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SGA presidential candidates face off

Communication and in-volvement were this year’s buzzwords at the Student Government Association presidential debate.

Candidates sophomore Al Carroll and junior Anna Roueche squared off Tuesday night in a debate moderated by Vice President for Student Affairs Levester Johnson.

Both of their platforms included allowing everyone in the Butler community to come and speak at assembly, but they diverged on how best to handle the budget.

Carroll would move the budgeting process to the end of the school year, while Roueche would keep it at the beginning.

According to Carroll, in-coming representatives may be less educated at the begin-ning of the year when look-ing at the budget. Moving it to the spring would give students more experience with how SGA functions and allow them to make an in-formed vote.

“I want to offer students that real impact and that real opportunity to take owner-ship of their own activity fees,” Carroll said.

Roueche said she would post the budget online and make it available to everyone but would keep allocation in the fall semester. She said executive members and vice

presidents take time in pre-paring the budget—time they would lose if budgeting was pushed to the end of the year.

“The new [executive board] meets during the summer, takes that opportu-nity to really come up with their new goal in mind and what they want to see for this university,” Roueche said. “They need that time to al-locate the budget, not just the three weeks at the end of the semester.”

Both candidates have past experience in student gov-ernment.

Roueche has served as a representative in assembly, was chair of last year’s Elec-tion Oversight Committee and is a member of the Coun-cil on Presidential Affairs.

Carroll has served as a rep-resentative and on the grants committee. He is currently the SGA parliamentarian.

Their experiences have taught them the necessity of communicating with stu-dents about matters like the budget and increasing in-volvement in the process.

To create this interest, Carroll said he would try to make SGA assembly more exciting and better commu-nicate its impact on students, especially to freshmen who are encountering it for the first time.

“The SGA representative position should be coveted,”

BY SARA PRUZINspruzin@butler.edu | asst. news editor

Meet your SGA presidential candidates

VP Johnsonmoderates

debate

CANDIDATES DISCUSS THE ISSUES: In preparation for Monday’s Student Government Association elections, presidential candidates Al Carroll and Anna Roueche participated in a debate moderated by Vice President of Student Affairs Levester Johnson Tuesday night. (Photos by Ryan Love)

ANNA ROUECHEAL CARROLL

Major: MarketingMinor: ManagementInformation SystemsYear: Sophomore

Hometown: Titusville, Florida

Major: Horn Performance and Recording Industry Studies

Year: JuniorHometown: Kingsport,

Tennessee

FAVORITE MOVIE

FAVORITE BOOK

FAVORITE TV SHOW

FAVORITE QUOTE

The Sandlot Ever After

Catch-22by Joseph Heller

The Chronicles of Narniaby C.S. Lewis

ChuckAll things “Housewives”

“You don’t lead by hitting people over the head,

that’s assault, not leader-ship.”

-Dwight Eisenhower

“Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and love the world all over again. That’s

what takes a real hero.”-Story People

PERSON THAT INSPIRES YOU MOST“My father,

Napoleon A. Carroll”“My mother,

Kari Roueche.”

WHERE PEOPLE ARE MOST LIKELY TO FIND YOU ON CAMPUS

“My room in Ross Hall or in the Diversity Center.”

“In Lilly Hall preparing for a solo recital or in the PuLSE

offi ce.”

CAMPAIGN

SUMMARY

“I want to empower Butler students to view SGA as a re-source rather than a burden. We can accomplish this by becoming more transparent, easier to navigate, and, most

importantly, more fun.”

“If I am elected, these chang-es will include more student

voices, the facilitation of cooperation and the

encouragement of moreunderstanding and involve-ment in student government.”

Campaign Twitter:@ACforBU

Campaign Facebook:Al Carroll for SGA President

Campaign Twitter:@AnnaRoueche4SGACampaign Facebook:

Anna Roueche for the Butler Way

_____________see election page 3

The Collegian: Who is yourbiggest inspiration?Chris McBarnes: My grandfather, Richard McBarnes. He is a deco-rated war veteran and an all-around great man.

C: Who is your all-time favorite politician?C.M.: Abraham Lincoln had this awesome leader-ship ability to step back, look at the country and say “something needs to change.”

C: What is one object that you could never live without?C.M.: I’ve gotten obsessed with Netfl ix, which is a bad thing with everything I have in my life.

C: Who is your biggest supporter in this process?C.M.: My mother. At the end of the day, it is so important to have that support system. We have a special connection and with all of the health issues I have, she has always been there and taken care of me.

C: Where do you see yourself in ten years?C.M.: Probably right here in Indiana. I want to make a difference in people’s lives as a political leader.

“One room. A bottle of roofies. And a shit ton of random people.”

The “Roofies & Randos” Face-book event came to Butler Univer-sity’s attention on Sunday.

A Butler University student who thought the event was inappropri-ate brought the event to the uni-versity’s attention, Dean of Student Life Irene Stevens said.

The event was set up by junior Josh Whitaker, a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and John Kay, an unaffiliated student.

To be held at “The Imaginari-um,” the Facebook event page said there would be roofies, also known as the date-rape drug, passed out at the door in Pez candy dispensers.

Stevens said the university has no knowledge that a party actually happened.

According to the Director of Greek Life Becky Druetzler, the cre-ators claim the party was meant to be an inside joke for the creators’ friends. They did not expect it would go outside their friends.

“It’s making me look like a bad person,” Whitaker said of the in-cident. “It’s unfortunate, but we didn’t mean to hurt anybody’s feel-ings.”

Both Whitaker and Kay claimed responsibility for the event as indi-

viduals, she said. It does not appear this was a chapter-endorsed event.

Phi Kappa Psi President Nathan Krout confirmed that statement.

“The men of Phi Kappa Psi do not agree with the poor judg-ment re-cently ex-ercised by one of our members,” Krout said in an e-mail.

He said he assures the chap-ter was not aware of the planning or creation of this event.

Although the chapter wasn’t in-volved in planning the event, Krout said he recognizes that [Whitaker] represents Butler’s Phi Kappa Psi chapter.

“[The chapter] hopes that our campus can see past this instance, bearing in mind that we would nev-er allow this type of conduct to take place,” Krout said. “[Phi Kappa Psi] deeply apologizes to any who were offended by the broadcasting of this false event.

“Please rest assured that swift actions are being taken to ensure

that this type of external fabrication does not occur in the future.”

Because Kay and Whitaker came forward as individuals, an “adju-dication” will take place through

Student af-fairs.

“ B e -cause it is connected with what is known to be a date-rape drug, it’s very s e r i o u s , ” Druetzler said. “It’s o f f e n s i v e to a lot of

people.”To think things posted on Face-

book can be kept isolated is naïve, she said.

According to Stevens, an inves-tigation led by Sgt. Tony Rivera started on Monday morning to look further into the event.

The university is also deciding whether or not the joke was appro-priate, she said.

“We recognize that the improper treatment of women is completely unacceptable behavior,” Krout said. “We sincerely regret that an indi-vidual associated with our frater-nity made light of this issue.”

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Q&A WITH THE CANDIDATE

Butler student traditions spotlighted in bookButler University student traditions—like

jumping into Star Fountain, playing Cam-pus Golf and joining Dawg Pound—will be highlighted in a book put together by Butler University Student Foundation.

The book will be given to incoming fresh-men as an easy way to see all of Butler’s tra-ditions and will be passed on from class to class, freshman Karina Hamamouche said.

“I think it’s a really great way to welcome freshmen into the community so that they have an idea of those cultural things that we have here at Butler,” she said.

Senior Jenn Brinn, president of BUSF, said the book will help incoming students know what makes Butler great.

“I think it is going to be exciting to hand that to an incoming freshman,” she said. “For them to get the idea right away that ‘Wow, I’m part of something bigger than just

me’ is going to be cool.”Jill Wheelock, a sophomore physical edu-

cation major, submitted a tradition for the book. She said she hopes the book will keep exciting ideas alive.

“Traditions tie us to the ones before us who have experienced and loved the same things that we do,” she said. “They also tie us to the future, keeping us connected to the ones who care about our tradition.”

The idea for a tradition book, which will come out for next year’s freshman class, came out of discussions with other student foundations at different universities. She said that some books were more like student handbooks, some were guidebooks to the campus area and some were more like tradi-tional yearbooks.

“We want to combine all of those com-ponents and make sure that we have where everyone goes around here, the must-knows of campus and the area,” she said. “We also wanted to compile the traditions from alum-ni, from students, from faculty and staff and hopefully some people from the community too.”

Brinn said she has heard traditions from alumni that she would never have known about without this project.

“I think there are so many lost traditions of Butler that it’s important to make sure they get passed down from year to year,” she said.

Hamamouche agreed.“When we started this project, I didn’t re-

ally know what kind of traditions were out there and what kind of things Butler had go-

ing on,” she said.The book might act as a guidebook for

freshmen, a checklist of what to do to be a part of the Butler legacy, Hamamouche said.

“It will kind of encourage them to partici-pate in all of these tasks before they gradu-ate,” Hamamouche said.

The book will also be interactive, Brinn said.

“It’s going to be cool because we are going to have parts in there where you can add a picture of you doing the tradition,” she said. “We are also going to have some journal sec-tions where you can add your owntraditions.”

BY ALLYSON DOBBERTEENadobbert@butler.edu | staff writer

Senior making run in mayoral electionWhile most seniors are fo-

cused on finishing their final semester, Chris McBarnes is busy campaigning as a Re-publican Party candidate for the mayoral elections in Frankfort, Ind.

“If I could stand up and make a difference and put the hope back into the com-munity, reviving the Ameri-can dream in Frankfort, then I should do it,” he said.

The 23-year-old anthro-pology and communications major said he hopes to use his passion and energy to start making a difference in the world by changing peo-ple’s lives.

“What better place to do it than my hometown—the town that made me who I am today,” he said.

He said his family has been “engrained in the Frankfort community” since the day he was born. His father is the golf professional at the local course and his mother was a school nurse for 10 years.

McBarnes, an active mem-

ber of Sigma Nu, said he has been involved in the Frank-fort community for the last four years as the head music minister at Scotland Chris-tian Church and is involved with the city council. He is constantly making trips back and forth from Butler to home to keep up his commu-nity involvement.

“I don’t want to be known as a politician there,” he said. “I want to be known as a leader in the community. I want to give people a voice that didn’t have a voice.”

McBarnes said his drive to help others comes from the hardships he has already faced within his own life.

In eighth grade, McBarnes said he woke up early for baseball practice before school one morning and felt a little out of sorts. That day changed his life.

McBarnes was diagnosed with a rare immune disorder and found himself in emer-gency surgery that very day.

Since then, McBarnes has undergone 30 different op-erations. He said the scary

thought of not knowing what the future holds is always present.

After a recent episode that left McBarnes crawling up the steps of the Sigma Nu house and dialing 911 for help, he said life was truly put into perspective.

“I felt like I’d gotten hit by a truck,” he said. “I finally got the fact that we’re all termi-nal—we are all dying. Some of us are just lucky enough to know it.”

McBarnes said after his re-covery, there was no looking back—it was time to seek out ways he could reach out and help people.

He said his Butler experi-ence has prepared him for, if elected, serving as mayor.

College of Communica-tions professor Paul Sandin has known McBarnes for three years and is his aca-demic adviser.

“Chris will bring to the position a thoughtful, honest approach to governing,” he said. “He is young and has young ideas for his adminis-tration and his town.

“McBarnes represents what you hope politics can become.”

McBarnes said he sees his youth as an advantage in his campaign.

He thinks people will real-ize that though he is young, his life experiences have helped him mature in ways that are uncommon for a young adult.

“If we have learned anything in the past eight months, it’s that people are tired of business as usual,” he said. “We want something fresh and something new.”

If elected, McBarnes said his goals include invigorating the youth of his community to get them more involved in public policy making, as well as advocating for small business owners that he said account for three out of four jobs in America today.

“It’s a growing experi-ence and you learn a lot about yourself. There are so many things going into this,” McBarnes said. “I want to build a relationship with the citizens of Frankfort.”

BY GRACE WALLACEgwallace@butler.edu | asst. news editorSIDENOTES

‘Roofi es and Randos’ party Facebook page raises concerns

PAGE CAUSES RAGE: A Facebook page created by two students promoted a “Roofi es and Randos” party. The page has since been taken down in response to controversy.

BY TARA MCELMURRYtmcelmur@butler.edu | news editor

Incident under investigation after page promotes dangerous situation

It’s unfortunate, but we didn’t mean to hurt

anybody’s feelings.

Josh WhitakerJUNIOR, BUTLER UNIVERSITY

CHRIS MCBARNES

SUPPORTING THE GUYS: Butler students cheer on the men’s basketball team at games as part of the Dawg Pound. The group has many different rules and cheers to use throughout the games. (Photo by Ryan Love)

TRADITIONS: Freshman Skits is a competition be-tween Greek houses on campus. (Photo by Ryan Love)

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Fighting against classroom bullying

Professors in Butler Uni-versity’s College of Educa-tion are working to raise awareness about bullying and training future teachers to combat it in their class-rooms.

Students are learning ways to prevent bullying and also to ensure kids that they can ask for help if they are being bullied.

”The beginning of the year is not the only impor-tant time to be building a community in the classroom to promote healthy, safe and supportive relationships all year,” Marie Spear, a senior education major, said.

A common method that many teachers use to prevent bullying is to make sure that there is a sense of commu-nity in the classroom.

“We are really working on community building, which can be a great method for preventing bullying,” Cath-erine Pangan, assistant pro-fessor of education, said.

Even though many teach-ers agree that building com-munity is key for preventing bullying, they have different ways of going about forming that classroom community.

“In my classroom we of-ten have ‘family’ meetings

to check in on how students are doing and feeling about their learning environment,” senior education major Shel-ley Henrich said.

Not only is it increasingly important to build communi-ty, but Henrich said you also want to create a welcoming environment where kids can seek help from their teachers, instead of keeping all of their feelings inside.

“I always try to form a relationship with each indi-vidual student,” senior edu-cation major Katie Hileman said. “Knowing that a teach-er cares enough to ask how a dance recital, weekend or soccer game went can make a significant difference in a child’s life.”

Students respond to many different methods of teach-ing preventative bullying. It is not always so black and white.

Teaching students to be-come better people will en-courage them to be better people, and thus not bully, Hileman said.

“Every day, I attempt to actively model and encour-age core values like respect, honesty and integrity,” se-nior education major Stew Smith said. “I make every possible connection to these values during my lessons and during ‘down times.’”

“The teachers who re-ally make a difference are the ones who teach students how to be better learners and people.”

Teachers also must cher-ish diversity among students when creating classroom communities. It is a great way to prevent bullying, even if it is not a direct lesson on bullying.

“When diversity is cel-ebrated and students are able to contribute to the class in a personal way regularly, they see each other for who they are and are less likely to bully each other over differ-ences,” Spear said.

There are many great books and websites to sup-plement learning about bul-lying in the classroom, and teachers use these to connect with student about the issue on a deeper and more mean-ingful level.

“I am planning on read-ing the book ‘How Full is Your Bucket for Kids’ to help students realize the negative emotional effects their mean comments have on their peers, and build empathy and community in the class-room,” Henrich said.

They can then use this book to create activities and projects that elicit positive re-lationships among students, and prevent bullying.

There are many roles teachers play in their class-room environments that are crucial to not only prevent-ing bullying, but to know what it is when they see it and how to address it.

Butler University’s Col-lege of Education is work-ing to prepare the next gen-eration of teachers on how to create positive and bully-free environments in their class-rooms.

BY ALLISON AMMERMULLERammermu@butler.edu | staff writer

A little boy wouldn’t smile or talk. His teacher wrote him off as a stu-dent with too many special needs to progress.

Senior education major Marie Spear didn’t.

She created a puppet, “Tommy Trash,” to teach the boy about recy-cling. Together, Spear and the boy made a video with Tommy Trash to show the rest of the class.

“The child felt like he had some-thing to offer for the first time,” Spear said. “Seeing him smile in front of his class and be proud of something was an experience I’ll never forget.”

The Indiana State Reading Associ-ation is recognizing Spear as an Out-standing Future Reading Teacher for teaching methods like that one.

College of Education professors at Butler University nominated Spear for the award.

Nominees must have an overall GPA of at least 3.2, at least 12 credit hours in reading and language arts methods classes with at least a “B” grade in each of the classes and the recommendation of the Reading and Language Arts faculty.

Deborah Corpus, associate pro-fessor of education, said that Spear far exceeded those requirements.

“She was supported by all the professors who have had the op-portunity to have her in a reading or language arts methods class,” Cor-pus said. “She will graduate with high honors because of her grade point average and the quality of her departmental examination.”

Spear said that it was an honor to get recognition from Butler profes-sors.

“It was really motivating to see that other people had confidence in me,” she said. “Awards like this just remind people to be outstand-ing because children deserve to have teachers who will go the extra mile.”

Spear is no stranger to going the extra mile.

The summer after her freshman year at Butler, she created her own tutoring business, Summer Strides Tutoring, from her living room.

“A lot of my classes were under-grad and I wanted to get started working with kids,” she said. “I developed a classroom in my home and I’ve expanded it every year.”

In three summers, she has tutored 17 special needs students.

“It wasn’t easy getting started but I’ve had so many great memo-ries with those kids,” she said. “If I could do that more, I would do it in a heartbeat.”

Cathy Hargrove, another one of Spear’s professors, said Spear is al-ways reaching out.

“She has this knack for wanting to work among the most challenging children,” Hargrove said. “She finds a way to meet their needs and find a connection and relationship with that child.”

For Spear, making teaching a ca-reer was second nature.

“When I was growing up there were always people in my class who struggled and I thought it was so re-warding to help,” she said. “It just seemed so natural to make it my ca-reer.”

Corpus said that one of Spear’s professors wrote of her bright future.

“Parents will love her because she knows each child so well and works to make sure each child succeeds,”

the professor wrote. “A principal will love her because of her work ethic. If a job needs to be done, Ma-rie is there to do it.”

Hargrove agrees that Spear’s fu-ture and the future of the education field will be bright.

“I see the work that Marie is do-ing and a smile comes over my face because of my children and your fu-ture children,” Hargrove said. “[But-ler education students] are going to

be their teachers, and it’s really great to see that this is what is up-and-coming in the field of teaching.”

Spear is just as optimistic about her future in the classroom.

“I hope future students in my classes will say that I’m a teacher who cared about them in all do-mains, not just academic,” she said. “I hope I inspire them and make everyday at school a happy one for them.”

BY ALLYSON DOBBERTEENadobbert@butler.edu | staff writer

continued from page 1he said. “People should have to be fighting to get into SGA assembly.”

For Roueche, increased communication would lead to better collaboration between administrators and students to achieve shared goals.

Carroll and Roueche both noted the impact the incom-ing SGA president will have on a new university presi-dent.

Roueche said she sees it as an an opportunity to continue open communica-tion between administrators and students and as a chance to welcome a new president into Butler’s student life.

“[We have an opportu-nity] to continue efforts to bridge the gap between administrators and students through things like CPA and open forums,” Roueche said.

The next SGA president can set a lasting precedent through interacting with a new university president, Carroll said.

“We’re going to be what they know,” he said. “And if we’re there and talking to them and communicating with them, that’s what they should expect from SGA.”

Both candidates also em-phasized the importance of student input and power.

Carroll said if he is elect-ed, he will make students feel more involvedat Butler and empower them.

“The SGA president has to motivate people to speak and have people know that when they speak that the things they are saying are being heard,” he said.

Roueche described the student body as “unique and diverse in every sense of the word” and said more students would have a voice if she was elected.

“It is our student govern-ment,” she said. “We are the students, and we should take advantage of it.”

Students can vote for the SGA president and class of-ficers Monday Feb. 28 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. SGA will host a “Rock the Vote” event on election day in the Reilly Room from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The deadline for report-ing violations to the EOC is March 1 at 8 p.m. Winners will most likely be an-nounced Wednesday.

ONE ON ONE TIME: Spear works closely with one of the students. Cathy Hargrove said she has a talent for working closely with challenging students. (Photo courtesy of Marie Spear)

VIEW FROM A DIFFERENT ANGEL: The COE teaches students to pre-vent an upside-down situation in a variety of ways. (Photo from MCT)

TAKING PRIDE IN HER WORK: Marie Spear said she can’t decided what grade she wants to teach, so she’d like to teach a variety of grade levels. She said was so excited to start work-ing with kids that she started her own tutoring business from her home for the past three summers. “I’ve had so many great memories with those kids,” Spear said. (Photo courtesy of Marie Spear)

Student named Student named outstanding teacheroutstanding teacher

elections: DEBATE

Through his study of how epidemic dis-eases stem from human contact with infected animals, Nathan Wolfe is hoping to identify viruses before they become a threat.

A leading mind in epidemiology and virol-ogy, Wolfe spoke on last night as part of But-ler University’s 2010-11 J. James Woods Lec-tures in the Science and Mathematics Series.

“Wolfe and his colleagues work to spot viruses as soon as they surface by collecting and cataloguing blood samples, surveying wild animals, scanning urban blood banks and documenting the transfer and distribu-tion of disease,” According to National Geo-graphic.

He explained that viruses such as HIV take years after infection to show sickness, and by the time the disease is identified, countless others have already been infected.

Wolfe’s goal is to eliminate this period as well as identify and prevent viruses before they infect multiple humans so there is no scramble to prevent further spread of the dis-ease once it is identified.

Wolfe is the founder of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative, a research institute that monitors viral outbreaks in Africa and Asia.

He established 17 research sites in Camer-oon, and at these sites he identified the ways in which a virus or parasite could jump from an animal to a human. When villagers hunt, they come in contact with almost every pos-sibly bodily fluid from an animal.

“Every potential microorganism that ex-ists has the potential to enter an individual,” Wolfe said.

At the sites in Cameroon, Wolfe provided filter paper for hunters to drop blood samples from the wild animals for blood tests. All of the people that Wolfe provided filter paper to

were also educated with basic health training so they understood the risk they are at of con-tracting viruses from animals.

Through his research there, Wolfe was able to identify new microbes, including retrovi-ruses and malaria, collect human and animal samples and document viral jumps.

Wolfe has received over $11 million in funding from Google and the Skoll Foun-dation and about $40 million from the U.S. Department of Defense and the National In-stitute of Health, which has helped advance him to the forefront of his field.

His findings could aid in the prevention of pandemics, the development of vaccines and educating those in more remote areas about how to prevent the possibility of animal vi-ruses jumping to humans.

After the success of his research in Cam-eroon, Wolfe opened about 50 research labs to document what he called “viral chatter” across the globe.

He was able to achieve success at these labs through “funding, hard work and get-ting out in the field to work,” Wolfe said.

Through identifying specific people who come in contact with both the wild animal population and the human population, he was able to follow their health over time and identify viral jumps.

“The more closely related two species are, the more likely a virus is to jump from one species to another,” Wolfe said.

Wolfe explained that you cannot count on the next pandemic to be like the last one, and because of this his research is “not just theoretical” and we need to understand how viruses are contracted, and where they origi-nate.

Wolfe’s book, “The Viral Storm: The Dawn of A New Pandemic Age” will be released this fall.

PAGE 4 | THE BUTLER COLLEGIAN WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The 10th annual Celebra-tion of Scholarship and Cre-ative Activity exhibit in Irwin Library is giving Butler Uni-versity faculty and staff the opportunity to exhibit their creative endeavors to the en-tire Butler community.

The program began in 2002 with the idea that fac-ulty needed the opportunity to share their outside projects with students and colleagues. The exhibit was also started in part to celebrate President Bobby Fong’s inauguration.

Any Butler faculty or staff member can submit their work. It is preferred that their submissions are done outside of their regular teach-ing responsibilities.

The celebration is open to all subject areas, and the ex-hibit includes work such as psychology and chemistry posters, costumes designed for theater, illustrations, paintings and programs from concerts.

Typically, 80-90 faculty and staff members submit

their work, and this year the exhibit featured 330 items, which is more than ever be-fore.

While the work submitted by the faculty or staff mem-ber is typically related to the field they teach, it is not a re-quirement. Scott Pfitzinger, information commons and technology librarian, has been in charge of the work submitted to the exhibit for the last six years.

He explained that usu-ally a faculty member will submit work from outside of their field, which shows their students and fellow faculty members a different side of them.

Every year, the exhibit is displayed on the main floor of Irwin Library for the entire month of February. This year, the event kicked off with a dinner and speaker. This year’s speaker was Kristin Swenson, assistant professor of communication.

During the dinner, faculty and staff members are able to meet and discuss their work, and they often find

that someone from a differ-ent field is working on some-thing similar. The event and exhibit help encourage col-laboration between faculty members all across the board.

“Faculty and staff mem-bers’ favorite thing about the exhibit is that it gives them the opportunity to share oth-er work with students and other faculty members, and they get to find out what oth-ers are doing so they can col-laborate and work together,” Pfitzinger said.

Dean of Libraries Lewis Miller said this is the only organized event all year that recognizes outside work done by faculty and staff.

“The exhibit improves public recognition for this aspect of faculty members’ lives,” Miller said.

He said the purpose of a library is to improve and en-courage research and schol-arship, and the Celebration of Scholarship exhibit helps the library to accomplish this by providing the opportunity for faculty and staff to dis-play their work.

Celebration of Scholarship draws community to Irwin

BY KATE SIEGFRIEDksiegfri@butler.edu | staff writer

Speech team participates in state competition

Butler University’s speech team has been counting its successes in recent forensics tournaments and compe-titions. Last Saturday, the team participated in the state competition, with several events to follow.

The state competition was held at Ball State University and included eight schools from across Indiana. Butler’s team consisted of six stu-dents.

Junior Matt Miller took third place in extemporane-ous speaking and sopho-more a sophomore biology, chemistry and Spanish major Kelsey Coy took sixth place in rhetorical criticism.

This year’s team of 10 con-sists of a variety of students from different backgrounds and majors, and gives the students a chance to par-ticipate in various kinds of speech techniques.

“Pretty much every col-lege is represented on the speech team,” Janice Craw-ford the 12-year Butler of Fo-rensics said.

The team consists of a di-verse set of biology, political science, communications, business and pharmacy ma-jors, just to name a few.

“The great thing about speech team is that it is a great thing for people of any major to participate in. Andrew Wray, a sophomore communication studies, po-litical science and history major said. From business majors to performance ma-jors, regardless of what you want to do with your life, in-terpersonal communications is key and the Butler Speech team is a great way to devel-op that skill,”

Wray participates in ex-temporaneous speaking, af-ter dinner speaking, parlia-mentary debate and public forum debate. He said his experience has improved his communication skills.

“I really enjoy the friends I’ve made, both on the Butler speech team and from other teams in the Midwest,” Wray said.

“My favorite things are the camaraderie between team members as well as the work we do,” Coy said.

She participates in rhe-torical criticism, impromptu, editorial impromptu, extem-poraneous speaking and duo interpretation.

Crawford said that the speech team offers three dif-ferent genres which students participate in, depending on

their interest. These include platform, limited prep or impromptu and oral inter-pretation, which is related to prose, poetry and drama.

The team prepares for its competitions by holding weekly meetings with Craw-ford. This includes practicing their material and conduct-ing peer coaching sessions.

“We work both individu-ally and as a team,” Craw-ford said. “They usually meet with me at least a cou-ple hours every week. I work with them on an individual basis about once a week.”

“Janis Crawford, our coach, takes a very real inter-est in making sure that not only we as participants do well, but that we learn and have fun doing it,” Wray said.

Crawford said the team normally participates in about six competitions per semester. In order to qualify for nationals, the team had to qualify through another tournament earlier in the year.

The team plans to send teams of four students each to the Novice National at the University of Indianapolis and the National Forensics Association Tournament at Illinois State University.

BY AJA CACANacacan@butler.edu | staff writer

BY KATE SIEGFRIEDksiegfri@butler.edu | staff writer

“VIRUS HUNTER”: Nathan Wolfe spoke as a part of the Woods Lectures about his study of the spread of disease from humans to animals. He said his goal is to prevent future epidemics. (Photo by Ryan Love)

“Virus Hunter” studies “Virus Hunter” studies epidemics, infectious diseasesepidemics, infectious diseases

THE BUTLER COLLEGIAN

SPORTSWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2011 PAGE 5

Bulls,Thunder will boost NBA’s

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OVERTIME

Over the past eight or so years, the basket-ball provid-ed by the N a t i o n a l

Basketball Association hasn’t been fun to watch.

That might be a bold statement to make about one of America’s three major professional sports leagues, but just look at the Neilsen television rat-ings for the NBA playoffs before and after the 2002 lockout. From 1990-2002, the playoffs as a whole had a rating above 10.0 each year. Since 2002, the league’s playoffs have had a rating above 10.0 just twice.

There are multiple rea-sons, aside from the lock-out, why the games pro-vided by the NBA aren’t entertaining to the casual sports fan anymore. The players, a certain level of monotony within the standings each season and officiating are a few of these reasons.

But the NBA situation isn’t all doom and gloom thanks to two teams: the Chicago Bulls and Okla-homa City Thunder.

To understand how these two teams are going to help the league, one has to first understand what is wrong with the NBA today.

The NBA is not what it used to be, primarily________see overtime page 7

BY COLIN LIKASclikas@butler.edu | asst. sports editor

WEDNESDAY

WOMEN’S TENNIS

vs. Xavier3 p.m.

THURSDAYNONE

FRIDAY

MEN’S TENNIS

vs. Loyola2 p.m.

SATURDAY

NONE

SUNDAY

NONE

MONDAY

BASEBALL

vs. IPFW3 p.m.

TUESDAY

Bulldogs at home this week

ondeck

NONE

WOMEN’S TENNIS

vs. Evansville2 p.m.

The Butler softball team felt dirt un-der their cleats for the first time this sea-son when they participated in Mississippi State’s Bulldog Round-Robin Tournament in Starkville, Miss., during the weekend.

Butler went 1-3 on the road trip, with the win coming in the tournament’s Sunday fi-nale versus Louisiana Tech.

Junior first baseman Erin Falkenberry hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the top of the third inning to give the Bulldogs a 2-1 advantage.

“I think [the home run] helped focus the morale of the team,” Falkenberry said. “It helped pump us up and changed the game a little bit.”

The home run marked her first of the season and the 20th of her Butler career.

Louisiana Tech battled back to tie the game in the fourth inning. However, But-ler reclaimed the lead in the top of the fifth when senior center fielder Erin Jackson, who got on base with a double, was driven in to score off a single by junior left fielder Lauren McNulty.

Sophomore Devin Dearing, who spent time as a designated hitter and third base-man, later brought McNulty in on a sacri-fice bunt to give the Bulldogs a 4-2 advan-tage.

Butler would hold that two-run cushion, winning 5-3.

Freshman pitcher Leah Bry picked up the save, giving senior starter Jennifer Chasteen the win.

Bry started the first of two games Satur-day, allowing two runs in five innings of work while striking out four.

The first of those two Saturday games was the first time Butler faced Louisiana

Tech. After falling behind in the top of the seventh inning, the Bulldogs were unable to answer in the bottom half and lost by a score of 3-2.

Later that day, the Bulldogs faced host Mississippi State.

Both pitchers engaged in a figurative duel, shutting down both offenses for much of the game before Mississippi State scored two runs late, which made the final difference in a 2-0 Butler loss.

Butler sophomore pitcher Jenny Esparza allowed no earned runs in six innings of work, while Mississippi State sophomore Kylie Vry earned a win in a complete game shutout.

Esparza, who won a school-record 18 games last season, had struggled during Butler’s season opener, which was a Fri-day game against Southern Illinois. In that game, Esparza and crew allowed six earned runs in three-and-a-third innings of work, which led to a 7-0 Butler loss to the Salukis.

“I wasn’t getting many calls and I wasn’t hitting my spots,” Esparza said, “but I think that game got the nerves out. Against Mississippi State, I felt more comfortable and that was the true me.”

Falkenberry said that the Bulldogs faced a slight disadvantage heading into the tournament, with many of the competing teams having already adjusted to playing outdoors.

“The other teams had played five or six games outside already,” Falkenberry said. “We had fewer errors in each [subsequent] game and each time out, we got more hits.

“Our main goal was to improve and we did that.”

Butler heads to Nashville, Tenn., March 4 to compete in the Lady Bison Classic at Lipscomb University.

When Green Bay defeated Val-paraiso, 81-80, in overtime Monday night, the Butler men’s basketball team moved into second place in the Horizon League heading into the final weekend of regular season games.

The Bulldogs (20-9, 12-5 HL) helped themselves in the rankings Saturday with a 79-52 victory at UIC.

Four Bulldogs scored in dou-ble-figures to secure Butler’s sixth straight victory and sixth consecu-tive season with at least 20 wins.

Senior forward Matt Howard, fifth on Butler’s all-time scoring list, led all scorers with 19 points. How-ard also grabbed nine rebounds.

Sophomore center Andrew Smith was close behind with 16 points and nine boards.

Playing their final home game of the regular season, the Flames (7-22, 2-15 HL) connected on nine of their first 13 shots to create a 21-17 lead midway through the first half.

Approximately eight minutes into the half, the Bulldogs defense buck-led down and held UIC to just six more points before the break.

The defense opened up the Bull-dog offense and gave Butler a 40-27 lead into halftime.

“I thought we did a lot of good things after the second media timeout in the first half,” Butler head coach Brad Stevens said. “Our rhythm de-fensively spurred us offensively.”

The Bulldogs carried that momen-tum into the second half, extending their lead to 30 points with about four minutes remaining.

Junior guard Shelvin Mack’s 10-point effort marked the 13th con-secutive game in which he scored in

double-figures. Mack also added six assists.

Senior Shawn Vanzant contribut-ed 11 points on 4-of-6 shooting.

Despite shooting 4-of-17 from behind the arc, the Bulldogs shot 50 percent from the field, while holding UIC to 38.2 percent shooting.

The Flames entered the contest as the top rebounding team in the Ho-rizon League. Led by Howard and Smith, who each hauled down nine rebounds, Butler out-rebounded UIC, 39-32.

“I was really encouraged by our offensive rebounding and how we limited them on the boards,” Stevens said. “We are finding a nice stride at the right time, and we’ll see where it can go from here.”

In the two teams’ first league meeting, UIC senior guard Robo Kreps scored 22. This time, the Bull-dogs held the Flames’ leading-scorer to 10 points.

“The team awareness on him was great,” Stevens said. “Ron [Nored] and Shawn [Vanzant] did a good job guarding him.”

The Bulldogs will close out the season on Saturday versus Loyola (15-13, 6-10 HL) at Hinkle Field-house.

The contest could potentially be the last home game for seniors How-ard, Vanzant, Zach Hahn, Alex Ang-lin and Grant Leiendecker, who will be honored before the game against the Ramblers.

Cleveland State (23-6, 12-4 HL) is first in the conference by a half game. The Vikings’ two remaining games are on the road against Milwaukee and Green Bay.

The Horizon League Champion-ship, which will be hosted by the conference regular season champion, will begin March 1.

Howard named nation’s top

student-athlete

Softball finishes strong down South

Movin’ on up

DUNKIN’ DREW: Butler ’s sophomore center Andrew Smith dunks at the UIC Pavilion in Chi-cago. Smith was the Bulldogs’ second-leading scorer in the road victory. (Photo by John Fetcho)

BY LANCE RINKERlrinker@butler.edu | asst. sports editor

BY LANCE RINKERlrinker@butler.edu | asst. sports editor

Butler senior Matt Howard has been named the 2010-11 NCAA Division I Academic All-American of the Year.

“It’s a tremendous and well-deserved honor,” Butler head coach Brad Stevens said in a statement yesterday. “When you’re dreaming of coaching and you think of the guy who’s going to give you everything he has and represent your school in a positive manner in every way to the best of his ability, you think of Matt Howard.

“His impact, like all the great ones at a lot of places, will last a lot longer than these four years.”

Howard, a finance major with a 3.77 GPA, was named a second team Academic All-American in 2008-09. He was named to the first team last year, joining former teammate A.J. Graves as Butler’s only other two-time Academic All-Ameri-cans in men’s basketball.

He’s also currently third in voting for this year’s Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award, presented for notable achievement in community, classroom, character and competition.

Howard currently leads the Bulldogs (20-9, 12-5 HL) in points and rebounds per game, and also ranks third in the Horizon League in both categories. He’s been named Ho-rizon League Player of the Week twice this season and was voted the Most Valuable Player of the 2010 Diamond Head Classic.

BY COLIN LIKASclikas@butler.edu | asst. sports editor

MATT HOWARD

SATURDAY’S MEN’S BASKETBALL GAME IS SOLD OUT!!

Season Ticketholders: 3,200+ tickets

Students: at least 1,300 tickets

City of Connersville: 1,400 tickets

New Castle High School: 200 tickets

Last Sold Out Basketball Game at Hinkle:

vs. Drake (BracketBuster on Feb. 23, 2008)

PAGE 6 | THE BUTLER COLLEGIAN WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Senior send-offThe Butler women’s basketball team sent

its senior class out in style with a pair of vic-tories over UIC and Loyola.

Saturday versus Loyola, the Bulldogs (17-10, 11-4 HL) started strong, making three 3-pointers in the first two minutes of regula-tion to take a 9-0 lead.

The Bulldogs went into halftime with a 39-20 lead.

En route to the 69-53 win, head coach Beth Couture subbed each senior out one by one, allowing the home crowd to give the seniors a proper send-off.

The seniors didn’t disappoint in their final home game.

Senior guard Brittany Bowen led the Bull-dogs with 18 points, while seniors Chloe Hamilton and Azjah Bass finished with 11 and eight respectively. Bass also dished out a career-high nine assists.

Senior guard Alyssa Pittman finished with five points, and senior Terra Burns sat out due to injury.

“Thanks to the support from the faculty, staff and the tremendous crowd that was on hand, it was a fun day,” Bass said. “Winning

always helps but I definitely felt that we came out focused and ready to play.”

The spotlight wasn’t just on the seniors. Ju-nior Devin Brierly drained four 3-pointers to finish with 12 points.

Sophomore guard Monica Albano led Loyola (11-14, 5-9 HL) with 28 points.

Two days earlier, Butler played host to the UIC Flames.

The Bulldogs captured an early lead thanks to sharp shooting from beyond the arc, con-necting on their first four 3-pointers.

Butler went on a 25-7 run to take a 19-point lead with 5:32 remaining in the first half.

Pittman hit a pair of threes and a layup to lead Butler into halftime with a 48-28 lead.

“We started our seniors in both games and I thought they did an excellent job of showing their urgency and that they wanted to come out and win,” Couture said. “It was good to see such an aura of confidence.

“I felt that we looked solid, not just with our scoring but also with rebounding and as-sists as well, which is excellent to see at this point in the season,” she said.

The Bulldogs kept that intensity through-out the second half.

A 3-pointer by freshman guard Mandy

McDivitt gave Butler a 70-41 lead with just over eight minutes to play.

The Flames (11-13, 6-7 HL) couldn’t cut the deficit and the Bulldogs ran away with a 78-57 victory.

Pittman led the charge with 23 points, sev-en rebounds and five assists. Hamilton and Bowen added 18 and 12, respectively.

“Today was something our seniors won’t forget,” Couture said. “Not only did they play well, but they were having fun together. They were really supporting each other.”

With the pair of victories, the senior class has now won 80 games, fourth-most in Butler women’s basketball history.

The Bulldogs, currently second in the Ho-rizon League standings, will travel to Wiscon-sin to play Milwaukee Thursday and No. 14 Green Bay Saturday. Green Bay sits atop the conference standings with a perfect 14-0 re-cord in league play.

Bass knows how important the final stretch of the season is.

“We want to be talked about as one of the best teams in the league throughout postsea-son play, so we have to make sure we don’t get ahead of ourselves. Every game makes a difference.”

BY BILLY KLIMCZAKbklimcza@butler.edu | sports staff writer

SENIOR SAVVY: Senior Alyssa Pittman’s game-high 23 points led Butler over UIC. (Photo by Ryan Love)

Jordan, Clark lead track at EIUThe Butler track team competed in the Eastern Illinois Uni-

versity Friday Night Special Feb. 18, bringing home two indi-vidual victories.

The meet, which was not scored, was the last contest for the Bulldogs prior to the Horizon League Indoor Championships, taking place Feb. 26-27 in Youngstown, Ohio.

At EIU, the men’s and women’s squads combined for 17 top ten finishes. The two most notable were first place fin-ishes from sophomores Craig Jordan and Katie Clark in their respective one-mile races.

Jordan, who finished the event in 4:14.51, dropped nine seconds off of his previous fastest time.

“It was a big personal record,” Jordan said. “I think it’ll help me a lot in the 800 [at the HL Indoor Championships].”

Three other Butler runners also broke the top ten in the men’s mile. Junior Craig Gundersen took third with a time of 4:21.16, while junior Matt Proctor and freshman Kevin Oblinger finished with nearly the same time, placing sixth

and seventh with 4:27.89 and 4:27.90, respectively.Clark, despite using the meet as a training day, won the

women’s mile with a time of 4:57.39.“I was pleased [with the race],” Clark said. “I was pacing a

few girls to try and help them break five [minutes].”While none of her teammates were able to crack the five-

minute barrier, Clark’s pacing did help sophomore Lauren McKillop to a fifth-place showing in the event, with a time of 5:05.23.

The Butler men had four individuals with top ten finishes in their respective events.

Freshman Tom Brueggemann ran the 200-meter dash in 22.68, good for a fifth-place finish. In the 400-meter dash, freshman Andrew Wallace placed ninth, completing the event in 52.49. Rounding out the freshmen success was Brad Mag-netta, who finished the 800-meter run in fifth-place (1:59.39).

Senior Matt Lawder was the top performer for the Bull-dogs in the 3000-meter run, placing seventh with a time of 8:48.68. The Butler men also recorded a fourth-place finish in the 4x400 meter relay. The team of Magnetta, Wallace, Jordan

and freshman Alex Berry posted a time of 3:29.15.On the women’s side, the middle distance and distance

runners fared well. Sophomore Kaitlyn Love had a strong showing, picking up fourth-place in the 800-meter run in 2:20.80, and McKillop placed ninth (2:28.25).

Junior Lauren Haberkorn led the way for the Bulldogs in the 3000-meter run. Paced by Clark for most of the race, Haberkorn posted a third-place finish in a personal-best 10:17.85. Junior Rebecca Howarth took seventh in the event, finishing in 10:37.23.

Outside of the distance events, senior Lindsey Corbitt made her way to a 10th place finish in the 60-meter hurdles, running a 9.66. Also, the 4x400 meter relay team of Clark, sophomores Shelbi Burnett and Kirsty Legg and freshman Maddie Cassidy finished fourth, with a time of 4:18.56.

Butler’s next competition will be the Horizon League In-door Championships Saturday and Sunday.

“If we run to our potential, we can get third on both sides,” Clark said. “We’re doing better with our sprinters this year and we have a great team atmosphere.”

BY COLIN LIKASclikas@butler.edu | asst. sports editor

Women’s basketball wins fi nal two home games

THE BUTLER COLLEGIAN | PAGE 7WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2011

overtime: THE NBA NEEDS TEAMS LIKE BULLS, THUNDER

continued from page 5because of the players. Look-ing at controversial players of the 1990s, Dennis Rod-man is at the top of the list. Rodman’s claim to contro-versial fame was headlined by his dyed hair, multiple piercings and tattoos and more game ejections than anyone in NBA history.

In the post-2002 NBA, it’s hard to tell who should be labeled the most controver-sial player.

There’s Ron Artest, who has gotten into fights with fans; Gilbert Arenas, who pulled a gun on a teammate; and Kevin Garnett, who re-portedly called an opponent a “cancer patient.”

Of course, there’s also the ego-inflated money seekers like LeBron James and Car-melo Anthony.

The NBA needs a contro-versial player or two—but no more. Players like Rod-man kept fans coming back to their televisions each night to see what he would do next. Some of today’s players are keeping fans away.

The monotony has to do with teams actually compet-ing in the NBA. In the 1990’s, even though the Bulls cap-tured six championships, teams were constantly com-peting, and there was a va-riety of playoff matchups every season.

In recent years, the stand-ings have often ended with the Celtics, Orlando Magic and whichever team James plays for on top in the East and the Los Angeles Lakers,

San Antonio Spurs and Dal-las Mavericks on top in the West.

The betting scandal of 2007 also turned fans away from the league. Former ref-eree Tim Donaghy was ac-cused of betting on playoff games from the previous two seasons, and also mak-ing incorrect calls in games to affect point spreads.

The incident did nothing to help the league’s image.

Amidst all of these issues are teams like the Bulls and the Thunder.

In the 1990s the Bulls and the Thunder—then the Seattle Supersonics—were consistently on top of the league. The Bulls were led by Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen and Rodman, while Shawn Kemp, Gary Payton and Sam Perkins were some of the recognizable faces on Seattle teams.

The difference between these teams and the power-house teams of today lies in the images they portray.

Aside from Rodman, no one ever heard of players from either organization shedding a negative light on the league. These players simply went out and played for the chance to win an NBA championship every game.

Chicago and Seattle teams made the playoffs ev-ery season from the 1990-91 season through the 1997-98 season. That was often the only reason why you ever heard about either organiza-tion during that time.

The NBA was far more

entertaining because of these teams and teams like them. Now, the NBA has a chance to get back to where it was.

The resurgence of the Bulls and the Thunder is go-ing to bring viewers back to the NBA. They probably won’t come all at once, but soon, the casual fan won’t be able to stay away.

The Bulls have the trio of Derrick Rose, Carlos Boozer and Joakim Noah and the Thunder are led by Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and Nick Collison. The players leading these teams don’t get into trouble, gener-ally stay away from the me-dia and go out to win every night.

That’s showing this sea-son. Last year, both teams grabbed the eighth and final playoff spot in their respec-tive conferences. This year, both teams lead their divi-sions at the All-Star break and are in prime position to make the playoffs.

Both teams have achieved much of their suc-cess through drafting and building of all-around solid organizations, much like their 1990s counterparts. It’s likely that other teams are looking or will be looking to mimic this idea over the next several years.

Their 1990s counterparts did their talking through wins and ratings. The wins have been coming in bunch-es for the 2010-11 Bulls (38-16) and Thunder (35-19). I think the ratings will soon follow.

MAKING THEIR MARK: Oklahoma City ’s Kevin Durant (left) and Chicago’s Derrick Rose, both 22 years old, have led their respective teams back to contendership in the NBA this season. (Photo from MCT)

Men’s tennis falls to Toledo

The Butler men’s tennis team is still looking for its first victory since Jan. 23 after falling to Toledo 5-2 at the Butler Bubble on Sunday.

The Bulldogs (1-8) were able to post two wins at singles and a win at doubles against the Rockets (9-6). Senior Chris Herron was victorious at No. 3 singles and senior Zach Ervin picked up a win at No. 5 singles. Senior Brandon Bayliss and Lenz Theodor came out on top in their No. 2 doubles match as well.

In the closest singles match of the day, Herron made his way past senior Gursher Harika 7-6, 7-6. The match saw two tiebreakers, which were both won by Herron (7-0, 7-5).

Butler picked up another win at singles thanks to Ervin. He defeated Rockets’ sophomore Bryant Dudzik 6-3, 7-5.

The Bulldogs also captured their first doubles point since Jan. 23. The duo of Bayliss and Theodor defeated the Rockets’ team of senior Nutthavit Likitkumchorn and redshirt junior Leo Sarria 8-3.

The wins stopped there for the Bulldogs. Likitkumchorn and Sarria collected victories over senior Warren Bryce at No. 2 singles and Theodor at No. 4 singles, respectively. Likit-kumchorn won by a score of 7-6, 6-2, while Sarria won 6-1, 7-6 .

Toledo’s other wins at singles came from senior Aleksandar Elezovic, who topped Bayliss 6-0, 6-2 at No. 1 singles, and freshman Mircea Dimofte, who won his No. 6 singles match over senior David Dolins 6-3, 6-0.

Likitkumchorn replaced senior Sven Burus at No. 2 singles after Burus was struggling with an injury following his doubles match earlier in the day. The Rockets’ performance drew praise from Toledo head coach Al Wermer.

“For us to come to Butler and take down one of the Horizon League’s best, with our No. 2 singles player [Burus] on the sidelines, is a tribute to the commitment our team has made—to be relentless, to continue working on its games and to bring the full-team enthusiasm,” Wermer said.

Herron and Bryce competed in the closest doubles match of the day, falling to Elezovic and Burus, 9-8, at No. 1 doubles. Dimofte and Dudzik picked up the Rockets’ second dou-bles victory by winning 8-2 against Ervin and Dolins at No. 3 doubles.

The loss to Toledo gave Butler a winless February. The Bulldogs are now off until they host Dayton on March 6.

Following the match against the Flyers (0-3), Butler will be on the road for its next four competitions, competing against Mercer and Kentucky before opening its Horizon League campaign at Detroit March 20 and at Green Bay April 2.

TEAM EFFORT: Senior Zach Ervin (right) returns a shot from an opponent as senior doubles partner David Dolins looks on in the No. 3 doubles match of Butler ’s match versus Toledo on Sunday. (Photo by Erin Drennan)

BY BILLY KLIMCZAKbklimcza@butler.edu | sports staff writer

Lynch returns to Butler

Bill Lynch is back at Butler University.Lynch, who was a guard on the Butler bas-

ketball team and quarterback on the Butler football team in the 1970’s, was recently hired by Butler Athletics as the new associate ath-letic director for development.

In his new position, Lynch will lead the ef-forts of the athletics’ development office and will work closely with Butler Director of Ath-letics Barry Collier on strategy and raising funds to develop the department’s needs.

“I’m extremely excited about this opportu-nity,” Lynch said. “It was just the right fit at the right time for me.

“Obviously, there are things I will have to learn, but I understand the importance of or-ganization and building relationships, and I won’t have any trouble selling Butler Univer-sity.”

Collier said that he is thrilled to have Lynch returning to Butler.

“[Lynch] brings a wide range of experi-

ence, deep relationships and the highest level of integrity,” he said. “He is the perfect fit for this position and will contribute greatly to the success of Butler University.”

Lynch has been a member of the Indiana Football Hall of Fame, as both a player and a coach, since 2005. He was a three-time hon-orable mention All-American quarterback from 1974-76, a three-time Indiana Collegiate Conference Player of the Year and still stands second on Butler’s all-time passing list with 5,909 career yards.

Lynch was also a four-year letterwinner and team captain in basketball.

After his playing days, Lynch served as an assistant football coach for the Bulldogs in three different roles over seven years, before subsequent stints as an assistant at Northern Illinois University and for the United States Football League’s Orlando Renegades. He then returned to Butler as a head coach from 1985-89, before again leaving to fulfill head positions at Ball State, DePauw and Indiana University.

BY STEVEN PEEKspeek@butler.edu | sports editor

THE BUTLER COLLEGIANWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2011

A&EPAGE 8

And the Oscar goes to...BEST PICTURE:

“THE SOCIAL NETWORK”Our generation has fi nally found its

defi ning movie. The fi rst movie to tackle so-cial media took us straight into the brain of the

socially awkward genius who gave us the beloved time-waster and stalking agent, Facebook. With Jes-

se Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg and Andrew Garfi eld as Zuckerberg’s only friend and the heart of the movie, outstanding performances added to an outstanding

script and direction. BEST DIRECTOR:

DARREN ARONOFSKY, “BLACK SWAN”A good thriller has your shoulders tight during the

entire movie and leaves you disquieted and afraid to turn off the lights. Aronofsky ac-

complished all of these goals and more.

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE:

COLIN FIRTHIt’s fi nally his year. Despite an achingly vul-

nerable star role in “A Single Man” last year, the award went to Jeff Bridges for “Crazy Heart.” Both

are nominated again, but we think that this is Firth’s year, for his just as vulnerable role as King George in “The

King’s Speech.”

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: NATALIE PORTMAN

Natalie Portman has always stood out in her generation as elite, but her performance in “Black Swan” showed audiences how far she’s willing to go for her art. At

times heartbreaking and at other times terrifying, we clung to our seats until the end, completely

entranced by a performance that showed us a whole new actress.

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:

CHRISTIAN BALEIt’s no surprise that Bale put his all into a

role—it’s what we’ve come to expect. However, Bale excels at playing the almost-crazy Dickie, out-

shining his costars with his uncomfortably honest por-trayal of a man trying to regain his glory once more, with

his little brother.

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: AMY ADAMS

She’s been a princess in a Disney movie and made her way through the rom-com sphere. Her arrival of her in “The Fighter” is a revelation, proving that Adams does

have acting chops outside of just being adorable. Her character Charlene is blunt, attractive and

like nothing Adams has previously tackled.

BEST ANIMATED FILM:TOY STORY 3

Continuing to prove that Pixar is leaps and bounds ahead of every other company making

animated fi lms, “Toy Story 3” managed to keep the story fresh for the third go round. It was only those with-

out a heart who managed not to shed a tear or two as Andy headed off to college leaving Woody and Buzz be-

hind. We’re pretty sure there is no way it can’t win.

OTHER AWARDSBEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

THE SOCIAL NETWORKBEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

INCEPTIONBEST ORIGINAL SONG: TOY STORY 3BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: INCEPTION

It’s Oscar time again, so we at The Butler Collegian researched and voted to decide who we thought was most likely to take home the golden statue. It was an especially tough decision—especially when all of the best picture nominees are so unique and fantastic in their

own right—but here, we present our choices for the top awards. BY CAITLIN O’ROURKE

Photos from MCT

Photos (from top): The Social Network, Black Swan, Toy Story 3, The King’s Speech.

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Midwinter Festival brings showcases to Butler

When Professor Susan McGuire of the dance de-

partment choreographed her piece for this week’s Mid-winter Dance Festival back in 2005, she was inspired by Indonesian folk music and based it on a community cop-ing with disaster.

After she had decided on the theme and structure, In-donesia was struck with a tsunami.

“It was a very strange co-incidence,” she said.

McGuire’s piece is only one of many parts of the dance department’s annual Midwinter Dance Festival, held Feb. 25-26.

To add to the performance, “Walpurgisnacht Ballet,” a famous piece from choreog-rapher George Balanchine originally performed by the New York City Ballet, will be performed as well.

“[Balanchine] just has such specific style and qual-ity,” senior dance perfor-mance major Lily Rupp said. “We are really just trying to live up to what he would have wanted his work to look like.”

McGuire said it has been a privilege to perform the number, and that it truly challenges the dancers to do a piece that was done by a professional company.

What’s generally notice-able when discussing Mid-winter with both the dance faculty and students is their enthusiasm.

“The festival really shows the other side of what we do in the department,” Stephan Laurent, professor of dance, said.

McGuire expressed a simi-lar sentiment.

“We just really get a chance to explore different ways of making dance,” she said. “Midwinter is a time for us to work in a more creative

way and develop our indi-vidual voices, both faculty and students. We’re asked to do things that aren’t as famil-iar to us.”

Karl Watson, a junior dance performance major and soloist for McGuire’s piece, said this show really is more “audience friendly.” He said people unfamiliar with dance could enjoy it more, as it’s six, 20-minute pieces, instead of the longer classical ballets the department also produces.

Of course, it hasn’t all been smooth sailing. Midwinter is allotted the least amount of rehearsal time, compared to the dance department’s other productions. Watson admits the schedule can be a bit hec-tic, although he said every-one has been working very hard.

In addition, illnesses have plagued the dancers, just as everyone else on campus. The ice storm didn’t help ei-ther, as McGuire and Laurent

said they had a few students break bones or injure them-selves from slipping on ice.

These set backs haven’t deterred the performance. Instead, they created more opportunities for understud-ies, who are all “very talent-ed” dancers, Laurent said.

Both the dancers and fac-ulty are confident that the show will be worth the price of admission. Watson added that it’s the most broad Mid-winter he’s performed in so far.

“Everything has gone re-ally well so far,” Laurent said. “Our kids are smart. They’re quick and dedicated.”

Laurent choreographed “Karelia Suite,” professor Cynthia Pratt choreographed “1st of 3 in 17,” professor Tong Wang choreographed “Hong” and professor Marek Cholewa choreographed “La Bayadere.”

Performances are Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in Clowes Memorial Hall.

Radiohead shows it’s still ‘King’

Radiohead is back with its eighth studio album, “The King of Limbs.” Re-leased one day earlier then expected, it came as no surprise. The band is known for announcing album releases just days before the actual release date—this time just four days before.

This compilation from Radiohead is different from its previous albums, but in a good way. Previous Radiohead al-bums have consistently ranked among the greatest of the respective decade—”OK Computer” in the 90s and “Kid A” and “In Rainbows” in the 2000s—main-ly because of the groundbreaking sound produced. With “The King of Limbs,” Radiohead isn’t groundbreaking or genre-defining, but switching gears to something completely different.

The album’s opening track ,“Bloom,” begins with a sweet piano melody, but after a few seconds is bombarded with a static beat and frantic drums. It sounds similar to previous Radiohead tracks, yet completely different at the same time. The beat and nearly incomprehen-sible lyrics of Thom Yorke, the lead sing-er, are similar but the feel and the pace of the song is relatively new ground for Radiohead.

The track “Feral” holds this same feeling. It starts with a frantic drum beat like “Bloom,” and has sporadic electronic sounds mixed in with what sounds like Yorke sighing. It keeps the beat throughout the song, which near the end begins to get very catchy and bass heavy.

But not all of the album’s songs take the electronic, fast paced beat of “Feral” and “Bloom.”

With “Little By Little,” it begins with a pseudo-South American drum beat. Then, the melodic stylings of Jonny Greenwood on guitar come in and the track begins to sounds like Radiohead of old. Even the lyrics from Yorke ex-plore similar themes from previous al-bums, such as alienation from society, paranoia and the constant search for happiness.

“Little by little, by hook or by crook, never living earnest, never get judged, I don’t know where it is I should look,” Yorke sings.

“Codex” offers another glimpse into Radiohead’s past with a soft piano mel-ody and lyrics searching for that perfect place.

Yorke sings, “Slight of hand, jump off the end, into a clear lake, no one around, just dragonflies flying to our side, no one gets hurt, you’ve done nothing wrong.”

“The King of Limbs” is the shortest studio album released by Radiohead, clocking in at 37 minutes and 24 sec-

onds. Although brief, Radiohead has put together a solid album that is defi-nitely worth paying the $9 the band is charging for it. While there are no stand-out tracks on this album compared to previous ones, it represents a new path for Radiohead. The more electronic sound is certainly not new but the use of the beats combined with Greenwood’s melodic guitar sound and Phil Selway’s drumming makes for a new and excit-ing take on the familiar.

“I am Number Four,” starring Alex Pettyfer, Dianna Agron and Timothy Olyphant, pits good alien versus bad alien in the film adaptation of the recently released book of the same title.

Like most young adult novels turned into films, “Number Four” follows the same equation of boy with super powers plus quiet alt-girl that goes nowhere but adds a generous amount of violence and explosions, courtesy of producer Mi-chael Bay. At some points in the film this equation works, at others it falls flat.

The film revolves around Number Four (Pettyfer), an alien from the planet Lorien who was sent to Earth to hide from the evil Mogadorians, who seek to kill him and the others from Lorien who survived the destruction of the planet.

He is one of a group of nine who have the ability to defeat the Mogadorians but his help is beginning to wear thin be-cause three have already been killed.

The film opens with Number Three being tracked down and killed and you soon realize that Number Four is next. Henri (Olyphant) is Number Four’s protector and a former warrior from Lorien who moves Number Four across the country in order to keep him safe. They head to Paradise, Ohio, where Henri and Number Four assume they will be safe.

In the small town of Paradise, the film turns into a quasi “Twilight,” except the vampire is an alien and the shy ang-sty newcomer is the one with super powers. The film also, strangely, uses some very cliché high school stereotypes that the script even acknowledges at points.

Number Four eventually meets Sarah (Agron), the quiet, small town girl who dated the high school quarterback before a bad break up. Number Four also meets Sam (Callan McAu-liffe), the self-proclaimed “computer nerd” who admits he is a strange fellow, and is picked on by the high school quarter-back because of it.

One of the film’s strengths is the development of Number Four throughout the film. The other characters had a typical high school teen drama feel written all over them and even felt forced at times, but Number Four, with his protector Henri worked well.

However, as the film moves toward the climax, it becomes very predictable. A final showdown with the Mogadorians occurs at the high school, where Number Six, a punky, leather clad girl with a slight Australian accent shows up to help in the battle. The final battle fell short of expectations but not short on special effects explosions, something that was disap-pointing in the end.

If this film does well in the box office, expect a sequel with-in the next few years based on the soon-to-be released book, “The Power of Six.” If that is the case, be prepared for yet an-other teen super hero drama that is predictable and stereo-typical.

‘I Am Number Four’ fails to impress for numerous reasons

BY BRIAN WANBAUGHbwanbaug@butler.edu | asst. a&e editor

BY BRIAN WANBAUGHbwanbaug@butler.edu | asst. a&e editor

BY CAITLIN O’ROURKEcorourke@butler.edu | a&e editor

The Best Of

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BEYOND THE CLASSICS : The Butler Dance Department uses multiple forms of dance to create its Midwinter Dance Festival, featuring pieces by George Balanchine and faculty members. Students promise a more audience-friendly show, compared to classic productions. (Photo courtesy of Brent Smith)

KING THOM : Radiohead released its eighth studio album this past weekend after a three year hiatus. Using older techniques, the band combines new stylings effectively. (Photo courtesy MCT)

5 = perfect, 4 = outstanding, 3 = good, 2 = fair, 1 = poor

I AM NUMBER FOUR | FILM REVIEW

Starring Alex Pettyfer, Dianna Agron and Timothy Oly-phant, ‘I Am Number Four ’ chronicles a young alien in human form as he evades death at the hands of the evil Mogadorians. This fi lm follows the teen superhero drama equation too closely and ultimately comes up

short.

5 = perfect, 4 = outstanding, 3 = good, 2 = fair, 1 = poor

THE KING OF LIMBS | ALBUM REVIEW

Radiohead’s ‘The King of Limbs’ represents a semi-new sound for the band, relying on more

electronic beats compared to previous albums.

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Highly anticipated album excites fans

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OUR POINT THIS WEEK: Both candidates propose positive changes to SGA, but we endorse Al Carroll for his commitment to Butler students | VOTE: 15-1

With the Butler University SGA elections set to take place Feb. 28, there is plenty of discussion on campus over who the best candidate is to fill this important position.

We were fortunate enough to hear from and ask questions of both candidates. After having heard their stances on the issues and carefully evaluat-ing each candidate’s plat-form, The Butler Collegian endorses Al Carroll for SGA president. We feel his platform is ambitious, but focused enough to be suc-cessful. We can see some very positive changes in the university’s future if Carroll were to be elected.

Carroll’s opponent, ju-nior Anna Roueche, pro-vided a strong platform as well. We applaud her commitment to making SGA meetings more acces-sible to Butler students, much like Carroll sup-ports. Roueche also took a positive position on the Grants Committee, an underutilized resource on Butler’s campus.

However, when it comes to each candidate’s experiences in student government, we feel that Carroll’s shows a strong standing commitment to student representation.

Carroll serves as the SGA parliamentarian for the 2010-11 academic year. In addition, he served on the SGA Grants Committee during the 2009-

10 academic year. In high school, he earned ex-perience while serving as SGA president for two years.

In his platform, Carroll states that he wants Butler University students “to view SGA as a re-source, rather than a burden.”

On campus, SGA is a highly powerful organi-zation and we feel that it is important for students to realize the benefits that it can bring to the Butler community.

A change that Carroll called for was for more accessibility for Butler stu-dents to attend the weekly SGA meetings. Carroll feels that it is important for all students to be heard and would permit a seat-ing gallery for non-SGA members, as well as giv-ing them the chance to

speak on issues as non-voting members.We also feel that Carroll’s views on the Finance

Board are insightful and his proposed solution could likely bring about efficient changes to the governing board. Carroll feels that the vice presi-dent of Finance has too much power and there is virtually no oversight powers from the assembly. As opposed to one individual, the VP, making ma-jor decisions regarding grants, Carroll feels that instead these decisions should be decided upon by the SGA assembly.

Regarding the budget, Carroll feels that struc-turing it should occur at the end of the school year, as opposed to the beginning. This allows for major changes to be made, if necessary, by experi-enced assembly members in a timely manner. We feel this would prevent hastily-made budget deci-sions regarding SGA’s nearly $700,000 budget in the first meeting of the school year.

Carroll spoke strongly of the SGA Operations Board, an outfit that in Carroll’s opinion is not being utilized to its full potential and provides numerous benefits to Butler’s campus. Carroll would like to see the opportunities associated with Operations Board advertised on campus.

Carroll is someone who is truly engaged on this campus and wants to make everyone heard, both independent and Greek students. This has been exemplified by Carroll’s job as a Resident Assistant, showing his qualities in a role that re-quires not only engagement with students, but also responsibility and leadership.

Carroll is someone who is highly accessible and approachable. He is a personable, friendly individual—someone who would be available to the student body.

As a current SGA member, his parliamentary procedure part of the meeting is already the most entertaining and we are curious to see what Car-roll is capable of if elected to the office of SGA president.

Editor’s note: Any Collegian staff member directly involved with either campaign was not involved with our endorsement decision.

Collegian staff is ‘all for Al’

I was first intro-duced to the soothing sounds of Steve Ins-keep’s voice at age five.

I distinctly remem-ber the famous intro sounds that signaled the beginning of NPR

News. Repeated childhood car rides with my parents have etched the names of the channel’s broadcasters forever into my memory.

For this reason, I was exceedingly perturbed when I discovered that new budget proposals call for the cutting of publicly-funded radio pro-grams, such as my beloved NPR.

There are always calls for budget cuts in America. It has been the same charade for years. Some facet of the budget has to be cut to save America from slipping deeper into debt. How-ever, cutting public broadcasts such as NPR and PBS is unacceptable in my eyes, especially when military spending is being radically increased year after year.

“For [fiscal year] 2011, the presi-dent requested $548.9 billion for the Department of Defense Base Bud-get,” Kimberly Amadeo, president of worldmoneywatch.com, said. “This was $15 billion more than the $533.7 billion Department of Defense Base Budget request for [fiscal year] 2010.”

It seems that the budget for mili-tary spending is exponentially grow-

ing, while other necessary and ben-eficial sections of the nation’s budget are being diminished.

This brings only one question to my mind: why are we determined to oust some of the last thought-pro-voking programming available to the American public?

I grew up on PBS. I grew up watch-ing shows like Sesame Street, which gave me all the basic learning blocks as a toddler.

The best part about these pro-grams is that they aren’t backed by a corporate agenda. They are honest, intelligent broadcasts that intend to expand the minds of audiences. In my opinion, ending some of the best programs available on television and radio is a crime against humanity.

The motivation behind these fund-ing cuts to the Corporation of Pub-lic Broadcasting is purely political. Conservatives believe that these pro-grams are “left-leaning.” They do not lean either way. They are a neutral news source that provides honest, unbiased, factually based news to the American public with the intention of allowing citizens to formulate their own opinions based on the factual evidence presented.

“Rather than lowering our society’s intellectual bar, it challenges us to be engaged. Public broadcasting inspires America to be smart,” public broad-casting proponent Rick Steves said.

How are we, as a country, sup-posed to move forward and progress if we are working toward making

all independent and unbiased news forms obsolete?

In an age of television where we are more concerned with who ral-lied enough votes on American Idol rather than raging, violent conflict in Egypt, it is intensely important that we continue to fund and protect pro-gramming available through media outlets like NPR and PBS.

My hope is that Americans wise up, open their eyes and realize that by ending these programs, we are severely limiting our ability to keep an open mind and be informed about events in our own country, as well as events around the world. I hope that I will be able to enjoy the sound of Steve Inskeep’s voice for years to come.

Sacrifi cing PBS, NPR to curb defi cit not the answer

BUDGETING KILLED THE RADIO STAR: New cuts in America’s budget call for a signifi cant decrease in funding for publicly-funded broad-casts, such as NPR and PBS. These media outlets provide some of the last benefi cial programming to citizens today. (Photo from MCT)

BY LEXIE SMITHlhsmith@butler.edu | opinion editor

Carroll shows a strong standing commitment to

student representation.

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PawPrintsIf you were running for SGA President, what would your campaign slogan be?

“Let Teare steer you in the right direction!”

A.J. Tearejunior

“Fear the Scheer, because I am CRAZY!!”

Katie Scheersophomore

“Ryan Bacon, it’s the Kosher decision.”

Ryan Baconfreshman

“What can brown do for you?”

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BY: RYAN LOVE

The Obama BudgetOn Feb. 14, President Obama submitted

his proposed budget for the 2012 fiscal year, which runs from October 2011 through Sep-tember 2012.

As expected, the budget was almost instant-ly met with criticism from the Republican Cau-cus with claims that not enough is being done to curb government spending.

While I agree with the Republican delegation that Obama has certainly disappointed in terms of cutting spending, it is interesting that members of his own party are disappointed with the budget as well.

The way the proposed budget stands now, the U.S. gov-ernment would allot for $3.7 trillion in spending.

While it is projected that the President’s proposed budget would cut spending by $1.1 trillion over the next 10 years, this is still far short of what could be done to solve America’s spending issues.

The Republicans have provided lackluster suggestions as well, and I am somewhat confused by some of their most recent actions.

I personally believe that everything should be put on the table when it comes to discussing the deficit. Every inch of government should be looked at.

I am a strong supporter of military spending and having a strong United States defense. However, in times of fiscal restraint, when Washington should be tightening its belt, I think the defense budget should be reviewed as well.

In an interview with Brian Williams shortly after tak-ing office as Speaker of the House, John Boehner strongly expressed to Williams that no part of this government was “sacred” and that defense and national security spending should not be exempt from budget cuts.

Fast forward a few months to last week, Boehner did not hesitate to stand before the House and fight in defense of a $450 million contract to build a new engine for the Joint Strike Fighter.

Also known as the F-35 Lightning, the Joint Strike Fighter is a collaborative project amongst American allies such as the United Kingdom and Italy, but is being constructed in the U.S.

The new engine that Boehner supported constructing would have benefited his congressional district in Ohio, a perfect example of unnecessary earmark spending, some-

thing that Boehner is supposedly opposed to.The defeat of the $450 million spending measure was due

to freshmen Republicans and Tea Party Caucus members holding to their commitment of slashing government spend-ing at any rate.

Although this is just one instance of unnecessary spend-ing on the Republican side of the aisle, Obama deserves a sizeable amount of blame as well for delivering a budget that fails to address serious spending issues in our country.

Perhaps the most glaring example of Obama’s lack of re-sponsibility on addressing the deficit issue is basically ig-noring the recommendations of the special debt commission that he formed.

This commission, chaired by Clinton-era chief-of-staff Er-skine Bowles and former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson, concluded that it would be feasible for the U.S. to reduce deficits by $4

trillion over the next 10 years. The Obama budget only looks to take care of a quarter of that.

An even larger disappointment is Obama’s failure to ad-dress long-term deficit issues, such as Medicare and Social Security.

It is crucial for the president and Congress to address these issues.

Because entitlements constitute roughly 60 percent of government spending, it is almost impossible to have a seri-ous debate about the deficit without addressing them.

I hope that both Republicans and Democrats realize the seriousness of the situation.

Due to actions of both the President and Congress, I am worried that this problem will only continue without a solu-tion. It is critical for Washington to address these concerns now, instead of years in the future.

BY SAM HYERshyer@butler.edu | asst. opinion editor

OBAMAS BUDGET: The president announced his budget for the 2012 fi scal year at Parkville Middle School in Parkville, Md. The proposed $3.7 trillion budget, aimed to cut $1.1 trillion in spending, has been met with objections from both sides of the aisle in Congress. (Photo from MCT)

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Name: Sally Childs-HeltonName: Sally Childs-HeltonGnome location: Bulldog statue Gnome location: Bulldog statue outside Atherton Unionoutside Atherton UnionFaculty Position: Associate faculty, Faculty Position: Associate faculty, Special Collections, Rare Books and Special Collections, Rare Books and University Archives Librarian; Adjunct, University Archives Librarian; Adjunct, JCFA (World Musics) and Anthropology JCFA (World Musics) and Anthropology (ethnomusicology courses).(ethnomusicology courses).Hometown: Charlotte, N.C. Hometown: Charlotte, N.C. What do you love about Butler?: What do you love about Butler?: Almost everything, except the parking Almost everything, except the parking situation and the fact that it is a situation and the fact that it is a Pepsi and not a Coke campus. I Pepsi and not a Coke campus. I love being able to do both archiving love being able to do both archiving work and teach ethnomusicology in work and teach ethnomusicology in the same place, and I have wonderful the same place, and I have wonderful co-workers.co-workers.

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