulled out a photo show-ing Doane's caboose telling that workers used to ride this caboose to simply complete a pressurized brake line used as a fail safe.
Jones said that first the ca-boose was sand blasted to re-move the paint embedded with dust. Following that, the ca-boose was painted a tint of red to resemble a caboose that may have run through Crete in the early days of railroading. To fin-ish the preparations, signs read-ing “Burlington Route” were mounted, and a stenciled spray of the car's first identification number under Chicago Burling-ton and Quincy Railroad were applied to the car.
Jones said that the caboose was placed in one day. The tracks were laid first. Next the wheels
were placed onto the tracks as the caboose was hoisted in air by a train. The final step was to place the car upon the wheels and secure the caboose in place.
Jeffries said that the place of the caboose is significant be-cause it is near the center of the section of land that Doane was granted by the railroad.
Jeffries said that it was al-ways a thought to do something in the caboose, though the ca-boose looks roughly the same as the day it was delivered.
The caboose today sits lone-somely on Doane's property. Stenciled graffiti has made its way to the back side of the car. A window is cracked on the end of it.
Jones said that he noticed someone was trying to get into it, so he placed wire mesh over the windows.
Little said that right now there is hardly a reason for him to go out to see the caboose.
Jeffries said that if a student group wants to take up the ca-boose as a project of theirs to clean up and possibly propose
some ideas for it she would sup-port such efforts. Jeffries also said that she would support us-ing the caboose for holiday occa-sions, such as welcoming Santa
or the Easter Bunny.Despite the fact that most
students are unaware of the ca-boose, the Memorial Caboose was meant to be remembered.
Junior Deepa Prasad is one of many music education majors who spend excessive hours studying for classes and preparing for practicum.
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Music education majors are sometimes busy from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. with class, practicum, les-sons and ensemble rehearsal.
“It’s what’s responsible for my receding hairline,” said Jens Lehman, a junior music educa-tion major.
Lehman said balancing all those responsibilities was the hardest part of being a music education major.
Kathy Ohlman, assistant mu-sic professor and music educa-tion director, said students were usually the busiest junior year. She said they were often double-booked.
“Many times they are caught trying to negotiate a very diffi-cult schedule,” Ohlman said.
Junior Deepa Prasad said she was in Jazz Unlimited, Do-ane Choir and String Ensemble as well as violin, voice, jazz voice and piano lessons.
Prasad also said she had to wake up early every morning to teach practicum in Lincoln.
“It’s hard because I have to be dressed up when every-one else can wear sweatpants,” Prasad said.
Prasad and Lehman both said there were things that they enjoyed about the music educa-tion major.
“I get to be around some-thing that I love all day,” Prasad said. “I get to know my future colleagues super well, and since we all know each other’s person-alities, we have great conversa-tions.”
Ohlman said each class be-came close-knit.
“This is where all those rela-tionships and bonds form,” Ohl-man said. “I think that’s a really special and unique thing you can have at a small liberal arts college like this.”
Music education majors stay busyBY AMY PETERSEN
Staff Reporter
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Students question purpose, history of Memorial Caboose
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The Memorial Caboose, a donation from 1996, sits on the South end of campus near College Heights Golf Course.
BY JAY GROTE
Staff Writer
Hospital visits are what many wish to avoid. For sophomore Tyler Pooschke they went from a rare occurrence to an everyday ritual.
“I had never been in a hos-pital prior to this, except birth,” Pooschke said. “Now, I’ve been in the hospital more than all my immediate family combined.”
His senior year in high school, Pooschke’s life took a change for the worst.
In August 2009, Pooschke said he fell into a daily routine. He would “pass out” directly after class, wake up at 2 a.m. to do homework and then fall back asleep. He said he soon began to notice knots in his legs, which soon spread to his arms. The knots were painful and eventu-ally crippling, sentencing the runner to a wheelchair.
By September the knots in his arms were too painful for Pooschke to operate his wheel-chair from class to class. He said his attendance showed he came to school once a week. Soon Po-oschke stopped eating because
of the pain in his legs.“When you’re in too much
pain, your appetite diminishes,” he said.
Eventually, Pooschke couldn’t go to school, and he re-sumed classes online.
“I graduated thanks to an awful online English course,” Pooschke said. “I changed my college choice thanks to Doane giving me a track scholarship, which I'm thankful for but un-deserving.”
Pooschke was initially diag-nosed with muscular dystrophy. However, since he was without health insurance, he avoided the doctor as much as possible.
However, one night, that al-most proved fatal.
“I’ll never forget where I was; what I was doing,” Po-oschke said. “I was watching an SEC (Southeastern Conference) football game, and I couldn’t breathe. I told my mom; she called the doctor; he told her to take me to the hospital.”
Since Pooschke was 17 years old he was taken to the Chil-dren’s Hospital in Omaha, where he was given a strep test. An ultrasound showed precan-cerous masses, Pooschke said.
“Lymphoma usually devel-ops in the lungs; not mine,” he said. “A CT scan of my abdomen was taken. I had spinal taps ev-ery other day and bone marrow samples were taken.”
On Oct. 19, 2009, Pooschke was diagnosed with stage IV Non-Hodgkin’s B cell lympho-ma.
“No muscular dystrophy. Cancer is so much better than that,” Pooschke said. “There’s no cure for dystrophy, but my form of Non-Hodgkin’s lym-phoma has a 72 percent survival rate.”
Pooschke stayed in the hospi-tal for a month. He said he was allowed to spend Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve at home.
However, Pooschke said the hospital was more like a home.
Being in Children’s Hospital, Pooschke received gifts through Toys For Tots.
He recalls a Miley Cyrus
“something” but claims to have only kept a (non-Miley Cyrus) blanket that he still uses.
“I responded really well to treatment and went through protocol (treatment plan) a lot faster than planned,” Pooschke said. “I went through roughly 20 surgeries, 15 blood transfusions, six white blood cell transfusions and I can now spell nauseous.”
Pooschke said he had his last treatment in early May 2010, and on June 8 he was cleared.
He kept his life and his hu-mor.
“Medicaid covered every-thing,” Pooschke said. “I had one drug that cost $270,000...every nurse was under 27, and one even brought me Buffalo Wild Wings.”
All jokes aside, Pooschke said
he felt fortunate.Pooschke is an active mem-
ber of Doane Relay for Life, us-ing his personality as a motiva-
tion for donations and getting involved.
“He gets excited, like at the Noodles and Company fun-draiser (for Relay for Life),” sophomore Armando Pliego, Pooschke’s roommate, said. “He tries to motivate everyone to par-ticipate and donate. He works hard. He works on the weekends and over breaks. When he gets back (from classes/activities), he does his homework because
he’s also a really good student.”Last year Pooschke started a
Relay team HOPE (Have Only Positive Expectations). Po-oschke said he hoped to have this team last longer than his Doane days.
“(There are) 18 plus mem-bers,” sophomore Abby Dickson said. “He’s the one who got me
into Relay last year. He’s a great guy and is really dedicated. You can tell Relay is important to him.”
As a member of team HOPE, Dickson said Pooschke has al-ready had several team meet-ings, while still planning more.
“I shouldn’t be alive,” Po-oschke said. “But I obviously still have something to do.”
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BY JACOB WHITE
Copy Desk Chief
With excessive explicatives and innuendo (and sometimes more than just innuendo), Do-ane’s production of “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” is his-tory on crack.
Whether or not senior Der-rik Castillo can pull off playing Old Hickory is unclear, but by the show’s end he completely
transforms in the audience’s eyes into the semi-psychotic seventh president of the United States (if that president were an emo-rockstar).
Senior Bre Carodine often steals the show in her comedic, albeit strange, role as the story-teller.
Sophomore Angeline Dai also shines as Jackson’s wife, Rachel, bringing not only killer vocals but also an air of realism to this over-the-top rock opera.
Watching Dai and Castillo play out their characters’ blood-splattered romance never fails to entertain.
While the lighting seems to be off at time, the set design and costuming are excellent.
The skinny jeans and flannel may make the audience confuse
the Whitcomb Lee Conserva-tory with a rock concert venue, and it may not be possible to apply any more eyeliner to Cas-tillo’s face.
The acting is above par, yet the musical numbers remain the most enjoyable part of the show.
The choreography is excit-ing to watch, and the singing is excellent.
The cast sings with enough diction that the often offensive
and frequently hilarious lyr-ics are always understandable, and with enough passion that it’s impossible to avoid being drawn in.
The show’s best numbers are the creepy “Ten Little Indians”, the energetic “Rock Star” and the angsty “The Great Compro-mise.”
“Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” may be anachronistic, edgy and obscene, but mostly it’s awesome.
Senior Derrik Castillo plays his role of “Old Hickory” in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Ryan Corrigan/The Owl
BY HANNAH BAUER
Staff Writer
Prepare to be offended at musical
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Doane student wins battle with cancer“I went through roughly 20 surgeries, 15 blood transfusions, six white blood cell transfusions and I can now spell nauseous.”
Tyler Pooschke-Sophomore
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The first official pitch of the Doane softball season will cross the plate next week in their season opener.
The team will take on Kansas Wesleyan at home in a double head-er starting at 1:30 p.m. on March 6 at the Jose M. and Elizabeth Ledon Softball and Baseball Complex.
Doane recently ranked fourth in the Great Plains Athletic Confer-ence (GPAC) in a preseason coach-es’ poll, and is looking to beat last season’s record of 14-27.
Seniors Andrea Gonzales, Deidre Cardoza, and Amber Stater will lead the squad of 36, which is made up of 18 freshmen.
Stater, the team’s catcher, said she firmly believed they were ready for the season, and she anticipated the chance to get out on the dirt.
In her last season as a Tiger, she said she would love to win the GPAC and was setting this as the bench-mark for the season.
“If we don’t expect ourselves to get there, we definitely aren’t going to,” Stater said.
Middle infielder Cardoza said she expected a better team perfor-mance than last year with a lot of fo-cus on the preseason being on fun-
damentals and conditioning. She compared the freshmen of this year to the calibre of those her freshman year--a year the team finished fifth with a .583 winning percentage in the GPAC.
The team finished sixth last year. Head Coach Barry Mosley said there had been exposed holes last season that he had been working on with his players in preparation for the season.
“In the preseason we were ranked fourth out of 12 teams,” Mosley said. “I have every intention of finishing higher.”
This year is the first time the Ti-gers will have a junior varsity team, which Mosley said would be huge in the development of players. This JV team would help the younger play-ers transit into the level required to play college softball, he said. Mos-ley said the influx of freshmen com-bined with returners from previous years represented a talented group.
“We’ve got some talented play-ers, and I’m excited to get them on the field,” he said.
Tori Tyson, a new assistant coach fresh out of the softball pro-gram at the University of Nebras-ka-Lincoln, is helping the team get game ready and focused for the sea-son. An ex-pitcher and outfielder for the Huskers, Tyson has helped the team adopt what she learned
playing Division 1 ball, which left-handed pitcher Megan Wingate said was making a big difference for the team. She said Tyson at times could get intense but had played a big role in preparing the pitching staff for the season.
The team will leave for their spring break tour on March 17 to California with hopes to improve on last year’s trip, where they ended 0-8.
“I think we’ll win a lot more games than we have before because of the new coaching and new girls,” Wingate said.
One of the biggest GPAC rivals for the Tigers is Nebraska Wesley-an, ranked second in the preseason coaches’ poll and a team Doane would love to beat.
“I think everyone is a rival,” Car-doza said. “Every team we play, it doesn’t matter who it is, you can’t leave anyone out.”
BY ALEX DAWSON
Staff Writer
Softball starts season ranked No. 4 in GPAC
A group of athletes from both the men’s and women’s track teams are tallying up the points in Geneva, Ohio this week.
The teams competed earlier this month in the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Cham-pionship at the Devaney Center in Lincoln. The teams walked away from the building with cham-pionship trophies in hand.
The men ran out the competition by scoring 175.50 points in the meet. Concordia University placed second with 110 points. The win gave the team its fifth consecutive indoor conference title.
“We have a strong (men’s) team,” Head Coach Ed Fye said. “The guys went in and had a solid meet. It was a team effort, and they really per-formed.”
Junior Rob Keeney, who ran the 60m hurdles and competed in the heptathlon, said the team had a lot of confidence after winning the indoor cham-pionship so easily.
“At the beginning of the season, we had a goal of winning conference and nationals,” Keeney said. “Winning so easily gives us a lot of confidence. If we go in there (to nationals) and do things how we can, we will have a good chance to win.”
The women’s team didn’t beat out the compe-tition so easily, but they did what it took to take home the trophy. They finished with a total of 136 points to beat out Dordt College, who scored a to-tal of 132 points.
With the victory, the women’s team has won 21 out of the last 22 indoor GPAC championship meets.
Most importantly, they won without junior All-American Jillian Ourada.
“We met with the team before the meet and said that when a teammate gets hurt, others have to step up,” Fye said. “The girls couldn’t afford to slip up, and they didn’t.”
Team Captain Kelsee Meissner, a senior who competes in the weight throw, said she brought the girls together and acknowledged that confer-ence and nationals would be an even bigger dog-fight without Ourada.
“We always go in with the mind set that if we perform at a consistent level, both the men's and women's team can score in the top ten nationally every year,” Meissner said.
Meissner said Doane teams were taking large numbers of athletes, so other teams at the national meet would be prepared to face tough competition.
“With Doane being such a dominant team, we come into every meet with the feeling of an ‘X’ on our backs, and that every team is gunning for us,” Meissner said. “After the high of winning a confer-ence championship, we try to use that momentum and carry it into nationals.”
Fye said he agreed that a top ten finish at na-tionals was attainable.
“The women’s team is very young; we want to finish in the top ten,” Fye said. “The top four men’s teams get trophies. We’ve set a goal that our men will get a trophy.”
Fye said he expected the athletes competing at nationals to be highly motivated.
“The individuals that have qualified for nation-als are there for a reason,” Fye said. “The people that do make it to nationals have earned it. They don’t need any more motivation to perform.”
BY AUSTIN BENSONStaff Writer
“The individuals that have qualified for nationals are there for a reason.The people that do make it to nation-als have earned it.”
Ed Fye-Head Coach
Track and Field wins GPAC, heads to nationals
Archived Photo/The OwlBrian Hubbert jumps at the end of his triple jump during an outdoor event.
“In the preseason we were ranked fourth out of 12 teams. I have every inten-tion of finishing higher.”
Barry Mosley-Head Coach
Archived Photo/The OwlSenior Amber Stater swings her bat during a game.
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Having the right players on your team can really change the game. Having the right coach on your team? That can win you championships.
Baseball Head Coach Jeremy Jorgensen does just that.
Since taking over the Doane baseball program in June 2007, Jorgensen has posted a record of 115-95.
To put that record into per-spective, think about this: the two seasons before Jorgensen was named head coach, Doane had a record of 15-53, and 7-34 in the Great Plains Athletic Con-ference (GPAC).
In those two combined sea-sons before he arrived, the team was only hitting a combined .265 average, and had a com-bined ERA of 8.36.
Those numbers have sky-rocketed since Jorgensen ar-rived.
Jorgensen brought with him
19 years of past coaching expe-riences at places like University of Wisconsin-River Falls, as the associate-head coach, Califor-nia-State University Los Ange-les, as the pitching coach, and for the Minot Greenheads (now the Madison Mallards) of the Northwoods League, also pitch-ing coach. Four pitchers from his staff of the Greenheads were drafted in the Major League Baseball draft. Five pitchers from his pitching staff at Cal-State LA also went on to play in the MLB.
Doane was very smart to make this hire in the first place. If you can get a coach who has put players into the MLB, you always take that chance. Espe-cially when the team ERA is so low. It was obvious his expertise was in pitching, and it was obvi-ous that pitching was a problem for the Tigers. It was a marriage that was meant to happen.
In his first season has head coach at Doane, Jorgensen posted a 22-28 (11-13 in GPAC); improving 13 wins from the pre-
vious season. The batting aver-age of the team rose from .268 to a .301 average, while the ERA improved from 7.12 to a 6.66 average. Six players earned all GPAC honors, and Left Fielder Mike Mendenhall was named as a first team selection. Right Fielder Dean Henson also won the defensive Gold Glove; the first in school history.
The improvement didn’t stop there.
In his second season, Jor-
gensen’s record didn’t reflect the season the team had. The bat-ting average fell to .298, while the ERA improved to 6.11. This is where Jorgensen’s experi-ence as a pitching coach really showed. The team had an over-all record of just 18-28, but im-proved in conference play to a 12-12 record. Doane missed the conference tournament by just one game.
His next season, Jorgensen led the Tigers to a record-break-ing year. Doane set a school record in wins during the regu-lar season, going 30-18 over-all. They batted .330 average, which set another school record. The average ERA also dropped to 4.93, while their opponents had a 7.21 average. They earned their way into the post-season conference tournament for the first time since 2003. Eight players received all conference, while Pitcher Dexter Spitsnogle was named to the first team. Spitsnogle also received Third Team All-American honors from ESPN the Magazine and
CoSIDA. Doane swept Nebraska Wesleyan University on the final day of the season, which is al-ways a good stat to have.
This was the year that solidi-fied the hire that Doane made. Jorgensen took two years to build the team he wanted, and recruit the players that fit into his system. In my eyes, it was after this season where the play-ers started to believe in what Jorgensen was bringing to the table.
His 2011 campaign was no different. Jorgensen led Doane to another record breaking year, going 37-19 overall, yet again setting the record for wins in a regular season. Doane also set the record for wins in the conference, going 16-6. The Ti-gers went on to win the GPAC post-season tournament, earn-ing their first trip to the NAIA National Opening Round in school history. The team’s ERA dropped yet again, to an as-tounding 3.47, which is a school record. Doane received NAIA votes in the national poll for the
first time in school history, and Pitcher Chance Brull was named NAIA honorable mention, after being named GPAC pitcher of the year.
Jorgensen is only the second coach in Doane baseball history to lead a team to a GPAC regular season title.
In his four years as coach, Jorgensen has accumulated (to date) 115 wins, 28 players named All-GPAC, seven NAIA scholar athletes, one academic All-American, four academic All-District honorees and in 2011 Doane was the NAIA Schol-ar-Team with a GPA above 3.0.
The Tigers are currently 8-4 on the season, and riding a six game winning streak. They have already beat Oklahoma Baptist University, who were ranked No. 9 at the time, and have since dropped No. 11.
I think it is very safe to Coach Jorgensen will one day be named into the Doane Athletic Hall of Fame, and it would be a dis-justice to see anything other than that.
BY RICHARD CREEGERSports Editor
- OPINION -
Jeremy Jorgensen belongs in Doane Hall of Fame
From summers of Peewee to summers with the pros, junior Ross Schulenburg has lived on the tennis court, and this year is no exception.
Schulenburg has been playing tennis since he was four years old, and his practice has paid off. No. 1 in singles, No. 1 in doubles and now sitting as Doane’s best (the equiva-lent of captain in the tennis ladder system), Schulenburg looks forward to what he said should be a “good season.”
Schulenburg has been a part of the in-creasing tennis team since his freshman year. While taking time to study abroad may have kept him off of Doane’s courts, Schul-enburg found clay courts while in the Neth-erlands that would suffice in the meantime.
Having six teammates his freshman year, Schulenburg is glad to be a part of Doane’s largest tennis team in years.
Tennis has always been a big part of his (Schulenburg) life.
“I would play against my dad when I was little. Lessons, peewee tennis in Lincoln,
watching tennis on TV,” Schulenburg said. “I’m around tennis all day, everyday. In the summer I work and give lessons at the Hill Country Club.”
“He’s a diverse athlete,” sophomore Mick Steiner said. “He played soccer and basket-ball in high school, but when you get to the point when you can only pick one, it was ten-nis.
Schulenburg’s love of tennis was a factor into his college decision-making process. The Business major, graphic design minor, picked Doane not only because he is one of 40 relatives and the fifth generation to at-tend, but also because he wanted to play tennis.
“...Not just play, but also compete,” Schulenburg said. “I wanted to play in the top eight or six because they verse other schools.”
“My freshman year, GPAC did not see us as a competitive team,” Schulenburg said. “Now other teams fear us. We won against the UNL (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Club team. Simpson Doane won 8-1, better than last year. We are projected to have a good season this year. Third in the confer-ence.”
“Outside of school he makes tennis his life,” Steiner said. “Straight into playing with the pros at the country club. He definitely makes his focus to get better even when he’s not at practice.”
Fellow teammate, junior Aaron Hagg said, “He has the skills and pushes every-body. He brings a solid work ethic on and off the court. He’s easy going, never angry or has freak-outs, but he whoops ass on anyone who challenges him on the court.”
“People think it’s easy, but it’s a lot hard-er than people think. It takes strategy and skills. It’s a mental game,” Schulenburg said. Schulenburg said the new courts at the Had-dix center has been a nice addition, and he believes more people are looking at Doane’s tennis team and expects another increase in members.
BY MIMI SHIRLEYStaff Writer
“I wanted to play in the top eight or six because they verse other schools.”
Ross Shulenburg-Junior
Ross Schulenburg lives and breathes tennis
The Doane Rugby teams played in the “Snow Bowl” at Wayne State University this past weekend.
With 14 members going up on the men’s team, they were able to field an entire team while the women only had five girls participate. The Snow Bowl included Wayne State, University of South Dakota, Western Iowa Tech, who brought full teams, while the University of Nebraska-Kear-ney brought two girls.
Sophomore Emily Garcia said with only five girls from Doane making the trip, it gave her and teammates an op-portunity to meet others.
“We still had fun,” Garcia said. “We got to hang out and bond with the other teams that were there.”
It wasn’t always fun and stress-free for the Doane Rugby teams, junior Chris Davey said. Without all of the players on the team on the trip, some players had to play out of position.
“When we started playing games, I got everybody orga-
nized and in the right position,” Davey said. “Some of the players really adapted to their position and played really well.”
The shortage of members on Doane allowed players from other school to fill the roster. Freshman Dan Eddy said the adjustment was hard to make at first, but then ev-eryone clicked.
“Going into the first game, we didn’t really know how we’d play with the new players from the other teams,” Eddy said. “The second game against Wayne, everything fell to-gether, and we improvised to make plays happen.”
In the last game of the Snow Bowl, some players from Doane joined the USDA team to play Wayne’s A team. Dav-ey said the game went well, with Doane players raising the level of play against the better competition.
“It was a really competitive game,” Davey said. “We had some players who had some good runs and really good tackles. “
Eddy said Doane’s team learned a lot from the drills and got back to how they played last season.
“Overall the team got into a groove, and I feel we picked up where we left off last semester,” Eddy said.
Rugby participates in “Snow Bowl”BY AUSTIN BENSON
Staff Writer
Archived Photo/The Owl
Junior Ross Schulenburg swings his raquet during a match.
Ryan Corrigan/The Owl
Archived Photo/The OwlSophomore Curt Underwood uses the stiff arm while he runs down field.
